skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said possibly EE, not necessarily. Depends what you mean by "taught" and on what the program itself focuses on. In EE/CS programs you'd be taking half CS courses at least in the beginning, for example. And those EE courses' focuses are often on DSP and digital control rather than (say) simulating analog circuits. If by "taught" you mean "can be taken at that level", then sure, these are such undergrad courses in the US too, and they don't have particularly long prereq chains either, so a 2nd year student could take them if they actually wanted to. But it's not customary, and if by "taught" you mean required as part of the curriculum, it may not be depending on the school. The reasons are varied; again, lack of interest from CS-leaning folks on both sides is one such reason, as is the fact that the world has gone digital and they tend to focus more on linear algebra/DSP/etc. rather than ODEs and PDEs. In general few undergraduate students who aren't forced to take numerical methods in undergrad will do so.

And I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing or trying to justify it, just explaining how it is and what some of their rationales are.
Thank you for posting a source about the wind turbines.
Microsoft repo automatically added to Raspberry Pis
All about Styled-Components
> Crypto would have to rise massively in value for that to happen.

No, crypto would rise massively if that were to happen.
I understand that the 'gears' synchronize the jump, but can this be considered 'mechanical gears', if it is not a completely independent system where the energy of one gear is being transmitted to the other?
Can it be a gear if it does not make a complete 360 degrees rotation? what defines a gear? if there were 3 teeth, does it define a gear?
Your Tether-DAI bet has to be made on an exchange, many of which are shady and unregulated; for example, we know Bitfinex is closely tied to Tether itself. When the tide goes out, we'll also find which exchanges have been putting their hands in the cookie jar, and many will implode Mt Gox style.
There is some danger to this since just because your card is declined doesn’t mean that you stop owing them money. Gyms like to take advantage of this.
Another related dark pattern: When cancelling a Prime trial, Amazon makes it appear as if you're going to lose the Prime benefits immediately, not at the end of the trial, to keep you from cancelling early.

(It seems like you DO keep them until the end of the trial, but you only get told that after cancelling)

Together with their decreased support quality (agents barely understanding what I write + the typical "tell the customer what they want to hear so they go away and give you a good CSAT, by the time they realize you lied it won't matter for you anymore"), I have a _very_ low opinion of Amazon. They still have a service (delivery time), price (free shipping) and consistency advantage in many cases, but it's quickly shrinking, and I am much more likely to buy from alternative places if they can make a competitive offer.
I see where you want to go with that, but I'm not sure you made the argument you're trying to make.

Ballmer didn't 'make money from extracting rents and screw everything else up'.

Ballmer entrenched and expanded MS core products i.e. Office to the Cloud and along with that massively expanded revenues, which continue to this day, long after his departure, with no signs of slowing down.

He completely screwed up Search and Mobile, but those were risky new things, that's to be expected. Frankly he should have had 1 of 2 ...

But he also established XBox and Cloud; the former is a very successful play into a very difficult space (though maybe not as nice in terms of profits) - remember, Google just completely failed at this. The later, is now a hugely successful and growing business, and frankly, over the long haul has a shot at actually going toe-to-toe with Amazon.

Microsoft has 10's of thousands of sales people and direct access to every single CTO in the world if companies with > 1000 emoloyees. Much the same way they are going to stomp Slack, they have that kind of advantage (though not the same leverage) against AWS. Point being - he started a massive business.

Azure now has revenues of more than Windows did when Ballmer started, and it's growing by 40% YoY.

So yes 'revenue' is not the 'whole story' if someone is bilking a cache cow and running everything else into the ground ... but that's now what happened.

Ballmer 'grew and entrenched the cash cows' and made some other huge bets, some of them working out to the point where they are now also, big growing foundational aspects of the business.

'The Market' took a long time to recognize this, but all the historical sales numbers are there for everyone to see.

I believe that once Analysts realized that 1) Windows and Office is 'here to stay' and 2) due to AWS, Azure is going to be huge ... that they revised their view on MSFT from a 'old company' to a 'well run growth company'.

Satya seems great and has made some good moves, but nothing of the magnitude that Ballmer did. At least not yet.
Charging your tesla is going to cost $200.
I don't know of anyone that takes software certifications very seriously. As far as LinkedIn goes, my understanding is that recruiters use certain heuristics to determine "fit" (usually some combination of tech keywords, and a mapping of years of experience vs where you "should" be in your career)
Iirc they set the date at roughly a month later. In other words, no set day or firm deadline, but around next week.
> It's not useful for money transmission,

It's extremely useful for money transmission, and a way to bypass KYC/AML entirely. For example, Iran can export heroin to Europe and get paid in Tether. It can then use that Tether to buy weapons from North Korea. North Korea can then spend that Tether to import luxury goods from the West. At which point, it then gets sent to Binance and converted back to clean fiat.

