skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started out freelancing and eventually built a consulting firm w/ a partner, I left around 50 people because selling time for money just never got fun.

Took a business partner, a couple engineers, and one of the products we had built for an old customer from the consulting firm (on good terms!) and built an enterprise SaaS product out of it, much happier working working with a small team on a product.

For me the value of working on lots of things was meeting lots of people I'd like to continue working with and getting product ideas.
Cal me crazy, but I never was under the impression that freelancing was a dream. Quite the opposite -- I would never freelance unless i had to for some of the reasons that the author highlighted (mostly insurance).

If I had to though, I would, but then I would try to scale beyond myself (instead of trading my time for an hourly rate) and create an agency.

I think the only conditions that freelancing would make sense are:

* you can get a very hi hourly rate, much higher than you would if you were a W2 employee

* you have steady demand for your talent, so you are never in "famine" periods
Inside the CSS Engine: CSSOM Explained
But why is it called a Vampire Number in the first place?
> If you want a security boundary, don't create a user in the Administrators group.

As a user aren't you essentially forced to this to have a usable desktop experience? I mean, sure, there is a boundary.. but it's drawn rather carelessly around the entire stack.
I don't think we can have a meaningful conversation about a philosophical work you haven’t read. If there’s something specific in this framework you disagree with, please tell me what it is and why. Let me know which terminology you find unclear and why, and where you think my logic fails.

I avoided basing my work on existing philosophies for a reason. Existence and the mind are highly debated topics with many unresolved problems and a lot of confusing ideas. I wanted to understand reality from the ground up—not just to learn what other philosophers thought. I find this approach more effective and reliable, and it led to an understanding that feels coherent, solid, and logical. I believe this model solves at least one or two major problems of philosophy and science, while reflecting reality better than the mainstream model.

This writing is my attempt to share this system in a way that doesn’t require a background in academic philosophy, only the presence of one’s own mind and intellect. We can’t prove anything by pointing to Descartes, Hegel, or Heidegger. These philosophers are known because they used their own minds.
> Untouched and eighty years old, it was supposed to have been built by men with carts and horses during the Roosevelt years in the 1930s.

> The soil was springy and spongy when you walked on it. Like an uncompacted garden bed it was full of mulch captured by rain water. Eighty years of humus was deposited here during flash floods, without any help from mankind.

> The trees were all self seeded.

> Geoff plunged his hands into the soil and went down 8 inches of moist, black, rich, composted soil. It was still damp.

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2014/10/11/discovering-oasi...
And if you consider the South pole to be the top of the Earth then the Earth rotates clockwise and so does the sun and the eath orbits the sun clockwise also. It's pretty much all an arbitrary convention and depends on your frame of reference.

If you define North to be "the pole that if it's on the top then things rotate counterclockwise" and that's consistent then that's equivalent to the definition of an orientable Euclidian space I think, and I'm glad that's the case for our universe because things would be mighty weird if it weren't. You could shift your breakfast around the table and it would come back as a mirror image of itself.

Joking aside as I understand it any orientable 3-d space admits two orientations, which are defined by the choice of the surface normal n. If you do it the way I said in a sibling post with the right-hand rule then n is pointing paralel to the axis of the Earth with positive in the direction of the North pole, the rotation is counterclockwise from that perspective and everything is groovy. But we could equally use our left hand, our thumb would point South and the rotation of the Earth would be clockwise. In that case we are choosing to orient using the other possible surface normal (-n).
https://archive.ph/CyyK3
Here you go https://xcancel.com/anandmahindra/status/1850005999811174634
but that doesn't run the official Netflix, Disney+, Apple+ etc apps, does it? Or via something like Waydroid?
Well, no.

They didn't say it was on principle, they said they were going for a ruling so they could then apply for an injunction.

They got a judgement on a discontinued charger, which makes it seem unlikely they'll be able to go for an injunction on today's watches.
This invocation won't create an incremental bundle, though:

git bundle create <sha>.bundle <ref>

https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3/blob/221bde4ea34226...

Needs ^<ref> to leave out things.
Strongly agree, excellent point. Zillow now surfaces climate risk data from First Street to users. The same should be done for landslide maps, to workaround stakeholders trying to avoid and hide the risk data to prop up valuations. Current landowners are simply pretending the value destruction has not yet occurred if they can ignore the data.

