skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was very successful on UpWork. However, it is not something you can jump into with no work history on the site, like "I have 16 years experience so my rate is $125/hr." People don't believe you when you say that. They want to see proof from a third party. So you need to start lower ($30 to $50/hr), stay in a niche, and successfully complete jobs while gradually raising your rates.

When someone sees glowing reviews and completed jobs, you become the "easy button" and they will pay more to decrease their risk. When they see 10 completed jobs with 5 star reviews, all mentioning the exact type of work they need, they can be pretty sure the 11th will be successful. It's possible to charge $125 or more an hour on UpWork and have to keep your settings updated so that you are not spammed with invites.
Nasdaq shows their employment growth at 290% over the last 30 months. Absolutely wild.
In my experience, a good sample program to learn a language is one I want to write.
Did you click the link and note the headline saying "What’s so special about the COLRv1 font format?" before asking this question?
AGPL Section 13 as you quote it discussed the interaction of AGPL and GPL v3. It has nothing to do with the scenario the parent commenter was discussing involving the interaction of AGPL and closed-source non-GPL code.
Toptal had me go through a paired technical test which I did ok but had a small minor fix about 1-2 seconds after the clock chimed 30 minutes. Failed me at that point. I never bothered to re-apply, mostly because I've been busy with client work. Interesting to hear that they not described favourably here. I was under the impression that this was the platform where much higher rates are acceptable.
My dad taught me that when I was learning to drive. What's the last thing you do before impact? Let go of the wheel.
To what extent do companies announce layoffs (that they were preparing to do already) on the heels of other companies announcing layoffs? That way it becomes less memorable that 'Company X laid off 11% of their employees' and instead people remember that 'a few companies laid off some people last week'.

Perhaps this is too difficult to tweak the timing on, particularly at public companies. But at the very least, I'm sure some of the Twilio execs were glad to hear about Patreon's layoff yesterday.
It’s not about trusting that Google is telling the truth. I believe Google is telling the truth. You know that they are collecting your data to advertise to you and the only way they can do that is by having access to your unencrypted data.
Text-to-image software: a piano or a digital camera?
I think of it as walking into the store and ignore the person shilling their Walmart rewards card. Some people will stop and chat, others won't. I'm the second category.
Well that's kind of a bad comparison, since Yen isn't my local currency and yet it has been useful to me when I was visiting Japan. I could buy it for a reasonable price in my current country, in basically any airport or bureau de change around the world. I could easily withdraw Yen from an ATM when in Japan, could buy things anywhere in the country with Yen and then switch back the couple-thousand I couldn't spend at Duty Free when I returned home.

Hearing that crypto may not be for me is quite surprising. It is advertised to me all over the place and the various stereotypical "cryptobros" seem curiously keen on people like me buying into the ecosystem, and appear to be very generously interested in helping me go "to the moon" etc. I've no idea how you're doing those things with crypto. I guess you have to go pretty far out of your way to buy, for example, airfare with a cryptocurrency or make otherwise really inconvenient trade-offs. I guess you might be semi-forced to use it due to, for example, living in a country with a currency which is more unpredictable than BTC then I think that's more of an black mark against the local currency than it is a feather in BTC's cap...
> at least 10 years of experience in the fields (reverse ageism!)

I think this is somewhat distinct from ageism. You could find some relatively young folks with that level of experience and folks who are much older with less.
It seems to be profitability is next generation technology like Web 4.0 or something. We will be hearing a lot in coming years.
You can do something like building a brand logo and embedding it in webpages and documents as actual text, in rather than an image.
As a developer, having a product manager and executive leadership with this level of technical depth is a dream.
That's Loki

> Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

https://grafana.com/oss/loki/
Archived: https://archive.ph/nfxbq
Thank you! I tried! :)
Sadly for OSGi development there is no alternative to Eclipse.
I was exploring California's wonderful nature on vacation and passed an interesting looking site that looked like a military/scientific installation. Because I am naive, I drove up to the base (Vandenberg afair) to ask for a tour. The local security personnel gave me a very bewildered look all while not taking their hands off their massive handguns. After checking my ID, another friendly soldier with an assault rifle made sure I find my way out the gate. Which is to say: I appreciate every opportunity to explore professionally as well. It is surprisingly hard to see what's going on in a lot of places otherwise.
Sounds good. I never encountered any performance issues with Cloudflare.

If you have the time for enhancement, then:

1. Option to hit the cache before workers. (Why we never use workers).

2. Rules for blocking traffic during nights (time-based rules).

3. Make sure every product is a replacement. If you offer the same thing as a cloud provider. Don’t make us write a lot of custom code.
I can assure you that they really were a thing. We used to joke that they were "pimps."