None of that's possible with SWIFT. Yes Tether's risky. But in many parts of the world, holding dollars in a bank account is riskier.
They make up an increasingly small % of the crypto exchange volumes. And it's not clear that it's a 100% fraud, they probably have some backing even if it's not at 100%. I'd say research Bitcoin itself instead of looking at news to decide whether you should hold some or not. It may go to 1M$, it may go to 0, but at least you'll understand what you were buying.
I was an early backer of Oculus having bought the DK1/Dk2 back in 2012/14 and I was so perplexed when they announced they were putting effort into a mobile headset. It made no sense to me until I put the Oculus Quest 2 on my head last October 2020 and I learned a massive lesson!
Coiner bingo -

Limited supply means value must go up

It's a store of value, not a medium of exchange

Lightning network or some other yet-to-be-tested solution will fix scalability

Crypto investors getting rich is proof crypto is good

Security of network must be worth what is spent on mining

Mining is mostly renewable energy so energy usage doesn't really count

What about energy usage of entire rest of the world's economic activity?
I can't answer in general, but I do see one possible misunderstanding: "vendored" means the code is copied into the parent repo.

If a submodule's original source goes offline, a new clone of the parent repo won't be able to retrieve it, since it just stores a reference to where to clone from. If subrepo really vendors the code, that'll never be a problem since a full copy is committed directly to the parent repo.
Sorta. The "cookie" in your browser is often enough to pin your computer as "something you have" for access to services. Gmail, in particular. (Similar for the security enclave on your phone.)

As I understand it, a yubikey is '"something you have" that we can reasonably verify as unique based on a shared secret with a third party.' That is, the algorithm that the yubikey is using to verify that it is something you have, is predicated on other knowledge, correct?

(I know I have one question mark up there. But I intend all of these assertions as a question. I'm not positive on this stuff.)
Why is geothermal not more prominent?
This is why I use throw-away credit card numbers for everything. I'll give a quick try at cancelling a service (out of respect), but if it takes me more than a few clicks, I just stop the card and send their emails to spam. Done and done.
I meant specifically things only a manager does. For instance, the presentations he does are for director/vp level, hefty slide deck stuff.

Of course the more senior ICs do more than simply code AFA talk across teams and divisions to scope and define work, present workshops and presentations to the team and cross-departments, contribute to architecture decisions, present as SMEs across various parts of the stack, and mentor juniors. None of the ICs year on my team spend more than 80% of their time simply coding, the more senior staff spend probably more like 60-70%, and I spend about 50%.

I’ve worked at 14 companies over 23 years, from 3 Fortune 500s, to a couple mid-sized, to a bunch of smaller companies, to a handful of early stage startups. Have had probably close to 20 supervisors over this time and interfaced with dozens of other managers on related teams, and been a team lead about 5 or so times and a manager once.

I’ve never seen this dynamic play out. IME you're talking about a team lead not an actual people manager. Even in the most streamlined/simplest environments, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a people manager spend the majority of their time coding, not unless they were pushing 60+ hours doing so. Something as simple as 1-on-1s should be done at least once every week or two, and that can take up to an hour (or more counting prep) for every report.

Your mention of having multiple sups and junior heavy ICs at one place sounds dysfunctional and has little relation to any place I’ve worked at.
Average in Germany is 30 euro cents per kWh in 2019 apparently; I'm at 31c with this Energiewende Ökostrom which I sure hope is going to help transition to sustainability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende
>Tumblr had a lot of LGBTQ "diversity hires". One guy would show up at company-wide meetings and use all of the gay porn blogs to demonstrate the latest features he had been working on. Another guy would strut around the office in a zz-top beard and a french maid outfit w/ fishnet pantyhose and heels. There was a group of transitioning guys who would hang out by my desk and discuss their urine fetish - though they stopped doing that after I challenged them all to a "b_lls-out" coding contest knowing they were no longer equipped.

This reminds me of Aphyr (Jepsen guy). He does good work, but his twitter feed was full of NSFW stuff, last time I checked. He was also in the silicone balls cult for a while, and spoke out against its leader noodlesandbeef.
I work remote.

First: Employers hire people who can do the job, not sob stories. Focus on what you can do for a company, and only reveal your personal life situation when required. I have a wife that works odd hours and kids, but I will only bring it up in an interview when discussing how often I will need to travel to an office. (Often I'll just say that I can't move.)

Second: I have almost 20 years experience and I had to apply to about 60 well-chosen jobs before I found a good match. Is "your job is finding a job?" Are you spending 20-40 hours a week looking? Are you choosing where you apply carefully? Anticipate applying for 100 positions.

