skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm not a naval architect, but your comment is nice reminder that naval hull drag is cubic with speed:

For reference, see this document [1] from the US Naval Acadamy.

"It will be observed from the figure that the doubling of speed of the Navy YP from 7to 14 knots increases the power by a factor of 10!" [1] p.7

"Ship power is roughly proportional to the cube of the speed" [1] p.8

Hence the installed power you estimate may just work out.

I do have many questions about the about sail handling and rigging. Stowed and raising these things are non-trivial! Telescopic mechanisms can have all sorts of issues, especially when loaded - like in a building storm!

So while the entire concept really excites me, I'd love to see them iterate at smaller scale before trying to go full scale.

[1] Chapter 7, RESISTANCE AND POWERING OF SHIPS
U.S. Naval Academy:

https://www.usna.edu/NAOE/_files/documents/Courses/EN400/02....
Annie Dookhan did about 3 years of jail, which is risible, considering that her cooking of evidence affected > 30000 cases. No visible consequences for the supervisor, which is scandalous, considering that the had been carrying on for at least 4 years.
People can retire, go to college, or invest for some other goal. The company is involved in community service and charity to a degree.

My contribution is indirect since I don't work on the investment systems themselves.
So was, "Facebook is a bad idea." in 2008. But the course of a proprietary social network run by a single corporation only has one outcome. It's just a matter of time.
The Google Doc has the proposal at the bottom. Basically, take the bottom half of Oberon and slap on the top half of Squeak*, bara-bim bara-boom - you've a next-gen OS.

*Or SBCL + Dylan

The whole schpiel is to make a high-level interactive OS / computing environment that straddles the line between interpreter and compiler. The whole is is run in-memory, and can be snapshotted and restored quickly. No filesystem, just RAM.

Interesting idea, I guess :)
That works for standalone/installable software but not for hosted/cloud-based services as keeping every version running alongside each other forever would be a nightmare!
Reddit had a breakthrough innovation recently in the form of sh!tcoin (MOON token) built on ethereum that allows you to gift people 'moon points' or something by up-voting their comment. Still scratching my head as to why this required blockchain.
The only time I had to hack on a webextension I had to reload it on every change, and do it all again every time I restarted my browser. And I only felt comfortable to hack on this extension because I forked it and wanted to add something on top. As a user who wants to dev for myself, it was a bit too heavy.
I paid someone $250 to get my resume past ATS systems, it worked.
Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
Similarly...

"Tina Chopp is God." All over Bellingham, WA in the early 1980s, then Seattle, usually scribbled in alleys and under bridges.

I have a copy of the "Book Of Tina Chopp" stored somewhere on a backup drive. No idea if it's still findable online. Mostly a slim link to the memories of my enjoyable days in Bellingham way back when, though I don't know if I'll actually ever read it.

Meanwhile, this gives you a taste of the old days: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/tina-official-new...

Also, my uncle had a boat. Named "Little Schmo". Had a line drawing over the name, looking just like the drawing in the article. Early 1950s. (I'm that old.) Some things were better then.
It was based on a mistranslation though. In English these planes were never described as "invisible", it was always "stealth". Since other language don't have a separate word for "stealth", they became "invisible". A native English speaker would be a bit hard pressed to understand the humor of that joke.
I'm a fairly new ham, I've tried HF a bit here and there, and play around with 2m/70cm on the local repeaters or when camping.

But a constant source of frustration is how little innovation seems to happen in the hobby, aside from some outlying groups that experiment with modern technology.

Yes we have fancy SDR based HF radios with big color screens now, and DMR and other digital modes, but they're still half-duplex and operate only on an extremely narrow bandwidth. Essentially they look fancier and more modern, but other than that are the same under the hood.

What interests me is new stuff; like mesh networks made with little low cost devices like an ESP32, or LoRa with long range connections at low power while still having reasonable data rate capability, or maybe HF but with full duplex digital that can transfer significantly more data.
I don't think there are a lot of development world people posting on HN so it's all good /s
I grew up biking to elementary school in Sweden year around and it did not seem like a big deal. Just make sure to dress for the weather. I remember wearing overalls or ski pants when it got real cold. Snow days were also not a thing. I don't remember a single weather cancellation.

The funny thing is I live further south now and when I go back to visit in the winter, it feels ridiculously cold.
His post implies he's dropping support for all Google platforms, presumably including Android, where Terraria is consistently one of the top selling games. That seems like a much more difficult decision.
I guess they never taught you basic infantry tactics or you've never actually shot at someone if you deny a concept like suppressive fire.
We need regulations to enforce adequate customer service and SLAs in these huge companies.

