skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair thing.

Being really great at your job but never doing anything to market yourself puts you at a disadvantage.

Being great at your job and having a healthy level of "look at what I did" happening is better.

It unfortunately but necessarily follows that there will be people who decide to spend all their time promoting themselves and very little on meaningful work, but this is not a new development.
IRC might be designed around a simple protocol, but it is not simple in operation. The plethora of command line options explains why IRC is only loved by (some) developers and nobody else.

I suspect some IRC users like the high barrier to entry (but would never admit to it): it keeps out all those clueless 'non-technical' users.
In Romania you pay 7% tax for an LTD (dividend + corporate tax) and for up to 100k turnover you pay <2% as a consultant registered as a PFA (sole trader), or 10% as a non consultant but software engineer as a PFA. The cost of living is a bit higher than bulgaria but so is the standard of living (i.e.: I pay roughly 850 EUR rent pcm in Bucharest for a two bed flat, enjoy private health care and generally speaking a more decent living standard). Earn around 120k EUR per year and get to keep > 90% after tax as per above.
>Seems you're overconfident that therapy and drugs aren't the solution to mental health problems

And seems like mental health professionals are overconfident that their methods work. And the evidence that they do is weak, especially for the talk therapy.
Exactly. I feel like crypto guys are hijacking the term. For me web3 is about p2p, federations and new browser features you listed + wasm.
I’m surprised the credit card company acted in this manner. I “hired” a lawyer - later I realize how scummy and potentially illegal their services were - for about $3,000. They proceeded to perform about what I would consider next to no work on my behalf.

I contacted my cc company to perform a chargeback and was denied. Upon further reflection I should have sued the lawyer in small claims court but I was somewhat embarrassed by the whole affair and just let it drop.

Unfortunately in this case I feel like upwork is worse than not as you’re not directly negotiating and proving your case to the cc company. I would imagine upwork put about zero effort into defending this guy, because hey, he’ll just work for free for the next two months! No risk here!
“Pretty much everyone is going to get COVID” is how I feel as well, just like pretty much everyone is going to get the flu across any given 50 year span. Some will die from it, most will not. (C19 is obviously worse than a typical flu, but by less than a decimal order of magnitude.)

Then the interesting question is what to do about it. You can give up a lot of life’s freedoms and enjoyment to maybe cut that 50-year risk in half. Is that worth it? To my reckoning: Not to me, not to my elderly parents, and not to my kids. I’m thankful that my kids are at least pre-teen and not (yet) teen or college age where our choices are hitting much harder.
Final optical instruments were integrated in 2014, proposed launch date at the time was 2018. There was not enough time to think about any upgrades and cost was ballooning anyway.

NIRCam has quantum efficiency of 70 to 90% depending on light frequency. https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/files/97978241/97978242/1/159607...

MIRI has average efficiency of about 50%. https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/files/97977640/97977649/1/159607...

Internal noise of electronics is not significant compared to thermal noise at operating temperature of MIRI (7 Kelvin).

Further small improvements might be possible in the future but no 'orders of magnitude' can be expected without going into even colder temperatures, that would require total redesign.

At the end of the day, efficiency can be offset by simply taking longer exposures so it is nice to have but does not have to be super optimised. Achieving diffraction limit is much more important and JWST's camera do that.

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-camera/nircam...
https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-mid-infrared-instrument/mir...
Ask HN: How do you start contracting?
I'm a developer and product manager, about ten years into my career and making pretty good money.

I'm curious to explore if contracting makes sense as an alternative to full time employment. How do I start? How do I position and price myself?
> It's very hard for Upwork to tell the difference between this and a conspiracy between freelancer and client to steal money from a credit card.

I agree that it's hard to tell the difference, but do not believe that gives Upwork the authority to require a refund from the freelancer. The freelancer made an agreement with Upwork that, in exchange for payment from Upwork, the freelancer would perform work as directed by the client. By requiring a refund, Upwork is claiming that the freelancer either (a) did not perform work as directed or (b) is conspiring with the client to scam Upwork. In the case of (a), the client may give evidence against the freelancer. In the case of (b), the burden of proof lies with Upwork to prove that such a conspiracy existed, not on the freelancer to prove that no such conspiracy existed.

Upwork has four ethical options going forward. First, Upwork may accept the cost of fraud as a part of doing business, and continue working with this freelancer. Second, Upwork may accept the cost of fraud as a part of doing business, but limit that cost by refusing to hire this freelancer in the future. Third, Upwork may recover payment from the client through the courts. Fourth, Upwork may accuse the freelancer of being part of the client's fraud, and may recover payment through the courts. Instead of taking any of these options, Upwork has chosen the unethical option to require payment from the freelancer without first establishing any culpability on the part of the freelancer.

