skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you explain a bit why Upwork, who are a company that have countless forum posts, blog posts, ... about non-payment, clawing back payments in entirely unjustified circumstances with zero recourse, ... I'm saying they have a very bad reputation in this regard.

Why would giving these people more power over you result in more payment ? They are looking to exploit these freelancers, and this gives them more power.

Why would any reasonable person expect that giving cheaters more power over you result in less cheating ? It will obviously increase the chance that you, as a freelancer, won't get paid.

https://hackernoon.com/why-you-should-never-use-upwork-ever-...

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.elance.com

https://entrepreneurs.maqtoob.com/a-top-rated-freelancers-ad...

https://screenshotmonitor.com/blog/how-to-avoid-scams-on-upw...

http://launchastartup.com/odesk-vs-elance/
Back when they were oDesk, I lived in a remote area with no technology jobs. I ended up working for oDesk for a 6 mo stint (Actually for oDesk not a third party). So I'm familiar with the ecosystem. I was just wondering if it was web dev or something more specialized.
This is a fair point, if you are blocked then you don't have fair access to information. Though I have a suspicion that people who Elon blocks have multiple Twitter accounts.
Action from distance could allow several drones set to fire on a target from different locations and calculate the projectiles to arrive at the same time.
That if is a big if. Tesla is currently trading $40 under their supposed acquisition price. That's not exactly high confidence from the market that this deal will go through.
It is not a scheme. It is NOT pyramid scheme. NOT Ponzi.

Difference of Pyramid vs Ponzi

- Ponzi: the fund manager/fraudster is the one who recruits new members

- Pyramid: existing members have to recruit other new members

In both schemes, there is no underlying product/service. Money contributions from new members are used to pay existing members.

To be clear, Tesla/SpaceX is NOT Ponzi, NOT Pyramid.
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Sure, I'm not saying these private companies should be forced to do business with someone like Alex Jones. But maybe some of these services shouldn't just be controlled by private companies. I'm kind of surprised that a government owned domain registrar doesn't exist, for example. If I want to register a domain name I have to go through a private company who can choose not to serve me as long as it isn't because I'm a member of a protected class.
That's why I started using it.

But Nim is much more than just this, it's more like "We like Python, but we also like static typing, efficient and dependency-free programs, super easy C/C++ FFI and metaprogramming. We also like to write all our software in the same programming language so we compile to JavaScript" :)
Yesss, [0] saves me so much work if it does what the label says. Thanks!
Yeah I mixed up GM and Chrysler on which of them repaid their bailout.
That seems about right. Another big benefit of this is performace. Nim is a lot faster than python.
People hire individual contributors for more than $200/hr all of the time. Especially in the bay area.
That's ok though because they are Nazis.
Previous generation Leaf? Debatable. I have one. I plotted a trip from the East Bay to Yosemite and the range seemed enough on paper, even accounting for elevation. But in at least one stretch there was a single quick charge station (ChaDeMo) that I could rely on. If that was out of service I would have issues, as even L2 were not plentiful. On Yosemite itself I could find only one L2.
So I did not attempt the trip.

Current generation Leaf, Bolt, Tesla? The range would be pretty adequate and comfortable.

Not sure about long desert stretches, you could have an idea here: https://www.evtripplanner.com/planner/2-8/

Also of note is that a major drawback in the US is the high highway speeds. Drag increases to the speed squared, so going 60mph vs 80mph makes a huge difference. We don't notice as much in internal combustion engines, because a gas tank has so much energy – we may notice in our pockets though.
Only 20% of US kids study a language in school–compared to 92% in Europe
The stupid thing is that these code names sometimes span multiple versions of Android and even API levels making it all even more of a clusterfuck of a platform. My suspicion is that they do this to hide all of the fragmentation and pretend that more handsets are up to date than they actually are.
The "hard" party is actually nothing you have mentioned. The hard party is to make it PROFITABLE. The simple fact of the matter is that no other car manufacture has a clear plan of how they will do that.

All of them are building up the technology base, at least in terms of the drivetrain, but they have failed to vertically integrate the electronic to the same extent and the do not have a reliable low cost battery access.

Lets do an example. The battery is a huge part of the cost of a car. If you have to buy this you have to pay a profit on that, not to mention that because all non-Tesla car buyers compete for the same batteries the margins will be huge.

Independent evaluation of the Bolt for example are showing that GM is losing money on every single Bolt that is produced. They have competently bought the battery and and the electronics part. Its a integrated mess in a GM box. That gone cost you a lot and GM will never built 300'000 Bolts. The Bolt is built for compliance and to be able to build more SUVs (because the strange fuel economy regulation system).

