skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another huge thing is rent. A lot of these freelance businesses can be feast or famine especially at the start when its mostly famine. You also need space to do this stuff. Imagine if Steve Jobs and Wozniak didn't have access to a single family home garage and had to try and make do in a studio apartment.
Yeah I meant 1989 to 2012. FTSE10 is flat from 1999 to 2021 as well.
I once interviewed someone, who clearly had no programming experience.
They had someone else complete the screening take-home coding exercise for them.

We spent the whole hour interview making zero progress on the task assigned.
I kinda wish I had setup some kind of get-out-of-jail situation so that I could have saved everyone the time, but I sat though the whole hour just out of the embarrassment of ending things early.
The browser is links, various versions of the 1.x series and 2.x series, with various personal changes.

I used lynx in the late 90s. Honestly, as a 24/7 text-only browser user, I think lynx may be the worst of the text-only browsers. IMO, the fact that it is so often mentioned seems to suggest most folks who mention it are not using it much and/or are unfamiliar with the full range of alternatives.

Usually the only reason someone asks "what browser" is so they can make snide comments about it, diverting the discussion away from the original point, which is that there are other browsers like this and it is possible to write them. As such it is usually against better judgment to respond. Let's see what happens this time.

What I prefer is not the point. Every user is different. The point is that people have written other, smaller, simpler browsers, I am using one, and I am able to comment here and read every submitted website just like anyone else who is using Chromium or the like to do it.
What does this have to do with giving notice? You don't give two weeks notice without a written offer.
You could do the same thing on your 286. PCs came with DEBUG.COM, which does the same things.
Only some of this could be explained by "several sigma" of bad luck. The rest is either the candidate misunderstanding/distorting the process or a structural hiring problem.

I interview a lot of candidates. I just can't imagine to make a hiring decision for a dev, let alone a manager that manages other managers, based on 20 minute discussion.
I see them ask questions on "Ask HN".

Like everybody else they have some pleasure and some pain and aren't sure what they want to do next.
Yeah its almost a new aristocracy where people have fun while everyone else works.
Most are selling hours or expressing the intent to, as reflected in the articles data. If your are damn good, they sell themselves. If you’re not, you are going to regret transferring the risk of landing and retaining customers onto yourself from an employer.

What I’m most interested in is what proportion are working to create a business that scales up. IP creators, manufacturers, service businesses, products. Those are the job creation machines that our entire economy will benefit from.
> And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks.

I've listened to numerous books (mostly but not exclusively fiction) using TTS and I'd like to confirm this experience. It's kind of remarkable, once I became accustomed to the sound of the TTS program the weirdness just sort of evaporated and I was left with an experience that feels very similar to reading visually.
Back then those hungry masses would have been ecstatic about 2 bucks a day.

China and India (to take just the two biggest countries) have become massively more productive and massively richer since those bad old days. Thanks to their integration into the world economy, today blue collar workers can afford riches undreamt-of in the 1970s.
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I think people are missing the forest for the trees with this.

In my view, the reason Docker has all the hype is because I can look at a Dockerfile, and know what's up. In seconds. Sometimes in milliseconds.

It's a user experience thing. Yes, Nix is better for 'technical people that spent the time learning the tool', but Dockerfiles rely almost entirely on existing System knowledge.

Yes, Nix is 'better', but the fact is Docker is 'good enough' and also 'stupid simple' to get started.

Also Docker-Compose, I don't know why people hate on YAML. But it takes that same KISS attitude to build complex systems that can also be used as sanity checks for migrating to things like kubernetes.

Being able to spin up a complex full stack app with one command and a compose file that doesn't take any brain cells to read is worth it's weight in gold.

This is like the 'general case tool' vs 'DSL' debate. If it's easy to use, people will use it.
It’s easy to pick on C++, but you can’t have backward compatibility and foreword progress and also not have features that are considered out-of-date.
If I have to wait in line at all, it's 99% a no-go. Add convenient self-checkout with wireless payments, and you've got my business. I wouldn't normally stop at CVS, but find myself doing so regularly. Why? Because there's no line. I can walk immediately to the items I need, then quickly scan them, tap my watch and walk out. It's easy, fast, and efficient.

Nowadays, waiting in line is a frustrating anachronism. The exceptions would be higher end stores like Publix that actively guide customers into the fastest checkout lines. But when purchasing a smaller quantity of items, self-checkout is most certainly preferable.
But you could hook up the Pi 400 to a large TV and you have some decent playground.
The US jobless is at record lows. That is a bad criticism of our economic system, because it isn't true. It might be the case that some powerful economic actors work to undermine full employment some of the time (for instance). But the specifics matter. What matters is the kinds of jobs and how much of the pie is being distributed, a fact completely left out of their article.

