skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been self-employed since I was a student and have walked the spectrum from $50 to 500/hr and then back down to find the sweet spot. I have exclusively worked on my own the entire time and had staff, contractors as well as product teams.

I've found 3x to be a closer number to aim for based on two key things:

1) Know what kind of help client is looking for and whether you are that in the form of a freelancer, contractor, consultant and specialist. The gaps in those expectations cause a lot of friction when you're trying to be a consultant who's opinion matters, and they just want a freelancer to help with something already under way.

2) We create value through 3 main activities. Every dollar earned pays for 3 things.

1/3 of each dollar to get work
(sales, marketing, speaking, networking)

1/3 of each dollar to manage work
(scope & project management, resource management, status updates, support, qa, testing, warranty work, taxes, fees, infrastructure)

1/3 of each dollar to do the work
(development, creation, innovation, etc)

For every $125/hr, you can allocate about $43/hr to each 1/3rd.

Our mind thinks we are splitting 1/3 of our time between each, but the trick is to see how efficient each can be for each team member (or yourself), and at what.

If you are, or find someone who is more responsible at doing one more category than the other, they are increasing efficiency, and profitability and therefore can have a bigger hourly chunk. If you write horrible code but are great with clients.. you can quite literally see where that balances out, or not.

The 1/3 model has helped me hire and retain a lot of talent when they knew what their value was, how they were adding value, and how they could improve it.

It also helps weed out people who think they are worth a lot more than the value they actually provide due to attitude/entitlement/insecurity getting in the way of delivering ongoing skills/knowledge.

Hourly work, however, ultimately poisons most relationships because clients focus on your time instead of your result. I have learned to estimate with hours, but provide a fixed number. You do get better at this with the things you are good at.

Creating long term relationships are much more preferable - many customers will pre-purchase blocks of time/attention in the form of a working retainer that is good for both parties. The good side for you is you can take on additional resources if you need to do some of the work.

If you're interested in learning more about ditching hourly work, an unaffiliated nod for podcasts like Ditching Hourly is worthwhile.

https://www.ditchinghourly.com/
You would use the LDR instruction to load the word from RAM. So just one instruction, but with some slower memory access.

When writing ARM assembly, the assembler (at least the ones I've seen) abstract this detail away from you.

You can use

ldr r0, =0xff000000

and the assembler will emit a MOV if it can, and if it can't it will put the value somewhere in RAM and use LDR to load it up.

ARM is fun.
The soviets were also the enemy, going back to the Russian revolution and US participation in the counter-revolutionary invasions. They were simply an ally of convenience for the relatively brief period between the end of the Molotov-von Ribbentrop pact to cessation of hostilities in Europe.

Remember Patton wanted to rush to Berlin and the. Keep on going to Moscow — that was the enemy he had been trained to hate.

And this was quite effective for the other allies — they shipped materiel to the USSR who in exchange did the majority of the actual fighting. Not to discount the efforts of the western allies, but the level of USSR fatalities was enormous, while Eisenhower (a logistics specialist, not a tactician) delayed the proposed invasion for anyear in order to get his supply lines in order and to minimize casualties for his side.
A points and a question:

Point: USDT is used as a holding point for people wanting to stay in crypto but not be subject to price movement of other coins. This could be used to not trigger a taxable event (even though recently, crypto to crypto transactions were deemed taxable by the IRS). When buying crypto in general, it's much easier/faster to start a transfer from another crypto as opposed to having to move fiat into the "cryptoverse".

Question: Why does it matter if Tether is backed at 1:1 ratio with USD? I understand that the people behind Tether have explicity said that each USDT is backed by $1 USD. Why are the legal implications of non-backed USDT different than other cryptocurrencies whose values are based on the market? Is it simiply because Tether has claimed USDT is backed?
Isn't this service plagued by the same issues that brought down Homejoy? If I find a local dog walker that I like through this service I'd just get their phone number and pay them in cash.
> If USDT goes to zero, every exchange that trades it becomes immediately insolvent.

