skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a consultant and bootatrapped it into a profitable firm. First, understand the difference between a contractor and a consultant. Though not all differentiate the two, many do and that’s reflected in the market rates associated with them (consulting == contracting + hard-to-find expert advisory). Convert a single existing FTE role into a consulting engagement to get you started if you can. If not, your ability to sell yourself is highly variable and something you’ll need to try and fail at a few times — this is highly dependent on your personal social strengths and weaknesses in my experience making quality general advice hard to give. Have 3-6 months living expenses in the bank, at least. This will help smooth out cash flow inconsistencies. And perhaps the most important thing is to not waiver on your rates. There are many leads that won’t pay for value; avoid them for the many who will. It will seem at times that lowering your rates is necessary, but its far more likely to be a symptom of looking in the wrong place for the right clients; recognize this as a fail in the try/fail cycle, and try again.

Happy to answer more questions if you can narrow down your ask to specifics.
Its immigration policy too-- the 50 million or so foreign born living in the US today have overwhelmed our housing production.
Glad to learn I wasn't the only one. When it comes to solving issues resulting from my procrastination, my ingenuity knows no bounds.
> As someone old enough to remember the time when that was actually the case, obviously we managed.

I'm also old enough to remember that and we managed by blocking huge amounts of IP space. Even massively popular services like AOL have blocked the IP space of entire ISPs or entire countries from being able to send them email. Eventually spam filtering improved, things like SMTP auth, DKIM etc caught on and wide range blocking could be scaled back somewhat, but I doubt it will ever go away entirely.

> Really? Then where can I sign up for a mail service that will reliably deliver both my incoming and outgoing legitimate messages without undue monitoring or interference with my own business?

Use your own servers and you can do whatever you want. Again, you can't force others to accept email from your mail servers, but you can choose to accept or reject whatever you want from others. No one can stop you from sending mail from one mail server you own to another mail server you own.

> Which is exactly why some of us are in favour of statutory regulation to compel anyone participating in such an important technological ecosystem to be a good citizen.

You can't really regulate the internet. If you could enforce regulations on a global network made up of discrete but interconnected networks we could just make spam, phishing, and hacking illegal on the internet, enforce that law/regulation and there would be zero need for blacklists. Because laws and regulations don't work on the internet we instead have to come up with blacklists, filtering technology, and other tricks to keep the internet even semi-functional.

> My objection, which seems to be in line with the submitted article, is to big mail services that think spraying fire into a crowd of 250 indefinitely because there was once one bad person there is a reasonable response to the problem

It's the only one that works. I've seen with my own eyes ISPs who didn't care enough to invest at all in abuse handling, but were forced to because of being blacklisted and in order to keep their customers they had to clean up their network, pay attention to abuse notices, participate in feedback loops, and slowly rebuild and maintain their reputation as responsible network operators.

If you limit blocks to individual IP addresses than spammers just cycle IP addresses. ISPs that ignore anything sent to their abuse@ address (if they even have one) never have any pressure to invest in preventing spam and can just keep accepting money from spammers and hackers and give them new IPs whenever they need to.

IPv6 makes the problem much much worse since a single spammer would get a huge amount of IPs to burn through before they have to bother their ISP about it. Blacklists themselves could become so massive and cumbersome that restricting larger and larger ranges may be the only option.
Larping. I've been playing Vampire the Masquerade Larps for a decade and I'm working on my own larp about the Huldufolk. Between the two I've gotten a lot of mileage out of being a larper who knows how to code and run servers.
unfortunately the world is growth and consumption hungry and we don't want to do anything that compromises wealth creation, even reduction targets are deeply resented, let alone actually achieving sustainable consumption levels.
> Just the view of someone whose family is from Argentina, and who lived there during two bouts of severe inflation of >50%. To me, it's never "solved" and one thing I really fear is that the US is starting to look more and more like Argentina in both its populist political rhetoric and its abuse of institutions to produce short-term political gains at the expense of longer-term prosperity.

