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Ask HN: What non hourly rate should I charge for this system I built?
Let me give some backstory. In 2016 I believe, I built a lead retrieval system for trade shows. Basically, all the show attendees get badges, the vendors have an app to scan the badges, the vendors collect data on the attendees, and then after the show the vendors can download all the data from a website (they download a single spreadsheet with all the data). So that's the system I built.

My client, which is basically just one guy, uses this system at trade shows. He probably uses it at 5-15 trade shows per year. And at each show it is used by probably hundreds of vendors and thousands of attendees. I am not sure how he charges for it, I don't know if the trade show just pays him a lump sum to provide it to all the vendors or if each vendor pays separately.

Another point is that one of his friends, who also does the same thing, also used this system for maybe 20 trade shows. So at one point there were two instances of this system running. But when Covid hit this second instance got shut down because the guy had to take another job.

Also to clarify, I am the only software developer involved. I do all the planning, coding, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting of technical issues, etc.

So through all this I've been charging hourly and for the last 5 years I make about $1,000 to $2,000 per year. I am guessing that my client makes tens of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands on an annual basis when he uses this system at trade shows. So I'm sitting here thinking, I need to renegotiate my remuneration setup because I don't think I'm being payed enough.

5 months ago my client asked for a new feature and I said first I need to restructure how I'm paid I want to partner with you instead of hourly pay. He never responded until last week. Now I'm wondering how to respond back.

So what remuneration setup should I propose to him? Should I ask for 15% of revenue? Should I ask for $5k per show? What payment setup would you try and get if you built this system? Are there questions I should ask my client before asking for a different pay structure? For example, should I ask how much he's making per year?
Map routes with your finger using Footpath
"I have plenty of useful iPhone apps. Footpath is the app that brings me the most happiness.”
Than put that into the prompt explicitly instead of relying on Google, OpenAI, or whatever to add "racially ambiguous"
So if you have a video of people at a protest, you can send it to Gemini, get JSON and send it to an API to print arrest warrants.
This is a straw man.

It's recognizing and mitigating systemic bias, where there is currently a massive bias for whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, etc.

Consider that 65% of the US population is not white and male, yet something like 85% of the leading characters in all media are... white and male.

If you're going to argue that systemic bias does not exist, and that it's some kind of trendy passing fad to pretend that it does, you're not going to get very far before you're confronted with the statistical reality.
>I just struggle to imagine someone holding this belief in good faith.

If you struggle with the most basic tenant of this website, and the most basic tenants of the human condition:

maybe you are the issue.
> even assuming that it's just because most nurses are women and most software engineers are white guys, that doesn't mean that it should be the only thing it ever produces, because that also wouldn't reflect reality

What makes you think that that's the "only" thing it produces?

If you reach into a bowl with 98 red balls and 2 blue balls, you can't complain that you get red balls 98% of the time.
It should be concerning that Yale as an institution is dumber than the majority of people here who called this out as such.
And I thought I was the only one with this hobby of buying and reading old computer programming books.
To put the carbon emissions of the flight into perspective:

1. Approximately 22,200 kWh of electricity usage.

2. 674 kg (or about 1,486 pounds) of grazed beef.

3.1-2 new freshwater wells in rural areas
It's also in $0 when you open a shell. I'm not sure how portable that is, though.
Ruby Weekly Issue 691: February 22, 2024
> Some day I'll have to write a blog post about how a group of local politicians can write a law that ends up having that effect.

