skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would think giving it to some federal parks/wildlife agency would come with stronger protections than an NGO could provide.

There is supposedly an island on the Maine coast that was given to the federal government for conservation purposes (probably for migratory birds). The feds later sold it off. Last I heard of it, people were raising money to buy it back and protect it again. Federal protection really only works in the long term if the land becomes part of a national park or other protected reserve.

In the US, conservation is often handled by "land trusts," private non-profits that protect land, and make it available for public uses. One common strategy is for two land trusts to work together: One will own the land, and the second will own a "conservation easement" that prevents the land from being developed. This reassures land donors that their wishes will be protected.

Local land trusts are often very popular. Almost everybody likes to have some scenic walking paths. Local businesses also like being able to hand out trail maps to their customers. But some land trusts also protect working land: I know of a protected fishing warf that is used by many small commercial fisherman. In other towns, land trusts may protect a certain amount of farmland.

The most entertaining case I know of is a land trust that maintains a trail system for ATV vehicles. They acquired the land to protect some key bird habitat. But the parcel also included a separate wooded area that was popular with ATV users. So they said, "Hey, ATVs are a public recreational use, and we have plenty of other land that doesn't allow them. So why not let people keep doing that here?"

I think that's one important trick to running a successful land trust: Make sure that you serve a wide variety of community needs. Set aside land for conservation, for walking, and to preserve traditional working land. And try to support a wide variety of recreational uses.
I do not have rust installed by default.

I mean I don't think it's just 1 line

- this is just a rust part: https://github.com/rust-lang/docker-rust/blob/master/Dockerf...

- plus "postgresql-server-dev-14"

- ???
I recently left a boutique agency of 5 years and I can definitely resonate with this one. Our agency aimed to catch big fish, and we did, but since they are hard to land we'd pick up small jobs in the meantime, just like the project that you're describing here. In my perspective, this isn't someone deliberately ripping you off. I imagine they intended to ship at the cost they quoted, but the team didn't adjust their working style to match your price point.

All the variations of the logo and design mocks are clearly overkill for a $15k project. The design team had time to fill and wanted to provide lots of options for you to pick from, as they typically would on a larger project. Those variations are an expectation for $100k clients, and you got the $100k customer treatment, but unfortunately not at a discount.

The reality is, small jobs like this are effectively make-work projects for an agency. They typically don't pay enough to be an effective use of time for the agency, but are a way to stay in the black between higher value projects. Small customers become "nuisance" customers as soon as a something better is landed. The team members being swapped out as they are needed elsewhere and newly joining team members then need to re-contextualize and regain momentum, all on your dime.

Your takeaway is correct, don't be a small fish for an agency. If they're busy they won't take your work, and if do show interest, they are desperate for work.
Of course you can. There's tons of subsidies all over Europe as there is in many other places. He is talking out of his ass.
>On May 11, 2022, Coinbase’s director of security operations emailed ISHAN WAHI to inform him that he should appear for an in-person meeting relating to Coinbase’s asset listing process at Coinbase’s Seattle, Washington office on Monday, May 16, 2022. ISHAN WAHI confirmed he would attend the meeting.

Anyone know why Coinbase would set up this meeting if they knew it was him? Was it a bluff to see if he'd flee? Or were they setting up the arrest to happen at the office? Couldn't they just have arrested him in his home?
This is my thinking about time.

If I can put up with work getting in the way of life (on call, no overtime pay, etc) employers can put up with life getting in the way of work (appointments, off topic research, etc).

Nine times out of ten it ends up helping them too. The research ends up being mutually beneficial. A healthy me keeps coming to work. The list goes on.

I just try to be honest and reasonable about it. So far they have too. Please let me know what needs to be done, and it will get done.
Huh? In the scenario you describe, someone is paying below the neighborhood average in property tax, so someone makes an offer on their property, and they decline by raising their declared valuation to match the neighborhood average. Then they stay in their house and pay their fair share of property tax.
Nah. Except for a tiny minority of true believers, Bitcoin is just a trading vehicle. The line goes up or down. Traders win or lose. Faith in fiat currency or lack thereof doesn't enter into it. Don't believe the hype.

To the extent there is any real value it's primarily a means for wealthy Chinese to evade currency controls.
Well, I think it's more about the fact that the tech industry is the us's lifeline to long-term viability and that other country's tech industries (like china, russia) are far worse in terms of human rights. Why would congress attack the golden goose for class solidarity? That would help send the US to historical irrelevance.
That's your proposed solution? I shouldn't drive a BMW?

