skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a source on this? Mdma and lsd are pretty self regulating. mdma will just stop working and lsd likely will just kick your ass sooner or later. opiates and alcohol can be insidious addictions that become normal parts of your life.
You should have at least 2 credit cards, and not both with the same bank, of course.

I had two credit cards with Chase (and an Amex with BoA) when Chase decided that I had died.

If it wasn't for the Amex, I would have had some big problems!
For my content websites: WordPress and Cloudflare.

For my apps:

- React (tsx)

- Fastify

- Postgres w/ Knex

- OpenAPI 3.x w/ TS codegen

- Google Cloud (Run & Functions)
Amazing that satellite internet can be faster than internet here in (West) London (W9)
Add Crypto to IndiaStack
Small, eccentric indie and mom and pop stores might be super strict about that. IDK, I just paid for drive through food with cash a couple hours ago, so I sorta feel like this particular dystopian scenario is not quite here yet.
That's not really accurate, as screen readers read the page that's present in the modern browser (IE, Chrome, Firefox), including whatever has been done with JS (mostly), so even if the initial page is fine, your progressive enhancements may yet make things inaccessible.

A very common problem is assuming mouse-only input for buttons or menus, making them not work from the keyboard use.
We actually launched a service that provides you with a public IPv4 address and a /56 IPv6 block over WireGuard. It bypasses CGNAT and provides unblocked ports, including port 25. The cheapest plan starts at $8/month. Here's a link!

https://hoppy.network
lol why the downvotes tho..
> My daughter is old enough to walk to the ice cream store with her friends, but they will not sell her any ice cream unless she pays using a card. They are unable to except cash.

It should be illegal for any business to refuse cash payment, full stop.

I've heard some cities have already passed laws in this vein, it should be made universal. Homeless people or otherwise marginalized groups are often limited to cash only transactions, that shouldn't mean they can't participate in commerce. Hell even just victims of identity theft can find themselves unable to get a bank account or credit card, cash should always be an option.
I don't think the point here is some righteous/virtuous one. The argument is that alcohol causes billions of dollars in increased health care costs and decreased productivity, and is a leading cause of death and other health issues.

I'm all for dropping restrictions on things that people can do that don't harm anyone else, but frankly I don't care to spend more money on health insurance because a bunch of people want to drink too much.
The old urban legend of the sysadmin who wrote scripts to send an SMS to his wife depending on whether he still had active ssh connections at 6pm comes to mind.

Others might call this being efficient or work smart, not hard etc. etc.

To me, it's quintessential laziness at its most glorious.

Edit: knew there was a link somewhere https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
Bots have long been designed to account for these types of checks by having scheduled hours and jittered breaks. Private messages and name mentions can alert the bot owner so they can respond manually. I've even seen bots that will pipe private messages to an IRC channel so that any number of restricted people can respond to the messages. It's been a long time since I've worked with game bots so I'm sure they're even more advanced now.
The amount of control those three agencies have over consumers is overrated. I've lived my whole life with terrible credit (starting when I bought a shirt for my first job at Nordstrom's and screwed up the credit card thing), and apart from it being very difficult to get a credit card (amusingly, my bank wouldn't issue one to me even as the proceeds from the sale of my company were sitting in my checking account), it's had practically no impact at all.

I was for the first half of my adult life a renter and never once had a problem getting a lease; I bought a condo in Chicago, then later a house in Ann Arbor, and then a house in Chicagoland where I am now; again, no credit-score-related problems. I've been able to rent cars. Buying things on credit has been the only sticking point --- and I don't understand why people do that.
It’s the same basic reason people use incandescent bulbs at home. They Mercury etc Lamps might last longer and be more efficient, but incandescent bulbs produce more pleasing light, started up faster, don’t flicker, are quite, etc.