I would love to read about this :)
Their outage status page is also completely broken. Doesn't show anything.
That's perfectly reasonable as long as you don't have unrealistic expectations, like thinking that differences can or must be completely eliminated, as if students are dolls we're playing with and don't have their own agency and varying abilities.
Thanks to thinking like that, many a system has been hacked. I can't think of any statistical methods that would recover this information, therefore they don't exist.
Sorry I don’t know what that means, but a quick google shows some results about it.
The Columbia logo on this craft is both. They're advertising the brand in a very cool and unique way AND they contributed significant heat shield technology to the craft itself.
Be sure to turn off the refiner. This sounds like you’re making models that aren’t aligned with their base models and the refiner runs in the last steps. If it’s a prompt out of alignment with the default base model it’ll heavily distort. Personally with SDXL I never use the refiner I just use more steps.
Fascinating video, but still it worries me how sustainable this is. This isn't a "rewilding" process - there is a LOT of manual human labor going into supporting very low yield agriculture.

It seems like this idea relies on a long term low wage workforce willing to live on subsistence agriculture.
It means you can't just call open('/dev/tcp/blah') from a program and get a TCP socket though, unfortunately
From a technical perspective they are impressive. The depth of field in the classroom photo and the macro shot. The detail in the chameleon. The perfect writing in very different styles and fonts. The dust kicked up by the donut.

The artistic value is something you have to add with a good prompt with artistic vision. These images are probably the AI equivalent of "programmer art". It fulfills its function, but lacks aesthetic considerations. I wouldn't attribute that to the model just yet.
I feel like this analogy is not very appropriate. The main problem with AI generated images and videos is that, with every improvement, it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish what's real and what's not. That's not something that happened with literacy or printing press or computers.

Think about it: the saturation of content on the Internet has become so bad that people are having a hard time knowing what's true or not, to the point that we're having again outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles because people can't identify what's real scientific information and what's not. Imagine what will happen when anyone can create an image of whatever they want that looks just like any other picture, or worse, video. We are not at all equipped to deal with that. We are risking a lot just for the ability to spend massive amounts of compute power on generating images. It's not curing cancer, not solving world hunger, not making space travel free, no: it's generating images.
> IQ tests are also influenced by education

[citation needed]
The Cost of JIT: Smoking JavaScript with Dart
Fwiw you'd lose type information. Parquet / arrow are much more appropriate here
Ya, handling spreadsheets is a beast of its own. We have this simple implementation to cover easy cases for folks but likely it will need its own more involved pipeline for indexing, retrieval, and interactions with the LLM.

Currently with large tables, it's not handled very well either. The more complete approach would be to pass the headers to the LLM and ask it to generate a formula to parse the data rather than feeding the whole table(s) to the LLM directly.

Some of the bigger items we want to target that require special flows are code search, SQL tables, and Excel/CSVs/TSVs
Recently they have been better, but since I noticed this a number of years ago, google is extremely adverse to putting white people and especially white males in their marketing - unless it is a snippet with someone internal. Then it's pretty often a white male.

To be clear, I don't think that this would even be that bad. But when you look at the demographics of people who use pixel phones, it's like google is using grandpas in the marketing material for graphics cards.
These systems should (within reason) give people what they ask for, and use some intelligence (not woke-ism) in responding the same way a human assistant might in being asked to find a photo.

If someone explicitly asks for a photo of someone of a specific ethnicity or skin color, or sex, etc, it should give that no questions asked. There is nothing wrong in wanting a picture of a white guy, or black guy, etc.

If the request includes a cultural/career/historical/etc context, then the system should use that to guide the ethnicity/sex/age/etc of the person, the same way that a human would. If I ask for a picture of a waiter/waitress in a Chinese restaurant, then I'd expect him/her to be Chinese (as is typical) unless I'd asked for something different. If I ask for a photo of an NBA player, then I expect him to be black. If I ask for a picture of a nurse, then I'd expect a female nurse since women dominate this field, although I'd be ok getting a man 10% of the time.

Software engineer is perhaps a bit harder, but it's certainly a male dominated field. I think most people would want to get someone representative of that role in their own country. Whether that implies white by default (or statistical prevalence) in the USA I'm not sure. If the request was coming from someone located in a different country, then it'd seem preferable & useful if they got someone of their own nationality.

