skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people see everything from the perspective of the "survival of the fittest". Seeing everything through the lenses of competition, domination, opportunism and a "winner takes all" mentality.

However, when you see opportunism at scale, you understand it doesn't work. In a society based on opportunism, you will not feel safe, and you won't be able to trust others. You will not want to spend money making your property look better, because as soon as your property looks better than the rest, it will be robbed. You will not want to spend money on nice clothes, because as soon as you look too fancy you will be mugged. If you decide to be honest and have a job, some random guy will appear each month and ask you for a large portion of your salary. Nobody will care about others, so public spaces will be dirty and lack maintenance. And that will drive off investment and tourism, making everyone poor. Would you like to live in a place like that? No.

How do societies arrive to the situation described above? By making everyone believe they're better than average, and that they're entitled to everything without ever giving back anything. A lack of humility.

Collaboration is necessary, period. No matter how much people try to convince you that collaboration is for losers... it's not. If everyone does their part in our society, everyone can enjoy the rewards. Clean public spaces, a culture of respect, safety and prosperity.

And that translates to the workplace as well. If everyone is nice, respectful, helpful and altruistic (while still making each other accountable), everyone will have a better time, everyone will be more productive and, unless your CEO is a jerk that takes all the rewards for themselves, everyone will be better off.

And that translates to engineering as well. Work as a team, support each other, treat each other with respect, don't leave tech debt behind, don't try to game the system. Create a culture of merit.
In the last 12 months:

Nasdaq 100 - up 40%

Cotton - up 25%

Corn - up 40%

Gold - up 15%

Silver - up 25%

Steel - up 30%

lumber - up 100%

Copper - up 46%

Aluminum - up 22%

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities
If Tether untethers there will be a rush to other assets, pushing them higher.

Shorts denominated in USDT will get absolutely decimated, pushing other assets higher.

Exchanges using Tether will enforce a maximum withdrawal, pushing other assets higher.

Smart money will buy USDT at a discount once their reserve details are made publicly available. If it's FUD they'll make an absolute killing.

There's 3 possibilities here:
1. Tether is completely backed 1:$1 (highly unlikely)
2. Tether is partially backed, the reserves are greater than the outstanding
3. Tether is partially backed, the reserves are less than outstanding

Only 3) will have a downward price correction. If they've been buying BTC like everyone here has suggested then 2) is the most probable, since you know BTC is at yet another ATH.

If it becomes public that tether has excess reserves, the FUD will disappear silently. Worst case Tether says they will slowly sell off to reach 1:$1 over the next 12 months.
How fast the speed do you think they will settle for normal operation? I mean 1Gbps sounds cool, but the limitation and economics are there.
https://github.com/natethinks/jog/

I'm not sure why this isn't a part of zsh already, but if you want to see the last few commands you ran in the current directory, that little utility will do that for you. Great for reminding yourself what you did last time you were in a directory.
Keith Gill / DFV's Remarks to Congress [pdf]
Other than the cool factor I’m not sure why you’d want it in a city. I get gigabit for 60$ a month and star link will never match the latency I get due to physics. If it was cheap enough I’d love to get it for traveling but it should be used for things like that not to replace your inner city connection.
The point of letting a property sit empty is because vacancy is an "expense". EBITDA is imaginary, and the owner can pretend the building's "revenue" is anything. Sure 100% "vacancy" means no actual income and gigantic loses. But, the owner can use the inflated "revenue" to apply for more debt. And the cycle continues.
You’re wasting their time by making them think they can engage you. They are wasting yours by thinking they can engage you.

Be the binary choice you want to see in the world — copy and paste ad infinitum until they acknowledge, then take a screenshot / save the call recording:

“Thanks, I want to cancel my subscription (Jo Doe jdoe94@gmail account 155234) please acknowledge”
On SCE, in Orange County, I'm currently paying $0.22, $0.28, and $0.35.
Lisp surely can and has been.

