skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> having "face to face" chitchat, builds up a small buffer of rapport that significantly improves empathy and perceived intent

On my team we have a weekly 30-minute meeting for non-work-related updates. A chance to talk about whatever you did in the past week outside of work, or about anything else that currently interests you. It typically prompts a lot of follow-on conversations in Slack afterwards.

It might be nicer if this happened organically, and didn't require an explicitly scheduled meeting. But we consider it important enough that we carve out the time to make it clear that it's a team norm.
This is the tip of a much bigger set of related, often frustrating problems. It's a problem with annotations in a loose sense, for example, which involves anything that relies on URLs as identifiers. The reality is that URLs _are_ identifiers, but it's necessary to recognize that they identify different "printings" (e.g. a work carried by many different "publishers"—The Story of Mel carried by Lindahl is not the same printing as the one carried by Brunvand, for example). There's a lot we're missing out on by abandoning the lessons (and conventions) of legacy print media in the move to the Web. The addition of "accessed on $DATE" in bibliographic citations is an indicator of how we've truly messed things up with this abandonment and by our desire to treat the Web as a sui generis medium unlike anything that came before. Both this and the industry at large has normalized/legitimized (professionalized, even) unhygienic practices in publishing.

What's needed is probably something like the way OpenLibrary functions as a registry for works and particular editions, or an open database like graph.global where you can can mint relations linking individual pieces of content—this thing (identified by URL $X) and this other thing (identified by URL $Y) are the "same" thing.

However, I think we'd most benefit as a first step from a technological and social re-calibration of the way we interact with URLs entirely:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803419>

(It's telling that the "past" links at the top of all HN submissions point to a search by title, rather than a search by URL. I've personally hit minor hurdles in my own Algolia searches that turn up 0 results, only to eventually realize that it's because the URL I've entered differs from the one that was submitted in their respective "https"/"http" schemes.)

The convention I outline in that comment is probably the way to go. If I could refer to
<https://apress.com/P. Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections on...>
then that would help a lot. It wouldn't fix the deduplication/canonicalization problem, exactly, but it would reinforce some good habits and the way we conceptualize the things we're working with, which could lead to this sort of thing becoming more tractable.
Yes, I’m sure that someone who does something like that will be stopped by your “please don’t do that”
Usually my previous clients tell somebody about me. I work in a relatively niche area.
I miss the good old offline days
I get that HN randomises the order of the options on polls to remove positional bias, but for a numeric poll with a natural order like this it results in horrible UX.

(Apologies for the HN meta comment)
Mine is a Pebble Time Steel (actually now it's a pair of them since the battery life has reduced a little, but my friend who also bought one now has a Samsung Gear and so donated theirs). It's been great and the functionality has survived Pebble's untimely demise thanks to the crowd at rebble.io. Unfortunately the app doesn't seem to be on the Apple store any more and my old phone finally actually died so their days may be numbered.
Watch 'Levanter Cloud' Roll over the Rock of Gibraltar
This works on pinephone and pinephone pro, too.

On Pinephone, the RTC(has alarm support) is in the SoC and is always powered by PMIC even when the phone is off. PMIC can be configured to power up on interrupt signal, and SoC can be configured to pulldown the interrupt line on RTC alarm.

On Pro RTC is inside PMIC directly.

HW can do it. Alarm app just has to use the HW correctly.
Having a horrendous time moving from Heroku to fly.io...

- After migrating my Heroku app to fly.io I also ran into an error that kept the app from booting: "Failed due to unhealthy allocations - no stable job version to auto revert". Its not clear what or how to diagnose this log error.