Climate change isn’t simply forward looking expensive, it has already destroyed substantial value across various asset classes; markets just haven’t caught up yet with regards to price discovery. Very similar to the condo crisis in Florida. It’s always “extend and pretend” disappointingly.

https://investors.zillowgroup.com/investors/news-and-events/...

https://firststreet.org/
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Can you give an example of anything anywhere that manipulates the DOM without using JavaScript? Because it seems to me that pretty much every web application is currently using the javascript host, and the well written ones are pretty snappy.
2 million people with felonies have the right to vote but might not know
(We moved this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954555)

Three HNers (at least!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xal

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kentonv
The Laurentide ice sheet over North America was similar depth and receded 15000 years ago. A blink in geologic time
Free Software has been wildly and unimaginably successful, and undergirds the world economy.
Depends what you're doing?
> The problem is that windows was developed before security was important.

I disagree. Plenty of systems have added security as an afterthought and were just fine for the effort.

The problem is most people just want to play video games. They don't care about security. They don't actually want security if it frustrates their efforts to play games or reduces the computing power available for the game.

Look at houses. We could have amazing high security locks everywhere if we wanted. We don't. We don't perceive ourselves as needing them. It turns out "tamper evident" is a decent level of security for the real world and allows homes to be partially secure while being totally livable.
> The pair found that while a handful of lesser-known LLMs, such as AllenAI's OLMo and BigScience Workshop + HuggingFace with BloomZ could be considered open, most are not.

It's absolutely wild to think the deranged BigScience RAIL license, under which the Bloom LLM was released, is open in any way shape or form. It has more user-harming restrictions than basically any other LLM license out there.
Check pictures from before 1920 - note that all the trees are cleared from around towns and buildings. The cumulative scale is immense when everyone had a cabin and used wood for heating. I think you're understating the impact of "a cabin." European style living is not very sustainable, compared to those that lived in NA for many thousands of years prior.
> non-investment grade public and private debt now offer prospective returns that are competitive to those historically seen on equities

Be sure to hedge this against inflation.
I'm absolutely okay with metaphors that anthropomorphize or personify complicated things when there's no risk of confusion. ("The crystallizing water wants to expand.")

However the LLM mania is almost the perfect-storm of when it's a bad idea, too many people will believe or act like the person-ness is literal.

Framing negative issues with the models in personal terms is just perpetuating a problem.
I tried this out and found it useful for exploring Cloudflare workers. One thing I learned: KV and durable objects are not the same thing. KV is eventually consistent, durable objects is the thing where all traffic has to be routed to the same node since it's dealing with a read/write store that has read-after-write guarantees.

Also Cloudflare KV provides a simple dashboard interface for adding and removing KV entries: https://gist.github.com/simonw/1e072d04960616970381a433bfca7...
Apple sued for infringement of their design patents, for Masimo’s old watches and chargers, and asked for $250 in damages. They won that set of claims, meaning Masimo’s old watches and chargers infringe.

Masimo’s current products did not infringe, and Apple tried to sue on the basis that they infringed their technical/utility patents. On this set of claims, the jury disagreed, and the damages Apple was asking for there was injunctive relief against Masimo’s current products (aka taking them off the market). They lost that. They can't go for an injunction since the jury ruled that Masimo's current products do not infringe.
That’s a separate case (Masimo suing Apple) which is still ongoing. Apple countersued to try to block Masimo from releasing their own smartwatch, this article refers to this case.
Indian government has three branches: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary and court is part of third branch. Nowhere in my comment I said elected government or central government or politics.
>It's not too short for things that have stopped being sold. If a book or video game has no more commercial value in selling, why not end its copyright?

Well that's more for exploiting. They can stop making copies of say, Horizon Zero dawn that came out in 2017. And maybe they stop selling it in 2019 (in this theoretical) . Just when the 5 years are almost up, they start making another retail run of it, or the remaster in this case. Repeat and iterate until you get bored.

> I guarantee you most of the stuff no longer being sold, they don't care about because it's not profitable anymore. If it was profitable, they'd still be selling it.

I want to thank that, but companies still prefer to hoard IP's, if only to keep others from working with it. There are several IP's from now defunct companies that got picked up by non-gaming studios, who obviously have no intention of ever making a game. They just want a cut if anyone ever wants to try. Or to sue when fans try to do stuff with it.

For 5 years in advance, it's not hard to keep a disc run or remaster in mind. Just look at Sony. For a longer term like 20 years they need to be more creative.
A common scenario I've come across with multiple folks here (Canada, GTA) are couples where one does contract work and the other is a FTE. This gives consistent benefits with an increased overall income. There has traditionally been a substantial independent contracting market here but maybe that changes with the new macro situation we're in.
Casual conversations are not about the technical aspects of food production and distribution that has been refined for thousands of years.

Also, chemistry? As a subject? Incredibly pedantic. The exception is the rule for practically everything.

There are formulations of medications that are selecting for this one shape of the particular molecule which has otherwise identical composition. And that may determine insurance coverage.

If you don’t want to have pedantic discussions, organic chemistry is not going to be a pleasant topic for you.

