skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been independent going on 8 years now, I started with letting some trusted contacts I had made in the industry know, and one of them came to me with an opportunity a few months later. It was a terrifying jump at the time, but I have no regrets and was glad I pushed through my fear.

These days I still do direct independent client work, and new clients come through a consulting / MSP firms I work with, and from my existing network. I get better paid with direct work, but the work coming from the firms is usually more interesting.

Eventually you get to the point of turning down work just because you have too much already, and deciding what you really want to be doing with your time.

I'd say the most difficult thing is trying to find that sweet spot between too little work, and too much work. Sometimes the sales pipeline from initial interest to actual engagement can be measured in years.
Follow-up: I got inspired to (re)read a few technical reports about security in windowing systems, and found that EROS' window system EWS [1] uses a variation of this method:

A "Paste" widget is overlaid with a special transparent window which when clicked authorises access to the clipboard while forwarding the click.
Abuse of the mechanism is supposed to be controlled by the transparent window setting the mouse pointer to a specific shape when hovering over it: a user would be alerted if he sees that shape where it isn't supposed to be.

[1] <http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.133....>
If by "threatens" you mean "mentions an unlikely possibility in their form 10-k to cover their asses"

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30207734
Micro biome is a literal pile of shit. Please forgive me because I couldn’t resist, but I think it’s massively overhyped and useless. It’s obviously going to be correlated to lots of things. But people measure the rough correlation and take it way too far. There’s nothing there… and if there is then it’s downstream of something more fundamental. Inflammation/metabolomics is the real revolution.
Why do you think this is correlation?
Yet another reason to band this greed honeypot.
> there appears to be few if any incentives for FSD to improve beyond...

I think it is simply not true. Creating a FSD that could replace human drivers eg in case of trucks is potentially highly lucrative and it would make the economy more efficient.
I don't really get why you'd be asking this question. Especially if you're making that much money a year.

Do the math.

https://tldroptions.io/

In just about every case, you're rolling dice for what? A faster paced environment and sleepless nights?

I get it, the hedonic treadmill is real. Happiness isn't bought with money, but couldn't you just save enough money to semi-retire and do something different at that point?
Just to offer some context as to why the phone is so hard to charge, here is a manual for the Simon as preserved, ironically, by a Microsoft employee: https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/a/pdf/Simon%20Use...

The relevant passage:

> It needs to charge for 14-16 hours to condition the battery. this applies only to a battery's first charge. It takes about 90 minutes to recharge a battery.) You will see a flashing amber light for about two seconds and then a solid amber light (marked with the number 2) indicating the battery is charging. If the amber light keeps flashing and you know your battery is hot or cold, just wait. Otherwise, try taking it out and putting it back in. If the light doesn't stop flashing, contact your service representative.

So, brand new, you had to charge this phone for more than half a day just to calibrate the battery.

I tried doing the charge on the battery for more than a day using the charger I was also given, to little effect.
Well, I'm not happy where I am :)

I have enough that would not be a problem if I made 20% of what I make today, but I don't have enough that money would never be an issue.

I'm not trying to optimize for money, but I'm not going to ignore it. From what I'm getting from this thread is probably be a founder might be a better fit for me rather than a startup employee.
well, the thing is that python provides a nice interface to some ugly, but efficient lower level libs. it can hook into any C or C++ library.
Haha yesterday in #off-topic I called you the "grandfather of EleutherAI"
Offscreen is a lovely print magazine for technology, design and society:

https://www.offscreenmag.com/
Given you have achieved the means for financial security, I think a more important question to ask yourself instead of "what is the best deal I can get" is "what do I want to build?"

You have gotten to where you are by being highly-capable and applying yourself consistently. You have the personal skills and financial leverage to bring about many things in this world. What do you want to build? What needs nurturing the most? What, if any, legacy would I like to leave behind?

I believe we are in early days of a century of revolution. Pick your battle and fight it. The money will follow if your work continues to create value.

Besides that personal take, it seems like you may not have to make a breaking change. I always try to ask myself "why not both?". Given you're in the tech ecosystem, you probably have an information advantage on what startup investing opportunities exist and which may be viable. There is nothing stopping you from being a part-time angel investor and generating passive income. Certainly you have to source and work deals, but its generally a lot more passive to be a semi-silent partner than one who does it full-time, and as long as you go in with talented investors who want to take a more active role you can be somewhat assured your investment will be shepherded well. Should you find your investment(s) have traction and you feel you can add value with your specific skills, it may make sense to join the team. You can do so while being reasonably assured that you'll average $80K+ / month as a baseline, while also virtually guaranteeing things will be a bit more interesting day to day.

