skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently self employed, but I just accepted a role in big tech. After 4 years I was able to set up my recruiting company to run without me, so I can earn about $300K-$500K per year from that, plus my full-time salary.

I'm also working on a new SaaS product (co-pilot + CRM for small recruiting agencies). I'm looking for someone to work on it with me. Tech stack is svelte kit + node + python for custom models. I have an audience of 160K followers on LinkedIn, mostly recruiters, that I can reach when the product is launched.

If you are looking for an interesting side project that will generate revenue, email robert at getditto dot com.
It's going to be shitty if I pay or not. Probably even shittier if I don't pay. Either way, I've solutioned around that problem.
everyone (not just programmers) should learn SQL, and I have many times! For me, programming languages are pretty different from bikes in that I have very little "muscle memory" for syntax when staring at a blank page, especially when the bikes I ride more often feel totally different. Having my intern instantly write an almost correct draft of a function/query helps a lot.

> Maybe it could be useful to ask questions that are similar to writing testcases "how can I verify that my query is doing the right thing"?

that seems like a good thread to pull on!
I loved the reflective mode on the olpc xo1, but have never seen it in use anywhere else.
> The hobbyist ergonomic keyboard community has used TRRS for the link between the left and right half of the keyboard for a while now, and it routinely causes issue due to people accidentally unplugging it while powered - which fries their keyboard.

I believe that someone has had this problem, but I cannot replicate it. I unplug the right hand of my Iris all the time like a jackass and so far no ill effects. IDGI.
I would like to be self employed. But I don't know how to find contracting gigs. Any advice?
Snap to lay off 'approximately' 10% of its staff
Amiga and Unix = AMIX
Yup, self-employed embedded firmware and hardware engineer. I mostly consult on things like wearable sensors (especially class 2 and class 3 medical devices) and industrial control systems. I also have a bit of an odd niche in phosphorescence-measurement instruments for research and practical applications. The closer to the metal, the better! The tighter the power requirements, the better! The more connected, the better!

Been doing it independently for almost 14 years now. Was based in Minnesota, but now I'm in Colorado. Wouldn't have it any other way.
This is so cool.

If they can shrink it or if it becomes socially acceptable to cosplay as a beetle constantly, this is the way.

Now I just need to figure out how to type and mouse while laying in a hammock.
$500 USD is an absurd price for a "Phone" with such limited usability. Unless you're some edge-case who absolutely "Needs" the longer battery life, I really fail to see how this can justify a $200-$300 price premium over a low end Android phone.
I think that attitude is definitely still around with hackers and enthusiasts but tech and programming as a job has expanded so much that it’s picked up anyone who wants a high paying job with little/less qualification. It’s become a means of rising out of poverty without having to spend thousands on school. I had a solid 7 year run as (mostly) a web dev and I was fully self taught so it was definitely the case for me
I still don't see how developing high quality software is related to one's personal viewpoint on taxes.
Sleep can give athletes an edge − but few athletes recognize that
There is a easy way to get rid of the phone addiction..

one must realize the problem first (by auto feedback through self observation or by a video feedback, when you see yourself and how you are behaving on video for the first time). Then, one should realize and know, no matter what online service you use, each one of them wants you to be constantly with them using their services. So they use tricks to play on you to keep you engaged with them and minimize the possibilities you leave your session.

Then one should observe the others how they behave outside, f.e. in an restaurant or in a the train.

Done that, one thinks about the phone addiction like "ou, it's a problem, yes.. look at all the other junkies even not looking in their eyes or speaking with each other, while enjoying a lunch together in an restaurant" and then automatically the thinking changes. You will still use your phone a lot, but it's not obsessive anymore.. when ever you want, you can put it off by side ... And that's the difference. I use my phone primarily as my external brain to look up things or for communication with others, to check news and so on..

(Like me, just feeling like I don't want to have a phone in my hands now.. so .. even didn't finish the comment lol)
I don’t think the locals are likely to do it. Good way to get everyone in town to know you for being a tool.
> “We want to open [Metalium] to the point that everything is 100% transparent,” she said. “We will click ‘open’ on our Github repo, and the world will be able to see everything that we’re doing internally.

That's would be massive. Will that also apply to firmware?
Very cool. Would the license allow for use with Vanna? https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna
Smart people are smart.
This is such a good idea, I wish I’d thought of it. I have trouble maintaining consistency in journaling, but this makes it a heck of a lot easier. I just signed up - good luck!
Not currently self-employed, but I've been a "self-employed" contractor in the past.

In case it was because the "client" wanted a temp, but the contract lasted longer than what, IMO, was appropriate. I was early-career, and the "client" really wanted to treat me as an employee.