I suspect you're 35-45 years old. Why are you looking for an entry-level job? Entry-level is also about life experience. You're making a career change, and your existing experience puts you beyond entry level.

But more importantly, "entry-level" implies that your boss will baby-sit you. This is harder to do remotely.

IMO: Focus on "soft skills" jobs like support, direct customer interaction, content. Focus on jobs where you won't need handholding (babysitting) once you know the ropes, and apply for at least 3 jobs a week.
Full disclosure, I used to work for Netflix. I really don't think they're trying to be shady. When you click to cancel, it tells you what your last day of service will be. This is also how just about all monthly subscription services work. One of the most important metrics at Netflix is how many hours members are watching. Any A/B test that can improve that metric is really cherished, because Netflix wants happy customers who both stick around and tell their friends. Trying to squeeze an extra month out of them doesn't really fit their style.
Or Keith Hernandez if you ever watched a Mets broadcast while they were playing the Giants.
100$ a month. Plus a 600$ fee to buy the hardware.

i think they said 50mbps - 150mpbs

It's a little on the pricey side but at least, as far I know, it's not comcast or at&t.
All those exchanges use Tether substantially. A trader takes on all the tether risks by using them
I've identified the issue. A correctly built copy of the ePub is at https://forthworks.com/retro/r/RETRO12-2021.1.epub (replacing the broken one) and I've now issued a 2021.2 release to fix the issue that caused this.
We have several decent sized nukes powering the city
I was generalising about what is common in the subrant so maybe it should have read "when there is no date on the article".
Is Gnucash Dead?
I have tried all day to access https://gnucash.org/ but it just won't load.
Is it just a website failure, or is gnucash no longer maintained?
Making a JIT for Lox in One Evening with RPython/PyPy
Does Amazon Pharmacy do the same? (https://pharmacy.amazon.com/)
Could it be the greater fool theory? If they believe future buyers exist despite bad fundamentals then it could be a gamble. An attempt to ride the wave and get out before it collapses.
Yes. If you own Tether, get out. There is zero upside and a significant downside.
Start with a seed round, this is pretty easy to get if you have a decent application and a sound business plan.

After about a year as long as you have revenues that are growing each month you can get a Series A.

Series B and beyond will be harder but by that point you’ll bring all the right consultants on board for how to do it.
Doesn't this essentially make stocks have no meaning by treating them like fiat? Sounds like fraud to me.
> and admitting that he did, indeed think of engineers as "second-class citizens."

Lol that's classic. TBH though I think I prefer an old school British manager that will tell you the truth instead of an American one bullsh*tting you. Maybe he revised his view or took some of your ideas on.
> Central banks will outlaw it because they can't control it and devalue it

Except that, many rich investors and large corporations are putting money into crypto as we speak. Some of those large investors may include people who work in the government and at central banks. I tend to think that, these people will have a conflict of interest there. It might be in their own best personal interest to not ban crypto, and to leave that door open. In other words, it might soon be too late to ban crypto. The ball already started rolling down the hill.
NYT has been a net negative on society since 2016, rapidly so since 2019.
This is great. I'm glad this project is coming along fast.

I'm hoping some time soon that the fixed location requirement is lifted, or at the very least they allow users to sign up to it as a sort of mobile service. I know it isn't handheld, but for people who move around a lot and especially who work in remote outdoor situations, the ability to move around with this service would be amazing.

I'm sure at some point, when they do have the satellite to satellite links in the sky and there aren't ground station bottlenecks they will. High speed internet on the oceans or for travelers in rural areas is an untouched market.
As someone who has been managed both through traditional management techniques and a manager who mostly coded, I could not disagree more.
Same: SiriusXM
He doesn't have to. Point us to a single insight in the article. We'll wait.
Facebook Blocks News in Australia
> If we're going to be serious about this, we need to examine why American costs are so much higher than other countries, rather than simply taking costs out of context from other countries with very different infrastructure, geographical, and regulatory situations.

That is precisely what Alon is doing. They probably have the most comprehensive comparative database of transit project costs, and they have actually drilled down into the line item budgets to figure out why some projects are so bloody expensive.
Ameren (electric company serving parts of MO and IL) has requested customers cut back on power consumption if at all possible.

When there's a sustained negative-degree-weather event for over a week, many people start plugging in extra space heaters or run their electric central heater longer, which places a huge amount of strain on the grid.

Luckily there are many in the midwest who use gas for heating, since it's way more efficient in the long winter months.

There are other factors too, like some plants not being maintained to a level where they can operate at full capacity in freezing weather for weeks at a time (many can, but some are not maintained to that standard—see TX), so those plants can't just pop online like they normally would during the summer.
Creativity Inc came out in 2014 and John left in 2019. I'm not sure how that would have been covered or relevant to the book.
>Sure, it may not be fair to these large corporations, but it's currently a great situation for consumers.

