skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is not explicitly saying to use tracking images. That might be the only possible implementation of this advice, but they're not explicitly telling you to do this. Also, consider their use of the word "consider". It's not a hard rule to them.

And personally, I still think it's a bad idea to automatically unsubscribe people who are interested in your newsletter merely because they're not loading images. At the very least, make it very explicit that you're going to do this, and maybe give them the option to turn the auto-unsubscribe off.
Honestly you probably can do these with bash as well with some tweaking. But on a daily basis these are most used by me

auto_pushd

Replaces internally cd with pushd (plus a few more: to ignore dups, be silent about it).

Global aliases (interpolated anywhere in the commandline)

alias -g G='| grep -i'
cat file G something

Replace on the fly long directory names with short paths

/some/long/path $ export X=`pwd`
~X $

All the tweaks to ignore dups in the history, when saving/searching.
Whenever you join a new team, look at the work everyone is doing and try to identify stuff that isn't getting done as well as it should, or where the team is lacking skills, and aim to own that area. Learn what you can from the most skilled and able personnel for sure, but it's the team weak spots that you can make the biggest personal impact on.

Build something you can show off. A web application, or a mobile apps and stick it on Github or Gitlab. The fancier the better, but even if it's a fairly low effort tutorial clone that's a lot better than nothing. If you can pull out a phone and show off something you built in an interview, it certainly helps you stand out.
I will check if I can embed this feature to Alex’s idea. Again, I will submit another Ask HN as there does not seem to be much interest for a Chrome Extension. I do not want to create something that does not contribute much to the community.
Revenue from account fees must be peanuts, they make their money lending/investing/etc. deposits, in normal times interest rates are positive, so they might even pay for custom, getting more deposits, giving them more capital to make their money from.

Charging for bank accounts in North America is just like commission on retail brokers - everyone else is doing it, so why not? Eventually probably 'fintech startup challenger banks' with the novel idea of not charging will gain too much market share, and the big boys will scrap the fees too in order to compete (and barely feel it).
Same as @mikeyjk! Can you point toward more information on this topic? The applications I'm dealing with in my day job are constantly plagued by deadlocks in the database surrounding bulk transactions. I've theorized that a "T1 1-many T2" refactoring of the tables - like what you've described - might be a solution , but haven't settled on how to implement. Would absolutely love to learn more on this esoteric, hard-to-google topic.
That's not how Audible works. You buy the credits with your subscription unlike an unlimited-consumption model such as Netflix. As a result, they have a policy of allowing credits to be used for a limited time after canceling: https://help.audible.com/s/article/do-i-keep-my-credits-if-i...
You typically get charged in advance for periodical subscriptions. If the charge doesn't go through, they simply won't send you the paper anymore.
Precisely: Better assertions for Python tests
Your job is to deal with customer requirements (i.e. listening to people), and translate those into code other engineers (communicating with people) need to maintain, on a priority/schedule your management (also people), create to deliver business value. This is a people business, whether you like it or not. Develop those skills.

You never finish learning. People who tell me "I know [technology]", invariably are not experts. People who tell me "I am expert with [technology], but learn new things all the time", get it. If you don't like learning _every day_, get out now.

On that point: becoming an expert at a specific technology is great early in your career. You need to be great at learning new technologies as your career progresses, so consider learning how to learn as a priority over learning a specific language or framework, and be curious.

Working with good managers is more important than working with good engineers (trust me, the main difference between a FAANG and a failing startup is management skills), but working with bad engineers still sucks.

Using something that already exists that does 80% of what you need it to do, is normally a better win then writing something from scratch that does 100%. That 80% might even be too high - the real number could be as low as 50% or even 10%.

Mentoring is the best way to develop your own skills by orders of magnitude, but it's also one of the hardest. Look for opportunities to mentor and be mentored, all the time.
Thanks for the question. Somewhat to my own surprise, the proposal seemed to go through quite smoothly, and I am not aware of any concerns being raised. The university library had already released those materials on its own website and wanted them to be used widely, and it saw the opportunity to mirror them on the Internet Archive as a way to make them more easily accessible to—and findable by—people worldwide. The library staff members who did the actual work of preparing and sharing the files were quite enthusiastic about it, too.

While I am the one who initiated the project, I work in a different division of the university and did not take part in any of the meetings where the proposal was discussed and approved. I was, to be honest, a bit worried that the controversy over the IA’s National Emergency Library initiative, which was in the news around the same time, might cause some people at UTokyo to have reservations, but it doesn’t seem to have done so.

My own hope is that this tie-up will create more awareness of the Internet Archive in Japan and encourage similar projects worldwide.
The evidence is stacked against centralized power production. Centralized power production is highly unreliable. Nuclear power stops working during freezing weather and very hot weather where flow rates in rivers drop. Gas stops working when pipelines freeze. Coal plants are the primary cause of death via power generation because their pollution is worse than just CO2.

