skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, your work has to be sold or monetized either by you or your employer. Rarely do we know exactly what benefits our employers get from our work. A helpful starting metric is to estimate what your employer's costs to employ you are. Employers pay for time off, benefits (health, retirement, professional development, etc), and employment taxes that you'll now be responsible for directly.

Folks get hung up on rule-of-thumb advice like hourly rate * 2.5 because they're thinking about their take-home pay and not the cost of employment. In many defense contracting roles, the "fully burdened rate" for contracts is 2.9-3.5x the employee's pre-tax pay. When switching to contracting you can compete by offering better services and by undercutting your (large company) competition -- and that's just where you start. Once you establish yourself as a better performer you can demand a higher price also.
Because DataDog's GitHub integration does in addition to git data also take GitHub data into account to provide a better user experience. E.g. for giving "this action broke this thing" insights giving you a clickable link to a GitHub PR instead of just providing you with a git SHA hash.

They also provide a direct git integration, which as far as I can tell just is a reduced version of the GitHub one, with a featureset that seems reasonable if they only have the pure git data.
> Most of that inevitably is going to be wind and solar. Gas is a complete non starter at this point. And coal is quite expensive and coal supplies also are a bit tricky as most of that actually also came from Russia.

Wind and Solar have the drawback of not being a constant or reliable source of energy. Yes, they provide cheap and clean energy but not always when you need it.

Yes, the solution would be to save the energy when you need it BUT we don't have that, yet. I really hope we will figure something out but we need not face reality: The tech is not there yet. It might take decades that we don't have.

This is so frustrating to argue with people. Like, I really like your optimism but we don't have a saving solution. We have some ideas but scaling them up towards the scope that we actually need is not easily done.

I really wish you were right but the facts don't add add.

> However, that will cause industry to respond by investing in reducing their dependency on those energy sources.

Since when do they know that they should be transitioning to other sources? Decades? What have the done? Nothing.

As long there are other countries with cheap gas I am not so optimistic. Yes, some will make the transitions, other will move production to other countries and lot's of them we will simply lose. The next years will be brutal.

Only when the international community actually starts to take climate change and dependence on gas more serious will we see some change.
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One is not able to bankrupt out of student loans, unlike any other loan in existence.

So the problem is not the student loan amounts. It's how they're treated.

Life is long and filled with unforseen circumstances, that's why bankruptcy exists.

Businesses bankrupt all the time, Trump bankrupted I think 7 times?, We bailed out the banks for their faulty financial decisions.

But somehow we think it's ok to trap students who made the decision at a young age, and needed an education/job skills to survive, into a world of debt?

I understand that it's a way to be able to give loans to young people with low or no credit.

However, there's so many OTHER ways to deal with this, other than making students slaves to debt for a huge part of their life.

There's a bill introduced to address exactly this.. however it's been stuck in committee for over a year and is probably pretty hopeless.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/259...
thats a very measured response, im sure you're right and thats not just a really biased view /s
I've been doing web dev (react) contracting for 8 months now. First months was 50 and 60/hr, then big, main contract at 100, now 160 as a part time. Quite the learning experience, and goes to show how far confidence will take you.
Hustling the law or regulations is all cool, as long as you don't spam HN :)
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Well the only lasting legislative achievement of the Trump administration was to pass a tax cut for the rich, which was almost assuredly counter to the populist platform that he ran on. Politics are about promising everything to everybody and then once in office, figuring out which promises you can break, and which you can't.

Biden (and the Democrats more broadly) have a fairly diverse base with a variety of key interests. And the lesson from the Obama years was that slow playing policy changes in the name of bipartisanship was a great way to get destroyed at the ballot box in the midterms.

I would certainly prefer that an action like this was implemented after we got inflation under control, but I am also not living pay check to pay check with a load of student debt. And if something like this, on balance, keeps hope alive for the midterms then I guess I am onboard.
Does "wage slavery" just mean "most people are required to work in order to survive" ? If so, every society in history is like that.
It depends.

First of all, we aren't really talking about motherboards or CPUs here. It is embedded electronics, not desktop computing. They are highly specialized application-specific electronics, which require a lot of engineering time to design, validate, and certify. It is nothing at all like the computer ecosystem, where you can just swap in a different motherboard. Boards are designed to use very specific chips, with a chip swap easily costing tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Second, the chip shortage is mostly affecting "legacy" chips - which have often been available for a decade or more. The applications they are being used in do not really require a lot of processing power, but they do need to be extremely reliable. We are talking about things like Atmel's ATmega32u4, which was initially released in 2008. Can't really do a lot, but plenty of power for some obscure automotive module.

