jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting parallel, as I freelanced from September 2014 to the start of this year. I also experienced significant difficulty in finding clients, yet I ended up doing fantastic, well-paying client work - without even looking for it.

The secret is code mentoring. I mentor for Bloc, Thinkful, and Codementor. Mentoring puts you in regular contact with all kinds of people who have a need to understand software. Inevitably, you'll intersect with people whose needs are more geared towards having a product than knowing exactly how to make it. It also helps that you'll be forced to work on your English and you'll make money from mentoring regardless, so you can stay afloat longer while you seek higher-value contracts.

With regards to the three platforms I mentioned, I highly recommend all three, although they are all very different. Bloc pays mentors a fixed weekly rate depending on number of students and their course length (shorter = more work = more sessions = more pay). Thinkful pays an hourly rate which also applies towards reviewing student projects and helping out on message boards. Codementor lets users and mentors set up long term schedules although to me it's more of a place I go to if I need help with a framework or concept I haven't worked with enough to figure it out on my own. I don't hang out on Codementor too much but when I do (and set my status to 'available for session') I'll get various messages, sometimes from multiple people in one day. The downside there is you need to spend your first free five minutes (generally expected and built into their system) proving you know what you're talking about to a person and a codebase you've never seen before, but I've never frozen up in the past, so it's not too bad.

All in all, each have their strengths and their weaknesses. Look into all three and cast a wide net. Although I'm in a great position now with client work, it took me months to get there, half the time waiting for the right student-turned-client to show up, other half waiting for the details to be hashed out before I can begin proper work.

Good luck.
Yup that is correct! I do like the idea of the cats looking at the mouse cursor. Would need to do some work figuring out how to interpolate just the pose part of the latent space.
They often have above ground trams that go down the middle of the street and/or share space with cars.

Buses too but they’re not as dominant as in north america. Trams are generally quieter, prettier and less obtrusive. And with quite frequent service. Also easy to know your way around without knowing the routes as they’ll have lines on a map.
You (and the other commenter) need to be a lot more specific than "The Midwest", a large and diverse part of this country. That figure isn't close to true in Chicagoland at least, unless you're commuting suburbs to the boonies (and even then, you'd need to be lucky and have a tollway route). A 30 mile commute into the city, with traffic, takes like 50-70 minutes, a large reason why Metra commuter rail is so popular.
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> I regret that my comment was taken as one endorsing corporations or their shareholders profiting from crimes. That was not my intent.

Regardless of whether your intent was angelic, devilish, or neither, rampant corporate criminality (such as TicketMaster's) is the obvious consequence of building a system according to principles that advantage criminality so baldly.
I'm not sure how to feel, because I had this exact same thought. The evolution of porn from 320x200 EGA on a BBS, to usenet (alt.binaries,pictures.erotica, etc.) on XVGA (on an AIX Term), to the huge pool of categories on today's porn sites, which eventually became video and bespoke cam performers... Is this going to be some new weird kind of porn that Gen Alpha normalizes?
> And unless you're currently buying stock in Purism or Windows Phone

OT but if Microsoft released a reasonably-open Linux phone, all would be forgiven as far as I'm concerned. They've always made fantastic hardware, and they're one of the few companies who could potentially break into the market in a real way.
Isn't the obvious difficulty here that such natural keys tend to change? Eg names and boundaries of cities & countries change - relatively - all the time. You don't want your IDs to be changing alongside
I would expect a VM to have better GPU support since AFAIK Parallels and Fusion have already implemented it.
> I know some people do this for iOS

Apple devs has a smart trick how to declare you to buy new iPhone {n+1} just next day after it out: Apple devs just may decrease performance of your previous iPhone {n} fully remotely without any prompts to you and without your permission.[0]

And such remoted control over users costs only $500M single pay - not too much as for Apple at all.[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965119

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465829
You could easily flip it around. Why should others expect me to sacrifice my privacy to socialise with them?

For me, ditching WhatsApp is altruistic, helping make it easier for others to socialise without giving up their privacy and security.
So I can file charges against MPs if I believe that "taxation is theft"? Or the next government can if they don't like my tax laws? Or charge MPs for libel or slander for saying their opinion about something? What if homosexuality is illegal and I say it should be legal, can I be charged then?

These laws exist for a reason. And just because Trump is Trump doesn't mean it doesn't work well most of the time. Remember this is the same man chanting "lock her up" and promised to change libel laws so he could sue everyone and their mother. Do you think he wouldn't have gone after elected officials with lawsuits?

And for most countries these laws are very far from absolute, and/or come with escape hatches.
I believe you mean "overall health" as in a continuum of the living being life health. What I mean by insurance is a contract that specifies what risks can be insurance, up to what limit and how much it will cost.

