skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a professional I always have my credentials and certifications framed and hung on my office wall for everyone to see. The same goes for awards and associations meberships.

So when it comes to hiring someone where I don't get a personal reference I always look for this, I also start with professional association member lists and or their referal services.

Most good accountants will provide you with a free consultation at their office or at the very least over the phone, just don't get hung up on fancy clothes and expensive furniture as that can all be just a facade.

The best accountant I ever had wore jeans and plaid shirts, drove a twenty year old car and his desk was always stacked with papers but he knew his stuff and was a huge part of my success, unfortunately he retired but again as a good accountant he referred me to another account before he retired.
Think he's referring to flippa.com?
Co-mingling of books is a huge problem. I can't/won't buy books from Amazon any more because the last time I bought some tech books I got counterfeits. The text was blurry and gave me a headache; the counterfeits were that bad quality. Amazon, as expected, denied any responsibility and even claimed the books were legit.
Cool, thanks for the heads up. I've got an order in for the Botanica (a few places seem to have that, happily).

Looks like only one Australian stockist for the Dry Rye, and they're out of stock. It's on my backlog list now.
It seems weird if you were not allowed to trade on legally obtained information. Like let’s say a company claims they will manufacture chemical X from inputs Y and Z. You research the chemistry and discover it is impossible. Should it be illegal to short sell their stock, because your research is not public? That doesn’t seem right.
There are really only two ways of knowing if you're doing a good job:
1. Your feedback from your peers and/or managers.
2. Your own feedback for yourself.

For #1, It seems you're getting great comments from the places you've been providing your services, so good job there! You can keep riding on that for as long as you're getting them.

For #2, all you need is to remind yourself of questioning if you're doing a good job. Once you seek answers to that question (e.g. I can now play Bohemian Rhapsody on the piano; I improved the memory/performance of that application with great fit & finish, etc.), it will help you define your next set of milestones (e.g. I should try to nail one of Beethoven's now; I should try to design this other feature this other way to ace even more on the memory/performance etc.)
You'll soon find yourself questioning again and the very act of seeking a solid next set of milestones to achieve is a sure path to improvement.

Like someone else has commented on this thread, don't beat yourself for being a strict self-assessor and rating yourself lower among your peers, instead a bout of You (a month ago) Vs. You (today) would be a much more reliable indicator of your improvements, and one that's very much within your own control.

The very question you're asking is a proof that you are doing that exercise fairly efficiently! :)
What do you mean by simple return? If you need granularity you can `return@scope`
When I tried it before, the app felt like flash cards but their actual website included grammar lessons that explained what was going on. Things like the boring old table of verb conjugations that you'd expect in a textbook, which the app tries to teach you more organically.
I read this like, "duh, no shit."
So the number of cameras will increase 30% by the end of 2021, the rate of population growth is 1.08%. if we can keep this up it won't be long before we have as many cameras as people, however, and here's the kicker, since the cameras are tied to locations and not to people it means that not every person will be under constant surveillance!

Surely some intrepid politician will see how unsustainable and just plain wasteful such a situation is and, in cooperation with some tech company, push for the development of some sort of mobile monitoring solution tied to every human being.
hm.. I looked into this. I do agree to not touch Oracle, but free is free, right? What's the worst case? They turn it off or are unreliable?
I wonder it's small enough to have the interpreter in kernel space
So I did some digging. Many countries in the Middle East already have plans in the works, often in cooperation with Western companies. But plans don't count for squat.

The UAE, however, has already finished a reactor unit--supposedly to be started soon--with 3 more units nearing completion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_nuclear_power_plant

Times have changed, particularly with the Saudi-Iran contest and Turkeys hard turn to the right, which have aligned Israel with the Arabs. Plus, as a nuclear power itself Israel should be a good judge of proliferation risk, and with strong HUMINT and SIGINT capabilities able to detect actual and even intended proliferation.

As an side, interestingly Taiwan has nuclear reactors. I figured Taiwan would be a nuclear free zone. They're probably too democratic to support Rolls-Royce's project; it seems public pressure has already killed construction of a new plant, there. I initially excluded South Korea for that reason--AFAIU public sentiment has soured on nuclear even though South Korea has the best track record in the world at on-time, on-budget construction.

If nuclear is gonna grow any time soon it's gonna have to be at the hands of non-democratic nations.
I read this like, "Obviously, that's how it's designed." The title does not shock me as a revelation like it's meant to but rather a fact. A rather obvious one to everyone but those who perpetuate the fallacy.
When a customer makes a new request or tries to modify a requirement, don't be afraid to say no if you don't think it's reasonable
Here in Helsinki there are a lot of small studios for rent - typically to either students, or single "professionals".