In the second case the employer had a limited budget and we agreed on contract-to-hire. 18 months went by and I eventually had to really twist their arm to bring me on full-time. (They were treating me like an employee.)

Anyway, contracting (as a self-employed consultant)'s great if you like that kind of thing and are prepared to incorporate to take advantage of tax laws; but if you want to be an employee, it's annoying.
The problem with third party insurance payers, government or private, is that people don't understand the actual costs of goods and services. This breaks the free market. It would be best to have people directly pay medical providers and drug makers, then maybe be reimbursed by insurance. This would help confront the biggest problem: the AMA limits the number of new doctors each year, thus driving costs up astronomically and making it very hard to see a doctor.
This whole comment thread kind of flew over my head.
My first home automation circa 2006 was ejecting CD tray pushing a garage opener button. The server hosted a WAP page accessible via my pre-smartphone cellphone to close and open the garage.
Crystal hits the sweet spot between programmer productivity and computational performance.
You keep arguing based on how you believe
things should be instead of how they actually are. Do you realize how pointless this discussion is? And unless you have a way to show you are actively working to bring your ideas into reality, do you realize how naive and/or full of BS you sound?
I feel we are having two different discussions.

This is less about "show full breakdown of price in final bill",which is what I see debating here and what level should that be taken to,and more "don't advertise $X and then show $x+$y+$z unexpectedly" on final bill which I assume is less controversial .
To measure academic achievement they use First Year GPA. It makes sense they're correlated, both require studying known material for a test. But is GPA the best measure, especially first year? I would be interested in other metrics like 3rd-4th year GPA or placements into jobs and such.
I've been self-employed since 2006. Started my last company in 2008. Bootstrapped and grew that over 12 years and sold it to private equity. Private equity mismanaged the rollup they assembled and lost 95% of the value in the companies.

Now I find myself middling between looking for steady/normal work and trying to stand up my new project, https://getspence.ai (landing page gets a revamp this week). I never expected trying to find steady/normal work as an exited entrepreneur to be so difficult. There are so many square holes and I often feel like a round peg.
The compiled option isn’t intended for serverless or edge uses, you just deploy the source files and the platform takes over.
> We reached the point were price is almost as high as cable was (with the standard 4-5 subscriptions), and we have ads.

I wonder if entertainment brand loyalty is going to be affected by the diversification of streaming services. I only have Netflix and Amazon Prime (only because I already pay for Prime) and I have no desire to add another streaming service for another show or franchise. I'm happy to just consume what I can find on those two services and call it good. At what point does the desire to watch a specific TV series or movie franchise stop being worth the cost of yet another service?

But then I'm an atypical customer since I only watch maybe 4 hours of content a week on average, at most.
I run bunch of servers on my Android phone using Termux: FreshRSS, Syncthing gateway, ftp, backups, downloads...

I travel a lot, unlimited data, it serves as a hotspot anyway, so it kind of makes a sense. It has 12GB RAM and 1.2 TB storage. More power intensive servers (Syncthing) shutdown if battery is low.
I feel like it’s more or less guaranteed that Apple will end up implementing this eventually. Just as my wife and I can both connect our AirPods to the Apple TV and watch a movie while the kids are sleeping.
I connected a raspberry Pi with a photodiode based sensor to my solar generation meter so it could read the LED that flashes once per watt-hour, and made a graph: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html

If you click about you can see just how seasonal/weather sensitive it is.
Subsidiary or not, at least one source (wikipedia) thinks the distinction exists. You might argue that the distinction doesn't matter when it comes to assessing airline safety, but that's hardly grounds to accuse someone of "moving the goalposts". The goalposts might be arbitrary, but they weren't moved.
Is compensation competitive compared to working for Intel or something? Do you make 150 hourly?
Russia unambiguously occupies territory in Ukraine, starting the Ukrainian conflict.

Israel is unambiguously occupying PA territory.
Looks cool... but man can these companies just stop it with the fake marketing content already?

Between this and the Gemini demo its just so cringe to see obviously staged content.

Dude just happens to walk by his partner who isn't doing any real work, but is instead playing with a tennis ball at exactly that moment, and who just randomly decides to immediately and without hesitation fucking yeet it at the guy wearing a headset who is clearly trying to make a recording. Come on people... what has tiktok done to us?
There's also one without the phone part:

https://hisenseeink.com/products/hisense-hi-reader-e-ink-e-r...

I've looked at these a few times and I really want one, but not quite at that price.
> I'd like to see a similar study with people allowed to touch type

This one compared 'a paper datebook and pen, a calendar app on a digital tablet and a stylus, or a calendar app on a large smartphone and a touch-screen keyboard':

"Study shows stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on tablet or smartphone"
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00168.html
I've used TeamViewer, then AnyDesk and now RustDesk. TeamViewer and AnyDesk are both German companies.

