skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the comments so far are spot on. #1 big deal is you need to be networking and finding clients. My comments assume you are USA-based. Many contracts are awarded by someone in an org saying "hey I know a company that can do that."

You should also be charging _at least_ 2x your desired "salary" rate for your own time, more if you can pull it. E.g. if you made $100k/yr that works out to about $50/hr full time. Charge at least $100/hr. You'll need the buffer for taxes, healthcare, finding new clients, liability insurance, un-billable hours (e.g. writing quotes), etc.

If you are good at estimating, try to get fixed bid contracts rather than time and materials. They'll be more flexible and you won't have to be as meticulous with your time tracking. The projects are usually more interesting as well. Hourly contracts are often more like staff augmentation.

A good way to get work if you need to bootstrap can be to subcontract. Research and reach out to other, larger, consulting agencies. They're always looking for subs. Even the bigger ones like TEKSystems and RHI will take on subs (well, at least they used to, I haven't looked recently).

I would plan to work billable hours at most 75% of the time you want to spend working. The rest should be running your business. Marketing, fishing for your next client, networking, handling your business affairs.

Bring on subcontractors if your marketing/sales efforts get you too much work. This is easy profit if you can pull in the work. You should establish a network of trusted people to send subcontract work.

You probably want to use a pass-through LLC as this is a high margin business and you'll want to take profit sharing rather than salary to avoid double taxation and also want the liability protection of LLC. But talk to a good CPA in your area.
What point are you trying to make? The federal minimum wage is not enough to cover people's expenses, whether those expenses come from holding the job or not is irrelevant as to whether such a situation is "sustainable." This feels like pedantry.
> The federal government wouldn't really be able to prevent REITs from buying up homes.

Why wouldn't it? If this was bad enough the government could just pass limitations on it. Hell, the government could probably ban REITs overnight if that was wildly popular.
But, that's now how capitalism works. Capitalism is workers must compete for jobs, services and goods. Capitalism for companies and rich are how to buy off the right people and laws to prevent competition.

I remember in business school how it drilled into us that there are only two important numbers in a company. The price of your product, and the cost of your product. "You can only dictate your cost of your product because your market dictates what you can sell it for." Every time I hear things like "we can't find enough people" or "yeah, but then we'll just pass it along in our cost to customers," I know how much we don't have capitalism.
“Should” is pretty strong. The choice of PK has its own tradeoffs. But you are correct, if you go the prefix route, it makes the WAL approach trivial, at least while everything really is a tree and there are no many-to-many relationships.
Idk if the lifestyle is really that special. I think US income is just heavily weighted towards the bottom. Middle class is disappearing as wages stay low for most people. Tech isn't rich, just comparatively. Tech salaries are what almost Americans should be paid.
Harder to hack with device in hand, e.g. by replacing with compromised components or accessing secure data
Yes. The days of running a legitimate MTA at home are unfortunately over. Many US-based consumer ISPs block port 25 entirely except for connections to their own MTAs, but for the ones who don't, very very many of those IP addresses wind up on policy-based blacklists -- eg "this network is a bunch of consumer addresses and should never be connecting directly to an MTA"
I'm not a fan of labelling tax code as "regressive" in this case. It hasn't moved "backwards", it's stayed the same.

I also question the rationale behind giving our city and state more money... they haven't exactly exhibited forthright stewardship of existing tax resources. I have doubts that taking more capital gains taxes will be a net positive. This will in all likelihood negatively impact the region's yearly charitable donations. It will be interesting if someone does a before/after comparison of the net effect of this new tax.
I can't remember, because I did this a few years ago, but I think there was some other code signing benefit to not putting all of Python in Frameworks as well.
LeetCode-type interviews are about 60% a how-bad-do-you-want-this test, and 40% a barely-concealed IQ test.

I'm not even sure that's the wrong way for FAANG to do things, given how many people want to work there. I do know it's a damn bad idea for any place not offering FAANG-like comp, since at lower comp levels you're in competition with a ton of places that don't demand hours of grinding leetcode to prove you want the job bad enough.
Be careful.

My dad replaced a defective memory chip on his IBM PC XT.. but the computer cost the equivalent of $12k.

I’d rather throw away a dozen modern laptops than fix one that costs 10x.
Somehow, I imagine you aren't in Portland or haven't spent a lot of time downtown. You are regurgitating right talking points.
The fight felt like a scam. I wouldn't be surprised if Askren heavily bet against himself after hyping himself and presenting the fight as an easy win.
I’m sorry but your comment is completely divorced from the situation on the ground when it comes to app development. The UI has changed overtime, sometime substantially, and there is now an entirely new language (Swift) you can write your apps in as well as a new design language based on that new language (SwiftUI). On top of that, APIs change version to version of iOS and customers expect things that are now possible on newer iOS versions even if your app was written on an older version. Also, a lot of app developers work directly with their app’s communities to focus on what their users want.

