skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to break into programming, go after that rather than help desk or sanding body panels. If your next best alternative is moving far away, renting a place there, and doing auto body work for minimum wage, you can probably come out after-everything even by staying put and doing a mix of online learning and even terribly paying gigs on fiverr/ upwork/ etc.

Since a sibling comment already covered the other thing I was going to say, I'm going to focus on this part, as it's 100% correct.

Moving away to take a minimum wage job is most likely a trap. You will not be making enough money to both support yourself and do anything meaningful for your family, and you're going to be physically tired after working 8+ hours a day. It's definitely not a good long term solution, and it seems pretty terrible in the short term, too. Even taking a minimum wage job locally seems like a better solution to me, if at all possible (I did see you mentioned you live in the "poorest region of the United States.")

I think I would start by focusing on what the minimum amount of money you need to make to support your family, then seeing how you can make that much remotely. That can be whatever, because it's just a stepping stone allowing you to move on to finding a remote job that not only lets you take care of your family, but also lets you get ahead.

You've got a hard road ahead of you, OP, but it's one I've been down myself. For the longest time, I never had more than a few hundred bucks to my name. My net worth was deeply negative due to student loans until very recently. Even though I'm in a much better place than that now, it's still been 3 steps forward, 2 steps back for me. At the minimum, you will need a lot of perseverance, a little luck, a dash of chutzpah, and a willingness to keep improving yourself.
This is completely cultural. Here in Israel kids as young as 5 walk to school alone (not legally, just reality), and you'll frequently see a 6 year old taking the bus. The community looks out for them, parents give them cellphones (dumb phones), and we don't worry about stranger danger in this way.

I send my 7 year old to the corner store a couple of times a week (pre British Super-COVID) to buy missing ingredients, a bottle of wine... basically whatever's missing. It takes a village to raise a child, and we're all responsible for society's coherence.
That’s certainly the nationwide stat.

I wonder what it is when adjusted to the cohort of people standing out in the open during a storm that is currently striking things on the ground.

Or to put it another way, 100% of lightning deaths occur when standing outdoors in a storm.
Monitoring search engine and social network ranking and filtering updates should be more efficient than complaining about biased parrots (language models). This is a tip to certain ethics researchers who are raising scandals about search bias, but not in the right place - go in the field, check the fucking feeds, leave your abstract ethical tower and measure the reality.
> Summer is absolutely baking.

No it isn't? The average July daily high in SF is 67 degrees. That's absurdly cold for summer, there's basically nowhere south of Alaska in the Northern Hemisphere that stays that cold in July.
For me it was overhearing a few episodes of the British History Podcast [0] (not being a podcast person myself) which prompted a click. Highly recommended if you're into this time period; the podcast just reached Episode 365, in the mighty year 1050. If you ever believed that the Dark Ages were truly Dark, there are few better ways to disabuse yourself of that notion than listening to a few episodes....

[0] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/
Fantastic response!

Are you aware of the players in Australia? There is Skymesh (owned by a UK company) but I'm not aware of other players in the Aus market.

Of all of the providers on your list - are any of them doing LEO constellations that are able to provide low latency in the way that Starlink can offer?

One might quibble about cost efficiencies and system capacity, but in the consumer market I cant see how you can argue with the physics advantage of being 50x closer to your customer!
If you don’t want any external dependencies and want to replace jQuery. Then one solution is the site titled “You might not need jQuery” [1]. It points out plenty jQuery methods that can be replaced with plain JS. I actually recently advised a coworker to try learning plain JS and recommended that site. I honestly love using React though and won’t go without so don’t think I’m just a roll your own and dogfooding kind of person.

Anyways also as a self plug: I recently wrote a quick little dom library [2] (that is not published and only exists on a single code sandbox [doesn’t even have a license yet]) it’s in the file dom-lib.js. I made it in the last two days that people could look at just to see how you might go about writing a small framework that rerenders an app from top to bottom each time. Super unperformant and without optimizations. Well you can take a look, but don’t assume it’s anything more than two days work and some old code that I had laying around to help me traverse an object. I definitely don’t recommend adopting it or anything especially for production, but it works well enough as a lower-level dom library for the moment and I might make something more of it at some point (Be careful of XSS and understand that when something is assigned to .innerHTML, like the second parameter of the El function, then it should not contain user input. User input is what the third parameter of El is for.)

[1]: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
[2]: https://codesandbox.io/embed/example-plain-js-app-u6ce7?code...
90c per kwh in crunch time is still comparably cheap in comparison with much of the world.

I've been in countries where cooking 1 dish on electric oven will cost you $1.

Much of Europe has price hovering in between 30c to 50c during day hours normal usage, and easily more than double of that during extreme peaks like ones you have in Texas now.
In the spirit of Rails, does Blitz include a repl analogous to irb? Something that automatically loads in your models and maybe config?

