skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports (10-Feb-2021) that the Consumer Price Index (all items index) increased 1.4 percent over the last 12 months.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
Are things that systemically broken where bread and circuses can't continue? As long as the average person has affordable food and entertainment, we're lacking the precipitant necessary to embark on the new economic structure. A boring dystopia is our more likely outcome.
To be fair, news outlets do the same thing.

20 years ago, televised news got people to watch by teasing outrage or fear stories. "You'll never believe what this politician said...". They did it because it worked.

Social media has evolved into people replicating that same behavior. The more outrageous or rage-inducing the content, the more engaged the viewer.

I don't put 100% of the blame on social media platforms, though. We all need to accept some responsibility for what we consume. As much as we like to blame "the algorithm", it's not very different than nicotine in cigarettes or the sugar in donuts. Placing all of the blame on social media companies almost enables the negative behavior more, by pretending that it's entirely out of our control.
An option for entry-level remote work that might be worth looking into is working as an insurance claims adjuster. I work for a company that makes software for the insurance industry and from what I've heard from clients, it's not uncommon for their junior adjusters to be 18-year-olds that just graduated from high school. So it can be a true entry-level, learn on the job type of role and the pay is decent. It will probably be a bit harder to find positions that are both entry-level and remote but your familiarity with computers would definitely be a point in your favor. Other roles in the insurance industry (eg claims intake, insurance processor, underwriting support) might be an option as well. It won't lead to a career in tech but it may be easier to get into and can pay the bills while you continue studying.

For more tech focused options, you may be able to find remote internships or co-ops that don't require you to be a current university student. You'd be sacrificing some stability compared to a permanent position but they'll be expecting applicants to have little to no practical experience. A data analyst type role could also be an option, but I'm less familiar with the typical job requirements for that.
Male balding is a major risk factor for severe Covid-19
How would you short bitcoin right now the stock exchanges? Which ETF has options?
Nocoiner bingo -

Tether

Energy “waste”

Can’t scale

Useless tech that is better on a centralized DB

Governments will surely ban it

Just use transferwise!

Ponzi
You’re not supposed to like it. It’s supposed to be effective.
Or it could just stay the same for years, and you bleed interest on the funding.
If there is a "bank run" (price collapse) on BTC, the value of that crypto collateral will collapse and it will be very hard to "liquidize" it (because everybody else is selling too).
Off by an order of magnitude. 133 bags.
I think pilot lights are still pretty much standard on certain appliances, like water heaters and fireplaces. Probably deliberately so they can run without power. All my other gas appliances are electronic ignition, e.g. we have to use a lighter to start the range when the power is out.
It's almost like people who don't believe government can be good are bad at making good government.
It's bad for spam because spammer can recognize what address is alive. Possible solution is open all images including mails sent to non-exist users (wildcard)? Looks like much waste of resources.
What I've found recently is that the thing is impossible within the scope of the bureaucracy we're working in. For example, it's impossible to get this 3rd party hardware working in another 3rd party's network because none of the people who understand the product are being given access to the system in the ways needed to figure out what's going wrong. It's impossible to build a particular feature because that part of the tech stack is officially another team's territory, or because the process to approve the new feature hasn't itself been approved yet.

Ugh.
It's not just news they blocked today.

The DFES (Department of Fire and Emergency Services) page is down - i.e. no bushfire or flood alerts showing up. Their entire page is gutted.

There's some government run domestic violence and community service pages that are wiped.

Though hilariously, the local LNP candidate's page is gone, which in the midst of a state election campaign is probably pretty hard for them.

I get that facebook have a bone to pick with the government, but does a) blocking crucial emergency service pages have a benefit, and b) does wiping a campaign page have some worrying connotations?
If he was finding valid issues, filing them, and solving them, that's not exactly as malicious as it sounds.

Yeah, I know people could try to game the system with small tickets, but that kind of thing is obvious to any manager who isn't completely asleep at the wheel.

Frankly, as a manager I loathe when employees try to tear each other down or diminish each others' accomplishments. Writing self-reviews and listing personal achievements is difficult, particularly for junior employees. At least this guy tried to put some metrics behind his work. Presumably the manager wasn't so clueless as to take everything at face value.
Not to belabor what the article already says, but I don't understand why we so readily accepted and internalized the language of the distributors: a movie, a book or a videogame are not "content". This term, in my mind, tends to sideline books, movies, etc, and put the distribution platform in the limelight instead: the streaming service, the app store. But really, who cares about them? I care about the movie, not about Netflix, Disney+ or whatnot.
It's for kids. You know, children.
Probably even more so in Hollywood and elsewhere. When you have asymmetric imbalance, it's almost guaranteed to find abuse in the industry.
The parent is saying that the monthly taxes and other costs are greater than the interest on the mortgage. So the idea that you've "paid off" your house provides a false sense of security: it will continue to have significant carrying costs.
Unless it's overcollateralized similar to what maker does with DAI. And if there was a bank run, that would a bank run by people trying to exit tether, so you'd expect to see a temporary increase in BTC price.
>When the one year treasury yield gets back above 2%, we are leaving the easy money era.

