skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many entrepreneurs have a background as freelancers. There are no official statistics on this available, but those who have listened to most of the episodes of my podcast Techskaparna (a podcast in Swedish, which loosely translates to “tech creators”) have probably noticed that many who have been guests on the podcast have freelanced at some point. Of the tech entrepreneurs who have participated so far, half (as far as I know) have a background as freelancers. In episode 4 of Techskaparna with Ted Valentin and Jonatan Heyman, they also explicitly recommend combining freelancing and entrepreneurship. Many tech entrepreneurs have simply freelanced at some point in their careers before transitioning to being full-time entrepreneurs.

In this article, I will try to explain why this is so and outline the pros and cons of being both a freelancer and an entrepreneur. That is, freelancing before and maybe at the same time as you try to build companies, products, startups, your own projects, be an indie hacker, lifestyle entrepreneur or whatever you call it - to have and try to realize your entrepreneurial ambition.

Here I list the pros and cons of combining freelancing with entrepreneurship.

Advantages:

Better knowledge in how to run a business, do book keeping and the like
Financial:
More cost effective
Better personal finances
Higher SGI (sjukpenninggrundande inkomst - something we have in Sweden)
Self-financed start-up capital
Less dependence on venture capital
Flexible time management
You can customize your freelance assignments based on interest
Fewer mental and legal barriers
More secure
Disadvantages:

Not everyone can freelance
It can be more or less difficult to get assignments depending on your skills and seniority
It may take longer time to get started with the entrepreneurial company because freelancing on the side offers security and not the same stress
It can entail a bit of a double workload if you run two companies at the same time - your freelance consulting company (here after referred to as consulting company) and your entrepreneurial company - when it comes to, for example, bookkeeping ....
The article, cautiously, provides some of that evidence. Anything that suppresses the capabilities of the immune system can be deductively reasoned to make pandemics worse.

If you read what I wrote though, you'd realize I'm acknowledging very clearly that other factors played a larger part, without trying to make this a pointlessly political conversation. So, please don't do that, it does not improve the discourse on HN.
> It just seems safer to do nothing and wait for the girl to make the first move.

For the most part girls will not do this. Any woman who has ever dated men eventually learns that if a man is interested he'll make it known and if you have to chase him he's not interested. For that reason most eventually give up on making the first move because those situations never go anywhere, whereas when men make the first move they do. It's not necessarily fair but it's the typical dynamic so waiting around for girls to make the first move is very unlikely to work out in your favor. Also, the thing about men being creepy for approaching is very overblown online. In real life as long as you're pleasant and polite and willing to take no for an answer most women will be happy and gracious if you approach them. Go for it!
Is this the end of gondola rides in Venice?
Is it really illegal if you use crypto?
I lived in Munich 7 years and could take a train to Garmisch in less than 90 minutes, then literally walk from the train station to any of dozens of hiking trails that cover several mountains, or to several Gondolas.
Back-of-the-envelope, a beam array of 256k beams could plausibly level that 1 minute vs 1 day ratio.
A couple hours of engineer time per month. Maybe 5 if we're being generous.
"Absorb" here doesn't mean "they won't fight it", it means they'll have a manageable chargeback rate that doesn't risk them getting cut off from credit card processing.
I agree, I kept looking for an example of solving the problem that the post opened with: "how much longer until XYZ happens". Maybe I missed it?
Hot as in 212-350F, not 450F+

Side note, many people cook with way too much heat.
To protect against this:

https://twitter.com/privacylawyer/status/1117884896553263104...

Here in Canada, the usual copyright notices that came with a "pay this amount to settle" through your ISP were rightfully deemed to be almost extortionate scare tactics, and thus illegal. So copyright holders quickly moved to just outright suing people, directly through courts. So VPNs are essential, since you can be much more exposed to legal issues now than when "settlement notices" were the worst case scenario.
> Your imaginings about infanticide are uninteresting

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174580/

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.16...

There is actually a metric shit ton of research on infanticide, I'm not sure what would lead you to pretend it's not real.
In the autism community we call this "masking" and it is not the least bit surprising to read this. I did not begin to learn I had anxiety or autism until I was 30 years old, and it's because the world trained me to hide away those parts of myself.

I did not realize I was masking for most of my life -- most do not since it's the only way they've ever lived -- but it is enormously taxing to be around people. Everyone seems to be communicating over a different protocol than you in such a natural way. But you have to study it, prepare for it, and then run an emulation layer in realtime, all to appear normal and natural. This leaves less brainpower for other things and leads to mental exhaustion very quickly. I recently heard it described as never being able to speak your mother tongue.

If you would like to read more about my experiences I wrote them down in an essay form [1]. I'd also recommend the Dave's Garage YouTube channel, by ex-Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer. [2] He does a great job of pitching autism as less a disorder and more an evolutionarily necessary mutation for the odd person here or there to have.

