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I think the compiler tricks are reasonably transparent to any developer who knows both C and assembly, thanks to godbolt.org.

Couple times I even back-ported these tricks from clang-generated assembly back into C++ intrinsics.
It used to be $225/hr. But I don’t have an hourly rate anymore and I basically never will.

You need to understand that as a contractor clients value more than just your time and the work you do. They value flexibility in staffing, getting an outsider’s opinion, their own time, working with a true expert, and making progress on projects which they can show off to their boss.

That’s why for all my work I scope project fees plus monthly retainers. The retainers are use it or lose it. Then I focus on delivering the best possible experience for my clients.

By switching to this model I do about 3x my previous earnings. And my clients are happy (I haven’t lost one yet).

It doesn’t make sense to become a contractor just to remain a wage slave.

(Before all the “I can’t do this because my situation is different”: You are full of it. Anyone can do this.)
Honestly, whilst very successful, they’ve become so inessential I have forgotten what they actually make anymore.
> Linus (...) didn't want to help Intel avoid responsibility for shipping insecure hardware.

Whatever is the saying about good intentions, you can argue he ended up doing Intel a favour here, by shipping patch that took away only a couple % of performance. Surely, it would've hurt them more, reputation-wise, if default workaround took larger chunk of CPU speed.
Anyone here with some influence over spam lists? Looks like a good entry...
> I expect one of the main reasons someone could evangelise Emacs for is the fact that defaults don't mean much when it's all configurable. So if you don't like the keys, just bind them to whatever you like.

Configurability is a strength of a system, but it is no an answer to a difficult learning curve. A user must first understand the system in order to configure it appropriately.

Even at the level of key bindings, the user needs to understand the relative frequency and importance of an operation to choose an appropriate key combination. Universal reconfiguration may even make the system less learnable, if documentation and tutorials can't assume a reasonable default configuration.

In my opinion, configuration is great as one of the final steps of a user's journey, taking the system from something that works to something that sings. It's just the wrong level to sell benefits to beginners.
MIT scientists discover neurons that light up whenever we see images of food
Wargaming sells tanks in game. Each one costs as much or more than a full box game off the shelf/download. Most sticky players have bought several.
I once got enrolled into a newsletter from here, I'm fairly sure and... it's pretty good. I read it from time to time.

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.
Yes it's still popular in some places, and lots of new development is going on. Xen is superior to KVM in my opinion.
HN doesn't publish emails on their profiles unless you do it explicitly and the vast majority of people don't do that.
There are also some rough edges that you need to take care.

For instance, my nix installation `locale` was not `UTF-8` (after the first `devbox shell` run), but all my tools and code needs the locale to be UTF8. When you quick check `locale` after `devbox shell` it keeps returning to your host shell locale instead of the nix one, so you can easily be fooled by which layer you're really running. `which` command also loses its purpose.

Then you need an extra step to fix the locale: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Locales

Then you find other similar issues that need to be taken care, like conflicts with `rbenv`, `poetry` and so on.

It's an awesome idea, but with `docker`, `podman` or fedora's `toolbox` I have some more certainty on what it's running.

With `docker` you can `docker inspect` or something like that. `devbox shell` tries to merge the nix layer with my own shell in a not predictable way.

Anyway, nice project indeed.
Thanks for the kind words! We are working hard to improve the experience, hopefully on Android as well in the future :)
Or you know, it's to get licensing rights for large, popular IPs to make more money.
I think it depends. Bell labs famously invented many of the foundations of modern computing while Bell was a monopoly. It's also hard to do capital intensive research (e.g. semiconductor manufacturing) as an upstart. You need the resources of an Intel.

Meanwhile, companies that leverage existing technologies in new ways can be innovative with much fewer resources - e.g. your typical web startup.
plain old vim on both macOS and Linux
> Mitsubishi

In high school, I was thrilled that my DVD player had the same logo as my friend's motorcycle.
Yeah I found them a few months ago when looking for providers, and it's insane how cheap they are. $1/mo gets you a custom domain email, and a bunch of online office/productivity apps.

Only issue I see is that their mobile apps seem to be a joke when it comes to privacy. I wouldn't trust them not to read/scan my emails either, but that's not always a deal breaker.
It would help their reputation. They are now one of the most expensive options.

Business don’t spend money like frugal people.
Internet edge routers are all different. What if we unified them with software?
> Also free with most T-Mobile plans

I can't find anything suggesting a bundling or partnership between garmin inreach (iridium) and T-mobile. inReach has a separate subscription.
Youtube is a library, Twich is about live streaming, so in theory it is much easer to replace.

However, critical mass is very hard to move, because platform switch would be revenue loss for streamers.
"Standard Oil dominated the oil products market initially through horizontal integration in the refining sector, then, in later years vertical integration"
Clinics win battle over meaning of 2016 FOIA amendments
Language learning is actually a good example.

