skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I niche down and understand what my customers want. I set reasonable prices for the size of customer I want ($1-$10M ARR B2B SaaS) and the kind of results I can deliver and post them on my site[1].

When I get an inbound request we're not even talking price because anybody who contacts me has seen them. I'm leaving money on the table but I don't want to spend time negotiating, it lengthens the sales cycle.

I don't do custom work until a second phase. The phase 1 service I offer goes through my standardized process so I know how long it'll take to deliver. There's very little variance which makes it easier for me to know my cost to deliver.

Phase 2 (wireframes) can be custom but by that point I have a lot more context on what I need to deliver, how long it'll take, and how much it's worth to the client. If they're asking about phase 2 it means I've proven myself and the negotiation is short because we've built trust.

I tracked time for the first couple of projects because I wanted to see how long they took to deliver. So now I know my effective hourly rate.

1- https://www.reemer.com/services/
> The president, speaking before ministers at the Élysée, said the country was at a “tipping point” and faced a difficult winter and a new era of instability caused by climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The whole Russia situation is eventually going to get resolved, but blaming problems on climate change is going to be the new go-to political excuse for any bad human political decisions, lack of foresight, bad management, etc.

It's a great political tactic: there's no end conceivable to the "climate emergency" and you it's hard for most establishment political hacks to ever disagree with that messaging without risking being labelled as pro-climate-change.
Seemed to be short lived for us. Total 5 mins downtime.
I don't think I saw a single C talk at the few years I've been to the ACCU conference.

I think there's just rarely anything new to say about C since it's so old and stable.
Inovato Quadra – a compact Linux PC with an ARM processor starting at $29
The biggest apple/orange problem with OPs comparison is that in a university, there is a competitive admission process. Universities are planned, elite communities. You can't do that in a city. "Oh sorry NYC is now for people with 1400+ SAT only, sorry buddy, you're gonna have to go to Detroit."

I guess you can price people out, but that does not really have the same effect as the psychometric screening that universities do.
From the head element section mentioned:

> If the document is an iframe srcdoc document or if title information is available from a higher-level protocol: Zero or more elements of metadata content, of which no more than one is a title element […].

> Otherwise: One or more elements of metadata content, of which exactly one is a title element […].

So it is required, not just suggested, for a web page, but not for all kinds of html documents; TIL. The parser still tries to parse head contents before body contents even if you omit the head tags, so a doctype followed by title is the shortest valid full page.

I didn't mention the doctype because I believe it isn't strictly speaking an element, just a preamble, but you're right, it's required as well.
This is just a phenomenon that has been studied by social scientists. Men who are earn less than their wives, or who are stay-at-home dads, are more likely to get divorced. You may say "well, they should just grow up and get right with God", and that may be true, but it is nevertheless a widely-observed phenomenon. It's the way the world is, although perhaps not the way the world should be.
It's not the strategy needed to increase your rating on average. It's the strategy needed to target high variance in search of reaching a far-outlying value.
We're all-remote and take international clients, and charge the same rate everywhere.
Undefined behaviour detected.
Depends on how much water. If it was designed to fold into a chair shape when exposed to normal room humidity, you'd remove it from the hermetically sealed bag and it'd spontaneously (over, I assume, many hours) fold itself into the intended shape.
This is correct and completely irrelevant in the real world. It is similar to numbers cannot cause harm. Information and numbers are nothing more than interlectual constructs, patterns, or platonic ideas.

But collecting information can enable as much harm as collecting some numbers. For example the Nazis started with collecting information about the racial status of as many people as possible, see [1]. The collected information was later used to decide who to deport and kill.

Although, this is another example of humans causing harm, it also shows why collecting information is not harmless. Although the information itself cannot cause anything. It simply has no agency, so it can neither harm nor heal people. But it can enable both.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_certificate
Interestingly, one of our Vercel apps was down too (got alerts for both app.codecrafters.io and codecrafters.io at the same time) - might've been a wider DNS outage? Resolved in 4 minutes for us.
The article argues it was the other way around - that pumping water out of mines was the use case that allowed steam engines to be funded and improved to the point that they could be used for other things.
I think this is it. But 2900 seems very arbitrary. It's not even that round. If he were close to 3000 that would at least be a satisfying number.
DAG Twice
IKEA has been shipping flat chairs for several decades. I guess we can shortcut the tedious assembly process by watering our chairs instead. Sounds like a solution in search of a problem?
Wow, they found a way to make EA even worse.
I'm just giving a counter example that dense cities can be appealing for raising a family, and even an unexceptional city like Warsaw can manage it with the right priorities. The fact that something exists doesn't mean it's the only and forced option.
>Possibly but not if your mortgage would become unaffordable.

