skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been doing this successfully for the last 8 years (and in the later years earning significantly more than I could as an employee in Europe) so hopefully my advice can help you.

You need to figure out if you just want to be an individual consultant or hire other staff. If you're looking to build out a business with employees it will be much more challenging as you will need to be a full time sales person, always making sure you have enough work in the pipeline to make sure they get paid, rule 1 is that staff always get paid before you.

I would suggest you find like minded individuals and partner up with them, that way when one of you has a bad week or you need a holiday the other/others can pick up the slack.

Seeing as you have so much experience you should be able to lean on previous employers / colleagues to get contracts, this is how we started out. Once you have a few projects under your belt and a decent website you will need to see if you're getting enough work by word of mouth from previous projects or if you need to invest in marketing. If you stay as a small team it will be much easier to do well via word of mouth if your quality of work is good. At the end of the day it's all about your network and driving quality projects into your business.

I would strongly discourage you from only bringing projects to the POC/MVP state. This is what we did initially but you need a far higher throughput of projects and you're in danger of leaving clients high and dry if they want the idea built out further.

That's how we got started anyway, best of luck with your venture!
If someone wonders how to create massive value for a client in 1h, this is the way I do it https://medium.com/@franz.enzenhofer/the-systematic-1h-clien...
Thank you for confirming just the kind of person I'm speaking too. I look forward to writing your Wikipedia article's "Controversy" section.
Many of the crystal photos wouldn't be too hard to reproduce on your own- a reasonably good microscope (Amscope) costs about $1K or less on Amazon, you need an adapter to plug in a DSLR, and a DSLR ($500). Then it's mainly a matter of mixing up supersaturated solutions. I've managed to get images of sugar forming crystal towers, which is fun to watch.
Here the prototype (made by partner KTH) having mounted the first wing on top of the model while testing:

https://www.walleniusmarine.com/blog/ship-design-newbulding/...

There is also a video showing the setup and operation. Released just two days ago...
Cloudflare acts as a transparent proxy, cloud front lets you cache only s3 buckets...
The batteries could be used to make it use 0% oil - use the batteries in the ports and in emergencies. Is going from 90% to 100% reduction worth the hassle? Probably not.

I was first hoping the batteries could be used to reduce the extra crossing time (12 days vs 7 days for oil) significantly, but I'm guessing it would only reduce it by 0.5-1 day or so.
A Black Hole’s Lunch: Stellar Spaghetti
I want this as an editor, with VIM support :)
Absolutely (with the qualification there are certainly comfortable jobs you can continuously advance your skills in), but the counter is that life disappears very quickly too, and if you have spent your whole energy and time prioritising your career you are in danger of finding a far greater shock when you are looking back on what is actually meaningful in your life.
What's best for the nation. Having blanket lockdowns with no timeline for lifting them, while also wrecking the economy because people don't want their 80+ grandma to die of covid isn't necessarily good for the country, even if it makes people feel better in the short term.
Very pointed comment. It shows these illiterate people of 700 AD who tried to apply the Quoran rules on idolatry and tried to destroy statues (surely they must have) were no different from the quasi illiterate idle but raging mobs of Portland and Seattle.
They did change it: https://blog.doordash.com/working-to-strike-a-better-balance...
Bit and link rot is real, and with modern services any content can disappear from one day to the next.

I do the following:

1. Download any video content I want to keep with YouTube-dl

2. Download any code repo that is important to me

3. Submit every article I find interesting on the web to archive.org

4. Keep many papers and ebooks as PDF (pdfgrep ftw)

5. Keep copious notes on anything that affects my work routines and methodologies

It might not be sufficient, but it is something.
You don’t even need the S3 Bucket... Cloudflare will work as a transparent proxy and will cache all static assets.
Studies on long-term consequences of a virus that has been around for <1 year?
> Depending on what happens to their daily death rate over the next couple weeks that will tell us a lot about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of lockdowns.

Less than you might think, because we know the value of lockdowns for an contagious respiratory disease varies based on conditions, including the current infection and immunity rates on the local population, for which we have inadequate surveillance pretty much everywhere. It also varies by the degree of enforcement, which is also inadequately measured but probably was lowest in the same places that are inclined to remove lockdowns entirely. So we're missing lots of data necessary to interpret both the local meaning and the meaning for other places of any numbers that come of a one-jurisdiction top-level policy change.
Someone should make a video game about that. You play as the devil and construct bridges!
Publicity is a resource that careful politicians spend wisely, according to their needs at the time. These publicized official events give them a platform to grandstand or rebuke the opposition, some of them are bound to use it that way. Meeting one on one doesn't have that possibility of publicity, unless you're really dedicated to playing the clown 24/7.
I fail to see what's confusing, and the tone is appropriate, considering the parent.
In general, sorting by anything but "relevance" is just a way to find bad data, like sorting TVs by size and finding a TV which reinterpreted its size from mm to inches or vice versa and now seems to be an absurdly large or small TV, on paper. It's not even spamminess in this case, just bad data.
There's also this great sci fi flick Empty Metal[0] where they hide their identities from drones using umbrellas

