skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant that the average techie person is much more likely to know what the creator intended for the pronunciation and are therefore more likely to say jif

I personally don't know anyone who'd pronounce it with a j sound and I severely doubt anyone in my country would default to a j sound, but I'm open to that being cultural. I just think the fact that hard G wins by such a landslide is pretty good evidence that defaulting to a j sound is incredibly rare
> There are multiple clear instances of mental gymnastics in this article

Care to give an example for the uninitiated?
I find it very puzzling that this guy is choosing to work 230 hours for free, especially considering that he has zero guarantees that he will ever get that money back or this exact same scenario wouldn't happen again.

As others have noticed, the site takes a 20% fee, which is reasonable if it provides protection in problem situations like this. But if they immediately demand the worker to repay all their income, it's hard to see how they can even justify this 20% fee which is higher than any standard introduction fee in the recruitment sector.

If it was me, I'd immediately stop using the website and get a lawyer involved. From the article, it's clear the client has admitted the work was done and used a credit card that wasn't theirs. So, at that point either the client has committed a fraud using someone else's card without permission, or was given permission to use the card in the past, in which case it's the cardowner's problem and up to them to sue the client for the money. Whichever, it's not their author's responsibility.

So, for him to continue using the site, he must think that the potential future income would cover the lost 230 hours work, which itself seems suspect, as that represents about 1.5 months. He'd have to increase his rate significantly to make that back, so his best option is to find contracts elsewhere.
Fair enough, they did "try", but still feels equivalent to putting sensitive documents in a glass frame with a "no photos please" label on it and then claiming you did everything you could to protect them. I can't imagine that would fly in court, but I guess as soon as computers are involved, all common sense is lost.
Toptal selection is flawed exactly in the same way many tech hiring processes are: they heavily bias against people who are busy enough not to be able to fit 1-3 weeks long unpaid projects into their schedule. Sure, it weeds out incompetent people, but that's not the same as selecting top people.
It's fine to speculate given a certain pattern of behavior
Snapshot for posterity https://web.archive.org/web/20211231150220/https://github.co...
No game developer would do it for free, correct, but they wouldn't be able to centralize those items around their control. The game itself would have to make money, and the items being operable with the game without too much cost (that's why I said "fairly enough") would attract users to the game which may be monetized in other ways.

As for your other points they were already addressed. Did you read my whole comment before finishing yours?
"This is all going to take years to sort out and figure out what’s real and what’s not."

It shouldn't have to if the system actually works. The problem is VEARS sees significant under reporting. In theory, you should report every little thing that has an unknown cause. Then researchers can view the data and eliminate symptoms by comparing them to the population baseline occurrence.
> Finding the best clients to work with is basically the hardest part IMO

This is why recently I've started curating freelance jobs from many different sources - job boards + LinkedIn + Twitter etc, filtering them and sharing the best leads with freelancers. Started getting huge shoutouts from some web agencies/shops. This is totally free for now and planning to release it as a service [1]

Most of these companies in this list are most likely to hire freelance developers/marketers/writers.

It's still in beta, feel free to reach out/dm me if you would like to access the full document. [2]

[1] -> https://twitter.com/RahulrangarajR/status/148021905157812224...

[2] -> https://twitter.com/RahulrangarajR
Boy have I got some bad news for you...

https://www.cryptokitties.co/ is a thing.
Developmentally, babies aren’t that much different between a few months before birth and a couple of weeks after. Our third one always had his hand on his face in the ultrasounds. He was born with his hand on his face—the pressure left a big handprint on his face for a day or so. And he still liked to be in that position at a few months.
Vaccination continues to reduce transmission (less for Omicron than before, but it was known never to be be 100%) but it also significantly reduces the number of people with serious cases (still quite successful even with Omicron).

That means there’s a big side effect from people not getting vaccinated: the healthcare system has finite capacity and when it’s full of people who wouldn’t be there if they’d been vaccinated, that means space isn’t available for anyone who has some other problem and the healthcare system is losing a lot of expensively trained people due to stress. It is extra hard on them to watch people die for avoidable reasons and many nurses, doctors, etc. have left at least temporarily due to burnout.
Facebook is an interesting example here. If you give them your PGP indentity they will encrypt and sign the emails they send you. So you will know if the email is actually from them.

So technically this is a very solved problem. Facebook unfortunately is very much the exception. It is pretty much impossible to convince entities like your bank to sign their emails.
This is generally good advice, but there is a caveat to the point about networking: it dilutes you. selling out is a real thing, I've found, and the more you care about others and their whims the less of yourself will be left in the work. This is fine if you work in marketing, for example, where your job is to sell someone or something else, but if you're a product person, be careful.