Nope. They'd only be insolvent if they had a legal binding commitment to redeem USDT 1:1 in dollars, and only if they didn't have sufficient other USD reserves to do so.
How about a recall?
They already commented on that performance:

> Yes, Pony Kafka is currently slower than the C client. But it is also almost completely untuned as of right now. We expect there is a lot of low hanging fruit on that front that will give us significant gains.

>There is also the secondary concern regarding the thread pools internal to Pony and librdkafka. We've seen first hand how CPU cache invalidation can impact performance so we are very aware of the potential negatives if the Pony and librdkafka threads ever end up fighting with each other over the same CPU resources.
I think a lot depends on who your clients are and what your business is. If you're talking about a real professional services engagement (Accenture, Oracle Consulting, whatever) then $300+/hour for an architect-level resource is pretty standard. Hell, junior business analysts get charged out at $175/hour.

As a one-person shop the value you can bring is probably lower because you don't have the synergies of a team and you will have to spend some of your time doing junior BA-type work. You can't charge yourself out at the full rate of an architect-level resource because you're not spending all your time doing architect-level work. However as a one-person shop your overhead should be lower (e.g. no HR people or other cost centers to support with your billings).

$75/hour seems awful low as a 1099/consultant, so it's no wonder businesses are happy to pay that.
What risks does the exchange incur from allowing the trade of tethers?

Exchanges make their money from people trading--not by holding their own reserves and betting on their values. If Tether value drops to zero, anyone holding Tethers would be upset, but exchanges would just have been profiting from all the trades necessary to bring that value down to zero.
Indeed, and so has Emacs, in various forms (TECO, pure Lisp, and the modern C-and-Elisp version people use now).
> preventing browsers such as Chrome from using said functionality that Safari enjoys

Uh, such as what? The Nitro JavaScript engine is available for all apps now.
For me the Left is that which fights for The Workers. The Graun may pay occasional lip service to say the NHS but they literally won’t put their money where their mouths are. They are as guilty of exploiting The Workers as all bourgeoisie - worse even.
It is, in the age of ubiquitous multi-core hardware.

I don't remember when it was the last time any of my applications only had a single thread of execution on them, beyond shell and Python scripts.

Maybe around 2000.

And even then, the OS is juggling processes across all cores every few ms, so outside any benchmark winning game, there isn't much real world value in single thread performance.
Its a hardware bug, not a software "feature"
I challenge your statement that "everyone dies eventually". I intend to live forever and so far, so good.
[Click and get paid]
> you're basically guaranteed to get caught eventually

That seems like an unwarranted assumption rooted in confirmation bias. It seems like everyone gets caught... because everyone we know about gets caught. There could be legions of cases like this that we never find out about.
Paywalled, so obvious question. Does Google's deep pockets just bid high?
Xi looks great, has a very clever design, and clearly is a next generation platform for building a useful and powerful editor.

I'd love to see this project continue and be a success. I think there is plenty of room for yet another text editor.

Here's where I'm going to be a bit of a party pooper.

Pragmatically speaking all of the great stuff Raph is talking about doesn't really matter. What Raph cares about are the kind of things people who build text editors like to geek out on and again that's all great.

Imma let you finish but VSCode and Atom and the entire Electron ecosystem have once again proven that a sub-optimal but powerful platforms with low barriers to entry win most of the time.

I'm rarely impressed by software projects (close or open) and I'm even less often impressed by Microsoft but what they've been able to do with VSCode in such a short amount of time, and the VELOCITY with which they are continuing to move means that for all practical purposes I will probably be in an Electron based editor for the foreseeable future.

I'm not saying I don't want Xi to continue to grow and be as great as it can be, I'm just being pragmatic.
How is not having to deal with fiat currency an advantage for traders?

