skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame ESR is insane. I gave up on him a few years back when he published on his blog clearly premeditated intent to shoot people he didn't like.
"just change your settings for your whole monitor for every site you visit because HN has the _perfectly reasonable_ font-size of 9pt."
It doesn't matter. You can provide the numbers when asked by the proponents of HTTP2/3 'do you have proof of your claim??', they will just turn around and say your real world data is not valid or that they need peer-reviewed article in Science.
Compare the first paragraphs of these two articles. Remember that Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign...
South Africa Internet Hit by Multiple Subsea Cable Breaks
I'm having the same thought.

Like first of all, we can already generate electricity from evaporation. They're called steam turbines and they're very old technology.

These work at STP, but so do steam turbines if you use a mirror dish to concentrate sunlight.

Secondly, this is just solar power. It's just photon -> heat -> movement -> electricity instead of directly photon -> electricity. My naive take is that it will never be as efficient as solar due to the inherent losses in converting energy.

Lastly, even if we did want to something like this, these birds seem like the worst way to do it.

Couldn't we tap into the same energy source by putting something lightweight and porous like aerogel or cheesecloth onto an "elevator" of sorts and moving it up into the clouds and back down? I.e. it starts off dry at ground level, weighing 10g or whatever. We hoist it up to the clouds where it soaks up water until it weighs 2kg or whatever, then we lower it and harvest the potential energy. Then we wait for the sun to dry it out and we do it again.

It weighs 10g on the way up and something much more on the way down, which I think should net us energy.

To be clear, I still think actual solar power makes more sense, but I don't think grid-scale deployment of this would involve literal drinking birds.
Singe burn to orbit is pretty common though in reality, with the dynamics of staging, engine throttling, and precision insertion capabilities most modern rockets can hit the mark.
Is that right? Molecules with no polarity can still form liquids. It happens all the time; we call those liquids "hydrophobic" (or, most commonly, we call them "oils"). The hydrogen bonds aren't what's keeping the water in liquid form.

Cooking oil, notably, will not evaporate the way water will -- if you spill it somewhere, the oil will mostly just stay wherever you left it until you clean it up -- but my understanding was that this is because oil molecules are huge and heavy while water molecules are tiny.
Why? Have Gantt charts ever been useful for any industry?
I wonder how much of that standing around is say the drywall guy standing around waiting for pipes or wiring work to be done so they could do drywall work.
This was the last one
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163447

and a paper from last year
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11568

and basically the same paper from three years ago (you'll recognize one of the plots from the last article)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02031
This is beautiful.

I had so much fun at Twilio signal the year that Tony hawk was there and OK GO played … Great open bar and fantastic catering.

I have no idea what postman is or what people use it for but what’s the point of living in the bay area in 2024 if you’re not taking advantage of this excess?

Will try to attend in May ...
Yeah, fair point, it's subjective but here it's a case of different things being important to different people. The album - SOTT in this instance - sounds the way it does and I've been listening to it for 37 years and wouldn't want it any other way, but it still evokes a feeling of dissatisfaction compared to other recording unearthed from the same era amidst the evidence that Prince just didn't care enough because he was too desperate to get the music out, and that attitude never really changed much until he died. It just wasn't a priority, but then other engineers came along, I mean, just one album later, and just captured more of him and his work.

A lot of stuff he didn't really care about that much actually made a massive difference to his work - Laura LiPuma's artwork, graphics, visuals and designs were all hugely important to those albums - and when he went off on his own years later, those things fell off a cliff and the art was worse for it.

As brilliant as he was, there were a bunch of things he really wasn't great at and other people very much improved his output.

As for sonics, I feel that all those albums he made with Susan Rogers have a low ceiling for getting the most out of them - i.e. they don't sound any better on a £50K system than they do on a £100 system - and if that was an artistic goal, I'd give up arguing, but because he outsourced caring about that to others, it feels like we missed out a bit. But we will never know, and that's ok too.
The Wild History of Disney's Animal Obsession and the Kingdom He Built (2019)
Until recently you couldn’t pump your own gas in Oregon
What do you mean it "isn't accepting" that you spent all the days since September 16 in the Scehngen Zone?

Is it not accurately calculating that you no longer have days available to your (assumed) 90 in the 180-day window?

Is it giving an error that "you must input a number of 90 or less" and that the "earliest entry date must be within 180 days"?

If that is the case, this is one of those edge cases I need to fix - if anyone has already blown through all their days allowed within the preceding 180 day period.

