skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately waymo and others do have years of data.

Also, you can make reasonable inferences about fatal accidents using non-fatal accidents. All fatal accidents are also normal accidents. If waymo has far fewer non fatal accidents, you can reasonably infer it would have fewer fatal accidents. Otherwise you'd have to believe waymo's accidents are more likely to be fatal, but the opposite is probably true because of the locations and speeds where they drive (at least for the passenger lol)

You can also make inferences about accidents based on disengagements or undesirable events (human labeled). It's not as data limited as you might think.
Of course this post is getting down-ranked to hell ;)
> Getting consulting clients is a completely different skillset than doing consulting work. If you're not the type of person who enjoys networking, cold outreach, selling yourself, and chasing deals then the consulting life probably won't be as fun as it may sound on the internet.

It's really not this dramatic.

People need software developers. All you really need to do is let enough people - who can hire you - know who you are and what you do. I do this entirely online.

I will say it's way easier when you specialize in a particular industry however.
My favorite fake statistic in this article is "and nearly half have a college degree." They're trying to frame that paragraph to say the people are educated, and if you read it quickly it comes off that way, instead of "most of these people only have a high school diploma."
The attack surface at least requires physical proximity, unlike devices addressable via IP.
US reaps benefits as fallout from Australia's trade row with China hits $17b
Open source RISC-V GPGPU
Usability suffers for a clean looking UI. Copying a path is much harder in Finder. You need to just know to right click on a plain text element to even see the breadcrumb. You need to google the hotkey to show hidden items, its not in the menu AFAICT, you can't search for it anyway.

There's a long list of common features that have become power tools you need to already know about.
Problem I have is MS Teams doesn't work on FF. I usw Brave as a substitute for that.
Yeah I know. I wish more people noticed that the most powerful people keep being left out of diagnoses of our problems.
I think you're forgetting that public schools serve a purpose other than enriching the wealthy. I have such a hard time with takes like these. Would you have public schools turning away children that can't pay?
Absolutely we need deterrents, otherwise chaos.

What deterrents is one of the hardest problems society has ever grappled with. How do we stop antisocial behaviours? Prisons (a modern punishment) do not seem to work, for a multitude of complicated reasons. This is coming from someone who has been through the system.
USA brand tax cattle objects are state property and owe all productive output to the public sector. Healthcare must be denied for those who exhibit any disobedience.
X86 does not require any explicit barrier if you modify through the same virtual address as execution, so no.
How nationally representative and/or comparable are your samples of Canadian and American people?
The immutable hype is finally fading. People starting to realize the drawbacks of treating hardware as an infinite resource.
Brave shills cryptoshit at me, and Mozilla shills VPNs at me. Chrome is from an ad company. All three set off my sleaze alarm. What a sad state of affairs.
That index is up over 25 years. You'd be even better off if you were buying during the bear periods. AND you're not including dividend reinvestment.

A quick check here, https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio, with JPXN between 2002-2021 investing a static amount monthly and reinvesting dividends suggests you would have doubled your money over the period.

Bad compared to US growth to be sure. You're right that Japan is a great example of how this strategy doesn't work as well for people locked in to stagnating economies.
> It manages your expectations and they can end the interview early.

Do you mean they can end the interview earlier than 20 minutes, or that it actually takes more than 20 minutes but they can end it at 20 minutes mark?

Either case it doesn't sound good. If they said 20 minutes it shouldn't take much more or much less than 20 minutes.
It's nerve wracking thinking about how much time and resources have been put into this one device and how bad it is going to be if it doesn't deploy and operate correctly. I can't imagine how much anxiety there is for those who worked on it for so long. But if all goes well, it's going to be quite the feeling of accomplishment.
Could not agree more. I released my book series I’m working on in early access and it’s crossed over $100,000 since May.

My only regret is I didn’t start sooner.
> PoW crypto is special in that it is both highly optional (it's not essential to the lifestyles of 99.999% of people) and has easy substitutes.

I’d like to hear what other economic activities you consider “highly optional” and whether they are more or less deserving of economic resources than Bitcoin.
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For those of us who have been around the block - we've been hearing from these "experts" that IPv4 is over for decades. It's boring at this point frankly.
Why not use helium network?
This is what I struggle with. We did well this year and I think I can possibly hit my life goal of hitting my first 7 figures sales next year, but I'm not sure if I just want to stand pat and lifestyle the business or try to go for it.

My reasons for going for it are 1) parents are aging and I want to help them with retirement 2) ride the wave b/c you never know when it will stop and 3) yolo.

