skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> trove of e-mails on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — the existence of which was exclusively reported by The Post in October 2020 — found that he played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/hunter-biden-played-role-in-fu...

> In April 2014, Metabiota vice president Mary Guttieri wrote a memo to Hunter outlining how they could 'assert Ukraine's cultural and economic independence from Russia'. 'Thanks so much for taking time out of your intense schedule to meet with Kathy [Dimeo, Metabiota executive] and I on Tuesday. We very much enjoyed our discussion,' Guttieri wrote

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652127/Hunter-Bid...

Thanks to unlimited soviet bioweapons to dismantle I imagine.

Anyway, it's always the soviets and conspirationists isn't it, just like for the chemical weapons of mass destruction in Irak.

Just take the money for the gas, but then don't complain about CO2 emissions and especially don't lecture the rest of the world.
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Ask HN: The case for middle men in freelancing, do agents exist?
As a self-employed senior software developer, I mostly live off selected freelance work, aside from varying income through SaaS products and apps. I get 100% of inbound work through recommendations in my personal network. Because of that, I have never had a rate negotiation, had to pitch my skills or expertise, or bid against others.

But, sometimes, I go WEEKS without a single hour billed.

Other times, I need to decline two projects at once because I am still knuckle-deep in another one. Which reminded me of "agents" as a concept:

I think I would be happy to pay someone a fee for managing inbound work (on my terms). The TV (script or talent) agent model comes to mind: they try to fill up your unbooked time with projects that match your criteria. For each booked gig, they get a fee.

Does that exist? Would that even make sense in software development? The main argument against it seems to be developer hesitance against out-of-network clients (and risk), and the agent over-promising on both ends to make the deal happen.

Sites like UpWork don't really solve this (for me), because I don't want to compete just on price and star ratings. If I had to compete with a 100,000 developers out there who charge 1/10th of my price, it'll be tough (clearly a first world problem, I am fully aware of it).

I am really curious how you handle this. I am trying to cap freelance work at 50% of my week, with most projects < 6 months, ideally.

I worry what will happen if my network stops delivering work, and I already worry about managing the inconsistent volume coming in.

Like, a load balancer for project work. Thoughts?
DunningKruger.OtherDefinitions.append( article )
> I don't really see what this paragraph adds to the previous one, it is pretty clear that China has its own agenda with Taiwan, a word that isn't even present in the article, and that India has its own dependencies on Russia.

Actually the same argument about China's expansionist agenda can also be made for India. In the case of India it intends to at some point go to war with Pakistan over the Kashmir region.
I don't understand that though, a museum of what? The ship herself? Is that interesting enough? I just can't imagine that being much of an income, I thought the wedding venue (also mentioned, but dismissed) idea - or just events in general - was much better.
Ah yes. I forgot that you might want consumables in earth's orbit itself.

Silicon could be useful in orbit for building solar panels.
Except you can just buy whatever M.2 SSD you want and slot it in and it doesn't even void the warranty. So for the same $400 to get a 1TB MBA you can easily get a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro (~$160) + 32GB RAM (~$130) and still have money left over.

Plastic is a pro IMO anyways, doesn't have to feel cheap and it also doesn't get nicked or dented nearly as easily.
Street level magazine kiosks sell magazines with up to date Linux kernel CD roms? That’s a lie. I’ve literally never seen that anywhere in Europe in the last decade. You might be able to find them in specialist shops or larger supermarkets, as you can in the UK, but street level kiosks? Get real.
That’s not how market valuation works.

You’re worth your share price today. Not what your share price was last year. Not what you think your price should be.

> current major investors will probably want to unlock that value themselves.

This isn’t how risk or portfolio allocation works. Musk has offered current investors $43 billion as risk-free guaranteed cold hard cash. Depending on their portfolio and risk allocations they may prefer the $43 billion today instead of an uncertain chance at the future. And to take that cash and diversify in alternative endeavors.
So he didn't run it.
Nobody knows for sure, but I think it was Neptune missile guided by US RQ-4B Global Hawk, that is flying over Black Sea after false attack by Turkish(also NATO member) Bayraktar TB2.
I thought I wrote it rather well… was feeling stylish at the keyboard. Might delete later, idk. But hell, if I sound like a propaganda apparatchik I could probably get a job at the Economist, huh?

Re: the substance of your post.

>the Chinese are mostly neutral business people

This is naive. They remember what was done to them in the opium war, and there is a reason they manufacture the stuff.

>the same dirtbags…

When one person falls into folly, that person is a fool. When an entire society falls into folly, can you blame each man as a fool? We have an opium problem. It was fueled by large pharamceutical companies, but in 2022 there is also a geopolitical component.

