skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe they hunt because it's fun, not just because they are hungry.

My well-fed cat spends most of her time indoors but is allowed out. She doesn’t bring back creatures very often, but a few months back, at the start of summer, one night she killed and brought back (through an open window) three rodents in one night. Each time, she left them in the hallway, came up to the bedroom and meowed until I woke up. Then she lead me to the kill, made absolutely sure I saw it and then left it there, seemingly losing interest. She did it three times that night until I finally just closed the window.

This is a well fed cat and she didn’t attempt to eat her kills; she did not do it for food.

In my experience with cats, they also like to hunt flies, bottle caps, feet, their own tails, leaves blowing in the wind... etc. I think they’re just hard wired to enjoy hunting “things”.
Legacy code: changing software you don’t understand
Lead exposure at these levels is not horrific, keep your pants on.
This may be a stupid question but, is there a reason cars don't just have a single blade that goes straight across, rather than wiping in this arc motion? It seems like it'd do a much better job of wiping and avoiding streaks if it just went straight across.
Their claim of low rolling resistance is surprising to me, since all the non-pneumatic designs similar to that I've seen before had abysmal rolling resistance. It seems their prototype is still in development, so maybe that claim represents their ambitions, not their achievement thusfar. Although, looking at the render of the product they've provided, it looks pretty dang narrow compared to the "ecopia" brand tires they're compared against. It could be they've reduced rolling resistance by simply making it narrower than an otherwise equivalent pneumatic tire.
The UN investigator's range estimate is from May. https://www.apnews.com/18f9c169f398464ba53c19e3963d3fba
I'm 6'6". Will I fit?
The moment I read the title, I came up a very satirical comment which I believe everybody came up so I don't bother to write it.
In a Tesla, isn't there a camera in the middle between the driver and passenger inside the passenger compartment at the very top of the windshield?
If this was purely launched as an investment vehicle that people could put their savings in, I am not certain that the regulatory response would be the same. This is a mischaracterization of what Libra even intends to be. It's marketed as a new financial system if you read their whitepaper.
This whole article makes no sense. They really think a small improvement in windshield wiper efficiency is going to noticeably change the range of a Tesla vehicle?
Munich was much worse. 3 lunch cafes, coffee shop, bar, and one of the beer gardens. Luckily I was warned and asked the places before I went.

Even the cab to the Munch airport would only accept cash. I had to walk across the airport to get it. His payment app was “not working”.

In Stuttgart it was only the smaller places. Although we made sure find places that took corporate Amex using a website.
Most small groups attacking a big powerful nation state seem to have "hearts and minds" as the goal.

Destroying an oil refinery doesn't really achieve that goal.
Fair point, its not cash. But generally in banking, cash and cash-like products are equivalent. I think they'll make public the actual investment breakdown.

It's different enough from banks because its matched one for one with some asset. It's essentially a passthrough investment. The reason banks are so highly regulated is that they participate in fractional reserve banking where they take in deposits and invest in highly risky assets. That and deposits are guaranteed by FDIC or similar agencies.

Should Starbucks be regulated as a bank because they let you prepay for a cup of coffee?
You are most certainly putting words in my mouth. The words on the internet should be protected under the 1st amendment no matter how disgusting and no one should have to shoulder that burden except the members of society themselves in how they go about their conduct. In my opinion, it is not people's responsibility to be unoffensive, but rather it is our own responsibility to not let offensive thoughts permeate our being.
You're arguing for real cryptocurrencies, not for Libra. Libra can, and most likely will, suffer from the exact same money printing problem you're arguing against.
> give the cover story more plausibility

Do they need to?

Many employers would rather publicize it: we don't tolerate a union.
Don't be a scab! Don't put your project on Kickstarter! Don't contribute to Kickstarters!
I don't recall stating that they were going to Houston to learn about petroleum. There are plenty of other reasons most of the world's major energy companies have their North American headquarters in Houston.
Greta Thunberg – Inspiring Others to Take a Stand Against Climate Change
Even though the headline contains the word “Hackers”, nothing in the article mentions anything about hackers or hacking.