Best of luck to you.
What law do you believe would let them do that? Why wouldn't it let them order Apple to scan everything on an iPhone? Or force it to back up without encryption?
What you need to know about minerals and the clean energy transition
> Don't

> text_c = text_a + text_b

Stopped reading there.
RISC-V certainly doesn’t prevent this kind of thing but it does at least provide the opportunity for this kind of behavior to be challenged. Given anyone is free to manufacture a RISC-V processor it’s at least feasible another company could step in and provide a product that doesn’t do these things if that’s what the market demands.
It tastes much better.

Vegetables are like wine, taste varies from variety used, terroir, harvest approach, how they are stored and preserved, the small tricks used during cooking..

All of this compounds into the taste of the dish.
What would your thoughts be if there was one for F#?
The number one rule — and I cannot emphasize this enough — is that you should not work at a startup for the money. The risk adjusted returns are not terrible if you know how to screen for good founders. It is, however, exceedingly unlikely that you make more than $10m over ten years — especially considering investment returns on your comp today over that time period.

So it depends on what you want.

Startups offer flexibility, opportunity to shape a company and its culture, building a team, incredibly fast growth (both personal and company), and the opportunity to touch many-if-not-all parts of the company.

The downsides are lower comp, longer hours (if you’re actually going to see returns), less support. For engineering, for example, big company employees drastically underestimate how much they rely on homegrown tooling.

Whether that’s worth it to you isn’t something I can answer. You will make less money. Probably a lot less. There are things you get that might be worth more than money, especially when you already have a lot. But also maybe they’re not to you and that’s okay!
Agreed 100%. I personally plan to homeschool my own kids with the skills and values I believe will lead them to success in future life: piety, virtousness and a practical skill in the trades. There has been a big shift towards PC culture and STEM which may not even be applicable to the future.

I also think that most history taught in US public schools has been severely rewritten to support a liberal agenda, which strays so far from the truth it borders on fantasy.
OK I have a startup idea. A matchmaking service between people working for FAANG and people whose accounts have been banned by bots with no recourse. Of course FAANG workers would be anonymous, for obvious reason, and the matter of compensation arrangement would have to be taken offline, because you know... But otherwise it seems to be an area ripe for disruption. Like Uber for bans, you know. Who's with me to apply in the next round of YC startups?
All of these magazines are defunct.
Hope this helps: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reporter+blm+protest+lost+eye

I meant lost eye (eye is a member).
Are there other ways for you to find what you're looking for without leaving your position? It seems to me you're wanting a challenge but not wanting to take the financial hit. Have you considered alternative solutions to fulfill these two requirements?
Some systems might just block all outgoing emails to anyone who has clicked unsubscribe which would block password resets as well
I’ve learned a lot of textile arts to a “basic mastery” degree and moved on - wasn’t a waste, because I now better understand and appreciate things I see in museums and old churches, and a lot about the economics of pre-industrial/early industrial Europe, especially women’s work. For example, learning how to make bobbin lace, hanging around the old ladies whose mothers actually still got paid (pennies) as girls to make lace at home, making a few Christmas ornaments and visiting a bobbin lace museum [0]. Now when I see elaborate old lace around an altar cloth… Someone put hundreds of hours into that! And probably just got enough money to keep eating! Certainly not enough to actually wear lace like that!

[0] general museum info: https://www.museen-abenberg.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-315...
awkward gallery of amazing artifacts: https://www.museen-abenberg.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-312...
You are correct, i started to make the point that the environmental argument is probably the best way for legislation to coerce Railroads to modernize where it makes sense. Rather than paint the Railroads as baddies, makes more sense to approach the narrative collaboratively, that technology and some thoughtful complexity could help them save a lot of money and save our lungs along the way.
Cool, I like lots of things about this. Is there any way to get it to use real words? My typing speed is about 20 WPM slower when typing gibberish, so I can't tell if practicing typing gibberish words is the most efficient way toward typing real words faster.
R/science
Maybe less so if you are at Meta this week ...
Your response consisting solely of sneering and ad hominem says all that needs to be said about the quality of your argument.
https://www.nutsvolts.com
https://circuitcellar.com/
Your grocery store preserves to max longevity on the shelf.

If you want to max for flavour and umami, get it out of the fridge at least 24h before.
A lot of science didnt originate in Europe (calculus, astronomy, much of medicine, etc...) but was credited to Europeans due to the "Doctrine of Christian Discovery", which was basically the right to steal.

Wouldn't be surprised if this theory falls under the same category. The first & most likely to observe the patterns in nature wouldnt have lived in Northern Europe in my opinion.
That is not a bad idea, I like it
You have no data showing the impact to community spread.
You can make the process much more speedy by laminating the receipts.
Doesn't look like there is a public repository. But there is a support forum where you can file issues.

Edit: kinda makes sense reading the license, it is not opensource.

