skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if you search my comment history (not much there, I don’t generally have much to say here), you’ll find me lamenting that lack of predictability compared to my consulting friends with 1 or 2 anchor clients. But, I believe I have a more resilient business - not one of my clients represents more than ~12% of my revenue.
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People have to eat, and it's an available way to make money. In other African countries (at least in the East which I'm more familiar with) the government has been trying to combat the charcoal trade. The government in Nigeria has less of a presence though, so it's probably been difficult and not a top priority.

This is all speculation though.
Generally, you don't want to compete with Squarespace, Wix, Wordpress, or Shopify. Unless your goal is to just churn out those kind of sites within a couple days. But even then, you'll probably lose out to some Indonesian who's doing it fast, cheap, and high quality.

I've found a good niche making sites with minimal login and membership features. These are far too customized for the likes of Wordpress, but can be built in just jQuery and Bootstrap, without all the overhead of a full web framework. Some examples would be sites that track individual members actions, listing sites, websites that would track their employees' performance.
Interesting post. As I drive down the north east, I get the same vibe of dying cities and towns. But the problem is different. The northeast is just ugly and downtrodden as compared to the west coast.

Most houses were built long ago. They need significant upkeep. People living are older in age. No new industries booming. No new migrants (from other states and definitely much fewer from other countries).

But the prices of houses are sky high, property taxes are too high. If it were not for the top universities here, the north east would be much like Akron.
Time zones need to be defined relative to some reference time, and UTC is (sort of) the least impractical reference.
I believe that's exactly what the parent was implying.
Apple Macintosh SE STONE CASTING
That's because of FACTA. I know some banks over here (France/Western Europe) outright refuse US clients because they don't want to deal with that stuff.
One was a novelty one-off product to celebrate the anniversary of a beloved old movie.

The other is a BS problem in search of a solution.
ARM9's cache architecture is not suited for frequent address space switches due to the requirement to flush caches on every switch. All multi-user OSes suffer there it's just more accentuated on microkernels.
In Germany, someone invited me to lunch in a place that, upon walking in, had one of those stickers "close $some_reactor" with a nuclear danger logo on it. I almost told them I didn't want to eat there.

I'm not sure what to do about it. Should I summarize the reasons they are stupid and put those flyers in their mailboxes, or would that only get their backs up? Of course I'd not call it stupid in such a flyer but more in the style of Without Hot Air: 'our energy demands are X because this and that; solar is Y Watts per m² so we need Y/X/$size of them, which would be equivalent to $some_state; of wind turbines we would need ... etc. Meanwhile, $this is what is happening to our climate, which by $year will be $that. With nuclear, we could reduce our output to $amount CO2 while producing X amount of nuclear waste. The waste can be stored $there and this buys us a few hundred years to figure things out for the long term. We need nuclear as a stop-gap. Don't support short-term popular voices that will kill us in the long term."

Does anyone have experience reasoning with anti-nuclears?
I think the 3.5mm will still be widely used 20 years from now.

In the wired realm, it doesn't get much better than the 3.5mm jack from a user convenience point of view.
When you delete intentionally they claim they delete your data. I have no idea how or why you could get paid for that.
Dell returns to public stock market after years as private company
Git repo: https://github.com/TomaszRewak/TimeWriter
More info about the project: https://blog.tomasz-rewak.com/text-sourcing/
It's useful for prototyping, where your solution is always in flux and incomplete, but you need to test that some module is working correctly (like a hardware interface).
You're starting to build a hand-wavy levitation machine though ("monitoring metadata", "level of trust"), and confirming that it's not so trivial, which is the assertion that started this thread.

And captcha only makes brute-force somewhat more expensive. You likely have to use a 3rd party captcha service (like Recaptcha) which incurs network volume amplification since you need a req/res to Google just to render GET /login. It also shows how hard of a problem captcha is that you can't just roll it yourself.

You're still not addressing the problem since IP addresses are so cheap. I only need 1,000 IP addresses to try the top 1,000 passwords in parallel no matter what your rate-limit scheme is unless you plan on letting me lock the authentic user out of their own account.

You've wandered from your original claim that bruteforce doesn't even happen these days, and I'm certainly not saying we are helpless against it. In the end, I'd simply suggest that this problem is harder than you originally gave it credit for, and maybe that's something we can agree on.
Tend to agree on third party dependencies. They're a useful leg up if you're just prototyping, testing an idea, or generally groping around for product/market fit, but I'm not in love with them as a long term solution - certainly not for anything that's core to your product or service.