You unlikely to have problems to insure a new car bought off the dealer lot. You will likely have problems insuring a very old car, with missing brakes and flat tires.

Similarly, health insurance is quite possible for healthy folks in their 20ies-40ies (maybe? just an example of the age range). And, like you said, insurance payout becomes likely certain and potentially unlimited if you try to insure someone who is 90 old.

All that doesn't mean that health insurance can not exists as a thing. It just means that insurance is a tool that applicable to a specific scenarios and not a blanket solution for health care. And what discussions happens in the US, somehow it is either health insurance takes care of everything, or it is government takes care of everything.

I think there is a place for both tools (and perhaps even more others i can't think of right now).

EDIT: another thing that bothers me about health insurances in the USA - it is expected that insurance is involved in every single case of working with health care providers. I do not think annual flu shots is a risk that needs to be insured (it is known, and can be planned upfront for). Similarly, a visit to the family practice with a cold or ear infection does not need to be insured. Bringing back car example - it would be like bundling annual oil change, or a flat tire into standard car insurance everyone have to have... In my opinion, health insurance has its place to insure unknown/unlikely events, not routine stuff.

Why it matters, in my opinion. A significant chunk of costs is in administration - both on hospital and insurance sides. And these routine visits are likely getting a large chunk of it. More importantly, when patient pays directly to the health care provider - they are much likely to be more picky about quality, costs, convenience combination, unlike going through the insurance scenario, where the decision is mostly about "who is in the network, and how close they are". Missing such a direct relationship between patients and providers, in my opinion, puts upward pressure on prices (in addition to everything else).
Hmm. Suppose you have children. (I don't. Have been one, and have been around younger siblings.)

Now, you can do real violence to your children. Hit them until they're black and blue and sore for days. Or you can do trivial violence: smack your kid on the bottom with your hand and make it sting a little bit, for a fraction of an hour.

Maybe you could do this violence as an outlet for the rage, frustration, and anger in your life. Maybe you do this routinely. Maybe you're an alcoholic. Alternatively, perhaps you've found your children willfully doing something very wrong or incredibly irresponsible, substantially endangering someone's life or property.

These are substantially different applications of violence. We should use caution about talking like they're the same.

"To me, this seems like a glaringly immoral exception to a general rule: only use violence in defense of self or others."

One premise of punishing your children -- in ANY way -- is that you're defending your children's future. You hope afterwards that they will be a better person, capable of self-discipline, unlikely to engage in self-destructive behavior or violence against the world at large. And as they are not yet mature -- mentally, emotionally, physically, or in the eyes of the law -- and as they are your responsibility, substituting your judgement for theirs is a thing that you do, and you can in fact defend them from themselves, for a while at least. (It is a different situation with your wife, or at least it damn well ought to be.)

In that case, the question becomes whether the punishment is actually an effective and humane means to those ends -- physical or otherwise. After all, children can be traumatized with routine verbal abuse as well as physical.

"After all, pets can be controlled without hitting. Why can't kids?"

Pets have substantially different brain structures and the ability to learn from negative feedback of any sort is highly variable. My understanding is that dogs can learn from it, but do best if the feedback is immediate, otherwise they're at risk of just feeling randomly attacked, and they start getting pretty neurotic. But birds can just about never learn from negative feedback. And, of course, we have substantially different sets of expectations for humans than we do for pets.
The multiple Nintendo Labo kits are also an amazing show of the versatility of the Switch hardware. From hand-joystick, to motorcycle handles or a steering wheel with levers, turn-switches, pull-crank and pedal, a piano, fishing rod, etc. The controllers can be augmented to so many forms with just some cardboard and software. No need for specialized controllers like before.

Its ability to accommodate 2 players with a single control-set is also amazing.
Teams follow all the scrum guidelines, and are then frustrated when things don't work. knowing the rules and even playing by the rules, doesn't mean you are good at something.
Does anybody know by any chance how does the Wayland server work in this regard?
The Paul Ehrlich Institute (German Federal Institute for Vaccines) has an excellent FAQ on the topic [1].

Here is the direct link to the statement from the German Society for Thrombosis Research that pioneers the idea of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia as an allergic reaction [2] (PDF, unfortunately in German).

[1] https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronaviru...

