skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created an LLC to do Software Development, now what?
I created an LLC to start getting work as a 1099 contractor when I noticed the job market becoming what it is today in 2022.

However - I seem to be stuck in this repetitive cycle:
-- Recruiter Reaches out to me on LinkedIn
-- I go through the interview rounds with their client
-- Ghost

Of course, I might not ace every interview, but this happens, every single time. Some recruiters even ghost prior to having an interview which is strange, and doesn't usually happen with Full-Time or W2 contract roles.

I did not create a Website for my LLC nor did I put it on my LinkedIn page. I'm basically applying to 1099 jobs and waiting for recruiters to reach out to me for these types of roles.

My specialization is in Software Systems (mainly backend) - and I really enjoy designing "well lubed" systems, so I know there are many small-to-medium businesses that could benefit from my skills but I am unable to attract them.

Any thoughts on how to get these kinds of jobs, whether it be a short-term project, freelance, hourly project, or even kind of like a 9-5 with an hourly rate as a contractor.

The reason I'm also pursuing this is due to my inability to interview well. I'm quite solid on Algorithm/Data Structure questions now (I started doing Leetcode/Hackerrank this Feb pretty religiously after losing my job, and now I'm enjoying it) and I'm improving on System Design interviews as well (read: in many cases the engineer interviewing you has read 1 article about the question they're asking you, and they want you to provide exactly that -- if you know too much, they might not get it so you end up failure as well -- I'm approaching this to learn all the "common questions" & architectures that get asked).

But for some reason, I never seem to be able to land a job that I enjoy, either due to the people or due to the limited scope. (and the pay is always subpar)

So I want to really own a bit more in terms of the projects, and I think I would learn a lot more this way. I would feel "whole" in a way, like an animal in the wild, in sync with nature.

I think establishing myself as someone that can deliver work for companies would be far more beneficial for me rather than getting a new job every few years or so and going back to mediocrity.
Give the model the tokens "happily" and "I", and add to each input token its respective position embedding and the position embedding for the token to be predicted. You can do this in parallel for all tokens to be predicted. The model has been trained so it can predict tokens in any position.
HP make nice monitors and that's about it, every other product of theirs is utter trash now - I advise everybody I know to steer clear of any of their stuff. They're on my shit-company list, right at the top with GoDaddy.
It’s literally on the company’s blog, which is partially about promoting the company’s service. What’s the issue with that?

(Long time happy Checkly user here, the service is fantastic)
There are hostile outsiders of course but the extreme vast majority of people play the game.

Do you really think the US (aka #1 economy in the world aka #1 power in the world) has the same life expectancy as Sri Lanka because """diversity""" ? There are a dozen of things that have more impacts. Like half of the US being obese, or 15%+ have diabetes, &c. (which are both factors in maternal death btw). Time to wake up and take a good hard look in the mirror
Niagara Falls has been overhauled before too. The water was diverted a while back so it could be redirected for power generation and they control how much goes over the falls and they schedule it so it looks nice during daylight/high-tourist hours. Maybe not as bad as a pipe sticking out of the rock though.

https://edgeeffects.net/faking-niagara-falls-a-visual-histor...
> It’s hard to feel safe and content, when you see your very rights being removed on a daily basis.

There's someone literally on the other side making this exact same argument to their camp. Maybe both are true, or maybe neither.
Or maybe don't park illegally.
Unfortunately there is no evidence that “facilitated communication” actually represents the ideas of the nonverbal person. It always involves someone else in control of the communication—if it really worked why would that person need to be there? And tests of privately given information generally find strong evidence against it.

I find the practice abhorrent and somewhat abusive.

https://www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/clever-hands-s...
I don't think a 13x13 tiling (of N channels/features) can be ruled out just because it can't recognize a grid of 13x13 objects. There is presumably a lot of overlap between the receptive fields of the tiles (due to kernel step sizes).

A pyramid of overlapped tiling resolutions is of course possible too.
Again, to jump in here -- I mean "problematic" as you usually see it on social media/pop culture today. And the issue is that it's kind of a cowardly word. The person wants to make a serious accusation without being too open/bold about it; they're implying, but not saying outright, something potentially damaging/devastating if true, but a bad look for the accuser if false.

Thus, they often should say more precisely what they are implying; often e.g. this person is racist, or a pedophile, or homophobic, etc.
There are claims that Hans Asperger sent children to Nazi clinics for experimentation and/or murder.

