skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Success as a freelancer comes down to two attributes:

1. Marketable skills

2. Finding and keeping customers

It has little to nothing to do with formalities of company formation or the appearance of having a business. I don’t know about the UK specifically but most freelancers I know operate as sole proprietors, which has almost no formalities or government paperwork required. Formalities are a distraction so do the minimum necessary to get to making money.

Your customers may or may not know about your medical condition or other personal issues, and they may or may not care. Ultimately customers care about results, and not having to manage you day-to-day. You can’t make your personal issues or choices their problem or they will find someone else.

Back to (1) and (2)… Marketable skills come mainly from experience, and may or may not equal technical skills. Lots of people can write Java code or set up a server on AWS. Those are not problems businesses have, even if presented in those terms. Businesses have problems like “web site too slow and crashes” or “we’re losing customers” or “shipping costs are too high.” If you can effectively address business problems (which may require technical skills) you will have customers. If you try to market a list of technical buzzwords you won’t. Sifting through Upwork and Fiverr all day long and sending out lowball proposals is not successful freelancing.

Finding customers requires initiative and works best through word of mouth (reputation and track record) and contacts (referrals). Leverage those. Many freelancers start by contracting back to their f/t employer and then branching out. Keeping customers is a simple function of (a) good communication and (b) delivering what you promise.

I’ve freelanced for over a decade, traveled around the world while doing that, and I have more work than ever, from solid long-term customers. I have some articles on my web site typicalprogrammer.com about freelancing, free, no ads, no sign up. Good luck.
I suspect big conspicuous destructions like this are the reverse of US asset confiscation; destroying the thing is a signal that you're really serious about stopping it, rather than just confiscating it and letting the police keep the proceeds.
I get despising the CCP, but your sources are significantly flawed.

For example, best laptops not made In China showed a Surface Pro 7. Which is Made in China.
> If the future of cars is autonomous to save lives, then the future of police could be the same for the same reasons.

The presumption that there is such a thing as "the future of police" is worrisome. The now nearly 200-year experiment of designating a tiny subset of the population as exclusively responsible for public safety and law enforcement goes very poorly. The abolitionist movement is as strong today as any time since the conclusion of the American Civil War.

When do we start getting serious about visualizing a future without police?
On the other hand big destructive displays like this are big signals that it’s not police corruption and theft (like with the perverse incentives “civil forfeiture” creates in the US)
> That being said, I'm pretty sure our mortgage is only digital so at least we would own our house free and clear!

Very similar to what happens in Mr. Robot where the plan is to encrypt all of the biggest worldwide bank's records so that they're inaccessible, thus wiping out the majority of debt.
>Instead of embracing retrofuturism, solarpunk looks completely to the future

This to me is an interesting point I'm skeptical about. In recent times, among some people like Nicholas Taleb and a few others there has been an appreciation for the culture of the Levant or Mediterranean that's about the commercial or city-state and pluralistic attitude of that historical region, some people even trying to start charter city movements, and so on.

It feels like Solarpunk draws heavily from that aesthetic, with its pluralism, mixture of science, diversity and faith and maritime and mercantile culture with some more focus on ecology and technology on top.

That to me very much is a form of retro-futurism, albeit drawing from a cultural background most people will be slightly less familiar with. The place of humans in Solarpunk seems very traditional, in harmony with nature, in human-scale cities, often including artisanal designs with a tech twist, but it very much does not seem future-facing. Even the punk label I think is questionable because very little about it seems transgressive or disruptive.

Solarpunk to me very much has the same sort of parochial, escapist feel of pastoral American utopianism, fleeing back to nature, except that it comes without the Christian or colonial undertones and is explicitly diverse.
I'd guess once Zig gets its package manager many target-specific packages can move out of the default installation.
I have S10e, I'm not sure I would get it today camera is not great by today standards and not sure how long it will be supported. But the form factor and the power button fingerprint reader have been great usability features - I'm sad there is no newer variant.
> battletested

Is software that is always evolving battletested ? A new version could break something.

I'm aware that sqlite has one of the best test suite in all of open source, I just wonder if something that was "battletested" is still battletested after a new release.
Your speculation is less informative then someone's evidence.
This simple calculus needs to be the basis of police armament generally, not just robotics.
I remember using hard disk drive sounds for disk usage and or capacitor noises to debug issues. But, I really like the MacBook Air M1 because its so quiet and it helps me concentrate much better and if you are talking to others or recording a talk it is silent. The other thing is that it has no moving parts so it should be very durable.
Because the fan will continue for some time after the compile finishes. So you can do work before the fan stoos
Poll: Unvaccinated Americans least concerned about Delta variant
> Rather than a fact checker maybe an algorithm could find opposing content and present this. That would force the user to make some "fact"-checks aka to think. needed to say that such an algorithms could/would be biased as well.