Do conservatives care about having an economy that's actually just and equitable? That's a pretty big part of what Marx was getting at; much bigger than the one point about how it undermines traditional religious belief (a good thing). That would probably solve their concerns about not enough young people starting families.

I've heard a lot of rhetoric, and I've seen what literally every "conservative" politician actually does: enrich entrenched elites, undermine democracy, and make the violent parts of the state less accountable to the public.
Not sure which bit you’re saying ‘no’ to.

Most JITs do execution an icache flush, and Rosetta does catch it to invalidate their code.

For example https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/cpu/x...

Otherwise, how do you think it works?
This is the internet, even if you were serious it wouldn't even be in the bottom quartile of dumb takes.
First you should improve the quality of your website design, did you use your own tool to design the landing page?
I used to think that I wanted firefox on my iphone (as I use it everywhere else) but I'm happy they are helping to keep google at bay. I have to say a lot of developers don't understand that they aren't the center of the universe and I don't really care if supporting safari based browsers is still a must and makes their lives a bit harder. It's rough for all of us out of here, as an embedded developer I have to work around proprietary crap all the time and yet I've been doing it for almost 2 decades and I'm still okay mentally and physically and they will be too.
Also because it's not very good. Anybody that thinks it is hasn't seen the quality of the doctors that take that instance. It's noticeably lower.
> If housing were the problem you wouldn't see parallels in other countries that have vastly different housing landscapes.

Well, have you looked at those other countries?

Housing become more expensive has been a fairly broad trend in many countries. Looking at specific examples (and looking at their other problems) is instructive, indeed.
I can see why they didn’t hire you.
Too bad Gary Kildall couldn't make it - it would have been amazing to see the father of CP/M (and grandfather of PC-DOS) react to Susan Kare's excellent Mac UI demo and design commentary.

Also this is so different from (and much more relaxed than) a Steve Jobs presentation or interview, but still brilliant.
For those who have worked around and at Stripe for the past decade, this is not a surprise. Stripe, and especially the founders, have a quite a poor reputation for screwing over people in and around their orbit.

Almost every fintech startup has the story of Patrick reaching out about an acquisition, mining them for information playing along and then ghosting - same thing for candidates. They leadership team, specifically Patrick and Will Gaybrick are extremely smart but have screwed over a ton of people - be very careful about trusting.

You don't hear anything about this online, they're incredibly effective at squashing hit pieces and have a huge amount of reporters and power brokers under their control. On HN and silicon valley Stripe and Patrick are a PR machine. Patrick has almost direct control over YC and HN, you'll notice that every single Stripe post automatically has pc as the first comment, regardless of anything else. Everything negative gets buried.

With Patrick now living in Woodside, Will on permanent vacation in Malibu and John permanently in Ireland the company is definitely a bit in chaos mode internally. Their entire people team has turned over and they're having major retention issues - so I'm not super surprised that stuff like this is starting to leak out.

I run a $XB fintech, and am afraid to use my name given the backlash.
Only the company shipping that should face punishment. Their code instructed a machine to kill people, etc. The hypothetical t-shirt is data, not code. These are very important distinctions. Code needs to be responsible for its data.

I’d even argue that to be used on public road that any self driving code needs to be open source.
I tried using Nix and NixOS early in the year, but documentation is an issue. Also, while I appreciate NixOS’s focus on reproducible configuration, I also have 25 years worth of mediocre Unix sysadmin experience, and it would be nice if the system found a way to accommodate Unix. My last straw was trying to get nix to schedule some task through systemd, when what I wanted was a simple crontab.
I hope you realize this is already the case. Property taxes are voted on locally and go to pay for local schools and there is vehement opposition towards redistributing funding for schools state wide. People move to certain cities where schools are known to be good (and no surprise, those cities also have lots of generous property tax-based and PTA-based funding for schools).
In my experience, it works pretty well nonfiction that has a narrative structure, like histories, but doesn't work as well for more technical books, like those about programming languages.
> 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.

LOL fair point. I guess I never really thought of what I was doing as networking. I don't exactly think of myself as a very extroverted, salesy kind of person. I just went about it from first principles - problem 1 was no one knows I exist, solution was let people know I exist.

> 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.

