skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how and where do you find effective and affordable freelancers?

Something things I've found important.

1) Hire at the cheaper end of the devs your looking at. I've found within price/experience bands, price and quality are not correlated. I prefer to hire at the lower end of expectation, then if a dev shows themself as good, give them an solid pay bump early, like 3/4 months into working together. This way you get a good person, and someone that knows you will look after them as you took the pay rise to them.

2) Fire fast. By nature I like to work things out and help people but if people have troubles early, move them on fast, its most likely going to get worse and you'll beat your head against a a wall trying to fix them and it will take from the project.

3) Document the shit out of what you need + do a dummy visual version. When things get to the pointy end its too easy to get to arguments about what you agree, what you agreed means, or what is 'expected' even if not stated specifically. A dummy version helps sort a bunch of this out - it adds extra but will really help over doing more written notes and key screens only plus helps you plan your product better.

4) Clear payment milestones. Make it fair but you need real deliverables for each payment so you can get what you paid for.

5) Leave at least 30% for extras. No matter how much you plan it out, you'll find extras as you go.
Does anyone works at Amazon? My money was stollen in the marketplace
I bought something though the amazon.de's marketplace a while ago.

After not receiving the package, I contacted the seller who told me they would send another one.

After some back and forth, through the Amazon messaging system, they stopped responding.

I contacted Amazon's support who told me they won't do anything about it because it's been 90 days. The reply I got was basically: "This rarely happens in our marketplace. Knowing this is the exception, I hope you (me) are ok with it."

The order was ~70€. It's not about the amount, but about the fact that Amazon allows theft to happen without providing any proper support and hide behind a 90-day rule.

---

So, is there anyone around here that works at Amazon that could help me out?

Or maybe someone who went through the same thing and has some advice on how to proceed?
We do support automatic forwarding, have since last fall.
Indeed, and as far as I understand, even PGP-encrypted mail can be automatically forwarded and viewed easily, provided I have the correct PGP key installed in my client.
Have to agree here. Also just kind of doesn't pass the common sense test. We all learn the "game of telephone" as a kid and how information can change even just being passed once.

In fact I've heard archaeologists in the past specifically say that no oral tradition can survive intact more than 100 years. Usually this statement is in reference to certain creation myths being relatively modern inventions.

A claim of 12000 years needs strong evidence. Given what I've seen from the field lately I have a counter-theory, but I'm not really comfortable sharing.
It doesn't help you with existing emails, but you don't have to worry about receiving new ones.
> iPhone app is so unreliable

that's interesting. iirc the iPhone app got most of their attention early on, so I figured it would have been solid experience.

the early android app was so awful that they rewrote it. the rewrite is much better but it still has its issues.

one of the most painful issues I encountered: I'd reply to an email, hit send. then when my reply showed up in the thread, it would be incomplete. at first I thought it was truncating but it turned out to be the last draft that it auto saved before I hit send. I very nearly cancelled my subscription over that one.

the web and desktop (which is an electron/tauri/whatever app) does work great.

a bit off topic for this thread but sieve filtering is amazing. it makes email automation a breeze.

I have it set up so that when an email comes in from a contact, it applies the label that contact has to the email. then any email with certain labels gets (or doesn't) an expiration date. eg: webstore notifications, eg for shipments, are deleted in 30d while notifications about upcoming sales or product announcements are deleted in 3d.

likewise GitHub notifications for my repos get 7d expirations and go to my inbox while all others get 3d expirations and never hit the inbox.
The download page have decent release cycle.

https://www.sublimemerge.com/download

https://www.sublimetext.com/download

And they have dev releases.

https://www.sublimemerge.com/dev

https://www.sublimetext.com/dev

Its mature software that doesn't require a constant churn of bug fixes and updates, that's not a bad thing.
> killer bears

I think this is where you gave it away. Nobody will believe this and we're all moving to south Chile now.
However will Chinese businesses function without access to the Standard Business Operating System?
Don’t forget the marked up cheap junk at luxury prices segment.
OP, please don't leave us hangin'.
> Kanban actually helps development go faster.

I agree, but was interesting to see mgmt at a startup I was at fight against this in favor of their "scrum" - they liked sprints because they'd push devs to commit to more work, and then scold people when they didn't finish enough. They were convinced they were speeding things up.. I left shortly after but was first time I'd seen "agile" abused this way.
What Counts as "Strategic"?
In regards to your 17 year old cat…

All mammalian species have something in common.

