skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually having wealthy itself is what makes the rich richer. It’s called compound interest and return. The more money you have the higher investment return. Having $3M in the stock market and returning an average conservative return of 6% a year means you can extract $180k a year and basically not have to work.
yeah, pretty hypocrite that the author doesn’t work to work for a company, because it’s not his caliber, but then accepts a freelancing gig

if you don’t want to work for a company for any reason, why did you accept the offer?
I agree. But as political Kool Aid goes, talking about a nonexistent US "lockdown" is pretty mild.

On the other hand, that this has become such a trope indicates that the stay at home suggestions ended up working. People who weren't paying close attention to details thought the suggestions did have the force of law, without there actually being such laws.

(As an aside, I sympathize with small business owners and think "lockdown" is appropriate (albeit hyperbolic) to describe business closures. It's the society-wide usage of the term I'm talking about, where it's implied that people were not allowed to leave their homes. A few counties in California were the only instances that I'm aware of)
Atlassian ran a front-page ad on NYTimes calling companies fight Climate Crisis
How does the compensation compare?
Aside from finance, does any other industry pay as well as SV and startups?
API doesn't offer that feature out of the box but I believe you can pull off that with a bit of extra coding on top.
I think that because that's exactly what I was discussing and doing with multiple companies.

The only reason I never got into serious compensation talks is that I was just testing out the waters to see if my contacts could help me find interesting work.

I did actually do some small and limited architectural design projects / tech leadership projects (think 40 hour total project time over several weeks) and I was able to get a rather high rate for that.

I'm not sure why people are saying contract leadership isn't a thing. My day job routinely hires temporary contract leadership for things outside our wheelhouse. The people we contract are people who would never work at our company because it's beneath them, but they're willing to take some short highly paid contracting jobs.
This is the best I can do to try and fix this issue: try to get Apple people onto Signal.

My experience as an Android user when dealing with an iMessage initiated chat is terrible. Apple's obfuscation of the distinction between its proprietary messaging platform and sms/mms does a disservice to everybody.
Grew up with like 20 of these around my backyard. It was my primary chore half the year to cut and stack them.

When dried properly, they burn crazy well though.
> farm equipment runs at slow speeds using off the shelf industrial diesel engines

John Deere manufactures it’s own engines in many cases, but it also uses engines from other manufacturers.

> never (intentionally) leaves the ground or exceeds 30mph

Yes, aviation has a lot lower risk tolerance than agriculture, but ag equipment still kills plenty of people, and I’d probably rather be in a head-on collision with a honda civic going 50mph than an 8R going 30mph.

> Most medium sized countries have tractor factories, as they're essential for food production for the population.

Are you just reiterating that John Deere has more competitors? If so, I think this is misleading because most of these factories are just the same few competitors with factories in different companies (rather than distinct companies per country).
As does Histamine.
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the JWST will orbit the Sun while in the shadow of the Earth. This will allow it to keep the temperature of its delicate instruments at just the right...
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Well that's just totally wrong.
> What use is there in delaying this capability for a couple years

Leaving them time to build all the inference stack so they can host the model behind a paid API, alongside Codex and GPT-3.

That's OpenAI's new-ish business model, create amazing models and sell access to the predictions. The golden age of OpenAI state of the art models freely accessible has been over for over a year now.

I don't know why they feel the need to keep pretending it's for "safety".

For that matter, I think we are generally going to see a trend where less and less big models are distributed publicly, that's not specific to OpenAI. At the scale of those models, training is so expensive and the capabilities potentially game changing that it becomes hard to justify sharing the weights with your competition.

See e.g. Turing-NLG from MS, Gopher from DeepMind etc.
Probably a long shot that anyone has heard of this one, but BlueMars:

http://bluemars.org/

(Still links to a landing page). Basically a stream of ambient music. Many late nights were spent coding listening to "space ambient music".

Fortunately a kind soul has made an alternative stream at:

http://echoesofbluemars.org/

The site's description reads:

> In attempts to reestablish communication with the lost Bluemars fleet, an echo of past transmissions was found. Retransmitting signals from years ago, these echoes give us a glimpse into the past.
I haven’t tried Phoenix, but I believe you. I guess my point is more that the “general internet consensus” in 2022 doesn’t make life easy for you. It might be possible to do all this easily in Phoenix, but most people starting out are going to get directed down the npm/js/nextjs/express/etc DIY route, which is probably not the easiest path to market.
Sometimes, the art world has articles about paintings... Without a picture of the painting.
If you travel to somewhere with essentially zero light pollution, like a desert, if it's a clear sky you can see with starlight

This reminds me... I need to experience this firsthand at some point. Thank you!

Question: how much (if any) of that light is due to atmospheric scattering? ie, the sun's light hitting the daytime side of the earth, being scattered in our atmosphere, and faintly illuminating the night side of our planet? Would the same be true in the zero-atmosphere environment of space?

