skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, generally you can find different jobs. I was at a FAANG for five years, and it was incredibly good for years 1-3. Over years 4-5 it became more and more political, to the point where this kind of crap started happening.

I left, bounced around two other companies and am now back in a place that reminds me of the early days of FAANG.

If you hate what you need to do in a job, start looking for another one, and make sure that you like talking to all the people who interview you. Every time I've broken this rule, I've regretted it.
Large nuclear power plants have unique cooling needs. You must place them near a big body of water or risk shutting them down because of insufficient cooling if you place then near rivers.
There are almost certainly always going to be restrictions, because the bandwidth density on the ground is going to be limited.

For example, a lot of recreational boaters are likely to get a terminal, which will work well over the open ocean. However, when all of those boaters tie their boat at the LA marina, there is absolutely no hope that the system can provide anything even approximating good service to them. So mobile starlink connections will almost certainly come with some language about how they work so long as you stay away from other people.
A article with no new content about celebrities debauchery in the 80/90's?

Is this vanity fair or HN?
It is the patents fault that the current situation exists. Whether a potential buyer might be able to change the situation is something independent. And of course, after not making a huge business out of eInk in 20 years, it is understandable that the buyers don't exactly line up to buy eInk - if they can be bought at all without the owners consent. The market for eInk devices could be much larger if it hadn't been so much restricted in the last 20 years.
7. in bash, I use the: [Esc], [#] combo, equivalent to: [Alt]-[Shift]-[3] (a.k.a.: "M-#" in the official docs).

This is a shortcut which basically prefixes the current line with '#' comment character and then simulates hitting Enter (pushing the commented-out line into history buffer).
>> They've not only blocked news pages but gov pages as well.

Couldn't this be a viewed as a criminal act by the Australian government? Could they arrest FB employees in Australia for FB HQ blocking their pages, especially with the vital COVID-19 information?
This confirms my impression: the conversation does not have to go sideways about advertisements. It is kind of a deflecting trick to provide customer support instead of cancelling the subscription. Once you step in their trap, then it is slightly more cumbersome to go through the cancellation process.

I guess people try to be polite and come up with a reason for cancelling their subscription, and this reason could be solved by customer support. It is not being polite to try to please Tony from customer support, he is just doing his job and does not care about polite reasons for cancelling, his job is that you do not cancel. It is important to know what you *really* want before contacting them (or any other company), in case they use this kind of trick to confuse you.
I suspect is due to a security choice from Apple, a firmware upgrade should fix it, or at least put a warning or doesn’t allow you to erase the whole SSD if you can’t install macOS after.
Good Bye LastPass Free?
I think that means the free version of LastPass is virtually useless in this day and age.
What are the alternatives? 1Password? Dashlane?
Actually griddy was little misleading but not totally dishonest.

“The highest the price can go to is $9/kWh (which has only ever happened 0.005% of the time.) Most of the time, though, 96% to be exact, it stays below the Texas Average of 6¢/kWh”
Not entirely, right, shorting the future requires you put up margin. Current maintenance margin requirement is about $100,000 per contract, which covers 5 BTC, notionally $258,000.

Margin interest at the institutional level is 0.75% per year, so you're free to collateralize your position with something other than cash or bitcoin. You could have 1 short /BTCG1, collateralized by a portfolio of other investments, and buy BTC to cover at an exchange somewhere.

Yeah it's not risk free, but it's certainly not 27% per annum.

I do agree it's a simplification, however.
There is more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist%E2%80%93hip_ratio#Indica...

Specifically

> WHR has been shown to be a better predictor of cardiovascular disease than waist circumference and body-mass index.[11] However, other studies have found waist circumference, not WHR, to be a good indicator of cardiovascular risk factors,[12] body fat distribution,[13] and hypertension in type 2 diabetes.[14]
Walnut Creek is nice. I go to Mt Diablo frequently
Beautiful stars and nebulae are the treasure for all people
Incidents like this make me wonder why there isn't an appetite for better consumer rights in the US.

If this had happened in the UK, you'd have the option to pro-actively block the payment, recover it, and legal standing to defend getting your money back.

Letting companies redefine the rights of their customers seems bizarre to me.
They think BTC will replace fiat altogether such that anyone left holding dollars/"shitcoins" will be royally f-ed, and have to beg the coiner fiefs for the chance to rent a humble plot on their lands in perpetuity. /s, but not nearly as much as it ought to be.
> The furrow of pseudo-intellectual troglodyte conservatism that Scott Alexander and his followers are ploughing is remarkably similar, to a comical level of eccentric detail, such as overstated disdain for poetry and other kinds of absurd, arch gestures of distaste.

