skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not worth it. You get a tiny number of visits (compared to what you need to make a viable marketing plan.) The people who visit are interested in their own products, not in yours.

If your product was something that guaranteed some other product could get a handful of visits from Product Hunt that would be a good product for Product Hunt.
> If he had logging by screenshots it might be easier but with manual logging of hours there is very little reason to believe.

OP wrote "I sent Upwork two years’ worth of projects". I assume that meant he showed them the actual work, rather than simple activity logs.

With any luck, the content of the projects should be sufficiently specific to "Robin"'s business that it could show it was not unrelated work being passed off as Upwork activity. And if I were in OP's place, I would have sent any chat logs I had had with Robin.

At some point the effort required to fake all that evidence should be high enough to make it exceedingly unlikely for OP to be a simple credit card fraudster.

I should note that none of the above is my key reason for siding with OP. The key reason for siding with OP is that Upwork, if I understand the system correctly, process the payments themselves and does not give its freelancers any way to actually prevent credit card fraud, so it cannot demand that they take on that responsibility.

If I buy products on Amazon Marketplace with a stolen CC, does Amazon demand money from the sellers? I sure hope not.
Forgot to address your point about the imposed isolation: this is a response to the person's individual liberty to choose not to get the vaccine. Yes, you have the freedom to choose to be unvaccinated, but you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

If your immuno-compromised neighbor gets COVID because you chose not to get vaccinated and are not in isolation, then they are paying the consequences of your decisions. I agree, they should not be ignored, but they should be educated on the importance of public health measures. Sadly, again though, some people just cannot and will not be convinced to care about their neighbors.
Discussion about the same machine in 2019:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666860
Aren’t they completely missing the point?

“Dated” unix cli tools were designed to do their job well and hand off any further needs to other tools.

Want syntax highlighting and line numbers with cat? Pipe it into a text editor or something.
> That is, unless the enterprise has policies to abide by disallowing API calls

...What?
Isn’t this old and terribly out of date? Thanks to the previous administration (can’t even say his name without getting downvoted) I believe Apple repatriated a huge amount of capital back to the US.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/it-looks-like-apple-is-bring...
> The tulip bubble is a myth

That's news to me. In what way is it a myth?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
>Or, companies that do have technology but aren't tech.

This is how I make money. I create products that serve real needs of real businesses / people. Bit of warning - I am not a direct employee for those businesses, I have my own company that does product design / development and contract as such. Still I get much satisfaction looking at my products doing something real
That is such an awful URL.
New York City will allow 800k noncitizens to vote in local elections
I feel like you just wanted to go on the attack for the examples I gave, I can definitely see where you're coming from. My point was that you can pick a tech, extrapolate a few decades, and you'll probably get a few wins. You wanted to attack my example of banks, notaries, parliamentary records etc becoming obsolete, since it's "not exciting". Sadly these boring things are the bedrock of civilisation, so exciting or not, if they become obsolete, then the technological and social fabric of society is impacted in some way or another. The boring changes are sometimes the most meaningful long-term.
Thank you! Yes, I'm planning to add more details like these.
Also, a lot of them are asynchronous and you’re only actually needed around all the time to keep the latency down when there is a task.

Or if you’re in QA you’re running tests that almost always pass but they do fail sometimes.
Very, very few things survive long-term. Experiments fail, projects fail, market leaders change. I know talented people who have worked long careers & never seen a product ship.

Clayton Christensen made an academic career at Harvard researching market leaders getting replaced.

The Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration reports about half of businesses fail after 5 years, https://advocacy.sba.gov/2011/10/19/what-is-the-survival-rat...

Skill plays a role in these outcomes, but so do other factors including luck & imperfect information. The top engineer at Blackberry was a rising star, until suddenly the iPhone showed up.
Exactly. So it's insane to me to see OP posting about how heavy-handed the lockdown was and how it ignored business interests.
That seems plausible, but it's hard to disprove the truthiness of non-falsifiable statements, especially at (to use your excellent choice of words) that paradoxical intersection of ego and productivity.

(On the other hand, I may not care enough about this topic to genuinely commit to it, which probably means I'm right. ;) )
Show HN: Webcrepe – SQL for the Internet
I think there is a trend towards using SQL to do the T part of ELT. For example, see the rise in popularity of dbt. Analysts are often limited by the data that's in the warehouse already. Instead of asking a data engineer or developer to do something so that more data gets pushed to the warehouse, I wanted to be able to pull it in myself.

Because of that, I'm starting an open source project, WebCrepe, to empower analysts to pull data directly into their databases using SQL. The idea is that we pair a database extension with a web app to enable searching the internet and pulling in structured data. It's really early right now. I have a docker-compose file you can use to spin up a postgres database and the backend. I still need to write some better documentation on how to write queries but it's basically using the advanced google search language.

