skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Contractors, what is your hourly rate?
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.
> it's all configurable

also the ecosystem is huge and chances are that the configuration you are after is just a package-install away
> What?? If there ever was proof that HN is completely clueless about reality not empathetic of their fellow humans

The simple answer is that the real disconnect is thinking that since someone comments on HN, he is some kind of a mythical creature.

I am a middle aged man from Italy that saw mobile phones birth when was 20 already.

Don't assume that your experience is my experience.

Nobody I know closely knows what HN is, they ask me what phone to buy or which laptop, because I've always been the "techie" of the family/group of friends and because they care about not wasting their money but can't navigate the bullshit they see in the ads.

I guess that "blast past fast" or "do what you can" don't really say anything about the device true capabilities and why one should spend their money to buy it.

unless the reason is "I will buy whatever rich people buy" or "I like the colour of this one"

Of course the iPhone ads work, because they don't promote the phone, they sell a way of life, a lifestyle, their target is the "cool kids" that want to be "content creators" and that appeals to their desire to be part of what is fashionable among their peers, but that's exactly what brainwashing is.

Ads is brainwashing and it's scientifically weaponized against the reference target.

repetita iuvant: they don't promote the product, they exploit your sentiments, desires, fears, whatever works, to make you buy the product.
But are actually a bunch of lies.
Antitrust law does exactly this. If Amazon owning EA overly concentrates market power/forms a monopoly, it'll be rejected and the deal with fail.

Why would you want to put an upper cap on the size of companies? It feels like stifling innovation and productivity, which will be overly negative for everyone.
CNBC: Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts
The zooming reminds me of Prezi, except that Prezi is in 3D... (maybe Oberon is where they got their original idea from?).

As interesting as it sounds and looks, I cannot imagine constantly zooming in and out (or panning) just to switch windows. Maybe I am so indoctrinated with the standard Windows task switcher concept that I don't want it to work in any other way. I was also completely lost when I tried to create a Prezi presentation instead of Powerpoint.

On the other hand it is great to see something different in the UI world. I remember only one such other concept that didn't make it into mainstream: the UI where you just move the mouse, but don't need to click...
Really enjoy the piece by jwz (Watch a VC use my name to sell a con): https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s...

[As I recall, you’ll likely want to copy and paste that url into your address bar to avoid some referrer detection on his site.]

I learned a new word there: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ground%20Sco...
The Obsessive Pleasures of Mechanical-Keyboard Tinkerers
I am a simple man. When ever I see the words "Toxic Culture" spoken by people somehere, I flee the country..
Archived: https://archive.ph/wip/AXONL
one thing I'd have liked that I didn't spot was a joules/kg or joules/volume question, and "size" is a bit nebulous, are they talking volume or energy? if it's 1/6th cost per volume, but it's 1/7th the energy per volume, lithium would still come out ahead on cost. It's probably not, but the article and the abstract didn't clarify that to my read.
> I would of course not be in favor of nuclear power.

Ok, let's say I could convince you that it is possible to store nuclear waste safely, and show you that building up wind power takes at least as long. Could I convince you then?
So granted not everywhere has enough sun or wind potential. But building out a ton of renewables compliments building out a ton of EV chargers and cars. Definitely worth upgrading infrastructure to handle. V2L makes it even more of a direct compliment.

There’s an important relationship between energy available per capita and “health” of civilization. So I saw we do it all.
Billionaires Are Gouging Your Grandparents [1][2]

[1] https://www.alternet.org/2008/07/billionaires_are_gouging_yo...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsxGxzrTsc
It will be interesting to see how big regulators will allow Amazon to become. They are already crazy large in so many sectors.
Idiocracy ;)

In that movie, Costco pretty much does everything.
Yes, high-level language. (I submitted this post & wrote the title.)

Oberon is both the programming language and the operating system, including the IDE and the compiler and the UI.