I suspect this is another knee-jerk submission from someone with a Google News alert set up.
Actually the front facing cameras are housed in the assembly behind the rear view mirror (behind the windshield) and are reliant on the wipers to clear the windshield. See the following image: https://images.app.goo.gl/WWXn1PbTaE3XWQmq7
Interesting, some results out of Shodan were surprising - this might be the reason. How do you pick what domains to try?
No+Cream+of+Soup+Potato+Casserole+(a.k.a.+Funeral+Potatoes)+|+Real+Mom+Kitchen+
It's illegal, but also hard to prove. Even without birth dates, you can make a reasonable estimate based on work experience and graduation date. And when the candidate turns out to be a bit grayer than you expected, that can, even subconsciously, affect your decision.
"Imposes"... Yeah.... Right... Was it Germany that forced Greece to cook their books to be accepted into Euro?
This! A friend actually used to work on those systems. Hilarious amounts of complexity figuring out auto wipers
No. Programmers don't have to be lawyers but they do have to make ethical decisions and be willing to enforce them (by walking away from money offers to do something that violates their principles).

Sure, executives will always try to push the blame downstairs. That's why you should be willing to sell them out if necessary.
I would guess you will need a long groove and a wheel that slides on it, and it will be prone to breaking if you consider how fast the thing should slide when its heavy rain.
Tesla applies for a patent for new windshield wiping technique
that's the the problem too how do you proof you don't have any such profile. leave it blank, it says leaving blank may result in infinite delay.
This is ok but I wish one of the weird cartech projects Elon would take on is creating a transparent A pillars in cars. Maybe using driver eye tracking and exterior cameras.
California pats itself on the back for passing massive social reform measures while its flagship tech corporations are going to town picking apart people's lives and profiting from them.
Legion TD Mega lives!!
1 g per 1 kg is 1 Part per thousand.

How does that compare to what is seen in nature that seems like an incredibly high plastic load.

Reminds me of other studies that say “X causes problems” and then you learned they force fed rats 1000x any reasonable exposure doesn't necessarily tell you a lot.
A downward facing IR camera, together with an IR map of the terrain and dead reckoning is pretty much invulnerable to any kind of jamming.

Putting the electronics in a box protects against EMP attacks too.

Defending against that is hard!
Patches released for two actively exploited Windows 0days
It's additional attack surface which they have to maintain. Consider that those servers probably need access to customer's personal information for licensing and authentication reasons.
You would need two separate actuators on top and bottom, making it more expensive and prone to jamming.
They are top center of the windshield.
> but one vouch on a post won't rescue it

I've been able to consistently save dead comments with a single vouch, so I presume it only takes one, at least for some level of HN user.
> attempting to understate your wealth for purposes of liability is a huge crime.

Is it? Does being more wealthy increase your liability in some way? Is the huge crime a federal or state crime, and can you point me to any reference? (I'm sure claiming to be insolvent and unable to pay a civil suit when you have hidden assets is a type of fraud. But, that is not what happened here. Forbes estimates the family's worth at about $13 billion; no one is making the claim that they are bankrupt or unable to pay settlements / judgments.)

In general, in the US, wealth is private information between you and the IRS. There are judicial exceptions, certainly — you can't lie about your wealth in sworn testimony at trial, for example. But the Sacklers' suits did not go to trial — they settled outside of court.

> this article is basically telling us that they're dramatically understating their wealth to minimize the settlement damage.

$1 billion over a period of 10 years is not a huge chunk of $13 billion, IMO; and that's just the amounts moved a decade ago. It isn't clear all of it ended up "hidden." I'm also not sure of the mechanism by which understating your wealth minimizes settlement damage unless you actually claim insolvency.
Yep. Very true. I have a hard time enjoying WarCraft3 and WoW. Those were work projects. But I shared this feeling playing WarCraft2.
Im not "right" and Im not refuting your "point".
This isnt reddit. This is HN on a Saturday; a single comment can result in a 20 min video from 1997 from some old man comparing the views of people that have been dead for hundreds of years.
Is this in any way surprising? Just like the lack of comments here...
Two cases to your point.

