skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A free trial is a trust-building exercise, whether a freelancer or a SaaS business uses it.

I was a freelance for two years, and I can say without a shred of doubt that this is terrible advice.

If you are offering tailored services, most people will gladly take your time and pay nothing in return, regardless of how appealing your portfolio may be. That's money that you will never earn, time you will never recoup, and just a speck in your portfolio nobody cares about, because serious customers don't care about week long projects.
> It didn’t even cause a recession really, most of the economic issues we have at the moment are self inflicted.

It did, it was central banks by pressing money, who held the faith in economy high. There would, and time will tell, should have been some more companies default.
EVs are bad too right? That use all these chemicals and materials and stuff that’s bad right?
Considering what we did with the AIDS epidemic, it's justified to wait until you've got all your facts in order.
Following a point raised by a former post in this page looking for a text: coincidentally, all (three at the time) books mentioned in this page are immediately available on the Library within Archive.org . So, here they are, for convenience, and as a reminder that the Archive may contain texts you are looking for.

-- Passer, Harold - The electrical manufacturers, 1875-1900 : a study in competition, entrepreneurship, technical change, and economic growth

https://archive.org/details/electricalmanufa0000unse

-- Hammond; Pound - Men and volts; the story of General electric

https://archive.org/details/menandvoltsstory00hammrich

-- Jonnes, Jill - Empires of light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to electrify the world

https://archive.org/details/empiresoflighted0000jonn
I got into computers in high school around 1980. I used to read Byte magazine and studied every ad. So exciting! My senior year, after saving and saving my income from my $2.85/hour after school job I bought an Apple ][+ for around $2000.
On rants about laptops for developers
> humans existed in anatomically modern form

However, our genetic form may have been very different. It seems that lactase persistence[0] was not wide spread in nearly any human population until the domestication of animals.

I know that comes off as a bit pedantic, but sometimes those little genetic variations matter quite a bit. I won't cop to being well read in paleogenetics, but I have a feeling that there's been a lot of evolution between them and us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
I think part was to drop support for older hardware. They may have feared that customers would get confused when windows 10.x.x doesn't work with their old cpu.
I think this is a commonplace now that it has been decades ago. Information, languages, tools, tutorials, etc. on programming are now much more abundant and accessible than it has ever been. We seem to be cramming in our heads a lot of this information with very little outlet for our own productivity. This "burnout" seems to be due to saturation of ideas but lack of enough creation. I start so many small projects, and abandon them in various degrees of completion (most in early stages), before I get distracted by other reading material. This creates a frustration loop that is vicious, unless you are aware of it and break the cycle somehow.

My advice is to step back from HN, reddit, blogs, tech announcements, and focus on one particular project that interests you. Code a little (even a few lines) every day to see progress. Even if you don't feel motivated just open the IDE and clean up some code, it'll feel good and you probably end up working on that new feature.
It’s definitely different.

Progress is a value judgement.
Although they are not $69, these are also not $5 batteries. $15-$20 buys you (for a reasonably modern iPhone) an AliExpress battery that has a one day warranty against exploding and is probably made from materials mined by enslaved children. Apple works hard (though they do not always succeed) to source their materials responsibly and has a large interest in making sure the parts are of reasonable quality. If they start exploding Apple will do a recall, while a random AliExpress seller will just disappear.
That's almost monthly 10% (annual 150% if you don't extract the money). That's a lot.

One possibility is that you are planning an investment that is very risky. If you are lucky, it will be good for a while but sooner or later it will explode and a lot of people will lose their money and hate you.

Another possibility is that you are planning something that is equivalent to a Ponzi scheme without realizing it. If you are unlucky, it will be good for a while but sooner or later it will explode and a lot of people will lose their money and hate you and you will go to jail.
I used to use a split keyboard, but now use a tenkeyless Vermillo[0]. Best keyboard I’ve ever used. I find that form factor, paired with VIM gives my wrists less pain than any larger keyboard I’ve used. The distance I have to travel to use a mouse is also reduced, which I find helpful.

[0] https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det...
It is not burnout, he has never experienced the true stress of being a programmer by trade and the associated red tape, financial dependency and requirement to perform no matter how you feel

If anything, what he has is just youth, a developing brain, lack of dopamine by internet addiction, hormones and maybe ADD

Calling this burnout is a shameful insult to the mental hell that is real burnout
> As another thread pointed out, this is a kit for independent repair shops.

I disagree. Officially you can only rent the tools, you can't buy them. Yes there is a $1200 deposit if the tools don't make it back but that doesn't mean that Apple won't come after you if you don't ship them back on purpose.
Its the verge, its a joke now.
They have one article lately and its “tech company bad”.