Drafts, Apollo, Things, Overcast, and more are apps I pay subscriptions on so that they continue to add new features and keep compatibility with new iOS releases.

Have you not dealt with the annoyance of an app that hasn’t been updated for a newer OS? Or one that isn’t even providing “table stakes” to other apps in it’s category?
> Some builders have said they are slowing production in the face of exorbitant costs, but single-family housing starts were up 41% in March year over year, according to the U.S. Census. Builders are clearly trying to ramp up production as fast as they can to meet soaring demand.

For the next several months we'll be in a period of base effects. That means that year over year comparisons are going to look alarming.

Think back to what was happening one year ago. The economy almost completely shut down. Return to "normal" is going to give a lot of weird readings.

Articles like this should point this out, but don't. They should note, for example, the % drop in single-family housing starts YoY for 2020 for comparison.

The article hints at the phenomenon, but fails to actually quantify it. This leads to a more sensationalistic article that might attract eyeballs, but does a poor job of informing.
I agree it’s a bad take, but the idea in the article he shared is, in my opinion, reasonable and doesn’t talk about BTC being a battery.

It talks about crypto mining as a last resort to utilizing excess energy produced by “green” sources (wind turbine), ie energy that cannot be sold to the grid or stored in batteries.
Yeah the shocking thing about tech is how little revenue there is relative to investments. GP is exactly wrong.
Just a quick note here, selling puts is actually the worse of the examples you could have mentioned, because you can simply use it as a way to maintain an open order for the stock at a given price while getting paid for it.

Selling calls would be a better example, since in that case losses are potentially limitless.
>But as long as we continue demanding these services

Tech money seems to be made more via gatekeeping than providing a service.

A friendly guy called Raul drives the taxi and provides the actual service. Uber puts itself between me and him.

Uber doesn't make money if there are lots of people willing to be the go-between between me and Raul. Uber RAKES it in if they're one of two.
Stock prices are absolutely inflated, and as a small-scale investor I'm scared.

However, I'm not pulling out because realistically, there's no other asset that's safer in the long run. Interest rates are close to zero so returns in bonds are low, inflation will eat away money held in cash deposits and don't even get me started on cryptocurrency, rare sneakers or other "alternative investments". I started investing in stocks in 2017, even then people were warning that we were in a bubble that was bound to burst at some point. Not investing would have missed me several years of above-average returns.

But today, there seems to be a bubble on everything after all the money printing. So I'll keep investing in good, underhyped and stable companies and try to weather whatever storm, good or bad, will come in the next years.
If it has a screen and network access, the demand for growth will inevitably lead it to become an ad platform. Or more generally, a market for eyeballs.
I have some old Chromecast thing that one of my kids brought home. Looks something like a thumb drive and plugs into HDMI socket on TV. I cast from my phone, tablet, or laptop. This works fine. What more does anyone need?
When I built my first keyboard, I used MX Browns because I didn't know any better.

Then I read all the /r/MK threads and other forum posts where Browns are (almost) universally shit on. The conventional wisdom was that they were the worst switches out there.

So my next keyboard was some clicky green thing. Can't remember the brand.

They were very tactile and clicky, but I didn't like them. One problem was that the click was fake! It's a separate bar that snaps as the key travels down, but it's not associated with the electrical contacts at all. So depending on the key, it's possible to generate a keypress without hearing a click or (worse) get a click without closing the switch.

I'm back on Browns now. I think you're right about the fetish. The clicks sound really cool, but they're not as useful as people claim.

Or maybe I just have a "thunk" fetish, I don't know.
That's the way to change HN to Reddit.
From idea to launch in 1 day
We had the idea 2 days ago.
We built the MVP yesterday.
We launched on Product Hunt today.

What do you think about the product ? Would you subscribe ? If no, why?

In this type of market, do you think about monetization before or after launching an idea ? Why ?
The difference being that the personal data should not be collected in the first place.

And I don't get paid for having my data taken and sold, except in "free services"
I think the new federal long term capital gain tax is a new tax bracket starting at 1 million, so the tax rate of the $1.2m will be broken down as follows:

* first 200k: 15%

* 200k-250k: 15% + 3.8% (ACA Medicare Tax)

* 250k-441k: 15% + 3.8% + 7% (New state Tax)

* 441k-1m: 20% + 3.8% + 7% (Federal capital gain tax increase to 20%)

* 1m-1.2m: 39.6% + 3.8% + 7% (New capital gain tax increase to 39.6%)

The tax rate wouldn't be 60% even at the highest marginal rate, which is 50.4%.