It’s been a while since I’ve used Rails but that interactive environment was my favorite way to get familiar with activerecord models.
This is why I loved Simple Bank so much. No such fees; too bad they are shutting down.
Went to subscribe but it looks like their physical edition is no more. :(

>In 2020, Cabinet will publish three print issues (numbers 66, 67, and 68) before moving to an entirely digital format.

https://cabinetmagazine.org/subscribe/
didn't have time to type out all of suspicious?

I'm sure all of the other 14 year olds on hacker news were impressed.
Wow, Elon got scammed to buy Bitcoin?

What does the ex-CEO and former largest single shareholder of PayPal know about digital money?

What does the world's richest man know about money?

Apparently not much.

Definitely not more than you, since you know that Bitcoin is a scam.
Isn’t it true that you have to pay cash or not be admitted to hospitals in India (maybe private only. I am just going by stories my mom told me from PK). So they know you’re not even getting in the door if you can’t afford it which forces price transparency
OP said "where people couldn't get more than 10/2 or so for any price."

Your response directly refutes that, so I don't know why you are asking for a source. I didn't say either of those are competitive with a non-existent service offering from starlink. Wait until they have a real service that is oversubscribed, then we can discuss what plans they'll offer.
PC gaming has been the most competitive and consumer beneficial software platform by an absurd margin for a long time now. I'm sure we can attribute at least some of this to the freedom of the market?
Solid selection. I'd also add nnn as the fastest tool to
navigate directories I've ever seen.
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No, it's ML tasked with "user engagement" doing the work. Not ML in general.
Tether funds the buy orders and bids. Without them the market price falls
Has anyone tried canceling via certified mail?
In German we distinguish between 'Interpret' (the one interpreting or performing an art) and the 'Künstler' (artist). I think this explains it very well: Most of the popular 'Interpreten' are not famous for their exquisite music, but for who they are, as a brand, and how they perform in public and on stage.

The movie Yesterday is such a farce because it suggest The Beatles songs are super successful no matter who performs them, as long as they are the first to perform them. When effectively it was a mix of having skilled musicians, produce and perform good songs on the one hand, but also who they were, the marketing and their performances on the other hand.
some of them aren't really zsh but plugins
They are busy hunting for memory corruption issues bringing down a server in production.
Same reason institutions invest in startups; want some high risk high reward assets.
If you're a good engineer and good employee then you're not getting fired, but you're not getting promoted either. Welcome to being a senior engineer for the remainder of your career. Floating from one organization to the next with different levels of ineptitude above you. You pick up bigger checks and more skills. The only cost is your life.
What is happening in Texas has very little to do with baseline power generation and more to do with an electricity network not designed to handle cold weather.

In this current Texas disaster those base line thermal generators like coal, gas and nuclear have also fallen victim to these low temperatures.
Ah fuck.
Yesterday a Court in India gave a landmark Judgement to protect dignity of women;

https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/delhi-court-acqu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priya_Ramani
Gym membership requires you to sign a contract (that usually come with minimal commitments/early termination fees, etc).
All these dollars would go to a journalist who promises to give $50 back.
This a complete non-sequitur.

Authoritarianism consists in undemocratic rule in which obedience is brutally enforced, and dissidence suppressed, using the security apparatus of the state.

Authoritarianism does not consist in using every avenue allowed within the rules of a democratic system in order to exercise power, even if it's "not nice".

Again, it's genuinely puzzling how you could conflate these two things.
Even if we already new how to do fusion we couldn't build fusion plants quickly enough to prevent catastrophic warming. Arguably we can't even build fission plants quickly enough for that. The window for fusion has closed, we should've invested forty years ago. Hoping for some breakthrough that allows us to build these fifty times faster than we currently believe we might be able to build them is a very risky maneuver.
Except that it's not required at all, as confirmed by multiple people already in this thread.

OP chose the chat route, was complaining to the virtual chat bot for a whole page in the screenshot, then presented technical issues as a reason for cancelation - which the human support rep correctly tried to help the customer with, and customer engaged in that discussion, and once OP said they want the subscription canceled regardless (just a few messages later) it got canceled.

If you were to run a business, and a customer tells you the only reason they no longer wish to remain your customer is because of technical issues that you know how to solve, would you just try to help them, or would you ignore it?

