skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To OP: you're too charitable and optimistic towards people in a business context. If an agent has an incentive to milk you for money the odds are that they will. Math and history say and prove so.

It's not even about the money per se. We all know sometimes projects balloon over budget but you had a very clear and small scoped project and yet you failed forcing your contractors to stick to target.

IMO your mistake was:

(a) Not calling out "Isaac" early enough and making a meeting to re-establish ground rules and produce a crystal-clear short list of priorities (you seem to have produced similar document -- kudos for that);

(b) Not demanding the first delivery in maximum two weeks after the conversation;

(C) Accepting business contract that doesn't allow you to put financial pressure if you are unhappy with the results.

I believe you mostly arrived at the same conclusion but in case you haven't -- you are not friends with these people. The "but we had this or that problem" flies only once, or, if you are feeling very generous, twice. After that you either threaten to sue or just cut your losses and leave.

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Your generic "we were just not a match" aphorism is setting you up for a similar occurrence in the future. Get rid of that mindset. It applies when dating or making friends, yes, but it absolutely does not apply in a business setting. You negotiate terms and when one side fails to stick to the terms, there must be consequences.
That's incorrect. Due diligence is expected of any person who enters a contract. This forum was recently poopooing Musk for violating his purchase contract even though he may have had legitimate concerns of Twitter keeping secret its number of bot accounts. If you want to make the case that the ignorance of one party is sufficient to accuse the other of fraud, the burden of proof is on you.
Beats me, I'm no lawyer. But it seems plausible to me that his intention was to avoid or at least delay getting fired rather than intentionally fleeing law enforcement specifically.
I very much appreciate it - as I said, it was something I'd missed in my dorking around with Tor. No idea why it was down earlier, unless it was just loaded - I haven't changed anything on the server related to Tor in a while.

It seems any time a post of mine makes the HN rounds, I get some other weird corner case of my site pointed out, and it does improve things over time! Jekyll makes it easy to just re-render the site with changes like this too.
Like many laws, it may be less expensive to break the law and pay the fines than to comply with it.
The point of military spending is to prevent war by creating a strong deterrent that encourages diplomacy. It’s not to start wars, that’s why it’s called defense spending. (I’m not arguing the US always does this right.)
Honestly, something more than just 'if you like this then try [result+genre+rating] - maybe have a questionairre for each movie you put in your 'liked' category that creates a more complex matrix of potential like films
I agree with you, but my interpretation of the comment you're replying to is that they're saying working on personal projects _within_ work hours, "on company's times and hardware", is "immoral". They didn't say anything about working on personal projects outside of work.
> EVERYTHING you are used to online — including these comments - can already be convincingly deepfaked by adversarial networks trained on throwing bullshit at a wall and seeing what sticks.

Bullshit. State of the art chatbots can barely convince one mystic minded guy who has no idea how they work and wants to believe that they are real. If you actually try to converse anything even slightly meaningful with one, it quickly becomes obvious that they have no idea what they are talking about.

Sure, they can produce some basic reddit memes and such, or plausibly sounding word salads that resemble what some write, but they are a long way away from actually being convincing chat partners. They do slightly better at imitating copypasta news reporting.
We use matomo, but we also make use of Google Analytics and a few other tools as well.
Its not rare per se NASA expects an impact about every month. this one was larger than their calculations, but that "significant uncorrectable damage" won't affect the pictures or the scientific work. also all damage to the telescope is uncorrectable due to the location of the telescope. If you read NASA report and not sky news which doesn't even link the report you would know.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2207/2207.05632.pdf
Exactly. There should be some sort of governmental department where the disabled could file claims for reimbursement with appropriate paper work. Then these claims could be verified and support given in due time. Kinda like insurance work. Even further maybe there could be system of prior authorizations where eligible people can request decisions before using services.
I think it sends a back signal and will put a slight negative mark on the interviewers' memories of that interview. Asking at the end of the interview shows that you care about other things, too.

You can argue that it shouldn't, but people are people.
Spammers != headhunters. The former tend to post low effort, programmatic crap and may not be allowed to give straight answers to your $$ questions. The latter will offer you an above market salary range up front, and then help you negotiate a higher number during the hiring process. Know who you are dealing with.
I disagree, and you have a very poor understanding of academic pay if you think 100K academics costs the same as 1M soldiers.
The same is true on Android though, at least in your web browser? And when you do start scrolling what does appear is so subtle as to be effectively not there, and can't be used for scrolling anyway (it's just a visual indicator of scroll position).

