skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, but in my experience, under-developed problem statement like “fixing a broken project” is the main reason why companies do not (cannot) offer competitive compensation for this kind of work.

What is the monetary value of “fixing a broken project”? Nobody knows, because the root cause is not known - and if they knew the root cause, the problem would have been defined differently from the start.

So what happens is company tries to hire someone to diagnose the root causes. But diagnostics brings no inherit value to the org until problems are actually fixed. Which means nobody is willing to invest into diagnostics. Which means they try to fill in some flat rate position for these diagnostic purposes, position which fits the project budget, with compensation unrelated to the scale of actual problems at hand.

Another issue is that “fixing a broken project” engagements are usually launched by middle management responsible for success of these (already launched) projects. Proper way to approach this as an external consultant would be to go one level up, take a look at the actual company strategy and this project’s goals, and rework the way whole project is launched. At many times the easier way around is to re-setup, re-steer, or kill this project altogether - but this requires a different level of involvement.

In the end you are stuck on an underfunded engagement where actual proper solution likely lies outside of your area of responsibility (you are being hired by middle management, so you cannot effectively go above their head and reach the actual solution).
I don’t think that’s the right analogy here.

I also rely on a printed copy for making sense of dense research papers and it’s not an affectation. Rather, it’s just that the electronic alternatives are not as good: the markup isn’t as flexible, they’re harder to share, they take up screen real estate I need for other things, etc.
You can do pretty well just comparing the ratios of the size to the distance, right? Or is it more than that?
Poland is really nice, except if you don't like cold weather and you like to swim in the sea. Even some of my native Polish colleagues complain about the cold, especially the older ones.
>It was perfect. I even met Robin in real life in Zurich, instead of virtually. We continued working via Upwork while locating in Zurich, as to not violate any Upwork terms.

At this level of trust, you should establish a direct relationship with the client.

However, even if Robin started PayPaling him directly, Robin could still file a charge back. Robin knows exactly what he did, he just doesn't care.

But at least then you don't have 20% being skimmed off top.

I found all my contractors ( aside from Fiver, but these are 100, 200$ gigs) via doing my own research. I've wasted at least a thousand on work that wasn't really good. But the stuff that is usable, is fantastic.

Anyway, OP is still on Upwork, so why's he complaining. If I worked somewhere and then randomly asked me to give 4 months pay back, I'm out.
Current policy discussion doesn't change the result presented in the article, the only thing I've been discussing.

> your punitive tax increases

again, never even talked bout INCREASES, only stopping cuts. Do you know the difference between not cutting and increasing? If you do are you just trying your hand at fearmongering? Nah... you seem the kinda folk who would only argue in good faith.
They sell 3M N95 masks at Home Depot for a reason :)
When I was at Google, there was a modified version of ssh-agent, that would simply ask before signing any login request. It popped up a window (x11 or curses, I think regulated by an external program) that asked "Do you want to connect to HOST?"

It seemed such an obvious feature that I was surprised it wasn't part of the standard distribution.
The person who you're responding to is engaging with the person who they're responding to in the terms chosen by the latter. If the original commenter hadn't written, "PowerShell feels outright developer-hostile even when compared to Bash", then we might have some reason to find fault with the person who replied. Considering that's what did happen, however, this comment of yours—which is both snarky and implicitly demands the wrong person to take responsibility for the comparison—just comes across as annoying.
For journal papers I get you completely dude. I am a PhD, and now a research scientist. Reading and writing journal papers is what I have been doing for close to a decade now - and yet to really get a paper - I often have to dedicate two-three days to that paper.

Many people in my field say that they have read a paper, but from my experience all they have done is read the abstract and the figure captions. That's not reading a paper.