Sizes range between 15 and 30 square meters, and a lot of them have a sink, a small refrigerator, and a microwave. Nothing else. The "kitchen area" is literally a tiny corner, or niche, of the property.

With no oven, no hob, and no real storage space, often just a single cupboard for cups/plates/instant meals.

I cannot imagine living in such a place, because I enjoy baking bread, making my own pizzas, etc. On the other hand they're very cheap to live in and if you're a student I guess you can eat a lot of takeaways, or get your calories in liquid-form..
Google/Facebook referal based spammy malware
Hi Guys I was doing some reading on some random topics and I found this page where completely takes over your browser (back button useless, popups et al) when the referrer is set to Google or Facebook.

If you copy paste the URL directly it takes you to the destination article just fine.

Link:
https://clipanicvegfe.tk/health/location-update-procedure-when-roaming.php

Link through Facebook redirect:
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fclipanicvegfe.tk%2Fhealth%2Flocation-update-procedure-when-roaming.php

Are they doing this so that they can appear as a legit website to the crawlers and only screw up users clicking on the link? Is there a report link for pages like this on Google or ublock?
The capitalist way to participate in a market is to put money into a system expecting to get that money plus some additional money out.

That additional amount must come from somewhere. Typically from wage labor, but in medicine that money can also be effectively removed from the patient.

The American system enables the wealthy to effectively take money from the sick and their caregivers alike. And the more they take, the more they can invest in the system. It's a positive feedback loop.

In any just system, the sick and the workers would be realizing those benefits.
Ironically, the submitted title was so “clickbait”y that I didn’t follow the link. But after reading your comment, my interest was peaked and I found it enjoyable
I think I’m officially never going to be smart enough to get APL. Perhaps that day will come, but until then I find it hard to tell between these two viewpoints:

(1) APL is another form of Perl golf, showing off basically. The fact that so few people would be able to read it makes code essentially write-only and any enthusiasm for it as a serious language for communicating ideas between people is quackery; or

(2) APL truly is readable, and if only I had received the right upbringing from an early enough age then I would have a mind capable of becoming APL enlightened, but it’s ok that I don’t because the virtue is that the next generation, at least, will all be able to revel in the language’s brevity. Just because I can’t look at (+\%^,)•[x,}]• and instantly recognize it is a JPEG parser, it doesn’t mean APL is a language without virtue.

Perhaps a better analogy would be with character languages (eg CJK) where it’s quite apparent that billions of people function (no pun intended) productively using them, and yet these writing systems will almost certainly remain forever inscrutable to me.

(A counter-point to that is that I believe character reading and writing issues in terms of illegible handwriting are a much more significant societal problem in China than they are in the West.)
No evidence was required. California recognises defamation per se, removing the burden of proof on the plaintiff to prove that damage occurred when it is obvious that it would have.

If it were just an insult Musk wouldn't have doubled down in later comments and hired a PI to verify his claim.
My top-three biggest mistakes were, in order of severity:

1. Taking on and continuing to work with asshole clients.
2. Setting my rates too low (I didn't account for taxes, paying both halves of FICA, and healthcare as much as I should have).
3. Not finding a good balance between finding clients and actually doing the work.
WordBot: Did you mean: “piqued”?
> Travel like a professional and bill the client.

One additional tip here is to purchase cancellable / refundable airline tickets and hotel reservations. You don't want to get stuck with the bill if your client cancels a meeting or whatever. Made this mistake with a long-term client where it wasn't worth trying to get reimbursed for travel expenses for a canceled meeting.
The risk is it solves just one of the multiple issues from fragmentation and rather than preserve you develop something entirely and completely different. We will have to see in a century or three whether what results is desirable.

The smaller species of plants and animals in the forest food chain migrate slowly - perhaps a few inches or feet a year, and forest edges are different. Not least they have vastly more light than within the depths of the forest. The carbon uptake is less - thanks to that increased light, the decomposition cycle is different, and less of the dead wood gets broken up to go deep into the soil. By creating lots of little islands with only edge forest, you no longer have the true forest - that far enough into the canopy that deep forest rules apply - the forest that in theory we wanted to save. A connecting strip between areas risks multiplying that edge forest effect dramatically - trapping deep forest species just as surely as an eight lane road or city in the way.

Without a contiguous forest in which to exist, those isolated islands start to evolve differently. In the case of tropical and temperate rainforest you need the huge expanse or you lose the climate impacting effects. e.g. one tree takes up some number of litres of water in the growing season, and you need n trees to seed enough clouds to remain rain forest, or put enough terpines in the air (particularly coniferous) to preserve the right balance of insects.

It's these climate impacting effects - the water uptake and cloud seeding, that is one of the main reasons many studies are claiming the Amazon is nearing a tipping point into catastrophic drying.