As far as I know there is no solid evidence he was involved in that, though there seems to be evidence it did happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger
Obsidian 1.6 Desktop (Public)
I mean, we all pick up EM signals. The frequency range is the distinction, I think.
Check out Sean Carroll's recent books if you want an introduction to these ideas that conveys the actual mathematical content and not just a word jumble.
On this point I recall when the gravity wave detector first detected a black hole merge, which is of course a LOT of mass and power. It was in the hearing range so they played a .wav. It unironically sounded exactly like a "PLOP" drop of water falling in a bucket - an irony that such a big event and a small event sound so similar.
You can build just about anything with it
west side
That is awesome. Had no idea this was available as an env var. After diving into OTel for our backend, we also found some of this stuff is just too noisy. We switch it of using this code snippet, for anyone bumping into this thread:

instrumentations: [getNodeAutoInstrumentations({
'@opentelemetry/instrumentation-fs': {
enabled: false,
},
'@opentelemetry/instrumentation-net': {
enabled: false,
},
'@opentelemetry/instrumentation-dns': {
enabled: false,
},
> Search and summon windows
>
> Shortcat lets you search window titles for more precise multi-tasking.

StumpWM has this and it's a beautiful thing (default binding: prefix+"). I got in the habit of titling terminal and browser windows with the topic name of whatever I was working on. Made for very fast switching to find what I wanted among many windows/topics.

Sadly I've needed to switch to Wayland and StumpWM is X11 only but it has a successor called Mahogany[1] that's being worked on.

Oh, and both are written in Common Lisp if you like tweaking your WM from the REPL.

[1]: https://github.com/stumpwm/mahogany
Haha I thought the same.
It's not about what I think is right. It's why people measure things.

At any rate your comment is exactly why I will not go back to that work for less than $500,000. Too much crying.
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# Why me?

I have been working in IT for the past 12 years and I enjoy exploring new fields, so I have a rather broad experience, as well as a holistic view of technology. I have work experience in QA, tech, management and design, and I worked in the medical, automotive, adtech, health tech, entertainment and video game industry across the world (in 9 different countries). I co-founded 2 companies and was the CTO of one which got acquired by my current employer.

Together with my academic and professional experience, I also bring a positive, fun and easy-going attitude to the teams I join. As well as lots of amazing recipes from all over the world.

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# What I am looking for

Looking for a Staff/Lead position, I love working with CEO/CTO and Design teams to help them create PoCs for exploring new products/offerings, as well as troubleshooting tough issues and improving the performance of other developers and their experience (DevEx). Time flexibility and high-trust environment is something I found to need for thriving in my work.

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This guy is complaining about "XUL removal". Google is the linchpin and progenitor of surveillance capitalism.
By collectively giving them an option they cannot refuse.
> buildings are actually moments of force, the cement or stone or wood or steel only exists to keep everything from collapsing in on itself.

This is actually kind of a beautiful sentence, especially the first half. I’m sharing it with some of my colleagues who research computational structural design/architecture/analysis as well as historical structural/civil engineering. I think some of them might agree with it, in a weird way. I will also be trying to get the main structures prof to squeeze this line in as a debate opener to one of his lectures for a class that is mixed between architecture and engineering students. FWIW the textbook used for that class is called “form and forces” so you can see how a sentence like that would fit well into the dialogue.
Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras
It’s a shame, their small form-factor business notebooks were once really good. Swappable batteries, worked well with Linux (apart from the touchpad drivers that were just bad for all brands back then).
Interesting choice making Gaza so prominent and not including Jerusalem
That makes this data even more striking, honestly. If you are a young conservative on a college campus are generally very alienated for their positions.

Maybe there's a survivorship fallacy - if you are conservative in a college environment it's because you are very self-assured and not reliant on the opinion of others.
Yes, so it’s unfortunately completely fake.

> As a double-blind test, her husband suggested Ido tell her about an event that happened without his mother’s presence (e.g., “Tell mom where we went today”). The facilitated message was clear: Don’t test. Apparently, Ido was too anxious to facilitate with his mother when she did not already know the answer

https://www.facilitatedcommunication.org/blog/clever-hands-s...
And now your keylogger doesn't even need to clear the minimal hurdle of using the screen recording APIs to get screen data, it can simply read a folder to defeat "secure" onscreen keyboards and it'll work across the vast majority of (future) computers.

Now thousands of tech-impaired organizations have to proactively go out and find alternatives that don't alienate their users. How many of do you think will get it right as opposed to ever more inconvenient security theater to satisfy compliance checklists?
Two thoughts on "quick to label":

1) One big change is the recognition that Autism, regardless of particular definition, responds to therapeutic attempts much more effectively in early childhood, rather than later.