Basically start with a s-exp based Assembler, add a macro support subset and go from there.
PG&E charges much more than 20c. Depending on the tier, it could be over $0.30/kWh. If you have time of day charges, it's even higher during the day, something ridiculously high.
I LOVE Privacy.com!!!
https://web.archive.org/web/20210216140035/https://github.co...

Or these forks, but I wouldn't be surprised if they vanish:

https://github.com/agnivesh/endgame/
https://github.com/brandongalbraith/endgame
> That model is obviously totally dead, and I think the companies fired the first shot.

I'm not sure it was "companies" in general. I think a major cause was the shift in stock ownership in public companies from individuals to mutual funds and other financial institutions, over the decades after WWII.

From the standpoint of a company that actually wants to build lasting value, you want your public stock owners to be individuals, investing on long time horizons for things like their retirement. Then you can implement longer term plans and strategies without having to worry as much about immediate returns.

But if most of your stock is owned by mutual funds, then the fact that the individuals whose retirement savings are in those mutual funds are investing on a long time horizon doesn't help you; the funds themselves are looking at your short term returns, and if those don't measure up, they'll sell your stock and buy some other company's.

In short, a system that was set up with the best of intentions, to help people diversify their retirement savings and earn better average returns on them, has had the unintended consequence of putting Darwinian selection pressure on individual companies to prioritize short term returns over everything else. Which in turn has led to the demise of the "work for the company your whole career and the company will take care of you" model; no company can afford to do that in the new selective environment.
That's about the same as the non-summer part of ToU plan in NV -- both peak & off-peak. It's about a cent cheaper off-peak right now.

On the TOU plan in NV, weekdays in June thru Sept, from 1PM to 7PM, it's ~0.45/kWh -- but rest of the time it's under 6c/kWh -- comparable [or less] than your rate.

Hard to believe we haven't figured out efficient, reliable, & redundant long-distance electricity transmission at this point.

I generated almost 100kWh today & have used ~half that; it sure seems like transmission is almost as big of an issue as storage.
Basecamp can be great if teammembers can put some thought in organization.

It is very open with minimal features which means less confusion and good adoption.
Yes. It's infuriating. How do I get AMEX to prevent those charges?
has been brought on by the easy money policies [...] aimed at weathering the global Covid 19 pandemic

Did the financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent decade of financial and monetary policy responses not happen then? I must have imagined that one.

Edited to add: loose monetary policy is a macro trend that could easily outlive the pandemic recovery...it all depends on inflation. There’s an assumption that inflation is really going to get going any day now, but for various reasons it always seems to be under shooting. I guess we’ll see what happens when things open up...
At the moment, its hard to say... I'm loathe to say, "Nothing", but that may actually be the most correct answer.

Institutions have completely squandered what little trust the public once had in them.

I think we're living through a very specific period of history in which we're going to see some sort of new paradigm emerge and become dominant. Citizen journalism has been on the rise - I don't know how long, I admit I don't pay much attention to it - and established journalists like Matt Taibbi are moving to Substack.

I don't know what the future might hold, but I don't think the next 100 years will look at all like the past 100 years, at least insofar as the concept of "news" is concerned.
I've had success pursuing bad i.e. potentially illegal cancellation practices by filing a complaint through the attorney general's office where the company is located.

In my case:
1) First I had a rough time cancelling my account _in person_ at a T-mobile store. The remote T-mobile employees in charge of cancellation kept hanging up on the T-mobile employees calling them from the store because cancellations are bad. This was so normal to the local T-mobile employees it was laughable to them.
2) T-mobile never cancelled my account - they suspended it...and didn't tell me! They reopened it 6 months later, charged me for a few months w/o notifying me, then sent the unpaid dues to a local debt collector. I only found out after being contacted by a debt collection agency.

I was able to get both T-mobile and the collection agency they work with to "look into it", but I could not get a direct answer from T-mobile about how to fix the situation after multiple calls to them, and the collection agency relied on T-mobile to strike the debt clean.

