skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations (at least mid-size and large corporations) already have a pretty good idea of what their competition is offering.

There are companies that survey employees for salary information, collect all that knowledge, and then sell it to corporations.

Medium and large businesses already have a very good understanding of the job market and what a competitive salary range is.
I just bought a little teardrop camping trailer, and it was amazing how much it impacted my gas mileage. I tow with a Subaru outback, and I went from low 20s (23/24 on highway) to mid teens. Almost ran out of gas on our first trip since it went so much faster than I expected!

I can't imagine that the F150 would be good for long haul trailers... just so much energy involved moving weight around.
I'm pretty sure animated gifs only support intra frames.
It's disingenuous to just call this an partisanship problem, this is specifically a problem with the modern conservative movement, and it's specifically due to the influence of Fox News and other similar media organizations that back up Conservative politician in their lies. As we are currently seeing with Liz Cheney the modern conservative movement in this country has no time for someone who is unwilling to agree with their lies.
Look, if people made rational decisions all the time, economics would be a real predictive science.

Based on utility, most minivans beat all SUVs in tasks not involving going off-road. Minivans definitely beat pickup trucks for moving people, and often for moving stuff -- but not always.

Purchasing a vehicle in the USA is only partially based on function, for most people. Price and culture figure in a lot more.
I live in Texas and 90% of the trucks I see are used for some small business. Usually towing a light duty trailer filled with lawn equipment or tree trimming stuff. Sometimes they are packed to the gills with tradesman tools or mobile auto-detailing gear. Family vehicles are usually minivans or small econoboxes.

My brother bought his truck to haul his wife's food trailer, make dump trips, and carry stuff for his welding and gun smithing. My Dad bought his old beat up lift truck to haul metal for his metalworking and carry appliances, dirt, and junk as he remodels his house and rentals. My truck is just an old 1990 monster that I repaired to move junk around and eventually I want to camp out of it when visiting family in other states.

Do we use our trucks to make Costco runs? I usually ride my bike. Dad uses the family car. Brother uses the minivan. Trucks are for work in our family! We kind of giggle at the derpy, lifted, short bed, gleaming clean, straight piped, idiots that spent $80k+ on a truck that can't even haul...
The purpose of a military in part to provide continuity for a currency.

The employees of a military are paid... by taxpayers, who are the ones creating value.
> in USD and USD investments

What's a USD investment?

People want USD because of it's transactional value (i.e. they want to trade with it), not to use it as a store of value
Robotic third thumb rapidly feels natural in study
It has happened several times in the past and it can happen again in the future. I was most saddened by a kid falling asleep and dying of hypothermia.
Don't know about in the USA, but in the EU electric cars are required to emit some noise when going slowly. Most make an eerie electric hum, but Fiat has chosen to make their new Fiat 500 play a jaunty Italian tune: https://www.motortrend.com/news/new-fiat-500-pedestrian-aler...
Achieving Resiliency with Queues (2018)
The same way they deal with the asinine US sales taxes or how international companies deal with hiring internationally.

They'll outsource it to companies that look after it for them. This is the "resources" bit of "human resources".

In the meantime, maybe the actual HR people could get back to being "people and culture" managers and stop thinking of staff as "resources".
It's called a Frunk. Basically, storage space!
Are most pedestrian and cyclist deaths on the highways?

I would have though it would be in the city, if only for the fact that I practically never see pedestrians on country roads where I live. There can be cyclists, though.

In the city, though, most car noise is clearly the engine. Source: traffic outside my window. I clearly hear the engine noise or the exhaust if it's a scooter or motorcycle.
I think they're supposed to generate some kind of sound at low speeds. Or at least the government wants them to.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/14/2016-28...
Sony paved the way for modern music production
If only all the Californians moving here felt the same way.
PC software has a market too.
Nope.

All electric vehicles sold in the US since September 2020 must have a Pedestrian Warning System that emits noise at speeds less than 18mph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sound...

Once you're above 10mph or 15mph the road noise from the tires makes more noise than the quiet gas engines we have these days anyways.

This electric F-150 will not be "almost silent" in any way that matters to a pedestrian. It will certainly be less obnoxious to everyone than those grating diesel engine trucks, and I hope no one complains about the loss of that noise pollution.
Compare the amount of power generated by source the day of the blackouts and one year prior. Wind fell to nothing whereas gas production was way up. But because gas didn't increase enough to meet the crazy demand it is blamed.
Is the team considering making an "HTTP Client, done Sublime" at some point?
Not sure what individuals you're referring to specifically, but I would agree that we are shaped by economic forces - not necessarily "corrupted" or "misguided", simply shaped. Because we have limited time and energy, in general we're more likely to do what has the least resistance (e.g. what's popular or easier) to make money rather than what we want/what interests us. Tenure/Patreon/? loosens this up a bit, allowing people to focus on more niche interests & research. Sure, some of this will be garbage, but some of it may not.
As far as I know, it was a malfunctioning sensor.