Meanwhile people spend a lot of effort on predicting Solar and Wind and yet their expectations were more pessimistic compared to the actual energy production capacity that is online.
Node.js – FoalTS – What's new in version 2 (part 1/4)
https://www.smard.de/page/en/marktdaten/78?marketDataAttribu...

Again, I specifically mean day time office, and residential "retail" price, which is 2-3 times bigger than wholesale.
So how does this work out in the end? Will people suffering in the cold due to outages in the end also get a thousand dollar invoice for the 2h of daily electricity they were given?
Do you need a job while I am at home?
I'm referring to a real SEC regulated broker like InteractiveBrokers which allows you to buy and sell /BTCG1 futures. The price of the /BTCG1 future is calculated based on a blended average of the spot price at a bunch of other exchanges (the "Bitcoin Reference Rate" or, humorously, BRR).

The current maintenance margin for a /BTCG1 contract is 40%. You're required to have enough margin to cover 40% of the notional value of the contract which is 5 BTC, roughly $100,000.

Let's say you only have $200,000 of margin. A parabolic move towards infinity in the BRR due to insolvency in some of the exchanges involved in the calculation may double or triple the price of BTC. Further, the high volatility may increase the margin requirements beyond 40% and up towards 100%. This means you're going to get a margin call, and you either post collateral or get rekked.

Not sure how FTX works.
Stick with it. You'll go through periods of time when something seems super complicated (legacy code, new algorithm, new framework, new language etc.). But just stick with it, you'll figure it out eventually.
It's much more energy-efficient than building pylons and distribution lines, if you only need it once in a lifetime to deal with a hundred-year weather event, and outside that you have a use for the Powerwalls and the truck.

It's not implausible something like this could be economically worthwhile, though as sokoloff points out it's not close to being there at current prices. Trucks full of portable generators and diesel fuel are also a potential competitor.
I went through this process last month, and I was shocked to the bottom. Absolutely unprofessional. Thank you for spreading the word. I didn't even think of contacting NYT and complaining, because I knew from this experience that all I could ever reach would have been those awful robots. Thanks for sharing this. NYT, let's please fix that and move on.
I am at about your same latitude and have seen 3-4 hour periods with as low as 0.08% packet loss to seattle. There is already 'full' make before break satellite hand off coverage at our latitude. If your neighbors are using terminals with tree obstruction on any side they may see much more loss than that. Things have also been a lot better since Jan 15 or so, as satellite density increases.
>Tumblr had a lot of LGBTQ "diversity hires"

Out of curiosity, what is your basis for thinking that they were hired only for being LGBTQ? As a gay man I wonder how I can avoid my colleagues thinking this. (It sounds like it's not just the gay folks who were engaged in inappropriately sexual behavior, so it can't be that.)
I see what you mean, thanks for clarifying.
But canceling prime does not make you a non-customer for amazon. People tend to forget that. You can still order, you still have your account and the refund is an incentive to "come back" -- although you never left.

Not to criticize this behavior, just to set it into the proper context. Its just smart to see the potential customer in your cancellations anyway.
How about helping to ensure there's a planet worth living on in 20-50 years? Must it always come down to whatever costs the least money now?
If you are going to deploy an expensive method of power generation you better want to use that expensive power as efficiently as possible. The fact that you don't consider practical reality makes it sound like this is just a Santa wishlist of yours.
Are there examples of this?
Maybe instead of `grep --color=never`? (i.e. to force non-terminal behaviour)

Then again, cut would do the same thing anyway.
You don't owe someone money just because they say you do. If you've given notice to someone that you want to cancel in a reasonable way, then you don't owe them money any more. Keep documentation of your efforts to cancel, and if they try to put something on your credit report, go to court.
I wonder if this would happen to me as an EU subscriber. There is a law (source unknown) that requires cancellation of services to be “as easy” as subscribing to it.
This option is horrendously inefficient on most modern drives. For many SSDs, issuing a secure erase request is an almost instantaneous process as it only requires the drive to generate a replacement encryption key, and need not even entail bulk writing or erasing physical flash pages
On top of the suspect data source, I notice I few more issues with that teather hit piece.

1. They are only looking on the buy sides. They don't even show the sell side with all the people selling their bitcoin back for teather.

On most exchanges, the amount of teather buys is roughly equal to the amount of teather sells. People just sit there all day selling back and forwards between teather and bitcoin, trying to take advantages in short-term fluctuations in the price.

But by only presenting one side of the trades, that hit piece implies (but never actually claims) that teather is being created out of thin air to buy bitcoin.

