skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren’t MTU issues typically only up to a router? As in, even if the parent had a different MTU than Netflix uses, it wouldn’t matter since their router or the ISP’s router will transform packets between their appropriate MTUs?

And if this is true, then how could it be that Amazon works without problem and Netflix doesn’t?
A Synology NAS + https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/active_backup_g_s... is an easy way to back up mail and drive.
Einstein was a complete dick to her.

He sent her a letter with a list of demands to stay married:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/albert-einstein-imposes-o...

A. You will make sure:

1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.

B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, You will forego:

1. my sitting at home with you;
2. my going out or travelling with you.

C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:

1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;
2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;
3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.

D. You will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior.
conspiracy theory? As I understand it this is merely measuring data and comparing it to previous measurements. Either the data is wrong or it isn't - there's no need to complicate things with conspiracy theories or anything else
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When I was freelancing I used Harvest for time-tracking and invoicing. I liked it, and the clients didn't have any complaints. If I was to freelance again I'd probably use Harvest again too.
I ran a little one man band shop in the UK for a few years, my accountant provided me my own FreeAgent (https://www.freeagent.com/us/) account, which I really loved.

I'd track my time, attach it to a contact, create an invoice for said time at x rate, download it, send it to them, and when the $/£ was received, I'd mark it to that invoice. I'd have automatic bank feed, so I'd have my business bank transactions imported daily, I could then attach a payment to said invoice, and any difference in money (invoiced $500, received $475 - transfer fee, currency conversion, etc), FreeAgent would automatically select the correct reason for the discrepancy. Everything was categorised, my accountant could pull reports/taxes from FreeAgent.

This was a few years ago, I only imagine it's gotten better since. I've recommended it to people in the US, and I think it integrated well with the US way of doing things (taxes, forms, etc).
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Usually QuickBooks. It's not amazing, but it's pretty standard and all my clients are used to it. I've got a couple templates setup for standard work - one for fixed rate hourly and another for project based. The real hard part is getting clients to actually pay on time ;)
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5+ year full-time consultant here. I use FreshBooks ($15/mo) and push clients to accept monthly net 15 or net 30 invoices. Doing any more frequently is too much overhead and cashflow isn't a huge concern for me.

One tip: Any effort put towards "making your invoices beautiful" is overhead and likely a complete waste as most clients won't care or notice.
Because it comes with community, is relevant, etc...

Sure, smarter people can literally dumpster dive and get going. I literally did that as a kid. N9 big deal.

Tons of people will buy this and get a lot out of it.
Ah! thanks!
Even if it was obvious to you, I think discussions work better when people don’t have to guess what someone’s explanation is.
There's a significant amount of parts to put together, software wise, but you can build a strong streaming solution with gstreamer or ffmpeg. I've done so and shipped hundreds of devices. It was not a trivial amount of work. We eventually transitioned to a purpose built dedicated camera solution however. If you're capturing sound, you will also have challenges as the BCM2xxx family has..... interesting audio hardware, especially if you want to reduce your BOM and integrate PDM microphones.
I just use a simple time tracking program in my menu bar to track hours against projects with short comments. Then when it's time to invoice, I go into QuickBooks and make a new invoice (you can clone an existing one for the same client). QuickBooks emails it to the client directly. QuickBooks Small Business is all web-based and pretty easy to use.

I'd recommend invoicing everyone even if you don't need to (because you said some of your clients are more informal about asking for payment). Having consistent invoices for everything in one place will make taxes a lot easier. It will also be important if you ever need to do something like get a loan or buy a house or anything where you need to show who you clients are.

If you are in the US, don't forget to pay your estimated taxes on time! If you are somewhere else, make sure you register for the appropriate local system and don't get behind on taxes.
I doubt that the top 1 percent are creating more wealth than the top 1 percent did forty years ago. But somehow a bigger share of wealth is going to them now in a system that has been shaped by them. So I think they are “taking” more than they used to.
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U.S. Army plans to field augmented reality goggles by 2021
That's the Next, but yes. Your parallel holds.

I agree, only would say Apple 2 or C64, Atari...
People coding OS kernels don't ask for simple.

They should demand powerful, but too often fail to.
I still disagree with you, there was a legitimate demand spike for more supermarket toilet paper.

Working from home = more poos and wees at home. Less consumption of industrial deliveries of toilet paper to companies, much higher home consumption from super markets.

So again, not a panic, but a legitimate, overnight, shift in toilet paper consumption habits that resulted in a long lasting shortage of toilet paper in the supermarket JIT supply system. They were not prepared for a jump of 50-100% more home toilet paper consumption.