- I also tried to auth the cli and ran into an error that hangs all other applications requiring an internet connection on my MBP. I ended up hard restarting multiple times. The error is
"Error Post 'https://api.fly.io/api/v1/cli_sessions': net/http: TLS handshake timeout"
There is nothing better than the boomarks manager in Opera Classic 12. Nested folders/categories, quick search/filter, additional notes/description for each bookmark, "recycled bin" for deleted bookmarks. Vivaldi tries to replicate it but still missing some features. Opera Classic was the best browser but sadly died. The source code is available on Internet (probably a leak) but it's a huge effort to change the rendering engine.
For those not familiar with PinePhone things: This blog post is about an early hardware revision, the Braveheart edition, which has quite a few hardware flaws that have been fixed since (see [1] for details). In particular, I've never seen that Squeekboard issue on my v1.2 and v1.2a revision PinePhones.

Edit:
Also, if you want to follow the topic of GNU-like Linux on mobile hardware, you may like my blog https://linmob.net

If you wonder about apps for postmarketOS, Mobian etc.: I am also maintaining a project that attempts to list them all (and that needs your contribution): https://linuxphoneapps.org

[1]: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Hardware_revisio...
One can find examples in support of either position. What is the overall benefit of one side vs. the other? I don’t know the answer and it isn’t clear to me which is the better option. There are pro and cons to both positions.
I should clarify that I'm inquiring whether or not not dating based on religion or race is considered political, because if it is, it brings into question the idea that estrangement for political reasons is a relatively new phenomenon. It might be better to suggest estrangement for political party affiliation might be relatively new.
This is the case for Xiaomi and I think for Samsung (I use both)
A lot of niche industries e.g. around embedded might pay less than web development, ironically.
Within the limits of a 5G receiver, there are probably limits to how much sensitivity you can give up for bandwidth.
Sorry for the late reply. The service does not use your data to train the AI, if that is your concern.
Petrol is not diesel, so not sure how your datapoint relates. Which petrol cars get more than 39mpg?

Also, were diesel cars only getting those high mpg due to cheating the emissions limits? I never saw them in the US.
li-ion has 70-100mAh/g based on my estimation?
so if they can do 200mAh/g that would be very nice, but what about the voltage, charge cycle lifespan and maximum discharge rate?
Conferences about carpentry in general != conferences solely about hammers.

There are plenty of systems programming conferences where the majority of work being presented is written in C. That is very different from a conference about C itself.
I think this attempt at clarification is just proving xvector’s point.
A large part of it is the political convenience of corporatism. It's easier to "regulate" 1 massive company - hell, they'll do it for you too so you help them guarantee they'll be the only game in town.

It's a lot harder to regulate 1000s or multiples of 1000s of smaller businesses.

Regulation also includes targeted political censorship in this case.
I charge around 75$/h for backend and devops work. I started at 42$/h two years ago. Increasing the rate at every contract. I usually only bill coding hours which is around 5h/day for me, but I realized that it is not a good strategy.
While the title may say otherwise, the article is worth a read just for the talks recommandation.
100 EUR/hour although I don’t bill per hour but per day. This is without VAT and for Germany, but I charge the same for clients from other countries as well.
There's a little under 2000 working hours in a year of fulltime work; you can charge approx double to cover your cost of sales / offer flexibility.
This link seems to be active too http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/projects/a2/
What does R1 mean in this context?
To be clear, contractors charge a higher rate exactly because of what you describe. If you make $50/hr as an employee, you'll need at least $100/hr to pay for all the overhead with insurance, accountants, self-employment taxes, FICA, etc. These costs are mostly invisible in bigger orgs.

It may seem like contractor wages are greedy, but know that companies are willing to pay good money for domain expertise. Especially with all the friction of hiring a new full time employee.
can confirm. i cannot eat spicy food, but when i have to i always ask for a big glass of milk.
I do think M2 is more power efficient, but it seems close enough to me. The Thinkpad in real usecase testing has very good battery life, 15 hours etc doing regular work. I just don't have the perspective that the fact it can scale up in power should be held against it. It's pretty typical when you're doing some super computationally expensive processing to be plugged while it's the casual emails etc that has to have great battery life.

> Comparing the lowest end chip from one vendor to the highest end chip from another is not exactly a great look.

