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> if there's a truly free market solution to this issue with hospital staffing.

You are seeing it happen. People do not accept current labor prices for healthcare work, politicians come under political fire for not providing sufficient level of healthcare, politicians increase funding to healthcare to increase pay, possibly requiring increasing taxes if they cannot figure out how to punt them to future generations.

Or insufficient number of voters want to direct more resources to healthcare to those that cannot afford it out of their own pocket, and they get less or lower quality healthcare. Maybe society decides it is not worth the cost of supporting people past 90, or even 80.
It looks like the only officially supported program that isn't a game is amazon music [1]. The main project for running windows on Linux has a partially working distribution of Office 365. My impression is that it sometimes works with significant manual effort, wouldn't be reliable enough to depend on without a backup system [2].

When I need Office apps to communicate with clients I use a combination of Google Docs download as docx, Office Online, and a VM.

[1]: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs
[2]: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
An inflated asset is only a bubble if it bursts.
The Black Swan ETF already does it

It's 90% of treasure bonds and some small percent of options

On a bulish market, you loose some performance (insurance costs) for renewing the options

On a bearish market (crash) your bonds loose market value, but the options will go up N amount of times. which will give you overall positive performance.

If the market stagnates, you'll loose money as the options continue to be renewed while the bonds are stable.

And you don't need to allocate all your portfolio to this ETF, can simply combine it with everything else you have.
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Anyway

I've done this before, I believed the market could become wild

I bought VIX options and got lucky with a 20x score

Obviously this is not that easy or accessible to retail investors (and it's gonna cost at least 100$ monthly)

But if one's to believe we're near the peak, and the crash could be coming any time soon (next couple of months), buying this kind of insurance would make sense (I think about it as Insurance as a Service, because I just want a simple monthly subscription for the work behind the scenes)
Yes, but when a coder makes a specific mistake, it's likely they made it elsewhere. Similarly, when their mistake made it past code review, it likely made it past review elsewhere. They're not the only person making that mistake, but their diffs are a great place to start looking.

A big subset of mistakes people make when writing software are the result of people not having the same understanding of a concept, policy or practice.
LOL HN is just as bad. The difference is that here people pretend they are educated and use proper grammar.
This cannot be true. The same goal could trivially be achieved simply by not forcing the businesses to close in the first place.
Following comments on Github also point this out.
If my boss suddenly invented a new demand on me and said "do this or you're fired", I might do it whilst making plans to quit as well.

In fact I have.
As a pentester you’d likely get an OK from the client on which methods were acceptable. Can you phish, etc. An exec would hire you to test their company and you still wouldn’t have carte blanche on methods. I assume you didn’t just YOLO random companies that you thought would be good for your security paper.

Full disclosure: I’ve listened to at least 20 episodes of Darknet Diaries. I’m basically already in your network. ;)
MANGA companies. It didn't take HN long, did it.
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Not sure beyond sending them all to the archive. Unless you check periodically or something?

This is the one: https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-l...
Yes we would. Since regular phone calls aren't encrypted, not to speak of E2EE, phone companies can listen on all calls.

Of course I suspect Meta actually will listen on business calls while traditional phone companies will most likely only do so after a court order, but we put the bar much higher with digital services compared to regular phone calls.
Until said startup fails..
With experience one can have an idea of what charge is left on a cell. One easy way to gain experience is with a decent Li-ion flashlight. It doesn't take a whole lot of tools to test resting voltage of a cell, a cheap multimeter will do. Modern chargers should be smart, have some function to automatically test for resistance, and refuse to charge a cell with resistance that is too high or if voltage under load is below 2.5V.

Frankly, I am a bit astounded these devices were developed. I'd recommend against wearing Li-ion cells on your head unless you really know the cells, know their age and history.
Just wait til you find out which continent India is located.
When HeartBleed came out, there was a single dynamically linked library to be replaced. If you had a vulnerable version of libopenssl, then you replace the .so or .dll with a patched version, restart any applications that were using the old version, and you're set.

This works because the binary is compiled against the dynamic library, using the system-provided library. It isn't statically compiled, because even though that frees the developers from worrying about library versions, it makes the sysadmin's job tracking library versions be much harder. It isn't vendored, for the same reason.
Any kind of efficient resource allocation relies on accurate predictions. No matter what system you use, free market or otherwise, if reality is constantly defying prediction, or changes too quickly, allocation won't be great.
This.

Freelancing is a good option.

250k a year is 20k a month, for 12 months a year.

