skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Start with your own network. Reach out to past co-workers and bosses who regarded you highly. They will pay more for known risk.

- Do not compromise on your rate. If needed, shorten scope according to budget, but do not get tricked into lowering hourly rate. One employer wanted me to work $75/hr for 9 months. I got them to $200/hr for 3 month contract. Nearly the same budget, just reduced scope to get the work done in shorter time. Both of us went home happy.

- As soon as you get your first gig, start working on your pipeline. Reach out to more ex-coworkers. Once you've exhausted your personal network, you've gotta start getting referrals. I usually use the LinkedIn leads for FTE and say "no im not interested in full time, but let me know if you have any contract opportunities". That sometimes helps.

- Start a blog, start developing a reputation, do lots of marketing. Rinse and repeat.

- Save 50% of your income to weather the lulls between gigs until you get your pipeline full.

Note: I got opportunities both at publicly traded companies and small startups with this approach. If you are going for startups, it is sometimes easier for well-funded startups. In this market most devs are going to the big co's.

Tip: Get OnTheJob (https://stuntsoftware.com/onthejob/). You just press "Start" when working, "Stop" when not. It makes time tracking and invoicing easy. I just send the output of that to whoever pays the bills.
This is what it looks like when the public square is on private property.
You're referring to distributors, the energy companies that are responsible for managing the wires/gas pipes to your house (Think ConEd, EverSource, etc). This effects the energy generators, which don't have prices regulated but are still regulated by FERC.
If those polls were measuring just raw voter preference rather than controlling for state (since the electoral college is what elects the President), we can add "intentionally dishonest" to the list of problems. "Who will win the popular vote" can be a datapoint since more often than not they line up, but it is absolutely less important overall.

Even if we exclude mendacity and downgrade that to mere irresponsibility, terms like "98% chance of Hillary winning" were being thrown around left and right on election day. That speaks to something very, very wrong in how that data was being collected.
You will find the very high contract rates where the demand for talent is very high and the supply is low. Unfortunately it would appear the demand for IOS isn't too high or the supply is too high.

I would suggest re-skilling to something more in demand or searching for work where there is lot's of IOS jobs posted but no senior level talent.
Energy markets are some of the most complex set of competing incentives I've worked with. You're not going to get a simple microecon theory, because it's actually many different related markets interacting with each other and fighting often conflicting policy goals.

Here's a good lecture that dives into some structures and why it's complicated: https://youtu.be/tsfBewWIF9c?t=21m47s (this is the market structure bit, the first chunk is all about renewables in new england)

Get your wonk hat on, you're going down the rabbit hole. Your econ-style graphs start around the 26:30 mark.

If it was a simple explanation, we wouldn't have these issues. Complex systems produce chaotic results.
The placement companies are getting $150/hr, which is about going rate for dev agencies here in the valley. You just get the 60% cut.

Some other routes to take:

Management. You get 2 or 3 other remote guys and bill at $200/hr then split the take. You'll get your needed billable hours to make it worthwhile for everyone but lots of headaches and lots of sales.

Consulting. You design the architecture or analysis or technical reviews of projects. But won't hit 2000 billable hrs a year at that rate.

Otherwise no one's going to hire an individual contributor at $200/hr.

Email me if you want to talk shop over coffee.
Again, there are outliers in a normalized population. Assuming that it's an entire subset without evidence is bias, i.e. ageism.

Simply being a perspective doesn't shield it from being biased.
For all those downvoting my comments, why? Am I not contributing to the discussion?
> No, it covers any reproduction in a tangible medium, whether or not you distribute.

What's the justification of this? How does this afford protection to the copyright owner if you don't distribute? Is it purely to protect against derivative works bypassing copyright?
The year is 2022 and the shared common spaces of the world are no longer tragic
Looking at ownership summary, loads are held by ETFs, which I assume would have to divest as most track only public shares.
$0.07 here in Texas. Maybe you should move...
Your point of reference includes 2 ground control centers, and 30 satellites. To suggest that launching a single satellite would cost the same is to me, laughable.

This if anything proves my point, nothing seems insane about launching a lens into space. We have satellites now, this is essentially one with a lens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...

I'm not discounting anything, just assuming scientists and engineers involved have done their job.
If Google had paved some cowpaths:

- CoffeeScript was hugely popular at the time - it was even mandatory at GitHub to make new applications in CS not JS

- Typescript was immediately well recieved. JS folk liked optional typing.