They still need to do cost-basis accounting for taxes, and this just shifts their risk of <exchange I use stealing all my USD and the police will never get it back> to <USDT will pop and collapse into worthlessness>.

I understand how this benefits exchanges (Because they can claim they don't need to follow KYC), but how does it benefit their users?

They'll also eventually need to convert USDT into USD - which they can withdraw. If you have an exchange that you can withdraw USD from, why are you even keeping your balance in USDT? Just trade on that exchange...

It's like if the NYSE only allowed you to cash out in scrip. I understand how this benefits them, but how does it benefit me?
If Texas can't build a HSR on flat terrain at a cheaper cost than a HSR that must go over/through/around mountains, above valleys and rivers, around world-famous national parks and forests, and is twice as long...quite frankly, they're doing something wrong.

The CA HSR authority has fucked many things up, but you're comparing apples to oranges here.
Given your goals and interests, I would focus on building a focused solution for a problem you see in and around the work that you've done in the past.

Focusing on a problem space you understand and you yourself might be a potential customer for gives you a lot of advantages. If your solution can accomplish two big goals 1) make developers happy and 2) increase efficiency (reduce bugs, make releasing functionality faster, etc) then you'll have something worthwhile on your hands.

From a pure operational perspective, building a single focused tool that is low cost enough for a solo developer to gladly pay for or for an employee to gain easy sign off on will make support and sales much easier. By focusing on a simple solution, you also limit the breadth of the functionality you have to maintain. This will allow you to focus on refining and improving the value proposition and help minimize spaghetti code. It also makes growth possible with a small team.

A good example of this might be jell.com which helps teams handle standup and work visibility. Making a SaaS product with a low initial cost means you accumulate revenue over time. Compared with traditional software/app sales, you have a much easier path to sustainable monetization.

Good luck on the effort. I also recommend reading into the lean startup methodology and taking small iterative steps and measuring their impact to get started.
Lots of real people hold that position. Just go to any Android-related forum, lots of owners of older tablets/phones recommend not upgrading past version X (usually for performance reasons.)
Predicting Your Next Retail Location with Data Science and 7 Other Use Cases
Can We Copy the Brain?
>For this specific case Apple's explanation, they started throttling down CPUs based on battery age to prevent unexpected phone shutdowns make sense

Then perhaps Apple should have been transparent about what they were doing and told their customers who complained about the obvious slowdowns and were ignored by Apple. It was only until it was proven, without a doubt, that Apple was deliberately slowing down their CPU's did they finally admit to what they were doing.

Additionally, Apple has known about this issue for some time so they had ample time to correct the issue. Unfortunately, having the fastest mobile CPU on the market was more important than the side effects of a battery that could no longer provide the voltage required to hit those Geekbench scores.
YC is US centric, and more specifically SV centric. If you are not in a position to benefit from this that will no doubt skew the situation even further away from a level playing field but that is how the rest of the world feels anyway. All attempts to duplicate Silicon Valley to date have failed.
I apologize. Won't happen again.
> A care provider isn't multi-regional, thus when they deal with Medicare it's mostly consistent. The interface is at least similar.

This is dead wrong. It's easier to deal with a small ha regional insurers than it is to deal with Medicare on the whole. And as I said in the original post, even within a region, Medicare is very heterogeneous.

> Medicare is by volume the largest provider.... Medicare isn't simple, it's just a small piece of a very big shit sandwich.

As you said yourself, it's the largest single piece of the sandwich. It also happens to be the core of it as well. Most of the complexity in the billing process stems from how Medicare structures and organizes its own billing, not the other way around.
Is there any particular reason json-rpc was used compared to more performant gRPC?
Good luck finding a counterparty.
>Ponzi schemers lie to their investors.

is that all of them, or most of them? because there are ponzi schemes that openly state what they are.
Some upscale hotels also accept foreign credit cards. There's rumor Discover cards can be used just the same as local credit cards, but I never get a chance to verify that.
Ok. I see. I misread.

