skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is getting rich off writing a tech book. At some point a 10% or 50% royalty on a niche book for some random technology doesn’t really matter.

People author these books to increase the value of their personal “brand” or out of a passion for whatever technology they write about. If they are hoping to get rich or get a “livable” wage… they are going to be very disappointed.
Here in the UK there is something called IR35 that has recently been changed so that if you run a business your client actually can decide whether you are a business or the so called disguised employee. If they decide the latter, all the money they pay your company, you have to draw as a salary through an intermediary (fee payer) and it means your company gets no profit (so there is no way to deduct any costs).
The catch is that if your client don't declare you as a disguised employee, they risk being investigated by HMRC (equivalent of IRS) and getting fined.
This has created a chilling effect and basically it's very difficult to find a client that is willing to take the risk.
Basically for all intents and purposes you become an employee, but you get no employment benefits and you still have to pay for your own tools etc, but it comes from your salary not from the business. It's like a company required their workers to buy all their equipment from their salary. Madness.

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So some people try to compensate this by increasing rates and that means their rates become on par with what big consultancies ask. So some bigger clients see this as no longer worth bothering with and they simply get managed teams from big firms rather than taking independents.

The guy who pushed these changes in the UK has a wife that owns substantial shares is Infosys ;-) also the biggest consultancies were involved in crafting the legislation...
> It's called "perfing" (as in, if you do something bad, you might get "perfed hard" next cycle) and managers frequently threaten to take people "into the Perf Room" although it's just an expression (there isn't actually a dedicated "Perf Room"). Anyone who gets below 3.0 (Meets Expectation) during the calibration process is called a "PB" It used to be "pillow biter" but you can't make that joke anymore so it's just "PB", as in "How many PBs does Exec want us to have this cycle?"

1. You must be in an incredibly toxic enclave if managers in your org are routinely threatening people that way. It's certainly possible, it's a big company, there's been a number of shitty directors/execs that have made the news. But given points #2 and #3, I have reservations about believing generalizations about this particular claim.

2. ME is not a '3.0' (Unless you're measuring on a 12-point scale, that starts at 0.) There are three ratings above, and only one rating below ME - Needs Improvement. Which is a pretty serious wake-up call for the person and their manager.

3. Very few people get NI, you seem to be confusing Google with either old Microsoft, or Amazon, whose bell curves, as I understand, require(d) ~1/5th of the company to be on the shit list at any particular point in time.
NOTE: Because the encoding of detailed addresses are site and/or
implementation specific

`+` or any other encoding is not part of an RFC, and I don't think the existence of subaddressing is either.
> How are you not totally creepy and demented yourself, since you're the one who's losing your shit when somebody truthfully points out that you're a sock puppet

I make that fact clear in my messages, I don’t make any effort to hide my multiple accounts.

I already told jacquesm that I only use multiple accounts to get around ratelimits on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240871

It’s weird and creepy that he continues to follow me around after that.

> why are you so desperately trying to conceal your numerous false identities?

I’m obviously not, put down the pipe.

> It was also spectacularly unwise for you to go on the record with your threats to commit extortion and fraud and libel and identity theft. But you be you. You can't unring that bell, and I'm sure Dan will be happy to provide the IP addresses of all of your sock puppet accounts to the authorities, if it comes to that.

Nobody cares lmao. Back in the real world you won’t be able to find a single police officer interested in these kinds of things, much less many police officers in several countries which it would take for anyone to even reach me.
What other tools did you try?
By clicking "Start Now", I try to visit https://dashboard.stripe.com/financial-connections/applicati... and it redirects me to https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/dashboard. Would love to see more!

Although, from reading the docs, a lot of the products that I'm interested are still "Coming Soon" (confusingly a different verbiage but identical in meaning to "Private Beta"?):
- Transactions
- Other data-powered products
I see a lot of people saying “society needs to be more comfortable with less.” I never see anyone saying “I need to be comfortable with less.”
Netbox
This is very interesting to me.

I also (tried) to learn BIND via the bat book many years ago. I found it very hard to follow, and I was still early in my career so I just assumed that BIND was over my head and gave up.

To this day, DNS is a very aggravating topic for me. I wonder if much of that is due to the bad experience I had when I first tried to learn about it?
And my axe
Self-hosting is still way too hard. Running your own Plex server on an old laptop shouldn't be any more difficult or less secure than installing an app on your phone.