TL;DR we really need to develop the will to preserve and remake unfragmented, untouched - or at least limited - wilderness forest - for the benefit of all of us.
The 'hugely cancerous' industry doesn't seem to be cancering it up very hugely given this recent headline:

"Singaporeans have world's longest life expectancy at 84.8 years"
It's obvious to those who perpetuate it too, they just see this fact as a feature, not a bug
Related question (especially to those saying you should've charged more): how do you start consulting in software engineering? Like where do you advertise and expose your talent to potential clients who would pay at a rate that you think is worth it?
At that point SEBI (SEC equivalent) didn't permit exchanges to do it and were in the process of forming co-location guidelines, but this exchange went ahead and gave preferential treatment to few traders.
This is the big problem in edtech. If you want to gain tons of users in edtech then you just need to make a bunch of very basic type materials which allows users to not get frustrated (and leave) and allows the platform to create lots of easy to develop content. For anyone serious about edtech, this is a problem because only having a basic understanding of a subject is pretty much useless. At a certain point, you need high-quality (college-level equivalent) type content. For edtech companies, that content is both harder to make and thus more expensive. At the same time, the userbase interested in that level of material declines rapidly.
The DeepL translation is a bit easier to read: https://pastebin.com/raw/8PngEFcs
That's true. I digress. It's evidently more obvious to those who perpetuate it and designed it as such.
> further, most people who fare-evade (or shoplift) do so because they're desperate.

Next time you’re in the store in a less than perfectly clean and safe area, look at what kind of stuff is specially protected against shoplifting. In my experience, it’s usually washing liquid, shaving razors and hair products. Hardly the domain for the most desperate.

You have quite a pollyanish view on society, where there are no wrongdoers: shoplifters never do this for profit, they are just desperate people forced by circumstance. This doesn’t match my experience.
1) Not charging enough. This is harder than it sounds. First time I significantly increased my price was when I didn't want any extra work, so I asked for double my rate. After closing that deal I started aiming higher.

2) Not creating content sooner. There hasn't been one thing that influenced my career as much as my blog - If there would be one thing I would do different it would be this: I would have started blogging earlier.
This is unfortunately something that every generation rediscovers, but it's far from a secret. In fact, the seminal analysis on this won the Pulitzer,

Paul Starr. The Social Transfomation of American Medicine. Basic Books, 1984. (A must read for the health insurance debate)

Also, if anyone ever finds it online, please post, Hugh Long at Tulane has a great presentation about how the numbers stack up over time. It's just devastating.
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But what about the much higher prices?
The problem with a pure "free market" approach to healthcare is that the market does not function for the benefits of all because healthcare is inherently imbalanced in terms of relative power between consumers and producers.

For example, how much is someone willing to pay to receive cancer treatment? This is a relatively urgent life and death situation so the answer is obviously likely to be "any price". As such, treatment costs are expected to go through the roof.
then you split the project in two: first part is just analysis, paid per hour, with one deliverable: the scope and exclusion document. the second part can be fixed price based on your estimate from the first part. all the risk for both parties are minimized, and if it doesn't make them happy, they're the kind of client that wants an ambiguous fixed price project precisely to milk you the most work possible, so no loss in losing them.
Try DEF CON radio - https://somafm.com/defcon/
Clickbait title. They are not banned. Blackberry won a patent case but there is no reason the apps can't be changed.

(Current HN thread title: "Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany")
How would this be enforced?

Is the Play Store going to remove those apps from the devices that are located in Germany?
see for example Calif. retail code section

"113751. “Commissary” means a food facility that services mobile food facilities, mobile support units, or vending machines where any of the following occur:
(a) Food, containers, or supplies are stored.
(b) Food is prepared or prepackaged for sale or service at other locations. (c) Utensils are cleaned.
(d) Liquid and solid wastes are disposed, or potable water is obtained."

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CEH/DFDCS/CDPH%20Document%2...
I’ll second what Greg said in his sibling comment. One of the mental models I’ve learned is that if someone offers you a deal and you’re not special in any way, it’s not a real deal or there’s something more going on. “I charge everyone else X but I like you so you’re getting Y” screams scam/tactic/etc., and as even you pointed out, that’s basically correct (on the tactic piece).

That being said, if you’re working with someone who actually deserves a discount - a client referred by a friend, a startup on a budget, etc., then it’s totally fair. I’d just be wary of tossing around discount claims to everyone.
Have a look at http://github.com/piku/piku as well :)
Yes, they are smart enough to have the Malays and Indians working with the truly heinous chemicals. Maybe Mainlanders now - haven't been there since the 00s. So much better on your statistics when the people dying do it back home, after you have worked them 8/9ths to the grave.
Interesting to see that Blackberry still has enough money to dare something this ridiculous. I thought they were completely irrelevant by now.
> Are Congressmen now also subject to the insider trading laws?

