skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can’t hire good developers and ask them to fix bugs for a year because they would run away from you

Really? I've never experienced that in the workplace. However, I'm not that widely travelled and not in SV, so I guess I'd be "unsurprised but depressed" to learn that this degree of idiotic entitlement is common. And idiotic is exactly what it is: truly quality software is the product of lots and lots of bugfixing. It's like the "10% inspiration/90% perspiration" thing, but for initial development and bugfix/gradual improvement work. Especially on huge (OS-sized) software, people hiring on should not be surprised that this is the bulk of their day-to-day.

I get that greenfield development is more fun up front. I just (perhaps naïvely) hope that most professionals understand that a) "fun" and "good for the product" aren't the same thing, and b) that it can also be very personally rewarding to spend a long time fixing bugs (yours or others') and see the quality of/user happiness with a product noticeably increase.

Also, I think being able to say "I fix bugs to maintain an operating system used by millions" is at least as rewarding as being able to say "I make buggy websites for startups whose marketing buzz reaches millions".
I wrote a similar post [1] in which I suggest charging at least 4x the rate you'd charge working full-time at a company.

So, if you normally make $60/hr working full-time (converts to $120k/year), then as a freelancer I'd suggest charging at least $240/hr if you plan on having anywhere near a similar lifestyle.

This is because 50% of your working time goes towards marketing, self-promotion, and other things clients don't pay you for. And 50% of your revenue goes towards taxes, office space, and buying products and services to support your business.

It's a rough calculation, but I think it explains why a lot of freelancers massively undercharge when first starting out. 4x your normal rate just seems so high until you think of the real costs.

[1] https://blog.artisfy.com/2017/04/13/charge-at-least-this-muc...
Nice. From this SO answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/800847/415384

we get this:

https://regexper.com/#%5E(%3F%3A(%3F%3A(%3F%3A0%3F%5B13578%5...

or from another answer:

https://regexper.com/#((1%7C0(00)*01)((11%7C10(00)*01))*%7C(...)
Are you sure? What about Google+? Guess they spent at least a billion for that.

Google's search and ad network is paying (directly or indirectly) for everything. All other projects are just to keep people using their search and seeing ads on their platform.
It's a free way to stock a new library. People would probably be better served by a dedicated, funded public library, but if that isn't forthcoming then this is a good "second best" approach. It's certainly better than no library.
Does it have cookies to help you measure conversion? How does the implementation compare to Facebook Pixel or GA / GTM?
^ Sometimes the truth is a little brutal
The RC servo project is definitely not accurate enough for printing. It was just a fun project. It would need gears or some other mechanism to get the resolution up there.
Same here, I’ve been a premium member for many years, and a user for about five years. It’s one of the few services I happily pay for, along with Spotify and Netflix.

I have friends on there, and have added people I’ve seen on workouts. The latter is especially common with group bike rides. You get to know each other and people comment on each other’s workouts. If you have a bad workout, people will chime in and give support, same for a particularly good workout. Also neat to see where friends are running or new routes they’ve done lately. It’s also fun to try to get new course records, or KOMs if cycling (the running equivalent of a running course record). Strava has been in the news a lot in the years since I’ve been using it on fitness (running, cycling, triathlon) forums because occasionally someone will do something dangerous in an attempt to get a course record, like running red lights through a busy intersection, and blame strava. There has also been once or twice I did see theft of very expensive bikes in the news from strava data.

It isn’t what keeps me running, or cycling, but it’s a definite motivator. I’m happy to be a part of the community and happy to pay for premium, though I don’t use that many premium features. I do love the personal heat map premium feature though, it’s basically what this news article is about, but just your workouts. It makes me actively try to fill out more of the city on my heatmap.
Of course I would. I think the world knows not to invest against Bezos.
I didn't intend to comment on any active practices; I was just providing precedent for the parent's suggestion that we should

> Let them brag that their phone have more capacitors.
> the people with the most resource rich support system, etc.

I'm not sure you even realize, but that's the exact opposite of the definition of meritocracy.
This is not clear, in that "concierge doctors" or cash only doctors to some, seem to have rates that are lower than what the insurance companies claim they are billed for a service. That would suggest they are lousy negotiators.
Mercedes unveils aggressive electric vehicle production plan, 6 factories
An introduction to the DomTerm terminal emulator – Opensource.com
If our brain structures were different (at least in so far as the organization or distribution of cells within the cranium and not the external measurement) then one would expect adopted children from places where brains are very different to perform differently then peers in new locations.

Yet I remember reading a study that showed that black children from Africa adopted by white parents in Germany performed at the same level as their peers. There have been other such studies with very similar conclusions.
Mazda Says Next-Generation Gasoline Engine Will Run Cleaner Than an Electric Car
Doesn't work because the GC moves objects around in memory
DRAM is still extremely expensive, so you're probably on-point about part of the low price being the lack of DRAM. It would be interesting to see tear downs of current consumer and enterprise SSDs to better understand how they work.
Where healthcare's concerned, that's simply not the case.