I guess where this becomes most contentious is where there is, like it or not, a strong ethnic/sex/age cultural/historical association with a particular role but it's considered insensitive to point this out. Should the default settings of these image generators be to reflect statistical reality, or to reflect some statistics-be-damned fantasy defined by it's creators?
The Little Schemer is one of my favorite books. Really delightful.
You sound offended. My apologies. I had no intention whatsoever to offend anyone. Even if I am not diagnosed, I think I am at least borderline somewhere in the spectrum, and thought that would be a good way to ask people explain without assuming I can read between the lines.
I’ve yet to be surrounded by better people in any environment than when I was at MIT (not an Ivy, but is what people often mean colloquially).
>>I, too, am curious why schools changed their admissions policies before studying the matter closely.

Probably for the same reason Oregon decided to decriminalize most drugs thinking it would reduce usage and harm (it didn't).
Then specify that in your prompt. "... in the style of ..." or "... in a ... setting".

The point is that those modifications should be reliable, so if you want a viking man/woman or an asian/african/greek viking then adding those modifiers should all just work.
they're nerfing the models, not just the prompt engineering.

After SD1.5 they started directly modifying the dataset.

it's only other users who "restore" the porno.

and that's what we're discussing. there's a real concern about it as a public offering.
It's both a particle and a question mark word. [Ta]是外國人嗎?

This is how the question would be asked in the mainland or in the regional diaspora of Chinese speakers where foreigners are few. Where foreigner often is a substitute for the most prevalent non-regional foreigner (i.e. it's not typically used for Malaysian or Thai nationals in China) So for those who come over state-side they don't modify the phrase, they keep using foreigner [外國人] for any non-Asian, even when those "foreigners" are natural born.
It’s true. There are brainless hiring managers who will greenlight anyone with a fancy school on their resume just like there are consumers who will fork over a month’s salary for a handbag with right logo. If you want to work for people like that, by all means, knock yourself out jumping through Ivy school hoops.

If you care about results, focus on results and the rest will follow.
Have you ever met anyone else on other boats who works online too?
Why would I use an anti-white AI tool?
Okay, by "safety checks" you meant the already unlawful things like CSAM, but not politically-overloaded beliefs like "diversity"? The latter is what the comment[1] you were replying to was referring to (viz. "considering the recent Gemini debacle"[2]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39466991

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39456577
To be truly inclusive, GPTs need to respond in languages other than English as well, regardless of the prompt language.
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Here's a similar rundown: https://www.reproof.app/blog/the-hacker-news-effect
it's not pointless, it's history. Genghis Khan and St Petersburg are good examples.
Or maybe we should scream loud to get manipulated results out from google. It could work with current attempts of political correctness. /j
Probably not, since I have no idea what you're talking about. I've just been using the models that InvokeAI (2.3, I only just now saw there's a 3.0) downloads for me [0]. The SD1.5 one is as good as ever, but the SD2 model introduces artifacts on (many, but not all) faces and copyrighted characters.

EDIT: based on the other reply, I think I understand what you're suggesting, and I'll definitely take a look next time I run it.

[0] https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI
I mean, it's kind of both? Making Nazis look diverse isn't just a political error, it's also a technical one. By default, showing Nazis should show them as they actually were.
The article is about Yale, and it did start for Yale with the pandemic.
i'm not sure it's correct to say that lisp's 01959 approach to defining variables is a 'confusing break from conventions' established by c, which originated in 01972 but didn't support 'sticking variable definitions anywhere' until 01999 with the 01999 revision of the iso c standard. i would rather say that sticking variable declarations anywhere, a feature i believe was introduced to the mainstream by c++ around 01990, was the break from conventions. almost all the languages i'm familiar with from before that required you to batch up local variable declarations at the tops of scopes: c, smalltalk, pascal, scheme

the exception is basic, where you could defint i or dim x(128) at any point, but it would be an understatement to say that basic's conventions were not widely emulated by other languages
Gold, oil, lack of cold.
X is withholding accounts and tweets in India to obey orders
"grateful that literacy, the printing press, computers and the internet became normalised before this notion of "harm" and harm prevention was"

Printing Press -> Reformation -> Thirty Years' War -> Millions Dead

I'm sure that there were lots of different opinions at the time about what kind of harm was introduced by the printing press and what to do about it, and attempts to control information by the Catholic church etc.

