skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read. My freelance work has never been by the hour, and for reasons that align with those mentioned in the article.

Clients don't care about hours I spend, my hours bring no value to them. They desire a certain result, and they know how much that result is worth to them.

For my freelance tasks, I've put forth a rather steep one-time price for the solution of the specific problem at hand. The condition: The price is paid when the problem is solved, if not, the service was not delivered, they don't pay.

This works out beautifully for the client, they run no risk (except the delay in waiting for me to fail so they can try someone else), and they know exactly what they pay.

It works out nice for me, since I have a reasonable idea whether I can solve the problem or not.

Hourly rates for those tasks have been close to $1000, including failed tasks where I spent some days not solving the problem.

In the end, it's also very fair to both parties.. It's reasonable to expect the agreed-upon result when paying someone to do something.

It's also unreasonable to expect to get paid for not doing what was agreed upon.

A concrete example I can talk about was a client whose database had started "acting up a lot" and they had no idea what was wrong, they were very friendly and told me they had contacted another company too who had quoted an hourly price around $200 but were unwilling to estimate how much time they would need, since they didn't know what the problem was. So I said, "I'll try and fix it, if I succeed it'll be $4000", that's a fair amount of money, sure, but it was pretty good value to them to get their inventory database back up. It turned out to be an unhandled edge-case that only showed up years after when they introduced a new kind of item into the database. I had to learn a little bit of VBA(!) to fix it, but in the end, it took about 2 hours, and you might argue that price is too much for those two hours, but they didn't pay me to spend 2 hours, they paid me to get their database working again.
The writing has been on the wall for 5+ years that government bodies would eventually legislate this, even for casual observers. If these auto manufacturers as industry insiders couldn’t plan ahead to handle this outcome, it sounds like they might deserve to be unseated.
If you want to add true keyword search (i.e. traditional BM25 matching-type search capabilities), you should try hybrid search. LMK if you have issues! https://docs.pinecone.io/docs/hybrid-search
A female is a living organism possessing (or having once possessed, if they were removed or destroyed through illness or injury) sexual organs designed to produce ova. A human is a member of the genus homo.
Yes, but that's likely okay with them. Amazon's leadership are aware of the fact that some tech workers will leave due to RTO, and they're okay with that.

Sidenote: a lot of companies follow data-driven approaches to their own culture, where they try to inform policy choices using statistics. I would argue that measuring the impact of remote work on overall productivity is extremely hard, and it will likewise be difficult for them to measure how many are leaving due to RTO. Most people aren't honest on their exit surveys when quitting.
They did those as well, and they also paid for extensive marketing material to make it seem like buying a cracked game was directly contributing to a mafia that was planning on killing your granny.

Do you not remember the ads? The "you wouldn't steal a car"?

Piracy is just what they were able to get. Should have hired the bank's PR managers, who turned "failing to do due diligence on a customer's identity" into the customer's problem.
> Its probably staffing issues

I would have expected that since (in my experience) these machines are generally run by a technician, and the MRI itself is relatively quick (a few minutes), and hospitals can bill insurance thousands for an MRI, that once a medical facility has acquired and set up the machine the machine, that running patients through should more than pay for the time of staff immediately involved.
Anyone from Eurostat present here? I tried tot look for jobs a few times, but many (all?) their positions require you to be 'delegated' from somewhere else. What's up with that and how does it work?
But wouldn’t that be true of any kind of performance art? What value is created by me paying to watch a musician/movie/baseball? Fundamentally seems the same as watching someone eat shit for my amusement.
A person who developed along the ovarian pathway (rather than testes pathway) when an embryo.