20k a month is 1k a day, for 20 work days a month.

How to make 1k a day? Write 2 technical articles.

Btw. as a freelancer you could end up paying less taxes, because more things are deductible. This could mean, you can end up with the same money after taxes without making 250k a year.
Stopped using it years ago as soon as I could convince everyone to start using Telegram or Signal.
Honestly, I saw some dialog and clicked Accept, despite not reading it. I don't use WhatsApp for anything critical. I use iMessage for that and I have a lot of trust in Apple to do the right thing.
My main trick has been to specialize in things that all companies like a lot (AWS, js, python), jumping gigs, and leveraging Remote Contracting networks [1].

To get to ~200k remote salaries is hard, but not impossible if you make clear what kind of business leverage you bring and what responsibilities you can take.

In addition, you might not actually need such a high Remote salary if you choose to live in cheaper towns. You don't need a $200k salary if you can make your $120k feel like $1M by living in the countryside.

[1] "How I got wealthy without working too hard": https://amaca.substack.com/p/how-i-got-wealthy-without-worki...
I am sorry I am a different person than you and as such have different reactions to this. It looked plausible to me and the geoIP lookup on the mail server said it was in California, AFAIK this is all you need for someone to be a CCPA subject. I do not want to fuck with the legal system.
Ask HN: Simple HTTP server for local dev and testing?
I'm looking for a web server to use for local development and testing. My requirements are:

Simple to configure with one config file

Included as a package in most distributions

Supports CGI, access.log, HTTP Basic auth and htpasswd format, SSI, HTTP 1.1, setting expire headers, rewrite rules.

Stable configuration format

I've been using lighttpd for a while, but I am frustrated by its configuration churn. Every couple of version some option becomes "deprecated" with another one to replace it. This results in warnings when I launch it, extra work I have to do to get rid of them, and then managing these changes between all the different lighttpd versions I now have to support.

Does anyone know a good alternative?
Note sure why this is getting down voted. Freelancers and contractors work multiple client jobs all the time. Low wage workers work multiple 'full time' jobs all the time. Are FT software engineers special?
It does if you're willing to be a travel nurse and work on covid floors. I've been hearing $6000/week numbers being thrown around (and some nurses are picking up two contracts at a time!). It's insanely shitty work right now (surrounded by people dying left and right and understaffed on top of that, but the pay is good...).
I was able to install following instructions available here: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... and here: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/hhvx17/off... .

I downloaded the installer from a windows machine. After trying to install and run, it still complained about a missing implementation. The tutorial explains how to install using wine 5.11, to make it run correctly, simply run it using wine 5.12 after installed.

I used bottles to install wine versions my distro wasn't shipped with. Also used winetricks to install fonts. At the end it works, but be aware: it is slow and buggy.
I don’t understand your point. It’s a vaccine, you get vaccinated, your body produces antibodies, your risk of catching the disease goes down, your risk of ending up in hospital nearly disappears
What I will never understand is how harmless old Netflix found its way into an acronym for the big beasts of tech. Not even Microsoft gets that privilege (for some reason).
Thank you for creating this.

You should put "Show HN" on your post submission.

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Nope, I just deleted my Facebook and WhatsApp accounts and moved to Signal.

My parents, my GF and around 5 friends installed Signal because of me, one friend started calling me instead and the rest... well I guess I wasn't that important to them.

Overall I'm much happier now.
The way things are working, the mental health of everybody keeps deteriorating year after year, so what can I say.
> and I have a lot of trust in Apple to do the right thing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202
> putting a 9V battery on the tongue, and the effects of putting a paperclip into an AC power socket.

Removing insulation from a live phone wire with my teeth (I had decided to put an extension in my room without asking for help...) was one of mine, that definitely made me more careful. Went just fine until I closed the circuit with my tongue by accident just as someone called. Not pleasant.
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It is definitely possible to achieve the total compensation you're looking for working remote. The companies generally fall into two categories: FAANG/MANGA/BigTechAcronymOfTheWeek companies that are remote-tolerant, and remote-first companies that are either late-stage startups or recently IPO'ed. The first category can certainly support 250k+ for an SWE at a level similar to L5 or higher. The bar will certainly be higher for the second category (as they don't have stupid amounts of money that FAANG does), so Staff+ will likely be the only positions that offer that type of compensation. Levels.fyi is a great resource to see current TC levels for offers being given by these companies.

I have been recently going down the same path you have, so I can list some options I have encountered, for whatever that may be worth:

* Coinbase

* Confluent

* Addepar

* Gemini

* Ramp

* Reddit (doesn't change compensation based on location like many companies, by the way!)

