skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think you can get freelancing gigs if that's all you want without the need to team up with someone else if you don't want to. You will just have to look a little harder and network a little more, but honestly even if you team up you'll still be doing those things. Only difference would be how many opportunities you can attack.

I didn't mention one key fact that might help you. I targeted companies during my consulting time that mostly were outside of the SV bubble, although I did a fair amount of startup work too. But my bread and butter companies, the ones that paid most my bills were the 5-50 million/year revenue companies with generally < 250 people. I found that demographic to need the most expertise, have the least amount of bullshit to deal with and actually have the money to pay to solve problems. But a very large percentage of these were not what you'd find here on HN or most tech sites/boards. Many of my clients were the forgotten markets (as far as tech is concerned), such as large electricians, plumbers, construction, retail etc. I also did a lot of work for national specialty marketing companies and large supply chain management software just cause again people would pay for it. My biggest clients were 4 very large public corporations where when they blinked they lost more than my fees and so I never had fee conversations with them really, plus once you get in well with them you can do really good if you deliver.

One other point. Networking is critical, I saw in another reply you said you typically only see other engineers at networking events. So two things here. First, don't dismiss other engineers as your network, they can help you get your foot in the door at a company they are at. This is a critical way I got into ~60% of my clients was through non decision making employees. The others were because I started networking at different types of events, I started going to small business meetings, chamber of commerce gatherings, entrepreneur gatherings, startup days which are everywhere now etc. Those other events were where I met more decision makers and people looking for solution providers. Also, take every opportunity to do speaking engagements on whatever topic you can, this gives you credibility and people will seek you out. I have done a bunch around the South East and that helped me immensely, I also teamed up with a company where I was traveling the US every few months doing speeches for entrepreneurs about tech but mostly marketing. The talks are something I miss doing since I've been at the startup I am at now, something I am working to rectify.

Good luck!!
Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York
I've known of a service that actually provides APIs. I cannot remember what it is called but such services exist for hotels and holidays too.

Iirc I stumbled upon one of the flight tracking services by pure chance.

Having said that, I feel like Skyscanner at the very least has their own systems in place. There have been times where I've chosen a ticket, have gone through to the website that sells the ticket at the price, and just before it goes through, Skyscanner validates that the price still exists, and then bails saying the price has increased or decreased. Usually it's not by a lot, but it has happened.
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I imagine lots of high fiving over at AMD. If you could wish for an endorsement from anyone for your new x86 processor, who would you ask for?

Someone over there should immediately ship him 3 or 4 badass systems.
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PHP, slooow as shit. I don't know how many RAM it needs to work properly.
The PSP was hacked by pirates when a bug was discovered in its image app (I think for tiff files). It makes me wonder if security should be baked in to a data format.
As someone who's uncle was conscripted - and died - I had a few minutes of trying to figure out whether to upvote or down.

It was an interesting few minutes. For the first time, I tried to imagine him as if he was say a Jew in Germany 1940's.

I can understand my families feelings for losing him, but the sheeer amount of ... Well you know, over there.

I'm only writing this as I cannot really figure which way to vote. As a family member(or in this stories case: countryman), I appreciate their service, as an outside viewer. The shit that happened was the opposite of what I stand for.

Perhaps this is more of a conversation starter, I'd appreciate and, I think would be interesting, to see the arguments on either side of this.
This is a cool idea, but also a pretty unsolved problem, even in digital games. Heck, computers can't even procedurally generate decent crossword puzzles.

Best comparison point I can think of are roguelikes, but even if you can figure out a way to make custom hardware build-out easy, roguelikes largely work by making replayability cheap. It's hard to build an on-ramp to teach players about the interactions of complex systems when each playthrough costs them $50+ and takes an hour plus transpotation time.
There are electrostatic motors, it's just that they aren't particularly interesting (low power density, very high drive voltages, poor efficiency). They do have one interesting property, which is that at zero speed they can develop nominal torque without using any power (unlike say a synchronous servo).
Hi guys, I am Italian and have mandatorily studied latin at school for 10 years. We have been tought "Carpe Diem" means "Cogli l'attimo" or "Grab/Catch the moment". The idea is to remind you to fully live your life and make good use of the available opportunities.
It's a totally rational, bigger-picture thought process:

1. Employer will not tolerate "absenteeism" and will retaliate with consequences up to termination.

2. Spouse will not accept lower standard of life via reduced wages. Since earning power ("a good provider") is a major reason why many spouses chose to marry their geeky/techie partner... any threat to stable employment is a threat to the stability of my family.

3. Housing is almost entirely unaffordable in Bay Area. Miss three payments and car is reposessed. Miss one credit card payment and score drops 60 points, interest rate goes up to 29.99%.

