skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like another job by the "retards" :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/w6bgpz/who_...

Edit: In case you don't know, 'Retard' is a friendly self-deprecating title proudly used by many at wallstreetbets.

For News confirmed by the BBC and denied by CNBC...If I was the SEC, I would be all over any recent moves on this stock.
That's not what an ad-hom attack is. An ad-hom would be insulting the poster they were replying to. This is at worst making an incorrect guess at their ideology, but more likely than not, it's a correct guess.
As a physics student in college, almost all of my (physics) exams were open book to some degree. Some were even take home tests where I had a few days to complete it, and was allowed to use software like Mathematica and Matlab.

I definitely think that is a better way to test.
That was quite the revelation... though if I was in Zuck's shoes I would be throwing the FBI under the bus too as it deflects the Section 230 arguments.
Ask HN: How did you move from hourly to flat project rate?
Motivated by the "what's your hourly rate?" poll. There's the famous patio11 post[0] that talks about charging flat rates rather than hourly. I've had some scattered success with this but I'd like to do it a lot more often. There's a wealth of general advice, (esp on Patrick's blog) but contextualizing that with personal stories would be very helpful

For those who have made the transition from hourly to flat rate, how did you get there? For those who tried and found it wasn't effective for you, what do you think the major sticking point was?

[0]https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/
I have read up on 9front a little. It's good to see that people are still working on it.

Personally, as someone who's used xNix OSes for >30 years out of pragmatism not any love, I find Plan 9 completely inscrutable and unusable.

Years ago there was an Inferno ISO available -- gone now, AFAICT -- and I managed to run it. I mentioned Inferno here:

"Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? Get weird, go ALTERNATIVE"
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/11/01/25_alternative_...

I found the Inferno desktop a lot more navigable and comprehensible than 8½, Rio, Acme etc.

I still wonder if it might be possible to merge Plan 9 (and derivatives) and Inferno. Give the choice of C compiled to a native binary, or Limbo compiled to Dis.
Because having an industrial revolution implies that transportation and navigation are widespread, it's kind of a given that an industrial revolution can only happen once.
I am very curious now, because you seem to be alluding to it: is there any real world example of any kind of artist who is both "compelling" and did most of their studying or work in a group? Or is this just all in theory, like "Johnny Thousand-Livers"? https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/organs
Yes which is why the 1300kWh/year is bogus. Gas usage is energy usage. If that is factored in it would be much higher I am sure.
Reproducible Docker is fighting an uphill battle, Nix and it's ecosystem tries to be reproducible by default.

Dockers ecosystem aims more for repeatable, not reproducible.

> At the end of the day we all need to consider versioning (i.e., the image version) the versions (i.e., package versions) anyway.

The granularity of pinned versions and feasibility of having a culture of everything being pinned versus needing to know a crazy amount of things that need pinned a big difference.
Mainstream GOP darling Fox is also reporting this story, FWIW.
the most toxic ... if you exclude all the others
I think coal is exaggerated. The early industrial Revolution, especially in the US, relied much more heavily on water power to drive machinery than coal. In fact, for the First Industrial Revolution, steam power was a footnote. Coal was used for making steel in England, but America primarily used charcoal for iron and steel well into the mid to late 1800s.

Coal enabled faster scale up in the Second Industrial Revolution and on into the 1900s, but it was not essential for industrialization.
> Today it would probably be a PowerPoint presentation, but the point stands: Expert has been an overused and overloaded term for far longer than 10x, and other than specifying a focus ("video encoding expert" or similar) it is insufficient to actually communicate to non-technical people the distinction.

This blend of highly dismissive comments on expertise and the volume of work it takes to achieve it is starting to become a cliche in software development circles, similar in tone to the denigrating comments regarding roles such as system architects.

Expertise is domain knowledge supported with real world experience. It's not fancy slideshows.

The video compression specialist outperforms you in every way because he's been studying the problem domain, researching the problem, implementing solutions, and analysing the results. And meanwhile you barely know what's a ffmpeg.