This in no way resembles what I’ve seen from siskind and frankly your comments seems like a bizarre form of character assassination.
It's astonishing that Americans have to pay for insurance at all, given that federal government healthcare spending per capita alone is at least as much as the NHS costs per capita, and the NHS is only average by international standards.
You will find light patches in female underwear
I was expecting to hate this show but I ended up enjoying it. Even more than what I my highest possible expectations gave me.

There's an episode in the Last Kingdom and in Vikings when we see the great pyres lit to communicate a raid was occurring. There's quite a few on the coast of North Eastern England where I grew up still present to this day.

Admittedly I some what doubt they're original .
Sometimes shifting the priority is all it takes.
Dealing with people is half the job, so focus on your soft skills as much as you do your hard skills.

http://softskills.audio/ is a goldmine in this regard.
And yet, how is quality of life in Japan?
>Southwest Gas is asking customers to conserve resources as states contend with cold weather.

According to the utility, shortages are not anticipated in Arizona, but conservation will help maintain the interstate pipeline system.

https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/southwest-gas-asks-cus...
I've heard that this will be a disaster for amateur astronomy. Yet Starlink is claiming that their mitigation techniques will avoid the problem [0]. I can't tell if their claim is sound. Can someone with expertise weigh in?

0:https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/in...
The satellite doesn't steer towards the user. Steering is too slow and there are too few beams to steer to all users.

Instead the satellite steers towards an arbitrary area on the ground, and the users must be within that area to work.
There has been some level of distrust towards strangers in society forever. The comment I was replying to is about the rather recent complete segregation of children from possibly interacting with strangers.
Besides the syntax, Factor is way closer to Smalltalk and Common Lisp than to Forth.
Watch the Perseverance Mars Rover Landing
Error 404 for me
I am a happy Fish user, too. The first downside that comes to my head is that if you want to share a script you wrote that you have to translate it to bash first. Much less of an issue if you're using zsh.
Imposter syndrome is real.

Kinda soon you'll be in a position where others look up to you, thinking they'll never get as good as you, while you still think you're a total noob.

If coding, don't do everything from scratch.

I've seen multiple people losing interest in their projects, because they didn't even really start them. It's almost always parsers, they (my old me included) write their own parsers for stuff and then lose interest in the idea behind it.
I've never heard of it outside the US.

In Australia, you post something by putting it in a post box, they're located in shopping areas and have specified collection times, usually daily on weekdays.

Of course, you can also go into the post office and deal with a human who will take the postage $ as needed.

These days, the number of times I've posted something can be counted in low single digits per year. Mostly dealing with government forms that need signatures because stupid reasons.
>The first can be achieved by diverting money and making the job more attractive

You mean... like the central bank dropping interest rates to an all time low?

The low CPI inflation also suggests an underutilized labor force.
I have to say that I really doubt this as they've released model weights for their several last few models that have been of nearly this size (and have been trained on the same dataset).

See https://github.com/google-research/text-to-text-transfer-tra...
Do you have a review of methods in the book? I’d love to connect and learn more.
2/ at flare gas plants bitcoin is curbing pollution, and this helps the plants and the state meet their climate goals. yes their pursuit of cheap power is what takes them where they are, an economic incentive for sustainability solutions that 50 years of idealists never were able to consider and are now fighting to ignore because this solution doesnt decrease energy use.

3/ I’m not sure what you are saying here? Is this supposed to be an analogy to something? What happens if you get rid of that energy use? The bitcoin network will adapt to a lower difficulty rate... not sure what you think you’re saying here.
Depends on where in the city. If I were closer to the city, I could probably get something better from Comcast, but CenturyLink bonded vdsl2 is 80Mbps down/10Mbps up, 20 ms round trip to PPPoE concentrator, $60ish/month. Starlink seems to have maybe better upload and comparable download and latency, and won't go down when the DSLAM (or whatever it's called for vdsl) loses utility power, like my centurylink service does or 2-4 hours later like the cell towers do.
The attack isn't on `Pjmlp. I wanted to ask, as politely as possible, if he was aware that his comments consistently felt like a grumpy old man bringing nothing interesting to hacker news.

`Badsectoracula made a good case (better than the subject himself) for his opinion, and honestly, I agree with it! I just wish it wasn't always phrased in such a blasé negative fashion is all I wanted to convey.
Why not just do the usual dd if=/dev/zero of=<disk> bs=1M count=1024 instead of using those weird proprietary tools?
That and because the atmosphere is not clear (this is why 1Gbps free space laser network bridges have very limited range), the links from satellite to earth in any rf band will be very small in capacity as compared to a singlemode fiber cable. Space to space lasers, sure... Much clearer.
Consider their T&Cs are very clear - owning USDT gives you no rights or claims on their reserves. They can also arbitrarily, and indefinitely, delay/postpone your withdrawal request. They can also substitute whatever they want from their assets to satisfy your claim. They can also just tell you to go pound sand.