- Ruby was popular amongst the web community

Google would have done a lot better than making a new road and wondering why there's nobody on it.
While not OSS the Debian packages of Tarsnap are built and signed on an air-gapped machine: http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-alphatest/msg00033.html
If only during the recent bike thefts in our apartment building, the thieves would have run away with perfect copies instead of originals. :-(
Unless I'm mistaken, you are an accredited investor by default, by US rules, if you are not a US person. I wouldn't give up the possibility of retaining your ownership share just yet.
> since you cause some loss of revenue and investment

Wouldn't leaving a bad review of a bad product be considered theft under this definition?
Why you shouldn't: you're installing untrusted, totally unverified code at the lowest system levels which opens you up to not only malicious backdoors in the software that bypasses Apple's hardware copy protection, but vulnerabilities that might be discovered in that functionality the future. If you care at all about your personal data, you probably shouldn't take that risk.
She came out clean, it just only lasted a few months.
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BEVs are mechanically simpler, requiring less maintenance and expense (and they eliminate all use of fossil fuels). Hybrids and PHEVs are mechanically more complex than ICEVs, often requiring more things that need maintenance and repair.

PHEVs are the worst of all, in my opinion, because on top of everything else, they tend to clog up public charging stations.

BEVs with decent range (the Chevy Bolt, Tesla, and some upcoming models) are the real solution. Charge at work and home - and only use DCFC (high current) public charging for trips.

Background: I've had a LEAF for 4.5 years as my daily commuter car; it's got (32K miles). For trips last year we got a Tesla Model S (24K miles).
Ahh, I had no idea UWP implied running on microsoft's terms. Is there a way to run them out of the sandbox manually?
Great point. The final arbitrator of all contracts is the threat of violence. If you can't back it up, it doesn't matter what the contract says.

Also the Mexican land grants in California. The US still respects the terms of those agreements.
How about making it anything less than painful to use on an iPad. Like, maybe some of your developers can actually try to use it on an iPad? If this has been fixed, I retract. I've moved on long ago.
I was born and raised in the Canal Zone. While it was still an American territory. Went to American schools and was taught about the U.S. I too once had the patriotic fervor you display. Then I came to the U.S. and slowly realized that reality did not match what I was taught.

I do not sweep under the rug the ills our society and government have done. Nor do I diminish their accomplishments. Indeed I don't do this for any nation now that I understand that the blind patriotism I was raised with is a destructive thing.

Empires come and go. The American empire is in decline. It may rise again to greater heights and glory. It might not. Eventually it will be replaced. There is no longer any moral superiority in our leadership.

It seems foolish to decry Google doing business in China whilst importing billions and billions of dollars of Chinese made goods. Google works with the American government to do mass surveillance on its citizens. I'm not going to get in a tizzy if they decide to do the same in China.
> What's the likelihood that China or the US will be around in 999 years?

What's more relevant is what is the chance that each will either be around or have a successor in in interest around in 999 years; the likelihood of the latter are much higher.

(Of course, it's also less confidence than acquiring freehold title—an option the US had under the original lease—which assumes that the granting authority or one upholding it's decisions will exist forever. People do that with land all the time.)
I agree with this law. A felony is a serious crime actually. The law was made so that people who have demonstrated an inability to make good choices don't get to make choose our rulers and laws.
I think it's not surprising at all. After all, most people are sane individuals who are unwilling to pour time, money, effort and risk their life in order to simply cause suffering on other people.

There simply isn't money in downing planes, so most people have no incentive to want to do it.
If this goes through, Tesla will no longer be listed on the stock exchange, and all those shares will be force-bought at the sale price. There is talk of creating an investment vehicle that allows existing shareholders to retain their ownership after the company has gone private, but there isn't any information yet on how this would affect foreign investors.
Possibly parent post is confused, but apperently to jump start a modern prius, you need to open the fuse box, which is unusual. So maybe he didn't do enough research?

As to the mountains statement, here's a piece of anecdata. My boss, who was a big fellow, said he had a really hard time driving through mountain passes with his first gen prius. It just didn't have enough power to drive up steep grades at freeway speeds carrying 300 lbs. He said he was constantly being passed by semi trucks hauling loads...
> Charge at work and home - and only use DCFC (high current) public charging for trips.