Odds are none or very few of the people on hacker news are farmers or chemists deeply involved with the agricultural industry, but I imagine this would come across about as favorably as a hacker news perspective on farmers complaining about the way apps on their phone work. Or complaining that computer nerds have ruined John Deere tractors by making them impossible to repair.

Ie it’s going to totally lack any sense of nuance about the business, politics, and logistical constraints involving the existing solutions.
You assume it's ineffective but beyond the actual wells drilled and the like it has a big PR effect to make it look cool, if you make money, to use it help people rather than say the Kardashians making money and using it for huge mansions and plastic surgery for themselves.

I watched the well drilling one and thought it was kinda cool, both for helping and also mucking around with cool drilling machines. (https://youtu.be/mwKJfNYwvm8). I'll admit not taking watching the Kardashians for more than about 30 seconds so I could be wrong there.
You could replace this whole article with https://xkcd.com/356/

Also, if you like Factorio Youtube videos, I'm a big fan of https://www.youtube.com/@DoshDoshington
But they said "several grounds" in the article. Isn't that enough? Why would you expect them to explain exactly where and how? A license is just a vibe anyway, it's the spirit that's important.
I agree.

Phase Margin (How far away you are from 180 Phase Shift) is a critical parameter used whenever designing any kind of feedback loop and testing for stability.

This is very to measure at the 0dB gain he pointed out, but lacked the phase diagram to show this shift.
From that limits page, it looks like as-shipped it can have a blob of max 1gb, and a bit over 2gb if compiled from source. That's rather limiting for my data, since I have some static images, as well as some pdfs and of course videos that are larger than those limits. I guess every library has an oversized books shelf, but a higher limit would be more useful to use it in "everything but the kitchen sink" mode.
To be clear, Masimo’s old (and previously discontinued) design infringes on Apple’s design patents, not the one presently on the market.
Yeah, that's the other can of worms that I didn't go into. Even if a game gets delisted from steam, they can just whip up that digital copy "for sale" on their website or any other cheaper platform (since sales are No longer the priority, just keeping the copyright is).
Why is wasm so damn limited?

After watching it evolve for many years my conclusion is either politics or it being run by the wrong people who think they literally need to invent the whole world (in component model) before they can give us basic string objects. No, wasm string objects were an independent feature in experimental Chrome for a while but they got removed again. Wasm structs are beautiful without the component model but useless because they can't be read or written in JS.
Because the digits of the multiplicands make up the digits of the vampire number- they look like any other number but have a secret, kind of like how vampires look like humans but have a secret. Here’s the text of the original post from the 1990’s describing them:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.math/c/eCgYeC3aUbc/m/2haqpIE...

They aren’t particularly useful, but they are cool.
I know this wasn't your main point here but with the C++ std::vector's reserve you must not do this because it will destroy the amortized constant time growth. Rust's Vec can Vec::reserve the extra space because it has both APIs here.

The difference is what these APIs do when we're making small incremental growth choices, Vec::reserve_exact and the std::vector reserve both grow to the exact size asked for, so if we do this for each entry inserted eight times we grow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 -- we're always paying to grow.

However when Vec::reserve needs to grow it either doubles, or grows to the exact size if bigger than a double. So for the same pattern we grow 1, 2, 4, no growth, 8, no growth, no growth, no growth.

There's no way to fix C++ std::vector without providing a new API, it's just a design goof in this otherwise very normal growable array type. You can somewhat hack around it, but in practice people will just advise you to never bother using reserve except once up front in C++, whereas you will get a performance win in Rust by using reserve to reserve space.
IMPHO, I think that the removal of Russians contributors from the kernel contributor list is a big error.

Because it is all about politics. And the move let non-technical decisions step into this project.

Is it ok for you, Linus Torvalds, that politics can decide to ban also Chinese, Israeli, Iranian, European contributors? Or any non-USA developer?

Pesky developers or ones sneaking malicious code in need to be banned because their "contribs" would make the kernel worse (in a general sense).

Are Russian, Iranian or Israeliani devs making the kernel any better? Is the quality of their contribs in line with expectations?

Can those contributors harm or negatively affect the project?

Sorry, Linus. While still being a hero for me, that was a bad decision for what my opinion matters.
Some filters trigger simply on the word "ads" in the url.
> I don't know what you are talking about.

I can see that.

Iterators don't do what you think they do. A random access iterator on std::vector is practically indistinguishable from a pointer. It doesn't check for out of bounds, and if you resize the vector, your iterator can be "invalidated", meaning it quietly points to memory that has been freed already.

You can even do arithmetic on random access iterators the way you do with pointers.

I agree that smart pointers are nice.
Probably the place that makes the most sense would be Idaho/Oregon/Washington. The weather is relatively moderate (compared to the midwest), more water available nearby.

