skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I am familiar with Berlin rates and this person is right. 400 USD (337 euros) an hour is unrealistic, unless you are hiring Cure53 specifically because employee X did groundbreaking research on topic Y and that's why you need that expertise; only then would I expect Mozilla to agree to that sort of rate. The range is more likely to be 110 - 250 euros per hour, where both ends are fairly unlikely but it's not as if I have comprehensive industry-wide data on everyone's financials. (I'm not that kind of hacker, heh.)

The sibling commenters are right, though, that the hourly rates charged by the company are not very related to how much you earn as a person. I wish I got my hourly rate as salary, but I see what kind of organisational crap the founder has to do and it's just not worth the headache to me.
Do you really believe that inflation is only 5%? I don't. I see big price increases across the board.

BTW, what the shares of one company does means nothing in this discussion. What the S&P 500 does means something.
“APCs are waived for authors from developing countries that APS offers free online access to under the SRKS Program.”:
https://journals.aps.org/pra/authors#pubcharges

“submission in some electronic formats qualifies for a publication charge discount (Physical Review Letters) or waiver (Physical Review A, B, C, D, E, Applied, Fluids). Acceptable formats for the discount or waiver are currently REVTeX (preferred), LaTeX, Harvmac, or MSWord”: https://journals.aps.org/pre/authors/submission-faq#discount
I could see it making sense. If you needed to iterate over thousands of elements, that's a fair amount of headroom /time spent on HTTP connection building for what is probably a simple operation. In particular, being able to POST a large collection in a batch seems useful.
haha, nice.

spoiler alert:

The secret for me is to realize the fingers are on the same spot at the same time twice each rotation.
Agreed, I now greatly regret it knowing what I know about the theory of learning, but I crammed my entire way through college and graduated with honors. It's embarrassing to say but I can recall close to 0 of the facts or formulas that I regurgitated onto any of my exams.
What takes them so long to sell their VPN worldwide? Would love to become a user.
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Judge rescinds order stripping unvaccinated Pilsen woman of child custody rights
The ones I've seen have a slanted pedal-powered conveyor belt inside the bowl. Liquids run down to the front, and then you pump the pedal a few times to crank the solids to the back.
I spent a lot of time on the home page wondering if this is a network database server or an embedded database library.
Right there with you. Aaron was basically a martyr for the cause of bringing free access of information to the common person. To see a huge part of his life's work trampled under the feet of an internet mob in the name of corporate interest is a disgrace.
>> Also, “don’t worry, just look at the monthly payment” is something that should only ever be said by a car salesman.

> On a 30 year fixed mortgage what else matters?

I think the general criticism regarding monthly payments is more targeted at products like interest-only mortgages, which were hot in the early oughts. Those aren't as common these days. Maybe some people have 10/1 ARMs and similar in mind, but that's a stretch. (Anyhow, today the spreads between ARMs and 30-year are ridiculously small.)
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I agree, but if you read the full text that I quoted out of context, it briefly concludes with the importance of setting boundaries, so your concerns are taken into account. I think if you read the entire text you'll agree that this isn't a problem.
That's terrible news. When middlemen are thriving, everyone else loses.

Travel was already horrible after 9/11 and the idiotic anti terrorism rules.

The myriad of different covid regulations make traveling ridiculously hard, even for people who are vaccinated, at least in Europe.

I was planning a multi countries trip and I gave up after a week of trying to find reliable testing facilities for a good price, matching with flights, matching with Airbnbs.
My stomach ulcer started to act up because of the extra stress so I decided to avoid the pain.

We'll just book a one way flight, do one stupid test, cross one border, stay in one country and book everything last minute after we know we passed whatever idiotic rules are valid at the moment.
That's when you borrow money from all your competing banks that are offering negative interest rates, pay off your depositors, and profit from the interest.
For the same reason that we generally believe that my right to clean drinking water outweighs your right to dump toxic waste in a river, even if it is useful to you.

Some doors are very difficult to un-open, and caution is warranted when making sweeping changes to space that may do any number of negative things, including make future spaceflights more difficult, make ground-based space research impossible (increasing the price of future space research and making satellites the only way to do get good data), etc.
An exercise to improve your visual perception
In France there was this TV series called "Culture Pub" (translates to "ad culture"). It used to showcase some of the better ads, talk about them etc. I remember it being a pretty cool watch.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_Pub

That video was great btw. Definitely a high quality ad. But like others said, one good example doesn't a good industry make. (Or like I said in a recent previous post: The ad industry can burn)

And frankly, that last-second transition to a product placement was pretty off-putting. It would have given me a weird taste in my mouth if you hadn't told me it was an ad from the get go. But this might be a cultural thing, too.

If you want examples of great ads, I really like Jay Foreman's goofy sponsorship sketches on YouTube. Here's a video to get you started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9iO_HEe14 (audible ad starts at 5m33s)

(By the way, Map Men is a fantastic series, quick plug to his channel…)
It's not the white & black static screen your link shows.

