skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point in our recent history, car factories were the most important and complex factories in our global economy. Now fabs have clearly taken that cultural crown from them.
asshole move to mock someone’s experience with the impact of drunk driving with sarcasm.

why don’t you try actually making an argument?

I don’t really care about this either way, but unless you can point to statistics on deaths due to drunk bicycle riding, this is a stupid slippery slope.
This gets thrown around so much now I automatically dismiss it as a lazy complaint.
Takes years, many years, of networking, and investing back into your network. Know someone who was let go and needs help finding a job? Help them find a job. This might turn into something in 3 months, maybe a year, maybe never, but it's a game of numbers.

Like any good long-term investment, you have to keep nurturing it. Continuously stay in touch with people you meet.

If you do it right, the leads come to you through natural conversations, and you don't even feel like you're selling. Without the relationships already in place, everything feels like selling, and it's exhausting and significantly harder to land strategic project work. There's no magic here, and no book or course that will tell you the secret (it's mostly snakeoil) - it just takes time and effort. It gets easier when some of these relationships lead to real opportunities, you show well, and can use that for referrals into other places as the people you meet move around.

Another route for early starters is to subcontract through established consulting firms. Our company is more of an FTE model, but when we need specific / niche skills that we don't always have in house, we consider subcontracting options. If that's something you're interested in (we're US based), I'd be happy to chat (email in profile) and see if there's anything coming up.
Is there any reason one should not just go to Sci-Hub when hitting a paywall?
InvoiceNet

https://github.com/naiveHobo/InvoiceNet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24118466
How is BitCoin a threat to power? It’s no more a threat to power than 1990s Beanie Babies on EBay.
> You seem to be making reference to an «overall execution» that appeals to the masses, not to the involved user.

Yes, because that is what counts in terms of market dominance and mass adoption of a product category. This has worked for several companies in reintroducing the smartphone and smartwatches without being 'first'. After targeting the average user, the same companies focus towards the professionals and build a version targeting them.

Thus, it is both the masses and the professionals along side the overall execution of that.

It turns out that Epson's ones appeal more towards B2B2C uses than directly towards the average user. The other way round is true for the smart glasses in this HN article but targets a niche of sports users. Neither have separate versions that targets both markets or is even remotely mass adopted.

Without targeting the masses first, they risk being disrupted by the ones that do and will lose entirely or get acquired once the disruptors begin to target the professionals. Whoever does the overall execution of all of the above for the smart glasses, simply wins.
You know, I'm glad you asked! I've been looking forward to writing these down.

Voice chat is unreliable, often requiring 2-3 attempts restarting the call to work. The calls often die midway without telling you, until you realize you're just talking into the void. Tried on multiple devices (including mobile), same result.

When I hear a message come in, I have no way of knowing where it came from. There is an inbox button, but the message at the top is not the one that made the sound, and the list appears to have some kind of infinite scroll (so it isn't at the bottom either! Or maybe it is but I'm in too many servers?). I actually did find a trick for identifying what channel a message was in, assuming it's part of a busy conversation -- clear the inbox and wait for the next one. (If it's just one message, that doesn't work.)

It also logs me out every single time I visit, often just hours apart, which I can only assume is intentional, to try and get me to download their electron spyware instead of using the web version? At least I hope it's a dark pattern and not incompetence, because I'd prefer to believe I live in a world where competence is misdirected, than one where it is absent.
We need more boutique search engines
The stated mission of a company worth almost two trillion dollars is to “organize the world’s information” and yet the Internet remains poorly organized. Or, stated differently, in a world of infinite information, it’s no longer enough to organize the world’s information. It becomes important to organize the world’s trustworthy information.
When I used to freelance I divided my marketing activities into two categories: "hunting" and "farming".

Hunting tactics include things like responding to job board ads, reaching out to people you know to see if they can help you find a gig, or going to a conference to try to find a new client. Like real hunting, hunting for clients can be fast, but it’s only successful a fraction of the time, and you don’t always get something good.

Farming tactics include things like writing blog posts, writing books, speaking at local meetups, speaking at conferences, guesting on podcasts, hosting podcasts, and other things that demonstrate your technical competence to a (if done successfully) large number of people. Farming can yield much better results than hunting, but there can be quite a long interval between the time you plant the seed and the time you get to reap the harvest. And just like in real farming, not all the seeds you plant will sprout into plants that bear fruit.

In my experience, farming tends to yield better clients than hunting, although you can't control when the clients are going to come.

I hate to say it but I think your safest bet is for you and your colleagues to each go your separate way (for now) and find contract gigs individually. In my experience it's really hard to find a client who wants to hire multiple people at once. The easiest kind of client to find is a software organization that needs a programmer and is willing to use a contractor rather than a full-time employee.