Folks shouldn't have to understand DNS, TLS, HTTP, IP addresses, ports, NAT, CGNAT, port forwarding, etc in order to run a server application on their own hardware.

I think we can build usable abstractions around most of it, while being secure by default.

[0]: please consider open source Jellyfin instead
Even every non physical competitive sport in the world is male dominated to an absurd degree. Chess, esports, poker, you name it. Hyper competitive environments are associated with masculinity for valid reasons.
With the Ikea blinds, the motor is built into the tube the shade rolls around (for roller shades) or in the top of the blind (for the cellular blinds). There is a rechargeable battery pack that slots in at the top and a remote to control the shades. Nothing to hard wire. Search "Ikea TREDANSEN motorized blind" and you'll find the product page.

The only issue with the Ikea shades is that they can't be cut - so they'll only work for you if your window is the size of shades they carry. None of the Ikea sizes worked for me, I ended up taking the measurements and just ordering custom cut shades from a company called Select Blinds. A little more expensive than Ikea, but the quality does seem a bit better.
> I suggest picking up a Seiko SKX

Sadly this advice is a little bit out of date, as the SKX has been out of production now for a few years and the price on uses examples has risen above what one is worth (except to collectors).

The newer advice is to grab a Seiko 5*. There's a million different choices, and all the current ones come with the 4R35 or 4R36 movement, which are better than the 7S26 which was in the SKX divers.

* https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/products/5sports/lineup
Twitter?? I have more luck with Discord servers. Where people actually chat.
I'm sure Russia is _devastated_ not to have access to the PR firms as used by the British government /s and as for accounting ... I'm reasonably certain that Russia is very well versed in 'creative' accounting.

I didn't mention the loss of management consultancies because... well gosh low hanging fruit and all that so I'll leave it to others to imagine the typical cost over-runs, feature creep and off-shoring that typify their ilk.

I appreciate that humour regarding the ongoing situation may be slightly tone-deaf or seem insensitive. Please let me know if it offends and I will remove
While it's easier to use discriminated unions with some "type" field (easier to use switch/case) here's the reality:

1. There's many ways for the compiler to narrow a union type [0]

2. There's a better solution than depending on "easy" narrowing for excessively large union types: type guards, callback registry, etc.

[0]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/JYOwLgpgTgZghgYwgA...
> First off, most of this funding will go to a building.

What a waste.
One wonders about the relevance of these fanatical fanboys when talking about Apple employees.
Just cancel your card and use a virtual/private one instead.

https://privacy.com/
> The currently trending social media app for younger generations is BeReal

Never heard this in my entire life.

And it would just be mu computer screen and my face.
//. Founders were forced to sell the company under pressure exactly because the government intended to get control over the most important social network, which it did not have.//
Lol, I assume you didn't believe the 'story' that Pasha was forced to sell his company?

//It is a typical success story of an online retail business. It actually does not show anything that could be even slightly resemble affiliation with Putin and his inner circle. I know other relatively big companies which had similar growth trajectory and are still controlled by their founders.//

In Russia? really? show me them.
For now, I think you are really trying to look fav into Russian biz-scene, but that's not the case for the last 9 years.
You either work with gov or you f-ked. That the rule here.
Last example is Tinkoff, who at the beginning of his bank licked Putin ass as hard as he could, but now was forced to sell )
There problem with these are that if you put them in your switch boxes is that these have to be very deep. The traditional existing switch is already occupying half of the box and the rest is often not deep enough.

The author fixed this by installing new shallow switches. If he is lucky their covers matches these of all the other sockets and switches in the house. In my cases that combo did not work
California governor issues executive order on crypto – state embraces blockchain
Those are risks of the currency and risks of your personal finances, not risks of the bond not being paid back.
To be clear, you're asserting that by donating $1.1 billion in cash, they're likely getting more than that sum multiplied by their marginal tax rate in tax reduction?

I'm honestly curious what the loopholes would be.
I used to love O'Reilly books, many years ago, and in my experience cookbooks and pocket reference guides were always a clear skip.

But nowadays I thought they've started distancing themselves from book publishing, considering that they don't have an obvious link to books on their homepage. They've been trying to position themselves as a learning platform for some time now.
>But the “brand” game has won vs the execution game, esp. in higher Ed.

I can remember seeing this in action at Stanford. Companies will fall over themselves and pay anything to have their name associated with absolutely anything that has the name Stanford on it. And the students know this, so they play the game. Every student group, organization, club, etc. no matter how small or meaningless is heavily sponsored by relevant corporate donors as a result.
What are some exemplary self-published technical books that you've read?

