skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I'm concerned, the question is how ML/AI stacks up against the competition -- humans. I don't know, but I'd bet the answer is that ML is much better. Let's say at least 20 percent better, but I imagine it's much higher than that.

Second, this is only saying that right now, ML's performance is "not that good." It says nothing about future technical advances. If you look at the track record of ML in the past three decades, it's amazing, and if that performance is repeated in the next three decades, who even knows what things might look like. (Machine sentience? Maybe.)
If only the world was so simple. I think the connection is more direct than you might suspect.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/magazine/neil-degrasse-ty...

And

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44157732-accessory-to-wa...

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
I don't work on the legal side, but easements are generally designed to be permanent forever, with some caveats.

For example, I believe most conservation easements have some language that allows them to be essentially "moved" in certain circumstances. Say the city needed to build a road through an easement - than that easement could be exchanged for a similar parcel that was conserved in a similar manner nearby or similar.

But outside of that and similar narrow exceptions, conservation easements are generally designed to be forever.
I learned how to do proper project management by doing everything wrong at an internship during my college years.

The main stakeholder was always busy and in meetings, so I would mostly clock-in and clock-out after having waited outside the meeting room for hours while coding on what we had agreed upon on a very hurried 15 minute meeting months ago.

After 6 months of not having meetings, and having no access to any data, specifications, or feedback, the end result was a glorified Lorem Ipsum placeholder of a forum with a chat applet on the sidebar that I'm relieved didn't ever go live.
Sure, your life balance doesn't equal mine. That doesn't mean that either of us should be expected to work more or less. If you want to work more, get a second job or invest time into a structured hobby.

It doesn't generally depend on how creative/smart we are, nor even our outcomes with less work. You working on a task that is easy for you doesn't mean that I should work more and you should work less. It really just means that we can expect different things from you than me, which is realistic so long as they aren't vastly different on the same task.

Work-life balance doesn't really depend on anything the company does other than having policies that allow for it and then actually following through.
On a personal level, this reminds me of a concept called normalization of deviance. [1]

Every time we do something which we know may be risky, but we do not have a catastrophic result, we further reduce the perceived risk that the catastrophic result will occur to us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
Ha, benevolent US defending itself!

Exhibit A - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
it's psychological but maybe also pragmatic

if your billion dollar business relies on the web site working well, you wouldn't think of trusting it to a small freelancer that quotes you 50k or whatever, it's almost like they start with a budget in mind (7 digits ought to do it) and then find someone who will take that much money

disclaimer: I have no experience here but I think this lecture on pricing design touches on it, that big corps aren't going to touch you if you're not charging them outrageous fees

[0] https://youtu.be/RKXZ7t_RiOE
US citizen?
it shows what happens when you don't have a strong military and try to invade a neighbor...
> The algorithms are so fearful of controversy they push away interesting topics.

That's just one of the tradeoffs. HN optimizes for curiosity, which does sometimes mean using blunt automated tools to fend off negative subjects.

Fundamentally, I think over-meta-commenting on the state of HN is considered boring here (at least by the mods), since it's been covered so many times before.
For 1% of the cost they could have paid me :)
My supervisor told me recently that it is very risky to focus on breakthrough topics except when you are doing PhD or if your are tenured. probably less true for PhD if you don't have ambitious PI. The demand for publications and results that is mainly the way to evaluate you starting from postdoc until tenure promotion is very tense. People usually try to do many things and stretch themselves. sometimes this even lead to burnout and many people leave academia for that adding to the very competitive and low gain opportunities available in most academic field.

To be honest, I really think that we have wrong metric. Most importantly, if you try to ignore them even if you get some local support within your group. Good luck getting any fund because funding agencies evaluation have the same problems.
Last I interacted with toptal, the 'leetcode-style' UI was 'work on your own' as a filtering mechanism. I hit similar problems before, where the problem itself was - to my reading - ambiguous and confusing. And you just had a 30 minute timer ticking away - no way to ask a question of anyone at all.

In the example above, I was, indeed, talking out loud to someone and we had some clarification and discussion, but it was still more contrived (imo). Working with the first person with real SQL and a set of real life tasks (write a query for a report to give number of active employees in each area, etc) was far more straightforward vs "find non-repeating chars in a string". I can do the second one, but I wouldn't work by starting off fresh pairing with someone. I would start off a problem on my own, document/test/trial things, then if/when I needed to pair, I'd be able to walk through things in a more measured process. Give me 10-15 min on my own to digest the problem first before I talk to someone.

