skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Could you nudge me in the right direction into what should I look for on the internet

Not really. I've no idea how you would go about finding this sort of work online. LinkedIn maybe?

It's worth noting that this kind of independent contracting is a terrible business model. We did it as programmers when we started. It was hard to find work, and we basically started from 0 everytime a job finished.

During the downtime (and there wax plenty of it) we wrote our own code, and it was only once we got some market traction with that that we started getting a regular paycheck. Before that we had to work hard to get paid, and there was not a lot left after costs for things like salaries. The months we got paid 100% were few.

So, to your question, can you write independently, I guess the answer is yes, but it's not done thing I'd recommended. Hopefully it's just a step to a much better gig, which I assume is writing books. If you are an independent you want to be doing something to generate reoccurring revenue.
One thing I remember from reading Kathy Sierra's excellent Creating Passionate Users guide from a long time ago is that trying to teach people what you offer and how your field works should be a big part of your marketing. Perhaps people didn't really get AirBnb experiences and they didn't teach it the right way?

I'm not an avid AirBnB user so I don't know exactly how they promoted it, but it sounds like an interesting idea that should take off.
Amazon France annoyingly does not offer an English UI. I’m so looking forward for Firefox Translations to add support for French-to-English translations.
If I recall correctly, the C64 was the only machine they did this for.
Generics are literally identical to the original drug.
It doesn't just let them fuck Medicare, it lets them fuck private insurance too.

I'm on a med that's $12k every two months. If I were on a high deductible plan, they'll happily cover that $12k for the first go, because I meet my deductible and then insurance pays the other five doses. The cost to them is basically nil; chances are the actual one mililiter of fluid costs them a marginal $20 or so to make.
I sometimes wonder is I'm living in a different time line than other people.

> The CPI is up over 35% for used cars and trucks as reported by the BLS, versus new vehicles, which are up 12.5% [0]

That is, if you had wanted to by a new or used car last year and followed this advice you would have had to save an additional 12.5-35% to be able to purchase the car in following year.

Please let me know where from 2021 to 2022 I could reasonably planned to have put my money and saw gains north of 10% let alone 30%?

If you had saved for your car while I took out a loan not only would I have had started receiving value from that car a year earlier than you, I also would have saved money in the long run since most interest rates have been lower than inflation. In fact I could sell that car to you (or someone like you) now that you've finally saved up enough paying off my loan, getting to drive the car for a year, and likely still making more cash despite the depreciation of the car. Even if I had the cash on hand it would have been better to put that cash towards some non-depreciating asset or improvement.

If there are low interest loans for anything you need, especially in a time of high inflation, it almost always makes more sense to finance it then pay full cash.

Having more and more of consumer spending being credit based is a well known problem in our current economic environment but it's hardly the result of a moral failing as you paint it.

0. https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/car/inflation-and-rising-...
Which is why I support the unique strings— but as you can also tell from many comments, this is not easy for a lot of very technical folk.

What you’re saying is true— if you replace an abstract state with an atom — but the problem here is people are thinking about individual atoms, and not static arrangements of atoms in a in a universe.

Edit: Or, put another way, you changed the game. Of course there are more states in a kilobyte than the sheer number of atoms. But when you start claiming multiverses… no, it doesn’t work. Which the tweet did, and it confuses things.
The galaxies receding faster is a bad example as the motion will never "outrun" a ray of light so no causality issues come up.
It still looks a bit rough, and lacks several languages that I translate often in Firefox using a Google Translate bookmarklet.

Really looking forward to this addon getting more mature, as bookmarklets don't work when you are e.g. logged in or in cases with heavy JS.
I think you're confusing me with someone else. I didn't say anything about trust.

But, I suspect the other guy was referring to trusting in economic stability. I don't think there's any reason why sanctions against bad actors like Russia might undermine trust in American investments.
LOL, safe uses an "agile release train", because everyone knows how agile trains are. They can stop on a dime and move in any direction, the very definition of agility.
Cursor follows your mouse.
A combination of liquidity, lack of discipline, or something in the middle.

As others have pointed out below, some people don't have enough cash to buy a car when they need one.

Other people have enough money to buy a car, but wish to purchase a nicer car because of vanity or enjoyment reasons.