Bob Ferguson is the attorney general for Washington where T-mobile's HQ is. Bob is THE man in case you were wondering. After filing a complaint to his office, which was then forwarded to T-mobile, I heard back from someone at T-mobile specializing in these situations in a week's time and was informed the situation was fixed and the debt was removed from my credit report.
> it's not aimed at people that live in cities

People are, u know, people. They will defy the "not designed for you" clause. Still, is there a number for one sat bandwidth?
You could just pay for the months you are there.
I'd love to see us start building energy efficient homes. A bit more up front investment would give huge returns.
We should be banning this nonsense...

All this talk of uplink on the roads...for what? Uploading cat vids? Going into the wilderness and not cord cutting? Spying on people? So your phone has an excuse to be on more often?

There are no real justifiable applications to this tech, and it comes at real cost, to our scientific understanding of the universe, to our general ability to appreciate nature, and even arguably to our ability to transition to new tech (what's the realistic upgrade scenario here, so far nobody has successfully safely pulled a junked satellite out of orbit, not to mention the issue of space junk), all so some geeks can play vidya games in the woods?

Fuck.
That.
I mean, you haven't actually provided any reasons backing up your case. The comment is pure ad hominem with a case of appealing to self-authority.

Why hasn't E-Ink display tech gone mass-market? lots of other commenters are arguing the reasons for and against.
Netflix Open Sources GraphQL for Spring Boot
I have encountered similar tactics from a popular VPS provider. Set up your account to auto-renew, send the invoice to collections if they can't charge you, instead of just canceling the service. Infuriating, to the point where you'd think they'd be more concerned about driving away future customers.
A lot of people seem to think that Starlink will compete with Comcast/Cox/Spectrum/etc in suburban areas. But it won't.

Starlink is great, and people are right to be excited about it as an option for signal in truly rural areas. But it simply won't have the capacity necessary to serve a meaningful number of users in any kind of semi-dense application.

Starlink is like a 4G/5G cellular network except there's no way to increase capacity in a specific area. That makes it great at covering areas with very low population density, but absolutely terrible for even medium-density zones.

If you're stuck in a suburban or exurban area with terrible options for broadband, your best option is likely a 4G or 5G router. There a number of different truly unlimited plans out there (e.g. Calyx). If signal isn't good enough indoors, you can purchase outdoor MIMO antennas to get better results.

Starlink is great if you're in area with very low population density. That's a lot of the US, but not a lot of the US population.
what do edge nodes mean here? The user terminals?
I also loved that the jumbled, hallucinatory cinematography of Satyricon matches how we have only fragments of the text and whole portions are lost or exist only as a scant few lines
Interesting! There are some farmhouse brewers in Norway, Lithuania, and a few other places that use mashing processes that aren’t temp controlled two step processes. However, mixing cold and hot mashed wort is a pretty neat technique.

Looking at the photo, there is a lot of protein haze and sediment, which I would expect given the lack of boil, and consumption from the fermentation vessel.

Now I wonder how they were processing the grains prior to brewing.
Agree 100%. It sounded a bit like a tech request on how to get rid of ads, which established some scope for agent to assist.

I'm subscribed to NYT and WP to help support journalism; I'm using Samsung's Internet browser which is just great - no ads, easy on the battery, and a dark mode to boot.
I appreciate Californians fighting PG&Es haphazard attempts to go nuclear, but on larger scale, how exactly are we supposed to ditch coal, natural gas, and oil without nuclear power? No renewable source is reliable enough for sustained, reliable energy over long periods and batteries are no where near ready for the challenge (nor are they environmentally friendly.)