Words are rarely restricted to their denotative (dictionary) meanings. There are often abstract, connotative meanings attached to them by speakers. For example, consider the following list of words.

Hello. Hi. Hey.

These words all have the same basic denotative meaning. They're all a greeting. Yet, there is a subtle connotation of formality which is rarely described in a dictionary.

These types of connotation are not often understood by beginning language learners. It's something they acquire with time and experience in using the language. While a teacher or search could share about the formalities, the language learner is still going to require time in applying those words in different contexts to fully understand these subtleties.
We have templates for both software licenses and wireless routers. :)
Custom templates have indeed been on the wish list for a long time. It has proven to be a much more difficult to deliver feature than anticipated. We actually built it, and it is in beta (available to 1Password Business memberships), but we couldn't get buy-in on the implementation. It is something I continue to advocate that we re-evaluate, but I couldn't say if or when it'll happen. -Ben, 1Password
I've been out of the race for about 7 years but had this exact same realization and agree with your position 100%.
My wife handles NetSuite and some Salesfoce outside developers as part of her role. She says they pay agencies $180-$230/hr for devs, depending on the person, seniority level, task, etc. I know that many times the developers are in India, or other countries with lower wages, and often they need a lot of oversight.

IMO your rates are too low, assuming that you are talking about US-based customers and you are US-based as well. $150-$175/hr would probably be palatable to your customers.
Are you thinking strictly in terms of massive, multi-national companies? For myself, it would be far more handy if I had seen ads for local plumbers, chimney repair, barbershops, etc. I try to support my local economy whenever I can, and I don't mind paying a premium for smaller shops since they usually do a better job, or are at least incentivized to do so.

When it comes to something like buying a car, I don't want to be advertised to since the manufacturer of that product 1) isn't a part of my community and 2) isn't supported by the people in my area.

I can absolutely think of cases where I would have liked to know what services are available for specific products, like chair making, or a project I have in mind, rather than having to ask around to figure out who even does it in my area. Obviously, I would still have to do some research to figure out if the person advertising is any good, but the fact that a small business has a budget for advertising is a very positive indicator that they are at least professional enough to have some revenue.

Advertising, when it relates to something a small business can exist within, reduces the amount of time and effort I have to put in to seeing how many competitors are in that space. It's not something that I'm thrilled about, but it does have benefit within certain circumstance.
What would application or full-stack engineers expect to charge? I'm Canadian and have often wondered about who's behind the broad spectrum of quality in our country's online offerings.
The ”massive scale” of the 1970s is very far from today’s ”ordinary scale”! Just saying that this approach really does not scale well and problems will start around high hundreds of thousands to low millions of messages queued.
Tons of them. How much time do you think the typical actor or dancer spends auditioning and preparing for the audition? How much time do you think people in many creative fields spend putting together portfolios? And if I'm going to interview with just about anyone, I'm going to spend at least 4 hours prepping for an interview.

I'm not a big fan of take homes in general but a time-consuming job search and interviews is absolutely normal beyond low-skill jobs in a time of labor shortages.
And switched to ScyllaDB.
We absolutely do have those conferences! I've been to dozens.

Lots of idealists and evangelicals in the woodworking world as well, probably more so than any other world I've been in. Makes technology look fairly tame.
I've wanted an audio-version of this for driving packaged for driving cross country.

With flying, the solution would need to account for which side of the plane you are on (and which direction).

On the other hand, at 30,000 feet, GPS accuracy isn't all that critical. A couple of kilometers one way or another won't make much difference regarding what you can see.

Not like the wing.

Good luck.
I remember being impressed by Modula-3 back then. I wish it wasn't so difficult to compile the compiler.
FIFA they let go, because FIFA wanted to charge them $250m a year if I recall... FIFA wouldn't back down so eventually EA said they'd go out on their own, since they still have to license every specific league separately anyway.

Next year's EA soccer/football game is going to be called "EA Sports Football Club" "EA Sports: FC". It'll be a big gamble, but I think EA is betting that they'll save money in the long term even if they spend a ton on marketing.

I mention this because I wonder how much these sports licenses are worth after the video game is well established.
Are you working in a specialized field or going on reputation mostly ?
https://www.internet-bikes.com/1013656-amigo-classic-c1-26-i...

Perfectly functional sports utility vehicle for less than €200

If you want to add some cargo space in the front, you're in the price range the GP mentioned: https://www.omafiets-online.nl/omafietsen/Spirit-Cargo-Trans...
https://www.ulanetwork.com/calendar/association-of-wall-ceil...