But I worked for one company for about 27 years, and never used one (except when hiring).
A simple way we used in my previous project to collaborate in a fully distributed team.
Very very hard to argue that Jeter is overrated when he played in the most stressful, demanding market in all of baseball: New York (with an equally demanding boss in Steinbrenner). To be able to produce in the clutch as well as he did? I'm not sure there are many ppl who could do that.
The iPod also fitted easier in the typical hand (and, probably more important, in the typical pocket). Dimensions of that Archos: 3.1 in x 4.4 in x 1.2 in = 16.4 in³

Dimensions of the first iPod: 4.02 in x 2.43 in x 0.78 in = 7.62 in³. That’s less than half the volume.

(Weight-wise, the difference is smaller (10.2 vs 6.5 oz)
Thanks for that link, the fuller Gell-Mann quote was good to note but that article by Gleick is so much more.

Gleick provides us with a vivid portrait of Feynman's character and his descriptions of what Feynman's contemporaries thought of him not only round out that portrait but also reveal parts of their characters. And he masterly weaves all that into the then - and still current - physics zeitgeist.

I'd not seen that article previously but I've Gleick's book Genius so much of it was familiar to me, but having not read it in years his NYT article was a wonderful short refresher.

Gleick's an excellent science writer, I'd highly recommended that those reading and or commenting here read the article.
Forking process per request in a request handling server would be one example where process fork time would add to request latency. (this would be happening during worker process pool expansion).
Starting school a year later is a huge advantage, since you're physically, emotionally and mentally more mature than your peers. One year at those developmental ages leads to a noticeably stronger and smarter person. Relative to girls, a boy could be much much less mature physically and mentally at the same age, equivalent to multiple years.

But the advantage is only because of relative maturity. If we give everyone this "advantage" the the students will just fall further and further behind as their education gets delayed. In countries with high test scores, students start education earlier and it's more rigorous earlier.

At best, maybe the solution is girls should start school earlier, or maybe we need something more dynamic that looks more individually at each student's development (obviously this has been tried before, but never successfully as far as I know).

Either way, I just don't think the conclusion here follows the facts.
How the **CK are these companies training and onboarding and managing all these new hires in such short a time frames?
They're multi-color. For example, you could have a font with a 3D-effect, its shadow and lighting could be different from the actual block. Look at the first image of the post to see what I mean, the big "Color Fonts" text.
Breach of software maker used to backdoor as many as 200k servers
Shouldn't Apple be here too, given their public stance on privacy?
My two contentions with this line of reasoning is that

a) It doesn't consider the transfer of energy from the stove to the pot. Burning the gas may realease 90% of the chemical energy, but how much of that makes it into the pot.

b)

> turning natural gas into electricity wastes 60% of the chemical energy.

There are plenty of other sources of electricity that are not natural gas.
Programming Games Festival on Steam
The festival is taking place from 13-19 September in celebration of the 256th day of every year also known as Programmer's Day.
The market is going to do what it is going to do, I am not sure if you mean that from an employee based perspective or from a corporate perspective, but either should not matter- I guess with a big disclaimer that I am assuming that your core business is still doing well, but its just the "market" that has decided you are out of favor.

From a corporate perspective, you are buying a fixed dollar amount of shares to compensate your employees- I haven't heard of a fixed number of shares being offered as compensation in years for pubic companies. This does not affect your cashflow, just the number of shares being purchased in the open market.

From an employee perspective, its definitely not fun to see the value of your grants drop by 50%. It should only really affect your decision to leave or not if you feel the drop is permanent, or just a temporary blip. IE if I was hired at Peloton in 2020, the stock has dropped 95% and while it will likely bounce back a decent amount, the equity part of your compensation is essentially worthless and not going to be a golden handcuff that will keep you around. Google/Alphabet, its down about 30% but thats likely just an overreaction and is to some extent welcome as you get more shares in your grant... it wouldn't stress me out at all- maybe if I was looking to cash out and buy a house right now, but this was a risk that was always there.
I hadn't heard of qryn before, but it seems that the AGPL has become the go-to license of choice for these kind of tools. It makes me sad, but for clarity: it just makes me sad, the authors are entitled to use whatever license they want
It was a British project management firm and it was the first and only time I ever experienced anything like that. It wouldn't be the most ideal situation for me, but they seem eager and happy to be there.

I don't believe it should be compared to slavery since they chose to be there and they were paid well for their time. I don't imagine there was any other way to house that many individuals on Antigua. There certainly weren't enough hotel rooms or condos available during the tourist season.

They had quite a bit of authority as well. I was on site for less than 5 minutes when one of the safety guys made me leave because I did not have steel toed boots.
This is a tired debate that won’t be resolved here, but here’s the other perspective anyway:

Suppose you work for a company and your boss is from Country X and you are not. Your boss hired several other people from Country X and regularly socializes with them more than others in the office.