No panic, but a simple explanation of the shift in consumption from industrial, bulk deliveries of toilet paper to your company office, to buying more of your own at the supermarket.

Yes, there were some opportunists and crazies with a shopping cart full, but they don't explain why it took months for shelves to finally get fully stocked.
This is a chemist's answer. These are all proxies for "is there a healthy soil ecosystem?" Like a letter grade on your report card.

Healthy soil has a ridiculously high number of individual microbes and invertebrates. When everything is going properly, soil carbon, pH, friability, gas/water permeability etc etc all work out to something forests like.

Feed the soil, not the plant.
No popup for me in Firefox + uBlock Origin. Have you tried a reputable ad/tracking blocker?
AppleOne is actually three different plans, not one.
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Hehe yeah, I mean, I am not 100% sure myself, which is why I asked.

There's no real difference between a 1-tuple struct and the regular struct, other than the name. So to me, it feels like either are both newtypes. But, I guess I could see some sort of argument the other way too.
I run a business in this space. Realistically your chances of having data that is useful to a HF (of any kind) is pretty low so I wouldn't bank on it as a revenue source unless you have a strong reason to believe (1) your data is predictive of something an investor cares about and (2) isn't already covered by other data.
I'm sorry to hear of your situation.

May I offer some context for what appears to be general push-back to your argument.

There are some incredible contributors to this forum who are women that I respect a lot, despite that they actually have quite low HN karma, devaboone for example. The only thing that causes respect in most eyes is the actual quality of discourse, the content itself. When I see a high karma, the only conclusion anyone draws is that this is someone who spends a lot of time on this site, which is just fine. But anyone here can have a high karma if they want to spend that time, and merely spending that time is not in and of itself a source of interest. What is definitely not interesting is talking about the karma score itself and whether or not someone is on some list of frequent users.
If MS hadn’t done it I bet somebody else would have done it. It’s also not clear if the dominance of Microsoft was good for the industry and the overall world. Maybe they actually suppressed wealth that others would have been able to create.
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The trivial way around this is to start a non-profit, put all your net worth into it, then appoint your children/heirs as the sole execs.

The children give part of the yield which still amounts to plenty of money without touching the principle, and use the non-profit as a limitless expense account to travel the world or curry favor as needed. All tax-free.
If you enabled FB in your app, then publish to Apple/iOS they then say you must support Apple based SSO. But email only avoid this Apple heavy-hand
I'm super curious where you live in the USA.
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What do you think about System76 and Purism hardware? Is there any hope in there? At least hardware-wise?
Something I found myself saying recently: "When the parent process is about to die it's tries to kill its children, otherwise the orphans stick around holding onto their ports which is super annoying."
I'm sorry, but I did not understand your comment at all. Some of those sentences don't parse for me. I don't know what you're trying to say. Can you please clarify?
If you value the attention to aesthetics and UX Apple has you might want to give Pop! OS a try. It's based on Ubuntu.
I had thought so, too—but the article claims that Apple last used it in 2017... I think that's scarce enough that it doesn't qualify as 'overuse'.
> Or can I mount an OVH virtual drive that I know will survive across VM migrations?

Yes, Block Storage: https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/block-storage/

> Do they at least support the same API?

Yes

> Can OVH actually scale on demand?

Not as big as AWS, but yes.

Remember that you're getting 5x the compute resources for the same money. You don't need to autoscale as much. You're not fighting crappy EBS performance. You're not architecting around remote-network RDS databases with milliseconds of RTT. I firmly believe that for most applications you're going to be better off just massively overprovisioning your hardware and keeping the software stack simple.
I actually think this will be the best way to immunize people against the effects of deepfakes. We need to make a sort of ubiquitous meme out of it.
Is that how news works these days? they didn't say anything about chips.
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I thought it was the internet's 8 machine. Times do change.
Google's problem is an incompetent product org. An A/B test would have quickly solved UI issues that lead to accidental or underuse of a feature.
Here’s what worked for me (freelancer turned small agency CEO)

Step 1 - get an accountant

Step 2 - start using the bookkeeping software the accountant recommends

Step 3 - send invoices from the bookkeeping software on the first of the month
You claimed that the DMCA does not require the technical measure to be highly effective, or even that it be effective at all and I quoted from the law which says that a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. Now you come with yet other arguments. Now I would quote yet another law or decicion which contradicts your statement and so on.
I'm not. I just use that source for me to determine how construction jobs (specifically crane ops) wages are priced. I am not especially informed.
I am soon going to be freelancing for 20 years and I must say it is still per client basis. There are projects billed hourly, there are fixed scoped projects and retainers with some time budgets.