Some developers think too highly of themselves to the point they feel they can parachute into a problem and talk down anyone around them, including experts and specialists. And this shows in the code, and unfortunately in team dynamics.
Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? 25 alternative PC OSes (2013)
There’s a lawyers joke about being careful about throwing out an absurd rate for a client you really don’t want to take without saying no, but then they accept and you’re like, crap.
The basic argument is that without a clear use case to overcome the version 1.0 troubles of (steam) engines, there was no incentive to work out the kinks and pumping water out of coal mines was the big "killer application" of such motors. That is, pumping water out of coal mines was the "early adopter" market for engine technology:

> As we’ll see, this was a use-case that didn’t really exist in the ancient world and indeed existed almost nowhere but Britain even in the period where it worked.

I remember reading a blog post by TechnicsHistory [0] (which was on the front page of HN at one point) that makes the same argument.

The acoup.blog article goes on to give a reason why coal wasn't needed earlier as the need for heating fuel became scarce when wood became scarce:

> Consequently wood as a heat fuel was scarce and so beginning in the 16th century we see a marked shift over to coal as a heating fuel for things like cooking and home heating.

I'm still skeptical of why it took so long. Were there no other places in Europe, Asia or the Middle East that didn't have the same deforestation issues? Was it the combination of deforestation and population density?

[0] https://technicshistory.com/2021/07/13/the-triumvirate-coal-...
For almost all cases, this is far from true. For a typical ICE car, the manufacturing emissions tends to be around 10%-20% of the lifetime emissions the vehicle. You can see the exact breakdown for a variety of cars, and comparison to EVs at https://climobil.connecting-project.lu
Just to be pedantic: the command is jai.exe, and the source file extension is .jai, so everyone calls the language Jai. Except Jonathan Blow, who only ever refers to it as "the language" in his videos. I vaguely recall him saying in an interview that he doesn't want to commit to a name just yet.
If the Roman Empire had lasted 3 centuries longer, that would have been 55 years after Savery's steam engine.
It's still very likely Germans drive more - Germany is very decentralized (which is amazing, e.g. no grid locks), and it has one of the best railroads in the world... still has likely one the best highways as well.

The only East European country that can possible change the stats would be Poland (but personally I don't believe that) - the rest are just too small.
Title as it stands right now ("Hetzner bans running Ethereum PoS nodes") is incorrect. Hetzner disallows running any software related to any cryptocurrencies, so be it mining, trading, storage of blockchain data for analysis, operating a node (mining/staking/farming/whatever). It doesn't seem to be specific to Ethereum (PoS or PoW) but generally about any sort of software that interacts with cryptocurrencies (or data coming from cryptocurrencies).
When you have damaged tissue you must replace it sooner. Tissue replacement is by division of cells, which carries the risk of a transcription error. If the wrong error occurs and is not caught you have cancer.
Excel had Lotus-123 shortcut compatibility for decades after Lotus-123 was no longer a going concern.

It's still somewhat in there with / triggering the menu on Windows Excel.
That sounds like an unrealistically stretched hypothetical to justify not pursuing otherwise interesting scientific avenues.
co-pilot used to generate react code with a GUI visualization tool. Boy am I excited for the amount of money people will be paying for ongoing maintenance for this brave new world.
All those red cents going to proprietary software licensing... Lots of Windows licenses in the federal government.
That sounds nice in theory, but how would you write a test for, say, basic physics, when every type of question can be Googled? Even if you make brand new questions, it's still just generally available categories of problems, like inclined planes and stuff. It's even worse with algebra, because there's software that can both solve it for you and show the steps (which you can then copy onto a test).

Unfortunately, in order to progress to more advanced topics, you need to understand the basics yourself. It's not sufficient to just be able to research it online. This is true in every field I can think of. That's why you can't just give people online access for every kind of test.
I usually charge per day or per week. If it's a few hours, I just tell them it's not worth my time.