I think I will aim for a political solution if you don't mind. There are two possibilities, a functional monetary union and a really democratic union or every country goes its way. Both work for me.
Sure, but $7.5m is more money, and seems achievable. Dogecoin spiked 6% after its Coinbase listing announcement and Binance offers 50x leverage. And Coinbase listed 83 different things in 2021.
Which Twitter account was it?
Narrat: Make narrative RPGs for web and desktop easily
I've just stumbled upon this lovely game engine and it seems amazing.

As a person who wanted to build something like this for a while kudos to the developers
> Most construction projects are bid using a set of drawings and a book of specifications that include all the detail necessary to build them.

I wish we'd have that in software development (hard to say "engineering" here).
Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment

My god The Verge has an atrocious standard of reporting. The headline is clearly written to communicate that most Americans believe the JWST was worth its 2,000% budget overrun. That was not the survey question at all. The survey question was "How good an investment do you think the James Webb Space Telescope has been?"
As software continues to eat the world, and a lot of that software is SaaS, much of that software will be developed to run on either Windows or some variety of Unix. While the Unix market share remains lower than Windows[0], it's enough to support a market.

Apple captured a large share of the hardware market both for developers who wanted to develop for iOS, but also developers who wanted quality hardware that ran a Unix variant that worked out of the box. After shipping quality hardware for years, they made a sequence of missteps that they are still recovering from:

* Faulty keyboards that failed relatively quickly - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/technology/apple-macbook-...

* Thermal issues that killed performance - I use 2019 Core i7 and M1 MBPs daily, and still find the thermal performance differences amazing a year after I bought the M1

* Designs that aren't upgradeable/repairable - I upgraded the RAM and drive on my 2008 MBP, and replaced the battery.

I've been reading The Setup blog for a few years now. I noticed a clear trend where developers moved to the MBP for developing on a reliable Unix platform, and a clear trend more recently (pre-M1) where developers moved away from the MBP because of the above issues.

I chose the Dell XPS Developer Edition years ago at a startup where we were developing on Linux because I wanted to develop and test on the same OS we were using for our product. Coming from a MBP, it was a let down, in both the hardware quality (trackpad, coil whine), and OS compatibility (not great power management out of the box, etc.). Maybe it's better these days, I haven't used recent versions of the laptop.

I think there's a market for Framework to succeed and take marketshare from Apple for devs who are looking to work on Unix using an upgradeable/repairable laptop of high quality.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

[1] - https://www.usesthis.com/
> They will charge your insurance for a doctors visit but only have Nurses and P.A's available to see.

That little scam is used by my local hospital also. If you don't ask for a specific doctor when you make an appointment you get a PA (Physician's Assistant). Then they bill the same amount as a doctor would. The justification is that the PA has access to a doctor if needed. So presumably you are getting the same level of service, since the PA can talk to the doctor if needed, so this expands his abilities to the same level as a doctor.

This practice is legal. To avoid getting a PA specifically ask for a "MD Doctor". If you don't say "MD" they will give you a PA even if you ask for a "Doctor".
Every time a doctor refuses a test you asked for, you just need to ask them to provide it in writing that they refused to provide you that test.

They will magically give you the test after that :-)
Just wanted to say thanks. Your guides saved me during my OS/Networking class a few years back.
You answered my question in laymen's terms. Not cognitive science or programmatic terms. Does that mean you don't understand it in those terms? I don't, I'm asking to understand your assertion.

> It is an emotion

What is an emotion in CogSi or CompSci terms. What makes you think an AGi would have them? What is the closest thing we have now to an emotional AGi?

> If it cannot get bored, it cannot learn

There's a lot of assumptions there. Would you mind quoting some behavioural scientists or pointing to some research?
"Evening out" would weaken and impoverish Germany, compared to its position now. I mean, we can do it, but I guess that's not what the German public really wants.
> I would think giving it to some federal parks/wildlife agency would come with stronger protections than an NGO could provide.

The Federal government is not a reliable steward of public wilderness lands. Their incentives and motivations are quite different from a purpose-built NGO. In practice an NGO can offer a much more consistent and aligned implementation of objectives.
"Hire an individual freelancer instead of an agency" - as a freelancer, this warms my heart :-) For a project of this size and nature, a one-man orchestra would definitely be a betterr choice.

However, to be fair, I must note that similar problems may happen with a freelancer (myself included). Self-management is hard, and I tend to underestimate, which leads to delays and/or working late.

Clear and frequent commucation is not as hard, but requires a good habit. You may or may not get it from either agency or freelanced.

“How long is a piece of string?” their lead designer asked. -- sounds like a red flag to me!
No, you go "I'm sorry but we're paying you for quality work and the dev you assigned us is clearly a junior dev. If you do not have the capacity to do this job then we would have preferred you simply stated this up front" and then you don't "withhold payment", you make it a contract condition and you terminate the contract and find someone else.