When mammals are young we all love playing. This is true for humans, dogs, elephants, primates, cats and so on.

But play ends up disappearing as the mammal gets older. Compare a playful baby elephant to an adult elephant. The baby elephant loves playing. Not just with other elephants but with humans and dogs and so on. But older elephants are more likely to watch and less likely to play.

This is why your 1 year old cat loves playing while your 17 year old cat doesn’t.

It’s a very interesting phenomenon
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My view is that totp/2FA prevents someone with only your password from logging in.

Having the totp seed inside a password manager doesn't break this goal, so I'm fine with it.

Of course it means if my password manager gets hacked, there's everything to log in inside, but I'm more concerned about services leaking password hashes that get broken, or accidentally getting phished (and giving up a password + totp combo that can only be used once) instead of my password manager being hacked.
See also https://www.reuters.com/sports/chess-nine-year-old-sivananda...

Not IM yet, but more impressive, imho
> that probably won't take long to fix.

That's what I told myself about the spam thing I mentioned when they released the redesign, and it's still not possible, at least on the version I'm using at the moment.

I'm sure there's a lot of background here and corporate dynamics we're not aware of, it just doesn't feel great as a paying customer. The apps have never really been fully adequate.
PO: "Well, how about 3 months?"
Expecting more toy “Lisp”s in the following months.
Young squirrels also play tag.
> But the Euler equation e^iπ = -1 has nothing to do with exponentiating e

It has, that's the beauty of it. You can define as usual the function x -> e^x on the real line. Now, complex analysis tells us that if this function can be extended to a holomorphic function on the whole complex plane, then the extension is unique. And, in fact, this function does admit such an extension, so you can compute e^z for any complex number z, and in this way one gets e^iπ = -1.
This is a matter of semantics... anyone who actually cares about E2EE probably understands the nature of email being cleartext over the wire and that Proton can't control what is outside of their control. Maybe inaccurate but I doubt they are misleading (in the sense that they are hoping to fool people into thinking their email is encrypted over the wire).

Marketing copy would not likely care to include "E2EE" .... "at the point that Protonmail recieves your message" on their frontpage.

Further, this is explain quite clearly on their FAQ: https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained

</pearlclutching>
> both imply Docs

You can certainly implement an attachment viewer without having a full fledged document editor.
Sorry for being vague. I meant LoRA, but used Apple as an example because their demo showed the potential. At a conceptual level, you can finetune a base model to be good at a specific task - eg: summarization, proofreading, generation etc. These finetuned weights are at the top layer and can be replaced by other weights for a different task as needed. Apple demoed different tasks by showcasing how their model identifies the task and then chooses the right set of finetuned weights. Apple called it Adapters as it comes via LoRA (Low Rank Adapters). It's around for some time, but only shot into prominence after people got some idea on how to use it.
Multiple religions are thousands of years old and they can't all be true.
How does this compare with Make A Lisp [0]? Is it just that it's in C?

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal
At least one investment that has not been a full catastrophe: until they get 2 working satellites, the Bundeswehr does not have to pay a cent for it.
I can't even search on the mobile app for android... I could about two years ago until they decided to push out half baked rewrites or something.
They have a lot of sales people and sales engineers.
Very good links, thanks!

> Wouldn't it be more useful to show this with illustrations/animations?

Yes, it's a visual language first (but there's also a text lang which powers the visual lang).
Usually cost comes down with volume so that is also tied to lack of uses. If a significant use case was known it could have been scaled to offset investments. Things were already developed for SSD and memory access tiers with no substantial demand/application for something in-between.
Thanks for letting me know. Seems like it's a paid feature, however, and I'd rather not pay a monthly subscription for a service I no longer want to use - that was the primary reason I needed automatic forwarding anyway.

But I do distinctly recall that Proton has said the feature isn't possible to implement due to E2EE when this question was brought up. What has changed?
Salads can be really good in Paris! :D Martin might just be imagining a slice of tomato on a leaf of lettuce, Froome and Thomas might have been imagining a range of herbs and roasted nuts with a delicious oil or vinaigrette, chunks of an interesting cheese or two and some powerful olives and garlic. Or thereabouts.
Yes, you're completely right.

