skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of a lot of places in WA that need this more urgently than within the city limits of Seattle, however...

Seattle itself is fairly well covered by a combination of centurylink, wave and comcast, depending on the exact location. Big chunks of single family detached housing in Seattle where the centurylink copper cables were >90% aerial have now been overbuilt with gigabit class GPON. In addition to the gigabit MDU/apartment services on offer from wave and competitors.
Team City. But Jenkins is still king.
Do you do internationally and/or trading firms?
get on linkedin. look for people in your target company who say they are hiring. Send them a message.
Yep. Sadly, they are very out of touch. As recently as a year ago, Guido hadn't even heard of Poetry: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1227126706089021440
Indeed, dnsmasq seems to be the least painful way to provide special DNS zones, special host files, and forwarding for everything else.

Also, your resolv.conf becomes trivial.

The trick is to grab the DHCP-provided DNS server address on reconnections and update the forwarding, if you use a laptop. For VMs in the cloud, it's not a problem, of course.
Relative to their peers though: Alphabet went up almost 8% the same day, clearly not due to Microsoft's VR contract.
Email on the wire is mostly all TLS encrypted these days. Generally offline encryption like PGP encrypted email is moe secure than, say, instant messaging:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:emailvsim
There are people who would blot out the sun, and take satisfaction in it.

They don't bother me nearly as much as the taboo against speaking frankly about them.
Hope someone will see this soon.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I wish that I'd said "this behavior sounds creepy / learn to avoid creepy behavior."
exactly... his writing is fine.
More importantly, let's not forget that capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than income. How convenient.
An Agile Approach to Self-Sovereign Identity
Funny, it never occurred to me that you'd get to continue vesting while not working (I have no idea the policies at my current or former employers).

I get that people respond emotionally to these things and just go with "Amazon bad, mothers good", but this policy just seems... obvious?

If it cancelled or reset to zero that would seem harsh and not in line with norms, but a policy of "you vest for each month you work" feels perfectly fair and reasonable to all employees.
Is that a Darth Vader no or a Boondocks drop the soap no
I know PHP is really great (and always has been).

But sh*t, there is soooo much bad, no, really really bad PHP code that lives out there.

Isn't it?
I'd agree with the general tone of a few others here. IMO Peloton and Zwift cater to two different groups although there is some overlap between them.

Peloton caters more to general fitness types with a "spin class" approach using "instructors" and their slick hardware and ecosystem. It's probably a better choice for people who aren't cyclists.

Zwift caters more to dedicated cyclists who typically use Zwift to augment their outdoor training routines with indoor time (avoiding weather and timing/safety issues etc). Cyclists use their own bikes since they're fit for the rider, with their own (more accurate) power meters, etc. Zwift also considers weight, bike aerodynamics, etc. in sort of a "gamified" virtual representation of cycling.

TLDR; Peloton is a group of people riding Peloton machines in "virtual spin class" while Zwift is a group of people riding their own bikes indoors, most who also ride outdoors on Strava.
Ask HN: Does a CFA Matter in FinTech?
Hi,

For quite a while I've had difficulties deciding what I actually enjoy doing and managing my motivation, so I let myself get into a bad place academically, although I have my degree now (Bio Major, CS Minor), and have roughly 4 years of work experience in a large bank as an analyst.

During that time, I've learnt a lot about programming, mostly in my spare time but also professionally as well. Although I was in analyst roles, I pushed to make my role a bit more developer-like. I created an end-to-end prototype in Python of a software solution we were building as part of the project that I was assigned to. This was then used as a template for the real developers to base their work off of.

In my spare time, I learned how to automate cloud infrastucture deployments using a Packer, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and kOps stack. I've also set up full CRUD apps with a Node REST API backend and React frontend, SQL DBs, etc... I've also currently passed the first 2 levels of the CFA program, and plan to finish the third this year. I think I was uninformed when I made the decision to go for the CFA since I find a lot more joy in programming than pure investment management, but I was hoping it could serve as a foundation for a position in fintech.

The last time I was searching around for jobs, I didn't get many responses at all for developer/engineer roles given my experience only being in analyst roles. so at this point I'm a bit uncertain about my employability going forward. I'm based in Toronto but did apply at various comapnies (large and startups) across Canada & US. What I was hoping to ask is if anyone here would know if finishing off my CFA would even help me get a tech role at a fintech company given my lack of experience as a developer? Is there anything I could work on as a portfolio app/demo to improve my chances there specfically? Even general advice on what steps I should take going forward would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time.
While attneding university, Java made an appearance in 4 different classes, the first two clases students take are Java classes.
One interesting thing to note, is that for these classes, none of the students were allowed to use any of the Java libraries, or external libraries, everything had to be built from scratch. So I didn't actually learn about using external libraries or Maven until later when I started developing for Android.
>"How many languages can you think of that meet the following conditions?"
I think that dlang comes pretty close. The Dlang community isn"t super large, but I've found everyone I've interacted with to be polite and helpful.
What doesn’t work in one place can work in others. As another comment describes [1] several Washington counties along the Columbia River Valley have gigabit fiber built out by public utility districts.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26828097
"Not a good fit" is about social skills, it has nothing to do with qualifications.