Re: Russia

I have no doubt Russia would like to see America knocked on its rear. However my biggest qualm with the support of Ukraine is not “Russia right, America wrong,” but that this is a self-own. What we’ve done is force the world to make a decision, in which neutrality, once a holding pattern for the sake of good business, is now a knife’s edge slicing through one’s slipper. Moreover, the so-called “smartest people in the room,” by confiscating a substantial portion of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, have forced a realignment in which a great portion of the world is now trading oil in terms of rubles instead of dollars, which removes the base from under our own currency. I’m sorry, our involvement in Ukraine was an overextension, and our measures in support of it were foolish and self-destructive. If I sound sympathetic to Russia, it is because I am frustrated with America and how this country is being run. The people who knew how to handle situations like this, such as the now oft-mention John Mearsheimer were ignored, in favor of weak-minded flag-wavers with complementary Lockheed caps in their closet.
> That's only shows you don't know nothing about the context of the conflict.

I think I'll bow out of the discussion here, whenever people start posting that video there isn't much left to talk about.
If they did it sounds like a great way for someone doing something nefarious to get off the hook. Some smart TVs are even able to act as wireless access points.
In mammals. In reptiles and fish it's typically the female that's larger.
Sure, but they cost almost nothin and majority of people would have big problem with buying TV without speaker and it would cost more produce limited series without speaker than just produce all with speakers, nobody force you to use the built-in speaker, that's why there are ports to connect whatever you like. Me personally watch TV mostly through headphones, but I find TV without speaker idea absurd. What's next niche, TV without remote and infrared transmitter?
Perhaps not obsolete, but there is no sense in paying for a VM for a static site when things like Cloudflare Pages will do this for free.
simdjson can load the json into memory in a queryable form in ~1/3 of a second. So you can save yourself basically 40% of the runtime right there. Computing average should take less than 1/2 a second on modern hardware (assumes <10 million books). So back-of-envelope target speed should be less than 1 second for this benchmark.

11.7s puts you at one order of magnitude off, which could be a fair price to pay if you never need this for large datasets (100s of GB or TB of data you want to query).

And the reason we use wrapped libraries in Python so often is because it’s abysmally slow to do anything in the interpreter. The average loop is 100x slower than it should be. The more math you do the worse it gets too. Most pure Python code is 1000x slower than it should be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL

Ingres and Postgres/PostgreSQL.

I still don't know /why/ some people say PostGres. I've seen it a few times, on HN and elsewhere, but its wrong isn't it?
How do you discover subreddits if not by browsing /all? I mean I for one don't know what I'm missing.
Overall, I've been pleased with the coverage in The Economist, but the occasional article, like this one, lacks an authentic through line even if it has a litany of facts. China was never, ever going to go against Russia in this war. It's not even worth talking about the number of people there because Putin literally went to China to discuss the war with Xi before it kicked off. The number of people barely matter when it's not a democracy, since the power structures are decided by a much smaller percent of the population and the press isn't free.

India, I actually do take issue with. Their self-serving actions I hold against them and I've been disappointed with Indian leadership and alignment as of late.

But all of this misses the point. The unaligned movement is acceptable to my western eyes, but I never for a second forget that they need us for their stability and security. Small, poor, neutral states rarely change the course of world politics. So out of the countries that actually matter there is NATO (and friends like Australia and Japan), India, Brazil, Russia, and China.

India and Brazil both disappointingly went neutral, Russia started the war, and China is softly backing their junior partner. So my take away is simple: The countries that are willing to sacrifice at their own cost for others are the ones that have internal politics that mirror their values. The more populist or fascist or communist the country the more likely they are to put their own national interests ahead of others.

Or do you think Canadian-Ukrainian trade is so vital to Trudeau that he's willing to frost relations with Russia, outlay hundreds of millions in direct aid and munitions donations, and spend political capital garnering support for Ukrainian defence?
Good point, and I had not connected the two.
Until your neighbor enables an open, unprotected wifi, your smart TV connects to it and auto-updates to start showing you ads.
Even for GDPR stuff you can delay the hard delete for a day or so, which should give the user some time to notice and correct a mistake.
Please discriminate against me, I will only take $10M
> I am surprised so many people treat losing stars as "dangerous": I can certainly emphatize with the designer coming up with this pop-up while looking at a sample project with 12 stars.

Lots and lots of websites and companies use the number of stargazers as a strangely important metric for success, so losing them can be really bad.
I don't see the analogy. They can still publish the blueprints for the device, they just can't produce it at a mass scale.

The market creates a natural power imbalance, and the market has shown that it can't act responsibly here. A better analogy is the power imbalance in the relation company-versus-employees, where you create a union to break the imbalance. Except now it is a "union" of consumers.

