skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that makes sense since most wealth is increasingly concentrated among a smaller and smaller proportion of people.

Yes, if you only look at realized capital gains it is a small percentage. Because even if you have $50 billion in stock, you really don't need to be spending $1 billion / year or anything ludicrous. There is a limit to what one person or one family can consume, and the levels of wealth people can achieve are so incredibly far beyond that, that of course they don't need to realize a lot of gains to get the lifestyle they want.

Several years ago my job took me to do some work at the home of someone in the top 10 of the Forbes 400. I was chatting with one of his staff and this person had homes all over the world, one of the largest yachts ever made, private plane, etc. The annual cost for running everything was on the order of $50 million / year. Astronomical, yes, but as a percentage of their net worth practically nothing.
mycelium network ;)
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My point was about "idolizing" Spock, as form of worship.
Maybe the site was built by Upwork? ;)

—-just a joke, I have nothing against them
This was again because the people running the business did not really understand the accretion of technical debt.

I don’t have any additional context besides my consulting experience but I’m willing to bet several engineers did their best to make everyone aware of the technical debt and were ignored.
Selling stuff on darknet markets must be lucrative just because 1 or 2 researchers has to always buy it.
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Every scare tactic buzzfeed told you about darknet was a lie?
Archive link: http://archive.is/Is2Uk

The title is "Why data scientists should never use Upwork"
Run a DNS-over-TLS server on top of pihole and use the Private DNS feature available in Android P.

https://github.com/yegle/your-dns
you seem to forget about the credit card rates, which are the 2.9% of your sales. I don't know in other countries, but where I live you can get the same conditions than for a physical pos terminal from a bank with around 1% rate. a 2% of your sales can easily grow to something that you can optimize.
what would be a way to start contracting if you have no existing network, no existing clients to get references?
Here's the post on medium. https://medium.com/@jayfeng/why-no-one-should-never-use-upwo...
> Did CI save Google from the networking outage or tests prevent a global Cloudflare outage?

This is not a fair statement. This is like saying "Did seatbelts save the victims who died in car accidents X/Y/Z?"

Just because your tests/ci/etc. can't catch every single issue that could go wrong doesn't make them useless. Just because people die every single day in car accidents doesn't mean car's safety features are useless.

You're correct in that a CI should not in any way be considered a "perfect solution for outages", but an automated system that tests, deploys, etc. in a predictable and (again) testable manor is at least helpful.
25 years is probably a better approximation than 100 years. So 8000 gr. That's a lot of people.
The end points receiving the money don't decide the rates. And because multiple loan originators exist within that structure, they compete to minimize overhead.
Archive link: https://archive.is/Is2Uk
My point was less to show their lack of ethics and more that there’s more than enough money to be made in small (but profitable) businesses.

Amazon is involved in advertising though so it’s just a matter of time before that cancer consumes the entire company (in addition to being unethical overall like closing their eyes on the counterfeit problem).
Linux Observability with BPF
I found the Slate Star Codex review (recommended by this article) more readable.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

I think there are fascinating comparisons to be made to legacy code and the full rewrite.
Scroll down. You’ll see they also have apps on the Mac App Store.
You can also think in terms of generations. If everyone has a kid at 20 then you can draw 100 stick figures in a line to go 2000 years back. Not so long when you look at it.
There's also an older post about the same topic: https://hackernoon.com/why-you-should-never-use-upwork-ever-...
Firefox keeps getting better on mobile. I've been using it for several years now, and it's always been usable, but it's been hard recommending it to other people as it was significantly slower than Chrome. This is no longer true.

Chrome does do touch better, clicking things (like "x" buttons to close in page pop-ups) works better on Chrome, Mobile Firefox tends to switch to text select.
See comment guidelines:

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is still the stupidest thing having moved from Android to iOS. Why would anybody want incoming calls to block the entire UI?
> When it comes to figuring out how old something is, archaeologists are interested in one element in particular: uranium.

I though fossils were dated with Carbon-14. Did that change?
"Check Point is not identifying the company, because they are working with local law enforcement."

Well that's dumb.

"It appears that you are currently using Ad Blocking software. What are the consequences?"

The consequences include avoiding situations just like in the story.

When did Phys Org get into tech news? I thought they were just an unreliable source for science rumors.
As a buyer I had a few good experiences finding contractors on Upwork. If “no one should ever use it,” does anyone have a good suggestion for a better place to find good freelance coders for small projects?
I think that a difference might be that when your capital allows you to create a physical product then there is a very good chance that the product has value. On the other hand, if you use AWS to create a product then it most likely that the product does not have value (since most web startups fail).
See the comment elsewhere in the thread about how (according to the German-language article) Schlitt ignored the requirement that the specialist flush the toilet, causing the incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20410849
Whenever I read about Greenpeace attacking apple for their phones I laugh. The number of Android models, made with far more toxic materials, never updated and so obsoleted much earlier (check out secondary market for 4 year old phones to see this) is far higher and with a much bigger enviro impact than iphones.