Owning a USDT gives you as much right to cash from the Tether treasury as owning a Chuck-E-Cheese token gives you right to the coins in the cash drawer at your local fun-a-torium.
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pls ignore
By that logic I have no choice but to buy an iPhone to run many different apps because they're not available on Android.
As someone who used to like Trello, this "new Trello" saddens me. Not because I wasn't expecting things to turn out this way, but rather because I thought they would.

I went through Joel Spolsky's early posts where he talks about why Trello is a good idea. His first bullet point in this article [1] reads "We’ve successfully made a non-developer product that actually appeals to civilians. We tried to avoid the software developer niche this time, and it worked.". Similarly, in "How Trello is different" [2], he is proud that Trello "can be used by people from all walks of life".

This new Trello is not that Trello. We all jumped on the Kanban wagon because it was a way to make software development easier - all you need is post-its! But this new Trello is the exact opposite of that. I guess all software turns into Jira eventually.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2014/07/24/trello-inc/

[2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff...
I just use QDeferred for threaded applications
https://github.com/juangburgos/QDeferred
It was designed to be negative and you're right, it could be worse.
Electronics not included: Walking quadruped controlled and powered by air
This is hilarious, because the impression to regular folks will simply be that "Facebook has implemented a news blackout on Australians, which is authoritarian and dangerous."

That is certainly a true sentiment, but in general as many other commenters have noted, it's better not to have "news" articles being force-fed to social media users via blackbox algorithms, emotional trigger-sharing, and over-enthusiastic ad buyers. This is a great first-step to help break the spell that accidental over-consumption of news media has on people's mental health.

Enjoy Australia, the rest of the world envies the peace and quiet in your news feed!
Just use a privacy.com card and reduce limit to $1/mo and problem solved.
You'd likely brick your mac if you don't do it the anointed way.
Ive slightly misstated it - they closed the cheque function on the account (although the account is still called a ‘cheque account’ now, 10+ years later). The account was active but no longer had a cheque book associated with it. However I had a physical cheque book.

Cheques basically don’t exist here in NZ now.
Cool, that's a very interesting observation, so thanks for elaborating!

As originally worded, it only sounded like "hey, this dude is famous" (for HN value of famous :-), so I would appreciate the commentary you just shared right off the bat! Thanks again for the clarification!
This is a really cool idea but would require proper crawling and a server but I do not have money to rent a server so I will skip it for now. Really good idea however. Thanks :)
But at least with an intel Mac you can boot in target mode using cmd - t and then clone/mount/erase/whatever the disk from another Mac!

Instead with ARM you can’t mount the disk as an external drive. That’s why this mess started!
When the regulation they're trying to not be beaten over the head with says what it does, it is hardly shocking at all:

> covered news content means content that is any of the following:

> ...

> (b) content that reports, investigates or explains current issues or events of interest to Australians.
That's why it would break if you leave the active cells entirely. It's not why it would break if you move from one active cell into a different active cell.

And they don't have that many satellites. Each one needs to have a pretty large active area.
Since you seem to have a lot of relevant experience how likely is it that you think Waymo could ever succeed from a business perspective? As you mentioned, they are going to need quite a few vehicles and at least some form of remote monitoring callcenter. I imagine the economics of this will be fairly unprofitable for many years to come still. Granted, Google has infinetly deep pockets, but thats a lot of money to recoup once it actually becomes profitable years down the road.
In my experience, if you enter the desired service address it is the very next thing that's displayed.
Who is responsible for a regional law like the Cuban one mentioned in this thread? Would Starlink be held responsible, or would it be the one moving a receiver across the border?
> is the infection severity angle due to testosterone's immunosuppressive effects as a steroid?

Yes, most likely[1].

> are women less likely to develop severe covid-19 than men?

Yes[2]. This was an early observation and has been observed consistently since Covid-19 was discovered.

> I'm hoping I've gotten some extra protection by ditching testosterone for estrogen

That's an interesting question. I'm a layperson, but I would assume the answer is yes, since testosterone levels seems to be the root cause of the sex differences in immune response. I'm sure the doctor who helped/helps you transition would know.

It's possible that vitamin D (another hormone and a secosteroid) is an even more important factor than testosterone, in case you're looking for other ways to safely reduce your risk of severe Covid.

1. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/man-flu-really-thing-201...

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19741-6
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I just ignored most of it - the only time I was really insulted was when I found out the real reason the office manager went around lighting candles everywhere was that she thought the engineers smelled bad. I overheard her taking to the receptionist while I was downstairs foraging for a favorite snack one day. They didn’t realize I was there, but not cool just the same.
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If that's the case, how can anyone consent to anything?