The US spends 2-3 times what the rest of the OECD countries spend on a per-capita basis. https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

For all that spending, we have lower life expectancy and worse stats in a variety of outcomes. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/... http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-healthcare-comparison-20...

Not only does healthcare not have to be expensive, it isn't (comparatively speaking) in the rest of the developed world.
Short answer is in another thread here.

After discussing our performance goals with folks we knew at Basho, they expressed a lot of skepticism that we could meet them with Erlang.

How to plug-in potentially heavy user computations in non-Beam based languages is an incredibly tricky problem as well.

If you'd be interested in chatting more, I'm happy to that. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16266220 for more information.
Still, quoting far right websites with click-baity article titles kinda shatters your credibility...
Generally, studios don't do it because it costs too much to hire those skills. Having advanced libraries available would open up what people can do without needing to hire PhDs, since it is much more demanding to hire someone who can build this stuff from scratch than someone with enough working knowledge to apply it.

I agree that 3D first person shooters aren't a good fit for complex simulations. Complex simulation games, however, are. The AI for those tends to be really bad, and this makes them nothing more than rote optimization tasks, and not that fun. There is a lot of room for these tools in the strategy market for these tools, and "the norm" is predicated on those things not being available.

Recent advances in machine learning such as style transfer have huge applicability to procedural content generation in games, but you better have access to python. With 99% of the games on steam being some lame platformer or survival clone, I do think these tools are needed so that progress can be made, so that better games could become the norm.
An interesting idea that Mercedes showed in their self-driving prototypes (which only ran on a hardcoded loop for that test) was having all seats face the middle, so the passengers could look at one another.

That's a lot more comfortable, and already common for the rear two rows in larger cars.
No, because the GC is free to move objects around to compact the heap.
Winding down an open source project – The Linux Foundation
>> I'm not sure there's much reason to be that tied to the chip anymore...

How about virtualization? Desktop virtual machine software seems to be a pretty healthy industry on Mac.
> You’re of course right about passive keyless entry and perhaps the GP has that confused with other features that do require an internet connection.

I did not confuse anything. I only mentioned passive keyless entry in a footnote, as an example of an insecure technology that you can't really avoid anymore. You still have a chance to avoid "connected car" features, but in my estimation the days are numbered for that.
I think that depends on whether or not one views regulation or state influences on the free market as being anti-capitalist.
Remembering Shawn Pearce
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/27...
Morally, I agree with you. My former prime minister is in jail for graft, theft essentially. He will spend less time in prison (though fortunately he is at least serving some) than a common thief even though the damage he has done is imesurably greater.

The reason I argue the opposite (OP) is for practical rather than moral reasons. Morals are a luxury. Systemic stability is at stake and is a requisite for any rule of law.

That said, prosecuting legislators and/or political executives for ilegal legislation is far too dangerous, essentially merging all branches of government.
My thinking. Cab supply and ease.

I work at a retailer where 20-30% more probably) use their phone to get to work. Its affordable and allows taking the job.
$5 to get home. Cabs were $11 and importantly unreliable.

Have a phone; get a ride anytime.

And.. A person i work with finishes her shift and turns "on" her Uber driver mode and instantly becomes a cab. Uber is an on/off switch for cab supply. To me that is very different.

Imo before uber one could not even think transportation was easy.

Its not the Pepsi Generation it's the Uber Generation
NASA finds satellite, realises it has lost the software and kit that talk to it
If you were a German with an armpit tattoo [i] and were taken by the Russians death was certain. The allies would routinely hand over these men to the Russians to avoid an entire war crime trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_blood_group_tattoo
How to find direction as a prospective CTO founder?
So, I'm a fullstack dev. I've worked at startups, worked at small and medium companies, and worked as a contractor.

I'm currently working as a contractor exclusively, and really would like to found (or cofound) a company this year. I can contribute 40+/hrs a week to this.

I would really like to found a small company that is tech-focused, with a stack that can be maintained by 1-2 devs. I am not looking for investment, IPOs, whatever. Just a sustainable SaaS (or otherwise) that can do 10-50k revenue per month on the longer term.

My main problem is that my real passion and interest lies in web technology itself, not something that is _delivered by_ web technology. I am fully confident I could CTO a small enterprise and build an effective product, I just don't know what that product should be. Do I simply need a business-minded cofounder?
Ask HN: What site or app have you built with Flask?
>I grew up in the ghetto. While my friends smoked dope, I studied with free resources from the local library. All the books were old and outdated, but I didn't care. The drive to learn and improve is still with me today.

