skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen many outsourcing projects with my coachees and with founders, I've managed my own and cancelled several when I was called in to fix them.

The key to this kind of work is to understand:

The agency is not your buddy, they have very different goals than you have. Too often do I seen people who have nice chats with the agency over a coffee. They are not your friends.

You need to write the contract to align the incentives of the agency as much with yours as possible. For example: I see hourly billing, and bug fixing counting as billed hours. How has the agency an incentive to keep bugs low if it makes them more money? Agency has low retention, new people are slower, slower means more money for the agency. How has the agency an incentive to keep people on the project?

[Edit] You might think this is obvious, but I have seen unaligned incentives in mostly every outsourcing project I've looked into and was asked to fix. Tip: Do not take the developers they give you/have on the project. Interview all of them and reject the bad ones. As a new customer, they will not give you the best but those available (currently not on project/rejected by other clients)
CentOS Stream still has major releases. It's not actually a rolling release.
The only thing that really sticks out as improved is the logo. branding is everything. maybe that new logo is worth the $46K it took to get there.
Thanks for reading! I'm glad you found it helpful.
James Hetfield of Metallica was doing something like this in Marin:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/metallica-james-he...
If they remove criticism if you pay them, couldn't they be prosecuted for extortion?
I write and train for Skiller Whale (skillerwhale.com) who train teams of software developers on React, Go, Typescript & PostgreSQL (with lots of other curriculums in development).

We're always looking for experienced software developers who are personable and can go deep into a topic with learners, work through exercises, help them correct mistakes and so on. It's 1-2 hours of well-paid work per session:

https://apply.workable.com/skiller-whale/j/2D3E071FD5/

(Warning you do have to prepare each session quite well - it's much harder to teach something that you know as a working programmer than as a teacher, because you're probably not used to saying what you know out loud!)

But if you know the topic and like helping other software devs it might be exactly the kind of short-term you're looking for.

Happy to answer any questions here, and I'd probably be involved in an interview session too.
You said you'd next time go with a freelancer as one of your solutions. I'd argue you can run into the exact same problems as you described in your main post, just on a smaller scale.

In this comment:

> There were still issues, but I was prepared this time. WebAgency kept suggesting new flourishes to the design. I declined them all and told them to focus on the design I’d approved. I’m glad I did because they’d probably still be working on the website today.

I think you need to do this with every project reguardless of the size of the team you are working with.

Design companies seem to want to make customers feel like they are unskilled / unable to make design decisions for themselves, but maybe this is all experts? And I can say I have had very stubborn customers in the past, and it was good for everyone involved to have a customer that knows what they want and expects it, even if the designer doesn't really like the results as much as their own ideas.
That would immediately turn into a situation where people smear businesses they don't like.

As an individual, I could post 1,000 bad reviews instead of just 1. As a competitor, I could do the same.

Glassdoor just wouldn't work if they couldn't verify someone's identity somehow.
I haven't seen odyssey before but it looks worth checking out.

A friend of mine got nailed for a bogus copyright claim, but she was way too small to get Youtube's attention. She uses Rumble now, and is optimistic about monetization as Rumble seems to be very welcoming and helpful to creators, including path to monetization. There's a lot of right wing stuff on there, but it's not just a cesspool dumping ground for stuff that's too heterodox for youtube (although there certainly is some of that there if you look for it). There's quite a bit of legitimately interesting content on there that has nothing to do with politics (I mostly watch tech stuff and music stuff), most of which (I imagine) could be on Youtube without issue, but as a creator you don't have to live in fear so many people publish there instead. You don't get near the reach of youtube, but I've been considering maintaining a mirror there of my youtube channel just in case I get the ire of the robot someday for something. I try to be very careful of copyright, but it's walking on egg shells. Eventually you'll break one even though you're trying not to.
"The premise that a big infrastructure project will create a bunch of economic opportunity in the local area and people will be better off for it is not a controversial one."

It certainly is controversial.

Some look at this process as economic opportunity, others as indentured servitude and exploitation.

There's been a long and sad history of such developments leaving the areas where it happens a polluted, barren carcass.
From my experience, part-time roles are few and far between.

(It certainly doesn't help that agents post jobs as part-time only to lure you to apply so they can start nagging you.)

The part-time roles that are available are usually either very simple, short-term tasks,
Or companies with extremely limited budgets that will under-pay you, and try to squeeze the most out of you and give you trouble with payment and hours worked.

I suggest opening a company, adding some friends, and taking up multiple contracts simultaniously.
If the company can't handle clients bigger than you, they may not be able to handle you either.
A corporate carbon footprint isn't a scam if it's calculated using primary data and according to the GHG Protocol standards - https://ghgprotocol.org/
No. Most places have 'immanent domain' type laws were the gov can essentially seize your property (forcing a sale) to give to someone else. A rich developer could see all that sweet sweet natural land and make a strong case (with lobbying, backroom deals, the usual) that it would be better used with a new condo or factory or strip mine and get it anyway.
Nice app.
What is the business model?
> You have every opportunity of changing how American prisons are organized by participating in the political system.