Carpenters do have conferences. Even groups of carpenters as small as those in NY apparently!
All these things are not enough. In 2015, there was an hour when wind power only generated 0.2GW. Hydro and biomass will probably never exceed 10GW combined. Even if you radically reduce the electricity needs down to, let's say, 35GW, you would still have a gap of 25GW. You can't build enough wind power to get this on a day without wind. You need another power source.
Don’t forget the Embracer Group. A nearly silent megalith of game development studios.
Not only are they a terrible service that lies about their data scraping, their service also doesn't even work. I entered one of my random email addresses that can definitely receive email into their tryout screen and it got almost every detail wrong except for the "format" fields.

Onto the pihole blocklist it goes!
Hi, some people need health insurance for themselves and their family, a retirement plan, and predictable financial stability in their lives.

> You are full of it. Anyone can do this.

Your part to whole fallacy aside, in the real world, there are different constraints on people and family units other than trying to make the most amount of money all the time.
Possibly.

It also seems like the changes would've added an amount of technical debt that wasn't acceptable to him ("garbage MSR writes" in and out of the kernel). I could understand why he'd want to avoid a bad solution (that would also have to be maintained long-term) just because Intel is unwilling to fix it on their end.
This is really interesting. What's the reasoning? It turns out this is _very_ close to my own rate, by chance.
When should I have a monthly retainer? How do I sell it to my client?
You have to be pretty cool.
It's because the primary editor of the notebook files barfs when presented with the file if it includes merge markers since it's no longer valid json. Imagine if one of your normal code-friendly text editors, or your ide, refused to open a .c or .py file and you had to open it in notepad to fix it.

That's what it feels like to be forced to drop into a normal text editor rather than using the normal notebook ui to fix the conflicts.
Amazon feels more like Sears everyday.
Trans people are being systematically oppressed. New laws are being made to single them out and ban them from public life. Characterizing healthcare for trans people as "violence" is rather disgusting attempt to further marginalize them by denying them medical services.

The Conservative push to make trans people the new Boogeyman is absolutely wretched.
When a reckless driver is on the road, the worst thing you can do is retaliate and aggravate the reckless driver. No, you should just let the lunatic drive by and hope he forgets you were even on the road.
>Tesla deliberately seeks out media attention, so Tesla stories attract more attention. Live by the sword, die by the sword, and all that.

Tesla also does not pay media a dime. All the other auto manufacturers do via auto ads, in hundreds of $ per vehicle sold. Some also own newspapers directly!

Publishers will do everything to favor their paying customers and make the others interested in getting more favorable coverage.
Company towns were vertically integrated. I wouldn't call them a bastion of free markets
I have all of that. I buy it with the money I make.
https://pay.amazon.com/ has been a thing for a very long time. I integrated it into a site back in... the late 2000s, I think?
Internal combustion engines regularly get that hot. It isn't hot enough to damage any commonly used metals.
This is revisionist history and your completely false accusations put it near Russian propaganda territory. I challenge you to find even a single proof for what you wrote.

The Greens were the only party calling for embargoes against Russia to stop importing Russian gas all together in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea. They also opposed Nord Stream 2 from the beginning. They inherited the clusterfuck the conservatives left them when they got elected in 2021 and now have to deal with what they have.

The conservatives killed the German solar industry (world leader at the time in the 2000s) and also killed the wind turbine industry shortly after. Reason? China was cheaper.

The Greens were also the first to call for weapons for Ukraine while other parties struggled to even make statements.
A pass through water heater would be a good example (running 7 hours daily). Not many apartments would have a capacity to add a new water heater of such type, even for human use (10-30 minutes per day, spaced out across the building in time, not all simultaneously at the same hours).
> Or even just teaching all your CS majors Haskell, if you don't have any genuinely eccentric faculty projects to inflict on students.

We got taught Eiffel Freshman year, C and Haskell Sophomore year, and after that, whenever a course used another language (Java, C#, C++), the prof just said "you'll pick it up".

(That's leaving out the usual-for-academia-but-still-weird stuff like MATLAB and Verilog)
Other countries do this through single payer healthcare.
Moderna suing Pfizer over Covid vaccine technology
Niklaus Wirth spent a sabbatical at PARC[0] in 1976, so the inspiration was direct (or at least via Mesa).

[0] in fact, he's said he built the FPGA Oberon[1] because his favourite mouse[2] was a departure gift from PARC, but of course, he can't buy any system today that would allow him to keep using it, so he built one. Now that's a yak shave.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606760

[2] I've seen a not-still-in-use wooden mouse from the Englebart days, but I believe Bucky's is plastic.
I'd love to go to a C conference, not gonna lie. But I've been a graybeard ever since I was a child.
The irony is, Paul Lockhart could only see the beauty of geometry -- and thus write A Mathematician's Lament -- because he learned his times tables and other fundamental mathematical techniques by heart. Abilities that can be acquired only through drilling.

