skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see recruiters as a necessary evil for people breaking into an industry. They don't have to be an evil at all.

There would be less of a distaste for them if they'd stop taking the lazy route of scanning LinkedIn for keywords and sending communications to people based on that software keyword hit alone. The recruiter's sole job is to find matches and facilitate connections. The software only helps them find people that fit the requirements. But they literally need to read the person's CV and whatnot to decide whether they actually even would be interested in the role that you as a recruiter are sending them. It's so lazy to just spam everyone with a keyword to see who bites. It is very frustrating when 90% of communications with headhunters is unvetted/unsuitable spam.

A second issue, is when a recruiter who hasn't gotten the candidate a gig still continually asks their list of potential candidates "Here's a job description. Do you know anyone who fits this?" The recruiter's job is to get the candidate a job, and not to turn potential candidates into head hunters doing their job for them. These people are looking for a paying gig through recruiter services, and instead are getting stiffed with doing the recruiter's work for free. Not cool.
> Spotify dropping Rogan won't prevent you from listening to Rogan.

So I shouldn't have a problem with continuing to pay Spotify for removing content I want access to? In what universe should that not concern me? I don't want to go to another platform, because that's precisely why I pay Spotify, so that I have to do that as little as possible.
> We're in a situation where we need bankers to finance lawyers to work on issues that would negate some of the need for bankers and lawyers.

How so? For what value proposition specifically?
That's overly pessimistic. I went hiking today. The sea, the forest and the trails are still there, unmolested by the pandemic without.
> And of course all that has a back door so a court order can rollback a transaction.

…so you still need a lawyer and nothing has actually changed?
you can have a digital viewfinder but not an optical viewfinder without DSLR like design. mirrorless cameras don't have the prism-mirror system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayib_Bukele#Presidential_appr... I keep hearing this line, and yet Bukele's approval rating is over 80%
Another reason why unions are cancer. Why should some suit get to tell me if I can work in a trade?
Does that distinction matter? The thing their customers would do with that personal information is target you with ads. So they were subcontracted the task as opposed to selling them the information to do it themselves.
You'd need about 400mm thick layer to cut radiation to 1% of incident at 2% per layer.
"The gravitational potential is the key thing being measured, and it's not the potential due to the Earth, it's the potential due to a 1-kg "source mass"."

Right, it seems that for many the 'potential' worldview is hard to grasp (it was for me too until it drawned on me that it's important).

I blame this on poor training and poor textbooks, they don't emphasize the importance of potentials. Also, we seem to grow up with a 'fields' perspective, electric fields and so on.

Maxwell was on the 'right' path with his original formulation of his equations where potentials were involved. However, when Heaviside reformulated them to the 'vector' view we quickly lost the 'potential' one.

No doubt, Heaviside's formulation is incredibly useful in electrical engineering and eleconics and as you'd know that's how they usually appear in textbooks. Trouble is, outside advanced physics texts the 'potential' view is usually omitted. Educators really need to fix this.

Another problem is that the description of a potential is not up to scratch. All too often we seem to be stuck with highschool physics descriptions - those that involve pith balls. The concept that we never measure absolute energy, but only differences often gets lost when describing potentials.

You'd reckon that after Feynman's well documented whingeing about the fact he wasn't taught about potentials early enough that you'd think by now educators would have had sufficient time to have rewritten their notes but apparently they've not.
micro 4/3 is just a mirrorless sensor format. It is competing with other mirrorless sensor formats, many with full size sensors.

I have mirrorless cameras with APS-C or larger sensors, so the micro 4/3 format is just a smaller sensor.
A take that didn't make it past the title.
The Reincarnation of Fossil Fuels?
I imagine there are some good podcasts or articles discussing sharing in greater depth. I'm interested as well if anyone has suggestions!
Most of those are supported by curl, just prepend e.g. telnet:// gopher:// and ftp:// to the URL!
One of the nicer parts of mirrorless cameras the article touches on briefly is the reduced focal distance makes it easy to adapt older lenses with just a cheap tube. Combine with focus peaking in viewfinder and sensor image stabilization and you have a great platform for messing around with cheaper vintage glass like the classic Helios lens. I’m hoping to get a Sony A7 II as it has all these features, but it is hard to stomach watching the price go up over time on a 7 year old camera!
I remember that from a long time ago. It’s fun to read the last sentence first and have it be unreadable. Then read from the beginning and it’s perfectly readable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_News
> Eventually there will be so much software that writing code will need to be automated by machines.

It's already here, and has been for a long time. We call these machines "compilers".
The rich don't get rich by taking something the poor don't have.
It's Atreides and Hawat not Atriedies and Haway
All salaries of all companies of all roles should be public. This info being kept from job seekers unfairly tips the balance of power to the job provider when negotiating salaries or even when deciding on which company to join.
You can be pretty sure that Apple lobbied hard to leave these holes. The legislators are happy they can tell their voters they finally did something and that they found a compromise.

