skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a great idea. I’ve also seen a less secure “cubby” model where people just have trays.
Like many I just assume that the potential marginal profits are too thin to overcome the royalties demanded and the transactional costs of negotiating with E Ink. The market is indeed small, trying to grow it by scaling production is speculative at best, and there are plenty of other investment opportunities. So even if E Ink's royalty and others demands are "reasonable", they might still easily impose too much of a barrier to invite any interest.

This dynamic would only be compounded by E Ink apparently spending considerable effort securing its patent position for the indefinite future. There's little potential to achieve a demanding, independent market position short of buying E Ink.

The software industry is a great example. It doesn't matter how nominally low commercial software license prices are (and were); the amount of innovation and productivity unleashed by gratis FOSS is incalculably greater than would have ever been possible otherwise. And it inured to commercial products and services just as much as to users directly using FOSS. Even the smallest amount of friction at various points can turn interest away given how transactional costs can multiply, and given opportunity costs. An explosion of diversity and emergence of a rich ecosystem is often a prerequisite to creating even the most speculative market potential.

That said, I take your point. It is all just an assumption, and I don't have any evidence. Thank you for pointing that out, challenging me, and forcing me to take reconsider my opinion.
I had a similar issue with the Wall Street Journal a few years back, and despite having spent the majority of my career working on Wall Street, I’ll never buy a subscription again.

I signed up for a really good deal for 6 months of digital + paper delivery, but my paper always arrived a day or two late, so before my 6 months were up I tried to cancel, but couldn’t figure out a way to do so on their website. I messaged support asking them to not renew my subscription, and told them that the paper always arrived late. They responded back that they were going to give me a free subscription until they could figure out the paper delivery. I should have held firm and cancelled, but it seemed lke they were trying to provide good customer service.

Nothing changed with delivery, and I followed up a few times to see what was going on. I was told they were looking into it.

One day, out of the blue, I received a large bill from them. I called to see what was going on and I was told that my trial was up and since I hadn’t cancelled that it had renewed. A proceeded to tell the about my problems with delivery and that customer service was supposedly working on fixing the problem and not charging me until they could. The person on the phone told me that that’s not possible since they don’t provide same-day delivery to my address. I recounted exactly what had happened, and they basically told me I was a liar, and would not refund the charge because the user agreement says they don’t have to, even though I called within a few hours of the new charge and subscription renewal.

The part that really stung was that I was a PhD student and could get an entire year for less than what they charged me for a month. I’ve never had a company treat me so poorly before.
I have not seen cited in the comment section my favorite Fellini's movie: "La Strada". Anthony Quinn at the end of the movie shook me in ways that only Marcello Mastroianni (by the way, someone give me a call when they find a modern movie start with one third of Mastroianni's charming ways: there won't be any need for notifications on) was able to do in "La Notte". Fellini is very Italian in a sometimes decadent, sometimes lustful way. A great director, but not Italy's best (that's Michelangelo Antonioni).
Yikes. I’m in California but pay 17¢/kWh including the fixed monthly costs. (My tiers are 10.5¢, 16.8¢, and 19.1¢)

I love my municipal utility.
This weeks Farnham St podcast talks about how social media blame is unhelpful and how to restore the sense of ones agency:

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/nir-eyal/
As mentioned by others, in the regulated markets they're required to factor in these contingencies, amortized over the expected length of time between events of this scale.
I only have electric heating, this Texas disaster made me realize that I need to have gas as a backup. 10k to install a gas furnace. Lower bills, but also the damage done by burt pipes during a power failure in winter, could easily exceed that. Also thinking about all the Tesla owners, stuck in their cold houses not even be able to drive to buy groceries right now in Texas.
I am cancelling right now, same issues ....
I said the phrase "I want to cancel cable but keep internet" 23 times to a Time Warner retention specialist then their supervisor, and I may have talked to her supervisor, too. They get paid to ignore you and read back canned responses like "but what about your favorite channels?", "what about watching sports?", etc. It was the first time my girlfriend had ever seen me angry.
The problem is knowing when to enter and exit the sector-specific funds. It might beat the S&P in a trailing 12 month window, but it's unlikely to do so over a 5 or 10 year window.
I've been wondering for a while why the root div from imgur deletes as it is loading on safari, it's happening even in incognito mode. Firefox works fine.
Facebook ban hits AUS Gov health pages days before Covid-19 vaccine rollout
That was more at point for fixed emission currencies like BTC vs fiat USD but running with your interpretation:

* bank could start charging negative interest rates

* tether could start providing interest yield to holders

* banks could start freezing funds

* tether could start freezing funds

lots of things are possible. Will they happen? Unknown.
Lots of great advice already given.