"Oberon" is the name of the whole thing, and it's about 30K LOC in total. The entire thing is smaller than a typical Linux console-mode text editor.

The original OS -- that is the entire thing, from kernel to tiling UI to compiler -- was about 12K LOC:
http://www.edm2.com/0608/oberon.html

The compiler is about 4K LOC:
https://dercuano.github.io/notes/oberon.html

In Linux terms it is hard to even comprehend how tiny this OS is.
Weyland-Yutani?
That’s an unfair comparison.
Other than Twitch (and maybe AWS, I don't know enough), none of those are monopoly or capable of anti-competition. Even twitch has youtube as alternative
Amazon's strategy is to be a smarter GE, by expanding into new areas that feed power into the Amazon flywheel.

EA would give them control over a core library of content and IP, that they could use to (a) ensure continued access into home consoles for their other products, (b) run as a game on demand service attached to Prime, or (c) make exclusive to launch their own console.

And it seems like the sort of business Amazon likes: good profit margin trend line, but more valuable within the Amazon ecosystem than outside it.
A solution more harmful than the non-existant problem it was meant to solve. We are very good at that kind of things.
That is one of the main claimed advantages, because the main components are simple inorganic substances, and not e.g. complex organic solvents that degrade in time, like in most lithium batteries.
Ask HN: Which OSS codebase can I learn that'll remain relevant after 20 years?
I am a software developer for many yrs. I've written some opensource projects but they're not popular... only 10-20 stars, one or two bug reports in a year. I've made contributions to large OSS projects but I feel like small fish in large ocean there. There are much bigger fish and whales in OSS who understand the codebase so well and they can extend that code and help others in ways I can only dream of.
For sometime I'm having an itch to learn some open source codebase really really well, go deep into it. I want the satisfaction of knowing one open source project deeply. But this takes time and focus. I get such satisfaction in my day job working on proprietary codebases. I want to find the same satisfaction in an OSS project. This could become my weekend hobby. I'm looking for suggestions. What I'm looking for:

* Very well established libre/opensource project

* Something that will still be relevant and still be around after 20 years

* Something that has a community of users around it (it is okay if it is a niche community)

The "still be around after 20 years" is important because if I'm going to spend many weekends learning some codebase it'd better be on some codebase that is going to be around after 20 years so what I learn does not go entirely waste. Thoughts? Suggestions?
The fact that it works is telling.

But perhaps it should not be surprising. It is quite common for Christian biblical literalists to refer to English translations of the Bible.

Surprisingly few even read Armenian.
Revenue or balance sheet
Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts
I agree and I already used Lua successfully for scripting.

My gripe with it is: no easy parallelism and I don't mean OS threads. I suppose it's not a priority for them, sadly.
Swastika Mountain in Oregon may have a new name soon
Ha, I wrote something like this previously which I called Rabbit. It was in scheme, and would essentially watch for text between two carets (hence Rabbit, because it ate carets) and then the first word would be the function to run, with each subsequent word its argument.

It was cool to use and show off to colleagues but it was such a hacky piece of work as I used xev to grabs a windows input and worked off of that.

This looks _much_ better!
Dead Space is literally coming back just now after they EA-ified Dead Space 3.
I personally tend to agree with you, and yet, as a researcher and writer about OSes and so on, I never even heard of it until a few years ago. It is, sadly, quite obscure.
Wild guess, but it could be that Amazon’s strategy involves Twitch somehow.
The Family Reunion: Star Trek and Celestis’ Enterprise Flight
> Sure sounds like iphone will get there first, pine could beat them to it.

Pine64 doesn't make any of those components. High end components are also generally from manufacturers that don't share documentation, so entirely useless for Pine64's goals.
Living in Japan, it’s very hard to find properly spicy food or nice chilli sauces. I’ve resorted to just eating plain cut chilli. A while back, I experimented with not adding more spices than was already provided in my meals. No pepper, no chilli. After about a month, I started experiencing new tastes and flavours from foods I’ve always ate. It was amazing.