They have been since 2012 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act#Section_4
I was wondering when you'd enter this thread. Why'd you take your website down from your profile? I thought it was a good resource (and next time I'm in your area I'd love to buy you a beer. I'm not far from you).
I once charged $20,000 for 3 days worth of work.

Happened like this: one very huge phone company wanted some very specific self contained component written in Java. They shopped around and did not find anyone willing to do it. My friend was working there and told them that he knows that genius consultant (yours truly). So they called me up and during negotiations I told them that I will do it for $20,000. I was prepared to bargain but they told me that I am very reasonable for that functionality. At no point they asked about exact time frame/hourly rate. They just said that the expect it to take no longer than a month.

Came home, fired up my PC and spent 3 very long days coding it. That was all about it. I wish I could nail contracts like this more often ;)
This is just a PR a stunt as long as as the same grid is still connected to fossil fuel base load power-plants.
They seem to only be able to do this by copying existing platforms that were successful. TikTok is essentially a carbon copy of the discontinued app Vine. I cannot imagine that the pool of discontinued apps that otherwise would be runaway successes is large.
> but for social and political discourse it is devaststing.

Sounds good. Just copyright strike the content of the party proposing this
Imo all these complaints against duolingo not being good enough are not fair. Have you seen the alternatives ? I mean they did get 1 billion dollars for not nothing !
But, correct me if this has changed please, last i checked Cloud Run did not support private networks. So you SQL instance has to be exposed to the internet, correct?
Researchers Draw Evolutionary Connection Between Pregnancy and Cancer Metastasis
Staying too deep in tech.

As a consultant your number one thing is making money. Find high paying clients, establish good relationships, do good work but don't get too far in the weeds of tech stuff. From everything I've read and experienced, deep technical work doesn't pay well or market well. Dumb stuff like setting up Magento is where the big money comes. People who are mainly technical seem to do better at companies. There are of course exceptions.

My business did not succeed. I still enjoyed the three years I spent on it. I got to work with lots of different things that I would never have had much chance to do otherwise, and get paid for it. I ended up going back into industry though once my primary client had to pull back my hours, and so far am happy enough with that decision too.
CSS media queries don't get handled by anything that has the capability to send that information back, so window size reporting isn't needed for that.

The only place that needs it, are those JS apps that manually position items.

Measuring text overflow is only possible by the APIs exposed by the CSSOM set [0], which also happens to include the window sizing elements. If we only allowed a subset of that group, all those problems might evaporate or become extremely difficult to successfully use.

[0] https://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_cssom.html
Use GitHub Actions to Trigger a Run in Azure Pipelines
It all depends on what the user can do now, and what can they do with the future releases. It's an accident waiting to happen. Maybe it will be ok. Every time I ran with scissors I've been ok.
Trying to find work through gig sites.

I've spoken to multiple freelancers to learn that the best way to actually find good clients that pay well is through word of mouth. There is inherent trust in the relationship when someone comes in as a referrals vs when they don't.

And that trust really changes the game in terms of how much more comfortable they are in terms of how they engage with you. They'll trust you with the project because they trust the referring source.

The alternative is spending a significant amount of time showing your skillsets to clients that don't know about you. Which means you may have to warm them over a few projects before they actually fully trust you. While starting off job sites maybe the only way to build a portfolio but we believe that everybody inherently has a professional network of good relationships they can tap onto, like old colleagues or friends from college that work in a similar industry.

[1] Here's a post I wrote about the ways different ways experienced freelancers find clients and most of them said that their best work came through word of mouth https://freelancefish.com/things-we-learnt-about-finding-cli...

[2] If you want to bootstrap your referral network, a friend and I are working on a tool that helps freelancers find work through word of mouth by reminding you to stay in touch with people and helping them in meaningful ways. It also encourages you to clearly articulate what you do and how the same people can help you in return. We just launched the beta a couple of weeks back and are slowly adding people onto the platform https://clienttree.io
I agree with you 100%. The problem truly lies not where what someone "is willing" (which of course is almost anything) but where what some "actually can" pay to receive treatment. It's a terrible distinction between the two.
We're talking about a theoretical situation where we gate the canvas and audio api behind a permission prompt. My "presumably" is about how that would be theoretically implemented.
Saudi Trainee Kills 3 in Shooting at Florida Naval Base
Make it part of your policy and very clearly disclose it up front while explaining the why. If they push back, concede by letting them pay for the non-refundable tickets up front then
Yeah, especially with the 87 million in 'quit quietly' money that Andy got for harassing his coworkers.
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