skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> avoid project-based estimation

You'll have happier clients as well, because with experience, the buffer in project-based estimations needs to be large enough that no possible hidden complexity can deplete it (barring complete show stoppers). Clients will usually be better off with time-based billing when the per-project cost estimate would come from an experienced provider.
You really don't have to figure out anything, it's all been written about many times over and posted all over. The post is a good summary but lacks details. I am a UX consultant, not a developer, I figured it out on my own (although I'm sure there are things I am not aware of that perhaps I should research and figure out further) but I probably didn't have to if I did some googling around first.

The biggest thing that makes you successful as a consultant is thinking like a business. You are not a person performing a service for the company (that makes you a hire / an employee figuratively speaking), you are a business, solving their business problem. When you think of yourself in this way and act accordingly, then everything becomes easier - saying no to bullshit, billing and collecting, charging way more.

I nodded my head when I read the point about increasing your rate for every new client. People think charging more is being unfair, but this is just business practice. You don't need to charge "your worth" whatever it may be. There is a supply of a very particular thing, and a demand of a very particular thing and the rate does not matter whatsoever when the return far outweighs the costs. A million dollar product is worth exactly zero if it cannot be produced and if you are the one to help see it through then you can charge whatever you like, given the margins make sense. These days I find myself increasing my rates for every new client. Sometimes, just for the heck of it, when I have many leads, I'll double my already high rate to see what happens ;)
So -- I am finding amusement in this -- but ethics is very labour intensive. I'm sure we all wish we could dream up new projects in a vacuum without real-world consequences (simply for the fun of it).
A bomber can do it cheaper and faster.
Sure it is, IF you also literally make it a cardiovascular test.

"metronome set at 80 beats per minute ... until the participant reached 80, missed 3 or more beats of the metronome, or stopped"
> unless you're liquidating immediately after you receive a grant then you're adding another variable into the mix of things that need to go right.

Why aren't you liquidating immediately after you receive a grant? Why would you choose to doubly leverage on your primary source of income, and, as you accurately point out, add another source of risk?
Playing devils advocate here, why a different engine is needed? Chrome clone can add webrequest feature too, and it would be much easier to maintain.
I'm at a loss for what this will actually do in the long run. Seems like someone can just do an unofficial "pirate fork" or dump the code somewhere that doesn't track it's users. That would be a virtual certainty, if this ends up being an in demand thing.
I honestly think it's incredibly important for tools like this to be publicly available for this exact reason.

If they're not and they're hoarded by tech companies or intelligence agencies then we'll just have a lopsided system where people aren't aware of how capable such technologies are, what their limitations are, how to analyze them to spot issues, etc.

Imagine if only nationstates knew about these sorts of technologies and used them for war or if only certain elites in tech had access to them and used them to implicate competitors in crimes? The technology is out there now - at this point, public knowledge is our best defense - people always question if a contentious image is photoshopped, we want that same level of questioning to happen for videos.

In terms of this being used as an excuse to get someone out a criminal charge, it might make us take a better look at the chain of custody on video evidence but I don't think it would invalidate it completely.
The problem with "The most interesting..." or "An interesting..." is that it adds zero signal.

Everything is interesting to someone. So what?

It reminds me of the early days of Macintosh programming when we put "the" in front of all our variable names, like theResource, theWindow, theFile, and theCursor. It was just a lot of noise that added nothing.

Strunk and White got this right: Eschew needless words.

That said, I was glad to see this and read the article. Atlas Obscura has such a knack for finding the most interesting topics!
Why did the C64 have ← and ↑ as dedicated keys?
One of the most interesting ideas I've ever heard was to make any and all savings deposits and investments tax-deductible, just like traditional IRA and 401(k) contributions--with the caveat that future withdrawals or returns are, themselves, taxable income. This transforms the income tax into a consumption tax, incentivizes savings of all kinds, and allows existing deductions and tax credits to potentially keep the tax progressive.

You could argue that people with higher incomes would pay a smaller proportion of their income as taxes, but this is beside the point--the only part of your income you can actually use is whatever you don't save or invest, and though you can just keep your savings and investments compounding indefinitely, you have absolutely no incentive to do so unless you are planning or anticipating for some future point in time where you or your heir withdraws and spends some of that money, which is exactly the point when that (typically much larger) sum turns back into taxable income.
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As a nudist I’ve often thought this DeepFakery might allow people to take a sigh of relief, take off all their clothes if they so please, and dismiss any photographic or video ‘evidence’ of the event as a fake. And wouldn’t that be liberating? I’m reminded of indistinguishable-from-real-but-fake-data called “bogons” from Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon.
What if the morality and behavior comes from the humans who apply it? Is applied applied science still as neutral as it gets?
Thanks for the answer! Out of curiosity what about systems we can prove able to "do" basic arithmetic, ignoring whether they can talk about it?