My reasons for not doing it are 1) it's a bunch of extra stress and work I don't want to do. Lol.
I doubt these stories. The number of people who get a smart TV and don’t connect it to the Internet are a minority. It’s just not worth the cost for any company to develop advanced features to spy on that limited subset.
I'm fairly sure I fall on the aphantasia side of things (or at least mostly - I've had what I'd consider "flashes" occasionally over a couple decades, which serve as a contrast to what I normally experience), but I don't really have any trouble "knowing" what a triangle-in-a-circle-in-a-square-in-a-circle looks like. I can even draw intersections and segments in isolation, or rotate the thing (or the square and circle in opposite directions) and basically immediately tell you how the edges / corners will align with each other.

But I don't "see" any of that. In any way. You tell me it's drawn in a blue light, or the square is an inch thick piece of plaid: sure. now it's plaid. I already have colors picked out and I'm remembering how the threads in the fabric produce patterns when viewed up close, especially where the stripes overlap. I'm not seeing anything though.

It's closer to how I deal with math - 5x7 is 35 because I know it is. I memorized single-digit multiplication long ago, and if I ever want to reassure myself I can just do repeated addition. It's not accompanied by literally any metaphor or mnemonic or whatever, it's just equal to thirty five, and 35 is 三十五 is ٣٥ regardless of where it comes from. Similarly, rotating the deathly hallows by 90 degrees is just a rotated deathly hallows - the line is now sideways, the triangle has a vertical edge on the left, the green stripes in the plaid are now sideways and the diagonal-hashed intersections at the overlaps are in the opposite direction, etc.

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Maybe also oddly, I have a very good visual memory in practical terms. I disassemble and reassemble stuff with no trouble, and when I'm looking for a phrase in a book I read a year ago I can generally find it within an inch of where I remember it on a page (but not usually what page it is). When I'm looking for things I lost, I generally hunt by looking for colors or textures that were adjacent to where I last remember it. I'd never describe how I remember that or how I look for it as seeing though - there's just a wadded up blanket near it with a big fold that tangents with the far right corner of my phone, so I go looking for wadded up blankets.

I feel like this is probably mostly a sensory-qualia thing, almost totally orthogonal to what is being thought about / done. People who can see things in their mind's eye can't necessarily do anything with it beyond having the experience, and people who are totally internally blind can do things that seem to be based on sight. And to some degree both of those are train-able.
As Chromium adds more and more bad stuff, it will be harder for Brave to patch everything out.
I don't see a problem with that.
Dunno how much things have changed, but intrinsics were kinda useless in the past: https://danluu.com/assembly-intrinsics/
“Value” is subjective - the price is derived from the market-defined value. The OP is talking about the value they perceive their work to be.

In that sense, prices are not a function of an individual’s perceived value of work.
I can't imagine what circle of hell you are in if there is a position called manager of managers, but it sounds like you dodged a bullet for sure.
It’s so simple but absolutely brilliant. The only thing the new tab page needs is a search box that searches programs and files.

This one person single-handedly “solved” the windows UI paradigm. This is how it should’ve been from the start. There was never any need for a non-window box like a start menu.

Microsoft, please hire this man and appoint him dictator of UX.
It's not the only factor: Americans culturally value entrepeneurship very strongly. People love the idea of being your own boss or starting your own business, and telling friends that you plan to do this will generally garner positive comments (often times even if you fail).
It explicitly criticises the inability of the economy to create enough jobs. It says that Marx was correct about capitalism (btw, contrary to what people think, this is a fairly common view amongst conservatives who tend to be well-read enough to know that Marx's critiques of capitalism are quite distinct from Marxism). It is a fairly traditional conservative critique of capitalism that actually predates Marx by five decades (capitalism is dehumanizing, it breaks down traditional relations, capitalism is destructive socially/culturally).
To summarize:
- Australia speaks out "against" China (e.g. to investigate initial source of Covid).
- China punishes AU by blocking a lot of trade sectors.
- China replaces AU stocks with US stocks.

i.e. CPP might be paying a bit more in some cases, but it still get's what it wants with regards to commodities and manages to punish AU plus adds some tension to the US-AU relationship. Well played.
About a decade ago Bill Gates said he wouldn't go into computers today if he was starting over. He would go into genetics. That's really what computers were like back then. Exotic. Unapproachable. If you lacked resources you would have to wait years for access. Now they've reached the world. Ideas are exchanged. There's at least some semblance of a unifying sense of global values. I sure hope the covid vaccines and treatments are the Netscape and the "you got mail" for genetic therapies. Here's to making today's medicine as dated as a typewriter. I have family who want their neurons back.
It's not that simple.
The consumers do not want washing machines that last forever.
Are you sure that you want a washing machine from 1900? It was probably not electric.
Aaah, you want an electric one. How about one from the 1920? What do you mean you want intelligent programs, save electricity, be gentle to the clothes and use little water/soap? These are modern improvements of the washing machine.