Agreed for full size desktop/ non-touchscreen devices there's no good reason to hide it, and worse I've had occasions where I literally couldn't find functionality because I had no idea a menu was scrollable.
I read the article and I am more convinced that Ruby is, if anything, more complicated than anything.
Culture can change quickly and I believe that it has.
It also depends a lot on the person. Like, I totally refuse equities as a compensation and thus would not consider any job with a salary under my minimum, even if the equities would bring the total compensation to an extremely high value.
Give it a try. I've taken a lower paying job in exchange for a better experience. It happens!
When was it when workers could expect to be treated well by their bosses?
> For most of the project, I was sitting on a bunch of partially-complete tasks. The cost of reassigning half-done work and spinning up a new vendor would be almost as expensive as starting over from scratch.

The original project budget was 7k, and you ended up spending 46k, for something that didn't really deliver on what you asked for originally.

It is really hard to imagine that it would have been more expensive to start over. It seemed clear by the middle of the story, that web agency wasn't doing what you were paying them for, at which point you increased the amount you were paying them in hope that would somehow change things, and then were shocked when they behaved exactly the same as they had before.

There's times when starting over is more expensive, this seems like the polar opposite of that and a clear example of sunk cost fallacy.
About time this happened. It has been widely known for a long time.

Crypto does not mean no regulations. Anyone who thinks that is likely a teenager who has not seen what happens to the average person when none exist.
I'm still not following. If the speed of light in one direction was infinite, there would not be any redshift nor any microwave background coming from that direction[0] to begin with. The photons from recombination time would have long passed us.

Of course, this assumes that the universe is isotropic and what not. But again[1], the alternative would be a fine-tuning conspiracy of cosmological scale.

[0]: More precisely, from the opposite direction.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32111588
For clarity, I'm talking mainly about SimCorp[0], which is a user of Dyalog APL, not kdb. The core of Dimension uses APL (with many other parts in C#), and there's a separate APL product bought with APL Italiana as well. They employ hundreds of APL programmers, preferring to hire math and physics majors out of college because they're easier to teach. Yes, SimCorp probably wouldn't start with APL today, and I wouldn't give it a second thought either if I were trying to start a big business. I pointed to the large codebases because they're easier to quantify, but I'm sure there are millions of lines written by hobbyist developers.

I know you're not trying to flame, but what you've given us so far is a false claim that nobody writes code in APL, and a bare assertion that APL is a bad way to program. On that note, you're trying to say a language you've never used doesn't allow for "abstraction" or "a focus on readability", which I think is dead wrong. All of which is at best tangentially relevant to Iverson's claim in the paper (not APL's founding document, by the way; that would be A Programming Language) that APL's notation is a way to enhance your thinking. APL has good and bad aspects, and there's a lot to discuss, but can it please be a discussion instead of these careless remarks?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCorp
Obviously every feature you add to a chip consumes some power while it's in use, but I don't think that's the reason why Apple only put two outputs on the M1/M2. It's more likely to be cost and market segmentation.
>but that is a tangential concern to the accessibility of executing financial transactions

No, I disagree. It's exactly the same, because without that concern your transactions can be deprioritized or blocked. Miners can absolutely interfere with the expected function of the network, because it's entirely them who determine what the expected function is in the first place. There are no other systems in place to guarantee the functioning of the network and as a user (not a miner) you have no say in the matter at all. They do whatever they want and you're forced to accept it unless you can afford to buy huge amounts of mining hardware and take over the network yourself. I believe I addressed this all already, it's not democratic by any definition of that word or in any way you could ever possibly look at it. The original bitcoin whitepaper proposed that many more people would be running full nodes and (correctly) stated that the security properties of the system would come from this, and if that ended up being a realistic way to set the system up then maybe you could have said it was more democratic. But this didn't work out in practice, and it's been very obvious since 2010 that it would never work out that way for multiple reasons, one being that the financial rewards from re-centralizing into mining pools are far too great to pass up.

>For instance? And what may have happened in the early days of the network is irrelevant to what is possible today.

Both bitcoin (in 2013) and ethereum (in 2016) have reverted transactions that the miners didn't agree with. Any statements from them that the network is "immutable" or "decentralized" or "democratic" is simply a lie. Nothing has actually changed since the "early days", the conditions for them to do it again are still there and will likely always be there because this is how the network is fundamentally designed to function, based on a consensus of those who have the most resources available to them to mine. For a smaller coin, it may not even be possible to tell that this is happening, because blocks that the miners all agree they don't want to process can simply be dropped with no log of that happening.