I'm imagining the difference between a system that can show "P(n)" for any n, rather than a system that can show "P(n) for any n."

It seems like the former must come with a proof about the system. The quantifiers "for any n" have to come somewhere. If they aren't embedded within the system, do we still end up with a system that must be able to express "This sentence is not provable?"
Throughout human history, people have published information in order to discredit or defame their opponents. Sometimes this has worked. But in the majority of cases, what determined the result was the climate around said evidence, not the evidence itself.

I can show verifiable, witnessed audio recordings of a guy saying he likes to grab women by the pussy, but that won't stop that guy from becoming President. Powerful tools don't run societies, people do.
OP here, happy to answer any questions and all comments, suggestions, criticisms are welcome.
Currently, it's a really quick rough hack -- it's based on this: http://blog.oddhead.com/2006/10/30/implementing-hansons-mark... but only a simplified blackbox interface (mapping the submitter's estimate to some trade action based on the current position and available balance) is exposed
Unfortunately the people who are attracted to CS are usually not the people interested in ethics, resulting in thousands of them working for unethical companies like Google and Facebook.

Trying to teach them ethics is a bit like putting lipstick on a pig, it’s just wasted effort. It should still be done of course, in the hopes of reaching a few.
Artists and musicians can at least make marginal amounts of money, and if you're speculating about a fully automated future where robots do all of the real work, those marginal amounts of money could end up being enough to live on after all.
Ten bucks says you work on something that has to do with adtech or free to play games.
I thought OpenAI's goal was to make sure that the first Strong General AI was also a SAFE AI, to the point that they've said that if it looks like they're not going to win that race they'll work for the leader instead? Under the theory that if it's a race at the end then corners will be cut that might doom us all, while them throwing their weight behind the leaders would allow enough margin over the #3 AI development program to go slow and get safety right.
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In 2019, it all looks terribly misogynistic.

No losing your house, no alimony... maybe they were on to something. Let wives also be able to sell their husbands and bring it back!
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Surveillance in general is oppressive but the fact is there have been terror incidents to which China is reacting so as to stop further escalation. And yes Pakistan does use terrorism as foreign policy or use it as a weapon.
The technology and infrastructure to do surveillance of this scale is already in place/available in the western world (see cameras at every corner in London, Amazon Rekogition?).

So is this already happening in the west? And what can we do to stop technology like this to be put in place, considering a lot of elected officials don’t seem to consider this as inherently ‘bad’ for society.
Hi. Do you have a github/gitlab repo set up for the notifier project?
You skipped the other “freedom” you get when you work for yourself: free time.

When you hang out your shingle and quadruple your bill rate for short bursts of client work, you get the option of not immediately booking another gig after you finish the last one. For me, I’d usually toss in a quick 9-12 months of travel before committing to another gig.

But you’re right. I did have to fill out the longer version of turbotax, so maybe it all balances out.
I think you may have allowed yourself to go blind with hatred.
I’m sure China thinks this is a really great idea, but seriously, what a waste of resources. This goes against the very existential reason for organizing into complex societies in the first place, and second if the powers at be were students of philosophy and especially history they would know that this kind of behavior never ends well for the ruling class.
Missing from the title, it is also a publication about recluses.

I thought this would be an ultra condensed version of news for people that kinda live under a rock. Like using Wikipedia's "in the news" section titles as your only source of information about the outside world.
I wonder if this might actually have some benefits for victims of revenge or leaked porn, including celebrities in the long run - "oh, that's photoshopped" seems an easy way to put something to bed.
Lena Forsén*

You'd think, having written a whole article about her, you'd be able to spell her name right. It's incredible to me how relaxed people in English speaking countries, particularly the US, are with removing and changing letters as they see fit.

I remember seeing someone on Reddit, for example, who had named their kid Soren, after Søren Kierkegaard, completely ignoring that it's not even the same name. Do people realize that these letters are different looking for a reason?
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If W pays you X to do Y you are not “your own boss”. You just have different type of employment relations. I’ve done both and find them equally “free”.
That price per ton doesn't include making it in the desired shape, though, right? Tungsten is very tough to work with, so I imagine that'd add significantly to the price, though I've no idea how much.
The Fabio image is not very useful wrt image compression:

- grayscale (lenna image is rgb)
- very odd 271x257 resolution (lenna image is square 512x512 which is a power of two)
- just hair as fine detail features (lenna image has several: hat, feather boa and hair)

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jUHXZ0jW4Lc/T1t3W0ex2BI/AAAAAAAAF...

http://www.betapleatedchic.com/uploads/3/0/4/1/30413754/4907...