It's a bit on us, the public, to not accept those alibi-type compromises.
Omicron thwarts some of the world’s most-used Covid Vaccines
I don't care about the specifics here, but can someone school me: What possible mechanisms are there to prevent cartels? I hear a lot about how to deal with monopolies (which are trivial to identify) but very little about colluding oligopolies.
I think it has to be pointed out that there has been no human to human transmission found. However, I think 2/5 people did not have direct contact with poultry or it has not been found yet. So who knows the actual assessment of risk here. However, it is of course extremely concerning that it has a fatality rate 50 to 100x that of Covid 19. If this does mutate into the human population, we would hope that it would have a tiny r0. Even still, it would be great to have an informed perspective on this which is why I was posting it. In truth, I was hoping someone well informed would come out and say this is nothing to worry about, but I don't want to be too naive...
I don't know if this is good or bad news.

Maybe 2x to 10x more massive rocky planets are more hospitable for life, but...

It's difficult to make flying vehicles on earth - we had to develop an industrial culture to fly. Rockets to orbit are even harder, on a 1x Earth, we can just barely get stuff into orbit.

On a 2x Earth, flying and rockets might be theoretical, but practically impossible. On a 10x Earth, flight of any kind is probably impossible. Such the habitable planets might have non-flying civilizations only.
Technologies maintaining reverse compatibility always contain echos of their beginnings. History matters. We still live with those wrong foundations chosen at the beginning.

But if you just want to blame almost all developers everywhere across several decades for mysteriously being unwilling to engage with a simple and wonderful technology that has no flaws, feel free. It's easy, but it leads to no further understanding or wisdom.
If I'm not mistaken Sony G lenses are the greatest offender in terms of the amount of plastic used in the $800-$2000 price range:

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2016/04/sony-fe-85mm-f1-4-g...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMXjJxFXRVs
Yes, it's pretty clear he was falsified. (China didn't go liberal! Shocker.) Doesn't mean his ideas weren't thought-provoking. But it's probably best to think of such political science as political philosophy.
Will take a look. Does it come with a sample main() that can either spit out some specified columns, or simply count rows? and/or plug into https://bitbucket.org/ewanhiggs/csv-game. Feel free to post this as an issue
Psychedelic-laced beer may have helped this ancient South American empire rule
because of course they do. it's like punctuation for "them". imagine a line graph as you are reading that comment. it starts high, but then starts to fail off quickly as you get to the second word picks up speed of its drop as you carry on. then, just to clean up everything, bro just plumments the graph to nil

leopard can't change its spots, dude /s
How about a recommendation algorithm that works like this:

- When you upvote an item, the algorithm connects you to other people who upvoted it and shows you what else they upvoted ("more like this")

- When you downvote - the algorithm disconnects you from those who upvoted it and you see less content from them ("less like this")

Some properties:

- You have an easy way to expand your connections - just upvote/submit content you liked.

- Because it is so simple, the algorithm can explain to you exactly why you are seeing a given recommendation - because it was liked by people who liked X, Y and Z (where X, Y and Z are things that you liked before).

- Since your connections are a result of your explicit content ratings - you don't have to worry about poisoning your recommendations by content you merely viewed. You have active control over your recommendations.

If that sounds interesting, check out my hobby project that works exactly this way: https://linklonk.com - it's free, no ads, no tracking.
> German police used a tracing app to scout crime witnesses. Some fear that’s fuel for covid conspiracists.

How is it that something happens, actually really happens, and it's still dismissed as fuel for conspiracists?
Group efforts can definitely be subject to criminal investigations. Look, for example, at Enron.
Have you ever lived in a country that spoke a language other than your native one?

You very, very quickly get used to introducing yourself in a way that people from that country can pronounce. It’s really not a big deal.

> A name is not a word, is a sound we associate with our selves.

All words are just sounds we arbitrarily associate with various concepts; names are not special in this sense. (In fact, in some languages, the word for “name” and “noun” are the same).

Like every other word, names follow the phonological and phonotactic rules of the language they’re part of. There’s a reason English has John and Spanish has Juan.
It is not the easy part if you want a decentralized government because no one person can be tasked with issuing and governing over those, otherwise that person will have power over everyone and kind of defeat the purpose. That doesn't mean that there aren't other equally or even harder challenges. I was not claiming that blockchains was the last problem stopping us from becoming decentralized. Anyway, like you said, nothing prevents you from issuing your currency and deeds today. And, before blockchains, the only way to have a decentralized government would be for many people to do that. However, that system is more fragile than a system built on a single blockchain everyone agrees on.