Here are some possible answers: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/25901/how-bright-i...
My initial launch on ProductHunt was total and utter crickets. Now we have ~500 customers, multiple $100K in ARR and two rounds of venture backing.

Without the humble brag, use a platform like PH as any marketing channel: email, blogs, Twitter etc. Never, EVER think a post on PH will be your defining marketing launch. Just like there is no magic one email, tweet or post that will define your product or make/break you. Expect nothing. The real work begins after launch.
Indeed, and how could I resist reading an article with that title?
'Cancel culture' is a political thing and against the guidelines, since it could create flame wars and unwanted discussions that are rarely useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

So it's more about the related topic than the webapp itselve. It's always been that way fyi
Gee, 25-30 years ago, Steward Alsop Jr. was writing every month that the last mainframe would be turned off by 2000.
Airbnb CEO: Crypto Payments Top User Requests for 2022
There is an difference between a community that just happens to have low vaccination rates, and one that is ideologically opposed to vaccinations.
This blogpost does not make sense.

> Is Robin really asking for a chargeback? That’s impossible. I start investigating by calling Robin. He apologized and said he never called any bank, additionally, he said this is a bit of a mess-up as he forgot that there is “a credit card connected in his account that wasn’t actually his”.

And that's the last we hear about Robin in this story. Why is that? Did Robin vanish, or otherwise fail to rectify the "mess-up"? And why doesn't the OP seem upset at the fact that Robin was very clearly a con artist?
People were calling Uber a startup as late as their IPO.

I think the distinction has more to do with the culture / vision of the company than just company age.
Yes, that's how social credit works.
The Xerox-copy thing is pretty interesting. Here in Egypt, Pampers is the word used for diapers, and for a while, IPad meant any kind of tablet.

I wonder what type of cultural memes exist for other cultures, similar to these examples.
When you put it like this, 9 billion sounds like a good deal :)

Also, consider how many (presumably) well paid expert engineers are scientists have been working on this since 1996.
Speaking as an employer, availability is important. If you're only working 15-20 hours a week for me, you've surely got other commitments that are occupying your mind and time. I've also seen many people doing part-time contracting take on more than they can handle, either moonlighting part-time from their full-time job or taking on too many simultaneous gigs. I've done this myself as a contractor, so I understand why it's happening, but as the employer I don't want to be on the receiving end.

I still hire part-time contractors for things, but for anything that's time sensitive or availability is a concern, I prefer to have a full-time employee.
Nothing personal, it’s just (affiliate) business.
I’ve fixed it now
Huh. I mean, do what's best for you, but I've never cared whether a printer is 7 inches tall or 12 inches tall, and the footprints are about the same in my experience.
It's actually the last number. It's found by pulling the shackle and noting where the dial sticks. There will be several places but one stands out from the rest and is the last number.

Then the last number mod 4 is equal to the first number mod 4 while the middle number mod 4 is ± 2 from the others.

This reduces the search space to 100 possibilities to be brute forced in a few minutes.
Thanks — I’m trying to keep an open mind here but it often feels like there’s a lot of history which people could benefit from. I’m not terribly old but I’ve seen a few iterations of these ideas crash on the {freeloader,abuse} rocks so I’ve been reconsidering whether my earlier enthusiasm was more a mirage than practical.
Every time there's talk of printers on HN someone inevitably praises Brother, so there must be something to it. I'm getting really sick of HP's unnecessary and horrible software so once my MFP inevitably dies due to some minor but entirely unfixable issue, I'll definitely be looking into Brother's stuff.
AFAIK I can easily disable Secure Boot in the UEFI.

Is there an easy way to disable TPM / Intel IME / Intel SGX / AMD PSP ?

(I'm only aware that Dell can disable Intel IME on request... but only if you're a company buying a large amount of PCs ?)
The big difference is that Bulgaria has a currency board, which was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This was done to stabilize the exchange rate and the economy in 1997. The exchange rate has been fixed for the last 24 years.
At first glance, the headline sounded likely to be a conspiracy theory from the other side, not something from NPR.
The key bit here is that the customers of the airlines are subject to tight regulation. In most right to repair debates, no one is proposing comparable regulation on farmers or car owners or etc.
Our cat spontaneously unlocked this achievement at about 5 years of age... We heard a little noise in the bathroom for a couple weeks and could not figure it out until we actually caught her in the act. Hilarious, and quite convenient!
I am using Play On Linux on Ubuntu 20.04. You can run CS6 without doing anything special, but if you want hires GUI then you need CC 2018. I set it up a while ago and don’t recall how much I had to do, but I pulled the latest Photoshop script from the Play On Linux website and modified it to point to my install.exe. I think the main thing was using a Windows XP base. Then once you open Photoshop you will have to disable in the preferences to disable automatic plugin updates or you will periodically get an annoying error message. Also set to hires in preferences. Other than those two things, it’s flawless. I run it almost daily. This stuff is all noted in the comments sections on the Play On Linux and WINE websites Photoshop versions pages, but admittedly there should be a guide somewhere. One last thing: I do not own the copy I am using because you can’t buy CC 2018 anywhere. Running the crack is done with the ‘Run an executable’ option in Play On Linux.
how are we do different than those places?

