skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed with them about two years ago right now and while I didn't accept their offer, I came away with nothing but the highest level of respect for them, their work, and their culture. Even in the interviews / offer stage, they made sure that I knew that everyone's primary priority would be the customer and building a great product. The concept of "building metrics to support your ideas" is a bit of a daunting one if you have to do it for every project, but it showed a level of respect for the user and transparency that I appreciated.

In addition, their interview included a debugging / code refactoring segment which felt more "real" than most other interviews that I've done, and hopefully provided a better signal to them.
15 * 30 * 4 * 12 = 21600
Mistake: it should be "150/hr" instead of "15/hr"
The fact that he compared his sport skills (in that case skiing) with an olympionic sport skills. That in my mind sounded like: "Well, she clearly had talent & potential, but he got the Knowledge for skiing, thus was better in that moment"
Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth
Removing all the subsidies and pricing in the external factors shows why nuclear is not even a consideration today. Comparing LCOE (Levelized cost of energy), solar $32-42, wind $28-54, nuclear 118$-192.[0]

New construction of renewables are even competitive compared to the marginal cost of running already existing nuclear plants.

Try to make a business calculation based on that with both renewables and storage trending even lower, solar averaging 13% and on shore wind 7%. Every year.

Get the LCOE for nuclear down to $20-30 while maintaining the same, or presumably even better safety, and I'm all for building nuclear.

[0]: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019
> Have you ever been in a similar situation?

Yes

> How did you overcome it?

- I'm able to focus better when I've slept well. This may sound obvious, but realizing this made me go from "Oh no I've damaged my focus by skimming too much!" to "Okay I just haven't slept well today. I'll do what I can."

- Set aside blocks of time and do one thing. I made and use https://crushentropy.com/ for this. I use it everyday and it has helped me a lot. It's like markdown for hi-res scheduling your day.

- Once I have clarity that I have nowhere else to be and nothing else to do right now, I'm able to relax into reading what I'm reading, which at the moment is: "Relevant Search" by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, which I'm using to improve the search in https://histre.com/ if I may blatantly plug my startup ;) (Tangent: Why is search so broken in all knowledge base apps, bookmarking tools etc?)

- Work your way up. Several years ago, I used to read for 12 hours straight, taking just bio breaks. It was a more carefree time. I'm working my way back up to it. I'm at 2 hours now. It may seem little in comparison, but that's enormous progress from where I was a couple of years ago, so yay!
>It allows to move the cursor past the last character. If you insert a new character there, it is automatically padded with spaces. It is easier to see it than to explain it:

>My first programming environment was Turbo Pascal, and this is exactly how the cursor works there, which I grew accustomed to.

Holy shit! What a rush of memories reading that unlocked :)
I would include health insurance premiums in the US as a tax when comparing to other developed countries since they don’t have to pay those. Easily $5k/per family member per year plus $28k available in case of emergencies due to out of pocket maximums and $10k to $15k per family member per year if you’re 45+.
Godot Docs Explains Why Encrypt Save Games
I tried fulcro but the amount of concepts you needed to learn was a bit too much. Unfortunately I was experimenting with electron which made it more complicated. It sounds a great framework if you have the right requirements but personally I found reagent/reframe alot simpler for my use case.

Also, the fulcro docs are thorough but it didn't click for me, I left with some questions unanswered.
What makes telling you to wear different shoes any different? I am just asking you to abide by my rules if you're going to make use of my resources.

The GPL does the same.

And yes, you're free to refrain from visiting my house if you disagree with what I am asking of you, same as you're free to not use GPL code and therefore not abide by its requirements.

The only thing you are not free to do is come to my house and ignore my rules, likewise use GPL code and ignore the GPL. That's it.
Tl;dr: I charge a fair amount (effectively well into $three digits/hr) and making what I have previously at a w2 is a real fight.

Presuming you meant $150/hr: indeed, and if you’re freelancing, you almost certainly don’t have that high a proportion of billable time. Prospecting, marketing, deliberate learning, and other overhead are all necessary parts of the deal and can easily take half your available time. I tend to do all that in downtime between contracts, so it’ll look like 25-35 billable hours per week but with maybe 25-30 weeks/year utilization. Others just overlap everything; works well with longer contracts.
By default, yes. Anyone can fix that in their books in the meantime by generating the theme and then deleting some lines.

It is tough to get contributors and maintainers of projects like this, and this issue in particular has been bombed by folks who don't even use Rust and are acting like the sky is falling. It's incredibly demotivating.
Oh hey, glad to see a project I contributed to get a mention on HN.

