skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could probably be camouflaged with something that doesn’t attenuate signal much?
Exactly. The normal SOP is to require a credit card at the beginning of the free trial period in hopes you will forget about it and allow them to keep charging every month.
I struggle with that too. What gets me is that these places are such a shitshow that it’s a net negative for everyone: it ducks for customers because they get shitty software, late. It sucks for engineers and everyone else because you’re always working quick and dirty, always in an emergency, always stressed. What kills me is that we know ways to make things better and more relaxed for everyone with little to no OT required: fix bugs before new features, automated tests, code reviews, well specced features/tickets... but nope, the moment you try and use these tools to get better outcomes at a lower human and financial cost you become public enemy number one.

I have not been able to keep a job longer than 18 months because this drives me nuts and I eventually have to quit and start somewhere else until I quit again out of frustration and exhaustion.
The Guardian ask you to call a number to cancel your "digital subscription", according to this tweet https://twitter.com/Cauchemar111/status/1359881508731944963
We have comcast and finally removed "tv" because the pricing changed from internet+tv = internet prices... to internet + tv = more.

The answer? was a streaming box. I expect to see a monthly rental fee for the streaming box...
If so I'm probably on those lists from driving and skateboarding around Mountain View. I consider myself an unpaid tester for self driving cars.
Guess you need solar panel de-icers. Are those a thing?
كلمات اغنية احبك زيادة محمد قمبر
The US Gross Domestic Product.
Beautiful but useless, I prefer sharing code with simple code tag rather than code in images, so people can copy test correct etc. For me code should be compiled, so it should be in text not in image.
What a wonderful man...remember that time he made fun of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson? Good times... Many laughs...

"This is really shameless folks"... the perfect phrase to sum up his life. "Shameless."

https://twitter.com/SageRosenfels18/status/12249020924579430...

“In this commercial, he is exaggerating the effects of the disease,” Rush said in the 2006 broadcast, while mocking Michael’s tremors. “He is moving all around and shaking and this is purely an act. I have never seen Michael J. Fox display any of these symptoms of the disease. He can control himself enough to stay in the frame of the picture and he can control himself enough to keep his eyes on the lens, the teleprompter. But his head and shoulders are moving all over the place. This is really shameless, folks. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”
Wow that’s the first time I’ve heard of Emmett Till. Thanks for bringing than to my attention. That anecdote is very relevant to a discussion about long term trends in aggregate crime rate statistics.

Reminds me of how the exceptional case of the Therac 25 shows us that medical devices are generally dangerous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Yeah, and pretty much sure NSA records and transcribes every bit of sound in the app.
> It constitutes a kind of wealth transfer to the people who have the free time, energy, and ability to play the game.

It's price discrimination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

Usually, it's not worth the time to haggle over people to figure out the most they are willing to pay for low margin retail goods, so you don't see it at Walmart or the grocery store. But for high margin goods, such as cars, real estate, B2B sales etc, each buyer has a different amount they are willing to pay, and so you want to try and capture as much of everyone's capacity to pay as possible.

Actually, come to think of it, low margin retail and grocery does it too with coupons and whatnot that some people are willing to spend time on and others are not.
Not disagreeing with what you've said, but don't they have a third mandate to moderate long term interest rates?
Either I'm doing something wrong or there isn't really any syntax highlighting for C++, other than numbers and strings.

Also, there's no syntax option for plain C, but that's an understandable oversight since a good 99% of C's syntax is shared with C++ anyway.

Lastly, when writing C/C++ it auto-detects Objective-C.
Just a few things I detected as a primarily C & C++ developer.

Other languages seem to come out great, and it's really a very nifty tool in the end.

Update: C# and Java seem to have a similar lack of coloring.
I’d keep in mind that some people really, really hate Comcast/AT&T/CenturyLink/etc from the years of abuse they’ve meted out. They might be willing to pay a substantial premium to not have to deal with them/contribute to their bottom line anymore.
Whatever they were doing, crime was allergic to it. We should take lessons from that time period because what we’re doing now does not work as well.
Yes, but the incentives are not strong enough to allow it.
Give some companies some heavy fines for this bad behavior and you’ll see the rest start to stand in line quickly.
Bash supports at least a subset of emacs motion keys.

7. C-a C-k <enter other command> C-y # to park a command
It is a consumer internet eyeball service. Having an assigned routable address is not a thing in many countries, and you really shouldn't expect it as a "feature" in the future.