Exactly, it is still anti-competitive behavior. Just because consumers like yourself may enjoy it, doesn't make it not anti-competitive.

> For example, Netflix could say "you have to use this other App Store" and many people would convert.

And in the same way that I can choose to not get iOS device, you can always choose to not use Netflix.
Apparently you can have too much geothermal. Their first plant got knocked offline by the 2018 eruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puna_Geothermal_Venture

There's also this bit:

> Additional concerns and opposition to the plant have been raised by Native Hawaiians, who view all forms of volcanic activity as manifestations of the goddess Pele. To the Native Hawaiians who revere Pele, geothermal wells and energy production are a desecration of her body and spirit.
Yep, and they will even refund you if you cancel promptly after a recurring payment.
"You" as in a less formal version of "one".
Chicago area is mostly natural gas heat, so less direct demand. Illinois also has the most nuclearized power grid in the nation.
It is used on the Big Island, which is the newest island. Unfortunately most people live on the older islands, which aren't above the volcanic hotspot anymore. And the islands are far enough apart that they all have their own independent electrical grids.
Am in Melbourne Australia.
I don't understand why Media thinks they can push a case against FB/Google exactly.

I thought getting referrals to their website would've been good for Media? Why do they need recompense?

Also, it has felt for a while that our politicians actively suck up to Murdochs empire in return for favourable coverage.

While I won't personally be upset as I don't get my news from FB I am somewhat worried what the echo chamber will look like without "legit Media".

Lastly, will HN be affected for anything it could possibly link to?!?

[edit for clarity]
KLM Makes First Regular Flight with Sustainable Synthetic Fuel
What “news” do you see in Facebook?
All I see are promos, editorial or political rumors.
Aren't residential prices controlled by the public utility commission? So probably not immediately. But if CA utilities buy on the wholesale market and can't raise rates then they may go bankrupt.
In theory signing up online in California gives a consumer the right to cancel online, but I don't know how closely that's enforced, or if a non-resident of the state can vpn the signup.
Thanks, seems promising.
I just unsubscribed from the NYT. I originally signed up via the Google Play Store, so the process was literally two clicks in the app: choose the sub I wanted to cancel, then confirm. Done.

Of course, this isn't particularly useful if you signed up via any other channel, but it definitely makes it easier next time around.
Paying for News
I have never known anyone to pay attention to certifications. I think it’s understood by everyone, except possibly some recruiters, that paid-for certifications mean next to nothing. Some exceptions may hold — for example at one time Oracle certifications did have value.

I think applying for jobs on LinkedIn might be the actual problem. That site is the bottom of the barrel, the place people scrape through when all else has failed.

You should start with your actual professional and personal contacts, i.e. people who know you as opposed to “connections” on LinkedIn and other social media sites.

Identify specific companies you think you want to work for and target them by learning as much as you can. The idea is to present yourself as the perfect match for their actual needs, rather than one more mass-emailed resume that “ticks the boxes” on a generic job posting.

You need to present yourself as someone who will add value and solve business problems. Regardless of what job postings say, no business has the requirement “We need another person with XYZ certification.” What business problems does that represent? Or rather what lazy outsourced hiring practice?

If you don’t have a professional network (hard to imagine if you have 16+ years experience), reconnect with former colleagues and friends, and make it your goal to meet more people with jobs and spend less time on LinkedIn.
Why on earth would you want to provide a code snippet as an image for that?

Do you want retyping-bugs? That’s how you get retyping-bugs.
Facebook claims that news makes up only 4% of its content, which would seem to be in line with your statement that you hardly see any news. I see a lot more news – something like 50% of my feed.

If removing news reduces Facebook’s revenue by 4%, it would be reasonable to wonder why they didn’t remove news globally years ago, given all the time, money and effort they invest in it and all the drama and existential threats that come with it.

The reality is that news is a massive driver of engagement on Facebook. Their 4% stat is grossly misleading. I’m 100% against this proposed law, but it’s hard to maintain this position in the face of lies and gross misrepresentations by Facebook and Google.
Elaborate??
Many years ago I played a very small part in this adventure. It's great to finally see it coming online.
You're one person. I think you're missing that Apple controls 50% of the market, and I can't just give that up. There's no way to do business without dealing with Apple. Network effects. Bad network effects.

Is there a desktop computer that takes your wishes into account? None of those behave like iPhone. What about a laptop?
Are there any realistic power generation options from tidal/ocean power? Seems like that might be great for Hawaii — if it isn’t still the realm of science fiction?
The law is not bizarre in essence (there are details that are bizarre though): You are free to ask money for your content. On the other hand, Facebook is free to not buy your it.