skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The religious service providers are reimbursed by the gov and by social insurances just like any other commercial provider. They also get to enjoy lesser worker's protection laws, e.g. they may fire employees who convert away from their religion.
Ask HN: Small dev agency. How to grow our business?
A friend and I started taking up mobile and web development projects on Upwork last year. For the first few months, we took up a few small projects ~$500-1k to build up our reputation. We managed to build a decent profile with favorable reviews on the site. Now, we get 20-30 invites per week from clients looking to hire freelancers/agencies on the platform, and on average, we make around 5-6k per month. I want to get some practical tips and strategies on how to grow our business

1. Right now, almost all the clients that we acquire are through Upwork. We are a bit nervous about the risk of getting kicked from the platform in the future for any reason. Not that we are doing anything that violates their terms, but just in case. We don't want to be over-reliant on one channel. What are our alternatives? I know few other sites like Fiverr, Freelancer, etc., but supposedly they are not that great in comparison.

2. We are most certainly leaving money on the table because we cannot handle all the job requests we get. We want to grow our team, but hiring developers in the U.S is not an option, given the high wage demands. What country is most suitable for hiring some good developers at reasonable rates/wages and being compliant with U.S labor and tax laws at the same time?

3. What are some of the hot areas that we should build our expertise in besides mobile and web app development to expand our business?

4. How do we actively look for bigger companies that may be interested in offloading some of their work to a small team like ours? What are some efficient cold emailing strategies? Should we hire salespeople for that?

5. Is there a particular type of team structure or hierarchy that works well for services as opposed to in a product company? What roles should we prioritize in hiring?

6. Finally, Any tips on how to build web presence?

Thanks in advance for your inputs. HN community is incredible!
Avg. Transaction Fee of Bitcoin Surpassed the Peak from 2017
I mean I only have like 10 followers on twitter so for me it's totally worth it
Perhaps they don't but I'm not as focused on the relationship between the company and jurisdiction, I'm talking about the externalities.

Desperate places give away the store to get anything at all, and it depresses what companies are willing to offer the next place while also tilting the playing field toward big companies with the ability to negotiate these kind of deals.
waiting for the laundry?
Looking at the picture, the thing is a platter. Not a chip.

It's a really cool picture too.
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23275308

As usual, it may not be what you think.
> The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings

What exactly constitutes "monitoring"? This sounds like some agents spent a few hours using Twitter's built in search to look for certain keywords...
it's like 30€ to 50€
probably doing something wrong but running the ci ruleset on a tiny django hobby project made all cores spin at 100% after 33% of the progress bar and made the OS almost unresponsive. ctrl-c after 5 minutes and i still had to pkill every semgrep process... never seen the M1 airbook overheat this much before.
+ a small population of 25 million
But the amount of raw material on the planet needed for manufacturing more disks is finite.

The amount of raw material in the universe is finite at a given point in time (it could be infinite over time, we don't know if time is infinite either).

I think we've already established (especially over the past year) that fiat money is infinite.

The Turing machine is a mathematical model. Infinity only exists in the world of mathematics. The physical world is by definition finite.
Aha. Now I understand why my Lenovo USB-C dock doesn't do 4K@60 on my Mac. It's not thunderbolt capable.

By the way, it does have an extra limitation on Mac. It only supports one external display. Apparently this is due to the Mac lacking support for Multi Stream Technology over DisplayPort (because it has Thunderbolt instead).

Unfortunately Thunderbolt hubs are very expensive as the article also mentions. So I added a DisplayLink adapter for my third display (one 4K@60 directly connected to a USB-C port, the hub on the other with one HDMI out and the display link and lots of other USB stuff :) )

By the way DisplayLink support is pretty good now on Mac. Even for the new chipsets. I wouldn't call it nonexistent as the article does. It does have some limitations though, like Night Light not switching on.
Planned Indian law on Bitcoin may give exit window to investors
Katamari Damacy was an excellent choice for their collection. I have enjoyed a lot of games (Breath of the Wild!), but Katamari is the only one that comes to mind that felt like it had a message that was bigger than the game itself.
Weak euro -> trade surplus -> Germany earns more than it spends -> savings -> lends money to importing nations

and the cycle repeats
Seems to me that corporations owning ships having financial difficulties would be a natural consequence of outsourcing behaviour. You want to outsource risk and responsibilities. So the big companies get rid of their ships and hire small companies on the edge of profitability.