It took a VERY long time for ELB(and thus autoscale/cloudformation) to get the ability to drain connections. This was a show stopper for most serious players on anything customer facing but unless you were, or knew somebody who was, spending close to 500k/mo you would never be able to get a sense of timeframe out of AWS for addressing this.

ALB launched without the ability to route requests based on sub-domain even though this was the only direct upgrade path for most people who had been building SOAs on top of ELB and Route53.. Took way too long to get that added in and of course with no public acknowledgement of time frame.

Now that I think about it.. AWS is NOT very agile at all because they barely include a small fraction of their stakeholders in their product design and iteration process. You'd have better luck trying to squeeze water out of a moon rock than getting AWS to comment on roadmap for a service.
Yes, same here. Just one "vouch" rescues a post.
For the uninformed can you elaborate on why?
Another interesting story is that the engine came from an engineer at Nihilistic who made Descent, a PC pre-cursor to StarFox. It's just that it was never put to work as complicated before, Descent had just 4 perspectives and only a handful of models. WarCraft3 was another beast entirely.
For large corporations like Amazon, there are huge opportunities to move to Lambda. Back when I worked there, teams would over-provision their services like crazy. Most of it to scale for the holiday season. Most teams would not give that extra capacity back.
Glory to Hong Kong [video]
What's the relationship with the employers? I find the main issue with job website that are posted here is that there is usually zero relationship.

Meaning it's mostly information copied from the career page of companies. That's why most these job boards disappear after a couple years.

I suggest if you gather enough interest here today, use it to get actual connections with employers, even if it's a handful.
That's what I'm saying. This doesn't really seem like a terrorist operation, it seems like a military operation.
Mechanical simplicity and standardisation.

The windscreen wiper is very likely to be outsourced to a 3rd party company, and they can reduce costs by having a repeatable design. In terms of a blade going on a straight line, it’s much easier to rotate a wiper blade from a motor than translate that into a linear movement.

It’s worth nothing that other systems exist (https://www.a1-windscreens.co.uk/news/windscreen-wiper-movem...), but much less common.
Ask HN: What are some unsolved problems in everyday computing?
Yet, western democracies have been centralizing more and more power every year. It's more that a premise is that western democracies want to increase the power of the government and no one else.
dude are you for real?
Germany is one of the slowest moving countries in terms of innovation (minimum 1 month to setup a business) while maintaining a high level of corruption, Deutsche bank, pharmaceutical companies etc etc.
They give no shit about protecting anything but uncontrolled money flowing around without them being able to do anything about it.
I'm not sure about that. The traditional way of exploiting parallelism for large builds is to work on a per-file basis. Want more parallelism? Fork more jobs. But this can fall apart in a couple of ways:

1. It can get extremely expensive in memory use. Your parallelism limit can be dictated by the memory your machine has. Spending your available cores over fewer simultaneous compilation units could also have benefits arising from data locality, even in situations where a machine's memory headroom isn't a concern.

2. Many large build processes have serialized steps which are currently unable to benefit from any form of parallelism. This is becoming even more the case with the rise of IPO & LTO.

But as ever, we'll probably have to wait to find out how large the practical benefits end up being from this work.
what's the tech stack behind this?
Presumably, it's down to simplicity of implementation: A single servo motor that directly rotates an attached blade vs. a necessarily, due to the curvature of the windshield, curved linear rail (which ought to be more difficult to seal against debris).
Why are American companies so afraid of their employees unionizing? Because American unions have a history of creating an adversarial relationship between managers and employees. They’re self serving and have a zero sum game outlook where they try to grab as much as they can from a company. The unions were a major contributor towards the collapse of the American auto industry.