It depends on your threat model vs usability/ease of use.
Wow. I knew drilling could cause land to sink. I never imagined it could cause land to rise.

Fascinating, thanks!
Some of the softwareslike LibreOffice, are used to convert files from one format to another.For Windows,it will require a different approach which hasnt been implemented yet
I love the reference to the ACIDRain paper in there.

> They analyzed “12 popular self-hosted eCommenrce applications written in four languages and deployed on over 2M websites” and identified and verified “22 critical ACIDRain attacks that allow attackers to corrupt store inventory, over-spend gift cards, and steal inventory”. According to the paper, “Of the 22 vulnerabilities, five were level-based, meaning that the default weak isolation level led to the anomalies behind the vulnerabilities.

http://www.bailis.org/papers/acidrain-sigmod2017.pdf
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Does anyone have a linky? The usual route is not working, maybe due to it being new.
> Even OpenAI doesn't really have a product. Just throwing data at a bunch of video cards isn't value-generating in itself. We need (...) something people love that makes their life easier or better.

I agree. I'm of the hypothesis that, when it comes to AI, a lot of product teams are pursuing overly ambitious and sophisticated features instead of targeting easy wins that are in plain sight [1].

[1] https://thomasvilhena.com/2024/06/easy-wins-for-generative-a...
Kathmandu is making taxi drivers switch to EVs. Not all drivers can afford one
Can you share more details on how Beno's Al analyzes and selects the right conversations to engage with on Reddit?
Timezones are political and economic statements (and sometimes even religious - https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/africa#L853 ). Things like China being all one timezone or India changing to IST after declaring independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_India#After_independen... . An example of an economic change was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line#Easter...

Trying to make sense of them as purely time keeping artifacts is bound to have misunderstandings.
Past tense - that study was supposed to run from September 30 2022 to September 29 2023. [1] It ended up being cancelled with most of the DoD's money being returned by March 20th. [2]

[1] - https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_W81XWH2211105_210...

[2] - https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_W81XWH2211105_97D...
Regarding accessing files on a live filesystem being a solved problem:

One question I have is the following: If I take two linux PC's, why can't I just plug a USB cable between the two and communicate files to each other?

Instead the only solution I know is run an ssh server on one of them, and use sshfs on the other
Why are Britons voting Labour? To get the Tories out
Optimistically submitted as meta-political, not political. It seems an interesting point of discussion that the election might be about voting against rather than for.
Can you go into details (as much as you are comfortable) on what happened with the single tenant system? I have seen a few things, but I find it hard to put a finger on what went wrong except the ROI wasnt there. Would love to understand your experience.
Play is a semi-structured way of learning important skills! Evolution really just has to make it engaging enough for you to learn the skills, not much of a reason for it to persist after that.
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Creatine increases levels of DHT in the body: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19741313/

DHT appears to drive hair-loss in genetically-predisposed men: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK278957/

Propecia's mechanism of action to stop/reverse male pattern baldness is to block the conversion of testosterone into DHT: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513329/

There is not a proven pathway from creatine to hairloss, but if you are genetically predisposed to male pattern baldness then increasing the amount of DHT in your system via creatine supplementation may contribute to further hair loss insofar as DHT drives hair loss for certain men.
> Is the idea that any and all movement of money is virtuous?

Maybe this was your point, but this is built in to one of the definitions of GDP, isn’t it? Money supply times velocity of money?

I’m no economist though I’m sure there are folks on here who are. But this seems like an unfortunate fact that’s built into our system- that as laypeople we tend to assume that ‘economic growth’ means an increase in the material aspects of our life. Which in itself is a debatable goal, but our GDP perspective means even this is questionable.

For example, take a family of five living out in a relatively rural area. In scenario one, both parents work good paying remote tech jobs and meals, childcare, maintenance of land and housing, etc. are all outsourced. This scenario contrubutes a lot according to our economic definitions of GDP. And provides many opportunities for government to tax and companies to earn a share of these money flows.

Then take scenario 2, you take the same family but they’re living off of the grid as much as possible, raising or growing nearly all their own food, parents are providing whatever education there is, etc. In this scenario, the measurable economic activity is close to zero- even if the material situation could be quite similar. Not to mention quality of life might be rated far higher by many.