So the game that the other manufactures are basically waiting until they can build profitable electric cars while Tesla is hellbent on producing as much battery capability as they and that allows them already to have a cheapish car on the market and to make billions of $ selling it.
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Actually, I just realised that "foreigner for rent" (especially young foreigner) is a very real thing: English lessons. I can't tell you the number of people I know that make a living of showing up at a coffee shop and chatting to people in English for $20 an hour. Most clients are just lonely people who happen to speak a little English.
Fair enough :) The complexity that my brain could handle 15 years ago has decreased, and the amount of real work I need to get done has increased.
"Both parties are the same" made sense in 2000, when there were two generic white guys running, if you were too young to remember Watergate or Iran-Contra much, and also because the trillion dollar wars and deficits to come were unimaginable. After the invasion of Iraq, let alone the ACA, and what's happened post 2016, it seems to me like hollow propaganda. It's fundamentally no longer possible to have a productive discussion when you can't get to the point of believing your counterpart is sincere about anything.
Some of the newer Lipo battery formulations can be charged at 15C or even higher, this allows for sub 3-4 minute charge times. For flight time you may be on the low side but close depending on how taxing it is herding birds, they can hover around for quite a bit longer but fast quick maneuvers take their toll.
you forgot store. The state has to distribute, and collect voting machines 2-3 times a year and then what, they sit for 4 months? With armed guards and audit logs?

Paper vote by mail, when the ballot is ready, the print and mail it to you, you have 3-4 weeks to fill it out and send it back. High voter turn out, easy access for people with difficult schedules, No need for transportation. keep the ballots until the election has been certified
Shamefully hijacking, I’m actually building something similar but it _does_not_track_keystrokes_or_take_screenshots_ because we agree that that is too intrusive. It’s made for lawyers to match their file activity with time entries.

https://griffn.io/

We’re also YC Winter 18 hopefuls..!
They have already:

https://gizmodo.com/china-has-already-gene-edited-86-people-...
There is some pretty solid advice on this thread, but will add a few things that I haven't seen elsewhere.

When I was freelancing, I had good luck going to meetups and talking to people. A lot of companies are willing to hire freelancers. It can take a while to build up a network, but it's worth it in the long run.

Also, I would suggest that you offer a weekly/monthly rate rather than an hourly rate. That's sometimes easier for people to stomach, and you focus on getting the work done rather than working X number of hours.
Plenty:

Spotify, Twilio, Salesforce, Box, Adobe, Workday, Atlassian, Intuit, ADP, to name a few.
I do some freelance work through Upwork. I like the tracking software, it shows that I'm doing work, all my hours are verified and they are guaranteed to be paid. It's completely worth it, people who have been stiffed on contracts before, its a no brainer.
Okay, go for it then. Good luck!
Yeah I was talking specifically about front-end related courses by those two guys. Don't know about the depth of their courses on other topics.
That is the root of the issue here.
These TOS are being applied arbitrarily - there needs to be some form of punitive measure for companies that do this.
This idea may be outdated. USA has been considerably undermining Saudi's traditional role of swing producer.
Not through their centralised market control, but by having many intensely capitalistic shale operations, each with profitable capacity at a different price-point. Each one quickly toggles on/off when the market price crosses its own threshold.
A funny thing about the low-FODMAPs diet is that it's not just one thing, in practice. I know several people who follow it, and each has customized it differently as they learn more about what their body tolerates. There's also some degree of flexibility; maybe you find you can eat beans as long as you strictly avoid garlic, for instance, or vice versa. (To some degree it appears to be a numbers game.)
That's a problem of the first generation Prius then. Even a Nissan Leaf has absolutely no problem climbing mountains (they will murder the battery charge though – ask me how do I know – although you'll get some of it back as you go back down). A Chevy Volt would do it even better, and that's an actual hybrid.
Electric engines have outstanding power relative to their size. The Leaf actual engine is the size of a football.
Gatekeepers or Censors? How Tech Manages Online Speech
>It’s left the utilities complaining that they can’t earn the returns they expected for their investment in generation capacity.

The "solution" to this "problem" is, rather than investing in a green production method, to desperately cling to existing investments by sending lobbyists to the government to convince them that Clean Coal is the future.