* Socure

* Benchling
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Yea, the way this worked out for me as a kid was that I needed all the money I got to upgrade my PC and wouldn't have any left over for buying games so I just pirated these games.

Anyway, without numbers that's just a theory and might not hold. Anecdotally a lot of people are worrying about whether they can play games on their budget build. And they would rather buy games than spend a ton on a faster PC. And I believe consoles sell for a similar reason: they are cheap. It's the actual games that console gamers pay decent money for.

(Of course the PC game market is now extremely saturated and there are deep discounts & giveaways constantly somewhere)
Certainly,

my idea is that if you have a stock portfolio, you could get "insurance" on it

Big banks and investment funds certainty do it, one way or another

I'was simply thinking of a more accessible approach to retail investors

"insurance as a service", pay 50$ per month for protection against stock crashes

Technically, I'm guessing this would not be called "insurance" but a financial instrument or investment which buyers/investors would get benefits under certain conditions.
YouTube kids is useless anyway, especially in non-English speaking countries. It has extremely limited content.

And what it is completely missing are videos my kids watched that I was glad that they watched (as opposed to merely not minding) - crafts and ideas videos, not limited to but including minecraft inspiration videos, history for kids and other educational videos. Especially when not in English.
Keeping in mind things like self-employment tax, health insurance, sick days, vacation, 401k matching, liability insurance, and so on.

That is, don't take your billable rate * 2080 hours/year and compare that as apples-to-apples.
Influenza, tetanus, TBE and polio vaccinations also require repeat shots from time to time - and there are certainly more as these are only the ones that I can remember off the cuff.
I come to think that an MVP is only that, when after validating your product case. You scrap the mvp and build the product from scratch.

If you’re not able yo scrap what you have you aren’t validating product market fit, you are forcing a product onto the market.
Which is hilarious, because that certain political commentator is driven almost entirely by ‘feeling’, along with rhetorical tricks and debate strategies, like the Gish Gallop. My sense is he's much more interested in winning, or being perceived as winning (feeling) vs. actually being correct (facts).
Apology from the PI, permanent suspension of sending emails, possible follow up emails telling people to disregard the original emails, and commitment to a formal research ethics study: https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1472427321047101442
Actually, no. The right has always prioritised irrational feelings over facts while pretending to do the opposite.

The problem is more that Frankfurt School academia has buried that rather obvious fact under a blizzard of careerist Hegelian blather, which has left it with no response to tribal and irrational (and cynically manipulated) feeling-based "argument".

Race and Gender critiques are perfectly valid, but they're not the only possible critiques, and this seems to have been forgotten.

Certainly the fact that academia hasn't responded effectively to its own forced gig economy casualisation - when it might have a century or so ago - should give pause for thought.
so that you can use it as a podcast offline.
> The best way to stop stray dog menace, just stop throwing food/organic waste on the streets.

I don't know to to respond to this. Garbage has nothing to do with it. There are now organized groups of people who literally drive around, feeding dogs in the streets: https://mylosrescue.com/feeding-initiatives/ In addition, the courts have imposed the obligation on RWAs to feed stray dogs if nobody else is doing so.
I recently fired an engineer who was working 3 full time jobs all paying $130k+.

He ended up getting busted by all 3 companies at once, and all 3 fired him.

Hopefully he can find a new job that doesn’t check references. If you care about your reputation, or if you have the slightest moral compass, don’t do this.
> ...And if you're outside of the US, set up a local LLC so that US-based companies can treat you like an independent contracting business....

This has to be one of the top ten best pieces of advice I have seen on HN.
This problem is rampant in the military, to the point that orders are now often given over WhatsApp in some cases. There's been numerous security leaks as such, and any internal affairs seem to get out in a matter of minutes, with people forwarding it on to other group chats.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/uk
Get really good. By that I mean get fluent in the code, the sales pitch of a product, corner cases and examples of where this has saved real or hypothetical customers money and how. Always looks good to be active on their support groups just incase you encounter a tech person at interview.
Then become a consultant.
Should be pointed out you can simulate slower internet speeds in your chrome dev tools. The others- display/ram/cpu may be easier on a craptop, but a VM could also simulate resource constraints.
From the fine article:

> The nearly 14,000 Ohioans who have died this year were
> almost exclusively — about 95% — unvaccinated individuals.
SPY can crash 50% or more just as likely, therefore why I suggest some sort of "insurance".