This has nothing to do with your rate or the market but your inability to avoid crippling lifestyle creep.
DNA Is Only One Among Millions Of Possible Genetic Molecules (2019)
Germany is well able to produce enough energy to sustain its needs. It actually had to produce quite a surplus this year so far to support the European grid as a lot of French nuclear power plants had to be shut down for unscheduled maintenance and due to the drought.
But of course, gas is scarce, as Russia is only supplying a fraction of its normal supply, so there is a lot of reason to be energy efficient. Also, as a consequence of the shortage, energy prices are quite up. If there was ever a time to get serious about saving energy, now would be it.
Banksy on Advertising

> People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate.

> They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

> Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

> You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
Oclif is pretty nice for NodeJS, we use it for https://github.com/matanolabs/matano . https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea looks really beautiful, if you use Go.
The difference is that social scientists have studied gender dynamics and have observed that men who are out-earned by their wives are more likely to get divorced than when it's the other way around. I'm not saying that this is the way the world should be -- I'm just pointing out that this is a well understood phenomenon.
> and other forms of barely-not-slavery

The "funny" part about those barely-not-slavery practices, some were outlawed and successfully defended in court by arguing it was... actually slavery, which was illegal but had no "or else".

The US didn't crack down on this until World War 2, and that was just because they were getting bad press about it.
Why would complex financial agreements keep the Romans from large scale automation? The motivation for something like an industrial revolution (automation) is just connectivity within an economy. If I know that the people on this island are paying 3x more for Roman ketchup than I will make 10x more ketchup and sell it for a profit on that island. I have a hard time believing that this wasn't happening all the time in Rome...The Romans had modularized home construction so that they could scale and that doesn't happen without financial incentives and some level of an industrial revolution.

Rome's problem was always crony captilism and the fact that any Voltaire's that might have existed would have been violently executed by the state. Without freedom of thought you have no Industrial Revolution.
Cool I've been working on an algorithm to predict when an industrial refrigerator is going bad for a few months now. I wonder if our work overlaps at all.
I didn't know about this! I always wondered about writing a book with that change in mind. I'll read this one instead!
Tor Project – 'We are concerned about Google's plan to retire Manifest v2'
No. The "depth of field" for a lens parallel to the sensor is a space between two planes, so you'd expect it to be clear all the way across the image but blur closer and further from the sensor (up and down the image). This blurs out to all the sides, it's due to spherical abberation from inappropriate glass (more suited to telescopes where only the center of the image circle matters).
It is a joke, man.
> What issues and questionable steps were you thinking of?

2 things come to mind right now:

Starting with JupyterLab 3 (maybe 3.1), JupyterLab removes query arguments from the URL. Query arguments were the only way I know, to give arguments from the outside of JupyterLab to JupyterLab. Any extension, that relies on arguments given from the outside would break, just because JupyterLab removes query arguments, which were there since the beginning and did not do any harm, at aleast any I could tell. But suddenly this was taken away, without proper alternative. Now you have to hook into their "router" to quickly grab those arguments, before they are gone. This seems silly to me. Why randomly delete query arguments? They are there for a reason and since JupyterLab does not add any of its own, I cannot understand this decision. Simply seems to make it less powerful a tool.

The constant nagging about posting in their community JS-only forum. ("You should post this in the forum.", "Have you seen this post in the forum? links to forum") Why can this community not handle issues in issues, which can be easily found using a search engine. Why hide everything behind a JS-only forum, which one has to create another account for or associate ones Github account with? Whenever anyone gives me a link to the forum, where supposedly the answer to my question is, I keep thinking: "Ahh great, why did you have to hide it in there? If you had documented this in an issue, I would have found it via search engine and the thing would not have wasted my time and neither would I have had to waste yours." -- something along those lines.
When I find an issue and its solution, I still post it as Github issue, so that other people can easily find it, without signing up to their forum.