Although recycling is technically sort-of possible, it is extremely labor-intensive. Even with the current shortage and associated price hike, it isn't really economically viable. Even worse, the resulting chips are of unknown quality: you simply don't know what happened to them! And exhaustively testing them isn't really possible either. Are you willing to buy a car with an airbag controller which contains a chip they dug out of a landfill? Newly manufactured hardware has a known quality, which means you can guarantee it works properly.

On the other hand, we are wasting a lot of opportunities on the other side of the usage cycle. Electronics can often be repaired, but we throw them away instead. Look at smartphone and laptop manufacturers, for example: often they just throw out an entire logic board when a single chip is defective. A skilled technician could replace that chip, but smartphone and laptop manufacturers are actively trying to obstruct this. It is "reduce, reuse, recycle" for a reason: recycling should be the the last resort - not the first.
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Based on my experience as a Canadian who has done the 40-hour week "contracting" thing (basically they were too lazy to set up Canadian payroll), I'd say definitely!
Late reply, but... The fact that there is a superior solution is kind of irrelevant. Everyone has their opinion on what is the best solution - I'm sure some people would disagree with your assessment of SPI+Tow-Boot. If there is no one who is actually in a position to make that call, you will just have chaos. That's my only point.
Traditionally US government proposes a spending program and some means to pay for and congress votes on it. How you pay for it could be through debt, existing funds or increase in taxes. This is something different.

It also muddies the water because it's not explicit how much it will cost, who will bear the burden not to mention no congressional oversight. This isn't like proposing a budget to build bridges. The is unilateral action by one person with unknown consequences.
Not only do they kill, they figured out if you flip a shark they'll pass out and they can nibble at leisure, that's a bit more intelligence than "idiots biting rudders" which seems to be the current theory sadly

https://www.sharktrust.org/tonic-immobility
Every time a bank makes a loan and increments the number in your bank account, they are printing money.

This is an empty argument.
Have you encountered US busses that come on time?
It's not just taxes, though. It's the difference between salary and what's called Fully Burdened Labor Costs.

Say you're comparing eg. a FTE with $115k salary, and 4 weeks vacation. Naively, a contractor working those hours is 115 / 48 weeks / 48 hours = $60/hr for the same salary.

But the employer is also paying out payroll taxes, insurance, office space/supply expenses, retirement plans (401k) - this typically adds up to 25-30% on top of the base salary.

Meanwhile, the contractor also isn't expecting their position to be a long-term gig, and (at least if you're not at an agency) also is managing a business so needs to account for business overhead (legal/accounting) and time spent lining up more business, which is un-billable. If they worked 4 days weekly at the contract gig and 1 day as overhead, already they need to bump salary expectation by 25% to keep even. And if you want to account for downtime between gigs, that number gets higher much quicker.
Maybe their masterplan is to sell beds :)
This sounds like the kind of thing you say before implementing austerity policies that make everything worse and cutting taxes for the rich.
I've heard of people with appointments at 8AM and a passport being delivered to their door by 10AM in emergency situations. Not hard to contact your congressperson to get this done. They love this as it involves almost no effort and is great PR.
> I don't get the problem some people are trying to make here.

People are free to complain. And it makes sense, if people chose Hetzner it's because there was something they liked over the other providers. Now they'll have to move to another provider they like less.

And even if you don't care about crypto, I don't want to live in a world where all the big cloud providers have a long list of software you can or can't run. It's important to harshly criticize these things before they become commonplace and they affect you in some other way.
I've never seen anyone insinuate that eliminating methane emissions would fix global warming.

The only time I've seen that argument raised is for the opposite "Because this won't fix global warming, we shouldn't do it?".

Global warming will require a multifaceted approach to be solve. No one solution will fix it, so literally any solution is going to have a detractor that says "This won't fix it, so why bother with it?"
Did that recently change? I had to renew my passport at the office this year and it was very strictly by appointment only.
Ethical question? Do you think that's reasonable given tax rates of 12%, 22%, etc for salaried roles?

Is there something that makes your contract based employment significantly different to a salaried role?
Don't taxes exist?
Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Read the links. Because those aren't providing evidence for the claim. They're just repeatedly asserting what I've already told you is faulty reasoning: we don't have a precise genetic definition of "race" today, therefore it doesn't exist.

That's wrong. Regarding the specific papers:

The first explicitly admits that race exists in the opening sentence (oops), then proceeds to say "the two most commonly used biological concepts of race" don't work in humans, therefore race doesn't exist ("There are no objective criteria for choosing one adaptive trait over another to define race. As a consequence, adaptive traits do not define races in humans.")

