skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar experience with Wired magazine online (owned Condé Nast). These subscription cancellation work flow and process steps are designed to be hard - otherwise their product team is not doing their job, IMO.
The good old Walden story :)
> What makes you think that?

“Through Tether pass more or less 80% of bitcoin trades.”
The obvious solution would seem to be "the owner of a fleet of cars builds a parking garage for them".
I know you don't want to self-promote yourself needlessly here, but do you mind if I ask the name of your company?

With a positive attitude like yours, it seems like something I would want to know about.
It's common for instructors and student pilots to date, but the scenario you described would be very rare in the US because nearly always flight school administration handles billing, and ratings are from the FAA, DPE's or Part 141 flight school examiners, who usually don't do individual instruction for initial ratings.

So the instructor would have to be an owner/instructor/examiner, which is rare.

Same with getting a pilot job more or less.

Hollywood is really in a different category.
And of course everything depends on the implementation. On my home fiber, the minimum latency to anything IPv4 is 20ms since the PPPoE concentrators are all on the other side of the country. IPv6 on the same line (which uses IPoE instead of PPPoE) gives me 5ms to a friend in the same city.
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There's also a pure falsehood story spreading on Facebook that the BBC tracked down and debunked:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-56085733

Text quoted as a public policy PSA, if you want to see the full story and picture the link is above.

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"In Texas today... a helicopter, using fossil fuels, spraying de-icer, made with fossil fuels, to de-ice a wind turbine, manufactured using fossil fuels, that is supposed to produce clean energy without using fossil fuels," one Facebook post says.

But the picture actually shows ice being removed from a wind turbine in Sweden, using hot water.

BBC News traced the image back to a 2016 report published by Swedish company Alpine Helicopter, demonstrating "airborne de-icing solutions" for wind turbines.
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Beta users have indicated service cuts of 90 miles from the home address
Anyone selling enterprise applications has better UI ever helped get you a deal. All fortune 50 companies I have worked for had horrible ui/ux. At one of them they didn't even bother with GUI.
Yes, you can think of this as a collection of small models, with another model choosing which smaller model to use for each input.
I only just came across this today but it looks amazing and I can’t wait to go kick the tyres on it.

It fits an interesting use case for me as well. I have a new project coming up where I want to basically move as much as possible in the direction of “cloud native best practices and patterns” but I want to incur the smallest possible cost for doing so in terms of effort and actual costs.

This seems like a potentially amazing out of the box experience that doesn’t require me to make drastic changes or also doesn’t require the kind of deep K8s (and surrounding ecosystem like linkerd etc) knowledge that would otherwise be required to set this up.
With all of its terribleness, PayPal is good for subscriptions, you can just cancel it any time and done.
So if subscription only service doesn't offer PayPal, I'll skip it.
Ask HN: What is the best mobile first banking solution for business in 2021?
mcfly is a nice alternative
https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
The new train line (Crossrail) in London is years behind schedule, mostly due to problems with the software control systems for the trains. [0] Integrating automated trains into an existing rail network isn't easy - imagine the scale of the challenge with automated cars on city streets.

[0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/crossrail-delay-logistics
Another great one is "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-managers-path/97814...
For what it it’s worth, I was part of the founding team and led the hardware development of Rift, but also kicked off the hardware architecture of Quest 2 (and the original Quest). As much as many of us were and are PC people, by the time we started Quest 2, everyone who was left had come around to standalone.
Cancelling a card and not paying a bill doesn't mean you no longer owe the underlying debt. A real company like the NYT will still pursue collecting the debt
We don't actually know that. There was one unknown source who once said it was some number X but the reliability of that claim is highly questionable.
Add Swap Memory in Linux
Beeminder

https://help.beeminder.com/article/25-how-do-auto-canceling-...

https://blog.beeminder.com/autocancel/
In many exchanges you exchange your crypto against tether (usdt) instead of real dollars. There are other alternatives such as USDC as well.
Awesome! Love the look and the blog post. But a feature request: a timer!
The point of what?
>Do they really think that they can curve their churn this way?

Yes, because it actually does work. If you need proof, just call up one of these companies and say "I am cancelling because your service is too expensive." Odds are decent that you will get some type of promo offer to keep you. If there is any competition in your area for internet/cable and you have never done this, you are wasting money.

OP could have also had any number of other problems that could have been solved by these retention specialists. Basically they are doing the equivalent of an IT person asking if you have turned it off and back on again. That might be frustrating for the type of people who read HN and know better, but the reason they ask it is because there are legitimately issues that can be solved by this extremely basic level of support.
Maybe it has to do with regulation, don't think states and nations would like a company bypass this.
If it was just knowing where to focus, the terminal could send a low bitrate signal with that information. And/or they could let you punch in new coordinates before you go somewhere.
...with a private unregulated overlord. Small difference to USD.
Citibank's $900M Fiasco
Ask HN: Where can I find free or paid website themes
Hi HN,
Where can i find website themes to buy.

