skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are small, low-altitude, low-capacity planes - because this is a hard problem and you have to start small.

I wonder though - does Bye have ambitions in creating larger ones that fly at higher altitudes? I've thought about this ever since Elon speculated that high-altitude electric planes could be insanely efficient: they don't require the intake that normal jet engines do, so they can fly in thinner air and thus require less power to overcome air resistance.

The main problem being battery density, IIRC. I wonder how that has changed since the ideas were floated some years ago.

I want the super-fast, high-flying, supersonic electric planes please! That could do more to alleviate greenhouse gas emissions than even electric cars might!
I imagine the primary weakness is the rather low energy density of li-ion batteries vs gasoline. This means less energy per kg of battery/fuel, which means lower power (speed/payload) or range or both.
Yes, and I judge this to be a good thing.
Convex optimization is also taught in high school. Organic chemistry, biochemistry, discrete math, probability, and statistics too. I fail to see your point.
You wouldn't, but hopefully you'd consider what accepting the gift is likely to end up costing you and those you're responsible for.
Profitability is neither infinite nor guaranteed. It will be interesting to see what happens when Patagonia sees a crunch in their sales, and how much of that moral proposition that defines their company they will keep in place.
window manager plus tmux could probably take you far. i agree that “trivial” frictions like this really add up to stress and work avoidance
> Tesla's approach thinks white trailers are open sky. The river comparison is not unreasonable at all.

A Tesla is not a self-driving car. Autopilot is an assistive technology.
Halifax (Major UK Bank) Caught Copying Monzo (Challenger Bank) App Designs
Just because it can tow 11k per the SAE test (basically a power/brakes test in case anyone was wondering) doesn't mean it's actually good at it for most use cases. The recharge/refuel time hits electrics really hard with current tech. For a fleet vehicle that doesn't hit its range limit ever and can recharge all night it's probably great. For anything where you are pulling enough weight or putting on enough miles to need substantially more than a full charge in a day it's gonna be a massive pain.

"Muh torque" sure is nice but really isn't all that big a deal for rural use cases. Your average HNer's landscaper that drags 10k of truck and trailer through city traffic all day needs torque and power far more.
>Suppressing Free Speech creates more radicalization.

Most quantitative reviews on deplatforming and and other social moderation efforts have shown the opposite.

Maybe in the long-term social view of the issue you're right but on a platform by platform basis this doesn't seem to be the case.
How to Storm a Castle
Expecting people to read in full before commenting seems too much to ask nowadays.
I wonder where this will take us.
How would you go about contacting family offices? (If there’s anyway aside from warm intros). I tried to cold e-mail a few, as I did with VCs, and unlike the latter I received zero replies.
Well then what's wrong with being honest about it and writing about their unhappiness directly, rather than making a hit piece which demonizes what most other tech companies do in this space?
Wasn't "x86 emulation" basically the WinChip's and Cyrix's strategy in the late '90s-early '00s? I don't remember that ending too well, unfortunately...
Show HN: BreakoutEx – A breakout clone written in pure Elixir
My thought too. No matter what the implementation or ideas behind it... that's a killer name.
So far I've been having a lot of success with Zephyr OS https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

It's quite easy to set up and writing drivers for it isn't really so much of a pain. I don't know if one should state it as a pain point or a good point but they do use CMake for the build system. So it's reasonably quick at least they are using a newer version of CMake than most projects I've had the joy of testing out.

Their APIs are quite linux/posix inspired in my opinion but with their own zephyr flavor on top. But I would say NuttX is probably a more mature project and Zephyr has been reworked quite heavily lately so a lot has changed but at least they'll have an LTS release soon.
Agreed, but it's still better for most people than having things shared with everyone.