They basically pander to people who want to think they know about tech but aren’t in tech and likely couldn’t make it in tech. Feels like a bunch of bitterness and copium. I just ignore them now but miss their old good tech coverage.
Totally agree. If Apple is paying to ship everything and the kitchen sink both ways, then cool! I have repaired of my iPhones for myself, friends, and family with the dinky $50 kits you can get on Amazon, and man I'd love to have the "one-armed bandit" shown in the article. (Imagine the look of horror on my dad's face when after sealing up his iPhone and testing it I said "Wow, I actually managed not to brick it this time!")

For better or worse, Apple clearly didn't design the iPhone with consumer repairability in mind. We can debate to what degree this is intentional evil vs. design/cost necessity, but at least its cool that they're shipping their repair workbench as bulk as it may be.
Noam Chomsky is anti-imperialist. He also prioritizes anti-imperialism lower than other things and justifies support for imperialist politicians (e.g. Obama, Biden) by proffering arguments from pragmatism and "lesser evilism".

So it's possible to say he's anti-imperialist, but not sincerely so and be correct.
This is a largely a U.S. specific thing. In Europe, manual transmission is still commonly available.

If you want a high-end-ish car with a manual in the US, there’s the Golf R.
I wish discussions of sovereign debt would always include the accompanying real dynamics. I have a hard time believing Haitians would have simply paid because they received bills telling them they owed money.

So it wasn't actually "debt" that kept the Haitians poor, but rather had to have been some kind of extortion. Was it France threatening to reinvade? Was it all countries threatening to stop trading? Was it the local elites wanting to improve their own position by enforcing on the people under them? Was it many countries threatening to invade and repossess land if mortgages weren't paid? Taking the focus off this in favor of abstract "debt" is basically giving a free pass to those responsible.

The article does go on to details, and it seems like it was the local elites wanting to improve their own position. So basically the revolution was successful but then terrible leaders came to power, similar to if they had gotten a brutal dictator instead.
This is just a very long-winded way of describing "paying in exposure". You don't ask your mechanic to replace one part for free and then you'll see if you pay him for the rest. In my experience, when freelancers struggle to find work it's often because they're expecting work to come to them. When that happens it's nice, but when you're starting out, that's the exception, not the norm. You have to go out there and look for work, sell yourself and your services, fail, and try again. That's hard, but all good things are hard.
The definition of freethinking that was used leans more towards “the ability to resist social pressures” than a consideration of the philosophical debate on free will, even if it is plausible that life is deterministic from a philosophical perspective [0].

For practical purposes, it’s best not to worry about determinism so much, and adopt the belief of compatibilism [1], which many institutions in society—such as the courts and legislature in Western countries—effective assume (if not free will).

The existence of original thought also matters less than the ability to effectively execute a plan to create a useful good or service, for the purpose of career development.

[0] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
Websites get cool with Ajax or die (2006)
While the article does offer pros and cons of this practice, there’s nothing in it to suggest the author has ever been a freelancer and used the approach. Instead he seems to be writing from the perspective of someone who’s used freelancer services in exchange for what sounds an awful lot like the tech version of “exposure”.

I’m sure someone can make a good argument for why the approach can be valuable under certain circumstances, but I’m not sure what makes the author an authority on what works best for a freelancer.
The headline is rather innocuous sounding but my understanding is that this documentary poses a lot of hard questions about the safety of Tesla's Autopilot and Musk's management practices in general.
So actually we live in the best world possible[1] with the best technology possible. If it were possible to make a better iPHone, someone would have made it, but the fact that it doesn't exist means its either not possible or not good to have a removable battery on an iphone.

[1] according to this book i read in highschool, it was called Candide
Chess is the classic example of what perfect information means

> In game theory, a sequential game has perfect information if each player, when making any decision, is perfectly informed of all the events that have previously occurred, including the "initialization event" of the game (e.g. the starting hands of each player in a card game)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information

I don’t disagree with your point about our capability to use that information, but that’s what the game is about. If you have perfect information and perfect capability to predict what a move will mean in the future, what’s the point of playing at all? Anyway just wanted to point out exactly what the comment you replied to means by perfect information.
strange that this panic coincides with the WHO treaty conference and vote, which starts tomorrow and would give WHO global surveillance capabilities and be mandatory for countries to implement
I'm studying business in the hopes of helping people start co-ops. Don't know if there's enough of a market to do it for a living, but I would deeply wish to.
"Virtually nobody on "the left" will ever claim that France and the UK should have not declared war on Germany when it invaded Poland so as to decrease suffering."

For this I have the following possible explanations:

- They supported a war against Germany not for the protection of Poland but in order to topple the fascist government and stop the atrocities that were being committed.

