skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people will say "word of mouth" without defining it.

The key is to have regular but not annoying conversations with prospects. Don't put them on a mailing list (unless you're somehow uniquely interesting and cool, I guess) but send them personalized emails every so once in a while - these can be "oh I thought you'd find this interesting" (and it has to actually be interesting to them) or just a short hello reminding them that you're always looking for work. And I mean SHORT. "Hey just checking in, really enjoyed working with you, please keep me in mind if you're looking for help!"

I've tried it all, from personal CRMs to complex alerting and the bottom line is that nobody's going to do the extra work to get you involved unless they have a no-pressure, friendly connection with you.

Most of my high-paying and regular clients we just text message, maybe once every six months or so. Casual, friendly, no pressure is the key.
I'm not suprised, I have a very good idea about the sheer scale of industrial plant building that would be required to make a significant dent in our current consumption and emissions.

The great unspoken catch to direct air capture technology as that develops is while it will (at sufficient scale) mitigate the extraction of "old" carbon from traditional fossil fuel deep earth operations it will likely serve to maintain the cycle of already extracted carbon in the air: (energy + air) -> fuel -> (carbon in air).

Don't get me wrong, these are good steps forward, they're just not solutions unto themselves - we still as a species need to reduce the absolute amount of insulating material in the atmosphere.

Currently we are not.

When we do start to wind back the amount added, we have to keep winding it back by a few hundred billion tonne.
> Even gold's above ground supply doubles every 3 or 4 decades.

Citation needed. In particular, Wikipedia says 201,296 tons exist above ground as of 2020. It also says the annual production is 1,480 tons. So, no, the gold above ground absolutely does not double every 3 or 4 decades.

More: Look at the price of gold and the price of bitcoin. Which has been the more stable store of value?
Tangent: not that often to see a fellow Ramon in hn :)
Or 5g with a SIM card.
I am so delighted to see Dillo is back and being maintained again! I was looking at it in mid 2023 and was sad to see the repo linked from the main site was dead and the general lack of activity. Off the back of this, I started looking at how to extract it and use it as a library (which I ultimately failed at, alas).

I've subsequently started a little project I'm calling Freeflow, which is intended to break down pages from 'modern' html to a subset renderable in Dillo, NetSurf, etc - essentially a standard set of xpath queries for tags like `navigation` etc, plus some tinkering with RSS and other things which display pages without styling.

Now that Dillo is alive again, I'm inclined to give writing it as a DPI a whirl.

So pleased to see this. Keeping these things alive is important.
I bought a projector. "Dumb" as can be.

Now... when I decide to blow the money, it's going to be replaced with a 100" TV. For now I'm assuming that I won't have too big a battle to use it as a plain monitor.

But I bought a Harmony remote a while ago and returned it after finding out that, to maintain it, I had to set up a BS account with Logitech. A bunch of apologists on Reddit mocked those of us who called out this despicable nonsense.

Just a couple months later, we had the last laugh when Logitech pulled the plug on the whole thing.
That's highly speculative, but even if that did end up happening, the smart TVs sold today wouldn't magically gain that capability, especially if you keep it off the network and never update it.
A search turned up this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qmx3RKPfDgqF9ivBJF6C3vwX...

> The Referral Fee Experiment

> For this job, we charge a 10% referral fee if you are hired by the company.

> * 10% of revenue earned per month

> * Paid every month, capped at 6 months

> ** Note: this referral fee only applies to jobs where the referral fee is mentioned at the top of the job description. If the referral fee is not mentioned, it means there is no referral fee for that job.

> How It Works

> * We’ll calculate the expected monthly revenue from your contract

> * 10% of that revenue is the referral fee

> * We’ll charge you that referral fee for the first 6 months of the contract

> * You’ll pay the referral fee AFTER you’re paid by the client

Is this typical, or a direction you want to go?

My concerns:

1. The means of enforcing that could get messy. (What do people have to sign? What if the company decides to outright hire the person? What are the reporting requirements? What's the headache if breaking off the engagement?)

2. As a consultant, I'd not be thrilled to pay anyone 10% off the top of gross revenue. Unless it's a matchmaker that really added value that made all the difference. (Not just happened to be a middleperson in making the connection through their site, rather than any number of other places it could've happened. Traditionally, a deep-pocketed employer who can't be bothered to find people itself would pay the random sourcers/recruiters.)
Another checking in from the my company was and continues to be effected by GDPR.
> I’m setting the upper bar for my performance expectation at the DASUNG 25” monitor, which I did love, but couldn’t fit in a backpack.

I haven't used one, so I can't speak specifically to how good it is. I can say that most of the e-ink displays you will find will not have a comparable refresh rate and be absolutely useless for any form of text editing. Your only choice will be sourcing a sketchy knock-off Chinese panel or hacking together some form of overclocked solution, similar to what DASUNG appears to have done.

