skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been going on for years in the big 4 accounting firms. Graduates work hard establish networks and street cred the go on to freelance consulting or sweet positions in top tier companies.
Back at university I had a chance to attend a guest lecture given by chairman of huge public telco company and he stated something like "you are not paying consultants to bring new ideas, but to let them sign your ideas so in case something went wrong you have somebody to blame".

Of course, this was different type of consulting than what Patio11 did, but there are a lot of different kind of consultants.
> In 2003 Vice reached a $25,000 settlement with the freelance writer Jessica Hopper. The deal involved defamation claims tied to an interview she did with the rapper Murs that was published in the February 2003 issue of the magazine, according to a copy of the agreement viewed by The Times. During the interview, Murs asked Ms. Hopper if he could have sex with her. She said no and included that answer in her article.

> But before the article was published, the magazine changed her response to yes and printed it under the headline, “I Got Laid But Murs Didn’t.”

> Mortified, Ms. Hopper hired lawyers. The two sides struck a settlement that, in addition to a payout, required Vice to print a retraction and a formal apology.

Wow. I feel so poorly for Ms. Hopper. They defamed her and shamed her, yet a $25,000 settlement likely only paid for her lawyers. Disgusting -- they should feel ashamed.
`class` has `self`, which is some kind of implicitly shared state that will bite you (harder to reason about, test and maintain).

just functions and data structs in a namespace will prevent you from entangling your code in some ways that are basically expected when using OO.
Pretty sure he’s one of the original creators of react. Does that make him a junior engineer? You tell me.
How was Obama supposed to follow through? How was the US in the way?

Sorry for derailing the thread here, but this is interesting.
There's an influx of fake accounts spreading fake news. Please flag.
You have a weird assumption here that somehow if there were less regulations the banks would somehow have less of a monopoly on the mechanisms of monetary policy. That's not how it works, not in theory or practice.
I think you got it backwards, "C" is for capacity (useful since (dis)charge current obviously scales with capacity, ceterus paribus) and a 2C discharge rate is twice the current of a 1C rate.

You also need to be careful in your calculations. Battery discharge rates are given in Amps (or C multiples) not Watts because over a cycle, cell voltage will naturally drop. Discharging at 5 Watts puts more strain on an empty than a full cell since the first requires higher current to compensate for the lower voltage. Amps reflect the "demand" better.

Your summary is still correct though, there is more margin for degradation in a laptop battery and space for decoupling.
The co-founder of Vice started a alt-right white boy club[1], which was pretty shocking to be honest. It did make me stop watching Vice & Vice News altogether.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes
The trend is that the 20th century American lifestyle was never sustainable for the entire globe (or even the US for more than ~50 years). It was the byproduct of the US's unique position in and after World War I & II.

Technological progress is most definitely bring up the bottom rung of society. It may not be glamorous but if you go to an actual 3rd world country you can compare for yourself and see life isn't so bad here, even for the poorest.

Globalization is here to stay. Yes, certain classes of lifestyle have/will run out of gas, but that is inevitable.
I've written recently on this site about my difficulty in finding a job as a recent college grad, and was bombarded with comments suggesting I relocate. This is precisely why I won't. Income inequality means that those areas are incredibly risky to move to without a nice financial cushion, and with a child on the way, I'm not going to make that risk.

What can be done about regional inequality? Because such economic trends will do nothing but continue to destabilize our country in the future.

Edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain? I don't understand.
Project Treble makes it so drivers do not get obsoleted
Well, that's sort of what they did by shuttering the dirtiest coal-fired generators. It's kind of a hard spot they're in -- lethal smog vs. electricity shortages.
Without making the example too complex, it is the instantaneous peaks which get you in trouble. You could have your average power consumption approach 2C (totally discharged in two hours) and be just fine, that is the specified maximum for discharging something like a standard 18650 lithium cell. It is the surge that is going to cause an unacceptable voltage drop.
> it could also go back to $100

Do some napkin math, this is impossible. The people who hold bitcoin now probably have a combined net worth of over a trillion dollars. They will pump and dump it forever rather than let it go to zero. It's way too much fun to trade alone.

> bitcoin has no mainstream use right now

Maybe not in india yet. Even there, it's only a matter of time. Someone will introduce gbtc to the NSE and BSE, and watch it get bought widely even in india. There is a reason it sells at a 20% premium in india.
huh, you give an analogy w/ out actually explaining how this would happen.
No job and no project is forever. 5 years is a lot, many times the average.