I'm interested in analytics folks that have use cases I can build out and engineers interested in working on it. If there is any interest then I'll write up better docs and build more functionality.
So how does Flutter really help vs just get in the way - if you have to "do cross platform development" anyway?
I don't think a camera would be good enough. You need to be able to investigate the layers involved. Maybe some kind of probe that measures temperature/composition as it penetrates the snowpack. And then take regular sampling along a ridge, etc. I suppose if you were to spend a lot of money you could have a drone drop the probe, too. Or maybe there's some kind of radar or whatnot that could penetrate the snowpack and measure density layers and so on.
The very careful wording makes me somewhat suspicious. For example, they focus on the skin safety of far-UVC, but what about long term effects on the cornea?
I like Kording, 2016 (doi.org/10.1101/088278) https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo... too, for the output side.
Happy 10th Birthday, Bridgy
I'm absolute garbage at visual art, and I think your take is super unfair.

They're all super weird but, notably the newer ones, also really competent in a way that this newbie would never be able to replicate. Kind of like the work he's actually famous for, now that I think about it.
Exactly - I remember the warnings about how TPMs would eventually get normalized and how Windows would require one to run. Well, we've arrived at that point !

Soon even buying a PC without a TPM will become very hard - if we're not already at that point ? (What are our options these days ?)
Covid is too much profitable to disappear.
My air purifier is next to our cat litter and there’s no smell at all. I strongly recommend one (on top of helping with allergies, dust, covid, etc..)
Maybe so, but the progression and unit size are closer to narrative books than to code.
I am probably being a smartass but if the purpose is to check whether there is at least one positive student (no matter who) you can do so with one single collective test a day.
This one is even closer given it has the concept of right letter, wrong place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(American_game_show)
> honestly I would say a farm using fairly advanced technology for their industry is more of a tech company than me using Shopify to sell dog treats online

LOL! Quote of the day. And it’s true. Farmers got techy before most other industries. I remember seeing farmers around 1990 getting weather and crop reports online daily, when most families hadn’t yet bought their first PC, let alone connected to a BBS.
> The disease has a 0.3 risk of fatality, still less for Omicron

I'm not sure what you mean by "0.3 risk". 0.3% case fatality rate? But where are you getting that number from?
COVID19 had roughly a 2% CFR early on when testing was limited and treatments hadn't been developed. It was around 1% for most of the pandemic. It is *now* as low as 0.3% in highly vaccinated countries, but still about 0.5% in the US.

It has been one of the deadliest pandemics in history. A million Americans are dead. I'm not sure how people can think the risks were over exaggerated.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
As a consumer/user, I take a ProductHunt logo/link/etc. on a landing page as a negative signal.
Yes, the chart on the Wiki is from 2012. I wish it was up to date, seems like a good basket of equities to invest in.
I did, no mention of Citadel. What is this, some fight club rule number 1 and 2 where you gotta be cryptic?
Depends on the service any of these might be needed.
If the author is in the same country as the client then they should also be taking legal action to reclaim the money

But they still seem to be on good terms with the client. If I understand correctly the problem is that they insist on getting paid through upwork:

"When things were not making sense, I still followed the rules. I could’ve easily gotten paid from Robin outside of Upwork. Heck, he was physically in front of me. "
This is an 'old man yells at cloud' bugbear of mine. I absolutely resent that every single interaction I have with a service provider now feels like a constant fight to not be tricked, bamboozled, or otherwise exploited. Goes hand-in-hand with so many services being deliberately hamstrung in order to shepherd customers into shitty compromises.

Like… I just want to exchange some amount money for goods and services without having to constantly arse around trying to figure out how much I'm being swindled. I'd easily fork over more money for services from a brand that I could generally expect isn't trying to take me for a ride with every interaction.
>We continued working via Upwork while locating in Zurich, as to not violate any Upwork terms.

This is my major problem with all these "platforms" Follow our rules under the guise of protection yet when the poop hits the fan they will still try to shaft the expense onto you rather than fix their mistake while they rake in money. I bet upwork are not giving back their commisson/fee.

Also this is totally on them. They took on the burden of handleng the transactions they should have caught this a long time ago. Idk poland laws but i doubt they have any legal recourse against op. Though of course they will ban him for anothet client commiting fraud while he jumped through their hoops....
find better clients, ask for money first and never share the source code before you got paid
They're approximately equivalent on Linux. Adding a password helps if you accidentally tweet or email your private key, leave it on a flash drive, leave your computer's disk decrypted, etc.
> but a single rapid test costs more than that.

