skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A combination of space engineering costs being habitually lied about in proposals and the conventional space industry being about half science, half jobs program.

Frankly I wish someone would do an article on the "long tail" possibilities for Webb. Can it do a warm mission after its refrigerant runs out like Spitzer? Does it have low-bandwidth long range communications for when it runs out of fuel and falls out of L2? I feel like we're just supposed to be ok with a ten billion dollar telescope only lasting a decade.
I think there's a difference between intrinsic complexity and accidental complexity, though.

You're right to observe that programming involves irreducible complexity (one of the reasons why so many low code/no code tools fail is the refusal to accept this, imo), on the other hand modern toolchains are extremely complicated and could be a little more streamlined.

It's a meme at this point, but there's no way having six different pythons on your machine or whatever the hell modern JS toolchains do -- just to pick two examples -- is the simplest it can possibly be.

Older machines and toolchains certainly had their problems (arguably even worse ones), but I completely understand the complaints.
That's a fair response, and we may disagree here somewhat, but to me there's a subtle redefinition of "ego" going on when we talk about traditionally "selfless" acts or charity or, as you put it, commitments to causes larger than individuals.

To me, certain egos are fed by selfless works and dedications to grand causes. This is not to say that's a bad thing or that we don't want to create incentives to have more of this, but I do think it circles back to the original problem of the ego. It's just that certain people's egos are more effectively fed when not focusing just on themselves.
Even if track time with their tool Upwork can take money back from you. I’ve witness the case where client paid $40k with Amex card and then chargeback. Poor freelancer lost $40k because Upwork took that money from his account as soon as it saw chargeback from Amex.
If Google’s market share was only a result of a superior product then they wouldn’t feel compelled to pay Apple billions of dollars to be the default search engine on iPhones. Defaults matter.
I have a litter robot. Takes normal kitchen trash bags and is able to keep up with two adult male cats. Very happy with it, had it for over two years. I think the cats would mutiny if they went back to a normal box.

It does take a little learning. You have to learn how to not overfill it. How to do a full break down clean of it (not hard just more involved). It doesn't keep the smell down significantly more than a traditional litter box imo.

Pretty sure ours paid for itself in litter savings in about a year.
Similar thoughts. I think SSRI's are the wrong direction.

Acute drug experiences with therapy and behavioral modification are the future.

do some molly and ketamine and have a good talk.
If you like them then there is no issue, but usually i find them of lower quality. Not saying there aren't decent apartments, but anything <650/700 is not great IMO. Also the areas I mentioned look and feel like a different country hence willing to pay more. No trying to be sure or demeaning sorry if i come across that way.
My experience on the merchant side of things is that if the cardholder claims a charge was unauthorized the bank believes the cardholder unless the merchant can prove that the charge was authorized.

For proof they want us to to FAX them a copy of the receipt signed by the cardholder or a signed copy of our contract with the cardholder.

We of course do not have those since we are an online merchant selling digital consumer goods.

Even if the cardholder has been a subscriber to one of our services for many years, being charged every month without complaint, and whenever they have received a new card promptly coming to our site to update their account with the new card number and/or expiration date--something that a fraudster with a stolen card would not be able to do--the bank still accepts the cardholders claim that they do not recognize and did not authorize the charge they are trying to chargeback and won't budge unless we can FAX the signed receipt.
I'm surprised no one has suggested, split future Upwork income. 50% goes to the debt and 50% goes to the developer. He's not working for free and they get their money back. It's the only solution that is equitable to all parties.

BTW - I have extensive experience in credit card processing. It is VERy DIFFICULT to reverse a chargeback. Upwork is at the mercy of Visa/MC/Amex, and the developer is at the mercy of Upwork. Upwork can choose to not use Visa/MC/Amex but they add enough value to accept the chargeback risk. The developer can choose to not use Upwork but they add enough value to accept the chargeback risk.

He can walk away from this, use a competing platform, and not pay a dime. Upwork has already paid back the $12k+ and are stuck, which is the primary reason why they should consider the 50/50 split of future income.
> Nobody guarantees small businesses the right to exist.

This is a bit of a dead end argument. By the same token, nobody guarantees that there is food in the supermarket for people to purchase. Yet, if there wasn't, and 90% of us starved, it'd be a fairly major problem. Small businesses and their employees make of roughly half of "society at large".
Dropbox used to do this but eventually abandoned it, due to the cost of maintaining C++ code that works on multiple platforms. Turns out that might be more difficult than maintaining native code for each platform.

https://dropbox.tech/mobile/the-not-so-hidden-cost-of-sharin...
Not just a bass player but a legendary composer.

Here's one of my absolute faves, Pithecanthropus Erectus.

https://youtu.be/p0H2G_W-O0I
switchmail.com was a top result in a quick search.

