skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you run a business selling hosting services for game publishers to run their games, is it not anti-competitive for a competitor of yours to buy your customers and force them to use their services instead of yours?
It is definitely the West's fault for engineering the 2014 Euromaidan coup, which began a campaign of terror and death against trade unionists and the people of the Donbas region, which continues to this day.

It is also Putin's fault for invading further, instead of merely protecting the Donbas republics as they asked.
> But sure, its me not seeing the big picture

I would say yes that’s absolutely correct considering you are hyper-focused on negative reports and oblivious to situations where such methods aided activists against their tyrannical governments and that includes the plight of Wikileaks against crimes committed by western governments.

https://qz.com/africa/1922466/how-bitcoin-powered-nigerias-e...

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2021/12/22/meet-the-ngo-t...

Vitalik used Tornado Cash to donate to Ukraine to protect the identity of the receiver

https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/155692560223356928...

EU and NA are not exempt of exerting tyranny through financial systems:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerhuang/2019/04/26/how-bitco...
Yes, but it's worth keeping in mind that everything that we call a chilli was selectively bred, and is quite different from the wild rootstock. Chiltepins [1], which is thought to be quite close to the wild variant, is much hotter than most commercial chillis today, although not up there with the hottest.

[1] https://www.nativeseeds.org/collections/chiltepines -- recommended, always have some in my pantry.
> This article is about the dispute over the discovery of special relativity. For the dispute over the discovery of general relativity, see General relativity priority dispute.
If you know places that are still routinely offering £700+ just for a decent React dev I know several people who'd appreciate pointers. It's certainly an in demand skill but also one that a lot of contractors have now and the UK market isn't what it used to be thanks to all the IR35 mess and lots of formerly big clients shutting down their contracting (or, usually even worse, forcing everyone under umbrellas).
> collapsed under its own weight

That is a productivity/innovation issue at its core.
This is badass, thanks for sharing @carride. In celebration that it's Friday, I'm going to test it out right now.

In case the author happens to see this and can respond, how did you figure all of this out? Would really enjoy a deep dive covering your process. This is brilliant.

I also wonder if it could be extended to Nim, Zig, or any other less-straightforward hookable languages [than C/C++].

Edit: Apologies, maybe this is not that interesting of a wonderment. I did a little research and both Nim and Zig interface with libc.

I'm not yet clear on whether node.js or Deno use libc, if any fellow HNers know please leave a reply! If they don't use libc, they could be interesting targets.
What kinds of things are you doing to find clients?
Ask HN: Lawyers, what is your hourly rate / salary?
Really? I'd say it's 95% there if the car is fully self driving 95% of the time.

Taking over for tricky situations alerts Tesla to those situations and allows them to rank and fix the issue.

1,000's of miles might be nothing, but then multiply it by the tens of thousands of drivers using it everyday and yes Tesla basically is aware of all the tricky situations and is working to resolve them.

I really don't understand people like you who criticize companies trying to push things forward. At least they're trying, why be so unsupportive?
Didn't understand please explain again. The site says $5 or 500 hours. Does this mean, 500 hoirs are free and if it exceeds then my CC will be charged $5?

Amirite?
I've been growing chilis for 3 years and it's slowly become my hobby that gives me the most satisfaction. Most varieties (Especially Capsicum Chinense, the species that most superhots come from) calibrate very well to small spaces/resources. It's an incredibly satisfying hobby that gives an opportunity to get very technical with something without involving backlit screens, a wonderful social lubricant.
That's not factual. I remember several reports from 2010-2014, so 10 yrs at the very most.

It's a gigantic corporation however, so i don't doubt that some of their teams had good working conditions even in 2002 as you said.
“True wilderness” has not existed for a long time. Even your “remote mountain lake” area is not “true wilderness”. You probably drove or flew to the area to camp. Human influence is everywhere. Our footprint has changed the various landscapes whether for better or worse.
Should faculty be paid more? Absolutely. Should Ph.D. students be paid more? Absolutely!! But the blanket statement you make in (1) is wrong and strikes me as awfully close to the extreme left-wing and right-wing mindsets of "the system is fucked up beyond repair, all that remains to be done is to tear it down". The reality is more nuanced than this, and the picture you paint of industry is hardly that rosy, even at silver-spoon companies that invest heavily in R&D.
It's worth noting that one of the authors of the cited paper [1] (Nick Polson) is infamous for claiming (incorrectly) a proof of the Riemann hypothesis [2].

