skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You end up hitting scaling issue the agency hasn't hit before, and they're learning on your dime. That scaling could be technical, but also organizational and procedural. Your org may be big enough to have specific legal/regulatory issues to contend with, but the agency has never dealt with those before, for example.

I understand people will almost always be 'learning' in some capacity on every project. "Hey, we're constantly learning! This is great!". I recognize it, but don't always think it's something to celebrate. You'll usually be better off working with an agency that's dealt with your size project/org before.
On the upside our money buys significantly more crypto than it did a year ago.
Can you elaborate?

My understanding is they can in an iterative fashion, but the dependencies I’m talking about are not constraints but nonlinear dependencies between decision variables.

As an example, the decision variables may be integers denoting schedule blocks, but the cost is a nonlinear function of time and the other variables. Meaning each time block can be solved with linear programming iteratively, but to solve across all time blocks requires nonlinear optimization
at smaller co (<50) where I've worked it just means you work it out with your manager and wasn't really tracked/counted anywhere
There's no market for Glassdoor competitors because the only people with money to throw at the market is employers who want to protect their brand.

I would love for a trustworthy Glassdoor-like source, but I think there isn't a business plan that justifies the cost of building the network that doesn't also have the end goal being selling out to the employers.
I did this for a few years.

Find companies for whom you are a total catch of a full time hire, and negotiate a part time contract.

I was on a 20h/wk max retainer for one co, and another I could flexibly bill anywhere from 15-40h max depending on load. They both asked me to come full time before and after working a few months. But I held the advantage. I also worked for slightly less pay than ideal, but the lifestyle was the point for me.

That's my big takeaway from freelancing. The power relationship is different. You want to be in a position where they really need you.
Franklin Templeton has a dashboard that I normally look at: https://www.franklintempleton.com/insights/anatomy-of-a-rece...

While it seems we're trending towards a recession, according to them we're not there yet.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146082
Honestly it looks awesome. Your previous also looked awesome, but I deed looked dated. Now you have copied the style of Digital Ocean, which is fine.
It seems to work, by definition, but I don’t think this approach qualifies as science. For a theory to be science, there has to be at least some mechanism. This is just statistics.

Again, it works
What Germany could have done is to accept a change in the treaties for a real fiscal capacity at the European level.

But, instead of that, Germany preferred to enjoy access to a common market and devaluated Mark (that is basically what the Euro is) while pontificating from a high horse.

Instead of a functional monetary union we get this mess. And now we all have to be solidary with Germany energy problems. We will see.
There is a field of experimental archeology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_archaeology) in which they try to actually reproduce ancient building techniques and the like. There's obviously some conjecture involved in the practice but this exact concern is why it's so valuable.
Did you at any point use a third-party client?
In that case, I will continue to believe that you have an ultra-secret pointing stick keyboard in development that could be announced at any moment ;-).
Does anyone know if we have ever done direct meteoroid detection at any Lagrange point? With how critical the Lx points are for huge numbers of missions and orbital mechanics we would have thought we would have studied it extensively already.
Thanks for reading!

I have a different philosophy when it comes to hiring in that I assume the people working with me are honest and they're motivated to do their jobs well. I'm paying for their time, and I assume they'll use their time effectively. If they can't use their time effectively, I terminate the hire, but I don't try to fix it with different policies.

I agree that there are payment schemes that will cause even honest people to do poor work (e.g., if I paid someone per kLOC, they'd probably write more bloated code), but in general, I'm not worried about someone deliberately sandbagging a job if I'm paying them by the hour.

Paying by the hour is not perfect, but no payment scheme is. With milestone-based billing, you get into disputes about what is or isn't in scope, and I don't want to waste time on that. It also incentivizes delivering the minimum quality work to meet the milestone and move on rather than focusing on high quality.
Ask HN: How to scan a lot of photos in 2022
My mother passed a few years ago and I've been holding onto dozens of large family photo albums. There are probably 10,000s of photos from about a 20 year time span.

I would like to digitize. The local places I've contacted that provide this service are either too expensive or not a place I could trust. So I think I am going to DIY.

Hoping someone can give tips on hardware or software that could make this easier. Large flatbed scanner + the right software that can parse, separate, store multiple images at once? Has anyone done a large undertaking like that that can provide some guidance?
The GNU coreutils never fail to impress me with how insanely fast they go. One of my favorite blog posts of all time [1] really opened my eyes to how insanely optimized Unix really is.