Google is getting away with this behavior because of their monopolistic behavior. If they had competition, they would be spending billions on customer support, but because they have a monopoly, they can get away with having virtually none. This is their way of saving money and taking advantage of their monopoly. It's a shadow version of monopolistic behavior where the absence of services can be done because we have no choice. We need to politicize this issue.

Facebook is exactly the same way.

When a company reaches such dominance, and when people completely rely on a company like we all rely on Google, Facebook, et al., then we need regulations to prevent what is happening right now, which is using their monopoly to make life easier for them by not spending any money on customer support.
If you want to be strict, sure. But there's no arguing that when people hear the term "demotion", it's almost universally regarded as a non-voluntary change of negative consequence. Perhaps if the title was "To follow my dreams I asked my manager for a demotion" it would be decent usage, but the current phrasing in the title is entirely misleading. It's probably the use of the word "got", implying that it was an external decision, not their own.
Facebook says it plans to remove posts with false vaccine claims
so they basically just cancelled out any carbon footprint reduction their company does
Folds Are Constructor Substitution
Reddit thread about this question from yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/leki5o/advantages_of_...
I never figured out if the guy got a dog that was ill-tempered, or if he made it ill-tempered. But my apartment building (loved the building, hated the neighbors) had no weight limit on dogs (learned after moving in, I had no pets so never even checked the policy). My first encounter with this particular dog was walking from my car in the parking lot back to the building. I heard it growling, guy held it on the lead while I made a brisk walk (not run) to the building.

My second encounter was actually inside. I lived on the first floor, not sure where he lived, but he was coming the opposite direction with the dog. It started dragging him, I hustled up the stairs (I was next to them, fortunately) while he regained control and got it outside.

The third encounter was the one I mentioned. I had returned from the gym (I walked there, it was a mile away) and was at the entrance when I heard the dog to my left. I looked and it was pulling on him, then it was free from him. Fortunately it had about 100' to cover before it would get to me and I got inside in a hurry (keypad entry, so at least there was no fumbling with keys and locks).

I really never wanted to be within 100' of that dog again, but they wouldn't evict him even after that incident. I moved a couple months later.
I find it very funny that four people independently wrote almost the exact same response to your question.
>I find these anecdotes to be completely untrue.

You can't find my anecdotal experiences to be untrue because you haven't experienced my anecdotal experience. This is physically impossible.

What you can claim is that my anecdotal experiences do not apply to women in engineering corporations in general. However, this is not a claim that I made as I caveated my point with the fact that what I'm saying is based off of my own anecdotal evidence.

> I don't have an equivalent story for women because I work with significantly less women.

Evidence is the only way to make sense of the reality we live in and there are two basic types: Anecdotal and Statistical. You claim here that you have no anecdotal evidence. That means statistical evidence is your only option (a stronger option btw) so where is it?

>Let's try focusing on the apparent and obvious biases against women before we start keeping score on how men are so disenfranchised.

Why should I focus on your claim that has no evidence? If men are indeed disenfranchised shouldn't that deserve focus? Are womens' rights superior to mens rights? Are you implying men can't be treated unfairly?

Why can't we focus on the rights of both genders?
> That would mean she likely had immense autonomy and a large group of direct reports whom themselves had teams of direct reports.

As someone who has worked at a variety of companies - this isn't true. It's just a title. I've seen plenty of "director of X" with no direct reports. I don't know how big Stack Overflow's design department is but with only 300 people in the company - I can't imagine it being massive enough to warrant a typical director title you'd see at some truly big corps where a director has 50+ people under them.
It's so sad that micropayments are still not a thing after all these years, still think they would solve a huge range of problems including eliminating the need for many sites to be dependent upon ads
> Comparing a PLL to an adder is silly.

Yeah, but comparing a bit adder to a 64 bit full adder integrated into a modern CPU clock cycle is really silly :)

Glad to hear my intuition about modern CMOS was in the ballpark though. I've been out of this scene for the better part of a decade.
Look at any of his latest essays - its pretty hilarious how bad they are, and how much they try to sound like PG. Makes me think he landed the job by mimicking (and flattering) PG.
I'm definitely skeptical about crypto, but to counter some of the points:

- Presumably more people will be online, and more ways to use crypto will be released.

- One big benefit of crypto is that it crosses borders and is relatively anonymous. The USA might have stable money and relative safe banks, but that isn't true everywhere.

- Non reversibility is a rough one, but I think we'll see software managing keys to make scams less likely. For example you can't get your coinbase private key afaik, which helps stop scams.

Volatility will go down a steady state - it's still very early days for crypto, and I think we'll end up in a steady state after a while.
Ask HN: What's your best advice for someone turning 30 today?
Just turned 30 and truly would appreciate some advice from you. Anything goes, be healthier, buy $BTC, don't buy $BTC, etc.
For the financial arguments: Treat BTC as if it was in the "precious metal" asset class, but digital.