I would stay away trying to be super detailed about what you did in small time increments, unless required by customer. Nobody really cares about it, it is much better to say "Feature A development. 30hrs" than "Feature A research 15 mins, Emails 1hr. Rework screen A 4hrs... and so forth in long letter that looks like AWS bill.

I do track my time per project (usually break down to dev and admin category) but give out just half-day or maybe hour increments.
It does not look good for the Electron port [1].

These ports will be removed soon due to their Python 2 dependency, and the available versions are not supported anymore [2].

[1] https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=electron&search=...

[2] https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/support
Yes ... and they are getting reinfected. The fatality rate among medics is quite high relative to general population
This is one reason Apple is better, they can't delete all your content because it's actually stored on the device instead of some amorphous cloud.
I hope they just release a refreshed Mac Mini!
Great link, thank you very much!

Also (since I didn't know what a "thin lens" was prior to reading this (I never studied Optics)) I Googled it, and found the Wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_lens

>"In optics, a thin lens is a lens with a thickness (distance along the optical axis between the two surfaces of the lens) that is negligible compared to the radii of curvature of the lens surfaces. Lenses whose thickness is not negligible are sometimes called thick lenses.

The thin lens approximation ignores optical effects due to the thickness of lenses and simplifies ray tracing calculations."

Which makes me wonder if there's a link between Fourier Transformations and Ray Tracing, and if so, how does it express itself?

Although, that's probably going seriously off-topic for this HN article! <g>

Anyway, thanks again for the link/info!
Best comment about the new now old Penn Station.

'One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat'
Excellent, I've been adding lots of dataclasses to a project that has some pandas parts. Love the additional productivity from pyright type checking and found the type ambiguity of Dataframes annoying.
I use & highly recommend https://www.getharvest.com/.
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Do you live in/near a rural area? Schools around me (Alabama) are hurting badly for equipment to facilitate remote learning.
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Are you a lawyer? Or do you work for the RIAA?

> youtube-dl creators would have already filed a response if the RIAA notice was as week

There was actually a claim filed by a US company affiliated with youtube-dl. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCrJM-MrKyI.
The various angles in that image reminded me of the silicon cutting planes... I wonder if they were trying to message that..
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Is it completely impopular? It is my opinion that expats should not be allowed to vote. I've asked around and most people seem to disagree, though.
The correct answer to "What company would provide developers direct access to raw compute resources in the cloud" is "one that is deeply misguided."

At the most simple level, it seems like progress. Now every developer can get their own server and push their code, test it, do whatever, think of the agility. But, realistically, all that's happened is the creation of hundreds of silos, each configured differently, possibly being abused, possibly containing restricted data, mis-configurations leading to breach, denial of service, running up the company card, all sorts of bad things.

In other words, it doesn't matter whether those raw compute resources are available in the cloud or in a company data center. The cloud enables developers broader access to provisioning, but there's substantial evidence that may not be a good thing. A company data center is a 1780s-era musket; the cloud is a M249 machine gun.

That's why we need to talk in abstract functional primitives. Developers shouldn't worry about which TLS algorithms are accepted, or that the storage bucket they want has proper read/write access; not just because a ton of this stuff is very arcane and domain specific, but also because humans will ALWAYS get it wrong unless its managed at a higher, centralized, and totally automated level.

And at that point, raw access to AWS doesn't make sense. Developers don't actually want an EC2 instance; they want their app running on a server. Let Operations (or Heroku, or whoever) handle that for you.
Here in Sweden we pay about $4.5 per gallon in taxes.

ICE is still the norm in Sweden, with EC standing for 3% of all personal cars. EC have however taken a significant chunk of new sales, with last month being 35%. It also help that all government workplaces over a certain size has free EC charging, and even some shopping centers.
Earlier discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955651
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Do be clarify: you want virtualisation environment, hypervisor?
If yes, then you can go with VMWare ESXi or Proxmox. Both have web based consoles to add and manage virtual machines.
Like you mentioned, you need additional IP-s, Hetzner has 6 (/29) for €6.72 per month [0], OVH has one time fee €2.00 per additional IP[1].

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[0] - https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/ip/ip-addres...

[1] - https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/bare-metal/rise/options/
This wiki page does not tell you how to setup a jail for the linux OS, so the name is bogus.
If anything, Arm MacBooks have a huge advantage over my current (old) ThinkPad—battery life and performance per watt will be significantly better. I haven't read much more about the new virtualization tech that was announced at WWDC, but that's also exciting for running Linux on the Mac.

What about Arm Macs pushes you away from the platform?
How are you doing full android backups? I recently discovered this is basically impossible without either using Google's cloud or rooting (which has it's own inconveniences..)