skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is it about the RMA — why have them ask instead of facilitating it? They'd ask, it takes some minutes online, then they send it digitally — takes a working day or two.

Here's what I think it's been going through their mind. Probably (idk, I'm not the owner of Asos or another big retailer) they wanted to avoid the situation in which someone says "fuck it, it wasn't that expensive anyways, I'd rather keep/donate the clothes rather than return them" - and then never shop again

As opposed to "okay, returning takes 30 minutes less because I have the return labels" which, in turn, can mean more business. Because the relationship is trying to be built
Or simply don't waste money on a stone at all.
You can still access the content without logging in, just use the navigation on the left rather than clicking on "login & start". It does feel pretty aggressive of them to want you to log in.
one word:
Microcenter
I don't live in the states, but am on a forum of people centered around various projects that (among other things) happen to make use of Pi Zero's
the people who live near MC's are always saying how they just popped into their MC on the way home from work and picked up a (sometimes couple of) $5 zero W.
So yeah while your experience is that $5 zeros don't exist (as is mine since in the UK there are exactly zero B&M stores that sell zeros, with the possible exception of this new RPF store - great if you're in/near Cambridge, sucks for the rest of us) the truth is that there ARE $5 Pi's available from walk-in retail outlets (in your country and possibly now mine too.)
Once you have a few regular customers that pay on time, things are usually nice. Until you reach that point, however, things are shaky at best.
This practice is used in almost every industry with finite inventory by Revenue Management teams where there is opportunity to pre-empt a booking, slot, or (where I am most familiar) a tv spot.

I recall working for television systems management and having a revenue and yield optimization consultant from the airline industry present to our company with methods we could use to increased revenue by booking even more spots than we had and either pre-empting more low value TV spots with automatic optimization and moving of the spots, or simply taking more time away from marketing or promotional ads from the network.

Most of the practices recommended by this consultant we had already implemented, but there were some really neat recommendations specifically from the airline industry in order to maximize revenue, most of them revolved around overbooking. Eligible TV spots would be automatically moved forward (front-loaded) into weekly rotation selling options (groups of program sold under the same name and price).

I could go on forever, but I suppose as a general comment regarding revenue management and yield optimization there is nothing which surprises me about these practices.
I never heard of the Torie angle before, is there any evidence to assume that?

There is quite a bit of evidence that pro Israel Lobby groups, as well as Israeli Embassy Staff are heavily involved.

There is a documentary about the whole issue from Aljazeera, which allegedly got censored due to intervention by the Qatar government.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-parts-of-censor...

Some reporter went undercover for 6 month with a hidden camera infiltrating some of the groups.

https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/thelobby/

As a result, one embassy official had to resign

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/israel-diplomat-force...
Thanks for the comm. Surely yeah, packaging the data for the end consumer is aligned with the idea of the post
Multi-OS Engine: Native Feeling Mobile Apps for iOS and Android in Java
> "extensive" unit testing is a poor man's type checker

Wow! No!

If this is what you feel, you might have been doing unit testing wrong the whole time! Unit testing is a powerful technique that is useful regardless of your language. the first unit testing libraries and frameworks started with Statically Typed languages.
Exactly my point. Had that as well and it's such a pain to spend that amount of time, it leads to distrust. Thx for the example
PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha
I was on an Air Canada flight recently, and I swore it would be my last. Every step of the experience of buying a seat and checking in was tainted with growth hacking BS, and I felt nickel & dimed in ways other airlines are probably rushing to catch up to.

- Choosing ANY seat in economy or getting any transparency into where they are putting you comes at an additional charge. I haven't seen this before, not sure how common it's become.

- While at the gate, I received a push asking if I wanted to BID on an upgrade to first class. I could "offer" anywhere between $450 and $900 and see whether or not I'd snag a better seat.

Air travel has long since become an anti-consumer race to the bottom. Capitalism has failed here.
The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics
If you google 'The Maldives counts the cost of its debts to China' and use the first link to 'ft.com', you can bypass the paywall
It’s funny you mention Carphone Warehouse because just last week I thinking how that name has also become a relic of the past due to the miniaturisation of handsets. I mean I know Carphone Warehouse doesn’t sell actual car phones anymore but the name of it’s store does amuse me as a reminder of a bygone era.
let me guess, a Tesla?
Have you read the paper they linked to? How did it define "happiness"? How did it measure "happiness"? From the paper, "happiness" can be read very broadly.

I chose to read it the way that the average person I know would read it, and then I chose to reject that.

edit: And pride of workmanship is not the same thing as happiness. There have been a couple jobs where I've been rather unhappy about helping particular people out, while still being proud of how I did it.
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"Freelancing" is a bit of a catch-all term so it's tough to give you a simple answer, and your success working independently will probably rely on several factors.