[1] https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
+1 this is ridiculous and the author is complacent.
As Facebook Becomes TikTok, a New Feeds Tab Ditches the Algorithm
Huh - I brew with Clever Dripper most days and wouldn't characterize it as 'oily' - its definitely got more body than a V60 (my other go-to). I suppose all immersion techniques will give you similar results in that case, with something like a French Press giving you much more oils.
I currently have the 11th gen DIY edition. I'm running linux on it and I'm loving it.

When do you plan on making the 12th gen intel main boards + top cover available for purchase?

Will the main board upgrade bring the 11th gen machine to the same exact spec? Or does the new 12th gen have other improvements?
thank you, this is pretty much what I was trying to say. Especially the narratives part. there are plenty of instances of humans finding winning moves in positions that the computer did not 'see' the advantage of until after it was played. That doesnt happen because the human saw more moves ahead than the computer. It happens based on work done building a generalized intuition about the game itself which i would argue extends beyond what would be expected from "pruning" algorithms.

If a computer could assess every single move, it would. A human would still prefer to rely on narratives and game sense if it's good enough
I have a rule now that when designing a page, any "money screens" get at least 1.5X to 2X the estimate. I define a "money screen" as anything that leads a company to land a client or land a sale, things like checkout flows, signup flows, etc. Usually that extra time gets sucked up in A/B testing setup and setting up a staggered deployment per region that the biz operates.

Whenever customers push back I tell them the story of Knight Capital [1]. You pay extra for extra assurance that you won't loose a shit load of money in the future.

[1]: https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-...
we wish President Biden a swift and full recovery
> It can take decades for quite a substantial update on what we thought we knew to trickle down from academia to practicing medical professionals.

A recent ep of the Trickle Down podcast (premium offshoot of a show that studies conspiratorial thinking, Q Anon Anonymous), discussed how we learned to treat ulcers with antibiotics and then lost that information for something like fifty years. Changing the scientific understanding of their cause had a Greek doctor going to his country’s health ministry over and over and getting rejected despite results. I think you nailed it.
A challenging part is having automation while also having proper processes, risk management, and documentation. They tend to be opposing forces, where to do one well the other is usually sacrificed.
...right, but the problem with unaccountable power is that the public won't accept that in some cases. The reason why politicians didn't want it is because the ECB will almost certainly destroy itself if they go too far down this route (imo, it is already too late, the ECB are doing things that no reasonable person could think is sensible outside the context of bolstering a political union...ironically, you seem to assume that technocrats have no political aims...this isn't the case).

The reason why the Tories introduced the cancer fund was because NICE refused to pay for cancer drugs that worked. The reason why it is was only for cancer was because there were a large number of new drugs that were effective for cancer and NICE refused to sanction them. The only other group of drugs in a similar place was epilepsy, but the number of people who require this medication is significantly smaller (as in, there is one or two people in the UK who need a certain drug). Btw, the reason why NICE don't like spending money on drugs is because that is money that isn't going to staff wages (those unbiased technocrats again).

Btw, there is a govt full of technocrats...China. Everything there is run very efficiently: the corruption, the concentration camps, tracking of political dissidents...all very efficient.
I worked variously as an individual consultant, or either leading or as a member of small ad-hoc contract teams, or as a co-founder of a consulting firm, for about 14 years. If you don't like the process of selling yourself, you will not like this life.

We did eventually build up a stable of long-term clients, but we got those by doing lots of short-term work, each one of which was at least one interview-equivalent. You also have to learn how to judge when to pitch - you will get a lot of nibbles for jobs that don't make sense, are not serious, scams or beyond your capabilities. You need a well-tuned bullshit detector, and especially when you're hungry, correctly judging situations can be tricky. But writing proposals and estimates for everyone will bleed you dry, and you'll probably develop a rep as a sucker - a lot of companies solicit proposals they never intend to act on for various reasons.

In any case, good clients for consultants generally come from word of mouth. So you want to do good work for someone who knows lots of small business owners. Go look for those people. Small IT support shops are less plentiful now with the rise of cloudified commodity services, but that was my angle.

FWIW, I went back to full-time employment. We cold make it work, but we couldn't thrive, and it is hard to grow a shop on contract work (2x the workload generally means 2x the employees - there's very little leverage). I make significantly more as a wage slave than I did as "my own boss".

But you might well do way better. And there absolutely is a bright side - freedom is a big one. It was very hard to give up ownership of my time again. You also meet a lot of folks who can be very different from the sort you run in to in HugeCo technical silos.
Peak HN. The underlying problem is corporate overreach and cultural creep into dare I say, fascistic practices against workers.

Workers in America are constantly trodden on. There’s no module to import here, the culture is bad and the laws are weak and more and more people are realizing it.

