skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started a freelancing business in 2017 that ultimately involved me freelancing and cutting my teeth. Stuck with it and after a long struggle finally broke through. Some things I've learned:

- Passive marketing just won't work early on. That means spending time on your website, buying Google Ads etc will likely only be dead-ends until you've established yourself. (The exception might be writing niche content about some industry if you happen to know one well).

- I've used all of the freelancing platforms- Toptal, Upwork etc. You can make good money but you probably won't grow your business. Your objective if you're trying to grow a business is to scale up, and these platforms mandate that you're the one who has to do the work. I know there are Upwork firms, but I think they're worthless. Oh and Thumbtack is a scam.

- The Meetup angle didn't necessarily work for me, but I've learned that going to non-developer meetups are more fruitful, if you're willing to learn about an industry.

- The low hanging fruit in 2022 for finding clients is probably investing 15 minutes a day into building a Linkedin network (trivial and you don't need to pick up a phone :)). That means growing your connections, and learning to search for people looking for a developer for X, Y, Z, filtering out full-time hires etc.

- Actually the lowest hanging fruit is referral business, so when you get your first clients do a great job and send them emails every few months reminding them to put you in touch with anyone they know.

- When a client asks you to do something extra always say no. Always. If they're a great client, do something extra that they didn't ask for. This sounds insane, but the second you do submit to doing an extra request, a client will subconsciously discount your work and time and take it for granted. It almost never wins kudos, almost always wins more requests. I've seen this happen 35+ times. When you do something they didn't ask for, they tend to be more appreciative and touched.

- The following are essential business processes you should set up if you want to grow: task management (Github issues for me, make sure to adopt a task format with predictable attributes whatever you use), communication (Slack, invite my clients to a dedicated channel), CRM (I use Hubspot which is free for just CRM), and a project cycle.

- By project cycle I mean a contract where you're cash-flow positive, i.e. charge hourly deposits up front as much as possible, as well as defined expectations. What happens when the project finishes? How do you prevent scope creep?

- PayPal invoices are nice but they were my biggest expense, 3% of my revenue! Do ACH if possible, or Wire Transfer if the fixed fee is less than the PayPal cost. I even set up a consulting business for invoicing just because this is such a big issue [1]. But don't optimize this until it's worthwhile.

Feel free to get in touch if anyone needs any help getting established. My email is my HN username +3@gmail.com

[1] https://receivable.dev
I wish my country would invest more into cycling infrastructure, £200m for 750km of track seems like a pretty good deal (if it's useful). Road infrastructure costs vary, but the last figure I read was around £10m/mile for the UK.
I feel like writing one-sided hit pieces on how blockchain projects aren't decentralized is a new strategy to get to the front page of HN.

I like how nuanced the moxie.org article was, compared to this one.
Small claims court. It’s not acceptable to not pay people accordingly.
I don't understand the point of this comment.

I'm not making any judgements in my comment above, I'm merely stating my perception.
Sounds like basically any company - asking for extra hours, giving BS excuses (vacation day thing), late requisitions, etc.
And now that I look at the same image tonight, I see it as white and gold.
> Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN.

I wouldn't consider the word "shit" to be inappropriate for a reader that I felt mature enough to expose to HN content and conversations.
> All that's left unique to us is cooking.

Seems we may not be the only ones that cook after all.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/03/411748170/ch...
Link seems dead for over a decade; archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20081207180615/http://dev.eclips...
Nothing of what you're writing has anything to do with NFTs, did you perhaps write in the wrong thread?
>>e most expensive and worst-performing in terms of outcomes compared to the other developed countries.

That is only true if you cherry pick statics that over sample for life style choices, and under sample of actual health care.

If you look at statics that are directly attributable to the care provided, not the life style choices of the patients then the US Healthcare system is far better than any other nation
The implied fact, which makes it an impossible figure, is the assumption that ACFD is a plane. If, on the other hand, there is an edge CD or an edge AF, the figure becomes possible.

That’s what my intuition tells me, in any case.
You said "non fungible, transferrable data, the possession of which is easily cryptographically verifiable", but NFT advocates talk about ownership a lot.

I can possess all the bored ape JPEGs. So can anyone else in the world who can right-click or screenshot or download a .zip of them.
That's interesting because for a long time there's been this right-wing narrative about how "India benefited from British colonization."

I suppose the British did introduce some technology and civic systems, but they also probably fractured the society and created a new kind of caste system.