1 - Is your skillset relatively rare or in demand in a freelance market?

2 - How easy or difficult will it be for employers to find you? This is related to how well you market yourself, how well networked you are within the market, whether an exchange (eg Upwork, Fiverr) of some kind exists for you to join, and whether or not you can use any "agents" or third-parties to broker deals and connect you with work.

3 - What is your 'end game' or primary criteria for the work that you want to do? Are you interested in work/life balance, money, control over what kind of work you do (and don't do), career progression, ability to take long breaks between work, remote work or digital nomad roles, etc.?

There are even more factors than this, but this is a start. I know countless people who have freelanced successfully for many years, and others who didn't like it at all. Every story is different.
you could also build it in space over the course of year and land it on a place with lower gravity than earth easily.
FWIW, in places where polygamy is widespread, there is usually a shortage of potential female mates. This puts a downward pressure on the age at which girls are sought for marriage.
No idea, the Jewish people, judaists insert whatever works for you.
After having been freelancing at upwork and the like for a couple of years in my spare time, I'd never do it as my single source of income. There are just too many ups and downs, I appreciate the consistency of a 9-5 job.
Transitioned simply by trying something different, until per project quotes succeeded. It was hard so I gave up and decided to try something else, seemed to have worked.

My projects usually last a month or two, sometimes longer. Smaller businesses with smaller teams seem a lot more accepting of weekly invoices. It becomes a line item for them, just an expense among many (this is my guess).

In terms of products, I am not qualified enough, but if I had to guess, it's best not to compete with the mega SaaS. Position differently and find a unique niche that won't necessarily make you super rich.

As for naming, that's an interesting point. I don't know if it's true as I've seen consultants go by their name and make a lot of money. Some people simply build a brand out of their name and become well known for the work they do. Sadly, I don't have a brandable name so I went with a business name. I think there is some truth to your point when it comes to being seen as a company to do business with than "hiring a consultant".
We’re most women in the United States marrying that young? I think I saw somewhere that the average age of marriage wasn’t too far from today.
The opium wars may have been in the 19th century but the WW1 reparations, Sino-Japanese wars, rape of Nanking, and general widespread attemps to carve territory from China, especially Western approval of the Sino-Japanese sphere of influence, were all 20th century. Western powers supporting the violent partioning of China was the norm even in the 20th century (look at Churchill's comments on the matter).
hopefully we'll be turning away from models like these. I believe deep down that "nature finds its way" (so to speak) for disruptors to change that.

that's what's the loveliest thing about the internet - for a shitton of things, the cost of entry is 0 now
The major pitfall - it depends on your goal. Your approach looks good if you just need to retrain an existing model\code in production. However, this approach is not perfect in the ML modeling\development stage. Let me explain...

`--entrypoint` defines a single step\script. You make a single black box from your entire ML processes. There is a lack of granularity for ML modeling process when people tend to separate different stages to make the process more manageable and efficient: manage and version dataset separately from modeling, preprocess data before training, training code as a separate unit plus some problem specific steps\units.

DVC gives you the ability to increase the granularity of your ML project while still keeps it manageable and reproducible. The steps still can be wrapped in Docker - it is a good practice. As @theossuary said, run `docker run -ti experiments:latest` as a step in DVC.
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Adaptive Thinking and High-Performance
Freelancing jobs, especially the better ones, like any relationship are fundamentally built on good communication and trust. It's pretty hard to replicate this with technology, except where it make the process of getting the necessary paperwork filled out and the day to day exchange of information easier.

Your survey is mainly about invoicing. In my experience that's a solved problem at least when dealing with smaller companies. In the freelancing gigs I have had over the past 10 years I either sent a PDF by mail, or committed it to a repository (10/10 for geek cred for WebFaction) or used an online timesheet program. Payment was made via bank transfer within a few hours and rarely more than a couple of days. Even in relationships with very large companies based in abroad (i.e. USA, I'm in Portgual) once the necessary paperwork was sent to get the information into the billing system the process was smooth.

Where I have experienced problems it was with slightly sketchy organisations and no amount of technology is going to solve that, other than an automated lawyer or strongman service.

The unsolved "problems" with freelancing are getting companies to feel sufficiently confident to do more of it and getting some kind of community to keep freelancers fresh. The ability to allow groups of individuals to organize themselves so that they can competently deal with companies on a peer to peer basis would also be pretty useful.
I've worked as a consultant several times in my career, focusing on helping startups build an MVP and find their market. I've also done one-off projects for larger businesses, mostly trying to fix a long-standing internal technical issue and open up new possibilities.