zero percent and negative interest are like a roach motel for investors in 2021. no ones leaving anything.

in 2008 the fed introduced quantitative easing and by 2020 they'd never left it. the fed just..."decided" that they didnt want stocks to crash, ever, and increased the amount of liquidity in the market without thinking twice.

in 2010 they tried to ween the market off QE and were rewarded with an 800 point tantrum plunge. now its 2021, the feds 1993 crisis to real earnings (cheap credit) is now de-facto how most of American society runs. their 2008 stop-gap (QE) cannot be undone without a massive economic depression and every day hyperinflation looms on the horizon.

This means there is also no possibility of a minimum wage increase (doubling to $15)...ever, as no one knows if it would be good enough to trigger a collapse or not.

despite the furious protest of real-estate moguls many people see housing as a bubble, and when it pops, QE will not solve the problem a second time around.
Let me tell you about the swiss franc. It held a government peg 1.20 to the EUR, until one day in 2015 it didn't. Many traders (and whole forex brokerages) who held positions, believing the 1.2 line could never be crossed were, as they say, rekt.

There are several ways to take a short position on USDT.
You can trade USD for USDT on Kraken exchange. A short position would be depositing USD and placing a limit order under 1:1. This involves locking up capital for the order. If it never loses the peg, you lock up capital forever for 0 gain.
You can also borrow Tether via various defi loan markets, but you will have to provide collateral and interest payments.

Both have costs, be it fees, interest rates or opportunity cost.
No safe bets in this game, except buy and hold bitcoin for periods > halving period.
I always chose "other" for any question of this type. If there is a text box that must be filled out to describe "other", I always write "Other".
This reminds me of the French newspaper lemonde.fr, which I had subscribed to, and then wanted to unsubscribe after a couple months. There was simply no way to do so online, not to reach any customer support. The only option was to send a letter via post. This was during our first lockdown in UK, so no way I would go to the post office for that. I'll simply never be a customer again.
You can buy a single issue of the NYT (and many other newspapers) via kindle and "own" them forever.
CDATA is purely a convenient way of encoding character data, of avoiding needing to escape <, & and > all the time. It doesn’t change the semantics at all, and if any client does vary the semantics based on this, it is wrong to do so.

RSS doesn’t say what format any of its content is in. You have to guess if it’s plain text or HTML. This can easily go wrong. The result is that you can’t trust the handling of characters like <, & and > in titles or in supposedly-plain-text descriptions in RSS feeds.

Seriously, just use Atom.
I'm going to swim upstream with an unpopular opinion. I heard a lot about how great his films were, and suffered through watching three or so. Suffered is the right word. I hated them. I really don't know what people thought was good about them. Satyricon was probably the most awful movie I've ever seen.
> Ironic as it is, the Apple Store is the GNU of this situation.

I've read a lot of mind-boggling post-hoc rationalisation of Apple's anti-competitive and paternalistic behaviour, but this definitely takes the cake.
Considering how heavily manipulated these crypto markets are, I'd say there's no "extremely safe bet".
“You” doesn’t equate to everyone.
I subscribed to the NYT a couple years back. I had to talk to a rep to get canceled, and at one point he offered something like half a year for free if I'd keep the subscription. I insisted on canceling, because I was getting irritated, and he laughed out loud that I refused the free offer. Right then they lost me forever as a customer.

But it was a valuable lesson on looking at the exit strategy for a service before you sign up for it. And I try real hard to only do business with companies that make it as easy to stop spending money with them as it is to start.
Who is flagging and hiding all these messages? Let people be allowed to have an opinion. It's a tricky topic; let people speak their mind. One has to live in a world where people disagree with you. They won't go away just because you cork their mouth.
Can't you just dual-boot a fresh OS?
ledgerx.com is a US based futures and options market.
Short bitcoin at your peril :-)
Tesla is a stock sales company that has a side business in manufacturing new toys & breakthroughs
Less? This is going to lead to more, not less. Disinformation thrives when real news are banned.
The market rewarded short term thinking that resulted in lower prices at the expense of much more expensive repairs later. Companies that were properly managed were outcompeted and got bought out by the short term thinking competitor.
Honestly only case where I'm willing to overlook it. It's so hard for them to stay in the black. I can't imagine, in this age. For a serious newspaper that does good investigative journalism, I'll accept some desperate measures to keep subscribers and not hold it against them.