Think of it this way - the work in the paper often took several months, and then a few more months to write, revise and polish it. It literally condenses one to two man-years worth of acquired knowledge in 10 pages - it should not shame you then that it takes a few days for you to digest it all.
Because there could be other reasons why you should have a say in what the government prioritizes. My main point is that living somewhere should be reason enough, and for people saying that being a foreigner disenfranchises you from deciding if the city should prioritize bike lanes or parking spaces, I say those things are paid from my taxes, and I should have a say.
Similar to another comment - it sounds like you’ve made good money, you’ve landed tech jobs several times, and you’ve got good feedback from your peers - that is successful, you should take some time to take pride in what you have achieved so far.

I think there’s 2 things for you to think about. Firstly, comparing yourself to everyone else you will always find people who have done better in some area than you, that’s no failure on your part, that is the reality that every person exists in. It’s hard sometimes to appreciate yourself, I certainly have bouts of this.

Secondly, when you’re working in an organisation, you’re not solely responsible for making some project succeed, shipping some feature or whatever it is. If there are processes making progress very difficult, that’s not your fault. It’s easy to internally create all this pressure on yourself to meet your own standards, but sometimes you’re thrown into a situation where external factors out of your control prevent you from meeting what you yourself deem acceptable performance - that’s not on you. You can raise the issues that are blocking you, you can suggest ideas for improvements, but in a company, most of the time you cannot fix these things alone. I have found that my stress increases when I don’t understand what it is that is preventing me from performing, and when I put it all on myself to fix. Identifying the issues and absolving myself of the responsibility to fix all of them have been the best things I’ve done for my work stress levels.
I have to say, as someone working in a stable non-tech company, it isn't all roses and unicorns. The code base is absolutely awful, mainly because a lot of non-technical people have hacked it together. And there is never time or money to attempt some kind of cleanup.

It gets exhausting having to repeatedly say "we are going over budget due to unforseen complications as a direct result of low quality code".

It gets exhausting having to constantly rework solutions to fit the boneheaded design decisions made with zero forward thinking.
Facebook’s data center plans rile residents in the Netherlands
People with 2 dose vaccinations are well protected from serious disease, taking up small fraction of hospital capacity (less intensive, shorter stays). Boosted folks are taking up less than that. It probably doesn't matter a lot for healthy people under 30, but that leaves an awful lot of people over 30 or with health problems where the available vaccines are hugely protective.
> Not just slightly different. It can be extremely variable from person to person.

Not just SSRIs. I had a very bad experience with Mucinex D (or DM?) about 12 years ago, the first time I tried it. I can only imagine it was what clinical depression is like. For two days (until I stopped taking because I was so scared) I lost all interest in my life. I wasn't interested in my young children, ow my wife, or watching anything on TV I usually like, or playing a game. I was questioning my work life choices as well because nothing at work held the slightest interest. I would go home, do what was required of me, then sit in bed and stare at the wall until I went to bed.

That is, to this day, one of the scariest experiences in my life. I've since heard of one or two other people that had similar experiences with it.
Thanks, I hate it. [Cool game!]
Nope, here's why.

* single chat client (not a plethora on many platforms these days)

* ability to set online, offline, away, invisible (basically if you're available or not, whereas Facebook/Instagram/Slack don't really have that same separation and even the ones that do tend to not be as popular)

* Single-purpose platform, no other social media needed to carry it. i.e. Instagram's DM's are tucked away. Discord is technically single-purpose, but it's also at its core a social media platform, you need to join servers/Discords for all the separate things you're into, etc. so it's also not a single-purpose platform).
My solver at wordlesolver.com plays the same 5-move game each time: ARISE, BLUDY, COMET, CHUNK, CHUCK.

It looks like optimal play is 4 moves: https://twitter.com/zwegner/status/1480037275803308034
Looking at the code, it utilizes Windows DLLs to implement RDP based connection. So the server is purely Windows only.

But if you have xrdp[0] server on any Linux device, the client might be useful to connect to it. But the client must be Windows in this scenario too.