1. Thanks so much for even looking at it!
2. If you can clarify what issue you are running into, i can fix it.

Thanks!
Companies are just a trick to make you think they're not made of of people when in fact it's just a mask for decisions made by real fleshy humans. When a company does something immoral it is because a human at the company did something immoral.
Building a perfect wall with external insulation is kind of expensive and hard to get approved by an inspector. It's much easier to just do it the way everyone else does and follow national building code.
Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.
Comparable to Falcon 9? Unlikely - they've got three dozen Raptor engines on that thing, which alone account for the entire cost (not price) of a Falcon 9 flight. Maybe it is comparable to legacy launch providers, such as the Deltas and Atlases. But unlikely comparable to a Falcon 9 launch, even considering the larger payload.
Not defending people who steal, but Amazon especially have purposefully chosen to use a system whereby they don't really track this sort of thing: because it's historically been cheaper for them to just accept returns without checking than to check them.

Previously the small losses from people who were stealing were < the price they'd have to pay to have systems in place to check this stuff in depth.

I've received stuff from Amazon where they've sent me an empty box with no product in it - because the previous person probably "returned" it, then I have to be the one who reports "uhh...the thing I bought isn't actually in the box".
box office: $6,900

Human race advances in leaps by a super small group of dedicated people, we are all indebted to
I'm not sure the payload doors successfully opened and closed. Anyone have more details?
Bruh, you are me. You are literally me. You speak the same thing I speak. You wrote the same things I think. The idea about only few writing something novel and everyone else riding waves on top of it.

I am really happy that someone else also came to same conclusion. It means it's not just us! There will be many more like us who truly want to build new things.

How should we do that? Like you I also find that anything I want to build as MIT licensed software and it works. Then I wonder what do the engineers do?

Oh yes, the new graduates like us are the bottom feeder that are valueless to the companies. They demand 3yr+ for entry level. It's "entry level".

To them we are just expenses that should be cut. I am blessed to learn this really early on. Now I can quit even before starting. Kinda happy about it NGL. I am thinking of building things for myself and when these companies come after me, I would charge them in millions. Let's see how long they can play this game.

They can't speak the local language like I do since I come from fairly backwarded country. That is a huge advantage.
These kinds of security mindsets exist because browsers have been made extremely insecure these days by encouraging and even setting the default behavior to automatically execute random programs downloaded from random places while at the same time exposing bare metal functionality for speed.

This incredibly insecure business use case has made it so using a browser for merely surfing the web is dangerous and that's why CA TLS is required. But if you just turn JS off... it's fine.

There is so much more to the web than just business web applications selling things or institutional/government websites with private information. There are human people on the web and their use cases matter too. HTTP/3 disregards them. It's fine for now but when Chrome removes HTTP/1.1 for "security reasons" it's not going to be fine.
Just FYI, I’m unable to easily find your job listings. LinkedIn shows nothing and I don’t see a careers page on the website.
I know we are sharing anecdata from walking up the hills both ways but I'll add my own. I went to the Peoria Illinois school district. You can look it up - it was one of the poorest, worst performing, most underprivileged school districts in the state (outside of south Chicago and East St. Louis). I was on the reduced lunch program (40 cents a meal). But even we had a pretty boring affair of canned peaches and vegetables with lima beans with our Salisbury steak.

Also, the application for reduced lunch was included with the registration for the school so uptake was pretty high. At the time the district was legally compelled to feed kids whether they paid or not, so they were incentivized to maximize the reimbursement from the federal government to defray the costs.
How about minimize how much anyone gets rated, and try to hire for, and structure incentives for, people motivated by:

* success of the company,

* success/happiness of the team, and

* societally beneficial service

(I assume this works best if your company also genuinely has those values. But if it does, no sense using the disproven methodology of sociopathic companies.)
Correct this has been around forever, but TikTok, Instagram, OnlyFans have made everybody feel like they are important (exponential amplification). Average people now can make absurd amounts of money and fame by being the most flashy, bombastic, and slutty. Morally bankrupting its users. I am a staunch free speech proponent, but I do have serious concerns with the mental wellbeing of young people (in my forties) due to these platforms.
They have Nintendo Pass, or Online, something like that, can't really remember the name, it's the same subscription you use for playing online on the Switch, they have NES, SNES and n64 games in there but it is a really small selection and the experience is extremely poor.

I remember emulating SNES games on my old Windows 98 rig-from-hell and enjoy a much better experience than with the service they provide. It's a shame really...
You have it backwards, the main garage opener is doing the learning, the cars button is just transmitting a signal. Doing this process, you’re telling your garage door opener “hear this new remote? Please allow him to open the door as well.” Presumably the car side buttons just cycle through a few common protocols (realistically there’s only 4-5 ones in common use, almost all garage door openers I the U.S. are made by Chaimberlain/Liftmaster or Genie).
yes, too much to ask for a multi-trillion company, especially that this company was until recently well known for maintaining crazy level of backward compatibility
Man, comment was greyed between reading and clicking reply - I get that the back-and-forth over AI is a thing but if you're gonna respond negatively to an arguable point based on a topic with this much nuance, at least respond with words as well as downvotes. ANYWAY...