The average tax rate is about 30%.
High prices in some areas is about the price of land and not about construction prices.

Residential REITs need to profit when they buy a house. An individiual homeowner doesn't, they can pay more if they want to. And individual homeowners get subsidized loans, and in many states subsidized property taxes, they can have a much lower monthly payment, and afford to offer a higher sale price. So for move in ready homes, the seller will almost always go with an owner occupant.

The real problem is with investors buying homes that aren't move in ready. Rehab loans are expensive and risky, individual buyers can't compete with investors, and the sellers are the ones with the short end of the stick.
Wow, this is really sexist/misogynistic. Don't project your issues onto women in general due to the outcome of your marriage. Also, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that in this case and a lot of cases relationship issues has to do more with the partner's unavailability, physical and emotional and bringing stress over finances into the relationship, more than the actual financial limitations themselves.

If people in your life are constantly dissatisfied and jumping ship due to your self employment work you may be suffering from workaholism. It's true that during certain periods people just don't have time for a relationship and that's fair to avoid that but if you're in an established relationship you need to examine your priorities and have a really serious talk.
I can’t tell if this is just an artifact of getting old or new stuff is worse than old stuff. After all, my parents still like stuff from their youth that I don’t like.
lol Kevin Roose is a clown "tech journalist" that writes exclusively bad faith hit pieces on tech companies. He and his "tech journalist" friends at NYT have no clue what is actually happening in tech. His only goal is to get people riled up and angry at tech companies.
In short, the suggested method by Chaum requires a trusted 3rd party (bank). The topmost invention of Bitcoin is that it requires no trusted 3rd party.
It's a bit more nuanced than that.For Taiwan it's a matter of survival not a question of money.You literally cant compete with a behemoth like China.
It's been little but "expectations" and Ponzie schemes for a decade. What do you expect next?
it's likely still cheaper than buying into the overpriced housing market right now
Consoles are also effectively a duopoly, and yet Microsoft has argued that they should be allowed to keep third-party app stores off the Xbox while also signing on to the lawsuit to try and force Apple to open up their own.
Did you use taxis before Lyft/Uber? They clearly improve the customer experience.
To be clear, I am not a part of the foundation. You can read about it yourself on https://foundation.rust-lang.org/ (with the bylaws being at https://foundation.rust-lang.org/policies/bylaws/ )

The foundation's stated mission is to steward the intellectual property of the Rust project, and assist it and its maintainers. That often means things like "paying for legal support" and "paying for CI" and such.

The Rust project is the thing that's existed for years, and makes all of the decisions about what happens to Rust technically. The foundation has no position in that hierarchy, and sponsoring the foundation does not get you a seat on the teams that accept RFCs.

> a regular sponsorship would have a been more enough in this case.

I'm not sure what distinction you're drawing here between "regular" and not. Maybe that they would only want a lower tier sponsorship? I don't know, you'd have to ask them.
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Kinesis Freestyle.

Pro: split keyboard, stops me from pulling my back in and hurting. Keyboard snob friend with multiple keyboards gave it to me.

Con: membrane feeling keys.

Strongly recommend split keyboards.
Default machine for developers is a very broad term. It is heavily biased on what and where they work on. Sometimes it's not even a choice. Perhaps we agree on that and are talking past each other.
My understanding is the Canadian government put limits last year on how much timber could be cut. So their prices were going up no matter what.
Smoke-testing your code signing is a good idea, and would probably catch most notarization issues. Aside from those, through, I've encountered numerous issues with embedded frameworks and app extensions whose error reporting wouldn't be described as obvious. Catching those right away rather than right before you are trying to deploy a release is critical.
Oh, I thought the lines blurred quite a while ago and they are the same bunch now?
You don't have to choose one thing. A portfolio of two assets that are sufficiently uncorrelated can provide substantial returns over either one alone. They don't even have to be cointegrated. One of them could even have net negative returns, and it still works.

A split between equity and bonds still seems prudent, I think.
Daniel here, one of the authors.

You are right, some of the issues highlighted in the paper could be solved by compilers targeting WebAssembly. One such mitigation that is (currently) missing are stack canaries. In contrast, stack canaries are typically employed by compilers when targeting native architectures. They also cost performance there (typically single digit percentages), but evidently compiler authors have decided that this cost is worth the added security benefit, since fixing "old C issues" in all legacy code in existence is not realistic.

Note however, that other security issues highlighted in the paper _are_ characteristics of the language, notably linear memory without page protection flags. One consequence of this design is that there is no way of having "truly constant" memory -- everything is always writable. I do think that this is surprising and certainly weaker than virtual memory in native programs, where you _cannot_ overwrite the value of string literals at runtime.
Okay then - without running afoul of Gödel's incompleteness theorems list everything they need to cover without errors.

