skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to the author for sharing a breakdown and analysis that could be helpful to folks considering the leap to freelancing.

I would add three related things to consider that were not highlighted by the author:

1. Business acquisition costs

2. Risks of being fired

3. Freedom to hire and fire clients

Business acquisition costs -- One benefit of being a salaried employee is that you don't have to allocate resources to source clients to will pay for your services. A freelancer has to spend some of their own resources (time, money, energy) on “business acquisition costs” to maintain their work pipeline flowrate commensurate to the duration and nature of the gigs that they land. This has to be accounted for in the freelancing budget.

Risks of being fired -- Despite best-laid plans, a freelancer may find themselves scrambling if a client contract ends earlier than anticipated. Freelancers are the first to get “fired” from projects that are downscoped or downsized. Therefore, freelancers have to expend more energy and develop more skills managing relationships and accurately “reading the tea leaves” than employees typically bother to do. It helps to have multiple simultaneous contracts so that if one terminates, some cash is still flowing in. If there is only one contract, a freelancer should start building and maintaining a work pipeline of even a few small projects. And, must bank as much as possible to build up a buffer. These are good practices for both freelancers and employees. The main difference is that most employees, unlike most freelancers, believe they have more job security than they actually do, and have to develop an action plan from scratch when they are fired. The only job security is recognizing the true nature of job insecurity and constantly acting to mitigating that risk.

Freedom to hire and fire clients -- The two points above is to call out that a freelancer actually has two jobs: the work they are doing for clients and the work they have to do to run their own business. A freelancer who figures out how to run their business well gets the biggest benefit of all — the ability to “hire and fire clients”. Not interested in what a client is asking you to do, or feeling that you are generating more value than you are being fairly compensated for? Negotiate a new agreement or an exit with them and move to something better. Hear about another project that is really interesting to you? Expend the resources required to chase and add it to your portfolio of work. It’s the rarer employee that has this level of freedom to make the most use of their working hours, and it is literally priceless.
I've seen the video that makes that claim but it's just plain wrong, if you look at an Intel Air the whole main board complete with heat sinks lives in a duct formed by the rear section of the chassis.
[Australia]: "Hold my beer"
A eureka moment was required for you to realize that... alcohol induces hangovers?
I did this with another Google product and I'd be surprised if they didn't know that both accounts belong to the same person.
Trust Among Corvids
Yes. Sometimes science seems silly for confirming things we think we already know. But if we don’t confirm them scientifically (especially when the stakes are high) we aren’t much better off than the magically-minded folk… Also, vaccine effectiveness in the real world is an important area of study, surely it’s good to know with higher certainty that the vaccine is effective against today’s disease, no?
Double check your color space in settings. For a screen recording you want 4:4:4 (look for "rgb" or something); often video cameras are 4:2:2 or 4:2:0.
Tang ping sounds a lot like the Church of the Subgenius's "Slack".
Those who desire to trade freedom for security deserve neither.
While I don't think it's a likely theory, 5 years from "we should do it", to design, to testing, to preparing fabrication at scale, to design of the system around it, etc doesn't sound unreasonable. I would be really surprised if Apple decided the Arm migration after 2015.
You mean masks didn't work?
I've a Dell precision 5530 for work, absolutley roasting, continuously, even under no load. It's so bad, I'm switching to a mac book pro 16. Seems like out of the frying pan and into the fire for me!
How would you define it?
One of my fav comments of the day, tbh. <3
> They live in their own space, you don't (often) pipe stuff in or out of it.

Well that's not true at least for vim.

: read !FOO

will run the FOO command and read the results back into the current buffer. I usually search my codebase by reading the results of a grep into a temporary buffer and 'gf'ing to the appropriate file
No. You are correct.
Sorry for my late reply. I'm currently at work- I'll make sure to reply when I knock off. Have a great day :)
It is not tautological.

Vaccines are designed and created based on enormous body of knowledge gathered over the past century.

We know it works for sure because of trust in all that knowledge. We know what viruses are, how they work in principle. We can use that knowledge to predict what is going to happen if we disrupt how they multiply or spread or gain access to our cells.

That knowledge is not self evident -- it has been hard won by generations of scientists.
The 16" Macbook pro starts at $2,399!

