skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There might not be huge economies of scale but there seems to be a baseline under which we basically lose our capacity to build more power plants. At this point we have additional delays and costs (and loss of trust) because of manufacturing errors. That seems to be a real problem for Areva nowadays.
Fair comment, but these claims form a very major portion of his argument on the ramifications of an accident like Chernobyl and therefore what it really means. So I think if these claims are lacking in substance then he would be guilty of a significant misrepresentation.
Normal start-ups (i.e. not Valley Bubble) and small shops are almost never able to pay that much, but medium and large clients will easily pay that rate for established senior engineers WITH REPUTATIONS.

As much as we like to think technology is a meritocracy, at the end of the day, it always comes down to who you know. The charitable interpretation of that fact is that there aren't a lot of ways to gauge reputation, so it's mostly about who can vouch for you.

Source: I co-founded a software and design consultancy co-op (https://www.fountstudio.com/about).
My guess is the UI. It looks very much like the class browser you'd find in a Smalltalk environment.
Depends... I'll open/close a few times a day as I touch several projects. I can use VS Code for everything from db/sql, react, node and c# (.net core) projects. I also have used it for a little rust and golang.

As to the RAM, it's using around 1.2gb between vs code and the connecting server (WSL2), multiple isntances vary... but with the number of containers and VMs I'm running, I'm generally well over 16gb of use, and I have 64gb on my desktop. So even without VS Code, I have trouble on a 16gb system.
Mozilla is not becoming evil, it already became evil, or at least as bad as the others, except the others are at least honest and don't make bold claims regarding privacy.

Upon first start Firefox opens a Mozilla webpage that includes Google Analytics. There is no opting out of that short of expecting it in advance and disabling your network connection before launching the browser. Their defence is that they have a "special argument" with Google and they pinky-promise not to use the data for any other purpose. Facebook also pinky-promised to not use 2FA phone numbers for advertising and then broke that promise (and got away with it, telling others they can do it too and get away with it easily).

Firefox has opt-out telemetry, which is already in breach of the GDPR. The GDPR states that any non-essential data collection should be opt-in, and telemetry is definitely not essential. Worse, Firefox has telemetry to count the percentage of users who disable telemetry, which means there is no user-friendly way to completely prevent it from phoning home.

Sources: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...

Their "tracking protection" explicitly whitelists Google and Facebook even though they are the two biggest offenders when it comes to privacy and you'd expect even the worst tracking protection solution to at least block some resources on those domains, but instead Firefox explicitly whitelists everything on there.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112398

For a browser and company that boasts about privacy every possible time they are actually putting people at risk by giving them a false sense of security.
I've never seen that anyone has been able to document this claim. Meanwhile it's pretty easy to show that nuclear today is too expensive. LCoE studies shows wind power being cheaper, and attempts at building nuclear reactors in Europe has repeatedly led to economic disasters.

You could argue that you could get the cost down if you make a huge push for nuclear. But the last time we did that it was a combined push for nuclear weapons and energy, which made it easier to get support and funding for education and research. Now the only major application is energy.

And though you could probably get the cost down to where it was before, the cost of renewables and storage is dropping very rapidly. It seems likely that renewables will reach a price point that nuclear could never catch up to, way before the cost of nuclear will be reasonable again. And since renewables will be so cheap, most countries will want at least 50% of energy to be renewable. And that will make covering the remaining 50% with nuclear more expensive, since you'd need more advanced and expensive load balancing power plants to support the renewables.

I also think that the fact that renewables give us an increasing amount of days with overproduction, i.e. extremely cheap electricity, might be a very good thing when we'll want to create more hydrogen and synthetic fuels.
I'm wondering if it's also not heavily dependent on the business structure that you set up for yourself, as a freelancer. It's a one-man company (for the most successful), a self-employed job (for the majority, or so I hear). The former eventually makes "products", while the latter may entertain a permanent rat race, wheel spin.

Difference in point: how much of what you do leads to higher value at fixed cost (notably in time, how long does it take you to deliver), or same value for lower cost (same idea).

I'd wager that, for the one-man company mindset, you tend to think not task but process, automating progressively etc. (need-to-basis optimization, ad hoc 'frameworks' that speed up your particular niche projects, heck just taking work from client A and refactoring it for client B and building an informal "product" eventually from there, that's the story of all freelancers who've been at it for 5+ years as I see it)

How much of the past work (self and tooling improvements) is factored in present value? Can we decorrelate X years of history of a company and estimate its cost/value production simply YOY? I think not. I think the greatest (companies, freelancers) incrementally raise the bar— making the threshold for competition much too high for a newcomer, hence commanding much higher value.

