skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more impressed honestly, that people are willing to pay $400,- for an remote KVM device.

Whats your overall margin? I would assume that you are able to build it for $100,-?

But yes i think you did not had enough experience working with agencies. They oversold you as the sales people usually do and than you fix their issues. You should have stoped as soon as it was clear that they lost some agreements when moving from the nice ceo to the developers.

I was working for a company who was doing development for other companies. The team setups are cost optimized. Like the dude who smokes weed every day and only gets 45k / year salary but is sold as a fulltime senior developer. Or the working student who has 2 years frontend experience but 0 years <insert your JS Framework of choice> experience who might get sold as junior or normal developer.

Or people who are part of your project for 2 month, the company knows that they will go on maternity leave and they just replace one but neither tell you that or really assume thats just fine. Its not fine. They need again time to onboard and it costs you money.

All of this is more or less shitty, but the companies going to contractors normally offload all of software developer hiring, onboarding, teaching etc. So its a tradeoff. A trade off companies have to decide on.

But i would never ever do this as a small company as you are, ever. And i only did this with a small company who was having 5 employees with a very clear target architecture and specific goals. And they also tried this shit on me with the 'i have someone who doesn't speak that well german or english and is not that good but we can offload him on that project' and i spoke up after 1 week because i'm not paying for someone i can't communicate issues clearly. Red flag alert was there immedidatly.
OpenBB Terminal: command-line Bloomberg terminal
+1s that One Medical has gone down hill. Latest issue was getting charged like $300 for a 5 minute video appointment which quickly concluded that I should schedule an in-person if the symptom persisted. This was coded to my insurance as a 30 minute 'medium to high complexity' patient interaction.
Hi everyone, the other day I was watching a video about LCD screens and thought about this experiment: separating the pixel values (r,g,b) and drawing them next to each other to simulate a CRT filter. Right now I'm doing it the naive way, instantiating one Pixel class for each pixel, which is very slow depending on the size of the image. I do intend to implement another version that does this using Uint8Array which I believe will be much faster.

to use just select a picture from the file input.

since each real pixel gets translated to 3 pixels wide and 2 tall, I've added a slider where you can resize the original image before converting it, just drag the slider to the left.

if you do use this on your phone I recommend moving the slider all the way to the left before choosing a picture (10% of the original size of the image)

hope you like it
I've never had an experience with an agency that was better than hiring individuals. You end up paying a 20% markup + dealing with organizational headaches in exchange for skipping the pain of finding and vetting individuals with the right skillsets.

The initial shortcut ends up creating way more problems down the road.
old design is easier to process. not sure if its just me but seems like the new design wants to tell me what's important and I have to fight it spending precious brain cycles
Just saying, I don't believe any of this. I think it's anecdotal at best. People want to be paid the most amount of money they can for the work they're doing. Maybe the work doesn't make them happy, that's why it's called work, but why would I want to work for a company that pays half for the same work when I can make double elsewhere? You do realize the decade old article you're linking to contradicts what you are claiming right out of the gate?

"A 2014 SAP survey found that compensation is the #1 factor that matters most to employees"

and

"Another survey by the SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) conducted in 2013 also found that compensation and pay was the #1 factor contributing to job satisfaction"
Right but it’s pretty clear that there isn’t a majority willing to do that.
Thank you, that´s what I thought and that´s why I am currently working on it with otherguys including me in code.
If the store doesn't have a restroom I can see why:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Aoki_phenomenon
For tech in certain areas / domains yes. For most of positions all over the world, salary is the only compensation.
This is cheap compared to a lot of what the US government spends money on, and it won’t kill anybody! So really quite a non-issue.
The constellation of microbes in the gut did not return to their original, pre-antibiotic compositions in either sex during the duration of the study

This makes me wonder why we don't take fecal samples before proscribing humans especially rigorous antibiotics so they can be used to repair the microbiome afterward.
First thing, thanks for your post, it has been really interesting.

I would like to ask how you made the correlation between the new site and the increase of sales, I believe that your product is a very good one and would have expected that your intended target, if anything, is less sensible to site design[0]:

>But despite all the missteps and stress, the results might justify all the pain. I expected the new website to increase sales by 10-20%, but it’s been closer to 40%. In July, the TinyPilot website hit an all-time high of $72.5k in sales, 66% higher than before the redesign.