> I imagine “write a display driver” is a more common job description than “write a hackintosh package”?

I dunno man, you're using MacOS. None of this stuff comes with any warrants or guarantees. What works with SIP enabled today might break the system and require SIP disabled next week. I'm not making any confident assessments on what the scale of work is because you're asking a lot here. Especially if professional use is your goal. I haven't seen people running custom Mac hardware at work in half a decade at least.
Tech Notes: The Jujutsu version control system
Here's a Forth that runs on SUBLEQ https://github.com/howerj/subleq, there's also a file system for it https://github.com/howerj/ffs.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C49SVTCT

are the tags I have, and https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nfc-tools/id1252962749 is the app I used (which is the same as the one used in the post).
Isn't Spark extremely memory inefficient due to the use of Java?
> I think Swing is a non-goal of this project.

It could work though by drawing to canvas.

That's what Avalonia does in C#: https://avaloniaui.net/

Here's a clone of Visual Basic 6 written with Avalonia and compiled to WebAssembly:

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6
You would have to. The smart features are there to generate ad revenue. It's part of the reason that TVs have gotten absurdly cheap over the past decade.
Kinesis MWave
A general response to your general statement.

Which is why I asked

> Can you elucidate what you meant?
Store mode often means maximum brightness and super saturated colors to "pop" under florescent lights and sitting right next to other displays.
Came here to write the same. I got an Epson LCD projector used, 2m wall. Works great with an ipad mini and bluetooth box (although Apple ios is kind of dumb, I need to tell it every time I turn it on to not use the speakers in the projector). Watching happens mostly in the evening/night.

LCD (vs DLP) are kind of hard to find these days, which is unfortunate. Proper lens shift isn't so easy to find either. And you need to make sure you get a reasonably quiet one (so a movie projector, not a presentation one).
I was just looking at some earlier because a friend was asking.

A lot of them seem to be integrating smart TV features for streaming and such. So your privacy is going away there too.
It actually does matter.
Related recent discussions:

I'm daily driving Jujutsu, and maybe you should too (83 points, 3 days ago, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380306

Jujutsu (jj), a Git compatible VCS (89 points, 2 months ago, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895056

Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial (158 points, 2 months ago, 117 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881204

Jujutsu: A Next Generation Replacement for Git (94 points, 5 months ago, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908985

A better merge workflow with Jujutsu (135 points, 5 months ago, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842762

Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful (673 points, 1 year ago, 261 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952796
True. The current government has taken a torch to everything the prior government did whether it made sense to torch, or not (replacement Cook Strait ferries for example). And they've enacted a bunch of extreme ideologically driven policies that no government left wing nor center could bear to keep.
We're in for dizzying swings in direction
Projector image quality is great, what kinds of projectors are you referencing? Image quality per dollar is a win for TVs but it's not that bad. $3k for a nice movie projector isn't crazy especially given the screen size.

https://www.benq.com/en-us/projector/cinema/ht4550i.html

And I agree that brightness is an issue but if you "only" want a 65-80" screen then even modest ceiling mount projectors can pump out enough light to compete with daylight.
I can’t recall even one time my high school schedule changed except between semesters, not any time a class met in another room. Not once. If a teacher was out sick, there was a sub but the room didn’t change.
Some new people you meet will prefer to see who you are by looking you up online. At least to me, someone's online presence is a testimony that the person is who they claim to be when it comes to their experience.
Per day? but not per second. would require every human being sending @ message every 8 seconds
In no way is this an issue of not having enough money. The Marsden fund is only 75 million NZ ($43m USD) and it was already heavily slanted towards projects which could show economic benefits. This is an ideologically driven purge
You would. I would. A lot of us would.

But the public has spoken, again and again, with multiple goods. All that matters is price.

You may be able to sustain business selling very high end stuff for people with means.

But most people, out of greed or need, will go with a low cost option. And that will push nearly everything out in a race to the bottom.
> Notice how no one seems to promote usability anymore.

The million UX designers in the world right now: "What?"
I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t a heavy line drawing creation. As someone who first did those in the 90’s and almost immediately learned their limits, I think this is nice because it doesn’t overclaim. It’s just a view, not a thesis.

I like diagrams where the axes mean something. Lines, shape, boxes/groups, distance, X vs Y, colour, thickness, texture, background, foreground. I also like simple. So often it’s lines to be fancy with no meaning. This one is just a pic, with some grouping, and it has personality. Yay?

(Still love lines, just not everywhere always.)
IME, vim is also easier to compile statically than nvi and other vi clones that are actually smaller than vim.
I guess it depends on what country you live in; I'm in the US, not sure what it's like elsewhere with regards to advertising, but if USA-based then yeah I would pursue that. Initially it'll probably be easier via a recruiter who already has a relationship with the agency where they bring you in and put you on the bench until a gig opens up.