[At the highest end of that spectrum, meet Apple. Even tech giants struggle to meet that bar, whatever goes in it (tech genius? marketing? craftsmanship? whatever. $ at the end of the day)]

Doing the [work hours × $rate × utilization] equation only says so much about what actually goes into your rate (years of being more efficient at "it", those things you do).

Say you begin at $75 in the US after a ramp up of 3-6 months to establish yourself on the market. You survive for 2 years like that, reach ~$100. You realize it's only $50 real, and your newfound expertise is priced higher in the salary job market. So you either raise your rates or go get that money elsewhere. That's why IMHO an "expert freelancer" market only makes sense north of $100-150 in the US (adapt numbers for any country, minus perhaps the "tech not sexy" effect e.g. in Europe where it's not better paid that other intellectual activities).

Right now, you are worth much more than whatever you did this year, and presumably (hopefully for market sanity) it shows in how much you earn.
How to sell expiring domains and make $1M/year
Love Jitsi but dont try to run this on AWS EC2 -- the network charges quickly add up. I had set Jitsi videobridge for my kid's friends and their friends -- the network charges quickly added up before I shut it down.
When one studies renewable energy, inevitably one will come across people who think that Tesla's (or someone more obscure's) greatest invention had been 'suppressed' by monied interests that don't want us to have nice things. Of course, it's invariably the same story, it might have worked but wasn't profitable to build.

It's peculiar how similar a sentiment the pro-nuclear crowd expresses. I wonder whether there's an overlap in patterns of thought between the communities.
The very concept of “case” is locale-dependent. To embed locale-dependent code in the file system is bad design.
Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)
Random color visualizations on a separate screen? Isn’t that distracting?
No. The numbers are 66% to 90% mortality rate (NY is 80%) on ventilators, and the survivors can't talk or climb a flight of stairs for an unknown amount of time.

The current recommendation is to use a cannula with an oxygen bottle as long as possible (until the patient can't stop fainting.)

There is no treatment yet. Your body can use the first week to try and recover itself, but after that most people die.

From a public health policy, ventilators don't work, so they're not really part of the equation now as they were in March.

What's misunderstood about ventilators is that being intubated requires general sedation and is more like major surgery than assistance.
Fixed typo, thanks. A good percentage of those costs is tax deductible along with expenses you will not have the luxary to deduct as an employee.
Please tell me your comment is satire, yes?

That you're making the author's point for them -- that you're responding not to the point of the article, that you're 100% technically correct, but "missing the entire point" of the article? :)
WHO Says 70 Vaccines in the Works, with Three Leading Candidates
The challenging bits are:

* How do you handle non-encrypted participants (e.g. people dialling in from the PSTN?)

* Up until this week, you haven't been able to intercept WebRTC streams for doing E2EE if running in-browser. (Zoom however doesn't use WebRTC, so they don't have this excuse).

* Do you have a safe place to store the keys, and manage user identity?
Agreed... deeply nested directory structures are also pretty painful.

Even in the mono-repos I work with, I'll generally open an editor per inner repo. Mostly ./feature/featurename/filename is as far as I have to open. Some of the C# projects are deeper though.
Airflow 1.10.10 released with tons of features
if you can, create a room which contains no easily accessible electronics. Then go sit there and forbid yourself from leaving for 90 minutes.

After an hour or so of going mildly insane, you should get a good 30 minutes of reading in.
Love Transferwise. Until a month or so ago I was using Xoom (paypal) and it was both more expensive and slower.
The "Fedwire Funds Service" is the Federal Reserve's wire transfer payment system used to move USD. I'm actually writing an integration to it right this moment (the old fixed-width format, not the new XML one, yay). Naturally this interface is not available directly to retail customers, but if you actually send a wire transfer from your bank, this is the system you will use.

Your bank will generally make this available to you through some online interface. If not, you can visit the teller. They will likely charge you $20-$40 to send a wire if you are a small account, but, even with something like Chase's mid-level "Signature" checking (~$10-$20k minimum to avoid monthly fees iirc) they will waive this fee. And, of course, if you're really moving a billion, not only would you have a banking relationship where your wire fees are waived, that fee would be peanuts anyway.
Quick ELI15: Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computation on ciphertexts, generating an encrypted result which, when decrypted, matches the result of the operations as if they had been performed on the plaintext.