Still find the difference in that so weird. rapid tests are a 2-3 € supermarket item here, if you'd be buying in bulk for a school system they'd be cheaper. And at least some schools/day cares have been doing pool testing.
Funny I was reading a book about US-North Korea relations wherein they talk about the effect of trade sanctions on North Korea. They didn't work, basically, and one reason why was because Korean agriculture was not very mechanized, so lack of imports of parts didn't really matter.
I do have my algorithm to match them with IMDb/TMDb ids, though of course it's not always 100% correct.
That can be true, but I think you can also get the cat used to sample collection by hand as they go into the box.

I've had to collect so many samples over the years, and the easiest way is to hold a measuring cup/spoon under the cat when he/she goes into the box and squats. When I hear mine go to the box, I just walk over slowly and chill in the area (act casual). Then, when he looks committed and gets into position, I squat next to the box and hold the cup under him. You can collect a good amount of very clean urine this way (of course not sterile like cystocentesis, but for most purposes it is perfectly fine). It takes some practice to find the right place to hold the spoon depending on your cat's anatomy, as you have to estimate where the pee will end up going.

In another part of this thread I mentioned having a Litter Robot, which this technique is not really possible with. I bring out a backup open litterbox when I need to collect a sample, for easy access.
I think I just realized that my wife has been doing this to me for years. Eh, I respect her game.
Rapid test will test negative when someone is already contagious.

It won’t be an effective means of stopping spread. Instead give out surgical masks or n95 to all kids. Cloth masks allow 90%+ of the virus to enter/leave. Add hepa filters. Add space heaters and leave the windows open. Maybe teach outside in parklet if possible.

That’ll be more effective at preventing spread.
I tried Flutter for two weeks before hoping out hard. Can't put my finger on it but the combination of chaining everything into a huge nested pile of shit and....Google really turned me off. I was far more productive in Xamarin Forms.

"Any piece of code that is not your own and that your app depends on adds to the technical debt of your app."

We need to start pulling in dependencies as code instead of binaries. It should become part of our project and we should remove that which we do not need and maintain or patch those parts that need it manually...one our own.

The number of dependencies in projects cause a great deal of bloat, cross-cutting nightmares, and unending security vulnerabilities that make us desperately seek support in the form of new binaries from unpaid contributors. It is not professional, dignified, or safe.

If you need StringUtils.isEmpty you should not be pulling in the apache commons jar. Just clip the code you need and squirrel it away in your project.
The compromise is between using full fat literate programming, and keeping your job (i.e. using it at scale)
Can we say that Ringo's professionalism and artistic choices were at a higher level than his technical skill? It seems as though he made great choices, but I get the sense that he's nowhere near the level of a Bonham or Peart technically.
The question is whether Upwork actually did what this person is accusing them of. The most likely reason that the author isn’t mad at Robin, in my view, is that the author is not being entirely honest about what happened here.
The modern housecat is just about as natural as a naked human living wild in the forest. It has been selectively bred to perfection for cuteness and sociability with low aggression and diminished survival abilities. Some can't even tolerate the natural climate where their owners live.

I totally support "healthy", but natural, what is natural for a species that has evolved to use intelligence to prevail over the natural world (in this case, the intelligence of their owners, but still)?

No my friend, our purpose on this earth is to co-evolve the most unnatural cat to the point where they are ready to take over as the dominant inteligent species of this side of the galaxy.
When I was in grad school, I took over a month to go through a single paper [0]. I wasn't taking long breaks, I was trying to make headway almost every day. This wasn't procrastination or me being a slow reader. I don't need months to read 70 pages. I do need months to read 70 pages when each page has ideas that require filling several blackboards to understand.

[0] https://annals.math.princeton.edu/2005/161-1/p10
JWST doesn't actually stay right in L2 (which is in Earth's shadow). Instead it orbits around L2 about twice a year in a halo orbit, with a radius large enough that it can have nearly constant access to solar power (I do not know if it fully avoids the moon's shadow). You can see a good animation near the top of https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html
I think there are jobs in the industry that are both well-compensated and not a major source of stress. Google is widely known for both high comp and a relaxed work environment, for example. I think maybe you just haven't found a job that has the right balance for you yet. I would say to follow others' advice on how to adapt to your new job but also don't be too hard on yourself if you can't make it work because sometimes it's just not the right fit.
“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter
For always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself”

― Desiderata
I'm sorry to hear that. I feel for you because I hear echos of burn out that I have struggled with in what you wrote. The good news is that recovery is possible. After burning out hard many years ago, I took a long break but found that code called me back. I was doing Open Source work just because I enjoyed it.

