skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you're looking for contract work in general and not specifically refrigerators, he sets a good example for how specialization gets you consistent work.

Basically, find a niche industry (refrigerators, greenhouses, toy cars, whatever), find an audience, think about what they could use, and acquire the skills to give it to them. I used to be an actuary before I did software, I plan on going back to my old companies and contracting myself because I know they have data analytics needs I can meet.

If you want an excellent book on this topic, read "Soft Skills" by John Sonmez. Excellent book for shaping your career.
First: congratulations!

Second, two tips more tips from a dad of 5 children:

1. From somewhere after around 1 year: Put effort into teaching sleep skills: I did it by leaving the room after singing and prayer and coming back every 1 + 2n minutes where n is days. (Of course, use your parental judgment.) This was surprisingly effective in teaching them that Dad leaving the room doesn't mean Dad had disappeared, only that Dad is elsewhere and will be back soon. Important: do come back. Use a timer and follow it exactly. Come back even if the kid doesn't cry. It is important that they realize they don't have to cry for us not to disappear.

2. Also, when teaching them to sleep, don't let the fall asleep with anything (persons, toys, food, music, tv, absolute silence) that won't keep all night. We all wake halfway up many times during the night to check if everything is OK. For a small child a missing milk bottle is enough to signal "not ok".
Speed up PureScript programs by 25%
Roasting 0ktapus: The phishing campaign going after Okta identity credentials
Ask HN: What is some concrete evidence on the benefit of chess?
I notice that some patterns in chess parallel real life situations (like pins, skewers, etc), but I am not sure whether chess skills cause statistically significant benefit to real life decision making.

What is your take on this? Any reference or personal experience is welcome!
Not if I've cancelled. This covers me for when businesses don't respect the cancellation.
A word with minimal vertical integration is a world filled with middlemen and rent seekers.

The alternative to VI is every single piece of your stack is another company seeking its own piece of whatever pie you’re building (and that company in turn facing the exact same dilemma — nobody builds original things anymore, it’s b2b saas Lego all the way down)
They call them security conferences nowadays.
Agreed. I've had my own domain for 20+ years now. I've run my own mail server for it, but eventually moved to Fastmail and couldn't be happier.

My sister and mother also now have their own domains, administered by me. :)
Because it's an opportunity to learn more about the company beyond what's on their website? Honestly, if I interviewed someone and they had no interest in asking any questions, that's probably an easy reject.
Both an email-address and a domain name have a use-after-free risk. Doubly so if an expired domain issued email-addresses to users
Being trans is not novel. The recent scaremongering about trans people is what's new. Previously people being gay was the end of the world. Now that homosexuality is more acceptable bigots are focusing on trans people to use as a punching bag.
Next transgenderism dogma: Socially transitioning being a thing.

I don't believe that wearing specific clothes and demanding she/her pronouns from other people makes me less male than i happened to be. Or more female. Nor do i believe this applies for other people or sex swapped.

> just not in a typical way

We are in a post-enlightenment democracy. You can just do atypical things. And it doesn't make you more or less female or male or transitioning or anything like that. Not everything will fit into words, but that's the nature of things.
This seems fairly broad on the surface, but they've always wanted to own products right as they go pure digital / online distribution. Kindle, prime video, FireTV, etc. I'll bet they feel video games are finally at that tipping point.

With all that impressive infrastructure to get physical product to you overnight or same day, it's still a better and much much more profitable platform for digital goods.
Significantly more discussion on the dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605949
I think you're confusing Nix, nixpkgs and NixOs.

(Also Nix and Nix-flakes are two different things, like Javascript and React.)
> Spoken like someone who did not use the "drag this window on top of the QR code on your screen" feature

This feature still exists, and it is even easier to use. You no longer have to drag any windows around. The QR code just has to be on screen and you press the button. :) If you're having trouble with it please reach out as we'd like to troubleshoot.

> nor its ability to detect native application's bundle-id and fill in passwords based on the application currently in focus

1Password 7 didn't do this? It didn't fill in any 3rd party apps except browsers that had our browser extension installed. 1Password 8 actually not only detects these apps but also fills in them. https://support.1password.com/mac-universal-autofill/ If that is not working for you, please reach out.

> To include Windows users in this fun, previously one could invoke a hotkey and 1P would offer to auto-type into almost any Windows dialog on the screen. Poof, gone

Agreed. I miss the one too. I'm hopeful we're going to be able to bring it back soon.

-Ben, 1Password
Although I am strongly suspicious of Amazon...

I can hope this means an improvement, maybe EA will finally allow some older games to be open sourced or fixed.

