skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I misunderstanding something or is this just the lens?
Funny how people complain about Google tracking them and then get angry when they are not being tracked enough.
Mass is not a factor in drag equations.

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a...

Velocity-squared is the factor in drag.
Landscapehub | Data Engineer | Remote (US) / Chicago, IL | Full-time | https://www.landscapehub.com/about

LandscapeHub is dedicated to streamlining the procurement and fulfillment process in the nursery, landscape, green, and hardscape industry. Our B2B marketplace is engineered for businesses to buy and sell landscape materials more efficiently from a single location saving time, resources and money.

We're looking for a data engineer with 1-3 years experience to help us grow our new data team. We have a handful of projects lined up for the next year including: - cleaning/building up our data pipelines and infrastructure - integrations with 3rd party APIs for inventory and order management into client's ERP systems - building a smarter pricing model for our marketplace

We're a fully remote team, but will likely be opening a small office in Chicago to optionally work from when it gets safer to do so. More info on the job posting here: https://angel.co/l/2vR6DJ

Feel free to send resumes/questions my way: ajay (at) landscapehub (doot) com

NOTE: We're also hiring for many other tech-related positions at our company, including:
- Mid/Senior-level Software Engineers (Rails/React stack)
- QA
- Project Managers / Business Analysts
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I'm not the hiring manager for these roles but I can get more info if you'd like to reach out to me!
A rotten cow might disintegrate before it leaves the launch site. I wouldn’t classify that as fun.
You're incredibly wrong, but in a very classic way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I'm a senior engineer, and a pretty technical geek. I'm also plenty social, and am that one techie friend for a lot of non-technical people and field regular "Hey what kind of <> should I buy", or "Can you help me configure <>".

I've never heard of Navidrome or Ultrasonic.

Could I figure it out in 30 minutes of googling or reading? Sure. But the point is that these concepts are not nearly as ubiquitous as you might think.

I'm also not interested in hosting a music server for my friends, and dealing with all the tech support concerns that would come with it.
Find and replace wouldn't be that bad with 'Square' I feel like, I don't think you use the word 'Square' too often while programming, if the company was named ';' or 'def' then id just find another job.
Web1on1 | Google Cloud (DevOps) Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE (Netherlands-based) | https://www.web1on1.chat

Hi, we're a small, fully remote but tight-knit team operating a messaging platform for the Automotive industry in Europe. Car brands and dealers employ our 'hybrid workforce' of agents and bots to connect to consumers in novel ways.

We are seeking a strong cloud engineer to help further develop our messaging hub and maintain and expand our infrastructure on Google Cloud. You drive both the design of our current Google Cloud Services, and that of our automated CI/CD pipelines for our future plans.

Our tech stack: Google Cloud, Nodejs, MongoDb, React

We promise interesting work, lots of freedom and flexible hours. If interested, reach out to me (the CTO) at peter.dv at web1on1.chat, or read more at https://jobs.web1on1.chat
Ironically, intuit and SumUp did have BTC payments in 2014 but stopped it due to low demand. (Of course… what people don’t get is BTC is not for spending. It is for saving.)

Maybe early to the pre party and late to the after party?
My biggest worry would be the joint at the bottom (the four bolts visible in the video) giving way because the tension is across the top of the wooden beams. That won't end well because suddenly the winch becomes the projectile.
2018 - 609k of revenue (100% from investment)?

2019 - 19M of revenue

--

2018 - 450k to AWS (indicates they have an infrastructure and users)

2019 - 887k to AWS

so their invoice for AWS only just doubled and yet their revenue increased by 3019.87%

very fishy activity

i'd love to be able to see their cryto wallets, i suspect some money laundering activity
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I can't reply to the "https://archive.md/PVjCZ" comment by stuff4ben, the reply link is missing.

But first I got a "DNS Probe Possbile" in Brave, and after 4 refreshes I just got a Privacy error with "NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID".
I've had the opposite experience so far, though I've admittedly not used it that much yet. I've got this Python fiscal date library at work, and I wanted to add a something like a `strtftime()` method which would replace $P with the period, $Q with the quarter, etc, but treat $$ as a literal $ (so that e.g. $$P would result in $P). Simple enough, but I thought it would be cute to see if I could get copilot to do it for me.

I spent at least a half hour trying to figure out what kind of prompt would result in a correct implementation. No matter how explicit I was it kept giving answers that failed to handle the $$P -> $P conversion correctly. Finally I was able to get it to spit out an answer that at least had the right idea, but it had an unrelated bug in it.