It has nothing to do with developers you _like_, but with developers who are going to deliver what has to be delivered in the timeframe set out in the contract. If an interview shows they're not going to be able to, then the company did not provide you with developer to do the work, they provided you with someone who can't do the work.
I'm sure there's a dev who could have done the same work faster and cheaper, but they're extremely hard to find. Everyone wants to hire a frontend dev who can design and code. They'd either be outside my budget or they'll only take jobs from people with a personal recommendation.

There's also the problem that until you hire them, you can't distinguish between a talented developer and someone just pretending to be one. I might go through 10 expensive developers over a year before I find one who's actually capable of delivering the project in two weeks.

Do you have a recommendation for where I'd find someone who can do this job in two weeks to the same level of quality?
I'm surprised anyone takes glassdoor remotely seriously anymore, and often wonder how they still exist.

I once worked at an extremely toxic company, that derived pleasure from firing and threatening to fire people for any disagreement with "leadership". I remember looking at glassdoor to see if there was a warning there I missed when I accepted the offer. Monitoring it I noticed overall ridiculously high reviews, and only newer reviews where negative and made comments showing what I had observed. However rechecking in a few months I noticed those reviews were removed.

Certain people in the company really enjoyed threatening people with lawsuits, so I wasn't interest in trying to fight the tide and leave my own negative review, assuming that they would go out of their way to id me. Still the fact that such an awful company could have such glowing reviews forever turned me off from glassdoor.
My feeling is in line with the sibling, The feeling I've gotten from working with contractors is that it's common for agencies to take about 40%. Seems pretty brutal for everyone except the agency.
It’s PageRank applied to references in Physics books and papers, so it’s probably his World War 2 connection
That's interesting. The X1 Carbon range are almost perfectly compatible with Linux.

(I have had multiple over the years and have had zero issues)

The other models I can't say much about. But the yogas are not Linux compatible
One perk of a public blockchain is that crimes like these are more transparent! A Twitter user 'discovered' the fraud a few months ago:

https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1513874972552355846
It would be valuable to know which JSON-Schema it supports, since there are currently 4 different versions that differ in their capabilities (as one might expect). Related to that, does it honor the "$schema" key allowing the schema to declare which version it is?

The postgres-json-schema alternative that's mentioned in the repo also ships with what appears to be a conformance test suite; does this carry the same, or was the focus more on speed?
> I don’t think this is just violent crime.

Because speedy trial is a matter of Constitutional right in criminal trials, it is almost certainly more of a problem for non-criminal trials than criminal ones.
and why do you think that is an accurate conclusion for you?

are you saying that you are incapable of evaluating any specific company? You cant tell the difference between working for Do Kwon or working for Blockchain.com or working for Coinbase?

are you saying that you can’t tell the difference between using your own money to buy crypto versus using none of your money and getting showered with 7-figures of crypto over 3 months that might be worth 6 figures by the time you have it to sell?

Are you saying that Blockchain.com’s layoffs back to headcount levels 6 months ago moves crypto from “grey” area to “red” area for you despite similar headcount reductions being seen across the tech sector?

Were you saying grey/red from a regulatory aspect? Circling back to your inability of evaluating an employment opportunity on your own?

what were you saying and how did you get it from this headline…?
Heh I really wish they supported this natively in the DB. This would be super useful for crud stuff if you could just set a GUC and get the fail slow mode, and get a list of errors returned to the client.
Work for us: github.com/generalbots. Reach us.
> $1032

> It's cheap enough that I don't worry about it getting lost or stolen.

Not sure if this is impressive or reckless, but either way it doesn’t apply to most people.
Thought this was a repost of the DOJ charges last month against the former product manager who knew about NFT listings [0], but that was OpenSea. I guess this Coinbase incident technically counts as "First Ever Cryptocurrency Insider Trading" scheme, even though it's common to conflate "crypto" with NFTs and coins these days

[0] "Former OpenSea employee charged in digital asset insider trading scheme " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31584937
It's not confirmed to be illegal until they get a conviction. So we will find out! It will be an interesting case. I'd wager they do get convicted but we'll see.
You forgot to add in:

- Those who will only buy laptops with TrackPoints

... But maybe that falls into your last group.
And "I've got a lot of my plate but let me see if I can squeeze you in" is one of the most obvious ploy of salespeople.
Honestly you hit the nail on the head here:

> If you're an agency and your dev went wild doing random stuff, you don't pass that on to the client (unless you're an unethical outfit like this one), you eat the costs and talk to the dev about better structuring their work.

