skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually wish more people got it through their heads that HR _is not_ and _will never be_ their friend or savior. Their only loyalty is only to the company, by design. There are no exceptions to this that I have seen in 25+ years in the industry. The extent of whatever help you might get out of them is whether or not there's a risk that the company would come out worse on the other end if that help is not provided, such as, if you have a thoroughly documented case, the law is on your side, and you're willing and able to enforce your rights. If it's not documented or not protected by law, you'll be screwed by HR 100% of the time.
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam
Great suggestion! We will look into it.
As of a couple months ago, the T-Mobile coverage maps have been very accurate for both 4G and low/mid band 5G in my areas, and from what I've seen from others on the subreddit.
The speed of sound in air (or mixtures of diatomic gasses) is a function of temperature only, independent of pressure and density. Or it depends on pressure and density in a way which cancels out and leaves only temperature as an independent variable for equivalent mixtures of gasses. (i.e. the speed of sound is the same at 20 atmospheres or 0.1 atmosphere as long as the temperature is the same) This becomes untrue when air is very very hot or very very cold, but generally those conditions aren't experienced on this planet outside of hot hypersonic flight.

Water vapor content, not being a diatomic gas does very slightly change the speed of sound but usually to a degree which can be ignored.

(people generally don't believe that the speed of sound in air depends only on temperature when you tell them)
Getting 100k people to download 100GB seems like a rather lofty goal. Has this ever been done via social media? The only case I can think of is a game like Call of Duty, which has a ginormous marketing campaign behind it. Even so the download wasn't linked via social media.

Most people don't even have 100k followers. The follower-to-click ratio isn't going to be 100% in any situation. Click-to-full-download ratio is going to be low too, especially so at 100GB. A lot of people don't have that much free space on their devices even!

I think this scenario is firmly in outlier land, and thus not really relevant to cloudflare's calculations.
Maybe I missed the point of your comment. Mine is that the scoping difference between VLAs and alloca() isn't relevant to the question at hand of how to protect against memory corruption due to large stack allocations.
There are at least a few devastating storms in the Northeast each decade. Even the ones that aren't completely devastating can impact sensitive production equipment.
A museum pays $84,000 for blank canvases, the art named 'Take the Money and Run'
For those who are interested, this is why you usually have two dishes/aerials, vertically displaced, so that when one has destructive interference between the direct and reflected signals, the other has constructive interference. I learned something about this when writing data compression and encryption software for radar surveillance systems, where there were multiple radars over a moderate coverage area, all sending data via microwave links over water back to the Command and Control Centre.
This happened to me as well, only with DSL. The strip lights on the bathroom mirror (newly installed) would disconnect the internet when turned on.

Such a weird thing to troubleshoot when you have a few people living in the same house.
I had a box of bird seed on a shelf in my garage, next to a box of nails. One day I go in, and see that all the nails are in a layer in the bird seed box, covering up the seed. I can only assume a squirrel did this.
OMG "The Pentagon’s FY2022 budget request for hypersonic research is $3.8 billion"
Welcome to the Clown World.

You visit the Circus, expect a show.
OBS + OBS Spout Plugin + OBS NDI plugin allows for so much flexibility for artists.

Especially since the Spout plugin allows you to output the whole canvas, or just output a scene by adding a Spout filter (alpha channel is transmitted too).

https://github.com/Off-World-Live/obs-spout2-plugin
https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi
Oh no, who caught me?!!
Same - I bounced right out. I'm not reading all of that.
Other people have answered this, but I think they've missed something. I'm not a manager because I'm a great engineer. I'm a good manager because I'm a decent engineer who has the skills necessary to be a good manager. There are plenty of engineers who should never be managers. In my opinion there are plenty of good managers who will never get to be managers because they aren't good enough engineers.