- They supported an early war against Germany because they believe that the German government would keep going with their demands and that the war was inevitable.

- They are against the war but admitting it would be a social suicide.

- They don't have an opinion about it or just have not voiced an opinion about it. (as it is an event that happened decades ago instead of one that is happening at this moment)

"funnily enough, whenever I bring this point up with those who claim the West is "prolonging suffering" by supporting Ukraine, they never concede that France and UK's decision at the time would be consistent with their claimed non-interventionism, nor that the USSR prolonged suffering by supporting the eventually defeated Spanish Republic."

This is interesting. What is their usual counterargument? I Presume that they either don't have a consistent logic behind it or they believe that protecting Ukraine would not benefit the common people (or would benefit them marginally) in comparison to the Spanish civil war which in their mind supporting the republican side would benefit the common people enough to counterbalance the loss of lives.
Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük (2012)
> It shouldn’t be so complicated. If it makes the phone one mm thicker but you can swap the battery easily without requiring all this equipment, why aren’t we there yet?

Because a non-replaceable battery is a great marketing tool. Dying battery (every three years or sooner) is a powerful force making a customer consider their options including buying a new phone. This alone makes companies design their products deliberately introducing friction to the repair process (even if it their own repair process). Marketing allure is just too tempting to pass by.
I'd say it pretty typical prequel to "we intended to implement TLS, but then we forgot/were busy/attacked by medusas/.../had different prioritises"
How to Improve Employee Retention During the Great Resignation
Completely agree

They got two suitcases of top of the line tools for iPhone repair. Make use of it
I’m very happy they went with simple $..$ and $$…..$$

This is much more natural for anyone doing math or science and also makes it easy to copy and paste math from elsewhere

It’s better that the parser works harder than to force an inconvenient syntax on the user.
Sadly he is right. Men choose younger as a sign of being able to reproduce. Women, older with high status, because they can reproduce until very late.
Women can't. Over the age of 30 there's severe risk.
I mean, I don't even know what to say, how often do you think consumers are having to replace the batteries in their phones? The idea that people would keep stock on hand is just beyond absurd.

Returning cores for a price rebate is a totally standard industry practice. You apparently get 18 days to initiate the return and Apple gives you a free return label.
Your complaint seems to center around the idea that you don’t want to eat a ~$25 core charge to have standing by on the shelf a replacement battery, which is a part that degrades over a period around 20x slower than ground shipping.

As a consumer, why not just order the battery when your battery is down to 80-85% health and it’s about to be convenient to spend a half-hour of quality time with your phone? As repair shop, Apple has already undercut your price to use official supply chain parts, so you’re likely already using the <6RANDOMCAPITALS> branded batteries and the $100 bootleg part programmer.
I'm not sure I would count Ukraine as being successful when you factor in the human cost of the conflict. Ukraine already has had a huge problem of people emigrating the country, this just multiplies that, not to mention all the men that are never coming back. Families, young men, prisoners of war, and even the men that do survive will pass their scars onto the next generation.
What’s the argument against an anti-Huawei policy? The most common counter argument I’ve heard is “American companies can’t be trusted either” which is true! But not a rebuttal!
I think apple did win, and the author is manufacturing outrage. Apple loaned him a professional setup to repair his phone. That is completely in line with the Apple customer experience, and gives insight into why they resisted home repair so long.

Apple doesn’t take shortcuts on their hardware. They have a design/experience expectation. Flimsy tools, eyeballing alignment, cheap 3rd party replacement parts. These are all things that significantly increase the likely of degraded quality/experience after a layperson’s self repair.

I think there’s a healthy medium somewhere, but for now, apple expects home repair to done at the same level of service they would do. I’d rather error on the side of quality and robustness myself.
No, total beginners have all their mental power focused on trying to find patterns between the cards on the table and the ones they have on their hands, while trying to remember all the combinations of poker hands. They also need to pay attention on which turn is next and how much they need to pay to keep playing and figure out if it’s worth it, they also need to learn the common poker language, a lot of things going on for a beginner. Once you have all that in memory it becomes easier, your processor power is free from those memory tasks and you can start reading people’s intentions.
>It’s nowhere near perfect information because we’re limited.

Parent is using "perfect information" as a particular term-of-art in economics and game theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information

It's not perfect knowledge in the sense of Laplace's Demon where future values will be predicted with determinism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon
The repair is not $69. That one is purely for battery replacement in an otherwise-intact phone.

Screen replacements are more expensive, but the worst is actually damage that's neither the screen nor the battery - for example just a scratch on the housing or a cracked back glass are actually the most expensive options (even though said housing on eBay is around 20 bucks).

