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Ask HN: Where to Invest Freelance Earnings?
I've just been paid by my first client (yay!).

My issue is, I'm still living on student grants and I'm not allowed to earn over a very small threshold, otherwise my student grants would be revoked (retroactive). Fortunately, only the net income (not revenue) is looked at once I hand in my taxes next year.

I'm self-employeed as a freelancer (in Germany) and can write off a lot of things as business expenses.

The legal details aside - just assume the general expenses can be written off – what would you recommend me to invest in, to establish my business, grow my personal brand and get more clients in the future?
If the larger public could read and understanding the underlying data in the way you're proposing then the CDC's guidance isn't of importance. Since they won't/can't, the public depend on/trust the CDC's guidance, who were intentionally conservative here for that exact reason.

As far as public health policy goes this is a distinction without a difference. Everything else is just pointless pedantry.
There's not much, in every direction, for a long ways.

It makes more sense, generally, to send probes to where things (planets, moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets) are, that we can reach in reasonable time (years, possibly a decade or more for outer targets).

"Every direction" just takes you to deep space. And that's not going to be particularly illuminating, though a few such probes (say, a high- or low-solar plane one) might be interesting.
Two of my largest clients have seen productivity gains of 15-20% depending on department during COVID. It’s yet to be seen if that level will hold as the job market opens back up, but it’s pretty clear that WFH is at minimum not decreasing productivity for most people.

Edit: supporting data: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/pages/study-produ...
This. And devs with no family or medical expenses. A warning to anyone thinking they'll be fine taking a sabbatical without health insurance: you're playing with fire. Don't try it in the U.S.
I know of one very interesting example - I got into my current line of work, which I've been in for the past 7 years, because of one conversation on a message board where I was complaining about the difficulty of finding work and got advice as to a specific place to look. That throwaway comment from a stranger has had an incredibly significant impact on the course my life has taken, something that person will never know.

Given the butterfly effect, it seems reasonably likely that the greatest change I'll make to how the future develops will be a similar throwaway comment in a forum like this one.
My wife and I have been living in a studio to save for a down payment and meant to buy last year, but didn't. Now we have saved up double what we were expecting since we stayed in the studio for a year longer than planned. I think there are a lot of couples like us who are now on the market, having been vaccinated and ready to move out.
$11k/month contracting in the US is very different from $11k salary in the US, let alone Europe.

~7.5% extra tax right off the top, versus salaried (employer usually pays that part for salaried employees, and it's not stated as being part of one's salary, ever) in addition to all the usual taxes.

Our version of a "public pension" is terrible, so you'll need some contributions to a 401K if you ever want to retire, and unlike someone salaried the employer won't be chipping in any extra above your salary (typical for salaried employees is some % of "matching" money for your contributions, so you put in 3% of salary and your employer puts in the same amount, above your salary). Then there's the fact that for any competitive goods (say, housing in a decent school district near where jobs exist) you're competing with people who are choosing not to save that money, so there's pressure on prices that wouldn't exist with a better compulsory pension system.

Health care for a family will probably run 1.5-2k/month without an employer chipping in, and still leave you exposed to $20k-$30k of risk per year ("out-of-pocket max") and spending another $500-$1,000/yr even in a good year.

Depending on your arrangement, you may have to deduct pay for any vacation or sick days taken. Take 30 working days out of that (not unusual for sick + vacation in Europe, if we're comparing to European total comp) and that's another ~10% of your annual pay gone.
On the topic of rocket flight computers, here's a link to an FC I built last year for my model rocket. It does thrust vectoring and some rudimentary navigation. The control loops on this thing run at 200hz though. It's got a state machine for knowing what to do at each stage of flight as well.

https://github.com/polishdude20/CygnusX1
Good thing herd immunity doesn't require 100% vaccination.

Intensive hospitalization isn't the only bad outcome for individuals. And the potential for vaccine resistant variants is everyone's problem.

The risk of serious adverse events wasn't statistically significant. And there was no pattern either. The evidence we have says the risks of getting vaccinated are things like temporary fatigue.
Anecdata, but my mid-2012 Macbook is still my primary and only computer which I use for web and mobile development, though I have upgraded the RAM and SSD. Interestingly, the battery still holds a charge for a few hours. I'm sure Apple would like me to buy something in the last 9.5 years, but it wasn't necessary.
I use a thermometer that looks like a thermapen knockoff and costs about $15. I’ve used it regularly (but not professionally) for four years and I’ve seen it give the exact same readings, swiftly, as one more expensive thermometer of the same kind, a cheaper one, and a body thermometer to measure fever. What makes the Thermapen worth every penny? I haven’t had this break, but if it does I will probably order one of the same, which will arrive in a day or two without needing to (a) contact support or (b) send something in the mail. What am I missing? As a professional, what would you be missing if you used a cheaper model?
> Airbus suffers from similar issues with its A350, with a relatively recent but since-patched bug forcing power cycles every 149 hours.

