skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Breaking into tech is as simple as loading up some free tutorials online and practicing away at any number of free websites. In 2021, you don't even need to live near these companies to get the job.

Uh no, that’s populist. Tackling hard problems remains something for the researchers and the super-committed.

Hacking together an online version of some existing social structure is indeed easy, but then you need the right connections to play the game
Google already uses a combination of NLP + PageRank to serve search queries [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RankBrain
Your best case scenario is worse than what most people in the industry consider the truth..
I actually like this. Id rather grab something of the shelf that has reusable react components for a quick beta than a framework has no usable components for future work
Cracking the Coding Interview and leetcode are good advice for getting a job at a FAANG or a startup (not that startups hire juniors..), but they're much less relevant at small- and mid-sized software companies. Applying to a FAANG/startup you're up against top graduates, people who have been coding for decades (even for junior roles), and highly motivated people who already have more demonstrable experience than you.

If you're applying to somewhere small it's less important to demonstrate you're already a good developer, and more important to demonstrate that you're interested in learning what the company can teach you, you're a decent human being who the company will want to be part of the team, and that you're not going to give up after a few weeks. Tools like leetcode won't teach you those things.
Grift (spelling?) happens without proper oversight and auditing.

It's said that the 4th (agency, branch?) of the US government was the press. Perhaps the destruction of a press sufficiently funded and driven only by the need to produce things people want to read, rather than entertainment people will pay to read or see, is a large factor in the dysfunction we see in the near term.

I would really love if the Government Accountability Office and some other organizations that produced reports for the library of congress...

1) By default had to publish to the public domain, with the report accessible in the public library stacks (mirrored everywhere).

2) Published a yearly report, with pretty color charts, breaking down the IRS input, which funds that goes towards, and where all of that goes (until it hits classified seal blocks; annotating when the classification is re-reviewed for extension and also when the current sunset to auto-unseal is scheduled.)

3) Also a report of all of the reports produced. (an index) Including those under seal, even if the titles are also redacted.

4) Could be directed to produce more reports by some form of citizen's initiative (maybe change.org?)

5) Should also have offices per state, mega-city (metro region), and county.
This image of this guy you're painting doesn't sound anything like Scott Alexander, if anything Scott Alexander is the opposite of "certain he's right"
I expected to read details of some legal battle over months. But this is a transcript of a chat for about 15 minutes. Srsly? That's what outrages you? Having to wait for a few minutes to cancel a newspaper subscription? How many times a day do you do this kind of thing?
Almost every military in the world already has the ability to jam the frequencies used by Starlink.
> 3.33 us per km

Signals in fiber do not travel at c. They travel at lightspeed in glass. Light speed in a material is c/(the refractive index of the material). For commercial glass fiber, 1.5 is a reasonable estimate for it's refractive index. So the actual time for 1 km is ~5 us.
"Stranger danger" as a concept is far older than 20 years, so you're just looking at the same type of statistic as OP. I'm guessing you need to go back well over 50 years for a meaningful difference in attitudes.

Edit: when I was growing up (well before 2001!) that was certainly the attitude – we didn't have the phrase "stranger danger" (maybe that's from the US?) but "don't take sweets from strangers" was common.

I also remember, as an adult, watching the film M and that finished with a strong message about not leaving your children unsupervised, and that's from 1931! But that message doesn't prove it was common at the time so I just mention that for curiosity.
I always try to cancel subscriptions with a legally binding letter. In Austria we have a federal signature service, which can be also used to sign PDFs. Those signatures are legally binding and have to be accepted by all people and companies inside the EU.

So I send a signed letter via email to the company. I ignore all their forms, procedures, intimidations. If they don't want to accept it, just threaten them with a credit card dispute (which you will win).

I have no idea about the laws in the US though, if that's possible. And yes, it's annoying. But you just need to figure it out once, and use the same standard procedure for any services/subscription.
I think everybody agrees that immutable data-structures are preferable to mutable ones if it is possible to get by without mutation in practice. In Haskell it seems it is difficult to mutate data, whereas in Lisp not so.

If immutability is good then it would seem it is best if you can enforce immutability at the language level.

I'm just wondering whether mutability is a downside of Common Lisp?
That is good. And Facebook just shoot it's leg. No news sharing on FB will make people go out from this closed garden to look for news. And this is good, because a lot of people treat FB like the whole internet (they just don't understand what is a blog, home page, vortal)
> All that takes is money.

The biggest case against nuclear actually isn’t environmental, but economic: they still take a lot of money to build and rebuild after their useful life is over. The reason no one is fighting too hard to keep nuclear around as an option is because it simply isn’t feasible without the government subsidies handed out in the 60s and 70s.