It becomes a simple expected value calculation after that. Would you prefer the 100% chance of losing Disneyland deposit/letting down your kids.... or the n% chance of becoming a homeless, carless, divorcee with a damaged credit score for the next 7 years?

To be clear: I'm not pro-corporation/anti-child... but there are reasons why working parents make the decisions they make.
Fwiw, afaik, cameras are relatively poor measures preventing burglary. By far the most important factor is reinforced windows and doors.
Not the OP, but; yes, living in a society where human-traffickers can work in broad day-light because everybody is only concerned by their own business. I must be living in my pro-Western delusion in thinking that's not right. Sure, the Chinese system is the product of its people, its culture and thousands of years of history. So comparing it to Western system by simple looking into the authoritarianism vs free-speech & democracy aspects is a bit unfair.

For China, the system works by organizing the chaos by a strict rule, governed by single ruling party. In West, there isn't a similar chaos to be organized and most people behave quite amicably. Thus, strict oversight is not needed and instead decision-making can be distributed to the people, by allowing them to have their own way of influencing the policies and how injustices should be fixed. It's a bit like a difference between two types of swarm intelligence. In the other the actors are chaotic, and need a strict rulership. In the other, the swarm is more self-organizing and decisions emerge from the swarm through its individual actors. I know, not a very accurate example, but you get the point.

Furthermore, when Westerners think about authoritarianism we tend to look it from our own perspective, our own history. We have had our own share of dictators and authoritarian rulers, which none have worked for the benefit of the people. So it makes sense, that we would not think positively about a system which is by design, authoritarian. So while for the Chinese authoritarian means organization, for us, it means suppression of the population and killing of dissidents for the sake of keeping the ruling party in power.

And if you look further down history, we have had "good" authoritarian rulers like Frederick II or Charlemagne. Yet, we have abandoned those systems for the sake of parliamentarism and democracy. So why? My guess is, that once the basic needs of the population are satisfied we become less and less satisfied with the "small things". Small things meaning here corruption, free speech and worker rights for example. Once the general opinion becomes that "this thing is not right" the people require change, and if the system in place (here authoritarian or democratic) does not allow for that thing to change, the people will protest. Which is why all authoritarian systems, instead of exposing the system's weaknesses or problems, tries to hide them in order to sustain peace. In democracy the system works by _counting_ on people to expose those problems and that way, keeping the rulers (politicians) in check. Which in some cases fail miserably, when the general population becomes so deluded by the mass-media brainwash, that they can't anymore think for themselves and what's good for them.

But, I mean. Every system has its flaws. The purpose of the government still should be about the benefit of the people. When it stops doing that, it has become nothing more than a machine to keep the rulers in power and to suppress the general population.
Would your advice to anyone interested in building an escape room not to build an escape room?
I would bet that it's easier to design an orbital or moon-based structure (depending on whether production benefits from or suffers from microgravity) that's heavily shielded with lead, than it would be to create a deep-space-class hard vacuum in a volume of space on Earth suitable for large-scale industrial processes. It's a simple matter of not making the structure airtight.

Given the volume and mass payload capabilities of the upcoming Starship/Superheavy, cheaply lifting bulk quantities of lead into space may actually be a reasonable proposal in the next five years rather than ultra-expensive pie-in-the-sky fantasy as it was during the age of disposable rockets.
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In the US, there are more firearms than people. About one-third of all households have at least one firearm [0]. The vast majority of these people have never had a serious brush with law enforcement, but some significant portion would refuse to part with their guns if a ban were enacted tomorrow. While it is said that nearly all Americans are felons [1], most Americans do not intentionally commit felonies or think of themselves as being on the opposite side of things from law enforcement. That would suddenly change for millions of ban-defying US citizens, and it's hard for me to imagine a likely scenario where that decreases violence in the US.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2016/01/05/462017461/guns-in-america-by-...
[1] https://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/
Being able to fly into almost any major international city, and then just open the Uber app with my existing account and get a car is a massive benefit of Uber over all competitors and it's the real power of Uber for me.

(Lyft requires a US phone number, which I don't have, and local competitors I would have to research, install, sign-up for all individually.)
It does, but not until the bottom; and it’s pretty subtle about it.

I’m just slightly annoyed at the way it propagates misinformation.
A yard is 0.9m.

1.1 yard per m or 1yd and 4in.

A foot is 30cm.

An inch is 2.5cm.

4in per 10cm.