If you are a product person, i recommend slowing down, think about stuff and dedicate yourself to the parts of your work and the relationships you find meaningful. It pays less, at least in the short term, but it is quite nice to feel true to yourself.
What I prefer in freelancing vs full-time employment is that you can time the market, especially if you have a skill that's in-demand.

Companies that have an urgent need for a certain skill will be happy to take you on as a freelancer for higher money, either while they look for permanent staff or if it's just a one-off bet and they're not yet sure whether it's worth getting permanent resource for something that may be discontinued. Get a steady stream of these gigs for a year and you make twice the money you'd make as a permanent (outside FAANG maybe), and if you keep your burn rate low you can also leave the bulk of the money in the company for the next tax year and take advantage of the lower tax brackets which you can't do as a permanent employee.

Regarding the $1/hour MVP, that's just down to where you find your gigs. I recommend getting your gigs either directly via your network, or failing that, via recruiters - yes they take a cut and they might be shit but there's also good ones (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392115) - in my experience good old "brick & mortar" (well, not so much during the pandemic but you see what I mean) recruiters have a barrier to entry that's very effective at keeping "$1/hour millionaire-maker SaaS" at bay, which also helps with regards to getting paid as what's left is typically established businesses within your own country and in reach of the legal system you have access to.

Absolutely do not waste your time on Upwork or similar - that's the bottom of the barrel where $1/hour MVP is commonplace in a self-reinforcing feedback loop, as good talent leaves which means good projects also leave and the only thing remaining is crap - on both sides of the market that is.
1) I’m not aware of any research that shows near-zero reduction in transmission rate. As far as I’m aware, research shows that vaccination rate reductions in transmissiveness that are less than previous strains, but dramatically better than nothing.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...

> For households with the Omicron VOC, the corresponding OR for infection for unvaccinated individuals was 1.04 (CI: 0.87-1.24) and 0.54 (CI: 0.40-0.71) for booster-vaccinated individuals.

2) Keeping hospitals from being overwhelmed and keeping people from dying is a legitimate goal of vaccination, even in the absence of any reduction in transmission. The vaccine remains effective at this. Hospitalization rates for the unvaccinated are leagues higher than the vaccinated.
Disagree. Jurisdictions that (though mostly happenstance of economics and demographic distribution) wind up with most ICE users being economically marginalized or a political minority will enact bans. It's a great way to win political brownie points so it'll be done.
You can't, because you have to take off your shoes before entering the socks room.
In my apartment complex in India, we have ~300 apartments and ~1000 residents. There have been over 70 cases of Covid here since the beginning of last year (including 15 as I type this) and only one of them was hospitalized - a 3 year old boy. All the others were quarantined and recovered at home. I don't know where your parents live, but what I've seen in Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai (I don't have first/second-hand knowledge of other places) is that hospitals refuse to admit you unless you absolutely need to be admitted.

Edit - just to add, the kid mentioned above also recovered, but he was hospitalized for a couple of days with very high fever.
Isn't blocking GoogleAnalystics with a plug in a far better solution than censoring what websites you go to?
Often the words become Proper Nouns and take on a life of their own. Viral marketing creates organisms
Yeah, a cache line is 64 bytes. If you care about putting data that's used together adjacent you're assuming that objects a lot larger than 64 bytes are the most common case but I'm not at all sure that's true. I would guess that we're using up our memory with large heap allocated arrays and large numbers of structs that fit within a cache line. But of course, that's something that ought to be actually measured.
Conditional on these advances in science, technology, and medicine it's quite obvious how badly many Western democratic societies have done (that's not to say there aren't also positive outcomes, and it varies a lot by nation).

Take the US as an example: Would you have guessed that the 'most pandemically prepared country' would lead Western democratic nations in terms of death count? How ready do you view US society to combat future threats like climate change, an even deadlier pandemic, or non-democratic state actors? What does that mean for the Western model of democracy?
That hasn't been the case (except for Default) for a few months.
Maybe, I hope so, but I have identified my problem as a problem too (so.. I need to do something about it :)
> Nobody who cares about performance is doing rendering on a CPU, it's all GPU accelerated.

Has OSL already been ported to GPUs? You're implying that OSL users such as film studios "don't care about performance" but I suspect this simply isn't true.
> How many of your contacts who use Signal used their real phone number?

Most of them; however, there is no obligation to provide any personal data when registering a SIM card in my country. Even if providing personal data would be mandatory and if we assume that telcom providers track us all the time, then it doesn't mean that this data is accessible to the organization behind an instant messaging service.

> Then even more so for Signal, since metadata for all users can be collected by a single entity. This is not possible in a federated network like XMPP.

