skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just renewed my passport completely online through their beta program, and it was amazing. Only about two weeks from when I submitted the form to my new passport arriving. Hopefully that's the rough timeline for everyone going forward, but I wonder if they are able to process things faster right now due to lower volume.
Depends on the length of the contract.

Super short term contracts (measured in hours): $250/hr (though I might raise this after looking at this thread!)

Short term contracts: $200/hr

Longer term contracts: $175/hr

Retainer: $125 a month

I'm not a full-time contractor, though, so these rates are designed so that people and organizations that really need my help (and I generally have some previous relationship with) can get it if they really need it without wasting my time on unimportant projects.

I'm a generalist I design and build software and run teams that do the same (super descriptive, huh?)
I'm suggesting that git only breaks Jupyter notebooks (or anything else) if you do not know what to expect from git.

But if you don't know that git modifies files when conflicts, then you're an interesting and rather unexpected audience, I assume.

Meaning that for the typical git user, meaning, knowing about git diffs, the behavior is expected hence not broken. The files end up in an expected broken state, but git does not break them per se.

If you still disagree, let's just settle that we disagree and be done with it.
CO2 is not the only molecule that causes the greenhouse effect. Methane is far more effective at heating up the atmosphere despite its short half life. That is why it is so dangerous.
RTPS - Real-time Publish-Subscribe
When I read "reduce warming" I interpret that as slow the rate of future warming, not reverse the warming of the past.

Since methane is a drastically more potent warming gas than C02, but eventually degrades into C02 on the scale of decades, skipping the decades of heightened warming effect in the atmosphere by burning emitted methane to C0w will have the effect of reducing the rate of future warming, and importantly buy us more time to ultimately solve the problem.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
My way dealing with email has converged over the years to the following.

First, there two different kind of on-demand addresses.

1. Registration, these emails are stored in the password manager

2. Throw away, one time addresses

Second, I maintain a two mail folder method: inbox and archive. Sent mails are put into inbox, too. This makes mail threads a whole. From there they are either purged if spam or moved over to archive.

From here I can answer your question, how I manage all those generated addresses. The folders are indexed. So I am able to find anything (if not encrypted). In particular I can retrieve all my used addresses.
Good point. Really depends what the difference in up front cost is. Anything more than $5k, and I think ICE is still prudent if you are not driving at least 15k miles per year.

Plus, ICE are time tested. The new EVs coming out have a lot of unknown risks and reputation to still build up. I do not mind letting others beta test.
Same day printing and DHL express would makes 1 week easily achievable.
If Amazon or Uber workers were slaves they probably would be treated better.

Not saying that slavery is by any means even slightly positive. Just that economic system allows for extreme exploitation of people without alternatives.
It was my experience as well until recently. To reproduce, try searching few terms on google.com, not using the address bar but on the actual site, quit, go to the site again, enter the input section and it suggest you past searches. If it didn't try entering the first letter of a term you searched for.
Easy fix to your solution: get more people to vote. How about all 10000 undergrads in your institution?

In your model, a modern day Einstein would have never had a chance; industrialized research, with publication mills and systematic co-authorship permutation is exactly what would flourish under your model.
Anytime the government spends money on anything it prints money to do so. This is how governments work.

You aren’t against the government printing money. You are against why they are printing money.

It makes sense to print money and spend that money into the economy to accomplish a task if the result of that has a positive ROI.

Can we debate the ROI of the activity, rather than “inflation bad”, “printing money bad” or “politician bad”?

Using monetary policy as your point of disagreement is intellectually dishonest when your actual problem is with what the government is spending money on… and not the fact that the government is spending money at all.
Mine was printed in another country and shipped 7200 miles to me in under a week for a $18 delivery fee.
So you're saying if I start spamming you, you wouldn't think I'm scummy? Send me your email address and I'll sign you up for a bunch of unsolicited newletters.
Visualizing a Codebase
So was giving millions away to wealthy people as forgiven PPP loans.
your comment suggests a misunderstanding. Cows convert inert carbon from feed into methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas. Not all carbon is created equal from the perspective of climate.

While you're correct that fossil fuel control is crucial, livestock emissions are also an important part, and it's a false dilemma to solely focus efforts on one issue.
Thank you!

Yeah I think it's not visible on my browser, maybe because mobile? At least they didn't remove the functionality, just hid it :/
I hadn't seen this, and I will read it.

FTR, I'm not talking about jblow. I acknowledge his criticisms are superficially similar to what I wrote. At the very least jblow is seriously engaging with the arguments re: Rust, like in this thread. As to whether he's actually seriously tried to learn Rust, I'm unsure. I hope he does.