> he is a "Blockchain & AI Focused Tech and Investment Consultant" specializing in "investments related to Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence". It seems to me that a) somebody claiming this level of business sophistication should be walking the walk, and b) anybody working in the cryptocurrency space should vet clients very carefully given the high level of fraud and insanity in the space.

I agree, considering Blockchain and Cryptocurrency as realms of unmitigated fraud whose entire existence consist of nested pyramid schemes. However, I do not think that establishing a precedent allowing abuse of a power differential in somebody's livelihood is acceptable, even when the victim is part of the larger Blockchain/Cryptocurrency scheme.

> So I think what I'd really like to see here is Upwork saying, "We're very sorry the client screwed us all over and we suggest you consider suing them to get paid. Have your lawyer contact us and we'll turn over any records you need to that end."

Except that the freelancer's agreement is with Upwork. The client screwed over Upwork. A bank is responsible for verifying the identity of somebody accessing an account, and may not pass on the costs to the account holder. Upwork is responsible for verifying the identity of a client's payment, and may not pass on the costs to the freelancer.
I’m surprised you can charge back charges from two years ago. To a certain extent, not noticing this fraud does fall on the card owner. They were paying fraudulent bills for years and they just now noticed? I’d think allowing even a three-month old chargeback would be generous.
That it conveys more information to a smaller group of people.

If that smaller group is the intended audience, that's better than less information. If the intended audience is broader, less information (layman's terms) might be better.

A doctor can say to me 'we think there's a clot and we need to get you to theatre asap' and that's fine, but I hope they say something more technical (that conveys where it is, the nature of it, whatever) to the surgeon!
1. What do you mean by simulator? The wavelength range/sensitivity of the various instruments has been simulated.

2. I think you use this tool to submit proposals: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-astronomers-proposal-tool-o...

3. They go through a panel to be peer-reviewed and compared to other proposals (similar to how grants are allocated by the government). I'm fairly certain this process also includes review by instrumentation experts. The process is double-blind and the first cycle has already been allocated: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra....
They hate them for inflating the currency, giving everyone stimulus and so many benefits it’s hard to hire, for forcing their businesses to shut down for months and have 50% of small restaurants go insolvent for “two weeks to slow the spread,” for forcing people to work from home suddenly and the productivity damages and delays initially caused…

There’s plenty to hate and more.
I believe at a higher level, a universe level, rather than a human level - human natural state must be an equilibrium of "energy" & detriment. (energy is a meta concept crossing domains here, stay with me).

Humans consume energy (animals, resources) and create detriment (greenhouse gases, etc) - and must offset all of those to positively benefit the Earth or else that (and each) particular human is a net negative to the Earth. If a human is a net negative, at a higher level why should that person exist?

Humans must each therefore cause a positive net of energy to the Earth through creating useful, productive, additions to the universe to push it forward. Otherwise, as in the matrix, said human is a parasite.
I'm not a biochemist. I don't know how much knowledge of how protein fold is important as opposed to knowing the final structure. My understanding is that current expensive method of X-ray crystallography in the range of $100k per protein also does not explain how protein fold, however the structure itself appear to be useful.

Many complex problems do not appear to be explainable in the way planet motions are explainable. The fact that many aspects of the universe are explainable in simple laws is rather extraordinary in itself. In reality, there may be just a lot of irreducible complexity. Maybe success of Deep Learning teaches us that certain things do not fit into framework of science that you assume to be the only correct framework. Reality does not care about what we would want to be true.

Maybe invention of AlphaFold will lead to better understanding of protein folding the same way that invention of steam engine lead to the laws of thermodynamics. Historically, science often lags behind progress of technology. Time will judge.

I also thought that the lack of resources will be your answer. In 2004-2009 neural networks were in quite similar position to ILP. However, NN showed significant potential as evaluated by the broad community at the time and so resources allocated to NN started to grow exponentially. ILP and symbolic methods more broadly do not show similarly convincing potential to the broad community. I'm sure OpenAI, DeepMind, Google, Micosoft etc. would not hesitate to dump equivalent resources they do into many other projects if they saw potential. DeepMind, Microsoft and Google especially hire people with very broad range of expertise.

What may be true is that the world is starting to reach limits of the resources that can be dedicated to deep learning. Exponential growth in resource use can not go forever unless deep learning will start feeding back into available resources and we are certainly not there, not yet.

> Yet the algorithms that I study run on a student laptop, are trained in a weakly supervised manner, take seconds to train, and generalise robustly from single examples without any sort of pre-training whatsoever

Show me that applied to: https://github.com/fchollet/ARC
Got it. They get part of their content from Hulu, and if I select US, results are correct.
I used to work in fintech.

