skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why you aren't likely to be doing VLBI in the visible light spectrum any time soon. Your wavelength is three orders of magnitude smaller, so the equipment you use to capture phase information has to be three orders of magnitude faster and the correlation is likely to require at at least three orders of magnitude more capacity.
People can follow the process. Many people (most?) won't follow the process.
Isn't there already conduit in these cities to put the fibre in? In my part of the UK the existing phone lines run in conduits underground and you can add a new line in there fairly easily. If they don't have conduit I wonder if they could run the line in the sewers, which already run to most houses and are large?
The box art calls it Interactive Fiction: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Zork_I_box_ar...

EDIT: Some more info on the origins; apparently it was first used by an early creator of such games (Robert Lafore), and then picked up by Infocom: https://www.filfre.net/2011/09/robert-lafores-interactive-fi...
America was indeed unusual among first world nations in the relative positions of labour and capital, but not much out of the ordinary in its growth rates. There were many other New World nations with similarly devastated native populations and land for the taking. The US has grown faster than any comparable country, not because of the abundance of natural resources but because of its political, legal and economic systems. Canada, Argentina and Chile all had similar benefits and none are as rich.

I’m going to pass on the labour practices of Standard Oil just because living standards in the US were on an unbroken upward trend during the entire period between its establishment and break up. This, combined with the US tradition of labour unrest make the idea that working conditions were slightly above slavery ridiculous. In a tight labour market you can’t treat free labour like slaves. They’ll leave. People who are willing to cross an ocean are not going to hesitate to move states for work, especially in an era of unprecedentedly cheap transport due to the railways. This is a myth, like the myth that the trusts gained their market shares corruptly. They gained it by increasing production and quality and driving down prices.

> University of Chicago economics professor Lester Telser, in his 1987 book, A Theory of Efficient Cooperation and Competition,4 points out that between 1880 and 1890, the output of petroleum products rose 393 percent, while the price fell 61 percent. Telser writes: “The oil trust did not charge high prices because it had 90 percent of the market. It got 90 percent of the refined oil market by charging low prices.” Some monopoly!

https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2013/Hendersonbaron...

Lester Telser, A Theory of Efficient Cooperation and Competition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Regarding Britain power was partially built on its colonies but its prosperity was not. If it had been we should be able to see it clearly in the growth rate of its economy after the conquest of Bengal or after the loss of India. Invisible in both cases. Economic progress in Western Europe was built on trade and industry, not plunder. If it hadn’t been the U.K. would have been vastly richer than Sweden and France richer than Germany. Despite the enormous disparity in colonial holdings they were roughly as rich. Colonies were everywhere a boon to the scions of the ruling classes, providing military and civil service posts but the economic impacts were nugatory. British wealth was as much a product of its empire as Italy’s, somewhere between trivial and non-existent.
Disagreement with orthodoxy is heterodox. You can't be orthodox and heterodox at the same time, that makes no sense.
5 step guide to attract new customers
after you login...change the url to ycombinator.com/interviews...if you get a pop up saying "sorry" then it means you are rejected.
I have never read this book [1] but apparently, it's perfect for people who question the validity of astrology. The book name also strongly implies it.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/You-Dont-Really-Believe-Astrology/dp/...

Disclaimer: I know a woman who is friends with the author and is very fond of her.
Twitter verified Jack Dorsey's mom and thousands of others despite 'pause'
Strange WikiLeaks Report That Russia Destroyed Secret US Base on Moon
In an unregulated market, brand identity and reputation becomes a very strong differentiating factor. The strongest brand on Amazon is Amazon, so by allowing the generic market to rot they are allowing their own-brand basics products to establish themselves because consumers can assume that Amazon products won't have this fake review problem.

It does also work for other brands too of course. I was in the market for some Lightning cables recently and almost every single cheap cable was a switch-out with review for different products. The only brands I recognised were Amazon and Anker and both their stuff was legit (I bought from both).
In the last 50 years, fatalities per miles travelled have been reduced by a factor of 100.

If that’s an oligopoly at work, I want to try a monopoly and see if it’s even better.
I think this has to do with the authors being more literary than tech savvy.
Playing Apple Roulette on Amazon
That sounds reasonable but what do you think they're marketing?
But the environment is full of particulate matter. To fasten on this stuff as a special threat is, unreasonable? Sensationalist? Unscientific?