License

Files is free to use with basic features. To remove the license-popup and unlock additional features, you may purchase a license [$39] from within the app.
This information seems useful[0]:

"I fell into this trap also and my state's bureau of consumer affairs was able to help, resulting in a refund and no cost contract cancelation. I encourage everyone in the US with this issue to do the same. Find your office here[1]"

[0] https://twitter.com/trevorgoodyear/status/149000854626786509...
[1] https://www.usa.gov/state-consumer
People voting multiple times under different names or is so incredibly rare that it's a non-issue. In order to change the outcome of an election a significant portion (at least 1%) of the public would have to vote multiple times.

The question is why are we expending legislative effort on a non-issue when there are plenty of real issues that need to be solved.
Ah, "in the public interest". There's no such provision in thew USA, and it's a matter for the Director of Public Prosecutions (a member of the government) to determine what is in the public interest.

It is absolutely forbidden to report on family court proceedings; there is no public interest defence.
The best advice I've gotten on template error messages is that it's either at the top of the output or the bottom...then you've just gotta hope that your terminal has enough of a buffer to see the top[0] :)

[0] yes i know terminals support quasi-infinite scrollback by writing to a file, or i could redirect. but that makes for much less amusing anecdote.
While you can't use the motors 1:1 from what I understand a lot of the development of VFD AC motors happened in the locomotive space[1].

The traction of a DC drive vs AC drive is significantly different(the below article cites at least 2x better for AC) in part due to the fact that a DC motor will "run away" once it breaks the static friction limit where a VFD(holding a fixed frequency) will self-correct as the wheel overspeeds and is slowed down by the other side of the magnetic field. Since most EVs use AC VFD a lot of that same development can be applied in traction applications.

[1] http://www.republiclocomotive.com/ac-traction-vs-dc-traction...
One would think that we stopped studying cancers and will now start again.
Not the OP but I posted this the last time this question was asked

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29554069
The etymologists among us would say, yes.

The anthropologists among us would also say yes. The alternative worldview that some peoples are civilized (thinking, organized, philosophical) and others are barbaric (violent, disorganized, brutal, militant, uncaring) is reductive and obsolete. If "civilized" is to mean anything, it refers to populations that can form the large permanent population centres we call cities.
Who does this apply to? I still see NWA’s music on Spotify

Edit: didn’t mean to single out NWA. Eminem’s Purple Pills and Johnny Cash’s Cocaine Blues also come to mind
There is a lecture on YouTube by a doctor who claims that all cancer cells ferment rather than respirate and that because of this, they are able to be starved with a combination of zero carb diet and a special protein that disrupts the fermentation of another protein that cancer cells can also use. He presents cases where he uses this method to treat a brain cancer patient. I’m on the train and not in a position to find his name or the video. Does anyone have anything to say about this?
New AI-driven exhibition shows Virgil Abloh's work in a virtual playground
Business users care about that.

Having used many monitors in businesses, I can only assume that the buyers do not.
Interesting. The EMDJoule locomotives use regenerative braking.

https://www.progressrail.com/en/Segments/RollingStock/Locomo...

The batteries are 1,800 kWh or about 18,000 kilo-Teslas.
There is plenty of evidence that people's houses get robbed.

Also, where I grew up we literally never locked our doors. Ever. Never got anything stolen.
No need when it can be tested on the public in Beta.
Don’t forget dilution! I started with 1.X% pre Series A at a successful startup that is now valued at more than $1B, and my slice of the pie is down to roughly 0.2%, while the damn thing is still private after 10+ years and many, many diluting investment rounds. If I am lucky and the startup sells at some point, my annualized income will have been roughly $1M/y. So, it takes way more than $500M to break even! Each and every round of investment will dilute you of 15-20%+.

I am now at a FAANG with similar comp to yours, and if someone offers me a job at an early startup I will laugh in their face. For me the future choices will either be my own startup, or a pre-IPO (within a year) company. This will continue to be true even after I’ll reach financial independence, because once you go through an early startup as employee you realize you are taking exactly the same risk of the founders but orders of magnitude less potential rewards. It’s just for suckers, no other ways to put it. And I really enjoy working in small startups, so it’s sad that this is the reality.

And keep in mind my experience with the startup was extremely lucky, since it is a unicorn now. I feel like I did beat all the odds, and even then it will likely not match what I could have made in FAANG all along, with better benefits (401k anyone?) and working hours. I made peace with it, but it tormented me for quite a while.
The vitamin A argument boils down to cost.

Genetic engineering goes way beyond the possibility space of selective breeding, which we have thousands of years of experience with.

When it comes to diet, science is difficult enough as it is. Introducing such novelties only makes it harder.
Some places don't even offer a full percent for early employees.