And BTW, the sad secret I learned about freelancing over the course of ~8 years doing it is that 99% of freelancers are just staff-aug contractors. They're not making great money and they don't have a special lifestyle. The only difference between most freelancers and regular employees is that the freelancers file 1099s instead of W-2s. Not trying to be a downer about it but I think it's helpful to acknowledge the reality of it.

Lastly, I've been asked many times how to get freelance clients, so I wrote a post about it here: https://www.jasonswett.net/my-advice-to-brand-new-freelance-...

Hope that helps.
This is all true, but the "rainmaker" doesn't have to be the CEO, or just one person, or even work at the company. An alternative is to find an external "rainmaker," an example that I've often seen is small consulting firms that focus on things other than development (e.g. design or organization), or focus on a different type of development (e.g. CAD/CAE), that need reliable partners to bring onto their own projects.

This is probably less good long term, but it depends on what you're trying to do as a development shop, and doesn't necessitate career changes.
Ad hominem attack
I disagree in principle. It's a form of patronage.

In practice, it's evolved into some kind of very expensive Beanie Baby collecting. Strange stuff.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feel strongly anti-screen in the car. I feel so strongly about it that I drive an old car. I want an electric car eventually, and I hope that the automakers start building all cars, including electrics, with fully tactile control surfaces (didn't Honda say they'd eliminate screens in their cars? What happened with that?). It looks less Star-Trek sexy, but it also works 50x better.

You know who gets this? Airplane pilots. They use screens but with a great deal of care.
Good point about rats.

The utility of having a cat as babysitter will have to be weighted against the risk of tripping over one, though. Tara is newsworthy because it doesn't happen as often.
Sorry for sounding like a smart-ass, but wouldn't asking an Ethiopian tech forum be better than asking Hacker News, which do not know all that much about local situations and local solutions?

Also good luck. My friend used to be in Addis Ababa, when the war was confined just to Tigray, and he said it's a great place, but he was (rightly) afraid that it will spread and escaped. It does not sound good.
About your last paragraph: the goal of these measurements would of course be to prefect you from driving at all when alcohol is detected. Suggesting that the idea is that people are slowed down on a freeway because of this seems absurd.
This article misses the very deepest level on which this is all utter nonsense:

An NFT does not actually grant you "ownership" of an image in any meaningful way. The only real way to "own" a digital image is to own the copyright to it, but NFTs do not grant you that. Sometimes, you may have a separate contract of transfer of copyright that you get along with the NFT, but the NFT is not part of that contract. You can sell the NFT on and keep the copyright, if you want.

The only thing you "own" when you buy an NFT is the NFT itself, which is basically nothing but a receipt.
I am not sure if I understand your point correctly. Are you implying that clients only hire beginners on UpWork?

I am hiring there and I certainly have to pay way more than $5 per hour. My experience is that the price for software development starts at about $25/hour. That is for a student with a little bit of experience and rather low morale. Devs with actual work experience start at about $50 per hour. Again, morale will be kinda low at that price. For a really smart, motivated dev with a lot of experience, you have to pay more.
coming up next: DAO court for NFTs dispute resolutions, funded by meme coins, official legal authority: nowhere. unofficial official legal authority: the metaverse.
I'll expound further: Any user interface that requires removing attention from the road should not be in reach of the driver while the car is operating.

Let the passenger run the laptop that controls the media center and engine profiles and flamethrowers. Have a "next track" "off" and "volume" buttons for the driver.
I guess for the terrible jobs they'll still have the benefit of a better pitch working better with the not-so-great candidates that'd be willing to do that job. :-) Obviously there's a limit to how much a recruiter can do in such cases.
mc + mcedit is much better for those, who came from DOS camp.
The utility of crypto comes from two factors: its decentralization, and its pseudonymity.

The decentralization is only useful in a world where the central authority (e.g. banking system, governments) are not trustworthy, and this excludes legal activities where a legal remedy is enormously valuable. I've heard that international transactions are a use case, but realistically if a country reneged on a financial transaction the remedy is and always would be soft- or hard-power based (diplomacy, sanctions, military).

The pseudonymity is only useful to the extent that you don't want the government to track you. But our societies have generally decided that the government should have oversight into how we spend our money to stop criminal activity. Agree or not, this is the consensus: so it makes no sense to argue that the government should then tolerate a system that undermines its rules.

If we wanted to allow anonymous transactions, we could do so much more efficiently by simply removing KYC regulations on the banks. We aren't going to do that, and in fact KYC is broadly being implemented at crypto exchanges so for the overwhelming majority of crypto users there is no real benefit: you're already centralized and everyone already knows what you're doing.

Even for the speculative investors there is limited utility: they could simply invest in derivative securities on traditional markets without incurring the incredible cost of performing crypto transactions.
Imagine getting angry over someone saving an image from the public internet. How vain and stupid does one need to be, to get pissed over this?