The current fad for 'safe' 'AI' is corporate and naive. But there's no simple way to navigate a revolutionary change in the way information is accessed / communicated.
Hilarious that these outputs, depicting black founding fathers, popes, warriors, etc., overturn the narrative that history was full of white oppression.
Good choice in aircraft for the flight. The Airbus A220-300 windows are a little bigger than 737s and at a better viewing height:

> Another passenger experience factor determined by the manufacturer is the aircraft window. In this case, the 737's windows are smaller - 10" x 14" (25.4cm x 35.56cm). The A220's windows are a bit larger at 11" x 16" or 28 x 40.6cm. In addition to a difference in window size, the position of windows is different for each type as well. Window-seat passengers on the 737 (the MAX, but also all others) will find that they have to bend down slightly to look straight out the window. For those who love to get a good look out at the horizon or the world outside, the A220's windows are preferable.

https://simpleflying.com/the-airbus-a220-300-vs-boeing-737-m...
FWIW my middle school history classroom 20 years ago (gasp when did that happen) probably had more maps hanging on the walls than the geography classroom. We had maps for every historical period we learned about. It was pretty neat.

It still took me well into my 20’s to realize that history happens in parallel and all those ancient civilizations were just countries existing next to each other. They didn’t come one after another in a steady succession or anything like that.

Do kids these days not get maps and stories anymore?
v0 by Vercel could be worth a look: https://v0.dev

From the FAQ: "v0 is a generative user interface system by Vercel powered by AI. It generates copy-and-paste friendly React code based on shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS that people can use in their projects"
Yes, though explicitly not for copyright infringement. Quoting the court's opinion, "A voice is not copyrightable. The sounds are not 'fixed'." The case was won under the theory of "voice misappropriation", which California case law (Midler v Ford Motor Co) establishes as a violation of the common law right of publicity.
Zed is a great contender for Ruby. I'm considering it, coming from Sublime Text, only needs a few small additions. Much better first impressions than VSCode.
They have already used "AI" with success to give people loans and they were biased. Nothing happened legally to that company.
Still not the language, would be interesting to know why someone pushed this to POSIX and didn't propose it for the language.

Today Windows is the biggest non-POSIX system remaning afaik (apart from Android and consoles) but back in the 80s and 90s there was MacOS, STOS, AmigaOS,etc so saying it was in Unix/POSIX has little connection to the language at large.
You can experience them anywhere the sunlight is passing through small holes. Punch a bunch of holes through paper with a needle or pencil.
Facebook's little red book (PDF – 2018)
Dogpiling on this. 100% totality in an empty field is change-your-life cool.

Not the roof of a building. Not 99% totality. And don't miss it.

Everyone that stayed in town for the 2017 eclipse barely remembers it today.

Those of us in a rural area of 100% totality thought it was magic. Pure, real, magic.

Go into a field. Bring some friends. Let yourself feel awe. You won't see it again in the USA for twenty years, so... now's the time.
That makes sense. I'll try that next time!
Sure, but again if you run it yourself you can use the finetuned by users checkpoints that have it.
Yeah, it's pretty absurd to consider addressing the systemic bias as racism against white people.

If we're distributing bananas equitably, and you get 34 because your hair is brown and the person who hands out bananas is just used to seeing brunettes with more bananas, and I get 6 because my hair is blonde, it's not anti-brunette to ask the banana-giver to give me 14 of your bananas.
I wish :/, I really do

I find them in general to not be Republican and all the baggage that entails but the typical techie I meet is less concerned with social issues than the typical city Democrat.

