skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal belief and this is where a lot of people might disagree with me is that we will not see the kind of growth we saw again.

Growth is fundamentally tied to the availability of cheap energy. If you look at oil prices in gold you’ll see how it’s almost twice as expensive today.

We are also facing constraints on energy extraction due to climate change.

Every time oil prices spike shale oil comes online but the economy chokes on the price oil crashes and the shale producers go further into debt.

This may also be why a lot of growth is in the digital sphere which is far less energy constrained. Maybe future growth will be Virtual reality GDP :P

The only way I can be wrong is if someone invents a cheap fusion reactor or a cheap magical battery that stores endless amounts of solar energy. This is highly unlikely to happen.

Disclaimer: Very speculative thesis but I believe in it.
It's a sign of economic anxiety among readers. And folks here are generally doing well. And that's scary. If people in the top 10-15% don't feel economically secure, I think it speaks to greater issues afloat.
> Last time I let a sales guy bring me somewhere without telling me what the plan was first

Wow, that sales guy must be thinking: last time I’m bringing the prude guy.
Examples of what happens when you are an outlier on caring:

- Colleagues push back on providing status, while simultaneously asking for a long roadmap of your future requests.

- Promotions for your best people get blocked by peers because “Not enough time at level, and others will complain”

- Punishment is much higher for picking up a dropped ball “and not following process” than leaving the ball on the floor.

In the end, if you’re outnumbered too much, it’s a road to frustration rather than success.
I'm just not sure why I should be forced to accept restrictions on hardware I bought and paid for.
Someone else posted one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26172771
Same here.. The first multi-user system I had access to was a VAX running VMS. I think the second was a SunOS 4.x box. And I did my BBS / telecom stuff on an Amiga. 90's nostalgia is the best.
It was easier for me to call my credit card issuer and block NYT from issuing any further charges to my card than to try and deal with canceling with them by phone. I'm kind of shocked someone managed to cancel over chat at all. That's technically revolutionary for them.
Not available in my part of Los Angeles.
It's weird but I've watched and cheered on almost every SpaceX launch since the Falcon 1 days, including Starlink launches. Starlink isn't the pinnacle of all that work, but I almost want to buy it just to celebrate it.

And though not a competitor to Comcast for the reasons you point out, I'm probably not the only person who's very happy to finally have a decent alternative showing up. Just a shame it didn't come in at half the monthly cost.

Part of me wonders if the price is artificially high in order to reduce the initial rush. You know if they were to offer high speed Starlink for half the typical land-based internet, there would be so many orders it would be pretty problematic.
$99 upfront... could take 6 months (maybe more for shipment). Did Gamestop CEO get promoted to Starkink CEO?
A downside is that a lot of someones have to make the satellite dishes and solar panels. Sure, if you work white collar and can do everything remotely it’s no big deal, but the world runs on hundreds of millions of people working in factories and logistics. Those get more efficient in more densely populated areas. The more people who work in densely populated areas, the more total wealth there is in society, the more people can live in their utopia villages.
It may be the case that USDT is a fraud, but that it's not a fraud big enough to crash anything else but USDT itself (heck, the "exit" may see USDT bag holder buy frantically Bitcoin at any price they could, creating a pump on Bitcoin's price).

For comparison there are 7.5 bn USDC circulating and these are emitted by Centre/Coinbase and these are known to be real (Coinbase being an HN unicorn to soon do its IPO).

Tesla also just bought 1.5 bn of Bitcoin.

Then are regular people buying directly with non USD currencies like EUR / JPY etc. (for which I take it there are no USDC emitted).

So it's a known fact that money is flowing, by the billions, into Bitcoin.

The question is: is iFinex/Bitfinex/tether printing USDT out of thin air by so many billions that they are actually manipulating the entire market?
I don't see why we need this so called baseline. It is an outdated concept pushed by the nuclear industry. We need (i) to harness the cheap energy coming from the sun and the wind and (ii) another source of energy to make up shortages when solar and wind are unavailable.