How so? Both parties are all in on the prison-industrial scam. Likewise for healthcare, etc. I agree that the US has a largely 'liberal' system, in the classical sense of 'liberal'. I.e. capital trumps human beings.

And you ignore the fact that the US imprisons a much higher percentage of its population than other countries. Part and parcel of the authoritarianism (which is only increasing).
President Biden Has Coronavirus
RememBear password manager is shutting down in July 2023
It’s not just the cost of labor it’s also time to market for an expensive item etc. If manual assembly is 10x more expensive but it’s the difference between 1% and 0.1% of the sales price then other things can be the driving force.

Getting the next iPhone to market even 1 month sooner is extremely valuable, but they don’t manufacture the same phones for that long.
The problem gets worse as buildings get bigger, with more systems. A lot of larger projects use 3D renderings now to limit the number of clashes.
PeerTube is really fantastic. If you're not concerned about monetization and discovery, PeerTube is a great choice.
Some of the activities of SBF/FTX could be considered a bailout of sorts, just not a government one.
Using Tor is legal justification for a warrant to remotely hack systems using it:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-does-rule-41-sa...

As such, highly likely most systems running Tor nodes have been hacked and that Tor is not secure.

Very possible lockdown mode might be as well a legal justification for a warrant, given it “conceals” systems.
> If I don't state where it is used, that might work for me, but not for the next guy that comes along and wants to reuse a texture from my game in their own.

I think it's generous that you want to do this, and nothing prevents you from creating a document that breaks down where and how attributed resources are used, but attribution — per Wikipedia, "acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work" — doesn't require that.
My vague recollection of the claim was that the owner of an influential newspaper was also an owner/steakholder of a cotton processing business. Urban legend as far as I can tell.
Ok, I see what you mean. To me this sounds like you not taking a simplified example for what it is. In a perfect system all you say can be quantified down into money, and be priced in when comparing 25 and 50 year bridges.

In the real world there are other factors too, like the risk that the nearby city will grow enough that the bridge will need to be expanded after 25 years. The entire second half of the 50 year cost may be wasted in that case, as expanding the bridge may be at least as costly as building it in the first place.

Or in 10 years traffic demand goes down, so that this bridge is no longer needed. Or boat traffic changes, and this bridge is now too low. More waste to tear down the 50 year bridge than the 25 year bridge.

Or if the bridge gets bombed after 25 years. Then too the 50 year bridge is a waste.
Great article. I tried the command for a brief second with output to a text file. I cannot believe that on my M1 after 1-2 seconds had 2684272500 lines amounting to 5GB. Yikes
If you pay for RHEL in production, you can get free RHEL for test/dev/etc via the "developer subscription for teams" program.
Uber pays millions resolving DOJ lawsuit for overcharging disabled people
The bureaucracy in general is in bad shape and slow to change. It would take the commitment of multiple administrations to get it where it needs to be, especially in areas like digitization and procurement reform
Unless one's blind it is happening right now
Nope, I would expect it to do close to nothing to inflation.

The current inflation is primarily caused by high energy prices, secondary by shortages (semiconductors, grain, vegetable oils, etc) and third (delayed effect) higher wages due to worker shortages.

In theory, a rate hike reduces demand. But it won't for the above goods and services as they're barely optional. People are going to continue to heat their houses, vehicles will keep moving, factories won't be shut down at scale. People won't stop eating either.

I believe the much more aggressive rate hikes by the FED, multiple already, validate this point. It's not done nothing to reduce inflation.

I'm thinking it's going to be energy savings (by consumers and industry) and working on energy alternatives/abundance to really kill high inflation.

Another example of a non-working instrument: here in the Netherlands the long term mortgage rate (15-20 year fixed rate) has more than tripled in just 4 months time. It doesn't even move the needle in house prices. It has slightly slowed down growth, and that's it. The reason it doesn't work is because there's no supply and the demand is not that elastic. People need a place a live.
McDonalds’ fries are actually good. But point taken
First mistake in my eyes is hiring from an Internet forum instead of a professional service.

Granted, I don’t have a personal website and nor have I hired a website freelancer. So, heap on the salt.

Sorry that you went through all this. I can tell how frustrating it was and it doesn’t feel good to be scammed. It’s generous of you to share your experience like this and maybe educate someone who might’ve been getting ready to make a similar error.
shareholders decide that implicity by hiring the management that aligns with this or that idea/vision/style.

and society at large (culture!) decides what is a worthwhile endeavor, for example by pre-ordering space telescopes, or by complaining loudly and shaming anyone who does not behave like good McDonalds patronizing people.
Is an upgraded speaker kit on the roadmap? I don't know what would be involved, but I am just unimpressed with the speakers as they currently stand.