If I can speculate wildly, I think it is because tech has this veneer of being an alternative solution to the worlds problems, so a lot of techies believe that advancing of tech is both the most important goal and also politically neutral. And also, now that tech is a uniquely profitable career, the types of people that would be in business majors are now CS majors. Ie. those that are mainly interested in getting as much money as possible for themselves.
Seems like laws against crossing state lines for a medical procedure wouldn't withstand a legal challenge because it involves out-of-state commerce. I'm not a lawyer, but that intervention seems to be aggressive and exactly the place courts/congress would step in. Also, in a scenario where it would does hold up, then CA/NY would start doing the same w/gun stuff. And then FL/TX would respond with something else against CA/NY. So... MAD should prevent states from being too aggressive in this area.

Again, my concern is trying to figure out the statistically best way to navigate the various political landscapes and future political possibilities. It just seems too focused on one particular area of risk. I wouldn't categorically close out a good company / good career just because of this risk. This seems like the right place to recommend a hedge.
> What about the GNU project is preventing them from putting more resources into their image editor?

Does GNU or the FSF ever "put resources" towards a project? Last time I checked, almost all of the FSF's expenditures are towards advocacy. Aside from that they run some horribly outdated infra like that Savannah thing that many projects opt-out of because it's horrible.
After getting to know the Boulder-area TechStars people, I tried to get a TechStars "chapter" going in San Diego back in 2010 and like so many things about the startup world in San Diego, it just wasn't going to happen. The San Diego M-F 9-5 lifestyle always was more important than taking over the world. Plus, in general I found mentoring San Diego tech startups to be essentially pointless: nobody listened, nobody cared, so why even bother. Finally I found the core TechStars organization to be a bunch of cats, un-herdable, no "there" there. I never liked the whole "star" thing as it reeked of "rock stars" and was a little too "bro" for me. Bottom line, it was screamingly clear TechStars was never going to compete with YC (which I've never been a fan of either, but at least they're organized and determined and focused), so no surprise when it never did.
It's hard to tell what you're actually asking but the Louisiana department of health claims it's about 1 in 10,000 die from pregnancy complications [0]. University of California San Francisco claims 6%-8% of pregnancies are high risk [1].

The World Health Organization claims a global rate of 4.3 mother deaths per 1000 live births in low income countries versus 1.2 deaths per 10,000 live births in high income countries [2].

[0] https://ldh.la.gov/page/pregnancy-risks

[1] ucsfhealth.org/conditions/high-risk-pregnancy

[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mo...
Chassis Adjustments (& Apple Vision Pro Reactions)
Here are some statistics about Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR):
Pregnancies with major congenital fetal abnormalities: Most pregnancies with a major congenital fetal abnormality end in TFMR. The percentage of pregnancies that end in TFMR can range from 70% to 95% depending on the severity of the abnormality.
Stillbirth: TFMR is almost twice as common as stillbirth. In 2018, Tommy's statistics reported 2,943 babies lost after being stillborn, while the DHSC reported 3,269 TFMR during that same time period.
Down's syndrome: 20% of TFMRs are due to Down's syndrome.
Pregnancies with Turner syndrome: Turner syndrome leads to the highest rate of pregnancy termination (100%).
Pregnancies with Klinefelter syndrome: Klinefelter syndrome leads to the second highest rate of termination (73.9%).
In the UK, over 70% of congenital anomalies are detected during pregnancy and, of those, around 37% will result in TFMR. In Europe, the prevalence rate of TFMR is 4.6 per 1,000 births.
Seven percent of women cited health concerns for themselves or possible problems affecting the health of the fetus as their most important reason in 2004, about the same as in 1987.
Interesting. https://gdocweb.com/ takes a different path to this by converting Google Docs to Google Pages sites.
150kWh NIO ES6 Battery (2023)