Volatility is still an issue, but it's still a pretty new technology.

As a technology, I agree that it's not that impressive. Stop making so many dang vaporware altcoins.
And presumably, if having been denied justice I pursue revenge instead, I can barge into his home and beat him up, as he did to me, and avoid punishment for the same reason?

While I admire your devotion to Blackstone's Ratio, this doesn't seem like a recipe for stability and rule of law to me.
What Terraform can learn from PHP
I just add a flag to my personal website tv show listings so I don't scrape the source websites unnecessarily, haven't been rate limited yet but don't want to abuse the free resources, either.
I don't understand what you mean. I would expect them to make the obviously correct decision, though I'm fully aware that they very often don't.
I wonder if we are anywhere close to the economically efficient production rate for vaccines (where the direct economic benefits more than offset the direct costs).

There is a pretty clear case that it is the minimum rate we should be aiming for.

I guess it is hard to tell when they are still improving the process so dramatically.
Agreed. We generally allow companies to refuse service for nearly any reason, and in most cases this is a good policy. However, there are exceptions to that rule. One extreme are utilities which as both monopolies and essential services are required to do business with nearly any paying customer, and have strict rules processes about shutting of service for lack of payment. Residential rentals are another example. They don't hold a monopoly, but are an essential service, and as such they can generally choose who to do business with (although not quite as freely as your average business), but have strict legal processes they have to follow regarding evictions.

I think there are online business who are essential enough that some consumer protections are applicable. Very few reach the level of monopoly that utilities have in my mind, and even those it isn't clear to me that they are "natural" monopoly like utilities, and as such other antitrust approaches may be more beneficial.

However, I think there are a number of competitive, yet essential services online that deserve a legal protections regarding service termination. Identity providers absolutely fall in that category IMO - it is unacceptable for example for Facebook to lock your account in a manner that prevents you from not only using their services but every other third-party service which you authenticate using "Logon with Facebook". I think email is another that rises to this level. At a minimum email providers should be required to forward mail for a fixed period of time after choosing to stop doing business with a customer.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/alex-kearns-robinhood-trade...
Blockchain makes possible to validate ownership. This may allow, in the future, to create negotiable virtual objects. Think about furniture, clothes or items in games or virtual environments where you can buy, sell, prove ownership and even have controlled scarcity.

No DRM needed!
I was a senior product manager and made the transition to frontend dev. I've never been happier!
> They should choose between the donors and the billionaires then

Why? They have absolutely no reason to do that. They have a mission, they are raising money for that mission, and doing so very successfully.

> (regardless, they are a tech company, they could employ people remotely)

Could, and they know that, and they make hiring decisions based on their expertise and knowledge, and have deciided the organisation is better off hiring some people in SF.

> This still does not address the issue of the dishonest fundraising though (pretending that they need your help despite making 1/10th of their wage and not saying up-front on what they spend the money on)

I understand that you had a misunderstanding about what wikipedia is, how their community management works, and that you didn't make use of the public, publicised resources that make their spending completely transparent. That doesn't make them dishonest, it makes you lazy.
i think this is absolutely the place for your comment. as the article suggests, perspective is one of the things you can get while walking. that's related to reflection and meditation.

i am sorry for what you had to go through, but i am glad you found a way to deal with it and have the courage to share it here.
Google did a study on what elements of the hiring process correlated with good performance and found that references we're almost useless.
Well, I suppose there really aren't any technicalities that designate a weapon as "military style" -- it's really a point that doesn't mean anything.

The military has used pump action shotguns similar to what you'd find in a duck blind, they've used Remington 700s (the most common hunting rifle and military sniper rifle), they've used air guns (all the way back to the revolutionary war -- the first semiautomatic rifles were air guns used in the Revolutionary War), they've used Ruger .22 handguns with suppressors on them...

The distinction that was made in 1986 was that anything fully automatic was banned. I think that's pretty silly, as I'm just as effective with a semi-automatic AR-15 as with a fully automatic M4A1. It makes no real difference, most military troops never flip the switch to automatic because the weapon isn't really even designed for it (machine guns need to have spare barrels, an assistant gunner, normally belt fed ammunition, etc -- they're ineffective otherwise). But that's the legal "definition" such as it is.