Even writing this, I can hear people say "but that's how the real world works! You have to jump in to unknown problems immediately pairing with someone, and just ... ask away for clarification..." But even then... it's not how I work well in contrived online tests. In a business setting, the team is likely all 'new' to at least some of the problem. In the 'exam' setting, I'm still 'pairing' with someone who knows it all, and the 'hrm...' and 'do you need help?' interjections every few keystrokes is just not conducive to real work (for me), nor is it how I would ever work in real life.
History of the QR Code
The deep sleep power drain is really annoying, but on the bright side those power tuning tips let me go through an entire 8 hour workday from a full charge. At least until I need to test things on an Android emulator.
Look at how incentivising running an instance made cryptocurrencies a hot topic. Without some kind of compensation, contributing hardware and bandwidth to an idea like PeerTube means it will remain niche.

Likewise, cash for creators means better content and not needing YouTube.

None of this should utilize crypto may I add. Stripe and PayPal APIs are very comprehensive, especially for mass payouts, and split payment systems.
1/10th usually
Speeding doesn't change risk? When 'speed was not a factor' in a crash, it just means that the involved drivers were not driving above the post speed limit. It doesn't mean that the drivers were driving a safe speed. In fact, clearly they were not.
There are many softwares attempting to solve this problem. Airplanes, bridges, cars, robots, they are catalogued in these systems. They tend to fall under the "Product Lifecycle Management" or 'PLM' name of softwares. Or also "Product Data Management"/'PDM'. Tends to be enterprisey.
tbf the agency's original "how long is a piece of string" response to website is probably fair here

Some companies really do want to a/b test their shopping cart to death, and have 40 iterations of their logo with roundtable meetings in between, and that stuff can genuinely take many man months and in the case of the a/b testing might even be time and money well spent. I'm sure some of the agency's regular clients spend $400k on getting e-commerce sites which are only a bit more complex overhauled and think they'll see value from it

But 46k is definitely unreasonable for something you've estimated at 7k, and 38 billable hours to refactor a Bootstrap template for a minimalist website with about 10 pages doesn't sound like efficient work.
Agreed. In the real world actually operating the database is just as important as its intrinsic query functionality.
They even have a page talking about this, and this is the best way to think about SQLite.

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

> SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen()
Open-source helpdesk ticketing system
Having anything local is reckless at this point imo. There are so many mainstream backup options at different price ranges/free!
I just released this open-source ticket system, can you chek it?
Hey! You would do great over at /r/consulting

Come over, we have Thinkpads, whiteboards and friday beer.
I'm trying to grasp what you are explaining here. Is this another fingerprinting method?
Certainly you have seen "My body, my choice".

It isn't respected as it should be but I would consider it a natural right to do what you will with your own body. If you don't own that, what do you own? Bodily autonomy is the core of all human rights if you think about it.
Well, the main selling point when it came out was that it was the iPhone of thermostats. It was the only thermostat at the time that did not have a terrible UI cobbled together by communist residential block designers or people who think that setting your own IRQ pins with jumpers is fun. But yeah I never understood the point of the learning feature; maybe a checkbox that needed to be ticked or a founder's pet feature.
Another anecdote on the other side of this: I've been driving since I was 15 for many thousands of miles and have only been involved in two incidents. Both my fault involving icy roads, but both where so minor that only paint damage occurred (no insurance involved). I live in the north-eastern United States for reference. Edit: I wouldn't say that my driving style is cautious either, I do drive attentively though.
You certainly are not an idiot, if you managed to do all that work up to professional standards.

You didn't say how much you charged for that job, so it is impossible to give assessment there. But it is almost certain you charged way too low.

From what I can gather, you provided a lot of services there. It's not so much the designing and the 3D model that counts, but all the services you describe, that are really, really valuable. Because you provide a total package and one that is facing regulatore/legal.

Two years of site visits alone would amount to ~50 trips. This alone would be worth 20k at least, since you also are bound for that time and cannot leave town etc. Hard to say without further details…
And the worldwide percentage of laptop users and devs that make 150k is how much?
That's not their brand, at least not in the past 5 or so years. I've had significant success with Fiverr, many of which are not the cheapest. Certainly you can find the cheapest if that's what you want, but that's on any freelance platform.
Yup. Also, that's the Good scenario. What if you are unfortunate, and don't die, but just become paraplegic? Aside from the financial impact on society (unless you are a millionaire, you'll end up needing help) you'll spend the rests of your life regretting your choice of not wearing a seatbelt.

I somehow suspect that we should just call them "freedom belts" and enshrine them in the constitution.
>> We already have them for people with DUIs, so we should make them mandatory for all cars.

