skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there’s successful business (essentially, niche glassdoor) for this. Someone please make it.

For more explanation:
https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io/editions/012
Why is HN acceptable then?
Here's a screenshot https://imgur.com/a/gpStPID
I'm long past my academia phase, but recently led the PC for an industry conference (accept rate: ~15%).

1. Curation is important both for the physical limits (venues only fit a certain number of people), attention limits (attendees will usually retain only a handful of "nuggets" no matter how packed the agenda is) and interaction limits (you can't meet everyone at a large conference).

2. If the goal of a conference is not just to "stamp" research as somehow "approved", but to encourage discovery and knowledge exchange that deepens a specific area, it's important to apply that curation filter with an eye toward best advancing the goals of the conference. That means not just going for things that are okay, but those that best resonate with other presentations / attendees / research topics.

3. While the size of any one conference has to be fixed, tech has made it infinitely easier to create new conferences and journals with other focus areas. They may not start with the prestige of a larger journal, but if the papers published start to have an impact, it can catalyze an entire subfield of work.

Some conferences can be tied exclusively to "novelty" - ACM academic conferences - but others to "incremental advancements" - the bigger industry conferences in security, like Usenix Security and some to "best explaining ideas" - like Enigma.

There are new ways to find an audience for your work and create impact - that's part of the job now.
I want to be excited about this, but at the same time I think I'll take a big dose of healthy skepticism for now.

I've been really intrigued with what started a couple of years ago with Clubhouse, and then Twitter jumping on to do Spaces but the discover tab has been pretty awful for me - a mix of random NFT projects I car nothing about and general crypto stuff, with very little actual suggestions about things I would want to listen to. I felt like the novelty wore off quite quickly.

I am quite active on Twitter & run a podcast, so I'm still glad that companies are trying to take a crack at podcast discoverability but until it's there, I'm not convinced
> This absolutely vindicates Xen's approach vs Linux's

Meh. It likely just points out that Xen is a much more limited software environment with much less dependence on indirect branching[1]. There are environments where IBRS has high cost and ones where it doesn't. Linux is in the former category.

Xen also has the advantage of being a hypervisor, meaning that if all they do is expose IBRS to the guest, they can (somewhat cleverly) claim that any resulting vulnerabilities are the fault of the guest software not implementing them. Linux exposes a Unix userspace, and no one told userspace apps they need to use speculation barriers.

Really this article is mostly just marketing. It's a win for Xen, sure, and they should crow about it. But we should recognize crowing vs. genuine security analysis, too.

[1] Vs. say, Linux, which has an extremely robust polymorphic device/bus/probe model where all the methods are function pointers.
> We absolutely need to do this anyway

No. Only if we want to be the only major country in the civilised world that doesn't use nuclear power despite having not enough hydro power.

> would take ten to fifteen years at best,

This is extremely optimistic for wind power, and even more for rebuilding the electricity grid. Even if you can somehow shorten the planning processes: We are in the middle of a workers shortage and a supply-chain crisis. Who should build all these wind parks? And all the other things you listed, like building isolations and heat pumps. Shut down universities and require everybody to work in construction for a couple of years?

> we need to conserve as much energy as we can in the meantime.

Why? What's the outcome? Kill the economy? Who should pay for all these things?

> Biogas has a lot of potential, as well as geothermal.

Biogas needs agricultural land and thereby competes with food, and thus has other implications. Geothermal would be nice to have, and I think everybody agrees on that, but it's going nowhere. And as far I know not only in Germany, but everywhere.
You can deactivate addresses pretty easily. Needing to install the DDG extension in order to generate them, however, is not great.
Seife was seeking to obtain documents from the FDA related to its approval of a controversial drug – Exondys 51 – created by pharmaceutical company Sarepta. The FDA largely rejected Seife’s request for information pertaining to the drug’s approval, asserting that the clinical trial data and other information he sought could be withheld under Exemption 4 since Sarepta considered it confidential. While ultimately affirming the FDA’s decision to withhold much of the information, the 2nd Circuit rejected its contention that information can be withheld under Exemption 4 simply by virtue of its being confidential.

[..] The email posed a simple inquiry – “lawsuit?” – as a possible way to promote transparency for clinical trial data in the wake of multiple scandals involving drugs that turned out to be less safe and effective than suggested by the analysis of the confidential trial data conducted by the pharmaceutical companies themselves.

It beggars belief that any clinical trial data used for FDA approval can remain confidential. That the safety analysis is conducted by the same companies hoping to sell the drugs makes this utterly farcical.

It's good the lawsuit managed to slightly increase transparency, but my God, what a small victory...
Amazon, Ms and Google all want to build game streaming services in family room devices, set top boxes and smart tvs. Buying gaming companies with large libraries that constantly produce content definitely gets them part of the way there and is likely cheaper than attempting to build your own popular video games only to see them fail.