I wrote the Splunk integration with Twint for crawling Twitter timelines: https://github.com/twintproject/twint-splunk

Feel free to hit me up if there are any questions about that part of Twint.
Who pays >150? I always hear about this but neither as freelancer or as employee who hires freelancers I have ever seen somebody making that much as freelancer. Sometimes consulting companies charge that much but the freelancers probably get paid only a fraction of that.
Today, we have autonomous engagement driven feedback loops that are easily, trivially gamed.

A little money can make a huge difference.
It is honestly quite a poor language too. I wrote a simple game in godot and honestly the language works okay and is quite interesting for the game logic, however it is quite poor when it comes to everything less game-like, for example reading and writing to files and string manipulation felt very rudimentary. Worst part is that it feels so much like python due to its syntax yet it is much less expressive
I was just yesterday contemplating cutting my sides, leaving a fairly proper mullet.
the conclusion of the post get's at vervake's idea of relevance as the basis of cognition:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8132809/
Except for people that Test Positive, which then it uploads each of the Daily Tracing keys to a central server for each of the day you were positive, this is reversible, and has to be in order to identify all of the contacts the person came in contact with

you can not have an anonymous system that also provides aways to trace back to individuals you came in contact with

it is impossible

and their complex Hash of hashes is just a way to make it seems private for people that do not understand what is really going on, it sounds good on the surface, but that is all it is surface level

that is with out getting into the ways to compromise the device to get the original Tracking key that all of the other tracking keys are generated from
That rate would be considered a reasonable rate in Latin American countries.
Schopenhauer wrote a good one, his 38 Stratagems from The Art of Controversy, all of them still very relevant. e.g. I see #32 all the time:

If you are confronted with an assertion, there is a short way of getting rid of it, or, at any rate, of throwing suspicion on it, by putting it into some odious category; even though the connection is only apparent, or else of a loose character. You can say, for instance, "That is Manichaeism," or "It is Arianism," or "Pelagianism," or "Idealism," or "Spinozism," or "Pantheism," or "Brownianism," or "Naturalism," or "Atheism," or "Rationalism," "Spiritualism," "Mysticism," and so on. In making an objection of this kind, you take it for granted (1) that the assertion in question is identical with, or is at least contained in, the category cited—that is to say, you cry out, "Oh, I have heard that before"; and (2) that the system referred to has been entirely refuted, and does not contain a word of truth.

The Stratagems summarized in point form http://www.mnei.nl/schopenhauer/38-stratagems.htm

Unabridged https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10731/10731-h/10731-h.htm#li...
This comment will play extremely well on this website, which engineers frequent. And it's admittedly a great joke. But only tangentially relevant to the author's point.

The author's point is closer to the old adage of not shooting yourself in the foot. That is, however true your statement is, if it denies further thought it becomes a useless point.
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Assuming you meant 150/hr...

Freelancers have costs that W2 employees do not, like self employment taxes and the full cost of health insurance.
In some countries say like India, a freelancer can register as a one person business/one person company and all income treated as business income. This way your tax payable becomes based on income-business expenses similar to an LLC or corp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finis_(short_story)
Intents and purposes
Building and using Servo as a library has been a huge pain. I've been waiting for improvements since https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell was abandoned
Chu was not threatened by the government, like Li had been in Wuhan. But she was just as effectively silenced by a rule-bound bureaucracy that was insufficiently worried about the pandemic

This moral equivocation between America's bureaucratic incompetence and China's police state is ridiculous.

Chu may have been blocked by a bunch of stuffed shirts in the FDA etc, but she wasn't taken out back and shot like the citizen journalists in Wuhan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AI3R41dGnU&feature=youtu.be
Maybe the title? But not the point of the article, which was basically a rant against an imaginary 'fool' that the author tried pinioning with their mighty intellect and specious arguments. Which were largely the same arguments (pedantic, true, missing the point) being 'lampooned'.
No, that is a Russian site that uses English/USD (maybe for easier international remote job seekers.)
I had Slackware on a Dell laptop in 2003, everything worked like a charm - wifi, graphics, everything. (An attempt to switch to Linux ver. 2.6 broke things, but that's another story.)
Yes, I know this, but when a Mac does this, it does it only to run routine Apple code, stuff that should not, under any circumstances, cause a kernel panic. And up until Catalina, that it never has, barring binary corruption or defective hardware.