But I craved that endorphin high from spicy foods and have fallen back to my old ways.
No.

Most European countries announced that they were going to completely stop importing Russian oil & gas within the next couple of years.

They also froze Russian overseas bank accounts and blocked Russian access to the Swift international payments processing system.

As a consequence of this Russia said "Well, if you're blocking our access to foreign currency, you'll have to pay for your oil & gas in Roubles"

Western European nations refused to pay in Roubles, so Russia said "If you won't pay, you don't get the oil & gas'*

Honestly. Whatever your opinion on Russia's invasion of Ukraine [and I think we're all pretty much of one voice on that!], spinning the narrative as 'Russia invaded Ukraine and then gratuitously turned off Europe's oil & gas supplies' is doublethink worthy of Orwell.

I've just heard Boris Johnson on the BBC News giving a ridiculous "The British people will show Putin he can't bully us by raising gas prices..."* speech, in response to questions about the crippling energy price rices we've had already and are having again in October.

None of these price rises would have happened if European leaders had thought for a nanosecond about the consequences, before falling over themselves in their headlong rush to slap these self-harming sanctions on Russia.

Total and utter fucking idiots. And, as one of the 'normal' 'man-in-the-street' people who's going to be financially crippled by this, I find the blatantly transparent co-ordinated effort to re-write history and pretend it was all evil Russia's fault all along, to be doubly insulting.
Yes, can't see the government looking at this. This isn't two gaming companies combining.

US anti trust looks at harm to consumers, meaning does this reduce competition amongst game makers, and the answer is obviously no. This isn't two gaming companies merging. This is one unrelated company acquiring another. Us and European anti trust don't look at the size of a company as a factor.
> Tired of getting spam emails from newsletters you never even signed up for? Mailscarp has you covered!

Ironic
NB: You're replying to two different people.

The problems with nuclear as I see them are:

Cost. These projections are very optimistic.

Corruption potential. It's pretty typical for large long term projects to 'go bankrupt' and the cleanup fund is mysteriously empty. There are also a lot of hidden externalities -- publicly funded security, infrastructure, concessions required to keep fuel producers placated. It's too centralized for believable complete accounting.

Geopolitical. Adoption of nuclear outside of UK/France/USA/China/Russia essentially tips the global power balance even further in favour of colonial powers and corps that have caused the problem in the first place and continue to export mass suffering.

Incomplete. Most of the world will never be allowed to have enrichment capabilities, and many countries will never be allowed a nuclear program at all. This means low burnup reactors, and there is not enough uranium for a complete replacement to primary energy at 3% burnup.

Consistent overpromising. Predictions for large projects seem to be consistently wrong when they're 40 years out.

Cost doesn't look great anymore when you include cleanup. Incidents will happen, especially if regulations are relaxed. Even if the rate goes down tenfold we'll still be talking on the order of one a decade, and spending a trillion on cleanup starts making other solutions look pretty great.
Probably 1.2 V, like any classic cell. I mean take one zinc and one copper disc, put some paper between them, spill citric acid onto said paper and voial!, you got yourself a battery cell.
English mustard powder doesn't have to be reconstituted; it's very good rubbed into a beef roast. It helps make a nice crust. Mustard powder is also good in salad dressings (mustard is an emulisfier). It makes cheese sauce cheesier (I don't know how that works), so it's great in the topping for Welsh Rabbit.

For these purposes, Dijon doesn't "cut the mustard" (sorry).

I've never liked English mustard paste as a condiment, nor that horrid dark brown stuff referred to as "French mustard", that has never been anywhere near France.
I think people who are really into "do the job for an hour" interviews don't understand this. Some skills (particularly programming languages) are just really easy to learn. I learned go in a week for a consulting job. If I had to do an interview in go, I would not have gotten the job.
Oh man, thank you. I grew up with C++ and Java as my main languages, so I always feel more at home with a py file.