If you want a 1:1 advisor, I recommend Jordan Carroll: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanscarroll/
Tell them to cancel and if they continue to charge you report the charges as fraudulent
I canceled WSJ a little while ago and it was a total nightmare. Had to call a number, got put on hold for about 45 minutes, then had to answer a bunch of questions and deal with an aggressive sales pitch. Never subscribing again because of that. I'm sticking with Washington Post for now because it's a lot cheaper, has better politics coverage, and the cancelation process is more reasonable (I think, haven't had to do it yet).

When the WSJ rep asked me why I was canceling, one of the reasons I gave was how bad the op-ed section is. A little while ago the news room writers actually put together an open letter complaining about the lack of accuracy in the op-ed section, and also asking for the labeling on the op-eds to be more clear, because it was affecting the news rooms' credibility.
I think your point is accurate, but more nuanced. you have to include accountability (e.g. blowback against the person who pulls the lever)

Inaction is the most attractive option because the decision maker is can avoid blame.

We could have taken an aggressive stance against covid, done challenge trials, mobilized manufacturing, used more controversal restrictions on movement.

OR

We could have taken a more laze fair approach, letting the elderly lock themselves down and die in greater numbers.

Instead, we got some middling third option where politicians try to minimize accountability, and we get both very high deaths and very high economic disruption
The threat is that the US government comes in and says, no, you can not pretend 80 cents is a dollar and seizes as much of their reserves as they can.
How do you get a throwaway credit card number?
The best gambit is to get an entry-level job that will pay for your AWS certificates while you work. Always, always, take advantage of free training when it's offered.
Same story with a full Prime subscription, not just the free trial, they use several dark patterns to confuse you about what will happen when you actually hit the cancel button.

When I found myself slowly buying fewer things on Amazon a few years ago and decided to cancel Prime after many years as a subscriber, I was so grossed out by the cancellation process that I’ve actively avoided ordering from them ever since.
This will all repeat itself during the summer for excessive heat.
that may be true for small scale or vanilla automated actions, but every probabilistic layer costs the bad team additional engineering time, compute time, and won't be 100 percent reliable. plus, you only need to obfuscate /you/, not everyone else.

right now the sensors (tracking) are largely trusted, because there isn't enough corrupt data hitting them to warrant countermeasures. if they are vacuuming up data, throw in sand. then broken glass. then wet wool. and - critically - lots of it. defeat the sensors by overwhelming them with tons of questionable data.

are these huge tech companies capable of filtering out all that cruft? of course, but this is an easily winnable arms race at the individual level, because it's too costly to try to do for billions of people. i see it manifesting sort of like digital guerilla warfare.
Geothermal?
My experience with this was having a dormant Chase account with like $100 in it, which they chipped away at, withdrawing the $4/mo fee or whatever, until the balance was at $0, whereupon it was immediately closed.

I'm not sure if this really counts for much in their favour.
The interaction didn't seem that bad to me. The business is hurting and valuable. I can kind of see how you'd get there and want "customer retention specialists", who are people that have a job they don't like where they are probably measured on some metric related to how many cancels they let through. Sucks all around, but again I was expecting so much worse.

A single chat interaction? Not horrible.
With nuclear we also would need to solve proliferation issues.
1. It takes legit 20 mins of reading to know most useful knowledge about covid.

2. Most people are inside way more often and have at least 20 mins in the past few months

What else is there to say?
Here it is from the horse's mouth: https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

Lowest rate is $0.25/kWh and most usage will land at $0.32/kWh. Or so you'd think reading that PDF.

I divided my total electric bill by my total usage and got $0.44/kWh. There was a lot of usage in tier 2 because I don't live in the cold and dark. I use a computer and refrigerator. The various confusing surcharges and credits make knowing what any given kWh will cost very difficult.

We're getting fleeced.
I was looking for starlink IPO. There is some good news I read for the last few months. I think it would succeed more than Tesla since it is more global and affordable.

https://observer.com/2021/02/spacex-secret-funds-starlink-ip...
Probably you don't drill into sun or wind, thus not producingj any unholy disturbance to the relevant deities.
stadia should never have gone after the gaming market first. games are expensive to produce and low margin with plenty of competition.

Stadia should pivot to CAD. Hear me out!

stadia solves the technical challenges of running graphics intensive software on the cloud and streaming it. They are even doing it at a price thats currently competitive with gaming.

Stadia could be so much more! imagine if there was a cluod based design and prototyping system like fusion 360 completely integrated into google cloud. Engineers are used to paying a premium for spftware. they already pay a minimum of $60/month for fusion 360 and it only goes up from there. You log in and create your ideas. Collaboration is built in just like fusion = 360 but synced to your google drive. from google docs, you can import your cad into diagrams.

need generative design, simulations or plugins? Present a python api that you can interface from colab!