As I essentially only use my car for weekend road trips, how is the long-distance experience hopping from charger to charger? How about country driving--is the density high enough you can check out some nature?
She came out clean and relapsed several months later, but who am i to argue with your links
"Running parts of businesses at a loss isn't unheard of"

A negative price seems fundamentally different than just running at a loss though.
Since nobody's mentioned them yet: Net guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_gun
That seems like it would result in a random hodge-podge of chargers getting installed? At least, until a landlord had enough of it and redid it.
I doubt this would help. Judging by my Facebook feed Americans are perfectly capable of vicious, polarized discourse without foreign influence. In fact this may backfire as it would allow the hateful in society to have more of a right to preach on these platforms as no one would be able to accuse them of being foreign trolls. Its probable that this level of discourse is here to stay and that the previous elevated, comparably "civilized" discourse was a result of broadcast media and its top-down structure.
A profitable company has no need to be excessively concerned about its stock price. Of course, at some point, shareholders might consider putting on pressure, but that doesn't really seem to have happened even with Tesla. And in closely held companies, that kind of pressure is much stronger — it's not like Musk has $70B of spare change in his couch pillows, so he'll always have to deal with co-owners.
Hmmm V1 had no remote pilot, it doesn't count :-) Japan's kamikaze are closer to the real thing (it's not a remote pilot neither, but at least they came close to the enemy whatever its defense, much like a drone) :-)
It seems absurd in retrospect, but I was envisioning something like 20-30% of cars. Possibly this is due to commuting with rich people in SF where priuses are every other car. 2% makes it seem like we have no hope for addressing global warming--nobody seems to care.
Each car in a city requires alot of parking spaces I've read 4-10 empty parking spaces per car. This would mean that every car owner would need to pay for that many charging stations.
You hit at an important dimension which is that the problem is not technical per se, it's really a problem of market design. Wind power purchase agreements should allow curtailment (since it is very easy to ramp a wind farm /down/) when needed for system reliability. However, this reduces the rate of return for wind farms so politicians that are looking to maximize wind build-outs will not favour this.

It's also beneficial to increase the size of the power market geographically, which reduces the variability of wind generation, rather than arbitrarily stopping at national borders.
What happens when $14bn in short interest tries to buy simultaneously?
> Java is definitely not doing well compared to .Net even though it is open source

Depends on whather you consider Dalvik (or whatever the current Android Java tech is) to be Java - in which case, it is.
Statistically, nobody actually builds real UWP apps, so it is largely an academic point. But if you're out of the sandbox, I fail to see a good reason not to just build a regular old Win32 app the way it has always been done.
Current furnaces do. But what if you changed the manufacturing process as well so that maybe the yield isn't as high but it's essentially "for free" in terms of electricity?
I need to double check it, but some of the largest institutional shareholders, like Vanguard Group, could only hold positions in public companies, so they will have to sell.

Retail investors can decide to go private, but tesla free float is very small, so they don't matter much in a grand scheme of things.
Perhaps, but that is the 5T one, the "one fresnel lens" option or "one diffraction grating" option are cheaper and seem more feasible.

That said, if scientists believe that all they lack is money, who are you to tell them otherwise.
> Even with solar they charge me $10/month to be hooked into the grid, even though they’re using that same connection to sell my excess premium renewable energy to others.

This is likely a charge to help maintain the grid so you can sell your supply. Consider it the Apple Tax of the power grid, but its not 30%
> how many are there who didn't make a choice to do something knowingly illegal

Not that this is a valid point anyway, but not none.

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Exonerat...

> None of the prisons I have toured have anyone working who doesn't want too

Your anecdote is not data. Forced labor absolutely exists in US prisons.
No problem glad you found it useful :)
Except evolution never programmed the birds to steer clear of large, fast-moving aircraft - hence the need to scare them away.
I think Pumped Hydroelectric Storage is what you are looking for. I've seen a few of them here in Switzerland. I think many were originally built out with the train system's grid for it's reliably scheduled low and high capacity times.

http://energystorage.org/energy-storage/technologies/pumped-...
They will slowly eat away at base loads and lower costs.

In the meantime, you address marginal demand at a lower cost.
Email companies looking for iOS full-time employees (not recruiters) and ask them if they would consider contractors. You'll need to have a pretty solid and impressive portfolio and be able to work independently to get that kind of rate, e.g. not just do the programming but manage the project and deliver things without having the client break it down for you, possibly subcontracting the art and design yourself.

I'd suggest setting your rates high and offering a "per-project discount" if clients will let you blog about or show off work instead of keeping it behind NDA.

Most work comes from word-of-mouth and networking. If you need to build up your portfolio or contacts, offer to build (small, well-scoped) apps for nonprofits or organizations that you support, and build them in your off hours that would be unbillable anyways. If you do this, take it seriously and don't drop the ball, you're basically working for your reputation instead of cash. Or build your own app store app to use as a showcase rather than expecting app store windfalls.
>The current system is absolutely a political gimme to appease the south, or at the very least the south of the past.