Yes, because the idea that every single person should now start doing what historically only a reprehensible convicted drunk driver was required to do will go over so well.
Seems to me, it can work great if your use-cases match its strengths well. But if they ever don't, then it'll be a big mess with probably no solution but to fully switch over to a conventional RDBMS.
Is there a "recommended" feed of peertube videos where I can discover content? Or a upvote-like system? Or something curated? Where do I find trending and interesting content on the ecosystem?
I think you are definitely on to something here. For the alcohol and speeding I wonder how many of the fatalities are people other than the person speeding or drunk. I am not even thinking about passengers, but people in other cars, bicyclists or pedestrians.
Prob need to add the "2019" tag to this, for reference. But def a classic case, as others said.
I don’t understand why you’re being downvoted. You have a coherent and well presented point of view. Are downvotes supposed to mean disagreement? If so, this community will rapidly devolve into an echo chamber.
> It seems kind of disingenuous to dismiss useful bills like infrastructure ones as "minor" and "few".

This is a dishonest summary. The person you replied to dismissed "relatively minor infrastructure bills," they did not dismiss all infrastructure bills as minor.
That seems to be the common theory for the source of the Greek texts, but before that the Greek philosophy, maths and science seems to have been translated into Latin via Arabic:

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

> The oldest surviving Latin translation of Euclid's Elements is a 12th-century translation by Adelard from an Arabic version.

But he also translated original Arabic work, introducing algebra.

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

It's a complicated enough tale that lots of people get credit over the centuries for keeping the past alive and adding their own layer.
The quote is not "No one ever unbuckled a dead man".
In the US maybe. In other countries Macs are quite a bit more expensive. And your customer support and service experience could be worse than in the US.
I did a lot of Python and C++ at Google. I'd be able to implement a nice ETL pipeline for the website, but Google didn't pay me for my design skills.
Respect to your father, who knew what he was talking about.

In a similar story, my father once told me, "People are always happy to pay you less than you are worth."
Is there any weather or earth phenomena that doesn't cause trains to delay? Heat, cold, wind, rain, fog, leaves on tracks, COVID, internet attacks ... If it is worthy of talking about it is likely to make the trains late. For all thier size, speed and power, they remain the most delicate of Earth's creatures.
I have a few friends that think the stats I show them are a complete lie and fabrication, but the truth is: more people from pistols than 'assault rifles'. In fact, in the US, more people die from knives than rifles. (not just the 'assualt ones' Heck more people per year in the US die of 'hands, fists, and feet'. [0]

But guess what is always in the news, and talked about by politicians on both sides, until their constituents are whipped in a frenzy, donating to their campaign, and can no longer see the other side as humans anymore...

[0] https://www.criminalattorneycolumbus.com/which-weapons-are-m...

[1] https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/202...
Do Accenture and IBM have any truly satisfied clients? Anyone have a positive story (more than acceptable) with one of the professional services firms?
They must have healthcare.
As an extremely cynical american, my view is that we don't do anything because guns are a big industry in america, and industry controls our government in all the places that matter.

But my point was more that we only ever talk about gun violence when a very specific type of gun violence occurs, and pointing out the incidents that constitute the bulk of the aggregate number usually gets you called a racist.
> US is 7th country on cars / people metric, below New Zealand and just above Poland.

It doesn't really matter when US has 56 times the cars of the first 6 countries combined.

You're comparing San Marino (a small city) with the entirety the US. It's just noise.

Consider also that San Marino, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and Malta are all very small and rich countries. It is normal for the wealthy to own more cars than necessary. Not so normal for tens of millions of americans who live currently under the threshold of poverty.

I suspect the other countries could do with way less cars, americans would still need more than they have (given the lacking public infrastructure) but can't afford them.
"phone home" is not really the right way to describe it. The attack proposed is that a hardware wallet (being a black box) can give the hardware wallet developers information about the private key.

Note that I have very little understanding of blockchain crypto, so I am unable to confirm/deny the information OP gave. However, the way I understand the attack is:

Hardware wallet generates a private key. It keeps this key in internal storage.
When a transaction is made, the wallet makes a signature. According to OP, there is a variable here (I'm guessing either multiple private keys, or the ability to choose a signature algorithm, or even embedding a timestamp in the transaction) which the hardware wallet can use to "leak" information.

Let's say the wallet decides to embed a timestamp. Whenever a bit in the private key is 0, the timestamp is even, and when a bit is 1, the timestamp is uneven.

After 4096 transactions, presumably the whole private key is now stored in the blockchain as even/uneven timestamps.

This is of course a very slow way of leaking the private key, but does illustrate the problem of having unverified devices be responsible for crypto results.
Most CEOs can not sell stock without announcing it well ahead of time, or during scheduled periods.

