skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ShowRSS + uTorrent has worked for me. I know, I know, "but illegal/the moneys". I watch like... 1 show on Netflix (2 now with Sandman), 1 show on the CW (soon to be 0, as it's the Flash), 1 show on HBO Max (Harley Quinn), etc. Paying for an entire service (or cable) just because I like one show they offer is ridiculous. The closest I'd come to doing it is Disney+ because of all the Marvel content, but even then I'm paying for access to a shit-ton of Disney content I couldn't care any less about. (I currently do pay for Netflix, mostly because I subbed to support their pickup of Lucifer and then decided to stay subbed until Umbrella Academy dies.)

Basically, what I'm saying is, as long as every company wants to withhold the content I like behind a paywall the size of tons of content I don't want, ShowRSS + uTorrent = the pirate's life for me. Yo-ho.

(Legitimately, if I was able to pay for just the individual shows I watch, I would pay for 100% of them. But no one offers that option, so... shrug )
BEVs like Teslas already have a rare-earth-free induction motor in them. They use an additional rare earth motor for efficiency, which in the Model S and X gets them ten percent greater range. The way this article conveniently ignores that fact leads me to believe there's no chance of the modified synchronous reluctance motor exceeding the efficiency of the induction motor and therefore will have no impact on the electric car industry.

Mighty impressive work from a teenager, though.
Yes, that is my point. Everyone is constantly evaluating everyone else and placing them in different tribes with different priorities. All the way from parent child relationships to neighbors to country level and even global level.

Skin color, wealth, relatives, philosophies, habits, and infinitely more characteristics are used to determine who will and will not benefit you or not benefit you and it can change with every scenario.

I agree with comparing caste-ism to racism, and very well may be the same. It is very similar in that they classify someone as part of a tribe because of their ancestors. But it is also quite similar to classifying someone based on their accent, which side of town they grew up in, or what university they attended, because they all end up being a function of who one’s ancestors are also.
Ask HN: When did corporate America become so flaky?
HI HN!

TL:DR - When did poor communication etiquette become normalized in American corporate culture?

I re-entered the job market several months ago after not needing to touch my resume since 2008 (see last submission) and my experience has been nothing short of brutally sobering. My age (40s) and experience (20+ years in IT) was definitely helpful in keeping me resilient through the process, and I'm extremely fortunate to have landed a senior IT leadership role that I love.

BUT I have come away from this entire ordeal a touch jaded and syndical towards much corporate America and how people are treated within the job search process (almost all other job seekers I spoke to had very similar experiences) . These are several key takeaways from my job hunt that I wanted to get some feedback/input from the HN community on potentially why this is happening and why it seems to be so prevalent across so many companies today:

1. Of the 13 staff-level (not recruiters) virtual interviews I had where no job offer was given, 9 of them that moved onto second interviews, 4 to third, I only received follow-up "dear john" communication from 2 of them. Ironically these were both from first-round interview companies. Is it normal practice to ghost applicants at the staff-level interview process? In brutal self reflection I even recorded several of the interviews and shared them with friends in senior leadership positions to ask for coaching advice and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

2. Communications, especially logistical planning for interviews, was at times borderline comical. This is not hyperbole when I say that more often than not I would need to write follow-up emails after an email communication would go unresponded to for over a week, sometimes longer, sometimes not at all.

3. I have, as of today, well over 30 ATL optimized applications still sitting in "applications purgatory" with many large fortune 500 companies. Most of these applications are from 3-4 months ago. The fact that these companies have no automated purge/rejection process seems bizarre to me.

Help me out HN. How does your company handle communication etiquette? Am I out of touch to be expecting email replies to relevant, time sensitive information within days, not weeks? Why is ghosting tolerated, or is it normal now and I'm just expecting too much from this new generation?
That’s a pretty interesting idea. WA has crazy high car registration fees/tax so if someone wants to optimize this they need to drive a cheap car to decrease the burden
I plugged my parents 1960 fridge into a kilowatt and it used so little power I had to leave it plugged in for several days to make sure I got a reasonable reading. Something like 2 kwhr per day. So it would take about five years for a replacement to pay for itself if the replacement ran on nothing but happy thoughts.
While it is good he was released, the police never should have been there in the first place. There was no reason to question a person over a tweet like that.
This is a complex goal. Setting arguments about the economics and ROI of this or that, one issue which always comes into play is dealing with "base load" energy needs. Today, base loads are provided by coal, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and so forth. Take the fossil fuel sources out and what do you have left?
Bucky Fuller argued for a global power grid so that renewables generating unneeded energy can be wheeled to places where base load is ramping up.
That hasn't happened.
As much as I'd love this to be true, we get a lot of propaganda here in the West and in general both sides are burning a lot of resources. Russia had more resources to start with and can probably replenish at least some of them (manpower and tanks).
While staying active and eating healthy are very important contributors to a longer life, it seems one also needs to have a healthy social life and sense of purpose to foster the will to live longer.
Most of the features here (and in Rust updates in general these days) are just the loosening of constraints on what you could already do. If anything, these types of changes make the language conceptually simpler.

