skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you read the FAQ? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

>Are reposts ok?

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>If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

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>Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
Vertical integration used to be just as strictly limited for competitive reasons. We know it’s bad, just look at how Amazon leverages it’s sales data to compete against products it sells. They undoubtedly do the same thing with AWS and every other business they own.
Then I suppose you won't mind me posting it for you right?
Restish is a CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs
Scientists explore chemistry of tattoo inks amid growing safety concerns
I didn't realize anyone didn't do this. Totally essential, great point!
Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech for patent infringement over Covid vaccine
Back in 2020, I was able to make £800 per day doing outside IR35 work. Similar level of experience but in TypeScript, React and Node. Working for an investment bank at the time; however you can get similar rates when working as a Tech Lead.

At this rate, I was slightly outside of the normal range at lots of places. It helps if there is a Managing Director that knows you're decent as they can help to sign-off on higher rates. Unfortunately I found this almost impossible to regularly achieve because it takes time to build your network and show your worth. Having to constantly start again with zero reputation at every workplace I go to was one of the reasons I decided to stop contracting. The other reason was the downturn in the contractor market caused by the possibility of IR35 enforcement and the reaction to this by big risk-adverse companies.
Because they hurt so good.
I know it (robot) doesn't come from Russian, but there's the word раб which just means slave/serf. They might have meant something to that effect.
The best advice I ever got about freelancing was to increase my rate for every job and keep on doing that until people refused to hire me. How else can you figure out what you're worth?
How big a percentage of the video game development and publishing market share will Amazon have after the acquisition, then? And how competition will be left?

(Answer: There is no anti-trust case. Just because Amazon is big doesn't mean it's big in the video game industry. Companies are allowed to be big across multiple industries. It would only become an issue if it already owned a big percentage of the video game industry, or if it buys up other publishers after this, like Activision or Tencent. Speaking of which, Microsoft intends to acquire Activision, which will make it the 3rd largest gaming company behind Tencent and Sony - and Amazon + EA will be trailing behind those still).
Could you give a bit more context about this?
I'm not familiar with the subject.
Lots of interesting links to talks related to C at the end of the articles!
sure, there would be capital costs but those could be financed, plenty of people would lend 30 year money for such an enterprise.

So to be clear you hate agriculture so much you are willing to end it with drought? I like agriculture personally. I would like more of it! There is plenty of desert in the west that could be made to bloom.
I think its just a meme from users seeing his name in other prompts. In many cases it's used in combinations with other artists whose styles aren't at all similar, it doesn't make sense other than users spamming it to get "good" results?
"They can not only operate at high temperatures of up to 200 °C (392 °F) but they actually work better when hotter – at 110 °C (230 °F), the batteries charged 25 times faster than they did at 25 °C (77 °F). Importantly, the researchers say the battery doesn’t need any external energy to reach this elevated temperature – its usual cycle of charging and discharging is enough to keep it that warm."

I feel like they're willing to hype anything. I'm sure this would be good for certain niche applications, but a standard operating temperature that high rules out a ton of uses and requires its own safety considerations.

I have no idea of the chemical reactions, but generally heat means wasted energy. I wonder what the efficiency is like for charge/discharge. And if they're used on a large scale how that heat dissipation would effect the local environment or climate change.
My rate is 165 USD/hr, but I’ll drop it as low as 135 for a long contract (6 months+). I do custom software for the refrigeration industry (mostly simulations, sensor data logging, a lot of web apps, etc.). But yeah like another poster mentioned, I just raise it every time I work with a new customer.

Imo hourly rates are kind of bogus because not every hour is the same and hours can’t determine value. Generally I negotiate a weekly rate @ 35 hrs / week and try to deliver something valuable every week. The amount of hours I actually work in a week varies.
I just want to be able to do basic things like banking without adware/spyware looking over my shoulders, which I'm guessing rules out Android?
US and China reach landmark audit inspection deal
IIRC Based on the latest numbers 70+% of Turks do hold their savings in foreign currency. So it’s accessible and widely used. It’s probably one of the reasons Turkey is weathering the storm better than expected, though it’s still a pretty bad situation. This corroborates with my personal experience as well.
I realize most have already made up their minds that VR will still be a gimmick with no market in the year 7000 AD, but I just can’t shake this crazy feeling that we’re going to sort it between now and then. My answer is VR. At least a hedge in case Zuckerberg turns out not to be a clown.

If only he had a track record to weigh.
On Ethereum developer experience – by Slava Akhmechet
I am extremely grateful that the world is not one big workplace and there's no HR to report everything to. Sexual harassment is actually legal outside the workplace, and it's generally protected speech up until you start violating a restraining order.