That is a consequence of bad decisions, not economics. In fact, economics does every well: It predicts the outcome of the bad decision. And you call it a bad decision because it prioritizes politics over reality, i.e., the economics.

If the doctor says, 'take this pill or you will have a heart attack', and you don't take the pill and have a heart attack, then the problem is you, not the doctor, who actually did very well (unfortunately).

> Inflation is a funnel that sucks money from the poor to the wealthy.

That's a separate question, but that's not really true either afaik:

Argentina's inflation level and the current US inflation level are on entirely different magnitudes; the US has never had hyperinflation (what you describe in Argentina), at least since the advent of modern economics around WWII. US inflation is well under 10% (last I checked), an order of magnitude less than the 50%+ you are discussing. It's like comparing a scraped knee to an severed femoral artery.

Also, the inflation is from entirely different causes. US inflation is due largely to supply chain issues caused by the pandemic.

For poorer people, inflation's effect depends on whether your wages and, if you have savings, whether the interest rate the bank pays on your deposit are inflating at a similar rate. Note that most Americans have no meaningful savings: One recent study said that something like 60% didn't have even $500 saved for an emergency.

Generally, inflation helps those in debt, including poor people, by inflating away the value of their debt. It hurts those who own and lend money - mostly the wealthy. If you have a billion saved and it's

That's why the American reactionaries are so up in arms about it - I agree about the irony, but reactionary policies almost always to favor the wealthy. 'Populists' are about manipulating the populace, not serving them. (They also are making a big deal about it because, 1) they function by creating crises - imagine them not being outraged; 2) it is a way to attack non-reactionaries. Both of those are the reasons for their existence.)
Pissing contest with other billionaires?
There's a reason a lot of us still use computers for documents rather than swamp our phones with documents.

I separate documents that are concerned with income, expenses and taxes into financial-year folders, further subdivided into a tree-structure of named folders.

2022/bills_statements/centrepoint801/801_water_211026.pdf
2022/bills_statements/centrepoint801/amart_tv_unit_210816.pdf
2022/bills_statements/centrepoint801/cpoint801_ergon_210731.pdf

I have separate tree-structured folders for documents concerned with (say) real-estate properties, medical (separate tree-structures for me and for my wife), legal documents, motor vehicles, etc, etc, etc.

medical/jack/jack_respiratory_2019-/bretz_referral_200213.pdf
medical/jack/jack_respiratory_2019-/jack_bretz_info_consent_191030.pdf
medical/jack/jack_respiratory_2019-/jack_patient_details_bretz_191030.pdf
medical/jack/jack_respiratory_2019-/jack_191125_bretz.pdf

real_estate_ours/marquis/marquis_504_market_appraisal_TS_220203.pdf
real_estate_ours/kamerunga_6/steel-line_garage_door_user_manual.pdf
real_estate_ours/york/obrien_real_estate_commision_york_131004.pdf

By making the filenames and the folder-names descriptive, and running a file-name indexing utility twice every day I can find a document quite quickly.

I store most documents as .PDF files, photos as .PNG images. I include a date if relevant using a 6-digit YEAR-MONTH-DAY format which will normally automatically order documents by date when useful.

2020/antonas/clovelly_even/20cre190731.pdf
2020/antonas/clovelly_even/20cre190830.pdf
2020/antonas/clovelly_even/20cre190930.pdf
2020/antonas/clovelly_even/20cre191031.pdf

It should go without saying that all documents are automatically backed-up into several separate locations at least once daily.

Incoming 'paper' documents are scanned too and stored along with similar computer-generated documents.
What's stopping the debtor from just defacing their half? Making it slightly incompatible with the half of the creditor?
Tesla throws updates over the fence with sometimes as little as 2-3 days since the initial updates. Phantom braking saw multiple updates in a couple of weeks, and some of them made it better, then worse, then better, and so on.

