skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I've charged for consulting work the smallest unit I've allocated to a client is half a day. That means I work for one client before lunch, and potentially another after, both get charged 4 hours (or 3 hours when I did 6 hour days).

If I finish my assigned task within 10 minutes, then I find something else to do for that client to fill up the rest of the time. It usually leads to them being pleasantly surprised at me taking lead on improvements, and gives me a chance to refactor things that are difficult to maintain.
Crypto Wants a Central Bank
They can, which is part of why I'm so sympathetic to the GP's position.
> Has there been a more powerful vehicle for projection of 'soft power' than the BBC?

That was then and now is now.

Just like UK 'soft power' dropped off a cliff in the run-up to and post Brexit, the BBC is now only impartial when it suits them.

Case in point, their continuous failures to correctly attribute interviewees, e.g. repeated attribution failures in relation to the Tufton Street right-wing lobby groups and thinktanks.

"A mistake repeated more than once is a decision" ... as the old saying goes.
I was just going to ask this. I use One in ATX. Pay out of pocket because my corporate healthcare has crap choices of doctors.
The End of Ownership (2015)
I like your contrasting SW with Marvel here.

I'm not into SW and less into Marvel (I'm repulsed by ubiquitousness).

That said, I found Mandalorian, Boba Fett and Andor all enjoyable; I'm guessing because they stand pretty much alone.

Likewise, I dig Pennyworth and Legion. I was well into watching both before I realized they were Marvelesque. Less Marvel seems to be my favorite Marvel.
We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.
"She was a member of the Technocracy Movement"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
I recently did a month of Disney+ when they sent me promo for first month for $2.99.

During that month I watched the Pixar movies Soul, Luca, and Turning Red (and rewatched Onward). I also watched the Disney movies Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto. And Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs. Oh, and also the latest Dr. Strange and Thor Marvel movies, plus the Loki series.

Are you seriously claiming that all that was garbage?
Recording the desktop 24/7 and making those videos searchable could be an incredible tool as well. Text on screen as well as audio from meetings. If you didn't document how you initially configured something, you could just go back and watch what you did.

Edit: Another comment has informed me of rewind.ai, which does this on Mac, interesting!
Libraries pay more for "library binding" copies of books, when available
I've lost count of the amount of times the government has asked me what my race is. Surely they'd know by now...
‘No ignition is needed’ is wrong. It doesn’t take much to ignite hydrogen but you do need a spark. You can always find a spark in an industrial environment so you can count on the Centaur blowing up in the Space Shuttle bay or the hydrogen bubble in a nuclear meltdown causing an over pressure event if not a consequential explosion.
I agree with all of this. I round up to the nearest 15-minute increment on hourly gigs, and I stay 'clocked in' except for lunch, cardio, siesta, and other unrelated activity. Even so, 6 hours is a very full day (sometimes even involves a bit of after-dinner work depending on the day), and people billing hourly like this would likely do well to consider that when setting their rate.

Day rates and retainers are much nicer in this regard, and should be used whenever possible.
Your comment has an air to it which makes you sound no different than the same dogmatists you seek to discredit.

Framing the raw economics of renewables as superior to fossil fuels is wrong in many ways, mainly due to the narrowmindedness of viewing it through the lens of just energy. Do your views encompass the the vast network of global production tied to fossil fuel derived goods and processes?

No one should view it as a competition between fossil fuels and renewables. Phasing out fossil fuels has huge implications beyond energy production and if you're not at least attempting to model the "raw economics" to include things like plastics, fertilizers, etc., you're doing a disservice to achieving a sustainable future.
This is amazing. So many easter eggs to click through.

If you're a fan of this type of art, https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/ is full of good stuff.
Marie Kondo Takes on a New Role: Life Coach
Ongoing related thread:

Emergency SOS via satellite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608671 - Nov 2022 (243 comments)
I have yet to come on structs that implement `Copy` while being expensive to actually copy. The largest I can think of is `Uuid` from the `uuid` crate, which is 128 bits in size. This is a single word copy for most machines since modern hardware has 128 bit support for case like this. Still, two 64-bit words to copy is definitely negligible: that's equivalent of copying two pointers.