Simply talking about other people behind their back isn't harassment, but it's typically unacceptable in a workplace. Outside the workplace, it's just a natural tendency of humans.
I'd argue though not directly C conferences there _are_ definitely conferences where C developers come together.

* https://lpc.events/
* https://fosdem.org/
* https://all-systems-go.io/
The only advantage I can think of in this scenario is monitoring of employees.

As for disadvantages:

- no work offline

- no freedom for different OS, IDE, tools

- Single Point of Failure (that server goes down, connection
drops and nobody can do any work).

IMO the cons are much worse than the pros. I am curious what other advantages you would see in this approach.

EDIT: grammar, format
I've only skimmed some the paper, but does it distinguish between _types_ of anime fans?

I think the people the non-fans are probably thinking of are more likely "weeaboos", or people who are so obsessed with Japanese culture that they completely reject their own (the ones in really cringey videos). However, there are so many more people now that are either more open to the medium or just openly enjoy it but aren't really as visible - I'd love to see a reproduction of this test with this distinguishing factor.
Not the person you're replying to, but...

Of course there are other reasons they might act that way, but "crack addict" is a sometimes just shorthand for a person who's acting and looking a certain way.
It varies massively depending on seniority, company and location, but a representative range could be £400-£600 a day. Much above £600 tends to be for "multiplier" style roles that increase the output of other engineers, e.g. Devops or Tech Lead roles.

I've actually stopped billing myself as a fullstack developer for contract work. Increasingly the companies which use contractors will be looking for front end or backend roles only.
> Duckduckgo gets more than 10M direct queries per day in 2016 (duckduckgo.com)
Posted 3 times, created in 2012

Not sure how this one ended up here?
Add upvotes/downvotes to preprint servers. Weight voting power by the user’s subfield, dynamically determined by who’s upvoting them, PageRank style (so a scientist who’s mostly upvoted by others working in numerical linear algebra would have a lot of voting power on a preprint describing a novel matrix factorization scheme, and very little voting power on a preprint describing a novel thread scheduling algorithm).

Take the top N upvoted preprints in a given field and showcase them at a conference for that field.

And to avoid hype cycles or gaming the system, make voting cost karma—if you choose to vote, you yourself lose some voting weight in the process, so votes would only be given out sparingly to papers that actually deserve them.
Do you really think they care? Why in hell would you put your email address in a public space in the first place if you care about spam?
Lawsuits were expected. AFAIK they started soon after the vaccines were out
https://nltimes.nl
Always worth taking a look at Jobserve - most contract gigs list rate ranges and a genuinely experienced person who ticks the required-skills boxes won't usually have much trouble getting the upper end. Depends a lot on location (London will be highest for most things).
This is advice I give contractor friends frequently. Too busy? Raise your rate until you are winning fewer jobs but making the same amount. Or working less for more money.

My observation having gone through this several times over 15+ years of contracting: perhaps counter-intuitively, the clients you retain and the new ones you acquire at your increased rate will treat you and your time with more respect. I don’t have a solid unifying theory on why this is beyond that your rate as compared to expectations is directly correlated with clients’ impression of your value.
Why Don’t Lonely People Just Hang Out Together?
You're not "a simple man", you're an agitator lashing out at criticisms of behaviour and culture.
> people that believe differently from me and the majority, and their religious freedom, are not relevant to me and my idea of a functioning society

Fixed that bigotry for you.
The incentives become perverse once relatively unrelated businesses are combined. History also shows conglomerates don’t out perform the stand alone companies and it hurts competition and innovation.

I think there’s a certain point where executives run out of ideas but have to be doing something. Then you have investment bankers and advisors pushing these ideas and copycatting each other for that sweet, sweet commission payday.

And it’s not so much that these are great ideas, it’s can they sound okay enough to get that payday before everyone realizes it was all a stupid waste of time five years later. That is, after the acquired company gets its souls sucked out, the talent leaves, and the acquirer discards the husk at a discount.
The conference for open source data in the cloud
It appears that Amazon is not buying EA after all ...

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1563136384059285505?s=20
$250/hour for senior engineers and $150/hour for more junior contributors.
Indeed. That's what I was trying to get to. I've actually met people who thought the GOP was good, and Republicans were bad because they didn't understand they were the same thing.

Oh, its your turn - phase your lands out!
They dont have a payments processor yet. Someone tell Jeff

But also: do they disallow competitors to use their services/sell their games? AFAIK antimonopoly litigation requires the existence of an actual market obstruction, not its hypothetical existence.
For the same reason that carpenters do not have conferences about saws and hammers. It's an old tool with well-known deficiencies and it doesn't attract an idealistic, evangelical crowd that can write manifestos and narratives about it.
And the Japanese equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu
Agreed. I think EA has really popular sports games, however I can't recall the last EA game I played. It might be Titanfall 2?