[0] I mean it is not like you are selling fashion accesories, if someone wants/needs a Tinypilot they actually want/need a Tinypilot, and they shouldn't be sensible to the looks of the site (and BTW they would probably also want to see a picture of the HDMI/VGA adapter)
Many years ago I worked at RadioShack. We changed watch batteries all the time. Zero training, just expectations.

Guy brought a watch in. I was getting ready to change it when he informed me that it was a $25,000 watch. I probably handed it back to him and said sorry, not taking responsibility for that. I was not qualified.

I can’t imagine forcing untrained people to deal with significant medical issues and be financially responsible for a fall etc.

I’ve had some severe disabilities at times, so I’ve been on both ends.
India elected second female President
They're called "wipes" and they had fallen out of fashion by the time Star Wars was produced. They were used in a lot of old sci-fi serials like Flash Gordon.
Laying bricks involves more than putting bricks in a straight line, thats why all the brick laying automation has failed. You know that im sure.
I am a bit suspicious you have more than enough money to be financially independent already - for folks who have bills over their head causing constant stress no job is going to be enjoyable along as that shade lurks over them.

I enjoy my job and have turned down a few higher salary positions because the stress they would introduce into my life would result in an overall lower quality of living and the amount their offering isn't enough for me to burn myself out for a few years to coast for the rest of my life... but my SO is nearing retirement and is slowly working to scale back their working hours - the loss of their income will mean a return to the drawing board and more math to make sure we can continue live comfortably.
> Of the top reasons people are happy at work

Don't confuse "people" with "this person."
I'm an assistant professor in a medical school in the US and agree in general with the article. It takes an absurd amount of time to write a grant application, time that could be spent doing science - but we faculty don't have any choice if we want to continue our careers.
Definitely not a lawyer, but I would think the counter argument might be their is no judgment from New Zealand yet so the libel tourism law would not apply. For example if after this guy is unmasked it turns out he is living in the USA and is found guilty in NZ but would not have been guilty in the USA then they would not order extradite/use us banking system to enforce the ruling. However if the he would have been found guilty in the U.S. (say he is the CEO of a competing company who never even worked for the company.) then the US would enforce the NZ judgment. It least that is my best guess
Entitlements aren't permissions. There are a lot of operating system services which are privacy-relevant, but which don't have associated entitlements (e.g. location services or contacts access), and a lot of entitlements that aren't related to permissions (like ones that let an application request an increased memory limit, or allow it to store data in iCloud).

Here's a full list of entitlements from Apple. You'll find that a lot of them wouldn't make sense to display on a store page:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...
Salinity Gradient Power: Utilizing Vapor Pressure Differences (1978)
Do they mention Iraq?
That is a great question.

Regarding performance of responses I am referring to count of unique respondents meeting minimum requirements.

Regarding 'better candidates', this is based upon the count of candidates which made it through team interviews and coding challenges.

Our process requires multiple manager/leader approvals at each step of the process which is intended to reduce bias.

It is possible the soft attributes of personality and communication are reflected better in one group than the other. I do not have evidence but is a possible source of unintended bias.
Is that really true? I do love the smell of old books but I never would proclaim that out loud to a bookstore owner. I do actually purchase used books though when I visit stores. In fact went to a Bookoff and bought a book last week.
My understanding is newer models are much better.
You know what I miss? Serendipity.

When I browsed VHS tape jackets looking at the key art, logline/synopsis and the cast, I had this nice feeling of discovering screen gems, serendipitously.

Now, I am tired of recommender algos that just try to predict my taste and taking out serendipity out of the equation. So, if you are building a recommender app, build an "I am feeling lucky" option.
It's funny you say random because if consumer choice was actually random with some known distribution it would be extremely predictable, no ML needed.
Thank you Finch, you´ve got me. This really seems like somthing cool.
In upstate NY an air source heat pump is not viable but ground source heat pumps are fine. If you go south a bit, say to North Carolina, the air source heat pump looks like a good idea.

Either way the capital cost of a heat pump is high and people seem to have a psychological aversion to spending money on capital costs.

One of the best selling points of a heat pump is comfort: it switches continuously from heating to air conditioning. An eco-sensitive person in Upstate NY might not really think they need air conditioning. It's not like buying a Toyota Corolla to save the planet, it's more like buying a Cadillac Escalade to save the planet and the psychology doesn't really work for that.