2. They misrepresent teather's reserve by implying (and once again not claiming) that it is all cash held in a single bank account in a single Bahamian bank account. (and then pointing out that the value of teather massively exceeds all Bahamian bank holding)

In reality, teather claims their reserves are cash and cash equivalents. They only need to hold a small fraction as actual cash for quick withdrawals. And there is a good chance that teather hold cash in multiple bank accounts in multiple countries. It's a huge risk to have it all in a single bank.

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Personally, I'm not a fan of teather, or cryptocurrencies in general. Teather even admit they don't hold full cash/cash-equivalent reserves, saying in April 2019 they only had 74% cash+equivalent reserves.

But I hate misleading journalism way more than I dislike teather. That article is hugely misleading and feels like it's designed to drive the price of bitcoin down so the anonymous author can profit from a short position.
I believe most people will be on fixed rate tariffs so it shouldn’t affect their bills (aside from lower usage due to the outages). This will hit the suppliers as they need to buy the energy for their customers on the wholesale market.

I don’t know what the smart meter situation is like in Texas but there might be some people on price-linked tariffs who would be exposed.
As long as you don't shoot yourself in the foot by touching other NVMe namespaces (and even that should be recoverable) and the SPI flash onboard, things can be restorable through DFU.
That's correct, but seems irrelevant?
I’m not an expert in this, but I think racists call black people apes, not just because they think they are stupid, but because they think they are sub-human.

Blacks don’t reach the intelligence and blah to be human. I think that’s what racists drive at when they call someone a monkey, and that’s why it’s so offensive.

It would also make your theoretical AI racist, as it identified blacks as not human.

Honestly, at the end of the day that is what is so difficult about much of this. It’s mostly subjective
Don't see any hard reason why interest rates should be above zero going forward ... IMO, they could quite easily go negative.
USDC is an example, it's not necessary that you use USDC, there are a few other currencies that can be used for collateral and swapped in to while you wait. Let's be clear: "Do not do this" means do not do this in whatever variation.
First make it correct, then make it fast.

Being nice is a superpower. So is staying calm (especially when others are not). Also, being helpful - especially to people outside your team. When people like you they’re much more likely to help you, possibly in ways you won’t even know you about.

Remember that your users/customers are also people trying to do their job, and get through the day or week, just like you are. Try not to make their lives harder than they already are.

Try to understand where others are coming from, especially in disagreements or multi-team discussion. No-one ever has the complete picture, but very few people (none I’ve ever met) are truly malicious. Don’t mistake a different set of priorities for incompetence or stupidity.
>Uff…what a paintful process!

If an issue takes less than 5 different attempts to resolve and under 1-2 hours to fix, that can't really be called painful, merely annoying. Especially when it's only a one-time problem.
This is certainly the in vogue way that good management is represented, but in my experience, great things are not created this way.

Great things are created when an individual person can impose their strong vision for a final product on a team.
Re 1., if you put a -p on the mkdir it becomes a bit more powerful.
I've had equivalents of that command going back to DOS batch files on a 286. I've always called it "ad", for "add directory" (though I'll concede that's mainly a good name because it's short).
Ask HN: Do you want a Chrome Extension to follow people on HN?
Hi folks,

I recently offered to implement a Chrome Extension for HN; just to give back to the HN community.

AlexITC (
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AlexITC) had the cool idea of an extension that would enable you to follow other users.

Before heading for implementation and spending time on this, I wanted to check with you first. Is this something you would use or not? I do not want to create something that no one uses so I’d appreciate your honest feedback.

Cheers
All your domain are belong to us
Interesting. These are all the issues I will avoid from early adopters when I eventually get a newer Apple Silicon based Mac computer.

I have no time to go through the thorns and landmines over incompatible systems or buggy system software tools from Apple as described by the blog post.

Again, I will wait until the software on Apple Silicon is mature and the developer ecosystem catches up to it which by then I'll be getting an M2 or M3 based Mac.
I don’t think Apple is the town. A town is something that a user (resident) should feel comfortable staying with their whole life. However, it is perfectly reasonable for a person to pickup a new phone from a different vendor on their next upgrade cycle. Therefore Apple can’t be the town. Apple is Walmart and Samsung is Target and the 100s of other Android devices are other stores.
I get {"status":"error","message":"INVALID_TOKEN"} when trying to download the data.
Not at all. Investing in a stock is the same thing as investing in a business, since you literally own part of a business. And businesses produce income, aka profits. Bitcoin doesn't produce income. Your profits from "investing" in bitcoin can only come in the form of capital gains.
There's a "credit score" in Europe???
And then the inverse operation, uncommenting and running, is "M-3 M-#" (any number will do, but 3 is on the same key as #).
Interestingly, the trench war episodes during the Russo-Japanese war (siege of Port Arthur) were a good demo-version of the Western Front ten years later.