2) Much of the effective work is around "functioning" -- if you can't speak, well, an "autism" diagnosis is going to change what's attempted in response, but the goal is still going to be to get a kid to be able to speak. That's much easier when a child is still 2 or 3.
I’ve never had much success once the bricking gets to this point. Nice to see such a detailed write up, though this is probably the exception that proves the rule.
It's a lazy misleading shorthand. The planet has and will survive and thrive even when 90% of species go extinct.

90% of species going extinct is a pretty bleak scenario, no hyperbole is necessary.
SpaceX conspiracy agreed by multiple AIs
Just a friendly call out that checkly is an awesome service.
How is this dystopian?

I sorta get the potential (technology-automated bureaucracy), but... If we use "dystopian" for this, what word do we use for dystopian things that are a billion times worse?
I'm not a fluid mechanics guy, but all that cavitation from the screws seems like preventably wasted energy, not to mention a huge source of potential surface wear.
Impressive that he had the tools to flash the chip but it’s absolutely ridiculous that HP and all companies in general can get away with this sort of nonsense, voiding the warranty should be an easy small claims court appeal.
Yeah. I actually really like this solution. No damage to the car, quick to apply, quick to resolve. When my car got towed in NYC, getting it back took several days and with an additional cost of a couple hundred dollars. The barnacle would have been an incredibly easier, simpler, and cheaper outcome. At least I assume cheaper, but maybe the manufacturer charges additional fees on top of the fine (and now _that_ would be dystopian). It's also avoids the panic of looking for your car only to have it not be where you left it.

My car was towed due to registration issues, not illegal parking, but it was enough of an experience where I can easily see the merit of the barnacle.
Yea, 6 Million is about ~15 Engineers at Uber Total Comp average.
Neither of those things work for me for insects or spiders in general. 5 g of mushrooms worked on my fear of bees for the duration of the trip. I let one land on my hand which usually would have me running.
Ive got a couple that I'm glad I snagged

- https://hidden.so

- https://fantastic.so

- https://infiniteinterface.com (rebrand coming soon)

and of course the ones Ive snagged for me, my wife and my daughter

- https://ben.church

- https://michelle.church

- https://paige.church

- https://paigechurch.com
Ask HN: How to revoke AI consent from Meta/IG?
Every time I try to do it, the site crashes or I have to start from scratch. (I have +20 years of experience as an engineer, from which almost 10 working with privacy and I have no clue how to do that.)

If you managed to do it, can you please tell me how. I want to spread the message.
checkout https://github.com/mindee/doctr or https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya for something practical

multimodal llm would of course blow it all out the water, so some llama3-like model is probably SOTA in terms of what you can run yourself. something like https://huggingface.co/blog/idefics2
One could flip your argument on its head and argue that, in countries with free (or subsidized) university tuition, because taxpayers are paying for the tuition, universities should teach things that are demonstrably valuable to provide graduates with a fast path to becoming a productive ($) person in the workforce. If somebody wants to learn "useless" things, they can do so with their own money.

(Not that I disagree with your general thesis though. I just think it applies to free uni tuitions as well...)
It's a human-preference benchmark. Useful but not sufficient.
Catching crypto miners using syscall signatures
This is missing the point, and I'd strongly recommend reading Kevin Beaumont's findings presented as a Q&A style post about Recall [0].

This kind of poorly controlled local access makes it significantly more dangerous to use a Windows PC, because it significantly increases the harm/value of info stealing malware and will increase the degree of interest in penetrating windows systems. The fact that it's enabled by default is horrific, especially when you consider that the people most vulnerable are also the least likely to understand or disable the feature.

Before, info stealers would look for specific words/phrases in documents because anything more would be bandwidth/compute prohibitive. Now, such stealers just need to pull the Recall DB, and all of the juiciest information is served up on a platter.

To prove his point, Kevin deployed a piece of common info stealing malware and it was able to exfiltrate the Recall data before Windows Defender could remediate the issue.

This would still be a dangerous architecture even if Windows had a reputation for being impenetrable. Given the reality, this architecture is incomprehensibly bad.

- [0]
https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-everything-youve-ev...
Teasing out cause or effect is likely tricky here, but has anybody done any work to do so? It seems likely that anxious & depressed people also naturally gravitate towards more extreme political views.
I used Linux on personal machines for decades but recently switched to Mac because I no longer have the patience to deal with the constant jank (and these M1/2/3 macbooks are so good).