Sometimes I feel I am the one out of touch. Or maybe we are living in a simulated (bad) parody of life?
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of "old man yells at cloud" vibes from the discussion here. Most of the criticism makes no sense or is contradictory. Discord is searchable; discord is archivable by a bot; discord threads and channels are optional; IRC is no different; communities can be run in whatever way their owners want. The platform is pretty stable and does voice and video better than just about anyone else.

Though I think we can all agree the server bar UI is absolute garbage unusable by anyone in more than a dozen communities and needs to be punted into the solar core.

(To be clear, I do loathe communities with a hundred little channels, most of which I never even look at, and I do mute aggressively, so there are definitely client-side features missing in that regard, but I'm not blaming the community moderators for their absence.)
There is intersting things going on to provide that. Wlroots landed wlr_scene api to make it much easier to create a compositor on top of wlroots.
There is also riverwm which is quite interesting, built as a tiling wm but delegating wm management to an app, so allowing to create any quite of window management on it.
does this rectangular shape have a special mathematical property like the golden ratio or 1:4:9?
OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
Yes, it’s possible. Obviously things won’t get back to the VGA levels of size because we have higher resolution everything. But you can get similar results by thinking in terms of a memory budget, CPU budget, etc. and then measuring to make sure you stay within that. Once you’ve determined your constraints, then you’ll start optimizing when you bump up against them.
anything that is programmable (qmk/zmk/etc). though you can also use kmonad to program your keyboard. even better if it's split so you can spread it shoulder-wide.
>If you know anyone who has been affected by the callous and careless behavior of drunk drivers, ask them if they agree.

I bet if you asked 9/11 victims whether they want the PATRIOT act, they'd agree as well. That doesn't mean it's a good reason to support it, or that their feelings should be given more weight than anyone else's.
Admittedly Safari is like IE of old though, always behind on standards and broken. Apple wants you on native apps.
NFTs are stupid.
>>> we propose a one-step QSDC protocol, which only requires to distribute polarization-spatial-mode hyperentanglement for one round

So with repeaters, proven secure comms over arbitrary distances. This is a new Gold Rush ;)
The thing about game servers though is that you could run them yourself and typically choose where to do so. On your PC during a LAN party? Sure. On an always-on VPS? Sure. But wherever it was, you were always able to run it yourself, even if you ultimately might have paid someone else to run it. You're just running a server program.

By contrast, only Discord-the-company can run Discord servers.
Most forum stakeholders and moderators do OT for free, in their own time. Calling them lazy is absurd. Lazy people don't bother running subreddits, discord servers and so on.
You could play with them to. My sister had loads as toys, bought for around £10 and given away to other kids when she was too old. There was a point to beanie babies other than trying to convince some bigger sucker it had rarity value and they should pay more money for it. I bought my niece a beanie baby recently. I doubt she'd have as much fun with a cryptographic signature claiming she owned a gif.
Yeah, I mostly had in mind the first group you've described, but in my experience they are by far the biggest group. Truly "professional" recruiters are very rare.

I agree that referrals often yield the best results, but that's quite orthogonal to the problem I wanted to tackle with my article.
Why are you posting this under an article about BMW? They've done the best job at this out of all the carmakers.

You can go buy a brand new 7er, all the important things have physical buttons. The screen is really only there for navigation and more complicated settings.
Tesla stock will explode! Plus the hertz order was confirmed!
at first I though it was from the onion
The worst culprit in this game I think is google news. They often add an image to a news topic, however this image is automaticaly picked from one of the news website, and the algorithm seems to frequently pick a random picture on the website, unrelated to the story. This leads to headlines like "serial killer arrested", illustrated by the smily portrait of a celebrity.

I don't know if section 230 would protect google there.
Is that… allowed? I feel like you’d get mobbed by the nearby passengers. :P
I don't get Discord at all. It's like a bad chat room. From my experience, either the chat moves too fast to be useful or no-one replies which is also not useful. It feels spammy, has lots of notifications and overlays that I don't care about.
Seems like a little hand sanitizer would fool both.
'It's Saturday Morning. Watch Some Half-Century Old Cartoons'
An area that I didn’t see talk about was investment in pedestrian and bicycle safety infrastructure. That’s generally a much smaller investment with significant gains in reducing car travel, to the GP’s point.

I would have liked to see spending on bike and pedestrian safety projects as a percentage of any money spend on car infrastructure.
I’m confused what you mean with the scare quotes. It seems from the article at least what they passed has a lot of money for roads and stuff. Or do you mean that money will just sort of evaporate with nothing getting done?
A vast majority of websites do not need bells and whistles, especially when it breaks simple things like links, scrolling, or the back button.

