skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metering software by the second seems worse for both the developer (whose revenue becomes less predictable than e.g. monthly billing) and the typical customer (who now needs to think about whether the particular document they want to write warrants paying for Office, or whether it's fine to just do it in GDocs or LibreOffice).

It benefits someone who just uses Excel for a short time to do their budgeting each month (because it saves them money), but it also decreases the value of that customer so much that Microsoft probably doesn't care that they get (wild guess) 5x as many of them.
Your theory differs from the GP so better to address them than me.
A while back I switched to using powdered buttermilk for this exact reason. It's been a game changer. I used to avoid buttermilk based recipes as I'd need to find excuses to use it up over the next few weeks.

Your post made me realize I'm the same way with milk. I know powdered buttermilk is considered a valid substitute for standard buttermilk when cooking. I wonder if the same is true of powdered milk.
Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are already merging (2020)
Just my personal opinion, but the reason I got a domain to start with was to not be dependent on a specific provider.

Also, it's is far nicer to be able to simply sign up to a website with company@example.com than go generate a random email. Especially if you are on another device.
> it's not out of the question that Zelenskyy or his cronies could have an undeclared private stake in the business and thus be personally profiting from the war and its aftermath.

No doubt that's possible. But if profiting off the war were his primary objective, then why would he stay in harm's way by remaining in Kyiv? Pretty risky bet, I'd say.
Both Western governments and private parties have been publicly showing extraordinary amounts of intelligence on Russia troop movements, disposition, and likely intentions, and I can only imagine that that Ukraine is getting much more than what is public. Limiting one side’s ability to generate surprise really shifts the balance.
Bad error messages is kind of an institutional problem at Apple. Somehow there’s a push to “simplify” the error process and it invariably means that some part of e pipeline has good error info that is, if you’re lucky, dropped in a log somewhere and just completely swallowed if you’re not. In the UI you’ll just get a generic “something went wrong” or a “translated” error that isn’t bijective at all, or sometimes not even an indication that something went wrong (particularly around ambient operations like syncing). It’s really quite frustrating how often I need to go through a truly awful amount of spelunking just to figure out what a “user friendly” message means, which is pretty much the opposite of user friendliness.
I think his criticisms are pretty much spot on. Here's a taste:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/02/an-annotated-digest-of-the-...
> If it’s designed correctly it should increase aptitude and decrease cost. What’s not to like?

Is this right? I thought this point was debated, outside the re-introduction of segregation into the school system.
I’m sure some AI at the time will do a quick lookup of it’s global history to point back to this comment and say “see, they called it”.
Sure, that'll calm things down. Why don't we just recognize it the Republic of West Alaska while we're at it.
Can I ask, what do you see as the big cost for education that needs to be driven down?

My sense is that education budgets are pretty variable by the taxes in a region.
Like many, I got bit by the end of legacy free Google Workspace so I've been figuring out my options.

One related issue is how to get email off of Google Workspace. After checking out various options, I've settled on using imapsync (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync).

Unfortunately, the official Docker image was throwing errors for me while trying to move an almost 100k email account. Ended up building a modified version which I have now been able to successfully use to migrate. Image: https://hub.docker.com/r/jauderho/imapsync Dockerfile: https://github.com/jauderho/dockerfiles/blob/main/imapsync/D...

HTH.

Protip for those moving to iCloud+ custom email domains, you HAVE to temporarily set the SPF record to exactly match what Apple wants to see during the initial setup. Else it will complain that setup cannot be completed. You can revert it to whatever you had it set to previously (plus include:icloud.com) once the setup is complete.
I’ve heard a lot of people suggesting that Putin won’t try to occupy Ukraine, but instead turn it into a satellite state ala Belarus. Is that any better? Probably not. But I’m not convinced what the US and UK have done in Iraq is any better either.
One really interesting development of the Lambda calculus is the De Bruijn index. It does away with variable names altogether. It solves the name collision problem and would be an interesting way to write hygienic macros.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index
I agree. There is too much shared state inside software dev work. I think the only time part time might work is if the person has worked for you full time for a while, is fairly established, is a low management overhead employee (low/no drama, no hand holding, self-directed, gets the point quickly when you ask/tell them in small amounts of description, doesn't need mentorship and and gets stuff done). But then what often happens with part time devs like this is their one foot out the door, so they will probably leave in a few months anyway.

In other professions where the shared state isn't as big, such as medicine or therapy, you see way more part time style work happen actively in the industry. Be it working for 2-4 clinics part time or just doing half hours so they can focus more on other things in their lives.

Another kind of role that I think works well part time is an advisor / consultant expert role where your hired to verify things are being done correctly in your sub field and are used to train others design wise as a 3rd party. Which is another sr / experienced type of role.