The source (ii) should be able to be ramped up and shut down quickly, which is a requirement where nuclear flat out fails.

The baseline concept of a power source that is steady and cannot be quickly shut down or ramped up (i.e., nuclear or coal) really does not make sense in a world where you have access to very cheap but somewhat unpredictable sources of energy.

Ideally, source (ii) would be electricity storage. This is not available now at the necessary scale (but it is getting closer and closer to reality). So the other alternatives are hydro (ideal if available in your environment, but not always available) and gas.

Nuclear doesn't enter into it. Starting up and stopping nuclear reactors is a difficult time consuming process that cannot be done on demand.

And yes Gas is falling on its face right now, but that is not due to any fundamental limitations of gas. It is because a lot of the US nat gas is mined and transported in Texas and the Texans did not winterize their equipment.

I expect renewables will keep increasing in combination with gas, until power storage becomes available.
But gravitational laws stay unchanged for millenials isn't it ? If I toss an apple, it will falls down. If I throw it fast enough, it goes into orbital mode.
no, quite literally, if you move a beta terminal from your designated service location, it won't work. I know at least 4 people who also have beta terminals who have tried it. It depends on the size of your 'cell' - some people have been able to go a few km away, some people report it doesn't work even a few hundred meters away from their house. When you sign up for the beta you have to specify your street address and also click on an aerial map where you intend to install it.

And of course a GPS receiver is useful for timing.
indeed i3 is pretty simple and satisfying.
I listened to it yesterday. I actually liked the episode.

There were a few bits where it got a tad uncomfortable, maybe even cringey (though I think that’s a stretch), sometimes because Lex was being a bit argumentative, or because some of his comments and questions were a bit lame, but there were also some bits where I felt Keller was being a bit prickley.

Overall though I learnt a lot, Keller has a very interesting angle on the tech sector because of where / how he’s been involved.

Even though there were a few places where they clashed a bit, there were also some fun shared humour parts and I felt it ended well. Sounded like they got on quite well despite their differences.

If I have some time (unlikely), I might watch the video version, it would be interesting to see if there’s a big difference in how the interviews come across when there is a video component.
> PURCHASER IS PURCHASING THE PRODUCTS FOR COMMERCIAL USE AND/OR IN A BUSINESS CAPACITY. ORDERS PLACED BY CONSUMERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

How to fail at business.

Not a surprise that I've never seen any of these e-Ink large or color screens anywhere.
Won’t this help drive home the fact for people that not every story shared on Facebook is legitimate? Frankly I’m all for it. Facebook is an awful place to get your information from.
The most beautiful thing about bitcoin is it needs no government or military, it just is. Math > Militaries.

Value of money is tied to its supply.
What happened in 2020?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
I live in VA. At least if you purchase your generation through the main electric utility, Dominion Energy, there are fixed rates. What these rates are depend upon how much you use per month and the time of year. For rates the year is broken into 2 periods. October - May and June - September. Rates are in general highest for use over 800kWh in a month between June & September since it is the highest usage period statewide. My last bill the average rate was about .11 c/kWh. I used 915 kWh. Last July I used 672 kWh and my rate was about .12 c/kWh.
Lots of answers about various renewables, no one addressing why diesel, so let me throw that in:

Everything comes to Hawaii by boat or plane, and boats run on diesel. So our power plants burn diesel, instead of coal, because coal, while cheaper per unit energy, would be a whole additional supply chain just for power plants.

And yeah, there's more solar and wind every year, but not nearly enough to provide the overprovisioning and storage necessary to use it for baseline power.
This sounds like some kind of fraud, or at least an easy way to tank your credit and get debt collectors after you if caught.

For what it's worth I've never had trouble canceling anything I've subscribed to.
Depends on where you live, and how you get your electricity. Where I live, Idaho, electricity is very close to beating out gas for heating.

My gas costs $0.51 per therm, including distribution. When I consume electricity (more on that in a sec) it costs me $0.085 per kWh. On a straight therm to kWh basis, electricity is ahead.