An optimal image would have the following properties:

- different textures at different
- scale
- brightness
- frequency
- easily recognizable features
- color
- power of two resolution
- no cultural issues
- no licensing issues (not a scan of a magazine, globally recognized license, i.e. not "public domain")

The problem with faces is that on the one hand, humans are able to tell easily if a feature was destroyed by an image compression algorithm, but on the other hand it's personally identifiable information and therefore comes with additional legal restrictions in many jurisdictions.
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In practical terms, you’re not. Contribute to a traditional IRA. Roll it over immediately into a Roth IRA. You can do this regardless of how large your income is.
What do you think about Tor? Bittorrent? Bitcoin? How about things like IDA Pro? Many pretty amazing technologies have pretty destructive popular if not primary uses.

I feel these tools are worth having on their own and it seems widely accepted at this point that the tools themselves aren't at fault for their user's actions, even if those actions are the most popular use of the tools.

Personally I'm much more concerned about the ethical actions of internet advertisers and social media giants - those who are making direct ethical decisions that impact their users privacy and access to information.
Oh man, I had just blithely assumed nobody had done it and never googled, thanks for this!
"Contrary to popular memory, the event familiarly known as “Pearl Harbor” was in fact an all-out lightning strike on US and British holdings throughout the Pacific. On a single day, the Japanese attacked the US territories of Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island and Wake Island."

This is horrendously sloppy journalism.

The first attack on Wake was three days later and was repelled. The successful attack was another 12 days after that.

And the Midway attack was six months after Pearl.
Nope. I used that feature just today to add another account. Works on my iPhone X.
I recently graduated from a middle tier state school in CS/Math. The CS portion required an ethics course, I believe its inclusion had something to do with an ACM mandate. Out of over 100 enrolled juniors/seniors I don't believe attendance ever reached double digits outside of 2 tests.

Sure, there was a "requierment," but I wouldn't really consider it legitimate. It took concerted effort to "earn" any grade lower than an A. I wasn't personally acquainted with any other student who seriously considered the social and ethical implications of computers during or after taking a 400 level course titled "Social and Ethical Implications of Computers."

On the bright side, I heard through the grapevine that rigor, or at least workload for the course, has increased since I took it.

Although anecdotal and perhaps specific to my institution, every recollection of my University career makes me feel deeply thankful that I ended up eventually pursuing a double major in mathematics. The quality and dedication of the instructors wildly surpassed that of the CS department. Mathematics professors were there to share knowledge. CS perfessors were pressured by hiring statistics into "preparing us for the workforce" by essentially quizzing specific interview questions like "what's the difference between interfaces and subclasses in Java."
Rod-shaped means very little drag. And at the speeds that would produce such an energetic effect, wind isn’t going to cause much drift.
It truly is a peep into the future, and not just for China. High definition surveillance cameras combined with modern facial recognition techniques will be commonplace all around the world in the not too distant future. What surprises me is there doesn't seem to be much public debate about it.
You don't understand science nor technology.
Also, the last commit to the app was a year ago, if you head to their github page.

https://github.com/freeotp/freeotp-ios/commits/master
That is the thing, if we are talking about my personal linux server I am good with key auth + fail2ban and ssh on high port to have less spam in logs.

For work related stuff if I have to deal with multiple people accessing multiple servers then it is different story. Strictly forbidding ssh to have people connect from one IP is a lot more control. Then also key auth but I don't have to setup some google auth.
You can do a "backdoor Roth" to get around the income cap https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth
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OK, so then in my head the advice is now: "do time-based billing but avoid hourly increments, instead opting for weekly/monthly but never disclose how many hours per week you work".

It seems inevitable that clients wonder/ask why you can't get X, Y, and Z done in a "week", when they hold a definition of what a "week" means to them. If you're billing for a week, they're going to assume you're billing for 5x8 hour days -- is the idea just to let them assume that, but you actually work however many hours it takes to get the deliverables for the week done? If so, that's basically forcing you to over estimate, or work a full work-week anyway, and then you might as well be pricing by hour (whether you show them or not).