The big thing about blockchains is that it allows people to all agree on a certain asset, without giving control of that asset to a single party. That is big news for anyone group wanting to live in a decentralized society, because it was one of the big problems.
The only reason why we have trusted middleman is because before bitcoin there was no scalable solution to Byzantine generals problem. Now we have it. Whenever this solution is better than having a central entity appointing middleman is remains to be seen.

Blockchains can reduce number of middleman we have to deal with. The open question is at what cost.
"To anybody concerned about anecdotal evidence, here's my anecdotal evidence."

Snideness aside, the fact that you have to concern yourself with what pans you buy for an induction stove is enough reason for many to not buy one. You can no longer buy any pan at a store, you must do your research first.

Throw out my current pans and buy even more expensive ones? You're not exactly selling me the induction here.
You still need the data. And most pro film and still shooters shoot raw which is either pre debayering or partially debayered as is the case with BMD.
_I_ want to know what we're talking about

lock free memory based interprocess communication (copied from my first reply)

There is no need to back this memory with files

Again, I'm interested in how you have two processes read and write lock free directly to the same memory if you don't use a memory mapped file.

You have said it isn't necessary, I'm just asking you to back up this claim and explain exactly what you mean.
As Fintech Eats into Profits, Big Banks Fight Back in Washington
I am not clear on your complaints here, maybe you are reading it wrong? To pick up on one thing: do you feel that the political right has, rather, sustained a consistent nationalistic bent for the past century? You dont feel like it has changed recently, and rather, perhaps, believing it has changed is misguided?
The gas industry here uses propaganda to elicit positive emotional responses to gas ranges: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54
FTX launches $2B venture fund, hires Lightspeed exec to lead
Most of the companies that tout blockchain seem to be doing so to attract free marketing and VC funding. Once they have that the real products seem to use the same old reliable tech that runs the entire internet.
> There were no games available on Linux in the '90s.

Indeed. Before 1998 there wasn't even a proper full-blown desktop.
It also happens to be a political slogan, so if it's mentioned out in the open, they probably don't mean the File Transfer Protocol.
Another day, another substack disinformation / faulty reasoning / conspiracy piece. The well is endless. Yes, this is a shallow dismissal but 'substack' is beginning to look like a red flag for content quality.
That's just a habit. Instead of visually checking the flame, you just visually read the large 4 digit LED where you set this in steps of 10 degrees Celsius, or whatever. They (mine) already do measure what's in the pot. Or how would you explain that it goes within 2 to 3 seconds from 90°C and just a few pearls to boiling bubbles if you set it to 100°C when there are 2 litres of water in it?

They are more easy to work with, IMO. Just get a good one.
No, because courts can be elected by voting on the blockchain which gives society a way to control them. And voting on the chain (if implemented right) cannot be controlled that easily by a government.

I’m all for the central database. To enter data into it the government will appoint an agency which in turn will appoint individuals after they pass exams or get their license. The said individuals will have to fill in regular reports that had to be somehow processed and analyzed. Also each such individual required to keep records in a safe manner, sometimes this means hiring a security and a compliance officer. At this point it is not clear if the cost of maintaining the agency and all that people is less than automating the agency of the blockchain.
I think it's better to share salaries anonymously with the level and company information.

It's human nature to compare and I feel it would be counterproductive to know what individuals I'm close to make compared to having idea of the median, top, etc bands for the level I'm at.

I say this seeing younger folks quibble over a difference of few hundred dollars in compensation and worry they are getting underpaid compared to their peers.

Note: Above is an example of highly paid individuals starting out so a few hundred dollar difference wouldn't matter.
The film SLR was the predecessor of DSLRs. Back then, you basically had two choices - preview through a different lens than you shoot with (twin-lens reflex, rangefinder), or preview through the same lens that you shoot with (single-lens reflex). In an SLR design, you need a way to swap between the light path to the film versus the light path to the viewfinder, and a mirror and prism is the most practical way to do so.

Yes, a DSLR can simply show in real time what is being captured on the sensor - this is called "live view" and was introduced some years after the first DSLR, as it's not a critical feature. But live view drains a lot of battery. It also had terribly slow and inaccurate autofocus using contrast detection, but was improved using phase detection (e.g. Canon DPAF). Another consideration is that live view takes a second or two to start up, whereas most DSLRs will let you pick up a camera from idle and shoot through the viewfinder in a fraction of a second.

> any camera with exchangeable lenses

These are called interchangeable-lens cameras (ILC), a category which has significant overlap with but isn't identical to DSLRs.

> professional cameras with exchangeable lenses are dead?

Mirrorless cameras with interchangeable lenses (MILC) are quickly becoming the new professional gear.
So?

We have many criminals.

Criminals deserve punishment, including jail should the crime be severe enough.