It's not that the most successful quarterback gets to become the coach. It's the running back who has insight into the strategy, the long term goals adn inter-personal dyanmics that ends up as a good manager.
Better: "Be a role model on the roads, treat this car as a beta and piece of the future it is. We know this is exciting, we're excited too."

Instead of "don't get caught"
> warned Amazon that his wife had brain cancer when they began trying to recruit him

Not to defend Amazon, god forbid, but I'd be surprised if this actually reached the people who would be able to make decisions about this either way. Recruiting gets paid per head. They got a head. What happens next is of no interest to them whatsoever.
"May opt"? HR isn't there for you, they are for the employer. Too many people confuse this. They will always protect the company because that's their job.
Last winter, we had a rat create a nest in our car. We would drive around during the day, so it would take advantage of the heat from the engine. We tried clearing the nest out night after night, but it kept building it in different areas near the engine. We even tried mint extract to keep it away, but that only worked for short periods of time and it would still come back. Traps were useless, even with peanut butter.

Luckily, one day after a fresh snowfall, we noticed a trail of rat footprints, and then at the end of the trail, a dead, bloody rat. From the tracks we saw, it seems a feathered predator saw the rat and took care of problem.
Stealth is over-rated. It is an unnecessary cost in designing and producing aircraft and ships.
Yeah but could you sell a solution which requires a special washer, dryer, and clothes storage system? It's still not an easy problem, but you can try to reduce the complexity.
I did a Show HN eleven years ago for something called Dropmocks, which was an early use of the HTML5 drag and drop API to make image sharing convenient - it sat at the top of HN for that weekend, got Techcrunch coverage[0] etc, which made me feel nice.

A few things happened after that:

- A startup took the open source code and put it up a day or so later and got a few million dollars in funding to do image sharing, which made me feel bad at the time, but they later disappeared so it's fine

- Larry Page got a bit annoyed that I didn't do it as a Google project, and Sundar/my boss had to explain that I was just a Chrome staff member who got a bit excited about a new API - both of them were correct

- I had to panic-build a content moderation system from the airport on my honeymoon in response to some unsavory content

- It eventually got to 3TB of stored data, which was fine until billing policy changes at my storage provider meant that my monthly costs would've gone from tens of dollars to hundreds or thousands of dollars

- My day job was more fulfilling, so after a few years I shut it down

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/dropmocks-chrome-designer/
i've called the current mode of phone use ecocicdal a number of times. right to repair should mandatorily kick in on e a device stops supporting itself. facebook doing one better is amazing, great. this is a great moral turning point, one the world has seen very very very few of. good fucking job. excellent.
Secret History of Venice Is Written on the Walls of Its Quarantine Stations
You can't get lead poisoning from using lead solder. The melting point is not high enough to turn the lead into a gas. In fact, lead free solders are generally more harmful - due to higher melting points they tend to produce a lot more flux fumes. ROHS solder was introduced so when you junk your mass produced electrical appliance, you're not adding more lead to the environment. For hobbyists it makes no sense.
There is a commtext class tough. Tested on Chrome and Firefox. I don't know what your linked pastebin does but if you just want all the comments to show up as black text, the rule commtext { color: black; } in the body is all you need. Please check that kind of information by yourself before assuming that I'm wrong.

> Um, ok? And the building only has stairs because the architect didn't consider the needs of people that use assistive devices like wheelchairs.

Using metaphors doesn't help, they don't hold. Unless you assume that there is some people that are considered undesirable and that are also being kept out by having only stairs? And that aren't correlated to people that use assistive devices like wheelchairs?

> What's your point? "Why?" was not in question.

Why is why not in question? HN breaks accessibility guidelines in an easily fixable ways for reasons that are related to the primary purpose of the website. I think at this point it's just a difference of values between us. You seem to think that accessibility guidelines should matter above everything, I think it's fine to break them when it's needed for the "purpose" of the website. One other example of that would be "old internet" website, with flashing text, non-legible text and everything. On these websites, not respecting the guidelines is fine for me.
Google’s Text to Speech API’s WaveNet voices are nearly unmatched in terms of quality. Of course, the API is also fairly expensive.