Is it anyone else's fault that Apple only has one sku. The M2 is a 20 billion transistor chip while the Rembrandt is a 13 billion transistor chip. I'd argue that the M2 is higher end one. The laptops MBA/Thinkpad compared are the same price.

> Especially when the Arm chip is basically matching the x86 one while having only a few years of software optimization work.

So we agree it matches lol? That's what I was arguing for. Nowhere did I say Apple sucks. I default to using Apple products and have been for almost all my life. I was just trying to make a case that x86 is good enough too hardware wise.
In the US at least, corporate taxes are progressive.

Taxes are on earnings though, not revenues (you could be unprofitable and as such, pay no taxes).

Question: so are you suggesting then that just because a company's revenues (I think you mean "earnings") have exceeded X, that they should be completely broken up as a company?
One reason may be the deployment of Starlink to Ukraine
It can be very useful to run recurring jobs (e.g jobs that run once per day) in a notebook to add the output as kind of advanced logging.

And then serve the results as a static page under my.logs.intranet/my-job/2022-02-14/my_recurring_task_notebook.ipynb.html

You can get so much more context regarding what went well or wrong compared to browsing through log lines in some more or less user friendly tool.
It filters clients quite good.

When I started freelancing, I only took multi month projects that paid thousands of dollars. I never had to discuss money with any of these clients.

A friend of mine focused on per hour contracts, in the hopes they would be ongoing. His clients constantly haggled.
https://archive.ph/1tNxE
$50 USD for full-stack development. mid-senior level.
No two companies deserve each other more
Unfortunately, they're not doing a good job at deleting them. If you press the "Delete Account" button, all it does is anonymize your profile, and leaves all of your messages intact. One of the reasons I avoid using Discord whenever possible.
LFSR is in my vocabulary because of these two articles:

* Fizzlefade by Fabien Sanglard [0] that explains the fade to red effect in Wolfenstein 3D

* How Pitfall Builds its World [1] that explains how the original Pitfall on the Atari 2600 managed to have 255 unique screens despite severe constraints on the storage space available (it used a maximal length 8-bit LFSR that was also invertible so that you can go back to previous screens).

[0]: https://fabiensanglard.net/fizzlefade/index.php

[1]: https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html

edit: formatting
In university, I was notoriously bad at "remembering" things (iow, I was lazy to learn things by heart). I was pretty good at making connections, and I could prove theorems from only knowing a couple of definitions and simpler theorems in advanced math courses. I generally scored average in tests, but I rarely failed (though I occasionally had "original" solutions that teachers commended on even though I failed to reach maximum scores).

But I was never under the illusion that this constitutes working knowledge. I was able to come up with solutions for some problems only because I had some basic knowledge memorized, which allowed me to effectively manipulate ideas and concepts which I did know of. Even then, I used to semi-joke how the hardest thing in theoretical math is all the memorization required.

If you've ever explored any scientific field deep enough, you'll know that it's festered with tricks found by accident and roundabout ways to get to a solution that, if you haven't seen it before, you have no hope of applying in practice.

Or you might think that consulting a book or two (or Internet) will allow you to prove Fermat's theorem while you are being tested for 2h.
Well, simple ratios. A human is roughly 6 feet tall, so a 3x3x3 box is a box with side length 1/2 of the height. The equivalent for an orca would be if you took an orca’s length, 26 feet, and had the enclosure be 13x13x13. The volume would be 2197 cubic feet, roughly 16,000 gallons that is.

Seaworld Orlando’s enclosure is approx 6 million gallons, so that statement is off by about 37,500%.
They have hand held precision cnc machines that use computer vision to register to the work piece and compensate for human error and execute the file.

I can't wait for people to start asking stable diffusion or dall-e for ideas. "unusual danish modern canopy bed 85mm"

I'm sure they won't run out of advances to talk about. And people keep reviving old techniques that got ignored too, or ones from other cultures.
I don't mind it if someone writes me an email - it costs them time, and I am happy to spend my time to read it.