Loving everything else about the laptop and I use it as my daily driver.
Came to say the same. This sounds like a classic bait-and-switch, like you'd get a used car dealership.
You are getting mixed up between a personal carbon footprint and a corporate carbon footprint, which should be calculated using primary data according to the GHG Protocol standards: https://ghgprotocol.org/
Forum is still prevalent in China.
Precisely. You're describing a scenario where the variance of the task time has little to do with why people are standing around.

The tasks could have 0 variance and there would still be people standing around. Probably for the same amount of time, in practice. The situation is controlled by the cost of moving equipment around & the order tasks need to be done.

The uncertainty would manifest as periods of buffer when equipment isn't bought to site yet/men don't get bought in at all.

Obviously sometimes the situation just falls apart, but usually I'd bet the downtime would be planned and predicted.
Okay, enlighten me. What would be correct and why?
I’ve worked with rocket engineers and never got that impression.
Disabling old archaic image formats, link previews, ill advised web apis sounds like a great feature. I will definitely try this out.
Never heard of that company but they sound incredible. To paraphrase a great quote:

"It's better to be thought of as a garbage company by a few than to unleash your lawyers and remove all doubt."
Depends on the VPN and use case. I don't use a configuration profile for mine right now, but if I wanted to do anything more than manual activation I would need to use a profile to accomplish that.
It sounds like you're not the average user that TFA is talking about here. Good at fixing Linux problems? Want to reboot the system by typing "reboot" into the search bar? Want multiple 8k external monitors? Want to use Sony headphones with an Apple laptop? These are not things most people care about.
Google pauses hiring for two weeks
That is absolutely insane....

I understand the doom and gloom about hitting a performance bottleneck because we're reaching the physical limits of transistor sized but damn!

Seems like all the low-hanging fruit (transistor density and # of transistors) have been picked, and other parts of the CPU are now being optimized to catch up to the same level of optimization as the main execution cores
Have your considered just surrendering to the algorithmic overlords and accept that they decide your fate and you don't have, and never will have, agency or control within their realm?

Edit: I accept the downvotes on this, but its honestly how I feel most times when dealing with tech companies, ISPs, my bank, and so on. They win by the sheer brute force of their apathy.
San Francisco Police to Start Monitoring with Private Cameras
I am pretty sure there are a handful of good (based on Tailwind CSS) template generators which will produce results superior to the pages you received.

Sure, you'd need to hire someone to do the logo and the custom icons, but I am certain that would not cost you anywhere near $46k.

Furthermore, I cannot comprehend how this actually happened even if you shared all the details. Holy shit, for $46k you could have gotten the spaceship-equivalent of a design from someone who actually loves what they are doing.

Mate, $46k is annual salary for A LOT of people. In the amount of months that it took for them to "finish" the project, a junior dev could have picked up design chops and done a 10x better job at this.

Just wow....

ALSO A QUICK EDIT:

If anyone needs design work done (best I can do is a checkout page with a bunch of unstyled ordered lists) my pricing starts at $40k per 8 months, which is a lot less for what the author's company was charging him.
Sounds like still too many techies believe a technical solution is automatically a great business case.
The speakers are easy to replace, but we can't share anything about future hardware plans.
I remember the conspiracy theory that HAARP was a secret weather control weapon. Some argued that the US had used weather weapons during the Vietnam War to create rain and bog down the North Vietnamese.
It's odd that you didn't want to name the agency. They ripped you off =/ No two ways about it.

> I genuinely believe that WebAgency tried their best on this project. I don’t feel like they meant to deceive me or squeeze money out of me. We just didn’t match. I was used to working with individual freelancers, and WebAgency was accustomed to larger clients.

...I think that is a very forgiving, but utterly self-doormatting, perspective on the issue. This was an incompetently managed agency who kept bullying you because you let them. At $175/hr, even as their smallest client, you deserved waaaaaaaaay more professionalism. IMHO the biggest lesson to be learned here, that you didn't really talk about in the blog post, is not to let someone -- agency or employer or freelancer or otherwise -- fleece you over like this. Isaac kept stalling and not delivering and mis-spending your contracted funds. You should've demanded a partial refund or threatened to sue. Their behavior wasn't acceptable, but you just kept saying "it'll get better...". It never does.

Sorry to be so harsh, but you kept trying to defend their "best intentions". No, they just didn't take you seriously, and then they failed your project and dragged you down with them. Nobody should be paying for an agency like that, especially for $175/hr. What a rip-off :(

You did mention that you probably would've seen better results from a freelancer, and that's probably true -- especially from a place with some bare accountability, like Upwork where there's reviews.
> I just had a look and they show one appointment available for a single MD across their 14 NYC offices this week.