[2] https://gth-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GTH_Stellu...
Isn't this a process failure? At least for that hypothetical 18%. If you have a product roadmap with well-defined milestones and good weekly accountability, it should be clear very quickly if someone is underperforming. There may be people who don't want to work remotely, but that's again why having a flexible+hybrid WFH approach seems like the best of all worlds.
The official Django tutorial is pretty good. Two Scoops is good for going from beginner / intermediate to intermediate / advanced knowledge, with best practices in mind.
In the US, employers pay unemployment insurance premiums to the state. The state then pays unemployment benefits to qualifying individuals. Individuals who resign (quit) or are terminated for cause are not eligible for unemployment benefits.

For example, an employer can slowly ratchet up requirements at work to the point where they can document an employee is not performing, terminate them, and the employee is not eligible for unemployment benefits. (This benefits the employer by keeping their unemployment insurance premiums low).

Also, unemployment benefit amounts vary greatly by state. They are a pittance in the vast majority of the states, especially if you consider most people don't have the cheapest possible lease/mortgage, and they can't just move out of where they live the week after they are terminated.

https://savingtoinvest.com/maximum-weekly-unemployment-benef...

There was a temporary supplement of unemployment benefits by the federal government due to COVID, but that is exceptional, and those are gone now.

Also, the process is the punishment. You should talk to people who had issues or who aren't proficient with the online applications how much of a pain it is to resolve issues with unemployment benefits over the past year. You have to call the minute the office opens up in the morning, and if you don't get in the hold queue immediately, you are told to call again the next day by the automated message. I know for a fact that this is still happening today, a year+ since COVID started.

Edit: I just tried Washington state's unemployment phone call line (open 8AM to 4PM). It's 9:07AM, and after 2m20s of various prompts on the phone, you are informed that "All agents are currently busy, call back at a later time". So imagine you have kids to take care of, jobs to look for, and you have to spend your time repeatedly calling the phone number, wait 2m20s each time to be told to call later. Your only chance is really to call at 7:59AM and hope you get through to the hold queue. If not, then your benefits are delayed one more day and you try the next day. As an American, it's embarrassing to me.
Vaccine passports don't force you to take the vaccine, you are free to not get vaccinated and just not go to private crowded venues like disneyland or whatever.

Also, what about the bodily autonomy of people that don't want to be in close proximity someone who might have covid? (after all, vaccines are only 65-95% effective, perhaps a little less when it comes to new variants). This is just inevitably one of those cases where an individual's own freedom can actively inhibit other people's freedom, there's no perfect solution.
Being a surgeon is not the same thing as being an engineer, being an engineer is not the same thing as being a programmer. The post was about being a programmer, i.e. about making computers “automatically” do the stuff that you want them to do.
I use a window manager that has multiple desktops. It's like having 9 screens, only you can only see one of them at a time. But really, that's how screens are. You can't really look at two screens at once.
> For people at a certain stage of life

Nobody seems to discuss this, but yeah for me working from home means working from my bedroom, the only room I can really work in in my small shared apartment. It definitely affects my productivity.

On the other hand, I've basically stopped getting sick. Open office plans are very bad for certain types of people, and not just those who struggle with distraction, so still a net positive for me
The company I work for actually suggested getting rid of our office and going 100% remote for our group. We actually voted on whether to keep leasing it after Covid or not. We voted to keep it as we generally like our office and it's nice to have a place to meet face to face sometimes. Since we voted to keep it corporate has told us we have to come in at least 3 days a week after Covid. So for us it's less an issue of trust and more an issue of we are paying for this place so you better use it.
After spending a little time in the... darker side of computer security when I was younger all I can say is that there's certainly something to be done and it's a tad more direct than Google bombing. This guys pretty lucky he hasn't angered anyone important because he's pretty low on the scumbag scale.

If this had happened to me it would have actually been enough to make him my new favorite target. Judging by a quick purview of the source of his page it probably wouldn't have ended up pretty well for him either.
...have it use a stronger hashing algo?

The strength of the hashing algorithm is ancillary to this vulnerability. The OP was able to resolve the emails because they had a predictable format.
I'd go so far as to say he's interested in a lot of stuff, but his actual level of knowledge is pretty much "dude with a Bachelor's Degree and access to wikipedia".

Nothing wrong with that, but let's not get too excited.
Hit the streets around Silicon roundabout. Find their blogs, get yourself invited to the Friday pub trips (or just turn up and get talking; if you've got what it takes to start and run a business successfully, that won't be a problem for you).

http://www.economist.com/node/17581635?story_id=17581635&...
This is what rich white men in Europe already did. It was called Imperialism.
Not sure about that either. I am not sure what I need to google to find this, but I seem to recall reading about countries that devalued their currency, but still were able to get financing. It doesn't necessarily need to be a refusal to pay per say. China asserts that it is their right to keep their currency artificially pegged to the dollar. On the same token, we can devalue our own.
I don't get it. What's bad about incentivizing monkey-patches that don't interfere with other code?
Me too, that's why I'm asking about ways we can solve it for real so we can avoid the circular discussion. I've seen a great many people complaining that the Linux filesystem is "broken" but putting forth little effort to communicate their requirements or fix things. Please, let's be better than that.
> Modern professional sports are much like pornography: completely empty in both regards.