With an i7
That comparison makes no sense to me. I found one person making this claim on Twitter and Gentoo bug tracker (plus a couple posts in different languages reciting his quoted claim).

The part about being able to link AGPLv3 code, I'm not sure what is supposed to emphasis. Care to expand?
> Yes, the pilgrims preferred beer over water because the water kept killing them. Drinking tea or beer was a matter of safety, not mere preference or addiction.

That's a myth.
It's not just the hack attacks. It's the troll farms spreading lies on social media, the kompromat, blackmail, and bribery of senior politicians, and the obvious attempts to disassemble social democracy around the world.

"Sponsored" regime change is so much cheaper and more efficient than lobbing nukes at your enemies.
> how do you handle no downtime deployments?

I take the few second downtime hit on each deploy. I know, it's iNsAniTy but it's really not. A 5 second blip a few times a week is no biggie for most SAAS apps or services.

To me that's well worth the trade offs of not having to deal with a load balancer, a container orchestrator tool, dealing with database migrations that need to be compatible for 2 versions of your app as it's being rolling restart and all of the other fun complexities of running a zero down time service.

You can still architect your app in a flexible way (env vars, keeping your web servers stateless, uploading user content to S3 or another object store, etc.) so that moving to something like Kubernetes is less painful if / when the time comes. It's just for me, that time has never come.

> how do you backup data?

A background job / cron job runs every few hours and does a pg_dump to a directory in a block storage device. Could easily change that to be S3 too. Just comes down to preference. Personally I found it easier to drop it into block storage since it's just copying the file to a directory.
There was a time in American cinema and television when most major characters were using tobacco and alcohol on screen in a highly conspicuous manner. I don't recall the specific details, but I think I remember reading that tobacco and alcohol use was written into scenes by advertisers to promote smoking and drinking. There are certain decades of film and television production where you rarely see a scene without a lit cigarette or pipe and a glass of liquor.
That doesn't seem like a new feature. I can access that encoder on OBS 26.1.2 on a M1 Mini under Output -> Recording -> Encoder
It requires an invite code
Not sure why you're mentioning Mozilla here, the only thing in common with the submission is that it happens to be hosted under mozilla.org. The ECMAScript Internationalization API seems to have been written and contributed to by mostly non-mozillians, none of the contributors listed at https://webplatform.github.io/docs/apis/internationalization... are related to Mozilla as far as I can tell.

Project Fluent is a great recommendation though, haven't seen before but looks really useful.
I was going to post something very similar, as I would use it specifically to watch videos that want me to give up information and sign in. I don't find that reasonable, thus I adjust accordingly my taking these countermeasures.

You are being downvoted to suppress your well thought out information. It would be nice if HN had a public ledger of who up or down voted a post. You would click on the post and could see which usernames voted and which way. It would bring much needed transparency to combat these information suppression abuses.
The problem I’ve seen is that it often goes more like “do we really need 4 copies, can’t they share?”, “isn’t the 2020 version still enough for 2021?”, or “isn’t that all online anyway?”, and even if it works $300 after overhead isn’t much developer time. Trying to do it sideways like this can be frustrating at large companies because the same place which will pay an enterprise vendor 7 figures to have the privilege of training the vendor’s support contractors will nickel and dime you for less familiar arrangements.

The bigger problem to me is that maybe I could do that for Perl but it’d be even harder to say I need printed docs for every single CPAN module used on a project. Maybe if the core Perl team gets a ton of support they can spread some around but that’s tricky to match to the projects most in need.
>We know what viruses are, how they work in principle. We can use that knowledge to predict what is going to happen if we disrupt how they multiply or spread or gain access to our cells.

I think that's a misapprehension of how drug development works in practice. The models can lead towards discoveries, but most drugs fall out of the pipeline due to being unexpectedly unsafe or ineffective. The "checking if it actually works" step is the most important part of medicine by a large margin.
What was using the CPU? If it was “kernel_task” an external fan will help.
Google helps map millimeter of human brain tissue that comes in at 1.4 petabytes
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COVID deaths are plunging across the northern hemisphere, because of seasonality effects.

For example Ukraine has vaccinated only 2.3% of its population with at least one dose, but COVID cases are down 81% from peak and are continuing to decline.
Yet, the Oktoberfest is such a small and insignificant detail of our culture. It’s a big party, mostly for tourists. After those two weeks, many people I know take a monthlong abstinence, and life carries on. Binge drinking happens, but it’s definitely nothing regular.
Moderna works. Pfizer works. JJ works.