Are there any platforms that allow for discovery of such works?
Your experience seems more oriented to deciding what you want to do rather than being told what to do. Consider whether you want to get into coding what other people tell you to code, it can suck all the joy out of it.
A better link: https://github.blog/2022-05-04-software-security-starts-with...
To be clear though, a lot of kids do understand the current notation system fine. Most kids aren't saying "hey! this chord is a minor third in frequency space but occupies the same vertical distance on the page as a major third! so confusing!" They instead approach it very much "monkey see, monkey do".

That's not to say many folks don't have trouble with notation, but if I had to place a bet, almost any notational system that abstracts away from letter names or (in the case of piano) keyboard positions will pose difficulties.
One thing I really miss about the modern web is forums.

I'm in my 30s now but grew up on the web, from 1998 - so not exactly an old timer but enough to ride the wave of web 1.0 -> 2.0.

I made loads of friends on forums in those days. Sadly most of those forums died off as time has gone by. One still exists though but there's only a handful of us left, it's extremely rare to get a new member.

I know these days everyone uses Discord or Slack or whatever the one is the rust people use (zulip?) but chat isn't the same as forums.
It's a practice that currently ongoing, and afaik there isn't a law against it, but perhaps there should be.
This is also where free markets shine. If someone is making absurd profits building in-efficient widgets. It won’t be that long before other people get the idea to make that same widget for less or better quality or both.

But first company will then go out of business or become efficient.

Survival of the fittest evolution style for business.
I was once taking out trash in the middle of the night and I've overheard neighbor's conversation: "What's the strongest thing you have here for headache and if you say Tylenol I'm gonna kill you!"
Yeah, have to say, the level of knee jerk defensiveness here and on Twitter from cofounder level figures from Plaid does not exactly evoke confidence in their ability to outcompete.
Sorry but shouldn't you have just taken the initiative and fixed the bug yourself? This is the sort of thing I would hope a company would reward - not passing the buck.

If that's "below your pay grade" _and_ you're still capable of doing it, well that's kind of the problem then, isn't it.
I feel the same way, I write software for a living and I'm sure an outsider browsing through the thousands of lines of code in my codebases everyday would be confused, but I get that same feeling when looking at a mechanical watch. To think that people were building the first mechanical timepieces 500 years ago, just a hundred or so years after the printing press is incredible to me. How did they even create parts that tiny so accurately?
IMO they do not compete, but they are almost orthogonal problems.

Walkability is an harder problem to solve than biking in modern car centric cities.

Bikes can easily use repurposed space from existing roads, walking lanes solve no problem if things are not at walkable distance.
The thing is desktop apps are Dead, for multiple reasons:

- People don't trust anymore to install softwares on their computer, using them in the browser is safer

- There is no good cross-platform UI, so nearly everything is now a web app

- There is tons of good open-source softwares that you can self-host and use from anywhere instead of just one computer, also there is more expectations around sharing access to friends, coworkers, ...

Most of the softwares described in the article are for personal usage, I'm pretty sure you know a lot of the "self-hosted" apps from this list: https://elest.io/fully-managed-services
There are quite a few entertainment-related tech and tech-adjacent companies in LA, from startups to Disney, that would probably be interested.

You don't mention a degree, but without it will be difficult to get a job at most coveted positions. For example don't even bother applying at Netflix or SpaceX, you won't even get a no-thank-you in response.

Also, with everything we learn that doing something for a living kinda takes the fun out of it. So setting expectations properly will be helpful as well.
Telehealth Startup Cerebral to Stop Prescribing Adderall for New Patients
Rust's Fearless Concurrency in Practice
> Long term, though, it's a race to the bottom as more people flood in and eventually web developers become easily replaceable commodities.

Long term doesn’t seem too great for low level stuff either. It doesn’t seem like a lot of new people are entering the field and getting up to speed on the radically complex hardware we have now
Can't speak to Google, but I can say that having ICs write their own packets has been hugely enabling for me at other companies. It means their success isn't reliant solely on implicit visibility of their work by me (which in turn meant I either had to maintain visibility on everything to the nth degree, get everyone to give constant feedback on each other, or fail to recognize their successes). I still come in and help consolidate and tweak it (I ask for a brag sheet from them that fits the packet format), with a 1-on-1 or three to ensure any questions I have get answered, and that we're aligned on the message, but taking it off my plate was -huge-.
In the 90s, I was for some reason the go-to guy to evaluate new hotshot technologies for the department.