I’m looking to buy a website theme for a client and I’m looking for themes with animations and interactivity.

For example the ones available on dribble.
Liverpool Picked Up a 2-0 Victory over Leipzig
Same in France. There's variations in how the water's heated (gas, fuel oil, electricity) but it's the default form of heating everywhere.
Why, as an innovator, you should consider joining informal networks?
For example Binance and gate.io USD pairs are actually USDT pairs.
Nope, PC market share, which Apple doesn't have.
Is this OS X? Is zsh the default there?
This doesn’t end. The high stock market valuations continue to fluctuate before eventually becoming normalized. Civilization continues on as normal.
Because Apple protects us somewhat from bad behavior. WeChat will not force use of your contacts on iOS but will on Android last I checked.

It’s up to consumer choice people say, but the reality is, bad behavior, like NYT giving you a hard time to stop a subscription, is more profitable. Spamming your notifications with deals are more profitable. I really wish it wasn’t. And the worst thing is when it’s profitable they have the ad money to drown out all the marketing “the good guys” do.
I had, surprisingly, the opposite experience when I exasperatedly wanted to cancel my BofA account. I had had it with their awful customer service and simply wanted to never do business with them again. I went into a branch expecting a difficult process. The teller had me all sorted and done in 5 minutes. I was impressed.
Announcing Vite 2.0
One explanation that I have heard that sort of makes sense is that by refusing to lower asking rents they prevent existing tenets from seeking rent reductions.

So the calculation is probably some combination of projected increase in occupancy, projected rent reductions of existing tenants, tax implications, and potential loan recalls.

My guess is most landlords are just trying to hold on till the end of the pandemic and hope that rents and valuations snap back quickly.
Why is "New Yorkers" in your list?
> I actually got the room yesterday, but the hotel lost power after an hour, so I had to go back home and sleep in 5 degree apartment.

Have the water pipes been emptied as a precaution? Otherwise they’ve all exploded due to being frozen, right?
I spent months trying to find an HTML/CSS job without success. Every web dev position I found was heavily JS-oriented.
There are many myths about Nuclear power.

1. Chernobyl was an old, unsafe design, and the disaster was human error. There are better safer designs.

2. The true toll of Chernobyl is the hundreds of thousands of people killed due to pollution from coal plants (52000 per year in US alone). Lives that could be saved if countries had shifted to Nuclear more aggressively.

I don't know why you think billions are suffering from Nuclear plants. About 20% of total power generation in US is from Nuclear. Can you tell me how many millions are suffering from it?
Benchmarks I've seen everywhere show worse performance for FreeBSD vs Linux.

Plus, if someone claims something, you bear the burden of the proof. If a person claims BSD runs Linux binaries faster than Linux nowadays, then that claim should be backed up by the truth.

I'm not gonna comment how was it 20 years ago because there seems to be quite an agreement on that, and I can't doubt BSDs where more mature than Linux at that point given Linux was younger.
It's just a fashionable theme these days. I'm not quite sure about the « educational content ». It seems to be beyond fantastical when it comes to ethnic interactions and religion. It's quite worrying seeing where people get their historical pointers from.
> they want to persuade me to hold a set of opinions

Glad more people are realizing this. It's harder to spot/acknowledge for people on the left since the biased coverage feeds into their worldview...in my opinion it's artificially solidified their confidence on how "correct" they feel they are about political topics.

The next step in this realization is nothing to do with one-sided reporting, it's the massive scale of what selectively gets ignored or hidden.
> Coming from any other big city, San Francisco doesn't feel more unsafe.

Speaking from years of living in Shanghai, that didn't come close to passing the laugh test.
probably less (literal) bandwidth, lasers are expensive
nnn is certainly very fast.

lf is also fast but has ranger's look and feel.
This other source claims 16 GW of renewable energy, mostly wind, is offline as compared to 30 GW of thermal sources (gas, coal, nuclear). That’s a very different claim from Politifact’s figure of 4 GW of wind offline. However Politifact frames it as 4 GW of wind experiencing problems (presumably meaning freezing problems and not just lack of wind). That seems like a spin of a different kind from the WSJ editorial.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-st...

EDIT: even more bizarrely, a different fact check from Politifact relating to the Texas outages claims yet another loss figure for wind power of only 2 GW, disagreeing with their other fact check: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/17/tucker-car...
There's no reason to assume starlink works like a typical satellite, though. Digital video broadcast in particular is in one direction from geostationary orbit. Latency is on the order of several seconds due to all the forward error correction that's necessary to tolerate bit errors in reception. There's not really any need for a "multiple access" scheme because "channels" are statically allocated frequency bands.