It should be legal, protected speech to speak ill of a company. They aren’t people, they’re not even really objects from a certain point of view.

If you ask me, there’s a different sort of “zero knowledge” problem happening here.
"GDPNow is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed", so writing this headline is completely dishonest.
I led the engineering team for FogBugz and Kiln at Fog Creek from 2017-2018, and worked there for almost a decade prior.

Joel Spolsky hasn’t been involved in FogBugz at all since 2018, when it was acquired by DevFactory. Forbes calls their parent company a “software sweatshop.” None of the engineers at Fog Creek even bothered to interview to stay on after the knowledge transfer, if that gives you an idea of the corporate culture difference.

Before the acquisition, Joel gave Anil Dash the CEO role in 2016. Jordan Harris (COO) and Rich Armstrong (GM) led FogBugz/Kiln operations before then.

And even before that, it was fairly clear (at least to us employees) that Joel was more focused on his other companies: Stack Overflow, Trello, Glitch.

Trello spinning off into its own company in 2014 was a huge relief for Creekers, because we felt like we could finally focus on our own company again.

We were operating with a small, self-funded, crew, which made it very hard to compete with Jira and GitHub. With hindsight, I can say we bit off 1000% of what we could chew. Kiln was a maintenance nightmare, yet didn’t provide a quarter of the revenue FogBugz alone did. The FogBugz Plug-in API was a plain mistake (Second System Syndrome plus running user code in-app?!?). FogBugz’ database tenancy model was always a pain. ElasticSearch was fantastic for speed, but maintainability wasn’t great. We had a real bad case of The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern. Oh, and we were about infinity years late to the cloud: on my very last day, we were still on seven racks of hardware in a DC in the most expensive real estate in the country.

I would say the last “Joel” version of FogBugz was 7.0, announced July 20, 2009. Lots of customer excitement with that release.
I just x-rayed my CPUs and found no such trojans.
> A house has a use

yet the housing market crashed and will probably crash again
I have hired through A.Team and Moonlight. Both seem to have good engineers and good employers, both allow for part-time roles (Moonlight afaik _only_ has part-time roles). I heard from the engineers I hired through the platforms that they are happy with it from their end too.
NBER seems to emphasize changes in Real Personal Income and the unemployment rate when they identify recessions.
I'm sorry friend :(
I think the sad thing is the contrary to some people's opinions, this is not limited to small "cowboy" companies, it can happen from the smallest to the biggest and it is a mixture of competence, management, desire for profits etc. as it is in most companies.

The biggest difficulty is that you are paying a premium for intangibles when you talk designs and branding. If you absolutely know that your current brand is useless then anything is better than nothing but also you probably don't have to do very much to get better before the returns are diminishing.

Otherwise for design work, although the result might look "OK", it is hard to see how they would justify the money, although of course they will just like Tropicana justified their failed redesign.

I would normally say that you have to know enough about something to pay somebody else to do it well but here the OP does seem to know roughly what is going on so it might just come back to a more formal kick-off process and not getting caught up in the excitement that you just start and worry about it later. Clearly this company could have done a good job so it is not about ability, just management and scoping it properly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumal%C3%ADn_Park

sometimes!
>In fact, I've been glad to have a 50/day limit, because it helps me contain my hyperfocus instincts.

This belongs on /r/linkedinlunatics
> In addition, a searchable database of Creative Commons works would be a welcome addition to the Internet.

Openverse is a CC search engine with 600 million items: https://wordpress.org/openverse/

And of course, Google Images supports CC search for images.
Yes, Amazon, the infamous healthcare monopoly
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Totally right but the real question is “do I really know that my branding is important or will provide noticeably more income”?

That does not seem to be your initial question…

Sorry, the “Cafe.” in my post should read “cf “ but it got autocorrected.
You can! Well, sort of. (this is new to me, I was curious as well, so thank you)

Native Command Queuing (NCQ) [1] is a SATA extension that lets the drive optimize the order commands are performed in. For HDDs, this means it can do the commands in an order that minimizes overall seeking time. For SSDs, it can concurrently execute commands that are operating on different physical chips.

I can't find a good reference, but it seems like this is also true for RAID volumes, which are almost certainly being used on the server -- the RAID controller can perform parallel reads on each of the independent disks. How well this works is highly dependent on the RAID controller itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing
If you hired a mechanic to regas your car's AC, and they give the car back with a full realignment, detailing, etc, all at prices you wouldn't have ever paid in the first place, you would be driving away without even thinking of paying, probably to the nearest ombudsman or law firm.

but at least that mechanic probably would have done the re-gassing first.
Oh no! Stock options and other stock-based compensation for less than 1% of tech workers is suffering from the easily predictable end of the longest stock bull market in history.