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech

You can test them out with any arbitrary text halfway down on this page.
> A good manager manages up and manages down. What you're describing is someone who manages down but not up.

A good employee manages up to the extent the organization they are involved in permits, a manager is just an employee whose duties inide managing down.

But the truth of heirarchical organizations is that while managing down is universally expected (and is usually just called “managing”), managing “up” is...not (and, often, barely even tolerated), even among organizations where citing it as a way of victim-blaming is common.
But you're not refuting the actual point that I made, you're going on some tangent.

Your actual point was that Trump "did nothing for four years." I refuted that point. Three SCOTUS seats occupied by religious ideologues aren't "nothing."
I agree that this is the future. I even feel US politics have suffered from being hoisted onto a global stage. When everyone on the internet (globe) can weigh in on or muck with the politics of your smaller community (country or state) you’re going to get into situations that make it hard to practically make decisions and run a country. One of the foundational principles of the US the ability to justifiably oppress minority factions for the good of the majority, but checked by systems of power distribution so that it’s not a simply mob rule and limited so as not to impinge on a set of inalienable rights afforded to all citizens. Yet on the global theatre the assumption is that minority opinions now take precedence over the majority. And what’s worse, 100 people screaming on twitter now has the same impact as 200,000 matching on Washington (to be clear, 200k marching on Washington is significant and should matter, 200 people on twitter should not).

So what? Well now when we need to oppress minority factions more than ever in the face of a public health crisis and tell people sorry suck it up you live in American where the majority says to mask up and get vaccinated if you want to be in public, we “for some reason” at critical moments in curbing the spread of the pandemic fumble around for months on end because a few anti-vexers all of a sudden have infinite civil liberties and a global platform (note, one that they didn't have when we solved previous public health crises). My fear is that we’ve become a society of “piss off I can do what I want” rather than one of calculated and ideally minimized oppression.

I also don’t understand as a society why we have to hold platforms accountable for content. If the problem is a bunch of illicit material showing up, implement KYC requirements so that individuals are exposed legally to the consequences of posting illegal material. Anonymity is a tool/privilege to be used, not abused, and distinctly not a fundamental human right in the US. Make the default less anonymous (but still private, that is something we’re supposed to care about constitutionally) and I suspect a lot of content moderation problems go away.
> and her family was totally fascinated with the 20 minutes of squirrel footage

What place did they come from that didn't have squirrels? I thought they're native to pretty much any place that isn't Australia or the poles.
Hank Asher
Yep, looks like it[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/dvir_a/status/1420059124700700677
Is Cloudflare working it's way to be a cloud service competitor to AWS or other services out there?
Not just winter.

Oaks produce huge numbers of acorns about one season every 7 years. My yard had thousands and thousands a few years ago, for example, but very few since. Oaks seem to do this to overwhelm squirrels and ensure that a few acorns manage to germinate. Squirrels that can save acorns for years will do much better than squirrels that can only save enough for each winter.
Nigerian Navy disowns claim Chadian soldiers sell weapons to Islamic jihadists
Link Rot
AirTag 'Lost Mode' Vulnerability Can Redirect Users to Malicious Websites
Title was modified for upvotes... dang

current title: A museum pays $84,000 for blank canvases, the art named 'Take the Money and Run'

article title: A museum says they gave an artist $84,000 in cash to use in artwork. He delivered blank canvases and titled them "Take the Money and Run."
From Scheme to Dependent Types in 100 Lines (LispNYC)
Given that the employee was making ~300K, we can figure that his manager is probably making 50% to 100+% more.

I find it mind-boggling that the manager could not find it within himself to give some slack to the employee. I guess maybe he didn't want to slow down the rate at which he was pulling in F-U money.
Wow! Cool! Very surprised that Cloudflare wouldn't charge an arm and a leg for such a service... considering they're moving the actual bits.