Let's say someone disabled javascript in their browser, and your website doesn't work because of it, would you just cancel their subscription or would you offer to help and if they still insist on canceling it then cancel it like the rep in the screenshot did?
It is far from clear that Elon’s investment in Bitcoin is because he genuinely thinks it will go up in value; the man is clearly a finance troll and has enough money to do stuff like this for the lulz
Ask people how many hours per week they work. It might vary a bit from team to team but you'll roughly get an idea of corporate work/life balance
$GOOGL invested in and owns 5-10% of SpaceX. Even if SpaceX is valued at $100B, every $200 you invest in Google would be around a $1 into SpaceX, but if you think SpaceX is going to be the first 10 trillion dollar company or something crazy, it could make sense.
Lost in this comment is how brutally inappropriate that Tumblr office would have been to work in - and beyond illegal in so many ways but it's just all cool because it's LGBTQ? I thought they were suppose to be 'just like us' and that 'transitioning pantihose urine fetish' would a gross, charicatured misrepresentation?

YouPorn you'll find is completely not like that, super professional to the point wherein the 'content' would effectively be mundane. Maybe in some ways more like a bank actually.
You literally can with payment cards do this today. The largest cryptocurrency exchange released a visa card where you can 'spend crypto'.

I hate it when starbucks doesn't take my Krugerrands. What if cryptocurrencies can buy things that fiat currencies can not? Not everything is sold in a physical store.

What if /the payment card industry/ converted cryptocurrency to local fiat for you?
Right now there are several psuedobank providers that will do this (for years now), but we are talking about the card network themselves doing it themselves.
Cryptocurrency does certainly stretch the definition of money. That's why it is exciting.

Pyramid schemes are something different, pyramid schemes are about recruiting folks to pay you, and them getting them to repeat the same trick, with money funneling to the top.
What you are thinking of is a Ponzi scheme, in which early investors are paid by later investors.

Now this is where the definitions get blurred. Most asset classes act this way, and we don't consider SPY a ponzi, nor housing in major cities, nor the USD market itself.

I am not trying to recruit, or even encourage you to convert your hard earned funds on magic internet money. But this dismissal of cryptocurrency is injurious to your future wealth.
I was considering 1935 to not be that many years ago, compared to things like the Alamo.

They didn't have to be that isolated until the feds clamped down.

And ERCOT's only been going since 1970.

Could just be a matter of political "leadership" whether the feds are a riskier bureaucracy or the Austin-based boneheads.
and people were free to choose other operating systems when MS was found to be abusing their "monopoly".

Just because there are some other options... doesn't negate the fact that Apple is using monopolistic and anti-competitive tactics to limit consumer choice and business options.

There's zero reason why Epic should be force to pay Apple a 30% cut of all income when Epic has the resources and talent to do so.

Zero reason... other than mafia tactics.
Approaches was probably the wrong word. Moving in the direction towards 1 was what I meant to say.
https://secure.cabinetmagazine.org/store/product/177

Get them before they run out!
Makes sense. Stress [1], lack of sleep [2], and poor fitness correlate with hair loss. (These aren't the only contributors, of course.)

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-manageme...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_hair_loss
Perhaps that's why they are shutting down?
Starlink roughly orbits at 1200km. The most common orbit for internet sats is geostationary orbit, which means that the satellite is stationary with regards to an observer on Earth. It works because a satellite on a circular orbit at that height moves at the same speed as the rotation of Earth.

This way you can have a simple, pointed antenna and not an obscenely expensive phased array like Starlink. That being said, GEO is only 36000km,so I'm not sure where the "60 times" figure comes from...
No it isn’t. They will take fees until they don’t get any more and then a part of the government will handle it.

Which part of Europe are you from?
The code samples are in typescript...
More.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-18/facebook-news-ban-see...
Yeah, they can give you the architecture drawn as a nice mind map, list the hyper-parameters, but that's like knowing the algorithm of the compiler, it doesn't help detect a bad program. The question is what the model is learning, not how. What are the inputs and what is it learning to output.
I’m a history nerd in general but it was Tolkien describing how he wondered what the Anglo-Saxons would have thought of the Roman structures (and comparing it to the Hobbits viewing the First Age Elven structures) that originally piqued my interest in the Anglo-Saxons. But any game that sparks that interest in others is okay by me, even if I’ll likely never play it due to a low attention span when it comes to games other than the Legend of Zelda.
The series Vikings, as well.

Much of what's described in this article is represented in the series.
And the blame doesn’t lie on natural gas but on the idea of shutting down baseload-capable sources like nuclear in favor of renewables.

What nuclear has been shut down in Texas?
So, you're opposed to the entire criminal justice system?
Likely because of the game "among us".
If you have access to one, get an Amex and you'll find that's not the case. As someone who used to work in billing for a company with "not great" patterns, the bosses hated when people signed up with Amex because it made collections on lapsed payments borderline impossible because of how well they protected their members.
> Of course, there is always a certain level of electricity generation that is needed as most people like to use their fridges, AC and computers 24/7.

This is true but let me summarise my understanding which might be incorrect, and is based off this article and similar ones. I'd like to know where it's wrong?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-12/renewable-ene...