I assume it's not always the most sound way to do business but some should get away with it.
The description makes sense though - since you have a controlled growth environment, you don't get parasites in this meat. Which is the goal of "sushi-grade".
Does anybody? I just open it in privacy mode.
This speaks to the disingenuity of a lot of the decentralization talk in the crypto space. The Beaker browser and the hyperdrive protocol (formerly DAT) is an interesting case study. It has a level of maturity and delivers on many of the ideas that helped filecoin and other token-financed projects raise hundreds of millions of dollars, but it is relatively obscure and I don’t think I know anyone who has used it other than the people I’ve encouraged to check it out. If there were actual demand for dweb technology then it and other projects like it should be getting a lot more attention since it’s a free and relatively user friendly platform compared to services that require managing token exchange risk, accounting, and hassle.

https://beakerbrowser.com/
Yes, but also the standard of living in the US that American labor can't really compete on price with anyone.
I think you are answered a slightly different question when you replied to my comment.

"Isn't visa overstay illegal?" is not related to "calling everyone who ICE deports “criminals” is factually wrong."
There are mountains of books written about this topic for a reason, it's a complicated subject.

One thing though, I've recently started taking my fitness seriously and I've noticed a borderline magical improvement in my confidence and social energy without actively focusing on it at all. Worth trying.

It's easy to overthink this stuff, but that might just be another way of staying in our head. I don't what it is, testosterone maybe, but we shouldn't forget that our head is just as much a part of our body as our arms and legs, and if we take care of our body our thoughts tend to also be taken care of.
I can imagine feeling psychologically safe in a larger group, it's just statistically unlikely.

The way psychological safety works is that sometimes one new person is all that it takes to destroy the safety. Every time you add a team member, you roll a die. The chances of continuous good outcome decrease exponentially with the team size.

Even this is not completely unavoidable. Sometimes the existing team is strong enough to resist the new person, if the new person turns out to be incompatible with their previous relationship. And sometimes the new person leaves, and the peace is restored. But this is rare.

Specifically, I have seen a situation where a new junior developer with somewhat toxic personality was treating every existing team member like an idiot. This did not ruin the psychological safety of the remaining members, because being attacked all at the same time made it obvious they were all on the same side and no one took the attacks seriously. (It would have been worse if the new member instead focused his attacks only on one or two of them.) And because it was a junior developer, his opinions had no real impact, so people around him felt uncomfortable, but not actually threatened. Finally, it was the new guy who decided he had better options than to work with idiots, and in a month or two he moved to another project. The atmosphere within the team quickly returned to the original state.

A much worse situation was in a different company, where the new member was maybe only 1/5 as toxic, but he was a senior developer recommended by the management as an expert, and stayed there for a year before moving as an expert to another company. The original peace was never restored, and at the next problem, people started quitting.
It can be a defense in the US but not likely the case here, the remedy wouldn’t be specific performance (ie give me the domain) but damages for a fair market value of what I paid for, specific performance is very rare in the US. There would also be claims against the marketplace (despite their terms of service indemnifying them) other laws apply that can’t be waived under both federal and state law such as fair trade practices acts and deceptive trade practices). The whole point being anyone could increase prices that were advertised and say oh my ad was in error rendering every contract reversible and subject to post hoc price increases.
Having spent about 3 years each in Java, C++ and Golang, and getting a good amount of time with Python, I have to disagree with your final few points. Golang's simplicity in the spec itself DEFINITELY gives down stream benefits, simplifying a lot more beyond itself. That includes writing and reasoning about code.
Losing users and contributors, sure.

Losing users who would otherwise be willing to pay for a commercial license (as the OP said they are) that could be negotiated to explicitly cover whatever future use case they’re concerned about? That makes no sense.
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This has nothing to do with being real or not. An author should write consistent characters. Characters who follow their own morale and ethic. An author is not their characters.

Considering that an author is responsible for the morale of their characters is how we end up with boring Marie sues in media.
One of my ex's is unable to not introduce herself to strangers, in fact, it's how we met. Standing in line at the grocery store, I would watch her get visibly agitated that she hasn't met the person in line in front of her, until she suddenly taps them on the shoulder and says "Hi I'm Joan!". Most people are shocked, and don't quite know what to do, why is this person introducing themselves to me. But her attitude is that you never know who you're going to meet.

As much as I occasionally try this tactic, I don't have the desire for connection she has. I also think it may be easier for women then men.
Some UK programmes differ in that there isn't the same formal concept of "candidacy" like you see in other places. The end-of-first-year review is often a written report, sometimes with a "mini-viva".