Personally I have only so much emotional energy to spend, and I spend it on real issues. Not made-up ones.
For tech, the ACM did a survey. It is one of the few (maybe only) that asked both women and men and came up with a lot of surprising findings:

"Our results suggest that men and women share some but not all motivations for entering IT. [..] men were significantly more likely than women to identify "love of technology/computers" as a key motivator. Women, on the other hand, more often indicated that "job security," "ease of entry," and "flexible work hours" were primary reasons for entering the profession. This pattern of results suggests that factors in the work itself are more important in the career decision making of male IT professionals, while factors around the job (such as flexible hours) are more important in the decision making of female IT professionals. "

"Men and women in our survey both generally reported a similar level of experience with role models. [..] This surprising finding does not support previous assumptions that the lack of females in IT means a lack of role models for women, which was assumed to be a disadvantage for women."

"Our findings uncovered only one significant gender difference across a variety of work-related experiences. [..] They differed in regard to their perceptions of supervisor support related to their careers. This finding indicates that women perceive greater support in meeting career goals, recognizing opportunities, and improving their job performance."

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/2/5453-women-and-men-in-...
AWS ECS host autoscaling with custom metrics and lambda
Guilded (YC S17) is hiring software engineers to connect esports teams (remote)
Can it be simple moon landing area that destroyed by other landings?
stationfall had a book released with it that I thought was hilarious at the time.
“Not all H-1Bs are incompetent or lazy.”

You don’t say!
Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps
>"I would be very surprised if in a few years from today a bunch of engineers don't testify that ample of warning was given to management about this. "

I love this mentality that "managers" are the only people responsible, and that the people actually putting the thing together are not. It's the same with the bank scandals, or the VW scandal, or the Facebook scams; it's all the executive team! We were just peons following orders! We aren't responsible!

If you see a major safety issue or other concern, and report it to your superior, who does nothing, you're pretty weak if you shrug your shoulders and say, "I did my job!"
Gaining confidence in our automated checks with Saucelabs and Applitools
I've even been offered free products by a retailer that I have purchased an item from - 'Free Dash Cam' read the email subject line and provided me with all of the instruction with what to do, and a copy and pastable bit of text to use aswell - I reported this to Amazon, and gave them copies of the emails etc too.
Up to the point where our profits start to dip.
MDL and Lisp kinda co-evolved, and some MDL features (lambda lists, maybe others?) made it into the evolutionary branch that lived.
Back when I was a kid I used to spend at least as long reading the ads in the computer magazines as I did the articles.

The same went for the gaming magazines (White Dwarf particularly). Even the ads that were just price lists were fascinating, just to see what was available to go and check out on the next trip to a games store.
Bunq API Anatomy: Transactions and Payments
True, but you should always put up estimated effort and real spent time in the task, whichever bug tracker, or issue tracker you're using. I don't know of any other way to improve the estimation "skills".
Well, there are solutions. One is to breed bacteria and other organisms that can digest plastic.

Not to say this is a solved problem, or something we shouldn't be concerned about, but the response "There is absolutely zero chance of ever cleaning it all up" here seems overly sensationalistic.
Reducing thrust will increase angle of attack. The angle of attack is the angle of the wing relative to the airflow, not the angle of the plane relative to the horizon.
Stranger Things Chinese edition?
Best minds of our generation are trying to get more ads in front of people and trying to get more people to click on them.
Italy's competition watchdog launches probe into five Amazon companies
For those who don't know what this is about. World Editor is an oss scenery development tool for x-plane (not oss) and it's the main scenery editing tool for x-plane. It's also what powers the x-plane scenery gateway which contains user contributed 3d scenery for thousands of airports worldwide.

The scenery gateway has made a lot of difference to x-plane in recent years. It relies a lot on automatically generated scenery from open data sources and it used to be that the scenery was pretty bland and monotonous. Autogen scenery actually works quite well these days but it doesn't generate airport buildings. Since they introduced the scenery gateway essentially all major airports are now covered out of the box and many of the smaller ones as well. This means you get terminal buildings, signs, taxi ways, etc. for over 8K airports world wide (last number I heard, probably more by now).

V2. supposedly makes it a lot easier to add missing airports by integrating external maps and satellite imagery to make it easier to position objects correctly. So, it will likely result in even more and improved airports.

I've been a long time x-plane user (since v8) and it's a great ecosystem to be in these days. As of v11, they've ramped up development a lot and managed to attract a lot of commercial add on developers (essentially most of the big ones that also target FS X/p3d). Awesome product and it keeps on getting better with each release.

With this and some free add-ons from x-plane.org, you can get a really nice flight simulation experience for just the price of the base simulator. I have generated several hundreds of GB of photo textures (using ortho4xP) and I've also installed some scenery packages from e.g. simheaven.com to generate detailed 3d scenery from open streetmaps. Getting the same kind of experience on competing products is possible but will cost you an arm and a leg.