I'm very glad these studies are being done and I commend them. I also wish there were a bit of focus on adults with autism, who are often left out of the picture.

[1]: https://twos.dev/autism.html

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9X5DSnVms
"layer 2" systems are just (unregulated) banks that use the blockchain as an eventual settlement mechanism.

They have all the same middleman/trust/centralization issues as tradfi banks and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
I see this in Seattle and it makes no sense and just annoys the shit of me when I'm looking for housing. They'll list their income restricted units as their entry level price online, then you look at their actual listings and they're all $1000 more expensive per month. The real problem that makes no sense, however, is that these income restricted units are sometimes like $2000-2500 a month. And to qualify you have to make less than like 60k a year or something. They can't afford to the rent. I don't get it.
> I believe the rule of using "are" when following a noun that ends with "s" still applies though

Rules are dialect-dependent, though (or a better way to frame it: "rules" are observations about clusters which are used to define a dialect).

> I can't think of a collective noun that ends in S that I would follow with "is".

Sure, in the forms of American and British English that most HN readers are used to, there may not be any. That isn't universal, though.

There's a related phenomenon which may be more familiar to you: some English speakers will use a possessive form even when no possessive is being conveyed semantically, eg: "I'm going to Burger King's", or "Wal-Mart's is a good store". This particular one is fairly well-documented.
>a lobbying screed

Who do you suggest is doing the lobbying and for what cause?
Yeah and most notably Intel management engine.

If it were GPL they'd have to give back their modifications to the community..
> The outrage is not over the ethics of what he did, which is a scant drop in the bucket compared to real-world concerns (e.g. Ughyrs)

Because someone is not outraged by what you are is not evidence of disingenuousness.
Same in Sweden and Denmark.
Perhaps I have too strong interpretation and you can list it elsewhere but you are prohibited in any way indicate this possibility on the item page or during the communication between the seller and buyer.
Yeah, but they use the exact same two forms of auth to send the whole contents of the account overseas... Or to take out a huge loan...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...

worked for me, but perhaps it's paywalled for some.
Your voice is a thing that you “are”, up to a certain extent. People can be trained to sound like other people.

Physical things other than the body is something you “have”.
DOB is easy to find and voices are often easy to copy, even without technology. Comedic impressionists have done this for entertainment since about 5 minutes after humans learned to talk.
Well sure it was illegal, and sure it helped them a lot. Like that Israeli election rigging company the Democrats used which has been in the news. But it’s important to move forward, we can’t like, Pfeh, UNDO illegal election rigging!
Sounds like a perfect job for ChatGPT to verify every address against their website.
Wages from a volatile source is better than no wages, and what you previously thought to be a stable source has proven otherwise - you’ve just unexpectedly been laid off.

Do you take the startup job, to provide for your family? You need to make money.
During the last few years some start ups were offering solid base salaries in addition to RSUs, so the risk wasn’t horrible. Not sure what it’s like now.
This is extremely interesting data, and not what I would have expected. I'm aware HR and recruiting folks are having much much harder times than engineers in finding new positions, but assumed engineers had still been hit harder than that link shows.

For companies outside the big techs that are still wildly profitable and sitting on mountains of cash, laying off people is largely about refocusing on actual profitable activity. Keeping engineers around makes sense for them.

For companies that are on the cusp of profitability, or still actively burning through money, layoffs seem to be more about reducing burn, which means you're more likely to lay off highly paid engineers.

Still, 5% seems low. How do you square this with the observation that every open SDE role at a company that pays at least somewhat decently seems to have hundreds of applications? If so few SDEs were really laid off, I wouldn't expect the SDE hiring market to have turned as drastically as it did since last summer / fall.
What line "booked 2 months before departure" did you encountered ? Just checked my routine line (Paris-Toulouse) and there's still seats and bed available for tommorrow night at a reasonable price.
Grown on paper only. I don't think most people's lives are any better than 2012. Stock and house prices have skyrocketed is all.
Tanenbaum retired and minix was more of an educational project. Not really for production. It was a great way for students to learn about Unix when Unix only ran on expensive computers. Including the design of it (be aware that with the first unixes Sysadmins would receive the code and regularly made changes!)
> i’m

The issue with critizising someones grammer are that it always slips in an error or two.
I assume they meant "writing in a different shell". The literal comment indeed doesn't make much sense.
All chocolate contains PEA which is toxic to dogs proportional to % cocoa.

Xylitol is an additional possible risk.
You are right. Working environment. They can opine about that. House prices aren’t working environment, they are sleeping environment as you said.
Ship It on ARM64 or Is It AARCH64?
Here's Tom Scott's second video explaining why electronic voting is a terrible idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

Electronic voting machines and companies that manufacture them should both be illegal. Yet their use is widespread in America. The primary reason they're a bad idea is they make widespread election fraud easy. There is no good faith reason to use them.
This.