Basically, there is a minimum amount of power a traditional power plant can generate before needing to turn off, which is slow and costly.

"Base load" is this minimum amount that is generated onto the grid and it is priced accordingly at off-peak times so demand will increase and consume it without power stations losing money by burning fuel to waste power, or having to turn off.

With renewables in the picture, they eat into this base load demand. Now when demand is lower, renewables might still be outputting power at little to no marginal cost, and homes are not pulling from the grid. The traditional plants are burning fuel but they have to sell it at a loss or dump the power (maybe batteries can help them here).

This means that, as we get more and more renewable sources online, traditional plants are actually bad for base load (in the modern use of the term) generation. A lot of the time they can't come online fast enough to fill a slump if renewables drop, which means they are idling and losing money the rest of the time when renewables are flourishing. This means we need rapid response sources, like batteries (seconds) or gas (tens of minutes) rather than the traditional sources (coal) which take hours.
Ha, I had a bank account that I opened for one specific purpose then forgot to close. It was empty. They kept withdrawing account keeping fees, sending it into overdraft. Then they added overdraft fees. When I went to close it, they tried to badger me into paying all the fees first.
We don’t know if that’s true because Google was also sued for Play’s unfair practices.

It’s not just that iOS will be like Android, it’s that Epic is trying to force Android to be even more of a Wild West than that. Epic wants to give Microsoft the power to force me to download Teams & Office exclusively via the Microsoft Store on Android and iOS.
A survivor of clergy abuse who started a Facebook group to help other survivors says he is "devastated" by the social media giant's decision to block Australian news.
Key points:

The group was started to share reporting on the Royal Commission
The page owner estimates more than 2,000 articles were shared
The articles trigger reporting of sexual abuse as victims recognise their abuser

Richie Scutt, who was sexually abused by an Anglican priest when he was 11 years old, started the Facebook group Survivors and Friends in 2016.

He said he started the group to share news reports on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and it became a lifeline for many.

Mr Scutt said the group had grown to around 200 members from across Australia and still primarily shared news stories.

He estimated more than 2,000 news articles had been shared to the Facebook group since 2016, and said he was devastated to find they had all disappeared when he logged onto Facebook this morning.
That ability still exists if you are anonymous.
Ask HN: What email service do you use?
I was wondering what email service people here use, since I find that many here share a positive outlook (pun intended) aboout privacy
I'm definitely in some of these same boats.

I currently have Comcast, but I really despise them. Starlink will be a small step up in price, and a small step down in speed for me, but I'm going to do it just to be away from Comcast.
If you short the futures I don't think you'd be as affected by delisting of the spot, but the price calculation at settlement time could be dicey
I'd like to see that or maybe try it myself but that's not quite the same as Forth fitting in a 512 byte boot sector[1] or on a tinyAVR. I bet it can be done but I suspect it'd require more cleverness than doing the same with Forth.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24604457
Enabling streets to control their own development [pdf]
https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

Most of my usage is in tier 2 at $0.31443/kWh. In practice the actual bill comes out to $0.44/kWh because of all the random other complicated cruft.

Check out slide 28:
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUCWebsite/Content/Ne...
Male balding is a "risk factor"? I know academia is full of morons but can you at least try?

Male pattern baldness is a result of hormonal imbalance caused by a poor diet. The same poor diet is a cause for poor immune system.

It's difficult to reverse male pattern baldness but the immune system can be improved at any time.

A simple good diet is paleo food that you like to eat. Regardless of food industry propaganda has to say, we are NOT the one animal that likes to eat what is bad for us and dislike what is good for us. Eat what you like. That's the best diet.
OK, so the constitution's optional. No problem violating it then.

If you don't like what the government did, I don't mind you sharing your opinion. But how does it logically connect with my comment that you replied to? I thought you were giving an example showing that voters are not well informed and I pointed out that it's not objectively wrong, just different from what you want.
> Solar photovoltaic and wind are much older technologies than nuclear, to be fair on the "modern" quip.

To be completely fair, the development of nuclear power took governments and would have been impossible otherwise. Solar and wind, not so much. The problem with nuclear is only cost, not NIMBY and before it is said so, it certainly is not the regulations jacking the cost of nuclear so high. If nuclear power was economically viable, you could not beat off the investors. The trouble is, the investors don't want to pay the $15B or so it costs to build a single plant, nor the cost of decommissioning, nor for the cost of storing the waste effectively forever, plus the cost of securing that, and certainly not for any accidents, as improbable as they may be. They just want to sell electricity and profit, and leave the government with the responsibility of paying for all the things.

And really to be fair, the cost of R&D for nuclear power has never been paid back. Pay the US and UK taxpayers back for the R&D and you can have all the nuclear power plants you want.