Their attitude to testing would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous and reckless.
The context window of GPT-3 is vanishingly small compared to any novel-like work. GPT-3 will happily invent descriptions of characters and objects that contradict what it suggested three pages ago.

Not saying it can't help you with getting an idea what to describe, but this is the kind of "editing" that it won't be good at.
Yeah, the rancor for cheap laughs schtick fell flat for me

>Avoid shell hackery. This is probably controversial

You bet. It's less than 5 minutes to learn how to make shell _not_ fail silently and an additional 10 minutes (I'm overstating the time) to figure out how to check variables for whether they will evaluate to empty strings -- to avoid deletion catastropes.

Not saying anyone should be "forced" to learn this. It's simply more accurate and helpful to say, "I don't know and I don't want to learn" instead of blaming a language.
I think you mean nucleotide. Good reddit thread about potential reasons why there are 4 and not 6.

https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/d99qr/why_are_ther...
US tech industry has been staggeringly right place/time for the last decade. As a proxy, the NASDAQ has roughly increased 6x in that timeframe.
I think there is a rather powerful fat acceptance movement paid for by food lobbyists. Being fat is only socially unacceptable among my upper class friends, I think the middle class has leaned into it.

I think being able to have healthcare discriminate based on smoking has been hugely impactful in cutting US smoking rates, I think the same should be done for being overweight.
Sure, but you know that's completely orthogonal to what I'm saying. There is a big difference between a WAP browser and the webapp runtime we now call a browser. The latter replaces purpose-developed apps running primarily off local storage with ever-present client-server latency, best-effort presentation, and attention-required input for every single interaction. In fact I'd say the early WAP browser is closer to an example of the type of lean, discrete-button-press-controlled application I'm advocating than the touchscreen "browser" of today. And sure a full contemporary browser comes in handy in a pinch, but thinking it suffices for routine everyday tasks on a small form device is terrible engineering.
The salary ignorance that keeps many workers underpaid
Yes I should have airquoted "stupid" there!
Summers warned that MMT would be inflationary, and he was right.
Exactly. And telling people to disregard or (implicitly) to be ashamed of their feelings "because science" just makes it worse.
I believe Monroe has since come out as non-binary.
There are two major types of application: one where users play role of "reader" and second type is where user is "writer" - creator of some data, document, etc.

> that works is HTML + JS + CSS and nothing else.

That type of UI mostly works for "reader" applications - when maximum what you do is clicking on buttons and filling couple of <input>s.

For "creator"'s applications, CADs, editors, IDEs, and so on, HTML + JS + CSS is far from being perfect. At least without special means that extend these technologies to acceptable level.

Menu shall be menu but not that position:absolute something, dialog shall be modal window, drawing shall support immediate mode, keyboard interaction shall be there, and so forth.
Rich Hickey - Hammock-driven development: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFc

Programming is terrible: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c

Dave Beazely - Python concurrency from the ground up (applicable to languages in general, with generator and corourine functionality) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4

Functional programming, with birds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnVo7EHO_8&t=1009s

Short and classic: Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Well the idea with ccache/distcc is to store the cache on the host or a shared volume and reference it from your containers. Your container builds remain isolated but don't waste time rebuilding objects that were already compiled (and re-compiling obvs gets much faster). Assuming same architecture, compiler, linker, etc I think it won't affect the isolated-build-ness. Here's some examples: https://cinaq.com/blog/2020/05/10/speed-up-docker-builds-wit... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39650056/using-ccache-wh...

To be honest it's been... a very long time... since I've used these. But the theory is that it all "just works", in that if it can compile something with cache or remotely, it does, but if not, it just works as normal. So I think it would work for your use case? Maybe a Gentoo user can correct me :)
Absolutely agree with this point! You also raised another interesting idea - since we don't know when a giant impact or similar catastrophic event will occur, we can't categorize it as a near-term risk or long-term risk. It could happen anytime within the near to long range. How are risks on that broad time scale defined?
> I remember thinking in the 90s that being able to use irc on a portable wireless device (pre wifi) would the most cyberpunk cool future I could imagine.