2m is 6ft 8in =180+20=2m

5f 4in is 150+10=1.6m

1.6m is 3ft 4in + 24in=5ft 4in

Even converting to and back isn't bad... work in a machine shop for a while and it will be second nature. Also metric/standard tools do not cross the line on the floor, only you and the work piece on different pieces of equipment. 25um looks like a mil, but it's not!
Zero replayability is such an issue. So often you want to share the joy with others. Surely some escape rooms can apply what puzzle video games do: same puzzles, different variables.
That's VERY interesting given the headline.
There was just a thread on here about the attack surfaces of an iPhone. While the article didn't mention the brand of phone one wonders if it's possible to access the phone or at least plant phone unlocking malware via an sms or mms message.
I feel the same way - Erlang looks like someone mashed their face over their keyboard, whereas Elixir looks simple and readable.
Not quite. It is 37.78.

In temperature couple of degrees means a lot.
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There is both null and undefined in JavaScript. Additionally, an empty array coerces to true because it's an object and objects are always truthy.

Personally I'd prefer that not even null/undefined coerced to false, or could otherwise be used in a boolean comparison, as for me they still signify different meanings and even in type-safe languages can lead to subtle bugs. I really dislike coercion having principally worked with JavaScript/TypeScript.
If you are going that route, why not multiply by 8 and divide by 5 for a much better approximation. But to be honest for me it has always been easier to directly multiply by 1.6 (or 1.5 for your case)
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In many Slavic languages, the word for Germans literally translates as "the mutes".
> Electric motors on the other hand produce relatively constant power.

Generally speaking, no. P = 2piM*n, while the common types of motor used in electric drives (synchronous and asynchronous three phase machines) will produce nominal torque at (almost) any speed from 0 (not for asynchronous machines) to nominal speed; therefore output power is pretty much proportional to speed.

The only type of motor that comes to mind that has somewhat of a constant-power behaviour to it are series wound motors.
Sure, but the original argument was:
> raw connection state, timers, transient and long-term persistent state

Much of this surely can be abstracted away to 3rd party libraries/frameworks. Haskell, even though a higher level language than most out there, lacks the ecosystem support for a lot of things that are handled by some library in lower level languages.
Investors are different than business owners, and have different goals. Business owners tend to find opportunity in change, whereas investors prefer a steady status quo.
Why was he not on suicide watch considering he just had a failed suicide attempt? Either that's gross incompetence or something more sinister
There is cling: https://root.cern.ch/cling

You can also use cling as a jupyter C++ kernel as well.
Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]
Basically hydrazine (nuerotoxin, carcinogen) is nasty stuff, but perfect for rockets and missiles. The military has little incentive to do anything about it.
My understanding is that he was indeed on suicide watch.
He was on suicide watch according to most articles on this. Which makes it more sinister.
I suspect that's one of the driving factors at tech companies where many people hop between jobs every couple of years or so. The difference adds up for companies, especially if people don't take a lot of vacation anyway.

Personally, I've tended to stay at jobs for substantial periods of time although I've still gotten fairly nice vacation payouts on a couple of occasions. (Once and I think the statute of limitations is probably up on this one given the company doesn't exist--I got laid off in the dot-bomb era almost immediately after returning from a 3 week vacation I hadn't quite gotten around to entering yet.)
Quoting the linked article:

He was reportedly on suicide watch following an earlier incident.
Helped by the powerful right up to the end
This is totally not suspicious
0 being falsy makes no sense outside of the C family of programming languages. But there 0 is overloaded both as a number and pointer (it's a bit more complicated though, as the value of the null pointer doesn't need to be zero but assigning 0 to a pointer will assign the null pointer).

In languages with more elaborate type systems, you usually have the pointer and number representation separated.

0 has no special meaning in regards to boolean logic but it has the special meaning of the identity/zero element in an additive group. Likewise, it makes sense to have "[1] + [] => [1]" in your programming language.

But making zero elements evaluate to falsy is problematic. "" would be falsy as well then.
So, that's what economic math looks like!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-o...

Predicted by Martin Armstrong
Borrowers like Trump could use negative-rate deals
you damn well know he didn't kill himself
Sure, fuse actually implements the lesser known CUSE protocol as well. Stands for character device in user space, and does exactly what you describe.
How much of that is just a matter of more R&D though? I don’t see why any of that is inherent to electrostatic?
This seems very close to being a tool I would use.

My wife and I like to play escape rooms together. There's just two of us, and we prefer a team size of 5-6. So I often hunt through booking pages for rooms that already have a team of 3-4 signed up, so that we can join them.

This tool lets me search for rooms that are available (which is almost all of them) or booked (which I think means fully booked - not clear). I would want to search for rooms that are partially booked, preferably with 3-4 people and room for 2 more to join.