...It's that very google issue that convinces me the most important thing we can do is build towards locally runnable LLMs. There's no reason we can't eventually get to gpt4-or-better on consumer hardware, it's just going to take some time and research and we're gonna have to dodge the incessant ladder-pulls that the big dogs keep lobbying for ("AI is dangerous! Only we can be trusted(tm)!").

You can't enshittify an application I own, that's running on my hardware. Not with the current state of things, at least.
That's absolutely batshit insane if true. How do they not understand that no one will use their site if they can't do it anonymously?!
We must also remember to address the opportunity cost whenever we describe how to use a thing, else we're not specific enough.
This reads like a hit piece - emotionally charged introduction, extensive anecdotes and references to controversial characters like Andrew Tate.

No specific action or policy of Onlyfans is demonstrated as problematic.

Also, the word "some" is used 29 times in the article. Why not just say the exact number?
V0LT Predator – An open source, security focused dash-cam platform with ALPR
Remember when Yelp did that? And yet, somehow not dead.
Investing in Kaedim
In small trainer planes, the seat gets moved back and forth frequently to accommodate students of different heights.

At least one crash has been caused by the seat rails becoming so worn that the seat slid back during takeoff and the pilot could no longer reach the controls.

The same thing can happen in old cars.
it wasn’t always the case (or at least most people believed it wasn’t) and they exist for a long time – the suggestion I think is for the people like me, who wrote something there over 10 years ago and now their posts would possibly stop being anonymous.
I definitely want to hear this from Glassdoor. I just can't imagine why Glassdoor would put a user's name alongside a review against the wish of the user in question. So I'll give Glassdoor a chance to clarify what's happening before getting my pitchfork.
Every team I've ever worked with (11) has had at least one person that would meet this archetype.
Their team-based contribution usually wilts under the kind of individualized metrics being pushed for by some here and the team suffers as a result even if their own metrics get better.
That picture of the probes on an individual transistor is really something.
It will be pretty hilarious if we see 500 positive reviews exposed as being from Terry from HR on Glassdoor. Maybe it will help legitimize it a little.
Site is close to unusable anyway. I have gotten emails from them about potentially interesting jobs, and then could never figure out how to actually view the job postings. Instead I’m sent through their review workflow to get access.
Her about page on https://patricgagne.com/ says this

> B.A. · University of California Los Angeles

> M.A. · California Graduate Institute

> PhD · California Graduate Institute of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
> The availability of skills is also an issue. Many of the engineers who worked on the project - Voyager 1 launched in 1977 - are no longer around, and the team that remains is faced with trawling through reams of decades-old documents to deal with unanticipated issues arising today

At least part of the problem is that we don't regularly send long distance probes. Of course, even with that maintaining a relevant skill set to maintain a 50+ year old technology from over 100 AU seems difficult. I think having it be a single team's life's work is probably our limit to keeping it alive. Our next best window for sending out another group of probes is 2152 and hopefully it'll become cheap enough to send out a bunch of them with even higher resolution imagery & maybe actually hit all the planets this time. Unfortunately, it's likely no one reading this will be alive to see that happen.
It's risky to accept contributions without a license, free or not.
I disagree, it’s mostly a boring PR video targeted towards a general audience. The clipped part the original title referred to is more interesting than the rest of the video.
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Find me one example of institution that managed to go for any significant amount of time (say, longer than a decade) without facing corruption. I double-dare you.
If anybody doesn't think this is a problem, I overheard managers talking about a 3rd-party tool that finds "at risk employees" which they didn't define but said it included signals such as "they updated their linked in recently" as a signal that they may be on the job hunt.

You better believe that data brokers are both interested in buying and selling any sort of information around your employment/job/interview behaviors.
<very unfortunate and emotional example of terrible thing> therefore... what exactly?

What is your solution?

Onlyfans couldn't exist a decade ago but in the name of normalizing things here we are. I'm confused what in my comment makes you think I'm defending them.

To upload to it the content creator must verify their identity similar to KYC at a bank. If anything you can argue being so stupid as to upload to such an account nonconsensual activities led to a swifter arrest.
An apt comment on the horrid US-ian date format. Although the international notation, YYYY-03-14, which is de rigueur for political correctness, would side with the 14th of March.
> People who have worked in the second type of environment (deadlines are real and have consequences) become quite good at estimating and managing progress toward deadlines without crunch mode at the end. They become good at communicating issues with deadlines far in advance to avoid surprises.

So, incentives matter - shocking, just shocking.

