skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're naturally extroverted and have a natural way with people, make sure you really enjoy software, otherwise you're going to struggle.

If you are naturally really good with computers and can already program, make sure you learn to work with other people. There is, happily, quite a lot of info out there to help borderline autistic types (like me) learn to come across like a normal person. I can provide more info if anyone needs it.
In that case everyone making 1 mistake is 'out'. Seems "cancel culture" is leaking into ops...

I was in the room when the CEO told that (one of the nice things about small companies) and have had contact with the person responsible for a few years until he got another job. True story ;)

There were changes though: the 'two pair of eyes' principle was enforced a lot stricter from then on.
What about teaching English online or becoming a sales rep for a non-US company, being a native speaker is a big plus and there is plenty of business outside US. QA might also be a possibility with your resume - learn how to use Insomnia/Postman + Selenium + some more fancy tooling to impress, like https://github.com/elixir-wallaby/wallaby + being well organized should help.
No, I don't think so. That's a 1980s era explanation. There are people who aren't especially attractive in all industries. Even in Hollywood, look at what Weinstein got up to, and he isn't exactly Adonis reborn.

I think the explanation is simpler: music and acting jobs are easy. Lots of people can sing, dance, semi-convincingly repeat lines written for them by other people, or even write scripts. It's just not a very skilled set of jobs. It doesn't take 5 years of study to become a great actor, people just luck into it all the time. Anywhere you get the intersection of a lot of money and easy jobs, you get jobs being parcelled out according to criteria like looks, knowing the right people, having the right parents, having the right party attitudes, or how easily they get into bed. After all, what other criteria are they going to use to differentiate between the masses of hopefuls applying for their chance at fame and fortune.

In contrast, tech is hard. It takes years of study to even get in on the bottom rung. Then it takes many more years of obsessive-level study and work to climb to the top. The difference in skill between a newbie and a master is enormous. If you're interviewing for a master software developer, and say "hey, you party much?" and they reply with something lame and boring like "no, I prefer to spend time with my wife and kids" then in a well functioning organisation they will still get the job. In quite a few other industries, if the interviewer is young that reply could easily cause you to be ranked lower than some other candidate who said "I'm always up for a good time!"
The logic here is that many people will buy a crashing asset because, if they all cooperate, they can keep the price up. That seems highly unlikely. You can't just will away a bad equilibrium or a collective action problem.
> But right now we're just trying to make a device appear functionally empty so that we can re-install an OS without remnants of any previous installation getting in the way

The only portable, reliable, robust way to accomplish this is wiping the drive. If the original author had issued a secure erase, they would not have encountered any subsequent difficulties, all of which were due to partially erasing the device.
Unicomp had piqued my interest when the first rumors about a new SSK were brought up 10+ years ago. Today I'm a bit with other posters in this thread, regarding the design and build quality. When it finally comes out, I don't think I'll buy one.

In 2021 you can buy much, much better keyboards. I really enjoy my Leopold with PBT keycaps and Cherry silent red switches, even more than my expensive Topre Realforce
Check out the Happy Hacking keyboard [0]. It's got a great layout - Ctrl to the left of A. They're really well made in Japan. The Classic model isn't super expensive, I wouldn't pay extra for the "Professional".

[0] https://www.hhkeyboard.com/uk/products/classic/
Currently the traffic runs through a local base station, so it's not really an different from other ISPs when it comes to government control?
Many countries already do this - for example, Iran has a single output that is allowed to peer with external ASNs, and all ISPs within Iran get their connectivity/are upstreamed by this one (ITC I think it's called)
First sentence: "The lawless rollercoaster of bitcoin enriches few investors, while many often lose everything."

How can they start with this sentence even though it has been only up, up and up. All you had to do was wait and not freak out upon some nosedives. Who lost money? People that bought end 2017 thinking the sky was the limit and sold in February? Sure, but that can happen anywhere.

You know where you loose money? In the normal economy, because the government likes inflation. And we should all like it because money creation is debt based. But imo that is what is causing us normals to loose constantly (enriching the rich, who have dibs on the fresh printed money to make it happen).
Speaking from Australia, we have outstanding customer protection and rights, and no massive hoops or hurdles to go to get it that would be more significant than anything in the US. It’s really much more just. Fraud or improper charges are also easily immediately rescinded if using a credit card. What kind of cover for fees for international use are you talking about?
We wanted to move away from Lastpass, so we wanted to make own offline vault (and remove the need to maintain any extra servers and subscriptions).

https://github.com/guilt/groupenc

Suggestions welcome.
Thank you for all your comments. So much stupidity in this thread otherwise!
Delete the entire drive including the recovery partition?

> There's a specific button for it.

Does the button say "hi, you should pick this unless you're an expert with a really good reason not to?"
So instead of 87GB, how much space do the tiles actually end up taking after compression?