There was this Australian tv show for kids in the 90s in which prop department turned one of Sharp PDAs [1] into futuristic multipurpose smartphone-alike device with built-in camera that allowed (from show PoV) live video conversations, conferences across the globe via a single abandoned satellite. Back then the idea was amazing and I did wonder if we ever get such gizmos in real life. Some 30 years later we can indeed have video calls with our smartphones and where the other person is around the world it really doesn't matter. The other factors do matter like the platform - can you reach someone only via Watsapp or Telegram or maybe Skype? Do we use Discord or Zoom, or perhaps Jitsi?

[1] - http://blog.compuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/P1300578...
I'm sure every culture, including Western ones, has some kind(s) of food everywhere along the "healthy" to "medicinal" scale.
Everyone agrees what you eat is important, nobody can agree on what that should be, hopefully this kind of research will tell us.
Unfortunately, not an option for iPhones:

3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code.
Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code
and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded

You would have to ship a new copy of it with each application.
https://www.nutsvolts.com/
Everyone is different! I have a Lenovo 2560x1440 monitor I bought circa 2018 for personal use for around $200 USD that is my daily driver on my home desktop. Around that same period I was using one of the LG 5k monitors at my place of work. The 5k is nicer, of course, and I can fit a lot more into the screen, but for the way I work the cheap 1440 is just fine nowadays. I use a tiling window manager and usually have my screen separated into a 2x2 grid where a program either uses a half or a quadrant of that grid. Even gridded up like that the 1440p is almost always enough space for me (code that violates the character length in vscode is sometimes an annoyance).
I would suggest finding a community college or hardware hacker space like The Crucible in Oakland, CA to take a class. Nothing like hands-on instruction and having the machines set up perfectly so you can concentrate on your skills and get immediate feedback.

A MIG welder is probably easiest to learn. I haven't watched YouTube videos but see there are many. Learn to Weld by Christena is a popular beginners book. Have fun!
I have a pet theory about what makes Giorgio Tsoukalos and Ancient Aliens so dangererous they needed to be deleted from Rogan/Spotify. Essentially Ancient Aliens is more scientific and intellectually rigorous than anything you read in mainstream news or any of the narratives that drive policy, and it exists as a constant source of embarassment to anyone whose job is to prop those narratives up. It is profoundly subversive.

The people I know who get mad about it get really mad about it, because it is the satire to end all satire. Ancient astronaut theory is a fully consistent ideology and critical theory with at least as much applicability as any critical theory. I could easily write persuasive word for word transcriptions of any of their episodes for any current social issue and it would be as rigorous as the criteria for whatever else people already believe.

When you add a philosophical layer of Pascal's Wager meets Roko's Basilisk - Ancient Aliens may well be the pinnacle of human achievement.
I didn't know this existed until clicking your link.

Looking through a few of the issues, there's whole bunch of really interesting articles.

It's a shame it's not still going.
A former colleague of mine, Terry Koken, who worked with Rosenblatt at Cornell for a while and is quoted in the article, dropped a comment last year saying pretty much that:

https://blogs.umass.edu/comphon/2017/06/15/did-frank-rosenbl...
Having kids and being a good parent can be really hard. Parents trying to convince others to have kids might be trying to validate their own choices. We do that all the time for trivial choices like iPhone vs Android, so it's expected that we'll do it even more for irreversible choices like having kids. I wouldn't read too much into it.
I have 2x24" 1920x1200s (16:10) and would love 4ks instead... if they were 24" and 16:10...
The people who build, buy, and commission things are not the same ones who use them.
I started my pivot from a trade background into tech by going to university when I was 30. I'm 36 now and about to graduate while I've also been working in the field now for over two years. I've done this while being a single father to two young children (they were 1 and 3 when I started night univeristy). It was certainly not easy. I nearly burnt out hard multiple times.
How would you verify a company's emissions? With your monitoring satellite? Otherwise, it's their word against your inability to verify anything.
I use Google Drive for everything in a simple folder hierarchy with meaningful folder and file names. I keep everything there once scanned: medical, financial, taxes, housing, legal, … The folder structure makes it very easy to browse when search doesn’t work. The iOS app works great.