Downvotes deserved and I'm happy I got an explanation for the (good) reason.
If it were due to battery lifetime, Apple wouldn't slow down the devices when they are plugged in. (Of course then the slowdown when running on battery would have been obvious.)
I believe if you access it via twitter or facebook, WSJ still lets you in. Try the link from https://twitter.com/nat_droz/status/958396191531728896
It’s not 3 months. It’s one evening a week over 3 months.
It would, but for the sake of backwards compatibility, these kinds of optimisations don't hurt

Similarly, one reason I'm using canvas instead of WebGL is because it's very easy to have hundreds of canvas elements on a page (for example when plotting hundreds of little barplots).

WebGL, afaik, does not expect you to open more than one WebGL view, and requires some trickery to work around this. For example, this regl-in-idyll example opens one "transparent" WebGL overlay over the whole screen and "scrolls" along with the actual webpage:

http://idyll-lang.org/idyll-regl-component/

Which, admittedly, is a really cool hack! However, if you then take into account that my employees like to print their webpages, it turns into a pain again...
Well, my friend's Samsung lasts 2h after it reaches 0%. Sometimes it's just a bug.
This is why you can't blame Hillary for losing.
Neither are threats to either. The only way google or facebook or amazon loses anything if they lose customers visiting their properties. Amazon isn't even entering google or facebook's domain.

This is just another in a long series of "i hate google/facebook/social media" propaganda pushed by the media on HN.

There hasn't been a day without an anti-google/facebook/social media post on HN for months now. You can use the waybackmachine to check for yourself. It's incredible.
Is it right to help people in third world countries if it effectively means we are erasing parts or all of their culture with our own? Are we meddling?
https://archive.is/2a176
Their assets equal liabilities in either case (whether selling USDT directly for USD, or cyclling them through BTC). Call it what you will, but in neither scenario is anyone rich. Tether if backed by USD at the end of the day is revenue neutral. What am I missing?
I suppose the whole "luxury and inspirational" bit is my problem. Maybe an even bigger part of this is the fact that I don't look at technology the same way I look at cars. More and more, technology is becoming a necessity, more than a luxury. So I find myself routing against Apple, even if I love their phones and tablets. I hope this doesn't make me a hypocrite.

Totally unrelated; car manufacturers share technology quite a bit.
Thanks for the insight! The city center sure is a weird place, I don't think those mega-bars will ever make sense to me. I'd take Houhai in Beijing anyday.

Makes sense that Taobao/Alibaba have been able to fill the gap and get product shipped quickly.
I have one (not this brand though). No one questioned it yet. Neither airport staff nor flight attendants.
They do go after Wall St. banks - what makes you think SEC doesn't?
GV leads $25M investment in Hover, a startup that digitizes your home
If no one gives a damn, why have they?
If you go back to how this was originally discovered, it was in public aggregate benchmarks:

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-an...

The thing to note here is that even in the charts of older devices, by far the largest peak is at max performance. In other words, most older phones, even running the new code, were not being slowed down when they were benchmarked.

There's no evidence I know of that every older iPhone is being slowed down, all the time.

Now, I certainly believe it's possible that your phone slowed down across the board after an iOS update, but there are a lot of reasons that could happen. See for example this story, where a customer went into an Apple Store on suspicion of a battery issue, but the performance problems were actually fixed by a backup and restore:

http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea...
Until now, Bitcoin is not considered a systemic risk[1], which simply means that /when/ it will crash it won't drag the whole world economy down with it.

Lots of people will get burned pretty badly though. Like the saying goes, freezing feet and burning head makes for a good average temperature.