This seems like the sort of app one might use to prevent James Gunn style problems from old content.
> best solution is to simply use actual humans

Gee, how many humans might it take to review the >400 hours of video uploaded every minute? (source: https://www.tubefilter.com/2015/07/26/youtube-400-hours-cont...)
Email lists and newsgroups have been around for a very long time, and are often archived. My organization still runs a listerv for this very purpose.
True. Usually training is 0%.
That's true. Not only compilers, but a lot of MCP was written in Algol.
I think you'd want to qualify just which parts of which particular Windows applications running in a VM on Linux are faster. I see you refer to the filesystem driver, and that makes sense to me. However, if it's anything related to pro audio or 3D applications native to Windows, it would not square with my experience. Stability is also an important word to bring up here -- I haven't had a bad experience with WINE on Linux if it works. If it doesn't, I get odd behavior and crashing.
I remember reading that electric motors are much lighter than gas engines for the same amount of power. This difference can at least partially offset the added battery weight.

Also, it's possible to have multiple, small electric motors with no loss of efficiency. That isn't possible for a gas engine. Multiple motors could add some redundancy, and therefore reliability.

I think we're going to see a lot of interesting designs over the next few years.
>They refuse to work on anything remotely legacy.

You have to be careful what you're good at. If senior devs/management sees you're good at legacy, they might task you with that as a majority of your time. Then your career plans get sidetracked because you won't have as much time working on the stuff that you want to work on.

Some developers are okay with legacy, but if they aren't, it's not surprising. Some legacy stuff is absolutely horrible to work with - it devolves into "get-in-get-out" fix mentality (and security issues usually get swept under the rug). Some legacy products are good though and require minimal tribal knowledge to actually work on.

This has happened to me twice at two separate positions: bait-and-switches about what I'll be working on because more senior members wanted to offload the legacy work themselves.

The general arrogance is really a separate trait from willingness to work on legacy IMHO and I agree on those points.
The difference is, inflationary currency is guaranteed to lose value over long term. One-year fluctuations are not very important to me, this is short-term thinking.

That's why even now I buy as much cryptocurrency as I can.
Impressive stats on the 2-seater: 3.5hr flight time at 1/6th the hourly operating cost of a Cessna 172. Perfect plane for flight school.
#2 doesn't work if the company can't get anywhere close to #1.

With no work experience, I was hired as a junior dev with a $40k salary, which I gladly accepted. A senior dev mentored me throughout the year and it was fantastic.

Coming up on my 1-year anniversary with the company, I was thoroughly enjoying my job, the people, and the culture. I was hoping to get a raise up to at least $60k, though, since I was significantly more valuable to the company than I was when I first joined. They offered me $50k.

I started applying for other jobs and got an offer for $90k and I accepted it. I still talk with my mentor from my previous job. He's pissed that his company won't pay enough to keep the developers he mentors.
how else can you make your overlords richer?
It sure seems like the a lot of suggestions on Spotify try to find "similarities" based on things you've listened to recently. Makes sense that the similarities are very likely pulled from recent popular additions ... from curators.

My sense is that is probably as good as it tends to get, unless you want to get incredibly creepy and start bringing outside personal information, e.g., associating that the 40-something living in Chicago may have an affinity towards Wilco. Personally, I'd rather deal with "meh" suggestions then have my music service track detailed demographic models of me.
Wouldn't a Google Auth type TOTP be ideal for over the phone? Is there anyone doing this?

It could be the same one I use for 2FA to the website. Or, an entirely offline flow would work too where they sent a dead-tree mail with the shared secret in QR code format.
So what? Your original statement that rap is popular because of streaming is nonsense.

Rap popularity was steadily increasing before streaming, you can't credit streaming for it's popularity.
Read the misinformation, and hyperbole being thrown around in every other thread inside this post.

All based on basically a misunderstanding, which I don't believe was done out of malice. But at the end of the day this is essentially "fake news". Again, likely born out of ignorance, not malice. But I think the person being misrepresented saying "learn to read" is hardly over the top.
I do not have statistics to back it, just my meandering experience, but could it not be that great CEOs are raised, not hired?
Plenty of examples from film cameras to the often mentioned buggy whip manufacturing. More recently the decline of the newspaper industry has often been profitable to declining companies. Cut investment into the future and ride them into the ground.