While there is some stuff in my industry that's different (low connectivity and older users) - really the day to day work is not that much different than writing software for any other. I'm sure most people could look at their past employment history and find themselves a market.
Bitcoin is a hard currency first; it includes a mechanism for transactions because that is a hard requirement for anything that functions as a currency but the network is optimized for security not throughput. If my only problem is paying people and getting paid, then Visa/ACH works just fine. If my problem is lack of confidence in my nation’s money supply (and this is a very real problem in quite a few countries) then Bitcoin is unquestionably the most convenient alternative.
Amazon echoes can read Kindle books using TTS. It's not completely horrible.
Stand alone/single purpose devices are a great use for RasPIs
Any good resources on how to start freelancing from the business side? That's what always held me back, the anxiety of being up either seeing up the structure or filing/accounting wrong and a cascade of issues and headaches following me because of that.
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Well, if I took all the brave features out of brave, it might then be reasonable to use.
>Maybe it's the puritan and "prosperity gospel" roots.

No, the puritans (and Europeans in general) considered bankruptcy a moral failing and it was punished with societal banishment and prison.

The United States invented modern bankruptcy law. States have taken it a step further and protected most major assets from being seized in a bankruptcy (house, car, certain amounts of cash), so the absolute worst case from failing is that you dust yourself off, wait a few years and try again. It's just part of the culture now.
It happens. In the mid 90s I interviewed with a windowing pc operating system company in the pacific northwest. Next day the guy calls me, says they're really excited to have me on board, they're discussing the best team for me to join. Then nothing. Meanwhile I visit my friend who is working for a web browser start-up in Mountain View. He suggests I interview there. A couple months later after I'd started work at that place, the first guy calls me, says they're ready to rock and roll. I tell him it's been a while, and where I'm currently working. He doesn't see too happy. Worked out well for me though.
>The US trails Canada and Western European countries in self employment as a percentage of the labour force.

I distinctly remember being told by an Austrian I met once that they need a sizable amount of liquid assets up front before they can even qualify for operating a business.
If you go into a proceeding like this, you can expect Google to smear you worse than you ever imagined. I'm not defending this practice, but that's what they'll do.
You most all the time or at least most of the time!
IMO initial value of docker for local development is enabling me to run two copies of postgres without them shitting on each other. I get that nix is supposed to be hermetic, but does it enable two of something?

nix being really good at package management is something docker needs to imitate -- out of order apt-get without requiring a re-downloading all the packages, for example, seems like it would shrink most cloud build costs. I guess this is what the article means by trouble 'sharing layers'

docker buildkit (or moby buildx or wherever the branding has settled) is supposed to to improve caching, but creating a simple API for caching that plays nicely with system + language package managers would really move the needle here; reorderable package installs would be the v2
> To be clear we are talking about CV which relies on passive optical sensing in the visual spectrum through cameras, not radar or lidar or IR or multi-spectral sensors.

Well, I think you mean working off RGB data? That's not necessarily the problem you have to solve even if your parts are regular cameras, as long as they're dedicated to your uses. You can modify them to see IR or polarization.
You obviously live in a society where central authorities are, in fact, trustworthy enough to handle these things. A cursory glance at history—or at other societies even in the present day—shows that this is a shockingly rare state of affairs.
Georgism's ideals of free markets and efficient taxation are good, and supported by modern orthodox economists.

But Georgism's explanation of eg business cycles is rubbish.
Maybe consider registering at a local lively coworking space/accelerator? You may find like minded people you can form a cooperative with.

Also as far as the contract work that is enjoyable and pays well -- in my experience this mostly has to do with knowing the right people. People who are high up enough in an org and technical enough to be sympathetic to understand what enjoyable jobs for you would be.
Of course it is. Network Effects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
An Examination of “The Martian” Trajectory (a.k.a. Rich Purnell Maneuver) (2015)
Hire well so you have to do less and less.
I can say that my health insurance (as an independent worker with Healthcare.gov plan) costs more than my home mortgage and utilities combined. A significant amount more; and I still pay down a $10,000 deductible on top of that before any reimbursement kicks in.
Owning property and being a landlord is a business. The only difference is you file your taxes separately and YOU don't own the property.
I suspect they'll eventually just remove capabilities entirely that allow ad blocking and brave will have to completely rewrite it and shoehorn it in.
Kind of a tangent, but from what I have seen, crontab doesn't actually exist on modern distros, I believe they have a tool that converts the crontab config in to systemd timers. As well as fstab.
Yes, student loan forgiveness would bloat the education sector even more.

You could shrink the education sector by removing subsidies and tax discounts for it. (Of course, that's politically hard to do.)

> The thing is, you have huge sectors; education, public transit, health care etc, that would be reasonable to improve but where privatization based capital investment have resulted in huge, costly and, well, shitty systems.

I'm not so sure. Eg talk to any 'right-thinking' Brit and they will tell you how horrible British Rail privatisation was. Then compare the graphs in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_...