The thing is, you have a lot of stress to deal with and you've been joining some seriously stressful job situations. I've found that burnout happens not because of working (most of us are lucky and enjoy this work), but because of a outside factors, often because of a lack of control. Burnout can happen because the work feels meaningless. I know if I am stressing out over something I don't believe in or endless projects that fail to move the needle, I will lose interest in the work.

To compound things, you have a completely unrealistic expectation of success. Retiring at 30 is hitting the lotto--and that even already happened to you. Though you said you wished you had held on to the stock, you got your big exit already. You bought a house. Congrats! That is far more successful than most of us. I've been working for 20 years and never had this. I pump out a ton of code, it's not about being good, exits like that are about being at the right place and getting lucky. You are expecting to get hit by lightening again and that's not reasonable.

If you're open to it, working out expectations like this is where a CBT therapist is good. They will hear those "should" statements about yourself and help set realistic expectations of yourself. They are like mind debuggers and I think you might thrive with the right thinking because you have already been super successful. You have done great things, you just aren't seeing them.

I would also recommend that startups are not the place for you until your life is less stressful. Big companies might be out, too, because you control so little of the output and there can be a ton of competition, they can be crazy stressful, too. Find a medium sized company with happy employees and punch that clock for a while. You've got enough to deal with.

Good luck to you! My email is in my profile if you'd like to talk.
Even better: play with the other kids on the street. Have them explore the real world with a like-minded social group.
You seem to not comprehend how completely unworkable such a solution is for a country as broad as the US.

Also, we did try, it was called Payroll Protection and it was an epic fail.
> App is a must, because I have a phone nearby most of the time.

Thinktype is a progressive web app, you can use it much like a native app, it works offline.

> In terms of UI, I don't want to select note, name it, I just want to open it and write like in a paper notebook.

Thinktype works just like that. You open the app and start writing.
You should always protect your private key(s) with a password.
For folks who are like "who is that guy again?".... Mingus was one of the most important jazz bass players in 20th century and a key figure in both bebop and free jazz. And quite a character. This is but one of his legendary achievements!
Upwork is charging to connect clients to freelancers. They're taking a very significant commission to process payments + provide a platform. 10x more than a typical payment processor. And they don't have insurance to cover fraud? No way to uncover fraud in a timely manner? Payment processors do better... Stripe for example charges 0.4% for chargeback protection. WTF is Upwork doing here?
Ten-question trivia rounds separated by ten-minute breaks. I think that the chat combined with the breaks was the secret sauce - short enough to convince yourself to stick around, long enough to have meaningful conversations with fellow players. Early on a culture of sharing answers quickly developed. Some elements of randomness were thrown in, like the scoreboard getting scrambled so you wouldn't know who's winning, etc. It wasn't much TBH, but an opportunity to meet interesting people from all walks of life.
I cannot rule this out. This happened twice so far, with a different cartridge brand each time.

Also, the last time two slots failed at once, or in a very short timespan (black and yellow). Unfortunately I don't remember which slot failed when it happened for the first time.

So, the data suggests it's the printer but as always, more data is needed.
I second this comment. Your chargeback request needs to color neatly within the lines of their procedures if you want a smooth process. How you phrase your request is incredibly important. Do not go crazy on details specific to the situation, use a template.
There is a massive corpus of warhammer 40k artwork suitable for training. I would like it used to train ML in order to generate:

Emperor of Mankind finally finishes 10,000 year dump and gets up, as blinding golden Jesus strolling into Rembrandt’s Night Watch.
Is more comprehensive labeling and related regulations a strategy for incumbents to further solidify their monopolies?
This is a pretty mask-off (excuse the pun) moment in your argument. So to protect small businesses we shouldn't have paid people at all or closed down at any point and we'd have more than a million dead Americans but at least workers would still be as expendable?

You don't get to call us "essential workers" and treat us like shit. This is the first time in my living memory McDonald's and co raised their starting wages. Line cooks were the most impacted and it was the most dangerous job last year. You want that to be worse, for small businesses to survive?

I can reincorporate "Drekk Design Studio", the line cook can't re-enter his mortal coil. We should have paid everyone every month of the pandemic and enforced these public health measures like Germany (1 in 10 infected vs the US 1 in 3).
I think it is unfair / nonsensical to compare Teams (or Slack or Discord) to IRC. IRC is an open protocol for creating chat networks, not a desktop client. The user expierence from IRC could differ vastly depending on which client you use (mIRC, xchat, irssi...). But it shows how in todays world we create this silos/islands of proprietary solutions that are not inter-operable.
PR = Pull Request

It's how you introduce new code to many projects. OP was saying he was unable to contribute any new code.
“Fire me. I have 3 other jobs.”