Female humans have this in common with other female mammals, and a wide variety of other species too. The gonochoric ones anyway.
This is not really relevant to the proposed rulemaking but it is something that bugs me deeply, and would like to get off my chest. I would like to see a mandate that red LED be wired inband to every camera and microphone, on every device, so if it is powered up, the LED is also. This is what John Gilmore proposed in 2004, and we adopted in the OLPC project, as the first step towards not being ubiquitously surveilled. It is low cost, low power, and easy to implement.
- Nucleus Cloud

- Argonaut

There's probably 3-4 more at least, can't think of them now.
I do, but I'm wondering, how far can SB403 go before you start bumping into 1st Amendment issues?

1. If a bunch of co-workers who are vegetarian due to their ancestry choose to exclude me from lunches because I want to eat meat, can I sue them for caste discrimination?

2. If someone makes fun of me because I wear a mark on my forehead, can I sue them for caste discrimination?

All laws need to have bounds that operate within the constraints of the US Constitution. This is why I was limiting the scope of my comments to hiring/firing/promotion related topics. I am sympathetic to social issues like what OP is talking about, but also do not believe that new laws can solve all of them.
GPT4 can already convincingly analyse and explain why a drawn comic is funny or ironic. It's really unbelievable when you see it do that.
I would agree but, just out of interest, I got #1 on DDG for 'slang dictionary' and #2 on google uk? That's really unexpected for any site not using https.
Unless you type in something like Windows Notepad or paper notepad, which does return results.

Strange, very strange.
That's why the gods of Unix created ctags.
The two things that stopped me from using custom Android ROMs:

1. Discovered that emergency calls would crash the phone (during an emergency)

2. The LineageOS April Fools prank.
Or “gee, Hunter Biden is a swell son, he sure got to Vegas really fast! He must be on crack!”
> The tech companies design the system so that there exists no central key that could be used to decrypt every conversation

And in fact nobody claimed that, at least not in this thread.

It's still not impossible to provide the keys for a conversation, it's not a technical limitation by any means.

Perhaps the good guys at Mullvad can provide that level of privacy, but certainly not WhatsApp, their interest align with those of the users practically never.
I wonder what percentage of this is going to be used for spotting points of interest from aerial photos.
This is a valid criticism, but I don’t think that it’s necessarily the author’s fault.
Emacs is definitely designed to fracture. Pretty sure I can write the same article with %s/vscode/emacs/g. The only thing emacs is missing is a commercial offering, and it's definitely going to fracture in the same way.

Android is designed to fracture, Linux is designed to fracture, Clang is designed to fracture, Windows is designed to fracture.

Take GCC for example. It was philosophically designed to _not_ fracture due to how its plugin system was designed. As far as I know, there is no such limitations on emacs plugins. Plugins and their interface are what enables fracturing as this article defines it.
Source on those actions being associated with ADHD? I'm not arguing they are not but they seem extreme.
I’m not concerned about the direction of development, I’m concerned about Oracle holding the (or at least a significant part of) copyright to some software which is used as a Linux module, but which is licensed under a license which is (arguably) incompatible with the GPL.

If Oracle wanted to, they could easily release their copyright under a dual license or something else to clear up the licensing issue. They have not, and have chosen to retain the ability to sue every Linux user using ZFS. This concerns me.
Using POST, HTTP/1.0 and lite.duckduckgo.com, with no Javascript of course, I got results. Not suggesting any of those are requirements. I'm just reporting that the no results experience is not universal.

Here is the first page of results:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
https://onlinenotepad.org/notepad
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9MSMLRH6LZF3?hl=en-us&amp;gl=US
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.5/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepadplusplus.mirror/
https://notepad.js.org/
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.1.9.3/
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.1/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help-in-notepad-4d68c388-2ff2-0e7f-b706-35fb2ab88a8c
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/2010-notepad.html
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus
https://www.onlinenotepad.io/
https://anotepad.com/
https://www.howtogeek.com/902619/open-notepad-in-windows/
https://notepad.plus/
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/start-notepad-windows/
https://notepad.uptodown.com/windows
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/notepad
http://www.my-notepad.net/
https://notepad.id.uptodown.com/windows
https://notepad-classic-windows-10.en.softonic.com/