I would pay for nice vertically integrated Linux laptop where everything works well and I don't have to deal with numerous small problems that amount to a suboptimal experience.
I would suspend or expel those students. Not for the hacking, but for the sociopathic way that hacking was applied, and the halfwit quotes.
Scenes from the Trial of Ozy's Carlos Watson
Dont get me started on this. I have heard this "embarassed by quality" argument for almost 15 years. And the wierd thing is founders actually take this to mean building purposefully shitty products. And these days with amazing tooling building not-so-shitty product is actually in my observation only 10-20% more effort but pays off a lot in the medium time. I am so annoyed at the number of times we ship something with "oh this is as simple as adding X and we can refine later". The X rarely gets used, the later never comes (rightly so as the feature was never useful to begin with and was nothing more than a personal gut of who ever was championing it). Worse the bugs around X show up much sooner as it has to N^2 interface with the rest of the features. There is a tangible and short term cost to all this tech-debt that gets treated as "oh thats just engineering". Ok end of weekly rant.
"To continue the install, sign in to your Microsoft account..."

Of all the downgrades when 'upgrading' to Win11, this one bothers me the most.
That’s literally how high signs work - they’re plausibly deniable, and innocuous or indecipherable to those in the out-group, and/or a shibboleth signifying being part of the in-group.

> The title refers to the secret hand signal used by the film's underworld gang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Sign
Maybe I phrased it badly but I don't think it's insane that there are no governments that do that because there are obvious problems if they did. I guess you could go for full autonomy as long as the other people involved are not pissed off.
It's been that way for the Service as far back as Archive.org has archived Adobe's general terms of service which was 2015-05-31. Here was the TOS then:

> 3.2 Licenses to Your Content in Order to Operate the Services. We require certain licenses from you to your content to operate and enable the Services. When you upload content to the Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, and transferrable license to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify (so as to better showcase your content, for example), publicly perform, and translate the content as needed in response to user driven actions (such as when you choose to store privately or share your content with others). This license is only for the purpose of operating or improving the Services.

They changed from "Services" to "Services and Software" in June of 2018:

> 4.3 Licenses to Your Content in Order to Operate the Services and Software. We require certain licenses from you to your Content in order to operate and enable the Services and Software. When you upload Content to the Services and Software, you grant us a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify (so as to better showcase your Content, for example), publicly perform, and translate the Content as needed in response to user driven actions (such as when you choose to privately store or share your Content with others). This license is only for the purpose of operating or improving the Services and Software.
OpenAI now has an official .NET library
Greeking
I always thought about it more like water waves, where the wave is both the medium and the channel? I guess I've been thinking about it wrong!
That statement from the company is definitely not the final word! Seems like the delta between the air temperature sensor and the suction could still be exploited. If there is one sensor for each suction point, maybe mess with the temperature and the air intake for the pressure relief. (I’ve not seen one in person and am just interested in the hacking for fun aspect.)
Not a problem, but the OP is questioning about the savings!

I, for example, like to dive more on insights like the relative savings vs absolut to learn the approaches other engineers take! It's all about metrics we should take care.

(I'll put this service on my list to try someday, looks like fantastic indeed)
Wait what? It’s the exact opposite. ADHD tends to be correlated with addiction

> Research has shown that those with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have an increased risk for addiction disorders like alcoholism and substance abuse.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403287/
I'd been looking for something like this for a while now... but just like other e-ink phones the privacy policy is a bit chilling : they explicitly say they collect "everything" including precise location, messages, etc. I get that from a run-of-the-mill Android device, but it's very disappointing from a device supposedly focused on digital health...
Except fusion doesn’t work. It’s projected to be energy positive and cost effective in ten years. Which is what they’ve been saying for the last sixty.
Water policy can often be deeply counter-intuitive. So a case can be made that the solution to the west's water problems is actually to encourage more urbanization and manufacturing. Why? Because they use so much less water than agriculture. Replace an acre of farmland with an acre of homes and the water use plummets. Even replace it with manufacturing and the water use goes down. Agriculture is at the root of all the west's water woes.
Hmm interesting stuff. I'll give it a listen.
Not seeing how being asked to use my pronoun is somehow akin to making it illegal to get married, use toilets, or even keep my job.

One one side people are angry at losing their long held privileges that have been abused, on the other side we’re looking for respect and basic human rights.

No one on the right side of the argument is at risk of losing their job, being physically attacked, or having actual rights being taken away just for existing.

Me? As a trans woman I’ve been verbally assaulted, lost a job, and constantly have to justify my existence with each new job, just because I’m trans.

That’s in 12 years I’ve been out as a trans woman. Before then, in over 25 years of adulthood, I never once had a single issue.