[1] https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21732526-there-invest...
The issue is that the peak power consumption could exceed the maximum power that the battery could deliver, not that the batteries were running out of charge. By throttling power consumption you can prevent unexpected shutdowns at the expense of maximum performance. This is especially problematic in colder climates where phones were shutting down because the cold battery couldn’t deliver enough juice, regardless of its charge level.
My apologies, you are correct. I suppose what I was attempting to say was that the connection between video game referee and child rapist was a weak connection due to the relation of "judgement of character".

The statements "child rapist" implies "poor judgement of character" and "poor judgement of character" implies "poor ability to be a referee" can be negated if the person turned out to be a qualified referee. The gray area is what people agree to be what constitutes good/poor "judgement of character". This is where I believe what AdmiralAsshat is attempting to argue in his post "While that's deplorable, it does not logically follow that a child molester is necessarily an unreliable referee."
They also have it all on Stanford's site with some other information and course materials.

https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS229
NeoVim is moving towards this goal too. If you are a vimmer you should keep an eye on Oni (https://github.com/onivim/oni)
People should look at FB for what it is. A big shopping mall where everyone goes to walk around and hang out. Don't like what goes on in FB. Stop using it.
Managing Kubernetes with Terraform Example (Google Cloud)
I don't think so. When LO forked, Oracle disbanded the whole OOo team (AFAIK). When they did, IBM was furious and that ended up causing the move to Apache. In return, IBM merged their commercial fork into Apache OO to save the project.

But then something unexpected happened, LO rebased thousand of commits (a huge effort) on top of the IBM code dump. That allowed them to resolve copyright issues. But it also killed IBM attempt to revive OpenOffice. I think most support contracts went to SuSE(?) or Collabora, the entities that actually make money from those contracts as a business model instead of sponsoring OOo to save themselves money on MS Office licenses.
Thanks for the comment soci.

There is a lot of actions that express taste - sharing your own tagged outfits, searching for something, creating a specific album, and many more. And actually, each expression of taste has its own value. As we move forward, we'll need to get smarter as how we can help people, based on what data.
In the simple case of using memory location as object identity (ie. in system without moving GC) and typical textbook hashtable implementation simply using the pointer as hash value is highly suboptimal, because heap pointers do not have remotely uniform distribution (low order bits are always zero due to allignment constraints, high order bits tend to be constant and usually also zero...). On the other hand you can use more advanced hashtable design that is explicitly tuned for non-uniform hash value distribution. See CPythons dict for cannonical example of that, although it's motivations are somewhat different (the major reason is that in CPython even real hash values of object's content are intentionally non-uniform to allow for simple way of causing integer-valued floats to have same hash value as ints of same value).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16196054

85+ points
My wife, who's from New Mexico, recently did one of those genetic heritage tests. It showed that she was, IIRC, 19% Native American and 21% Iberian peninsula. She doesn't seem to really consider herself as Native American as she considers herself Spanish, though, despite them being essentially statistically the same. It makes more sense in the context of there being a preference for Spanish heritage.
> The Model Y or whatever the hell will have relatively low technical and production risk as a result.

So I take it that the Model 3 manufacturing line issues are now solved?
The design and features, yes. But not how many workers need to be hired, whether they're unionized or not, etc.
There are members of my family that voted for Trump and I haven't crucified any of them to a cross. Am I not Liberal enough anymore?
Just had a look in the library; I seem to have about half a dozen minitel manuals in there. Minitel terminal specs, "Specifications de la fonction decodage Videotex des Minitels" plus X25 stuff like "Specifications Techniques d'Utilisation du Reroutage TELETEL" and "Specifications Techniques d'Utilisation du Point d'Acess Videotex". Any use?
Large singular expensive events will make it average out to 10k per month?
The exchanges get sued by the Tether bagholders, and everyone else gets spooked and attempts to exit. So not insolvent, but no active business activities and a bunch of lawsuits incoming, and might as well be insolvent.
I never thought about using my Discover card either. I will have to try this on my next trip.
>Otherwise we're just wasting gigawatts of electricity to print Monopoly money.

The sooner people realize this is exactly what is happening, the better.