So whether this is true or not I think it makes sense. The negative about ea is I see them as a middle man when it comes to licenses. They own the Madden brand but they still have to pay the NFL to make games for it. Same with all their other sports. Same for Star Wars games.
One of the wonders of CSS (well, browsers) is that you can devote a decade to learning all the various details, and still not know something so fundamental. Thank you. I don’t want to believe I could miss that, but I have been humbled enough times to be doubtful about my beliefs.
> I've been to dozens.

Something like 'The 393rd International Conference on Hammers'? With people presenting about the latest developments in hammers and how they're using hammers in new ways? You've been to dozens of those?

Not sure I believe you.
Do we really need to turn publishing into reddit?
Yeah fair enough, but again that's separate to 'British baroness' right, it's not 'how dare a British baroness have ties to Hollywood', it's 'weird this company drafting law' and 'oh of course, Hollywood at it again'.
Easy solution: make it so that voting costs karma, so individuals only have limited voting power.
there are few things that improve your defense posture:

- DDOS attacks can only attack the fabric and not the business logic service. Fabric nodes can be easily moved around or added to change attack surface.

- you can have multiple services hidden and you don't have to worry about protecting them individually

- service nodes themselves can be moved around or added for redundancy without having to stand up additional protection middleware
> But as well as releasing about 9,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent every day from this flare, the burning causes other significant issues.
Black carbon is the name given to the sooty particles that are produced through the incomplete burning of fuels like natural gas.
"Of particular concern with flaring at Arctic latitudes is the transport of emitted black carbon northward where it deposits on snow and ice and significantly accelerates melting," said Prof Matthew Johnson, from Carleton University in Canada.
"Some highly cited estimates already put flaring as the dominant source of black carbon deposition in the Arctic and any increases in flaring in this region are especially unwelcome."
yeah I noticed that too :(
That's a misrepresentation. Jeff was simply implying he liked the novelty of the acquisition.
convo here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605922

larger convo here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605949
Colloquially, if I had a household that ran their tumble dryer twice a day every day, I might say it's "running almost continuously".

Which domestic appliance do you think is a fair comparison to the power needs of an EV? As I've already pointed out, in a very rational way, you would have to be a very heavy user of your tumble dryer to make even that a fair comparison.
I have three rates.

You are a charity, or other worthy cause, or someone I really want to work with - 50% - 100% discount.

You are a normal client - 100%.

You are either an arsehole or have asked for something very last minute - 150%-200% depending on the mood I'm in.

The last one, colloquially known as the fuck-off rate, is probably the best bit of contracting advice I ever got from a colleague. He hated the gig we were doing, utterly despised the boss, and walked away smiling every day because he was one week closer to retirement. It's only really sustainable for your mental health in short runs.

Oh, and never charge per hour. It isn't like you can do an hour for client X and then the next one on client Y. You're not a bloody lawyer - you're a professional!

I sometimes split jobs into half-days, if the client prefers it. Although that's more like 66% for each half.

Oh, and finally, you don't customise Salesforce. You help your clients solve a problem. That may usually involve Salesforce, but most of your potential clients probably don't know what SF can do. So what you're actually selling is a way to optimise the client funnel (or whatever).
Ask HN: Great landing pages targeted at hackers
Dear HN,

I'm looking for examples of great landing pages that cater to an developer/hacker audience.

To me it seems like the big players in the industry have outgrown their initial customerbase and are targeting businesses in terms of speech, graphics and information presented. (See Twillio, Sendgrid, stripe to some degree...)

Can you point out some great landing pages that sold you on the technology? Or if you are a startup/dev, what was your though process or what works for you?
> non-existent git support

From the beginning of the article: "With nbdev2, the Jupyter+git problem has been totally solved. It provides a set of hooks which provide clean git diffs, solve most git conflicts automatically, and ensure that any remaining conflicts can be resolved entirely within the standard Jupyter notebook environment."
There are server specs but embedded was the initial priority. I don't think there's been a lot of attention paid to desktop which isn't a super interesting area in general although it could of course piggyback on server work from a spec perspective if anyone were actually interested in giving it a go.
> 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.