I've been following flightgear for years as well and I want to like it but it is just not in the same league.
Will algorithmic tools help or harm the homeless?
This doesn’t even begin to make sense. First of all, everything a US company works on is “subject to US laws”. Second, where clearance is required, there is a bright line defining the rules, no “isn’t supposed to...”. Third, security clearances are available for foreigners as well.
Not functional? Warnings aren't errors. Maybe it's just better at catching potential bugs...
For the transformer option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_read-only_storage

You can get to the patent from here. The way I understand it, depending how/where the mylar sheet is punched or not (figure 8 is the unpunched sheet, figure 9/10 show a punched one) you will interrupt some of the connections and that particular line (the primary) will pass outside or inside the transformer core, so the secondary will be energized or not (1/0 output). By changing the mylar sheets you can "reprogram" the microcode ROM. I'm not an electrical engineer, so my terminology might not be 100% correct :)

More on this:
https://www.quora.com/How-was-the-IBM-System-360-microcode-l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_30#Microc...

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ibm360mylar
He just edited it out from his version of reality! In fact, in all the time I was there (roughly a year including a major new product launch) I don't think anything was ever done in 2 days.

Another interesting characteristic he had was to get upset if he thought projects were running too smoothly...
You just training on do two face images come from the same person.

https://towardsdatascience.com/one-shot-learning-face-recogn...
Nasa's Tess Exoplanet Mission Finds First Earth-Size Alien World – Space
SpaceX: Rocket Level Overturned After Successful Landing
The mythical man month ( required reading for most CS programs ) goes into a historical and production aspect of why software projects take longer than what you think and what you expected.

Also, there is a law named after author called the Brooks's law : "adding human resources to a late software project makes it later"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law

In most industries, if you are running behind schedule, you throw more workers at the problem to catch up. For example, laying railroad tracks, digging ditches, deliverying packages, harvesting crops, etc. By adding more workers, you shorten the time it takes to complete the project. But which software engineering, the reverse tends to happen. If you are falling behind, just throwing more developers at the problem worsens the problem. Most likely because you need the new developers to get "caught up" with the code/project/tools but if you rush that process, then they won't have a full understanding of the project/code/tools and introduce bugs/problems themselves which exacerbates the problem.

It's a fun read if you have the time.
This came up in an earlier discussion. Someone suggested that, in attempting to fix the problem reported from the previous flight, the relevant systems were shut down, and this reset the AofA sensor selection mechanism.
Its interesting how an unknown source making unverifiable claims on a site which is basically a rumor mill gets so much attention.
Then you do not really want to make a change. Things will not change themselves (except to the worse).
That's naive.

Nobody will revisit the GP's reputation, and after the novice devs fail to do the work people will just scatter into different projects. They may or may not take a reputation hit, while the PM that insists so much on doing the not viable work will take none of it.
that would be the right term.

you can see the evolution in cga vga games like quest for glory 1 or kings guest 1 or even space quest 1 you still had the console style input but was replaced with the menu bars that most remember from adventure games.
Note that this is probably based on the the sequel[1] to H2G2 given that H2G2 was completed as game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_t...
How about making the manager estimate the project, that way if the deadline is not met, the manager receives the blame? It's the manager's job to manage resources, and if the deadline is not hit, then they can hire/bring on more resources. If an engineer works as hard as they can for 40 hours a week, why is it the engineer's fault if the arbitrary deadline is not met? If the engineer estimate's time for a project, the engineer will always have to work more than 40 hours a week because some estimates will be too optimistic.
I lived in Seattle for 7 years and got to know some Boeing project managers. The stories they told are very similar to this one. Apparently the life of a Boeing PM or Engineer is endless meetings, I asked one of my friends why this was the case. His response? A good chunk of the managers at Boeing won’t use email.
haha Google seems to do this with a ton of projects. Make it half way and give up. They do it so publicly so often there's a whole Wikipedia page for every project they've started and killed.

Just got another one to add to the list.
In all honesty, you're probably right to not waste (a lot of) energy worrying about it. The best you can do is not use many plastics and advocate for better policies to reduce, reuse, and recycle the plastics are out there, as well as cleanup programs for the huge problems like the macroplastics in the ocean currently.

As for "the environment is full of tons of stuff", microplastics are pretty new to the biosphere, so who knows what we should suspect? Personally I think microplastics are bad at all scales, and it'll just get worse. They weaken individuals, species, and whole ecosystems right as we're delivering them a big punch in the gut with habitat destruction, overfishing, and climate change. Are they what's going to kill the world? Nah, maybe only #4 on the list. Only!
Previous discussion (from yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669372
Decentralised Storage: Incentives vs. Contracts
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Oh no, one more JOIN. That will show them!
I bought a pair of shoes off of a Facebook ad that I absolutely love. I was expecting them to suck because they came through an ad but was pleasantly surprised.