Now, if you could legally require that cryptocurrencies need to set up a legal entity that gives a certain level of democratic control to its stakeholders then that's probably the only realistic way you could change things, but I doubt that would ever happen because crypto enthusiasts don't seem to care much for laws or regulations. And in any case, doing so would not be an innovation, it would still have all the other fatal flaws of cryptocurrency. Best case scenario, it would just be moving back into a poor approximation of a credit union, which is something that already exists.
I'm about to re-enter the job market. Pay is the biggest motivator due to COL increases (non-relational to human nature) which affects my ability to provide for my family (more relational). So, you're not wrong... but also far off track from the question asked.
this is a really hard thing to study empirically, but the data I've seen DOES reflect your personal experience. The hard parts are:

1. The correlation is weak

2. It drops really quickly after satisifying the minimum

3. it's very different for every individual

Good recruiters try to look for compatibility here very early in the process; unfortunately most recruiters are not good.
A technique to improve both fairness and accuracy in artificial intelligence
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Minecraft developers won’t allow NFTs on gaming platform
10b-5 is an SEC regulation, not a criminal statute. Administrative agencies don't have the power to define or prosecute crimes.

It's fair to characterize these criminal charges as "insider trading" (I assume; the DoJ press release describes them using that phrase).
I think the difference is that the OP is talking about being "happy at work". I don't think about compensation while working, it doesn't really affect your work environment.

Compensation is important because of what you can do with it outside of work.
Bit of a dangerous thread to comment on, but I own a small agency and while ultimately billable hours is how we make our money, the overhead of getting new customers is also incredibly high. The key way for us to be successful is to build long-lasting relationships where each side feels they continue to their money's worth.

We mainly work for small and medium-sized businesses so typically it wouldn't fall exactly under the radar if we're not producing.

That all being said, I've been on the other end of this with agencies and freelancers and I would concur that you should treat these relationships as adversarial until trust is built.
> Some people say this reduces your negotiating leverage because it reveals your hand too much. I try to get around this by making clear it's a minimum, not a maximum, and anything other than stellar equity/benefits/WLB will require even higher base

Or just ask for the range without discussing your requirement. I've never had a recruiter or hiring manager who balked when I turned the question around. If the numbers are favorable, I just say, "If it doesn't work out, it won't be a numbers issue." If not, I say, "That really isn't in the range I'm looking for, and I don't think it'd be in our mutual interest to pursue this opportunity."

The former response preserves an opportunity for later negotiation if the interviewing process goes well.
I think it’s worth mentioning that tinybird doesn’t necessarily charge per query, the billing model seems more geared towards API usage, though queries are the underpinning.

Also it’s not unreasonable to see people spending $10K+ a day in Snowflake because bad practices just like this.
I believe the engine vega-lite can create an svg, which is pretty easily converted to eps/pdf etc.
Yes, providing these weapons is costing the US a great deal of treasure - but no blood so far.

We need to consider what we get back in return. First, stopping Russian aggression. Very hard to put a price on that, but I hear senior strategists say "priceless". And then there is the value of seeing how these advanced weapons behave in real battle theaters, and also seeing how the enemy responds. Again, it's hard to put a price on that knowledge.
Ask HN: Are there any newer languages publishing how-to digests or journals?
I was looking through some old Perl Journal links that were shared out: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/

Do any newer language communities do this? For example languages popular in the last 3-5 years. It's kind of a nice format for catching up and getting a feel for what a community is up to.
>Any efficiency gains that disproportionately marginalize the disabled are anti-human, and the cost should fall on neither the customer nor the gig employee but on the business and the government.

But the gig employee is the business. They're the ones that are actually rendering the delivery service. The cost naturally falls onto them, because it takes them longer to fulfill this order.
That's a pretty serious claim for which you've provided no evidence. As much as I abhor Microsoft's (and every other company's) data collection practices, before anyone can help you "disable this nightmare," you first have to reasonably define "this nightmare."

If you are that concerned about Microsoft's practices even without evidence, I suggest using a more secure and private operating system like Linux, Tails, etc.
I understand that. The way Niemann describes his experience of losing really hit home for me. I even wrote a long post about why I stopped playing chess a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182102
I'd question that such a thing is necessary. The number of movies and TV shows that I'd like to watch outpaces my ability to watch them by an order of magnitude.
> If your primary reason for responding to an ad is based upon salary you are not going to be happy where you work. I promise.