And no one gets promoted in the first year.
Salesforce did give me once and I agree they were accurate and right in their reasoning.
> Doubly so because the executive is not the hiring manager

This is really the crux of it, for me. People hear stories about executives finding that diamond in the rough and slashing through the beauracracy to get them hired. That kind of thing almost never happens, especially from the perspective of the person looking for a job. I think this perspective might be hard to get until you've worked at a large organization, or better hired people at one.

Brutal honesty? You're probably just not that special, don't expect special treatment.
> Not to anyone who's studied journalism.

Last I checked journalism writes for non-journalists. Maybe we should be rethinking these snarky attitudes about who should receive public blasphemy and who shouldn't.
I think what the author means is that previously, Big Tech has tried to set a more fact-agnostic tone and operated as though the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether the source was reliable rested with the reader.

There's a definite shift away from that mindset in the past (approximately) year for both Facebook and Twitter.
Good point, and an important distinction.
Will Google Keep even be around in five years?
I completely disagree. These tunes made computer failure a fun and enjoyable experience for the whole family!
One of the hardest lessons for young people early in their careers is to stop beginning sentences with “I am going to...” or “I am doing...” and instead start off with a [truthful!] “I did...”

With an abusive childhood, homeschooling, no college, OP has a long road to travel. That all needs to be addressed, and finding a supportive environment will make that much easier. A career is based on achievement, however, beginning with simply doing the work and staying employed.
Apple definitely profits, and bares responsibility, for using suppliers with abysmal labour practices - but before you rest easy, what phones and computers are you buying? Foxconn manufactures an estimated 40% of all consumer electronics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn) and the ones that aren't manufactured by foxconn are not necessarily made under better conditions.

The only workaround I've found for ethical consumption is buying second hand, which dilutes my contribution to these industries a little
> felt like that I should've got promoted after reporting those issues, especially since I found them within my frist two weeks.

Dude. What are you thinking? You get hired in a CS role and you're raising red flags about security issues and expecting more than a pat on the back?

I've been a supervisor. Trainer. CS agent. Let me tell you what I see: A guy comes in with tons of supposed experience but gets a CS job. All he does is talk about what an awesome dev he is and all the work he's done. Highly opinionated, and feels he's above the job but "Hey I gotta work so I'll do whatever I can for now." Nice. Not.

Two weeks in he sees a security issue. Does he bring it to me? No, he sends a detailed e-mail to the VP in charge of the anti-fraud system. Scratch "team player" off the list. And now he wants something more than a pat on the back? He went above and beyond in finding an issue but didn't follow the proper channels to report it and then expects a promotion to another department before he's even had his 90 day review? WTH?

I've managed folks who've pulled crap like this, and I was not impressed. You need to learn your place and get off your pedestal. If you're going to sit at the right hand of the king, by all means aim for it! But don't start off by showing off and telling the king all the reasons YOU should be his right hand man. Instead, work your way up patiently. If you're "all that", then he will choose you.

TL;DR: Humble yourself. Do the job your were hired for and do it well! Work your way up by proving you deserve it, not by insisting that you deserve it. Promotions are earned.
When I wanted to learn vim I started with https://vim-adventures.com/. But since only the first section was free I decided to suck it up and use vim tutor instead.

Seriously just sit down and dedicate a week to typing solely in vim. It feels extremely weird at first, and you'll keep wanting to use the arrow keys. But after that you'll never want to go back to using non-vim mode editing again.
Seeing a therapist could be highly costly and out of reach for OP.
The writing is disjointed and does not easily flow.

It's too curt and while that's alright for a casual i.e., HN audience, if that's how one communicates in other contexts there will be miscommunication.
Raycast (YC W20) Is Hiring
I strongly disagree. Going through an anonymous person's social media history just to give social advice sounds appropriate. That is the only input GP could work with.
An important point to consider is that when you're negotiating with someone, you want to ask for more than you actually want. You're going to get push-back and will have to compromise. If you asked for more than what you wanted, then you can get closer to your actually desired result.

Imagine that the argument is laid out on a scale of 0 to 1. 0 being no free speech at all and 1 being absolute free speech. If you're arguing with someone that wants 0.6 and you want 0.8 then it makes sense for you to say that you want 1.0. If you then compromise with the other party, the result is likely to be closer to 0.8 than if you had argued for 0.8 directly.