Any other company and I'd call them garbage, but the NYT does a lot of good. (Same would go for other top investigative journals that have published a lot of pieces revealing major information to the public.)
My experience, perhaps based on cynicism, is that when a product or company is at risk and the leadership of that product or company makes a statement about the health or longevity of that product or company, one should expect the exact opposite to happen. For example: when a company buys a different company and claims that there will be “no changes to vision or product lines,” I believe that one should expect exactly those things to occur. When a company is having financial difficulties and states that they have “no plans at this time to lay off any of their workforce,” I believe the staff should immediately start updating their résumés, because very shortly a plan to lay off will be revealed.

Google Stadia has been a product with an uncertain future for some time. Having Google leadership point out how pleased they are with the team should’ve sent the team to a job board to find something new, because by their statement of support they only confirmed the end was near.

But that’s perhaps just my cynicism.
> they do not quite care about parameter efficiency.

Google Research is pretty big, I used to think like you did but I think it's mostly b/c DeepMind just hogs all the spotlight.

Check out PRESS [0] for example.

[0]: https://research.google/pubs/pub46141
The article mentions self-awareness as the number 1, but I disagree.

| Creator mindset
| Having a creator mindset over a victim mindset is great for leadership. The victim treats situations as if they can’t change them, while the creator takes responsibility and actively shapes reality. Creators turn every situation into an opportunity.

I've actually seen this more broadly labeled as someone having a Growth Mindset instead of a Fixed Mindset, and I 100% agree. This should probably be the #1 value that makes someone a great leader. In fact, I believe it's so important, that it should be the basis for all other qualities and skills a leader develops on their journey.

It's actually a rare trait amongst software engineers and I think this is the trait that either propels someone into a great leader, or holds them back when they are forced into it.

My #2 on the list is perseverance and that goes hand-in-hand with having a growth mindset. The best way to test this quality on anyone is if you can successfully answer yes to the question, "is this person reliable?"

If you have a growth mindset and perseverance, then I believe you can pick up the other traits and learn on your way up the ladder.
Here is an interesting thread by an academic:

https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1361691683222654980
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008)
Opensourced platform for 911 calls visualization
ICE = Internal combustion engine, for those confused by the TLA.
How are they correlated in such a way that this mechanism exists? The only correlation they have is that they're pegged to the same asset. Tether, if it truly has 1 to 1 backing, has no fear of losing value. DAI can lose its peg. I'd still put my money on DAI because I understand its mechanics and they're very good and I don't think for a second Tether has 1:1 USD backing. But aside from the USD hyperinflating or something, what other mechanism exists between the two?
That's a rather extraordinary claim, would you have a source for that?
What does the `Zero-API` data layer abstraction imply? Asking because I want to understand if the frontend and backend can be deployed on different web servers.
What's cool about it? I kind of bounced off the front page of the site, I'd be really happy for a summary from someone using it.
Ask HN: Got Covid? What's your story?
My roommate recently tested positive for Covid-19, and as I'm writing this I'm experiencing uncomfortable symptoms, I definitely have it as well, but awaiting the results from my own Covid-19 test.

The unfortunate thing is that, after months of playing it safe, we hosted a party for < 10 people at our home just before my roommate started experiencing symptoms. Obviously we feel terrible about this now, and it's hard to say if one of us got Covid before or at the party.

We immediately contacted all of our friends and anyone we came into contact with in the last week, but it struck me that there's no "So now you've got Covid" literature, instruction or recommendations sent from the testing site. All that was sent was a couple of sentences telling us that the test was positive, and there was only a small chance that it was a false positive.

It made me realize that our government truly is handling this terribly, and so much suffering could have been avoided if an adult in the room stood up and created a program to educate people on contacting those that came into contact with you, what to expect, how long to stay in quarantine, etc.

Obviously we googled these answers, but it seems a bit naive that everyone will just find accurate answers via Google, or will even actively seek out education.

Anyway, I don't mean to shift the blame away from our mistake of hosting the party or not requesting that everyone get a Covid-19 test before the party. However, we could learn from governments that actually take this seriously.
> Accounting for financial aspects is not silly. People who are desperately poor will do desperate things for money that they would consent to otherwise. Taking advantage of that is unethical.

Why? The desperately poor person seems to think the money is worth it. Who are you to tell them it's bad for them to take it? The very stigma against "exploiting" such a person makes it less likely that other people will make them less-bad offers.

> And I’m not sure if you’d have a ton of unpaid volunteers or at least enough to power a trial.