In this case, the kernel panic seems to be related to the Intel Iris video driver.
You’re on the other side of the table from the pedant in OP. You’d be responding to someone saying “It’s easy to avoid UB in C.” Meanwhile, you grep a couple popular projects and show trivially that accidental UB is extremely common in most codebases. The pedant in OP is saying, “you don’t need the guarantees provided in Rust because a careful C programmer can avoid UB, memory errors, etc.”
I think that was the point. This is useful for coronavirus patient tacking, yes, but it's also useful for people tracking in general, and malcontent (whomever defines that) tracking in particular.
Occam's Razor is a good principle for choosing scientific hypotheses. But I think when it comes to studying big questions like fundamental fabric of this physical world, we are at a lost here. Essentially we elect to believe, without justification, that the world got to follow a reductionist paradigm - if the world can be made simpler, it must not be more complex.
I think the expression might be "for all intents and purposes".
Ok. So, are you saying that we should stop using HTTPS and instead use HTTP? If you are not, what is your point? Is it not under the 100% correct but missing the point label this article is talking about?
Traditional Japanese seal system hampers telework for some
Depends on the currency. Mine has gone down.
In my experience, taxes in US are not lower if you include health insurance premiums and out of pocket healthcare costs.

The US is great if you’re in top 10% of incomes, but if you can’t afford to take advantage of the money tax exemptions and credits, then it’s not any better for the middle 30% to 70% of income earners who don’t make enough for government assistance, but also don’t make enough to take advantage of the tax code.
That's abyssinia. There's a couple clusters of Ethiopian restaurants in that general area. Baltimore Ave has several too.

I don't have any personal recommendations.
My hobby: proof engineering (2017)
Really depends on your country, but expenses + taxes can be from 1/2-2/3 depending on your location.
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> All of my contractors have previously agreed to pay all fees associated with their payment

out of curiosity, do you have an estimate of how much are those fees?
I think that most space fanboys would agree with part of your argument. Just like the Shuttle did in the late 70's and 80's, Artemis and the Space Launch System are decimating NASA's budget to perform real science.

It's particularly galling that NASA is giving Boeing $2B/launch whereas Elon is targeting $2M/launch for a similar capability. Few people believe he'll reach that target, but a miss on such an audacious target will get us far more than spending much more on something that teaches us less even if it's more likely. (And given Boeing's performance lately, "more likely" is in doubt too).

> A good start would be de-orbiting the ISS ASAP - the final manned space flight should be to send somebody to the ISS with a chain saw.

This is the sunk cost fallacy in reverse. Yes, you may question the costs of ISS decisions in the past but right now the ISS is doing real science at a reasonable cost as long as you ignore the massive number of dollars wasted in the past. That money is spent, we can't get them back. Even NASA agrees that it's not worth the money to refurbish the ISS but they're going to continue using it as long as they can without spending real money on it.
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>GET parameter

Yes, it's convenient.

But to tout that as what a well designed encryption scheme should look like? Nah.
I'm working remotely in the US and charge $55/h for development and consulting.
How timely! I've just started looking into game development and more specifically Godot today. I'm not exactly sure how I should proceed if my intention is to make something like Flappy bird for both Android and iOS - Would Godot be overkill? Should I try to make it with Flutter or React Native (or would those two be even more overkill)? What size would be too big for it?
That's a false sense of security. Change often starts with a lateral move, but one closer to the slope being acceptable.
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These are some pretty cool prank website in which we can type like a hacker or dummy install any windows version & much more.

Here is my list https://seofreetips.net/prank-websites/
I don't think that's true in practice because excessive memory usage can lead to slower execution.
By what metric is the US doing well? We have the highest number of cases and the highest number of deaths.

While it may be true that some countries are not reporting accurately, it's certainly not true that our numbers only look bad because the US is so transparent. We have a problem, a serious one, and the numbers lay it out quite clearly. We should try to improve.
A Thought on Datomic
Yes that’s correct, but if you choose to not use 2FA for whatever reason I don’t see why password auth shouldn’t be supported on the API instead of making you waste time generating an API key that won’t actually improve security in any way (since attackers can brute force the account anyway).
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This is insanely cool - insertable webrtc streams only just landed in canary (https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6321945865879552). Also very cool they’re looking to use Matrix’s libolm Double Ratchet implementation for key exchange, which hopefully will make it easier to integrate Matrix’s e2ee with Jitsi’s in future :)
Riot Games newest title “Valorant” installs kernel driver to run anti-cheat
If you are doing it right, you are charging so much that you don't care whether you bill 50 days a year or a 100.
@Alex_Danco, @patio11, @HipCityReg and @tobi are all worth a follow
TransferWise highly recommended. If you spend/receive money in multiple currencies, you can also track your money with Lunch Money app. Jen, founder was on the indie hackers podcast. I'm not affiliated with either service and i haven't used lunch money. I have had great experience using TransferWise for international payments
Gotcha. My understanding was that they were, but not my area of expertise.
Most likely desperate very short term one off contracts.