Backup every couple months with Takeout in case I get locked out.
> In my car, seatbelts have an additional mechanism which causes them to stop if the car is braking (with a certain acceleration, perhaps, or actual detection of the brake - I haven't determined). This seems very sensible until you live near an intersection which is not at right angles, which requires the driver to lean forward upon arrival at the intersection in order to look around the A pillar for oncoming traffic.

This is a tradeoff.

You can have a pure pay-out based locking retractor (centrifugal clutch). Or you can have a pendulum-based mechanism, or a combination of the two.

If you have the pendulum-based one, you'll be less likely to false positive based on the movement of the occupant but more likely to false positive based on deceleration of the vehicle.

The combination is best, because you can be relatively insensitive to individually occupant movement and vehicle deceleration and still actuate reliably in a crash. But it still will false positive.

In any case, "not annoying the user" is prioritized beneath "saving lives in a crash" by regulators, and hence the auto industry.

I'm guessing you brake rather abruptly in this situation if this is something you routinely encounter.
Does another party need to decode the url? What about using a dictionary for the top 10k seen starting combinations and then encode the rest?

What about run length encoding? 1-9 for positive sequences. a-i for negative sequences (max means pattern continues) and the rest for frequent patterns like alternating sequences, etc

9967b would be 24 yes, 1 no, 7 yes, 3 nos, 1 yes etc
That's also weird to me.
Both Probit (1934) and Logistic regression (1943) models, which are also linear classifiers, precede the Perceptron model (1958) by many years.
> Assuming this is a genuine effort and not some kind of corruption, this potentially sounds great.

It’s a genuine effort to put something positive on the table for the administration as the mid-term elections ramp up. Biden, like his predecessor, is historically unpopular. The administration is desperate to do anything to maintain control of the house and senate.

This “plan” is a retread of Biden’s 2012 scheme that went nowhere.

As for corruption, probably just run-of-the-mill NIH feudalism. Even Joe Biden isn’t so brazenly corrupt that he’d directly pay his bag men while he’s the sitting President.

It’s good to see cancer get more money & attention, regardless of the motive.
> But losing weight? Endless amounts of effort is already spent towards this goal

The government can educate on and encourage healthy eating and fitness. The goal is not weight loss. Weight loss is just a side effect.
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> Why only more vegetables? Isn’t fiber also in some other food?

Fiber is in some other foods, but not at the same ratio of fiber to calories; given that calorie surplus is also a common source of health problems in the developed world, vegetables are generally the best fiber source to add.
Juerd Waalboer's "Dvorak Keyboard Training": https://learn.dvorak.nl/

Of course, it will only teach you Dvorak, but then again, you did say that you wanted to type faster...
It was Nixon undermining the civil rights and anti-war movements. The CIA probably did more than just turn a blind eye to the heroin importation from the Golden Triangle in Asia.
The problem also happens if the answer contains the letter once, but the guess contains it twice. Imagine the middle letter in the answer is an E, no other E anywhere. I guess EXXXE (assuming that's a word). Both E are yellow: that's incorrect. There's 1 misplaced E and one superfluous E. Which is which is arbitrary. In the version of the game I made from my discord bot, I go left to right, so the E on the left would be yellow, the one on the right would be grey.
Why did my 99% white, upper middle class school district have a DARE program? How did that serve to advance the cause of marginalizing minority groups?