There are few things more annoying to engineers than the Dunning-Kreugers who treat inability to do the literal impossible of being malace and assume "more than me" means infinite.
That's a definite risk in general.

But worth adding that Wasm by design lets you statically inspect all the things the Wasm can call. If the Wasm receives access to networking, or eval(), etc., then there is a real risk. However, often the Wasm imports and exports are extremely limited and easy to verify for safety.
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TSMC pays very well compared to other companies in the same market. I'm guessing you are hearing from people who've never worked for UMC or PowerChip!

Of course, the other fun fact: ANY TSMC employees who went to China will never get jobs in Hsinchu et al. ever again. One-way decision only. Burned bridge.
> it'd rather treat devices as things that we lease for a low cost from a vertically-integrated company.

This is a nightmare.

I built my PC, I repair my phone and laptops. I replace joysticks and mod old gaming consoles. I fix my own car.

I don't want the industry following Apple into the depths of hell.

We used to be allowed to record tv shows on VHS legally. Look how far we've slid down the path of non-ownership.

We've given up our privacy, we license media on subscription, and even our employers rent premium and expensive time sharing on "cloud".

Open source has been captured and turned into hidden away SaaS/PaaS.

We're all being gaslighted.
I did, yeah. They drove down the cost more than they improved the experience.

It's neat not having to dig around for cash and being able to see your driver on your phone arriving but it's not game changing.

The real innovation was using a tsunami of cheap financing to engage in a predatory pricing war to gain oligopoly status and opening up being a taxi driver to anyone with a car. This was basically exploitation of wealth inequality.

When I visited Buenos Aires in 2011 I was shocked that you could easily send somebody on a scooter to get you a starbucks and people regularly did. That "innovation" seems significantly less shocking these days. The west caught up.
Perhaps they did invest time, but I’m not convinced that should give them the right to place a restriction on others.

If I have an empty hard drive and copy someone’s mp3 a thousand times on it, without permission, what is really lost? Have I really harmed this person or stolen from them in any meaningful sense? If I then delete the data, is that really justice?

Both directions lead to some laws that seem wrong at face value - illegal primes on one side and “pro” revenge porn on the other. I only argue it’s not as clear cut as physical property, and that we are probably too far on the digital copyright side, rather than the data is free side.
I've got this: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k1-wireless-mecha...

I love how its not tall like most mechanical keyboards, and the feel is pretty decent. its not at all loud either.

Its pretty awesome all around, but I do have a weird issue with my `D` key doubling up.
To play devil's advocate, managing/being in a team where most people are in the office and a few remote is difficult. There will be a natural tendency to push aside/forget the people remote.

I will be in this position (the only one remote) in a few months when they all go back in the office. I've talked with my manager about it, and we're trying to prepare this, but I'm not sure it is going to work.
Also, the commute argument will get worse then. They kinda expect me to come to the office every couple of weeks, and I do not look forward to the 7 hours round trip.
You pay income tax on those units of stock when you are paid with them.
Do you know why it was abandoned?
if they get 200 reports to the same location they might investigate.
One downside to many SmartTVs including those sold by Samsung and LG is that they do ACR (automatic content recognition). It tells the TV manufacturer what you're watching so they can sell it to ad networks. I _think_ a pihole kills it, but the safest thing to do is to unaccept any privacy policies or to not give it wifi. Either option will disable built-in apps.
> Where does this crazy idea come from that you have to glue shut a device to make it waterproof?

Glue helps with heat dissipation, physical shocks, vibration knocking plugs loose, provides electrical insulation, chemical resistance, and makes the components less able to vibrate over time and knock things loose, makes sensor positioning more stable, and even makes things easier to assemble since less individual fasteners are needed.
Yes, but the capital gains tax doesn't apply to that dollar (it's right in the name).

There is no double taxation here.

There is a more nuanced question as to whether or not inflation should be incorporated into the calculations, but there are pros and cons there also.
Where do you get that, because this article says otherwise:

> Millennials are less likely to be homeowners than baby boomers and Gen Xers. The homeownership rate among millennials ages 25 to 34 is 8 percentage points lower than baby boomers and 8.4 percentage points lower than Gen Xers in the same age group.

https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/98729/...
You obviously know nothing about the geopolitical situation. Pretty much negates what you are saying.
From what I've heard, this is mostly a function of...

1) Lumber mills shutting down because of weak demand and tariffs.

https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/news/woodworking-industry...

2) Curtailment of remaining production because of coronavirus

https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/news/canadian-news/corona...

3) The housing market going a little nutty

https://www.vox.com/22264268/covid-19-housing-insecurity-hou...

4) I imagine record low interest rates also contributed