How much of today's seeming culture of corruption in India is a legacy of colonialism vs. how much was there already? I'm asking because I'm only looking from a distance.

Also makes me wonder if the Chinese cultural revolution, while a disastrous failure on very many levels, might have erased a lot of the legacy of past colonialism... for the same reason that a gigantic natural disaster might lead to shiny new infrastructure after everything gets rebuilt.
Fon! Thank you!
> I don't understand what point you're trying to make. We can already enforce these existing property rights on digital assets

I guess that's exactly their point: We have this. What the hell are NFTs supposed to bring to the game?
It could work in countries with abundant clean power (say Iceland from geothermal or France from nuclear) but in other countries, the 24x7 load on the power grid is still causing extra emissions
I have used this extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

The page provides links to various bits of documentation, including this link with instructions on how to set up debugging: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/cpp-debug
> If 51% militantly attack the treasury and fed it won't exist either.

It is significantly harder to convince 51% of the population of something than to convince >51% of Bitcoin hashpower: the top 4 mining pools control 51% of the hashpower, so you'd really only need to convince a handful of people to execute a 51% attack.
Not sure if this is entirely what you are after but Andreas Kling of SerenityOS builds an IDE from scratch[1] for his own operating system. While I don't personally know C++ I found the videos interesting and fun to watch.

[1] DevTools hacking playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOpZvQB55bfeIHSA71J8...
Umm... This is a US-based job, right? As someone based in Europe, I find it absolutely shocking you have been requested to work ahead of your start date. This is not even eligible for asking if it's a red flag. It's insane.

edit: I see other commenters are like "well, standard practice, not necessarily that terrible". Am I living in a bubble or is it just Europe?
This is why writing software is as much an art as it is a science. It is never perfect
It's existence and ownership is not verifiable on a cryptographically secure distributed computer (blockchain)
If they are worried about hospitals, please request them to go to any of the independent labs that does covid tests. These labs are not connected to hospitals, they get paid only for the test, so doesn't matter to them whether the patient is positive or not. Many in my family did that.

Also, when one of my family members got positive during the first peak, they went to a local government hospital (small town). They got really great care (including 4-5 doses of some injection worth ~10000 Rs per dose if I remember correctly, free food etc), and paid absolutely nothing.
Apache Flink ML 2.0 is released: ML for streaming data
> By stepping into this area GH are going to have to find answers to this a

I think they already have, those 2 examples you mentioned already happened and were dealt with.

I think intent is important to take into consideration, since after all that is the definition of malicious: intent to cause harm.

Your first example clearly has no intent to cause harm. That case probably happened thousands of time already since not everyone is willing/able to follow semver cleanly and strictly. Never heard about GH taking any measure against that. And I would definitely not expect them to as a user/maintainer.

For the second case, I think GH policy is that you can host that kind of PoCs, but the repo has to be clearly documented as doing such (e.g. you can't just add some vuln into some unrelated code "for research"), and the vulnerability cannot be an active one: "We understand that the publication and distribution of proof of concept exploit code has educational and research value to the security community, and our goal is to balance that benefit with keeping the broader ecosystem safe. In accordance with our Acceptable Use Policies, GitHub disabled the gist following reports that it contains proof of concept code for a recently disclosed vulnerability that is being actively exploited." - GitHub." [1]

Back to Marak's case, my opinion is that GH did the right thing: If he just had his code in a repo, with no semver, no other contributors/maintainers, and such, and decides to nuke it, then I hope GH would not have done anything.

But when you are using all the tools and trust of open source: Other people contributing to your repo, other people being active maintainers/admins and spending times out of their days to fix bugs on it, when you leverage NPM to make it easier for you to distribute your package to others widly etc, you give up the privilege being able to act unilaterally like an asshole without consequences.

[1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/githubs-new-p...
Actually at what point does one become not freelance but a studio? I find people/company treat you at a spectrum of seriousness, payment dueness in particular, between "freelance" and studio. Is it a business registration, team size, or mentality? Otherwise I would suggest not to use the term freelance but to start your own studio house instead.
Yes, but at least there is more equity between poor and rich in this regard.
MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?
> Essential point, but in the interest of practicality: is there a way such knowledge could be communicated more efficiently?