Below is a quick script for DuckDuckGo searching, if only want first page of results. yy025 makes HTTP from URLs. yy046 URL-encodes input, e.g., "+" to %2B. The address 127.22.10.55 is a TLS forward proxy.

usage: echo query string|1.sh > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
links -no-connect ./1.htm

#!/bin/sh

h=duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion
h=lite.duckduckgo.com
read x;
x=q=$(echo "$x"|yy046);
export httpMethod=POST;
export Content_Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded;
export Content_Length=${#x};
export httpVersion=1.0;
export Connection=close;
echo https://$h/lite/|yy025|if sed w/dev/stderr;then
echo $x;echo $x >&2;fi \
|socat stdio,ignoreeof tcp:127.22.10.55:80
your pivot comments seem irrelevant as he is not selling this as a product, he is using it as a white-label solution for his clients.
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Thanks for sharing this, Walter. I'm always curious where language developers get their experience from.
That's irrelevant. The existence of non-tracking ads, ever, proves it is a viable business mode, absent competition from tracking ads (if e.g. regulation banned them). That magazines and TV are not competing well with websites and streaming does not affect this.
Some things that are cheaper at a low scale is quite expensive at scale, 3D printing is obvious here, your way to consume less 3D printing may be opposite to the way that regular plastic manufacturer does, so you need to adapt your process to the process of your suppliers.
How to design a FPGA Module correctly
No worries, by this time next week there'll be a subscription service selling deepfake keystroke sounds
> The solution we went with: Get the boys so high on stimulants they can sit still like the girls.

love to be a woman with ADHD-PH and read this shit
They record video? I though they just take a photo of the package that they dropped off at your doorstep.
What is the point? That people lie to young girls telling them they can do anything a man can do, without any negative repercussions? Tell that to all the women in their late 30s on anti depressants sad they basically can't have kids and tired of getting ran through on tinder and bumble.
It's fully rejuvenated in Clojure as "Emmy", with Sussman's support and a bunch of 2D and 3D graphing extensions. See Emmy-Viewers: https://emmy-viewers.mentat.org/ and Emmy: https://emmy.mentat.org/

Thanks to https://2.maria.cloud, everything in SICM and FDG works in the browser as well: https://2.maria.cloud/gist/d3c76ee5e9eaf6b3367949f43873e8b2
OWASP Top API Security Risks – 2023
That won't work in many national and international systems, due to externally prescribed exam or coursework conditions.
As does "tepad" though "epad" does return results.
Not just on the firmware level. Many cheap IoT products are based on the Chinese ESP32 SoC.
What are you talking about? Your history is saved locally. Websites call document.browsingTopics() to get topics that the user is interested in.
You can always pump it back after extracting the helium.
They used to have this thing where developers could build Instant Answers through a program called DuckDuckHack.

It would load a carousel at the top with results for like jobs, recipes, etc.

It used regex to match the search query. Looks like they have a bad one.
One of the Biggest Cable Companies Says Cable TV Isn’t Working
Czechia is the world's largest electron microscopes producer so it's nice to see that the microscopes are useful in domestic research too.
Was someone trying to be funny, to change a "notepad" search for "notepad++", forgetting that + has a specific meaning in regex? Same error occurs with a search for "notepad++", though, but not "notepad+", funnily enough.
Isn't that basically Rustlings?
Co-founder of Porter (https://porter.run) here - we do not use Terraform under the hood. We moved away from an IaC based system earlier this year to better manage our users' infrastructure distributed across multiple cloud accounts. A decision that definitely turned out to be conveniently prescient :)

With this new system, we are also able to immediately reconcile drifts that occur in our user's infrastructure, which an IaC based system did not allow us to do.
Doesn't this mean that everyone who owns a gas car right now needs to by an EV by 2035? Not everyone can afford EVs - so how would this work? Also, EV charging infrastructure is way behind gas. I can fill up gasoline anywhere but there are far fewer EV stations. I applaud our switch to clean energy but this proposed law seems very aggressive.
> or, again, shipping an entire browser per app

You're still going to ship basically an entire browser per every app in the browser. Where do you think the new glorious UI for your app is going to come from with WASM?
What would you build / create / write if you had a web-enabled build of SICM (well, scmutils I guess) in hand? I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on how to build a community around these tools and ideas.
Back in 2013, a student found some basic errors in an Excel spreadsheet that was used to justify very harsh austerity measures (cuts to various social services and safety nets, the NHS, etc.) in the UK.