I agree with you for the garbage collector. By design, a GC allows you to willy-nilly copy without thinking about the consequences.
In Europe, many of the same companies offer a wide variety of electric models -- and at much lower prices than electric cars here in the US. As one of the few companies to have purpose-built both electric car and battery factories in America, I had hoped Lucid could be a vector for moving things in that direction. But the market here seems to only want and care about ever-more-premium electrics. Even Nissan, with arguably the best plug-in EV in its Leaf model, decided to discontinue the entire line in order to make more expensive Ariya models. This is not the case in Europe, where all of the top brands have multiple electrics on offer.
A redditor made an excellent writeup on why this specific set of benchmarks has many issues due to how easily it is gamed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/yuxkk7/comment/iwca...
About the .frogans TLD
Startup I worked at paid like 100k + equity for a two word .com domain name and it wasn’t anywhere near as nice of name as planet scale is
WTUL's antenna is still down, so this could be useful for the NOLA area too.
> as many people spend on a house

Where are houses $100k, these days? Or do you mean down payment?
Celsius argued that depositors were actually lenders. I wonder if FTX will try the same angle. It's gonna be harder to justify because while Celsius was all about yield, FTX was a traditional exchange doing custody on behalf of its clients.
Microarchitecture (x86) Cheatsheet
An organised X86 CPU topics overview for developers (excluding Assembly programmers and compiler devs) , oriented towards performance
Very little evidence, you say? Well, here you go.

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

PS "not possible to pull it off in a competitive market" is not a meaningful statement. The fact that it is possible to pull off implies it's not a competitive market already.
Don't forget the Vauxhall Nova (no-go/not going)
Ongoing related thread:

Apple’s satellite emergency SOS feature: A review and deep-dive explainer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33611586 - Nov 2022 (14 comments)
>Purely in terms of industrial design, I don’t think a Nintendo handheld has matched the elegance of the SP.

100%.

Awesome post.
Well done!

Got a similar PoC that uses Tasker to record sound on my phone, Whisper to convert it to text, and neatly organizes everything into Obsidian.md. The continuous recording kills the battery life on my phone so it's only usable if you don't mind going around with a powerbank. Would be great if a manufacturer would put in a separate low-energy chip with a good ADC.

P.S. "Active functions" with custom home automation is easy as pie with joaoapps's suite. I use BusyBox to SSH into a Pi with a Tellstick Duo. And some RFID tags for the system to know where I am (e.g. bedtime routine gets triggered when I place my phone on the bedside table). But yeah...traffic goes thru Google.
That's a remarkably dystopian take. Also, what about Elon's supposed commitment to free speech? Is criticism not speech?

Note: I'm not talking about free speech in the context of the first amendment, as that does not apply to private entities, obviously. I'm talking in the more broad sense, as in one should not be punished for speech, which is what I interpret Elon's take on it as.
You shouldn't need help from the utility to add a charger in your garage. An electrician can do it. It's the same as adding an outlet for a dryer or oven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yjRIcRc9qY

MKBHD is an awesome reviewer of many things. I just love his videos.
Most people recognize that the value a contractor delivers is not linear with respect to the time it takes them to complete a job. See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/
So don't give up your inreach just yet

It seems to me that if you're the sort of person with the foresight and self-awareness to own something like an inreach, the Apple product isn't for you. You already know the hazards of life beyond the asphalt.

I think this will be very useful for the hundreds of tourists who find themselves stranded or dead in places like the Mojave Desert because they think Google Maps or gospel, or they are wannabe social media personalities desperate for attention, or people who are just generally clueless.
Garmin sells a high-end dive watch without air integration as the Descent Mk2 / Mk2S. They also have the Mk2i with AI. They don't release sales numbers so it's not clear how well those products are doing in the market.

Personally I use the Mk2 because I mostly do technical dives and have little use for AI, but divers like me are a tiny market niche. The latest Shearwater Perdix models do support AI. If Garmin launches a Descent "Mk3" product line as expected next year it might include AI as a standard feature across all models.
I don't have a problem with spreadsheets personally. Complexity is bad; it's best if it gets the job done.

My issue is that they're very bad to use on mobile. It just feels off - like when the first smartphones arrived and you had to zoom in on every single website because they weren't optimized for small screens.

Additionally, you lose a lot of portability. My most recent example of this is discovering that macros don't work on mobile while trying to use a sheet that relied on them.

I would maybe even pay money for a better spreadsheet, or even DB frontend user experience on mobile.
Not yet. I checked that it exists in nixos-hardware already:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master/lenovo/t...

Haven't bought one yet, I'm still quite happy with this X1 from a few years back. You need a quite recent kernel with that laptop, and the wifi is a Qualcomm, not Intel, so check how is the Linux support before buying.

But... I am intrigued, just that I don't really need a fast laptop due to using a beefy desktop for development right now.
s/Bitcoin/pyramid scheme/g and it's still true.

Hype is a compounding agent in wealth transfer.

If (unprofessional investor) doesn't have a strategy to find or invest in value, then the value they throw at it will invariably disappear.
I run NixOS in Parallels, and it's super nice. I copied a config from https://github.com/wegank/nixos-config/tree/main/hardware/pa... for an updated parallels-tools package, for things like copy/paste and mounting shared folders from the host OS.