I gradually realized that I could be replaced by a 3x5 card that said "It sucks". I don't even remember all of the things I deprecated. Pretty much every single cover of Wired Magazine, for starters. I even came to a rule: if it's on the cover of Wired, it's because it's never going to work, or because it's already common knowledge. (I was very annoyed to see the replaceable-car-battery thing there, because it seemed like a good idea and the rule meant it wouldn't work. And it didn't.)

There were exactly 2 times that the 3x5 card would have disagreed with me:

1. Java
2. Web browsers

To be honest, I under-estimated #2. I knew browsers were important, but I didn't foresee them basically replacing desktops.

In general, tech skeptics are nearly always right, if only because of Sturgeon's Law. The vast majority of everything is trash. Perhaps by the time it reaches the level of notoriety merely 80% of everything that's trash.

If you want a list of tech that failed, go look at the list of Wired covers.
I've started reading from bottom and haven't read the whole thing yet. But their default action as stated in their log when face exploding gradients or unstable training is to just roll back a checkpoint and lower lr. Other proposed actions such as clamping activations are also just pretty standard things to try.

I guess since their goal is to just be able to have a trained model it doesn't really matter. But it doesn't seem to be a easily reproducible process, and like i said a bit hacky in my opinion
Aspiring founders: VC experience will change drastically based on:

a) the partner you meet

b) how badly they want you

c) macro/fund context

d) what’s your fit to them or the competitive environment around your company

And it’s not always apparent what’s good and what’s bad, long term speaking. We’re deep into an A round meeting many funds and I can’t say any single one stands out. Sure some have better chemistry with us, but they are all playing the same book.
(other than one who has been especially shit and crafty).
> The only good answer I've heard is for the agency to have enough technical experts that they can spot bad things. However that means the government needs to develop technical experts.

It's probably beneficial for the contracted company to have technically inclined individuals in leadership too, ranging all the way from the lowest levels up through CEO. Engineering-minded management is much more likely to spot potential troublemakers and risks for runaway costs in the planning phases where someone with a background in management or finance is more likely to fudge things and say "yes we can do this at X unrealistic low cost" just to win a bid. They're also less likely to make bad calls on how to fix budget problems that crop up midway through the contract.
This is also what fly.io is using underneath their Nomad orchestrator.

https://fly.io/docs/about/open-source/
>Arguing these minutae is highly unproductive. It's much better to start from common ground, and a supermajority of Americans believe that the choice should be between patient and doctor.

Again you falsely claim a supermajorty who don't support any regulations on abortion. That's false. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx.

68% of Americans support some level of restrictions on abortions.
Fixed price has cost NASA dearly in the past, because NASA often changes things after making a purchase decision. The 'change orders' are often where contractors make their real money.
I am seriously considering adding a plugin hook to support alternative database backends - PostgreSQL and DuckDB are the two I'm most interested in for that.
There are places which on paper look entirely dysfunctional. Institutions are highly corrupt and development metrics will never happen. The silver lining isn't national level institutions making the right move. It is the defacto live and let live atmosphere created when the state cannot get involved in the minutiae of your daily life.
Nice tip on the tablets
It's actually a bit more than that.

In "Windows Powershell in Action", Bruce Payette (one of the co-designers of Powershell) states:

"NOTE PowerShell uses the at symbol (@) in a few places, has $_ as a default variable, and uses & as the function call operator. These elements lead people to say that PowerShell looks like Perl."

"In practice, at one point, we did use Perl as a root language, and these elements stem from that period. Later on, the syntax was changed to align more with C#, but we kept these elements because they worked well. In Perl terminology, they contributed significantly to the 'whipupitude quotient' of the language."
This is also the source of the weird health insurance is provided by companies came from.
Paying for peoples medical care became an alternative way to compensate people more to avoid absurd taxes. Medical care used to be a lot cheaper so it wasn’t a big expense.
It makes more sense to me in these days of ubiquitous encoding of in-band data that it would be easier to edit if we just used tabs and newlines. If you need a tab in your data, the standard could support either \t (requiring \\t if you need a literal backslash followed by a literal 't') or %09 or &09; or \x09 or something.
it's also unlikely Stripe doesn't have access to any APIs that Plaid has access to