European unions differ in that they are more focused on building a collaborative relationship with managers and aim to ensure stability and sustainability for the business. To achieve this, you need a certain level of societal trust and unity, which just isn’t realistic at the moment in America.
In the United States, it is not a crime to unionize. It's a crime to fire employees for trying to unionize - though if engaged in an at-will employment agreement (as in this case), then the employer can terminate the contract for virtually any reason, without recourse.
What's intriguing for me is that potentially unjammable machine vision drone missiles dramatically reduces the killchain. You don't need trained operators to loiter within radio range. And I think if anything it will heavily bias economics more towards attackers. It's already reducing relatively cheap hardware by removing training, operation costs and remote control hardware. Doesn't take much imagination to see how you can lock down a military airstrip with this tech or dramatically increase cost of defense. Albeit I am far from an expert in the topic.
And I imagine very prone to jamming in snow and ice when regular windshield wipers can be enough of a problem.
Can you point me to a 'modern war' without armies? I'm interested in what you actually think a war is?
The Mercedes Monoblade was my favorite design, although it was notoriously expensive and unreliable.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/behind-screens-windsh...
They also did not end up giving up any of their personal wealth in the settlement. $5B was just the starting bid.

> A truly effective penalty would fine them many times the illegal profit to account for that.

How much of the profit was illegal and how would you go about quantifying that?
AFAIK TopTal is mostly remote freelancing, often matching Silicon Valley to Eastern European programmers (not possible unless remote).
> Even data wants to get out of Ohio.

Is this a dig at us-east-2, or just Ohio generally?
XDA-developers’ first look at Google Camera 7, leaked from the Pixel 4
This. Lead is cheap, easy to work, and does not corrode. It’s actually a pretty neat material. Damn shame that it’s poisonous.
Salary is not the only thing that unions bargain for. Don't be daft!
>the one thing you don't want to fail

I wouldn't dare correct you as I have no data, but I suspect many people would put brakes or a seatbelt ahead of wipers
Linux Kernel Testing and Debugging
If the UK is part of Europe, there are Aegis, Erinys, Control Risks, STEPP, and many others. In France, there are Æneas, Anticip, Corpguard, Défense Conseil International (linked to French government), GEOS, KB (they specialise in private arms trading), etc.
Docker-Compose Implementation for Podman (WIP)
Where you and I live, there may be no terrorists, and you and I may not be a target, but there are some parts of the world with an overrepresentation of terrorists. ISIS numbered over 100,000 at their peak. What was within 1000 mile range of ISIS held territory? Did ISIS have 100 competent engineers each capable of guiding 10 others? It would be underestimating your enemy to believe they didn’t.

How hard is it to build a Qassam rocket? Over 2000 were launched in 2008. I expect this type of drone would take the same level of engineering skills once the kinks were worked out.

As for the stealth factor. Let’s assume the drones are launched evenly throughout the 1000 mile diameter range, all at the same time. That’s a search area of 3M sq miles, or one drone every 3000 sq miles. Half way through the journey, with T-10 hours, all drones in the swarm could be evenly distributed in 785k sq miles, with one drone every 785 sq miles. An hour away, they’re all in a 7850 sq mile search area, or one drone every 7.8 sq miles. 5 minutes out, still a search area of 54 sq miles, and the drones are spaced out by over 1000 feet. 1 minute out, they’re all a bit less than a mile from the target, but up to 6000 feet up. An army of 10,000 soldiers armed with AR-15s couldn’t hit the drones at this point. 30 seconds out, the drones are 3000 feet up and still out of range. 10 seconds out and the drones are 1000 feet up, barely within range, but it doesn’t matter because they’re all on a terminal trajectory. Now you’re trying to shoot 10000 armed hand grenades falling from the sky. Good luck.

As for drone catcher nets? Let’s say half the drones are each armed with 1 pound of thermite, and ignite during a terminal trajectory from 1000 feet. What’s going to stop 5000 lbs of thermite followed by 5000 lbs of tnt?

These drones can climb to a few thousand feet, and weigh around 10 pounds. Can you visually identify such a drone versus an eagle? At night? When they’re 1000 feet away - 10 seconds from impact?

Can you hear them at 5000ft? 10,000ft? The same RC hobbiest who flew 1888 miles also set an altitude record of 26k feet.