I generally that it’s a poor design decision to build the steam engines on the outside with no weather protection.
If you only need to do it a few times a year, why not rent a truck?
For my part i hope that they figure out that not literally everything needs to be crammed on to a flashy screen. The purging of tactile controls must stop.
It's the "frunk".

Here's a picture:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dTXcXTNslbGIJam0Wy9BRhk_I80=...
It does have some very nice features. However, I think the reason people who have no need to tow or go offroad would buy this is the same reason people with light workloads buy i9 laptops with 64GB of RAM - spec-flex that they can easily afford.
The advantage of a truck is you can carry more, or taller things, and they don't get the inside of your vehicle dirty. imagine you just mowed a wet, muddy lawn, do you want the mower in the back of your minivan, or in the bed of truck? Also, many tall things that you might haul in the back of truck can't simply be reposition into a minivan (tall and long or tall and many).
Man do you think the guy you are responding to doesn't know that? Do you think a significant % of people here on HN don't know that? The guy you responded to clearly had a pretty advanced understanding of the issues in this field, and the fact that wind doesn't always blow is very very basic. He even talked about storage!
> has set up a company to solve this problem.

It's not a problem, it's in fact a huge business.

The negative tone of the comments feels like a an old car salesman trying to sell you a diesel engine instead of an EV.

An old EV battery pack is still incredibly valuable both for second hand usage in renewables (An old EV battery is not 'dead' just not performant enough for vehicle use) and recycling materials (Lithium is incredibly difficult to mine).
Not anymore? It's not like battery replacement is very viable on modern Macs, and the SSD wear issue means that most of these "daily driver" machines will end up dead in more like 3 or 4 years.

But yes, older Macs were notorious for being great machines.
> Personally, I try to only use excess death figures, because case counts are not comparable due to local policies.

Deaths are great measure of how bad you’ve been hit overall, but even if they (when you use excess rather than COVID-attributed deaths) are arguably more reliable numbers, they are a much worse proxy when you are trying to compare effectiveness specifically of infection control measures..That’s because they are extremely sensitive to when a region was hit during the pandemic (because we learned a lot about treatment over time), geographic distribution and time concentration of infections compared to local healthcare infrastructure (was treatment capacity exceeded anywhere, and by how much for how long?), as well as the population age distribution that you can try to adjust for by age normalization.
It's terrifying to think that the problem in 2021 has largely gone un-addressed at its core.
Storage firmed renewables are rapidly reaching cost parity with natural gas. In many US geographies, storage backed solar already is.

“Jim Robo, chief executive of renewables giant NextEra, made the same point on the company’s January earnings call to discuss the company’s 2020 results: "There is not a regulated coal plant in this country that is economic today full period and stop when it’s dispatched on any basis, not a single one, OK."

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/04/14/solar-and-storage-are...

http://ieefa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/US-Power-Sector-...
We have the Breville Barista Express, but honestly if I had more counter space I would go for the Gaggia Classic pro or Rancilio Silvia plus grinder. The parts to repair are going to be a lot easier to find for the Silvia, and while harder for Gaggia it's still possible. The Breville models are a bit harder to repair simply because it's all enclosed and plastic.
Have you ever lived next to a road in a city? I can tell you that the most noise comes from revving engines.

There is a also a massive difference between noise a normally driven ICE vehicle makes compared to an electric one at city speeds. The electric ones are very silent and barely audible if they don't make that humming sound. Even at 20-30mph.
The curb weight of the Lightning seems to be approximately the same as the ICE F150s. 4600-5000lbs. Batteries are heavy, but so are engines and transmissions.

The battery being low should dramatically improve the safety of the vehicle by improving stability.

It's still a huge vehicle, though. It would be nice if we trended smaller, and left vehicles like this to people who actually need it.
You get a massive return in local currency from holding onto virtually any asset other than local currency or local currency denominated debt if your own currency has hyperinflation.

People overseas want dollars because dollars are extremely easy to transact with and many companies [especially outside their country] accept only dollars, not because a price graph and a tweet from Elon Musk have convinced them that dollars will be even more popular next year. The actual mechanism that ensures many of these companies will continue to accept dollars next year is financial obligation, not hype.
The article puts "male gaze" in quotes and there is a Wikipedia page about the meaning it has in common usage about gender discussion.

It's disappointing that Twitter is trying to deflect blame for their failures onto "men".