Consumers vote with their money. They stop buying old washing machines because they don't have the features that they want. So companies stop making old washing machines and make new ones with more features.
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Gecko was ALWAYS embedable, it was literally designed that way from day one.
I have a third pov of this, I was interviewing for a large financial company in an SE role, everything went well, the team seemed really good and projects were interesting, good quality of interviews too.

It was through an employment agency and so I was negotiating via them. Recieved the offer and needed a few days just to review it and consider everything. I told the recruiter this. Then had a medical emergency which had me in hospital for 3 weeks, on the 3rd day in hospital however, I fired an email from my phone just to let the recruiter know what the situation was. Thought nothing of it.

When I got out of hospital after a serious surgery etc, was distracted in fairness. I had emails from the recruiter which bordered on threats about how I was completely unprofessional for not regularly updating him, and how the city is small and the company is big etc.

Needless to say I wasn't too bothered but it took me back a bit.
“Random parts of the world” are not cranking out the electricity required to secure the Bitcoin network. Your hypotheticals need better anchoring in reality.
I just started at this startup and the Bronze "HSA" eligible plan for just me and my wife is over 500/mo. Maybe I should have left her off and went to the market lol.
The thing holding even more people back is lack of skill and education to strike out on their own.
I think firefox and apple are our last voices before google takes over web browser technologies which is a really scary proposition, at least to me.
> It looks like the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies.

I had that experience with Aegisub; there's always a lot of real work to do on video and subtitles, but whenever I looked at the IRC channel the developer was thinking of new C++y ways to abstract the factory visitors.
> I find Americans much more primed to consume and try new products.

Well, yes. Because Americans aren't very risk averse, and are pretty strongly novelty-seeking.
This was also said in the post-loop interview. After I was approved and congratulated. Makes zero sense in my book.
Screeps is something we could invest far too many hours into.
It's easy as avoiding drinking water. lol
Yes, there are many places like that. Alas, there's almost no overlap between those places and the most productive parts of the country.

GDP would be enormously increased, if eg more people could move to New York City or Silicon Valley.

See also https://www.mercatus.org/publications/monetary-policy/shut-o...
Could you have perhaps been too accommodating? By being a little bit "harder to get"[1] you may be able to weed out[2][3] recruitment opportunities that aren't serious and would just be a waste of your time to follow through on. Neither party should be expecting the other to just drop everything they're doing and reschedule on a whim. If that happens again, you should probably call it out (professionally) and state that you're happy to continue discussions but only when they're ready and serious about hiring.

Recruiters will hand out accolades, false hopes and more just to keep you engaged until the moment someone else (preferred candidate) has been picked by the client. Then you get ghosted because you're no longer making the recruiter money or because you're now the backup option in case the preferred person cancels before starting or soon after starting, and they would prefer you remain available "just in case you're needed".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/smarter-living/benefits-o...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26408181

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071362
1. Send a factory factory to a carbonaceous chondrite asteroid

2. Factory Factory builds a factory that builds a solar sail factory

3. Solar sails maneuver on their own power to the Earth-Sun L1 point

I can picture much of the chemical factory involved, it looks something like

https://www.netl.doe.gov/research/Coal/energy-systems/gasifi...

but also something like a conventional petrochemical factory and it probably uses solar concentrators for something. Thin film construction seems possible. There are a lot of problems that are like trying to build a ship in a bottle except you're in the bottle and trying to build a ship outside the bottle.

What has me scratching my head is:

a. Do you have to send humans? If the factory can be started up and run autonomously it saves the need to build a human habitat.

b. What do you do with the volatiles? I think when you punch through the crust of an asteroid you might get a dangerous quantity of gas, which is also highly valuable. You might have to devolatize the asteroid before the metal line and storage tank factory are online.
No. Let’s say everyone in the world is relying on savings + investment income for living (the end goal of the FIRE movement?). Then who will produce food (no one is doing any labor)?

FIRE is possible for everyone only when full automation is developed.
> Something that gets me is how to even get started down the path of being your own boss. The insane networking required to keep up a contract queue is a lot.

I sent a message to a slack channel on the 20th of October, talked to a bunch of people, and started another contract on the 1st of November.

And - I must stress this - I have no big names on my resume, I'm not the author of a famous open source lib. I'm just some dude who specialized and took a real interest in the business vertical I was in.

People need software professionals. Be easy to find. Talk it up where people in your industry hang out. Have conversations without any thought of whether they'll go anywhere. No hard selling required.
One day you will misclick and then they have you
Do you want to live in a world where most people are completely uneducated?
We had ours mid 30s. I also founded a company and ran it for the first 15 years of her life.

That is stressful. To put it mildly.