But I do mind if someone uses a script to scrape my address and opts me into a recurring distraction without my consent. It's all about having an overly low barrier to entry, yet demanding attention and manual opt-out from thousands / millions of people. It's just greedy and arrogant.
Zoho Mail is amazing, been relying on it for over a decade now.
But without reproducibility the paper is basically worthless. There's already a crisis of unreproducible work and the strong novelty bias is basically why.
lBorn with a manual in one hand and a PDP11 in the other.
The Hub [1] is a good source of inspiration if you're curious :)

[1]: https://hub.espanso.org/search
This is quite valuable advise: "The original version of Discord was built in just under two months in early 2015. Arguably, one of the best databases for iterating quickly is MongoDB. Everything on Discord was stored in a single MongoDB replica set and this was intentional, but we also planned everything for easy migration to a new database"

Also the article links to Twitter blog, which gives similar point (it's from 2010): "We [Twitter] currently use MySQL to store most of our online data. In the beginning, the data was in one small database instance which in turn became one large database instance and eventually many large database clusters" [1]

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
There's a Meta* logo when it opens
Another really cool integration we have now is the SSH agent. https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh -Ben, 1Password
I have a Pinebook, with the same CPU as the PinePhone, it doesn't seem all that slow when running at the highest frequency, would be interested to know what frequency the PinePhone typically runs at.
Nah man, it would be hArMfUL.
Can you describe the conditions of the retainer? Is there any quantity of work included?
What benefit it gives to the client on retainer, compared to new client that contacted you?
Haha, yeah no way anyone’s going to game that system! No way some clique recruits all of the voting power (collaborators to undergrads) to push their work through, all it takes is LeCun to simply read all papers and his vote will balance everything out!
I think you meant it fit on 3.5” floppy drive (1.44 MB). Fitting on a 1.44 foot floppy disk would be much less impressive :P
I don't think requiring novelty is respect for a reader's time. I think requiring high quality is respect, even if it is adding to existing bodies of evidence. Novel drivel is just drivel regardless of its novelty; it requires high quality analysis and research for anyone to get any benefit from that newness.
As someone that works 9-5 and looking into freelance, why

> that it is not a good strategy

?
I just had a flashback, we had to do a weird exercise with hats and long strings between students in Meyer's class when he talked about inheritance.
> Really this whole article is "we are going to keep using google cloud despite their storage options being unfit for our purpose and here's how".

Hmm, I read it more like they figured out a way to scale their existing storage a bit better while making Google eat the cost.

It’s not like they pay extra if they wear out the disks sooner.
"its usual cycle of charging and discharging is enough to keep it that warm."

Sounds like thermal loss to me...
I don't really agree but sure, however this counterpoint retracts the original premise, that the slashers are centralized. Something can be done with a small number of people and still be decentralized.
I suspect most of RISC-V development is more towards moving away from western controlled ISA's that can be sanctioned for any reason. Points about avoid shortages from any fab being allowed to fabricate RISC-V CPUs is just the "cherry on top".
Thanks but a hard pass from me. The original sin was using goofy JSON as the file format (and no! I dont care for your pretty 5MB pngs polluting my git tree). This is the nth attempt at applying lipstick on the pig (n-1 being jupytext)
Check the prices of braille displays though.
Hey fellow consultants in here, can someone just please make a glassdoor for us?

I’m tired of holding this idea in my head would love to see it out there so we can just get to the good part (knowing what to charge).

If you need more explanation:
https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io/editions/012
I assume the pussies -- just like everything else -- are generated as some machine-learning combination of pussies present in the training set.

So the analogy would be accusing a student of plagiarism for using the same words (or maybe same letters) as other people (not anyone specific, but the university library as a whole).
I wonder how drastically this calculus will change once solid state batteries are a thing. From everything I read, the Achilles heel of EV adoption are the current state of battery tech. Seems that this will either be a very good or very bad move, all depends on how quickly SSB's reach the market.
Universities that offer doctoral degrees and have "Very High Research Activity" according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Specifically, the 130 or so institutions listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_...