From what I've seen, brands (clients) rarely do much in-house -- they hire agencies (for periods of time, then will go to others depending upon results), sometimes hire as Agency of Record for a period of time as well (all creative, from web/app/digital through social management, media, print, etc, flows through their AOR) -- everything runs on quarterly client budgets (so frequent initiatives that "ladder up" to XYZ intangible "KPI" -- you'll get used to the arbitrary and capricious lingo) -- and it's really not that far off from a modern version of Mad Men. "Agency life" is another phrase that encapsulates "we probably have time management issues and/or over-commit to stuff, so if you want to succeed in this business, be willing to be patient, present and available for the duration and parameters of the project" -- as a freelancer though, you get paid by the hour, rather than being a salaryman.

I did 15 years of full-time employment, salaried. Overtime === a slice of pizza, a pat on the back, a vague promise of promotion; as a freelancer, it's dollars-per-hour, nothing more nothing less, you get paid for your efforts.

I've only been fortunate enough to benefit from that having done full-time salaryman in these places long enough to meet enough people and make enough contributions to become a known quantity. That said, I do have friends though that were ONLY contractors the entire time, usually via a recruiter as mentioned above, they worked in the same places on the same projects, and they've been able to flip that into similar situations or even full-time with the companies they gelled with the most.

There are a bunch of ways to approach it, but the fluid, always-changing clientele of ad agencies provides quite a lot of opportunities for work that isn't just "employee".
NZr here. You have it exactly right.
why won’t you create an account if you like the content?
Happy to hear it, we put a lot of work into closing the loop with everyone.
You could find a properly sized USB-C based eink screen and do some very tricky rewiring and not mess with macOS software at all.
Yeah they mention this in the weaknesses section.

> While phi-4 demonstrates relatively strong performance in answering questions and performing reasoning tasks, it is less proficient at rigorously following detailed instructions, particularly those involving specific formatting requirements.
[dupe]

More earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886
That's pretty much how Telegram works. Technically you can search public groups but the search function doesn't really work so you can't find anything without a link.
For context, pelican riding a bicycle: https://imgur.com/a/2nhm0XM

Copied SVG from gist into figma, added dark gray #444444 background, exported as PNG 1x.
Does it need part-time devs right now?
My money’s on a joint venture with Comcast, Cox, Verizon, et al. to use the Wi-Fi access points their routers operate – even if you use your own router and block them, your neighbors almost certainly don’t. Most them already have business ties and would love to have better ad targeting data.
Your point about SQL strings vs more strongly typed DF APIs stands.

However it's somewhat weakened by the possibility that some parts of the SQL string are resolved by the surrounding python context.
I'm not sure why BinanceLand is in AILandia though, please dont encourage them XD
In general I've had poor results with LLMs generating pictures using text instructions (in my case I've tried to get them to generate pictures using plots in KQL). They work but the pictures are very very basic.

I'd be interested for any LLM emitting any kind of text-to-picture instructions to get results that are beyond a kindergartner-cardboard-cutout levels of art.
Yeah, that's why I think all this talk is really silly and a waste of time. Management simply does not believe in "flow" or the need for deep concentration. If you actually need to concentrate deeply to get your job done, you're going to fail in most workplaces today. The best you can do is to try to find a way of getting enough work done, despite the noisy open-plan office environment and constant distractions. The days of walled offices for programmers are long gone, and they're not coming back.
You clearly know more than me about it—can I pay for an hour of your time to noodle on what DASUNG appears to have done? Based on my use of the 25” monitor, whatever they did is adequate, so if it can be replicated with a 13” panel (which based on specs uses the same driver chip: https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product/detail/CONCERTODrivingB...) and bolted to a 13” M2’s hinge then we’re off to the races.
It's usually not possible without a technical analysis, is my point. A throw-away prototype takes much longer to build and is much harder to review and discuss with stakeholders than a document. Like, how are you going to build a prototype demonstrating design trade-offs—are you just going to build every possible version? Are you really going to make a product manager read a 2000-line PR instead of three pages of bullet points?

Presenting a prototype only really make sense for UI-centric things anyway, and even then, there's a million ways to make a UI mock-up that don't involve functioning code.
For non trivial queries I write them in a separate SQL file where I get the benefit of syntax highlighting, auto formatting and error checks.

There may be another benefit: a lot of LLMs are getting good at how do I do X in Duckdb.
That's how I setup and use my C2, which is fairly performant and non-egregious as far as smart panels go. It's not strictly necessary, but I even install firmware from USB.
> Teathered bottle cap. Dumb.