What do you think of a small social network composed of vetted (and always subject to review) reasonably trustworthy and fairly unbiased but definitely open minded users who decompose, fact check, and deeply debate very small volumes of stories, using a platform more sophisticated than nested discussions with voting? Something with structures like a "points for" and "points against" format, among many other novel (as far as social media goes) features, where "it is not really known for sure" is a perfectly acceptable conclusion, subject to review as new information becomes available?
I wouldn't mind paying for quality journalism, and thus support journalists like Ms Brown.

However, a digital subscription to (say) the NYT costs $4.75/week (regular rate), whereas print version costs $10. I can't share it with my family member. It costs so much more to actually deliver a physical newspaper, and printing it costs so much more. With the digital version, I can get targeted advertising, unlike the shotgun approach of print. So why does digital cost so much?

Unlike print, I am able to access digital versions of almost any newspaper out there effortlessly. This makes it much easier to browse around and cherry-pick stories from different sources. Having to pay individually for every source is untenable.

Why doesn't the newspaper industry work with companies like Google and Facebook to come up with a workable system that rewards journalists appropriately, without gouging readers?

For example, I'd be willing to pay, say, $100/year for full access to every (major) newspaper out there. Let Google track my reading and then at the end of the year, divide up this $100 proportionally to the consumption at each of the sources.
I have no problem with any of this, and I'm a full-blown police abolitionist. I love drones and their potential for public safety assurances.

However, it's a completely different discussion when we talk about arming them.
Sure we're about to go bankrupt, but it would really be inconvenient to give up my Starbuck's latte every morning. Don't you know how bland regular coffee is? And my Starbuck's only accounts for less than half a percent of my wasteful spending.
> “Now, when I go past that statue, I feel pain and shame,” said Kadhim al-Jabouri in 2016. “I ask myself”: Why did I topple that statue?” He regretted the fall of Saddam’s regime. What came after, in his opinion, was a disaster: “Saddam has gone, but in his place we now have one thousand Saddams.” Kadhim even wanted the statue back. “I’d like to put it back up, to rebuild it,” he said. “But I’m afraid I’d be killed.”
I use Pidgin as client for Telegram. I use Pidgin since ICQ.
> Unfortunately, the one browser causing the most miserability for web developers these days is Safari itself

I think it's a bit of a straw man to say that the only reason web development is hard is safari. Browser support is irreducibly difficult as long as we live in a world with more than one browser. Safari may stand out as the odd duck, but I for one don't want to stream video on my 3gb a month data connection if it has to load the full content in order to jump ahead 2min.
Amazing how brains work, I still had to read your correction about 5 times before I realized what was wrong.
I meant actual ethics - not Israeli hasbara (propaganda). Clearly, the perspective that the Israeli Defense Forces is the bravest and most moral army in the world and that everyone who resists the occupation are evil terrorists is not foreign to them! I meant real ethical questions. Do I have a responsibility if what I create is used for evil? Is "just following orders" a valid defense? Is it right to spy on people who haven't committed any crime? Is the life of a civilian on the enemy side worth less than the life of a civilian on my side?

I'm a software developer so my life is all about identifying and fixing bugs. And it is a "bug" and a big problem that developers are willing to write software to hack journalists' and activists' cell phones. We should fix this bug. More ethics education? Shunning developers writing phone hacking software? I don't know what the solution is.
It reduces the strength of SHA256 to that of SHA128, roughly speaking. 2^128 is still outside any practical reach whatsoever. (Google breaking SHA-1 after cryptanalysis still required some 2^60 operations iirc).
My understanding is that in the general case you can see a quadratic speedup, so a 256-bit search space would suddenly collapse to what is effectively a 128-bit search space.

Not a big deal by itself.
You could imagine a propulsion or even a lift mechanism closer to what is used for a hydrofoil. Modern sails or kites could improve the propulsion and handle the drag better.

I feel like we can make fast trains really worth it, but it makes the few connections I mentioned under-supported if you want to remain below a certain carbon footprint.
I don't want to download it, is there a clip of the sound anywhere?
Are you just going to ignore the evidence that goes counter to the narrative you want to establish?
Well, yes, that's kind of my point; strawmanning all sorts of scenarios distracts from taking a look at what's actually happening and creating meaningful checks and balances.
Thanks for trying it out !
Ah, yes. It doesn't work great with sectionals yet. The model does an Ok job on the kind of sofa styles it's seen during training but still needs to generalize better. Also the UI demo is a quick sub second inference. But the quality gets progressively better with iterative refinement via the API which isn't happening right now.
I'm guessing you're not in the US (or UK) where IED and PTSD acronyms have been used so much in the context of physical and psychological injury in the Middle East tha they are pop culture hard to avoid knowing. Certainly, in the US, the first term that pops up in a search for IED is:

IED

/ˌīēˈdē/

noun:
a simple bomb made and used by unofficial or unauthorized forces.