The locality of the customer matters a lot. Usually, I will factor what it would cost for them to hire a full-time engineer (not just salary, but also overhead). A $120k salary will cost the company $200k, or $90 per hour. Then I'll add a % on top since I'm not getting days off, paid vacation, long-term security, etc.

That kind of reasoning helps with stingy customers. Otherwise, I just give a flat rate to solve their problem.

For customers that need me long term, I also ask for a monthly retainer to keep availability for them, for meetings, emergency bug fixes, etc. Otherwise, you're giving them the perks of an employee without them properly compensating you.
Yes, and it seems GP is requesting a feature where we can publish our emails but behind a layer protective verification. We could still also do various obfuscation behind that, but it would still be an improvement, and reduce friction to creating contacts here.
While I agree with you, I think the exception to the rule (and maybe a few others) is the OP of a post, in this case sixhobbets is the OP.
You probably had some classes with Gutknecht at some point, who apparently contributed significantly to Oberon.

That being said, I'm in the same boat as you. I have definitely heard more about Oberon here on HN than at ETHZ.
For the curious: it's not intentionally NSFW but the filters aren't very good (if there are any) so you do see occasionally inappropriate images.
I think this is naive and a classic example of a poor argument, as your statements are unfalsifiable. They’re expressions of faith in the system and in individuals outside of time and circumstance.

From my perspective, we have seen a lot of evidence that STEM is far from an objective field, and has culturally excluded a lot of talent. I see little evidence that this sort of talent magically, consistently, will fight through the cultural barriers.
But you're talking about high-cultural art thresholds, which is a valid topic but not the core of the concept.

Any kid is an artist in a way, every caveman that painted its cave was an artist, you seducing your wife/girlfriend/significant other are doing art. Some silly memes are or aren't?

That's why I repeat. We need a remix of technologists and philosopher's raising this discussion up.
> but how many moves can I draw the game out for

depends on the position, from not a lot, to 100+ moves.

but don't forget that there are forced draws in chess, namely, repeated position 3 times (doesn't have to be consecutive), 50 move rule (50 moves without a pawn move or a capture), and insufficient material.

So trading off material would shorten the game.
FTA: Per the Times, the University of Michigan is considering taking a similar approach to the fake Galileo. Rather than tuck it away, the university may make it the centerpiece of a future exhibition on the art of forgery.
Smaller docker images for one:

https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images

Nix gives repoducibility, docker gives repeatability but not reproducibility.

Also see the video "Use flake.nix, not Dockerfile": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uixRE8xlbY

you can swim upstream and make your own docker image reproducible, but that doesn't change an ecosystem of images that aren't
Only if you get an air-to-air heat pump, commonly called air conditioning.

Air-to-water heat pumps still only change the temperature of water, which is practically only useful for heating.
Precisely this. Coal for powering machinery was just at the science experiment stage in the First Industrial Revolution. Water power was the workhorse. Even for iron and steel making, America (which has an abundance of trees) relied primarily on charcoal well into the mid 1800s.
Move fast and break things.

Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.

Disrupt

Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.
Well at least there aren't 20 types of toilets where each one takes 3 years to learn how to unlock...
It takes a bit of time to pick up and tie everything together. I enjoyed it a lot, but some parts didn't stand out that much.
Doesn't look good if 14% of these nodes are sitting on Hetzner and we already have a concerning amount of centralization on more than 51% of these servers on AWS.

It seems that the centralization will get worse with the move to PoS in both cases. It doesn't matter what the Ethereum maximalists / supports or even the Ethereum foundation says otherwise at this point.