WTF? Is this standard operating procedure?
I think it depends on whether the job requires serious concentration. When I was working as a programmer, I was much more productive at home.

I'm no less a slacker than anyone else but I had deadlines to meet. Being at home meant I could largely exclude interruptions, pace around talking to myself to figure things out, and crank out code, which I enjoyed anyway. And if I also had to work days at the office, it gave me more room to slack off there, where it was harder to concentrate.
But this is also the cause of a lack of production. I have routinely been interrupted from what I was doing because someone just casually drops by to discuss whatever they felt like (might be work related, might not). As a developer, it takes time to get back to where you left off.[0]

While working from home, those interruptions are dropped to 0. Any questions must come from some form of slack/email/etc that can all be ignored until I'm ready to look at them.

[0]https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...
Only 50% support for <marquee>? Where is this world going.
approx $75k with control system for a 5mm pixel pitch. The control system is required for source input mapping/transformation onto the display. Here's footage from 4ft away https://bit.ly/3y5AuhW running at 30fps 60hz.
I've seen similar programs like this - generally the issue is with the supply side. Volunteering generally isn't enough to overcome the gap. How do you plan to resolve this issue? This becomes more of a problem as the content becomes more complicated (e.g. even a smart person working at a great company would have to brush up on physics, so either you're dealing with an inherently scarce set of people who remember high school physics, or another scarce set of people who willing to brush up on physics to tutor individuals for free).
Looking at tech salaries globally is always going to be weird. Technically, they're mostly similar across 1st world countries, except in the US because of the bubble on the west and east coast, where they're absolutely completely wack.

There's a lot of complicated, nuanced reasons for this, but it is what it is for now.
Both Falcon9 first stage and the Dragon capsule are rated for multiple flights with humans on-board.
Damn, I guess unattractive people like me won't be able to get a job in the near future.

At least it's not Tinder for jobs, that would be even worse.
Are these wrong to use? It seems like the page shows a 1:1 relationship with other terms that you could easily find.
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That's a complicated question. My answer is probably they will get paid less. They are producing something for which there is less demand.

However, in today's economy the situation you describe would have the workers being paid less and the owner trying to keep as much of the surplus value from their labor as possible.

So, even in a failing company, I'd expect the wages to increase for workers if they received 100% of their value.
What do they do about health insurance?
Are we over dependent on running water?

How about shelter from the elements?

What's the plan B for that? These are foundational capabilities of 'civilization'. We can protect them, and take actions to be able to quickly restore, but 'plan B' isn't really in the cards.
It doesn't help that the exact purpose of OpenDoc can't be explained. There's no clear killer app or purpose of it. It's a a platform for combining things on documents. For god knows what reason.

You might say "it's not for documents you fool". That's what THEY called it. It's in the name. So add that to the list of reasons.
What percentage of the American public understand what a confidence interval is? I have 95% confidence that this number is under 0.1% using the methodology of pulling numbers out of my butt.

I have been in college level stat classes where many people didn't truly grasp confidence interval. While I would love the data, I think it's not really the most important thing during a crisis.
> Likewise, not allowing other JavaScript interpreters is just…annoying. Regardless of your opinions of JavaScriptCore, this is an unfair limitation on an already slanted playing field.

Reading the actual policies reveals that other interpreters are in fact allowed, but they may only be used for code that is part of the app bundle.

The actual limitation is that apps must be self-contained, and only javascriptcore and webkit may be used to run code from an external source (e.g. downloaded or user input).

See app store review guidelines, section 2.5.2: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...
Discrimination towards being able to do the job is different.
The Panoptikon as a product.

It's almost comical how blatant it is scifi villainy.
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. There isn't a standard followed by everyone. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm saying it's not being commonly followed everywhere.
Yeah, work you enjoy doing. Not wage slavery.
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Business stuff is what pays the bills. You can't have 2/3 of the work force just merging PRs and find out 6 months later that nobody paid the taxes and you won't be bringing in enough money to make payroll next month.
I think the endless news reporting global issues constantly is part of it, but I don't think this is really digging into the root cause much.

Millenials have higher expectations to find good work than any generation before, with jobs that never used to require post-secondary to get now do.