A cryptosystem that supports arbitrary computation on ciphertexts is known as fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
when I get my own clients directly, and I'm closer to that. When I'm subcontracted through someone else, it's typically < $100 ($70-$90). I consciously make that trade off sometimes because I'm effectively outsourcing some of the risk - negotiations, collections, etc. And it's sometimes got me in to projects on teams whereas I'd normally be an independent, and the dynamics and range of engagements I've had has been a bit wider because of it. The $120/hr+ engagements I've had tended to be shorter engagements - (< 6 months). The subcontract ones tend to be longer. While I know if I'm getting $80, the people selling me are getting $110 or more, again, I understand they're providing some service that I didn't particularly want to do (or... negotiated for a 9 month engagement, for example).
Non-paywall link: http://archive.vn/t4ja7

Link to PDF of 70 vaccines: https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/N...
Jenkins FML
These 30 Regimes Are Using Coronavirus to Repress Their Citizens
I live in Argentina and have been getting paid in Dai (stablecoin on Ethereum) for over 2 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHji4x5C1q0
Depends on your projects... I don't like to use the same editor for ui/db/api/service that may be related.
That wasn't SCO. It was an earlier set of lawsuits by AT&T because 4.4 BSD had evolved from AT&T unix.
I cannot think how you could possibly do the key exchange securely and automatically, if you want to give a link to someone and have it "just work".

If all you have is the URL, then the server sees the encryption key.

Video conferencing also rarely has users register. So there isn't a way to validate users either. And even if they did register and users didn't care about the extra friction, multiple devices means either the server stores your private key, or you have many keys which is much harder to verify.

E2EE is much easier on phones, which is why Signal is so good. The identity is your phone number, and you can only have one key associate with your number. That key never leaves your device. Conceptually easy.

Video conferencing has none of those advantages, and I don't know how you would make it conceptually easy for users without reducing the security.
Inkscape helped me bring several projects to life, thank you to all devs. The last boardgame I released was completely designed with the previous version of Inkscape
PUBG is owned by Tencent too.
- Style settings that would permanently break when changed (changing the style back to what it was before would not fix it).

- TOC links that stopped working

- TOC items that disappeared

- Inconsistent alignment (where the same style would be off by a few pixels on different pages)

- Inconsistent page headers (where some elements would not show, depending on how many pages you have)

- Scripting that yields different visual results each time you run it (this is where I gave up)

- Disappearing cells

- Mysterious blank pages that you can't delete without breaking everything else using the same page style

- Inconsistent results when printing (what you print is not what the document shows)

This is using purely native document formats, not cross-format. Just before giving up, I downloaded the source code to see what was breaking (in the scripting). And then I understood.

I can't remember what issues I had with Inkscape since it was awhile ago. I only remember being aggravated enough to invest time in learning a replacement tool and redoing all my work.

Gimp has tons of UI bugs as well (rectangle select gets stuck in subtract mode, for example), but so far nothing quite bad enough that it can't be fixed by saving, restarting, reloading.
You are misunderstanding what grease-monkey can do, and what I'm proposing.

e.g. try loading news.ycombinator.com?myColorVar=44ff55 , it will load normally, as usual. Of course, this variable means nothing to the HN backend, but this is where e.g. Grease-monkey comes in: It injects a bit of javascript of your choosing into the page context for the news.ycombinator.com/* pages. This scriplet can easily change the color of the header-bar, and add the colorVariable to all (non-external) links.

Of course, you can add a line like the following to your local userContent.css:

@-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) { #hnmain>tbody>tr:first-of-type>td { background-color: lime !important; }

, but this has the disadvantage of requiring a Firefox restart for each change, whereas my method requires only twiddling the value in the URL, and it's valid for all future requests, until you change it again.

I hope, the above makes it clearer, what I meant the post above
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Most people's definition of "local" doesn't span 4 time zones.
Frankly, I don't know if it's a good rate. I shoot for 80% utilization of my time. If I get busier than that, I raise my rate. So that's the simple algorithm that got me to $300/hr now. I don't think I'd want higher utilization than 80% anyway. You need time to do bizdev etc.

I used to kill myself with 60 hour weeks a long time ago though. That wasn't smart.

I've never had to lower my rate. There were lean periods where I was "between projects" for a couple of months. I just considered this a much needed time off to catch up on my reading list.
May I ask how the calculation works? For $75/hr (to take California as an example) you have ~$105k after tax; subtract ~$5k for insurance and you're left with $100k. Whereas for $75k/year you're left with $56k/year after tax. Meaning that when you're on salary, you're pocketing 56% of the money you would as a freelancer. The only way I can make sense of this is if it's freelancers expect to bill around 25h/week... is that normal? And what happens if you have a job where both sides actually expect you're going to bill the full 40h? Is it normal for people to lower their rates in that case, or do they still base it on the 25h?
Please let me know if replacing the drive works, my friend has the same issue.
Novel Platforms for the Development of a Universal Influenza Vaccine (2018)
This creates an issue where the LSP is the bottleneck between what the language can express and what functionality the IDE can provide.