Getting a chargeback from 2 years ago is unheard of. Even 6 months is stretching it from the most generous credit card provider, AMEX.

I would just ignore it and close my upwork account and change bank accounts. It sounds like bullshit to me.
So you can't use nano without installing some proprietary software on a phone ? That doesn't look good ...
15 minutes an hour + on the loo
Try Romania - lower taxes, see my previous comment, higher standard of living and there's a small but decent size italian community here.
Show HN: Remote browsers for individaul use
Discord is horrible and I don't understand why so many people like it so much.

First thing I do when joining a new "server" is to mute all and any broadcast (@everyone/@here/roles) mentions. Broadcast mentions should have never been invented.
I’m guessing body on frame does not qualify as “modern”. What was the last passenger vehicle as opposed to truck built body on frame? The Crown Vic beloved of police departments?
Linux Shell for iOS
I use Signal, and am not saying that they are doing anything shady.

But that argument would make for a convenient smokescreen if they were.
Companies of the United States with untaxed profits
Nope. In the category of probes/satellites, NASA doesn't put cameras that aren't needed. Probes on Mars get cameras, but that's because they're in a dynamic environment. They then use those cameras in fun, engaging ways.
Why bash over the browser javascript console? It is everywhere and allows interactive editing of a "program", much like the BASIC interpreters of old.
What hope did we offer the youth that their lives will be livable anyway. For many their financial future is basically debt serfdom. With asset price bubbles, hidden inflation, and wage suppression I don’t know how an ordinary person could hope to live middle class life and I only expect it to get worse.
I do expect them to backdoor every drone, and only activate the ones they care about. That means your drone could start sending images at any time, but it probably doesn't and never will.

That said, this is the exact same situation of not intentionally backdoored IoT.
> One aspect where the toilet may actually be better is that you _might_ be able to spot blood easier in the water.

One thing that's cool is there are special cat litters now that change color when blood is present.
Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta
Ok, that is understandable. When making arguments like this, I think it would be good for people to say what their criteria for completely ending restrictions are (if any).

It seems like the vast majority agree that keeping restrictions forever is too extreme, but many of the covid-conservative arguments I see imply keeping restrictions forever, because they are based on factors that are unlikely to change in the foreseeable future (like immunosuppressed people + endemic covid).

The same goes for logic that also implies we should also be masking, social distancing, closing schools, etc. for influenza (which, again, I believe the vast majority of people would reject as too extreme).
This is because the customer for Upwork is not the freelancer it’s the entity hiring the freelancer.

It may appear they’re on the side of the freelancer however that’s not the goal of the company. They make money off the other end and likely think that even if n percent of freelancers drop the platform there will be more in their place
Far-UVC light: A tool to control the spread of airborne-mediated microbial
If this is true why aren't farmers using other less extractive brands? Has JD used anticompetitive practices to hinder competition?

Or did JD increase farming productivity in a pareto efficient way, so the farmers are still better off buying JD, even though JD gets to keep most of the newly created surplus?

Or is it just a race to the bottom where farmers that don't buy JD get priced out, even though buying JD makes the farmers worse off as a collective?
Igloo is not banned on any networks. Please don't spread misinformation.
I like it. My suboptimal play:

C R A N K (0 green, 0 yellow)

M Y T H S (0 green, 0 yellow)

P L U M B (0 green, 1 yellow)

L Y R E S (0 green, 2 yellow)

O I L E D (2 green, 2 yellow)

F I E L D (4 green, 0 yellow)

W I E L D (5 green, 0 yellow)
Some design patterns as universal abstractions
This is one of those things I thought of as well. A pet generally won't know how healthy it is or if it feels unwell why it does so. What you can do as a pet owner is monitor behaviour and check what goes in (food, water) and comes out (poop, urine, vomit) as a basic indication of health.
100% this. They call it fear mongering and paranoia for now because it's only something that could happen.

There used to be debates about whether face recognition should be allowed at all. In 2017 an executive order rolled it out at airports, where it's now used by the CBP and some airlines. The TSA is now considering using it. The debates are over, it's happening and there are now articles about how convenient it is to board without a boarding pass. The definition of normal continues to shift slowly towards universal surveillance. Every little increment is enabled by a few years of the previous increment being normalized and a morsel of security or convenience.
That's just a problem on investment, not inherent to subways. The more we spend on dumb "solutions" like these tunnels, the more we close our imagination to improvement of actual proven public infrastructure
I wouldn’t support a no-comment policy, but I’ve wasted a lot of time thanks to misleading comments.
“And to the detriment of others”
I was working with a Ukrainian guy for a few years, and he was always complaining about taxes and how he wanted to pay less. Eventually he told us he was paying an effective tax rate of 7% :D
I can’t see what would possess somebody to subscribe to a mailing list for any reason in 2022. Email is mostly for receiving spam today, I’d much rather read blogs in a basically clean set of RSS feeds rather than getting opted in from several businesses every day, some of which I know, some of which I don’t.
Why not?