However, "Can I sign up for an account if living outside the US?

A: Yes, you can sign up and use our services from anywhere. However, Switch is intended for domestic mail so you must have a sender address in the US."
they are both cool but right now they both have the problem
that they don’t recreate the wordle keyboard, which is a big part of what makes the game enjoyable to play.
Doesn't DRM on video enforce where the digital content can be played? Is this not exactly what enforcing copyright is since copyright dictates where and how something can be consumed?
Getting an accountant is really one of the best decisions you can make especially if you make above average income or income from multiple streams no matter the place you live in.

I've done my taxes for individual business for 8 years myself, but when I've moved abroad I needed help with setting up business as I was unfamiliar with local laws and regulations. I hired a great accountant who helped me with setting up both individual business and limited company. I'm getting schooled on how I should do things to take advantage of different opportunities and tax breaks - things I never though or did before.
ok, but what if you need to complete a task and cannot assign or find employees in a reasonable amount of time? would you then consider contracting the task?
You've still ignored citing your claim:

>>Nobody has demonstrated better results than our public system without either filtering students or by spending a lot more money.

>Could you produce a citation please? I've been under the impression that several countries are beating US in public education ROI, but since I don't have that source off hand and you've already made the assertion I'll go ahead and let you fill the burden of proof here.

>The charter systems all filter--that generally gives them a huge advantage

If the public schools are working for the students that filter out of them, why would they be leaving? And you make it sound like it isn't working for those who are left after it's filtered either. You make it sound like the public school isn't working for anyone.
To balance out your balance, with Apple, they recently chose to put government spyware on your devices (until public outcry caused them to delay/reconsider).
>Those who are here illegally

The article explicitly states that only certain legal residents will be allowed to vote.

Also, green card holders and immigrants with other statuses in NYC have significantly less income than both naturalized and U.S. born citizens(see figure 8 in [0]).

I’m currently living in a jurisdiction that allows most immigrants to vote. All resident EU citizens can vote in local elections in the UK, and all resident Commonwealth citizens can vote in all elections. I don’t think members of these groups vote overwhelmingly for free stuff or for tax breaks.

[0]. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/opportunity/pdf/immigrant-povert...
In my experience, you are in learn more or earn mode, but usually not both, when working a startup job. The early stage startups offer great learning opportunities: you get to implement the first cut of the system and learn from your (inevitable) mistakes. The focus is on building. But there is no guarantee of earnings apart from the cash paycheck that is deposited into your account every pay cycle. In such a setup, you may run into bad personalities who can hamper your learning goals, in which case it's best to leave. Note that early-stage startups have a lot of risk and you may end up not learning anything while incurring the opportunity cost.

On the other hand, if you join a very mature startup or established public company, then there will be established HR processes and the likelihood of wacko personalities goes down. There will be better management and almost certainly better pay. The cost is that you will have a mediocre set of colleagues, far fewer learning opportunities and less relevant skills to pick up on the job (relevant, in the sense of landing your next opportunity).

Too much of one or the other will lead to what feels like constant failure. It may be best to alternate between these, accepting the reality that your skills need updating every now and then, and it's best to do that in an environment where that can happen quickly, and money is important and must come at the cost of work satisfaction and learning sometimes. Striking a balance between the two is the challenging part of career management.

EDIT: Reading your post again a few times, I also see another problem. It looks like you have trouble finishing up projects, i.e., converting prototypes into functional product and keeping it running. This is the boring part, and why people get paid the big bucks, and you need to learn the skill of finishing up and keeping the lights on. If you want to learn this specific skill, join a mid-size company that's growing nicely but has an established product or two in a big market. This type of company is where you will have opportunities to learn this type of skill.
Yeah we for sure need to improve in that department
Got a small b+w brother printer for a couple 100 last year and it’s been great. Wired in with lan, everything can print to it. Solid “just works” experience.
I was clicking around and found documentation explaining what they'll be doing for the next 5 months, after the insertion burn and after it cools down enough: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-observatory-hardware/jwst-w...
> I type 150+ WPM and can’t write to save my life.

Same, but writing still helps me think better.

Maybe typing is too guided, and having to organise my thoughts on paper makes the process more efficient.
Entering a long wifi password with two buttons is a real freaking pain on it though
I'm not disagreeing that it's happening (it makes sense, and I have no data to say otherwise), but unless I'm seriously missing something, nothing in the article linked by mgh2 mentions network effect, iMessage, green/blue bubbles, or anything related.
Exactly. This whole story seems odd to me. Not necessarily saying the OP is in on the fraud, but I'm in agreement that this "Robin" seems to have gotten off pretty easily here. Too easily.
In the case of graphics, the only thing that's changed is the abstraction layer which is stable. Most folks won't use Vulkan directly, but rather through a layer which they have control to optimize or fix bugs in if they need to. Learning graphics programming will never start directly with Vulkan programming. I suppose there are benefits to make the standard, stable API easy to work with as a beginner, but there are plenty of great open source projects that fill that niche.
In this particular problem, I simply noted "what I know" on one side, and "what I need" on the other, then, trying mechanically prove my goal from my hypothesis. Being able to "see my bricks" was the key part. On a screen, those bricks while exist, are separated by scrolling distance.