I'm poking around at the Cloudflare website, what's the name of the aforementioned service? What term should I google?

I'm ignorant of "modern Cloudflare" -- other than reading their fantastic technical blog, I've never used them in a professional capacity and don't know their product offering -- other than a cache, CDN, DDOS protection, and a Lambda.
That was also my experience moderating a medium-sized city subreddit. Bigger problems were easily dealt with. Toxicity was a lot harder to deal with, especially when it's so easy to create a throwaway account. I quit when one user decided to target me personally, and kept evading bans to cause more grief.

All of this crap, and your reward is more complaints, more demands.
The SABRE engine won't liquefy incoming air, it just cools it down a lot (to -150 C!). But SABRE is an evolution of a 1980s design, the RB545, designed for the HOTOL spaceplane, which would indeed have liquefied incoming air. The RB545 was in turn derived from a 1950s concept, LACE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_air_cycle_engine
Digital money is as easy as you giving me $10 and me making a record of it in a text file that's not really what the rest of us are talking about.
Every time the navy is asked about the survivability of the carrier groups they seem to start talking about the “whole kill-chain” of the enemy weapons. It sounds like they plan to knock out the targeting satelites before they could target them instead of trying to catch the missiles. Or at least thats how I read the tea leaves.
I majored in "Strategic Communication" (a mix of PR/advertising/marketing with a bit of journalism for good measure) and transitioned to software engineering because I decided I didn't want to make a living pitching my ideas to stakeholders. Joke was on me, I'm still doing that.

Anyway, my favorite book on the topic that I've read is "Disruption by Design" by Paul Paetz. One of the core ideas I took from it is about identifying the "Job to be done" that you're selling. As a marketing mentor once told me, nobody buys drills. They buy the hole.

Another important concept is knowing your audience (this was also the golden rule I took away from my degree program and has also served me well socially). Nothing is for everyone. Know that your audience actually needs the thing you're selling them. This also means that you can in good conscience be confident in selling it to them because you know they actually need it. Where marketing comes in is that they may not yet understand how your thing delivers the value they want and it's the job of your marketing/advertising to convince them that it does. Or they might see the value but think your price is too high. Then you have to decide whether you agree with them or explain why your price is fair for what you're delivering.

Anyway, as an engineer with a marketing education, I found it an enjoyable and inspiring read that was more direct and, I felt, insightful than other, fluffier marketing resources I've read. But it is more about the concepts and not about the gritty details (though for my money, observing marketing efforts at the companies I've worked for, doing your own legwork and meeting directly with your customers to understand their needs and pitch a trial of your product if it fits those needs is miles more effective than Facebook or Google ad campaigns - the only thing they have going for them is sheer scale at the expense of everything else).

Fair disclaimer, though: I have never run a business and never plan to. I just want to make cool stuff and my current employer is sufficiently fulfilling in that regard.
the west coast also has a pretty low incidence of natural disasters. The east coast regularly gets bad hurricanes, the northeast and midwest get really bad snowstorms, plains states regularly get tornadoes, etc, but on the west coast if you pick a region that's not geologically active then there aren't really a ton of huge natural disasters that occur regularly.

of course I guess there's wildfires now too, but that's not really an Arizona thing either.

of course you're not wrong about companies often being lured by the particular states that are willing to offer them massive tax breaks, in some cases even to places like Texas that do get hurricanes on an occasional basis. And that doesn't always work out well in the end like with the Texas power outages that seem to be occurring more and more frequently, there are a LOT of fabs in Dallas/etc that are having to deal with widespread power outages multiple times a year.