This ignores that Signal and XMPP don't process the same amount of metadata in the first place, and the de-facto centralization of the XMPP network (also stated in our article -> the majority of XMPP users only uses a small number of public XMPP instances, and these XMPP instances are hosted by a tiny number of companies in mainly three countries on this planet).
I found this patronizing and shallow.
Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission (2020)
Another informative and entertaining place to read about the nearly-daily rug pulls is https://web3isgoinggreat.com
Did you try to enforce the AGPL somehow? In the sense that the user that puts it on a (web)server must provide the end user the source code? (The 'A' in AGPL).
If you're confused (like me) and don't know what "neural search" is, here's an explainer https://medium.com/jina-ai/what-is-jina-and-neural-search-7a... (scroll down a bit)
Just created an account on HN to say that all the JetBrains Products I used are outstanding! I switched from Atom to VS Code and since nearly 4 years I have a IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate subscription which is worth every penny.

By the way: JetBrains is also working on a more lightwheight editor called Fleet which seems to be comparable with VS Code, at least visually. There's already a product page for that at https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
How much of this can be explained by pure statistics? When you have vaccination rates of 60% and above, you're going to see very rare diseases and disorders show up in the treated population. Correlation doesn't imply causation.

It would be great to see what the prevalence of diseases in treated population is compared to that in the previously (pre-covid) untreated population, I expect that comparing against the currently untreated population could be problematic due to the higher incidence of covid in this population.

I feel that the paper (from a scan admittedly) is more a anecdotal listing of cases so I don't get a feel for whether the needle has shifted or not wrt autoimmune case incidence. While I think it's a great idea to look into the effects of the vaccination on folks, I also fear that the downside effects of anti-vaxxers waving this paper around out of context saying you see you shouldn't get vaccinated because you're going to have all these autoimmune issues.
Oh shit. RIP. I've just been rewatching How I Met Your Mother and I can never forget Bob's voice as older Ted. I was disappointed they didn't use him for the final episode.

Full House was life as a child. RIP Danny Tanner.
Volkswagen has ended production of the Passat saloon
Here in the US, the VEARS system is pretty easy to file a report. It suffers from severe under reporting.
Right, I've seen that. However I came to this conclusion independently before that xckd was published. It's not that hard.
For one moment I thought we'd had a covert super heavy lift program that had just come to light. Ah well :)
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‘Electronic devices will be the next wave of waste’
Do you have a source showing vaccines significantly reduce the spread of the current dominant variant?
If someone put you in charge, you probably would not know how to do the thing you're imagining. (For example, "classified" doesn't really apply to Congress. That's an executive branch thing. So you're already on the wrong track.) Don't fool yourself that it's just a matter of having a bright idea that's the difference between the world as it is and the world as you want it.
Same here in the US with VAERS.
It's hard to tell exactly what the "TV" meant, but the two statements "50% of positives were admitted for non-covid reasons" and "50% of patients are positive" are not equivalent.

For example, consider a hospital with 100 patients of which 90 are negative and 10 are positive. Of the 10 positive, 5 were admitted for covid and 5 for some other reason. Thus, 10% of all patients are positive, but the "TV" statement still holds.

That being said, the number of people who have had covid appears to be much larger than people seem to think. https://covidestim.org/us/MA estimates that 73% +- 20% of the MA population was infected at some point before Jan 8 2022. Like everything else, take all estimates with a grain of salt, but I have no reason to doubt those numbers.
It used to be said. The origin is supposed to be in diabetes medicine - small regular portions made insulin management easier when technology sucked. Somehow it became general advice. I think it kinda sounded like common sense too, you add fueal as it is needed instead of in one bang.
Your parents are smart. Hospitals are a prime spreading location and testing centers are often crowded. Also, an overworked nurse may make mistakes in testing centers and slip up on hygiene rules.

The situation is similar in Europe, actually. Including loss of trust.
> a full state-run system, which is vulnerable to undercapacity (which the UK is currently suffering from)

That's more because we've had decades of deliberate underfunding due to the "austerity"/"capitalism++" lunatics in charge than a natural consequence of a state-run system though.
I find the article disappointing. I would say this article itself is not what it says it is. Its title is written in click-bait fashion in that they are about to reveal something we don't know about blockchain technology and then the first paragraphs are written in the tone that they realize theoretically blockchain technology ideally runs a certain way but they want to tell us how it runs today and then proceeds to bash the implementation of the technology today even though they realize it probably wont work that way in the future.

It is like bashing the internet of not fulfilling the potential people pitched about it in the 90s. Blockchain is currently in the dail up stage of the internet, it is centralized, slow and needs adoption and lots of man hours to unleash its potential. There are second and third order effects that need to actualize before the "dream" of blockchain technology can be realised. The article purports the lack of this actualisation of the blockchain dream as if we are being deceived.