But nuclear with its really cheap fuel and the new ability to store power in batteries when demand is lower might be feasible if the capital and insurance costs can be tamed more.
That's the longest in the world, not exactly representative of the norm. There's grid bubbles everywhere, they do all live in a "vacuum", you can't just magically transport it without decades long mega infrastructure projects to build super grids and accepting large transmission losses.
Do people... actually use this font in their terminal? I would go absolutely nuts looking at the spacing and color scheme.
Bash supports completions as well.
Pfizer Vaccine 92% Effective Two Weeks After First Dose
Dead industry projects incompetence onto disruptive newcomer, news at 10.

More seriously, the phased array antennas seem to be a big part of Starlink’s innovation. Launching tons of satellites cheaply by itself isn’t a super protected moat because if they block competitors from using the launch platform at a reasonable price, they risk antitrust action.
At first I thought: what a bland and narrow takeaway from such a nuanced and still surprisingly fun article.

.. but then I realized that me not being in a country or position to need to care about being accused of insensitive language is a big privilege many users on HN might not share.
> BTC is currently the 6th most valuable asset class by market cap

TIL commodities, real estate, intellectual property, factories, bonds and private equity aren’t asset classes.
Seniority doesn't cut into it, it must also be the right person sending the right signals (and often sharding some backstories).

They'll seldom if ever make the mistake of inviting a clean cut / square type of person.
> the actual price per unit doesn't matter as much. What matters is the store of value over longer times

Contradicting statement. Or how do you define "store of value" if not in USD?
> b. no ipv6 yet. They have people who know what they are doing for neteng so I am sure it is planned.

Some individuals in /r/starlink have started reporting being assigned globally routable ipv6 addresses. So right now it's probably being tested.
I just recently ditched oh-my-zsh as I wanted to understand and have more control over my shell. I have to say that just using native zsh capabilities I don't miss oh-my-zsh at all.

A good guide (although a bit old and maybe too thick :) ) is this one: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/zshguide.pdf
Payment cards that allow you to 'spend crypto' don't make cryptocurrencies money any more than a card that allowed you to spend gold or shares or cabbages (if you happened to own a warehouse full of those) would make those things money. BTC isn't 'real money' in the conventional sense as long as people aren't transacting in it directly, and I can't see a path towards people ever doing that - who wants the buying power of their savings and income to swing wildly from day to day? As far as I know that only happens in countries with serious economic problems.
defaults matter.
This sounds very negative, but to be fair it's probably a lot more than the grand majority of people get for their life. Especially if the work is interesting to you.
It's not about the time but about the way. You can sign up with a few clicks but to cancel you need to talk to human being.
Well you could Google it. The amount of tether in circulation is within the billions. Thought it was common knowledge
For people hoping to get overseas latency better than fiber: not now, and probably never without a huge premium.
When they finally get inter-satellite comms, low-latency transport will probably be reserved for huge-premium tier accounts.

For everybody else, you can assume the satellites will aggressively dump packets to the nearest downlink terminal to feed into fiber. After they get laser links going, when there is no downlink terminal in view, packets might move to the next satellite ahead or behind on the same orbit, and then, if possible, down, or repeat. There will be no attempt to send packets to satellites in other orbits. They might sometimes delay traffic so as not to match performance of their premium tier, if it would otherwise be reliably fast.

For future super-high-premium tier accounts, packets will step through satellites to get to a terminal near the destination, and downlink there. Packets sent via this route will arrive whole milliseconds ahead of terrestrial fiber. Despite small amounts of traffic bouncing between orbit tracks, these accounts will constitute a substantial fraction of Starlink's total revenue.

In the eventual future, we can expect satellites to carry a few TB of on-board storage to proxy blockbuster media properties; and, to broadcast select real-time traffic, e.g. World Cup video. These will be done mainly to free up bandwidth.

Those are my predictions. If yours differ, explain.
CheapETH will be easy to attack with a 51% attack.

If you want to play with Ethereum tech at low fees and still be secure, check out the EVM (Ethereum virtual machine) part of Avalanche on the C chain.
Off-topic:

Is that question well written? I'm not English native but it kind of sounds wrong. Shouldn't it be:

-What did the Anglo-Saxons think they were?

-Who thought the Anglo-Saxons they were?

-...?
Source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/netflix/dgs-framework
You probably knew this but the Federal Reserve is mixed public and privately owned. USD monetary policy is for a significant part in private hands.
When you remove an invalid debt, make sure that the bank doesn't sneak it back in. The banks "push" to the credit scoring companies on regular intervals, so although the credit scoring company-ies may remove it, unless the bank/source removes it from THEIR systems, it will be re-pushed 1-3-6 months later.

