skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone currently wading through resumes and kinda worried about missing some one like this, here's a tip to anyone else like you: The purpose of a resume is to get you hired. If you have something like an incredible technical sound driver support email chain like that... put a link to it in your resume. Yeah, your resume has standard fields, and those are indeed sorted on by HR, so don't leave out the skills & experience... but otherwise, the resume is free form. Generally not prose exactly, but free form. Link to ANYTHING you think will help you get the job.

And don't just say "I participate in some LUG"... that can mean you show up to the meetings once every couple of months to eat the free food. Show your helpfulness in an email chain. Show a project that you did with them with a link that explicitly says you did a big portion of it. If no such link exists, get one created!

By no means do I promise wonders if you do this. HR filters may still eat your resume. But if you do get through to a real human, they may look at those things, and the ones who will understand what this means are the ones you want to work for anyhow.

If you've got the skills to pay the bills but your resume looks like any other high school dropout's, I can tell you, from the other side of the desk, you've given me no way to tell any different. It may stink that all we have are resumes in the initial process... but at least that resume is under your control. (Mostly. Sometimes it gets chewed on. But speaking for myself, I'm looking at raw resumes straight from the candidate and that's not uncommon.) Don't be afraid to use it, and don't be afraid to toot your own horn, that's the whole point of this particular document.

(Similarly, to the extent possible without lying, don't say "I participated in some project" as your work experience. Write something you did in the project. Don't say "I participated in a billing system upgrade", say how you rewrote the UI in React to conform to accessibility standards and made it run 10 times faster than before and customers uniformly loved it and paid lots more money or whatever. "Participation" could be "I had my hand held for every bug as I struggled to keep up" and it could be "I stepped up and took more responsibility than anyone expected and almost single-handedly completed the project, freeing up the other developers" or anything in between. Unfortunately, based on experience, I kinda have to assume the worst because it's usually right. If "the worst" interpretation of that phrase isn't right, don't leave it open to me!)

Believe me, if you're doing Linux support on a mailing list, or anything even remotely like that, you stand out, at least to the right people. Do whatever it takes to work that on to the resume somehow. The "standard resume form" is a skeleton to be fleshed out, not a straightjacket of form.
Everyone blue collar is going to have about the majority of the same experiences of being out of place in tech or any other big money white collar industry that the author did. You could write the same thing about being the son of a plumber working at an investment bank.
> In some ways it's a laundry list of ways rich people in the Bay Area act like wankers, which is interesting, but also quite irritatingly stereotypical.

I dont think this is true about article at all. Quite a few points are not complains about other peoples behavior nor do they contain anything bad. I do indoor climbing, it does cost money, we talked about climbing in the work a lot. I would really have to work hard to perceive myself being criticizes by that point.

Many are about authors own behavior.

The thing with tampons was that rich person would not think of that tampon as "save me money" resource the way poor person did. Telling you not to use this or that for bogus health reasons is not something exlusive to rich people and author does not claim so. It just made the encounter more annoying.
Why is it always people in tech-adjacent roles that trot this out? This kind of reads like someone falsely attributing class as a barrier when actually it's their cognitive abilities compared to peers.

It always seems like the majority of the writer's woes would be solved if they were themselves more competent at what they do.
My Resignation from Freenode
I’m from the Midwest/South and a lot of the author’s behavior would be considered normal here regardless of income.

Although I’m not sure if stealing the head phones was a good call? (Unless they had a policy stating they were fair game)
Part of that storage problem is what Tesla and Australia did. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/australia-picks...

And there are other approaches to power storage. Thermal power storage is popular / useful with large solar installations. Hydro dams associated with a reservoir often have pumped storage where they can pump water back into the reservoir and then use it when its needed.

The signaling and frequency matching is still an issue.

I recall a company I worked at in California had two sets of generators. They had a diesel emergency generator for the data center and also a set of natural gas generators to cut down on power costs (when the price went high). The issue with the natural gas ones is that they needed something else to provide the utility frequency, something about them not being stable/consistent on their own.

Rooftop systems have the possibility / likelihood of also destabilizing the frequency in the grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooftop_photovoltaic_power_sta...

> An electrical power system containing a 10% contribution from PV stations would require a 2.5% increase in load frequency control (LFC) capacity over a conventional system an issue which may be countered by using synchronverters in the DC/AC-circuit of the PV system. The break-even cost for PV power generation was in 1996 found to be relatively high for contribution levels of less than 10%. While higher proportions of PV power generation give lower break-even costs, economic and LFC considerations impose an upper limit of about 10% on PV contributions to the overall power systems.

There's a reference to that at https://www.worldcat.org/title/ieee-transactions-on-energy-c... - which I don't have access to to quote from.