I would think the radio technology in starlink should more closely resemble modern LTE and 5G cell networks, whether you want to call that CDMA, OFDM, or whatever the specific techniques these days are called.
are you sure it's just fearmongering? I can't check the facts on my own. I know that they run a similar story about Apple, and Apple didn't confirm it; now here either Apple or Bloomberg weren't telling the truth, again no idea how to check on either of them.

on the other hand i was always wondering why the US was strictly opposed to European purchases of Huawei boxes for 5G, at least that thing (if it's true) would explain it.

But still on the other hand i was wondering why they would install Chinese made equipment at a DOD site (as reported in the story); not sure if that one is true, to begin with.
Added the missing OSM attribution
The common argument I've heard: because then you would have to decide how many experts models are required, train and evaluate them separately, and overall make your architecture dependent on this choice. If your expert is wrong and miscalculates how many models are required then your entire architecture is also likely to be wrong (humans, am I right?).

Researchers at Google's scale prefer a single model where you throw all your data in a single bin and get perfect performance out, no tweaking and no pesky humans required.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Orbitala...
Don't build your enterprise on consumer grade services.
A million dollars or some other significant sum of money doesn't nourish the soul the same way something you're actually passionate about does. You can fake it for a long time, but it's never quite the same, at least that I've found.
When you sell doesn't really matter. The current value of your bonds (e.g.) will still drop if interest rates go up.

If you bought that 30 year at 14.5% and we had hyperinflation then you wouldn't be so happy. There was a reason why those rates were at that point, inflation was >10%.

Conversely you could try to short bonds now but if rates stay at zero for the next few decades or go negatively that's not gonna be so great. In the rear-view mirror someone will say how we were stupid(?) for not shorting bonds when the rates shoot up to >10% again, or they don't. It's hard to win this game.

What is true is that retirees might have a shorter horizon (though people keep living for longer and longer) and so they may be forced into safer/shorter duration investments and possibly into smaller returns.

Efficient markets something something ;)
> A lot of local folk are now worried that our area will turn into the next Jackson Hole or Sun Valley as real estate prices skyrocket and longtime locals are priced out.

You can calm their fears by reminding them that Starlink is rolling out _nationwide_, so remote workers are going to move to lots of different places.
Tether: Proof of funds report (2018) [pdf]
1/ Bitcoin itself might be 100% on renewables. But it's still causing a need for non renewables to be used, to compensate for the fact that you're mining a useless coin. I'd rather have us use this energy in a useful way.

2/ Bitcoin is causing _more_ energy consumption. It's not curbing pollution, in any way. It's just grafting itself where the energy is cheap. Noone's building wind farms for bitcoin.

3/ If I cut off 36% (which is a low bound, other countries are not clean either) of your salary, go ahead and tell me it's okay because you still have the supermajority of it.
Thanks. I’m referring more to a REPL environment for executing inline javascript against your project rather than a CLI of prebaked commands.

So something like creating an instance of an existing model definition and trying out its methods instead of CLI for running a database migration or generating a stubbed model definition.
A) You just moved the goalpost.

B) That's a straw-man, as we have not asked for anyone's trust; quite the opposite.

C) We serve the public, everyone. Is your argument that the US and UK governments are excluded from the definition of the whole? Or that because they, like everyone else, are members of the set of the whole, that this somehow reflects upon us?
Magic algorithms (or perhaps magic machines) do exist, though. See: humans.
Maybe but people restream/broadcast Clubhouse chats to YouTube all the time currently
I’ve been there many times, and I agree the overhead wires would detract from the look especially of the inner coast, and I’m sure boaters would grumble some times when passing it, but the Head itself is a whole lot of scrub plants and nothing. Even the information placards celebrating the defeat of clean energy are unreadably weathered and the entire site obviously not cared for:
https://i.imgur.com/TocVZoG.jpeg
New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spring Back in Your Typing
They also make up a portion of the sell orders and asks.

Anyone know the proportion of buy vs. sell pressure accountable to it and how that's trended over the last few weeks/years?
This. Stranger danger isn’t what I’m concerned about at all, instead it’s can my kid be careful enough to not be killed by a car driven by someone not paying attention.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm strategy in action.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B2oLFKYNInQ
I dunno -- if I went to cancel my NYT subscription and they instead offered me a super-cheap rate, I might take it. This guy was quite rage-y.
This argument is very flawed, I'll pick on just one point. The main users of Tether are generally people who find it difficult to use conventional finance, so in the event confidence in USDT collapses, a lot of holders will be unable to exit.