Similarly, water damage can usually be fixed by just cleaning the board and replacing a few mainboard components - that's something Apple will outright not do (good luck if you have valuable data on the device), and yet there's clearly a business there as both Louis Rossmann and Jessa Jones (from iPad Rehab) have been able to build profitable businesses on it.
I don't think it's 19th vs 20th vs 21st century terms or whatever.

It's political-economic interests and contradictions and competing interests around global capital. A fight over who controls resources and which country's capitalist classes get dominance over resources and markets. Aka a classic imperialist war.

And clearly the Russians are willing to mobilize 19th century Tsarist style "Great Russian" nationalism + a heaping dose Duginist Russo-fascism in service of this agenda. But I think it's naive to think that Lavrov (Mouth of Sauron) and Putin and the people lining up behind them actually truly believe this cack.

That's for all the useful idiots.
I agree with the other response that programmers usually don't have much say in those decisions that would lead us into a dystopia, but also, in my experience pretty much everyone in STEM fields these days is atleast a junior level programmer, so it's somewhat contradictory to me to say that mathematicians are harmless but programmers are not.

Plus, at least at my university, an engineering ethics class was mandatory in the final year of undergrad. There was also a big general education component (~25% of the degree) that did involve various humanities classes (stuff like "Eastern Religions", "Indian Classical Music" and "History of American Art", an extra language class if you weren't already bilingual etc) and from what I understand, other universities generally have a higher ratio of general education requirements.

So I find it odd to suggest that programmers "don't know anything else", because at least in my experience, they clearly do.
Ask HN: Where to relocate our trading and research group of 7 people
3 years ago, I started an algotrading project with the goal of funding fundamental AI research. This has gone really well, we are now trading 0.5-3% of the overall crypto market and our AUM has grown to 9 digits, and we have a team of 7 people.
The short term goal is to relocate our activity (which is currently in France) and have the trading operate independent of myself by hiring and transferring knowledge, so that I can focus on growing the AI research team.
I initially wanted to relocate to the US because it has the best AI research community, but because it's so hostile to trading crypto derivatives (which is a large part of what we do), we decided to stay in Europe. The two places we are considering are London or Zug/Zurich.

I actually prefer London as the AI/ML community is bigger. Kings Cross feels like a proper "tech hub" with Google and Deepmind there. English is the main language, and people are welcoming and risk-taking.
Zug/Zurich has better taxes and lifestyle (lake, mountains, food, air quality), but people are more standoffish and it's harder to make friends.

What is really complicating this decision is that I have a weird headache issue : in some places (I did live in Budapest for a while as well as London), I have a low-to-medium-intensity permanent headache. I did keep a daily log and the pattern is really clear. Whenever I am in Budapest or London, the headache shows up after 2 days of being there. Whenever I move elsewhere, it goes away after 1 to 2 weeks. I did have it at other times, especially when travelling but not as intensely. I did have it when travelling to Zug for the first time, but it went away. In Budapest it never went away after 5 months of being there. In London, I don't know as I never stayed for longer than 10 days.
I did consult with GPs but the cause is unclear. One doctor said it's maybe a tension-type headache. I did try to do sport, sleep better, eat better. But location seems to be the highest correlation and I'm still very unsure of the cause.

I am the majority shareholder and founder of the trading/research operation, so I have the final word about where to go. What I am wondering is wether that headache issue is bad enough to tip the scale in favor of Zug. Form a business perspective, London is better. But I just don't feel good there. The state of uncertainty that has lasted since 5 months now is hard to bear for the team, so I don't want to take too long to make that decision.

Any tips about how to navigate this choice?
The left is basically parroting the exact same language
the right did for all its foreign interventions.

I don't find it hypocritical to oppose wars of aggression.

GWB's invasion of Iraq was America breaking international law. I was against that.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is Russia breaking international law. I am against that.

I am for whatever strategy (military aid? diplomacy? alliances?) most effectively addresses the Ukraine invasion and limits future illegal invasions. Nobody can know yet which strategy would be best, but it's not hypocrisy to be open to military aid, etc. I want to live in a world where leaders obey the rules.
No, you are wrong. Women's healthy reproductibility rate decays every year over age 30. Men don't have that issues.
Biology rules.
You're probably thinking of stents[1], used to hold open clogged arteries.

1 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12955452/
It works the other way around: if we have a long and healthy working relationship and the sweet, sweet cash keeps flowing without a hitch, I just might offer a freebie. Otherwise it's a big bag of nope.
I'll chime in with some CanCon courtesy of the Northern Pikes:

Her ego wrote cheques incredibly fast
But her personality didn't have the cash
I laughed out loud to my total dismay
She ain't pretty she just looks that way