The key point to this is that if solar power is increased, then the grid as a whole needs to also increase its power to get back in control of the load frequency. That is likely what you're seeing. By itself, this storage isn't sufficient for answering that issue. Ideally, the solar systems would have their own local batteries and respond as part of a smart grid to contribute according to the load frequency. ... But that costs more money for the installation and consumers are hesitant to do that.

https://www.energy-storage.news/news/tesla-powerwalls-hooked...

https://www.provisionsolar.com/general/grid-outages-and-the-...
Either:

1) community

or

2) valuable data
No need to go for the throat there. And especially not when you're not totally correct.

Paul Fussell's Class documents the exact phenomenon OP describes. Wealth is not class [1]; class is much more complex. For example, poor academics are higher class than rich blue-collar workers. Donald Trump is crazy rich but affects many of the working-class behaviours described in said book (technically "high prole"). Barack Obama has much less money but most would view him as upper-middle class. Nobody would accuse the above of being "out of their lane".

My very rough approximation: class is something like the integral of wealth over very long periods of time. Being rich and well-connected for long periods gives you a chance to accumulate high-status behaviours and preferences, which can persist even when the wealth doesn't, and continue to confer benefits. Preferring golf or tennis to say, bowling, doesn't necessarily come with a major difference in affordability. But being good at golf might help your career more than bowling. Reading more helps in tons of ways, and most people only pick up this habit if they grow up with access to good education and parental cognitive surplus.

[1] https://resourcegeneration.org/breakdown-of-class-characteri...
Haha, less than 24h after that article that hit the frontpage yesterday.

https://etherscan.io/blocks

The blocks look absolutely insane right now
The are #debian channels here and there, but the Debian project uses irc.oftc.net (aka irc.debian.org).
Include them. Invite them to lunch, introduce them to other coworkers, make sure they know about happy hour events or other after-work activities. A few people doing this for me in my early 20s made the world of difference in my life.
The main difference is the cost associated with it.

In order to be an non-profit organization you need an founding meeting, board elections and all of it have to be notarized and drawn up by an attorney before being validated by the state an process that takes weeks if not months where as anyone can set up an company online in about 15 minutes.

For some European nations the processes are far more similar and as code civil courts can do their own fact finding you don't need to pay an notary to validate everything or have an attorney draw up a whole bunch of documentation just to found an small non-profit association.
About not giving up on your dreams
The part that's the worst isn't being on the plane. It's going to and being at the airport. First class doesn't fix the god awful experience that is flying.
For the curious, check this essay "Did Russell Advocate Preventive Atomic War against the USSR?": https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/article/download...
Today cascading liquidations becomes a household term.
coliveira, you have obviously given this some thought. Any further nuances?
IRC is inherently an extremely open and fragile protocol. It's effectively a social network, so it attracts all the drama such a network naturally generates, while doing very little to mitigate it. Low barriers to entry, easy pseudonymity, basic but pretty rigid social structures (you either got a flag or you don't)... it's just a volatile mix.

In the end, it's just people bitching on the internet, with only enough features to generate more drama and no extra features to distract you from it.
> Focus on the math, not the mathematician. It will make you happier.

Personally I don't feel inadequate when reading about someone like von Neumann, as I'm not really tempted to compare myself to him in the first place. Colleagues are peers, people I graduated with are peers, but von Neumann is almost like another species.

I forget who it was who pointed out that Silicon Valley billionaires tend to dress like 'normal people', in sharp contrast to aristocrats. People don't tend to feel poor for comparing themselves against the Queen, as they perceive too much distance to make a personal comparison.
I think you may be looking for a CIO, or (in Scotland) a SCIO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_incorporated_organi....

Do note, though, that it's insufficient to be a "non-profit" in order to become a "charity". Also, we have more than one type of limited company, and some are more amenable to community interest than others. A company limited by shares will likely have either concentrated or tradable ownership, while a company limited by guarantee is more likely to have a wider membership without so much economic interest.