Been trying to convince EA for years to do something about SimCity 4.
Why are you suggesting proprietary software when talking about a device that exists mainly to run FOSS?
I can’t seem to break $130 hr. I have about 7 years of experience.
I installed the Oberon OS (A2) emulator and showed it to my friend. We burst out laughing at that program that makes a skeleton run across the screen. If you keep executing it, it just spawns more skeletons and we had a skeleton parade.
No, the US has no official language, but English is the de facto national language. Some laws require official documents (election forms, immigration forms, etc.) in multiple languages. You often see signs including other languages in specific locations depending on the local population (Spanish in the Southwest and Puerto Rico, French near French Canada, Native American near reservations). In addition, some state laws require the use of languages important to their local populations (e.g. Spanish on legal and warning signs in areas with a lot of Spanish-speaking citizens)

This particular law is a state law passed in Texas. It requires that schools post any privately donated signs with this message. The law is written in English, so the case is not a slam dunk. A court could find that the law specifies the phrase in English and only applies to signs with the English phrase.

This Texas law is an example of the recent trend in the state's politics to leverage private actors to enact policies that may be constitutionally questionable. They also did it with their recent abortion laws, that enable private individual and organizations to sue abortion seekers and providers for facilitating abortions, even if the people bringing suit have no relationship to the abortion activities. The constitutionality of such laws have not been determined in court yet, so they may yet run into issues.
Microsoft's Largest Piece of Software Weighed More Than 40 Pounds
So more expensive than lead acid? I think lead acid batteries are about 1 tenth the cost of lithium
Did you have difficulty receiving or sending mail? I haven't noticed such problems with my Gandi inboxes, but I know the big email providers like Google and MS do a lot of gatekeeping. If the host in France is the problem, you can use your domain at another host such as Proton.me which I do for my main account.
Author here :)
This is definitely a good concern to have, though Espanso was built with security in mind, so the keys you press are not logged anywere. We keep the last N in memory (with N being usually between 5 to 30 chars) to do the matching, and discard them as soon as possible
I agree, it's like clothes, sometimes it is appropriate to dress up if you want people to view what you are saying through a certain lens, wether that is wearing gold cufflinks to your job as a banker or wearing a hoodie to your job at Facebook it all signals something. Computer games are a visual medium, where aesthetics is very important, I'm not sure I would want to signal that I don't care about aesthetics to my audience, presumably quite a few of whom will be designer/programmer/artists type people (whatever you call front end in game dev).
No one can making any money except platform holders. 30% commissions are egregious. These aquisitions are just the side effect.

We need a commission cap on all platforms that do over $1billion in annual sales. The Apple vs Epic trial revealed 80% margins for Apple on the App Store:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/01/apple-runs-app-store-with-78-...

A cap of 10-15% should do it.
American political parties are weird, and the labels (Democrat/Republican) have swapped platforms/sides of the aisle several times in the last two hundred years.

It is not a straightforward history.

https://xkcd.com/1127/large/

Extend back stereotypes with care. History turns out to be anything but intuitive.
I tend to make install and build scripts for such things, but one of my main things is catching the hash of the latest version, or better yet a GPG key. Gives me a little peace of mind.
Twitter Is Adding Podcasts to Its Platform
I understand your point and it's well taken. Just to point out, as I feel I misspoke or was mischaracterized by my statement, because I hold the Republicans in disdain doesn't mean I hold any less disdain for the Democrats. I haven't seen any shortage of political hucksters on the stage, "he who must not be named" (for fear of moderation) is just the latest example.

Sorry if I came off as a single sided zealot =) I, like most people, just want a little compromise and moderation, and most of all respect out of my politicians. What I don't want is fealty to a political party first, like a bunch of gang bangers.
No. I’m no systemd expert but as far as I know the idea is that the resolv.conf configuration system was designed decades ago when you’d have a Unix system connected through cable to a network run by an expert. But a modern system might be wirelessly connected to many different networks through time or even at the same time, with many of them not run by consumers who have no idea what they’re doing. So there’s a mismatch.

The earlier solution was dhcp clients editing resolv.conf to include the configuration they get from the dhcp server. But that doesn’t really work if it changes all the time, if you want to have a different manual configuration for some networks or if you are connected to multiple networks at the same time.

Systemd tries to make it possible to configure this in a modern way and the idea is that most applications (that use the system libraries in the typical way) don’t use resolv.conf at all but talk to a part of systemd to resolve queries with that part using modern configuration. Other legacy applications that try to parse that file or use the configuration in another way find a proxy dns server run by systemd that gives them the same answers the other applications get.
Not really, the really nasty ones are the ones leveraging their standing in one market to be dominant in another.
Massive phased array that could potentially support multiple spot coverage. You still need a bunch of satellites to ensure continuous coverage unlike GEO birds that can cover a whole continent so it will be awhile until you can get worldwide (or nearly worldwide) coverage. With a really fancy DSP box and enough bandwidth, you can account for Doppler. The speeds won't be great but it will certainly be good enough for voice and SMS.