But in general, I never do drawing, but yes, definitely diagrams of some state machines for example. It's simply impossible to hold them in the head.
>OK. But doing so would admit that our entire system is broken.

I don't think this can even be argued against at this point. A truckload of societies in the west would be facing absolute collapse right now if it wasn't for immigration.

In a version of reality in which we can't afford to just import as much cheap labour as we want, a good part of western culture would be facing extreme turmoil and our hegemony would most probably end. Hell we are pretty much assuming China will explode from inner conflict at some point because otherwise that hegemony is lost either way.
Yep. My cat was dry only, and almost died from a blockage. He’s been wet only, and no issues, since

When I hear other cat owners feeding only dry I tell them this. They don’t usually want to change, likely believing that wouldnt happen to their cat, but at least they’re informed.
Do you? Sad to say, most of us really do look like our driver's license photos.
Another comment mentions the possibility of a reading disorder. Since you have a pretty good measure of "45 minutes to read/comprehend 3 paragraphs", have you tried text-to-speech and seeing if you're faster that way?

Or maybe reformatting the text with layout, font, font-sizes that work better for you?

Not suggesting either solves the problem, but the small experiments might help identify an issue.

I have also had problems understanding some research papers, but the example one you linked is pretty straightforward to me. Reading the whole paper would take me some time, but not 45 minutes for 3 typical paragraphs. And I'm not that great at it. That's why I'm seconding the idea that maybe dyslexia or something similar is in play here.
Is Celsius the bank of the future or just a $3B-pyramid scheme?
So it sounds like you're using the service communication to mean the stream? Although "toward the original caller" suggests that two inter communicating services would be flip-flopping for ownership of "upstream". Aardvark calls Bear, Aardvark is upstream, Bear calls Aardvark.. Bear is upstream.

Stream could also refer to data (upstream=original/raw, downstream=processed/final), the overall process stage (upstream=prior stage, downstream=next stage - this requires knowledge of the system architecture, the stage boundaries are likely business-defined), some business term (eg in energy upstream=energy producer, downstream=consumer). A stream and the messaging direction may not match.
Smartcards e.g Yubikeys help with this. You store the key on the smartcard, then use ssh-agent to have the smartcard perform whatever cryptographic operations are necessary. On Yubikeys at least, the keys can never leave the smartcard, by design.
How to Learn the Trick of Confidence
Thank you for letting us all know the back-story!
"If something is too early to criticize it's also too early to evangelize"

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower, Jan 2, 2022
The EU already has this albeit only for citizens of other EU countries. One of the important things a government does is allocate tax money, and sets priorities. If you pay taxes you should have a say in how this money is spent. I also think it's really weird that I get to vote in my home country and decide what the people there should do without having to live the consequences of those decisions or even pay for them.
It does not cut down more on the smell. Since the waste is basically sifted out quickly to the lower try and not left buried by the cat, it can get smelly. Litter type, cat, and how often you chant the lower tray will change that, but overall, I would not put it in a living space.
Maybe move into sales if that is possible, very few people in sales are technical enough and let companies down, you however sound like might know enough to answer those board room sale pitches which require technical details. You can also then find out more about what the customer wants and then use that feedback to drive the technical direction of the product. By being able to code, you can randomly QA the product by getting customer feedback when you drop in on a customer and talk to their users (if that is possible), and you can then pass this feedback back to the dev team. Whilst off the shelf software is mass market, it doesnt always lead to lock ins, custom built software does lead to lock ins and that protects income streams for all.

Also write a bucket list and see how you can change your job to achieve your bucket list. Remote working means more office based employees like coders can now work whilst travelling the world.
A lot of startup/indie people take product hunt as false validation. It’s only worth it if you’re launching a tool for startups or remote work or something like that, anything else you’re just getting a false positive signal from early tech adopters. PH also lacks the sometimes brutal, honest feedback that HN has.
IRC clearly had same problems already back in the day when many users were still on dial-up connections...
A TikToker Made $200k Farting in Jars. Here’s How She Did It
Holy jeezus, I was worried I was flexing by mentioning my $200/hr rate. Dude or dudette, if you feel that’s realistic, the half Jew side of me is rooting for you. Godspeed.