And thousands of others did the exact same but didn't make it out. That's the entire point of this conversation. Hard work isn't a sufficient condition. If it were tons of people would easily make it out. But instead it's a lot of luck along with it.
Does not look like it supports negative lookbehind
https://regexper.com/#(%3F%3C!a)b
The part that often gets missed with "raise your prices" is that for a lot of that price increase range you may lose customers but you'll make more money for less time commitment.

Cheap clients have a cost.
Think Google structured this way so could be spun out more easily. Would guess at some point if successful it will have it's own IPO.

With existing Google shareholders getting some ownership.
The are squared sewers holes all around the world. At least, in front of my house, next to workplace and I encountered multiple others on my way between work and home today.
Show HN: DNS over https server in Golang
I encourage you to contact your state's insurance commissioner. Further, in my state, they admin the COBRA program. In my experience, the state has been very supportive, helpful. Whereas the insurers and payers will do very little to help.
Apple Pushes Back Some Key iPhone Software Features
Oh. So the "Self Driving Armada"is not a Nissan Armada. Maybe the next headline could be "Waymo Has Self Driving Edge."
> The only thing that's changed recently is that we're now just more capable of being aware how much bad reporting and government tomfoolery is going on - we always been lied to.

We're post-fact for the specific reason that that statement is both true and utterly false.

Whatever mess we're currently in, it's explicitly because we (collectively) weren't capable enough of being aware of bad reporting, and while it's gotten louder this last year, I'm not sure we've gotten better at it.
> Kids fill their idle time with all of this interactivity which keeps them entirely distracted from life's challenges

Looking at my current situation (mental and otherwise), I'd say it's not limited to kids.
How did the internet lose its noble purpose and turn bad?
>so I don't really understand why they shouldn't choose Pony if their use-case fits.

The difference between Pony and Go or Erlang (or even Elixir) is that the Pony team still are making breaking changes to the language. That means that your dev team may need to spend time to update features due to breaking changes in the language. Also, the ecosystem isn't there like it is for Go or Erlang.
> Are we seeing the press trying to knock Twitter down a few pegs as it seeks acquisition?

"The press" doesn't work that way. In particular, I doubt that the NYT and The Atlantic take orders from Salesforce's M&A department.
> My name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you. Say whatever is in your mind freely, our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. Memory contents will be wiped off after you leave. So, tell me about your problems.
This site is what finally made me good at regex. I found it painful to learn otherwise.
That's a great idea if you only care about passengers, but a horrible idea for the pedestrians crossing the roads.
When I was younger, I was that annoying Mac fanboy. Apple could do no wrong & Microsoft could do no right. Eventually, I found Linux and while I started as a fanboy, I eventually matured into someone who uses Linux & other free software because it's the best option for me.

When I look at what Apple & macOS have become, I'm really puzzled by it all. Macs were always famed for the attention to detail of the entire system (the number of pinstripes on the early Mac window titlebars being one notable example), but recently they've reversed course altogether. It's way too easy to accidentally close a window. The interface is not as attractive (a subjective opinion, I know) as it was 18 years ago. The touch bar is a solution in desperate search of a problem. Dropping the headphone jack is flat-out insane (as anyone familiar with the 'Bluetooth delay' knows to his chagrin).

The iPhone & iPad are cool enough, and Apple's focus on end-user security is welcome (if not entirely well-done), but they're far too power-user-unfriendly. Macs had that reputation in the past, but it's not entirely deserved: with things like MacsBug & MPW, you really could get a lot done with a classic Mac. And underneath modern OS X there beats an honest-to-God BSD Unix. Apple can be friendly to power users when it wants to — but does it, anymore?
The King of Kong film makes him look bad. He clearly fills a kind villain role.

In the movie extras he's seen delivering a Q-Bert machine to a excited senior citizen so she can practice for a tournament. Seemed oddly out of character from the way he was portrayed in the movie.

I don't know him personally, but he keeps showing up at video game events and clearly is enthusiastic about them.
The 3 Laws of Low End Computing
> What's next? Anarcho-Capitalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
> Which isn't to say that drugs can't help, just that they're very much treating the symptoms and not at all the underlying cause.

This is obviously not true for some people. If you have a genetic condition that means you cannot produce certain essential chemicals (let's say Vitamin D) and your deficiency is causing your brain to function inefficiently making you feel depressed then the genetic condition is the cause and the drugs are the cure. You seem to be refuting "what works for you might not work for others" by saying that drugs cannot treat the underlying cause of depression.
This is solid gold. Thank you.
I'm 100% behind you here.

Comparing [1] and [2], there's no competition.

[1] https://regexper.com/#%5E(%3F%3A(%3F%3A(%3F%3A0%3F%5B13578%5...