Papers could be restructured better in my opinion. Journal papers are still written as if they are for a print magazine - hyper tight and page constrained. Print scientific journals are basically dead, so why write them like that? The supplemental information should be a part of the main paper.
> All the evidence (at least for the pre Omicron variants) suggests that the reality, as viewed by death rate, is orders of magnitude more bleak.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of CDC was actually in an interview recently where she said 75% of Covid deaths occurred in people with 4 co-morbidities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa7N-iNkaUE

This statement begs the question of what percentile of deaths occurred with no co-morbidities at all. In my mind at least, I don't know enough about the death rate to inform if its bleak or not judging as a healthy 41 year old without complicating medical factors.
Thank you for the explanation! It makes more sense to me now.
Stop thinking of github as source control. It is source out of your control.

Decentralized source code is required.

If another entity can take your repo it isn't your repo.

If another entity can ninja commit to your repo with a bot it isn't your repo.

If your code can be taken down by a corporation or government, it isn't your repo.
This is an empirically accurate assessment. The priorities of the Anglophone elite (which dominate the IAS and other parts of the admin) are divorced from the priorities of the rest of the country. This manifests in issues akin to what they call “structural racism “ in the US.

Ie: budgeting priorities; India over budgets IITs and other elite institutions over other colleges and primary education. This results in a system with excellent top universities, but a steep drop in educational quality in tier 2 institutions (and very low educational outcomes in public primary and secondary schools).

The government also focuses on agricultural price stability over farm income (ie banning agricultural exports during high prices).

One can argue that the popularity of Modi and the other regional satraps (with language based sub nationalism) is a result of this institutional bias. Imagine how you would vote if you couldn’t participate in the economy of your hometown because all the street signs/store names were in a language you couldn’t read.
Blame Cronyism, Not Capitalism
This is not how authoritarism is defined. It needs some more requisites. People electing democratically a government to take this kind of measures for them is not totalitarism. Not at all.
I guess I am mostly alone in thinking that for a system to be socialised, it has to apply to everyone or almost everyone in a country equally. From the comments and the voting, I understand that having it apply to "almost" half the population is already socialised to this time slot :)
Usually yourself, you'll notice in a couple of weeks from now when you revisit your code.
It is fake, the drone video was added in, I think. The original disaster zone VR tour was real though.
My primary reason for going freelance is that I'm in control of my days off. Everytime I'm employed, I worry if I'll have enough vacation days to take two weeks off around Christmas. As a freelancer, I have as many days off as I want. That, and all my compensation being in money, adds up to a lot less bureaucracy for me. (And I have an accountant do my taxes for me.)
The author went a bit too much into the technical weeds to point out the more glaring failure: you don't own copyrights to the image.

Talking about who 'owns' the jpeg isn't the big deal, it's content that matters.

That the image is at a URL which is fixed is a 'bad technical issue' that might even be fixable in some way in the future.

But you buy make an NFT of Mickey Mouse, and literally it would be illegal to show it anyone publicly.
Ah but the government will enforce my claim on the house if I’m holding (rightfully) the title. And if someone steals the title, it doesn’t mean they own my house.
That's not bad, only 22 min difference between walking and driving.
I feel like the "Who wrote this shit?" article and this one should be linked together ...
I’m not worried about my kids seeing curse words. I am concerned about the downward pull normalizing unprofessional writing has on my profession.

Does it make our whole environment less professional? Does it influence us to be unprofessional in other parts of our craft? Do outside observers view us as less a profession because of it?

I don’t know the answers but I certainly worry about it. Though perhaps I’m just aging out of this audience.
Mine T440s survived being soaked twice. Once with hot latte, once with mineral water. Both times it was completely soaked.

It has internal battery which means it is not enough to power it down, you actually have to go to BIOS to turn the battery off. But when I spilled latte the keyboard stopped working and I was unable to power it down. I had to turn it around to open it up and in the process the sweet latte reached every single part of the motherboard.

The second time, I had the laptop in my bag. I put the bag on my lap on a bus stop and after some time I felt water on my legs. I yanked the laptop and from inside water started poring. I think there was at least 0.2-0.3L of water in it.

As I just moved I had no tools on my hand. I had to call my boss and tell him I need to take care of my laptop. I then drove to a shopping center to buy IPA, demineralized water and tools.

Water got absolutely everywhere. It was between individual leaves of LCD panel. I had to disassemble the laptop into its constituent parts including the display.

In both cases I have thoroughly washed the laptop (actually submerging it), first in water and then in IPA.

The laptop is still fine and other than a little bit of discoloration of the LCD panel and a small bit of hair from my beard within the panel which I missed when assembling it, you wouldn't say anything bad happened to it.
The moment a customer does not pay a bill within the specified terms is the moment you must stop working for them.