Going in the other direction, the charity I chair isn't a company at all -- we're an unincorporated association. Which isn't usually the best structure for a charity nowadays, but we make do with what we have.
Welp, don't feel like repeating every resignation letter, they are aggregated in this previous post that seems to have been buried: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926
People trade derivative coins such as USDC, USDT and BUSD that pair with coins such as BTC or ETH. These are basically stable coins that track the USD. Therefore trades are nearly instant. Withdrawing USD from the platform involves selling your derivate coins for fiat.
Looking for a Co-founder, to build something in consumer social space
Hey everyone this is Govind 26, I am a Designer, Electrical Engineering Grad, worked as a Researcher for a 2 years. Over the past few weeks I have been networking aggressively to find the right Co-founder. I've met with few people, either by phone or in-person and despite some close calls that person never turned out to be the one. I'm well aware that the odds aren't good for single founders moreover I would rather work along with someone who likes to see people using something he/she built.
So what’s the idea?
A Social-First Messaging application that enables its users to share only once a day.
The app allows its users to share only once a day thus increasing significance of every post, creating an even playing field for all users and a unique content consumption pattern.
"This is the single thing I can share with you today" defines the relationship that exists between the creator and audience.
Why now?
1. Crazy consumer demand for a new medium
2. Many existing social apps are getting stale
Here is the link to the MockUp on Figma (Play Around, Click outside the device to highlight the tappable components,you may drag too to navigate between some screens) : https://www.figma.com/proto/DffotzqKNcMiSeuQvvyBNv/Snapshots_0.1.0?node-id=384%3A1984&scaling=scale-down&page-id=0%3A1
Here are Some Screenshots : https://imgur.com/a/TmCj6gv
Who do I want to meet?
You must be technical, have experience in building mobile apps, have a passion for this space, and have insane work ethic. This is going to be hard to pull off, but there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel.
If you are interested please send an email to govindnit94@gmail.com and include (1) something awesome you've built and (2) why you would be right for this. Let’s build something awesome.
Even if you aren't the right person, please upvote this or suggest someone who you think would be best suited. Thank You for your time. Stay Safe.
Even if you don't check, other people should know that this is extremely misleading.

> Fewer clients, way more complex protocol

This is actually a valid complaint, though it's partly due to Matrix being pretty young. The other part is that Matrix does a lot more for you than IRC (eg e2ee and federation) and those extra features require complexity.

> The identity server is centralized

This is a completely optional part of Matrix. You don't need identity servers. You never have to provide your phone number. They don't even push you to when you sign up. It exists as a convenience feature for people who complain that they need to be able to discover their friends on Matrix by their friends‘ phone numbers. Also, you're free to run your own identity server for you and your friends or whomever.

> other attempts [at creating a homeserver] appear dead

This one is way off. Synapse, the "one complete server" you must be referring to, is going to be deprecated. The Matrix Foundation team is working on Dendrite to replace it. There are also several independent projects that are very active, notably Conduit, started by one guy unaffiliated with the Matrix Foundation team. Conduit is extremely far along and is under constant development.

> All of Matrix is controlled by New Vector LLC

The people who created Matrix were careful to separate their for-profit projects from FOSS community projects. Matthew Hodgson (Arathorn) explains it well here [0]. TLDR: The Matrix spec, the Element clients, and the Synapse/Dendrite homeservers are maintained by a nonprofit. Same team, different organization and funding. Everything is open source, so anyone is free to fork at any time.
That process seems to be "our company will decide what we want to do with our proposal"
I just wanted to be able to buy a GPU without paying exorbitant prices because miners.
The "store of value" thing was made up to keep the speculation bubble inflating when it became clear Bitcoin had no practical use.
Bullshit. I know my share of wealthy people and nobody does that. Especially when you have plenty of vacation days to use anyway.

Las Vegas is 14-15h away from most European hubs. NYC is 8h. Even the best case scenario (first class and the airline staff walks you through immigration) means 10h door-to-door.
Sure!

The original Bitcoin whitepaper from Satoshi Nakamoto is available here: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It is titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

So, based just on the title, it's pretty clear that it's original intent was as an electronic payment method.

The first sentence of the abstract is: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution"

If you read the rest of the whitepaper it's pretty clear that the original intent was as a mechanism to facilitate payments and transactions.
> (hard to get a site that is up and has a good chart for that rn..)

Was just going to ask what you would recommend to monitor that. In better times, what would be the best resources?
Not that I disagree with you, but it's pretty reasonable for someone to defend his product when it's criticized.
Can they pay rent then with that money? Why do I need to pay rent, food, and healthcare for someone who decides to go on a stabbing spree?
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I grew up upper middle class and do the same thing. I know generationally wealthy people that do too.
> Why would you claim that?

Because it's a fact?

> TOFU is less prone to having your connection MITM'd

Not if you wait for the first SSH connection. Or a key is rotated. Or a new server with new host keys is added. Or the user disables their own strict host key checking. MITM is trivial in these cases. There's tools for it that any script kiddie can use.

They've already connected once? That's fine. Drop their connections and force them to try a connection to a new host, new IP, or from a new machine or client. In any case it'll be a new "TOFU" use case, the user will accept the new host keys, and never verify the signature. Or just try MITM at any time and see if the user has already disabled strict host key checking, as many online guides instruct, or if the user thinks their remote host just has new host keys that need to be replaced.