[0] https://ethernodes.org/networkType/Hosting
The Zuck sounds as engaging to listen to as XJ-212 Funnybot from South Park, btw they are both equally as good for humanity
On chess websites gains and losses swing more extreme until you play enough games to stabilise. It's a modified elo system or elo-adjascent. This way people reach their "true" rating much quicker e.g. a grand master who signs up will reach 2400 over a smaller amount of games than if he could only gain 2 or 3 points for every game. The same goes for the beginner who starts at 1500 but should be 800, he'll reach that quickly and then play against people around his ability.
"dumb enough"? Not everyone wants to work remotely. Some people prefer to work with other humans in a physical location. Doesn't make them smarter or dumber, just a preference.
Scraping email addresses into a "subscribers" list, sending unsolicited spam, and claiming to be associated with the official site - this is scummy behavior.

Unfortunately such disrespectful behavior to online communities has become the norm, with companies like Facebook leading the onslaught of legally and ethically questionable practices to exploit and abuse the public trust. On the hierarchy of scum, they're top-level scum that demonstrates to everyone, "This is how we do business now."

It's likely an "entrepreneur" trying to get traction, maybe make a little money on advertising. In their need for hustle, they crossed a line.
Around ~11k a second. Not small but not insane scale either.
Sixhobbits is notable and important to me. They deeerve dignity and our respect
Authenticating to Square Using Auth0
Posting a guide I put together for connecting to Square using Auth0. I'm working on building a serverless application on top of Square, but couldn't find a guide anywhere on this topic.
it's probably true that you're earning more; but you should know that the amount seen on the balance sheet isn't the whole truth.

In fact, I'm quite sure you know, but for those reading: 80-100eur/h on a contract is roughly equivalent to 50-60eur/h salaried; due to social contributions, paid vacation (1.12th of your salary), pension contributions and other benefits relating to insurance in the even the business goes bankrupt. -- that doesn't include any other benefits you might get as a FTE.

It's very hard to compare, and it's the same awkward comparison you have to make when talking to US folks, since US folks have as much job security as contractors do in Europe and get paid in a relatively similar way with similar benefits in some cases.
I’ve interacted with probably close to 50 contractors of various trades for my house. They all insist on physically coming to give an estimate and a good chunk end up completely ghosting you. Most of them could have done an estimate over zoom -- definitely an interesting bunch of folks.

I found thumbtack to be pretty good for small jobs.
For public servers I understand, for private messages obviously not.

edit: better wording
Fair proposition, but then what's the place of humans there? How aren't they deprived of participation in creation and forced to stay as mere consumers in there?
It is bikeshedding. My comment about the box was in general a sentiment and an illustrative and qualitative example, not something that can be directly compared enough to calculate some exact number and certainly not something where some ideal number affects the sentiment.

For example, the average American walks 1.5-2 miles a day, so that's a factor of over x20 for the average travel distance of orcas (which by the way is average linear distance, i.e., starting point to ending point, and not total travel which is much higher). Humans don't dive and live very horizontal lives, while orcas dive 100-500 feet multiple times every day. Their tanks at SeaWorld are only approximately 30 feet deep, lesser at other places.

So your "factor of about 370" doesn't make any sense, because it myopically only takes into account relative size and a false comparison of human height versus orca length.

And by the way, I said a box with the lid off, so your mention of a 3'x3'x3' is incorrect. It's hard to believe how my off-the-cuff suggestion of 3'x3' versus your "calculated" 13'x13' discredits my point in any way. And I left something off, because the orcas experience strong chemicals in the water, so the human box would need a gas of some sort constantly irritating the skin and eyes.

So yes, it is bikeshedding, because here we are.

> Mixing up Miami Seaquarium in a discussion about SeaWorld is confused. The two environments are totally incomparable.

I'm not confused about anything or mixing anything up. I genuinely have no idea what you're referring to or even getting at. Also, you do know that SeaWorld loans and sells orcas to places that often have far worse conditions than SeaWorld's already deplorable conditions, right?

I don't know what you're getting at in your last comment at all. Orcas weigh several tons. And an orca intentionally stranding isn't trying to commit suicide by suffocation. I didn't even say so. Orcas die from stranding due to their immense weight affecting their internal organs.