In this thread, we have someone saying "I have signed up" and someone replying "thanks for taking a risk to help out the human race". It is patriotic, it is (or can easily be made) prestigious. (To make it visible, give out a hat, a button, a jacket, whatever.) I expect some guys would do it because it seems exciting or meaningful, others because they think it'll help them impress the ladies.
bybt.com should give you an aggregate across different exchanges where you can short. It's very risky, even if BTC was to fail eventually, you can never predict what it'll do in the short term.
And about 35% own stocks, bonds or mutual funds outside of retirement accounts.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/25/few-in-u-s-...
> I think great engineers delete more code than they write.

...but someone has to write the code first, before some of it can be deleted by a great engineer ;)
I don’t understand why a crossword puzzle company spends so much effort on a journalism side project.
Exactly. Well illustrated, thank you.

One can play definition games all flipping day long and turn it into a poor quality highschool debate. Monopolists always attempt this in defence.

Whatever the correct definition is it has the same definition as google's attempt to do the same thing where it poured a multitude of resources and expertise into it and failed while facebook made billions in revenue.

No definitional games alter that fact. As long as the definition captures /that/ it's fine, but wholly unnecessary. And you can mess with definitions and have defintion debates in quagmire as long as you choose which is what every single monopolist wants and will pay lobbyists, lawyers and politicians to achieve that end to prevent the obvious and necessary action.
Screw that entire line of thinking. If I'm going to give to charity, I'm going to give to someone who needs it, not to billionaire shareholders.

From the billionaires, I'm taking all I can get. They're certainly not going to give me any more than they can get away with.
Confirmed -The Most Distant Known Object in the Solar System
> fake news media

Uuugh we all know that media is undoubtedly biased, and a lot is quite skewed to match an agenda.. But can we please refrain from regurgitating that Trump campaign catchphrase?
Haha yes! Right around the time I decided I didn't want the sub anymore was luckily right around when I cancelled (for unrelated reasons) the credit card they had on file. Super easy!
The letter of Marque approach is not only useful for offensive operations. When it comes to cyber security, it’s valuable to have your own “red team” and with sufficient indemnity and an appropriate reward structure that red team can be a powerful force for the discovery of your own vulnerability.
Pretty much the same, deleted the apps years ago, I log on with an isolated browser profile every few months to see what madness the crazy uncle posts.

FB Messenger is hard to dislodge though, for so many people it is their main comms system. Likewise WhatsApp. Luckily I have a burner phone for those, location features turned off.

Govt will probably come crawling back to fb on its belly. If they don't the ALP will.
No, it would be more like saying Nest owns Google because they have the same parent company. If anything, reddit is the larger of the two. And the parent company that own Conde Nast (Advance publications) does not own all of reddit, unlike how Alphabet owns all of Google.
I know others have mentioned this but to make it explicit: the idea that the wind turbines are responsible for the outages is both false, and being widely spread intentionally to increase public distrust of renewable energy. I'm not suggesting you're doing that, but you should be aware.
Thanks for writing this up. I think a lot of us reading this can sympathise as we were all in the same boat once (although your situation is harder given the remote-only needs).

I’ve found what’s missing in our industry is a centralised place for new devs to get their foot in the door. It’s a lot of hard work mixed with lot of luck, but we could do better... if you’re looking to do YC S21 but don’t have an idea, here’s one with users waiting to bust through your door!
Thank you for creating this!

I'm an avid user of RSS and Atom, and I absolutely loathe email subscriptions (although I understand why many groups use them), so a tool to remove that friction for admittedly rare people like me is wonderful. Thank you for running this service, I intend to use it quite a lot!
If you're big up in the stock market and can afford to do so, take some money out of that and buy an house you can live in.

If the market implodes well you still have a house and (hopefully) a job to pay the mortgage.

Problem with this strategy is that while there's been incredible asset inflation in equities, there's also been incredible asset inflation in real estate too (especially in Canada).
Taking a top-level view though, we've pulled about a billion different levers.

In the UK we've restricted the activity of healthy individuals for about 11 months now - the latest episode being an approximately 3 month period within which it's illegal to meet anyone else within your own home.

Psychological trials, even trivial things like filling in surveys or taking reaction speed tests are carefully monitored for ethical concerns, lockdown we just went all in on with no cost-benefit analysis.

It seems bizarre to me that in that context we should be worrying about the ethics of a challenge study with a few hundred or few thousand volunteers.

Loads of people I know have _already_ volunteered themselves for it in the outside world with no compensation and with no benefit to science because they're not able to mentally handle indefinite restrictions.
Thanks for the link. There's a lot of content in there.
IMO I think philosophy has had a lot of major historic victories that prove the worth of the field. These often get overlooked, though.

When a philosophy problem becomes well understood it tends to move into its own specialized field. For example the nascent fields of geometry, physics, and economics were all once part of philosophy. We get kind of a selection bias. Philosophers have a reputation for having their heads in the cloud, because we only think of the areas they've made the least progress in.