RustDesk works really well and is fast. I switched from TeamViewer because they wanted money. I switched from AnyDesk because it gave me more problems with disconnecting, has the worst UI of the three and sometimes my screen would be a minute or more behind what the host was seeing.
Speeding up Rust edit-build-run cycle
It depends on your workflow. I'd never voluntarily infringe that burden uppon myself, but if you only work on terminal/slack/zoom all day, it's quite doable.
You are correct, I do not side with warmongers, of which Clinton, Obama, Biden, Bush, Cheney et al are solidly in favor of. War.

You proved nothing.
I have read all the comments I've replied to, and I know for sure I don't say anything even close to that. I do however ignore the irrelevant whataboutism "republicans do X all the time", but ignoring isn't the same as denying they do. It's simply not relevant to the discussion and not worth a comment.

I guess that's the misunderstanding if I really stretch it, but it's just GP projecting and putting words in my mouth. I figured maybe having to re-read would help realizing that.
Haven’t actually. I know how some of this stuff works at least findamentally. I built some circuits in Minecraft and a game called Turing Complete (which is amazing) and I had took a digital circuits class. I liked it quite a bit, so it might be interesting to dig deeper.
how specific is the hobby? are folks generalist collectors or do people go deep on a specific region/period?
There's also lot of private aviation manufacturing there.
Shein battles counterfeiting lawsuits as online retailer pursues US IPO
I’m curious how that works out for him. I have been using mine fairy intensely for work since I got it on Friday, and I don’t do it anything remotely like that.

I do use screen mirroring with my Mac, and it works well for me. My physical monitor is a 24” 4K, and I have my Vision Pro set to replicate that. It’s most comfortable to have it replicate a bigger display further back than the physical monitor, but in practice the FOV of the mirrored display is pretty similar to my real one.

I have also found myself using a bunch of auxillary VP windows, but I don’t arrange them as fixed planes as if they were more monitors. I tend to open them much more dynamically and move them around. The gesture and eye tracking makes this practical so I see no reason to ‘fix’ them in place.

You can do things like dragging a single note out of apple notes and placing it next to your Mac display, of even in front. Also there is no reason to have windows be these giant panels floating far away. It works just as well to have a messaging app be a 4 inch window floating just above your keyboard. It’s also easy to just grab these things and pull them in and out of your field of view.

Another thing that is overlooked is that you can have a lot of windows overlapping each other in the virtual space and they ghost out of the way of the selected window if it is behind them, so you can work with a bunch of windows stacked front to back.

I have enjoyed leaving things like the economist app open in front of a couch in another room and then walking in there to sit down when I’m taking a break from work.

I also have been super productive sitting on my bed immersed in the white sands environment watching developers videos and reading docs in safari etc.
According to the product page, the refresh rate is equally as fast as the b&w refresh.
I have been a Basecamp customer for 14 years and absolutely love it. I started using Basecamp when it was just me, and now I have 270 full time employees and hundreds of contractors. I strongly recommend any agency business to use Basecamp over any other software package out there.
AWS Predictions for 2024
Faraday Partners with ARM and Intel on SoC Development Featuring the 18A Process
[Press Release]: Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leader in ASIC design services and IP solutions, announces its collaboration with Arm and Intel in spearheading the development of a 64-core System-on-Chip (SoC) utilizing Intel 18A technology. This innovative SoC seamlessly integrates Arm® Neoverse™ Compute Subsystems (CSS), delivering unparalleled performance and power efficiency tailored for the construction of scalable hyperscale data centers, infrastructure edge, and advanced 5G networks.
Spate of job cuts continues unabated at Big Tech, media firms
The 15 year old Toyota has fewer safety features than the modern one. Side impact airbags, collision monitoring systems etc. Additionally, the 15 year old Toyota will only be as safe as the maintenance that has been done to keep it operating properly. Do you trust a random Uber driver to have kept up with everything?

Back to safety systems, the 15 year old Toyota almost certainly had faulty airbags that were recalled many years ago. Something like 56,000 of those recalls still haven't been done. Which pool of vehicles does this Toyota belong to?
For good security, you don't leak internal IDs at all, sure. It is rare to find people doing that. And random primary keys (or any key really, and even more so for clustered indexes PK) really trash a db cache and locking systems.
Which can basically be translated as avoid (especially) Africa, South East Asia (that isn't Japan or South Korea), and most of South America. Eastern Europe is a dodgy but no on the same level.
I thought with the rollout of STIR/SHAKEN it wouldn't be possible to spoof called ID anymore?
When I first came across this project on HN (early last year), I was taken aback by how impossible the project looked and how smart were people working on this. Despite seeing a few intelligent names behind the project, I subconsciously believed that this would at least take 5-10 years before a breakthrough.