Millenials have more responsibilities at work, often doing jobs that used to be done by two or three people. They also get paid less for their work as wages and salaries have been relatively flat since the 70s.

They also have to compete with a much more global workforce than in the past, which is part of why those salaries are stagnant.

Add all of that to the constant news fear mongering, society seems in chaos, global warming is going to kill us all, and yeah...

Then you start to have a more complete picture I think.
I'm one of those, last day at the end of this month.

I'm looking forward to shaking off the old routine that I felt I had for the last few years. I got too complacent IMO, far too comfortable doing the same-old-same-old.
You can't import what you can't export and a lot of people see easy exporting of data as helping their competition.
No one so far has mentioned the helium network which is similar to this. Interesting amazon is moving into this market.
Why aren’t more pro sports teams using real-time data? (2021)
Everything nice and dark… except the web page content… at least back in the very early day before user style sheets and other workarounds became usable.
React native has Hermes, it’s own JavaScript engine. The key is it’s not a JIT though. It actually performs better in many facets than JSC which is impressive.

So you can run your own side process, and it can be its own JS engine.

Also, I’ll repeat this, but Im a fan of the JSC only limitation, at least for now. By not allowing v8, we are least have some hedge against a… hegemony. I like Apple over Google for many reasons, and would like to see Googles extremely hostile actions towards the web curtailed. I’ll take the trade off. I’d be less happy actually as a consumer if they allowed third party browser engines.
> that workers want to be able to work remotely is going to struggle to find talent.

I suspect that there will be a large split here. My company reopened offices for any volunteers who were interested.

You couldn’t have meetings in person. You couldn’t have lunch with people. But plenty of people still went in anyway.
It's an interesting subject, irrespective of strong or weak claims. There's no doubt of a collision between workplaces attempting to put people back in their cubicles regardless of their wishes, workplaces attempting to make remote work permanent and sustainable, and workforce lifestyle changes becoming easier (at least for psychological reasons, even in the absence of concrete factors).

I don't assume that companies that prefer remote work are "better": it can be a cynical cost-cutting measure that causes more misery (due to communication problems, loneliness, externalization of costs like computers and broadband access, discrimination, off-hours demands etc.) than going to the office like in the old days.
My place of work had an all hands a few months into the pandemic where they basically said they were surprised how everything is running as usual/better while everyone was WFH. I honestly don't know what they expected. People are slacking off while at home, but people slacked off at work too. It was not uncommon for me to lose my entire morning in the office to people coming to asking a simple question that then turns into a 30+ min conversation about random bullshit.
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I feel for you. From what I hear, the population in the Netherlands has a unique appetite for overleveraging to buy a home (and this is coming from someone who lives in the most overpriced housing market in the world)
Yeah, you pretty much nailed it - this article gives context, but it's pretty much as you said, most people are not adjusting by inflation & interest rate: https://realestatedecoded.com/the-shocking-truth-about-house...

Think of houses like bonds that pay a coupon (rent). If risk free rate goes down, the coupon is worth more in comparison so house price goes up.

The only downside is that when you buy a house that is cheap with a high interest rate you can benefit from refinancing if the rate goes down (and deduct your mortgage interest, which used to be significant tax savings). When you buy an expensive house at a low rate, you get no such benefit (although if inflation does pick up, the fact that you are implicitly short the borrowed dollars might still work in your favor).
I haven't used it, but I think the appeal was that by posting to a place with a pre-existing audience, you could catch traffic from an initial audience that you otherwise would not have.
I don’t think we need iOS to be able to do everything MacOS does. We already have MacOS!

Add touch support to MacOS and let it run on the “pro” iPads. Done.
At one LargeCo, you had to return to work for a certain period (six weeks?) after a sabbatical to retain incentives like stock options. It was common to hear people return from sabbatical ready to resign, but by the end of the six weeks they were pulled back into projects and went back to bitching about the place like everyone else.
You seem to have confused a claim with data. Please check the article again and let me know where the data is.
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They used to be such a wonderful bookstore.
I'd say that at this point in the Rota Fortunae of politics, 'unnamed sources' is essentially meaningless to me. It's a combination of purposeful fibs with an agenda, truth, and the utterly made-up for clicks.

Randomly true things don't have much explanatory or predictive value.

My current view of the interpreters of primary material is that they have little in the way of deep knowledge or overview to add to the mix, I'd just as soon try to suss it out myself. If anything, internet-provided 'news' is architecturally similar to a game of 'telephone'.