What form does this insider trading take?
If that happened, we'd invade ourselves to prevent such a country from developing.
This was painful to read. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

The price is extortionate in my opinion, you should have 100% used a good, solo freelancer.

And I'm shocked at how long they took to deliver that. This whole thing could have been done in a 2 weeks, a month maximum.

Take it as an expensive life lesson and I hope your business does so well that many years into the future, you laugh about this whole incident.
The kind of work that McKinsey does is much different to most of the work done by firms like Accenture. The latter may do some strategy-level work for managers / senior managers, but the largest portions of their revenue comes from work like BPO and technology implementations.
Copy excel shortcuts is smart, but no, this will not replace Excel. Transpile VBA into something like python, automagically open and translate Excel files, and then maybe, MAYBE you'd find a niche of other startups that don't want to integrate with the Microsoft stack. Otherwise, good luck.
Another web agency failure post on HN today. Interesting trend!
It's not spinning the roulette wheel; the skill/sobriety/self-control of the driver has a lot of influence on the probability per kilometer.
Any recommended reading for those?
See the next logical step is to outfit the output vents with servo-controlled actuators so you can fine-tune where the air is going!
That was a painful read. An "investigation" made by an anonymous twitter user based on cherry-picked tweets, hearsays and full of speculations.
Many factual errors as well he didn't sell at all time high and the timeline doesn't match either. The claim regarding Litecoin increase and a supposed Bitfinex escape is made up as well.
I worked at WebAgency (not this one, another one) for 13 years, as a developer, designer, and in leadership roles. In my current role I'm on the other side of the table, dealing with contractors we outsource some of our product work to.

Your experience felt really familiar to me, symptomatic of badly managed projects I've been on both sides of. To be honest, it felt familiar in a way that evoked some emotional feelings I have from working on those kinds of projects for so long! Very few people want to rip off a small business owner, or to have a client feel like they've been swindled. Glad I'm out of that game.

What I'd like to add is that this can seem predatory, like Isaac was taking advantage of you, trying to wring you dry. That may be true (I don't know), but the same thing can easily happen when everybody has the best of intentions.

It is up to a PM to pump the breaks if they see designers or developers burning billable hours on things that won't help the project succeed. The Project Manager turnover you witnessed, and the CEO backfilling for them, happens surprisingly often. There's a lot of churn with PMs at these agencies, at the ones I worked for it felt like we could never keep them around. Since the harried CEO usually makes a horrible replacement for a full-time manager, it's not surprising he dropped the ball in this case.

In theory, it's also up to the designers and developers to manage their own time, but those folks are also often under pressure to be billing ~40 hours a week. If there is nothing for them to do but sit around, and your project is still active, I could see them filling their days working on unbidden ideas "to help you out". Again, I have no idea what happened in your case, but I have seen that before.

At the place I spent most of my time, our version of Isaac would have probably have refunded you a lot of that money, if indeed they really were busy with big clients (my guess is that's probably a line he gave you). It's a feast or famine business, and in feast times we refunded hours generously, both because we lived off referrals, and because we genuinely did not try to bleed our customers dry. It just worked out that way sometimes...

I will say that I think your takeaways from this experience are right on. I would also add that you shouldn't have to be the de facto project manager, but in practice that is the safest way to make sure you get what you want.

Meaning: schedule check-in meetings, find out what people are going to deliver and when, post up in their Slack, etc.

Good companies will appreciate your involvement, as long as you're not acting like a maniac, and when I think back to the most successful projects I worked on as a contractor, they all had some highly active contact on the client side.
Riding a bicycle is incredibly safe. It’s cars that are dangerous, around bicyclists and pedestrians alike (and even other car drivers).
https://noteof.app/favicon.ico I use just the tip of the eraser for the favicon.
"[...] sense that there I’ll find a book, as yet unknown to me, which to some degree will change my life."

In retrospect, and having felt that way, I realize that is an unreasonable hope. Very bad odds, if you even think it out for a bit.

On the other hand, interesting entertainment is often one lucky find away.
That's because you believe you won't be affected since you're driving. While transit would be someone else's responsibility. Same standards apply to why autonomous driving has to clear a much higher bar than beating the averages.
This is how I am reading it. I will be asking my wife to not use VISA for any recurring payments ( as those apparently will be to be harder to dispute ).

The primary benefit of credit card was the included consumer protection. If that is gone, credit card will stop being as beneficial.
I agree, I don't see it as outrageous at all. Agencies often charge too little then get scope creeped into overrunning their own labor, so smart agencies charge good money and write tight language in contracts to avoid it. It's very easy for a project that seems simple to solve to become a massive undertaking.
It’s a that like asking for all the data on how many people spread polio? Zero! Aha, thus proving the vaccine does nothing!