This gets pointed out by somebody in the comment section under every Rust update. The trope that Rust is getting harder to use is tired, and not really based in reality.
If I'm bisecting, I usually already have a single test in mind which exposes the bug I'm looking for, so I'm explicitly running that test only.

In general, I want to store one or more services and a first/last valid commit for each one as metadata for each test so that my framework knows which ones to run based on the environment under test. Haven't added this feature yet though.
I'm sure this is aimed at this data being used for marketing, but hopefully will address providing this surveillance data to government as well.
> resentment towards him is helping you or anyone?

Where do you see resentment? It's like saying "anyone could have been Bill Gates" except that Bill Gates had access to lab computers much earlier than any other kid of his generation (and his family was well off, too). A touch with reality is always helpful in an ocean of optimism.
He should base his defense on having posted merely a regime-approved flag, and make them argue that the putative offense is constituted by displaying it in apposition to itself.
I am a non-tech founder building a app on building, basically very CRM/Data centric for a specific industry vertical I work in professionally.

I am pushing Bubble to its limits where I have access to approx 150m records with all sorts of other database relationships to many millions of records.

To build this app in a custom software solution, I have been quoted $100k to $500k depending on the backend architecture.

Instead, I am spending around $20-30k in development costs to get my app off the ground to be able to pick up the first paying users... at least that's the goal and I'm a few weeks away from launch.

I would also say that my "MVP" is not like Airbnb's MVP... my hope (and it seems) that it may be functional enough to nearly (70%) replace my existing CRM that I use day to day. Of course, I am planning to transition to a custom software solution once I validate, so I don't see bubble as a long term solution.

I've self taught myself a bit of python and tried teaching myself JS as well off and on, so I am able to generally talk through with software developers what I'm trying to achieve and generally understand the technical things that might be discussed. So I'm not entirely a total non-technical noob.

But the issue with Bubble is there is still a high barrier to actually learning how to use the platform for the average non tech person. It's a black box of sorts and they don't have the best education (unlike webflow). I mean come on, you have to pay $800 to take a bubble sponsored course? Lame. Nonetheless, you learn programming concepts by learning how to build on bubble.

I'll end by replying to the top comment about code being perceived as complex.

Spanish isn't complex. Nor is French. Maybe we can consider Japanese to be more complex. But even then, millions of people speak it just fine. Conjugations in Spanish are complex for a 40 year old English speaker new to Spanish but not complex for a 8 year old native speaker.

But after a certain age, life takes hold, you begin working, and you lose the time and opportunity to spend 100's or 1,000's of hours learning another language. Trying to learn how to code is like this. I sometimes need to carve out 3-6 hours of a day to context-switch away from my busy (non-technical) professional & social life to get back into programming mode.

Low code tools abstract away hours of that complexity you would have to learn, which allows you to start building something functional quicker than you otherwise would have. I know software devs look at low code and say "what's the matter with this crap, I can just spin up a X to do Y in 1 week, this is worthless!". But you are the native Spanish speaker in my metaphor, not the folks learning Spanish way past the days they had time to learn Spanish in college, trying to build the next greatest Spanish hit song to tell their story (i.e. software app!)
The parent comment is saying that kids' achievements are limited to their resources. This seems valid to me. Certainly my own experience as a parent (and a child) bears it out.
I just love how this mirror article is fanning the flames of a culture war.
Rust is a pretty young language though.... if now is not the time to add features, then when is?
> This is not as good as having an official standard (say, in Cargo.toml)

It’s present now: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html#the-...
I have seen this on the road. I had assumed it was a custom made vehicle bolting the front of a semi to a stock truck bed.
The mirror is a garbage newspaper, it shouldn't be on hn. (Source: am Irish)
That was the same satellite source that was used in this paper.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ghgsat/status/1537051266127482880

https://www.ghgsat.com/en/case-studies/coal-mining-methane/

So now they have the data they should only look at Russian coal mines?
TikTok should have been banned in America so an American version could have replaced it. Chinese state media is sketch
Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut steps down, Rania Succar to succeed
That guy was wrong. He's also looking at it from a binary perspective when that is not how any of this works.
> Maybe the dollar cost of all this was $60. Cool.