I love the line at the end of "The Big Short," I can't remember it verbatim but it was something along the lines of how "once again, like we've always done, we're going to seek out the short term gains and cripple long term ones, for no good reason."
But couldn't the tracker become self-aware and realize it's living inside a similulation?
Love V8's focus on performance, security and memory usage. They really keep on pushing the bar.
It is risky to dump a client since the client can easily spoil your rating on Upwork.
Mainly notifications and speech.
Volvo Estate owner here. Not only can I confirm that it carries things that there is NO way would fit in a large sedan, there are even some things (like sofas!!!) that fit in the estate but won't fit in an SUV with comparable storage volume.

I'm sure the reverse may be true for some SUVs, perhaps there's some large wardrobe box that firs in an SUV that won't fit in the estate.

But wow, estates are sooooooo convenient.
1. Apple
2. Saudi's
3. China
But if you are using traditional energy sources to run it all the time, it is no longer 'solving' the problem of burning off excess energy during peak renewable times.

Someone is having to build a lot of highly wasteful, redundant infrastructure.
(I'm curious more than trying to make a point with the following.)

Any thoughts on the MacBook vs a MacBook with automated engraving offered by the company?

Where do cake decorators fit into this? Is the situation different if the decorating process is automated?
That's called "marriage", my friend ;)
Only for iOS, tvOS and watchOS, because ironically, you don't really need a Mac to develop for macOS.
Another idea along the same vein is temperature control. Say the comfortable range is 20 to 25 degrees. Normally air conditioning in the summer cools to 25, once electricity becomes free it could turn on and start cooling towards 20, storing that power in the form of cool air. In the winter, buildings with electric heating could do the opposite towards 25.

These systems spin up quickly (at least in residential homes) and are a substantial fraction of our energy use.
There’s not really a vendor here since macOS is free. Linux isn’t exactly free from the need to choose well-supported hardware either, particularly of you need to run a more stable distro
Thanks for the detailed response.

One of the cars in my family only drives eight miles a day, and never on weekends. So I'm thinking about replacing it with an EV. Sounds like a granny cable might be all I need.
Free speech does not and has never meant “say whatever you want to anyone without repercussions”. Alex Jones isn’t in jail; that’s about the extent of the privilege his free speech rights afford him, and he still may be succesfully sued.
> we can social media mob them into compliance.

But isn't the problem with the social media actors in the first place...
OP disclaimer - I did not write this and do not endorse the claims personally.

I'm hoping to aggregate some expert responses for the person who sent it to me, but if it's not worth the time/energy of the HN community then I totally understand.
True, but putting a bullet in one person is less likely to provoke a certain level of response. Drone bomb attacks are getting a bit too close to full warfare. A big enough drone-bomb is basically a cut-rate, very short-ranged cruise missile.
Dude, the Bolt is a compliance vehicle that loses a massive amount of cash every-time it is sold.

Secondly, the sales of the Bolt have already collapsed and all the Tesla car outsell it. The model 3 outsells it 7 to one and this month probably 10 to 1.

Just comparing range and not looking at the economy or the sales number is basically spreading FUD.

> The 3 and other models are also plagued by quality control problems. The Bolt is both more reliable and has a better interior. And a speedometer!

I'm sorry but that is ridiculous. The Model 3 has some quality control issues on the frame and GM does that a bit better. However if you go into the electronic, the software, the drive-train, the charging network, the suspension and so on its not even comparable in terms of quality.

See for some info on an independent evaluation of the Bolt:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl3cUMIX9Uo
That's too bad. I never actually tried Leaf but I loved following the journey.
yes, not to mention it can still go to 420 without being bought out, by virtue of market momentum and a bidding war
For what it's worth, some people on a low-FODMAP find they can have garlic, but not onion—and that can make a huge difference in cooking. Might be worth an experiment.
It sounds like everyone will be buying TSLA tomorrow. Even the little guy who wants to earn the difference between $379 and $420.
Ideally the "nazi" kid will be guided towards the light but I get what you're saying.
Don't be hyperbolic, the process is obviously gradual. I'm sure there are a couple dozen scientists who could give you a probabilistic answer to your 2nd question though.
Not if the work is like that of a security guard or janitor. You can skip a night every once in a while and no one will notice
sure, if tesla goes private
Yeah, if you can find charging spots with no hassle, then this becomes a moot point. Buying some groceries? Plug it in. Going to the movies? By the time your movie is done you'll be ready to go. Work, school, etc.

Then only actual need for quick charging is road trips. And given a decent range, it is no big deal to stop every few hours. People do that even today, as they need bathroom breaks and the like.
The ad economy incentivizes poor quality content, clickbait and more and more extremist and divisive content. This won't stop, it will keep becoming more and more extreme and more and more divisive. You can confirm this on facebook and youtube at any time.