I was curious because my own experience with them has not really reflected this decline, though I see other commenters mentioning it as well (my wife and I have used them since 2016, though I am not particularly selective about the type of practitioner I meet).

At a glance now in NYC I see an appointment with an MD tomorrow at 11am, another DO tomorrow at 9:30am, an MD with a full day of open appointments on Saturday. Were I to want to see someone sooner I could see a PA a few blocks from my apartment as soon as 2 hours from now. I know those appointments will start exactly on time and the office will be pleasant. That still feels like good value to me as compared to most other medical practices out there.
Finish the thought, where do regulations come from?
Ask HN: Do you prefer to see the instructor when watching or course or not?
Hey all,

I'm planning to make a small course on building products with Django and before I begin I want to see if people really want to see the instructor. If not, there would be no reason to play around with video, background and all this stuff and focus on the content and audio.

Feel free to reply here, or on the Twitter Poll I created:

https://twitter.com/builtwithdjango/status/1550129914149421056
Will this become entirely moot in the EU after they force Apple to throw open the gates to iOS?
Stories like this make me think I should get back into freelancing.

I'm pretty such I could have had the whole project finished within a couple of weeks for around $5k
While it is American-centric, PBS news hour is one decently solid option

I also get information from corporate media but I always keep in mind the purpose of the angle of their reporting and always ignore all opinion pieces. Opinion pieces are always trash
The chart in that article shows LASD budged increased from $3.4b to $3.5b since last year, hardly defunding.
OneMedical is a public company so looking at their last earnings report, they lost $101M on $250M in revenue.
Follow up:

Called one medical support, and it doesn’t look like there is any data deletion process. Apparently, the heath record will be held for 7 years and the best I can do is delete my account.

Hoping a process will soon form but this seems like a run around of HIPAA to me. All you need is enough money to buy a company and you get a lot of juicy health data.
This is exactly the conclusion I've come to as well. It's not that I don't have the soft skills capability to do it myself. And maybe it's an ego thing but I think I'm also pretty strong on the soft skills front.

HOWEVER, and it's a big "however" -- I don't truly enjoy it. I don't mean that I don't like building a relationship with clients, putting thought into my communication, etc. In some way I do enjoy those facets of it a lot. But, I'm an introvert by nature and when managing clients, acquiring clients, etc... It feels like I'm putting on a persona that's not truly myself and it's very draining emotionally and intellectually which ends up actually impacting the quality of my work over time.

I would love to be able to find a "talent manager" who can do the job of "talking to the customer and bringing the specs to the engineers."/officespace I think to most people this sounds exactly like just "having a job." And people will ask what's the difference from simply having a manager?

I think this perspective is also why there's not a solid existing industry that fits the needs here.

As well, I don't know if this is necessarily true but having someone with at least some basic level of software knowledge I think is a huge plus to being a talent manager as you or I would think of them. That helps to ensure that the quality of working coming in meets at least some base level. The problem of course is that anyone with the right knowledge will either be a developer themselves or in some other role already. To make this work they might need to be able to manage multiple talents.. but then it runs the risk of turning into an agency of sorts, right?

And I don't off the top of my head know exactly what the qualitative differences are here between an agency managing multiple contractors and a "talent manager" but I think there are some and would love to hear thoughts on what those would be. I think it's all centered around how the relationship actually works. As you say you want to hire/pay a percentage and I would as well. That keeps the talent manager working for the engineer(s) versus the other way around.
I can't remember seeing a website redesign in my entire life that didn't make the site worse. Many sites have gone down the tubes due to redesigns while always blaming the failure on something else. Kudos for at least having the self-awareness to realize that your redesign didn't help.

To first order, there's (usually) only one site metric that really matters, and that's page load speed. Craigslist still thrives despite having no features and looking prehistoric, because it's so fast. Google.com homepage looks almost empty. Meanwhile the also-rans with busy pages (remember Yahoo leading the search space? Digg leading link aggregation?) are now near forgotten.
Just wanted to say, thanks for making these computers. It's a great initiative.
Hope the band can stay together! http://zendeskalternative.com/
I've had that idea since GPT 3 but never got any access...
The original PIIGS and now PIGS are acronyms similar to BRIC( Brazil, Russia, India and China.) The acronym has been around for 14 years now and is fairly well-known to anyone that follows economic issues. Your own assumption of malice on the part of the OP is the thing that's not civil.
I love your blog, but was the end goal really getting a new website or getting a good story to tell ;)
Is there a recording of this talk?
I loved getting those emails
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NvXHukL8ic