The package also has some functions to determine holidays, and I was impressed that Copilot could generate code for new holidays that mimicked my style, docstrings and all. But disappointingly it failed for any slightly obscure holiday (say, Eid al-Fitr), generating code that was just wrong, even when I hinted that it would have to use an alternative calendar library. It kept trying to use the Hebrew calendar for Islamic and Hindu holidays, I guess because I'd already imported it for Hanukkah.

It also seems useless for Spark ETL, having to be handheld to a degree that it would be easier just to write the code myself. My first attempt to play around with Copilot was to see if it could do a salted join (no luck, unless by "salted join" I meant something like "a join on a column called salt").

I'll keep playing around with it, maybe it's just a "me" problem.
It's unrelenting ha with the new intel surpassing some Ryzen (at the expense of power/heat) and DDR5... crazy.

Yeah I know for dev work can scale down eg. pi zero on a keychain and use cloud resources.
Ask HN: What kind of chip for short-range continuous small-data broadcast?
I'm not sure what term or phrase to search for, and that's really all I'm after here...

I'm thinking about spiking an idea/prototype for a system where you mount a microchip or other small tool on/in a wall in a grocery store, hospital, etc. and it broadcasts a simple UUID string on a radio frequency several hundred times per second continuously until it burns out or gets replaced. Max range only needs to be about ~50 feet, tops. What's the name of that kind of technology that I'd need to look up to learn more about it?

EDIT: Bluetooth occurs to me, but I'm thinking more low-level, fundamental than that, entirely without the need to receive (just broadcast only).
Something interesting is happening in other industries, where large conglomerates are spinning off high-growth potential divisions, specially pharmaceuticals https://www.fiercepharma.com/topic/spinoff all for that sweet sweet stock growth
And you still have some today?
Bandcamp all the way. Their revenue share is extremely fair, their site is tasteful and functional, and they've been blessing the world with flac since their beginning.
I have to disagree. One of the reasons I use YouTube Music is because their search includes all the random music uploaded to youtube.com. This means that a lot of really rare tracks that YTM never received officially from the labels can be integrated into your library. I guess YTM then tries to sort out the royalty issues as they do through youtube.com.
I mean Google has this blog specifically to report on security vulnerabilities.

That is literally like Volvo running a YT channel where they crash test cars from other companies and assess the damage to the dummy. "In the name of safety."

I'm not the one stretching here.
"Research agrees that there indeed is more variability in males" would have been much clearer to me :)

I had to click the link and read some of the article to be sure what you meant.
CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Against Children, Weren’t Prosecuted
Gemini to the rescue.
Wikipedia says "SRAM is volatile memory; data is lost when power is removed."

So it must consume power to retain its value.
A72 is susceptible to Spectre because it has speculative execution I think.

That article was written before the release of Pi 4: 5th Jan 2018

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=243416

You don't get to 2 Gflops/W that easily!
In my case it guarantees a certain level of readability that is consistent across platforms. I spent quite a bit of time fine tuning the font weights to help readability. That costs about 60 kb, so it's hardly a huge sacrifice.
It's hard to convince anyone to pay for anything.
Sure, but this project isn’t really hand held and mobile and reloadable in a small amount of time. It took some smart enough person to operate as well. Some nuance and differentiation still appropriate; this is as close to an air rifle as vacuum tubes are to SoC.
I've been following the Trust & Safety space for a while now, with a major frustration beeing that there's not much by way of established structure to the practice or its instruction. This is rapdily changing, and Stamos's course (he was CSO at Facebook and Yahoo previously) is very likely to have a profound influence in shaping the field and practice.

There are also two recently-launched industry organisations, the TSPA (Trust and Safety Professional Association) and TSF (Trust & Safety Foundation):

https://www.tspa.info/2020/06/17/new-organizations-dedicated...
Well that's news to me. Interesting to hear, thanks!
I always think of game designers as Steve Meretzky in this video:

MC Frontalot - It is Pitch Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE
I train programmers, and strongly recommend they buy books or do other types of money/time investment to make themselves better (and more highly-paid programmers).

They won't do it.

I've had multiple programmers literally shocked and avoid my outstretched book. Once I got a question, said "I just read the answer to this in this book right here"... and the programmer refused to read the book to answer his question.

I don't get it.

This, coupled with companies lack of investment in their expensive engineers, is mystifying.