[Edit - this is inaccurate]
yeah, the cybertruck is looking dead on arrival now.
Requiring Deno, and not allowing Node, seems like it could cause a lot of annoyance for people who aren't accustomed to Deno or want to use packages written for Node. I hope this becomes more flexible in the future.
I hate touchscreens in cars. Avoiding them is a big part of why my current ride is from 2011.
I can park my car in the F150 frunk :-)
I wish there was an abs() function that returned the unsigned version of the signed input type and wasn't UB if you passed in the most negative value of the signed type. Sadly neither C or C++ nor Rust's standard libraries have a built-in implementation of this, and sending the most negative integer into Rust's .abs() will panic in debug mode (is not intended to be used in properly implemented code).
Not sure why you'd say that - especially if you look at Arm v9 and the fact that the architecture is starting to make inroads into there server market.

RISC-V is open source which is great in some respects but also not helpful in others.
I do quite a bit of DIY and I have a skoda octavia combi (which would be considered small in the US). honestly the only thing i have difficulty with is drywall panels, i have to tie them to the roof bars.

obviously a truck would be much easier, but if I'm redoing a house I'll need to rent a light dump truck anyway for at least 1-2 days just to get all the old junk out, so I do the big material buy at the same time
I don't disagree, I just tend not to adjust those as frequently. I think Ram has a nice balance between physical and touch:

https://i.imgur.com/anDbKgG.jpg

In general I prefer knob controls for things like temperature and volume, but the physical up/down is ok
For any vehicle I generally ask myself two questions.

#1 - How long has this engine design been used?

#2 - How long has this transmission design been used?

Accessory / electrical problems are annoying, but fixable. Powertrain problems are... the vehicle itself.
Electric vehicles often have much better safety credentials than their ICE powered counterparts for a few reasons:

* All of the weight is in the bottom of the vehicle, giving a lower centre of gravity. I'd bet this will kill the old F150 in a moose (or child!) test.

* The lack of engine means the entire front part of the car is a huge crumple zone. This gives designers more wriggle room for pedestrian protection too. This is an increasingly important requirement in road safety standards.

* The electric motors are able to respond with torque far faster (in ms) than an ICE engine, so traction and stability control are more effective. Again good for things like the moose test.

* Switching our road transport to electric will probably save more children, and the adults they will become, from a lifetime of lung problems and premature death from pollution than better pedestrian safety features ever will.
> Nobody wants to burn dirty coal if they can help it, but coal plants in lieu of importing oil

Outside of a few places (i.e Hawaii) oil is not burned for electricity, so in that sense there isn't really a trade off between coal and oil in that way.

When electric vehicles become broadly prevalent, then the tradeoff will exist, but only if we haven't done the job of deploying enough renewables by that time.
Thanks for doing/sharing this. It's a great resource.

And yes, it's absolutely correct to go with "...they will do this" when referring to a hypothetical genderless user. Defaulting to 'he/him' (and presuming a gender) is less and less acceptable.

>"Imagine you have a user who wants to sign up. After (___) sings up"?

"After they sign up, ..." works there and can be used to refer to the singular person. Just make sure the verbs agree ('they sign' vs 'she signs').

One other thing I'd note: you'll almost never hear a native English speaker use the phrase "fill the form".

Now, whether a person opts for 'fill in' vs 'fill out' is another question and seems to vary by english region.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1514/fill-out-a-...
I still have my original SlickEdit installation CD from long long ago. As far as how they can continue to be in business, easy - corporate maintenance licenses...
Why USD when you can hold an asset?

Maybe if you live in a place where liquid assets are hard to come by I could see using USD instead
Biden Wants to Electrify the Beast
Yes we in texas understand that basically ALL of our energy production methods were hampered by the cold (not our solar panels tho!), because none of them were prepped for cold. Which in some cases makes sense, in others it does not because it would have been cheap to do, up front.
So they should not sell any? What's your point?
Specifically, the Section 179 deductions available on vehicles that weight in excess of 6000lbs. A business doesn't need to prove need to make use of the tax advantage. This encourages real estate agents, sales people, etc to buy new large SUVs instead of leasing or buying second hand sedans that would otherwise be suitable (Mercedes E-Class, etc). And contractors that could use smaller vehicles (Transit Connect, Ranger) to buy F-150s or large vans.

It's basically a massive kick-back to Ford and Chevy.
I instantly want to create some kind of adtech dystopia.
The reference itself is indeed valid, in the sense of existing, until it falls out of scope. But the object it references may not be, so using the reference can be UB. Consider an std::vector v with length known to be at least 1:

const auto &ref = v[0];
v.push_back(42);
cout << ref;

That works fine until push_back reallocates out of place, at which point you may start to notice that it’s actually UB.

Rust will not permit this problematic usage. GC languages tend not to offer this pattern — you can reference a boxed vector element with different semantics than the above C++ code, and you mostly can’t reference an unboxed element. C++ lets you do things like this but has little ability to statically verify correctness.