Or maybe the take away is that is there is no incentive, someone made it up and it doesn't matter.
Yelp isn't dead but no one I know uses it anymore, specifically due to all the issues with reviews.
An empty Starship has a very low ballistic coefficient, it will be torn apart by the atmosphere if not carefully controlled. Add to that the FTS and there is no real danger to population on the ground.
i might be misunderstanding , but it seems easy
if you want a vector orthogonal to A , generate a random vector B non co-linear to A and take AxB (cross product). AxB is orthogonal to A .
Yelp has no real alternative for vetting unfamiliar restaurants, at least not one which doesn’t have similar conflicts.
They definitely do more than traditional porn sites though. The same thing can happen without OnlyFans.
How is this not fraud?

https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-ca...

> You can't pay us to take down reviews and we apply the same content moderation rules to our clients that we use for everyone else.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
No. Don't want my kid to become a software coolie like us. With AI and scrum masters and micro managers, it is quickly becoming more of a replaceable blue collar job.
Wood framing can be just as fireproof as steel and concrete. This is why drywall is so popular for interior finishing.
> […] and his upcoming book on the technical history of Ethernet.

That's something I'd be interested in (~1h45m).

I have both editions of O'Reilly's Ethernet book:

* https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ethernet-the-definitive...

* https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ethernet-the-definitive...

Wouldn't mind an update of that either.
> It was only a bit later that it became clear just how ossified TCP was.

It has almost _always_ been tied to OS, but moreover the OS of every node in between you and the webpage. That was the most frustrating thing, there were and are solutions for making TCP more latency resistant but also get better throughput and deal with "buffer bloat" which was a big thing at the time.

I was working in transcontental bulk transfer which used to mean that things like aspera/fasp was the defacto standard for fast/latency/loss resistant transport. So I had seen this first hand. I suspect it was probably why I was dismissed, because I wasn't a dyed in the wool webdev.
That’s super slimy of them — a while back I had spent some time investigating fake reviews on their platform [1] and also found that their moderation team has no strict processes in place to deal with bad actors.

[1]: https://www.careerfair.io/company-reviews
Unreasonably shameless plug for my open source Python library Helium [1], so you don't need a test generator.

1: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium
Not 100% sure this will work, but there is a Mailchimp signup, and Mailchimp newsletters have RSS feeds. Based on the newsletter URL the RSS feed should be https://us21.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=96d33fd949860389358.... There's nothing in there yet but I would expect posts to show up if they start sending out emails.
This needs a (2015). In the 9 years since this was written I haven't seen that many attempts to do something different and these ideas are entrenched. Even newer companies that have the opportunity to do be different tend to fall back on these approaches once they hit the size that people management becomes a role.

My own experience has been that performance reviews really just end up being alignment reviews, which is it's own sort of useful. I think this is possibly the most accurate signal one can expect out of these processes.
It's ironic how all the existential risk people warn us with a parable of a "paperclip optimizer" and then turn around and claim we should funnel society's resources into the current wave of AI.

And what's it all for? To teach AIs to farm for resources in video games. To enable disinformation at scale. To have robots write and read our pointless emails. To take the humans out of art. To make the extractive machinery of our society more extractive.

The author ends with "the world can't afford this growth in AI." Indeed, and we're not getting much for what we're paying.
I buy a lot on Amazon business and prime. Never have I gotten an empty box. That's interesting, are they shipping you used products?
All this "my final determination" and "your other surprise account" nonsense could be rectified pretty quickly with a GDPR banhammer. I am increasingly of the opinion that personal info of any kind should be legally radioactive, and very high-risk for companies to hold onto or collect.
Many companies pay agencies to post fake positive reviews about them. This is especially common among companies who publish fake job vacancies.
It's unusable on mobile. Adding a basic responsive layout is essential and trivial compared to the problems Ibis is trying to solve.
Disgusting. Thought about creating an account several times to see more salary information, but now I guess I never will.
I have. No need to worry about me. :)
> The woman says "no" in the video itself according to her lawyer.

Is that evidence of something? It's common as dirt in professionally-produced porn. What's to catch?
> Temperature-based evaporation is "boiling"

I don't think that's true for naming, but regardless warmer water evaporates quicker.

And the statement doesn't say evaporation doesn't occur for other reasons, though the wording feels like it implies it.
Looks nice! Will try it with my kids later :)

If you’re interested in teaching kids Python, also take a look at Hedy. It’s a gradual language that exposed more programming paradigms with each level. It’s used a lot in classroom settings.

Full disclosure: I’ve contributed a couple of commits.
> Microsoft says: “We have determined that multiple fibre cables on the West Coast of Africa — WACS, MainOne, SAT3, ACE — have been impacted