Another type of part time that might work is working on your own project as a solo dev in maintenance mode once your established. But also only lasts so long as competitors get ahead of you.

Part time not working well is something inherent to the job itself unfortunately.
Or the school drumming out dumb kids, or underperforming kids of any sort, or mentally handicapped kids? Because charter schools do that.
>If the prices are right, there's bound to be buyers. If you can get some of BP's stake in Rosneft for kopeks on the ruble, why not throw some cash at it?

You get ownership in something that might not exist in the future? Your money, your risk. Feel free I guess.

If you're expecting putin to be assassinated and the war to come to an end in a few days. Might make sense... but you're better putting all your investment in lottery ticket, it's lower risk.
Imagine Russia ousted Treudeuo for crimes against peaceful protestors (freezing bank accounts without trial etc) as occurred this month in Canada. He then sends weapons and trainers to Canada to build up resistance and military installations in Canada, perhaps even offering a treaty for Canada to join Russia as military defense allies. This is basically what the USA/Europe did in Ukraine in 2014 (McCain and company was there and USA spent 5B on NGOs overthrow democratically elected leaders of Ukraine and helped install pro US gov).

Chomsky's take is not bad: https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1495330478722850817
Could do this for police and fire fighting too.
He certainly managed to gather quite a lot of support outside Ukraine, quite quickly. I guess that's no easy feat either.
The stock market doesn't value a company solely by what it's doing today, but also by what people think it could do tomorrow.

Toyota is rock solid and stable. In 10 years you can bet they'll be making the same number of low margin cars they do today (same as 10 and 20 years ago) and making the same amount of money. (again, same as 10 and 20 years ago)
Their stock price is reflective of that - there is essentially no plan or path to "growth".

Tesla is growing MASSIVELY. It's basically a certainty they'll be making 2+ Million high margin cars by 2023, likely up to 5 Million in the next 5-10 years. The stock price reflects that massive growth.

It's gambling, and people are betting that Tesla is going to grow massively, and that Toyota is going to stay more-or-less constant.
At least in my day if you changed the employer without changing the role you didn’t lose your place in line after PERM application was completed. I knew many Indians/Chinese nationals who changed several jobs while waiting EB2/3 to come through.

Frankly I think green card golden handcuffs are heavily played up in these discussions to advance a specific narrative
Yea this has been my experience as well. You either have meetings, or spend hours reading specs and a sync talking back and forth to ensure the requirements are correct.

The only way I see real value is if you’re the sold dev/architect or if you can come in and confidently pick up tickets and they’re properly scoped and documented.
I won't deny the school system has issues, but school choice in many cases is funneling tax dollars to religious schools or allowing other private companies to bilk tax dollars while providing substandard education.

I've worked at public, private and charter schools, and all have issues.
Caltech does get the occasional bad admit, where the admissions office gets bamboozled or takes a risk. The one case I knew personally could write code decently well compared to many Stanford grads, but couldn't handle the Caltech curriculum and would probably do poorly on a coding interview.
Seems like most of the industry is made up of such roles these days.
Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria will give them MiGs
Interesting question. I had thought batteries were still orders of magnitude more expensive than nuclear, but just looked up some numbers to try and get an idea. Caveat, these are just numbers I've looked up; they look reasonable to me, but I'm no expert, so could well be making a mistake here. Also I'm just looking at capital costs, not operation.

From what I can find, the capital cost of a new nuclear plant is somewhere on the order of $6M-9M/MW.

On the other hand, a 3MWh grid battery from Tesla runs about $1M. So ignoring cloudy days and just considering providing power overnight (in the winter), you'd need about 14 hours of capacity, so about $14M to provide 3MW, or roughly $5M/MW.

So, in terms of initial capital cost, just the battery portion to handle the overnight gap in solar production would be roughly equivalent to the cost of nuclear, but of course that doesn't account for the cost of the solar panels, nor for the fact that there will be other periods when generation is low. (Although these can be partially dealt with by over-building the renewable generation and using wind as well as solar.) However, the other issue is that the lifespan of grid-connected lithium ion batteries appears to be about 5-15 years, whereas nuclear plants should generally last several decades at least.

So, batteries + renewables are more expensive in terms of capital than nuclear plants, which are themselves quite expensive, but I must admit I'm surprised that the difference isn't even greater. I expect part of the problem is production capacity. You can build a 1100MW nuclear plant, but I expect it would be nearly impossible to buy a 14GWh of grid batteries because the capacity to build them in that scale just doesn't exist, yet at least. Also, as others have mentioned, you'd need a lot of space.