The observers from the West were very clear in their warnings towards the General Staff back home that the combination of barbed wire and rapid firepower was massively deadly and led to stalemates. Also, that cavalry was becoming outright obsolete in such conditions.

They were mostly ignored because they were young.
For perhaps a bit of extra context, the right-wingers / racists / Euroscepticals / etc of the UK like to refer to themselves as "anglo-saxons", as if to enforce some kind of "we were here first" or "we are the true English" narrative. Which is many levels of ironic. It's like white Americans pretending they have any kind of American roots going way back.
Well so much about democracy in Ancient Greece. If you are wondering, nowdays my home country is a bankrupt puppet servile state militarily attached to US and economically to the "democratic" EU. The current US ambassador to Greece goes around spreading nonsense about Russia being evil and dangerous to democracy. Eh, it was the Russians who helped Greece win its independence from the Turks. And our first governor had served as a foreign minister to Russia. If you want to know how much the US appreciates us, just read this:
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Greece.pdf
"...Encourage Greece’s active participation in strengthening regional and global security to protect the American homeland and its interests..."(!!!)
Yeah, we are cannon fodder in a possible future war between NATO and bad bad Russia.
Starlink ground links are RF
Whoever wintetised their power production is being rewarded handsomely.
This does exist for credit cards in the US. There are guidelines by which credit card issuers must abide by customer requests, and they're seemingly always happy to side with the consumer when it's even somewhat reasonable.

> Letting companies redefine the rights of their customers seems bizarre to me.

Maybe it's just what I was used to, but I think it's far more annoying in many European countries (not sure about the UK but at least the one I live in) where it's harder to return products without specific proof and following strict guidelines, virtually impossible to get a credit or debit card that covers all fees for normal international use, difficult to get a fraud or improper charge on a card statement immediately rescinded, etc.
You're allowed to complain about anything but that doesn't mean they are good complaints.
I've been looking into cancelling my NYT subscription for reasons. Everytime I look at their page to cancel they say they have no online agents available and I can call them instead. Which causes me to delay further. But the fact that it's been so hard to cancel is making the probability that I will cancel and never resubscribe 100%.
You’d probably be better bringing a diesel generator and a big tank of fuel.

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if that isn’t being done by the authorities to help make up the shortfall
Never give up, Never surrender.

You will face obstacles, problems, bugs, disbelievers, etc. The only way to succeed it to keep at it. You won't believe you can do it... until you do it.

One step at a time. Next thing? It's ten years later and your a senior developer who everyone looks up too.
It's "portable" like an Osborne 1 - i.e Ooni Koda 16 weights 20Kg, without the gas cylinder. You're not going to walk around with oven and gas like it's a briefcase.

But the legs fold up. A strong adult could put it (and the gas) in the boot of a car and drive over to a friends' house and set it up there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1
A M1 Mac can be restored from Apple Configurator, the same as any other iPhone or iPad.
Pretty clickbaity title. Nothing "mind blowing" about what's in that article really. I used to use Zsh but switched back to bash a few years ago because most of the things I liked in Zsh turned out to be doable in Bash and I just didn't look enough.
Serverless TypeScript: A Complete Setup for AWS SAM Lambda
Well, the obvious answer is that the supply of dollars is only half the equation. Velocity of money is the other. Inflation is a function of velocity and supply. This is well managed by the Fed.

Inflation literally only matters from the moment you obtain fiat to the time you spend it on necessities or invest it in productive assets - or bitcoin.

It's amazing how crypto folks hate on inflation, but the 2% well-controlled rate is specifically designed to incentivize people to allocate that capital in the way they think is best. In some cases, that's Bitcoin. So inflation causing people to invest in Bitcoin (or anything else) is literally inflation doing what it's designed to do.

Of course bank runs are different, but in the US, bank runs are backstopped by the FDIC which has, since the Great Depression seen exactly $0 lost by depositors. Tether is backstopped by literally nothing.
Another win for Go.
Big Sur appears to have introduced several new security features that complicate this process. I attempted a wipe on my 2019 16" Intel MBP to upgrade to Big Sur.... and after this, it required you to do something like sign in with a user to disable startup security, because it would not trust its own official Big Sur installer due to signatures maybe.
In that case you might also be interested in Garden (https://github.com/garden-io/garden). It's an open source tool made for developing distributed systems / micro services. It abstracts most of the gnarly parts of K8s away and allows you to opt into them as needed. Full disclosure, I am affiliated so apologies for the shameless plug. But figured it might of interest to you.
I don't think that disagrees with what I said.

The ability to align itself allows for mildly to moderately improved reception. It's more cost-effective than improving the beamforming, and easier for the user. It's a good feature. But the terminal doesn't need it to work. (On a hardware level. Any possible software lockout is a separate issue.)