A few tips:

1. Don't work for people unless you can help them make a lot of money.

2. Avoid freelancing marketplaces. These tend to have terrible rates, small projects and some of the worst clients. Most of these clients are beyond help, and you will never be able to help them earn a lot of money.

3. Do not charge an hourly rate. You do not want hourly jobs. Charge either a daily rate, a weekly rate, or a project rate. If you have a good client who regularly needs small tweaks, charge a monthly retainer instead of an hourly rate. I'm told that some really smart consultants charge a percentage of the of the improvement they make for the business.

4. Require half payment up front, or for longer projects, a milestone-sized payment up front. This will immediately eliminate all the clients who are allergic to writing checks, and I've never seen anybody serious reject this.

5. When setting your daily or weekly rates, plan on charging at least 2x what you would receive as salary, or up to 3x in some cases. This depends partly on the average size of your projects. If you charge less than this, your annual income will wind up much lower than you'd think. You will have lots of downtime and non-billable hours.

EDIT: 6. This should be obvious, but always write down the project deliverables and agreed-upon payment, even if it's only in an email for smaller projects. Even if you totally trust the people you're doing business with, they will forget what they agreed to. (Ideally, you should have a standard contract where additional work items can be attached as an Exhibit A.)

Aside from all that, one big challenge is balancing your pipeline. You'll have 2 months of no work, followed 3 simultaneous offers for highly-paid jobs. You need to find a way to manage this that's fair to the client and sustainable for you.
Currently visiting China for Chinese New Year, and can't help but to notice the anti-US anti-Apple sentiment that arose recently. Although anecdotal, I think the nationalistic sentiment has a lot to do with the dip in sales.

To put in perspective, most Chinese netizens are generally pretty critical of the Chinese gov. Chinese with higher educations usually look up to western culture and products. However after the Huawei arrest incident, the Chinese netizens were pissed at the American government, I've never seen such anger towards the US gov, and huge waves of boycotts began. They think that American gov is bullying a Chinese company into obeying US law even outside US, and their response is to boycott American products.

During my two weeks here I've talked to a dozen random people at bars, friends gatherings and on the plane. Normally US-China politics never come up, but it has come up in almost every single conversation this trip. Most of these people mention that they recent switched to a Chinese phone or their next phone will be a domestic phone.
my bad man, it's a humble wordpress theme, I coded my app once and it was the most painful thing for me — more of a designer. but hey, look, if you know how to fix that for me, send me a message and I'm happy to pay for an optimisation service!
Trump administration unveils order to prioritize and promote AI
Recently, this has become a reasonable option.

However, if one plays a lot of games then the difference of prices between console and PC adds up.
100% of all bugs would be prevented if you could travel into the future and look at the bug patches - postmortem analysis.
Article 13 Moves Forward in Spite of Opposition Growing Larger
> - developers that don't think specifying types is helpful are still early in their careers (those who suffered in the dungeons of Java get some slack)

Developers who believe specifying types doesn't have any drawbacks are still early in their careers :D
50%? Even less in my case. 3 hours a day is plenty to get paid as much as I was before on a salary.

Honestly I find the time-related issue as a freelancer is having too much of it, and putting it to good use rather than just lounging around.
Not to mention the charity fraud scheme from a couple months ago, which they still haven't stopped doing.
You can’t directly increase your income by working one more hour if you are salaried . But you can certainly affect your growth trajectory by working harder/longer/smarter. You trade the marginal hour in a way that has a lagging, probabilistic increase on your salary.
it's true. it's easy to talk theory and harder to put it in practice. but then again, I wrote the article having in mind a conversation between me and the tech company that has a healthy amount of captured value (i.e. profits, in direct speech) — they can afford to devote resources on the long tail of profitability

but just like the other answer to your comment, it's more about when companies spend time to make it hard. Like those people you may have seen in your life who are living through hell — but it's a certain level of hell that can't be achieved without their effort.

what's your industry, if you feel like sharing? competitive, by chance?
I have the feeling as the author while I charged hourly rates. I see a tendency that more freelancers start getting money from a fixed price for a project. It helps to charge more and less work. Also, it is easier to get relaxed. You know when you should finish a project.

I shared here one research about the hourly rate of freelance developers [1]. They calculated that right now, it's about $68 of the US JavaScript freelancer. But I assume that American freelancers charge more. Perhaps, some freelancers charge fixed prices. That's why the rate is lower.

Thinking about time equals money really disturbs your life. You have to live for enjoying but not for getting money every minute.

As a lifehack, early I included my vacation/sick/holiday days to calculate my hourly rate. It helps me to have planned vacations and some days to sick without any thoughts about doing a job.