Often it’s a question of sunk costs, the capital has already been allocated now it’s time to maximize the return. As a rule, dying industry’s can be profitable up to the point where they become irrelevant as long as people correctly predict the fall.
GMV is Gross Merchandise Value, not stock price.

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

eBay states there's here: https://ebayadvertising.com

The question is what is the GMV for Amazon's entire marketplace vs. their first-party Sales.
I work in a group with Physics, they love Fortran, so I have to program in Fortran from time to time.

Reading again my comment, a part of it is very badly written. I wanted to say that if someone is hiring you, they will not care too much about your specific specialization. I didn't want to say that the field has no application.

If you want to continue working in someone related to your field, you probably have to make a few blog post with some interesting application and explanations about how the algebra helps, so someone with a similar programs perhaps may be interested in hiring you instead of learning algebra.

Put a few graphics, so the advantages of the algebraic approach is easy to see. Don't make it too long or too short. Don't make it too technical or too diluted. Hopefully I could give more detailed advice. I can't guarantee that you will get a job, but hopefully we will enjoy a few nice blog post here :).

As an example, I like the post of https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=righto.com they are very technical, but not too much. They have always a few photos and diagrams. (But some fields are not easily photographable.)
It not an even trade. 'The company' is merely wasting (often someone else's) money. You on the other hand are wasting your own life-time.
I would if I could, but HN will not allow me to edit the title at this point. Apparently there's a time period from the point in time at which an article is posted to which the title can be modified, but apparently we're past that point of time now... My humble apologies, I would change the title if I could...
Just looked at it.

What keeps Zulip threads from exploding in practice? Either on the UI or usage side?

E.g. How to I keep from going from "One channel with a hundred unread messages" to "One channel with twenty unread threads"?

Also, what features exist when a thread diverges from the original topic?

E.g. We were talking about the "afternoon lunch" at the "annual meeting", and then someone mentioned their favorite restaurants in the area, and now people are replying to both?

Organization seems more like a usage problem than a technology problem. Or at least one that I can't see manual categorization solving.
I’m surprised there is not a compensation scheme something like what follows:

Setup: Bring on promising “apprentice” and have 3 year roadmap to reaching “solid individual contributor” status

- year 1: pay at market rate for standard recent college grad but payout 60% in year 1, 10% in year 2, 10% in year 3, 10% in year 4, 10% in year 5

- year 2: beginning of year give merit raise to full salary amount based on market rates but payout 75% in year 2, 5% in year 3, 10% in year 4, 10% in year 5

- year 3: beginning of year give merit raise to full salary but payout 90% in year 3, 5% in year 4, 5% in year 5

- beginning in year 4 get merit raise and receive 100% of salary cash that year as well as the 10% from year 1 and 5% from year 2

- year 5: includes 10% from year 1, 10% from year 2, 5% from year 3

If you can’t keep your employee after that, it’s on you, but they’ve def stuck around long enough to pay you back in productivity

(edit: I realize my math is a bit off but I’m on a cellphone on the move, you’re gonna have to mentally fix the math, but you get the idea)
"Guess it’s a bit late to start using a pseudonym"

Actually, no. It only takes 2-3 years to disappear from most casual google searches. I know people always say 'the internet is forever' and for some things it might be, but I was suprised how much of my online traces just faded over time after I started being more careful with my identity.
I actually think landing an orbital rocket is probably easier by an order of magnitude, possibly even two.

Rocket science is a matter of applied physics, with materials science thrown in, and a bit of very well understood and straightforward software engineering.

Autonomous driving is a matter of getting AI models functioning to a well enough degree. My understanding of how this is done is you try to find more and better data to throw at it and tweak the models to hopefully make it learn better until the point it seems to pass your tests, which are whatever you've been able to come up with that you can think to test.