When layoffs come, your boss instinctively advocates for the people he is closest to, which happens to be people who look like him and speak the same native language. “That’s not fair!” you say. “I’m a higher performer than them. This is just favoritism.” Your boss says that he did not take race into account in his decision.

Your company agrees with you and tells your boss that his favoritism is unacceptable. There are now processes in place to flag this kind of situation. Your boss grumbles “well I didn’t take anybody’s race into account before, and now I have to. This is racism!”
"You really think that the police, especially federal police, would have disobeyed a direct request from the President asking them to stand down?"

This takes me back to my German friends confidently predicting that the election of George W. Bush was the dawn of Nazi America. No, George W. Bush isn't going to roll the army out of Iraq and conquer the entire Middle East. No, Trump isn't going to disband the free press with the assent of Congress. No, the Capital Police, who work for Congress, are not going to stand down and let rioters run rampant, and no, neither Republican leadership (which wasn't in charge of Congress in any case) nor the courts are going to let anyone crown himself president.

All of those are actual predictions I heard from Germans. Trump did crown himself president, with the result any American would have predicted: he was derided and ignored by the majority of the country, and the location wouldn't have mattered at all to that.

I totally get given your country's history why this stuff comes up. But some of it is very, very alien to an American cultural consciousness. It turns out countries differ from one another.

It's worth reading about the relationship between Trump and his generals to understand the attitude that the American military takes, and is expected and required by their oath to take, toward the president.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war...

I am definitely not saying that fascism can't happen here. I'm saying that if it does it won't look like anything predictable from German history because there are vastly different cultural norms to bulldoze.
Microsoft eases moving workloads to partner clouds
Great band - I completely agree on the effect they can have on you.

If you haven’t already, I’d recommend giving their very first “Welcome” EP a listen.
My take-away is that any of the other 4 hierarchy levels between joel and bill should have challenged & asked those questions already.

When you already have 6 levels of hierarchy, is it really the job of the CEO to dig that deep on technical issues?
They need to be able to remain applied without power, but the application can require power.

In my Tesla, I push a button and I can hear an electric motor engaging the brake.
That all depends on the timeframe you’re looking at. The Bitcoin I bought (not nearly enough of) at under $80 is doing a lot better than any cash I still have from around then.

A year or two from now Bitcoin very well might be back above it’s all time high.
Aggregating and Visualizing Migrant Deaths at the US Border – 2022 Record Deaths
Migrant death data is relatively hard to pin down, and is spread across a number of different datasets. Some government, some by NGOs. To better understand the scope of the tragedy, I put together a few map visualizations based on data aggregated from The Missing Migrants Project and combined it with data from the Arizona OpenGIS initiative for Deceased Migrants.

While this isn't fully comprehensive, it does give a visual understanding of the scope of this tragedy over the last few years. I was particularly shocked by the prevalence of Drowning while crossing the Rio Grande. Absolutely horrible.

If anyone knows of additional reputable datasets for migrant deaths, I'd love to improve the thoroughness of these visualizations. It's frustrating this data isn't as transparent or centralized as it should be.
Startups are by definition young companies growing extremely fast. Never having had formal layoffs for young companies experiencing high growth should not be something particularly surprising.
It’s a purely open-source project now with not a lot of contributors and no company backing.
They thought about it but decided it would be a waste of money. Lots of considerations go into engine choice and making changes is quite expensive.

>In 1996, Rolls-Royce and Boeing jointly proposed fitting each B-52 with four leased Rolls-Royce RB211-535 engines. This would have involved replacing the eight Pratt & Whitney TF33 engines (total thrust 136,000 lbf (600 kN)) with four RB211 engines (total thrust 148,000 lbf (660 kN)), which would increase range and reduce fuel consumption, at a cost of approximately US$2.56 billion for the whole fleet. However, a USAF analysis in 1997 concluded that Boeing's estimated savings of US$4.7 billion would not be realized and that re-engining would instead cost US$1.3 billion more than keeping the existing engines, citing significant up-front procurement and re-tooling expenditure.
Games made by Zachtronics are true gems!
> for greater currents the BJT is more efficient

Depending on voltage. Extremely low RDs ON FETs are there. The real world choice would depend on whether you just need a constantly open switch, or high frequency switching for power conversion.

Are you in power electronics?
I have not, but I will look for it now. Thank you.
Same here - I used it when I was writing DHTML on top of PHP 5, then years later when writing my blog, then from time to time when I had to touch the frontend. It's a nice resource for refreshing your memory of the basics, because the basics are front and center (one could say there are only basics there...) without distracting discussions of implementation details. When I need a detailed reference, I go somewhere else.