This case is somewhat strange because he's not the usual mathematical crank; he's actually a quite well-recognized economics researcher who is clearly mathematically competent. But for some reason he persists. (If you search his name, you can find his YouTube channel where he lectures on his RH work...)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09563

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02653.
Not this website. The prompt interface to the embedding model.

There's no reason one should have to spam "good" sounding phrases like "high quality" into the prompt to get a good image. Direct embeddings of the prompt are stupid.
What phones in the 90's had 4G? 3G wasn't even around then was it?
If the last paragraph is your perspective on being a pawn in an academic structure, I would love to hear what you think of being a pawn in a corporation.
High purity quartz is definitely not a bottleneck in the electronics industry.
I suppose we can find a consultant for that in this thread.
Been using pockettube addon for over year, it gives me back unfiltered and unsorted views and I can group channels and use hashtags. Makes it like old style dvr cable, I can just sort by new, scroll back and watch what i missed. 1000% better.

Curated and filtered views are rather authoritarian, corps pompous attitude to think they know better than you and force feed you their picked content.
Now that I've been on the other side (hiring contractors as a company exec) after many years being a contractor, I kind of see it differently. Unfortunately a lot of this stuff (seeing someone's worth) is often gut feeling.

We have had a couple contractors bill us on the higher side like you but in their case, I knew they were worth it. Even though it was a lot of money for us, we saw it as a "will they bring that much value and more?" I knew that they wouldn't just code, they would meaningfully move the company's foundational technology forward, mentor the team, etc.

And they did exactly that. If we did have revenue pressure, they'd be the first ones whose hours we'd cut down (but they're so talented they'd find more work in a few hours). But it wasn't hard to justify getting them on board.

I had one devops firm quote me $250/hr but quite honestly, I haven't worked with them yet. So it was a very easy no (it was more likely they would've put a random person worth 1/3 of that on our project). But for the right person (someone who performs at a very high level), for the right period of time (these folks get a lot done quickly), even that rate is palatable to companies.
how much is that per year?
A toshiba one whose bootloder was never unlocked.
While true to some extent, it is worth noting that the Romans did have _water mills_. They clearly weren't totally uninterested in mechanical energy.
This operating system looks pretty much like Plan9. I do not know if there is any relation between those two.
Anti-competitive practices are business practices that prevent or reduce competition in a market.
> That is a _VERY_ minor nit

Well, the title is precisely the only mandatory element in a valid HTML5 document, even if forgetting it seems harmless.
Maybe that wonderful sensation combination of "oh this is too spicy" and "oh I need some more of that" is like the runners high that some people just don't get.

HEB Carolina Reaper Puffs were my last moment of the combination:

https://spicyfoodreviews.com/2020/12/spicy-snacks-h%E2%80%91...
It would have been a little hard for the romans to industrialize textiles... they didn’t have spinning wheels!
Absolutely zero. He's as mortal as the rest of us.
How many days per month?
Mostly static websites that just serve out data are fairly easy to produce and maintain, especially when they are relatively low traffic. I won't attempt to evaluate Taiwan's websites (although your own qualifications tend to support OPs claims) but those US websites are mostly just publishing information. They don't demonstrate the government is capable of providing quality email to all citizens because they don't demonstrate the ability to operate at high scale with high reliability and adequate performance while delivering highly personalized pages.

The only example I can think of for the US government attempting to offer something like that at scale was the notorious healthcare marketplace created for the ACA. It catastrophically failed at launch, took months to fix, and the people who fixed it were people who left private industry to do so for philanthropic reasons. If you read the story of how it came to be in that state, it's pretty much what you'd expect. Lots of different departments arguing, contractors coming and going, tons of coordinating meetings, budget overruns, finger pointing. This despite this being a crucial piece of infrastructure for the biggest health care reform in years. That pretty much set my expectations for how good at software the federal government is, but I'm open to hearing proper counterexamples if you can supply one.
Listening to European Electricity Traders Is Scary
Gives an interview to Rogan of all ppl randomly :)) Man this time line is hilarious.
Why was this downvoted? You may disagree, but EM is known for his wildly inaccurate or flat-out misleading statements. He’s literally in courts regarding his Twitter statements as well as the “autopilot” that was supposed to be perfect “next year”.
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/9Pekj

Haha, are we really going to fall againfor what essentially boils down to a bait-and-switch scheme?

The media industry is unlike any other, a the 100% self-induced vomit comet of a rollercoaster.
These are some great slides. Thanks for linking this. Is there a newer version?
With all due respect, I don't buy your premise. There is a handful of places in the world (mostly in the Middle East) that have the death penalty for homosexual practice, as it is seen as a sin. But in the cases I know, it is sin as a sin for being a voluntary act, not because it's in the DNA.