As someone on the other side of you I would stay put, angel invest or found.
Only if violence against nazis is legalized. I don't believe in annoying people to make a change, what has been given can be taken away. But what you take after convincing others or by force, you can keep so long as reason or strength is on your side. I will write nicely worded letters to legislators if it comes to it.
Google seeing it is also not my concern, my main problem is that it is not user friendly. I have to organize things as albums and have a structure in place to be able to find them back easily. This structure is implicit, so I have to talk to my SO everytime I have to change something and/or reeducate her.
> Nobody is interested in a game that is 90% correct.

I tend to agree for myself, but at least one publisher (Paradox) has built a very successful business on the opposite assumption!
The protest is due to the _exemptions_ to the mandates (which applied only to long haul truckers) being removed. Are you suggesting all mask and vaccine mandates be removed or that a small portion of the populace (a small portion of the truckers that refuse to get vaccinated) be granted special privileges again?
I would agree that it would be odd to assert that people treat you like something you physically aren't, but you're missing the point which is the way you view yourself, not the way other people view you.

You are free to have whatever self image you like. >>I've always imagined myself with large boobs, and look, I now have them to fit my self-image, so I consider them part of myself.

That's not asking anything of anyone else, and yes it's totally OK to be whatever shape you like (I'd prefer to be healthy myself) - Naomi's girlfriend seems to prefer not to be hyper-feminine and that's fine too.

Edit: link to her exposition.
https://youtu.be/Z9vW_MpXTfs
Yeah, 20 years later and Paris Hilton would have been showing off her Dudette on talk shows.
What is the money being spent on? It's hard to get actual data on this down to the granular level of pens and paper. I've read tons of statements that it mostly goes to administrator salaries, various "initiatives" (but how does an initiative cost separate money? never answered) and infrastructure costs. I believe that's likely, but I also haven't seen raw data.

Next question to me is: what actually needs funding? Teacher salaries, sure, easy argument. But then what? What supplies? Books, laptops, projectors, software licenses, crayons, play-doh, stencils, rulers, graph paper, craft paper, what? And how often?
Maybe the third time's the charm? Richard Nixon tried this back in the 1970s and it failed. Compared to the original well-defined NASA moonshot, cancer is a complex, murky, and individual disease that's unlikely to yield to "moonshot" attempts to solve it.
Carissa Véliz Privacy is Power: Why You Should Take Back Control
Heather Burns Understanding Privacy
I think that full vaccination and reasonable measures for masks/social-distancing are still the best approach for trying to halt the spread/damage of covid.

Realistically, I can't argue with your point. It's like giving up. It's sad that many people won't take basic steps to help protect others (including themselves), but I guess that's a reality-check.

Those who are older, with multiple comorbidities, or are immune-compromised, listen-up: More than enough people don't a shit if anyone other than themselves lives or dies that you should probably just isolate yourselves from society indefinitely.

All the more reason to strongly urge people to get vaccinated. Clearly one can't count on neighbors, the community or broader society to take minimumal steps to help protect themselves and others.

So you're on your own, living life at your own risk. There is no "society", just you. Protect yourself and get the shots.
No, it would run in a VM. Just like JavaScript of current browsers, but better.
> There is no solution to self driving that doesn’t involve a black box.

LIDAR greatly reduces the "black box" necessity. It basically allows you to do things like "if object is in the way then hit brake/move elsewhere", where the sensor doesn't really fail in good weather.

Given its safety over DL-only solutions, this should be step 1 to getting to FSD. Not reckless beta-testing with black box techniques.

Tesla has chosen the cheap way, which is also the irresponsible way.
This reminds me of a story about someone running a LAN from their house to a shed via a barbed wire fence. Apparently they got a fairly good data rate except when it was raining or a cow was leaning against the fence.
I think 99% of the issue is the horns. I think they could snarl traffic and protest outside Parliament for the next year and everyone would support them. Nearly all the anger is directed at the horns at all hours.
Why supporting animals ethics is not always an obvious decision
As a huge fan of rap music in general, I think there are many songs which promote illegal activities.
That is actually a good point and the kind of info I was looking for.

Paying for equity is "work" means I could stop working whenever I felt like, where a VC cannot (easily) ask the money back.
That fits! https://donkeykong.fandom.com/wiki/Cranky_Kong
when I consider all the dedication, including the summer jobs, all the hours of I have spent for self study to keep the skills up, I was thinking, “why the hell do I let a headhunter, get rewarded a year salary [1] of mine by just discovering my profile on Linkedin and maybe breaking data privacy laws through off shore?”

Still didn’t contacted or replied any of them. Sometimes, I am asking myself if I am missing any good opportunities because of not replying.

[1] rumor: Munich region
Plenty of blue collar jobs pay enough to live comfortably
Did he make a mistake? Is that the takeaway from the protests that involve only a small portion of those for whom the new rules apply?