What rating an economy by the flow of its money does do is, and I’m not sure if this is at all intentional, is it does paint a picture of what money flows are potentially capturable either by government taxation or by companies trying to grab some percentage as revenue. It’s a lot harder to get a share of money that isn’t there and/or not moving around.

Perhaps my take on economics is off base but, for me, seeing this made me realize just how far off our system is from what it could and should be.
I come from a background with a strong folk singing tradition, and this reminds me of the two camps of folk singers within it: the purists who want to preserve the "original" tempo, lyrics, melody as it was recorded and documented a century ago and who frown upon deviation from that, and the modernists who adapt, improvise and reinterpret folk songs as they see fit.
Not really—once you've crossed that bridge it's a short hop to the government arguing that the political rival was a terrorist who needed to be killed.

Due process is about validating the government's claims before allowing it to kill someone.
Twilio security incident exposes SMS data via third-party carrier
Attempting to stop hate speech is no better than jailing citizens for speaking negatively about the current ruling government? I'm going to have to go with a hard disagree on that one.

And no, "but it could be because XYZ" doesn't really fly. Any law "could be" unjust, unless you have specific examples of hate speech laws in Western Europe that are labeled as protecting against hate speech but are actually being used for nothing more than jailing political rivals, they're not the same.
It is not a nightmare scenario, but a pretty common human thing to make drama.

So I totally agree, that there are tons of examples where it worked and in the long term I also think they should switch to something better, but for the moment I see why they don't, as it is working for them as it is.
Yes — because 2FA is commonly stored on a separate device (phone), people are very quick to conclude that it is pointless otherwise without thinking further.

Even if it is stored in your password manager, it is still useful. Consider the case where your network or website is compromised: the password is compromised and can be reused, but the totp 2fa that is in your password manager still prevents login by anyone who obtained your password. There are many attack scenarios but storing 2fa and enabling autocomplete definitely does not make it useless.
> US oil is light/sweet crude

side note - why do OIL markets use WINE names for their industrial products?
Most people don't want to be uncomfortable or poorer to advance environmental plans that are extremely tenuously (to be generous) connected to climate change.
> Zig's metaprogramming facilities are very simple in comparison.

They work differently, is the main thing. Racket's #lang extensions are very sophisticated indeed, but/and they do what Lisp-style compile-time evaluation has always done: they build up lists which represent the program, what we'd call an AST in most other languages. Yes, I'm well aware that Racket has more data structures than lists! But that is the output of front ends like Rhombus. Some of those lists represent a program which creates a hash map and so on. That's fine.

Zig comptime is part of the compiling process. Sometimes this mutates the AST or IR, often it does not, instead producing object code or .rodata which is embedded into the final binary. The current implementation is a bit ad-hoc, with some arbitrary limitations (no allocation being the big one), but it's a solid design. Already quite useful, even eloquent, and I'm optimistic that the final form will be a real thing of beauty.

But it isn't accurate to say that it's 'very simple' in comparison to Racket. They spend their complexity budget in different places.
Placebo effect absolutely can yield effects for all religions. That's pretty much what's interesting about it: it doesn't matter much what stimulus is producing the effect.
The submitted title deviates from that of the linked post ("Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs?") and, having read the source, I'm not even sure if it's even close to accurate...
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There are other similarities between the epic of gilgamesh and genesis beyond just the flood, it's a very interesting subject imo. Ultimately both were originally oral traditions long before they were written anywhere, both emerging out of the ancient east mediterranean/west asian cultural milieu.

IIRC the current scholarly consensus is that the shared parts represent two surviving variants of an even earlier story that was widely told across cultures in that region.
not noticeably with the default config? you need to win a race that happens roughly every 120s

I guess you could restart every minute...
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Daily reminder Proton snitched their users:

https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-le...
> NixOS on IPFS

oh that would be fun! have you made much progress? is there a repo or something I can follow for updates?
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Meanwhile the "flagged" comment is thoughtful, engaged, and not remotely insulting. Interesting.
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Honestly, I wish Proton would have just funded cryptpad and hosted a paid instance instead.
Are there any plans to expand Beno's functionality beyond Reddit to other social media platforms?
Big thread a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837045
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