[0] http://xrdp.org/
You think you're joking but I've lived through exactly that. Reason: SSH cannot be examined by a HTTP proxy. The moment we raised that HTTP CONNECT is a TCP passthrough thus equivalent we got to install a bespoke root certificate on our machines for the proxy to MITM every single connection.
Sounds like it. It looks like an incontinent buzzard suffered a disappointing series of bowel movements over your car.
A large number of UK consumers don't understand the difference between 'best before' and 'use by', this sadly won't make as much difference as it could.

> British home cooks threw away a whopping 720m eggs in 2018[0], with one in three saying they will bin any carton that is out of date. Yet eggs in the UK carry a best-before date, not a use-by.

> All those discarded eggs show that most people still don’t understand the difference. If 74% of respondents to a 2016 Women’s Institute (WI) survey knew that “use by” was about safety, only 45% knew that “best before” wasn’t. The waste reduction charity Wrap has found that as much as 30% of the food binned for being “past date” had a best-before; ie, it probably didn’t need to be binned.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/17/the-truth-about...

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/09/britons-throw-a...
I also like how he wrote his eggnog recipe, it's very much in his voice https://www.charlesmingus.com/blog/news/minguss-5-star-raptu...

I've never actually made it
People want a shot at not becoming that lonely elder that lives in isolation, has no remaining close relatives, and when eventually dies, people only notice one or two weeks later, when neighbors start complaining about a strange smell.
Verizon’s 5G upgrade imposes new hotspot data limits on older phone plans
Really nice video, and reflects my thoughts on rust perfectly. Have an upvote :-)

Safety guaranteed by the compiler is certainly a great feature, but if this comes at the cost of "visual clutter" the likes of which I am only used to in legacy Java and C++ codebases, then I have to say, no thanks, I'd rather use C and make sure I make as few errors as possible.

Or I just use Go.
> This trains people not to update, 'coz stuff might break.

What it should be training you to do is test updates first rather than blindly applying them in a production environment...
Does the Linux powershell support `[System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen
`? If so, I think the screen share will probably work. I'm not sure about the remote control.

```
$primaryDesktop = [System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen

$size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(
($primaryDesktop.Bounds.Size.Width * $ScaleFactor),
($primaryDesktop.Bounds.Size.Height * $ScaleFactor)
)

$location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(
($primaryDesktop.Bounds.Location.X * $ScaleFactor),
($primaryDesktop.Bounds.Location.Y * $ScaleFactor)
)

$bitmap = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap($size.Width, $size.Height)
$graphics = [System.Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($bitmap)

$graphics.CopyFromScreen($location, [System.Drawing.Point]::Empty, $size)

return $bitmap

```
https://github.com/DarkCoderSc/PowerRemoteDesktop/blob/main/...
I previously read an article about alcohol and safety, which made a similar claim. The lowest level of alcohol consumption in their data was two drinks a day. They had no idea if there was a safe amount below that.

I'd assume it's a talking point that activists have adopted.
I posted this on Twitter last night, but here's my (purported) proof that 4 guesses is optimal: https://gist.github.com/zwegner/508cc183ab94dd27686a40384783...

...and a bit more explanation in the Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/zwegner/status/148011092775217561...
Exactly. Author seems to go out of his way to point out what an upstanding person “Robin” is, yet never even mentions the possibility that Robin maybe ought to pay the freelancer what he’s owed for services already rendered?
I'm fine with this effort, but curious how they came up with the 800K number? Is that a capped number? Is that a real estimate of number of non-citizens?
Type Wars (2016)
Another country bans out-of-hours calls and emails from the boss
If you don't want to mess with serotonin don't go take MDMA…
> Electric cars don't have that problem.