I'm also curious what the average size of non-empty tiles is.
This is unrelated to cdnjs, which shouldn't do that, it "should" just be dumb static hosting with security off.

But yes, it absolutely does this for sub resources on a CF hosted site. If you <img src> an image it's entirely likely that the image doesn't load if you pass one CF check and fail another.

Why would it? You want people to bypass L7 filters by simply adding a fake referrer or header?
With latency >600ms to the first hop
I believe consumer choice is essential to making markets efficient. I think more of it is better. For example I also think we should have a right to repair, so companies are forced to give me a choice to repair instead of throwing away and buying anew. Sure, you could say I could just vote with my wallet and not do business with any company that does not prioritize repairability. But in reality that doesn't work because the vast majority of companies don't do that because it's in their interest that I need to buy a new thing every couple of years. So I need a right to repair law to give me, as a consumer, some reasonable choices that it's not in the companies' own interest to give me.

Exactly the same thing goes for what I do with the devices I buy, and what software I install on them. It's not in Apple's interest that I have a choice of what source of apps I use - but giving me as a consumer that choice would expand the market (e.g. by making it possible to sell an app-based service with a 20% profit margin - currently if you tried to make one, you'd lose 10% on every sale). So yes, consumers currently have a choice of which side of the duopoly they want to live on. I believe more choice would be better, both for consumers and for the ecosystem as a whole.
I told myself this would be my next keyboard years ago.

So know this about mechanical keyboards in general - choose wisely, because you'll be stuck with it.

First, you won't ever go back to rubber dome like everyone always says, but second, the damn things don't seem to wear out.

I'm still using the original Razer Blackwidow that I bought in first year uni - 2010. I thought I'd managed to kill it with beer in the first few years, but a mate insisted on having a look at it. He resoldered a corroded trace and it's been a champ ever since.

Who knows when, or if, it will ever die. I've been through three mice in the same period.
It looks like the only reason for mentioning white men in the context of bitcoin is for the article to get some extra attention.
Actually, Windows 10 only sells N editions. If you want to play back media, you'll have to buy media codecs separately in the Windows Store.

And it turns out that was actually a benefit for consumers.
Doesn't politics favor short term thinking as well?
The biggest problem I have with Bitcoin et al is not even the electricity consumption. It's that you can't even find decent GPUs at a decent price anymore. I have just given up on ever being able to buy a good RTX3070.
Question: how do you deal with gaps in your resume?

Let's suppose you were a machine learning engineer for 2 years, a web developer for another 2 and a product owner for 3 years.

I presume that some experiences would almost make it seem that you're not dedicated to the role you're applying for if you leave them in. So you have to leave them out.

How do you deal with that?
> The only portable, reliable, robust way to accomplish this

That's setting the bar too high. If we're comfortable with solutions that will work on all mainstream PC platforms including Macs, then it is sufficient to overwrite partition tables with zeros. I have never heard of an OS installer that scans for deleted partitions, and worrying about the possibility of such a thing causing problems is unreasonable.
That's honestly not bad, I was expecting much worse. I've been subscribed to UK services that took weeks to cancel. Weeks of emailing, calling and frustration and to this day I doubt they really closed my account. Normally I wouldn't care, but when the account has a credit card attached to it that you can't remove and they refuse to do so, it's a concern.

From that point onwards I decided I won't subscribe to any service again that doesn't offer PayPal; at least that way I can control my credit cards and only have to worry about PayPal getting compromised as opposed to worrying about twenty different service providers. More so, I won't even purchase anything with a credit card directly if it isn't through a wrapper such as PayPal.
Just to be completely cynical about it, I think the author's aim is to get as much coverage and clicks as possible, and so is including every buzzword possible. Which of course in the current media climate means everything that you don't like is colonial and white supremacy.
Facebook ban on news in Australia provokes fierce backlash
So, looking through this website, why are the pictures so minuscule? Are they not trying to advertise their product? Kinda weird.

And what about the weirdly designed numlock/caps area in the top right hand side on most of these keyboards? Take e.g. the Classic 101/PS2 [1], I mean, does all that iconography really need to be that prominent? It's like some programmer was playing around with clip art. Less is more, not?

I really wouldn't mind trying out one of these keyboards but the ugly design of it makes me pass.

[1] https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UNI0416
This is actually covered in the write-up but the answer is arbitrage.