The common factor among all UK PhDs I know of is that there is a rigorous viva at the end, where the outcome for the sudent is not a foregone conclusion. Despite the shorter overall duration of the PhD (~3 to 4 years typically), the oral examination can (rightly) cover material far beyond the scope of your thesis - if you are an expert in your field, you will be able to have a knowledgeable and informed discussion as a peer with your external examiner, who will be a recognised expert in the field. I'm definitely a big believer in the importance of being able to have a well-informed discussion around the area of your work, and actually found the whole viva process very enjoyable and cordial - a nice chat about the wider field, my and the examiners' own previous work, some debate of the merits of different approaches, and then onto a run-through of the thesis, chapter-by-chapter, skipping any pages where there were no points for discussion or contention.

Unlike European vivas though, there's no family or friends, no champagne corks being popped mid-defense, and no foregone conclusion of the outcome. I've been at European vivas with the family of the candidate preparing the celebratory buffet at the back of the auditorium while the questioning continues!
It’s an interesting problem to have.

Might I ask, WHY does it bother you?

Like all spam - most folks ignore/delete.
https://www.itfseafarers.org/en/news/seafarer-mohammad-aisha...
Too expensive to brake to LEO, and a bazillion failure modes.
People with more resources have been exploiting people with less resources since probably the domestication of animals and plants created sedentary living and the idea of money/credit, perhaps before that even. Not just under capitalism, mind you, but every form of economic system.

I believe resource inequality will exist until free or near-free energy sources are developed, and even then, you still need ever expanding amounts of land/space. I believe it’s a consequence of scarcity and human nature.
Html has a lot of flaws, but it's easy to learn, so it totally tracks to me that it could be in both categories. I wouldn't want to write a sizeable app in vanilla html, but I can't think of a simpler way to create cross-platform UIs
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Nice one. Reminds me of "don't forget you were slaves in Egypt".
There's no reason to avoid talking to strangers outdoors IMO. Outdoor transmission is close to zero even among adults (and being 3 years old, your daughter is even less risk).
Memes are dying faster than ever
I also have 1.1.3.

Maybe what's missing is the libreoffice package? It seems like all these types are provided by /usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice.xml on my system (which is read by update-mime-types).

Arguably this is a common enough format that you shouldn't really need libreoffice installed to have it, though I would think any other office program would have it. I think /etc/mime.types serves as the ultimate fallback, though it doesn't have entries for libreoffice file extensions on my system.
Oxford's definition of art:

> the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

I would say that video games are inarguably "high art". The greatest thing about the increased ergonomics that Unity/UE bring is the ability for less specialized people to express themselves via video games. Visual expression, storytelling, sound, etc. It's all there.

I am not involved with Fullbright, but the game Tacoma (https://store.steampowered.com/app/343860/Tacoma/) I think is an excellent example of video games as art. For those curious, I would highly recommend taking a look.
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Check out this paper from my friend Ronen, and Prof. Fateman, putting Lisp into Excel:

"A paper written with Ronen Gradwohl on Lisp and Symbolic Functionality in an Excel Spreadsheet: Development of an OLE Scientific Computing Environment, August, 2002. (code available on request) "

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/algebra.html
The problem with C++ is that the various standards have encouraged changing idioms. Pre-standard, 98, 11, and 17 are significantly different when the new language features are fully leveraged. Legacy code creates inconvenient barriers when interoperating with modern stuff. Rust may be able to escape this problem.
Super curious, how much do one of these cost? Like 10K,100K, or 1M range?
Interesting. I wonder what configuration or issue I was using that caused this problem for me.
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A woman doing that at a grocery store is significantly less intimidating than a burly man doing it.
Not OP - but I've worked with American and non-American tech companies. For similar-sized companies, my experience was that American companies are more obsessed with productivity and metrics, with more frequent meetings involving people who don't need to be present (including at least one one who is a level or 2 too high, but justify their presence by having to say something which occasionally derails the meeting).

On a purely subjective note: American work culture has lower trust and attempts to extract much more "productivity" from people doing the work compared to European companies, which is not always proportional to the salary differences. My sample size is fairly small (<5)
Basketball is the same game played over and over. The objective is to make the court and gameplay setting as consistent as possible across different locations so as to set the best players against each other in a competition.

Some video games fit this sport-like criteria and are competitive in nature. Others are storytelling experiences meant to be enjoyed for the sake of enjoyment. It's an interactive art form and some of the talent that goes into some of the most well-designed games is extraordinary and should be recognized as such.

People fall in love with some games based on their characters and storyline. If making people fall in love with a creation isn't art, then I don't know what art is.
That has nothing to do with this issue. The article is about USPS investigating online threats. Do you really think people who are going to beat USPS workers are going to post about it online and that the USPS would be better equipped than agencies whose sole purpose is to deal with these kind of things?

If you think every postal worker should have some sort of security / police going with them on their routes that is one thing, but that is not at all what this article is about.
It happens fairly frequently. The owner runs into financial difficulty and the creditors seize the ship. The crew can't leave because they aren't allowed to abandon it, as well as not having a visa to enter the US to get to the airport, nor the money for airfare home.