And other people are in the middle: they could afford to buy a low-end vehicle in cash, but they realize that the transaction costs involved with every purchase (sales tax, time spent searching/selling) are not worth buying a $5k car, then a $10k car, then a $20k car in the next 5 years. So instead they finance an $18k car and hope their job trajectory continues as planned.
NixOS makes purity and declarative configuration a point of pride. With that comes greater complexity.
Do the parts need to be titanium for the watch to work? If not, then the Chinese counterfeits will just use aluminum or something instead.
"Behind every great fortune is a great crime." - Balzac. Was there ever an industry that this quote described more accurately than tech?
The new court has a general thesis on things that different from the previous court. They see to be extremely pro broad, written-in-text rights. I think it would be a huge surprise if they allowed something like this.
I mean, that seems somewhat sensible? Why would they give a loan to someone with no income to cover the loan payments? Unless you already had the cash to just pay for it in full, but at that point I'd assume they're worried about why you're asking for the loan if you have more than the value of the loan in liquid assets.
So we learn the real answer is 256^1024 according to a limited concept of combinations. Its not so good when a mathematician makes such a rudimentary mistake using high school or secondary school mathematics but that's another conversation.

I'm not even sure you can accurately tell me all the uses for a 1 bit value let alone a kilobyte. The number of uses is independent of the number of combinations. If your answer is two you're way off.

Since when does knowing how many combination of states determine what you can do with something? Just because something has 256 states doesn't mean there are 256 different uses for it. There might be 124 uses for binary 00000000. But you won't know that by calculating 2^8.

There might be only three uses for 10100111. One of them makes the world feel pleasant, another melts your face off and another releases three male rabbits into the same cage. But I doubt there's only three. There's likely millions of potential uses for just that pattern alone. How exactly would you calculate how many? Accurately? I'm unconvinced.

The real issue here is lack of imagination. Placing limits where none need exist as well as failing to see possibilities without considering the vastness already present. 2^8 doesn't even begin to cover the number of uses for a single byte.

Rephrased differently: how many uses for a hammer? Can you know only by analysing its orientation? I doubt it.

Rephrased differently (again): feeding a particular combination into different machines will generate a different result. Can you predict the number of results from a given combination without knowing how many machines could process it? I doubt it. The question itself has too many unknowns in it.
>junior

>2 - 3 years of industry experience

pick one
Slightly OT: how long does it take to get a credit score of 750+ typically?

Someone I know who recently moved to US, claims his less-than-a-year credit line is already at 770. It sounds a bit dubious but I would like to hear some validation about it. For e.g. it took me 4 years (admittedly on a junior researcher salary) to get to 780, so it surprised me.
If you run estimates with an abstracted unit of measurement ("ideal developer days," "story points," "cups of coffee," "tshirt sizes" etc), then you get three important super powers for this.

1) Your long range timelines come with a specific, quantified error margin. It's no longer "we'll be done by December 15," it's "we'll be done by December 15 with a 95% confidence, or January 15 with a 99% confidence." (Not to mention, those CIs are real and so your estimates have a very high degree of certainty)

2) your estimates have explicit conditions built in, most notably "based on our current understanding of the work." The door is already explicitly open to respond to feature requests, changes, or just new information with an estimate change.

3) Your estimate adjusts very quickly, so the conversations from #2 are also clear.

You can make commitments under those circumstances a lot more easily.
The thing is YouTube’s takedown process _isn’t_ a DMCA one. It’s one they made up to satiate the media companies that were suing them.

An actual DMCA compliant process is much more user friendly - https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...
Inflation has been higher than the interest rates most people can get on a car loan. So by paying cash you are losing money.
That's assuming structing actually works here. It's not hard to define average price as cost after all incentives be they rebates or raffle tickets with “zero nominal value.”
I had to change the apn to get data to work on my rogers phone. when they brought it up the apn had defaulted to the petro-can one so going into settings and changing it to the other proper rogers apn had it all working again for me.
> We did zero maintenance other than brake fluid check and tires in 3 years. This experience is typical.

It's also my experience with my Ram truck.
Anecodtally, my wife had significantly different experiences with two different manufacturers of a generic prescription pain management medication that came in patch form. The medication might've been the same, but the amount that made it into her system seemed to vary enormously based on which company’s patches she received. Same dosage, same delivery method.

There’s more than just the raw chemical in play in a lot of meds.
But the study is only for a small subset of that spending.

For that subset the computed saving is $9.6b -> $6.0b.
A friend used to work for Korn Ferry, a publicly-traded headhunting firm. She said that their stock was a leading indicator of economic trends because firms halt executive recruiting efforts as they can see warning signs for their business. This happens before the clients issue quarterly revenue guidance that makes their expectations explicit.
It sounds like you make jokes when you feel uncomfortable. There's nothing wrong with that, and you're probably better leaning into it rather than trying to punish yourself for having a personality. Make light of the fact that you've got a little too much levity sometimes and others will get comfortable with the fact that that's just who you are.
They haven't uploaded to YouTube, but that's kind of the idea of this project: http://allthemusic.info/
Also how about the highly coordinated 2013 attack on a substation in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
>It's also much easier for anyone to shop at Costco with a spouse's/friend's membership card now that they have self-checkout. You used to have to worry about the cashier flagging you if the cardholder wasn't there, but now there's no one who even looks at your card.