Today I sit with the same amazement, taken aback again, appreciating how ridiculously awesome this is. Congratulations to the winners and everyone involved!
There are screen protectors with a rough/matte finish that provide some of the friction you'd get from paper. It's not exactly the same, but it's a discrete step above writing on raw glass
So, students entering Dartmouth with a higher SAT score also have higher first year GPAs. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone considering they are both basically testing the same thing.

The fact that over the last couple decades employers at large have stopped asking for college GPAs (and by extension SAT scores) on their job applications should instead tell you that all these numbers have very little relevance in the real world.
This was a great demo, and the spatial computing stuff is cool, but what?

He’s showing off that he has a big screen tv playing a video, overlayed over his big screen tv, playing a video without anyone watching it.

He shows video playing cooking tutorials in his kitchen when he and his partner are both in other rooms working at their desks.

A “note” pinned to his fridge, that he can only see while wearing the headset.

He shows a screen for playing his music pinned to a wall on the other side of the room.

He either has to get up and move to that location to change his music, which is somehow being presented as better than having a tab open on his browser, or he would just use a tab open on his browser and the whole spatial setup is just flashy moot.

I once had a desk setup with two screens where I angled one screen aggressively to the left to attempt to stop allowing the corporate chat program to distract my immediate vision and it hospitalized me with a chronic neck injury.

This setup is ‘cool’ but I feel like we’ve already trudged these waters.

I’m confused by the enthusiasm. Have we all forgot that we’ve been through this “virtual desktop” cycle already?

Are these all people that just ignored the previous stereoscopic headsets as “toys” who are seduced into it this time around by APPL’s marketing that this is for “working adults”?
There's a youtube demo in the article.
I think that's okay: net price + local, state and fed sales taxes in their respective buckets. But none of this service charge for that and healthcare fee for that and exclusive fee for this other.
You just defined "moral hazard" beautifully.
These are all community maintained by volunteers, so please feel free to add it yourself as well?

If not, i'll try to get to adding it and updating when i get some more free time :)
You also cannot generalize this statement:

> I doubt I'm unique, nor even unusual.

Yet, you do.
They should "un-bin" the statistics and identify individual outliers -- those who scored poorly on the tests but hold higher GPA, and vice versa, and learn things from these individual students.
Those are marketing terms, though.

It's not trivial to go from performance on a single test to performance throughout the year, which will include long-form writing, lab work, and other forms of learning.
Isn't it 1%? If the oldest of the 380 has been operating for a year and they were produced at an even rate, their average age should be six months.

I don't know much about car accidents, but 1%/year sounds like a lot. Can one even legally sell a car model if 1% of the cars are going to crash lethally in the first year? Or evne 0.5, or 0.2%?
Yeah man, the countries getting couped and bombed are going to be worse places to be than the ones doing the couping and bombing. It doesn't get better than this because we don't allow it to.

The US using global violence to serve its own interests is effective! You may selfishly and amorally support this because of its benefits to you. It's not consistent to claim that this opposes "illiberalism and authoritarianism" when during the last century the US has overthrown more liberal democracies in favor of despots than everyone else combined.
Ctrl/cmd click back button
For publishing: vanilla FTP it (or transfer via SMB) to the `public_html` directory your ISP or university provides in your user directory on their servers. It then becomes available at `/~username/` under their hostname.

Served via Apache on Solaris. `.htaccess` for fun and profit.
My cell phone bill is broken up that way, and has been for years.

They add their own misleadingly named fees to give the illusion that they're direct taxes paid to the government. For example, Vonage: https://support.vonage.com/articles/answer/Regulatory-Compli...

> The Regulatory, Compliance and Intellectual Property (RCIP) Fee covers regulatory, legal, intellectual property and compliance-related expenses, including those related to customer privacy protection, anti-fraud protection, number portability and innovation, all of which enable our services to enhance your communication experience. The RCIP fee is not a government mandated fee.
Hopefully all investors and businesses are much more wary about doing business in or with dictatorships in the future, especially China.
I didn't read the entire document in depth, but perhaps it has been shown elsewhere that first year GPA is a good quality predictor of GPA in subsequent years.
I believe they do look at other things (EDIT: or at least the study this paper was based on did):

"Using detailed admissions data from IvyPlus institutions, Chetty, Deming, and Friedman (2023) show that SAT and ACT scores also predict career success, including high levels of earnings and attendance at elite graduate schools, holding family income constant."
> By that time, their meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating.

Those used to be called "stewing hens," and were enjoyed quite regularly. You just can't cook them in the same manner as you would a young chicken. They were usually braised low-and-slow not unlike tough cuts of beef.
Terrible idea, so glad the government structured NFIP this way.