Getting the biggest mortgage that your current income supports is the problem in that scenario. Being prudent and patient doesn't have to mean missing out on the good times.
Why not? You’re currently posting to a website that consistently curates high quality content via voting.
Couldn't get to sleep without hugging my K&R.
I don't actually have a flat rate, I charge anywhere between $65/hr to $250/hr depending on what I'm doing, where I'm doing it, who I'm working with and most importantly - how exhausting/annoying my client is.
I did, I was using the wrong Nix package, turned out. In the end I ended up curl | bashing it, and it worked. I really like this project, just needs a bit of love in the error messages.
thanks, will look that up
Carl Lewis’ positive tests would now be marked as negative due to being under the threshold.
annoyances?
could you mention some
In my week of chatting with the Replika AI (app), I had so much fun parsing whether "AI" messages were:
Tutorialization-Onboarding, Filter-NoNo-Messages, OR Actual-AI-Replies

Though to be fair, Humans also have filters and "unengaged responses" to sensitive or undesired topics. And maybe even instilled in them by other agents!!
DS/ML Consulting

$300 an hour

Don't have much free time these days unfortunately to grow it out further.
Showed my math in another comment, but your claim is off by a factor of about 370, so that’s how it’s hyperbole. That is not bikeshedding, that’s just very very wrong.

Mixing up Miami Seaquarium in a discussion about SeaWorld is confused. The two environments are totally incomparable.

If you believe Blackfish, dolphins (which orcas are a type of) can just stop breathing if they want to commit suicide, so the ramming of the heads is moot. Humans occasionally ram their heads without intent to kill, so why would orcas be different?
> We understand it very well that the person in question is not a politician and has a peerage for their work in film and for childrens rights

> However I am against this because we should let UK politicians stay politicking in the UK!!!

That’s hilarious, you said you understand it very well then immediately made it clear you don’t understand it very well.
Without location (or "remote" specified), this is almost 100% useless. Someone who is top 1% developer in Sudan, working for Sudanese companies will earn way less than even a mediocre freelance developer in a highly developed country.
Been noticing a trend where conferences have gone highly woke. Last one I attended had a young woman was berating all the men and demanding we apologize for things others have done.
Complaining about it got one person banned.

DHH Being banned by Ruby Conference is another example.

I went to be part of cool tech, not radical politics. I Haven’t done another conference since.
88MP camera? I don't know if phone cameras will ever get there.

edit: wow, did not realise how far phone cameras had come!
Aside from the preprocessor and the C std library ... but they're the obvious less well made bits of fruit.
I’d assume the average practitioner who attends systems conferences uses C as one of their primary languages. It seems like it would be redundant to have a language specific conference when it would overlap so much in form and audience with the systems oriented ones
Not the OP, but indoor drying in winter at least where I live has the issue that (a) it tends to be so slow that the wash sometimes starts smelling stale,
(b) it's just extracting heat from the house by evaporation, so it's going to raise your heating bills anyhow, perhaps?
(c) you might end up having issues with indoor humidity, such as moldy walls.

Heat pump or condensing dryers may well be a better option.

Almost certainly the perfect solution will be situational. I mean, if your house is too dry in the winter, a bit of extra humidity might even be a feature, after all...
The Stackoverflow Survey gives a great insight i to these metrics: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/
TTWO, UBSFY, Epic, Gameloft, ...
All these talk about C

* https://startupstash.com/c-cpp-conferences/

Always felt like the ACCU, was the closest to a C Conference, something that, as many mentioned here, does not really exist.
Reading this post and the linked one, TIL I should charge way more.
While I understand your point, installing certbot isn't onerous at all and this is a strange thing to be arguing about.
> Could you drop them at that point? Possibly but not if your mortgage would become unaffordable.

That's actually why you should charge as much as you can. Build a buffer, have a way out of market drops. That kind of risk is precisely why contractors tend to charge a lot more than their salaried counterparts.
The plumber I called recently in the Austin metro area charges $150/hr.
Good enough for what? If you have SMS where you didn't before you're still equally free to not use it. Personally I like the idea of always having a simple channel for emergencies.
Please no. Good science is often boring; this system prioritizes hype and marketing over everything else.
Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?
$150/hr USD OH/NC/TN

Small S-Corp of consultants/contractors. Software development team augmentation mostly but we often have multiple people in each client--often working together. We actually do consulting work in addition to contracting.

A few people have higher rates...which is client dependent. The big clients have asked for every person we can throw at them but we purposefully do not go all-in like that.

At my gig, a startup in Dayton, I work with two other developers from my company and we are responsible for a new product--soup to nuts. We handle project management, requirements definition (experts in finance/banking/payments), DevOps, and coding and meeting with a wide array of business ops people and management.

Honestly, we are working for a low rate in this instance but there are zero micromanagement or bullshit or dumbasses to deal with. We have outrun the business and spend our time on nice to have stuff while they catch up. We choose the tech stack.
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"

Regards,

Xen.
Easter Eggs in Robots.txt Files
Biochemist who went to med school: very hot beverages will indeed cause tissue damage, and can cause oral cancer.

Though English uses the same word to describe both (“hot”), there is no relationship between “spicy” food and high temperature stuff, apart from the fact that they both stimulate pain receptors (but in very different ways, one being harmful and the other being harmless).
9front took plan9 further. A truckload of new drivers and software. They even have a video and audio player, some game ports, system emulators, (hardware virtualization!), and so on. Get 9front and try it.