(you're the expert here but it seems like the generator capacity usually isn't sufficient to continue normal operation of the fab, it's more to maintain containment/purity of the feedstock and you still lose wafers that were in-process at the time? that's the impression I've gotten at least)
Obviously it is horrible to fire someone in these circumstances. I wonder what I would do though? Lets say you have an employee that is completely and totally incompetent, but their child has cancer and will slowly die over the next two years. Do you just be compassionate and try to minimize the harm having this person around causes? What if you can't afford to keep an extra person around? I don't think this as easy of a situation as I would like it to be.
Placeholder Services as a Service
Show HN: Labelmaker – Generate PDF from HTML Templates with Scripting
There’s limited economic incentive to build new 200-mm chip plants given wafer-thin margins

Oh I see what they did there
Sort of hilariously overkill. Was the little guy really gonna chow down on thousands of nuts each of which is probably a days meal for him?
I've always been curious as to why squirrels have never been domesticated and bred to serve as pets. A wide variety of other rodents (mice, rats, hamsters) are already available as pets, having been domesticated over many generations, and it isn't obvious why no one has ever tried this with squirrels.

Some quick research shows that a big part of the problem is diet: squirrels require a surprisingly complex and varied diet that is hard for pet owners to replicate. Getting them enough physical activity is also an issue.

(Of course, one might suspect that it would be cruel to keep squirrels in such unnatural conditions, but the same could be said of most pets.)

[edit: Apparently keeping wild, undomesticated squirrels as pets was popular at one point (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pet-squirrel-craze ). That article doesn't say why the trend died out, other than...all of the obvious reasons.]

[edit 2: Would a squirrel raised indoors always think it was summer, or would they start storing and then digging up food as the year progressed even with no change in temperature? Might be relevant.]
How’d you land at 97? Probably best to use 99, 100, or some variation of “I’m fairly certain”, no?

I am only 96% kidding ;)
Animals are too smart. Designs for bear boxes used to carry food for backcountry camping have to be regularly tested as given enough exposure, bears will figure out how to open them and eat all the tasty granola bars inside.
https://archive.is/nFUL3#3%
>It is important to be cognizant of potential sampling bias. The only way to collect this data is for users to self-select, i.e., opt-in, to the project. Self-selection bias, especially in online polling, for example, will often skew responses in favor of the most motivated group.

Credit to these guys for stepping out in front of the most glaringly obvious shortcoming of the study. I was hoping the Reddit admins would have given them access to data that they would then retroactively ask the users’ permission to use.
Yes, it's common for squirrels to eat the wiring harness. More expensive these days since cars are so full of tightly packed wires in hard-to-get-to places.
Seconding needing a provider. This would save my business. :)
The Legality of Web Scraping
It’s an SEC requirement and so it’s not construed as investment advice given by a licensed broker.
I agree that it's interesting and useful, but the article also tries to spread some FUD about this being "Apple's standard" when it's not (with some fearmongering rhetoric around "what about Android?", "what about other competing systems we haven't heard of yet?"); it's an ISO standard for mobile driver's licenses. I'm actually surprised and pleased that Apple has decided to go with a standard instead of doing their own thing, as usual.

But the author of the article either a) can't be bothered to do some basic research about the topic she's writing about, or b) is deliberately stirring up (fake) controversy to increase engagement. Either thing is pretty bad.
Live: La Palma Volcano Eruption in the Canary Islands (Feed #1) 927
I decided to say no cuz I didn't want to agree to it and it punted me out to their home page. :/ EULAs are awful.
Amazon Astro is ‘terrible’ and will ‘throw itself down’ stairs, developers claim
Yup, I work in logistics. Driver wages have been stagnant at best, dropping at worst for many many years. Outside specialized drivers, it's a horrible career choice.
All sports must be immediately banned for public safety of the tax cattle ranch.
The area where the video was taken looks like it was from a construction site (trenches, rebar, and 2x4s visible). Was it taken by a contractor that was part of a crew pouring concrete and saw something cool?

Also, given it was out in the open in broad daylight, I'm assuming a spy satellite could have gotten a picture.

I wonder if one way to deal with this is just make a lot of plausible cool-looking decoys.