Additionally, if he was “such a small % of their total revenue” it should have been nothing at all to eat the inappropriately high costs on this project.
Amazon has been testing the waters and doing internal betas of something healthcare related for well over a year now. Scott Galloway called this a long time ago. Not really a shocker for Amazon watchers.
I looked at the code within the original article, and while I could follow the general flow and function, that's about it.

Thus my question about the OP's (seemingly) confident statement and why they were comfortable making it.
doesn't handle recoil well but only a matter of time before it's figured out. Pack of robot dogs would be an intimidating sight, maybe the next battlefield innovation after UAV's to have game changing impact. Even 'as is', it would be useful for suppression fire

Cost? £75K for Boston Dynamics Spot, this knock off probably could retail for £10K. Far cheaper than a human infantryman
I guess, (rich) activists who want to support this.
> I don't care - I still don't want them in power

That’s fine but it’s not what we’re talking about, which is what keeps the democratic coalition together. Opposition to Christianity having a public role isn’t it.
It's kind of depressing that the US economy and US healthcare industry is so fucked that it's cheaper for a megacorporation (Walmart, Amazon) to set up a private little single-payer state inside itself. That's really what this is - if you own your own doctors, you can close the payment loop, remove the entire insurance industry from the equation and all of its misaligned incentives and bureaucratic overhead. Kind of inspiring, in a way, that we're so advanced technologically and organizationally that it's in striking range for non-state actors, but also terrifying.

We continue to live in the worst cyberpunk utopia.
https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1513874972552355846
Would you help us with General Bots (github.com/generalbots)?
I know a lot of local police like to go into homes with guns blazing, but the smart cops would much rather set someone up outside of their home where they're less likely to be armed and bunkered.

If I were a cop arresting somebody in their home would be my worst case scenario IMO.
I was trying to become a One Medical customer for months. Their defunct signup process (at least in Orange County) pushed me away. Hopefully Amazon puts their technology where it must be in 2022!
> Above all, lets begin to consider signed web content.

What are you proposing that is not currently provided by https?
Tips and tricks for using GitHub projects for personal productivity
They say their next model will have better Linux support

Interested, got a reference?
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I think the key is not to hire anyone to do website design.

Hire graphic designers to make logos, illustrations, and come up with a color palette. That's the kind of stuff that can't possibly take weeks and weeks.

The author doesn't need a website design, this site is totally fine with a generic SquareSpace/Wix template.

Get your logos and illustrations and drop them in, and set your colors and fonts accordingly.

Custom website design is complicated enough that it can get into its own little version of development hell, and most small businesses don't need anything that a simple generic page can't handle.
Wow, the indictment references [this tweet][1] that caused Coinbase to investigate the matter and ultimately led the defendant in being caught at the airport before trying to leave the country.

> On May 11, 2022, Coinbase’s director of security operations emailed ISHAN WAHI to inform him that he should appear for an in-person meeting relating to Coinbase’s asset listing process at Coinbase’s Seattle, Washington office on Monday, May 16, 2022. ISHAN WAHI confirmed he would attend the meeting.

> On the evening of Sunday, May 15, 2022, ISHAN WAHI purchased a one-way flight to India that was scheduled to depart the next day shortly before ISHAN WAHI was supposed to be interviewed by Coinbase. […] Prior to boarding the May 16, 2022 flight to India, ISHAN WAHI was stopped by law enforcement and prevented from leaving the country.

[1]: https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1513874972552355846
now do a poll: would you rather spend 10B on a telescope or X?
I use APL for any task I previously used Python for, involving grabbing some data typically via a json-over-http API, massaging, aggregating and otherwise combining it to produce summaries or reports. I've gradually rewritten my bunch of scripts and code I use daily from python to APL, and seen a 10-100x reduction in code size, and usually a significant speed-up (admittedly, Python is a low bar here).
One medical offices I’ve been to are definitely much nicer, the lobby / waiting area (not much wait, that’s the selling point) feels more like say a WeWork reception than a doctor’s
"There are arbitrarily long prime gaps" and "consecutive primes can also be infinitely far apart" are inequivalent statements: the first is true, the second is gibberish.
We've recently started piloting a business program for SMB and teams within enterprises because of the amount of inbound interest we were getting. We're using the learnings from this to scale up business sales. We agree the incentives are aligned for a modular, upgradeable product to be a good solution. As you build up a fleet of systems that all have easily interchangeable parts, you can reduce downtime and manage upgrades at a granular level.
+1, it also really depends on the offset (as to whether it's a scam or not)—like I talked about elsewhere, even our low-cost offset is a much more credible project than some of the credits frequently purchased by big companies.

If we don't start changing the standard for what's acceptable, who will, ya know?
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