Chinese vaccines though…
Raylib Syntax Analysis
The mechanism of action I've seen is that sometimes OBS will start on, say, internal graphics, and you'll need to force it to run on your discrete graphics card in order to get it to screen capture your video game.

This affects computers that have both integrated and discrete graphics (say, to save power on a laptop).
As remitamine explained[1]:

> it's not about the issue not related to the US, it's that youtube won't allow access to the video when you're accessing a non-embedable age-restricted video from the EU with passing the new age verification requirement, youtube-dl can't simply bypass this condition.

>> I just connected to a US server using VPN, and this is the report i got:

> you didn't pass the cookies.

and fosam amplified[2]:

> If you connect from the EU and have not verified, there is no way without the VPN. If you have already verified your account you can just pass the cookies and download.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...

[2] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578#issuecom...
How good is poker AI these days?

Can the best players still be profitable against computers?
I thought it was called mx. Turns out that there was one called 'mx' and it was based on the VEST codebase and was for Ultrix binaries.

"ULTRIX MIPS Translation
The translator that converts
ULTRIX MIPS programs to DEC
OSF/1 AXP programs is called mx.
The mx project started after VEST
was functional, and we took advantage of the VEST common code base
for much of the analysis and Alpha
AXP code assembly phases of the
translator. In fact, about half of the
code in mx is compiled from the
same source files as those used for
VEST, with some architectural specifics supplied by different include
files. The C+ + language has proven
quite valuable in this regard. "
I work in defense and mostly agree with that they are saying. The GAO and DIB both agree that defense procurement is broken af.
VS code has nice features but man.. every time I close the editor an update gets applied. I uninstalled because of that.

Lately I prefer purpose built IDEs for whatever task is needed. I’m over with editor evangelism. :)

Funny thing is a lot of the features are... just like a file system or Perl script to rip through and replace strings.
That's true. I just realized everything I knew was a lie. :D

NSDAP goose-stepped into office without winning a plurality of votes, almost like what happens in other countries with Electoral Colleges.
You're basically paying the SE tax in order to be independent, but the Solo 401k higher contributions and all the write-offs are major offsets to that.

Check into short-term health plans if you don't use much healthcare - esp if you don't need to cover a family. $170/mo. (plus the deduction - effective cost $100) vs. $600/mo for Obamacare.
A single powerful host can run a quite large business; you might put two identical instances of that host behind a loadbalancer to reduce downtime due failures or upgrades/deployments, and for a single pair of hosts complex orchestration is IMHO overkill, you can just manually run the deploy on one host, wait for it to start working properly, and then upgrade the other.
> the probability that I read or work on a side project drops close to 0.

As someone who has done quite a few major projects on personal time and reads quite a lot as well: I personally have found the attitude that I must always be working on something or "improving myself" far more dangerous than excessive drinking.

Certainly there is balance, and I obviously don't advocate giving up all personal projects in order to drink. But the fact that many people on HN, myself included, feel bad if they're not working on some side project or improving some skill is its own kind of escapism.

I drink and smoke weed a lot more now then when I was younger. I still get many projects done, and read a ton, but there is a certain value to an evening spent stoned just getting lost in a video game or listening to music. Reflecting on it now, I also find that by any objective measure the output from my personal projects is always probably a bit higher now, though I have a lot more fun.
As much as I believe Putin to be a crackpot totalitarian, they will not keep it closed for too long. It seems more like a one time "look what we can do to you people" show of force.
AWS elastic beanstalk supports docker compose files
I should have been clearer. I meant that if it was shown to be effective in clinical trials, then it's unsurprising that it worked when deployed in practice.
Re weight, original article:

> The station wagon, with its roomy trunk, wide interior, and seating, as in the now-collectible Buick Roadmaster Estate, for up to eight people (or fewer people plus equipment, bikes, or pets) clearly answered this demand. These vehicles boasted powerful engines and could weigh well into the 4,000-pound range.

> The main benefit of an SUV in a crash is its heavy weight, which as mentioned above, many station wagons had too.