But a single therm is equivalent to 29.3 kWh, so on an energy equivalent basis we've got $2.49 worth of electricity per therm of gas. So for 100% efficient electric radiant heat, electricity is about 5x more expensive than gas. That's close to the efficiency band of an air source heat pump, which tends to run in the 200-300% efficiency range, and geothermal might just beat out gas per BTU transferred into the house, especially if you include hot water consumption in that.

The extra complication is solar. Roof top solar is getting cheaper every single day, and for some of us the effective cost of electricity is $0. If you've got a rooftop solar system it's kind of silly not to switch over to electric heating if possible, since you can get your electricity cheap. Especially if you have net metering or a backup battery. If I didn't have a really high efficiency furnace in my new house, I'd probably have already done that.
Yeah, this should boost the solar roof demand
I put a pre-order in a week ago, after the status changed a couple of days earlier (from 'please give us your email address so we can advise you' to 'we have a limited offering per region' - which is what's showing now).

I'm about 250km north-west of Sydney, Australia, currently limited to a 25/5Mbps satellite circuit, with 600+ms RTT. I'm paying AUD$80 pcm, and have a data cap of 80 / 150 GB (peak/off-peak).

Between 17:00 and 23:00 the effective service drops down to about 5Mbps down.

Starlink in AU will cost ~ AUD$140 pcm, 30ms RTT, and likely give me 100 / 20 Mbps, with no cap (at least until the heavy-feeders come in and ruin that arrangement for the rest of us). (EDIT - plus AUD $700 once the order is processed later this year, for the equipment.)

I believe some regions - eg, Norfolk Island - have already max'd out their pre-order quotas though.

EDIT: fixed typo of MB -> GB
This kinda reminds me of an experience I had years ago, working at a small startup that was "disrupting" a particular industry. One of my coworkers was interested in this other company's software products so we contacted them and they sent a couple of sales people over for a meeting.

Okay, here's what happened. I'll never forget it because it was so weird. There was a younger guy and a much older guy. They introduce themselves, the younger one hands us business cards and pamphlets, and then the oldest one... starts telling us names of all the people he sold products to.

It was so weird because neither of them knew much about the product they were selling. Just their customers. And they tried hard to figure out if we knew any of their customers. Given our company's culture, we were all fairly new and thrown off guard by that lol. I think only one of us knew any of the people he was talking about.

We ended up not buying any of their products, because among other things, it was the worst sales pitch I've ever heard of. Like they relied on connections lol.
To me, "full employment" means 0% not close to 4%.
Transmission lines aren't so easy, for example the Northern Pass project to bring power from Quebec Hydro into New England failed due to local opposition:

https://www.vnews.com/northern-pass-eversource-hydroquebec-2...

I do like the idea (from the linked tweet) of underground transmission lines (underground alongside railroads is probably mitigates the NIMBY objections):

https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-fortnight-burying-power
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I need to point something else out:

We (my wife and I) chose our situation. We chose to live where I'd have to work remotely. We chose that I would be responsible for balancing a career and childcare. We chose a lifestyle that requires two professional careers.

Why do I bring this up? Think back to when you decided to accept your situation as caregiver to your loved ones. What about your decision not to move. They were choices, even though they didn't feel like it at the time. (Did I have to marry and have kids?) That's why it's not relevant to your job search, beyond a simple "I can't move" phrase.