This also means that you must invoice regularly.

Learned that the hard way.
US healthcare is a four-party arrangement since employers are also intermediaries. Employers select the plan (or plan options) and they pay the bulk of the premiums. Their check is always bigger than yours even if you pay more for your policy than they do. As such, most of the sales effort by health insurance companies is directed at the employer and they exercise a lot of judgment. In contrast, I have never once spoken to a representative of the health insurance company during open enrollment, it is always HR.
The Intel CPU-s had throttling issues that made them unusable for basic things like calls over Google Meet as they would throttle to 400 MHz.

That seems to be a common theme with the newer laptops. Look up "Intel DPTF" and power limits. They are severely throttled by firmware/drivers, long before they actually hit their (thermal) limits. There are various tweaks to unlock the full potential of the CPU, the easiest of which is to disable all the manufacturer crapware completely.
I'm my own shitty boss, thank you very much.
It's also a really weird definition of VR. I thought the idea was to make things look immersive -- as if you were really walking through an environment. This just looked like some video footage of Puerto Rico behind some cartoon characters (which it was, I assume).
NFTs are kind of terrible because it makes people think "links to images" are everything smart contracts can do.

They're just a simple use of smart contracts, which are basically functions that don't live on a server. I can choose to deploy something onto Cloudflare Workers or on a chain.

Most code I'm still deploying on CF! But there's a few functions - like signing functions that bind ownership of a piece of submitted genome sequence data - that I want to live on-chain, bc if it's off-chain, I (or someone else) could more easily become a bad actor, by deploying bad code.
I've never heard of a software development consultancy referred to as a "software factory" before. Did you just invent that term ?
Not the same. If she were a few seconds behind, she'd prepare for the
incoming car who now has right-of-way.

The problem is OP performed an unexpected action which created an
anxious moment for the incoming car who drove in hastefully to minimize
OP's bending over backwards. A cyclist parallel to OP could be excused
for barrelling ahead assuming right-of-way traffic remains right-of-way.
> Signal enforces E2EE, you can't disable it.

Exactly!

It seems like there is a combination of tenuous assertions being made about XMPP security here, followed by naive questions from people who apparently don't understand the basic feature set of something like Signal. Any clue why this is happening?
Even if the property pointed to by an NFT will never go away (for some value of never), an NFT conveys no control over that property. To do that, you have to fall back on centralized control, namely laws and governments to enforce them.
This is a good point, and it's important to also remember that these ideas aren't independent. How people interact with the healthcare system over their lifetimes has an impact on how they think about their health, and the health impacting decisions in their lives.
> Do you know of any research that support this much for sleep
I look into it but because I started at a low dose and increase it until I find a dosage that works for me.

I love how refreshed and relaxed I feel when I wake up in the morning when I use it and it increases my sleep time. Its concentration falls as we age and my eyes have got sensitive to monitors again so its not all bad as it reduces my screen time. Taurine, like all chemicals does other things in the body which need to be factored in as well.

Unfortunately modern medicine, which doctors are keen to knock out, often have side effects and they have destroyed what little authority they had with me, which is their own doing.
Lately I've been studying lite editor which is mostly Lua code. It's quite easy to read the code and follow along. Before that I wrote my own editor which kind of works, but it mostly made me appreciate the lite's design.

https://github.com/rxi/lite
https://rxi.github.io/lite_an_implementation_overview.html
https://rxi.github.io/a_simple_undo_system.html
Exynos 2200's AMD GPU Could Be Faster Than Apple's A15 Bionic
EU Mobile Operators Want Apple's iCloud Private Relay Service to Be Outlawed
If only bitcoin mining farms existed in space on similar satellites to starlink.
Nothing can be more precise.

I once had a complicated codebase and had a extremely friendly and downright great person walking me through that. There was some things that bothered me (of course - entry level and dunning kruger). But I never uttered a word, the dev was so technically competent and overall personable guy, I tried my best not to be a jerk. He might have his reasons because we sometimes get lazy yet the contribution we make goes beyond that day and stays forever in the codebase.

That day I learned that, soft skills is the most important thing when it comes to interacting in a team. Suppress your feelings and think of the other guy. See beyond the code.
They aren't using Chinese excess death data, that shows zero deaths.

They are using excess deaths of Western countries, and projecting those death rates to China.

I'd you think that this is garbage, it is, and the Economist seriously fell off.