I don't know why you gave possibility 1, given Tether have admitted it is not completely backed. Since the operation has refused over many years to provide proper accounts, breaking their own promise that they would, you would be foolish to bet on a rosy picture of their finances.
Enlightening, thanks
Starlink currently orbits at 550 km. 550*60=33000 so that puts it slightly more than 60 times closer than GEO. There are other shells planned at different heights, but the current satellites, and ones launched in the near future, are all orbiting at 550km.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink -- in the table of launches there's a column for orbit height.
Likely a different keyboard layout from the one op is used to.
is this something common? i mean, beating ceos for not-going-well-stocks?
I believe it’s kind of like a plug and play approach to things like Kafka.

My understanding is that you have a set of core functionality that is entirely optional so you only run what you want and need. These features are defined at a high level like state management (persistence) or an event bus.

Dapr provides a unified API that sits on top of all this and allows you to swap out your event bus system from say Kafka to Google PubSub without any code changes.

But under the hood everything seems to operate via gRPC calls.

Edit: I just came across this link which puts together a solid explanation of what Dapr is and how it works https://thenewstack.io/how-microsofts-dapr-simplifies-develo...
I am wondering why the site provides linux installation instructions only for a Turkish nationalist linux distribution: Milis Linux.

I haven't heard of this distribution before, but it seems it is focused on Turkish nationalists who ideolize a national operating system. The terminology they use seems also very right-wing to me.
I think you meant teleological argument, it is the one about irreducible complexity.
In contrast, also as a human with a driver's license, I find that having a conversation conflicts pretty severely with the job of driving a car.
>I believe USA has more money than the broke USSR did

Note that this doesn't really matter. It especially didn't matter back then in a less globalized economy. The USSR being poor doesn't change anything about their domestic labor pool, which is what is relevant for construction work. The laborers simply charge less.

This is same fallacy that leads people to believe we'd magically have more of everything if money hoarded by rich people was distributed across the populace. At best stuff will be distributed better. But bakers won't start baking more bread, nor will car manufacturers be able to start making more cars. Assuming unemployment stays the same, the economic output of goods won't change.

Money doesn't produce anything, people do. Money is a tool to guide labor in the right direction and distribute goods.

Which means that in order to build more, the USA would either need more construction workers or become more efficient at constructing stuff. The first can be achieved by diverting money and making the job more attractive, the second by creating a competitive environment.
The electricity I buy from PG&E is generated primarily with natural gas https://news.yahoo.com/news/sierra-club-took-26-million-natu...
I'm happy in zsh or bash but the one thing I love in zsh is that completion options for program arguments. Having a list with a snippet of documentation to tab through is a huge benefit.
What collection agency wants to collect a $4 bill?
Receiptline: Transform Markdown-like text to receipt printer commands or SVG
An event sourced version of Minesweeper with a cool replay slider (in Elm)
If your numbers are accurate >=55% of the demand for Gold is completely organic and because of the desire of human beings to wear it. The rest is largely as a hedge against other assets under the belief that the demand for Gold will endure a crisis. This sounds healthy.

Contrast this to Bitcoin where it has already been established in other comment threads that the vast majority of Bitcoin trading volume on dozens of exchanges might be fake ( see Bitwise/SEC presentation) and that a huge amount of volume is via the BTC/USDT pair and USDT may be fraudulent. Sounds pretty unhealthy.
I don’t know about your reduced capacity argument. The reason Buffett sold his airline shares so low is he foresees supply outstripping demand for quite some time in the industry. Presumably that would apply to other travel/experience stuff as well. And for gasoline I think the Saudis et al can ramp up preeetttyyy quickly.
> I'm looking into shorting it on Kraken

Why do you think Kraken would be in a position to pay you out if Tether goes under? Even the CME contract becomes sketchy when you’re talking about a meltdown at this scale—it’s priced off these exchanges. If they start experiencing edge case behaviour, prices could crash or multiply erratically.

If you want to play this, it would likely involve a more sophisticated bet on exposed public companies and/or credits, or a simple bet with a trusted counterparty.
It stopped being the 'central' bio research lab in US but still continued such research thereafter.
> but despite allegedly having several tens of billions of dollars in reserve, they refuse to do an audit.

They don't refuse this, instead they fail to find an auditor that people actually trust that wants to work on a big crypto project. They are very open about this.

The big problem about Tether is the amount of FUD and misinformation going around as common knowledge.

> I think the currently most plausible answer for how Tether works is

As someone who deals with Tether as well as all the big exchanges that run Tether markets, this is about as real as Alice in wonderland.
Lots of good advice here. I'll add learn AWS. The video training on acloudguru.com is excellent. If you get a few certifications (udemy.com has excellent test prep) under your belt, that may open doors and it's all remote-enabled work. For a few hundred dollars and focused time, you can learn a lot about modern software development.
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Often programmed with overhead infrared emitters.