> I haven't really got experience writing extensions in the old Jupyter notebook [...]

I have done that a few years ago, when JupyterLab was still alpha versions. It worked, but the typical JS mistakes plagued me. JupyterLab is of course using TypeScript, which helps a lot with avoiding silly mistakes. However, I do think there is something to what you say about no longer encouraging the quick hack. Some functionality took years to appear in JupyterLab, but was already available for Jupyter Notebook, before JupyterLab took off.
I'm not sure I agree with you. I've been watching Dr. Alan Thompson for awhile now, and I don't sense any BS from him. Is there an aspect of marketing on his site? Definitely. But it's always seemed to me to be marketing with a solid experiential background.

I could be wrong, though.
Amazon, Googl, and the likes need to thread carefully from now on. We don't want an Oligopoly where 5 companies control every facet of human life (food, entertainment, medicine, to name a few).

This is where the line gets trickier:

- Less government on things that matter;
- Enough government to avoid big corps from creating monopolies.

Finding this middle ground is proven to be really, I mean really difficult, to say the least.
I basically agree. Arguably there are some innovations in health and science that the right knowledge in the hands of the right ruler/influential person could have advanced by centuries. But, in general, I'm not at all sure that technology overall could have been accelerated all that much even if a time traveler showed the right ruler a stack of modern how things work-style books.
I noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications using CloudFront however.
The answer is almost always tooling + resources. Scientific advancement outpaces tooling + resources - look at biology, physics (micro + macro), genetics, etc.
> Cleveland State University also tried to argue that the room scans were justified because they are routine

Ah, the banality defense: we do this all the time, it can't possibly be wrong!
It's their servers - that's what makes it correct.
Automatically signing you up for a newsletter is lame, but I've emailed people here in the past asking for opinions on new projects - I don't consider that spam. I'm talking like 20-30 emails maybe - no scraping involved.
Yep, it's a problem that couldn't be solved in Rome as it lacked many essential tools that the so-called Industrial Revolution depended upon. I can't imagine Rome or Sassanid Persia achieving such an industrial breakthrough.
TBH I always wonder why do we need conferences at all? Anyone who wants to share something can always pull up a youtube video. If a committee wants to discuss something they can always pull up a Zoom meeting. I'm not sure why they exist at all except for people who want to travel and sell things/ideas.

But since I have never attended any conference, I must missing something important here.
Is $125/hr for 8 hours a day 5 days a week at a corporation (in lieu of salary) competitive?
Ha, I got this this morning and deleted it before taking more than a glance. Agree, totally scummy.
finding your worth and financial education are orthogonal IMO
good for being intellectually honest about those justifications :)

still, your feelings matter. imo, totally welcome to them.

some people also like keeping gold in their safes, cash under their mattress, running on their own power and food off grid. i will fight for their right to do that.

but also i observe that most people have a demonstrated tendency towards centralization for convenience, and the technology is coming along for mass availability of this tech.
> why would a preference for the use of raw pointers indicate "machismo"?

Ugh. That's not what I meant/said. What I meant was that there can exist a certain belief that there is only one way of doing things, when in fact there may be several. And there can be a belief that, because one has experience dealing with the most unsafe and bug ridden things, that experience is somehow necessary everywhere and all the time.

Perhaps you might try to address the question at hand, is there a certain amount of machismo re: C/C++ in game dev? Heck, everywhere?

> 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?

Oh, totally. I'm reading the comments and looking for exactly these sorts of serious, interesting criticisms.

However, from what I've seen, some game dev criticisms have been pretty shallow from certain segments of that community. In another comment, I explain there are some game devs that have gone really deep on Rust and have really interesting things to say about it. My fear is simply that the more shallow sentiments of these high profile enfants terrible will take hold, because they often do.
Having lit signs turn off at certain time seems like a good idea to me. Reduce power and light pollution at the same time. What are the cons?
Just curious how they did this, your whole shtick is that you don’t send emails, and is read are a repository for newsletters and other spam… how does that translate to scraping emails addresses and sending newsletters to personal inboxes?
It’s not fraud when you’re just over-optimistic, you believe what you’re saying, and you end up being wrong.

It might suck, but it’s not fraud.
I will piggyback on the thread to ask something that I've been thinking about contracting/freelancing.