This is exactly the fallacious thinking I'm calling out. Great example.

The second is not a paper at all, but still admits that there's at least some biological basis for race, even though it's not precise. That's fine -- I'm not claiming it is precise:

> Research indicates that the concept of “five races” does, to an extent, describe the way human populations are distributed among the continents—but the lines between races are much more blurred than ancestry testing companies would have us believe

The third is saying that a single, specific measurement of genetic diversity fails to define race. Again, that's fine. Saying "test X doesn't define race" != "race does not exist":

> These limitations on FST are demonstrated algebraically and in the context of analyzing dinucleotide repeat allele frequencies for a set of eight loci genotyped in eight human groups and in chimpanzees. In our analyses, estimates of FST fail to identify important variation.

Overall, these illustrate exactly what I've said: race is clearly real and we know it when we see it, but it's not precise, and we don't have a biological test that defines it. Those who extend this to "race is a sociopolitical construct" are engaged in a through-the-looking-glass form of motivated reasoning. And it's a very convenient form of reasoning, because if you make it "wrong" to say that race exists, you prevent anyone from doing the research that might produce such a test.
I think realms are the future in this direction. https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/13239
I feel like there needs to be a model that fixes faces to clean this up. Humans are so attuned to faces that I can imagine it would take a specialized model to render convincing faces. Maybe there could be a layer to identify and occlude existing pseudo-faces generated by Stable Diffusion and another model to populate the occlusion.
A device that cuts manual labor only does so for a single purpose. A Roman farm would have grain fields, livestock, and orchards. Slaves on the farm could do all of the jobs the farm required. A harvesting gin of some sort would only reduce the labor needs for a small portion of the farm's output.

For mechanization to reduce manual labor on Roman farms they would need to switch to monoculture crops of a type that were conducive to mechanization. It would take machines being extremely cheap to beat Roman slave labor where conquests of neighboring territories were constantly bringing in new slaves.
This might be true, but without quantifying everything you've said, nobody can make a value judgment.

The essential point is that the livestock emissions are already part of the carbon cycle, and don't 'contribute to emissions' in the way most people think, especially activists.
It is insane how much more expensive college is now than when I went to college back in the 90s. I was able to pay off my student loans within 10 years of graduating because they were so much less than what current students are graduating with. And salaries certainly haven't increased enough in that same time span to make the pay off equivalent.

But, I think $10k or $20k is not enough. I think they should have looked at how much the cost of college has increased over the past 2+ decades and forgiven that percentage from every student loan.

Then they should fix the cause of tuition inflation by getting rid of the federal student loan program.
That would be Hacking News..
All the bus services I know of at least have GPS in their respective apps now.

Doesn't solve the issue but you can see how long it'll take and impress old people by knowing where the bus is :)
Maybe https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Unfortunately the political dynamic in the US ensures that most federal government services will remain in shambles.

On one side there is a party that actively believes that "government is the problem", and does its best to prove that by deliberately kneecapping government agencies. Just look at the recent debate over the IRS. I mean, I don't like being taxed anymore than anyone else, but I think a professional, competent IRS is a clear necessity for funding the federal government.

On the other side there is a fear of getting branded "socialist", or just proposing things that will never come to pass, so what we are often left with is these Frankenstein "private-public" partnerships that are usually the worst of all possible worlds. E.g. you have the case where student loans are made by private institutions (or at least non-federal ones), but then then federal government guarantees them. So what we've built up is an incentive structure that makes college as expensive as possible, as student debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy, and even if it is discharged by the feds, it is the feds who are left holding the bag. Lenders and colleges are just incentivized to charge as much as possible because they are made whole no matter what.
Barely anyone uses FPGAs. They are pretty much only in use in highly specialized enterprise-grade hardware. Think a €5000 SSL accelerator.
Seaweed is a great source of umami!
I completely agree with this. I have seen papers produced by a bunch of newly minted PhD's and the first thought that came in my mind was "WTF is this? There's nothing in this that's new or makes sense".

A lot of publishing, from outside the top research universities, seems to be mainly at showing a higher publication count to get more funding and impress tenure committees.

Some of the professors, who do this, make you wonder how they get their PhD in the first place. Back in my masters, I was giving a presentation on a paper from FB, where they were going over scheduling policies they had been using in their hadoop clusters. The professor reviewing asked me a question "You're taking about scheduling tasks in distributed environments, you're talking about Hadoop, Hadoop is for files what scheduling does it do?". Some of us there had a big "WTF" plastered on our face. Couldn't even argue cause this prof. thought he was a hotshot and would make life hell for students who did. In his own words to a student "I can write a compiler, I can write an operating system, but I can't make head or tail of what you're doing".
Yea because in the future everyone will write code and things like
Copilot get us there. You’re probably an engineer who likes making way more than average. So you’re biased
It's not the discussion that makes you a crank. It's publishing a paper claiming you have solved something that you haven't even begun to understand. It's bypassing peer review. It's ignoring all the literature out there and claiming that is somehow a virtue.