$1,000/hr, what the fuck. I don’t think I’ve dropped a legit WTF on HN before. That’s a 40hr a week rate for at least a month, right? Otherwise you’re probably using the wrong comparison to what you want. But still… sure wouldn’t take many hours at that level. What do they do?
My point is that Upwork not creating the problem, just passing along the problem.

From what the freelancer says, Upwork would have eaten the loss if the freelancer had actually used that monitoring software. But he chose not to. I get that sucks for him, and I get how he got taken in by a serial fraudster. But I also get why Upwork only covers fraud under specific circumstances.
Note that the paper you referred to is relatively dense. It should take a while to fully comprehend all of the details.

That said, sometimes you don’t need to comprehend all of the details. In those cases, use reading strategies that will let you tease out the main points quickly. Other folks in this thread have pointed to some good sources, so I won’t repeat them here.

Best of luck!
I think it was removed when homelessness really took of in the 1980s or 1990s. Amtrak didn't want to damage its business by running a shelter.
This is it. I’d bet (less than the sum in question) that Al and Robin are in cahoots somewhere along the way. Makes me wonder whose name was on the card.
Zowie Celeritas. Cherry MX browns with two silicon rings under the key caps to reduce the travel. It's full size UK layout including a keypad, and it's solid with no flip out feet etc. Keep it simple, it's the best.
Speaking as an engineer that sometimes wears a hiring manager hat. Full-time long term is typically preferred. On a complex product in a complex domain there can be a long learning curve. It’s very valuable to have people that stay for multiple years and were there when certain choices were made.

People have a different learning and onboarding speed, but it generally takes months for an engineering hire to “break even” and be able to pick up most tickets on their own. So we generally prefer people that stay longer.

That being said, there is also value to bringing in people with different backgrounds, experiences & perspectives. So sometimes freelancers or consultants can be good choice.
Not quite.

Leasing lets me know what the car will cost me up front and I can decide based on those facts.

Buying exposes me to the whims of the resale market when I decide to sell. I also have to deal with the distraction of actually selling the car. If I want to maximize my return, that means private party sales, which means exposing myself to potential fraud and unbounded hassles with potential sellers.

I am generally not a fan of leases but I think they make sense with the changing EV landscape.
Most of the comments on I see on Product Hunt look like they were paid for, are made in broken English, and sometimes don't make any sense. I don't trust what I see there.
I'd argue with #1. It was obvious at the start that this thing could at best be slowed, not stopped, and that conditions on the ground after would be the same as before. And thus the logic of lockdown #1 lead inevitably to #2, and so on.

That was where the "experts" should have been saying "look, there really isn't a lot we can do, outside of drastic measures that could do as much harm as help." But everyone wanted to Do Something, and the experts didn't want to seem impotent, and we proceeded thoughtlessly into a mistake.
I'm curious on the updates you anticipate. Many of the items in the book are approachable without having to go too far into specific domains.
I don’t think there’s much that can be taken from that. There’s a lot of reasons products die within a year, the non-product hunt #1 rate is probably much much higher. People post products on there all the time that aren’t meant to be some startup in the first place
If the only value of your business is an idea to add on to another business that is trivial to copy, rather you get shut down sooner than later.
$300/hr is more like $300K/year, if you follow the "overhead to a company is basically equivalent to salary" common wisdom. That assumes that the contracting is for fairly large numbers of hours on a fairly long term, otherwise "benchtime" can make that effectively much, much lower.

Source: Close to 20 years consulting at $150/hr.
I agree with that, but in this case, the author had already scoped it down to services calling other services in a "microservices" context. And even if the call graph is a->b->c->a->b, I can still say up/down if I give the context of which invocation. I'm hoping people don't do that much in real life though, too easy to recurse.
Immutability makes social media worse. Immutability may make me consider my words before I write them, but it also prevents me from saying things I’m not sure about, from learning as I go, and from experimentation.

Perhaps more importantly, it holds my opinions hostage to time and to the progress of society.

Society would do well to be rid of social media.
Long before Kaepernick knelt, a Black female athlete defied the US Anthem (2021)
> Point is: it is impossible to claim that one thing or the other would have happened if the situation were different.

Then I guess it's a good thing I didn't claim that. If somebody else did, maybe reply to them?
> My Freelance taxes/social sec/retirement tax in Italy is on average 76% on a total of 80k eur average gross annual income (98th income percentile).

If you have a profit of 80k and your net income is 19k, you're doing something very wrong. This is not an accurate representation of Italian taxes and social security. A more reasonable net income for that gross is 40k; but you have to take into consideration that with around 24k of the other 40k you are paying a pension (not a very generous one, but still).
If you see the painting, you risk making a judgement based on how 'pretty' it is.