Or how about don't be a liar/cheater and buy your own membership. It's not expensive and it pays for itself fast. Shame on whoever does this.
HPE had the same issue on some of their SSDs. We received an advisory months before it would have been a problem, and had time to upgrade all our customers ... except 2 servers that we missed. Luckily when I saw all disk in error in the iLO on one of the server I remembered this issue, googled the model, confirmed it was affected, and was able to shutdown the second server and start the upgrade. Not sure client was happy but at least it was only a 1h outages instead of maybe a day to get the disks + restoring from backup. HPE did replace the disks under warranty.
Everyone always mentions "The Library of Babel"; considerably fewer bring up the work that inspired it, "The Universal Library" (Die Universalbibliothek) by Kurd Lasswitz [1], which places its treatment of a library containing every possible book of a given length in a somewhat different context.

[1] https://mithilareview.com/lasswitz_09_17/
Used rack server is also an option if you want room to grow, Sandy Bridge and newer models have decent power consumption. My dl360e idles around 40W with five disks. Four gigabit ports, BMC, ECC, and you can virtualize pfsense and run additional containers and VMs on top.
The underlying narrative here that most people do not grasp is that each user's experience is different than ours, and their preferences are different too.

If someone else is complaining about their experience, we shouldn't be dismissive of it, it could easily be a real concern based on dark patterns the platform leverages.

For example, the platform can amplify triggering content to someone who exhibits schizophrenic traits, or it can show self harming or depressing content to someone who exhibits bipolar traits.

It's harmful to assume algorithms can't be implemented without flaws, agenda, and human bias... Actually it's willfully ignorant to think that anything inherently made by humans can be made without flaws and bias.
Past (Good) payment history on an installment loan is a reasonable indication of likely future payment on an installment loan.

For sure, current income is a more important predictor of future income and future sufficient income is a predictor of future payment.

Installment loans are a decent part of credit scores, but mortgage lenders look into the details, so credit score isn't everything to them like it can be for smaller loans.
Are cults really ever "mysterious"?

Just a way to control people. The original politics.

Much easier to make up woo-woo and make people think they better go along with it.

The entire concept survives to this day via organized religion, well actually any kind of religion but abrahamic are the most obvious forms of tricking people they better go with the flow.
better air quality.
I'm not referring to corporations wrecking the lives of people. I'm referring to people accidentally injuring themselves and going for the jackpot lawsuit against any entity nearby with lots of money to extract.
Was the US obeying the law when they invaded Iraq leading to the death of 400,000 Iraqi civilians?
It's both parties. They're both awful, condescending in their own "flavor", and don't give two shits about you and me.
What, an unending subscription? If they want to end the subscription, then they can refund the person.
My indieweb real estate website (part two)
3.6b ($) / 258m (adults) = $14 in taxes per adult in the US, per year.
Also, cars are freaking expensive. An "affordable" new EV is nearly $50,000 USD. For most people, saving that much is impossible to do in a reasonable amount of time; Especially if you live in a place where rent is 60% of your income. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-least-affordable-state-...
The War for Talent (1998)
Maybe, maybe not. Are there victimless crimes? A lot of people may think insurance fraud is such a thing but clearly that's a narrow view of "victimless".
I do think you're right at some level or else being an asshole wouldn't have any survival advantage and would perhaps not have survived as a trait (assuming some heritable basis for being an asshole). But then how do you explain people who seemingly derive joy from pure trolling? No personal benefit other than lulz. Sounds a little sociopathic no? Then again, maybe these people are nature's chaos monkyes. Sowing the seeds of destructive change. Who knows.

I just know that I personally choose to try and not be an asshole.
In case you come back to this, I apologize for the attack.

I was raised with a lot of this kind of language (sans any encouragement and hope), and was taught to become emotional at the slightest sign of discomfort. It's not an excuse, but it is where I am. I'm still learning to avoid expressing negativity.
I think you’re over indexing on federal government. Here in the USA, our federal government is largely ground zero for a profoundly stupid culture war. It is grossly obese and rediculously wasteful.

State government is a totally different animal. It is largely efficient and where actual governing and policy happens. Where I live we have a balanced budget as just an example of the stark difference.