The weather is a bit nicer in Utah/Colorado/New Mexico - especially the lower elevations, but it’s too reliant on the Colorado/Rio Grande IMO, and has to compete with southern California and Arizona/Vegas and Texas. Western Montana is also nice but may be a bit too snowy in the winter until climate change takes hold.
How much does that cost to grow?
Basically where we are now, if not better off. The vast majority of people are satisfied with making a modest living, and none of these bets would have paid off if they weren't. The crux of the issue is how to create a stable arena in which sociopathic risk takers can innovate without destabilizing society. The brilliant implementer who finds he's satisfied with punching the clock is grist for Jobs' mill. No need to destroy him in the process.
This is fundamentally the data quality issue. We don't want AIs to do what the average human would do, we want it to do what the best of us would do, or even better.

I think the indiscriminate data gathering was sufficient when the gap between existing AIs and the average human was large enough that it was not proportionally very different to the gap between existing AIs and the best humans.

High quality data, either by removing poor examples or synthetically generating high quality exemplars should help a great deal.

The tricky bit with the instance of scams is that it has to walk the line between generalization of appropriate human behavior examples in a good faith situation and a bad faith situation.

How do you safely train an AI to be suspicious?

There is clear training bias towards obsequiousness in models at present, which is difficult to overcome with simple "Which response is better?" feedback because people will favour the response that agrees.

Getting a model to fairly challenge your assumptions (and indeed it's own) I predict will be a major step in usability.
You seem like you are supportive of bad faith sales which surprises me.

The $31 is silly and everyone agrees it should be refunded. After that, OP tried to buy something listed for sale at a price and the company he tried to buy it from couldn't/didn't honor their quoted price and caused the price to go up more than double.

You've been clear that you don't think they have any _obligation_ to the OP. Do you think good faith negotiation is not a worthwhile thing in general or is there something specific about this scenario I'm missing? Is this a pedantic fight about the meaning of "owe"?
simplelogin for sms is definitely a space lacking in the consumer product market.

family home management and communication routing in general is a blank space with almost nothing. it extends into every market. childrens medical bills only appearing in one of two parents accounts etc. communication from an entity to a family is ripe for disruption and standardization.

have you looked at business support tools such as https://missiveapp.com/blog/what-is-sms-shared-inbox
Our of curiosity, is there any way to line the pipes with PVC or similar? Like a large scale version of those "pipe fixers" they pump up with air/water that lines existing pipes and hardens in place?

I could see problems with that, and of course cost is always one of the biggest, possibly health too, it's just weird to me that we don't seem to have a solution for this
based on current license choice of projects, turns out most people don't agree...
Some of this may be due to a desire to transform an illicit desire for authority ("I declare that I shall not pay out a bounty") into a legitimate contest ("this bug is not a bug because I desire to clarify our communal understanding of the concept of a bug...").
> More directly - is there some set of common web client I've been missing for many years that just doesn't follow DNS TTLs or try alternate records?

I don't know if there is such a list but older versions of Java are pretty famous for caching the DNS responses indefinitely. I don't hear much about it these days so I assume it was probably fixed around Java 8.
This seems like a nice solution for zero-downtime updates. Clone the server, add a the specified ip, deny access to the main one, upgrade and turn the cloned server off.
It depends on the type of your contracts - there's also longer-term contracts out there (at lower hourly rates).

You can do any mix of those (if you can find them) - ideally, you've got long-term contracts that cover you basic income needs, and do short-term contracts or product development on top of that.

Regarding the feast or famine cycles - you need a very healthy cash cushion.

And speaking of health, that's a risk in itself. Long-term health issues that prevent you from working as much as you need to will drain your cushion.
They didn't expect us to build a solution to undo destruction of the Owen's valley or the Colorado river delta.

Maybe it hasn't continued because that type of infrastructure reached a local maximum.

If you want dreams, how about reshaping the California Central valley as an enormous management intensive agroforestry system that uses highly diverse and resilient native species to meet human calorie needs.

This isn't an engineering challenge, it's a social, cultural, and political one.
Google Voice will also be unworkable for your needs. More and more businesses prohibit customers from using anything except a cell phone number from a major carrier or MVNO reseller, perhaps assuming anything else is criminal activity. Customer service agents are never trained about this, so they'll say a number is "invalid" or "voip" (regardless of the actual service used) and cannot be used.
"Would it surprise you to know that according to the study, the big-name ones from Google, Meta, and Microsoft aren't? I didn't think so."

Microsoft has a decent LLM that I'd consider to be "open source": Phi-3.5, under the MIT license: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
I like the mini size but usability on mobile sites is often broken. I eventually switched to a full size phone because many sites completely break on a smaller than standard screen.
Typpo
certainly agree (to clarify)