Another analogy is democracy: let's not produce stuff that a few CEOs and shareholders want, but instead, let's produce stuff that the world wants. Also helps with resource/climate/environment problems.
There is no "flip side" to my point. My point was that mob behavior is ugly. Doesn't matter if it is a woke mob or a religious mob or a racist mob or any other kind of mob.
Even this video is a fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um3_6NM6II4

Cruiser was hit indeed, but this footage is from completely different event.
I want to tamp it down on the first pass. It is helpful to know if the tv is on or not. Maybe I can cover all but a small part or something.
If you read more closely, you'll see that I said "recently" as in, "due to recent events." We did exactly as you say, taught our child as well as we could with full openness and honesty about the reality. It doesn't matter. Some kids will take that to heart and some won't. I'm not willing to risk my child's well-being simply because "they didn't do what I told them to" with something as nefarious as what's found on the Internet. As another commenter said, it's the ease of access and the flattening of risk that's problematic.

We will likely release some of these restrictions as our trust in our child and their recognition of the problem sinks in over the next few weeks. I would never consider an outright ban or prohibition because I agree it does have some of the affects you mention. Instead, this is a resetting of expectations for our child around what level of risk is acceptable.
Is focusing on github stars specially meaningful ? Is there any functional difference for the repo between having 6k stars (as of today) and 54k ? I don't think so honestly.
Github stars are just not something useful to monitor closely. I had a look at my starred repos on github, 95% of those I have no idea what it is anymore anyway.

So yeah, github didn't do any extra effort to restore what's imo essentially a vanity metric. Makes sense to me ?
Didn't you just answer your own question?

I dont have cable but I have a TV to watch movies, DVD or BR. More comfortable than watching on a computer.

There is a difference between the TV set and broadcast television.
> It's not connected to internet

From the article:

“As a dumb TV fan who has bought several sets in the last decade, I’m usually told something akin to: “well, just don’t connect the TV to the Internet!” But that route locks you out of firmware updates, and some TV makers remove functionality if you refuse to participate in their online ecosystem. Many smart TV GUIs also need to load before you’re even allowed to switch laggy HDMI inputs.”
Drone-Fleet-Enabled Logistics:Joint Design of Flight Trajectory AndPackage Deliv
I don't really understand why (relatively) over paid US Software Engineers are so keen on remote work. The inevitable conclusion is the rapid decrease in salary paid.
You got what I was saying though I could have explained myself better. Kids do not and perhaps cannot understand the risks involved.
The remake dates is a clever approach to quantifying the trend.

Nostalgia might be driving it in part, but I've also seen a lot of it driven by people who never experienced the era. Young adults fascinated by the era just before the one they were born into, just barely out of reach but still available to their casual awareness.

It's not always the 30 year olds driving the trends out of nostalgia, sometimes it's the 20 year olds pining for an idealized version of an era they never experienced themselves, but can easily intuit.
Allow me a moment to hijack this thread. I'm a PhD student looking to make analytics of JSON data a first-class citizen in https://duckdb.org/. I'm still very much in a literature study stage, so I'd love to hear your success (or failure) stories about analyzing data stored in JSON. E.g. I'd love to hear about:

* Which dialect for querying worked the best for you?

* Which tools do you enjoy the most? This could be for any reason: convenience of install/availability, expressivity, raw speed, other niche features, etc.

* What sort of JSON "meta-formats" are the most important/common for you? E.g. in a file you could have object-per-line, object-of-arrays, array-of-objects, or in an SQL context you could have object-per-row or object-of-arrays-as-table, etc). I'd love to hear about others that are important to you.

* What do you feel is the biggest gap/missing feature in currently available tools?
You can easily do this with Rust and Cargo as well.
why the fossil record is mostly males

Because it can be, that's why. Population bottleneck is female reproduction. You can impregnate X females with X males, or 0.5X males, or 0.25X males. Wiping out males has a much lower effect on the future population of a group than wiping out females, so over time a group that loses a lot of males is better off than a group that loses a lot of females, and has more members to die and become fossils.
I’m not seeing how this relates to why fossils would more often be males. Can you expand?
Actually this is very multilayered conflict, which can not be described in two sentences.