There's also BioWare - but their last few releases have been disastrous.

Edit: Oh, more recently I loved the Command & Conquer remaster - that maybe counts as an EA game? It was published by them, but I don't think Peteoglyph is owned by EA.
Wow, thank you to the authors!

It looks like this tool, nbdev2, solves a real-world problem for Jupyter users, including me, with zero effort required to use it every day. It relies on clever hooks to get git to treat cells as first-class citizens (as opposed to lines of text, the default). Nice! Based on that alone, I would expect nbdev2 to be widely adopted over time. In fact, if it works as well as advertised, it should be incorporated into Jupyter. I, for one, will be giving it a try!

If you use Jupyter to solve problems in your domain of expertise, feel free to ignore all the smart-sounding software engineers who will poo-pooh this tool only because they don't like notebooks and don't want anyone to use them. No matter what you do, there will always be people who look down on easy-to-use tools that enable scientists and practitioners from other disciplines to write, run, and explore ad-hoc code on-the-fly.

EDIT: nbdev2's authors are on this page, answering questions. Thank you again!
So I need a kettle of boiling water to warm up the battery in my electric bike, before I can ride off in the morning? Also, boiling-hot molten salt - I don't want that spilling on me in the event the battery is ruptured in a collision.

(Sure, I don't really want lithium salts splashing on me either; but molten salt at 90C?)
The only thing I miss about the vscode setup is support for a decent PDF viewer (not sumatra), and that magnifier loupe thing that other editors have.
Because it's a SPAM sent to our community; and directly relevant to us.
That's big news. Wow, a headset. Zuck also mentioned that the FBI engaged in some prior restraint before the last election.
I think I'd have even bigger concerns about a battery hitting 230F as part of normal operation in my house. Maybe they can create a dual use as a preheater for the water heater or something.
It doesn't matter what color you are. It doesn't matter where you're from. If you create something like what Dijkstra created back in 56' (undeniable innovation), then no door will remain shut. That's the beauty of Math, CompSci, or STEM as a whole.

Not to be too blunt, but I'd rather we keep this soft, "everyone should be accepted" nonsense out of CompSci. The cream will rise to the top. Anyone complaining just needs to improve, or innovate. The author even says the reason for rejection is often "lack of novelty".

Me personally, I'm not talented enough to even be in the same conversation as some of the people who are in that "universe", but that's okay - It just wasn't meant to be for me. If I "stay in my own lane", that creates more room for the gifted, and the elite.
That was going to be my exact response if someone implied me a hypocrite. Lol. Fittingly I was only at EA because of an acquisition too!
Crawler Hints supports Microsoft’s IndexNow in helping users find new content
I think that my ideal CS education would include 3 things:

1. "We're going to ask you to build real software, with real tools, in a group. Even if it's only for one course."

2. "We're going to ask you to do some theory and write some proofs."

3. "We're going to show you some wild stuff that looks like it belongs on an alternate timeline."

(3) might be something like Oberon, or Racket, or some eccentric faculty project. Or even just teaching all your CS majors Haskell, if you don't have any genuinely eccentric faculty projects to inflict on students.

Innovation is often driven by people who are aware of what might have been.
Doesn't seem logical as this feels like a premium service. We'll find out soon enough though.
Words do evolve. That’s why I said Profession Engineer rather than just engineer. It's a relatively new title (from early 1900's) and in lots of jurisdictions it implies the person is licensed and if something they stamp fails, they can be sued for malpractice and even lose their license to practice.
Moving beyond the abortion issues, in the hypothetical above there’s a real chance various regimes would do blood work on their living populations and kill or imprison non-out LGBT people (plus whatever straight people get included due to measurement error).

Knowing that this outcome is likely, is it ethically responsible to publish?
You're missing one step here, as the "next Pascal" was Oberon's predecessor Modula-2. For which there were some 8/16-bit compilers around, including a Turbo Modula-2.

Didn't seem to work out back than for a few reasons, one probably simply being that "Pascal" had a certain name recognition. Also, OO was coming around which Modula-2 didn't have, and by the time Oberon was invented, Object Pacal was already a thing.
Do you have any high traffic site on Hobby plan? I see some people using vercel domain getting blowing up their posts on HN, can hobby plan afford that traffic?
Well, for Microsoft it makes sense. They build game consoles. Owning game studios and game publishers is a good way to get preferential treatment for your console platform.

Amazon probably wants game publishers so they can harden their monopoly on game streaming with Twitch.

Maybe they want to get into the Cloud gaming space too.

Don't forget Sony recently bought Bungie, too. It seems like it's just another wave of consolidation
I wish I was as hopeful as you, for real :)
> Multiple studies have shown that pirates are often the best customers. (see https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-mu...)