Too many potential pitfalls:

- If their service goes down, you may go down too, or you have the added complexity of gracefully handling the situation when they're down

- You have no control over their roadmap... which means you might suddenly get a bunch of non-value-adding but totally essential work dropped into your backlog, and perhaps at short notice, because of changes they make

- Perhaps they go out of business or, for whatever reason shut down their service: again, congratulations, you've just got a load of work you didn't bank on getting in the way of delivering your own roadmap

I think most of us have probably seen multiple examples of the above, if not at first hand, then posted on HN or elsewhere on the web.

I'm not an NIH kind of guy but I do tend to prefer libraries, or co-located installs for long-term dependencies. That way at least you can manage migrations and updates according to your own agenda rather than somebody else's.
Agency work is less profitable and higher hassle. They tend to want to “manage the project” and many of them do it rather poorly.

My sales cycle is very short. I usually close the sale in the first meeting - or walk away knowing that a PO is imminent. Or I finish that meeting knowing that there’s no real opportunity there. Over many years I’ve developed a pretty good instinct of what is an opportunity and what isn’t, and where there’s a good fit and isn’t. Wish I could be more prescriptive, but it seems to be one of my magic powers.
black pill: that's what they want
Stereotyping, prejudice and bias are natural behavior and are observed even in children. Whether the specifics of racism, at most, are learned or not is somewhat immaterial-- as for sexism, there's even less ambiguity about it being deeply rooted in human nature somehow in a way that's very hard to change - it certainly isn't our "societal structures" telling kids that females have cooties.
Lisp and God
Experiment finds under 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from articles
> Dynamic languages as a result of their "dynamicness" tend to allow much better expression of control flow when compared to static languages.

That may be, but I'll be damned if Golang's verbose type casting hasn't saved me from some bugs over the years.

Also, I think there's an argument for type declarations being expressive in their own right. I like seeing what types a function receives and returns. It's a quick jumping off point when trying to understand what the function does.
I have onsite interview at Vancouver for SDE 2 position, recruiter is asking me to tell what salary I am expecting ? Can anyone please let me know what number I should have in mind ?
Have you ever tried having your accounts deleted before the GDPR roll-out? Because I have, and no company ever said no.
Been working on my own projects for the past 10+ years. A few consulting contracts here and there as they would come up, but I've never actively sought them out.
I’m reminded of the old adage “two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”

The executive that made the relevant decision probably is no longer capable/inclined to do the detailed modeling necessary. It would be extremely foolish to trust his future to the discretion of a spreadsheet jockey two years out of bschool. I bet there was no such modeling exercise. Whatever weighing of discrimination damages that happened likely took place entirely on the backs of napkins.
I think the distinction is that accounts deleted for abuse may actually be removed. Where accounts voluntarily deleted may just become hidden.
Im glad to see now support was found for 11/13, but Im afraid they'll poke their nasty heads in the near future. Now if we could only get GDPR trimmed down to half its current size and remove all the ambiguities I'd be thrilled.
I mean, its annoying that it wasn't clearly stated that it was a MS article, but from the beginning I thought it was fairly clear that it was an advertisement for something, and all the Microsoft references was a pretty strong hint it was for them.
Because political is not a taboo?
What about Minilogue XD then? Does its extensibility count for being innovative?
Great. I work at point A, wife works at point B. Who gives up their job?
Azure Functions can be configured to run on fixed schedules via timer triggers (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...), so I’m guessing they set theirs to run every API timeout interval + max amount of time they could request tweets before getting rate limited. Their Cosmos DB instance could then be set up to track how many tweets they had gotten through on each function run.
I know right? I was expecting 16 bit tops for CC.
They are pretty common on golf shoes now
Alpine Linux refutes the idea that the GNU userspace is the important component here.
I'm prone to cholesterol, I wish I could turn to fat like you do.
I think a lot of mid-market web agencies suffer from this issue (going to one of my favorite patio11 articles):
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2008/01/28/why-you-shouldnt-pay-an...
Depends on the opportunity. Sometimes I’ll refer them my competitors, or an agency if I think their needs are beyond what a solo operator can deliver.
Tribal way of life found ways to eat too. It's the impedance mismatch of global capitalism and secondary countries that caused a partial harmful migration.
Good point, OSC is pretty good I should invest some time looking into it
Thanks for the clarification. I love btrfs by the way.
A huge part of what makes Linux Linux is that it's free(libre) software. So no.

Also no because what others say: It's WSL-'Applications' and Linux is just the kernal.
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Difference and equality are not mutually exclusive concepts, because "equality" is based on what you're measuring. A chicken sandwich and a burger are "different" but "equal" in value. Two markets in the company I work for may be geographically and demographically "different", but they could be "equal" in their revenue.

The only way two people who are "different" would not be equal would be if you're measuring specific traits alone, and not the holistic value of the person. Which, for me, raises the question of what traits you think are "better" than others.