(source: Dave Ramsey's mentioned that in many of his radio shows/podcast episodes)
The Foundation Series is really great (at least for the first 3/4). Its books obvious but the ideas are so good. The dialogue and characters are a bit basic, but it’s more than made up for by the story.
It seems that Avalanche consensus is a strong contender, isn't it?
Thank you, I appreciate the sentiment. Unfortunately if I told you that, I might inadvertently be outing other parties as well through my comment history, and I don't think that would be fair. I hope that our policies aren't that unusual anyway. We're just a small business run by real people and trying to treat our customers as real people too.
> Having an assigned routable address is not a thing in many countries

citation needed
What else do you propose American workers to produce? More cat video websites?

I simply don't see anything much profitable left for USA to produce. No more expensive stuff left to make.
What actions are you planning to take when it reaches those thresholds?
> I have no money, so I don't need to worry about losing it

To date I’ve been relatively confident that when this melts down, the silver lining will be no bailouts for the afflicted. As the phenomenon spreads, however, this becomes less and less likely.
Came here to say this. I think it's more than cultural, it's a US obsession to helicopter parent. We're in the uk and kids are widely allowed to roam, and good on the parents and kids for giving them autonomy. We live by the sea in a small town: my kids are 13 and 16 now but have been encouraged out for some years. How else are they going to learn how to interact with the world, learn how to negotiate roads, know not to fall in the sea?

I'm sounding blase. I'm not, they're my kids and as such are as important to me as it gets, but parenting - maybe the hardest thing about parenting - is about letting go, knowing that you're making strong, independent adults.
POW is taking renewable energy away from other consumers of electricity.
Ask HN: Choline to Counteract Anticholinergic Agents?
I've been forced to increase the dosage of an SSRI I'm taking. This SSRI has stronger than average (for it's class) anticholinergic activity, specifically a muscarinic antagonist.

Anticholinergic agents can negatively impact cognition. Would Choline supplementation be a way to counteract this?

Why ask hear? Because brilliant people peruse HN and maybe other users are taking an anticholinergic agent and would be interested in maintaining optimal cognition. Thank you.
There is one thing that has not gone up.

Salaries.
Disagree, there is a >0 number of stranger child abductions we should expect with optimal policies.

Same as there is a >0 number of car crash deaths with optimal policy. And a >0 amount of rat droppings in our food.

And in your personal life, a >0 chance of dying of avoidable accident.
Iridium and Global Star make the majority of their money from governments supporting custom use cases and working with OEM partners. Starlink might be a viable alternative in 10 years on the next-gen bidding cycle, but not before.
Most importantly, the authors are actively trying to trigger one.
https://www.newsweek.com/silicon-valley-uncovered-brotopia-l...
> beta-only limitation though

There's no way you are crossing borders with it and transmitting from a country where it's not approved.
Much higher than that in higher cost states. My PG&E bill for last summer (summer pricing is higher) shows 62.4c per kWh afternoons & evening to midnight.
Such an incredible series.
I really love this idea. But I have the gut feeling that I will not be able to use this email everywhere (for example web forms with validation).

Is this a well-funded fear? Or does it just work?
[1] is not about male pattern baldness, it's about telogen effluvium (an acute physiological stress reaction), alopecia areata (autoimmune) and trichotillomania (pulling your hair out, psychological.) [2] does not mention lack of sleep at all, and instead gives a detailed mechanistic pathway from androgens to keratins.

your conclusion is not supported by your sources.
Where in the world do you not need to exchange BTC in order to buy things with it? Can you point to any shop where things are priced only in BTC? Your bitcoin credit card is just an on-the-fly exchange, that doesn't mean bitcoin is money.
Swap parking spots with other drivers
Why Isn't 1 a Prime Number? And how long has it been a number?
Not nearly as bad as cancelling a gym membership. 20 years ago I tried canceling my membership to 24 Hours Fitness when my company stopped reimbursing it.

They refused to do it over the phone so I reported my credit card as lost and their charges as fraudulent.
It's outraging because it should be a single click, and there should be no need to go through this ordeal.

Incidentally, NYT can make it easy. I'm in Europe and canceled my NYT subscription last week – it was really easy, just a click on my NYT account page.
For people not aware of Bitcoin trading

$136,273,340,188.23 Tether 24hr volume

Volume on Chinese exchanges is unreliable

But the trading volume is obviously significant

$33,139,949,239.15 in tether tokens

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
True, I responded to the wrong aspect of your original comment.
Thanks.

Have you reference for that?

That is the first coherent argument, IMO, for their position. Coherent, but so wrong I think.
IIRC, bash doesn't support extended completion editor features of ZSH, which GP alluded to - like generating a table of options with help strings that can be selected by arrow keys and the like.
https://www.businessinsider.com/munich-re-sex-party-corporat...
San Francisco post-covid is gonna be so weird. Just electric scooters and Weymos. Like no parking, we just turned that into outdoor dining.
Bootstrap CSS official website have some paid themes for various projects: landing pages, dashboards, SaaS...
What a great attitude! I wish more businesses were like that. I had to leave a startup once, that I as a senior dev managed to drag to profitability, because I saw how they treated their customers.