And I'm not naming names not to be passive aggressive, but for self preservation. I don't know if you noticed, but games can have a really toxic fandom.
$13/year doesn’t seem outrageous. Anyway, it’s either funded by fee or by taxes; I’m not sure I care a lot about how I pay. Parenthetically, I also wonder if the €130 feels steeper because you’re used to a more favorable Euro:Dollar conversion rate (obviously this won’t account for the full cost difference between US and Irish passports)?
You're surprised that by following the pattern of a dead-average spammer your letters got treated as spam? That was rhetorical, don't answer.

I think you misinterpreted my sentence in one dimension, it's not that they don't require things, it's that everyone does. Build reputation, pick a better neighborhood, you'll be fine.

It's not Google's fault, it's just the vast amounts of abuse they get that follows the exact pattern you did.
Copyright law is what it is today. Like it or not doesn't really matter. And yes, copyright law is practically enforceable, regardless of how copyright is broken. That's what the Berne Convention is all about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

Copyright is what FOSS depends on. For Microsoft to shit all over GitHub contributors rights is despicable.
+1 doctor who smokes.
the Eames did a lot of cool experiments with plywood - this was a broken leg splint that was sold to the US military during WW2

https://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/molded-plywood-leg-spli...

the "kazam!" machine that made it:

https://www.vitra.com/en-fr/magazine/details/the-kazam-machi...
I moonlight behind an LLC for exactly this reason. I got an F500 client a long time ago and I was nervous that they'd figure out that my Sole Proprietorship was just me (don't even remember why I thought that), so one night I went to the Secretary of State website and registered an LLC and once that was done, got a tax EIN from the IRS.

Completely unnecessary at the time, it turned out, but over the years I've found that a lot of people are more comfortable working with Joe Blow LLC than just Joe Blow.
you know what i mean... i am talking about training it on windows OS code and adobe photoshop source code and other "proprietary software" code
> The overhead on an employee is more like 20–30%, not 100%.

That's a separate question, and personally I prefer double as a rule of thumb (I've read some studies to support that number) - but 20% is outright wrong. You'd pay 20% for office space rent alone. Employer portion of payroll taxes are 7.65% and health insurance in the group markets is $600/mth. Then add in legal, hardware, software, servers, HR tools, accountants - it adds up fast.

However my point was that it accounts not just for your overhead (remember you have significantly worse economy of scale at 1) but also, and this is critical, your pipeline not always being full. As a contractor you won't always have a job, and you should account for that in your estimation.

> As a contractor, you're not only help the client with a project but you're also saving them the time, effort, and risk of bringing someone in full-time... Why not charge for that?

You are, about double.

Like I said, $100K/yr -> $100/hr is $208K/yr.

This isn't a perfect system, but it's a good rule of thumb.

[1] https://www.iofficecorp.com/blog/space-management-empty-desk
I thought about this for a bit, because at first I thought you were making up a rather insulting caricature that could only detract from your case, or at least from anyone wanting to engage with you. I've been in C++ game dev for something like 25 years, and I'm sure I have never encountered a programmer who acted like using pointers was any more impressive than using the alphabet. That goes for any daily-use language feature not including all the optional C++ esoterica. We don't even talk about using pointers, we just use them. We no kidding talk more about how to use curly braces than how to use pointers. But then it occurred to me that perhaps that's only true amongst ourselves, where we don't have as much to feel defensive about. It's just silently understood that pointers are basic. But maybe if a C++ programmer were talking to a Rust programmer or any other language with a higher level memory paradigm, and if it was a conversation about whose language was best for what, then maybe they would feel defensive and need to act a bit superior.

Or, perhaps when you say they act big about using pointers, do you mean that they act big about using pointers safely? Because that is different. That's a conversation I began declining to have because I no longer believe it's possible for a person who is trying to use C++ for a task, and has already decided it is the best available tool for that task, to have that conversation with pretty much anybody without it devolving into a pissing match.
Hearing that fact and then concluding he must just "not know better" is exactly the sort of vaccine fanaticism that creates anti vaxxers and vast numbers of hesitants. The obvious conclusion is that a highly informed person - who would also have access to non public information - thought the risks significantly outweighed the benefits for him and that he wanted to avoid taking it badly enough to break the law. Yet to people on HN it's just a totally inexplicable mystery why anyone wouldn't want to take a new experimental vaccine every morning with their breakfast cereal.

Note that the German health minister was also caught lying about his own vaccine history. He claimed to have taken a fourth shot but then rather stupidly flashed his own vaccine passport on TV, so other people scanned it and found he'd actually never done so.

Given these sorts of facts the truly disturbing anti-rationalists are out in abundance on this thread, and they're not the hesitants!
Fun, but entirely missing the point. You can't force a window to cover a window from an independent program, since you have no authority over that other program. But obviously you can design a popup to cover other windows in the same program. The scope of this "top layer" is the web page - it does not enable you to force-close other tabs containing your competitors web site.