It's like trying to throw a pitch over home plate, but in one case you have a pitching machine you can aim and dial in the speed, and in the other you have a living pitcher. Only that living pitcher is an Orangutan you're trying to train.

One of those is a lot more art than science, and as such, getting well understood and reproducible outcomes that don't fall apart at a fundamental level when you add one more variable is harder.
I had been away from emacs for almost 10 years since I stopped being a pro programmer. And even back then I wasn't really an emacs power-user. I just knew enough to be productive and slightly dangerous.

Recently, I reached my last nerve with MS Word and buckled down to ditch Word for emacs.

Today I do just about all my writing in emacs (markdown) and then generate word docx using pandoc at the end. Now, I use emacs all day everyday -- blessed. And I am more productive especially since I am actively pushing to keep increasing my power-user level.
Ask HN: A lot of jobs, but little reputation. How to build it up?
I can't stay long enough in one job to be considered a "known quantity" that can be recalled upon to vouch for good work. To make matters worse, I usually lose/finish my current job before getting an offer for the next. 7 jobs, but I never get jobs through recommendations. It's always been some sort of blind job application, and I'm tired of the rat race. I'm a software engineer with a non-STEM degree but does the degree not matter much anymore(?). A lot of the problem would be due to the fact that I've only taken shorter-term jobs, all at very small companies.

Here's an summary of my work history as a programmer:

Held a total of 7 jobs over 11 calendar years. 90% web dev work. 5 of those are contractor (only 2 of which are 30-40 hrs/week), one short full-time job and one part-time job (those two were 8 and 10 years ago respectively). I might spend anywhere from 2 to 20 months unemployed in between. Out of all these jobs, I made connections from the 2nd job, and current job. But they usually don't know anyone that is hiring when I contact them, nor do they really contact me first about work.

So I am at a standstill on how to build up my reputation after so much time spent not building it. I can see myself with two options:

* Return to college and complete a CS degree as a BS or MS. Use the resources in college to network with people. Talk to professors, join career-oriented clubs, go to job fairs, hackathons and take internships, convert to full-time.

* Harder route: Apply to larger companies for full-time roles, and interview prep. I don't know of any good reliable sources for reading your interview approach. I'm talking to local developers through a Slack channel to see if anyone has time to mock interview, but opening up time is hard.

I am open to other options besides these two. Let me know what I should do to build that network effectively, and get better leads to jobs without cold applying so I don't have to be in the rat race forever.
You are correct that there were those making money in music for the last few thousand years. However they were a minority: the vast majority of music was made by someone who did something else. You farmed all day, and when the day was done you made music.
Locality of not-so-weak coloring
The most recent example in relation to written records is probably the switch of Germany, under the Nazi rule, from the traditional blackletter Fraktur script and its cursives Kurrentschrift and Sütterlin to the ‘Latin’ script. Soon enough, people didn't know how to read their grandparents' handwriting.

Try for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sütterlin

But it seems that Hitler's rationalization of “if we're to trade with the rest of Europe, those nations must understand German writing” came to be fulfilled.
Is WSL multithreaded? I love the ease of use that WSL gives, but it seems slow to cygwin on disk access. I think this is planned in a future fox by making the WSL directory to the disk instead of in a container file. I went back to cygwin for faster speed of scripts processing files.
make is for better or worse, forever.
It's worth pointing out that piston aircraft engines usually don't use gearboxes. Instead, they drive the propeller directly, which dictates very low engine speeds relative to where car engines usually produce their peak power since any part of the propeller blade nearing the speed of sound results in a loss of efficiency.
I 'switched' to evil mode about 2ish years ago and ported my entire .vimrc and all its quirks with no problem. There are some rough edges with some other modes not supporting evil by default where hjkl muscle memory can trigger functionality unexpectedly, but that is usually easy to fix. The only other thing you have to watch for is that emacs is overly strick about C-a b vs C-a C-b and this manifests painfully when using C-w l and friends to switch buffers. The easiest fix is just to bind C-w C-l as well so that you don't have to slow down your typing.