Those austerity measures were responsible for deaths, ruined lives, and a massive decrease in quality of life for countless UK residents.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22223190
Your enjoying of it. The economists in the story don’t acknowledge enjoying making the other eat shit.

It is valuable to society to do things that create joy.

Shit eating may not hold up specifically.
Ah, interesting. I wonder how (if) that will stand in the face of the Students for Fair Admissions ruling.
We make photo books for every vacation and every year. We leave them stacked up on the coffee table and the kids love looking back through them.

We are old enough that we used film cameras for the first 10-15 years of our marriage. But at a certain point we digitized all of our old negatives and then threw the physical photos and negatives away. They take up way too much space.
Didn't Solaris 10 ship with GNOME that supported snapping windows to the sides of the screen?
We have rsync implemented with our other pico services, but we need to spend some time to finish implementing the rest of the protocol (support proper diff/upload, this includes recursive file uploads). We'll have that implemented once we're ready to open this up to everyone else. Of course, contributions to help get it over the line are always appreciated :)
Looks like a regex to detect notepad++ in a url that didn't escape the +'s? Weird, maybe a sponsorship thing
It’s dangerous ground, so people are leery of it. For example, if different races have at a population higher or lower average IQ, and IQ is heritable, that starts to look uncomfortably like the old arguments from a few hundred years ago justifying racism.
Climate-Linked Ills Threaten Humanity
>Pakistan is the epicenter of a new global wave of disease and death linked to climate change, according to a Washington Post analysis of climate data, leading scientific studies, interviews with experts and reporting from some of the places bearing the brunt of Earth’s heating.
You can keep a mention of another tool if you really want, but just make it clearer that you only mean it has similar syntax.

Concretely:

> Run a Keep workflow with `keep run --actions-file=./path/to/workflow`; or `keep run` assumes the file is called `blah` in the current working directory by default if not specified.

> The actions file has the following format, which may seem familiar if you've used GitHub Actions:

> ```

> ...

> ```

> further actions file examples are available here and a full reference is available in the docs here.
This is incorrect. The TSMC site has already seen a massive amount of construction and is scheduled to begin producing 3nm chips in 2024. [1]

1. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-fab-21-arizona

Edit: They've apparently delayed the start of production to 2025 [2]. However, the situation with Foxconn is simply not comparable to what TSMC has invested.

2. https://www.anandtech.com/show/18966/tsmc-delays-arizona-fab...
Digilogtv: Free and open-source TV news app, inspired by Linux Mint's Hypnotix
A calculator is an impressive single-function tool. LLMs and other forms of AI are multi-function problem solving tools. ChatGPT and other AI tools are closer to the introduction of the world wide web than they are to the invention of the calculator.
I am describing the basic experience of having ADHD.

ADHD is described as having difficulty with:

* paying attention

* listening closely

* following instructions

* organizing tasks in the workplace

* keeping track of physical objects

These are all things you need to do in a metal and woodshop!

Have you never sat down and talked to someone with ADHD describe their basic experiences? I know people with ADHD who literally need all of their things hung up on display on a wall or else they lose them. There is an extremely popular guide for organizing with ADHD that recommends tearing cabinet doors off cabinets because it's impossible to remember where things are once put away.