Notebooks never caught on with me.
child porn / terrorism accusations ruine fundamental of web. Internets without cookie popups might be just a good facade on bad fundamental.
I received the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605574
Not that I agree with this argument, but I imagine Amazon might claim that Alphabet was essentially doing the same thing with Stadia, Youtube Game streaming, the Play store, and presumably cloud offerings (I don't know that one for sure though).

Though I suspect the claim that "We at least compete with this other giant tech company hell bent on crushing competition" is probably not the most sympathetic argument in the current antitrust atmosphere.
The possession of power implies a social obligation to use that power responsibly. Incompetence while exercising power is harmful to those forced to suffer such incompetence, and therefore tantamount to malice.
People are assholes and you can't expect them to do what you see as the right thing. Welcome to the Internet!
Do people really feel a flood of endorphins? Growing up in a culture full of chili, I've had to endure my fair share of extra spicy food and never enjoyed it. It leaves me with nothing but a nasty burn in my mouth and an inability to taste anything for some time.
When breaking phenomenon down by race it’s important to differentiate phenomenon caused by sociological perceptions of race and actual biological effects of genetic drift, which are distinctly different. I never said race doesn’t exist I merely said it has a poor genetic basis when we can study the actual sub populations of genetic geographic locale. It’s important to test drug trials across different races in the sense that it’s important to try to capture effects across multiple ethnic populations, but in reality race is merely a poor but easy metric to do. Like I said, black people have more genetic diversity than any other race combined. Sub Saharan African has more drift from Aboriginal Australian than White Norwegian, even though the first two groups are both considered black.

To be clear: the sickle cell trait appears elevated in sub-Saharan Africa and descendants from that area. This also means for example black people from Somali aren’t really affected even though Somali is part of the African continent. Does this help clarify my point?
Sounds like Linux/Linus figured they had enough clout to call bs on the patch, while Xen just focused on doing the best with what they had. I honestly don't blame either.
We need a complete transformation of our power usage in any case, both to save energy demand and to make the grid more flexible:

- insulate buildings so that they better retain heat. This one is massive - over a third of all energy consumption goes towards buildings [1]!

- promote heat pumps (either to air or ground) because these are far more energy efficient for air conditioning and hot water generation

- help poorer households to save energy - especially those who can't afford to replace their 20 years old fridge which consumes over double the power that a modern appliance needs [2].

- resilient grids with photo-voltaic energy generation on every roof and distributed battery storage

- smart grids that can (dis)incentivize large loads like water heaters or electric vehicles automatically based on grid generation capacity

- more incentives for high-energy consuming industries to act as a dynamic power sink or to operate only in times where energy is plentiful

- shut down street lights at night or make them smart to only be alight when needed - lighting consumes about 0.7% of the total power consumption [0], but as it runs at night where solar power is offline by definition, its impact on base load is worse.

- completely ban advertisements using lighting at night

Ideally, we would have continuous renewable or at least climate neutral-ish generation power (geothermal, tidal, running water power, biogas and waste incineration and whatever is the sum of the lowest-ever-available-wind power) to cover the base load, and have consumers smartly adapt on current electricity prices.

[0] https://www.strassenbeleuchtung.de/index.php/technik/34-grun...

[1] https://www.dena.de/themen-projekte/energieeffizienz/gebaeud...

[2] https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/sites/default/files/2022...
What do people use Espanso for? I like the idea of the project but never really found a good use case for? The only thing I expand so far (using custom QMK setup on the keyboard itself) is my email.

Also, is there any package that lets you cycle between your clipboard as you type anywhere?
Good UI with great stats, but stopped using after few days 'cause the builds are painfully slow.
> purporting to be a prayer, but is actually a speech in favor of humanism and tolerance

Isn't there a risk to give the impression that humanism and tolerance is something the "other side" wants?