Minting fees for NFTs range from $70 to $300. I'd expect to pay $1000 minimum for a ship that's actually good.
Perhaps chance is a major factor, but perhaps there are things you can do to increase your odds.
I'd get the Subaru Sambar but the bed can only load 350 lbs, right? It's a bit risky to put two Yamaha YZ125s in them. But I'd totally buy the Sambar honestly, for other stuff. Does anyone know of a light truck that's small? I live in San Francisco and the big trucks are really infeasible here.
Did ever Visual Basic back in the 90's disrupt tech?
Not that much. It certainly back then allowed a lot of people with low skill/experience in dev to jump in development. Was an inclusive tool but not revolutionary.

Tools like github copilot gives us a glimpse of how will be the tool that will revolutionize tech dev on day in the future IMHO.
Oh that is much harder then :)

At some point in the future I can imagine being able to plug in a pretrained alpha-go model into any game for fine tuning, that would be sweet.
I would say that tyranny has already begun, we are long past its beginning. It has been a slow creep.
Does anyone know what the situation will be for non-commercial use, i.e. sailboats circumnavigating? Will they be able to use the RV dish and pay $150/month, or will they have to go with the $5000/month maritime option?
This entire line of argument over whether we are in a technical recession is pointless and dumb. We are in a uniquely weird economic situation that is clearly bad but less bad than a typical recession, and it would be improved if inflation fell.
What does dessert have to do with it? I have never heard about that.
This is great, I'm happy for him! But I miss the creative aspect in myself. I used to be so creative like him, with so many half-finished inventions scattered around the house.

Today there's nothing. I finally managed to carve out a day or two per week away from my job to work on personal projects after many years of failed attempts to get away at great personal expense. But the last 3 days that I went to work on something, I picked up the metaphorical brush and there was nothing there. No creative impulse, just worries about chores/bills/obligation and painful memories from 20 years of negative reinforcement after failing at business or going through traumatic life events in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 and during the pandemic. Probably many more that all blur together. Now I just project my frustrations onto the world with negativity and accomplish no forward progress towards my life goals.

Does anyone know a way to truly rekindle the creative spark after it's completely died? I feel generally happy and capable, but in borderline crisis that I can't self-start anymore or do work that isn't demanded of me externally. I'm coming to terms with the harsh reality that I'll likely never accomplish even one thing of any importance in all of the remaining years of my life. There's only work now and the daily grind. Pedal to the metal in first gear. Like I started out as Wesley Crusher but today am Paulie from Rocky with no prospects, only long slow decline.
I assume what he means with medications is if the benefits outweigh the side effects, that person is stuck with the side effects.
Python is interpreted—you have to write code that works on all of your target platforms. Rust is compiled. You don’t have to care (much) about what is installed on your target platforms.
This is conjecture but I've done a ton of school. As a life long learner and a person who pursues university education "casually" I have a lot of experience.

I don't believe America is running out of teachers. You can argue pay is bad for K-12 but from the high school teachers I've talked to it seems to be the under-high school crowd that bears the worst of it.

Some of this has to do with the average skill set required. While teachers should be paid more, in America the barrier to entry for teaching is so low under the collegiate level that it's almost an utter triviality to become one. As a result, many well intentioned but less than capable people become them. My experience going through K-12 in America was primarily that school is simply a day care for most people. If university didn't prepare me for the real world K-12 definitely didn't prepare me for the real world. I don't believe paying teachers more would ameliorate this. This is simply a function of capability of the teachers. Compound this with lower pay due to lower barrier to entry and you have a reasonably high turnover. Much like most government jobs, teaching below the university level is a passion field where pay is low and motivation is uncharacteristically high.

A lot of schools require teachers to pay for their own supplies as well. This typically is where the good teachers, the passionate and educated ones, leave. You'd have to be a fool to make $20-30/hr. and end up paying 1/5 out for books, materials, etc to enhance your kids learning.

America does not invest in education like it used to. K-12 has been an indoctrination camp for children for a while. If you doubt this, ask why home economics was removed from virtually all schools, and why there is a loud bell in the first place (hint: it's to condition you to old school lunch/break bells). Or, why American schools in general are built to feel like prisons. After grade school I never remember getting to see out of classes because they were all concrete jungles with high walls and thick metal gates to keep you in. At my schools (early 00's) there were also actual armed police everywhere and monitors patrolling the halls. I got the hint by high school that schools aren't set up for learning, they're set up to condition you to authority. In hindsight it was a claustrophobic experience.

So if teachers that can teach can't afford it, and people who want to teach aren't capable, and America itself has designed public education to be more of a prison indoctrination camp than mind opening, why would anyone stay?
> By and large, highly-paid CEOs are a drain on corporate profits. As the research paper I linked shows, even those highly-compensated CEOs who win awards end up performing worse than their non-award-winning counterparts.

You're forgetting who decides CEO pay - the board / shareholders.