I have no idea how one can do any research into the lives orcas live in captivity and feel anything remotely close to okay with it.
I'm very skeptical of anything Elon says on twitter with regards to timelines or capability of anything he's building.

My view on this 'announcement' is -- Possible? Yes. Economical at scale? Likely not.

Even Starlink V1 has essentially become 'Pay us 2500 USD up front and 500 a month to get access now'. I question the viability of adding cellphone levels of users to a network like this, from not only an economic standpoint, but a physics/bandwidth standpoint on the EM spectrum.

Would love to be proven wrong on this.
The article is the best introduction and overview I know. There are many more comprehensive sites.

The revival is worth a look:

http://www.projectoberon.com/

This academic paper is highly readable and interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704806

Wikibooks has excellent docs in depth:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon

But I often cite the Ignore the Code post when someone doesn't know what Oberon is. I used it in a comment elsewhere on HN, and thought "why not submit it?" and here we are. The word "language" wouldn't fit in the title, AFAICR.
I hope some day we'll be able to get rid of Apple-Google smartphone duopoly. Free and open-source, privacy-respecting, hacker-oriented software on PCs has been around basically forever, whereas the situation with (mainstream) smartphones is getting worse and worse each year.

Remember being excited with new AOSP features[1], not the "AI-powered", proprietary nonsense Google has been cranking out recently[2]? Remember rooting?

[1] - https://www.androidpolice.com/google-io-2022/
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
Computer vision is a solved problem for astronomical images (2009)
If you need $x/hr and the draining clients are willing to pay you $3x/hr, have you considered spending a third to half of your time on those clients, and the remainder of your time doing absolutely whatever you want?

A full week of stuff you don't want to be doing is exhausting, but a couple of days of it in return for a four or five day weekend can feel very different.
It's not the biggest subsegment of the desktop space, but there are a good number of people using Pi-level devices as a second desktop. RiscOS, Linux, NetBSD, and even Windows run on Raspberry Pi. Some of those run on several other similarly powered boards. In the open source space, plenty of apps already support AMD64, ARM32 and ARM64 and the distros distribute for them. If I can get Debian or Ubuntu on a system with even 1/10 the package repo of AMD64, it's worth considering for a cheap laptop or a small low-power desktop.

Now I know that doesn't sound like much. Don't kid yourself into thinking Apple Silicon M1 and M2 came from nowhere, though. If it wasn't for growing capability in the ARM lines in other products Apple would not have been so likely to invest in it for their new technology, Rosetta or no. Exynos Chromebooks and such led the way to ARM Macbooks the same way the IBM PC led to displacing DEC and Sun workstations, then minicomputers, then x86 servers replacing most other servers in the DC.
John Carmack disagrees with your rationale: "As long as people are buying it, it means they’re enjoying it" [0]

[0]https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/07/id-softwares-john-car...
It seems that it's already in the ToS since 2021-10-27 (https://www.hetzner.com/assets/Uploads/downloads/AGB-en.pdf, Wayback Machine provides evidence of non-tampering https://web.archive.org/web/20220209111333im_/https://www.he...), just enforced today presumably due to electricity usage (at least at the time that document was drafted).
Whatever adware Google is shovelling isn't part of the app your bank provides, so it wouldn't be an issue in the wine-like layer you want. But as other commenters point out, lots of banking apps don't like running in an emulated device.

If you want to use a banking app without Google or Apple dominating your device, look at something which defangs Android like GrapheneOS or LineageOS.
By glancing at the link they provide, "quite sad" is obviously a reference to the top comment on the reddit thread, where someone immediately shits on the whole project by pointing to one line of code that they don't approve of.
They are updating their CV right now - "Posts about my business were featured on the front page of HN"
No, I'm asking about the situation you described: Do you know of a situation where somebody started a subscription and had the base price triple. I'm not talking about the price of a box of tide pods going up by $1, I mean the situation you're describing where somebody effectively gets bait-and-switched with a 3x price increase.