Everybody who makes good life choices has a situation that locks them down.
very interesting. somehow the docs.dapr.io is having TLS issues (expired/untrusted certs ?)

```
$ openssl s_client -connect docs.dapr.io:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=1 CN = SSL_DECRYPT_SVCA_UNTRUST
verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain
verify return:1
depth=1 CN = SSL_DECRYPT_SVCA_UNTRUST
verify error:num=10:certificate has expired
notAfter=Jul 12 07:02:32 2019 GMT
verify return:1
depth=1 CN = SSL_DECRYPT_SVCA_UNTRUST
notAfter=Jul 12 07:02:32 2019 GMT
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "OpenDNS, Inc.", CN = docs.dapr.io
notAfter=Feb 21 03:57:16 2021 GMT
verify return:1```
The challenge is the price. I call and cancel every year, and then renew in the same phone call since they finally offer me 8 bucks a month (and then bump it to 15 after a year). With Apple the cheapest option I see is 14.99, so even though it sucks up my time, the call helps me save 80+ bucks a year.
Ask anyone who has planned and installed a long-haul transmission line in the past 40 years and they'll tell you that that's gonna be extremely hard. It's simple technically, as is building a lot of a standardized nuclear plant, but it's not easy and will be hit by massive amounts of NIMBY.
https://cheapeth.org/whalegate.html

It's a testnet. I think it's sad that the speculation around cryptocurrency has gotten to be so strong that a testnet project where you can play around with smart contracts, posted to a dev forum, is criticized on the merits of being something dumb to speculate on.

No shit! That's kind of the point.
George Hotz, Forked ethereum, pre-mined 25M coins to a personal wallet
Almost the entire conversation is the customer complaining, then the rep needing to respond to it.
Being too afraid to make a quick trip to the post office sounds like major overkill to me. Besides that couldn't you have ordered stamps and envelopes online?
I didn't have to speak to anyone to cancel mine through the web interface. Did that just last week so this info is not out of date. I'm not sure how you got to speaking to an agent in the first place.
>Make multiple resumes, each with a focus on one thing. Use the resume that's best for the job. I recently saw somebody who must have had 20 different resumes to match the jobs they were applying for. It worked.

I'd like to second this methodology. It is a very effective approach. I've worked across multiple specialties within technology and I always tailor my CV to the job I am applying for. I highlight the most relevant experience and skills required and remove (or summarize) experience that is not relevant to the position.

Matching your CV to the job can be as simple as updating it to use the same keywords that you see on the job advert. It sounds trivial but many recruiters will filter job applications with a keyword search. If they dont see the exact keywords they are expecting, your CV will be thrown away.

Good luck!
I have not been following this closely, but if I understand correctly google would have to leave australia altogther if they didn't strike deals. It sounds like facebook had the option of just removing news.
A solid competitor for the stupidest quote of all time. Even winter in San Francisco is massively warmer than basically anywhere in my home country. Summer is absolutely baking.
Of course, they could do the same thing without charging 30%, which they only get away with for lack of competition.
Yes. Stick to the business at hand: this is who I am, this is how you can look me up in your system, this is what I want to do. Feedback doesn't help, they're not going to take your advice, don't waste your time.

For example: "Please tell us the reason for your call today?" Should be met with the answer, "Please cancel my subscription." "May I ask why you want to cancel?" "Please cancel my subscription." "Have you ever used reader mode?" "Please cancel my subscription."
I’d always heard that male balding protects against STDs.
I'm not sure this is ends up as utopian as you make it sound. I imagine a lot of people moving out of big cities will bring the big cities with them.

First you need your Starbucks. Then your brew pubs. Better roads and sanitary services. Amazon Prime two-day delivery.

Suddenly these rural small towns start looking a lot like exurbs in large metros. Not a total negative. A lot of small towns are in desperate need of economic infusion, but I don't believe you can transplant wealthy city dwellers into rural American without irrevocably changing the way of life in those places.
You don't owe them a justification just because they ask for one. You can simply say "decline to state".
So you’re effectively saying:

“Went out to a swingers party with 10 people we know to be clean. Turns out Mandy and Joe weren’t being safe and transmitted to us ghonorrea and it’s terrible! I can’t believe the government let this happen!”

Did I get this right? AFAIK the real crime is the children stuck at home in abusive places, deprived of education and or exposed to extreme poverty due to economic collapse.
Created cheapeth.org
Anyone who mentions this on the official discord right now will get insta-banned