There appears to be a huge risk of this technology completely devastating the last bastion of trust -- trust in the people we personally know.

I wonder how to mitigate that problem.
wrong link

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/shoppers-looking-much-more-e...
Rejecting science has a long history – the pandemic showed what happens
Google Play’s honor system for app privacy labels isn’t working out`
Are 512 bit encryption keys even a thing? I thought 256 bits is already for the paranoid, with AES128 being sufficiently secure until quantum computation becomes feasible. I don't even know a symmetric cipher that uses 512 bit keys.

Also, since we are talking about hash functions, keys don't even enter the discussion. Hashing is about making password guessing difficult. The length alone doesn't determine how difficult it is anyway, since there are 48 character passwords in popular wordlists. Just enforce 2fa, use argon2 or similar with a minimum password length of 12 and call it a day.
MPs, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve?
My first Thinkpad is a T490 from work randomly and if I would get to pick in the future I would pick Lenovo over HP or Dell.

They are great business laptops. Still amazing chassis quality and keyboard. Great driver support from Lenovo. I also get over 8h battery solid out of mine still, on low power plan in Win10.

But the business laptops of HP and Dell are also good, the HP Elitebooks and Dell Precisions/Latitudes.

It's just that when people buy Windows laptops, they buy cheap ass 300$ Acers from Walmart or a really expensive and loud gaming laptop. These business laptops are built to last for company use, and it does show. If a company buys 1000 laptops from HP, Dell, or Lenovo, and they are shit they won't buy from them again, so the quality has to be high. Yes, new they are expensive, but a lot of enterprise companies do 3 or 5 year hardware refreshes so used you can get them cheap. And company employees in general take care of their laptops or just use them docked 90% of the time. My keyboard looks new after 3 years because I most often have mine docked or hooked to an external screen/mouse/kb.
Being good at leetcode is not equivalent to being one of "the best minds".

Comments like this are why the general public feels like SWEs are stuck up elitist know-it-alls
Are you looking for a new job? If so, what are you looking for? Where are you at?
Presumably "it's never been easier" means "the technology is no longer the bottleneck".
> I think the real reason is that the political donation system operates on trust

If what you say is only remote true, then every member of US political system is utterly corrupt.

CIA can give money to politicians and say it's from Google or TikTok or EU.
> Not everyone who who handles medical data is bound by it

This is true, but not true of anyone working at One Medical, since health care providers are bound by HIPAA. If you tell your friend you have cancer, sure, they can legally share that info. If you tell your faith healer, or your employer, they can as well.

If you tell your PCP (or your PCPs app, or their secretary), and they share that with Andy Jassy without him being cleared to handle PHI, they're in for a mountain of fines.

As much as I like being cynical about surveillance capitalism, I don't think Amazon's primary motivation here is patient data, at least in the short-to-medium term. If they wanted the data, they'd buy, like, a vitamin company or something.
> It is ridiculous that news organizations don't link to the source material.

When the newspaper was the only way to get current information at all, the journalistic integrity of the MSM mattered a lot more. But now, they know they can put whatever sensationalist, reality-bubble spin they want on any event, and face 0 consequences while driving tons of page views. So unfortunately I'd expect this to continue and probably intensify.
Show HN: SMS to Slack streamlines receiving 2FA codes for teams who share logins
Why go to a parallel universe? I thought it was an uninteresting stale rant and didn't know it was written by a woman nor that she had dyed hair until you just told me.

It would have been more interesting if any of the comments had brought up Christopher Alexander's observations from, I think it was, the timeless way of building....
I don't know about the others, but Azure DevOps' mermaid support is several releases out of date, or custom-limited to certain features. This means a lot of the examples in the official docs or elsewhere online don't work.

But what is most frustrating is that they don't document what features or version of mermaid they actually support. Microsoft gives a couple examples with links to official Mermaid docs, with a huge vague warning that _some_ things won't work in DevOps.
It takes much longer than 70 seconds to heat up a 12 inch stainless steel or carbon steel skillet on a home burner to a point where it can be used to fry an egg or sear a chicken thigh, both of which are things a home cook may do with some frequency.
Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles
If commercialized in similar stats, a million mile lifetime battery in a Tesla Model S:

250 kilowatt hour battery ~ 1000 mile range
battery would weight 208 pounds, although pack would probably be more than raw cell weight, let's say 250 pounds. Current Tesla model S is a 1100 pound pack.

Because you are chopping off almost 1000 pounds in pack weight, the car would go even further than current tesla effeciency because of the BEV "rocket equation".

The battery uses oxygen from the air, not purified oxygen unlike others. It is a solid battery design as well, so it should be compact. Materials are claimed to be common.