The margins are much higher and autodesk/solidworks desperatly need the competition
> its adjusted net income—earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)—is an astonishing 40%.

Canadian telecom has better margins. Our government still thinks it's competitive (?)

> The media division had a 20 per cent profit margin in the fourth quarter, while the wireless division had a 45.1 per cent margin.

Lately they've been chopping away their media divisions for not being profitable enough...

https://www.wellandtribune.ca/ts/business/2021/02/13/the-fac...
STX. Enabling defi on bitcoin.
The questionable use of AI for job applications
Tether was supposed to show documents to the district attorneys general in January — but I can’t seem to find any details about it anymore. Anyone aware of any upcoming cases trying to uncover their books?
From an outsiders POV (I don't really use Facebook), it would appear that Facebook is undermining the Australian government’s health messaging seemly due to their previously reported dispute.

If true, I find it gross.

It would seem quite dangerous that they’re doing this ahead of the coronavirus vaccine rollout that is starting next week.

Unfortunately Facebook is still the go to place to receive content for my elderly Australian relatives.

Edit: Getting a lot of downvotes for the above. I was about to delete, but then I'd be self-censoring.
I think their CEO is answering this question just like Stewart Butterfield had to answer why Slack and MS Teams are not really competitors

Some articles and interviews for "rabbit holers"

[1] https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/why-goodrx-ceo-isnt-wor...

[2]https://investors.goodrx.com/events/event-details/jp-morgan-...
https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts

North East US is running about 28% nuclear at the time I viewed the fuel mix chart.
>Does that refer to driving safety and hitting other vehicles or people? Does it mean personal safety while sitting in a taxi / Uber? Safety while riding Muni?

You forgot lidar in your eyes.
Why cant we all just agree to let it go to infinity and there you go, wealth distribution solved lol
That’s not true. There is nothing a 10 year old laptop cannot run unless you’re into gaming.
When things were bad in California, I was surprised to find average wholesale electricity cost was $38/mwh (3.8c/kwh) even for PG&E.

This is marked up 10x for the consumer. Texas has a lot of competition and is usually marked up less that 2x.
AOL in the 90s was second only to phone companies for being able to scam retention people.

In our college house, we’d always run these rackets and get free plane tickets, CDs, tickets, etc. The phone companies were even better. At peak, we’d farm $300-600 a semester for switching long distance.
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I think the argument is that a lack of any value inhibits (or warps) emergent behavior. When money is completely free, people do things they wouldn't otherwise do. If you're trying to see whether a contract has a bug, you might want to try it on a real testnet. If you want to see how game theory plays out, a cheaper ethereum net (where everyone still has some skin in the game) is more interesting.
That’s nothing, I just saw an article citing that in Texas “Prices skyrocketed to more than $9,000 per megawatt-hour”
That's not fraud by any stretch of the imagination.
So government says pay taxes in USD etc? How would people not hold a lot of usd.
A single 60W bulb draws 0.06 kWh. So not 10 bulbs, but 17 bulbs.
Really depends on the sub-industry. In big pharma "That's not a good idea -- it's not going to work b/c blah blah blah" is a scathing rebuke. In games / media "What the fuck is going on with this server?" is background noise. I should say was the kids seem different to me -- maybe I'm out of touch.
That's it? I mean, it IS annoying but that's utterly painless compared to any number of other financial interactions you may be faced with online. Take almost any medical related billing issue, for example.
China still needs to learn how to innovate rather than copy before they can truly take primacy.
Some business and industries do more social good than others. We're all still adjusting to the internet. I'm on the side of leaning towards giving NYT a pass for this. It was a single chat interaction, not so bad.
The biggest battery tesla sells will will hold 100kwh, not 1000kwh.
Just launching v1 of my free eBook - The Beginner's Guide to React Testing here on HN.

It seeks to answer the following questions newcomers to React often have:

- How do I get started testing?

- What are all the React testing tools and how do I use them?

- Which testing framework should I use (Enzyme or React Testing Library)?

- What are the different types of tests we use in React?

- How do I make testing a habit?

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I hope you like it, and feel free to contact me on Twitter or reply here if you have any questions.
As a Canadian who has been in the US close to 10 years, this is the first I've heard of this! I had always assumed the flag was meant to be set by the letter carrier in some bygone era as a courtesy to let residents know they had mail. Thank you, kind internet stranger.

To answer the question, this service doesn't exist in any other country I've lived in -- Canada or Japan, in my case.
Long term investors in stocks hope those companies generate value for others, producing profit, and that fundamental reasoning is why the stock should either go up or dividends be paid. Proxy capitalism. Money goes from everyone to the owners (wealth gap rises).