HTTPS does not have these vulnerabilities, by design, because PKI. Your connection is always authenticated against a trusted key store, you don't ever need to validate a signature by hand, and it's not common for people to turn off validation. In addition (if Git actually implemented this, and I'm not sure why it doesn't) it could use HPKP and HSTS to ensure that a specific key for a specific site was always validated, which would eliminate the different vulnerability that you mention for trusted CA certs.

So for default connections where SSH does not use Certificates (basically all SSH use cases) HTTPS is more secure by default, and supports more ways to prevent MITM.
Ah we posted this at almost the same time :)

I'm glad I didn't read that book when I was still "poor", it's so relatable and hits hard. I recommend it for anyone kind of wondering (he's not exactly kind to the working class, but he does try hard to understand it all and does have insight).
> spending with cryptocurrency

It hasn't been about actually using it for years now.
it easier to change what server you connect to in your client, especially if all the channels you connect to move over, than to adopt a new protocol/client/ etc..
That would improve incentives for those trying to get tenure, but what are the incentives for the replicators? That seems to be the biggest problem. It costs money, time, and with the current incentive structure, reputation.
> This is the first IRC drama I'm hearing about.

How old are you? For my generation (40+), IRC and drama are basically synonyms. It seems to have subsumed a lot simply because younger folks don't use it as much as we did.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

Jump to the 7d view
I summarised a bunch of comments. If you have an issue with my summary you can critique it directly, just like you wanted me to do. To me they don’t look like differing opinions that have been thought through. They seem like kneejerk dismissals, which are against the HN rules.
Wealth inequality will get worse with more free money – Gundlach
Food deserts mostly myth. I'm looking for the study in my notes but there is only a very slight difference in diets between tax brackets.
How We're Building Glenstack
congrats on the emoji sale!
I thought cryptocurrencies are supposed to be free from government and world influence.
Yes, if you had an oracle [1] that was able to provide information on whether the transaction had completed.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_oracle
I love when bubbles explode. I feel like the world is a tiny bit less insane.
Not OP but no channels require you identify yourself through email/phone/etc to join. As far as I know there's not even a mechanism to do that.

Third Party ID's (email etc) are only used for opt-in contact discovery.
> to lock in their customers while the exchange liquidates its positions.

Not an expert in legal and financial matters, but that sounds like it would start a FBI inquiry and even prison-time for all those involved.
What about XMPP?
It’s the same company that attempted to keep its customers Bitcoin cash when Bitcoin forked right? Then only backed down after consumer backlash? Same company that tipped off its employees to buy Bitcoin cash to pump it before it was listed and then it was dumped on day 1?
Alex from the OpenFaaS open source project here. We recently had some help from the Istio team to update the compatibility and support for OpenFaaS + Istio. I went on to then write it up in as much detail as I could and show some of my own thoughts.
Hope you enjoy, and feel free to ask me questions on Twitter - https://twitter.com/alexellisuk or CNCF/OpenFaaS Slack
Talking about Matrix...matrix.org had an IRC bridge to the Freenode network. Is there any up for libera.chat?

(The bridge is unreliable, but still very handy to stay connected to old friends)
Who's we...?

Anyway, many Matrix rooms are welcoming of ignorant people of all flavors, ha — check it out.
For clients maybe not, but for servers the protocol itself is to blame, yes. A giant distributed graph database where everything has to be synced constantly means you use a ton of memory. IRC is definitely complicated, and arguably a pile of hacks, but an event based system (more or less) makes a lot more sense for chat where you want realtime communication (more or less), not to wait while you sync nodes in the graph to every place that wants them.
> Existing standards bodies [...] are just generally better at developing standards.

Speaking in a strictly personal capacity, I don't think that point can be taken for granted. The W3C's missteps with HTML5, and WHATWG's success, is a particularly notable failing of a dedicated standards body. The Rust programming language is also developed and codified outside of a traditional standards organization.
True. The whole run up in crypto has been so closely tied to Goldman backing Coinbase's IPO that it's laughable.
> Nvidia fears that all those customers will vanish over night.

Exactly - and the fear seems justified since it already happened once before in 2018.
https://elixirschool.com is really good
I think there's a realistic chance that you'll soon be able to get them at a nice discount on ebay.
This is a fair point.

Somewhat disagreeing with my previous comment: but I’ve definitely seen this effect between iMessage / Whatsapp vs SMS. I’m more likely to interact with people one-on-one through those platforms instead of SMS because of the link/image/gif handling. My android friends without whatsapp/telegram/signal don’t hear from me as much because of that added friction.
Assets in the same asset class tend to move together, especially during market crashes. Same exact thing happens with stocks during periods like 2008. In finance speak, we say “correlations go to 1”