Looks green like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uz5hS5cJW0&t=49s
Can anyone comment on Cowen's economic/political view? Last I've heard he's kind of a dying breed of Hayek supporter, but looking at his wikipedia page - it seems like even he has adopted a much more sympathetic view towards bigger government.

Not to say anything about libertarian - I'm just curious.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If I spent my life being a histrionic dick, I would fully expect to be treated in a way that minimised the damage I could do to other people. Containing and minimising the narcissist in the workplace is the only way to remain sane. Try working with one and use the principles in the thread article and see how it works out. I've tried it, the consequences were brutal.
Don't Touch: The Story of the U-Force (Gaming Historian) [video]
You are 100% wrong.

Whatever financial aid you receive is paid to you as the student, as a literal check, once the cost of attendance is paid to the institution. You can then use that money to pay for whatever you want. Some low-income students actually get paid to go to community college because of PELL and state aid packages, even without loans.

Google, "Financial Aid Refund".
These are precisely the areas where government has a role to play but more often than not, this is precisely where FTC, FCC and rest of the alphabet soup seems to fail.
the borders should actually be closed, these people are helping spread variants quickly
An environment for software development is much more than an OS. There are tools and systems that are installed onto it. People also have preferences, so there really isn't a one size fits all.

A better question may be "How do you maintain parity for your developer systems?"

This is more complex than using something like Packer or Ansible to create a consistent VM. How do you know if the developer changed something manually?
Related to that, it seems quite bad UX that I had to go through the configurator, and create an account, before I found out that they only ship to the US.

In full size mode (desktop) there is a visible selector for the country, but I just assume this was language selector.
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Care to elaborate? Is there any scientifically backed rational for confidently “predicting” there will be no health risks caused by this contamination? No one here has provided any citations yet.
That's very annoying. I guess they don't prioritize your user path; I'm sure they would fix that, if there were 100 million users just like you. Sorry to hear that.
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Had they won JEDI that might not have been the case
Also helps if you want to hang something on the wall.
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>> Yet the connections GPT-3 makes are not illusory or concocted from thin air. It and many other machine learning models for natural language processing and generating do, in fact, track and reproduce real features of the symbolic order in which humans express thought. And yet, they do so without needing to have any thoughts to express.

Unfortunately there are plenty of people who seem to do that as well.

>> But the purpose of thought — what thought is good for — is a question widely neglected today, or else taken to have trivial, self-evident answers. Yet the answers are neither unimportant, nor obvious.

I thought the entire purpose of having a brain is to A) predict the future and B) plan for it ahead of time by C) making predictions about outcomes based on our various possible actions. The entire purpose of the brain is to predict and control. That's why projection is so important.
Mozilla VPN advantage: a company far more reputable than almost any other VPN provider for doing all the things people say they want a VPN for.

Mozilla VPN disadvantage: Mozilla is probably far less tolerant of all the things most people actually use a VPN for.
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I commend you on your small but heroic action
Honestly, I think the main difference between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is their PR. Elon Musk portrays himself as an affable nerd who posts memes on Twitter, whereas Bezos has forgone a hair transplant and embraced the Lex Luthor look.

In the early days of SpaceX, they filed a lawsuit asking the government to dismantle the company that was their main competitor for EELV[1] and no one blinked an eye. I don't think it hurt their recruiting at all. If you eventually[2] get good results from your product, it seems like people are willing to overlook litigiousness.

[1]: http://images.spaceref.com/news/2005/spacex.summons.and.comp...

[2]: Emphasis on eventually. Blue Origin hasn't put a payload in orbit yet, but OTOH when SpaceX tried to dissolve ULA neither had they.
This door is trivial to un-open. If we decide the Starlink constellation is a net negative for humanity, we just need to refrain from launching any more of them. The existing ones will deorbit themselves within a few years at most.
No, I mean like “you're not allowed to consider whether a user is behind a VPN when making decisions”.
Not OP, but I can think of two reasons – too many LEO satellites can actually hinder views of the night sky[0] and additionally, the risk of kessler syndrome[1].

I'm in no way equipped to give a scientific risk assessment of either, so I'll defer to others to share if they feel it's major concern. But whether these are present issues or not, they're worth considering and thinking about as we move forward with more LEO deployments. The latter issue especially, given that once it occurs, it'll be extremely difficult (nigh impossible?) to rectify in short order.

[0] https://astrobites.org/2020/09/25/leosats/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Denmark appears to be slowly allowing it as well, in june this year it became legal to live in a autocamper without an address. But you do need to then have a contact listed, whom the Department for motor vehicles can contact in your place. This contact needs a permanent address, so it doesn't entirely remove the address requirement.
AOL died because the world went broadband and AOL was dial-up. That's it. That's the only reason. It was pretty good in a lot of other ways, and I'd argue there's still a place for it today.

If you think FB is destined for failure because AOL failed, you're crazy.

FB is still on the leading-edge of change in this industry (Oculus). There's zero sense of stagnation in that company.
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I dont think this article questions if this is legal. Many companies do things that are Legal but are perhaps unethical or just not aligned with consumer interests.