I'm really happy with it overall. All the hardware works perfectly, and I don't notice the bit of RAM & CPU reserved for the host. The only downside is that some packages aren't available for aarch64-linux, e.g. Slack, Spotify, etc. I just run those on the host OS instead, which is a little annoying due to context switching but not a huge deal.
Just Pirate and store stuff using Jellyfin. It's an infinitely better experience, and everything just works. And you don't get advertised to, demographized, tracked, or anything. You download, copy, go!

I used to recommend Netflix back in the day, cause it just worked. Now, there's 30+ different streaming services, and many have switched to the "leak an episode once a week/month".

Just pirate. It's better, cheaper, AND not hostile to the end user!
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. It's not the whole game, IIRC, but a few levels here and there.
> The group found front-to-rear crashes were cut 49% when the striking vehicle had forward collision alert plus automatic braking, when compared with vehicles that didn’t have either system.

I wonder about front-to-rear crashes when the struck vehicle has automatic braking when the rear one doesn't.

I worry about people with automatic braking not paying attention and being on their phone and letting the automatic braking keep them from hitting people in front of them, while coming to abrupt stops and getting hit more from behind.
I am from Eastern Europe, so I have missed the "cable used to be subscription based without ads" time, so thank you for showing me how history rhymes and that ads in subscription based medium are inevitable.
How much of a foreign market was there for English language computer games in 1987?
"A bunch" .. wasn't it like 2 who were acquitted?

Plenty of other people (most of the bunch I think?) were also rightfully found guilty of crimes associated with plotting to kidnap a governor.
I agree with you -- let me rephrase -- we may have hit a relative peak in quality in the 1950s, but not anything resembling an absolute limit that caused
advertising.

The subsequent decline in product quality was caused by advertising displacing genuine user feedback in creating demand for products, among other things (planned obsolescence).

You no longer needed to create a great product that people would buy and recommend because it is great. Simply skip the loop and go straight from A to B via advertising (fake buzz).

The Galbraith argument that advertising was a necessary technology that benefits consumers is a Big Lie. Advertising benefits large producers, while consumers suffer from losing their voice and declining product quality.
This is very cool. Feels a little bit like the modern day version of a Hieronymus Bosch painting
This is an incredible definition:

> So allow me to clarify. Science and math, above all else, is an ideological commitment to the premise that truth does not derive from authority.
> more expensive model can only consume resources that could have gone to bringing it down further.

I don't think this is how it works. That more expensive model probably has much higher profits, and may be subsidizing the less expensive one.
NixOS on macOS
Seems neat, but why is this better than Hadoop?
Television History – The First 75 Years
Discussed in a few small past threads:

Noria: Dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-perf web applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615085 - Dec 2021 (10 comments)

Noria: dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-performance web apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18330477 - Oct 2018 (1 comment)

Noria: dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-performance web apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176135 - Oct 2018 (1 comment)
When I consult hourly, I bill in 6 minute increments for only focused work. Anything 3 minutes or less doesn't cost you any money.

If you have me do something that is longer than ~30 minutes, I will charge you from the moment I start to prepare your project, catching the spin-up/context switch time. If you interrupted my focus time with another client, nobody gets charged for my break if I need one to refocus.

This is how a lot of lawyers do it, and my clients tend to be familiar with that model. I also charge lawyer-level rates, so I think people appreciate only paying for focused work and receiving an itemized bill.

This is all for when I bill hourly - I prefer to bill a project rate instead.

Many engineers charge much less per hour but charge for an hour every single time they think about your project. That also works.
Hydrogen has numerous uses. Petroleum refineries produce and consume hydrogen in numerous places, if they find they are steam reforming they could use green hydrogen instead, together with storing waste Carbon dioxide to green operations.

Even if we quit refining oil from the ground we will still be doing chemistry like petrochemisty with other feedstocks.
Nah, is it much more efficient to distract you into loosing your box of fuses and manipulate you into buying new ones.

Alexa AI doesn't work for you, it's a hired gun in your house.
Thanks for the reply. I don't see any operators in the codebase for BFS, DFS, APSP etc. Shouldn't your graph querying build around these fundamental operators?
I am not sure if I agree. This is a debate that isn't really related to diversity since people have asked things like how mathematics became so successful in other sciences like physics.

I guess you could apply that questioning to sociology. You could ask why some groups are more prone to crime than others using a statistical test. You could maybe use data to try to reason about sociological questions. It might turn up some ugly results. Or maybe people could ask why standardized scores differ between groups and instead of concluding there must be a difference in the test takers, they conclude the mathematics on the test must be at fault. So where it is convenient people question the validity of mathematics itself.

But on the other hand when someone tries to quantify diversity statistics and says there are too many white men who are CEOs or there is a black-white wealth gap, it seems like mathematics is perfectly legitimate. Should people watching the populations of white people be reminded that their statistical techniques are incorrect because they haven't been 'decolonised'?