One other thing is that it is cumbersome to refer to ~0.95 in text and speech. "Abolish almost all restrictions on speech," sounds a lot weaker than "Abolish all restrictions on speech."

When somebody says they are a free speech absolutist, it's highly likely that they simply want fewer restrictions on speech than currently exist.
Russia’s Signals Intelligence Satellites
Agreed, must be nice. A testament to the space, I think.
"applying" is a gerund so "your" as the possessive is correct.
You can say that but Microsoft just landed a $21B AR contract, the Quest2 has sold 2-3 million units and Apple is poised to enter the wearable market.

I'm not surprised when Google walks away from things, but this seems premature and short sighted.
Similar great article on this about why building a subway in NYC is so expensive https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/new-york-infrastruct...

They will have multiple “studies” by politically connected firms that go straight in the trash as they have no value whatsoever (among many other scams).

A friend of mine was interested in opening a coffee shop with a wine license in Boston near the common, and the consultant she hired said that the best way to make this happen was to hire this specific law firm at $1000 per hour, and all the permits would sail through committees. If she hired any other firm it would be delayed, and delayed, put on extra reviews, cost her more and take years to complete. Corruption in a less overt way.

Big government types have their heart in the right place, but the reality of human nature and the dirty business of politics is why we can’t have nice things. Some people in government are good, but those that seek and gain power are not the type of people you want guarding our treasury. It’s a tale as old as civilization and it never changes.
I'm assuming you're trying to get an engineering job but its a bit unclear?

I think what a lot of people miss about engineering jobs is that the first job is definitely hard, partly because people are giving you a bunch of money to do something that is difficult to quantify that may or may not make their business. Apply everywhere and be very ready to take the first job.

If you want to get a big tech engineering job, you need a couple of months of getting good at leet code so try to figure out a way to get that.

OHP is way better than medicaid if you can snag it.
The big thing that differentiates those counties is they already operate the last mile electrical grid as a PUD (public utility district). So they already have bucket trucks, crews of linemen, flaggers, reel trailers, other aerial fiber/cable construction resources on staff and trained. Other parts of WA state have privately owned last mile grid operators like Puget power and Avista.

Washington state viewed from a whole-state colored map perspective is a wild patchwork quilt of different last mile telco operators (mostly centurylink or ziply now, but others exist, like how the ellensburg valley is neither), and mottled variety of different types of electrical grid operator. Or different types of combination aerial/underground cable operator (comcast or charter, mostly, but by no means all).

It will be somewhat more time consuming, costly and difficulty for a county that is not also a PUD to set up their own fiber construction enterprise.
I saw some people in Austin who did gig work like uber etc. I've thought about it. I'm a very anxious driver though. I've though about working in a Amazon warehouse. There's one near me. But they don't get health benefits for 3+ months. Have to do intense manual labor etc. EA QA was the most toxic place I ever worked at. Belittling people, thinking that all testers are incompetent etc. I have back pain, and dental issues which is why I mention insurance a lot.
I liked Symfony but becoming a “PHP guy” looks like a terrible career move still. Also not a huge fan of the one data structure being both a dictionary and an array.
As a hiring manager, the things that stand out to me in your post:

- You said you quit a job at EA, quit a job at IBM, dropped out of college your freshman year. You may have valid reasons for leaving each of these, but you have to see this from the manager's perspective: You had 3 different great opportunities that all came to a dead end at the beginning of your career. You need an alternate narrative.

- You talk about applying to Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Palantir, and other companies known to be very competitive, yet the only real job experience you list in your post is low level customer support. Nothing wrong with aiming high, but you need to also be applying to jobs that are a logical next step in your career. It's extraordinarily difficult to jump from customer support to FAANG engineer, so have a backup plan.

- You spoofed e-mails to manipulate executives into meetings. This kind of thing sounds clever in movies or from anecdotes in the 90s or 2000s, but in this era everyone is on high alert for phishing attacks and security breaches. Read the room, and don't commit computer fraud during your application process. Big companies have systems in place to catch these things and you'll get blocked in short order.

- No mention of your network. Do you have any contacts or friends or acquaintances anywhere in the industry? Even people you knew briefly from school? People who you worked with in the past who moved up? Reach out and ask if they have any advice for your job search. Going forward, make a point to stay on good terms with the people around you. You can help each other as your careers progress.
I gave up and became a lab tech.
Marshmallow vs. pydantic – Python libs for data serialization and validation
Ask HN: Free Domain Name
A domain name I no longer care about tryjobalerts.com is about to expire (in grace) rather than let some squatter take it, I am happy for someone to take it for free if you have a good use for it.