There are other methods of storage that are used, pumped hydro being the most common in large scale, but requiring specific geography. There are other options like gravitational storage with shafts and weights or carts on tracks or what have you, but they're all expensive and/or difficult to scale.
I've come the the conclusion that the only electric vehicle I'm likely to own is a custom conversion. I don't drive often, but when I do it's often a rental or car share. I've come to despise anti-privacy features that have become either standard or required on modern vehicles, from built-in connectivity to tpms, cars are getting to be worse than smartphones.

I'd absolutely kill for something like the K5 Blazer-E, but without the connectivity likely built into eCrate.
Seems like the consensus is that engineering interview is broken, but no one has come up with a better method? You’d think with the war to get talent these days if there was a better way to screen for candidates companies would use it.
Thanks, looking for a book with a physical copy tbh
We also apply strange modifiers to choice. We resent choices foisted upon us. We are more comfortable with adversity we volunteer for (or believe we did). We also blame people more for active choices than inactive ones. Even when we probably shouldn't.
Maybe Putin wasn't bluffing after all ... :(
You won't be able to, though, because admissions will be full at those schools.
This is all not new. From the 2014 Crimea annexation:

https://thediplomat.com/2014/07/russia-threatens-nuclear-str...

https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-kisely...

Rumors about "Putin has gone insane" also don't help. The man is just continuing his plan from 2014 and earlier now that the U.S. has an indecisive and weak president.
What this is saying is that workplaces where the employees have more power are more likely to be cautious about returning to work during a pandemic. That makes a lot of sense, as employees are going to be more careful with their own health than employers are going to be with the health of other people. And it shouldn't be very surprising to us high-demand tech workers who are still allowed to work from home due to that leverage.
I hope and pray that Russia's nuclear arsenal and delivery systems aren't as operational as everyone, including Putin thinks. I'm hoping the yes men and corruption has led to a system that isn't able to actually launch or detonate anymore. I know it's a stretch, but I'll continue to hope it's so.
Doomed ship of gold’s ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the seabed
Applications, some form of interview and or testing, and rejections. Same as a university system - let students compete for spots and let schools compete for students.

I admit that there would have to be a system that forces schools to take "undesirables" who can't get accepted anywhere, which is the hard part.
The techniques and dramas of the used car industry are interestingly opaque. Quite an informative article.
He spent a couple weeks saying that the Biden administration was predicting an invasion that wasn't going to happen as a way of distracting from other problems, e.g. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493641714363478016
Musk on Hollywood Tech Startup Movies
That's a very fair perspective, and build-time verification of your dependency graph is great. That said, fx's approach allows for a more dynamic dependency graph. (For example, fx.Replace[0].)

The documentation for Fx, along with nearly all the applications I saw internally, use the dependency injection container only in main - once the application starts successfully, there's no more interaction with the container. For Uber at the time, this struck a useful balance between safety and the difficulty of distributing yet another versioned code gen tool to thousands of repositories.

[0]: https://github.com/uber-go/fx/pull/837
This is going to be hard now.

I hope they've started doing that, say, a couple of weeks ago. If so, they could have a good chance to liquidate most of their positions and transfer the funds.
An international treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness (2021)
The entire point of MAD is that the chance of nuclear encounter is always nonzero: if you know with absolute certainty that the other powers will never use their nuclear weapons, then you might as well treat them as not possessing them.

I agree that the consequences of this will be dire, but I haven't seen any real evidence yet that they'll be "nuclear exchange" levels of dire. It's more likely that Russia will use its substantial reserves to temporarily preserve the ruble. When that eventually collapses, everyday Russians will begin denominating transactions in foreign currencies and the Russian government will go back to using gold the way the USSR did.
The source is needed for the commenter's claim that these toys are en route to the Azov Battalion specifically, obviously and of course.

Not for the suggestion that they might be headed to the Ukrainian MVD.
> while Russia takes old USSR countries

Given that several of those are NATO countries, WWIII if they even try.
>Saying "well, they could eventually mount guns on them" is like saying the same for the cameras in stores used to help prevent shoplifting.

The US government and law enforcement have the monopoly on violence and a long bloody history of exercising it against foreigners and people of color, whereas Wal-Mart does not (abuse of employees notwithstanding.) The last President wanted a wall across the southern border with barbed wire, snipers, a moat full of alligators and electrified spikes. You think a government that xenophobic wouldn't also put a gun on a drone? Or that Biden and the Democrats are that different?
> It lets the parents and community decide what’s best

I'm a parent and the idea that other parents will vote on education worries me. They're too stupid to make good education decisions.
I mean, there's quite a lot of famous employers that pay you a lot of money to work more than 40 hours a week no?

But also, the nature of education etc means that a mediocre developer who works 70 hours a week, will probably be less effective than a brilliant savant working 20 hours.