They where very much an improvement for home use, but the lighting market was fairly large by the time Edison’s bulbs showed up, which is what allowed for such rapid growth.
Which is why you should treat the banks and credit cards legally but extremely selfishly: e.g. Sapphire 80K reward points if you open and spend $XX/time_interval = done, then paid in full, no more touch unless promotions, same with Freedom, then move onto CapitalOne Quicksilver ($200 f/$500 spent in 3months), etc., etc. Temporary minute drops in credit score when applying for new card, recover once the balance payments happen in full. And keep an eye on sites like https://www.nerdwallet.com/best/credit-cards/rewards, for any new opportunities.
I like how this thread is asking what ~novel~ tools ppl are using and everybody instead is replying about how they are using php, css, Django, vanilla js, etc
> Is downtime a life-or-death emergency?

This is a big one, after you get your project off the ground.

In my last startup, downtime of a few minutes led to torrents of emails and customer complaints, as the service was time sensitive.

This was easily the most stressful part of the job.
> If you have gold you can use it in a number of industrial and commercial manners, regardless if the price went to zero or not.

So, we're discussing a hypothetical where the price of gold goes to zero. And you're suggesting that in this hypothetical scenario there would still be industrial and commercial uses for gold? If that was the case, then the price of gold would not be zero, would it?

Also: when you're referring to "commercial" use of gold, you're mainly referring to gold jewelry, e.g. people who like to admire gold for its beauty. If the prize of gold went to zero (e.g. no more industrial or commercial uses for gold), then people could still admire their gold coins. In the exact same manner, people could still admire their Bitcoin wallets if the price of Bitcoin went to zero. So I'm not sure what you were trying to prove with that argument.

Anyway, neither Bitcoin nor gold is ever going to go to exactly zero, so this hypothetical scenario is not exactly realistic. Nor is it relevant to the question at hand: is gold/bitcoin a ponzi scheme? And the answer of course is "no", because ponzi scheme has a specific definition, and if you look at that definition, it's very obvious that neither of these assets fit that definition.
Separation of powers is a government thing, FICO is a product sold by a private analytics company. It's also not the only score used
Here's your link in a form that gets through HN's formatting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Now,_Inc._v._Southwest_...

The last character of links ending in "." often gets eaten by HN. Writing it as %2e makes it work.
Not really; even moderate use is associated with worse long-term health outcomes. The article mentions that one unit per day seems to be an ok amount, but anything more than that (even if you just drink, say four units on a single day, once a week), isn't good for your health.

I enjoy drinking from time to time, and have definitely had nights of excessive drinking that I've found incredibly fun, but I won't try to convince myself it's been good for me.
My understanding of academia is that even tenured professors can still be subject to the same publish-or-perish pressures that non-tenured faculty have. My understanding of tenure is that you cannot be fired without cause, but you can still be fired for not fulfilling the obligations of the job, and maintaining the department’s and university’s expected levels of research output counts. Ultimately it depends on the university.
This ancient implementation of TeX is still widely used, but note that there were historically many other implementations, and the current one is LuaTeX, together with its experimental fork called LuaMetaTex:

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

https://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/luametatex.pdf

Similarly, the (less) ancient LaTeX is still widely used, in spite of the existence of the (not so new, but still actively developed) ConTeXt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt
Without naming names, good companies can absolutely have sub-optimal hiring processes (at least in some cases) for various reasons. I didn't experience it. But then I didn't go anywhere near normal channels.
There is a requirement to accept cash as payment for debt. This does not apply to the typical retail case, where the seller can simply not proceed with the transaction.
There is no “US credit score”. There are credit reports, as compiled by the 3 credit reporting agencies. Underwriters who purchase these reports are free to use that information in their lending practices, and that could include calculating a specific number. Some companies, such as the Fair Isaac Corporation, sell their analysis of people’s credit reports to others who may want to use them to make lending decisions, including the popular FICO score.
That came up in the "debate" when I was explaining my position :-D
Eh. They aren't wrong per se, but there are a lot of folks that might look like the fit the picture, but are just from a different cultural background. A little tolerance goes a long way in any direction.
This chart clearly is incomplete.
The dimension of tolerance is missing. Can I really take a Xanax every weekend and consistently feel as good as my first time with it? And not feel bad the other days of the week? (the same way as alcohol)
If so then I guess everybody should trade Alcohol for Xanax, is that so simple?