(Doing the above maneuver with a vector is a bit silly: it saves typing, and indexing a vector is extremely fast. With a map, though, indexing is not so fast, and keeping an iterator or a reference around may be a big performance win. At least if you keep an iterator around, dynamic checkers have a better chance of noticing errors.)
I think you're exactly right about the classification. Most people I know who have a full trailer to bring to the mountains have larger than an F-150.
Yes, that’s what I mentioned.

The reactor was offline for just a few days and the shutdown is more a result of the rather unfortunate decay to build the steam turbines on the outside with no weather production.

Nuclear plants have no problems with arctic temperatures, just look at Russia (Pevek, Kola NPPs).
The best UI = No UI :)
Do these people know that Melinda was his employee?

If the price to pay to have a respected "geek" image is to have men essentially evirate themselves then good luck finding somebody willing to do that.

These are the worries of a society on the cusp of collapse:

Proliferation of gossip, shame a group because it dares to interact with an other group, having a "gotcha" attitude towards anybody and especially people in the public eye.
In ff and chrome tabs are processes. So aside from resources allocated on behalf of that process by other processes not being cleaned up, the OS will cleanup all the memory that tab told the OS to allocated when closed.
With a max range of 300 miles on the f150 I doubt it.
Maybe I am asking for too much but I want physical knobs for: Volume Control, HVAC Fan Speed, HVAC Temp.

A tangential question: Does anyone know why there is an AC button on older cars? I can turn the temp all the way down but that just does outside air temp. If i want real AC I need to hit a button to turn it on. In my ideal car turning the knob to the lowest temp would get me cold air no matter what.
Won't somebody think of the children please?!?

If you get hit by any vehicle you're going to have a bad time. This vehicle is not an exception.
How long does it take a pressurized water reactor to start up again? Is there some kind of "idle neutron balance" they can use when coolant flow is interrupted, or do they have to shut down the pile?
MagicaCSG: A lightweight signed distance field editor and renderer
Im honestly surprised that there aren't unemployed mech/elec/chem engineers out of a job, making and setting off bombs and demanding to be paid in cryptocurrency.

We're already seeing a digital version of this terrorism with cryptolocking ransomware... And it's always been the most dangerous part of criminality is getting paid. cryptocurrency solves a lot of that problem.
Wow, the best selling vehicle coming in electric? If that doesn't encourage a huge surge in charging stations I don't know what will.
It needn't have been this tall. With the internal combustion engine out, Ford could have designed a lower, more curved, less deadly front end.

Instead, they kept the high nose and used the space as a trunk. After all, injuring fewer pedestrians sells no cars. Indeed, the market prefers an enormous, deliberately threatening-looking chariot that makes you feel big and virile.

Ford are behind this game in that they haven't given their truck an explicitly hostile name like “People Mulcher”.
I love it when anybody who writes about McLuhan shows some evidence of having read McLuhan.

Some kinds of literature have defied the "beginning", "middle" and "end", particularly the sociological monograph typified by Vaughn's 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 where the chapters present different perspectives on the situation and can be read in arbitrary order, or polemic rants such as Novak's 𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑠 which are fun to jump into at any place if you think they are fun to read.
I always wonder about relationship dynamics in which a spouse can be completely unaware that their significant other is a wanted criminal actively committing crimes.

Although, I guess by the time they were married, he wasn't actually making any money from his schemes.
There’s a trunk there for extra storage.

I understand they did not integrate the motors and batteries into a new frame built specifically to accommodate them like Tesla did but rather added them on top the existing frame. I really like that Tesla is a ground up design and something about this F150 annoys me for carrying on all of the institutional inertia of a 100 year old company.

Also, I read Ford is planning on 40k of these and their Transit van each year and marketing them toward fleets.
So the HN title has been changed, but the original article specifically calls out Native English speakers as "the world's worst communicators".

The author could have couched the entire article from the point of view that a native speaker is difficult for non-native speakers to understand. I was simply pointing out that the article points an accusing finger at a particular group, when the issue at hand isn't a particular language, but the situation in question.

This is definitely something that communicators and collaborators need to be aware of, but the article, at least to me, demonizes a particular group even though the issue isn't inherent to that group.
I don’t know if it’s so much an issue of partisanship - you don’t see the democrats pulling this sort of science denial + distraction + reframing technique, and I think it only exacerbates the situation to lay blame on both sides equally. The crazy in our government is not distributed equally. The obstinance in our government is not distributed equally.

I’m sure there are crazy and obstinate folks on both sides, but one side does this sort of thing much, much more often. Maybe their constituents who care about that stuff should change parties, or force their party to change?
I just can't get over the lack of range compared to the Cybertruck. But Ford will do fine since it actually looks like a truck.
Trucks very much have a place in society. Farmers, construction workers, and some other areas definitely need them.

The trend that they need to be an everyday vehicle for anyone is something that should be looked at. What is the psychology and intentional planning that's caused this shift? What subtle population engineering has lead to this without people realizing it?