Usually, instead of paying the mediocre developer to work 80 hours a week, it's cheaper to pay a better developer double, to work 40 hours.
Like I said, if you cut the job's rate of pay across the board, not just at one company. There is no "elsewhere" to go in that scenario, and yet I'm sure the quality of work would be the same. People want to be CEO for status, and for the money, but the desire for money saturates quickly... you don't need 300x pay rates. You probably don't even need 10x pay rates to keep the position deeply desirable.

> There are obviously non-free-market forces that affect compensation but none of them work by considering the individual; they all start by considering the position and the market for the position.

Free market does NOT apply when you consider the individual. Considering the individual, there is no free market value to Tim Cook, because Tim Cook has a monopoly on Tim Cook. A monopoly is not a free market. Which is, of course, why he can ask for 100M/year in compensation... but it's not necessarily a good reason for anyone to pay that amount.

Anyway, all of this is academic. I'll be voting with my shares to block the pay hike, but that position will almost definitely lose.
Depending on the model of Mig, they could operate from a hastily constructed dirt air strip. US-made fighters not so much. Not sure about Gripens.

I can't speak to the state of Russian air superiority at the moment, it could be that there are gaps/The Ukrainian air force hasn't been destroyed yet.

But even if as an idea it doesn't work out, the fact that the "peace project" organization, whose members visibly wept over the UK leaving, is coordinating the delivery of military hardware to a non-member for use in an active conflict should speak volumes about the level of support Ukraine is getting.
They have more RAM than my current desktop, so probably they are good enough for many people :)
I would try very hard not to get into a situation where the “security” of the underlying OS is relevant. An OS instance is going to run exactly one service. That service’s code and configuration are the ball game.

If the service is part of a larger distributed system, then network isolation (for the hosts it doesn’t need to reach), application level authn/authz (on the peer instances it does need to reach), and monitoring/alerting about the host’s behavior in its interactions with other hosts can all help to protect the larger system if the host is nevertheless compromised.
Looks like a reasonable response to "freezing" (read, seizing) assets of the Central Bank of Russia and the credit rating downgrades. Not only it plays role of deterrence to some extent (destabilize our markets and your investors will suffer), but also significantly limits amount of liquidity which will be able to leave the Russian market, thus helping to support their currency.
I'm not arguing people aren't willing to pay more. I'm pointing out that the scalper is providing nothing of value to anyone but himself. You can apply your same logic to healthcare, because people are always willing to pay more. It's the cornerstone of the US healthcare system.

I'm discussing ethics and you're discussing economics. The problem is this obsession with finding arbitrage to extract value from the system, which is the entire point of your comment where you're defending the market because someone can profit from it without actually providing any value. I'd like to live in a world that isn't full of selfish assholes trying to fuck everyone else over all the time. I understand market dynamics just fine - I got rich from it and I'm a shittier person for it.
It could be a deceptive signal, then. Condemning this invasion is cheap if it allows Putin to hold onto such a strategic espionage/supply chain attack vector.
Is it possible for Moscow to seize all of Alphabet’s assets in Russia?
Yes. Definitely. At the start of the war Biden promised to stay out, now NATO countries (with implicit approval from D.C.) are scrambling to supply arms and fighters to Ukraine. This is an escalation and will be answered by Russian nukes. Hope I'm proven wrong, though, and hotheads from Brussels manage to back down gracefully.

To anyone delusional enough to call Putin irrational/bluffing/terminally ill: this is not about Putin. Beltway policy wonks have been talking about this for a decade - Russian army went through a _doctrinal_ shift that drew the lines Putin was talking about and simultaneously offered a possible solution in terms of nuclear demonstrative actions.
> if these take up 10 hours a week

Well yeah. There’s your problem.
Not necessarily lambda candidates but from what I have seen: COM dependency, or native specialised assemblies (in my case math libraries, internal enterprise components that aren’t under development anymore), anything to do with system.drawing. The crypto library is also very integrated with windows, .net core only partially implemented the API.
I use a catch all on (several) domains and have received a stunning 5 spam-mails within the last 2 years.
(Speaking as someone who uses theoretical computer science fairly often) I wonder what the solution to this would be, honestly. It seems like there are a lot of jobs where we just expect that gluing things together is an acceptable, productive, necessary task to be done. Should we interview for these differently? Can we avoid a stigma being attached to this (productive) work?
> The world is full of countries who want oil and gas.

So they’re going to replace “selling to the highest bidder” with “selling to the 10th highest bidder”. That’ll do wonders for Russia’s economy, I’m sure.
There's nothing totilitatian in itself about pre-preparing a few versions of media releases etc. The BBC has a pre-prepared version of the Queen's obituary, for example. I know Australian government departments regularly prepare media releases that never happen (from friends in those departments).
Anyone interested in BLC can find another introduction which I found personally helpful here: https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html