What I've done recently is charge for X days/week, with a written agreement specifying what constitutes a "work day" for me. Clients normally don't care/micro-manage (there's enough mutual trust), and when we meet to show/discuss progress, I let them know how how "on schedule" we are (so at "based on how quickly I'm working at the current clip of 3 days/week, it looks like everything will be done in 4 weeks"). This formula would be wrong according to the usual HN advice though -- it's way too easy to translate X days/week w/ a set amount of hours that constitute a work day to X-per-hour billing.
Many citizens, as opposed to just politicians, are happy to be surveilled, as long as it's ostensibly being used against people that they feel hatred for. That's a key difference in this case. The West may have an easier time fending this off, until the day some politician decides to frame the surveillance as a safeguard against a broad social group, e.g. a religion, race, or political affiliation, as opposed to the more nebulous category of just "criminals", in which case I'm afraid I don't have much reason to think the West would be any more immune to such societal crumbling than China is.
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I'm of many minds about this

Censorship: bad.

That Life: The tech will get created by someone else so censoring does almost nothing. Better to put it out there so we can try to make defenses. Maybe make a bunch of fakes with famous people's permssion to spread the word how you can't trust video anymore

Dangerous: To take an extreme example imagine you figured out how to make some kind of E=MC^2 bomb simply such that anyone with the knowledge could make a device that could blow up a city for $100 and a few hours of time. Would it be ok to upload those instructions to the internet for any disgruntled teen to repo?

deepfakes are certainly not at that extreme but we can also clearly imagine the harm they could do as they progress.

There have been several examples recently of people seeming to react to arguably false perceptions. I'm actually thinking of ones in the last 2-3 days but I'm sure there are plenty of others.
Ahhh, I'm lazy and wanted my final reason to switch to FF. Oh well, I'll let google track me through browser for now, if they leave my uOrigin+NoScript alone. The second those won't work I'll make the switch.
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand/#grants

Not exactly what you asked for, but should get you started down that path if you desire funding for your open source project.
That’s very much not true.
The problem with forks is having to chase upstream. The dominant browser can keep making changes with reckless abandon. And the fork has to keep up with those, even if it breaks their own features, lest they become incompatible with the "standard" version.
Would you please not get personal in arguments here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> waiting on long red lights sucks the life out of you because it's such an utter waste of time

Weird... now that you mention this, I recall that during grad school when I had complete control over my time (and essentially worked remotely), I would get so angry sitting at red lights. Now that I have a corporate job, they no longer seem to bother me. Maybe you're on to something.
Interesting that this was literally the major plot point in one of the GI Joe movies. I wonder if they got the idea from the movie. If you google around, the weapon in the movie created a lot of discussion about the real life viability and physics involved about this exact topic.

Here’s a clip of the weapon being used in the movie: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jOKf5r_JMAo
Note: unless you have existing savings in a traditional IRA.
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It is no doubt cheaper to pay someone to colocate your own hardware, but in my experience running production services on my own colo'd hardware: it is far cheaper and easier to just use a cloud provider in the long run.

I ran a widely used teleconferencing system for years that served a ton of traffic, and the amount of time it took me to manage my boxes, handle issues, and deal with one off setup processes was far more costly than the amount of money I started paying Heroku every month a few years later.

I know Jeff isn't factoring in the other hidden costs here: but be wary. Unless you are a truly massive operation I don't see how you can possibly do this and save money vs going the easy route and using your favorite PaaS. Just my two cents.
Personally, I find the mythos around ayahuasca interesting. The thought that plants communicated to humans how to create a brew so they could communicate.
Wow...didn’t expect to see such an idiot buffoon on hacker news. This kind of creatures are more conspicuous on Fox News...
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Native, for iOS and Android?
Believe it or not, the other 49% also suffer from these "gender roles".
Get rid of the 401k entirely and let everyone use IRA/Roth IRA with the increased contribution limits. Make contribution limit a percentage of income rather than a fixed amount (e.g. Canadian RRSP allows 18% of last year's income). Allow a minimum dollar amount contribution even if it exceeds that percentage. E.g. $50k-earning worker wants to save $10k/year by living with parents, not eating out etc even though contributions are limited to 15% of income.

Calculate SS tax after these deductions, not before.

EDIT: Please let me know why these might be bad ideas. I think it's unfair that currently only people with employer-sponsored 401k plans can save $18k and everyone else has only an IRA with $5.5k limit. Or some people can do a self-employed 401k which is a thing I don't know a lot about. It's crazy there are so many options for what should be a simple thing "I want to put aside some money now, some of it tax free, for when I retire."
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