skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there was an old software that i used back in early 2000-2005. Red shift 3. it was this massive plantery astronomy whatever magic that would do stars and eclipses and recordings or animated eclipses and what not.
i wonder if anyone is similar to that in the FOSS software world. i tried stellarium i think its a star map, thats it.i could be wrong but i compare all these current softwares with red shift 3 in my mind and most if not all fall short.

edit:http://archaic.maris.com/content/index520f.html

this looks like the software i was talking about

https://lowendmac.com/2001/astronomy-software-redshift-3-0-f...

it says for MAC but i've used it on my windows 98/2000 back in the day
The only thing that needed to be corrected was that there was another version of the virus in laos instead of hubei. The main points of the article still stand.
Completely agree. If the project needs to be done quickly and using a popular framework is a great choice.

It speeds up development and increases the ease of adding new developers.

If you’re being paid, it makes sense to not waste your time solving the problems that frameworks would solve for you.
What does opening representative office has to do with their stand?

Apple and Google, Meta also opened representative offices back in February. Did in stop them from doing business here (at least part of it, likely temporarily)? No.

>At the same time, both Instagram and Youtube have been blocked in Russia. But not Spotify.

That's not true. Twitter and Facebook are blocked (even though they also "submitted to the Kremlin"). Instagram and Youtube are not.
I hesitate to call them terrible. Developing is a hilariously multi paradigmed skill that is tough to train. Such that a good programmer may make a terrible developer, without the appropriate supporting team.

Similarly, an otherwise great developer can be horrible in a team that doesn't know how to use them.
Fraud is a bit strong, but there are many people that have mastered the art of beating that particular system. I've met engineers that have become exceptionally good at pattern matching to the FAANG hazing ritual but which otherwise have unremarkable engineering skill.
Both are form of socialism.

https://youtu.be/eCkyWBPaTC8
Russia is known to murder dissidents. For Spotify leaders to make a stand from the safety of the US and paint a target on the backs of their Russian employees would be the cowardly option. If the employees their want to choose on their own to take a stand that's up to them, but it's not a choice that Spotify should make for them.
It happens in the USA as well. Epstein and friends kidnapped children for the elites to have sex with them and buy them as sex slaves.
It's a valid reason for sure.

But why not just say that and stop saying stuff like "no-no, those anti-ballistic missiles we deployed in Poland are against potential Iranian aggression."
1) The contracting scene in the UK is massive, that's where a lot of the higher paying UK tech jobs are. I suspect this skews the salary averages.

2) I'm in South Africa, I've recently been approached on linked-in to (quote) "Earn a US based salary working remotely from South Africa". So it seems some US recruiters are starting to look further afield.
Yup, this plan called for not one but two freeways through golden gate park. After all, why waste space on a park when it could be freeways?
That's 20k 5nm dies that you don't have to make in Taiwan and can instead make +20k 3nm dies instead.
Sounds sort of like Celestia, but I'm not 100% sure from your description what the program was like.
Because half of your program will look like this

if err != nil {
…
}

Just take a look at any golang project, it has more error handling than business logic. If you are writing flight avionics sw this might be a good thing, but for my cat pic sharing MVP I’m happy to just print “unhandled internal error” when the DB stops responding due to unusual hug of death overload. There is nothing else that can be done to recover this error anyway.

On top of this it still isn’t bullet proof. There are infinite number of errors that can happen almost anywhere, especially when IO is involved; Disconnects, Time-outs, StackOverflow, ArrayOutOfBounds, DivideByZero, Overflow, NoSuchKeyInDictionary. And so on and so on.

Going back to go, Many low quality libraries still use panic, which gives you two ways to handle errors, one which
is considered exotic so you don’t normally put recover() in place, then get bitten at worst moment.