[1] https://periodix.net/blog/which-developers-earn-more-corpora...
Which country, doing what?
We've been getting books from Imagination Library for a couple years have really enjoyed the service. It's easy to get into the routine of reading the same books over and over to kids. This at least gives us some variety and is obviously much cheaper than something like Amazon's Prime Book Box.

I do feel guilty at times because we aren't in financial need of the books. However, I do plan on donating back to Imagination Library, which will probably more than cover the cost of the books they've sent us over the years. Maybe that's part of their reasoning for not making the program dependent on financial need.
Not exactly related to this e-voting system, but more generally there will probably be a federal popular initiative for a moratorium on e-voting in Switzerland [1,2]. It is possible (for Swiss citizens) to support the collection of signatures by registering here [3].

[1] https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/events.event...

[2] http://e-voting-moratorium.ch/

[3] https://evoting-moratorium.wecollect.ch/
Yes, and harassers - including stalkers - take advantage of the fuzziness. Including by using terms like "just hitting on" for something which is much better described as "harassment".
What's the difference between "the highly paid freelancer" and "the consultant" for you?
"Stronger reception" is a combination of tx and rx connectivity. More radiation is only a possible indicator for the sending side of the tx connectivity.
you're a good person. I myself don't do it either, unless they've helped me a lot and I feel like giving back. but yeah, just like someone else pointed out, if I hate you, no way i'm writing it
Bitcoin and the advent of streaming payments
I was held at checkin for an Economy Plus BA flight from San Diego to London and they asked for volunteers to get the next flight (same time the next day) and you would get $800 cash (prepaid credit card) and a hotel room for the night.

A few people took the offer, I didn't. As a result they denied me boarding and gave me the exact same deal, except it was a $1250 pre-paid credit card. I never expected to be quite so happy about not being allowed on a plane.
Microsoft Ironically Proves Forced Windows Updates Don’t Make Any Sense
I think the important thing here is just honesty in the business practice. Presumably you were upfront with your clients about what they were actually purchasing and what the risks were. The article here is not about overselling per se but about lying about it.
No, not really. It is used in many, many words, with no obvious intrinsic meaning of the prefix itself (and sometimes it's pretty much just redundant), although some clusters of meaning can be made out (often ver- signifies something negative or grave, for example).

verstehen, vergehen (active), vergehen (passive), verdammen, verabreden, verfahren, verlaufen, verfestigen, verändern, verallgemeinern, veranschaulichen, veranlassen (ver+an+lassen), verlassen, verärgern, verarmen, verbiegen, verdrehen, ...
I think you are confusing them with "Blackwater". The article doesn't mention "Black Cube".
What AWS can learn from Google's roaring Kubernetes success
One concern on mobile where I find the scrolling is not respond for a second or longer whenever I swipe back to previous page in Safari, applicable in some of the showcases in Next.js too, is it the expected user experience?
I sucessfully have been doing this for more than seven years: the trick is decent but fair pricing per time unit; also you have to budget and calculate a buffer realistically. Yes, you also need downtime and if you are stressing about that you are most likely billing too low or are simply too anxious/greedy (all things that can be fixed).

Enjoy the freedom, at last that's what you have optimized for.
That kind of survey's without a doubt annoying. Another thing I advocate for is getting 1-on-1 with the customer (as a CEO/Founder). If I'd get a direct email from that person that has a chance of not being pre-written (sometimes you can't tell, gotta give benefit of doubt), then hell yes I'll tell you what it is that got me out. Even if I hate you.

Caring is important, even if you're caring about your business in the grand scheme of things
I can't give you a source like that. From the Wikipedia article on prions, it appears that several prion-based diseases are suspected, but that so far the only proven cause for such a disease has been the "major prion protein." In 2015 a hypothesis was advanced that multiple system atrophy (Shy–Drager syndrome) was caused by a prion form of the alpha-synuclein molecule. However, if any subsequent proof has followed, neither the wikipedia pages on prions or alpha-synuclein have caught up with that.
Exactly, on any of the 4 voting days a year, there can be multiple issues/proposition/topics and for the important ones of those, we see budgets in the millions
Out. Leaks like this certainly hurt the perception of the IMF and World Bank around the world.
I've been freelance / self employed about 8 years now, I couldn't see myself being able to cope with a normal job any more to be honest. I'm too used to being master and commander of my own domain lol.
I'm not somebody that stresses about things, I find it easy to let things go. Not everybody does.
I'm not the best person in the world at freelancing, I could use some more self dicipline but it's been paying my bills so I can't be that bad at it.
Not everybody is suited to being freelance and that's OK.