Popups have existed on the web for ages. This just proves a more convenient syntax without having to inject dom elements at the end of the body element (which is how popups are traditionally done).
Blame Me: I Worked on the Windows Progress Dialog (2021)
Having lived in close proximity of an especially bright/large/flashy sign, I'm very much in favor of the ban.
The noose knot is very similar, if not exactly the same, as several fishing knots[1].

Also, in a rational society, the goal isn't blanket "equality". People are not equal. I'll never have a career as a basketball player.

Equality of opportunity is the goal, not equality of outcome.

Equality of outcome arguments generally boil down to some derivative of "we should take from group a and give to group b, and I should be the one to oversee this".

[1] https://www.knotsforfishing.com/hangmans-knot/
How long does the battery last for you browsing like that?
> Tim Sweeney seems to be saying "I want a fast functional language" which Rust is.

He also wants a garbage collector (pg. 57) and Pascal / ML family syntax (pg. 58). He clearly wants https://nim-lang.org/.
Methane degrades to water and C02.

So, every bit of methane in the atmosphere spends decades as a drastically more potent warming gas than C02 (25x more), and then becomes C02 to continue warming at a lower potency.
> The real and only issue are fossil fuels

You're conflating renewables with climate science.

Given the planet has been on a global warming trend SINCE the last Glacial Maximum, it is pretty safe to say that fossil fuels has little to do with it.

But if you want to make the case for antediluvian petro-economy, I am all ears.
Literally everything the Federal government funds is essentially printing money.
as for how to start there are also contracting companies like eg Toptal with decent amount of projects from variety of companies from startups to enterprises and you're setting your own rate - probably not above the median but still good enough to start.
I think it's important to avoid saying doing X will reduce warming if it doesn't do that, so that people don't start believing that it will be sufficient to do only this.
I doubt OP or many others are coming in by boat to the US from Europe these days.
I agree.

I'm hopeful we will engineer our way out of it.

It worries me that people don't "get" this. They think it's a matter of doing a few small things and celebrating. And it's not.
What does "niched down" mean and how do you "nich (niche?) down"?
Why not? Just don't work 40h a week and then you have time.
I think we should just let Democrats bribe voters from the public purse. Lots of deadbeats would have voted a straight Dem ticket for 10 dollars. Ten thousand is really inefficient, even if it wasn't rotten in so many other ways.
Actually, I do not actively generate, meaning create, a new addresses.
I use a filter I'm the delivery process in Exim which truncates a suffix from the local name.
If you are dealing with a lot of "empty databases" you can basically make something like a "core app" — attach cheapest paid redis and postgres to it, then copy the credentials between apps.

I have done this before — had one "X-core" app and "x-whitelabel-1", "x-whitelabel-2", and so on, connected to the same database while each app used different database name.
I want to call out one of the elephants in the room here, one that I'm sure was a major motivator in the development of this article - racial differences in IQ.

Some people take these measured differences as sufficient cause to declare the entire concept of IQ as worthless racist pseudoscience, despite all the evidence to the contrary [1]. But it's also been shown that, for example, the black-white IQ gap is closing in America [2], a process we also observed the Irish go through [3].

If only racists like Richard Lynn did research on race and intelligence, we wouldn't know this. Lynn claims to have investigated this topic and shown that the gap is NOT closing. Discovering the opposite required less biased researchers to engage tenaciously and scientifically with technical issues, questions of measurement, etc., along with the understanding that IQ is a meaningful measurement worth engaging with.

Would we prefer that anti-racists be scared off this research, and have only racists doing it? Wouldn't that feed a narrative that the racists have the truth the Establishment wants to hide?

I don't think this is a simple and straightforward issue. Moralizing a topic like race and IQ and pre-emptively closing it off to inquiry could really be shooting ourselves in the foot. Instead of preventing science from harming marginalized groups, we could be preventing science from protecting marginalized groups.

And I'm not saying the authors of this article are doing that. But I think we all need to grapple with this backfire risk when we go about applying the principles in this article. Which, as I've said elsewhere, are good as far as general principles go.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritc...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2006061...

[3] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/06/heres-why-the...
Hopefully this doesn't become another incident... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572906
Solid state “replacements” for vacuum tubes
If it's really so easy to make forgeries now, it seems like the street value would plummet. Even if that's not the case, instead of swapping the original and risking jail time, why not just sell the cheap, perfect forgery to whatever idiot is buying stolen art? That way everyone wins! You (criminal), society (still have the original in the museum) and the buy (thinks he has the original).
You argument is technically solid, don't grief due to the downvotes. Maybe people are downvoting because they aren't aware of derivations.
You can get same day passport at a State Department office. Even without an appointment, if you’re willing to risk not being seen that day.
Isn't the clock generator a discrete component? Do modern CPUs and GPUs have integrated clocks?
The YouTube show Hot Ones opened me up to a whole new world of hot sauces that bring the heat along with great flavor.
You are not looking at the cycle in its entirety. Cows convert carbon from their biomass feed into methane as a part of digestion, but absent the cow, that same biomass would still at some point decompose on its own, releasing methane in the process.
Methane concentrations have been accellerating the past decade, so better do it quickly:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/
Then again, all the stuff people put together in the past is pretty convenient.