The interim solution is to demonetize any non-original content, political content, news and opinion based content and disable personalized political or social advertising on all platforms.

Because at the moment the large social media companies are profiting from incentivizing extremism and division and are basically poisoning the well.
The local US army bases in Germany actually chlorinate their perfectly fine tap water. What a waste!

But it is probably the perception of unchlorinated water as not safe, and you will probably have a similar problem in the US itself if you switched the water system..
This is a tangent.

But no, I doubt it would matter.

A company can refuse to put your initials as "KKK" on the product they sell you, regardless of the method by which they do it.
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Learn Deep Learning and go for $400+/h. You missed Blockchain train when it was possible to get $700/h quite easily (usually way more while it was growing).
that is because nothing has been finalized. it can easily get there just based on market momentum. Tesla gained $70 in a week. another 40 is not that hard
It's true.. when was the last time the US fought "proper" army regulars? Iraq in 2003/2004? Most war these days is asymmetrical.
That's how the drone wars started.
It's worse, actually. There are motoless gliders that fly up to 545 mph, and then there are tiny jet planes that go up to 465 mph. You can jam the signal, but as soon as someone can put an autonomous vision system on them, it will become an extremely powerful weapon. You don't even need an explosive at these speeds, it can cut your target in half

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoaWlKC3wIM
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Not only is this good, this is great! Hitting negative energy rates just incentivizes more and better storage technologies to accelerate. We need more grid-storage online fast and nothing could incentivize storage tech more than being paid both ways for electricity management. Get paid for storing it during the day and get paid for delivering it at night. It's not the best case for power plants right now, but once this new grid storage market settles the double-incentive will go away and things will even out a lot more.
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ONSITE, VISA ok.
I've been rejected from a (startup) job because I did not, they claim, appear to be sufficiently enthusiastic about the product.

At the time, I found it doubly strange, since it was one of the most interesting and useful products I'd seen, and because everybody I met at that company had the energy of a Steven Wright monologue drowning in molasses.

Since then, the company appears to have pivoted pretty severely (new business plan, new logo, new offices, etc) so I'm not sure any of it would have mattered at all. Hiring in software is completely broken.
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Do not forget about Upwork taxes:

Specifically, Upwork charges the freelancer a fee of: 20% for the first $500 billed with the client. 10% for lifetime billings with the client between $500.01 and $10,000. 5% for lifetime billings with the client that exceed $10,000.
"A performant but garbage collected language with nice syntax that compiles to C. Plus hygienic macros."
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My favorite theory is that there's been at least one Bracewell probe in our solar system since the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracewell_probe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_delayed_echo

http://folk.uio.no/sverre/LDE/
I would disagree. I think selling a person a computer/electricity which they use to make a podcast is as "wildly direct" as selling server hosting (social media platform) for the podcast.
The people who are betting against Tesla are not stupid.

Smart people lose money all the time:

victims of mt gox hack

enron

long term capital management

2000 dotocm crash

Bill ackman's herbalife short.

and and and on
just because there is fluctuation, doesn't mean there's nothing stabilizing it.
Yes, and as I noted above, such systems are far less capable than something like a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone, so might be preferred to avoid escalation.
My wife wants a new car (I don't drive) and I'm looking into an EV. We live in an apartment building. The biggest problem I see is that there is no power I can connect a cable to that can be billed to me. The only external power in the building is used by the building for various things (mostly cleaning).

So there is going to be some cost to setting this up even if the landlord allows it (which he may not).
The new Hyundai Ioniq PHEV can be bought for $25k.

In any case, most people don’t just shell out a random $30,000 they have burning a whole in their pocket, they finance the purchase over 5-6 years. Sudden out-of-pocket $1,000 is kinda a big deal, especially if one plans on moving out in a year or two.
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It's time to improve the law and guarantee the right of all citizens to use monopoly services.

Any large private platform or network should be subject to the First Amendment, because most of them don't operate primarily in a free market. Instead they are monopolies that enjoy network effects and as a consequence are easily strong-armed by governments.

If Facebook's stock keeps declining and it ends up a shadow of its current self then it can be released from this obligation.
It would be more accurate to say 'the Russian government and affiliated parties' (or just 'Russian government', if you're into the whole brevity thing).

Most Russians don't care what happens with American politics. We don't blame 'the Arabs' for 9/11, right?
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