That's one of the things I'm concerned about - most people want to charge their EVs at night and drive them when there's solar power.
The study in question is a preprint and by a political scientist. That doesn’t make the conclusions wrong but does raise doubts as to its veracity. It’s rare for someone in one field to have insights into another, unrelated field that turn out to be correct. When the study is published and analyzed by experts is the time to consider this study. Right now it’s too premature to do so.
If anything a more likely cause is statins in older people, which are known to cause violent rage.
Please help me find a specific SaaS funding program
Hi,

I am searching for a specific SAAS funding program that offered $20k for 1% or $40k for 2%. I believe it was posted recently but I cannot find it anymore in my history, in the search or on Google. Does anyone know this program? Thanks
I disagree with this, in my experience D-Bus is very similar to other IDLs like DCOM, protobuf or ASN.1. If you're familiar with those, D-Bus should actually be easy in comparison.
Omnifixo “Third Hand” Variant
People with 2 dose vaccination in the UK mostly aren't spending time in critical care:

https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1479528897259712513
> The reason people don't want to run their own servers is because in most cases it's as expensive.

This isn’t remotely true, AWS has a free tier of EC2 instances, not sure how much less expensive you can get.
The failure mode on self cleaning litterboxes is worse than normal litterboxes or toilets.

We had one, and, as usual, got busy and forgot to clean it. The end result was a spotless, odor free and empty self-cleaning litterbox (all the litter had been auto-removed) and a male cat with a urinary tract infection.
How ‘feature bloat’ is driving the chip shortage
Timing matters. A big company can snuff out a small competitor if they respond quickly, before the small competitor gets a chance to take root. Once it takes root it is harder to snuff out. So it makes sense to stay out of sight of big competitors until you have had a chance to establish.
Sex differences in human brain volumes
This is the strangest intersection of my interests I've ever experienced.
I don't know if it wants to move there, but even if it does it's not there yet. So it's not the same as someone moving from Texas to California. That's like saying I am about the same as Steph Curry because I spend a couple hours a day practicing three pointers.
Stick a battery in your garage.
There's basically no boosted folks spending time in the hospital in this dataset, and very few vaccinated:

https://twitter.com/PaulMainwood/status/1479528897259712513

US data has a similar separation between vaccinated and not:

https://twitter.com/cliffordlevy/status/1480184928054779905

I guess if people are making their decisions based on a belief that significant reductions in hospitalization aren't beneficial, that explains something.
I can't guess on the ones you stated but if for completeness sake we include geothermal then probably about 3 or 4 billion years, long after the planet would have to be evacuated for different reasons. Ubiquitous deployment of geothermal is challenging at this time due to the current tech limitations and associated costs.
As far as I can tell, those dlls are only for getting the resolution in :

```
function Get-ResolutionScaleFactor
{
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Return the scale factor of target screen to capture.
#>

$hdc = [W.User32]::GetDC(0)
try
{
return [W.GDI32]::GetDeviceCaps($hdc, 117) / [W.GDI32]::GetDeviceCaps($hdc, 10)
}
finally
{
[W.User32]::ReleaseDC(0, $hdc) | Out-Null
}
}

```
https://github.com/DarkCoderSc/PowerRemoteDesktop/blob/main/...
GitHub – Crpietschmann/AzureSphereOS: Azure Sphere Source Code Under GPL
"As neuroimaging research has exploded over the past quarter century, it has become evident that males and females show certain group-level differences in brain structure. Adult male brains are some 14% larger than female brains, with bigger ventricles, a higher ratio of white:gray matter, and a longer period of growth during adolescence (e.g., Lenroot et al., 2007). These differences are reliable enough that most brain morphometry studies now use sex as a covariate when analyzing mixed-sex samples."
Look again.

It WAS plastered over a peace sign.

Never change, Ringo.
1) nobody’s really controlling covid. At best they’re dealing with it vs health care systems and trying to run the economy.

2) tech doesn’t really help, aside from making the vaccines and that’s already done. Boring stuff like distribution and storage systems and country level shortages rule.

3) it became political/tribal, so behaviour isn’t always rational.

4) the urgency to deal with covid is not shared by all parts of society. Partially due to (3) and partially due to wishful thinking, impatience etc.
This uses different word lists than Wordle/Adversarial Wordle, but still has a 4-guess optimum, no 3-guess is possible.