The end effect is a broken, incompatible web.
You only feel that way because only stupidity and anger is broadcast widely over all forms of media now. It’s what sells ads and clicks. Until that changes we are living in a rage world and it’s great for sales.
I feel very bad for this guy, and someone needs to dig deep into their pocket to make this man whole again.
failing to project that this would happen all day every day everywhere, is absurd
Hasn’t the trend been the opposite during covid, people have actually been moving out of large city centers? I think generally people like to have the space, especially with a family, and it’s just cheaper in the suburbs.
What kind of job did you have that had so much travel? Does it still exist in a post-covid world?
While trying to find a specific project I recalled, I encountered this list of projects which might be of interest: https://github.com/tstanislawek/awesome-document-understandi...

The project I had in mind was similar to this one but I can't remember the name currently: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula

However, if you're looking for a ML-based, invoice-specific project looks like the other comment to your reply might be more useful.
This is surprising to me. I would have thought the energy output per ton would be way higher. Do you have a source that explains why it is so low?
Railways can be used for that, quite efficiently (much more so than trucks).
What exactly is in it?

If you add up the numbers at the bottom of the article, it is only about 500B. Is the rest already already allocated infrastructure spending?
> I see both codebases in Java 6 and maven poms that are a paradise to change (and a java 8 upgrade is often trivial and sufficient to get most of the nice candies you really need)

Using Java 6 is major red flag. Even Java 8 should be red flag nowadays, if it weren't so extremely common. Both versions no longer receive any security updates or bug fixes. If an organisation doesn't care to put a system on a platform with active security updates that tells me one of three things:

1. The system is unimportant and is basically value-less. I don't want to work on systems like that.
2. The engineers are incompetent and lack even the most rudimentary learning skills (or will) to follow even the most basic updates on the tech they use every day. I don't want to work with people like that.
3. Engineering management is too incompetent to listen to very important messages from their team. The system likely has major issues and a fear of fixing even minor technical debt. I don't want to work in an environment like that.

It's not seldomly more than one of these.
Lol and everyone is programmed to have their Karen moment at some point
You can look at literally any non-electric BMW to disprove this. Everything important has physical controls.

BMW doesn't exist in some world of unicorns, it's a very real carmaker.
It's clear to me that that guy is just joking. One has to be fucking autistic not to see it.
I'm definitely personally on the more hawkish side, re inflation.

But this bill may help reduce longer term inflation if it's actually spent wisely.

e.g. if port throughput/efficiency increases, we could process imports more cheaply.

I'm not an expert on the bill, but the skew in the numbers seem a bit strange. Personally I think the cost should have been weighted much more heavily towards logistics/energy aspect of infrastructure, rather than repairs.

I'll have to read the fine print, but the money for "bridges" seems kind of wasteful unless they're actually building net new bridges.

Are the bridges in poor condition actually on the verge of structurally failing? Or just older but serviceable.

E.g. a second bridge connecting VA and MD over the Potomac would be pretty awesome, and greatly alleviate congestion.
Thats probably one of the reasons I like them, ridiculousness is fun. We're not beep-boop-logical vulcans, we're humans following bliss.
Why? Would it not be worse if the bill had not passed?
You want to experience a languishing day? Work as a poll worker for your local board of elections.

You see 2-5 elections per year.

The day lasts from 0500-2130h (at least here in NY)

New faces throughout the day.

Constant stimulation, followed by periods of inactivity.

Practically impossible to guess when someone will walk in the door.

Strict rules for how you’re supposed to conduct the election, combined with the anxiety of how your co-workers and yourself actually perform.

And then waiting for the results.
Dark Pattern Explains Why So Few Roman Emperors Died of Natural Causes
On a fast enough STM32 you don't need any hardware tricks at all, you can just use DMA to feed values to an IO port, and get 8-bit VGA colour even at quite high resolution - 640x480 is entirely doable if you have enough memory.

See for instance https://github.com/SVatG/JupiterAndBeyond.
Nah... they use Emacs server now :P
Would you have any links to projects?
I read that piece too and it is not surprising. I imagine the 18 wheelers going through cities aren’t doing a lot of good either. I drive one of those trucks and trying to get out of the cycle.
I have the 2021 model 3, you have a physical button to fire them off once (and to do the cleaning cycle), but to manually set the speed you need to use the touchscreen. There is an auto mode, of course, but sometimes you do need to adjust it manually.
An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins
“Sure, you can make your own gold-coated steak for 65GBP, but then you don’t have the satisfaction, flex, clout that comes from having eaten at Salt Bae’s restaurant… “The value is not in the cost of the steak,” Milhouse argued. “It’s all about the flex.”

The Flex!!!!!

$2k gold plated steak for “clout”. This is exhibit A for social media making us stupid at scale.

I would rather run naked through a thicket of thorn bushes than eat at the restaurant of some internet “chef” named Salt Bae.