[0] https://letterboxd.com/film/empty-metal/
its hard in the beginning, true. make sure to tell EVERYONE what you are doing.
most early opportunities came through people who knew people who knew people with money and problems. you d be surprised how many companies look for help but dont really advertise it.

after a year or so, new jobs will begin to just flow in as you will have built creds. then you essentially can pick and choose.

also learn to think like your buyers. help them to win. dont sell, cooperate. be a partner.
I guess not so many people get flu? I don't regularly get vaccinated, and I only had 1 flu-like disease in the last decade.

Covid is way more virulent. If 10x more people get it, it doesn't need to be more deadly in terms of IFR to be a concern.
Also take into account the latitudes for sailing versus motoring. I don't know what shipping corridors typically are for diesel-powered cargo ships, but I doubt they go down to the tradewinds.

On the other hand, a 650' cargo ship can handle a lot more weather than a 40' sailing sloop or catamaran, so perhaps sailing the North Atlantic is more feasible.
What does this do that Vim doesn't, for you?
>It doesn't even have to be worse than post-viral syndrome caused by other severe viral infections for it to be a problem. There's little immunity to COVID-19 and it's highly contagious.

But it does make it highly inconsistent to adopt policies so extremely destructive to economic and mental health when the same wasn't done for other viruses with similar long-term effects.
There's definitely a double standard. But Canadians and Europeans make up less than 5% of the total number of undocumented immigrants in the US.

So I still stand by my point that poor white people aren't likely to have undocumented people living in their household at all. Regardless of race.

>I've known a number of local households that had undocumented Canadians, Brits and Germans.

Also how many of those households were poor? There isn't nearly as much incentive for a poor Canadian, Brit, or German to come here as an undocumented immigrant because they'd be giving up guaranteed health care and far more permissive social services.
I didn’t mean to imply you can only have one goal. But I do think sometimes people are not always aware of what would make them happy and instead default to what values hate been “drilled into” them rather than defining them for themselves
Yes. Any solid tumor that is accesible for an injection and we have reason to suspect it would be sensitive to doxorubicin, would fit the criteria of this phase 1 study.
For more info on the clinical trial please visit:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04106492
If you're truly interested in this, don't both with micro and macro lenses. Instead, buy a scope (https://www.amazon.com/AmScope-B490B-Magnification-Illuminat...) and a DSLR adapter (https://www.amazon.com/AmScope-CA-CAN-SLR-Camera-Adapter-Mic...).

I've had many hours of enjoyment collecting moss and finding tardigrades, rotifers, and so many other experiments. Using a DSLR adapter and watching the results externally makes things much more comfortable (although you lose the stereo effect).
Until you want to use Pytorch or another non tensor flow framework the support goes down dramatically. Jetson Nano supports more frameworks out of the box quite well, and it ends up being same cuda code you run on your big Nvidia cloud servers
While working on my side project [0], I regularly find some pretty outlandish prices on Amazon. This post makes me want to add further analysis on 3rd party prices and how they relate to one another.

[0] https://unitprice.org
> Microsoft actively discourages using C++ on Windows,

Really? That's the opposite of my impression. It seems to me that they promote it as co-equal to C# as primary focus in their constellation of supported and encouraged application programming languages.
My anecdata. I'm often hiring for my European employer. Nobody bats an eye if you have a streak of e.g. 5 months, 9 months, 6 months, 10 months. Realistically, these candidates do get an honest shot at a tech interview (which is hard to pass for any candidate).

But if you forget to put Kubernetes in your resumé, that's when you are in trouble.
And the target of most malware. So you require to run an antivirus that will cripple your computer. And most of the time it is not your decision to do it, it's company policy.
3 threads about it, all +- 100 comments:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16247254

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289742

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475854
- You might switch between several computers throughout the day.

- You might believe the cloud folks do better backups than you.
> Jetson is actually an important product for Nvidia and Google tends to kill off this type of pet project.

Jetson has obsolete distros though? Linux support is probably better with Google if anything.
What makes the SaaS pricing manager unfairly priced?
In medicine, people like to talk about quality-of-life-adjusted years. Why? Because there's no point in making somebody live more years that are subjectively bad (e.g due to treatment side-effects), rather than less years that are subjectively good. When it comes to policy-making that affects us all, it's time to extend that to the collective level.