Criminals prey on law abiding citizens.

If you won't enforce the law, citizens will take the law into the their own hands.

Then you will be forced to cry for criminals even more than you are doing now.
> What this letter is effectively saying is that you can't share an opinion on anything, even if you have expertise in a field, if it at all goes against the Cathedral.

Is it? Or is it saying that a hugely popular platform shouldn't amplify false information likely to cause harm?

I don't see any call for government intervention or regulation.
Yep totally possible, that’s what a mirrorless camera like micro-4/3 does.

Many DSLRs also let lock the mirror up and just view via sensor.

In theory running the sensor continuously generates heat that can lead to image noise.

Realistically though the sensors are now so good that you don’t need to worry about it.
the same is happening with robinhood, especially with options. people are betting large sums on options that expire the same day
The way structlog and rich work together makes for a really great and simple development experience;

Stack traces are presented in a gorgeous fashion, log.debug lines have lots of great meta data with them. I almost always start new projects with those as my first imports.
I think you have missed the point of fakes versus mocks (as this article puts it) based on what you said - fakes should be able to do everything mocks can, more, even.

But I hear you complain "but that's so much work to maintain!!" - mocks are more work to test less, if you need a better fake often, write a library which has them. What you are referring to is known as fuzzing, not unit testing, and fuzzing has a better track record than straight up "testing" generally for finding issues. Fakes can have deterministic or indeterminate behavior, the case the OP makes is for deterministic "unit" testing with more real behaviors than not. This doesn't preclude good fuzzing...

"It's easier than one would think to accidentally rely on implementation details"

To be somewhat philosophical, what if that 'implementation detail' is the feature? No amount of testing will save you from incompatible feature sets, to 'enable testing of functionality that the current concrete implementation doesn't exercise' you run the very real risk of baking in incompatible sets of features into the core of your app. You shouldn't be designing your app at the unit level...
This is awesome! Much appreciated.
Which two gutturals? “Javier” only has one sound I’d call “guttural” — the velar fricative (i.e. the Spanish J sound).
How is a service presenting links to a publication competing with that publication?
Do tips make for better service?
Isocline, a readline alternative by Daan Leijen (an absolute legend) is about the closest I've found to this: https://github.com/daanx/isocline

That said it doesn't push "input controls" quite to the extreme Rich/Textual do for UI controls, but it might be a starting point to look into.
Cryptocurrency trading, stock market trading, sports betting, slots, and opening Pokemon card packs are all functionally "gambling".

However, people will generally only use the word for types of gambling they disagree with.
> In comparison to the scale of ideological, political, economic, and social changes for the 19th and 20th centuries, essentially nothing has happened since 1992. No major nation has had a revolution. There have been no major wars between nation-states. No ideologies of note have arisen or been cast down. Nothing historical has happened -- so the end of history.

The period since 1992 was relatively peaceful, that's right. But that's not what Fukuyama's thesis was about, especially since he couldn't know in 1992 what would happen in the next 30 years.

Fukuyama's theory was that mankind has reached its optimal, stable state and that that the further historical changes are very unlikely, because why would people want to mess with perfection :) It was basically very naive optimism, I guess he was still in euphoria after Soviet Union collapse...

Since then we had "war on terrorism" and PATRIOT act, big financial crisis of 2008, rise of social media and surveillance state, and now COVID pandemic. Plenty of historical changes, most of them for worse.
I can’t quite RTFA because I have an ad blocker, but I will say — Full-frame mirrorless is a revolution in cheap lenses for anyone serious about artistic photography. Which I hope would include most cinematographers.

Last summer I bought a 40-year-old lens in so-so condition on Etsy for $20 and have made wonderful photos with it. I plan to spend more on old glass.

This is only possible because the mirrorless systems allow adapting these lenses where most DSLR systems did not. And a lot of the old glass makes nicer pictures — not sharper, but nicer.

Just search eBay for “canon FD lens Japan” and you will find the tip of this wonderful iceberg.
It looks like measurements are still ongoing, be patient.
Definitely true. I did photography as a hobby, but phones match or exceed the performance in many cases now. For example, low-light mode on phones outperforms older entry-level canon DSLRs (T3/T6) by default without having to twiddle with the settings. Of course, you could get better pictures with these cameras, but it takes time and a really good lense! So in other words, it’s just not ideal for quick pictures around the house.

I think there are two areas where phone cameras have a lot of room for improvement: sharpness and landscape.

By sharpness, I mean that if you zoom into any phone picture, it falls apart very quickly. There is a lot of software optimization hiding how a small sensor can’t actually do that well in the details.

By landscape, I mean if you take a picture of a mountain or object in the far distance, you’ll barely be able to see it in the phone because the lenses are so wide. It really makes nature pictures underwhelming :)