Adding things like mesh networks, you could drop a small server rack and generator at any where in the world and create a robust cell network to cover disaster zones.
The only people who are more "trust us, it's just around the corner" than fusion folks are the renewables only folks and their hair brained schemes to avoid the base load question.

Complicating the grid with smarts, given how well that's gone with IoT?

We've thrown a low carbon option under the bus because of sloppy Soviet engineering.

The coal and gas we are stuck with due to "greens" no nuclear stance has caused more harm to humanity than our sum total nuclear incidents, even counting non power incidents such as orphaned radiotherapy sources or ignoring procedures at irradiation facilities.
I think that's a bit of a straw man. The technology is just not quite there yet. At least it's a lot better than the last go round with Virtual Boy.

The killer app that would make VR desirable doesn't exist yet either. Maybe that will be the Metaverse? But I kind of doubt it. We'll see.
I think the reasons languages like Zig choose not to make this configurable is because other than the odd exception occasionally very few shops bother to turn on the stricter mode or are actively hostile to the stricter mode.

And when you rely on other libraries that sort of less strict mode tends to start leaking out everywhere since that one critical library you really don't want to rewrite won't compile when you use strict and you don't want to carry a bunch of patches for it either.

The net result is if you don't start out enforcing cleanliness your community of users will unintentionally devolve into unclean over time.
Very nice to see RISC-V growing like that and being in the area of interest by big names such as Google and Intel. Open solutions are critical for risk management but I wonder if desktop/server RISC-V processors are also planned.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you found it useful :)
Lately I've been less responsive due to some life circumstances, but I'm slowly getting up to speed again :)
My new anti-spam tactic is to duplicate Gmail's 'bounce/address not found' response and respond with that. Believing that your email address isn't valid, they'll stop spamming you (bounces affect deliverability) and also probably not sell your data. If you just hit unsubscribe, now they've validated your email so they can sell it
Hey — we'd love to chat about your feedback on the browser extensions. There are some settings that may help. Please shoot us an email. <3 -Ben, 1Password
You don't have to show your face? I didn't know that, thanks.
Common Negotiation Positions and How to Work Through Them
> I don't like spam but the atomized ethos of no-one-talk-to-me isn't great. Someone chatting you up or sending something you might like is fine.

I'm sure most people that put their email address in their profile are fine if a human person wants to talk to them. Companies scraping profiles and sending automated bulk mail on the other hand, not so much. Pretty sure that in the EU this is also a violation of GDPR.
sounds like tea tree and cinnamon oil paint, basically.

Copper plating is likely to work better and be more durable.
shut up comzoomer
Depends on the customer. The largest rate I used to take was $500/hour (for a 10 hours project, so it haven’t made me a millionaire). The smallest is of course free, but the actual commercial smallest was probably $80/hour (for a long-term project). (I live in Switzerland, which is quite expensive).

It goes without saying that there are times when I don’t have any projects in the pipeline, so I have to spend some time on finding another set of clients. The longest such interval has been about 6 months.
I would posit that the person you're replying to is challenging the title, not the article. The title and the article are incongruent.

The article essentially suggests that considerable solitude is required to really take one's writing to a higher place. That might be the true, or it might not be true, and it depends on how we define 'good writing'. But we can agree that it's not so easy to dismiss.

On the other hand, the title plainly states: 'creativity requires solitude'. That's a clear-cut statement. And it's extremely debatable. Not to mention that Rilke never even said that.
It's not the COW filesystem that is slow, it's bind mounting the host filesystem into the VM. This ends up using something like 9p or sshfs.
Nature is lit. Moths' wings and fur are extremely efficient at absorbing sounds. One study showed a moth's wing scales absorbed up to 87% of the sound energy directed at them.
""Even more impressive is that the moth's wings do so despite being extremely thin, with scales only 1/50th the thickness of the wavelength of sound they absorb. This extraordinary performance shows that moth wings are 'supernatural'. surfaces' (materials with unique properties and abilities that cannot be achieved with traditional materials) absorb sound in nature," explains Dr. Thomas Neil, lead author of the study."
https://scienceinfo.net/soundabsorbing-weapon-helps-moths-fi...
I have previously enjoyed CopyQ. However, now I use a more minimal setup that uses rofi. By cycling through I meant this - I paste something from clipboard using a keybind, and then trigger keybind that erases the pasted thing and inserts the previous element from the clipboard and so on.
From my perspective for every large innovator like Apple there are several like Comcast. While Apple would not exist in the hypothetical world where max size exists for companies who knows what other innovations would exist or would not have been quashed by large companies. There are unintended consequences with the status quo. It’s easy to overlook those because we are used to the system in place. Are those unintended consequences worth keeping? I don’t know but it’s worth exploring other options.
They are in fact not.