Your focus on legality to me is completely irrelevant at this stage. People want to discuss if this decision was a good idea or bad idea.
> In your example is A->B->C->D a series of staged release environments in the pipeline?

Yes.

> Something like a graduated rollout? If that's the case then I'd say that frequency depends on how you define deployment.

I don't see why. If you imagine that you have only two stages, "staging" and "prod", and a requirement that things spend 24 hours pre-prod before being deployed, you can deploy each day to staging, and the next day to prod.

If you then add additional stages, you can have it spend 8 hours on each stage, deploying to prod every 8 hours, so a higher frequency, but any given build is still preprod for 24 hours, so frequency has tripled without a change in latency.
Those times are less rare than you'd think. I've been in plenty of situations where I've needed to develop something in an environment with sketchy/nonexistent network access. Not to mention that even in ideal conditions you're now maintaining two separate machines instead of one, and not to mention that if you're doing all your development over VNC or RDP or something you're now introducing some rather annoying latency between your fingers and your eyes.

Having done development work by remoting into another machine (specifically, RDPing into a "dev" server to use vendor-specific IDEs/tooling), I can't say it was an even remotely pleasant experience. I would've sooner preferred doing that work directly on my own machine, or at the very least in a VM if a specific OS and configuration is necessary.
If you have a controversial, non-mainstream opinion you need to be extremely rigorous with verifying your information. That’s something NNN users didn’t do enough of. They got banned for a fake pedo sub being created by someone (maybe a member, maybe a brigadier) that was then used to say “look at the people supporting vaccine mandates… pedos.” That claim got upvoted on NNN so it made them look like they’d upvote anything.

Should be a lesson to everyone to check the claims of the poster from multiple sources so you can call it out before it goes viral.

NNN needed more posts about the science supporting their views against vaccine mandates, and less BS about left-wing globalist conspiracies.

For example prior infection offers way better immunity than the vaccine… https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

Actually the difference is so large that if we were to restrict people it should be based on who had the virus. Those who caught it or not are a bigger difference in having a chance to spread it than those who are vaccinated or not. So maybe we should have an antibody mandate - not a vaccine mandate?
> if documentation is the metric, the organization will prioritize documentation, regardless of its effect on delivery. If working code is the metric, documentation may still happen if it helps to deliver working code.

IMO, good organizations should have both metrics. You should document your intent, and then you should be able to show that it worked out after the fact. "Working code" is a lagging metric with many dimensions (functional, secure, performant, etc.). If your only reason to believe you will get to working code on all those dimensions on a 6 month+ project is that the person who is building it thinks it's right, that's a big risk.

It seems like you're describing a particular kind of dysfunctional org where there's top-down mandates for forms of documentation that aren't valuable for sharing plans or informing later decisions. That hasn't been my experience of how design is done where I've worked, where writing designs is a collaborative process that starts with your team.
I would unpack "gutsy" with its overtones of grudging admiration, into a lot harsher terms related to toxic narcissism and what amounts to a pissing contest between competitive men.

I suspect there is a natural evolutionary curb on the somewhat sociopathic qualities at work, whereby bravado is kept in some check by self-culling being commonplace.
Demanding clean orbits at deployments with built-in short term decay trajectories is a funny hill to die on though.
Brilliant summary. I would need a VPN mostly to visit some sites while spoofing my location, testing my competitions ux in other countries etc.

I can also see because of Mozilla's reputation employers offering these VPN free of cost to their employees.
If they're on LEO, what's the big deal? Starlink's satellites have a lifetime of around 10 years before they get pulled back into the atmosphere by gravity.
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The SpaceX lawsuit against Kistler was nothing like the Blue Origin efforts to kneecap SpaceX. They were fighting for survival in a biased competitive environment against a lazy, unproductive, but politically-connected rival.

See https://qz.com/emails/space-business/2049413/ .

Blue Origin is just rolling rocks downhill on the enemy camp, hoping to get lucky. Because hey, it's easier than putting payloads into orbit, right? They need to lead, follow, or GTFO the way.
The science is there to affect/improve/save people's lives. Those comments are talking about people's lives.
Are you just making up things?

“ Users do not need to unlock, show, or hand over their device to present their ID.”

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first...
> I need it now vs I need it next month

Is this figurative or do you really get a discount for planning it one month ahead where you're from? From my (n=2 employers) experience, projects are usually planned at least two months ahead (if it's not busy; end of year you can expect 4-5 months).

The executive summary thing is also interesting. We take maybe 30 minutes at the end to sum up what we tested, which issues we found (particularly the impact in semi-layman's terms, depending on the impression we got from the contact person), and sometimes if there are big omissions from the scope that smell foul and someone (us or another company) really should still have a look at then we might remark that there as well. But we don't charge a day's rate for a short summary. I guess what you mean is more substantial than this?
Gab is actually useful. It only take on or two banned persons to make it worth joining Gab. I post about meat, get spammed bible verses (some better than others), and follow Milo and vox day.

GAB is a sleeper community, only missing an App.