Almost meaningless to talk about hourly rate without also providing the length of the contract.
Jitsi was the one Jabber client I used a few years back that I liked. I didn't find as many people on Jabber back then as I've seen elsewhere however. I believe you could use OTR alongside it, so you don't even need to trust them, just their implementation / version of OTR (a few more layers to consider I suppose).
Ah, I see you have never had the pleasure of using Lotus Notes. These problems might seem insignificant in comparison.
Micro-Max, a 133-line Chess Source
They hope that if they perfect autonomous vehicle technology that will allow them to both expand the taxi market, and license the technology to every other vehicle manufacturer.
How I Write: Start with a Series of Sincere Sentences
But unlike a game, the observers aren't limited to limited perspectives in our 'real' universe.

You may say, thousands are observing a game on twitch perhaps even if different camera angles of different players in a multiplayer game.

But, the observers of the real universe are of far greater magnitude and I often feel this game assets based reasoning fails to account the scale of our Universe due Earth Bias.
Real estate, finance, oil & gas, software development clients. I charge $160/h. 20+ years of experience.
What is your alternative suggestion? In a browser-based video chat scenario you are ultimately assuming some level of browser security and that the clients are trusted.

What they propose is an E2E encryption, e.g. Zoom / MS Teams are unable to decrypt your conversations. Obviously, if you choose a weak key, they can just store the stream and crack it later.
Similar story here. I wrote and self-published a novel, both for e-readers and paperback, using only open-source tools, mainly around Pandoc. I wrote some more details here: https://gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_open_source.html
From Excession by Iain M Banks:

"Eventually in the progress of a technologically advanced society, occasionally after some sort of limited access to hyperspace, more usually after theoretical work, it was realized that the soap bubble was not alone. The expanding universe lay inside a larger one, which in turn was entirely enclosed by a bubble of space-time with a still greater diameter. The same applied within the universe you happened to find yourself on/in; there were smaller, younger universes inside it, nested within like layers of paper round a much-wrapped spherical present."

"In the very centre of all the concentric, inflating universes lay the place they had each originated from, where every now and again a cosmic fireball blinked into existence, detonating once more to produce another universe, its successive outpourings of creation like the explosions of some vast combustion engine, and the universes its pulsing exhaust."

"There was more; complications in seven dimensions and beyond that involved a giant torus on which the 3-D universe could be described as a circle, contained and containing other nested tori, with further implications of whole populations of such meta-Realities… but the implications of multiple, concentric, sequential universes was generally considered enough to be going on with for the moment."
It was a hash mark, only the client got that value (specifically JavaScript). Note how his page did not reload when he hit enter. Had it been a GET request, it would of refreshed.
FreeBSD used to be a Swiss watch of an OS - I used 4.8 (IIRC) to run a VPS for a few years and couldn't be happier; nowadays, looks like FreeBSD is on par or even lagging behind Linux in all respects.
Feature Flags: The stupid simple way to de-stress production releases
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I will have to try again. Last time I attempted, wl-paste did not work in my terminal, which fully killed it for me.
The one feature I love about Outlook is that the inbox can be sorted by Received time, ascending. And the list focus defaults to the most recent entry.

Every SMS and email client that has 'most recent on top' as the only view drives me f*g nuts.

I want my oldest conversations on top so I can see which ones have been awaiting a response or are done and can be archived/deleted, but apparently that's not how anybody works anymore.
Does it work on suspended accounts? Mine got reported by a bunch of Trump supporters so I lost 17 years of tweets and Twitter won't listen. I can still see my own tweets, but only a page at a time. I'm thinking I might need to use a scraper like Twint instead of the API.
Almost anything will work to make something as simple as the bird games, so don't worry too much.

Even moving HTML elements with CSS animations triggered by Lua compiled to JS would probably work fast enough...

PS: don't do that, don't create a monster!
I really felt this article.

Even when you take the time to outline the context, people still are eager to point out that extremely unlikely but possible situation where your statement may be false.

And then 99% of the meeting is debating how their objection is irrelevant.

So infuriating.
Microsoft Defender. It gradually went from an invisible safety check to a massive tax on battery, I/O and productivity.

I disabled it recently after it got into an incomprehensible endless CPU loop. It's suddenly like having a new computer - it boots faster, I can switch tabs without grinding, just everything is faster.

I can't think how much time it must have cost me - on every interaction in years.
One that caught me three or four times was Udemy, where I'd paid for a course heavily discounted on sale meaning to study it at some point later. Much later, I'd go to the course page and find that the author had withdrawn it and Udemy were offering me a refund of the discounted price.
All within their rights, but it feels annoying.
That also looks like a rebranded DEC VT-100 terminal.
> Inkscape now supports HiDPI (high resolution) screens natively. :D
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