In a perfect world, I'd simply short-sell the future at a 2% premium over the spot price, then I'd buy a bitcoin on the open market. This pushes the price of Bitcoin up and the price of the future down. The gap closes to roughly zero, an I get 2% for my service.
This is something that is fascinating to me about really all of Musk's businesses - they all seem to be in some way misrepresenting themselves to the general public. And they all actually rely on insights into how governments have to spend at an enormous scale. And all of them make things that are of extreme strategic importance on a global scale. Like I'm not one for conspiracy bullshit, but there must be a deeper story going on behind the scenes. Right?
When you find yourself holding an exponential by the wrong end, let go.
"This privileged crypto-colonialism almost exclusively benefits white men"
You can't compare an inactive bank account or credit card with a monthly subscription.
"if you only need it once in a lifetime to deal with a hundred-year weather event" - I have two problems with that: 1. IIUC global warming means events like this become more likely. So for our parent generations this might be a once a lifetime event, but for us and future generations that thinking could be dangerously wrong.
2. You're seeming to assume the only reason for an interconnected grid might be cold weather (at least that's what you're implying). I believe additional resilience and a more open market are also benefits.
Buying a good cheap GPU is clearly colonialism, how dare you want to do that.
BiTcoIn IS baD foR EnviroNment, in other news mining, centralized banks and others are very good...

Bitcoin is bad for environment? Yes it is but did any of these critics ever bother to study or complain about all banks and mining industries around the world?

I can guarantee you that these two other industries produce much more harm to the environment in several scales of magnitude than bitcoin

Also, never seen such propaganda about those industries like they are doing to bitcoin...
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If you haven't used any Prime features, Amazon will refund you in full

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Sure, that's a good goal. I spent a lot of effort, time and money to optimize and reduce water consumption as much as possible. Low-flow everything, upgraded appliances, redid the yard and all sprinkler plumbing, all for the idea of conserving water.

It is quite a gut punch to then have the water bill increase more than 100% because the water agency is solely focused on how much profit they are making, instead of caring about conservation.
A rack and pinion is a gear, and the rack definitely can't make a complete 360 degrees rotation.
What are some examples contrary to Bitcoin of human made things that are high in monetary value, but low on total (creation, distribution and maintenance) environmental impact?
Because privacy...
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- Always be learning. Take half an hour each day to read a chapter of a text book, listen to a programming podcast, read some development blogs. THe time will very quickly add up and is easier to do than sitting down to study 3.5 hours once a week

- Don't ever be pressured into regularly working overtime because someone claims you're not "passionate". You're entirely welcome to only program during work hours

- Learn to use a debugger well

- When a user has an issue with your software, make sure they give you a step by step recount of how the issue occurred

- Unit tests may seem like a waste of time, but are unfortunately very useful

- Find a niche you enjoy. If you're developing software you're not interested in, you're going to quickly burn out

- Don't always chase the new and shiny technologies (unless you're really interested in them), many of them will never become successful.

- You don't have to be the next Zuckerburg to be successful. You can make a very comfortable living as a developer doing a job you enjoy, don't constantly chase trying to become a billionaire and focus on progressing your career via the usual channels
I wouldn't risk speculating on cryptocurrency with credit whether it is margin trading or opening long/short positions.
The market is highly volatile, irrational and unpredictable.

Last week 1.9B was liquidated [1], mainly longs due to a pullback which was now long surpassed. At the same time on the rise, shorts got liquidated too. I am all for putting your money where your mouth is, but caveat emptor.

1. https://cryptonews.com/news/usd-1-9b-liquidated-as-overexube...

2. https://ambcrypto.com/57-million-in-bitcoin-short-positions-...
Ask HN: Inspiring company vision, mission and strategy statements
I am looking for inspiring company vision, mission and open strategy statements, a great example is Coinbase [1] it would be even better to hear of statements which are from privacy focused tech!

[1] https://www.coinbase.com/mission
TD is okay in the US as a bank.

Ameritrade is owned by Charles Schwab now with TD having a minority stake in Schwab. Before that TD had a 40% stake in Ameritrade.
Bitcoin is hugely problematic from an energy consumption point of view. Do we actually need it? Is there any mainstream use of it outside of speculation and gambling? Largely it seems to be a tool to make money, exploited by the rich and powerful with machine learning and automatic trades.

If we really need a way to transact without using banks, there's alternatives that have massively lower energy footprints such as Nano. Do we need Bitcoin? Should there be regulations around digital currencies and energy usage given the state of play with global warming?
There are two angles of attack on Bitcoin by the fiat printer operators: terrorist use and electricity consumption. Currently both are being tried to see what sticks, to justify the imminent regulatory action.
> Eventually the Comcasts of the world will sell off the majority of the IPv4 they hold to the AWSs of the world.