We need to ask ourselves, how much suffering can younger generations be expected to endure to make the older generations live statistically a bit longer? Remember, the average COVID death is in their eighties, which is already beyond life expectancy.
Makes one appreciate the effort that's put into the "relevance" scoring. It's probably >100 engineers working in Amazon on just this core ranking problem.
Upper management wouldn't know what that means.
Can't even make a good app.
> What I want to keep doing is getting projects from 0 to POC/MVP state

If you can reliably find this kind of work, then go for it. But what I've seen as a consultant is that everyone likes to do that part, but what clients usually want to contract for, and what makes money is the steady, often boring, implementation part.

Targeting the MVP work you are often competing with others who will heavily discount the initial work hoping to get the lucrative implementation. What makes it harder is the uncertainty involved, there is a high bar to being trusted enough contract for something that had not been defined yet.

In the management consulting world which I am more familiar with, the distinction is between "strategy" work - the focus of well reputed (in some circles) firms with very strong networks like McKinsey, and implementation or "transformation" type work from IBM or a Big 4. The dream is to be McKinsey and come in and demonstrate a brilliant plan that others are stuck implementing, but the reality is that that kind of work is tough to sell.
The choice may have been made because Swift doesn’t support meta programming well enough to do it well purely in a library. The plan they have/had (https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Differentiable...) claims “First-class language support for differentiation will enable convenient, extensible, and performant differentiable programming in Swift - more so than library-based approaches”.
Tydlig is the calculator app that has been the most useful re-design/re-imagining of a calculator for me. Somewhere between a calculator and a spreadsheet, with a nice UX.

http://tydligapp.com/
> they are like “noooo this code is so bad, what, jquery!? An old version of jquery at that!?”

I've spent a lot of time mentoring junior developers.

They don't really care that you or your product are using jQuery. They've been told that using anything but the latest frameworks and technologies is a death sentence for their career. They aren't interested in making your money printer go brrr for you. They're interested in pivoting to that next higher paying job somewhere else with a resume full of React and ES6 and websockets and other complicated technologies.

It's a difficult mindset to overcome. I try to emphasize that shipping product is better than simply knowing the right technologies.
People are claiming "long covid" for a virus that's been around for <1 year, so presumably the prevalence of this "long covid" could be studied?
How did Intel lose its Silicon Valley crown?
How often may the price change? That might make a nice covert channel.
Yeah, if I'm a writer, is it "lazy" of me to also not want to manually do the formatting, cover, layouts and print work, as opposed to just sending a manuscript to an editor? It's not necessarily a bad thing that the web has evolved to the point that people who want to produce content for it, for the most part, only have to worry about the content and not the infrastructure.
Both Firefox and Chrome store passwords in an obscured form but not encrypted. In Firefox you can set a master password which causes the passwords to be encrypted for storage. Of course then you have to enter the master password in order to use the stored passwords, so most people don't bother. I assume that Chrome does something similar.

This means that it's not hard for either browser to use the passwords stored by the other. In fact, it means that any program running on your computer can recover those passwords, so you should exersize some care when choosing programs to install, or set a master password so that the passwords are encrypted.
People talk about "Eternal September" in regards to the web as if to imply that all of the cool, interesting smart people were on the web in the early 1990s, and that the culture of the internet rightly belonged to those people alone, and that everyone who joined afterwards were part of the web's degradation and downfall. It's typical for people to draw an imaginary line in the sand of cultures or subcultures they care about and believe that everything that came before them was better than everything that came after.

They're right in a particularly narrow-minded way that only considers the "modern web" to be the public feed on Reddit and the worst parts of Twitter, and corporate sites and the effect of SEO. But it's also the case that the quality of content on the modern web far surpasses that of the early web because so many more people, representing a greater diversity of cultures and ideas, are on it and able to express themselves.

So if that's "Eternal September" then I think it can be argued that it was as much evolution as devolution.
Stop reading after Regex.
You’re proposing “aggressively protecting old and vulnerable people”. ...so does that not mean a strong lockdown for those people?

> and lack of economic collapse

In your model you’re calling for a strong lockdown of 30% of the population. How is that not going to have a powerful negative impact on the economy?

Also, as a practical matter, I doubt society will accept a strategy that minimizes the impact of covid-19 on one group of people at the expense of another group of people when the other group of people are politically powerful (and, not incidentally, a great number of various types of leaders are part of the other group).
In at least some locales tolower segfaults under that condition, in glibc at least.

(before anyone says that ‘in reality it’s probably fine’)
> For example moving down 20 lines is way faster with the mouse, you just click.

Correction - you must move your mouse hand from the keyboard, move the mouse to the desired location, _then_ click.

Ergonomic concern often goes side-by-side with editors like vim.