The narrative "big bad Russia against small peaceful Ukraine" is very simplistic, and only leads to support of escalation of conflict.
Um.. the comment is ridiculously dismissive. While I do not support Russian invasion, from a purely strategic POV, Ukraine under western control is a national security issue for Russia. I am not sure how that is a controversial statement.
The null hypothesis for Dunning-Kruger isn't "people of all skill levels are good at estimating their performance" it's "people of all skill levels have equal bias" in estimating their performance" (remember that Dunning-Kruger isn't that lower skilled people are bad at estimating their skill, it's that they systematically overestimate their skill). The randomly generated data used is one example of that, albeit an unrealistic one: a world in which all people are completely incapable of estimating their performance at all. In this case all of them have no bias at all in their (totally random) estimates. The fact that the artifact is seen in such data is a powerful demonstration that it is not evidence of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Re the other experiment, as I say it's just one study and I haven't looked deeply into it or others (and nor do I have a position on whether there is a real effect of this nature, or any great interest in it). The point is the article isn't claiming their randomly generated data example is evidence against the Dunning-Kruger effect itself. That needs further experiments such as the one they showed. The random data example is a demonstration that the original paper's analysis is flawed and doesn't support its conclusions.
I bought my previous TV right before they became "smart"; it had media playback features from a network, but no online services.

Currently have an LG TV; while in theory it's a fairly dumb TV that has services like youtube and netflix built in, it's only dumb because it still allows you use it without agreeing to certain terms and conditions; they have split it up in a number of categories for things like 'smart' advertising (I paid too much for this thing for it to have advertising), speech controls, etc. At the moment it will still nag me to agree to something if I try to open up Amazon Prime, but it can still be skipped.

Probably only a matter of time before it gets bricked if I don't agree to the T's and C's. Probably after three years so the warranty expires.
I have worked for decades with persons from India. Their caste issue and the way it affects every area of their lives is a real problem that needs to be solved. Just as American racism is a problem that needs to be solved, Indian caste biases need to be solved.
Yes, yes. Popper always ends up trotted out by the people most interested in framing their censorious impulses as somehow above scrutiny.

Let's call this the paradox of rationalization: those quickest to engage in the behavior tend to be those whose motives for doing so are the least genuine and trustworthy. And anyone with access to the levers of censorship must earn a high degree of trust.
the book was made into a documentary as well, if you want something easier, though the book itself is highly recommended.

the main thing I remember changing my way of thinking was the notion that many of our goals in life are simply conventions passed down uncritically (e.g. by parents , society, etc), which if you examine you might realise you are trying to conform to, but don't actually align with your core values, and may even be making you unhappy for no good reason.

e.g. in some cultures it's the whole "you should be a doctor or a lawyer", which has led to people who would have been happy artists becoming miserable doctors and lawyers instead.
I don't understand; why not use USB-C at home too? It has enough power. At best, the barrel charger is just more e-waste for a landfill.
I recommend C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image if this article resonates.
> while looking for another old Shirky essay which, as far as I can tell, is now entirely gone from the Web.

Do you remember the title or subject or any key words/phrases?
A device automatically connecting to unprotected wifi is a major security issue waiting to happen.
Continuous Looper
I absolutely agree that teaching them is important. But, 13 or 15 year old kids get taught stuff all the time that they completely ignore. Humans in general are bad at understanding possible risks when faced with what seems like easy short term success. Kids are an order of magnitude or two less capable of doing that.

This is a resetting for us and not a permanent state. Teaching often means letting someone fail, correcting that behavior, and then trying again. Teaching is never, "I say it and they do it."
I do know some folks that are still using it (or Joyent's SDC Hypervisor offering, which I guess also has numbered days since the Samsung aqui).

Sadly, I don't think it's got much time left. I do miss it, it was rock solid and the tooling was much better than linux at the time.

Containers were implemented properly from the beginning, SMF is (still) much superior to SystemD, things like resource limits and so on could be applied in a much nicer manner.

And it was fast too, when you had the sun compilers. Oh well.

RIP.
Agreed, my next laptop will have to be 1600p at least.
If he did it'd be public.
if you love constant popups to install their (crappy) app, including not letting you use parts of the site at random, I guess.
Why does a single bad idea discredit an entire language being included?

If someone suggested including a C dependency manager in the kernel, does that mean that the use of the entire C language in kernel should be discredited?

It is fair to say that the developer suggesting it (especially considering some of the proposed crates they want) has some massive misconceptions about the constraints of current Linux kernel development though.
Great essay, how did it influence your startup?
Nimbus (YC W22) is hiring our founding engineering team
We're building a cloud dev environment platform that integrates to the tools engineers use. We're using cloud powered machines to provide more power and scalability to teams and engineers while getting rid of manual aspects of maintaining environments. Our goal is to make cloud development feel local by optimizing for latency and giving engineers as much control as we can.

We're hiring for our founding engineering team. Apart from the tech skills, we really want people that care about the developer experience. We use our product every day and we know that we're not succeeding without building something that developers love!

Check out roles here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nimbus-2/jobs
I don't know if it's the one that the GP has in mind, but this is a classic:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060210230250/http://www.shirky...
"Help, The Price of Information Has Fallen and It Can't Get Up"