Of course it can be hard to tell the path to commercialization. Usually research cells are very small, a far cry from BEV / grid and other commercial scale cells.

Five years ago they were at 750 cycles (https://today.uic.edu/new-design-produces-true-lithium-air-b...), unreported density.
> "Calculator" used to be a job description

It was computer, not calculator.
Keyword Generics Progress February 2023
My question was more about the error/incident monitoring part. For us the biggest challenges in this area have been

1) grouping errors correctly. Often, identical errors are not logged because the browser messes up the stack trace, because error messages are not completely identical (browser-dependent), or because the stack trace (line numbers etc.) have slightly changed from one version to another. So we often need to group errors by hand.

2) identifying what the impact of an error is. Is it critical? Is it enough if we look into it next week? Is it relevant at all? Add to that that our web shop sees a significant number of automated interactions by resellers, so errors due to broken browser extensions, their bots doing crazy things etc. have been quite common and often need to be ignored by hand.

I really hope session replays are going to help us with 2).
don't have to force them to keep customers, just force them to actually give users recourse for incorrect enforcement actions like htat
Select-Object is for head/tail as poster mentioned that. Also, it can be used for accessing parsed content similar to awk, for example: '1,2,3,4,5' -split ',' | select -Index 3,5

> You cannot use linux tools in PowerShell in most cases, since they aren't installed by default.

The same as jq and specific variants of tools you mention. Not like you can't install them in single line: winget/choco install awk,grep,jq,less...

> In the real world a lot of shell scripting requires parsing unstructured text from various command outputs and files.

No it doesn't. I do shell scripting for more then decade in PowerShell and I can count how many times I parsed the text. The most used one is simple split like with `$paths = $Env:PATH -split ';|:'`, but other then that no. I used select-string only couple of times in decade, on all OSes.

> but as soon as you step out of that comfort zone it becomes awkward to use.

That is true for literary anything. Actually pwsh does great with 'native' tools too, and there is even MS module to help with "native app wrapping". See [1] and [2]

Today its more or less regular to have json output which can be trivially read by pwsh ConvertFrom-Json

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/native-commands-in....

[2] https://redmondmag.com/articles/2020/12/11/powershell-cresce...
> Photography obviously still involves creativity and skill. Therefore so does AI art.

The conclusion does not logically follow the preceding sentence.
Never been a better time: lots of disillusionment around the disproportionate amounts of leverage that capital has over even megacorps.
My intuition is that it's obviously right that borrowing money could be a neutral or positive thing - but that depends on the borrowed money being spent in ways that will have a positive return. If you borrow money, when borrowing is cheap, to buy a car so you can go to work, smart! If you borrow money to spend it on booze and concert tickets - not smart!

I think the issue is that one side is saying "Borrowing is terrible!" And the other side is saying "No, borrowing cheap money is somewhere between fine and great!" And the real answer is "Borrowing can be smart if you use it well, but we are using it poorly."

If the US was borrowing money to build and renovate roads, bridges, ports, update the electrical grid, build new nuclear power plants, engage in basic science research and similar projects likely to yield good return on investment - that was be amazing financial planning. My limited understanding of what the government actually spends its money on - wasteful healthcare, social security, the military, and intelligence agencies - is that the money is actually just being squandered.
> Indian English is just about as different from American English as it's possible to get.

Hardly. Indian English is not even very different from some dialects of British English (just not the one British dialect that most non-Brits are used to). Even many of the features that people commonly associate with Indian English are actually taken from British English and still present in present-day British dialects (again, just not the one that most non-Brits are familiar with).

There are other dialects of English that are far more different from Standard American English, to the point where an American speaker will have trouble understanding them altogether, as opposed to being able to understand the meaning correctly albeit with noticeable distinctions.

But you're right that there's a good chance that this is a dialect difference.
PFAS are used in so many different applications it would be difficult to list the alternatives comprehensively. But it can be confidently said that, health and environmental costs aside, there are no better alternatives for their current use. Which is a huge part of the problem (similar to the BPA/BPS issue).

PFAS in DWR / water resistant applications is being replaced with silicone-based tech and some other novelties.

PFAS in coated paper goods can be replaced with silicones, sulfuric acid baths, etc.

PFAS in machinery could be replaced with food-grade lubricants like mineral oil, etc. (or just more frequent cleaning)

Give me some other common applications and I'll help think about the alternatives
Do you really think that current Russian Oligarchy government for some reason creates Communist propaganda in Russia? Wouldn't it be against their interest?
It's said a similar thing happened when IBM laid off a bunch of people in the 90s.

It sucks for those laid off, but these big tech companies have had tons of talent effectively locked up for years.
As long as they can continue making interest payments on the debt then what's the problem? It's all relative.