I don't really care about your promise because after many (too many?) years in business and seeing a lot of companies from the inside without any restrictions I can tell you that companies that paid at or above market rates generally had better work/life balance than the ones that did not and the people I spoke there definitely seemed substantially happier than in the places where they were paying below market rate.

In those places salary was usually just one indicator of many where incompetent management was showing through. Either you're a founder or you should make a very decent wage and anybody that tries to tell you that their crap salary is made up trough fringe benefits is taking advantage of you (or at least trying to do so). That you managed to trick some more qualified people into responding that otherwise would have rejected you out of hand is not a positive for them, it's a positive for you.

Employees can use a salary range to quickly weed out the employers to avoid from the ones to talk to and I would reverse your statement to 'If you are looking for a place that won't make you feel bad start with salary'.
It's not at all true that the only goal of a T&M consultancy is to maximize T for any given customer. When you do that, you burn customers, and most consultancies (at least, the ones whose names aren't lit up on the sides of buildings) are extremely dependent on word of mouth and referrals for business.

The normal problem here is simple: the bread and butter of a lot of consultancies are a small set of big "house accounts", where both the consultancy and the client are on the same page about the value being generated and the price tag assigned to it. That's as it should be! Nobody is "full of shit" just because one client puts a 10x price tag on work you feel should be valued at 1x.

That doesn't make WebAgency OK. They mismanaged the engagement --- they shouldn't have done it at all, because they don't have the project management or the engagement structure to do a good job for 1x clients. When they realized they couldn't deliver a satisfactory project for the 1x client, they should either have terminated the engagement and refunded the payments to date, or finished it gratis and eaten the cost; the vendor should, in most circumstances, own the delivery risk.†

But for a lot of clients, and, importantly, disproportionately the clients a consultancy should want to serve, this whole saga is meaningless. The dollar amounts involved aren't high enough to micromanage, and all they care about is the outcome. It's of course still possible to burn those house accounts --- but burning a house account is a very big deal and well-run consultancies will freak out if it's happening.

This is a live-and-learn situation for everyone involved. If you're set up to deliver agency work to 1,000 person clients, you need to be very wary of picking up gigs from tiny sole-proprietor clients, because even when you get into things with the best intentions --- and I take 'mtlynch at their word that that's exactly what happened --- circumstances can fuck everything up, and a small client is going to feel that fuckup in ways an ordinary client won't.

I think 'mtlynch has exactly the right takeaway from this: if you're a small shop, you probably want to err on the side of engaging other small shops for consulting work, rather than agencies, unless that agency can really convince you that they've done the work to rig their business for delivering to small clients.

† Here it's tricky, because WebAgency was screwing up due to turnover and increased workload from their real clients, so delivering the work gratis would have impacted house accounts, and nobody is going to let that happen; meanwhile, 'mtlynch doesn't want them to cut bait and give him his money back, so both sides are limping along in an unproductive stalemate. It's a thing that happens!
Where ever you grew up sounds like a wonderful place. In my mind I'm constructing a sort of Twin Peaks[1] type town where I can take my newly acquired book to the good quality dinner.

I have a similar sort of relationship with bike shops. You can tell a good one straight away and it's nothing like a chain store.

My local one is in an ancient 4 story building with lots of back stairs and rooms. In the very top floor the owner keeps his own private collection, which if he's in the mood and you ask nicely he'll show you.

When you're a kid independent shops like that, book shops, computer shops, bike shops, are magic (and they're still pretty good as an adult).

1. Without the murders and other worldly shenanigans obviously.
To prevent that, the discussion started with an approach where you create your seed phrase with dices. Look at step 1:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32115693

The question was if it is at all possible to use Bitcoin in a trustless way.

Several hard and maybe impossible to overcome challenges have come up in the thread. The fact that eliptic curve signatures are not deterministic seems to be the most fundamental.
I'm incredibly disappointed a Both Side's fallacy would appear at the top of a Hacker News post after all of the evidence we have all over the globe about both side's fallacies.

This week the far left got arrested for protesting abortion rights, while the far right tried to block countries from joining NATO and it's the usual pro-Russian agenda GOP politicans.

Also this week, the House voted to move forward with codifying marriage rights, and only Republicans voted no.

We could go on all day. Both sides are not the same and even remotely implying otherwise is very ignorant and damaging. Didn't you learn anything after 2016? Even Hacker News is no longer safe for reasonable discourse?