That's not to say stocks aren't also priced by market dynamics of speculation and meme spread. However, very long term trends in stocks should beat inflation in the currency those stocks are most exposed to. Stocks are a liquid representation of the most productive asset you can own (the work of other people and technology), so a good deal of the money created ends up in the stock market. Plus, companies own various tangible assets. That reasoning creates a strong price dependence on money supply.

Bitcoin's relatively fixed monetary base makes it theoretically stable under fluctuations in fiat monetary base. However, at the moment, partially due to low relative market cap of crypto compared to the entire stock market, meme spread and sketchy actors create huge amounts of price movement, leading to distrust. Long term that could definitely change but it also might not. Currencies have a network effect. Until critical mass is reached (historically by government sponsorship), the value of a floating currency will be unstable.

Also, you mention Bitcoin is fixed-emission. This is true and worth noting - around 18.6M out of 21M coins are minted. Right now inflation is ~2.2%. Relative to fiat this is pretty low, and there's only ~13% inflation left. https://charts.bitcoin.com/btc/chart/inflation
> If you're on a variable rate, the rate will be much higher than normal for the next few months

Wont it be normal in a few days when temperatures get back to warm?
What’s the point then?
That kind of sucks, maybe in the future they will allow you to move about. I don't see why you couldn't travel with the array. I can understand if the dish were moving but if you just have your RV parked it seems like you should just be able to just jump online.
By hydro i did not mean pumped storage hydro but ordinary dam hydro. It does not technically store energy but it is a very effective on demand power producer because you can turn it on or off at will (provided there is enough water in the reservoir).

Also, it is very good for intermittent generation, because when you stop it, you can fill up the water in the reservoir and give yourself potential energy for the next time you start it up. It does in a way store energy, it stores the energy of rivers, not of electricity.

Of course whether you can access it depends on your environment. You have to have convenient rivers to dam up, and you have to have no water shortages. In a case of water shortage the decision to let water out or not is usually made based on water needs, not electricity needs.
Then why are you subscribing to the New York Times?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...

So much for your "paper of record". It's the Paper of the Establishment. And always has been.
Its amazing how the author talks about Google employees being "entitled" but he himself was showing entitlement after being acquired. Entitled in the sense they can continue to operate as before, with no accountability and involvement from Google, and start getting perks and paychecks from them and hire and fire at will. While not understanding (beforehand)

You are getting acquired, for God's sake. You are under Google's scrutiny and Google will be accountable for what you do - even legally. So yes, there are going to be legal issues. Yes, Google is going to involve itself and it is going to follow those policies.

Basically such startup founders want to have the cake and eat it as well. Want to get all the economic benefits of the acquisition, then leverage google in customer acquisition perks etc. but still want google to leave them alone. NO matter how much promise is there pre-acquisition, it is just not going to happen. And that is the way it should be.

If they want money with independence, ask google to fund them like a VC instead of asking for an acquisition.
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One reason I don't click links that go to Substack is that the founders seem happy to donate free content to alt-right outlets. I don't give traffic to organizations like that.
A few of the thousands of publicly traded US companies have bought some bitcoin, the others have not. If you assume institutional investors do their homework, why are the 99.99% of companies who didn't buy bitcoin wrong?
One thing they don’t mention is the size of the cells. If it is anything like what I’ve seems in some satellite visualization sites, they could be huge. I think there is a difference between moving this from a home in the city to a vacation house in the woods and traveling the country in an RV.

I think this will be an interesting distinction.
If you ever need to cancel comcast, time warner or similar entirely and quickly, just tell them you're going to prison. No joke, it works.
Interest rates will not go up like prior decades. The long-term trend is down-ward sloping. Only inflation can push rates up and that can only be achieved by reversing globalization and making the cost of labor go up.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/working-pa...
The fridge should be a very efficient heat pump, moreso than an resistive electric heater. Can you get its waste heat to the fish tank?
> would be a whole additional supply chain just for power plants.

This isn't an issue. There are coal ships, coal trains, coal trucks, you name it. Storage is easier too, you just dump it.
"I'm going to prison, but I'd like to keep my internet"
It feels weird that I pay some small SaaS products more than this. You'd think slinging a few hundred satellites into space would be a more difficult / expensive endeavor.
Crime is motivated by opportunity (eg. if there's virtually no enforcement) and necessity. By the time someone gets to the point of committing violent crimes, armed or not doesn't really matter. (At least this is how I understand it.)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-...

There are many, many words written on how great guns are or how grave problem they are. I completely accept that if the plurality want this so be it, it's not as deadly as many other problems.