Another example being Java where checked exceptions force beginners to handle errors, where most people don’t know what to do about it, so they just log.error() and return a dummy value, giving no way for upstream to detect such error and causing the program to blow up later instead. That said, checked exceptions is probably the best middle ground between verbosity and safety. It’s just greatly misunderstood.
Russian propaganda has been completely steamrolled regarding the current war. The US has by far the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus in world history and it shows when Americans think they are completely free from propaganda. Have you ever seen an American news outlet be against a US involved war? I remember when journalists were threatened with being fired for even trying to speak out against the Iraq war. Does the news ever talk about universal healthcare? All of the American news outlets are owned by the American oligarchy and publish the news that's in their interest. We keep fighting wars, the rich get richer, the middle class continues to disappear, and wages stagnate.
What does GDP have to do with food/fresh water capacity?
Your point of view might have some merit to it if there a basis in fact.

Do you dispute the author's claim "On Wednesday night [March 2], Spotify announced that it is closing its Moscow office"?
So now we are beyond "praise a company if they shut their business in Russia", and have arrived at "ostracize them if they don't", even though (afaik) they haven't been ordered to censor their content or otherwise be a mouthpiece for them?

Is there an extreme to this or is it all going to pass public judgement?
Facebook definitely needs the "fanciest" engineers. Simple problems become much more complex at scale and Facebook also solves plenty of really hard problems. Also when your whole business relies on tech the costs of bad engineering and the benefits of great engineering are both enormous. I think I'd always have an incredible engineer for 700k or however many k rather than a 5 mediocre engineers. More people rarely solve problems, better people do
What geographic bias do you think the HN audience has compared to the US population?
Yeah this is really interesting to me. I work out 4+ times per week, and I've noticed that when I go at it harder than usual, my body basically forces me to sleep twice per day until it's repaired itself, and when I sleep it's usually unintentionally 4-5 hours at a time. I'll wake up and can't go back to sleep, so I get up and do things for a few hours until it's time to sleep for another 4-5 hours. But when I take it easy with my workouts, I'll sleep a solid 7-9 hours uninterrupted. I wonder if my body does this because it needs nutrition and bloodflow to heal and doesn't want to wait for it.
I apologize if my point is taken as "sole" goal. I don't think there is truly a single goal involved. And, at large, this makes sense. Companies with extra money can afford extra risk on projects that have an obvious tendency to fail.

For the interviewing, I don't really have a good answer. Would be easy to say that the interviewing process is broken. But that drastically undersells how difficult interviewing is.
That's a massive sum of money in India tbh
I'm curious what you mean by outside the norm. What culture do you mean?
Do you think Putin is going to care that Spotify closed the office if they're defying his censorship laws? The (former) employees are still going to be in Russia. They're still going to be associated with Spotify and subject to arrest. This not a normal legal system where you can prove to someone in a court that you no longer worked at the company and they're going to consider the merits of your argument. Putin will want to punish someone for Spotify defying his censorship order and he'll reach out and punish whoever is available to make an example, regardless of whether they are responsible.
As others have pointed out, BART is not a light rail system any more than Caltrain is.

I haven't taken the AC transit bus system from SF to the East Bay, so maybe it's an exception to the general rule of trains going faster than buses. I have taken buses in San Francisco and the South Bay, though, and a few times I've taken AC Transit buses around Oakland/Alameda, and I'll just say those rides have...not been exceptions to that general rule. When a bus and a rail system are going between roughly the same points, assuming the rail line has dedicated lanes/tunnels and gets priority over car traffic when it has to intermingle, it's going to win nearly every time.

Having said that, I think if a city is willing to put in dedicated bus-only lanes/streets with their own priority signals, they can get a bus system which meets or beats light rail -- actual light rail like Muni or VTA -- for less money. I've seen this in some areas and they're pretty great. But they're far from common, I suspect because they tend to meet the same kind of pushback from people doing "rational economic analysis," e.g., pointing out that it's going to be way cheaper if you just uses buses and do not give them any special treatment. I mean, yes, it will, absolutely, and it'll be way slower than rail.

For the record, I just looked up the speed difference between a BART ride between Embarcadero and Ashby and the Transbay bus going from the Salesforce Transit Center to the same Ashby station, and it's 20 minutes by BART compared to 40 by bus. If you want the same two starting points, then it is still faster to walk from the STC to the Embarcadero station and catch BART than it is to take the bus. And of course it is, because BART trains hit 80 mph when they're in the Transbay Tube! I believe you when you say that you, specifically, made it to the office or back home faster when you took the bus, but that's not because the busses were faster. They were not.
> If you measure the exact position of an electron, the wave function collapses
to a point.