Do I even want to know?
This is absolutely the right approach to nutrition in my opinion.
don't tax people because they'll just find ways to avoid paying them. don't set worker safety rules because companies will just bribe the inspectors. dont punish thieves because they'll just find wats to hide their thievery. don't punish murderers because they'll just do it less openly. don't set fuel efficiency standards because companies will cheat and lie to meet them. don't require good security hygiene because hackers will just find more devious means of hacking. don't outlaw discrimination in hiring and firing because they'll just find other indirect ways to do the same thing. /s
I think if you're doing MPE, you can afford USB-MIDI
You'd be surprised how dumb people are about this stuff.
> You originally said GMOs are the only way to scale, not the best way to scale.

Ok, fair enough, I should have been more specific. Let me rephrase my whole point of view:

"The innovation of GMO is largely responsible for the large scale production of the global food supply. I would very surprised if any other innovation in farming has created a higher ROI in terms of crop yield. There are certainly other factors, but to the original parent comment, pretending like organic is synonymous with safe (and equally as it implies non-organic means, or GMO, is not safe) is disingenuous".

> It's not either organic or GMO, there are other options

Like what specifically? Fertilizers and pesticides?
Tularosa Study: Experimental Quantify the Effectiveness of Cyber Deception [pdf]
There's a big difference between "delete my account" and "delete all information you have on me". From people I've spoken to, there have been a lot of companies implementing the latter in order to be compliant.
Leaked emails show Apple tried to use Qualcomm modems in iPhone XS/XR
So I wonder if there is a difference between the stock grants offered to older workers vs. current stock grants offered to the new hires. The executive officers left would be able to get a larger slice of the stock pool.
"if a productivity and alignment with organization attitude and culture index correlates indirectly with (sex/sex identity/race/eye color/blood type/religion), what is to be done?"

Asking the question with different nouns instead of "age" so you can see what is wrong with it.
Isn't it a bad smelling card to play anywhere? Rarely are one's rights the subject of actual dispute.
American Railways Chug Toward Automation
Writing a static site generator to power my site
Yes, but you need to shift your focus to using those platforms (when it makes sense) and also look into adding value in other places of their business.

For example if someone wants a store set up, you probably don't want to ask them to pony up for a custom $20,000 solution. Just get them onboard with Shopify on a retainer, and if they have custom needs start programming custom Shopify apps.

You can also look into ways on how to optimize their current set up. Like introducing a way to schedule appointments in a way that removes a bunch of headache from their point of view. They might not even have thought to do anything like that because it was unknown to them.

I talked about this recently in a podcast I was on about being a freelance web developer at https://twitter.com/nickjanetakis/status/1086296676640456704.

But, long story short. Before you know it, you're not just "the web guy" to them. You're the guy they come to for answers for a lot of things related to their business.
100% referrals from happy clients, or people I’ve worked with in various contexts over the years. If you do great work and manage clients properly, word gets around. A client with 20 staff - in a year, 2 or 3 of those people will be working for another company. If you’ve left a good impression, over time the network effects take hold. The trick is to survive long enough to reach that point :) the first couple of years were tough.
Cultures aren't homogenous, but there are things that are bad for communities but good for individuals. Successful thieves, for example. Pretty much any tragedy of the commons, really.

Is it so hard to extend those ideas from there?
vi 𝖒𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖘 𝖘𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖊 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖎𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊 80 𝖞𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 ed.

-- timonoko, Hackers News, 2019
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Which is smarter, someone with a degree in physics or someone with a degree in biology?

Right now, the concepts we have of “intelligence” are not sufficiently rigorous to for a meaningful discussion on interracial differences — how much of “common sense” is culture, for example? How true is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? Test scores for Asian woman can be noticeably modified if you tell the participants it’s “to test if Asians are better than westerners at maths” versus “to test if men are better than women at maths”, how much effect does that observation have on any historical results?

That’s not to say “there are no genetic influences on intelligence” — there must be, otherwise bacteria would be as smart as humans — but rather that large scale groups of humans are so close that we don’t have sufficient evidence to support treating them as different.
ALVINN: the first neural network to drive a car
New Zealand's deteriorating water raises a stink
It's cool that such opportunities exist - basic capitalism. I always thought that Facebook should ether hare revenue for great content with its users (who they like to call their "community" but apparently their door swings only one way) or that companies should emerge that pay users to share ads to their followers as predicted by Bill Gates in "The Road Ahead" and "Business at the Speed of Thought".
I would bet on something like Chromebooks combined with steam being the only chance of Linux on desktop succeeding. Gnome and Ubuntu just sucks too hard to win on it's own.
You're still posting flamewar-style (unsubstantive and inflammatory) after we asked you many times to stop. Since this isn't the first account you've done this with, we've banned this one.
The proper name is clearly GNU/Windows
An extension to the math library provided by Python
Remember the whole Ray's Pizza fiasco?
>One person who said they analyzed what the Pi was doing found it was buying ads on Facebook as well as connecting to a botnet

Why does Buzzfeed assign any credibility to the analysis by a person who claims the raspi "records EVERY KEYSTROKE sent of the network, even SSL connection"? It's really obvious that this guy is completely clueless, he can't even spell "botnet". https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/2vd1g8/scam_rentyour...