See https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/air-source-heat-pumps-vs-gr...
I appreciate how the top reply to that Tweet is an animated GIF of Speaker Pelosi rubbing her hands together.

Note: Speaker Pelosi has not been arrested for insider trading
》epicycles were still not enough to describe what could be observed.

Epicycles based models were far superior in practice, such as predicting planetary conjunctions. Heliocentric models did not really catched up, until Newton invented gravity and calculus.

And centre of mass of solar system (barycenter in Newtonian physics), is outside of Sun, so heliocentric models technically never gave solid predictions! Stellar parallax (main prediction from Copernicus theory) was not confirmed until 19th century! Heliocentrism is mainly philosophical concept!

I will stick with my primitive old thinking and biases, thank you! If I get mugged a few times in a neighbourhood, I will assume it is not safe. There is no need to overthink it!
>And... before you say, perhaps your salary ranges were bad, they weren't.

Oh ok.
The people with huge AWS bills are already paying a different rate to you. They don't care what happens to your rate.
>Just makes no sense to have such a complex system

It's not that complex, it really can be reduced to what the browser already does: attempts to render web pages best for the display, without full hinting from the server-side.

In the end, what I'm getting at is that browsers should start viewing any page in an untrusted mode, and this mode should dramatically limit available fingerprint features to the most minimal subset that provides an acceptable user experience.
same with palo alto
>Regulation compliant doesn’t mean what most people think it means.

That is the bane of my existence.
Maybe I'm wrong but I thought the whole point of the F-35 was to keep the engineering firms sort of perpetually in a war-ready state and keep the engineer pipeline going strong.
Some of this reminded me of Orwell’s _Keep the Aspidistra Flying_
I do this, what I do is avoid recruiters and look for job postings that are a good fit, then send them an email asking if they'd be interested in discussing part time contract work instead of FTE. Often they say no, they want full-time (especially at larger companies) but sometimes they are willing to chat about it.

I think you have to have enough experience that you (and the employer) are comfortable skipping the interview gauntlet. After all, if you're contract if you're not doing good work they can just stop. One thing that is helpful is to suggest working on a small, limited project for like 2-4 weeks, and they can decide if they want to continue working with you or not. (of course, you have to do a good job on the project).

It's a little weird, there are times when I'm scrambling for work and it seems like there's nothing out there, and other times when I'm turning away work, but if you can deal with the unpredictability it can be good.
Among my favorites, "NULL" vs NULL, date/timezone/utc and locals, anything related to data warehouse.
Transferring everyday billions of records from SaAS applications.
I agree that salary is not what dictates my level of satisfaction with my work. However, plenty of people make the (perfectly reasonable) tradeoff of work satisfaction in exchange for money. I'm not dogmatic about this - I am aware that plenty of people are deeply satisfied with both their work and salary, and that others are deeply satisfied with their work and are perfectly willing to trade salary for that. That is great! I am very happy for those people. But it's _also_ a perfectly reasonably decision to prioritize salary to enable your preferred non-work life, and it's entirely possible to still do excellent work if you're in that bucket.

This doesn't even touch on people who _have_ to prioritize salary.
In the past few years the concept of "travel" has become a bit more difficult. I decided I'd rather have the simplicity of cash back instead.
Or because the connector provides power to a device that is battery-free?
"What is the use of a newborn child?" - Ben Franklin
I do not need amazon to have my medical records. I guess it’s time to cancel that subscription.
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he said decent battery life, pretty much any android phone in market has better screen on time than pinephone
I'm confused by the math in this article. It claims that Tesla spent 1.5 billion (I'm ignoring the "increase to 2 billion" for now), then sold 75% for 936 million, and is somehow "still likely up on its $1.5 billion investment"

I'm not a math guy, so forgive me, but if 3/4 or .75 = 936 million, then wouldn't .25 = 312million, meaning 100% would be 1.248 billion, or a roughly 250 million dollar loss?

I'm not even sure why I care enough to think about it this much.
> Haven't done so in years

Easy, then: you’ve grown as an engineer. You would see raises at a salaried job. Give yourself a raise.
> quality

What do you mean by that? Good writing? Good rigor? Good research work? Have a fundamental discovery? There are not as correlated as one expects.
If this goes like their acquisition of PillPack it will be trainwreck behind the scenes when they try to push the Amazon way of doing things onto them.
doesn't work for premium, but it used to be my very same strategy!
That money did not go to teachers or students. So, yes... they got no additional money.
Without knowing your full methodology I can't tell you what went wrong with your study, but: I work for a very very large recruiting/HR tech company. Our data across millions of jobs shows the opposite.
Every recruiter that reaches out gets my same copy-pasted response, which includes "what are the responsibilities" and "what is the salary range of this position" which often ends with "sorry, not looking to take a pay cut".
That’s why you make sure your minimum amount is something you would actually consider. Otherwise you’re only screwing yourself.