Drills and memorizaton aren't the only thing in education, but they are key.
> Yeah, but if you need to compare for a < b as opposed to a <= b, you gonna need couple more instructions.

In general yes. Depending on your use for the mask, it might be fine to compute !(a < b) == (b <= a) and use the mask with andnot.
How A Traffic Jam on Google Maps Gave Away the Invasion of Ukraine
A clip from my interview with Jeffrey Lewis, Open Source Intelligence Researcher at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey on how they used Satellite Imagery, Tok Tok & Google Maps to see the Invasion of Ukraine as it was happening
There are probably a half million people who do what I do. I go on reputation and sales ability. Anyone can learn to improve both for themselves.
How to Get Published: A Book’s Journey
True, and I agree, but an 'upper cap' wouldn't be used against just the companies that we don't think provide innovation (such as Amazon in this scenario). The caps would also be used against Tesla and Apple, two very big drivers of innovation, and probably many others. The world would be a worse place without Tesla, and without Apple.
Arguably the world could be a better place without Amazon, but that is surely down to consumer voting with their wallet, the executive team, and shareholders encouraging Amazon, rather than the government not restricting Amazon. Amazon aren't buying EA, only because they can.

Once again, how can someone define an 'upper cap', is it market size? Is it revenue, or employee count? Market share? The unintended consequences of an upper limit doesn't seem to me something we should be encouraging.

I could be wrong, it just feels like we shouldn't be restricting everyone because of one bad actor.
much like saying that linux has a steep learning curve

Most people do say that. What programmers cannot grasp is progress is about giving people what they want, not what is rationally best. Most scientists want to knock out a paper or presentation, and make it home on time for dinner.
It greatly depends on where you live, and season. In my apartment in Bucharest, especially during the summer, clothes dry indoors in ~4h, and a bed sheet takes maybe 6h. In the winter, the time is usually double.

Still, drying clothes indoors has no ill effects, I have no idea where you got this. It's definitely better than exposing them to high temperatures like in most apartment tumble driers.
I know about Tuskegee. That's a clear example of what not to do. Just one of many documented cases of criminal abuse of human beings. Stuff like this is the reason why informed consent is an absolute requirement these days.

What I meant to say is I'd think twice before telling a depressed patient with a history of suicide attempts about a diagnosis of terminal illness.
> History also shows conglomerates don’t out perform the stand alone companies

This is a self-correcting phenomenon.
wow...the first comment from the last time this was posted is similar to this. He even mentioned hammer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18505081

It seems like even HN comments could be estimated by an AI.
Author here :)
You're pretty close! Espanso currently uses a combination of key injection + clipboard to get the best results. There are still some edge cases, but we are trying to solve them with other approaches, such as using custom Input Methods (the same mechanism used for some languages like Chinese)
They just won’t do it. Who is going to enforce the law, the conservative police?
You've been to dozens of conferences about hammers?
> How do you filter these people, if firing is extremely frowned upon in your org?

Most places I've worked for had a 3-6 month probationary period for new employees, where the new hire is evaluated and can be let go with ease. Full benefits of the job don't begin until the end of the probationary period.

Your organization doesn't do that? It should.
Bullying trans people and using them as a societal scapegoat is more of an "ideology" than just being trans.
? i never said that its a one-size-fit-all solution. certainly you would not write a software package in a notebook. but you might write a tutorial, textbook, academic paper, homework, personal notes, etc.
It’s all organic. Salesforce is hot right now. Mostly LinkedIn.
I agree and it's what I do. But I think there is one valid counter argument. If you have to pay for something, then there is always additional potential for loss of access that doesn't exist with free services.

That potential is perhaps even greater with domain registrars and all the other service providers involved in email services (registrar, domain host, email provider). Any issue with any of these services could mean you're not getting notified of problems and you may no longer be able to get into the admin account.

And if you try to avoid that by storing a different notification/recovery email with them (if at all possible), it opens another can of worms. My main domain almost expired on one occasion because I didn't get the renewal reminders at the alternative address I had stored there years ago. I had simply forgotten about it.

And after I had canceled my legacy G Suite account recently, I received a message from Google at one of my old recovery addresses telling me that this G Suite (Workspace) account was going to be automatically upgraded unless I log in to check some box. Only I could no longer log in as the account didn't exist any more, nor could I contact support as that requires logging in as well.

Every single account I pay for requires some sort of constant monitoring and maintainance. Otherwise, things just degrade and access is eventually lost. That's why I'm not sure whether I would really recommend everyone rent their own domain.
Accidents can and will happen. If Lastpass conducted the review it wouldn't be seen as impartial, they need a third party to remain transparent.
I don't know databases and there's quite a number of them on the market, so posts like these are great.

Sidetrack though, does anyone have a list for pros and cons of each db, with a preference towards low latency? Also how does it compare with say Postgres?