It's like when people bashed Tesla and said it wont work because there were not enough charging stations across the USA, as if world changing technologies are realized in a day. I find it boring that people push these kind of articles as think pieces. We can do better
None of this changes when you work for a tech company except technical people hacked together the absolutely awful code base.
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How often do you upgrade your phone or laptop?

I ask because I sort of went the opposite road, making sure I bought something that would last a long time.

Aside from screen resolution and the modern “anything” thinking we all have high resolution monitors my old 2015 MBP is still performing just fine despite its heavy usage.

In the same period I’ve gone through 5 or 6 work laptops that were certainly not top end.

I’m of course scared that the glory days of Apple died and my next mbp won’t live 10 years, but I hope so.
In Canada there is an ETF with the stock symbol BITI, this is probably the safest way to short BTC.

It is important to keep in mind that any unleveraged short position can only see gains of double your investment, where as going long on an investment has no such limitation. in most cases it is far better to obtain an undervalued asset such as silver or gold currently are than to bet on an over valued asset correcting.

That being said, with the current state of BTC and the upcoming death cross, and the general liquidity of BTC... I personally will be buying some BITI(Approximately 2K CAD worth in fact) when the markets open in ~2 hours from now.

I plan on exiting my BITI position this Friday when I believe the market will have shaken out a few more Hodl'rs and there will be upward pressure from buyers again. I will go out on a limb and predict a 32K BTC value on Friday's open but in any case I will provide an update on this thread if allowed to how this worked out for me.

**Update**

I purchased 128 shares @ 15.72 CAD which had an exchange fee of $0.44 CAD this totals 2012.60 CAD, up or down I will share the sell value and costs on Friday!
Blunt answer : Money, greed, short term thinking and lack of ethics.

How?
Doctors turn into actors and cheat the public. Anecdotally, my relatives say they were never treated for COVID, but told that they needed admission because they have high risks(diabetes, respiratory troubles, high blood pressure) and need to be monitored in order to make sure COVID is treated early. After 4 days of a battery of tests(non COVID related), they are sent home saying they escaped the wrath of COVID because they were lucky. I don’t know what to say.
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It’s not easy to explain. I have to talk to someone. Maybe it’s someone I know, someone I talk to every week at church, but… this is by phone. It’s different. I know I have to make a phone call today or tomorrow, but I know I can’t ring now because he’ll be out on the farm, and if I ring now I’ll probably interrupt their evening meal or their family Bible readings, and now it’s too late, and now he might be at work, and… oh. I was supposed to call him the day before yesterday. Oops.

I want to drop my car off for a service in Ballarat when I head down to Melbourne later this week, but that takes ringing them to make a booking. I should have done this in the middle of last week, when I planned to go down. All it takes is ringing their number, saying “can I book my car in for a service, drop off on the 13ᵗʰ or 14ᵗʰ, collection on the 15ᵗʰ”. For some reason that I can’t express, I haven’t made that phone call, and it’s probably too late now. I guess that DPF light will just continue flashing for a while longer.

I could go on and on. It’s quite ridiculous how much trouble I have caused myself (and others, sometimes) just because I don’t like making phone calls. I’ve delayed things that would benefit me for years in a couple of cases. Receiving phone calls isn’t my favourite, either. I’m not crash hot with email or letters either, but phones and text messages are significantly worse.

Phone call quality used to be fairly terrible, and I think that helped make it more of an ordeal too. That excuse is mostly gone now.

If you don’t mind, or like, phones, you might be surprised just how many people are quite averse to making phone calls, some to the point of hating it with the passion of perhaps not a thousand suns, but at least a brown dwarf or two. Five or six of my seven siblings are in much the same boat as me, and my parents don’t like phones either. A couple of my siblings, and multiple other people I’ve talked with, find they more or less forget what they were going to talk about as soon as the call connects, and so it becomes an ordeal where they have to write a detailed list of what they want to talk about before dialing, or else their mind is just blank.

But there is yet hope for me: I’m setting myself up as the local IT guy in my rural area, in significant part to force myself to deal with people more. Computers are easy, they do what I tell them to do, and I’m even pretty good at telling them the right thing to do; but people are what actually matter in life. I’m waiting for the return of Jesus and the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth, and I don’t think we’ll need software then. Well, a bloke rang me yesterday, I answered, and today I did my first job, and even got paid straight away.
Good information. Noted.

To my previous comment: my experience/my body/ my neurotendencies/ etc.
Or in other words: big ESPs have a problem with false positives... which is a known problem.
Docker on WSL2 kind-of runs on the host, though.