Despite claims apple purposely obsoletes its phones, it actually has a FAR FAR better record of updating old phones (reasonably given hardware differences) which extends the life of old phones.
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What is good and what is bad about Librem 5?
a lot of artists and their fanbase think its a point of pride that they don't have formal education in art, as if they are a child prodigy

the customers they wish they could sell too would not consider that a point of pride

that prodigy should go to a prestigious art school, for the techniques or network alone
Paper net worth that isn't spent is fairly meaningless, though. We care about defining upper class versus lower class because money dictates access to scarce resources. For the most part, you can't buy access to scarce resources (in your example, labor, yachts, private planes), without realizing capital gains.
I did almost mention those. Negotiating POS rates is in the realm of much bigger shops than I've run. At the 100k/mo mark, that's $2k/mo, which... I'd honestly still take shopify, but yeah, it starts to be worth asking about.

Shopify is a hair more expensive than some competing processors, but when I last dealt with it, they were in league of paypal, stripe, square, etc, so it wasn't a differentiating factor for us, and I suspect that's true for most businesses of our size.
I think you have to draw some boundaries on the topics you will celebrate in order to avoid being taken over by huge companies promoting their bland consumer products, but then a few people draw the boundaries in ways that exclude genuinely creative passion projects. In my opinion the goal should be to showcase the creative work of people who build things for the love of it, and avoid providing a platform for promotion of established products.
> Naval ships are essentially artillery platforms that can reach 10 or more miles inland ....

Naval ships also are just a bit useful for control of the sea; indeed, historically that's been arguably the foremost purpose of the navies of island nations such as the UK and U.S.

If the Germans had tried to invade Britain, the Royal Navy would have thrown in every last ship it had to attack the German troop transports in the Channel. (I'm paraphrasing Herman Wouk here.) The RN ships would have been extremely vulnerable to U-boat and E-boat attack there, of course (just as the U.S. Navy and RN are worried about in today's Strait of Hormuz). The RN would also have been vulnerable to air attack (as the British, U.S., Dutch, and Japanese navies learned at terrible cost in the Pacific War), especially if the Luftwaffe had previously gained mastery of the skies over the Channel. But as the saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures.
My view is actually the opposite - that this likely applies to most countries except the ones with a large and established podcasting ecosystem, of which I only know one (the US, with UK scene piggybacking on it).
> This is not a fair statement. This is like saying "Did seatbelts save the victims who died in car accidents X/Y/Z?"

Actually, your refutation is precisely what I'm trying to say! The GP implied that CI and UTs fix these problems. They don't. In the same sense that seatbelts and air bags may reduce the chance of a fatal accident, they do not replace safe driving, well-trained drivers and intelligent infrastructure design.

> but an automated system that tests, deploys, etc. in a predictable and (again) testable manor is at least helpful.

I didn't say otherwise. In fact I agreed those measures should be in place. They're just not sufficient. You will still face bad releases even if you do this, and so you shouldn't do fleetwide rollouts unless you just don't care about your system falling apart.

Please don't misrepresent my comment.
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Yes, that is precisely what I do right now. But I need to log into the VPN since the RDP server is only available inside the company network and not in the public internet. Unless you're talking about in my home wifi to avoid the dock.
You can use a reseller program of a VPN service. It gives a web app, mobile app and IPs to sell. Think its a great if you don't have the time to code.
https://www.ivacy.com/business-vpn/reseller-program/
> Like all things Lisp: no one understands the what, how and especially why of it.

I don't know if that's a fair thing to say; there are many lisp programmers out there, writing applications and tools, and they must understand the what, how, and why.

I've never used lisp beyond minor tutorials - but to me, it's just another programming language, albeit a somewhat strange one - IIRC, it doesn't have roots in ALGOL, which probably explains its "strangeness":

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

In fact - that shows it is one of the "root" programming languages. So there you go.

But beyond that, from what I have seen, it seems like a functional-style language built around the concept of everything (primitives?) being a "list" - which is kinda analogous to a mathematical set, I think.

Anyhow, while it may look and "feel" weird, I don't think that's a good reason to dismiss Lisp as a whole.

> This sounds extremely non-useful to me. Opening browser windows? For what? To do what, exactly?

Well - many people who work at the cli/shell level don't want to take their hands off their keyboards, unless absolutely necessary. So, this tool seems to make common tasks (search, browser links to info, often used commands/tasks) available and browsable, using the keyboard and terminal, for reuse - without needing to remember or recall from history a particular command or sequence, or having to set up a ton of aliases (and remembering them). At least, that's how I interpret it. Maybe that isn't for you; that's ok. But someone else might find such a thing handy.