FIFA is not the only football games, PES exist too with fully licensed leagues. Some of them shared between both.

MLB has right now two licensed games (RBI and The Show)

NBA, NHL, and NFL had multiple games between 2K (2K Sports) and EA.

It really comes down to who is willing to pay the enormous fee.
Interesting to learn about this! It's not as drastically different as expected from the initial write-up.

The zoom-to-switch-context reminds me of Figma (a design tool) -- personally I like the metaphor of managing hierarchy with scale while mapping spatial relationships to functional ones.

The idea of mixing "data" and "code" is intriguing. I might have to play with an install locally!
1/2000 is what your actual hourly rate is as salary.

Doubling that to 1/1000 accounts for downtime, unpaid pto, paying for facilities, paying for your own insurance, etc.
Doesn't sound like good advice. When the market drops suddenly, lots of the people on the top rates won't get any work due to demand. Could you drop them at that point? Possibly but not if your mortgage would become unaffordable.

An alternative is to consider what lifestyle you think is fair for society and work it out from that. We don't all have to perpetuate the worst of capitalism that I should be paid whatever people will pay me.

My dad was a house painter and charged a pretty low rate and had work coming out of his ears which meant more choice of what work he wanted/how far away it was. He could afford to live on it and that was OK for him.
>all Down's babies are aborted. (98% in Denmark

98% of all babies with Down's syndrome, or 98% of all babies diagnosed with it? How popular is the test in Denmark?
> if you use the VM disk for your workspace, which you should.

Yep, if you try to build something that is stored on /mnt/c you'll have the same horrible performance.
The study of racial differences is famous for being bad science.
We have a deeper level of integration with the Mac than we've ever had. For example, 1Password 8 can now fill into many non-browser 3rd party apps, which was never possible before. https://support.1password.com/mac-universal-autofill/ -Ben, 1Password
MacBook self-repair program highlights Apple’s flawed repairability progress
That depends heavily on the shape of your data, what your workload looks like, what sort of consistency guarantees you need, etc. I recommend Designing Data Intensive Applications for getting a handle on this - it's the book I suggest to SDE IIs who are hungry for the jump to senior. Not a quick read, but well written, and there's not really a shortcut to deep understanding other than deep study.
> a mass effect TV series would be nice if they don't fuck it up

After what they did to Halo I'm not holding my breath.
> project fees plus monthly retainers

I am new to the contractors game, could you elaborate a bit more on what that means?

Do you charge hourly + some monthly flat rate? Is it for short term contracts?
OT, but important: don't bill hourly. Do a day rate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103417

You can benchmark day rates by your hourly rate, if that's easier for you to think or talk about. Your benchmark hourly rate should probably start at 150%-200% of your salary (backed out to hourly). It can reasonably go much higher. It can't reasonably go much lower.
It depends on the job. I prefer charging a flat fee over an hourly rate when possible, but in either case, the rate varies depending on the nature of the job and the company.
The up front higher cost is disappearing as they ramp up production and is predicted to cross over within a few years. The fuel costs and carbon intensity of the running costs are also predicted to diverge in EVs favor.

Presumably part of this is greater efficiency, which would impact the C02 emissions too.

So any small savings are that possibly exist today in theory are likely wiped out by depreciation on the vehicle when you go to sell it to someone else, who likely drives an average amount of miles and so wants to buy a cheap to run vehicle

TCO calculations can deal with most of this, the one I linked to does highway and city mileage seperately and lets you choose a state for electricity and gas prices. There's no need for vague blanket rules.

Why don't you demonstrate a realistic scenario to substantiate your claim that:

> At US gas prices, I have yet to see an EV be shown to be a better value than a car/minivan/SUV/pickup truck, especially if driving 10k miles or less per year.

But, none of that really matters because the average car is much better off as an EV, and this is just fiddling around the edges to distract from that basic truth.
This was already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605574
In 1997, NeXT purchased Apple for -$429 million and replaced MacOS 9 with NeXTSTEP.
Making a conclusion off a single data point is ridiculous.

Across multiple countries, only the United States has this problem.
Why no Roman industrial revolution?
I'm fixing some WordPress websites on the side for 60 Euro/hour for clients from earlier days. For new clients I'd look into 90 Euro/hour.

Your work is much more complex though, your rate should therefore be higher, I think, especially if this is your main job.

Would it make sense for you to switch to another billing model, like "per module" or does billing per hour work fine for you?

edit: Based in Germany
That is what I said a few posts up. It's a policy I felt uncomfortable with even then. I just wanted to clear up that we didn't leave individual bad actors on the site to my knowledge.
That's an interesting thought, but no, it's being sent to two different email addresses that are in my profile, so it's not an accident.
Can you share more details? This is a world I know nothing about.