Or they could fly at 50 feet above the ground, obscured by trees. Dismissed as your neighbor flying his RC plane, too low to be seen by radar, and looking like a cell phone in a car for all RF purposes.

Such a swarm goes from almost invisible to the explosive power of an F/A18 in seconds.

Besides the radar signature of a half pound engine, how else can they be detected? They have the same RF signature of a common cell phone.

I can 3D print amazing RC planes in 24 hours. Are they capable of 1888 mile range? No. That took an expert thousands of hours to perfect. But you can probably get an electric powered 3D printed plane capable of flying 50mph for an hour - today. Tomorrow maybe for two hours. In a decade, maybe 4.
I don’t get it. If it wasn’t rape (statutory or otherwise) then what is RMS saying isn’t “totally cool” about it?
It also robs those not in the favored industries by either providing them an inferior or more expensive product/service, usually both.
Retaliating against someone for trying to unionize is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act, as well as New York state law (Kickstarter is headquartered in New York) – hence the need for a cover story.
Extreme Light Intensities Using Optically Curved Relativistic Plasma Mirrors
Stop it Jeff!
The top comment referenced a line in the article criticizing both 'engineers and tech titans' and then only addressed the first half with a 'poor me' argument, which seems to have distorted this entire thread.

I'm not a lawyer. I expect if I'm being asked to do something, it's been vetted by our corporate legal team. I should not be expected to know every aspect of criminal and civil law to protect myself from my employer.

That's you. I've quit jobs before because I was not willing to do something that went against my principles. I think it's pretty simple to ask yourself how you'd feel if you were on the opposite end of some questionable corporate action and later found out that you had been deceived or exploited.
There is no species of bird for which mosquitos are particularly important to their diet.

Even if the number of certain birds or bats were somewhat reduced, I'd accept that tradeoff.
It's not PC to use the r-word nowadays, it really offends some people with non neurotypical folks in their families.
I Still have all my original copies of all my blizzard games with CD keys from the original Warcraft and diablo up to Warcraft 3. I enjoyed Warcraft 3 but I always liked 2 and its exapansions better. I wasn't a big fan of the the expanded RPG elements and to be honest i never really liked the way the story went. I also never got into WoW so I was kind of sad to see the franchise change so drastically after and still hope, fruitlessly I feel, there'll be a Warcraft 4 with a return to the solid RTS roots of the first 2 games.

Warcraft was the first RTS I ever played and the first game I remember going to a computer store to buy. I remember seeing the box and that was the game I wanted. I read through the manual, eagerly awaited the never released Warcraft adventures and played Warcraft over and over. When the second one came out it blew my mind. It made everything about the first one better and expanded the story pretty well. It introduced other races, increased unit speed drastically, added aerial and naval combat, got rid of the ridiculous road system and just felt like such an awesome improvement. It was the first game I played over lan. I remember playing with my cousins and my brother when we got a newer computer and had the old one hooked up still. It was amazing to me.

I never felt the same way about Warcraft 3. The 3d graphics were cool, though I didn't really like how cartoonish it all became, I enjoyed the additional races, but it didn't really feel the same. It felt like they took those really annoying maps from the first Warcraft where you had a hero and had to go through those dungeon cave things and made an entire game around it. I played through it all and the expansions, but I don't remember it as fondly. It may have just been that point in my life where I was becoming more disenchanted with video games overall, but the series is still one of those special ones to me. Even if I probably spent far more time with StarCraft and diablo 2. I was addicted to diablo 2 for a while, I can't play games like that any more.
Tesla Announces Simple Pricing on Commercial Solar, $1.01/Watt
Leaves and pollen too (if you ever park your car under an oak tree.) https://0x0.st/zyS9.jpg
Wow, really enjoyed reading that. Thank you!
To answer my own question, Cloudflare has made it clear that Warp / Firefox Private Network can't be used to access geo-blocked content like on Netflix. It may; however, help bypass government censorship not enforced by web entities themselves.
!!! OpenJDK was EOL'd back in January.