It was such a sad experience- while helping out with the customer side I was wading through emails _begging_ to cancel their subscription. Some people were closing their bank accounts to do that, because the founders intentionally introduced dark patterns to hide the unsubscribe functionality.

I mean yeah they did get a fair amount of money from those schemes, but they did loose all of their senior devs in the process.
Facebook has banned Facebook's own Facebook page in Australia
sorry, downvote, that just so viscerally doesn’t ring true. the sibling comment speaks of soul nourishment. yes. at the level of 400k, 1M, 4M it’s a fucking digit on a screen in your bank’s app. come on now...

my experience is the absolute reverse direction. money is so very numbing
You probably wrote this before I added the last paragraph to my comment.
Society in the US and EU is safer overall than it has ever been before, and the trend is towards ever greater safety.

Yet we still get constant reminders of stranger danger and horrible crimes in the news. Instead of focusing on those, perhaps we should collectively focus a lot more on making traffic better and safer for pedestrians and cyclists, prioritize them heavily over cars.

Distracted driving especially is something we could do something about, if we chose to do so.
I wonder if this isn't a profitable practice though.

However much annoying these processes are (I had to suffer an identical Financial Times cancellation process last week) They know how much it costs to take cancelling users through an account specialist and presumably they get enough people to continue subscription to make it worth while.

A continuing paying customer now is worth far more than someone who may subscribe again in the future. And even if you're sick of their cancellation process, if you want to read NY Times news again you'll signup.
Container orchestration with Docker Swarm behind the hood at NLP Cloud
If you restrict it to abductions, the picture is less rosy: around 1 in 6 abductions are non-family abductions.

The stand-out statistic is over 90% of missing children are runaways. Working on this risk, reducing the chance that your kids will choose to run away, does look the better risk-reduction strategy.
It seems that the picture of the web landing pages are ripped off from this original article and the article is also answering the very question that is being asked by the poster [1].

[1]https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...
As I was writing that statement, I was sure that someone would ask this very same question, but I think explaining it in the middle of that paragraph would have distracted from the overall point I was making, so here it is apart:

Yes, sometimes management needs firing as well, but in the context of my comment above, we were talking about a case where one employee's performance doesn't match up with the expectations of their manager.

To put it in the context of software engineering, if you have an engineer responsible for ten features in a year, and nine of them are coming along just fine, but the tenth was completely bungled, it would be incredibly rare to think that it was time to fire the engineer over the tenth. You're more likely to restructure things so that the engineer has less of a workload, or has help on the tenth, or maybe even just give them a bad review and make it clear that their performance needs to improve.

Firing a manager has an even greater cost for a company and team than firing an employee because the manager is a representative of the relationship between their employees and the company, so firing a manager also damages that relationship for each of their employees.

This is not exclusive to managers. Other roles like engineering team leads and senior architects also have a greater cost, because they're the employees whose roles have a connection to more people than just themselves.
Are you saying that BTC is only of value for people investing $1 million or more?
It appears to be less useful as time goes on. QED
> So don't?

Did... did you even read what I was replying to? I was replying to this, emphasis mine:

--- start quote ---

It's depressing that even on hackernews where you expect people want to tinker and have control over their machines there's a probably a majority who are happy with the situation and use the think of my grandma (aka children) using iPhone situation.

--- end quote ---

No, I don't want to tinker with my phone. So I don't, and as a user I'm quite happy with the situation on the iPhone.
https://letsownpge.org has some answers to these issues.
They actually refund rather than just cancel further payments?
Every time I read anything about US healthcare I find it incredible that everyone there isn’t demonstrating in the streets every day to get it changed.

This is a thread is from 2019, when I accidentally discovered how much Americans might pay for a worming tablet: https://twitter.com/jawj/status/1199026735980990465
Super annoying. FYI every ISP I’ve had that does this has some setting buried somewhere that lets you turn this off.

If not that, you can usually bypass this by setting your router (or computer directly) to use 8.8.8.8 (Google dns) or 1.1.1.1 (cloud flare dns) as a resolver.

I’ve only heard of a couple of cases where ISPs sniff all dns and rewrite NXDOMAIN responses, and the answer for those is some kind of unpleasant tunneling.
I know comic sans is often used by dyslexic people, as they can read it more easily, so I'd expect it's something similar.
What was the reason for them doing this do you know? From my experience with it over the last year, zsh is slightly worse at autocomplete than bash, with no advantages.

Is there something I'm missing, like a good default .zshrc?
It's correct, there's a common phrase in English "who do you think you are?" and this headline is just past tense plural.
Once again: how do you imagine the imaginary free market works?
They do. I bought a house with a cheque. It was the only cheque I’d ever written and it bounced. The bank had closed the account without telling me.

Fun times.