Eventually the Comcasts of the world will sell off the majority of the IPv4 they hold to the AWSs of the world.
Genuinely curious, I don't mean to be insulting, and a hiring manager will be asking the same question: you've been playing with tech for a long time and sound like you're interested enough to be competent. How is it that your work experience is generic, unskilled jobs? I realize it's a poor region, but it's still the US (no visa issues), remote wasn't unheard of pre-covid, and even poor regions often have something halfway resembling a a DBA or sysadmin within an hour radius.
Here is a good piece explaining why the data backing that articles arguments is BS: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/assessing-bitcoins-liquidity...
I mean this question sincerely and respectfully: is there something in your chosen hardware or software that substitutes commas for apostrophes? Is it a linguistic thing I’m not aware of?
FRB American Cursive 1.0
> Anyone choosing the Starlink option in that scenario probably shouldn't have financial independence in the first place.

I know, rich bastards, right?
I see that some people think we can do much better in latency. But you need to realize an information will never, never ever, travel from Europe to US West under 30 ms.

Why? Light travels from Berlin to SF in 30 milliseconds. That is absolute minimum you can do. This is not even roundtrip time.

So when Starlink tells you it will be 20 ms, just think about 20 ms to where? To the nearest satellite? Sure.
> I perceive your parent comment to be straightforward and not sinister in the least.

I'll be straightforward too: it's shitposting with childish faux-provocation that doesn't bring any food for thought, littered with assumptions about everyone and presented as universal. Fool language doesn't help either, it's not straightforward it's provocation without substance . r/im14andthisisdeep is the other way.
Why Texas has it’s own power grid
I argue they are discriminating, even if it is indeed regulatory issues at play there.

I'm not going to fraudulently open an account misstating my residence, that's breaking their ToS - you do promise thet you're a US resident when signing up.

Of course it's their choice who they want to take on as customers. They've been providing the service for ~6 years though, which is really not that new in context.
You are trading a 0% chance + power costs with a 1/16M chance + $2 ?
Android combines multiple git repositories with manifest(xml file) and has associated tooling for it. Not sure why that approach is not popular?
I‘m torn about believing this article since they claim the company is in Bielefeld, which may or may not exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy.

If Bielefeld is just a myth, is the 5-Hour work day also a myth?

PS: I’ve been living in Germany for many years and I have yet to meet someone from Bielefeld or someone who knows someone from there.

PS2: I fully agree with the article. If I could achieve 5 hours of full focused productive work every day, it would be awesome. Unfortunately, in my company and many other German ones, productivity is measured by the time your ass is in contact with the office chair
So they either called themselves Angles or Saxons or not-Jutes until they started to call themselves English (Angelcynn)?
Ask HN: How to choose Data Serialization Format for low overhead
I would like to understand as to what variables, apart from Network MTU size, Data rate and performance, are to be considered when choosing a Serialization format?

So far I have looked into the usual suspects JSON and Protobuf. But I am also looking into CBOR, BSON and nanobuf.
I guess the sarcasm was missed. We pollute more than nuclear does for coal already and somehow that's ok, but nuclear isn't.
Same thing for me in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The bill says “the responsible digital platform corporation must ensure that the supply of the digital service does not, in relation to crawling, indexing, making available and distributing news businesses’ covered news content ... differentiate between registered news businesses and news businesses that are not registered news businesses ...” I don’t see any distinction between linking and previewing here. I think both involve “making the content available,” and since Facebook legally can’t “differentiate between” news content that is and isn’t covered by the mandatory bargaining code, they are choosing not to make news content available at all to Australian users.
I'm sure very soon you'll be able to pay a premium to use any cell.
JavaScript Interview Question #13
I Healed My Depression by Scheduling and Prioritizing Fun – News Break
If that invalid "debt" was still on your credit report you'd just file a dispute to have it removed.
Except it was natural gas generators that caused the system to fail:

As Princeton engineering professor Jesse Jenkins points out, the real primary culprit was the mass failure of nuclear, coal, and natural gas (or "thermal") power plants. At the peak of the blackout something like 27,000 megawatts of thermal capacity were offline — or nearly 40 percent of Texas's entire thermal capacity.

https://theweek.com/articles/967062/what-texas-blackout-reve...
I mean, if your best argument is that one of the greatest authors of a generation needed an entire book to capture the emotion of a single picture, that argument doesn’t seem very strong to me :)
May be the same instance as the link is to page posted in 2013.
Different industries have different structures and different cultures.

This is an entertainment thing and as noted by other commenters has to do with the very aspirational aspects of the positions, along with a total commodity of folks wanting the work. And, an open attitude towards sex. Not a lot of institutionalized systems. Hollywood is not mostly corporate style jobs, on the creative side. With HR departments.
Here was the input necessary to cancel the subscription.

Cancel my subscription.

Cancel my subscription.

No reason, cancel.