There definitely were problematic articles on the site, and its biggest contribution to my career was probably teaching me to cross-check my sources. There's a list of problems and nitpicks here[1] - apparently all of these were fixed over the years, hence why it's archived.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110412103745/http://w3fools.co...
No? Maybe I misinterpreted your comment. I was answering your question

> Where is that quote from?

by providing a link to the source of the quote.

Ironically, maybe the person to whom you first replied was actually intending to respond to the comment you just linked instead of making a top-level comment.
And yet it's never been easier to replicate the core source of value for so many multi-billion dollar companies. I know that doesn't capture all the realities, but how many CEOs when asked what their company has accomplished could simply say "we created a webpage". Stange times.
That’s not the same thing at all lol
NSFW or recovering porn addicts. Wish I hadn't clicked.
If large language models trained on cross entropy loss for the next token prediction in the limit aren’t dangerous, then they aren’t enough by themselves for AGI.

An AGI, by virtue of being at least as general as a human, would be able to effectively form a plan for how to act in the world to achieve fairly general goals, in fairly general conditions.

Even if it isn’t agentic, if a program can formulate these plans in a way people can use, then the combined program+user still implements the optimization process.
It used to be profitability was a core component of running a business.
> I think a fair comparison would be against a new sys call that does fork_exec vs io_uring_spawn, and not fork + exec vs io_uring_spawn.

I agree that's a useful comparison, although the status quo is also worth benchmarking. A fork_exec syscall sounds like a posix_spawn syscall. IIRC, glibc's current posix_spawn is a library function that does a vfork followed by setup operations that portable code isn't allowed to call after vfork.

I think there are two dimensions in which io_uring can be used to amortize/eliminate syscalls:

* sequence of operations: in this case, (v)fork, then setup calls, then exec. This sequence is unusually expensive because doing them separately requires extra page table work (particularly for the fork case, but even for vfork vs having a blank process). A posix_spawn syscall could achieve similar efficiency gains as this io_uring_spawn.

* batches of operations: in this case, lots of processes to spawn. It sounds like he hasn't posted numbers on that and intends to: "He's looking forward to ... supporting a pre-spawned process pool". If that turns out well, then the io_uring approach seems worth doing, and also can be used to implement a new in-user-space posix_spawn, for less total syscall surface area than doing both io_uring and a synchronous posix_spawn syscall. Maybe the supported setup operations also can be in common with io_uring operations for other purposes. I'm curious about that but don't see a link to benchmark code / implementation code / manpage.
For me getting an AWS cert before I started job hopping helped in my confidence. It cost time to learn the material but I felt more confident that I had knowledge of the cloud platform. Doing a cert also exposes you to a wider arrange of services than what you'd normally use if you were trying to build something and ship it out the door. A cert will never replace or exceed real world xp in value tho
Throwing people out on the street is tough, but at least we destroy people's livelihoods ~progressively~.

All CEOs are bastards.
The real question isn't "are they?" it's "why were so many of us so confident it wouldn't come for us?"
> None of this is actually secret (it would be common knowledge for anyone employed in the industry) but isn't well-known outside of it. This audience has a lot of professionals in it so a lot of this might not be news to you.

They said none of this is a secret in the 3rd paragraph of the article.
Alternately, reduce taxation so that we're not losing 40+% of income.

Between federal income tax, state income tax, sales tax, property tax, school tax, vehicle registration, tolls, permits and fees we lose a massive part of the money we earn.

If this tax burden was significantly reduced, it would give many families the choice to have a parent stay home and focus on raising the kids.

This sounds like a better outcome than government run childcare.
Not according to https://flowingdata.com/2021/05/26/jobs-that-marry-together/
Love it too. The old but gold Infinifactory is my favourite.
I think his "specific thesis" is an argument that intelligence (and he includes consciousness) are algorithmic. I think he fails to make that case; but the journey he leads us on is extremely entertaining. The book's a masterpiece.
> No, you know that rarely works out in practice and is not what I meant.

No, as far as I know it works very well in practice and thus I don't know what you mean.

Take this example. Steam has registered as a handler for the steam scheme on my PC. Any other app can open e.g. steam://store/655480 to link to a game in Steam. It's up to the scheme handler how the URI works. Steam supports a bunch of different actions and forms of deep linking via the steam scheme.

Here's what Slack supports via its scheme handler, for example: https://api.slack.com/reference/deep-linking#client

It's exactly what you're asking for, so I have no idea what compelled you to immediately dismiss what I was saying.
I don't build synths.

If I did, this is where I would start:

https://archive.org/details/electronic-music-circuits

There is a link to download the PDF below the viewer.

Hard copies are more expensive than most books but less expensive than many analog synths.

Good luck.

*Edit*

Came back to say, I would also consider Eurorack simply because that would simplify decisions about form factors, power supply voltages, manufacture, testing, etc. during design.
I'm about 100x more concerned that VMware got bought out by Broadcom than I am that VMware is led by fraudsters.