OFC not even close to a Linux or BSD support, but everything works like magic. No ssh, no enforced VTs, no POSIX (coding in C it's pure love here), no crapware.

On Linux, meh. I prefer OpenBSD, my main OS. Meanwhile I am using Alpine for, well, that ecosystem bound to the penguin with Linux-only software. But not for long...
Germany also has mechanical signs that mechanically scroll different posters past a (full-size) viewing window. Banning the electronic ones won't cause there to be less ads.
I'm not currently billing for contract work, but when I was my formula was:

rate = YearlyGoal / 1700

Which is to say, 2000 hours at 85% billable (leaving time for vacation).

Some years I was 105% billable but those are brutal years and I'm sure my life will be shorter for it.
For my full-stack AWS/Node/.Net/React/Vue.js contracts I usually charge 90-150€ depending on clients. 7 years of professional experience.
I love George Hotz. Respect bro
>allow voting

Voting should always have a paper trail. And there's also the problem of allowing the technologically illiterate/aversive to vote.
You're going to get wildly different answers from people who

1) Contracting for the same company all the time (common with people outside the US contracting 40 hrs/week with a US company). These hourly rates will be much lower

2) Contracting for many different companies. These hourly rates are much higher because you need to budget for idle time, searching for your next contract, etc.
> That said, I don't find this very compelling: I am in fact called by people and I don't think having to implement a hack around the system's sleep state is acceptable

Nobody has to implement hacks. There's a proper solution on Pinephone that can wake/power it on alarm. OP just doesn't know how to do it.
Starlink V2, launching next year, will transmit direct to mobile phones
Is there? When I open it there's only the whatsapp logo while it loads, both on android and web
Varies greatly for me. Generally $120, but only because I give good clients a 20% discount, but I'll go down to $60 for work that I really want to do.
My point was that a comment against notebooks being overused - where a different structure would make more sense - is not a necessarily a comment against literate programming.

The issues with notebooks - in general - are unrelated to literate programming. The notebook format is convenient to have some kind of “interactive” programming though, rather than “literate”.
There is one thing that extremely easy way to retain the "benefit" you claim: make advertising opt-in. Truly, continuously opt-in. Every time there is an ad, you have to tap "yes, I'd like to see it" (or "yes, show all ads for this movie", but not across movies). If there is truly advantages to ads, people will choose to see them.

I'd go even further: have different platforms compete as "and serving" places, basically opt-in targeted advertising sites. They aren't allowed to use any external data, just a questionnaire and your behaviour on the platform, and the user must choose to go to the site by entering it into their browser or looking it up on Google. No ads anywhere else.

If ads are truly as beneficial as you describe, people will go for it. Let the market decide whether ads are good for the consumer
'Students' have 4.86 years of professional coding experience according to the survey, which is just weird. Given that, I wouldn't trust the data much.
Do you contact potential clients or do they contact you?
They were notorious for having extremely bad working conditions. While they've supposedly made an effort to improve them, their notoriety won't go away quiet as fast
We don’t have a VAT tax. Free just means you pay with other peoples money while they pay with yours.
People using C don't have a time for conferences because they have a work to do.
Agree. Really clickbait phrasing for a gas giant planet no less that has no chance of harbouring organic life ecosystems.
Have you seen YaCy Search Engine? https://yacy.net/

This might be something to build on or explore.
I'm not an expert on the law on this subject (or any subject lol), but I wonder how much a strict definition of the word "monopoly" actually matters? I would assume that the important thing is for the FTC to take action against businesses/practices that harm consumers, rather than focusing on the narrow definition of a single word.

Also, where did you get that definition of "monopoly" you quoted? There are a lot of definitions of that word flying around the internet, so I'm curious if you got that from like the FTC's website or something? I'm wondering because back when antitrust law was created, the issue at the time was railroad companies monopolizing transportation; however, what you're saying about indie games could also be said about transport: trains are not a monopoly, and they never could be as long as horses still exist!

> As long as games, as a commodity, can be created out of "thin air" (code)

Games are not created out of "thin air", they're created through very expensive labor, which is not only programming.
Yes, receiving. I just got the impression that email wasn't really something Gandi actually wanted to do rather than a box they needed to tick. And I think that may well be the case with a lot of domain registrars and their basic plans.
€50-€100
Linux, Apache Webserver, PostgreSQL, LLVM, Clang, GCC, BSD(any flavour), Boost, Rust, GTK, KDE, Firefox, MySQL, MariaDB, Sqlite.

I suggested the above projects because a lot of people use them in commercial products. So they are not going to go away. And they are very well funded by mega corporations.