The locals usually donate food & supplies to the crew.

https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/story/how-a-charleston-p...
"When some employees complained internally about what they felt was racist and misogynist branding created by CloudKitchens for customers, like "happy ending" for dessert at an Asian restaurant, Kalanick said the startup did not seek to accommodate the press or woke culture. "

Wow.

I am astonished that someone like Kalanick, who is in some ways so smart and business savvy, can make mistakes like this twice.

In case anyone is unfamiliar with early Uber culture, I highly recommend reading Susan Fowler's account of being a female engineer at Kalanick-heyday-era Uber. https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
xdg-open is so frustrating. Its defaults are wrong and its a pain to reconfigure. I replaced xdg-open with this shell script that simply copies the url and posts a desktop notification saying it did so (I got the idea from a post on twitter). I'm much happier to make the decision on my own what to do with external file handlers.

#!/bin/sh
echo -n "$1" | xclip -selection primary; notify-send "URL Copied" "$1"
If I respond that I'm not looking for 6 months to a year, many people will thanks me for a response, and update their CRM (or whatever it is called) tool. Otherwise, ignore/delete.
Huh, they might not think of it as hippy/overpriced and more like organic/better. Consider that on this board Dr. Bronner's get routine praise, despite its overtly religious appearances.

Regardless, I'd challenge this assumption.
Companies that have signed up as full/limited service licensees to this API may be able to sell you access indirectly through their own API offering. They may be able to offer cheaper pricing if they spread the cost of the USPS fee across multiple customers. Lists of licensees with contact details are visible on the USPS site:

https://postalpro.usps.com/ncoalink/Full_Service_Provider_Li...

https://postalpro.usps.com/ncoalink/Limited_Service_Provider...
The problem with this is that Google isn't some generic term for something else. A lot of case law around this kind of stuff. Will get transferred back to Google in a heartbeat.
Is there there, though? It might justify someone's perverted sense of justice but that's about it. There are many other people who might be considering not contributing anything to the society, but they haven't yet done anything egregious enough to warrant a death penalty, following this logic it's only logical to "just shot" them as well.
ctrl-w is a very commonly used key to control vim windows. How do you manage with that? I have my tmux leader key mapped to ctrl-z as we hardly use it these days.
The previous generation was the $2-3 million range, and these are now in the neighborhood of "several million". Or, arm+leg.
I just wanted to be kind, sincere, and asked his permission explicitly in my comment I presume. At least it was my intention.

If he wanted me to remove it, I would have happily done so.

Also, I just pasted his nick to Google and it came on top. So I presume he didn’t try to hide his name. If I have sensed the contrary, I would not dig one step further.
The XDG scripts are strange. Some are really simple while some aren't. A while back I wanted "dropbox shortcuts" to work on Linux. So I copied the xdg-open examples and wrote a Nim utility to parse and then open the file [1]. Then it was easy to set KDE File browser to use the program it for dropbox shortcuts. It's nice having a simple language that can compile to a little static binary or be run as a shell script.

1: https://github.com/elcritch/open_on_dropbox
Python here basically works as a binder for C, which is what everything is written in.
Sports aren't an art. Sure there's an artfulness to the way high level athletes play their sports, but that doesn't make the sport (or any specific sport) art.

I appreciate all the arguments for video games being art. In fact I lean to that side of the discussion myself. But I can't shake the feeling that just adding a bunch of artistic things into a product doesn't make that product art. Art is meant to be viewed. A video game isn't...
I’m not totally sure why you’re being downvoted, it’s an interesting question. My niece in Seattle had a very bad “flu” for about three weeks early last year, well before the initial wave in the Pacific Northwest. I hope we will eventually learn a bit more about how and where this started and how and where it spread, so that we can do a better job next time. (Putting aside the obvious ways the US and other parts of the world chose to deny reality, there still is much to learn.)
I'm not sure who to trust here. This video says that the Norwegian sushi story is a bit of a myth, or over stated due to poor journalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k4x9FrD5k4

But he definitely has evidence of salmon sushi being eaten before the Norwegians claim to have invented it.
> The philosophy here seems to be “if we build it, they’ll buy it.”

Supposedly Cerebras is already profitable, so it's hardly a situation where they are building something and hoping people buy it eventually.

> That means you’re looking at two months of R&D minimum to get everything rewritten, running, tested, trained, and with an inferencing pipeline to generate samples.

Again, based on the companies representations, Cebebras transparently supports Pytorch and Tensorflow, only requiring a few lines of changed code.

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-... (Dr. Cutress's video on TechTechPotato is also good).