Even if SPY would be better than any less diverse or hand picked options from retail under the same crash market conditions
Though due to the nature of the requests, they were not actually subject to that specific section of the law, and thus the demand of a response within 45 days had no genuine legal foundation.
wow... .lovely!!!

I will never stop using this!
I mean, what the hell? This is from India:

"The website has been blocked as per order of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000."

Why has the Indian govt blocked this website?
Time Consistency and Stationarity (2017)
Mandates and threats are counter productive. Lotteries are associated with waste and make government seem desperate. If the government was really wanted to encourage vaccinations it would provide a fixed compensation.
“furniture designers, incredibly, are not taught during their formal training how to calculate the deflection in an ordinary bookshelf when it is loaded with books,”
― J.E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
Replace Log4j with Log4CL
lived experience >>>> any expert opinion

Or put another way, today N=1 trumps N=1000.

That's how you shutdown any discussion.
> Write 2 technical articles.

How do you monetize technical articles at the rate of $1k / article ? Most firms wont pay that much.
I completely agree that having been infected with COVID should excuse one from vaccine mandates, at least within some time frame. However, that isn't why most of the unvaccinated are unvaccinated. Only a few million people had been infected with COVID in the U.S. at the time the vaccine was released, around 1% of the population.
Have to incorporate a premium for the travel nurse job being not in your home office, income being more volatile than a salaried job, and travel nurses are independent contractors so they have to pay for housing/health insurance/taxes.

The $6k per week easily comes down to $3k per week or less of comparable W-2 income, which you can come close to or surpass doing virtual scrum meetings with none of the income volatility of nursing nor the messiness or risk of being infected or attacked. And not seeing your family/friends after work.
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True. Which is why I didn't name him. I would like to add that he's far from unique in this regard, this is true of many commentators on both sides.
Socially corrosive get rich quick schemes. The harm to this individual artist may be small enough to overlook, but the incalculable harms from the lack of art that would've been otherwise produced will be with us for a while. I don't want to publish stuff for the enrichment of others, I couldn't blame anyone else for feeling the same way. (I wish i could say that better)

Can't wait for the cases of heavily invested NFT owners asserting copyright ownership because "they spent more"... Anyone betting the starving artists come out on top when those cases happen?
All the data is submitted by users of the browser extension (there's a thumbsup/thumbsdown system to flag bad submissions)
To have an above average pay you have to show above average abilities on GitHub.
If I remember Warren Buffet's teachings correctly, that would certainly qualify
Thanks for the feedback. Will update once I’m back online.
It's quite easy to do that find good companies and do good work in a very particular niche that underpromise and overdeliver (and go under on pricing) and use that to get more work at other companies. Then progressively go higher on pricing and do more than 1 (so you end up at 400k+) then pick the one you want and drop the other work. But if you start high you'll have a hard time proving your work easily, especially if its not specialised and you're not recognised in any way. It's alot of hard work to do the multiple at a go but you get there in the end.

If you simply want the $250k because thats what others are getting or something but cannot actually create the value you'll have a hard time getting there. An easy test for this is you feel you are underpaid at $250k vs being in a situation now where you can't get $250k at any job (non remote or otherwise)
Sounds pretty gruesome. However, the concept of it seems to be ancient.
The great Indian epic of Ramayana has a part that tells how they build Adam's / Rama's bridge to Sri Lanka with the "help" of monkeys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Monkeys_and_Bears_Bui...
That's exactly what is happening. It is just that this time it may actually work. For one thing, the industry as a whole (including Microsoft) is supportive of the standard and we have the benefit of 25+ years of hindsight
Anything is possible when you decide to change the definition of what something means. The CDC used to define “vaccinated” as “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” They changed that key word in the definition to “protection”, so sure if you move the goalpost on what something is, you absolutely can call this a “vaccine” and not an MRNA treatment!
Ah, cheers
There's a huge bottleneck in training and education of the licensed professionals involved in nursing.

To have a 'truly free market', there wouldn't be government licensing (a similar role would likely be carried out by third party certification).

I don't think that eliminating licensing would improve anything, but the regulation of nurse training absolutely needs to be included in the discussion of the problem.
Only it wasn't an "Excel" error seemingly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721585
The question then becomes 'who can afford care?'

If costs to go to a hospital double overnight, we may end up with worse problems than a staff shortage.
It used to be amazing - a pretty full featured mail application, snappy in 2005 on much less sophisticated browser runtimes. It’s relatively a piece of shit now.