Can I consent to getting a taxi ride to the doctor's office, when we might get in a car crash and die?
Look into Salesforce consulting. You can get trained for free or low $ and make many times the minimum wage WFH. I know people making ~$100/hr and they have more inbound than they can handle.

There's a big gap between demand and supply and it's only growing.
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Right now a terminal even at 48.9 latitude angles itself somewhat north, because the greatest simultaneous density of satellites at any moment in time is around 52.5 to 53 degrees north. If you mount it flat and don't allow it to move, who knows what starlink will change in the future architecture. They included the servo motor geared pan and tilt mechanism for a reason. Maybe later it will reorient itself differently as network density and satellite population changes. I'm not saying they won't ever release a flat non motorized cpe, but that is very much not the configuration now.
Yeah because HN is full of raging socialists who can't accept dissenting opinions.

Essentially, you are all demanding a basic income for everybody?

Sure it is a nice thought. I am not against providing for everyone. It comes with several catches, though. At the very least, you then also have to discuss birth rates and immigration.

Unfortunately YC makes it impossible for me to discuss this any further, they rate limit my comments.
What happens is at un-banked exchanges, people try and run for the hills, buying as much BTC or ETH as they can get their hands on with their vanishingly worthless USDT. The price of crypto on these exchanges goes up parabolically into the millions.

These folks then transfer their crypto to banked exchanges to try and salvage what little they can - to try and pay back some of the stupid loans they've been taking on the run-up, and they flood these banked exchanges with sell orders, and the price there crashes to pennies.

Some exchanges may go insolvent, and those could be on the CME BRR calculation list, causing the price there to spike, leading to cascading liquidations in the futures market.

The worst case scenario where the wheels come off is that the wheels come all the way off, like a MtGOX on steroids.
I will create a separate Ask HN and will implement it if people are interested in. I think it makes sense but wanted to check one more time as I have not received many comments to this post. I will reply back here also to keep you posted if I get some upvotes. Cheers :)
The IBM Model M hype is absurdly overblown. Anyone who has used decent mechanical keyboards should be able to pretty much immediately notice just how cost-reduced that keyboard is. It is quite literally the cheapest buckling spring keyboard IBM managed to make in '89, and it shows. Cherry boards are often bashed for their flexing and wobbly cases, but the IBM Model M is hardly better with the top and lower parts of the clamshell having significant play. The Model M is a pure membrane keyboard, and thus limited to 2KRO. The Model M has no replaceable parts.

Why is it a membrane keyboard, when previous models were not? Because it is much cheaper to make.

Why does the Model M has only loosely fitting case parts? Because it is much cheaper to make.

Why does the Model M has plastic rivets that hold the membrane stackup together which always break off due to ageing and bad design after 20 years or so? Because it is much cheaper to make.

Why does the Model M have a single-piece barrel plate with barrels that occasionally break off, rendering the entire keyboard garbage? Because it is much cheaper to make.

Why does the Model M have essentially zero spill resistance? Because the cheap design doesn't permit spill resistance. When you spill water on an M, expect to either have it dry for weeks or months as the water evaporates from between the membranes, or to disassemble it. If it wasn't pure mountain spring water, you have to disassemble it, which--due to plastic rivets-- is a destructive proecss. To reassemble it, you have to drill a bunch of new holes through the actual keyboard parts to put screws in.

Yet despite these significant design and longevity issues the M somehow got a legendary reputation for being "solid"... it really isn't.

Go look at Model F reproductions. Those are solid keyboards. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/
I very much agree on z. Also fzf [0]. It is super fast and makes a huge difference when working in code bases with code 12 levels deep.

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
On returned items, both Amazon US and Amazon DE have been quite helpful. I think Amazon US is even more over-the-top, but I think the local retail standards for this are much higher in the US so it makes sense.

On memberships, I don't mind the Prime cancelling issues very much because they seem to always credit back a month if you later tell them you forgot to cancel. Unfortunately, there are annoying dark patterns when signing up, hiding the "No thanks" button when trying to get through an order, etc.
What most people don't understand, is that Starlink is a military first service. Their primary customer is the US military. The most obvious application is UAVs where latency is critical. The consumer part is probably just marketing. It doesn't make much economic sense. Imagine they wanted to launch 1000s of classified military satellites. Everyone would be opposed.
Forgot to add the section on inter-node communication on the previous article so added this new one. This one uses Apache Kafka for inter-node data streaming and other communications.
I said find a normal paying job. Why do you claim it won't sustain people on its own?
Be very wary of always chasing the latest and greatest. You can easily spend a decade or two pursuing the latest trends. Be open to new technology, but pick something and stick with it until you master it. You should probably pick something that is being used by many, e.g. Python or Javascript.

Your learning process should mainly consist of reading and writing code.