anyway, kind of all over the place, but the general point is this -- if you look the history of the time in which the 2nd amendment was written, civilians could -- and did -- own ships, cannon, artillery, etc at the time. Who cares about small arms if you can own a ship of the line with cannon? The concept of civilians being restricted in which types of weapons they could own based on whether or not the military could own them would have been considered ridiculous to the founding fathers. "military weapons" are the most effective weapons, if we have the right to own weapons, why would we be restricted to ineffective ones? Conversely, if you're going to ban weapons, why would banning the most effective weapons have any real impact, when a>there are still millions of them in circulation that are never going to come out of circulation, and b> even "ineffective" weapons can be just as effective as those "military style" weapons in a barely trained shooter's hands? I can literally teach someone in fifteen minutes how to be just as effective with a Glock 19 as with an M4A1 inside of a building. Even with 10 round magazines.
This is a very good "partial exit" for Mozilla, actually. The original plan might be to do something like this to split the cost, while oxidized Firefox still reaps more benefits than the competition playing catch-up.

Rust can't/shouldn't be directly monitized, so it makes sense to have something like this. Mozilla can still hire as many people as they want, but they never attempted to make it a company-managed project.
From a [flagged][dead] comment:

> This is not an economic move for the company.

I'm not at all sure I agree with you on this. I've worked for quite a few years as a software engineer in banking. At one of the companies where I worked, we had an intentional policy of taking people from non-technical roles (such as "telephone support") and giving them opportunities to move within the company to technical roles... sometimes QA, sometimes development roles.

It is certainly true that these people were less productive for the first year or so than if we had hired a new graduate. And these people rarely (I can't think of any examples) became our algorithm experts who led the way in optimizing the scaling of large systems.

But in my opinion, it was a HUGELY successful program. I mean, it was nice that the people who went through this program had a strong company loyalty. And it sure didn't hurt the morale in roles like telephone support to see some of their former colleagues entering a programming career. But what I really mean is that these people made some of our best developers.

Because you need a mix of different skills as a developer. Sometimes you need someone who knows the latest algorithms or tools for optimizing performance or choosing the best new language to build in. But far more frequently, what you really need is someone who knows the business problem and can communicate about it clearly in the customer's own language. A project nudged into right direction to meet poorly expressed but still important business needs is easily worth thousands of developer-hours of work. And understanding of the business is what these people had, in spades.

So, perhaps Ms. Lustig brings important skills that complement her developer role. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that perhaps she knows a LOT more about UI design than the average developer. She may also know a lot about the company and its needs. And these are VERY valuable things for a developer to know.

(The flagged comment ALSO contained some completely unwarranted -- and unsubstantiated -- sexist assumptions which I think are better ignored than disputed.)
> they say that the fact that it is deflationary and can not see inflation is a good thing, when it is actually a bad thing. There is a reason the target inflation is at ~2% almost everywhere. We need inflation to keep the economy going.

And what is the magical reason why we need to keep the economy going?

We're burning through this planet's resources much faster than they are being replenished.

The economy needs to stop going.

If cryptocurrency causes people to use products until they fall apart instead of throwing away a pocket-size supercomputer every year then I am damn fine with that.
Hi, could you please elaborate on “it costs to have free users”? What kind of costs?
That doesn't seem likely.
The narrow "want to play games on my mac" problem could be solved if game developers chose to build the game cross-platform from the start and release a mac build. Many games are already cross-platform, as they run on both Windows and consoles. The fact that so many game companies don't even bother with a mac build shows they don't want to solve this for whatever reason (probably mac just not profitable enough).

If a developer is not willing to lift a finger to port to mac (a small market, but one with a known size), why would they port to Stadia or some other unknown market?
I feel like the author here really misses what makes this movement in technology interesting, and that is evident in the title. Blockchain is not the innovation, distributed ledgers are. Blockchain is just one component in one formula that made it work. When you take DLT as the focus, you can examine how disruptive the technology CAN be on traditional ledger systems that require enormous amounts of human energy to maintain. And those who maintain these systems tend to take advantage of those systems. There's so much to be gained by automating away many of the traditional roles banks play.

One handy thing about Bitcoin and systems like it is that, by creating digital money systems, the industry is funding itself which will hopefully lead to the rapid evolution of technologies within the space. There are hard problems to solve, but enormous incentives to solve those problems.
After some quick searching, I am not sure there is any source that can be linked. Their website doesn't have anything, and they don't seem to have any social media.
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We're tired of war currencies, let's do better.

There's a lot more than this, but at the heart of this debt system is a war machine.
I didn't say anything hateful towards women. I think women get this better treatment then men but I didn't say they should turn it down nor did I say they didn't deserve it. I simply pointed out a difference.

And what wrong with switching from Janitor to SWE? Same basic job switch from one another field with completely different skillets but completely different treatment due to perceived ranking.
Maybe the timing's good for Microsoft to open an Android App store and other degoogly APIs. Should get better traction than Amazon's.