The abortion case is at least realistic. A lot of parents go through the effort of having children at least partly because they want to perpetuate the family line. Whether or not you respect such a goal, for someone with such a goal, it is more likely to happen if your children are straight.

You can also imagine the opposite case. A lesbian couple that WANT to have only female, lesbian daughters, and wanting to abort fetuses that are unlikely to match that pattern. Should that also be illegal?
Find someone to pimp you out for 25-50%.
In addition to being written in Rust, make sure it's also GPU accelerated.
> But would you eat chilli peppers like how you'd eat other fruits and veggies? Say tomatoes or beets. No. ofcourse not.

Yes, of course I do. What point do you think you're making?
Had raw grated beetroot in my salad today for lunch, and very tasty it was too. I pulled it out of the ground five weeks ago, weighed 1.4kg - it's the purple-and-white stripey version, makes the salad quite colourful. Been cutting bits off it to grate every time I have a salad. For some reason, beetroot seems to keep extremely well in the fridge.
In a broader context of similar ideas, this is seminal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_documen..., leading to the totally iconic piece of one shot perfectly timed tv: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ
I can't think of a good reason why the presence or effectiveness of a delete button should change what you write online, even in a so-called "private conversation", or whether you use a certain platform.

Delete is useful, but it shouldn't change what you're willing to send online because delete doesn't time travel and unsend the message.
why would a preference for the use of raw pointers indicate "machismo"?

do you think there's any possible other reason why game developers would choose to not use rust aside from some hypothetical jerkbag strawman that exists in your mind? is it possible that there's any practical reasons you haven't considered?
build markdown blog powered by single html and markdown posts.

very handy to setup blog for static web hosting e.g. github pages. it is a alt. solution of jekyll.

looking forward to ur comment for improvement.
Fine. But aside from the roads, sewage systems, water treatment plants, siphons, aqueducts, and pipes, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Fully autonomous restaurant opens in SF
Rise and grind
How to make it work in browser? Homepage tells me nothing.
I've moved my effective hourly rate from $250/h to up to $1k/h by billing on a project basis. I did this after I ran across Jonathan Stark's book Hourly Billing is Nuts[1] and implemented a lot of his advice.

The two best things I've done to increase my effective hourly rate and my topline revenue in my solo consulting practice have been 1) taking his advice to ditch hourly billing and 2) niching down to focus on Trial to Paid conversion[2].

1 - https://jonathanstark.com/hbin

2 - http://www.trialtopaid.com
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You are not wrong that they are not the same but the difference is smaller than you think. Let's run the numbers:

Last year I worked for 210 days and I made 143.480€ (=85€/h) after deducting the 19% VAT.
I paid 10.740€ for health insurance (which is capped) and 15.720€ for the pension fund (which I don't have to do but choose to do and this is the same rate an employer/employee would pay given that income) leaving me with 117.020€ taxable income. The income tax then is 117.020€ * 0.42 - 9.136€ = 40.012€ and 2.200€ Soli, leaving me with 74.808€ net income.

When you are employed then your employer has to pay half of your health insurance and pension fund so to have a net income of 74.808€ you "only" need to make 131.940€ per year or about 78€/h all things equal. So we are talking about a 10% difference. Now you could argue that an FTE would not work for 210 days but 200 or 190 days which would add another 5-10% difference but it would still be off from your original 33%.

To put this into perspective: I have been offered full time employment at almost every company I have worked for as a freelancer so far and the by far highest offer I got was 93.000€/year which is around 54.600€ net income - or about 20.000€ less net than I make right now. That is 2/3 of the average FTE income in germany.
Make time for your relationship with your partner. Between work and your new baby it will be challenging in new ways that you don’t yet appreciate and this will put stress on your relationship.

You will have to prioritize your efforts and date night might be on the chopping block early.

Make time to invest in that relationship too, because you need each other and because both of you deserve it.
OK, keep going; you’re almost there…

(Yes, it doesn’t require nearly as much power as proof of work, but it obviously consumes power.)
>increase electricity usage.