None of the above has anything to do with the FSF.
Sure, but complaining and proving it is possible to have smaller/faster websites is important because it can inspire and lead to better tools, libraries, services, standards, techniques and even new fads (!) in the future.

I understand that lots of software engineers complain about new tooling, and would rather have nothing changing, but the reality is that things will change. So we might as well fight for them to change to the better, by proving it is possible and showing/teaching others.

I also understand that people don't think FAANGs will ever fall, but just as Google disrupted every search before and Amazon disrupted brick and mortar stores, there can be something with a differentiator that will disrupt them in the future, and that differentiator might be going back to the web. Of course, there's the possibility of Google killing this new disruptive corner of the web as soon as its born, but oh well...
I've had a similar experience. It is kinda satisfying to tell those folks thanks, but you simply don't have time for their call.

Valley VCs shop for very particular people, and behaviorally, are perfectly fine ignoring good ideas if the body in front of them (when young) didn't go to Stanford or (when older) doesn't care about some of the same things.

Just ignore them, they're increasingly unnecessary.
How big was your site before optimization? also, I would like to see it.
The C ABI will outlive C, like the term "lingua franca" outlived the Franks. Pretty much every other language has support for the C ABI.
I wish apple music would directly support Sonos Streaming, i'd switch over from Spotify in a heartbeat if they did Sonos direct like Spotify does.

Not switching everything to apple play..
>So what's the point?

Integrity. As hard/cringey as it sounds it's because of integrity that the internet is still relatively free and software like firefox exists
If your "deterministic amount of time" can tolerate single-digit microsecond pauses, then Go's GC is just fine. If you're building hard real time systems then you probably want to steer clear of GCs. Also, "developer velocity" is an important criteria for a lot of shops, and in my opinion that rules out Rust, C, C++, and every dynamically typed language I've ever used (of course, this is all relative, but in my experience, those languages are an order of magnitude "slower" than Go, et al with respect to velocity for a wide variety of reasons).
They can't do that since they are getting their results from Bing.
The arm is just a large wheel and a small wheel on the same axle, with the unnecessary parts cut away. Round (not-cut-away) wheels will capture more of the energy as rotational inertia, leaving less for the projectile.
By default Firefox blocks anything that has audio, and lets anything that is mute play. In fact, now that I searched it again, it seems that there is no option to make gifs behave differently from video files anymore.

That's not what the GP saw.
I have programmed a lot of interactive simulations and visualizations on (cont)
See the first footnote: "The name is of course a reference to One More Red Nightmare."
Yeah, QDOS was a CP/M clone for 8086. It wasn't source compatible, but was 'major ideas and structure compatible'.
yep, lots of other things, too. MS-DOS was CP/M-compatible.

Windows 95 was DOS-compatible.

and so on. and even though the base OS changed starting with Windows 2000, lots of compatibility things were kept because they were supported in previous versions of Windows or MS-DOS.

All the way down to files with special names such as "AUX" or "CON", and the backslash as directory path separator are all from CP/M, though the path thing happened to maintain CP/M compatibility, and not because CP/M had filesystem directories, because early on (maybe always?) it didn't have directories.
Well, there's no time machine.

Also, as far as I know, a full replacement for C doesn't exists yet.
Why? Does it support ActivityPub?
I prefer W3Schools to MDN.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make... that machine is not particularly mobile. It takes him 5 minutes to load a projectile.

The UK has banned guns. People there generally don't build trebuchets to compensate.

Murder rate in the US is 18x higher than in the UK, and 23x higher than in Canada.

Edit: there are obviously other ways to murder someone, knives being the most common in the UK. If you're a good aim, guns are a lot less messy, and I think that makes a big difference to would-be murderers.
That backfired then (well, for me). I use DDG now because if my results are going to suck either way, I’d rather have privacy.
I think I have said many times that the language on the fundraising banners strikes me as lacking in truthfulness and designed, through A/B testing, to create the impression that Wikipedia – not the Wikimedia Foundation but specifically Wikipedia, which many people care about very much – is under some sort of threat.

This becomes more and more absurd as the Foundation takes more money every year and expands its budget, and not just by a little – revenue doubles every four years or so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

You need to decide for yourself, Alex, whether you are willing to excuse the manipulation or not. You said earlier,

> As for the language in the ads, it's there because it works. The WMF has tried, many times, language which is less emotional and more objective. It doesn't work. People don't respond.