Actually, every civilized country in the world (including Nordic countries) have basically the same law. Are you suggesting that we abolish incarceration in the US?
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A gas pump by every parking spot is probably easier at scale. Manufacturing costs would scale down significantly, and a plastic gas pipe is cheaper than a copper wire.

We don't do it because a gas car refuels fast enough that you don't need it.
there is secrets module in stdlib (same API as random in this case).
Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly
If you hold shares in a company that gets bought, your share is converted into your portion of the proceeds. You can't refuse.

In this case, Elon wants to let current investors stay investors, so you should be able to hold your share and it'll convert into whatever the private equity equivalent will be.
“Here” really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Far too many zealots on either side of this echo chamber.
> How exactly would a government that prints USD have trouble repaying a loan denominated in USD?

If you print too much money you might end up with hyperinflation and bad effects for your citizens. That's just as big "trouble" as a personal bankruptcy.

That's not a real risk for the US at the moment, but it's a backstop that answers the question of "why can't we solve all our economic problems by borrowing or printing more money?"
I'm not sure about any of these plants in particular, but a lot don't use PV cells, instead using mirrors to heat and evaporate a liquid, driving a turbine.
Teflon is a brand name for PTFE. PFOA is one of several possible organofluorides that can be used to manufacture PTFE. Tefal didn't replace PFOA with PTFE, because PFOA isn't a nonstick coating to begin with.

In fact, that site tells us nothing, because PFOA is largely a problem for the workers manufacturing it, so telling us that it's not in the "finished products" doesn't address the main concern. Furthermore, other synthesis routes aren't necessarily better; you have to have a reactive organofluoride at some point in the pipeline.
> It is true that Musk is accepting a bailout from the Sauds, are you disputing that?

How did you reach that conclusion? He declined to sell them new shares, so the Saudis bought them on the open market. Tesla didn't get a dime. What bailout are you referring to?
After examining the rules, there are many flaws. https://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/excerpts/excerpt_dmg4.pdf

The maps don't use any of the optional starting rooms, for starters.

All 45 degree options are missing, as are odd shapes, stairs, pits, etc, resulting in ignoring or heavily modifying Tables II, III, III.B, V.A, V.E, VI, VII, and VIII,.

The rules also specify that the dungeon must start with a stairs entering a room, but it appears that this actually starts with a passage instead, which doesn't appear to require entering a room immediately.

Example:
https://www.dungeonstome.com/dungeon/345345345.png
The entrance enters the room using a secret door, however there shouldn't be a door between the entrance and the first room.
Not sure why this is grey - many animals adapt to their environments very quickly. If all the drones are doing is buzzing the birds, they may very well learn to ignore them.
Yes. And it was given back at the end of that period.

It's a bit weird to lease a city but it worked out fine.
China? like 97%
US 38.5%
> please explain then why we are paying the highest prices (...) in a state with the highest percentage of renewables

I think you gave the answer yourself. If you prefer the scientific method, take all the states and the percentage of renewables and do a plot. You will see mostly a line if you do not use the fake numbers (ex: 0.15 often reported for California instead of 0.28)
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39955468

> Online voting is a good way to engage with younger voters, busy workers, and even Estonians living abroad, Mr Koitmae says.
Please don't make personal attacks—just post civilly and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Incarceration does not require penal servitude.
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Take out the fancy company names and their famous owner, isn’t what you’re describing then a classical Ponzi scheme?
Professional, singular. All it really takes is one person with an ideological axe to grind and a moderate amount of skill, and you have instructions that others can use to turn off-the-shelf components into weapons.

It's happened before. P.A. Luty wanted to make a point about British gun control laws, so he built a submachine gun out of ordinary hardware store parts and wrote a book ("Expedient Homemade Firearms") containing detailed instructions. He got jailed over making these weapons, of course, but the point stands.
Haha, I like that description a lot. You can even make small batteries out of little more than aluminum, an electrolyte like salt, and (I think) a way to bring oxygen to the cathode like activated charcol:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery
> Good. That's a well functioning market economy. Those who make poor investment choices need to feel the sting of losses else the market fails to work correctly.

Unless it affects grid reliability. Energy is not just a market. It's something that underpins modern society and the modern economy. I, for one, do not want my power to go out at 7pm because demand is peaking, traditional plants had to close, and the sun is going down.
Price signals that go negative seem to really freak people out, but the real transition point is when the price dips below the marginal cost.

If you're burning 1 dollar of fuel to generate one dollar worth of electricity then anything less is a signal to switch off. If your boiler has physical reasons for not turning off and on sharply then you can find yourself eating a loss in the short term to make money on average even with positive prices. Which puts a monetary price on flexibility or integrated storage.