Also Khat is the best on this chart yet I believe that it makes you feel extremely tired the next day.

That being said the topic is really interesting and I am looking forward to a better rational chart.
perhaps a poor choice of link. it's just the first example I thought of where the combo of cards is better than the sum of its parts, which kinda depends on them all being from the same issuer.
Would've been more fitting on the Pyramid: https://theoffice.fandom.com/wiki/Pyramid.
In my experience even many decades ago in the US, the "ring" that the caller hears in their handset before the recipient picks up is not actually from the "bell" of the recipient's handset; rather, I understand, it is generated at the caller's local switching station. And there's no system-wide synchronization of these ring signals. So, if the recipient hears N actual rings, the caller may have heard N-1, N, or N+1. Does anybody who used these signaling schemes have experiences where the wrong message (or none at all) got communicated?
I think those are just identifiers for the telescopes. If you click on the telescope to expand you can see what it’s communicating with and some info about the link, and the bitrates are closer to e.g. 20 Kbit/s - 1.0 Mbit/s.
Not quite. The modern usage of 'gatekeeping' just means that you're posturing like you want to keep people from entering the field, not that you can actually do it. The definition on r/gatekeeping (which is as good of a canonical source as any) is "When someone takes it upon themselves to decide who does or does not have access or rights to a community or identity."
So...there's no data involved in your decision to hire, it's entirely based on non-job-related philosophical questions.

There's also no review - you mention wanting to avoid nepotism, cargo culting, etc. but how do we know that you aren't doing that?

How do you ensure you are not applying bias (unconscious or not) to your hiring?

Studies have shown that most people hire people who are like them, which reduces diversity - and studies have shown that diversity is a net benefit to teams.
I have no debt except for one credit card that I pay off every month, and I've been in that state for years, but my credit score won't go past the mid 700s. I actually tried prepaying my credit card one month so that my debt to credit ratio would be zero, but that made my score drop. It's called a "thin file", meaning they don't have enough data to tell if I'm a risk.
Ask HN: Did you turn down a new job personality test? Why/not? What happened?
It absolutley is true. The thigh straps are exactly what prevent suspension trauma because they allow you to take a sitting position rather than having your legs hanging straight down, so there is much less distance to overcome. Besides, you generally move around while rock climbing, so the skeletal-muscle pump is engaged.
Ironically -- and I don't use that phrase lightly but this is Apple apologist Gruber -- the context of et tu is weaker persons banding together to stop an out of control tyrant.

Brutus was by at least a whisker on the right side of history at et tu time.

And his self-interest was raw mortal threat. Proscription lists were a thing.

As another halo company, P&G is an Apple rival and Apple doesn't cooperate with it in developing its policies. Apple develops its policies solely in its self interest. And changes them without input from stakeholders.

Thusly I argue that "ironically" is justified here. YMMV.
If you are in the US, you can do Greenlight cards. Downside is the monthly fee.
whoa. Is it your island? What region? How large is it? I need more details.
I am pointing out high and low is a relative scale. Relative to neon lights or other arc lamps all incandescents are low voltage.
Alexander's A Pattern Language is MUCH more accessible and enjoyable in my view.
This is surprisingly relevant to audio engineering, where amateurs tend to layer too many sounds and end up with a "muddy" mix, and pros are very good at selectively removing elements/frequencies to make the rest of the sounds extremely clear and coherent
So tens of millions of people?