Now that these shares are hammered and more fairly priced, wouldn’t these few, rare, lucky FAANG workers be better off since the share prices are less likely to fall as far now?
As the owner of a digital product agency, this is really hard to read. It is such a shame that an agency would do this to you. I know you felt like they "did their best", but by setting you up with unrealistic expectations out of the gate they essentially guaranteed that everyone was going to walk away unhappy. Besides, when you go to an agency communication/transparency/team of experts is what you are paying for! You're paying for accountability! There really are good agencies out there that care about their customers and bend over backwards to deliver what they promise, but they are hard to find. For the size project you were looking at though, I do agree that a freelancer could have been a better option, but you'll run into some of the same challenges. Finding good freelancers can be just as hard as finding a good agency.
> Linux is what, my Raspberry Pi? My phone? My kid's laptop? My work desktop? Am I supposed to average all those out?

I got the impression that the article was using "desktop Linux" in the context where it would mean "the best Linux desktop distros". So Fedora, Manjaro, Kali, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.

> The customizability and openness factors in favor of Linux also provide a benefit in yielding gobs of workarounds.

Most users are never going to learn to use the terminal. And the terminal is necessary for most of the customization and openness you mention. Think of it like a car. How many people pop their hood/bonnet and poke around? How many even refill their own antifreeze or windshield washing fluid?
> People are also buying on margin

people have been trading foreign currency with HUGE margins long before crypto
Can you please clarify why not? In a perfect world, it would be great to have a better sense of roadmap to make a purchase decision.
The reverse also works.

People see a block of land that's "unused" so they simply move there and start "developing" it. Sometimes they'll legally own the land ("adverse possession") but usually it doesn't matter. It's theirs because they're there and they're willing to defend themselves and "their" land even if they don't have a deed.

So sure, go ahead and buy a bunch of land, in the USA or elsewhere; you'll need to be prepared to enforce your ownership stake or lose it.
Which is why it is important for the states to pass laws forbidding this activity after the Supreme Court deemed it legal (or not prohibited by the constitution) a few years ago.

And there’s a bunch of land for sale outside of the UK which can be bought and let to go back to prairie or whatever. You can get 10,000+ acre ranches for a few million in places like Nebraska and just let some buffalo lounge around.
you didn't want much. It's not about sales it's about "I want that and if you cant afford that you are not the right customer for me".
Thing is that for 1k€ I wouldn't even think about a website.
But thank you that you did give up ... gives some other webdesigners the opportunity to say "hey go fy with you 1k€ ... I want 5k" (no offense)
Ya but your philosophy cost you $47k for work that could have been done in 2 weeks by a competent developer...
IANAL but I suspect this is likely down to the details of the mutual legal assistance treaty between the US and NZ, e.g. the result of the US courts processing a foreign subpoena. Interestingly New Zealand doesn't appear to be a member of the Hague convention so I'm unsure how this is supposed to work in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Service_Convention
Why is this on the front page of HN? Do we really want to encourage these sorts of glorified customer service requests? Every time someone is confused by Google's opaque moderation practices, vote it to the top?

This one isn't even interesting.
>>>> try contacting YouTube

I literally laughed at this. How is he supposed to talk to a real person at Youtube? Professional Youtube people who get millions of views have to rant and rave and get something trending on Twitter before a human will look at their case.
No snark perceived! It was a valuable post that added more context to a topic that deserves it. Far too many people perceive a "black and white", open source / closed source distinction where none exists.

> That said, maybe they would indeed not license to the three "biggies"

I think it's actually likely the other direction: I suspect Mongo has been working with all three to get it licensed as a service, and any hesitation is from their potential customers.

I know AWS the best. They want total control, and hate paying other people. They can also afford a long time horizon. They didn't buy Annapurna Labs to offer an alternative to Intel. They aren't going to want to license Mongo because that cuts into margin and costs them control.
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Why didn’t you just use a Shopify template?
If I could go back to when I first created the website, I would have made it a simple Shopify store with a custom theme.

That's the biggest take away here. Unless you have a unique need, use an off the shelf solution.
Next time leave me a message ... you'll get more for way less :-)
Interviewing != "soft skills", and it wasn't soft skills as such (in the legitimate sense of the term) that the poster was objecting to.

But rather that set of weird, contrived rituals (which pretend to measure soft and other skills, but basically don't really measure anything other than the candidate's ability to game up answers to questions they looked up on the internet) -- not to mention the frequently appalling lack of decency, common courtesy (and common sense) has come to stand to in for the interview process these days.