If it can make you feel better, an in office situation would probably have gone the same. Companies and team changes slowly over time, people move on.
Certainty in the UK its normally the day rate that is used - though some non tech companies seem to want to get away with paying straight time (ie what a FTE would get) instead of the contractor rate.
A good rule of thumb is, if you're not sure, don't stick someone's hand on your crotch.
Good job and a great tool! Thank you for sharing! :)
I think they've done a 180 since he left though.
Yes, I am not sure how common are those gigs, but I did quite a few projects in development agency. It was usually in situations when projects went bad, I had to examine code structure and timelines to see why it went this way.
You are industry-famous (or at least have the potential to be), to exactly the degree that "virtually all work comes to me via referrals from past clients."

To put it in more technical terms, your work seemingly has a positive viral coefficient, such that when you do work, it gets you exponentially (if only with a very slightly-above-1.0 exponent) more work. If you just exist in that state for long enough, you eventually get to be a well-known name.

This is what people mean when they say that you "need" to be industry-famous: it's not that you need to be already-well-known, but rather that you need to have the things going for you that cause people to pass your name around, such that you will inevitably become well-known. You need to be "in the process" of being famous; you need to be successfully executing on personal-brand-building. And some people just don't have what it takes to do that.
I have done similar work.

I was hired to come in and assess the software that they were developing - they were working with some contractors, some vendors, and a smattering of other people, and wanted to know if their current method was working, how to address some concerns they had, and whether their current vendor was doing a good job.

I discussed it extensively with them, looked over the code and repositories, their current deployment, their backlog, looked at their priorities and basically told them "They seem like they are doing a good job, with the caveat that using contractors and vendors means you will never develop those skills in house, so I would hire at least one competent programmer internally to work with the vendors/contractors you hire, in order to develop that expertise, if you intend to use custom software as a core part of your business on a continuing basis".

This was conveyed via a written report with citations and via a meeting with the C-level executives of the company.

For this review and strategic suggestions they paid me about $1200 for an afternoon's work. That doesn't count time that went into acquiring the gig, scheduling, following up, or billing, just billable hours.
People don't start as nothing, they just exist as identifiably self-contained entities within a finite range of time.
Do no harm: Linus gives security developers guidance
Yes I did write it all backwards. I'm going to go back and fix the post, so your comment is not going to look insane.
The EEOC says the company is responsible for things that happen at company events and on the way to and from events. I'm not a lawyer but I hear lingering after the event qualifies.
my friend just transitioned and his way was actually quite ingenious. He worked with someone who went to a different company, and that person tried to bring him on as full time role. He interviewed and got the offer but instead of taking it, he proposed that he will develop this whole thing on his own time for $x. Since he had enough good reputation for delivering he got the contract and the company even worked with him on setting up the payment via intermediary consulting firm until he had his own system setup for that (this will vary from company to company depending on their list of approved vendors etc). They initially let him work out of their space but he eventually rented a co-working office. It's been over a year and the relationship is working out, and he's hired a team in Argentina that he manages and keeps taking on more work. The pre-requisite here was that he had good reputation in his old co, but I would guess that having people like/respect your work is a good indicator of if you should start consulting in the first place.
There is no way to prove that it actually happened. Not sure what HR can really do in cases like these or what is even expected of them.
They may dislike the current state cryptocurrencies are in while fully supporting the underlying idea.
The influence of Chinese money in the political system is currently being debated in New Zealand and Australia. A Chinese MP, Yang, who has a somewhat murky past relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency which he hid somehow ended up on foreign affairs, defence and trade parliamentary select committees.

In the last week lightly veiled comments have been made in parliament over where National Party funding came from, with the implication being that China was behind it. It’s early in the piece but there is plenty enough here to drag this out for ages.
It's worth reading the linked issue for a refresher on how arbitrage, and this scheme in particular, work: https://github.com/butor/blackbird/issues/100.

I think the pathalogicial case is if the markets never converge significantly, or more likely diverge wildly, e.g. one gets hacked. Otherwise, Blackbird will wait it out until it hits a pre-determined settable profit margin.

I'm guessing plausible return rates are low, but with the relative safety you can risk a bit more than just "crystal-ball"ing the market or playing daily lows and highs.
If a woman wants to touch you, she will. End of story.
> The death penalty is administered within a legal framework that is designed (nominally at least) to be transparent and afford due process

I'm sure China's system has some high-minded "nominal" goals too. Why should we give the US a pass for its practical outcomes while holding China to a higher standard?