Totally separate issue - the hardest part has been finding locations that we like. So far we've found two that we love a lot: the Great Escape Room in Miami and the Master Escape Room in Boca Raton. Of course we've played every room in both places. Yelp reviews are mostly written by people who just did their first escape room, and even frequent escape roomers like us seem to vary a lot in preferences.
This sounds too convenient. If this was a suicide and not anything more sinister, this is gross negligence by prison authorities. It was their solemn duty and responsibility to see this person face trial.

This will only inflame conspiracy theory minded people to believe there is a vast conspiracy by the powerful to protect themselves.

This is depressing. I’m yet hopeful evidence will be used to bring guilty parties to justice. This wasn’t just mr Epstein.
Most conspiracy theories are obviously bullshit.....
Didn’t take much analysis to predict it.
"Since earning power ("a good provider") is a major reason why many spouses chose to marry their geeky/techie partner" [citation needed]

That seems like quite a bold statement. Is there any evidence that marriages involving a tech partner are more likely to be primarily based on earning power than other marriages?

Overall, marriages involving higher-earning professions and higher education are much less likely to end in divorce compared to marriages between less-educated partners, suggesting that "lost my tech job and got divorced" is not a major contributor to divorce rates overall. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_in_the_United_States#R...)
This article doesn't ask, let alone answer, the question in the HN title.
> I wasn't as open-minded as I thought I was.

Don't open it too wide, unhygienic stuff might fall in.

On a related note: why is it that people understand basic food hygiene (don't eat rotten meat, wash your vegetables, spoiled milk is bad, etc.), but can't seem to grasp that the same basic concept applies to mental food too?

You are what you eat, and that applies to what you read and consume in media too.
Suicided.
Does anyone know the going rate for a prison murder in NY? Through the guards, not the other inmates.
That single reduction at the motor is not very important. Remember that there are many more gears in the car besides just the drive reduction! There's one gear mesh (spot where two gears meet) in that reduction, then five per differential, of which there are two in 4wd vehicles. Even more importantly there are also eight CV joints[1] which have higher losses than gears, plus dozens of bearings and elastic losses in the wheels. The losses of the motor reduction are small compared to everything else.

Also, a single stage spur or helical reduction has ~99% efficiency[2]. It's not at all like a full transmission[3], which has a ton of parts that are always spinning and churning oil, plus sliding friction. The reduction on an electric motor uses a more efficient grease and does not churn oil. Fun fact- greases (mixes of soap and oil, normally silicone oils) are non-newtonian fluids. They're shear-thinning, like ketchup, and have much lower friction under pressure while still sticking in place, unlike oil. Amazingly sophisticated for something that has existed for centuries!

Anyway, what I'm saying in the above post is that even if the efficiency is much higher, even counting the gearing, it does not necessarily lead to higher efficiency elsewhere in the car. If this motor gives 20% improvement on an 85% efficient motor+gearset, that's only a 3.4% decrease (85/88) in power required. Say that 3.4% of power would have been operating in a regime that had 10% higher losses(which would be insane)- that's only .34% in cascading savings. 3.74% total. That decrease will be very, very easily overwhelmed if the motor requires higher current or is otherwise less ideal for the drivetrain. Resistive losses alone mean that if the current is 1.85% higher, it will be a net loss.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-velocity_joint

[2]: https://khkgears.net/new/gear_knowledge/abcs_of_gears-b/gear...

[3]: https://youtu.be/vOo3TLgL0kM?t=779
This makes me so angry. Such an important case, so much on the line. And then this. And if you question the official narrative of "suicide", you will probably soon be labeled a conspiracy theorist.

Oh an just by the way, this news broke first on 4chan (thread 222518349). That just on the matter of what the value of these sites are.

edit: and already there are [dead] comments who question this
We have many gears for better efficiency with ICE, because every ICE has very narrow areas of RPM×torque that give you acceptable efficiency (typically those with high mean effective pressure). You could totally get away with three gears and still get to 150 km/h, it's just that it will be a lot less efficient.

Electric motors don't have this particular problem, and they don't need a start gear that is a lot shorter than the other gears (1st to 2nd is usually around a factor two, while from 2nd up to the next higher gear the ratio will change by perhaps 30 % or so) because they can deliver nominal torque at low speeds or from zero speed (so they don't need a clutch, either). An ICE can't do that.

Here are the transmission ratios of a random six speed transmission:

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th R
4.2 2.5 1.7 1.3 1 0.8 3.8
Agreed. He has motive for suicide, too, though.
It's an interesting question whether a person in his position has a right to commit suicide.
No idea. I have no personal knowledge of the situation. However I have no trouble believing (based on personal experience) that a lot of people aren't comfortable making "executive decisions" on their own.

Yes, sometimes it's because they rightly fear potential consequences. But other times, they just don't want the responsibility.
Europe needs to build themselves a wall, too.
Now we may not find out the further extent of his rings, the clients, etc.