On the other hand, giving a range and getting offered the bottom (which we already agreed is sufficient, otherwise why is it your bottom?) gives you the opportunity to negotiate non salary terms like health care, holiday, work from home, etc.
My favorite protection for this kind of situation is having a Single Point of Contact clause, that basically says: "ultimately, we take direction from X person and only X person".

This helps in a couple of different ways. Occasionally, you'll get conflicting requests or instructions from a client. When that happens, I usually just push it to the single point of contact and ask how they want to proceed.

But it also helps in the scenario you outlined, because I make sure any approvals for "outside the scope of SOW work" gets approved to be worked by the single point of contact, along with any relevant disclaimers about total project budget and estimate.

Then, when you come to time to evaluate the project progress the single point of contact has clear language that they've approved with whatever associated cost warnings.
Hard to pay the mortgage with equity.
With how templates, design, and code work on the Internet now looking at a portfolio does little to reassure people of capability.

I run a web design company myself, and the best customers to work with are ones that are decisive rather than needing to be sold an idea for design. Also great are customers that realize that design can be changed later or that precedent in functionality, message, and content rank foremost above site design.

With any web dev project it's best to plan what can be done in short phases rather than in huge project launches. We learned from the chaos in Healthcare.Gov (not our project of course) that huge product launches overwhelm teams, face huge delays, and also can result in chaotic deployments.

Great leaders that are decisive, studious, considerate, accountable, and calculatedly adventurous are the best customers and I enjoy working with them, also written agreements/contracts are essential to being on time and on budget.

In "WebAgency's" defense though, their illustrations do better depict the use of your product, despite perhaps the images not being very flattering.

One of the biggest hurdles to overcome on our end as a web design company is marketing, as compared to other companies (larger agencies that do web design). They spend a lot on marketing, and thus that is what makes them even more expensive to hire. These large companies also retain developers and split them across projects, so accountability and focus are at times not as good as what a dedicated development team and project manager could provide.

The #1 tell for the risk involved in dealing with a design project is the complexity of the proposed solution. It doesn't not seem that this project was meant to be that complex.... I was shocked by the $45k price tag. It's at least a good thing that I guess the company looks quite profitable.

I might be charging my customers way too little on the other hand though... :P
A cautionary tale from personal experience: My parents retired to a rural area and wanted to ensure that their area would remain a healthy old growth forest. They have been actively involved in a land trust that has successfully created large, continuous corridors throughout the area. One of their contributions was a continuous strip of about 20 acres. Their community has stitched these together to create wonderful cycling/walking paths through the woods, linking up different areas.

At the start of the pandemic, a developer bought up a large (~200 acre) tract neighboring them and the corridor. They immediately clearcut the whole thing, and are building hundreds of tract houses, cheek by jowl, and have consequently forced the local government to build additional roads. Guess the big selling point they use in their website and listings? 'Neighbors a wilderness trust with extensive woodland paths.'

Knowing all of this, I'm not sure whether I'd still go through with the land trust purchases or not. They couldn't have afforded the 200 acre parcel, and who knows if the developer would have bought the other 50 acres. All I can say is that it is dispiriting to see people doing the right thing and having a net increase in clearcutting at their doorstep.
Cheap Bike vs. Super Bike
> If your primary reason for responding to an ad is based upon salary you are not going to be happy where you work.

Salary can be both a filter and a sorter.

- I won't apply to a job that pays less than I need to support the life style I want; no other factor can overcome that.

- I am more likely to apply for a job that pays more than a different job, but other things are also part of that sort.

It is entirely possible for salary to be an important part of what is considered when deciding on a job, even a deciding factor, without it being the only thing or even the primary thing.
I’d like to see “signed” NFTs, where people can chose to have other entities testify who the owner is. People are free to use a centralized source of truth, or just a series of peers.

Of course copies can still be made, but a chain of signatures by reputable agents/entities could be valuable.