Remember, for all that talk about how horrible China is, the US imprisons many times more people per-capita.

(I tend to agree with you that Chinese practical outcomes are worse in various intangible ways, but I'm not willing to write off US prison populations like that, it's a blemish and a stain and it's such a massive problem that people are unable to address it on any sort of a political level. Which is basically the same problem as in China, just with a different set of social strictures. In both cases it comes down to a basic sense of "shou ga nai" - nothing can be done.)
McInnes is a racist, misogynistic shitheel for sure, but he also left in 2008. Since, Vice has become an outlet that does objectively good stuff with its reporting and its specialist media--I love Waypoint, I have a friend there whose moral compass is beyond reproach as far as I am concerned, and I have zero doubt that that friend wouldn't be there if they weren't convinced of the place.

Near as I can tell, Vice is an outlet that escaped its asshole founder and gone past his goals. Should probably be commended for that (while at the same time expected to clean house when confronted with meritorious allegations).
If you charge by week, how do you keep your consulting pipeline full? Do you engage in contract negotiations while working for someone else?
How would a tax attorney help in simple cases where you're e.g. selling some BTC that you've been holding for some time? Declaring capital gains yourself isn't that hard if you keep accurate records.
> "Imagine if books and blog posts and movies and art work didn't have the author/creator next to it. Interesting to think how people's reactions would change."

I find this interesting too.

Generally speaking, people are drawn to creating narratives about the world around them. I'd suggest that even if the creators of art become nameless/faceless, the vacuum would get filled by a cult of personality around taste makers. For example, in the world of electronic dance music there's a high volume of music producers without public recognition. However, the DJs that play this music then become the "face" for this music, and it's their reputation which is more prominent than many of the artists making the music.
Addressing several of the threads here:

If you're doing contract development that can be done half as well for a quarter of the cost by an offshore team, you are not doing consulting. You are competing in an arena that you will never be able to win.

If you want to consult for good money, you have to create your market and you have to have the confidence of that market. You have to be able to give C-level execs advice that they want in a language they understand to solve the problems that they deem important. The vertical market is just as important as the horizontal one. In other words, a CRM expert is generally valuable. A CRM expert that can provide technical, management, and executive strategy solutions in the healthcare space is extraordinarily valuable. The very strong technical guy can be worth $2-300 an hour if he knows the right software and knows enough to put himself in the right position. The vendor that has brand recognition and a consulting team built around their product is worth more. The consultant who knows the ins and outs of the vendor relationships and how they fit into the big picture of solving the customer relationship problem and can throw together a comprehensive multi-year strategy that differentiates the client from their competition and will have a positive effect on the stock and market position is the consultant that makes good money.

You don't get to be that guy by being the best developer or by having a history at one of the big three. You work your way up the ladder, make a difference, and then offer that difference to someone in a parallel position. You build out a team, a strategy, and a marketing plan that puts you in a position to drive.
The problem with patio11's blogs is that he seems to exist in a different world from most programmers, I feel.

> So $100 per hour, even though it is not a market rate for e.g. intermediate Ruby on Rails programmers

Uh, $100 an hour is $208,000 annually full-time. Unless Patrick is referring exclusively to the Bay Area upper crust, I don't know how he reaches the conclusion that $100 an hour is "not even market rate for intermediate programmers."
‘Gaming Disorder’ to Be Recognized by WHO as a Mental Health Condition
100%. I work in consulting, and we spend a lot of time trying to find ways to do this better. But no amount of clearly documented prerequisites, checkpoint meetings to try to make sure they'll be ready before kickoff, or anything else consistently works. In my experience, we often lose 1+ week due to the customer not being ready even though they have acknowledged the prerequisites.

I think it comes down to priorities, and the fire in front of you always has higher priority. That means that onboarding and prereqs are not the priority until the consultants show up on-site and you are paying for them to find other things to do while waiting for the real project to start. Then it is a fire, and everyone starts moving with purpose.
Seems pretty one way:

> One woman said she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event when a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his crotch.

So basically the letter the women sign is a license for certain men in a elevated position to assault women.

I feel like this kind of shit puts us two steps back, especially when the American president is accused of similar behavior towards woman, now it will give that side another "whatboutism" ammunition.

I have a strong nagging feeling that there are bound to be more #metoo stories shortly from Vice.