I have actually found it hard to go back to vim because emacs has been much easier to customize and many of the features I use routinely are no longer in my vim config.
Any advice on learning your true worth? Assume for a minute that Glassdoor is useless, as the "salary range" it displays shows that the maximum is 2-2.5x the minimum.
Right because 10+ year people are expensive and there's the stigma of spending your whole career as a programmer. After 5-10 years, most companies expect you to move into a specialized field or management.

I don't agree with that stigma at all, but it's there all the same.
It's only slow at file IO, yeah.
Spoiler: These aircraft are almost entirely useless outside of limited pilot training applications. You might get 1-1.5 usable hours of flight time per charge. Battery density is not there yet and this is another fake it till you make it play.

To further expand, these will cover about 90% of the hours needed for a part 61 private pilot licence and and another 80-90% for instrument and commercial. The issue is you'll still need a ICE aircraft for some of the XC flights which complicates training somewhat.

Edit: Also, 3.5 hours is at barely-staying-aloft airspeeds riding the bottom of the drag curve. If you're maneuvering, doing practice landings, or actually trying to go somewhere you will not get anywhere near those numbers. The FAA also requires minimum 0.5 hours of reserve upon landing.
Full self driving in the general case will probably not exist in our lifetimes. It's like chasing an imaginary pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. So the industry should aim for goals that are actually technically feasible and will deliver tangible safety improvements.
Was the problem not that no free OS supported color fonts properly? Emacs does not belong to the Monochrome Font Foundation, after all. Disabling a feature because it causes crashes is not ideological.
"Bye Aerospace lands orders..." would be easier to parse, given no prior knowledge of Bye.
I am interested in joining a group in the LA area. How can we make this happen?
There are numerous notable caes of changed views. Kara Swisher, Roger McNamee, BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie, Tim Wu, Tristan Harris, the entire Wired editorial slant.

Wind's done shifted.
>So not dumb-dumb, but dumb for all intents and purposes of making decisions in a democracy? What's the difference?

The difference I tried to explain is the difference between dumb and unskilled. We as a society don't value the skills of information and media literacy and those skills are withering in the population at large. We could easily address this problem if we chose to do so.

>And if anti semitic arguments are so unfairly effective, why hasn't it won?

It is winning, hate crime rates are climbing: https://www.hrc.org/blog/new-fbi-statistics-show-alarming-in...

>Bias-motivated crimes based on race, religion, disability and gender all increased. The FBI reported that anti-Black hate crimes increased by 16 percent, from 1,739 incidents in 2016 to 2,013 incidents in 2017. Hate crimes targeting Black people represented 28 percent of all reported hate crimes in 2017. Every other racial and ethnic group also saw increases in the number of reported hate crimes in 2017.

>Additionally, hate crimes motivated by anti-religious bias increased 23 percent, largely driven by a 37 percent increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes, which constituted the majority of religion motivated hate crimes. Hate crimes motivated by bias against people with disabilities increased by a disturbing 66 percent and hate crimes motivated by gender bias increased by 48 percent.
Hahaha such a great name yeah!
I can agree with hiring novices and then giving them what they need to learn. We hired two women from Fullstack Academy (NYC) and they turned out to be amazing. They were novices, but incredibly motivated and talented. Both of them had had other interesting careers, and for both of them they were changing careers to get into computer programming.

Now we are expanding the team so we are hiring another of their classmates, who they have strongly recommended to me.
The evidence that 3 years later, no base models have actually been delivered, those that were finally able to order them were bait and switched into upgrading or face even longer delivery timelines?

When you see a $35000 brand new Tesla actually for sale, please let the rest of the world know. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27120534/tesla-model-3-li...

Unless you have some other definition of bait and switch.
Oh boy, similar name to me haha! ;)
GATTACA is seeming more and more like our future.