See also https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/SurfaceFreightTransporta... and https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AirlineDeregulation.html

Or look into the recent-ish success of German legalising long distance bus travel.
Yep. I know you know better, but since it's essentially the same carelessness I first complained about I figured I should be consistent and complain again!

One of the nice things about Blake3 is that it does have a KDF mode built in. And a MAC mode. And there's a (stalled) proposal to build in an AHEAD mode, though IMO it needs more academic security analysis (IIRC that's part of why it stalled). It might not be as interestingly innovative as the sponge construction Keccak introduced, but it's a very versatile primitive with excellent software performance.
M stands for MB

Also probably worth mentioning that I am not always necessarily using the browser to retrieve the HTML I want to read, nor to download binary files like audio, video, PDFs, and tarballs. I use other dedicated programs for that. The browser is used just as much "offline" as "online".

Connections from this browser go through an up-to-date localhost-bound forward proxy which handles any TLS verification. One of the obstacles to anyone writing a browser might be all the TLS stuff, getting it right and keeping it updated.
The Pivotal Moment: Risks of the Vaccine Passports Explained
OK, that's definitely a shitty situation. But if you imagine that instead you were empowered to shut off nonsense alerts and address causes of real ones, you wouldn't have actually eliminated on-call, so I'm a little confused about how you conclude from this that "all" on-call is abusive.
The ULA CEO shared information detailing the lowest energy path from Earth to Moon. It takes a long while as if ocean surface shipping is to express airfreight. With routine transport in volume, the unit cost of mass to reach the Moonbase should pattern after how science stations on Antarctica get their deliveries. The price tag for a Moobase was $6B in 1966 dollars.
Sure. You can cherry pick a time period in any index that would be bad. That's why the 4 percent rule only works for most retirement historical starting years, and why some people choose to work towards a more conservative 3 percent withdrawal rate.

Retirement always was and will continue to be a risk that depends both on how much you've saved and how well the economy will continue to function and grow once you're no longer working. Like all things in life, nothing is certain.
Gave up on it after it stopped downloading extensions from both the official Microsoft store and the OpenVSX store due to the CORS issue. The fragility of the OpenVSX store was in highlight when their maintainers couldn't make it compatible with the CORS requirement of VSCode for several months. I'm not sure if it's fixed now or if they're still using a workaround.
Employers are finally starting to get bitten for squeezing labor. Even highly compensated people suffer from being squeezed. Working long hours. Not being given the resources needed. Working outside your job description. Being asked to stay late again and again. Constant anxiety about deadlines and not having physically enough time to get the job done. Not having enough time to get everything done at home since you are spent from the workday. It's like, if there is so much demand for labor, why not hire more hands? Even if you are paying more out of payroll you are getting a better rested, more engaged, less mentally disturbed labor pool for your dollar, one that's not looking desperately at linkedin for an escape route from the hell you've created.

I guess the question is whether or not employers will actually balk and start to offer better conditions, or collectively decide that they can get away with staying put with the status quo since people need to eat and afford shelter and they can get away with hiring more naive recent grads and having high turnover seemingly indefinitely.
Stop with the Globalism.

Stop with the march towards Global Dictatorship under the "auspices" of non-transparent, prone to corruption* International Agencies (UN, WHO, Council on Foreign Relations, etc.).

Stop with the march towards genocidal neomarxism. Remember the tens of millions who died in the Holodomor, Under Stalin, Under Mao, Under Kim Jong Un, and others.

* = such as corruption at FIFA & International Olympic Committee.
I think you are misreading me. I am not trying to suggest they work in the same way, simply that they have the same overall task, which I consider to be a very difficult problem.

To your second point, I think we might agree that in order to be more robust to failures in perception, it would be good to understand where the failure modes live. I personally think we need a better understanding than we have today.
Describing your recruiting process as a random variable...wut? Does the hiring manager make decisions randomly? Someone calls up, the hiring manager gets out the lucky 8-ball, and it comes out "give a 29th percentile recruiting interview", and the manager just straps on the Biggles goggles to bomb the candidate. Why even say that to someone who is pissed off with your recruiting process? Just don't say anything.

As you say, it is very hard to attribute a bad recruiting process to something that is non-structural...no matter how many thousands of people you hire.
There are a number of contractor agencies where they basically manage your relationship with a number of businesses/specific projects, and you get paid through them or some affiliate. The skim is usually more like 30-50% though.
Ah good. I don't want to subsidize the health care of SF "entrepreneur" lads who want to sit around all day writing software nobody needs. If they want healthcare they can get a real job in an Amazon fulfillment center.