[2] https://regex101.com/r/LzdGpw/1

I can use 2, but 1 just looks cool.
occam's razor: you don't need to introduce migrants to create deep fractures.

look at the US. we're still fighting political battles along (roughly) the lines of the civil war. there's genuine animosity before you introduce any migrants.
The law is the output of politicians so in a certain sense they can collectively always pass legislation that protects themselves anyway so there’s not much point in compelling them into doing so by prosecuting them.

Parliamentary immunity also exists in many countries to ensure that parliamentarians cannot be prosecuted for acts they undertook whilst in office (or other acts, so they that they cannot be compelled into anything).

You’re never going to get a body politic to pass a law that places them all at risk, and if somehow one got through, they’d pretty quickly pass another one to repeal it.
Hey Willis! I'd love to be able to sort by region, round, fund raising amount, etc.
There are other reasons to have separate entities beyond just legal issues. You can find some guesses out there as to who was responsible for Alpha or why Alphabet was created. But having other 'bets' provides some niceties around: earnings reporting, and spinning-off/selling entities if needed.

I'm also guessing it helps lure in potential leaders like John Krafcik (CEO of Waymo), because these execs can come onboard with the title of CEO rather than some VP within Google. (though, Krafcik joined Google 1 year before Waymo was founded).
Yeah, that was unclear. I'm thinking of a match outcome between teams A and B as a partial ordering on all the teams. Classically Arrow's deals with only total orderings as input -- I'd been thinking that it extends to partial orderings, but hmm, I'm not sure what research says about if we restrict the inputs to be just pairwise orderings/outcomes.
Downloaded (finally) and looked thru all 1000 pages - no plates! Why wouldn't they scan those too? Just because its not amenable to OCR? Sigh.
The author writes this:
"I don't charge less if I need the work and neither do I charge more if I am busy."
and then concludes with this in the final paragraph:
"Also at the end of the day, pricing is about supply and demand."

These statements cannot both be true - charging more because you are busy is the very definition of your work being in heavier demand.
Get rid of the need for windows and steering wheel you have a lot of options. In a self-driving taxi you could even have multiple self contained 'cubicles' so you could share rides and not have to interact with anybody else.
Google is about to pass Apple as the most valuable company in the world. So apparently Google is doing something correctly.
Brain size is certainly an issue but from my understanding it's more about the constraints of childbirth than metabolic cost that are restraining it. When you're resting flat on your back your brain uses up 10 of the 100 watts you're dissipating but the variation in brain size given other constraints is pretty low and I'd expect plausible power differences from that to be pretty small too. And brain size only has something like a .3 correlation with IQ so other factors like efficient myelination or organization are probably much more important. I'd expect better myelination to reduce energy consumption if anything. As to organization I'm too unfamiliar with the scaling laws of neurons to be sure but I'd suspect brain organization that increased intelligence at least wouldn't increase energy usage much. So I'm still inclined to view intelligence as being constrained, evolutionarily, by issues of complexity rather than tradeoffs between efficiency and effectiveness as with height.
You are thinking about this as a state-sponsored project, however it is more akin a governmental agency dedicated to building the Pyramids. People there (almost certainly all men) were likely not paid employees but instead people taken from all over Egypt enrolled in a mandatory public service (akin to mandatory military service), fed and supplied by the Egyptian government, with goods which likely came from taxes created with the explicit purpose of supporting the construction of the Pyramids.

So, all considered, this place must look more akin an ancient Egyptian military camp of a massive scale than a regular city, thus lacking some 'basic' civilian like markets or schools. Also, ancient Egyptians cared a lot about their death ones, so likely a proper burial were given to everybody who died while working in the Pharaon's tomb.

On an unrelated note, I wonder why they were wasting all these massive logistics into piling rocks in middle of the dessert, when they could, you know, be building roads or dams or walls across all their frontiers.
I much rather see ads on Amazon.com than anywhere else. I'm there in the market, I'm walking into the store and see ads for products, that's expected. I go in with a consumer mindset.

Everywhere else is the problem, I don't like being treated like I'm at the store every minute of the day, online and offline. I'm not looking to buy anything when I browse the internet, when I commute, when I'm at home and the phone keeps ringing to sell whatever, when I'm picking the kids at school and people keep trying to engage in sale talk and push flyers. It's exhausting.
Not sure. I’d assume it’s intiating a signup in app immediately prior to a transaction commencing.
Customary Burial vs. Today's New Burial Methods
Who is going to sell their BTC for Tethers once it becomes obvious that Tether is insolvent and the coins are worthless?
Maybe Mazda's number considers thermal power generation is burning mostly coal, plastic trash and animal parts.

Because if we need to beef up energy generation for EV's, I'm pretty sure we'll not be burning coal in vintage power plant designs.
> I was immediately reminded of the advice in TEGES that many drivers have bad eyesight.

Eek!
Ah, like watching Conway's Game of Life on a screensaver.