This said, having a kid is the toughest and most rewarding job you will ever have. If you don't like kids in general, sure, avoid them. Some of us do.

She's 21 now, applying to grad school for applied math, and (being slightly biased) is the most wonderful kiddo in the world.

As for FIRE type scenarios, unless you have an inheritance or a pre-existing nest-egg of some sort, yeah, kids tend to deplete cash flow. I'm 56, and if I'm lucky, I may be able to retire in my 70s. Part of that is due to the company being killed by our bank, all assets sold off, because they panicked. Leaving me with a giant hole where my retirement (and kid's college fund) was. Started over at 51, at (somewhat less than) 0. Do not recommend this.
This isn't an archive.org item strictly speaking, just a page on the wayback machine. I'm not sure you can download it.
How does this correlate with the population of educated people, and people whose spouses have health coverage? Red / Blue does correlate to education level.

There could be other correlations as well, including having the technical ability to create something of marketable value, management experience from a previous job, a certain level of financial / career security, family members willing to invest, etc.

Blue areas may also be slightly more prosperous, creating a local market of customers (people and businesses) with money.
> All you really need to do is let enough people - who can hire you - know who you are and what you do.

Right, that's what I said: If you're not the type of person who enjoys networking, putting yourself out there, and setting up contracts with clients then it's going to be a pain to do this.

> I will say it's way easier when you specialize in a particular industry however.

I looked at your profile and it appears you are very specialized in a smaller (fewer overall specialists) market. Big fish in a small pond makes consulting easy. The average developer doing generalized work isn't going to have the same experience, though.
Nah, I've got better things to do.

My old boss, however, has good advice on how to make them useful, for those who care to respond: https://code.dblock.org/2015/01/09/how-to-make-recruiter-spa...
I recently looked up how far back the wayback machine captured my personal website. I was pleased to find the top ten lists I made as an 11 year old [0] in the year 2002, but two things really surprised me:

- I could list 10 games I liked for each of Gameboy, N64, Playstation, Xbox, and PS2 (how spoiled was I?)

- every one of the amazon links from 19 years ago still resolve to the product in question, so I can still buy a copy of Ready 2 Rumble Boxing for PS2 if I so wish [1]

I was a little dissapointed in my younger self tho to find they were not affiliate links.

On the subject of compatibility tho, the fact that shopping and checking out on Amazon.com works without javascript inspired me to learn how websites work the “old fashioned” way

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20020609084356/http://www.colten...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004U5VJ/qid=10127...
Several hundred Google employees sign doc against Covid vaccine mandate
Yes, though in a national context you'd probably call that migration, not population growth.

And it's a shame that it ain't larger: people migrating to more productive areas of the country is one way to increase the standard of living.
I still have my copy of Write to the Point, which you recommended.
This guy

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robert+greene
Is there any literature on how to write those? 2D graphics is kind of obscure but designing/making those is even more obscure.
But that's the thing, common server software already collapses that part of the protocol into a single operation for the query itself. To enable DNSSEC for most systems, you just tell your nameserver to sign the zone and copy the necessary keys over to your registrar. That's two commands in PowerDNS, one to sign the records and one to fetch the keys. In BIND it requires some manual key generation and config, but that's still hardly a challenge for someone who can manage their own DNS zones. CDS/CDNSKEY can automate the communication with the TLD provider, but that's completely optional.

The real jankiness is hidden away in the bespoke implementations on the backend that are designed to have their own complex DNS logic. Those systems don't need to abide by the weird offline-signing DNSSEC standards at all, because there's no reason for them to be compatible with other servers unless you're glueing your own code to an existing server. The offline signing quirk also actually helps you if you use a master/slave DNS setup because you don't need to set up a complicated multi-keyed DNS system to have many resolvers serve your records; one place signs it, and the other servers just forward the responses.

The client does nothing more complex than validating the chain of trust like we're already doing for every other part of our modern connections, and all the server needs to do is respond with the right records (be it signed responses or signed errors).
Check levels.fyi, not Glassdoor. Glassdoor systematically underreports compensation for a wide variety of reasons. (And is in general pretty inaccurate; Amazon is publicly known to have a base salary cap of 185k in high cost-of-living locations, and 160k elsewhere, with the rest of the compensation coming from bonus/stock.)

40th percentile compensation in the US is probably still much higher than in the EU, but you do you.
It was sarcasm, intended to (at the very least) draw attention to the possibility of "throwing out the baby with the bathwater", and the perils of focusing on imaginary "welfare leeches" at the expense of general prosperity.

I almost added an /s, and perhaps I should have. haha
Foobar2000 is even available on iOS -- although it doesn't really fit all that well in the new stramiong-focused ecosystem I guess.