Again, why do you think they're any different from movies, music, books, art, or any other form of entertainment you approve of?

Surely you find joy in something? Why do you believe people should not find joy in sports or porn?
Also at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50544283
> It may require regenerating all pages, but depending on the generator that may not be particularly expensive - they may cache partial assets, so you replace part of the build asset and then the build is basically a bunch of cat-like calls, which tend to be extremely cheap.

I've been thinking about this, and you can only do quick dependecy checks if the input is in files, right? So if the actual data is in a database then you do have to have some process to dump the changed data into files from the database, so the build system can pick them up.

Otherwise, if the build system takes data directly from the db then it doesn't know if the data is changed, so it has to retrieve everything from database which won't be efficient.
> The report also says that Apple "privately considered" iOS 13.1 to be "the actual public release" and that the company expected only die-hard fans would update to iOS 13 within the short week between its initial release and the iOS 13.1 update.

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did... you deserved it.
We're both doing our share of getting cross at the other's trying to explain something in good faith here...
Neanderthals were humans. The common generally accepted term that captures the intended contrast from Neanderthals is “anatomically modern humans”. (The article, unlike the headline, gets this right.)
This is a feature for me. I'm glad Cloudflare is hosting them, because the actual owners are MORE accessible to law enforcement.
Can we please dispense with the ad-hominem attacks?

I've been following cryptocurrency since 2009/2010, and I've worked adjacent to the space at one point.

There are plenty of us who were enthusiastic about cryptocurrencies before the narrative moved away from distributed systems and turned into a pure financial play for everyone involved.

> There are plenty of other coins however that are doing super exciting innovation.

The real question is: Why must they be coins?

Why can't they simply develop blockchain technology that doesn't revolve around inventing an all-new currency?

The competition for innovation is fun. The competition for everyone to buy each cryptocurrency on exchanges and then pump it across social media is not.

I'll be excited again when we can stop inventing new currencies left and right and just skip straight to distributed systems for managing our existing cash. I don't want to have to invest in 20 different cryptocurrencies out of the 1000s on the market just to be able to interact with all of the different systems. I don't want to manage my payment methods like investments. And frankly, I don't think the average person cares about the underlying innovation because they just want to speculate.
This analysis chooses to ignore the cost of employer benefits, which is unfortunate because it explains a large portion of income inequality as measured by this analysis.

Basically, because health insurance costs have exploded and it costs the same to insure a cashier as it does a corporate Vice President, health insurance cost increases has eaten away a lot more income gains at the low end than the high end. In numbers let’s say a cashier cost a total of $10k in 1970 with costs of $8k in pay and $2k in health care and a VP cost $50k with $48k in pay and $2k in health insurance. Now let’s say GDP per capita grows 3x but healthcare costs grew 6x between 1970 and 2020. Now the cashiers health care is $12k and base pay is $18k. The VP is $12k in healthcare and $138k in pay.

Now the cost of both employees rose proportionally, but the income portion of the cashier only grew by 2.25x while the vps income grew by 2.85x.

These aren't real numbers (I couldn't quickly find the paper I first saw with this analysis) but it is illustrative.

Fixing the health care cost issue and dissocating it from employment ties directly to fixing income inequality (although it is not the only issue.)
Even without a money printer and everyone mass adopted bitcoin, massive inequality would still ensue. This is because Bitcoin is inherently deflationary. Both inflation and deflation are natural drivers of inequality... they just work in different directions.
That's a cute little example, but it's really not at all convincing. How many hundreds of thousands of people have to pay some tax company to file their taxes just so a few teachers who have more deductions than the standard deduction can pay for the privilege of some software to make it a tiny bit easier?

Then, why wouldn't the IRS be able to offer that same functionality? The whole idea that "the IRS can't know" about this type of deduction feels like a lie to me, but I don't know enough to be sure.
What explanation should there be? Humans and Neanderthals weren’t removed enough to really be different species so it’s likely that Humans and Neanderthals, while very distance cousins, may have considered each other attractive and even the same species (note that they definitely didn’t think about species back them, but you get what I mean) so us theorizing on why they would have interbred doesn’t make much since to be. Like most ancient cultures they probably had tribal fighting with the victor taking the women from the losing tribe.
It’s company scrip backed by tulip bulbs.