Just reply below, and have a contact in your profile. I'll choose the best reply.
There’s also the fact that you can often rent the same car from the same company significantly cheaper by going to the next closest car center 10 miles down the road from the airport. When I visited San Diego circa 2015 it was actually cheaper to pay for a ride share from the airport to an Avis in town instead of renting from the Avis at the airport (this may not be true anymore as rideshare companies are no longer subsidizing at the level that they were around 2015). Airports often add on additional taxes and fees to car rentals on top of the supply and demand convenience that the rental company charges you.
> If somebody had suggested this ten years ago ...

A participant is saying something similar a few messages down the thread, referring to the dilemma between heavy moderation and risking driving people away.
And if you went up the chain with feedback/criticism, you'd want to have runs on the board with the company and also approach it very carefully with insane diplomacy/personality. It's not going to be like the movies where they say "You're an abrupt pain in the arse, but I admire that in a person. You're promoted!"
You're right, but that first result (in the google info card) is marketing material that links to another article about a study. The second article actually has scholarly sources for claims it makes:

https://realtorparty.realtor/community-outreach/rural-outrea...

Basically, it generally amounts to a very low change in property value, although studies are conflicting on whether having fast internet matters much, compared to having average internet:

> disconnecting an average property from a high-speed first-generation broadband connection (offering Internet speed up to 8 Mbit/s) would depreciate its value by 2.8%. In contrast, upgrading such a property to a faster connection (offering speeds up to 24 Mbit/s) would increase its value by no more than 1%.

> Our estimates suggest that there are declining returns to speed availability, with access to at least some type of Internet being more valuable than having only a very high-speed connection accessible.

> Results show that single-family homes with access to a 25 Mbps broadband connection have a price that is about $5,977, or 3%, more than similar homes in neighborhoods with 1 Mbps. The rural premium is lower at $5,099
For me it's whether I believe that the person genuinely cares about the good of the person they're interacting with. Very, very few sales people will stop trying to sell you a thing just because they find out you don't need it.

Put another way, persuasion is helping someone explore the topic and come to their own conclusion, manipulation is going in knowing the answer and guiding towards it. If you are trying to help someone realize a truth you knew ahead of time, you're manipulating them.
Present state of the art is pretty decent though. The fiber to each building for PON or GPON should be upgradable to 10GPON or whatever when that's cost effective. If they run individual fiber, even more upgradable.

Operating with the muni owning the loop and an unrelated ISP doing the IP means the muni just needs to be a predictable dumb pipe.

The only problem I have with this model is if I want on the network, I have to pay the full construction cost to get to my pole (plus to get from the pole to my house), and every one who it passes can get on later without needing to pay for that. I could try to organize neighbors to share costs, but I don't want to organize anything. I wish I could pay that cost, and get rebated over time as others attach, perhaps with some time dependence. Otherwise, I'm stuck with bonded VDSL cause $50k is a lot to pay for better internet.
The state can decline to enforce contracts it considers against the public interest.
I love the modularity of the boom mike attaching to existing headphones. I have been using a Bluetooth adapter which keeps things modular. You can plugin a wired headset to it. Of course, keep things wired when talking with someone else. But you can reuse that wired headset as Bluetooth when you just want to listen and want to roam around. https://www.amazon.com/Mpow-Bluetooth-Receiver-Connection-Ha...
You know we got rid of a few of those aircraft carriers we could probably eliminate childhood poverty within 5 years or so. If you really think about it it's far easier to sow seeds of discontent in a population with so many poor. The sheer numbers of American poor, and those who feel abandoned is a security risk. They can be easily manipulated to destabilize the country.

And when I think about it I don't think America has an obligation to take care of every other country on Earth.
Just install some Linux distro (preferably not something like Ubuntu but something more "bare"/"raw") and start tinkering. I feel there are more tinkers into Linux nowadays than there were PC/Mac tinkers regardless of OS back in the 90s.

Of course computers (including mobiles and tablets) became widely mainstream over the years so the percentage of tinkers dropped but the absolute numbers increased.
Look into Sails.js -- it's not the same but it's something
I sympathize with your frustration. Feature-wise, I think folks considering migration and not heading to CI will wait until concurrency is fully exploited.
> I wonder if you use the word creep really broadly; e.g. to include people that make you uncomfortable.

Isn't that the normal definition?

I guess i agree that creep is a deregatory word and not really helpful in this context. At the same time, intentionally obfuscating who you are in order to trick someone into interacting with you against their will is not ok behaviour, and well within what most people consider "creepy". Possibly even crosses the line into harrasment.

> Many/most of those people, it seems to me, mean well but have difficulty connecting with you in the way you are used to. Many of those people have a bunch of insecurities, burdens, or even mental health concerns.

That's hard, but ultimately doesn't excuse actions that negatively impact other people.