You have an interesting idea? Go ahead, please share it! But it's not productive to just start with "Look everybody, I solved it!"

It just wastes everyone's time. For example, this paper. It would take a lot of time to sit down and work through the math until I find a specific error in it. But the barren abstract and reference sections strongly suggest that would be a huge waste of my time and energy.

Mochizuki pulled this stunt with the ABC conjecture. Wasted YEARS of mathematicians' time just to arrive at the conclusion it was all elaborate mathematical smoke and mirrors. The guy is an egotistical asshole with a messiah complex, and managed to burn a lot of PhD students by chasing his red herring. Not cool.
> It's hard to imagine anyone trusting Google for IoT again.

I mean, presumably they decided the IoT vertical just wasn't for them altogether.

If Google intended some new service to take this one's place, they would have 1. launched it before deprecating this one; and 2. built a backend shim to route data sent to the old API into the new backend, so that people's code wouldn't have to change. (Like they did for Firebase, and for Stackdriver, and for anything else they actually cared about keeping the business of the customers of.)

This move, meanwhile, clearly sends the message of "we don't want to be in this business; stop trying to buy this kind of service from us; just go away." It's the feel of being on the receiving end of the "fire your [bad] customers" advice — just applied to "firing" an entire (bad?) market.
I can understand referrals for new passport, but for renewing that is just strange...
We keep being fed the lie that we can solve climate change by buying different versions of the same stuff, no sacrifice involved.

The best car is a train or a bus. Some situations definitely require cars, especially when folks are disabled or when temperatures of 100+ degrees make it difficult to wait for a bus. But this is just a different type of theatre. Public transit is the only real way to decrease CO2 emissions.
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> Winter air tends to be much drier than summer air

Where I lived before, that's still 80% (usually 90-95% in summer)
Except it isn't.

PPP loans were offered as a stopgap measure to stem unemployment during a pandemic. Most people just pocketed the money because they weren't actually doing that badly. I could have taken one and didn't and I regret it now, but that's water under the bridge. It's just funny that all of the opportunists out there who are crying about student loans had no problem taking many multiples worth of PPP loans to line their pockets.

The comparison between a student loan and consumer debt at the end of that article though? Utter braindeadedness.
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Another question for freelancers: What's your ratio of deep work to shallow work?

With coding, intensity impacts how long you can work. In the book Deep Work, Cal Newport says that ~4 hours per day of high-intensity focus is about the limit.

So, how many hours do you bill per day on average - and of those hours, what's the breakdown of high-intensity vs. other work?
Syncing across devices and Android, please.
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"Good number of people" is many thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands.

And I know of 3 families that have pi based desktops at home, and use them as desktops. (One of those has a person that works in IT in it.) I don't know anybody that has "experimental desktops" that they use only to thinker with, AFAIK, when people assembly a desktop, it's because they want to use as a desktop.
Tell that to the Romans and the patronage systems.
$800 billion is high for defense, it's nowhere close to outrageous given the responsibilities the US has as the world's only superpower (see: helping Ukraine defend itself with an inevitable $100+ billion in funding), along with having the world's largest economy and the economic interests that go with that.

3% of GDP is not unreasonable for US military spending. US GDP is estimated to be around $25-$26 trillion for 2022.

What's outrageous are countries in Europe spending sub 2% of GDP on defense and relying on the US to defend Europe from Russia.
I don't think the speed of text messaging allows for many other meaningful data types. Someone encoding video into the GSM-7 format used by SMS will still consume more data than the typical person typing and sending text messages (which is what, 140 bytes each way per minute on average?).

There is also the difference between free and paid. Sure, if you're paying, you should be able to do whatever you want at the advertised speed and data limits. But for a free feature, I think it's alright to limit to SMS and other texting apps (already done on inflight wifi and it works just fine).

Why not just limit to SMS? Because travelers' home carriers might levy roaming charges on SMS, and WhatsApp / Telegram / iMessage is already de facto in most of the world.
Greylisting is one of those techniques I always loved, as it was so simple and logical.

As you say these days spammers will retry, but its an approach that still has value, because in the period between the initial delivery-attempt (which is rejected) and the final one (where it would be attempted) it is more likely that the sender has already appeared on DNS-based blocklists.
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