> And stop this "hacking" and "highly hackable" baloney.

I'm not sure why this bothers you; the term "hack" to mean "change" (sometimes quick-n-dirty) has a long history. It doesn't have one meaning or application. I see nothing wrong with using it in this context. Sure, it may not be something you'd want to see on marketing material for an application (then again, seeing such might be a breath of fresh air, imho) - in this context, that of a tool by cli/shell user for other cli/shell users - it is perfectly fit for use, I think.
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Two bug stories of limited usefulness:

Worked on a tool that used 3D trajectories in an analysis. Some of the output looked strange, but not exactly incorrect (there was no obviously correct answer). Looking at the trajectories used in the analysis, we started thinking some of them had to be wrong. We isolated the "most" incorrect ones and dug in to the code. After looking at the x, y, z components, that pointed us to a few functions. We found a function call with a typo. Instead of f(x,y,z) it was called with f(x,y,y). That one took a day or two to figure out.

Working on a tool that plotted satellite trajectories as part of results visualization, there was a strange jump in the orbit plot. Orbits before and after were fine. We eventually narrowed down the jump to crossing a specific date and time, and not at an obvious boundary (some day in the middle of the year if I remember correctly). There was no obvious reason for it to occur (no errors in our calculations or the input data). Eventually, we discovered that a leap second had been added on that date. The libraries we were relying on did not include that leap second since it had only been added recently, but the input data did. That was... frustrating. If I recall correctly, leap seconds are no longer added to time information (thankfully).
HN has its own dedicated monthly listing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325924

Also reach out to your network... I belong to several slack nodes that have channels just for contracts and leads are dropped in there pretty regularly.
I've been using v2 for years, and unless 3 changed significantly, the syntax is truly minimal. More importantly it only is introduced where it makes sense, ie not forced. It's also very succinctly documented in a well organized help menu item.

Eg "what % of 198 is 22"
You can still calculate this the normal way, but this syntax sugar is natural enough and easier to remember.

Or the other big example somebody already posted is currency conversion. "1 USD to GBP"

Even if you don't use any of that, the ability to have a readable notebook, variables, and other features make it far better than a traditional calculator.
I could never go back.
It hasn't made any sense to buy phones from the company that provides your mobile phone service for years, especially now that a "phone" isn't in any meaningful sense a phone at all with many people never making or receiving any calls.

They shouldn't be any more involved in what phone you use than your ISP gets to pick whether you use a Mac or PC.

Sure if you want to use a 15 year old phone you're going to need to find somebody who allows that (my guess: no-one) just like you won't find so many ISPs who offer 1200/75 dial-up mode for your original Apple Macintosh with acoustic coupler. But anybody with normal needs shouldn't need to care, just sell me "phone" (ie mobile Internet) service.
I actually do think Upwork is a good way to start but you could

1) Build a network - go to product meetups (assuming you're a dev)
2) Contact agencies near you and see if they have contract projects you can hop on
3) Use other sites - Toptal, Freelancer, Remote, Gigster, etc.
I'll have a check in a couple of hours and and report back.

The Device, bought in September 2016 was a Samsung Galaxy TAB E 9.6 SM-T560 WI-FI
It does say they filtered the dataset first “picture by picture” to remove violent or offensive material.
not sure what the other fellow meant, but when 3D printing first hit the scene, the hype was that we'd all be printing replacement parts for our broken appliances and what not. i'd bet my pants that there have been more Benchys printed than repair/replacement parts for consumer appliances.
I am also getting this error, and suspect it is because I’m on 10.12.6. If you do system_profiler SPInstallHistoryDataType |grep -A5 MRTConfigData you should see your latest version. For me, it’s 1.42. Not sure how to get the update yet though. Will update this comment once I figure that out.

Update: According to this macworld article, there is a Zoom patch out that fixes this. https://www.macworld.com/article/3407764/zoom-mac-app-flaw-c...

There are also commands at the bottom to manually kill the zoom localhost and disable it. I have opted to run those commands regardless:

pkill ZoomOpener;rm -rf ~/.zoomus;touch ~/.zoomus &&chmod 000 ~/.zoomus;

pkill "RingCentralOpener";rm -rf ~/.ringcentralopener;touch ~/.ringcentralopener &&chmod 000 ~/.ringcentralopener;#
Taxing digital companies based on digital presence certainly makes sense to me, as a layperson. A company that's selling ads to a French company that wants to show those ads to French users is doing business in France, end of story.

Taxing only very large corporations - that's a little more questionable, but plenty of countries (including the US) treat small businesses preferentially, so it's not like it's unprecedented.
You're right, my point is that a saving-focused FAANG engineer (SFFE) likely has a better risk-adjusted path to wealth as a "worker" than the "ownership" path described by 'gringoDan.