Sounds like a public health crisis
Thank you so much for your comment! It made me dig into the article a bit and appreciate that this could be really handy for me. I do a lot of conversion of bitmap designs in Illustrator and this two-path problem is frequently something I abut against.

Time to learn how to use Python!
The best-case projections (of the unmitigated emission scenarios) are pretty frigging scary.
Get a better bank. Chase, Citi, WellsFargo, and USAA allow stored value kids debit card accounts.

You can also just get a second credit card and give it to your kid and have your kid make purchases in your name since the ice cream shop isn’t likely to care.

You could also load a card onto her phone and have her pay with that.

Every 11 year old in my neighborhood in the US solved this problem, so I wish you the best of luck with your struggle.
It would have crashed from having a credit limit, number of lines of credit, and age of credit of 0 since all of the accounts were closed.

If I remember correctly all hard inquiries that happen within a 30 day window get bundled together on your credit report. This allows people to shop around for credit cards when opening a new one without killing your credit score. So opening all of the new cards would have added a hard inquiry but it would have caused the number of lines of credit and average age of credit to start increasing thereby causing the credit score to start rising from the score when all of the accounts were terminated.
Sars 1 made it to the US and many countries. Short story was it was contained because it was much more deadly, and transmission was tied to symptoms so it was more easily detected.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-did-the-world-shut-...

One of the first things done by the Trump administration was close borders with China, but it was not enough.
World Building
> Conventional wisdom holds that passive trading is the rational investing strategy.

That isn't conventional wisdom. It's not someone's opinion. It's statistically proven reality. Whether you're an individual trader or a billionaire hedge fund manager, active strategies lose out to passive ones in the long run.

> has catalyzed a lean-in mindset around investing, particularly among Gen Z.

And it will burn them, just like it burned penny stock traders in the 80s and Internet stock traders in the late 90s.

The reality is Gen Z'ers are desperate at this point and they're turning to gambling in the hopes of making up lost economic ground. And if that happens en masse, it's not gonna be pretty.
I know they won't do it, but imagine if the Play Store had a built-in button to donate/support/tip a developer. Like the member feature of YouTube.

Small developers will have access to donations without doing anything, no more 'normal/donation' dual apps, no need to add 10MB of unused code to apps just to implement the payments api, probably more and better free apps...
A developer can dream.
That's a challenge with meatspace infrastructure too. You can have a standardized design for (e.g.) an airport, but "commercial jets" actually represents a wide variety of vehicles with different needs and tolerances, so all designs have to be adapted to the specific circumstances.
There’s something retaliatory in this, it is a damn shame you cannot sue them. Banks are a lot like human resources, they are not there to help you.
Almost all big financial institutions do not solely rely on FICO scores. They almost all have their own method of scoring.

For any large items, such as home mortgages and business loans, I don’t think scores are even used. There’s a person evaluating the applicant to determine if they meet underwriting standards.
American obsession with the 1st amendment is so odd. It doesn't allow for any reasonable discussion of nuance of speech.

But, i think there is precedent for advertising, there are restrictions on tobacco advertising. I don't see why it can't be extended to other things that are advertised.
> Why do we need credit cards, or a credit score?

So we can reduce risk of default and get lower interest rates. Mortgages sucked a lot before credit scores.

Credit scores have many problems, but are pretty useful for getting credit.
I'd be very interested to hear more on this. It's my understanding that you really don't have to do much more than teach a few classes in most cases.
> In my experience, most managers don't bother reading books... Usually they get their position through knowing people or being slavishly obedient...

That's odd. I've spent much of my career in engineering leadership, and I'd estimate 75% or more of the managers I've worked with read books to a degree I would categorize as obsessive. This has been true across half a dozen companies. Do you usually work for software companies? Maybe outside the US? I'm curious how we could have such opposite experiences.

We certainly agree that it's a mark of a good manager.
Nearly all cable networks use a low split, cutting off around 42Mhz for upstream bandwidth. Not all bandwidth from 0 to 42Mhz is usable due to external interference, most cable systems are able to get 4 full sized 8Mhz Docsis 3.0 channels into this space and one partial channel of 3 to 4Mhz.