LA and NYC are some of the densest cities in the States. 12.5% of the US lives in California. Tons more people in close proximity for a virus to tear through than in a hollowed-out former manufacturing city in the Midwest.
hey, could you check my website (in my profile) and estimate my hourly rate?
Temp minimum and productivity are regulated by your circadian rhythm and there are many works on the topic. E.g., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12388468/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31033013/.

You also may want to listen to Dr. Andrew D. Huberman, a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He perfectly describes how it works in one of his YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvDEmo6uS4&t=530s

Will be great to hear back if you try this approach!
It's not arrogant if it's true, it's just candid.

We would never communicate things like that - that would be arrogant, but if he's giving us the reality, then it's fine.

That said - the 'Red Flag' to me is that someone things they are going to 'contract' and 'help out a bit' and 'fix their architecture'.

This seems worse the a bit glib, it seems upside down.

This seems like someone who might be a good engineer and who has worked on good teams ... but doesn't have the maturity to understand how these projects tend to unfold.

'Fixing a Broken Project' has to be the most scary thing in software and in most cases it's not doable.

Teaching some best practices - yes. Helping to identify problems - yes. Maybe slicing off a few obvious things, sure - i.e. maybe they need a caching strategy.

But when 'Thing are Wrong' there are usually a lot of problems and 99% of the time, someone thinks they can hire a 'Savior' to come in and fix it. The 'Savior', offered a pile of money is likely to buy into their own ability to be the 'Savior'.

But the psychological development from those frothy heights, as the realization sets in that they're crashing on the rock of Scylla ... well there has to be a good German word for that.

We should try to recognize the variety of inputs that may have created what resulted in seemingly an 'architecture problem' when that might not be the source of the conundrum. A team of 'mediocre people' will probably only ever be capable of doing something to a certain calibre. The Winnipeg Symphony will never sound as good as the NY Philharmonic, College Basketball teams are not competitive with Pro Teams etc..
Having done contract work for ~20 years without using any platforms, I would say start locally to find clients. It'll be harder now due to Covid but with no network or online presence beforehand no one will know you exist.

The long haul would be to start blogging about what you plan to do contract work for and build up an audience but this may take years to materialize.

Initially I wouldn't worry about business cards, resumes, paid ads or anything like that. Just focus on things that will help folks make more money. That's really what it boils down to. For a lot of software development related gigs not too many people hiring contract workers care about formal education or certificates. It's a matter of they pay you $X but you return a multiple of $X in value to their business.

For pricing yourself, I think that'll depend on what you plan to do contract work for. For a quick and dirty ballpark you could take your salary hourly rate and add 30-50%. That's because it's usually substantially cheaper to hire contract workers since there's no health benefits or major costs of hiring. Plus you typically go in to address a specific issue so it's efficient to hire a contract worker for let's say 2 months vs a full time salary with yearly raises, 401k matching, etc.. Your taxes are also going to be more complicated as a contract worker if you live in the US. These are a few things to consider when pricing yourself.
do any of these json processing tools support wildcards in key names ? eg, '.long*' instead of '.longNameWithManyDetails'
Just make sure you're cats never see it turn itself on, two of my three cats refuse to use it after watching it cycle and I'm back to having a separate box for them that I clean everyday, honestly thinking it selling it if I can talk anybody into buying a used poopbox

For the one cat though it is definitely great, he's kinda fearless though so your cats may not quite be brave enough to face the beast everytime they go to the bathroom.

Edit - my name is Zircom, I have a litter robot 3 for the record, and I recommend it as long as you don't have scaredy cats.
In such cases, it maybe better to just use Google Colab.
The suggestion of going to Google seems so laughable - I really wanted this role and ground out a bunch of leetcode problems to pass their screening, and barely made it. I'm not really into memorizing algorithms and data structures, I don't think I would do well at a FAANG. Ironically, almost all of my coworkers are from FAANGs
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How We Saved 70K Cores with Semi-Automated Go GC Tuning
Encrypting the file, or better whole disk encryption, prevents someone stealing the laptop and yanking the drive to get access to everything.
Raspberry Pi Detects Malware Using Electromagnetic Waves
Right, but I think the risk factor as well makes it emotional. There was a non-0 chance that it could be unrecoverable and we could get 0 use of it if one of the points of failure went wrong.
Fantastic specs, I wonder how "mainline" that one will be, though. It even has HDMI in so might be usable as a KVM system.
The OMG reference was the Order of (Saints) Michael and George--Fisher's ironic gloss was derivative.
The definition is citizenship is arbitrary. It seems reasonable to have different regions apply different definitions that work for them.