Of course it's a very deep topic in the philosophy of science, foundations of math and logic, and philosophy of mathematics to ask about what math really is and where it applies but that's not what is being done here when there is talk of decolonisation.
> There were about 40M non-zero addresses earlier this year.

An exchange, when depositing or withdrawing to a user or another exchange, uses a ton of address, sometimes leaving behind very small amounts. Same with users. I'm sure 75% of non-zero address have very, very little BTC in them.
Yeah this is a great cautionary point. A goodly chunk of my annual training is about bribes/inappropriate gifts.
> Now that Twitter is on a downward spiral I’m rewriting my favorite tweetstorms in a more permanent medium,

This is much welcomed! Too many interesting things I missed because they were presented in a fragmented series of thoughts on twitter. I would just never open those links because the experience was jarring. If twitter chaos means people joining the article writers crowd, what a gain!
>But I don't understand working 10 minutes one day, billing for an hour, and then working 10 minutes the next day and billing for two hours total.

If someone's breaking up their time like this, they wouldn't be in business very long I don't think. Any reasonable contractor would complete the job in 20 minutes the first day, bill for an hour, and have everyone leave happy.

It's easy to imagine scenarios where contractors take advantage of their clients due to information asymmetry, but most contractors eventually realize their lifetime value is probably higher if they can keep their clients happy. I think the same principle holds true if you're a contracted Rust engineer or a contracted plumber; it seems to be that the honest, skilled, and justifiably expensive ones float to the top.
An address is not a person.
Wiki Article Generate by AI
"History Channel shared a preview of the show that will delve into the artifact's discovery. It will air as part of the series The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters, though the piece of Challenger was not found in the Bermuda Triangle"

incredible
YouTube Shorts begins testing shopping features and affiliate marketing
Check out "Asch conformity experiments" [0]. The idea is that if you can make it look (make believe, basically) that the majority swings in a certain direction, a large chunk of the population will simply follow EVEN IF they think otherwise. Mattias Desmet goes deeper into this in his "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WYYMR2H
Sure. Recruiters wont know the answers to a lot of questions. Especially things that are not talked about often or focused on at the company. If a company is proud of their internal training program they would highlight that to potential employees and anything a recruiter can use to sell the company they will.

It's true that a recruiter might not know about a companies training program and that program may exist and actually be good. But its much more likely they wont know because one either doesnt exist or isnt formalized at all and isnt a focus for the company.
It’s very easy. Take your app, dump it into Capacitor. Done.

If you revisit your Capacitor-wrapper a few years later, you either take the update-dependencies-route or just start a fresh project and dump your PWA bundle in there.

Depends on how many native APIs you are using, such as in app purchases.
this is like asking me not to call the encyclopedia britannica "the encyclopedia" since there are many other encyclopedias in existence

sure wikipedia is one wiki, but there's nothing ambiguous about "look it up on the wiki"

edit: lol ok fine I'm wrong, let me amend to, "wiki is an easily disambiguated term depending on the context of the subject, and if the subject is not your internal work project or self hosted fan site, you probably want to look it up on wikipedia.org"
Hydrogen is needed to do chemistry and is a possible path to make metals. Fuel cells for cars don’t look like a good idea compared to battery EVs, but they might find a niche.
That might be a good idea in some cases. But, some platforms put limitations on your account if you're under 13, so it may not be what you want in other cases (requires a second parent account to manage the under 13 account, can't make account changes, content restrictions, inability to make purchases, etc).
You're missing an option: Wrongly accused on the basis of your own recordings. Imagine this real life situation occured, but it was your own recordings instead of surveillance cameras

> A key piece of evidence in the case is video surveillance footage showing Williams’ car stopped on the 6300 block of South Stony Island Avenue at 11:46 p.m.—the time and location where police say they know Herring was shot.

> How did they know that’s where the shooting happened? Police said ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that uses hidden microphone sensors to detect the sound and location of gunshots, generated an alert for that time and place.

(The defense argued ShotSpotter makes up data and hides behind opaque AI they refuse to rigorously test. Instead of responding, the prosecution dropped the case.)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-sh...
Upwork absolutely sucks. Never again.
Ask HN: Healthy Off-Screen Breaks
On a typical (work) day, when you take a break, what do you do exactly (specific activity), and how long? I feel stressed out due to constantly being on screens, such as my laptop and phone. I really want to find out ways to relax myself, without looking at screens. What are your suggestions?

I thought of reading a book, or maybe filling up Sudoku. What other options could make us get relaxed breaks?
The range of a cell tower is like 5 miles. That's how far you need to go to lose service...
How did he not buy Apple and end up with Apple being 40% of Berkshire?