Vessi shoes. Fully waterproof shoe (I've literally walked into a pool with them) but breathable with a nano-fabric that has holes too small for water molecules but big enough for air/steam. (Supposedly, though H2O sounds like a pretty small molecule so I'm not sure if there's more to it than just size, perhaps viscousness.)
> Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful since i don't want to tie mastodon with my real life identity.

Yeah, this is it for me. Also I don't want to tie my various online profiles together in general. Providing an open, strong, independently verifiable cryptographic link between my online profiles seems like something that a bad actor could exploit to harvest data about me far more easily and with a far higher degree of confidence than would be the case without it. It might even be hard to get rid of if integrating websites aren't careful about deleting your keys when you want them to, leading to a bunch of cryptographic litter linking your profiles even when you don't want that.
Everything I learn about Boeing smells of the traditional failings of “national hero” type industries, where national pride and government incentives effectively isolate a company from any sense of responsibility; economic, moral, or otherwise.

Can’t help but wonder if Airbus is any different, and if so, why?
How being Freelancer is not same as being an Entrepreneur?
Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint Presentations at Amazon Meetings
Skyscript.co.uk and Oxford scholar Nick Campion's "A History of Western Astrology" are 2 excellent sources for putting the record straight.
If the place you worked at was backwards enough you may not be able to install a Go compiler on your desktop. Anything is possible when the people making the rules are disconnected enough from the people getting the work done.
Fluoride in water?

I have a friend who takes a potassium supplement of prescription strength (in addition to a high potassium diet)just to get up to low levels, so I agree there are definitely reasons for supplements.
VC invest money where they see an opportunity.

Take Calm for example.

Meditation/Bedtime stories app

Sound bad right?

Well, those guys found a way to make meditation approachable for anyone.

People who never thought before listening to a bedtime story, understand now that it can help to release daily stress
Google specifically wanted to try a technology called nanotrenching. They just dig 5cm. It didn’t work because it serms any road engineer knows the seal won’t hold, and cars will wreck the cables very fast.

https://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/pictures/photos-how-...
Indeed. And, whatever organisms are/were most likely to die out because of exposure to microplastics, probably already have, given this shit is everywhere now. Sobering thought!
<England> Clearly the solution is to add Orwellian levels of automated ticketing</England>
It should never have been built in the first place. It's an attempt to put a band-aid on the conspiracy theories on the platform, but completely lost sight of the fact that bad things do happen and that bad things often are visually similar.

Even if it set out to achieve its original goals flawlessly, it fails to actually solve the problem Google faces in the first place (being a platform for misinformation). If you got all the way to a conspiracy theory video, is Encyclopedia Britannica really going to change your mind? And being a not-flawless computer system, it will _always_ have false positives, which means as long as it exists it will flag events like this as misinformation. The latter, in my opinion, is inexcusable. Any engineer building any sort of classification system knows that there will be false positives, and nobody at Google thought that this would be problematic and stopped the system from being built.
I've heard it suggested [1, 2] the original design for MCAS could only make a small adjustment a single time, which the pilots could easily overcome with the stick, classifying it a less safety-critical component as it couldn't possibly crash the plane.

Later, the MCAS ended up adjusting the trim multiple times, by an amount the pilots couldn't override with the stick. Thus it should have been safety level DAL-A (loss of plane) [3] - but the safety analysis and MCAS design weren't updated to reflect that.

And the FAA, in what with hindsight seems like a ridiculously naive move, allowed Boeing to self-certify their own faulty safety analysis.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19419454
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B#Software_level
I use ad blockers for anyone I setup a computer for. Are we all becoming less performant shoppers for it? When one views ads, I ask if you're really getting an information edge.
You're right, to my knowledge neither Trump nor Kanye have publicly accused innocent people of pedophilia.
My guess is no one will look back and say "Huh, he was right".

The only thing that probably is going to happen is "Huh, why isn't that delivered?" and then they will look everywhere but on the fact that it was, at least partially, just a stupid idea in the first place.

Of course I don't know the exact situation so it's more of a thought on what happens in general in the industry.
Light can always "speed up" to make up for the difference in distorted space time so that it is always the same speed relative to your inertial frame. Having zero mass (zero interaction with the Higgs Field, QCD binding energy, etc) is a requirement to be able to do this.