Cancel.
I went through this recently. I was also forced to repeat name/email etc so that they could “find my subscription”, despite having had to log in to the account to even reach the chat. After that I basically just kept repeating that I want to cancel immediately, and refused to engage with any of their other questions. It went relatively quickly. The chat operator said that I could have also canceled “through the website”, which as far as I can tell is a blatant lie, unless he meant the very chat I was already using on the website…

It is of course completely unacceptable and dishonest to make it easy to subscribe or upgrade your subscription, but require this procedure to do the opposite, and I’m a lot less likely to ever become a subscriber again. But on the other hand, if you’re spending more than a few minutes in this chat it’s probably because you are engaging with their attempts to keep you subscribed.
I was thinking about a similar experience I have each time I need to do anything with any larger institution in the UK. For instance, if there is a problem let say you have with the bank because of their business policies, and if you get transfer to the agent, talking with the agent is even more annoying than talking with the bot.
Employees here are trained to go by the script, so there is no thinking, no logic, no reasoning, if it is not in the script they will just go on and on, in the same loop like a broken gramophone record.
Usually, humans should be more helpful, but in quite a number of cases, when things are exceptions to the book, that simply does not work. I personally find that type of behaviour super frustrating, wanting me to stop any kind of business with that organisation, for ... forever.
Any similar stories in other countries?
Absolutely love this. Proof that opportunity is everywhere. Congratulations on an awesome success story!
should I trust bitfinex
Here is an easier way of checking that:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
My favorite of the telco scams was from the bad old days of long distance companies called "I Don't Care"[0]. Apparently, a lot of people didn't care which carrier it was, so these asshats took it to the bank

[0]https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-08-27-98082605...
Someone will front run the news and sell tethers for btc, or things like that.
And “The Last Kingdom” on Netflix. Very interesting seeing the Saxon response to the Viking invasions.
I cancelled my NYT digital subscription 2 weeks ago and it was a matter of clicking a few buttons on their website. I don’t know what all the fuzz with virtually assistants is all about.

It’s certainly easier than canceling Amazon Prime.
This will be true for the first 1-2 years or so. Once more people can be reached, marginal cost for new customers will go down and consequently the prices of the package.

There is a big difference between delivering some hardware to 10k people vs. 400mio people. I will not be surprised if Starlink manages to be price-competetive within the next 3 to 5 years.
Great! Now go tear down the entire housing stock so we can rebuild it better. Unfortunately, as a society we're already under-building, so we can't really afford to tear down what we've already got.

In some places (like here in the Bay Area) it's ridiculously difficult and expensive to build anything, so much of the building stock is untouched since the 1950s and simply rots in place.

We'd do well to be as good at home construction as Japan.
hey mate, a bit random question, but did you edit your post to add the links?
Ha, it does feel that way! I can see it now: a framing narrative about hearing the word "protein" in the context of bulk nutrition and derailing into molecular biology. Hover text: One of the figures in the "quintillion" calculation is a bit suspect but the result is still guaranteed to within three orders of magnitude, or your money back!

This feels a bit too good to let it die here. I wonder if Randall Munroe has an idea box I can toss it into and help spread the good word of ATP synthase.

The Rob Lue animation linked by jacquesm is probably a good next step, but it does feel like it was intended to be played in the middle of a lecture. At any rate it's a good excuse to brush up on molecular bio :)
Errr, what's "TD"?
There are bitcoin credit card that exist.

By your definition, USD isn't money either, because none of the shop here accept it. I first need to change it to euro to be able to pay in a shop, just like bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme, because there is no promise of gain. Everyone is saying it is a risky asset and in that sense it's just like any other speculation.
Having been in the industry for over 30 years, it has been my experience that most certifications aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on — unless the HR department uses them as gates to keep out the riff-raff. So that’s how they mostly get used.

If you don’t have the necessary certifications, you don’t get past the HR bot, and your application is never seen by a live human being.

Back in the day, Netware certifications really meant something. And then Cisco certifications really meant something. Most Unix/Unix-like certifications, not so much.

These days, low-level AWS certifications are relatively easy to get. The higher end certifications do seem to be more difficult to obtain, and do appear to require that you actually know your stuff.

I can’t speak for any other certifications.
times like this I imagine a cancellation service. Imagine paying $X to some Indian company that calls them and whenever they offer alternatives they just respond that they are not authorized to do that. Bonus if they have a think Indian accent that makes it somewhat hard to understand.

The only disadvantage is that you would probably have to give that company your billing information for that to work.
This is not a testnet. ICOs pretending to be something they are not. They will latch onto anything to get legitimacy. Taking down whatever these things attach themselves to. Now "Testnet" is going to get confused with thing. What security laws is this crowd sale violating being a centralised project with founders?
While this solution has a certain emotional satisfaction, I do not wish to further the notion that service providers are owed any explanation whatsoever for my demand. If the terms of the contract I entered with the service provider permits me to cancel for no reason, it is to those terms I will abide.