And so died what was knows as "Internet" and AOL was resurrected…
A better term here would be cultural imperialism - which is exactly what "Americentrism" itself is an example of:

> ... so influential has been the discourse insisting on American specialness, altruism and opportunity, that imperialism in the United States as a word or ideology has turned up only rarely and recently in accounts of the United States culture, politics and history. But the connection between imperial politics and culture in North America, and in particular in the United States, is astonishingly direct[0]

"Americentrism" sounds like a term made up by those who recognize this phenomenon from the perspective of people who hold it to be true and can't see the irony in the word itself.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism#Cultural_...
This seems to be a good strategy with Apple's OS updates too. Most of my colleagues who updated to Big Sur have encountered problems so I'm keeping the strategy of "current minus one", and plan to update to Sur when the next one is out.
You have to supply those autonomous fighting vehicles. Worst case scenario, you use a hypersonic nuke to blow the local base up. You don't even need ICBMs.
The article is a frankenstein of all cliches stitches together. You can reverse the order of words in it and it won't lose meaning, for its just a soup of emotions. Highly recommend to read it.
I wish the people who are rightfully bringing up the negative environmental impact of Bitcoin would do two things: (1) never buy Bitcoin and (2) never work in the cryptocurrency Industry.
Please provide actual sources to these claims. SpaceX has made roll out of consumer terminals a priority and started basically as early as it was possible.

If the military was really the primary target, why would they do it like that?

Not launching it until you have laser link would also made more sense if you wanted to sell to the military primarily.

The military and other commercial have run some trial test but they are not close to ready to adopt them. The military also doesn't need nearly as many sat to get the coverage.

Launching 12k+ sats just for the military makes no sense what so ever.

So please, substantiate your claims with something other then speculation.
Thanks for sharing! These tools actually blew my mind (fpp, nnn) and those are so useful!
I see after the .NET community complained about how similar it is to "Dapper" (an ORM) and the Dapr team publicly stated they would rename to avoid confusion - they decided to stick to the current name anyway. Classic MS naming.
I guess you're being downvoted for the political slant it brings to what most would prefer to be neutral, but I think this angle is actually very relevant to frame the OP in current popular discourse; and in fact the article itself reference this relationship, albeit in a somewhat disguised way ("Another constructive use of the total pause that the pandemic has imposed is to reflect on whether it is valid to include the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ within the category of seriously contested heritage").
Exactly! I wish they'd set the base rate to like $1 (just to cover sending the bill) and substantially increase per-gallon cost.

That would incentivize conservation. Unfortunately the water agency only cares about the profit they make and could not care less about conservation.
True, but the author is highlighting bitcoin as being a massive net contributor to CO2 emissions on a significant growth trend. It gets reported as "Bitcoin now uses more energy than $country" every once in a while now:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/27/bitcoin-m...
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

That differentiates it from air travel, cement, etc. It is a worrying trend, even more so than the prosaic stuff.

Again, I don't disagree with the point you are making, but it seems remiss not to highlight the worst offenders.
From the article.

> There is no physical, economic, or social justification for something like this.

Personally I do feel there is very much an economic justification for Bitcoin to exist and to a lesser extent a social justification (privacy).

Bitcoin allows people to keep their wealth outside of the hands of the government and I feel this is a good thing.

Bitcoin makes it cheap and easy to transfer value to another country. Much cheaper compared to using banks with their crazy interbank currency conversion that is very expensive. Also, banks are often quite slow to do the transfers, especially in weekends.

I like the facts that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be traded 24-7. Again this to me is a good thing. The markets are always open.

I don't like what Western central banks have been doing in the last few years: Quantitate Easing (QE). QE basically caused the rich to become richer and the poor to become poorer since most of the printed money arrived in the stock markets. And rich people own stocks. So rich people in turn might have rebalanced their portfolios by selling some stocks in order to buy property, causing property prices to increase as well. Inflation is visible in the stock and property markets.

But wages at the same time have not grown much (if at all) in some countries for a very long time now. At least Bitcoin is doing the opposite - keep it in your wallet and its value grows. Now I am not sure if the Bitcoin approach is the best idea, to me it seems a very small consistent inflation (~2%) every year is a good thing - especially since wallets get lost and such, but I guess we'll see how it pans out.

But ... perhaps it's a good thing in the long run to have a currency that increases in value if it's not being used. Such a currency might encourage saving and thus reduce consumption which might be good for the environment as well.
Did you just plagarize Nassim Taleb's tweets?
For those who are interested in buying a genuine IBM Model M, there's a website for that:

https://www.clickykeyboards.com/
Because Amazon has 1.2 million employees, $386.1 billion yearly revenue, and $20 billion yearly net income. Tesla has yearly revenue of $31.5 billion and net income of $721 million. Presumably people think that Tesla is priced for explosive growth, but Amazon has also been on a growth tear that shows no sign of stopping, so the basic premise that Tesla at less than 1/10th the revenue and 1/20th the net income is worth half as much as Amazon seems fishy.
Yes, they did complain about the other stuff and still do.
And white colonialism, as we've just learned from the article.