I do agree with your point on incumbents. We have people who have never had actual jobs outside of elected office. That is offensive on principal.
I should admit that I drove for only a month but I also have known quite a few longer-time drivers. And in my defense, the industry was setup so most people stayed for that short time and only a few people, who actually bought their cabs, stayed for longer, literally ate and slept in their cars and made a chunk of money over, who knows, five years but also quit but in better shape financially (and worse shape physically, I'm sure).
I don't know the specifics of the USA, but in Europe some generics are sold out, because they are imported usually from India, and the supply chain is heavily broken
Mainly that you can tweak the compiler options to your liking, and have the full userspace built with it. For example, you can target your exact CPU with all its particular extensions. There are also hundreds of compile time feature flags, so you can omit functionality you don't need.
I've heard people screaming in teams meetings who forgot the mute step.
Nevermind version control, I remember an unfortunate problem in the 90s was just forgetting to hit “save” periodically before a crash or power failure occurred. At one programming completion they started the day getting participates to chant “save your work!” I still habitually type CMD s like my life depends on it.
So is YouTube... Where probably ~80-90% of TikTok content is repurposed from.
"Most" is not the case in Europe, AFAIK the only non English speaking country that has an English version is Amazon DE. I usually end up searching for products there, then copying the ASIN and searching on Amazon in my neighbouring country (as they aren't available here [0]).

I really don't understand why e-commerce services do this, especially when the UI behind the scenes supports i18n and has translations. Amazon do have country specific listings, so maybe they just don't want to show two languages, but that is often what happens on Amazon DE if you choose English. If you choose to ship to a different country they will change prices to account for different taxes, so it's not that.

Other e-commerce services are even worse, e.g. Zalando has a single app for all their countries, and the listings are the same, but they don't let you choose the language at all. Just because I am living in a country, doesn't mean I speak the language of that country.

[0] Which is another weird thing, as most of the time they do ship here. I'm somewhat surprised they have't merged to a single "Amazon Europe" storefront, instead they are still opening new country specific storefronts.
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The Federal government and government in general is really good at commodity procurement. The processes and legal requirements give them the ability to price and fairly procure even single source commodities.

I’ve done scaled procurements at a very large, not federal level. We were almost always 10-20% lower unit cost than large corporate, and sometimes even better. At the Federal level, the law gives them “most favored” status, and they will sue vendors for fraud if they offer lower prices for the same commodity without lowering the federal cost.

“It’s hard” is a common refrain for policy discussions. “That’s bunk” is my reply. Policy without graft isn’t much harder than using high and mighty principles to enrich people at taxpayer expense.
See if you can start moderating by selectively telling the joke to yourself and enjoying it without sharing it or laughing in the moment. The instinct and thought is not bad but you should be able to not let it control your actions. Sometimes it's best for a one-person audience. If it's easier said than done, maybe getting it out by journaling as proposed by dmfdmf could be helpful.

The internal conflict and dissonance is what seems or could become problematic.

I'd also say that none of us know you personally and don't know to what point this is perceived as a problem by those you interact with. I've personally had a coworker where joking too much was problematic and part of a pattern that made things not work out in the end with the team and company. If you have a coworker or supervisor you trust and knows you well, you could try to probe them and see what they have to say.
I remember that some DRMs in the pre-Steam era of low internet access basically acted like viruses. They'd slow the computer down and get flagged as viruses.

Steam made it clear that piracy wasn't the enemy - people who pirate might not even buy the game, and people who buy games might not even play it. But back in the old days, this wasn't as clear.
Yeah, I’m not buying it. It’s not a choice between having a tricked out 2022 Lexus that costs $70k and no car at all. It’s the choice between a 2005 beater Toyota with 200k miles on it and no car.

Once you have that beater, you can start saving for something nicer. Find a make and model with decent reliability history that has hail damage or minor collision damage. It’s not hard to do.

If you can’t scrape together $2k to buy that beater then you have no business owning a car, period.
It is highly regulated. Most of the problem with Canada (and many other places including aspects of American business) is that businesses are granted oligopolies through highly customized/lobbied for regulation/laws and then they get shitty because they have no incentive to control costs or invest in improving their offering. The role of government in business should be making sure business isn't obviously harming individuals and breaking up business when they get too big and start exercising market power to win rather than innovating. This doesn't happen in Canada and it's why we suck. If you go look at our stock index the S&P 60 basically everything on there that isn't base resource extraction should be broken up but our government is too bought and paid for to do it.
Does nix use underneath, or something else?
Are you involved in hiring? Because I check the degree of every single resume I review, I have to. The other day I got a resume from a candidate who has a degree from Albany State University which I never heard of. So I pulled up their website and go to the "Accreditation" link and saw that it's accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.