An SFFE who was similarly "lucky" with a high variance approach (in their case, by eg, investing in AAPL at the right time) like the anecdotal HVAC businessman would be much wealthier.
Good. Next step, have EU countries come up with an estimation of the value of their citizens' private data that FB and Google gobbles up and tax them on that too.

Edit: companies -> countries
> comparatively ancient Android 7.0

7.0 is ancient? 5.1, or rather 4.4 is ancient.
> I built Logflare for Cloudflare. A good example of what you’re talking about I think. https://logflare.app

Total aside, but I really love the feel of your site. Very polished and I love the way the tool is presented (not to mention that it seems like a useful service to boot!).
I worked for a company 15 years ago that had build a nice collaboration website like Confluence/Jira for internal use. It was built by an internal team of 5 engineers. Very nicely done UI. The company had a lot of things going for it but it missed a few strategy opportunities and was bought for a song and split up. In hindsight, I feel like that collaboration software could have been a business of its own but nobody recognized it. Maybe 10 years too early.
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The Taco Bell menu used to show a photo of three perfectly identical tacos for the three-taco meal. It was so appealing that I ordered them, and was so disappointed that I complained when they did not look perfectly alike. Sure wish I had this tool back then.

Fooled me one, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame of me. Fooled me with three perfect tacos, dammit!

This might have helped to detect taco clones:

https://headt.eu/How-to-Detect-Image-Manipulations-Part-2/
Yeah, it's not saying "your Yg^V2jw,C~8fpVnq doesn't matter", just your "Pa$$Word". Don't be a human being who tries to remember these things.

A password manager also protects you against phishing attacks, for example, because it's savvy enough to check for things that could fool a human.
I think the Brexit negotiations have probably shown Europe the power of sticking together, and presumably France feels that the rest of the EU has its back here.
They had one large customer lined up. I didn't really follow what happened with them after I left but I don't think that customer was particularly happy and calls with this customer were fraught and somewhat terrifying.

It certainly wasn't the case that this project was wildly profitable. Not sure if it will ever make money at all in fact.

I have worked for profitable businesses who have behaved like this too and it's usually the case that they have some kind of inbuilt unfair advantage (legal, governmental, monopoly/size/clout, etc.) that compensated for sucking at tech.
After reading the article, you will.
Per [1], it was a special toilet designed to support flushing at depth (I guess it makes sense that it's a tough problem to solve when the sub is under pressure). I guess previous iterations of U-boats had to surface to flush. It does seem like keeping it in a tank until the next surface would be a better solution though. I mean, they have to surface for other reasons too, right?

[1] https://warisboring.com/the-high-tech-toilet-that-destroyed-...
Thanks for the response. Yes indeed, there would be the cost of change. But if we want the web to be truly decentralized it doesn't make much to disallow any cross-origin interaction by default.

After all, cross-origin requests are a normal thing on the web. The problem is that browsers make credentials available to websites that shouldn't have control over them. It is like removing all doors from a house because otherwise, the stupid neighbor would give the keys (you gave him for watering your plants) to anybody that would ask.
The lightning network is a bunch of running tabs between people which can theoretically route transactions to a destination.
I've spent many years in the US at many income levels, and my conclusion is that the middle class in the US is genuinely very large and includes people making hundreds of thousands of dollars. When someone making $200k says they're still middle class, that's not some rich person nonsense but an accurate description of their life. They're upper-middle class, but still middle class.

If you're a software engineer making $200,000 and talking with a teacher making $39,000, you're making more money but fundamentally you have most things in common. You're living similar lives, it would make sense to be neighbors, friends, date, etc. (Part of this is social class, but not entirely.)

Now consider encountering a hedge fund manager who flies everywhere in a private plane. If you met this person at a party, you'd probably wonder why they were there talking to you. You'd have essentially nothing in common with them. This person is fundamentally in a different class. I'm not sure where upper class starts, but based on personal experience it takes much more than $10 million.
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> That was an attempt at graceful degradation that wasn’t communicated well.

That was nearly outright fraud which went swimmingly well. The big issue wasn't so much the unannouced throttling. It was that Apple knew that a lot of customers had battery issues but misled them (by denying the entire issue) so that they'll buy a new device. Instead, the debate turned on slightly more defencible for Apple.

Slightly more defencible, because while Apple _says_ that was done to counteract the battery issues, nobody knows whether iOS really checked battery state and didn't just throttle all older models indiscriminately. The latter would be rather convenient for the bottom line.
>which extends the life of old phones.

Except they were caught purposely throttling older phones with those updates, not exactly what i'd call extending life.
Absolutely do not use freelancer.com either. They charged my CC $54 when I closed my account. Shady site.
Elance was so much better