Through history, people have been very good at tribalism, and distancing themselves from the values of their opponents.
Rumqttc v0.15.0 Released
Not too much, don't want to overpower the ammonium chloride.
Gandi.net gives you two mailboxes with unlimited aliases in France for every domain you rent. This is a very easy alternative for most people who cannot run a mail server.
Twitch Prime is available in many countries through Prime Video where regular Amazon Prime is not available

https://www.primevideo.com/

https://www.amazongames.com/en-us/support/prime-gaming/artic...
I turned this comment into an article, if you're curious: https://onlineornot.com/unreasonable-effectiveness-shipping-...
Web App Development in Python is broken
> core features of a modern smartphone: consistent alarms

For me personally, this is one thing missing from a modern smartphone. Many old-school GSM phones, when completely turned off (but battery still inside), if there is an alarm programmed, will turn on automatically few seconds before the programmed alarm, just in time to sound on the dot.

Very useful, and exactly what I want, when I go to sleep. You can sort of approximate that with "do not disturb" mode, but that drains a bit of battery (and traffic in cell data plan) uselessly.
They have already bought twitch which is more or less related to video games.
The text-based UI reminds me of the Acme text editor from Plan 9 (it’s now also available for other OS so easy to try) :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)
Among the EU, germans drive more km per car than anyone else except Austria (data from 2000, can't find newer).

Among the EU, Germans rank 6th on car ownership per capita (2020 data).

Going these together, and it shows within the EU, Germans are the on the top of km per capita and not 'we drive less than others' (except maybe the US)

Your reply to someone asking about charging their EV(thus need to drive) was that in Germany that isn't a problem because there you eat healthy and cycle, which is a lie (you drive more than most/all of the EU). (as per cycling data, DE is 7th on daily usage of bikes in the EU, but couldn't find any data regarding number of kilometres though)
"Welcome to Costco, I Love You"
Microsoft has acquired Bethesda, will probably acquire Activision-Blizzard, and has purchased other, smaller studios in the past already.

I wonder what’s driving the desire to buy up video game publishers. There probably aren’t many left at the scope of the ones already bought or in a deal that are practically purchasable, even for big tech players.
I sometimes wish Hacker News had emoticons, so I could add a sad face instead of just an upvote.
If they are particularly unscrupulous, there is an unsubscribe link: they capture use of this link to validate emails, then aggregate and sell that information onto other spammers.
Tangential, but I checked the macos requirements and it looks like steam is very slow to respond to the arm releases. From the description I can't tell if the game will run on m1 or not. (maybe emulated?)
Why Silver Medal Winners Are Always So Upset
ZeroMQ can perform as a messaging queue just as well in Pub/Sub.

In fact, ZeroMQ library (libzmq) supports over 13 different methods of queuing.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50656232/guaranteed-deli...

https://zguide.zeromq.org/
I honestly don’t understand how it can be slower than those feature phones, and yet it is. Sure, bigger screen resolution doesn’t help, but those ran some interpreted Java..

Does pinephones perhaps have some scheduling issues? That’s the only thing I can think of, it either has way too many processes and/or the switching is way too frequent. But linux itself manages it quite well in my experience even on low-end devices so I honestly don’t know.

EDIT: I assume parent does as well, but I definitely meant the non-pro pinephone here. I don’t have the pro one, but that presumably performs better.
How come anti-trust laws aren't being applied yet? Is it corruption or a political decision?
>$20 billion (in development costs for SLS) to nothing (for Falcon Heavy) for the government, right?

The comparison of billions spent on SLS while SpaceX cost is nothing, is disingenious. SpaceX receives many billions in subsidies. This interview feels like a vendetta piece, but IDK enough to call it that.
We need something like WineHQ that can run iOS apps inside Linux.

Many online applications are increasingly available only as native apps for the iOS/Android systems. Even governments are guilty of this.

Without the ability to run my banking app or do basic interactions with postal services and government institutions, using a Linux phone is a no-go.
Did you know that this works on some modern smartphones ? At least my OnePlus 7TPro does wake up from an alarm when it's totally powered down.