Even with the system is a simple drop-down I always choose “other” and enter n/a in the comment box.
I'm confused how they make money, the free plan has up to 12 new cards a month which seems like a lot. Even on the lower pro plan the cashback can exceed the $10 per month you pay.
AWS is hoping to help accelerate development of cross-platform apps with Flutter
There is an excellent podcast, You're Wrong About, which goes into the disparity between things we fear and what actually happens. Similar and relevant topics they cover:

- Satanic Panic
- Human Trafficking
- Murder
- Stanford Prison Experiment

etc.

A very common theme is "do-gooders" trying to do what they very naively think is a good thing but without data or rationality to back it up. Or, worse, people who manipulate those do-gooders into accomplishing other, more selfish/nefarious/evil goals.

Really interesting stuff overall.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270
Runbox.
GQ says otherwise https://www.gq.com.au/grooming/hair/studies-say-bald-men-are...
Okay, sure, but those are some pretty odd requirements, that are only relevant to a tiny fraction of people. I doubt the friends and loved ones of the grandparent poster are buying surplus Soviet weapons from North Korea, hence why I don't understand why they need to be warned away from it.

I understand why a normie gets into bitcoin or GME or dogecoin speculation. I don't understand why they would get into Tether - hence I don't understand why warning them away from Tether is a priority!
Haidt is a founding member of this organization (Let Grow) and sits on their board: https://letgrow.org/our-people/
But where are the billions suffering from nuclear power? As you point out, even with a generous accounting, Chernobyl was orders of magnitude less than that.
This alone does not say much. Texas is not 100% one cultural side. In last presidential elections it was 52-46. 46% is large chunk of population.
Wait, they've put together an entire online class on mitochondria? :D
Hopefully that bit of info doesn't get recorded into some system somewhere, and eventually make it out to other companies databases.

If it doesn't, trying to repair that damage could be an exercise in futility. :/
Can you name the VPS provider?
How so? The Bitcoin/USD exchange ratio is from orders that trade Bitcoin for USD. How does Tether have an impact on this?
But PG&E successfully operated a handful of nuclear plants in California for decades and still operates Diablo Canyon...

The stewards of our current energy sources aren't very responsible, their have been a number of rather catastrophic and avoidable accidents. Seems like a pick your poison kind of situation. I pick nuclear. Radiation is just not that big of a deal
Between the Spreadsheets: love, relationships and polyamory with Excel and agile
Happily using https://www.fastmail.com/
Totally different use cases.

If you want to observe events at one exchange and send orders to another, all that matters is total latency. For that use it doesn't matter whether your servers are in the same room as one of the exchanges or 200 miles away from either one.
Which countries are they approved and accepting customers?
I don’t think it is? I don’t see the contradiction. My point is FP, imperative and OOP can be combined effectively in one architecture.
A Canadian bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD_Canada_Trust
The Wall Street Journal has electronic cancel. I did so temporarily. At first I was super impressed. Then I remembered that it was really hard the first time I tried years ago.

Turns out that California SB 313 changed the game https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Online registration means you need online cancellation.

Actually, reading the bill, only the intro seems to imply that. The text doesn't. Either way, a pre-written email should suffice.
Pay wages high enough that one parent can be home all the time because the other is making more than enough to support the family and buy a house. Problem solved.

Or limit cars so that you can only have one for every 3 families and then nobody can move around anymore. Problem solved.

Oh, but you forgot about those implications of the past, didn't you?
Does anyone know if there has been an increase in pedestrian fatalities in the last 5-10 years, on account of distracted drivers? I walk my baby in a stroller most days and it seems like 1/4 to 1/3 of drivers are looking at their cell phones. Some of the time they look up when they realize there’s a pedestrian, but I can’t imagine that there hasn’t been an uptick in pedestrian fatalities/injuries.

I am very careful when I’m out walking (checking to see where the driver is looking, checking to see if there are other cars/obstacles that the driver might need to maneuver around at the point where he’s passing me, etc), but kids would never be this careful. Partly it’s because they can’t predict what a driver would do because they don’t know how to drive, and partly because kids are more likely to be goofing off and not paying attention. Also, kids heads/torsos are more at fender-level, making accidents more likely to be fatal.

I do think the stranger danger piece is overblown, but I simultaneously wonder if there aren’t other dangers that have started increasing in the half decade or so since smartphones became very common.
Why would there be more graffiti on them?

Right now, it would be easy to go into a parking lot where there's parked cars (aka "driverless cars") and graffiti em, and it's not a very common occurrence for a car owner to get graffitied while parked.

These cars will be even harder targets because they'll have always-on cameras, likely even when parked.
Yes, daily averages vary wildly in industrialised countries with real time electricity pricing.

In much of Europe, residential, and office will pay $0.3-0.5 during normal use in winter, but dramatically less in off-peak hour in countries with "smart meters."

This way you get seemingly sensible $0.1-$0.2 per kWh averages, but drop your jaw when you see your electricity bill.
Tether is a USD token used by many exchanges and accounts for much of the volume