They are aware of this. And despite that, they keep these pay packages.

Is it fair? I dunno. I personally don't think CEO's should be getting paid what they do. Does anyone care? No.

Is anyone's salary fair? I dunno.

If you distribute the CEO's pay to the rest of the company it wouldn't materially impact average workers wages (less than a 1% increase) - except in rare cases (less than 5% of large companies).

Why should I get raged out that my CEO makes $100M+ per year? If you distribute that to everyone at the company - it's not even a 1% increase. There's much easier ways I can make 1% more money...

It's really not worth discussing except in rare cases - and those are exceptions that don't change the larger picture.
I have created a resource that I think addresses your dissatisfaction.

The information is available on physics.stackexchange
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/670705

I use 'Hamilton's stationary action' to refer to the action concept of Classical Mechanics.

For Hamilton's stationary action the standard presentation is that it is demonstrated that F=ma can be recovered from Hamilton's stationary action.

Here's the thing: in physics it is common that derivation can be performed in either direction, and that applies in this case too. Hamilton's stationary action can be derived from F=ma

The derivation proceeds in two stages:
1. Derivation of the Work-Energy theorem from F=ma
2. Demonstration that in all cases where the Work-Energy theorem holds good Hamilton's stationary action will hold good also

Importantly, it's not retracing of the steps. The from-F=ma-to-Hamilton derivation hinges on the Work-Energy theorem. It's a different path altogether.

The steps of the derivation show why Hamilton's stationary action holds good. It achieves the justification you are looking for.

The derivation that I present is for the case of Hamilton's stationary action specifically; I'm positive the reasoning generalizes to all areas where an action concept is applied.

The demonstration is illustrated with interactive diagrams.
(On physics.stackexchange the diagrams are posted as animated GIFs, the frames of the GIF are successive screenshots of the interactive diagram.)

Each diagram has one or more sliders, to explore variation of a trial trajectory. The diagram shows how the kinetic energy and potential energy respond to variation sweep.

The interactive diagrams are on my own website:
http://cleonis.nl/physics/phys256/energy_position_equation.p...
That's a somewhat rosy depiction that minimizes what the police did, which even the local PCC has criticised.
If you work backwards from what kills people, you can theoretically work out what will improve your chances.

In the elderly, heart disease and a rapid decline in health after a broken hip are high on the list of events that lead to death. So keeping the cardiovascular system healthy, and strengthening the muscles that support balance and reduce injuries make sense.

Strength training and a sufficient, consistent amount of exertion each week make sense. They do not, of course, guarantee you'll never have a genetic condition, or some other unfortunate incident. That's not how biology and bodies work. But it does help prepare you as you age.

Diet seems much trickier, because dietary needs do vary somewhat depending on your specific body! The hacker approach of experimenting (and journaling) and figuring out what leaves you feeling healthy and energetic is what I'd recommend to anyone who cares!

So write it off as "yet another" anecdote if you please. But also consider whether these ideas are good for your quality of life, and if they are a trade-off worth making.
The OS package managers seem to be figuring it out, though. I've noticed that both opensuse and debian have a number of rust programs in their repos.
Worth pointing out:

1. The Mirror should not be trusted. There are few trashier newspapers in the country. It’s is definitely not the sort of “source” that should be getting any airtime on HN.

2. The article is littered with inconsistencies.
I would much rather live in a world where people question biased media narratives and we risk hurting someone's feelings than the other way around. If this kid can't handle a little bit of criticism, he won't be long for the engineering discipline.
A few years ago we played this for a few weeks at the office over Christmas break when things were otherwise slow. We had maybe a dozen players, and played in Survival mode which I believe is infinite with difficulty ramping up.

We split into four teams, with one providing power, one providing ammo, one building defenses, and the rest just running around trying to help out where we needed it the most.

There was a ton of potential. I had to keep adjusting the difficulty as the match went on to keep us alive and then to finish us off when we were running out of time.

I'd love a multiplayer coop game like this but with the potential to have fifty or a hundred players. Right now the office plays CS:GO once a week, with the settings changed to allow max players, but it still caps at thirty. CS:GO is hard for new employees to get in to so I'd love something where everyone has fun. We also did TF2 for a while, which was better because the newbies could be medics and still feel like they were contributing, but the hard-core player base loved the challenge of CS:GO.
A lot of the Russian conscripts seem to be minorities from more rural areas, and Russian military lifestyle is very subpar and is likely a downgrade for those conscripts from their home.

So yeah, the conscripts getting upset and burning down a base is very believable.
Burning coal on the other hand has a waste disposal mechanism built in! The carbon atoms are converted into CO2, a harmless gas that we can release into the atmosphere without any consequences.
I can see why you'd think of it as a version of this story, but it's also a version of "Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141171).