For example there is absolutely no way anything based on LSP can provide the same level of integration as what Lazarus has for Free Pascal and its LCL framework.

(also LSP essentially working by running a server locally that has to parse and emit JSON messages and an editor that also has to connect to a local server and parse and emit JSON messages is not exactly ideal when you care about keeping things simple and performant)
I’m in the same boat.

A friend told me she went cold turkey on reading anything that scrolls. She said it took about three weeks for her brain to come back. Now she’s back to reading 600 page books. I’ve tried but I can only make it a day or two.
Incorrect. A free-market globalized world (I shudder at calling such a world "perfect") would see cars manufactured at wherever gives maximal marginal gains. Which is what we've been seeing...

Resources are finite no matter how much capitalism pretends otherwise.
I work in game anti-cheat, kernel drivers are a necessary evil. If I had a choice, I would stick to usermode or even server-side only. But you would be shocked how advanced some cheating software is, exploiting every aspect of the CPU. Now it is commonplace for a cheat to use a custom-made VM hypervisor or even a UEFI bootkit — crazy! Good luck stopping that from usermode.
Earned around $130k in consulting last year. After deductions/expenses, US federal taxes were around $8k. Now.. FICA was something else (which I can't remember offhand), and state tax was something like $3k. Federal/state taxes where ~$11k. health insurance - that was around $10k.
I imagine each of the sensors are binary - either picking up a signal or not - so it probably depends on what "speed" he has set the "knob turning" to be, and he sets it in the middle by holding on a sensor for a mid-range amount of time.

Most fine precision motor skills are made with a orchestra of opposing muscle stimuli.

It'll be interesting one day to see fully-integrated humans with these digitally controlled devices. I imagine the human brain will be easy to train to operate, say a cell phone, especially if it's integrated at a very young age.
No, there is no fallacy. There really isn't. You privacy is NOT more important than a human life, which is exactly what is at stake here. Claiming otherwise is utterly sociopathic.
I agree that they should definitely inform you of the extent of the anti-cheat system. I have never been able to take online gaming seriously due to how easy it is to cheat and how many people there are in the world that simply don't care about ruining others experience.

Until it is impossible to cheat it will always be a casual experience only. Maybe this is what it takes to actually prevent cheaters, but I doubt it. It's an arms race and they will always find a way around it.
Thanks for the heads up! Sorry about that, it should be working now. Let me know if you still have any issues
Are you already working in strong peer-team?
We’ve kept the entire packet header unencrypted so the effect is more visible. The final implementation will just leave the minimum required bytes (1 or 2) of the header unencrypted.
The next 4 weeks could be lethal for the stock market
My solution to this problem was to read things out loud (or whisper)—this way my mind stayed focused on the material much longer than I was reading silently. When I caught my mind wandering, I would go back to the point where I didn't remember what I've read and started again. I had situations when I had to read one sentence multiple times to understand it—my mind was completely somewhere else.

Another thing that had a big impact on me was to reduce internet news & social media consumption to the minimum. I found that reading things on a screen was part of the problem, so I read things only on paper. I still barely use social media and get my news only through weekly newspaper.

It's a nasty habit to skim read and I hope you'll overcome it.
Adobe is much easier to learn & use and works well with Adobe’s other 30-50 products depending on what is being done. Professionals tend to use it, so if you need to work with others, likely the best choice.

Inkscape is free, open-source, and not cloud based — and is less user friendly, has a much higher learning curve. GIMP, which is comparable to Photoshop, works okay with Inkscape, but is not comparable to the ways Adobe’s products work together.

Personally, I enjoy using Inkscape because I value the freedom it provides. Including knowing that if I create an digital asset with it and backup the build used it create it (OS, Inkscape, etc) - very likely I’ll be able to edit the file as it was when I created it; same is not likely true for Adobe products, especially over long time periods.

Highly recommend if you’re using either that you also understand the SVG file format and stick to it as much as possible.

If you have any additional more specific questions, happy to try and answer them. Love vector based graphics.
Yeah this is an interesting problem for exploring stuff like recursive/non-recursive code, the overhead of conditional statements when you have to run thousands of them, etc. I've seen some examples online where people claim a few million voxels a second (I've not tested though).

I think this is also how 3D printers work (effectively). They do a form of scan-line filling to minimise the number of jumps between sections of filament.