While for 40 years California may have opposed nuclear power, it might be time for people to figure out how to make it work.
he’s always like that :)

He’s done more fun things though on his steam
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Have you lost respect for the CEO? Should they be coding still or you rather they make sure there is enough money to make payroll?
Starlink will always follow local regulations. Its easy for the government to triangulate the location of user terminals.
...though in this case just pay $20 pa to get the crosswords from Ginsberg et al; worth every penny.
It's not just a testnet though, the creators of the fork are actively encouraging people to get the coin listed on exchanges (while keeping their 25m coin premine in a personal wallet).
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/cheapETH/comments/lkzkso/george_hot...
Markets don't, but, GP said:

"I can't imagine much appetite for any future under-sea cabling out of Australia"

And the reality is that satellites can not compete with the bandwidth of subsea cables for bulk data transfer, HFT is a whole other world.
Their cancellation policy is clearly spelled out. I doubt you would win a dispute. Also disputing a charge is more work than a few lines of chat.
DIY First-year C-Corp federal and CA tax returns (forms 1120 and 100)
Has any startup founders filed forms 1120 and 100 independently (federal and CA taxes)?

Our situation seems incredibly simple: as a new startup, we've made less than $1,000 in 2020 and have spent way more than that (on advertising, cloud services, and contractors).

So working with a CPA seems like an overkill. We're trying to figure out the easiest and the quickest way to file these forms. As a new startup we don't seem to owe any taxes we just need to do the filing. And we have already paid the Delaware franchise tax.

Any suggestions? We'd really appreciate your help!

Thank you!
Swiss File Knife – A Command Line Tools Collection
Preorder just puts you in the queue. Yes you can buy it later.
The United States Patent Office.

And https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion...

I admit I myself am highly skeptical of this project... but I welcome it with open arms if its true.
I'm in Palo Alto and I pay 14 cents. Yes, we also have our own local provider.
Did you know that one third of US carbon emissions come from buildings?

Upgrading buildings would massively reduce emissions, and we’d never have to generate the electricity in the first place. It pays for itself.
> Germany, for example, has seen reliability increase massively as they shift towards more distributed renewables, even though it's not a super high penetration level.

That’s a blatant lie.

According to the Bundesnetzagentur which is the local regulator for the electricity grid, the number of times where they have to intervene on the electricity grid to stabilize it has dramatically increased due to the higher share of renewables:

> https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Elektrizitae...

Germany’s energy sector causes 350 million tons of CO2 annually, 50 France’s just 50 million tons CO2 annually.

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

The kWh in France costs 17 Euro Cents, while it costs over 31 Euro Cents in Germany.

> https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/

France has 70% nuclear, Germany 50% renewables.

I have no idea why some people on HN keep spreading such lies about nuclear and the so-called Energiewende in Germany.

You should get your facts straight!
It seems like the only way for carbon sequestration projects to succeed is to leverage cheap nuclear power. The winner of the XPrize competition [1] should just go to whoever figures out how to build a few gigawatts of nuclear capacity, and power "whoever comes in second place".

[1]: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
Believing that you don't have beliefs, just a direct line to the mind of God, is a great reason to downvote and move on. It's much more time-efficient.
This is not a new trend, it's always been the case. My quick search shows in 2001 in the US of 50,000 minors reported missing, around 100 were abducted by strangers. I didn't immediately find any older data but I've heard this same thing since I was a kid.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150216071609/http://www.crimel...
Elon Musk Clubhouse Interview
The challenge I had was getting the pharmacy to actually correctly code the transaction to GoodRxs PBM. Especially when you have multiple prescriptions and different PBMs for each one, they often get screwed up, and charge the wrong one.
Indeed, it feels a bit weird getting a warning on my original comment when I remember all the BS we had to put up with from people who were reselling our own power back to us. I don't know for sure but I don't think electricity prices ever came back down from that.

Like that comment was dripping with irony and schadenfreude, sure, but is not flamebait!