I don't think the author is thinking lighter weight when it comes to station wagons.
You don't set co-founder equity based off of what has been done. It's based off of a forward looking perspective. How big of a role will this person play, and in what areas, on a go forward. Is this person going to help you get to the promised land? It sounds like you value them as a resource to help you hit a deadline. It's unlikely they value themselves that way. It'll help the conversation along of you ask them what role they see themselves playing on the next 12-24 months.

If you want to get the best price, you'll need to have an alternative.

I'll re-iterate the previous comment. Whatever you propose should be a starting point for a larger conversation.
It wasn't north of half a mil, though that does sound nice. It was $300k when I started and just over $400k when I left five years later, which is all data that is entirely accessible through the organization's public 990 filings.

To inform this conversation a bit, the biggest driver of salaries is the market cost of domain expertise and leadership. Wikimedia's salaries are pegged to a basket average of leading US non-profits, but (particularly for more experienced staff) dramatically below market rates for technology organizations.

You cannot run something at the technical and social scale and complexity of Wikimedia without exceptionally talented people, and you can't compete for talent without some degree of competitive salary. Although Wikimedia employees leave a lot on the table in order to work for a mission-driven non-profit (comparative compensation but zero upside equity), it isn't sustainable (or arguably ethical) to ask people to work for significantly less than the value of their labor.

IMHO, the Wikimedia ecosystem organizations could (and perhaps should) be significantly better resourced than they currently are in order to serve the mission of the organization. Currently most of the funding goes into servicing the existing infrastructure, much of which is dominated by the scale of the largest, largely European-language, Wikipedias.

To truly serve the world free knowledge, and serve it well, Wikimedia would need to continue to invest in increasing its global competences, often in regions/languages/markets where operations are more challenging, with commensurate cost. That would mean scaling up that expertise, whether language engineering or legal. All that costs money, which is why so much of the world is so poorly served by businesses with ROI models.

Fortunately, that's not Wikimedia, and will never be. And hopefully, it will also never be the case that some loud people on the internet dissuade the projects, movement, and organization from investing in the necessary capacity to sustain the remarkable good it does for so many hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of millions yet to come.
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Well, great sometimes. Not great if you don't trust a random 3rd party to host essential client-side code for you or if you don't feel like running yet another, maybe unsupported in the future, service for the next X years.
To be fair, a fan takes away from potential heatsink space and eliminates contact from heatsink to shell. A fan based cooling system can actually be worse than a fanless setup... especially if they're the Macbooks with constrained intakes. (virtually all of them)

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-17-my-cooli...

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/14/cncd-macbook-breathes-easy/

https://www.ifixit.com/News/6882/why-i-drilled-holes-in-my-m...
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This study was conducted in the Southern Hemisphere.
The strains in the wild at the time of the clinical trials are different from the strains in the wild now. Furthermore, the trials did not test herd immunity, only direct immunity.
I'm not sure I understand this idea. Whether you assign the rights to FSF or not, the situation is not different. (For the project) If the employer owns the rights, the copyright assignment is illegal and void - the employee never had the right to do it. It's a bigger hassle for the employee who lied, but gcc would be in the same situation.

"That way they are absolutely sure that there will never be a problem." just doesn't seem correct in that case.
> "do not drink to excess" is a lesson the Greeks told us with their own myths and stories.

Thank goodness the Roman's brought new light to Bacchus who shows us that excessive temperance is always punished more severally than excessive indulgence.
Have you filed a detailed bug report?
For anyone curious I timed the same build on a Ryzen 5800X (thanks Docker for making it easy).

-j8
real 5m53.255s
user 45m33.966s
sys 4m19.954s

-j16
real 4m31.947s
user 63m36.096s
sys 6m8.550s
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Which is why I have been very wary on why almost the entire industry has moved to biometrics. In a way its a cheap way of throwing the privacy gauntlet back to the user rather than standing up to governments.
>On a planet with seven and a half billion people becoming more connected and tech-savy everyday, security by intimidation simply isn't a viable solution, or a meaningful component of a larger solution.

It absolutely is and must be a viable component. Those increasingly connected people are also increasingly vulnerable in real-world ways that go well beyond tech. And, it is near impossible to completely secure networks/systems with their near limitless attack surfaces.

Treating it as a game of cat and mouse in which you know the mouse will invariably lose with some regularity, then consigning yourself to ever playing the mouse is disastrous policy.
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