In terms of public policy, it's just a mental puzzle in any case, it isn't like that world that you access via a little screen and keyboard can be changed in any significant way.
> - Tell me what it is

"THE PRO TERMINAL FOR iOS & iPadOS", from the front page.

> - Tell me why it exists

"
You bought the latest Pro device, loved it, and then you wondered...

…Can I use it to replace my laptop?

Yes, you can

Blink was built as the tool we wanted to use all day. We were tired of User Interfaces being on our way, and of connections that couldn’t even last for 5 minutes...
", from the front page too.

> - Stop with the ad copy and buzzwords until the first 2 points have been addressed

They have been.
Couldn't you have a cell antenna outside of the cage?
I wonder if we'll see something similar in the housing market

Right now perfect storm in HCOL areas eg

- Cheap money from banks - not uncommon to see $2m+ loans to tech salaries

- Low inventory - people aren't moving, especially older people, with pandemic uncertainty

- Record increase in savings + equities values increasing

- Huge increased cost in rennovation materials / building materials limiting new supply

What's impetus for that to normalize?
It’s a smart model I have to say. I continue to use JetBrains no matter where I work and I take the cost of the sub as a business expense on my taxes and get a deduction, so it in the long run costs even less
This is the sort of feature that you build for one purpose and then leverage for something bigger. We do this all the time - in the small - with refactoring.

Jetbrains has plenty of code for remote debugging and such, and other IDEs have language server support. Leveraging existing tech like this to then sell a tablet app that is basically a control panel? I could see that making it through design committees.

But writing it from scratch just for tablet? That’s a hard sell.
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Elon Musk has stated that SpaceX would not have survived without its first NASA contract.
This is a shoddy article that serves only to undermine efforts to deal effectively with Covid, in return for some clicks and eyeballs.

Firstly, the entire premise of the article is not grounded in fact, it's based on multiple in-conclusive statements and reports. Just read the language in the first few sentences - "almost certainly", "appears to be partly based on", "seems to be an exaggeration". But the article then proceeds as if that were fact.

It then tries to reach unsupported conclusions that feed into a convenient narrative at the expense of an inconvenient reality.

That outdoor transmission may have been low is inseparable from the fact that the general population HAVE been distancing, cleaning, masking and other responses. So to conclude that since "<10% is too big of an estimate" masks should not be required for any outdoor activity is gross.

It signs off by concluding that Britain's drop in death rate since January is based on Britain being locked down indoors and carefree outdoors completely ignores the fact that vaccinations have been ramping up.

If you have a genuine conclusion then you don't need weasel words and misleading logic to tell your story.
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Most working class people are both time and money poor. To be in a position to buy time back for a better life is a rare privilege, and I'm grateful to be in that position myself.
This sounds like a stretch to me. You can modify anything to do something that it wasn't designed to do. Even if the firmware was 100% hack proof, you could just toss in your own hardware. I'm having a hard time figuring out which “privacy nightmare” is opened up by this that isn't already a commercialized device that you could buy on Amazon. It seems much more likely that an attacker would simply use one of those devices.
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Exactly, and not everyone is in white collar high paying job.

I have few friends that are in a saving vicious cycle, high rent and cost of living eat up saving so that they save little. This makes them resigned and depressed - so the spend money on stuff to make them happy.

Having 25 yr old tell you that they will be able to afford a down-payment in 20 years is a telling sign.
How many jobs do early 20’s people have to compare it with? They might also have a bias as it is their first job out of school and are excited about meeting other people.

Also the pandemic where 600k people died in the US alone might put a damper on things.
Note that the Candela people have videos of their boats running smoothly in waves up to 1.2m.

People used to say that electric cars were "nowhere near being a practical solution" until suddenly they were.
It's not only "bikeshedding", there are (in my understanding) significant inference issues that happen if we were to enable this, and that would have to be dealt with in a satisfactory way.
there are 4 devs, so 69k per year.

I don't how it is in USA. but that's less than your 90k/year figure by a significant amount
You’re viewing this entirely from the employer’s point of view, which doesn’t seem prudent considering the shortage of qualified programmers and what not. Whether or not people are more productive from home is a moot question when the worker says “I don’t care, I want to work from home, good luck replacing me in this market”.
I agree - all else equal, I think workers should expect a pay bump if they are indeed equally or more productive at home. I'm working under the assumption that they're less productive, in which case it's a matter of how to maximize the productivity to cost ratio (from the perspective of the company).
What's cooler than cars that run on electricity? Cars that run on JavaScript.
How is this significantly different from:

1) link JavaScriptCore

2) download JavaScript code from the internet

3) provide code to JSC

4) ???

5) Profit!