VAT is typically charged to customers and then compensated with the VAT you pay if you as a freelancer have expenses.

For instance in Spain I have to increase my clients invoices by 21%, but if those invoices are for software, you have almost no purchases to offset that, so I need to pay that 21% quarterly.

So to earn 50k€ in net terms, I would need to charge 25k€ extra just on income tax, plus 3.5k€ on direct taxes on freelancing (because Spain), plus 21% VAT.

It’s no wonder the south of Europe does poorly.
Interesting that COVID vaccine provision is less racist than the average healthcare provision:

> NAM found that “racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality health care than white people—even when insurance status, income, age, and severity of conditions are comparable.” By “lower-quality health care,” NAM meant the concrete, inferior care that physicians give their black patients. NAM reported that minority persons are less likely than white persons to be given appropriate cardiac care, to receive kidney dialysis or transplants, and to receive the best treatments for stroke, cancer, or AIDS. It concluded by describing an “uncomfortable reality”: “some people in the United States were more likely to die from cancer, heart disease, and diabetes simply because of their race or ethnicity, not just because they lack access to health care.”

But I wouldn't want to doubt your anectodal evidence that black people are "smart" enough to not face institutional racism.
"I think this a very evil, ignorant comment. Sincerely: You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this."

This, among numerous other parts of your comment are in gross violation of HN rules, just for future reference
apparently the cat can learn to flush if the cat hits it by accident
> 12K is a joke to them

Not that I disagree, but I got the sense from the post that upwork has suddenly detected a lot of this exact same scam from a lot of clients. They may be dealing with hundreds or even thousands of the same situation.
FUML – a new data serialization language based on type theory
Fair enough, but I felt that detailing the contractors would lengthen the article and not add to my general points.
I did mention Northrup Grumman engineers in the caption of one image.
So what's the point of your commentary in this entire thread at all then? You're lack of need for printing serves no one except yourself in this thread about people and their printing needs/issues.
Based on my limited knowledge it seems possible. The US allows you to exclude $106k USD in foreign income if you’re not a US resident. You can also add some housing costs to bump it up.

Many countries won’t tax you if you work there and a) all your income and work is outside the country, b) you do t spend enough time there to become a tax resident (I’ve seen 180 days for some).

So if you’re willing (and able) to split your time between 3 countries, not go back to the US and get all of your income from outside those 4 countries, you could effectively pay little to no income tax and it would be legal.

But please hire a CPA.
> gives Upwork the authority

It is the rules Upwork sets that gives it the authority, rules everyone agrees to before entering in a relationship.
The iPhone at 15: Steve Jobs revealed his greatest product 15 years ago
> Windows comes with PowerShell (...)

It might be just me, but PowerShell feels outright developer-hostile even when compared to Bash. Perhaps it's their approach to rely primarily on .NET stuff which makes things so arcane, but when given the option it's far simpler and better to go with, say, python than PowerShell.
And if you have a male cat it’s important to also make sure they’re getting enough liquid, especially if they’re on a dry food diet. My cat almost died while I was out of town because he stopped drinking from stress I guess and was only on a dry diet. Now they’re on a can diet and healthy.
It depends on who's in control, elected into power, and their competency, that will determine the outcome. It doesn't inherently mean that part of the system is broken, I think it's mostly the electoral system that's broken.
But the article wasn’t reporting successive increases. The 22.3% was summer 2020 over summer 2019, while the 39.1% was the winter over the previous winter.

There’s not enough information reported to conclude that those increases “stack”.
Yea exactly. I love how upwork charges upwards of 20% of the payment but as soon as they get duped they want to recover 100% of the money from the person who can least afford it in. Why are they taking such a large fee if not to cover things like fraud risk? I think it’s time for some laws to regulate these shitty companies.
It's easy enough to use one of the various online banks to establish a separate bank account for Paypal and the like.
FYI, fx has a jid-like mode that can be started by pressing the dot key. See this post[1] for more information.

[1] https://medium.com/@antonmedv/discover-how-to-use-fx-effecti...
From the wikipedia definition of Engineer:

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent,
design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures,
gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements
while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation,
safety and cost.

And the etymological explanation of the word from the same article:

derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to create, generate, contrive,
devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").

Sure seems like what Software Engineers do for a living to me.