Heuristically, think "major private universities and flagship public universities".
In my experience German companies pay half or third of what US companies pay.
Using hyperbolic arguments is not how to have a rational, well rounded discussion.
$145 - 300
Tipping is just subsidizing the bad business model of these companies
So the retainers are subtracted from the project fee?
Also a happy customer of racknerd but beware the owner has a dubious history in the hosting business and is currently undergoing related criminal proceedings https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180381/some-juicy-court-dr...
You might be surprised. More than once I've seen someone copy something because they thought it was a clever idea, then when pointed out that it was a scammy/scummy practice, re-thought it all and did change their mind.

OK, not often, but it has happened. In this case it's unlikely, but if it is someone in the HN community, perhaps they will stop and re-think.
Employee as the metric doesn't work.

Consulting businesses are literally in the business to resell their employed talent. Their "product" is their employees.

As such, they type of business by its very nature have a disproportionately large number of employees. E.g. Accenture employees 700,000 people, Tata Consulting 600,000.
The GP comment is specifically referring to "reciting basic factoids", but they are the "basics" that you need to know by heart to manipulate them.

While testing for "reciting" them is certainly suboptimal, it's cheaper to prepare a test of the sort than a test where you are effectively putting that knowledge to use.

A balanced test would do a bit of both (so it does not take ages to prepare and grade, yet ensures you know the basics and can apply them in some problems).
Yep and my argument still stands. Those "could never happen" things are now firmly put into the "well that was a one in a million thing, don't need to bother" drawer. Earthquake and tsunami? Pffffft, not over here. Stupid Japan!
> Possibly but not if your mortgage would become unaffordable.

The solution is to not live above your means and assuming that your current income will always be there. It's important to have a buffer, especially if you are self employed. Just not raising your rates isn't really the solution to the problem.
I think because it wasn't known whether there would be 2 teams as rivals (porsche as well) even though they're both owned by VW, or they would compete under one name. I think othe other option was that they would only supply engines, if I remember correctly.
Anyway, it's great too see them joining!
Yea but the metric of success in embedded mught be more clear than web, which tends to be more customer facing.
> it's not though

Yes, yes it is. It might be that you are okay with that being violated, but it does not mean that it stops being a right, and it does not mean that people should accept losing it away.

> Absolute/mathematical financial privacy in particular we're talking about.

If you believe that, feel free to stop using WhatsApp or whatever e2e encrypted system you are using right now.

> dark money, tax evasion, terrorist funding, proceeds of crime should be tracked

Can governments make their best effort to track all of that? Sure. Does that mean that law-abiding citizens should lose their rights over it? Absolutely not!

Honestly, citizens like you that want to normalize State Surveillance concern me more than any "darknet hacker" ever will. Didn't you learn anything with the Patriot Act?

> working around the law by making transfers that can't be traced

No. No one making a transaction using tornado cash is "working around the law". Using tornado cash (by itself) is not a crime.

Making payments online without being worried that people can access your whole transaction history is crucial for it to be a viable alternative. Please stop with this absurd FUD and stop associating privacy with "something only for the interest of malicious actors".
It's a shame that you can't do a multi part poll. I'd love to know people's rates _and_ their years of experience, language, industry, etc.
Might be a hardware issue. I only have later revision PinePhones and am typing this reply with Squeekboard just fine.
What happens if the company is unprofitable?

Do you mean "earnings"?
Moderna Press Release: https://investors.modernatx.com/news/news-details/2022/Moder...
Can you use fast mail with any email service that supports IMAP or is it like Proton Mail where you have to use their app to check your emails?
> Would you want a 10.000USD or the 30.000USD surgery?

I'd like to have the 0USD surgery, but maybe that's just my inner European.