But that’s a completely different claim, no?

Also, Torrentfreak is horrible quality agenda-pushing blogspam. I wouldn’t take their interpretation of a survey of unknown quality (which they didn’t even bother to link to) at face value.

And if we were to do that, perhaps the best explanation is that more technically oriented pirates were more likely to spend money on streaming services in 2016 than the average person. Perhaps piracy was just a proxy for tech savvy?
I think that's a little too sweeping a generalization. There exist children who are capable of reading
As someone who has been on the conference committee for (non-academic) conferences, I'm not a particular fan of blind selections. Yes, I get the desire to not just give slots to "the usual suspects" which at least historically has often happened at a lot of conferences I attended. But the reality is that there are people who you know based on overwhelming experience will give great talks that attendees will appreciate and learn from. Even if they submitted an abstract that didn't immediately catch your eye among the pile you're going to accept 25% of, do you really want to reject them? Assuming the committee has some commitment to new/less known speakers there are IMO better ways to spread the love than blinding.
In Canada contractors who work for the recruiters who supply resources to the Canadian government can expect these kind of rates:
Experienced DBA ~$80/hour
System Analyst/Platform Analyst ~100/hour
Security Assessor or Practitioner from $115 to $125/hour

Front end developers who know a JavaScript framework, Power BI developers and anyone with cloud experience are in demand at top rates.

Then there are the gold ring jobs that pay over $200/hour. An example might be a subject matter expert on deploying Splunk, CyberArc or Sailpoint at an enterprise level. Usually you are working for a name brand consulting firm.

The recruiters add 30% to your rate and pay you net 30. Direct contracts with the government are possible but tend to be more short term
There are no low hanging fruits to talk about in such a mature and well made language.
My most recent bill rate was $177/hr for a LT gig, doing performance optimization and FE web arch. But I'm an outlier; $100/hr is a commonly-cited budget cap for similar contracts. Higher effective hourly rate is feasible w/ fixed-price / value-based projects (more "strategic consulting", less "contract worker"), but it entails risk.
maybe they didn't do it. if it's easy to sign up maybe somebody put your email address in the service.
Would that not end up hurting your reputation after a while?
Poll: Contractors, what is your hourly rate
Poll version of [0]

> I charge $115-130 an hour. All work is 100% remote. I customize Salesforce.

> I think my rate is pretty good, but am wondering if I should charge more or if there is other tech I should specialize in that could get me a higher rate.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606348
Under $20
$20-$40
$40-$70
$70-$100
$100-$150
$150-$200
$200-$300
Over $300
> - the things you list are insanely expensive (just keep that in mind next time you say that nuclear power is expensive... you also need to figure these costs in when comparing to EE, because you wouldn't need to do this with nuclear)

We absolutely need to do this anyway and fast, because there will not be any massive amount of new nuclear power going online - even if we were to start out a buildout offensive in nuclear plants, it would take ten to fifteen years at best, and we need to conserve as much energy as we can in the meantime.

> - PV with battery storage is great for autarky and reducing fossils, but won't reduce the need for base load after a week without sun in winter, when all the batteries are empty..

Which is why industry needs to be incentivized to shut down in such times. China does it by force, we can offer financial incentives.

> Bio gas, hydro, geothermal.. they are all pretty must at their limits. there is just no way around either burning fossils, using nuclear or having an insane amount of storage.

Biogas has a lot of potential, as well as geothermal. We just need to get going after 16 years of sabotage by the conservatives.
LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder
> The emphasis on novelty has deep roots in academic publishing. It used to be that publishing was expensive, and any repetition came at the expense of other things that could have been published. Today, however, publishing is essentially free.

Requiring novelty shows respect for the readers' time. Paper and ink costs were never the primary limiting factors (even if the publishers' claimed otherwise to save face).

"repetition came at the expense of other things" -- no, repetition comes at the expense equal to Number of Readers * Time Wasted on Each non-novel paper.

If the author just stuck to "novelty is hard to really know" then it's a much stronger argument.
It's not just him, it's over 90% of humans. Us monkeys have poor self control and need help.
I am reading the comments complaining about pinephone.

Why dont you get yourself one of supported sailfish os phones and install sailfish?

It works for me without issues for 2 years now and I can run android apps in lxc container (without them having access to any relevant data).

https://sailfishos.org/
I think similarly, I think advertisement is mass poisoning that we happen to allow, because it makes a lot of money go around. One of the cities that did away with billboards is Sao Paulo - really interesting case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
I guess it depends on how hard it is to move. At least when GM tells people not to park their Bolt inside or near flammable stuff, they can move it. I image it would be difficult to do that with a battery pack whether connected to the wall or not.