20% premined and looking actively an exchange... https://www.reddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hot...

Most of the cETH mining pool owners were banned from the official discord today (along with any users who voiced support for them) after someone noticed in the github repo for the geth fork that George Hotz had hard-coded a premined 25 million cETH to a personal wallet address. Spend your hashrate elsewhere, this is just a pump and dump by George Hotz and Goku1997, who's running the discord and only remaining mining pool.

discord before its all gone: https://discord.gg/kazpUbKe
I live outside of a rural town on 29 acres and my 4G gets 4Mpbs and my WISP provides 20Mbps. It’s no Google Fiber, but it’s enough to let my wife and me both work remotely and be on video calls most of every workday.

That said, I just signed up for Starlink because it’s faster and cheaper than my WISP, and hopefully more reliable. Right now we get a few minutes of dropped connection a few times per day.
I wonder why say, SoftBank, doesn't buy them and do what you're describing?

Is there something commercial players realize about e-ink that the rest of us don't? Or do they lack vision (seems unlikely under current market conditions)?
The cost of dismantling and recycling solar panels, wind turbines, etc. is also hidden, using that same logic. And will present a huge problem in 20-30 years. We've already had 50 years experience decommissioning poorly designed reactors. We should know how to do it at least slightly better in the year 2021

The costs also do not rise per unit power. As with anything, the more you install, the cheaper it gets to install them.
In part I would welcome this, since some sites have become really annoying in that they think they know better than me which settings I want based on my regional IP.
I guess that depends on how you define "understand." There are many things I understand that I would have a hard time explaining to someone else, much less defining them. Most people who have spent enough time to master something would agree there are certain (possibly asthetic) aspects that they recognize but couldn't define.

Even when you get formal, there are limitations to how expressive any language can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompletenes...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s_undefinability_th...
fyi there is a small bug: clicking on "source code doesn't open github, it just redirect you to the same page.
Your average African farmer may not get their own dish but I bet there are charities and NGO's who would be willing to pay for the dish and subsidize a local school's Starlink service. Throw a WiFi hotspot on the side of the building and now the village has access. This is a game changer that will open up the remote corners of the globe.
17 minutes of OP that they will never get back.

Poor Antonio too, stuck in the middle between a money-machine and disgruntled users.
Starlink today slightly beats my Comcast performance-- both up and down. Starlink costs a bit more, but the service, bandwidth, latency is getting better every week--I'd rather be hitched to a modern company that knows how to improve.
I bought a new vehicle that came with a free year of SiriusXM, but I never activated it because I've heard how scummy the company is about canceling.

Once a month they mailed me a postcard to sign up, I called them to ask them to stop mailing me a post card, after a few back-and-forths, the person said, okay, we won't mail you anything for two years. I said don't mail me ever, I will never ever use them. The person said okay, they've taken me off their list. We shall see...
I think Father Coughlin and Charles Lindbergh and Joseph Kennedy have deeper roots in the American view of everything. Rush riffed on it, but he drunk from a well other people dug.

And he had enablers. To me, its like the post-death glorification of Reagan because <cold-war> =It's bullshit.

So "in our times" yea, he was a primary shaper. In broad sense? he was a follower. He had a script. Other people helped write the script.
Also fair to note that fossil fuel plants also froze and were unable to operate. It's not even a renewable or not question. It's just whether your grid has been properly hardened against the elements.
If you're in California NYT is violating state law:
https://www.cnet.com/news/companies-must-let-customers-cance...

The law applies to all companies and publishers with paying customers in the state.
As others have stated this seems high. I'm in SoCal with SCE and my rates are around 22 cents/kwh for tier 1, 28 cents/kwh for tier 2, and 35 cents/kwh for tier 3. I have a 2k square foot home and a family of 5 and we never hit tier 3.
Yes, it appears that is how they get some of their data: http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/Data_sources
One thing to note though, is even with the crimes against children declining, it is still a really high number.

According to the chart in the article, it is around 3,000 per 100,000 population.

In comparison, the highest COVID mortality rate in the US is New Jersey with 253 per 100,000. The motor vehicle fatality rate in the US in 2018 was 11.18 per 100,000 population.

Compared to those numbers, the crimes against children rate is extremely high.