Certain ISPs like Cox have started using OFDMA (Docsis 3.1) upstream channels as it is 50% more efficient than classic Docsis channels and you can operate it closer to spectrum with interference since it can run subchannels at lower modulation
Thank you for being a conscientious practitioner of your craft.
Even if I'm a big Rust fan and user, what you are describing is exactly the use case that Go is designed for, especially since 1.16 with embed[0].

The big plus is that you can even configure Go to automate TLS certs[1].

[0] https://blog.golang.org/go1.16

[1] https://github.com/skerkour/bloom-legacy/blob/27908e44dd45b3...
Assuming that statistic is true, how do you know countries with more innovation don't just end up producing big corporations that lobby for more control over ideas that they don't want to compete for?
>macOS VM

What is the current licensing situation on this? Can I use it legally to build software for Mac?
> The main reason to drop support for Amazon devices is you want to start using some Google Play Services APIs

I'm assuming this is slight hyperbole, as there are other plausible reasons to drop support for Amazon devices. But I'm curious to know if you have any other reason to believe that Firefox plans to use Google Play Services APIs?
On motor trucks: electric streetcars --- generally tracked --- were becoming A Thing by the 1880s. Though yes, free-routed motorised transport only really came to the fore by ~1910. And that last-mile conundrum was a real issue.

Direct sidings to warehouses and factories were quite common, and traces of such routes can still be found in urban street patterns and/or plot dimensions of many cities (dating from ~1850--1950), with the constrained-radius turns of urban rail often creating signature relict patterns.

About a quarter of US grain production in 1900 went to horses, largely for short-haul freight transport.
> It should be illegal for any business to refuse cash payment, full stop.

No. We should just have legislation ensuring that anyone can go to any post office or bank and exchange cash for a prepaid card. The same way you've been able to exchange cash for a money order at the post office for... well, as long as I've been alive, that's for sure.

Managing physical cash and registers is a huge headache that costs businesses a lot of money (not to mention risk of violent crime), and just doesn't make any sense when less than 5% of your customers want to use it. Not to mention cash is unhygienic, takes energy and carbon to make, transport, and process, and constantly needs to be replenished.

Let's not impede the future. Instead, let's help it along but make sure it works for everyone.
Yes, when banks offer cards that work together. Chase absolutely does. Here's how it works for Chase:

Their various products (Freedom, Freedom Unlimited, Sapphire, Sapphire Preserved, Sapphire Reserve, Business Ink, and maybe a few others) all generate the same currency (Ultimate Rewards) but do so in different ways:

* The Freedom offers 5% (5 points per dollar) on a rotating set of categories that change each quarter. For instance, right now the categories are Gas Stations and Home Improvement stores, so put those purchases on that card (there's no annual fee), and 1% on everything else

* The Sapphire Reserve offers 3% on dining, travel and 1% on everything else. It ALSO allows you to redeem Ultimate Rewards points at 1.5x the value. It has plenty of other perks and a significant annual fee, so whether it's worth it depends on your lifestyle, but for many people it is.

* The Freedom Unlimited offers 1.5% on all other purchases, so it's a good fallback. No annual fee so no problem keeping it around.

The other cards have their own quirks as well. The point is that you can accumulate reward points on the various cards depending on the category of the purchase and them consolidate them all into one card (the Sapphire Reserve) for maximum value.

People who are truly dedicated will go even further and point out that technically, for optimum value, you shouldn't just redeem the UR points for cash/travel purchases and should instead transfer them as airline miles to various partners, but I've never found it worth it personally, as while I enjoy travelling my tier of travel is strictly coach to a variety of locations, not trying to save up 3 years of points for a first class flight to Dubai.
Money corrupts; Bitcoin corrupts absolutely