I'm also not convinced that comparing the simple editor things is demonstrating the value of vim much. It's how easy vim handles the _not_ simple things, and also how easy it is to motion the often unique or rarely used edits, combined with drop-of-the hat programmability, that makes vim a good choice.
55% below pov. line, -25% GDP, +120% inflation: how has Lebanon gone so low?
RPN could be a fast input method for inputting an expression though. The displayed LaTeX could update accordingly as you enter it in RPN. That could be a killer feature, the speed and intuitiveness (developing your expression as you go) of RPN but with the advantages of algebraic (the ability to see the full expression and modify it).
There is actually so much to bear when it comes to relationship. No matter how good you are to them it doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same way. It's so sad to discover my woman whom I thought could be a back up but it seems I have been deceiving myself for months. I need to desperately know what she's been up to lately so I had to reach out to webhubghost (@) gmailcom who got so many truthful and amazing reviews on the internet to remotely get into her mobile phone. He got that done in a twinkle of an eye, the service was delivered perfectly I was able to see her whatsapp messages, call logs, text messages which was quite amazing and I figured she lied to me about all the money i sent to her and her mails were the worst I could ever imagine
I am not a republican, but this isn't true. There is so much waste and inefficiency. The Census wastes billions of dollars right now. Again ask almost any Census employee about how much time an money is wasted. Not everything is Trump's fault, he isn't that capable.
>Because there's no point in making somebody live more years that are subjectively bad (e.g due to treatment side-effects), rather than less years that are subjectively good.

This also applies to locking down the elderly, as lockdowns cause more loneliness, which increases the risk of mental deterioration: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-highlights-loneliness....
This is a terrible logo by any objective visual design standards -- the shape, proportion, weight are all decidedly unappealing. Honestly, three simple circles would have been better. As for the "3D ellipsis" concept -- I think this is a classic example of a Gestalt psychological phenomenon, where knowing the concept in advance informs the holistic visual interpretation. I have to wonder if they bothered to focus test the logo on individuals who were not privy to the concept before their initial impression, because this reads like a circle followed by two 2D squashed ovals, with no obvious indication of three-dimensionality.
Not everyone can infer genders from non-European names.
The US Navy has safely operated hundreds of marine nuclear reactors for 70+ years without any major issue. The technology is there if we actually wanted to stop polluting the planet.
Then use FreeIPA instead, problem solved.

Active Directory is not important, and it has never been. But if it's important to you then use FreeIPA.

If you are entering IP addresses manually then you don't understand DNS.

Then instead of doing everything by hand, create a script, package, or image that solves the problem.
I spent the last 4 years consulting, and I just last month deliberately wrapped up with my last two clients, because I know if I keep just stringing along on slow lingering projects with them I'll never get serious about finding a new fulltime job.

The people who tell you that this is as much about sales/marketing/relationships than any actual technical topic are so so right. When I started out I didn't deny that, I just didn't realize that its not an abstract concept you need to be open to, its a full third of your manhours you need to grind. You need to be contributing to open source, writing blogs, doing videos, helping out in community slacks, going to conferences, attending meetups, giving presentations/talks, etc constantly.

And thats just the background stuff. With your clients you need to relentlessly be the one who follows up, asks for work, ask for introductions, invites people to things, etc.

Then comes the "relationships" part of the work-dynamic, which is overwhelmingly one-sided (like most vendor relationships). You need to be the one who repeats yourself endlessly without getting frustrated, who doesn't take being ignored and schedule-bumped personally. Who politely handles not getting paid as an administrative kerfluffle not a rude form of apathy driven wage theft. You need to have dozens of conversations with people over and over about wether or not you are worth it to spend the money on for this project. Usually your direct contact will be kind enough to express shame over it, but its still an inevitable part of the multi-layer-management/budget-approval process.
We have seen evidence that the virus kills. That alone warrants action. In the beginning, the general lockdowns were fine, simply because we didn't know enough yet to come up with better solutions, and frankly didn't really have the time to rectify this before taking any action. Now whether or not to lockdown and what to lockdown can be applied more fine-grained. Of course, everything is still in flux, and some decisions will turn out to be wrong later. The entire response is trial-by-error, for lack of alternatives

In regards to potential long term effects, those should be a concern as well when making decisions, yes. Not the only concern of course, but not something to be ignored either.
I don't remember the author but one historian of Germany (I think) used the phrase the "historicizing gaze of the camera" to describe how shooting footage of an event freezes that singular, imperfect perspective in amber. When that recording is all that survives of the event in the historical record, it becomes the single "true" way that event unfolded. At the time of film's invention, this was very remarkable, although we may take it for granted now. (It cannot be a perfect representation of the event, of course, such a film is impossible unless the event is watching paint dry, and even then the whole wall better fit in the camera's view)