Is contracting an ideal job for people who don't work well in teams? By "don't work well", I don't necessarily mean rude or intolerable people.

I mean more like, doing all the work on your own, going out of your way to work on something, working without being told, etc.

Also, how to start your career as a developer on contract?
Honestly I get this. I was charging $175-200/hr for years, 2-5 hours/week on top of my full-time dev job. Now I've taken easier gigs for $90/hr, and do ~10 hours/week on top of my EM job and it feels 10x better.
I remember when I was starting out (~2 years of professional experience at the time) I was contracting as a ROR fullstack developer for a San Francisco startup for $17/h. Local salary in Russia as Java developer before that was around $2.6/h. So that I felt pretty rich doing that.

I remember I used to only bill for like 70% of hours I worked because I felt bad if there was some task that I couldn't implement right away or a bug I had to figure out.

These days my rate is about $60/h working for a US company with 9 years of experience.
How does this work? Is it populating a spreadsheet with xml?
Just look for a provider who allows it. I don't get the problem some people are trying to make here.

This is capitalism, Hetzner does not want cryptocurrency stuff on their servers, that's fine. Lots of other providers do not want chat applications, filehosting and whatnot as it stresses their systems more than usual. That's fine, there's a place for everybody.
Worked great, this was definitely the easiest way I have come across to run stable diffusion locally. Just tried it out with wsl2 on windows 11 using a 2080 super (8gb). I hope you continue to make improvements to the UI.
Wouldn't it be better for Google to have a "mark as spam and delete future emails" option? That way, your inbox stays clean, spammers have wasted some credit for whatever email marketing service they use on an email that will never be read, and eventually spamming would become futile since emails will be deleted on reception.
>sent by a member of our Mailscarp project.

With a history of 'surprises' like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24255179

Also, the only developer listed at devro labs: https://github.com/kesarawimal (bunch of email scraper repos in there too)

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24158498 (lol)
Nitter : https://nitter.net/torproject/status/1562921730472980481

Twitter : https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1562921730472980481

At Tor, we are very concerned about Google's plan to retire Manifest v2 and introduce Manifest v3.

This will not only affect privacy overall,

but also the ability for volunteers to support censored users around the world with Snowflake extension on Chrome.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-st...

Google’s Manifest V3 Still Hurts Privacy, Security, and Innovation

It's been over two years since our initial response to Google's Manifest V3 proposal.

Manifest V3 is the latest set of changes to the Chrome browser’s rules for browser extensions.

Google’s Manifest V3 still hurts privacy, security, and innovation : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555673

44 points by dredmorbius 8 months ago | 2 comments

Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502439

718 points by dredmorbius 8 months ago | 384 comments
He's bored not exactly by being the world champion, but by the format, where he has to prep for a long series of games all against just one opponent. He wants to play a variety of players. He wants the world championship to be a tournament with many entrants, rather than last year's champion against just one opponent.
> ...That said it is slowly losing ground to Telegram (and to a lesser extent Signal and Matrix)...

As an admitted fanboy of matrix, I sure hope it gains more popularity. Not just because i like the protocol and associated technologies, but also because it can represent usage of something not propriatray for citizens. The more big insitutions like banks and gov. services that allow for use of non-propriatary tech stacks means that maybe more people can leverage them for engaging in more digital (and safe) ways. Further, i looke at the wechat model in China, where so much is done over that platform. Now, imagine as much can be done over an open, secure protocol..which if implemented optimally can perhaps in the future allow for phones/mobile devcices to be built still performant but lower cost allowiong for more folks on other side of digital divide to be able to buy and use them...to engage with orgs/insititutions/gov. for their benefit. (Clearly, my wishes here have lots of "ifs" and dependencies...but, hey, i can dream, right?)
I used the wrong terms to describe skills like creativity and problem solving beside pure superficial knowledge. Of course I wouldn't hire anyone who can only search Google.
Why is autonomy the feature that matters? Drivetrain and cost matter far, far more. We're not ripping up the entire national infrastructure in the next 13 years.
The vast majority.

As always, there are exceptions.
That's not how taxes work at all..
Those are fair points. With the amount of e-waste currently in existence I'd think we would want to address those sooner rather than later, but it's easy for everyone to just kick the can down the road.
Paranoid project by Google Security Team checks for cryptography weaknesses