You say now,

> I've already said that I don't care for the language either. I believe that they could be successful without it. Perhaps, not equally as successful but successful nonetheless. I shared that feedback when I worked there. I want them to appeal to the better angels of our nature.

This sounds more reasonable. Language which we both seem to agree is manipulative (a truly alarming habit for a key player in the global information ecosystem to have!) has enabled the WMF to double revenue every four or five years. I see no reason to assume that it couldn't have achieved modest growth with honest fundraising banners. Isn't this just greed?

Moreover, what falls by the wayside in this fundraising approach is what the WMF is actually planning to use its increased funds for. As far as donors and the public are concerned, it all seems to be about keeping Wikipedia up and running. But in fact, the WMF aims to invest in the Global South, in minor languages, in Wikifunctions for machine-translatable articles, in Wikidata, and so on. All of these initiatives might as well not exist for people seeing the fundraising banners with their message about "defending Wikipedia's independence".

This means that there is a lack of public scrutiny and indeed public debate and input into these plans. It is far better when people have a realistic idea of what it is they are supporting.

And indeed, there is a lost opportunity here, because people might actually be enthused by these plans. That would be a far better motivation for donating than artificially created fear.
> The only two websites I've encountered where I actually notice it, and remember that I did that, is Google Translate and a particular government website I use about once a year.

That's probably because of the Google Material Icons font, I believe? It shows or used to show text instead of icons when it couldn't load.
Docker wasn’t released publicly until 2013
I'm not super bullish on crypto and frankly it terrifies me a bit, but Intuit charges rent to the US population by lobbying to maintain complicated tax forms and processes...is that what you'd rather support?
Alphabet, Meta and now Block.

Looks like corporate umbrellas [0] are making a come back in style again.

I get the need to productize endlessly on sea of ideas and perhaps incubate spin-offs but even GE and J&J are running away from its conglomerate ways… I mean umbrella corporation [1] ways.

[0]https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corporate-umbrella.asp

[1]https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Umbrella_Corporation
https://block.com

That domain must have been expensive…
I think it depends on the person or the stream but I can tell you why I watch.

Occasionally I'll tune in for a big game and watch it the way people do sports, especially if my favorite team happens to be playing.

More often though, it just feels like a hang out the same way a podcast or talk radio can. Casual conversation with something in the game occasionally drawing attention.

I should say maybe I'm an edge case too. I probably only watch a couple hours a month.

Edit: ok I thought about it some more and I had one more thought.

Because there is a lot of it.

There are a few people I really like watching in interviews or give talks. But you'll find with any of that kind of content that you've watched it all after a few dozen hours max. With steamers there are hundreds to thousands of hours of content available for the person you find interesting to listen to.
Chrome phasing out Manifest v2 support from Jan 2022
Nice project!! Artists, traditional medicine practitioners, philosophers, social service volunteers, natural farmers, conservationists, and researchers in many obscure areas are people who come to mind while reading about Mothminds. A huge human social good potential remains untapped in these silent people. I hope Mothminds will be a catalyst in this effort.

Funding can move the needle and sustain them to some level. A greater need is yet not met like providing emotional support until they see light in their area. More tools to help them help us are unrealized wishes.
The key public brand cash app tidal etc is the same. Square was vendor facing mostly so the name isn’t that important as b2b names change frequently. I don’t think as big a deal as Meta name change, being a consumer brand, and that’s not really a problem with consumers so far.
> The only thing really "special" about software, and it applies to all engineering, is you cannot pretend something is working when it isn't. If your airplane design doesn't fly, pretending it did doesn't work.

And yet engineers are doing it all the time. Think of Dieselgate or the Boeing 737 MAX.

One might object that the discovery of Dieselgate or the flaws of the Boeing 737 MAX is prove that the engineers responsible for it were not able to pretend. But then the sentence is analytically true for every other profession too: the discovery of a flaw falsifies claims of flawlessness.

I think that some types of flaws make themselves apparent comparatively easy in (software) engineering. But this might even fire back if it makes an engineer too uncritical so that she put too much trust into the result of her work.

Besides, I do not think that we have good metrics to compare distant professions in terms of their ability to deliver high-quality results. It is perhaps somewhat justified to compare neigboring professions, such as a biologist arguing with a physician or a historian with a political scientist in specific cases. But beyond that, I can really only imagine an exchange of prejudices.
good call out and excellent representation of the formula. I was having issues