Your opinion seems to be that people always votes selfishly? That everything is zero sum? If that’s the case then why did the people with power in NYC choose to give up power to those without a voice? Democracy is a force for good when done right.
My day job company pays upwards of $1000/hr to short-term contract leadership people. I guess it's really more consulting than contracting but the lines seem pretty blurry based on what I've seen. Based on what I've seen for senior/principal engineering contracting, I'd say $500/hr is completely realistic, so my goal of $300 feels realistic. Perhaps I'm in a weird sector of the industry or something, but I don't think so.
"Real privilege lies in knowing that you are enough." - Nipun Mehta
If possible, scrum could be positioned to a different time. It's not the most productive activity throughout the day.

See references above. Will be great to hear back if you try this approach!
1) is dated 1996, the S&P started on 614 and ended on 766. It would never be as low as it was then.

Had you put $1k in at the peak in 2000 then you'd be below water for 12 years, but by now 22 years later you'd have $3300.

Had you instead dripped $50 in each year since 2000 you'd have $3500.

If you'd have put that $1k in a bank returning around the fed funds rate, you'd have about $1400. Dripping it in would be about $1300.

To be down over the course of 15 years, you'd have to go back to the 1926-1930. Even putting your entire life savings into the stock market on Jan 1st 1929 you'd be above water after 23 years, would have doubled your money in 30 years, and quadroupled it in 40 years.
The main thing is the difference between the standard deviation person over the other five. If I ask six people questions about lambdas, or concurrency, or generics, or language questions, or framework questions, generally a person will respond the same no matter the topic.

For instance if you ask what generics in Java are from people who have been programming Java for two or more years, one in six will have no idea at all what they are.

Four in six might say "well Java generics...that is when a class or method uses angle brackets in its definition". OK, what is in those angle brackets? "If you're initializing a list of strings, you send String as a type argument to List - so when you're initializing a list, what is between those angle brackets is String - the type argument for the list. If you have Integer as a type argument the list will contain integers". So they have this level of knowledge of being able to utilize existing generic classes, but they don't define their own generic classes, and can't go in-depth on generics.

The standard deviation above one in six can clearly define what Java generics are, knows about type erasure and that generics are a front-end conversion at the front of a Java compiler, can give a decent explanation of what an upper-bound wildcard is etc.

A long time ago I was interviewing proto-SREs, and one question I asked everyone was what are the facilities of syslog, and what are the priorities of syslog, in order if possible. I must have interviewed at least two dozen people who were working for big and small companies running Unix servers for years, none of them ever came anywhere close to being able to answer that question. You would think they might have to edit the syslog configuration file to log different facilities at different levels to different places (files or otherwise), but I never got anywhere near an answer to this. These were people all making $80k-$120k TC (eroded by inflation since then) for a position with similar TC.

It's a hard thing to see if you haven't interviewed dozens of people, it's why it's so enlightening, especially if I go out and interview. Generally, one in six is a complete dud, one in six is a standard deviation above the others, and four of six are muddled. It's kind of like a classroom where some kids sit in the back and fail or get bad grades, a few sit near the front and always seem to know the answer to the teacher's question, and most of the class is kind of muddling along, getting Bs and B-'s, with a few A's and C's sprinkled in. For pretty much any question in the rabbit hole of topics - one person knows very little, one can answer most things in some depth, four have a surface knowledge of many things but can't go into depth on them much.
(Just my personal, anecdotal experience - I have strong family history of depression and anxiety on both sides of my family and it's something that's afflicted me since I was a teenager.)

I will be extremely hesitant to take antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications ever again after my last experience with them. For me, the medications helped by tempering all of my feelings - I no longer felt sad or anxious, instead I just felt mellow and apathetic about everything. And feeling apathy is an incredibly scary thing because I also no longer derived any joy from my hobbies, from sex, from exercise, etc. I could no longer feel sad but I could no longer feel happy, either.

Even worse, I found myself engaging in behaviors I would never have engaged in otherwise, like compulsive lying. My moral code was compromised because I no longer felt the guilt and shame that normally inhibits unscrupulous behavior. I look back on that time now and I think about some of my actions and I feel nauseous.

There is value to medications that inhibit or regulate serotonin, and every individual's experience will be slightly different based on their genetics and the circumstances of their life. However, for me, even though I benefited from them at various points in my life (especially as a teenager), as an adult now I'm much more likely to depend on coping strategies I've learned through therapy than medication when it comes to dealing with my mood.
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The number of deaths alone is not very informative for gauging risk.