Danger UXB (UneXplodedBomb) was a popular British drama 30+ years ago.
Missing from this discussion is the understanding that speech is an inalienable right.

It does not need to be justified on consequentialist grounds, nor on the basis of the more pernicious metric of harm reduction.

Pointing a gun at someone to silence her is a form of censorship, and so is quietly erasing her from the most prevalent communications channels (deplatforming).

Figure out a way to achieve harm reduction without grotesque violations of natural rights. Until then, there will always be people who prefer dangerous speech to the safety of slavery.
I've used the other pragma, but does

PRAGMA locking_mode = EXCLUSIVE;

improve performance much?
I don't want to force FB to do anything. I want to require all social media companies to allow aggregation (though ActivityPub etc) but if Zuckerberg/Facebook decide they don't want to be in that industry, I would have no problem with them simply closing down.
I agree with all of that -- and regret the recent trend of using "PC" to mean desktop as opposed to laptop -- but what does any of that have to do with Apple's marketing?

You don't think Apple's marketing is behind the aforementioned recent trend; do you?
Because the citizen has no visibility nor control into the decisions related to what software vendor to use, what processes are for dealing with errors and issues, what terms are negotiated for licensed source access (to the police) vs managed closed source where all changes, issues, and fixes have to go thru long form scoping processes with the vendor delaying fixes, or what policies are for using and trusting these results, what polices there are for reporting and acting on inaccuracies, as well as informing the entire department/state about the inaccuracies.

The police department does, so they should be liable for those decisions.

Like, the moment there was a case of somebody being incorrectly listed as having a suspended license, the entire department should have been informed to not trust the results until the underlying issue was found and fixed.
By being actual PC compatible hardware for about a decade.
Here's my solution : generate the 1B records .sqlite file once beforehand, then before running each test, copy it over the test DB file ;)
Well, philosophy is different from (positive) science in that regard. Yes, you have to realize that the notion of emergent phenomena belongs to philosophy, where a hypothesis (it can be said that philosophy consists of hypotheses) can only be "proven" indirectly, from relevant experience (such as scientific research).
the bottom line is the u.s. needs to destroy internaitnoal oil production, as well as domestic civilian oil consumption in the leedup to engineering the next major petroleum crisis, otherwise, there will be a dollar crisis.

without 500 $ a barrel oil prices for a few years, and lot of u.s. exports, as well, the u..s cannot avoid dollar collapse.
bitcoin be damned.
So, you are in favor of things like pedophilia/child grooming online, revenge porn, defamation, false advertisement, fraud, etc. because YOUR moral may approve of it regardless of laws or harm to others. Got it.

The idea of no-regulation free for all is childish/sick nonsense. If you want to have your own nazi-phedo site/feed, host it yourself and face the cost and consequences yourself, don't force private for profit companies to do it for you for free at the expense of their brand and their advertisers.
This is awesome! I built a similar open source version a few years ago for a friend with a fanless Air, but it foolishly used system notifications and a menu bar icon instead of sound:

https://github.com/caseymrm/notafan
./build && say "done"
james webb is coming!
What's the point of The Guardian when we can just read something else?
> Is it in practice a problem? No, it's not.

This is not an assertion you can make. Because:

> Telegram doesn't, as far as we know, give access to government or other third parties to the data of the users.

Approximately every country (probably every, but haven't researched them all) has various court order types to go get this information and force secrecy on whoever is involved. Thus any information which is available to a company is equally available in secret via court orders. Nothing they can do to prevent it or tell you.
Totally agree; it's almost perfect, but this is defnly needed to get to full perfection.

While you can argue (as people do on that issue) that there are workarounds to carry error payload, the truth is if you don't make it ergonomic, many libraries will not do it, and that will filter down into software using those libraries, thus hurting the final resulting software.

I'm hopeful this feature will eventually get added.

(See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25798578)
You need a peer-reviewed research to know the difference between natural habitat and cultivated land?
Yes I understand now thanks!
I feel like you could handle Manchester to Lowestoft by train, then fly over the water The Hague and finish on a train.

Don’t get me started on the distances in Schipol: had too many race to catch tight connections at that airport…
Evergreen webviews baked into the OS are the next frontier of desktop app development. They can share a renderer and have much lower memory usage per app as a result - see the changes in Windows 11. Couple that with a lighter weight desktop compatibility shim to break out of the sandbox conditionally (like Tauri does in Rust) and this architecture can be totally fine. The issue isn’t the concept of using web technologies, it’s just the current implementation that was needed to make everything work on our existing platforms.