Enron was real, and they fucked things up for good!
Do you know that if electricity generation doesn't produce CO2 then consuming it won't either?
did twilio suddenly become medium? why are they posting zsh tricks blogspam
I don't get why you think there's an open problem. 20% of US energy currently comes from nuclear. If waste is an open problem - what problem is it causing now? Would scaling nuclear related problems by a factor of five be better or worse than current energy problems? My view is that it would be better.
It requires two dumps, one for fuel and one for fly ash with containment - the latter is usually huge.
Around 20 Gbps per sat or 1 Tbps every launch (60 sats).
These agents are paid $2/hour. I always avoid them using a prepaid card.
This is a bit off topic, but if you ever want a cheaper Adobe subscription just go through the cancellation process and opt to discuss it.

This was some time back and I've simply cancelled since then, but it was a good little thing to do back then.
I was going to subscribe to my local paper but didn't when the subscription form said that a phone number was required and that by subscribing you agree to receive calls and texts about "offers that might interest you". This seems like a horrible tactic in general and even more so when your main product is available for free. If it stops being available for free I'm still not likely to agree to that. No respect == no money from me.
Isn't Rails a library of libraries of libraries?
You just reminded me the Tesla Powerwall is a thing. Might be a worthwhile investment for some people after this.
There is something fundamentally wrong with these models.

The brain "works" because it's evolved structure matches or reflects reality. It is not about having billions of neurons, but about to have the right structure which matches the environment.

My favourite example is how butterflies evolve pictures of eyes on its wings to scare predators, having literally no idea about existence of other creatures.

It has been evolved because other creatures have eyes, and they are there, of course.

The proper structure of neural networks must be based on such fundamental features, like "most of creatures have eyes" and similar ones.

Brain does not have a flat structure, like a billion x billion matrix. It is more clever and simpler that that.

A language model must be based on the fundamental notion that there are nouns (things), verbs (processes) and adjectives (attributes). It is that simple.
SPOILER ALERT: entropy
I just tell people I have terminal cancer and will be dead soon so I would like my subscription canceled please.
If you’re on 10.15 (Catalina) there’s no need to install zsh, it is the default shell. If you’ve upgraded and are still using bash, just do ‘chsh -s /bin/zsh’ to set the default to zsh.
That is so true.

I work in IT of a non-Tech company and it's sometimes crazy to think that just because our industry is so short-handed on IT people we get paid so much more compared to the guys in the company "doing the work". I think it's probably fine because we also play a vital role in the company's success and it's good taking pride in your work, but some of my colleagues act like they are the reason we are making any profit. They are running the tool that enables our sales, but they are not the ones doing the actual selling. Just because the company has been around longer than there has been commodity sales order software and they are still running it does not mean they are the cause for all the revenue in their tool.

We have it amazingly well and we should make sure to be nice to other people, especially since we are privileged.
would like to chime in a faster theme written in rust:
https://starship.rs/
Do you think it's TDMA? I just assumed it would be whatever the latest CDMA technology is. The download probably doesn't really matter much one way or another since there's so much space between receivers that there's no practical chance of collisions. The satellite certainly must be able to receive multiple uplinks simultaneously, even in order to maintain a modest 15Mbps for multiple customers.
The one downside to cable now streaming, is that the answer I used in the past "I don't have a TV" no longer shuts them up. It used to be amazing; it seemingly broke their brains. The two, three times I had to use it, the rep fell silent for a solid 3-4 seconds, then "You...don't have a TV?" "That's right" "...okay, so that's just internet then" "Yes".
Correct! Consider when you call "defn" for the first time to be the entry-point. Everything inside that is fused.
If you take a left on Arguello, and then right on Fulton, you won’t hit all the stop signs on Turk
They are launching new sats every 2 weeks, so by the end of the year there should be no drops.
Washington Post takes a few clicks and you’re done.
You appreciate it? Why? I certainly don't.

If there was a problem it was PG&E, not nuclear energy, which there was never a rational argument against it. Big oil has been playing us like fiddles.

I'm inheriting a broken world. Didn't have to be that way.