Even if...hell you pay for it! Really none of their business if it's not illegal.
Only if you undertake them to protect a monopoly.
Did start there in 1999. We had some Oberon exposure, but not that much. There were some workstations upstears in the computer room that did run the OS. Those were almost never occupied... So we simply used them to connect to some Solaris workstations using X forwarding:-)
The research paper looks intriguing. I'll look into it. I am not as convinced about moving queries to the cloud, when it comes to the north stars of Figma / Linear / Notion. It would be hard to get the same kind of UX.
I have a cup of Bovril with a bit of pepper and some Tabasco every morning. Pretty good stuff.
Ehh, but this is not greylisting? Greylisting temporarily rejects an email and requests the sender try again after a while.
greylisting is not the same.

greylisting is responding with a temp error under the assumption that most spam won't retry on temp errors, which isn't the case for most spam anymore.

real bounces are permanent errors.
US industrialized first (and most) in the parts without slaves.

That slavery is bad for industrial production was a major abolitionist argument. It's been repeated for at least 150-200 years.

de Tocqueville dedicates many pages to just that aspect. He describes sailing down the Ohio, seeing on the right bank teeming with factories and mills, and on the left one only loafers and undeveloped land.

In pop culture too; in Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler is the cosmopolitan embarrassing the old southern aristocrats at cocktails parties, regaling stories about the Union being flush with money and factories, the south being a backwater. That's how he knew which way the war would go.
ELO is a relative measure though, so it's more like winning a highly competitive mile race by 5 or 10 seconds, when the usual gap is usually under a second.

It's still impressive as heck.

One tempting comparison is Usain Bolt, but it feels a little different to me because he dominates both objectively (WR) and versus his competitors.
I'm well-known in a research community. I'm positioned such that I don't need more academic points. I've mostly stopped publishing in branded prestige academic venues, in part due to rejection rates.

My goal in doing work and writing papers is to see them disseminated. The acceptance/rejection process is asinine -- studies show it's basically random. I've had one paper in my whole career where the reviewers did a proper review (e.g. worked through the math). The rest were quick skims. Comments often show the reviewers never read the paper. The stuff that makes it through this process is often nonsense, while very high-quality work is often cut.

The very best paper I wrote in my career has never seen the light of day. It was shortened to a 4-page work-in-progress because a reviewer didn't read it (the feedback was literally nonsense: that the sample size was small enough to be anecdotal; I had the largest sample size in the history of the research field).

The only impact of this egoistical search for prestige-by-low-accept-rates is that people who have better things to do with their time leave, and that research dissemination is slowed.

Those excuses make little sense in the real world:

1) If your conference has a 10% accept rate, it's easy enough to book a bigger venue next year. I've been to conferences with dozens of people, and ones with tens of thousands. It all works well. Bigger ones work better, if anything.

2) PCs aren't thoughtful enough to do that well, and even so, the goal of a conference shouldn't be to select things which resonate with the entrenched PC. That's why many ideas need to wait for a generation of old, conservative professors to die to make it out there.

3) The whole obsession with prestige is stupid and misguided.

Journals and conferences ought to have quality bars. Are there typos and grammar errors? Were there clear IRB ethic violations? Did you use error bars on your plots? Was data fabricated? Is the research methodologically sound? Is it coherent and readable? And so on. If it passes those bars, it should be published. If no one reads it / attends a talk, that's okay too -- importance can and should be determined after-the-fact.
I'm not saying they are a Monopoly.

Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that prevent or reduce competition in a market.

Amazon purchasing a company and forcing them to use their services means their services no longer have to compete against their 'competitors'...
But if you're a contractor, you don't have an employer, so you have to divide the total amount you want to make in a year by the actual hours you expect to work, which won't include time off, since your clients won't be paying you for time off.
Thanks for reminding me to delete my lastpass acount.

I switched over to a self hosted bitwarden, and not only is the user experience a lot better, I've got better security confidence since my password store never leaves my home network.
Yes, because lots of expenses are already paid by the employer, so no need to ramp up the loan.
> Golang doesn’t use libc on Linux, and instead calls syscalls directly

Could someone explain this. I'm not familiar with low level linux stuff. Why would you choose not to use libc, what are the implications?
How to Make Telehealth Services Easier–and More Accessible–For Everyone
So you water your chair and stuff it back into the case for portability?

What a brave new world...

Quick edit: I'm envisioning some solid prank material around the pool now
> and necessary measures have been taken to prevent this member from creating a newsletter again

leave the gun, take the cannoli
Sounds like you're trying to censor information by dismissing the left/right hand hypothesis as "unrealistically stretched".

To put it another way: the way you feel about studying handedness being linked to COVID is the way I feel about studying an assumed link between race and "intelligence". It's not "otherwise interesting" at all. It's ignorant at best.
Never gonna say no to that offer!
https://archive.ph/lgcge
Embracer Group, too
I still have and use a 2012 era phone and the interface is way smoother. The problem is the software, not the hardware :/