I mean it's so fucking bizarre to have a systematic infrastructure set in place to allow it's higher up members to traumatize defenseless women.

If the mainstream media wanted to destroy Vice once and for all, now seems like an appropriate opportunity.
Why is Facebook relevant to the title? Neither FB or an Ocaml project at FB is mentioned anywhere in the post.
Here’s the weird thing I found out in my Dev/infra consulting - making $30-40k/month is easy if you you want to work at 100% utilization on a year+ contract. It gets sketchy if you don’t want that kind of utilization.
But this is somehow the state of the discourse right now! It's laid out purely in extremes. People aren't even entertaining what ought to be the obvious conclusion given the data: there are good and bad regulations. The existence of bad regulations does not wipe out the existence of good regulations, and vice versa. Instead when I suggest that there are beneficial regulations we can put in place that would benefit a large portion of Americans, people get defensive about it! This doesn't preclude the notion that regulations can be done poorly, and that some regulations are even actively harmful. But when making arguments people rarely want to consider more than just the extreme positions.
Shoutout to my college professor who just made his machine learning book free!

I particularly like the book in that it explains the pure computer science and mathematical ideas behind machine learning, model building and validation, without relying on any particular software package. If you are looking for a book that conveys knowledge rather than a glorified tutorial on machine learning, this is it.

Each chapter is written with incremental difficulty, so that one can read up until (hopefully a bit beyond) his/her maths comfort zone.

The book is also entertaining, if anything just read the first paragraph of each chapter and look at the first illustrations!

Additional info here: http://intelligent-optimization.org/LIONbook
Yes but it tends to be around bigger companies.

Lots of smaller businesses just don't care. They also don't have "chief somethings" to tell them it's important, or to do it to save their own asses just in case.

They just fly blind and in many cases they get lucky which further solidifies their beliefs.

And in the odd case when they get screwed they just bury it and move on.

Or post a "we are very sorry! security is our TOP PRIORITY!" message somewhere and move on.

I mean just look at the Equifax fiasco. Then scale that down to the smaller companies and see what you end up with...
I'm 10.5 years in, and I think what really killed my career growth opportunities is the cost/benefit analysis of going back into an office. Far too many jobs still require you to be present to warm a seat. And depending on location, my estimates are $10-15k+ in costs alone for transportation and food (lunch), and that doesn't even take into account potential childcare and other costs. The first credible job offer I've received in several years only wanted to up my pay by about that amount, and my existing employer nearly matched it, upping the bar even further.

This is of course on top of the social deficiencies of working from home, and lack of networking opportunities that it presents. It gets lonely sitting at home all day, even if there is family around. That's not the same as having like-minded coworkers to speak to.
> Failure

I assume this just to not have great expectatives, otherwise I could not start another startup in my life. I will always try and always try to be better. That is the first motto I tell my friends/co-founders. The first talk with me is a 100% transparency on where I fall short and my biggest mistakes. And beg them to help me not to repeat them. No ego whatsoever. And I haven't started a startup in 2 years with another person. I had made the decision to go alone/indie for ever, but this idea is social and needs a team of two, and lots of feedback. I can't do it alone, in real life.

> I will assume your post is serious...

It is. Thanks for assuming it.

I am a remote tech worker, so I have great flexibility. I understand not everyone has the same. It is difficult to write how I live my life, but I don't mean "skip" in a totally. In fact I am in a great place with lots of people around me and other friends living together. It is summer now and I have a beach all around me. My holidays I will spend with my family.

I mean instead of playing playstation 3 days in a row, Why can't I convince this people to code? I know they want it, but they have pressure from they family and friends.

I want to know if this happens in SV as well or is it because I am not in SV. People here are not trained to invest time in what they love. There is not entrepreneurial spirit.

> If you are the founder, you are much more invested in the business and are willing to skip the holidays.

I wrote a click bait title. I don't mean "code for 2 weeks and skip all holidays until we have the MVP" though I would love it. I just wonder why this can't happen in my country or at least to/near me.

> Enjoy your life.

I really do :)

> Not everything has to be about work and making money all of the time.

I couldn't agree more. Life has taught me the hard way that with money it is way easier. (if you are smart and know how to use money).
Though this is not a topic to talk about money.

> I mean... it's nice to do and a lot of people have accomplished that dream,
THIS!

> but it's also okay to enjoy the holidays off from work.
100% agree

Merry Xmass <3
He states a 70% utilization rate over the year, so probably about 37 working weeks / 15 weeks off.