Mac will be a holdout because they heart native but hopefully will concede at some point because more and more people are going to deploy apps this way from here on out. It’s not worth it to employ native app developers for each platform except for the largest of the large companies.
Oh man, I hear you: I had a mess just like that, tried to find something to automatically sweep everything into a neat pile, couldn't find it, and ended up writing PhotoStructure: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/
But that's just the thing now is it. It's NOT secure, that's the problem.

* It leaks 100% of messages to server by default.

* It leaks 100% of Win/Linux desktop chats with no chance to opt out

* It leaks 100% of group message content with no chance to opt out.

* It leaks 100% of metadata with no chance to opt out.

* It always leaks the intention to hide messages from telegram chats, Telegram knows with whom you are sending secret chats, it knows when, it knows the message size etc. This metadata is extremely valuable

Telegram is not in the process of fixing these, thus its security isn't reaching the bare minimum. Thus every feature it is implementing is another way for the company to collect data about you.

It's just another Facebook, masquerading itself as "private app for the people". It's run by the man who is literally called "The Mark Zuckerberg of Russia". That man has military education on information warfare / disinformation: He knows how to create a literal cult around his product.

There's almost nothing we know about the company like who it employs, how it makes money, what it does with its data. Journalists who tried to get an interview with Durov travelled to Dubai, only to find empty offices. The office workers next door said they had never seen anyone enter Telegram offices. They suspected Telegram was using the office for tax evasion, which is not a good sign. Telegram's been very enthusiastic about a story where they're evading foreign intelligence. If that's the threat model, why is their security strategy "store all messages on one server" (like the NSA et. al. didn't have zero day exploits);

The claims about how the data stored on servers is protected, are outright lies a first year computer science student whose taken Computer Organization 101 can disprove[0]

Telegram is a dumpster fire and I'd LOVE to be able to say it's security is getting better, but it's NOT. They just implemented group video calls, are those end-to-end encrypted? No, they f'n aren't. Not even NEW features in Telegram are secure by default. You know, the features no-one asked for, that they were in no rush to deploy. It's especially condemnable as the major competition like Zoom, Signal and Jitsi all have end-to-end encrypted group video chats. Telegram staff don't care about me, you or any other user one bit. The only thing they seem to be interested in is "move fast break things" or "move fast f** security".

No matter how you put it, Schneier is right when he says data is a toxic asset[1]. Telegram can't give any guarantees data that sits in their server is forever protected, so they shouldn't be collecting it in the first place. WhatsApp is in the process of deploying client-side encrypted cloud backups. This completely shreds Durov's BS claim that Telegram has to have access to your data. There can only be two reasons they collect it: Either they don't care about your security, or they are actually interested in your data.

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/238562/how-does...

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
I think this just reinforces that the marketplace of ideas is a bust... personally. Because again, people aren't looking to evaluate rationally.
You're a good example though for why it works so well. You're not even ready to sacrifice a bit (that bit being still disputable) to gain more control over your phone by switching the vendor. Meanwhile most people wouldn't even get your first desire. We're and have lost already.
Alex Jones was able to post disinformation on the radio under his own name for years before he finally overstepped into defaming the Sandy Hook parents.
Him becoming dead might have something to do with it.
I’m not sure moving to Nashville makes much sense given the state will be plague central in the near future after having stopped encouraging vaccines for children.
Vermont's largest city has a whopping 42k inhabitants - at this scale it isn't surprising that this has no noticeable negative effects.
As in "no doubt."
Like this?

https://www.apple.com/apple-news/
> Most people strongly favor the convenience of existing SaaS services

If it was more convenient to roll your own, then I contend that many people would, and many more would have accounts on friends' servers. The difficulty shouldn't be any higher than the cost of a Pi server and spending an hour setting it up -- all of which is perfectly possible to achieve technocally.
In Excession, on multiple occassions, the Minds literally say that humans are inferior and ultimately don't matter; and there isn't a single human in the loop anywhere, even in dealing with the most important event in history of the Culture, everything is decided by the Minds. Even killing a human accidentaly in the crossfire of a secret scheme (Gestra) is alright.

Again though, the situations described are the most extreme and special, and ordinary lives are lived out in bliss and peaceful coexistence. I don't view the Minds as dystopian control-freaks, I'd be happy to let them be in charge of the universe while living out a life within the utopia they create; I can't imagine humans creating something better - most probably it'd be much worse, more like the Klingon Empire (or even the Terran Empire, maybe) than the Culture or United Federation of Planets.
I like my 15” MBP, but the fans are extremely annoying. I had to switch IntelliJ to power save mode so I can hear what I’m thinking.

It’s quite surreal the big Xeon server (an actual server, with optional rackmounts) with lots of spinning rust under the desk is still much less distracting.