I wasn't familiar with tethered bottle caps until now. I'm curious what's wrong with them.
It's really weird that they target projects like PHP for their trademark policy, when the GPL itself contains no language allowing you to use an upstream project's trademark. In fact, the GPL explicitly grants you the ability to impose trademark restrictions on code you add to GPL code. For instance, Firefox is distributed under the similarly copyleft MPL, but Debian still had to distribute its version as Iceweasel until Mozilla gave its approval.

(Also, seriously? Policing users' email providers in their mailing list [0]? Write all the blog posts you want, but banning addresses is just silly.)

[0] https://www.hyperbola.info/news/hyperbola-rejects-all-email-...
NFC has been opened up more in iOS 16 and 17.

Card emulation is a thing now: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc/cardsessio... (edit: only in the EU)

And iOS as well as iPadOS now also support USB smart card readers. iPads can actually use them to access NFC FIDO tokens. (Why iPads don't have native NFC is completely beyond me, there are so many obvious use cases for it)
This comment is quite ironic and funny because the enduring interest in this movie is because it’s heavily disputed that the Final Cut is actually close to being Kubrick intended cut.

That’s the whole mythos of the movie and why people like the OP wrote a huge thesis on the themes and motivation behind the movie.
> The bit about Prescot Bush "who helped fund Hitler's regime" is a long bow to draw. Maybe technically true in some tiny irrelevant sense.

If anything the author is underselling the connection. Millions of 1930's dollars; gold, fuel, steel, coal, bonds etc [0] can hardly be described as 'tiny irrelevant'.

> ... the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year [2009], show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

Prescott was also implicated in the 1933 Business Plot [1]:

> In July 2007, a BBC investigation reported that Prescott Bush, father of U.S. President George H. W. Bush and grandfather of then-president George W. Bush, was to have been a "key liaison" between the 1933 Business Plotters and the newly emerged Nazi regime in Germany,[51] although this has been disputed by Jonathan Katz as a misconception caused by a clerical research error.[52] According to Katz, "Prescott Bush was too involved with the actual Nazis to be involved with something that was so home grown as the Business Plot."[53]

Both links below offer many sources, including the BBC and The Guardian, along with multiple official archives.

0 - https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfa...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
That's why I use the SVG pelican riding a bicycle thing as a benchmark: it's a deliberately absurd and extremely difficult task.
Some previous discussion:

2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35931402
Edmonton(Canada) Police Commissioner to work remotely full time from Portugal
So can a wish on a monkey's paw.
I don't see the problem here. Badgering you to subscribe to some crap helps make more profit for MS, and this is good for MS shareholders. It might make the user experience worse, but who cares about that? It's not like Windows users are ever going to abandon the platform, so what's wrong with making them miserable in order to increase profits?
I think USB-C is the bridge between this [driver chip](https://shopkits.eink.com/en/product/detail/CONCERTODrivingB...) and the motherboard; that said yes you’re understanding my intent perfectly, but the only plug-and-play screen I’ve been able to find is [B&W only](https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Front-Light-Touch-Monito...), and I’d like to support color.
That was a rabbit hole
>The entire magic mouse concept is half baked since it relies too much on invisible touch areas for much of it's functionality.

Never found that to be an issue. Why would it matter? It's not like with visible areas I look at my mouse to see where to press. I don't even use tactile info (like the raised edge of a button in a conventional mouse) to see where to press, it's just muscle memory based on holding the mouse
Article title: Head of Edmonton police commission moves to Portugal but will govern remotely
Design docs are incomplete without reference implementation code. Which would require you to actually follow this process.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/561593-121737673-col...
I used Dillo when I ran OpenBSD on my laptop in 2003. Running a full desktop environment with text editor and web browser open: 28 MB RAM

I remember that Dillo did not support automatic redirects back then. They were everywhere.
Not relevant to this case. The amount of money involved is tiny and projects already were heavily weighted towards those with economic benefit
A few reasons:

- it takes longer than 5m IRL IMHO

- the message to charge it always pops up at the most inconvenient times

- and 99% of the time, it pops up either when there are still like enough % charge for hours (which encourages you to ignore it if you're busy atm), and then again when it's too late and it's shutting down pronto
My new HiSense TV with Google allows to run it as a basic TV. I think this was added to Google TV in 2021. Problem solved.
Gini coefficient data from Our World in Data [1] agrees with Piketty: Inequality has been increasing since the 1980s (likely from Reagan's tax cuts on the rich).

I think that Piketty's data is right, but even if he's not, I certainly buy his argument that when r>g, inequality increases [2]. We have better protection against viruses and other diseases, we have better tech; why are we are willing to tolerate the higher or even the same level of inequality? We could lower inequality and make everyone richer [3].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

[3] https://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue95/Roth95.pdf