My solver's found about a thousand so far, here's a good one: "abyes choup donut dingo" (note that there are a number of 'fake' words allowed for guesses).
Zerocash is an crash system in the vein of Amon Ta-Shma’s variant from 99, and has rigorous security definitions and proofs. Follow-up work like Zexe strengthens these definitions to standard ones used in MPC, namely simulation-based security.

Furthermore, the MPC deployments you speak of are rather small-scale, there have been no deployments of general-purpose MPC beyond maybe the sugar beets auction.
These medications don't really address your condition, but rather just treat symptoms.

IMO, the fear is not really about short-term negatives, but about it turning into drug abuse, without actually tackling the root cause.

Such drugs should only be used in extreme cases.
GitHub - crpietschmann/AzureSphereOS: Azure Sphere Source Code released under GPL license by Microsoft. (unofficial / unsupported repository)
> The goal is to maximize the amount of guesses it takes to find the word

The heuristic used is not optimal for this. You want to choose the set that takes the most number of guesses to split, which is not necessarily the set with the largest number of elements.
The situation in Kazakhstan is a much bigger deal than media is letting on
> ...structure-preserving pseudonymization

Can you write about this a bit more, please (what does it mean)? Is it comparable to Tokenization (typically used to hide sensitive-date like credit card details, for example) [0], or to Homomorphic encryption [1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization_(data_security)

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/vinodv/FHE/FHE-refs.html
>If you needed to build a new active x control for your app, god save you.

regsvr32 coolcontrol.ocx
> Reducing energy consumption is not the answer.

Why not?
The "Why?" is hard to find, but I think this answer to "Why use mergerfs over unionfs" is informative:

> UnionFS is more like aufs than mergerfs in that it offers overlay / CoW features. If you're just looking to create a union of drives and want flexibility in file/directory placement, then mergerfs offers that, whereas unionfs is more for overlaying RW filesystems over RO ones.

Also:

> What should mergerfs NOT be used for?

1. databases: Even if the database stored data in separate files (mergerfs wouldn't offer much otherwise) the higher latency of the indirection will kill performance. If it is a lightly used SQLITE database then it may be fine but you'll need to test.

2. VM images: For the same reasons as databases. VM images are accessed very aggressively and mergerfs will introduce too much latency (if it works at all).

3. As replacement for RAID: mergerfs is just for pooling branches. If you need that kind of device performance aggregation or high availability you should stick with RAID.
Trains are amazing for cutting out carbon from the delivery chain. You can even run double stack containers with overhead electrical traction (both China and India do it). Honestly using trucks to ship from a California port to Utah makes no sense - use trains and then transfer to trucks only for the absolute last mile
They have a tool called APT that lets the researcher define the parameters of the experiment (target object, instrument settings, time, etc) and the software will find an open time slot which can meet those parameters. Then it goes through a double blind scientific review process. The researchers that worked on the telescope hardware get some amount of guaranteed time slots while the rest is used for general observers.

You can see video tutorials on the software here:

https://www.youtube.com/c/JWSTObserver/playlists
It may be possible; maybe not 2.5%, but total tax rate below 10% is possible =legally= in some places. Yes, it is a punch in the face from the governments to people that pay huge taxes like 50-70% in most of Europe, but this is what governments are very good at doing: discriminating.
Computer Data Cassette Formats
> unexpected repairs blew a huge hole in our household budget.

Yeah that's unfortunate, and maintenance & repairs can cancel out some of the price appreciation as well. But in general it sounds like you are doing extremely well personally and professionally and are going out of your way to tell yourself stories about how things are going wrong.

> The team hasn't done a great job supporting me, but they deliver on their commitments and the individual team members are extremely competent.

Your lack of onboarding reflects extremely poorly on them & their process, not yourself. They made let's say at this point an 100k investment in you with what sounds like zero visibility & process.

> I'm well-compensated for now, but how long can I realistically keep it up?

I would probably just start looking for another job, "dream jobs" aren't always what they are cut out to be and there is no reason to tie yourself to this one. They will not be so sentimental.