Maybe we should consider keeping the good stuff.
Your email client can't, but your email provider can. They can start using more modern filtering software e.g. rspamd, it can become very accurate. Requiring SPF and an MX server works the best against large majority of throwaway domain spammers.
He wasn't inviting Barry Goldwater into the jakes--the stories about Johnson's crudeness came from his aides, who of course were Democrats. I have no first-hand knowledge, but the crudeness seems to have been well attested.

I don't know that he was any more corrupt than many a politician of his day.
Will they be innovating in ways that we get to use for free? Or are they creating new ways to get in-between the coder and the machine? E.g. Copilot is a paid subscription.

By enabling increased complexity (via Language Server Protocol, Copilot, and even GitHub itself) devs get locked-in to the MS ecosystem. It reminds me of Braess's paradox ("adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox ).

Increasing our ability to generate (but not comprehend) complex systems is also intrinsically dangerous (beyond the "rent seeking" of MS) because complexity itself is a kind of cost or overhead. This is not to say that the more complex system cannot result in efficiency gains that outweigh the cost to maintain that complexity. (If that were true there would be no multicellular life, eh?) It means complexity should be carefully justified in terms of economic/engineering considerations.
How would you board your aircraft without a valid travel document? The air carriers won't let you.
Reminds me of the Tom Baker Dr. Who episode where the Jaggaroth commander is split through time, existing in multiple centuries. He has daVinci paint multiple copies of the Mona Lisa which stay hidden away for centuries. He then steals the "original" in the 20th century and sells all of them on the black market to fund his time experiments.

Of course the Doctor goes back in time and paints FAKE on all but one canvas, leaving a note to daVinci to "nevermind the scribble, just paint over it".
I'd be very surprised if there wasn't at least one GPT bot practicing in the comments through a series of accounts being trained on upvotes.
That is a terrible comparison chart as we were way more in pandemic mode a year ago. Exxon the biggest one on that list made more profits in Q2 of 2012 than Q2 of 2022 [0] and that is not even accounting for inflation.

While that was probably somewhat of an outlier quarter, I expect this past one to be too as petrol prices have been going down recently.

[0]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/gross-pr....
Most of these are prohibited in the law, which says the poster or framed copy "may not depict any words, images, or other information other than the representations listed in Subdivision (1)". https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00797F...

The gay-rights rainbow flag would be information encoded in the color. Subdivision (1) allows only a US flag and a state flag. The "other information" clearly prohibits the ads and other text examples you mentioned, leaving only the size as something you could change.
Gen Z Is Overestimating the Average Starting Salary by $50K, Survey Finds
I feel like this could be reasonable for boutique production, but if you're dumpster diving it may be difficult to order millions of exactly the same part this way.
10k undergrads would have few to no highly upvoted publications, and thus little to no voting power, even in aggregate. An even smaller fraction of them would have highly upvoted papers in the specific subfield of the paper they’re voting on, making their aggregated voting power even more worthless.

The only way to game the system would be to somehow convince a ton of highly upvoted people in a given subfield to upvote a paper in that particular subfield (and give up some of their voting power accordingly, since voting would cost you karma). Heck, make it so that you can only vote on a certain number of papers each month (5-10?), to make votes even more valuable.
This resonated with me, thank you for writing this.
> Excel is almost surely the single largest no-code/low-code install and monthly-active-users base.

I'd argue even further that Excel is the most common flavor of LISP installed.

=IF(A1 = 1, A2 * 3, MAX(A3, A4))

is remarkably similar to:

(if (= A1 1) (* 3 A2) (max A3 A4))

The difference is mostly infix vs prefix and the naming of variables. Not only is Excel the single largest low code install, but its also a gateway to LISP if you introduce it to people correctly.
The people preaching to us about reducing our footprints, are the same ones taking their private jets to Davos, and emitting a lifetime of CO2 in the process.

Sorry, going to skip the highly processed chemicals plants that is fake meat, and will pass on the bug burgers too.

No crickets for dinner here!
I generate free virtual cards with the Capital One Eno chrome browser extension

Works great and you can set a date for it to lock itself after to block charges, they even suggest it as a use case for stopping trials from charging you, etc. It generates a card per website and you can replace it as many times as you want all for free.

Anyone else using this awesome service?