Here's a popular podcaster talking about having ADHD and needing accommodations, and goes deeply into his experiences with having ADHD and struggling to, for example, go to work on time because there are too many tasks to keep track of to go to work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToBxaBauF4M
I just re-checked github.com, and the only options are merge commit, squash commit and rebase commit. Rebase comes the closest, but none of these are fast-forward merges. Worst of all: you can't disable the green button if you don't like any of them.
This is nonsense. If you bill fixed, then you're doing it wrong if you estimate so lean that you put yourself at risk. And it's a disservice to the client if you are really conservative and they pay a lot more than T&M would have been. And if you are spot on with your fixed estimate, then that's the same outcome as T&M lol.

If you are an honest person and do business the right way, T&M is the way to go. If you want a higher effective hourly, then you would pad fixed. That doesn't make you professional though; it makes you dishonest if you purposely inflate.

If the company needs it to be fixed to compare apples to apples or their finance dept requires it, then submit your fixed scopes and run your business. It's professional to be flexible. And to not fight client processes and procedures.

You will not win a lot of great business if you have only 1 way to run your projects. Some larger companies will take a vendor that costs way more but offers better terms like net 45 or net 90.

I'm a professional. I run a business with employees that's grown every year. We do both, but it's better T&M. All time is logged with descriptions of what was done. We bill based on seniority.

We still do time estimates on items that are T&M so my team is accountable, thinks about their approach and time, and so the client can have an idea of what they are committing to. They don't care if it goes over, it just can't get out of control. And they need this information to triage and approve requests.

T&M with time estimates is a professional way to go. Some of your estimates will be off, some will be under. Just make sure clients understand that and traffic your wins and losses. And if you find out your 24 hr task is going to take 60 hours, notify the client as soon as you discover that to avoid surprises.

I'm experimenting with a more traditional contingency budget which is explicit in the estimate. In that manner, a fixed bid would be done but the client would be aware that there could be unknowns that result in tapping the contingency budget. And if it's not tapped - they don't pay it. So rather than try to bake the unknowns into the fixed which the client would pay regardless, I can have the contingency reserved if needed but be more palatable against a competing bid that wraps it into their fixed.

So say, 100k fixed bid, separate 20% contingency for unknowns for my bid. Versus another company's 120k fixed bid, no contingency. Both possible 120k spend. One may not use contingency and thus be 20k cheaper. The other - 120k is paid no matter what.

Anyone do that on their larger projects? How is that received?
Presumably they'd remove the auto-update functionality before releasing signing keys and require that it be physically loaded by a user at that point.
You made me remember the Matias keyboards I bought. They are nice indeed, but I'll never buy one again and I'll always recommend against them for what you pointed out: the quality build is horrible.

I got one that broke after a month, I got a replacement (still had to pay like 50 euros of tax because they shipped from outside of europe) that also broke after a month. In both cases some keys started typing twice.
‘They’re big, bad bullies’: NY’s bitter fight over a 34,000-seat cricket stadium
I'll upvote this every time I see it, because it's well-written (from a time when The Atlantic was stylistically closer to the Economist) and succinctly encapsulates the entirely practical business of perpetuating a culture of shallow veblun status-seeking consumerism in its pure, shall we say, crystalline form.

Yet every time I mention it, a little voice in the back of my head asks, has anyone ever tried to replicate this piece? It's well into its 5th decade and as the cat has been out of the bag for a long time, I wonder if nothing at all has changed in the diamond-hawking business in response to that
OpenForme maybe?
It seems that anything that returns "++" (EDIT: in the "About" box), in this case "Notepad++", breaks their internal regex because it seems not to be sanitized properly

The breaking code using chrome dev tools seems to be:

n = new RegExp("^(https?://)?([\\w\\.-_]\\.)?" + o.toLowerCase().replace(/[-\s]/g, "") + "\\.");

In this case "o" is "Notepad++" which might be the first result.

The browser returns this error:

Invalid regular expression: /^(https?://)?([\w\.-_]\.)?notepad++\./: Nothing to repeat

Also happens with C++
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=c%2B%2B&t=ffab&ia=web