Props to buzzfeed for finding some really funny reddit posts though, like this one where the guy goes on a paranoid fit and cancels his bank cards(???) after finding his roommates raspi https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/9ixdh9/fou...
I mean, how familiar are you with the MeToo movement? Did you see female friends and colleagues post on Facebook about their experiences? Read tweets? Or are you hearing about it through the news?

Because it's not about men as an enemy. It's about people saying that they too have been effected by sexual harassment, assault or abuse. It's someone saying, "That happened to me, too."

If it feel's pervasive enough to be a campaign, instead of a movement, that says more about our culture's response, or lack thereof, to sexual misconduct then it does about men.
> A lot of resources out there are wrong, inaccurate, or not reasonable for your particular context, and it requires a reasonable amount of algorithmic intelligence to be able to sniff out what's appropriate.

Right, and having that algorithmic intelligence is key part of me being a good developer. But testing how someone implements an algorithm in time-scarce circumstances is not a good test of that kind of intelligence because it is likely to favour people who have been exposed to that particular algorithm before (even if they only rote-learnt information about it - as many interviewees seem to do in practice) over people who have the capability to think deeply and reason correctly about it, but have not previously been exposed to that problem.
"Windows Subsystem for Linux Syscalls" maybe?
If (I assume) your skills are on the coding and architecture side of things, how so you cope with the visual design side of things, for your "build me a web site" clients?
Facebook has done a good job of choking this practice. I think this article had a lot of fear mongering and speculation in it, doesn't appear that he spoke to anyone on the other side of this. It's profitable, but I wouldn't say wildly successful.

On the flip side, I'm not sure how important choking it off completely really is to facebook, why get rid of ad revenue if you can pretend to chase the bad guys and keep everyone happy?
An online tool that can scan a file against VirusShare's MD5 hash list
> This must be a mostly american thing

Part of the old-school American tradition many regions (mostly rural, which is where over 80% of residents lived at one time) was to have a bunch of kids and encourage them to spread out as far & wide as they wanted; this still continues in some places. The logistics of 'keeping in touch with family' have some pretty hard limits past a certain point, and recordkeeping can be haphazard/fragile.

A great many people in North America have significant trouble tracing their ancestry back past their great-grandparents.
I'm interested in buying these shoes as a consumer, auto-lacing actually seems like a wonderful app even though it does sound like overkill
> and yes, C compilers do try to avoid the generic printf in the library

That is true for certain format strings (containing only %s or %c conversions), but for %d GCC and Clang don't seem to want to call a print_int function, possibly because there is none: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/rltFse
>So what I get from this is that the system works.

This is definitely really worth repeating and something everyone should always keep in mind. It's very dangerous for educated people and experts in particular to allow apathy or over cynicism to obscure the fact that it is truly possible to lobby successfully for positive changes too.

>I usually postpone my doomsday scenarios until they are fact.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this? You mean you postpone your contingency plan activation, or do you mean warning people around it? But if you think it really is a doomsday scenario and you don't warn people until after it's done how do you keep it from happening in the first place?

>Eventually I hope EU completely bans organised lobbying, nothing good ever comes from pandering to special interests.

How would that not affect organizations like the EFF or ACLU or whatever the EU equivalents are? I know that most of the population, even if they're massively effected by the destructive effects of IP maximalism, are not actually cognizant of it at all. That makes those of us opposed to it "special interests" too doesn't it? We're trying to lobby for technocratic policy changes that will benefit us personally even if it will also benefit others too. It would likely benefit many of us commercially too, which isn't an inherently bad thing. How do you create an objective set of rules around that?
In summary, adversarial examples.
Do we know for a fact that this was a marketing tactic conceived and developed by the Marketing group at Microsoft? Versus simply these three individuals, of their own accord, wanting to show off the tools in a fun(?) way?
Except none of your qualifiers match what age does to an aging person. But keep pushing for political correctness where it's completely irrelevant!
Slack's new logo sucks, but I'll get used to it
How and why do companies decide to rebrand their logo when they are arguably dominating a market?
And the various home router distributions before Alpine that were musl or uclibc and busybox based.