Note, though, that in reality you can never measure the exact position of an electron (or anything else); the best you can do is to measure that the electron is inside some finite-sized (possibly very small) region. The "exact position" measurement is an idealization that can be useful for pedagogy but can't be realized in any actual experiment.
Congrats on being part of the problem. It does Just Work for the majority of cases.
> Frameworks are mostly necessary on the backend.

Often not even there!

If you use something like BaseX[1] or eXist-db[2], both XML database and XQuery[3] implementations (they also have ways to act as SQL clients), you get REST-, user-, and database-management as native part of the programming language (XQuery).

For REST it must implement the RESTXQ[4] module standard, which both the named products do. Since XQuery understands XML natively, you get full templating, database queries, REST routing and much more.

[1] https://basex.org

[2] https://exist-db.org

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=restxq
Layoffs might indeed happen , but a lot of those salaries are based on stock value. So the more likely scenario is that those salaries just become lower with stock prices.
I would never write a sarcastic comment on this noble forum.
this is exactly what Joe Biden said: a no-fly zone means American planes shooting down Russian planes.
Very interesting regarding almond/nut milk usage in midieval times..

http://www.godecookery.com/goderec/grec31.htm
I'm in a pretty big city with lots of granola-type people but I haven't seen any artisanal cream cheese or whatever at the local farmer's market.

Honestly cheesecake is better with ricotta anyways, and my waist can do without bagels, so I'm kinda post-cream cheese at this point.
I remember the report absolutely demolishing the veracity of most forensic practices coming out, but has the field changed at all since then? Are hair samples and such still commonly used as evidence?

My cynical side worries it's only gotten worse, as CSI made the job "sexy" attracting a pool of people that would not be overly concerned with the science part of forensics in the first place.
Picture writing this entire article not realizing you could have just used React / Nextjs
The US military was in Wuhan for the military games right at the beginning of the outbreak and they were some of the first to get sick. They also flew through Seattle to get there, which was the site of the first outbreak in the US. Combine that with the history of leaks from Ft. Detrick. I haven't seen any of this be debunked. Why won't they allow inspectors into Ft. Detrick?
A lot of people (including this comment) seem to think that DSLR=“good camera” and all real photos are taken on 35mm format SLRs, but none of that is true.

SLR is a specialized format designed for fast autofocus used by news/sports photographers and 35mm “full frame” is not the largest film size.

Rangefinder and mirrorless formats actually have a much easier time with lens design and don’t need such gigantic lenses, which might make them less impressive looking than an SLR, but I have a cheap Mamiya medium format rangefinder that takes better street photos than they do. And if you’re doing product or landscape photography, you want a large format digital back like Phase One or a view camera, which really are the top of the line.
If only the designers at Apple had access to devices that could perform numerical computations...
I have the Sony A1 and Nikon Z7. Started to get into wildlife photography when the pandemic started and the Z7 autofocus failed me. I would take 30 photos of a bird in flight and 1 would be in focus. So I purchased the A1 which can track a bird's eye in flight perfectly. I'm sure the Z9 is a great camera but its too late and too large for my taste.
I know, but when India exports rice it doesn't sell it at a tenth of the global rice price because "that's a massive sum of money in India tbh". Why should people exporting software engineering services settle for ten cents on the dollar? Because their neighbors are poor? Their neighbors will stay poor longer if they leave 90% of their potential export revenue on the table.
http://vpri.org/writings.php
Isn't xantham gum just a product of sugar fermentation? I'm all for fewer ingredients, but cheese is still as much a "chemical" product if the stabilizers and mold extractors are removed.
This is a Ruble denominated bond!

Why TF is Russia not paying a Ruble denominated bond?

If you still needed evidence that Russia is being run by incompetent madmen, this is basically it. There is absolutely no self interested reason for Russia to not pay a Ruble denominated coupon.
> CNN was openly anti-Trump for the entire administration, as in, instructions were literally passed down that reporting should be slanted in such a way as to taint him.

Interesting. Do you have a link to the evidence of these instructions? I'd like to read them.
I honestly didn't know it had a name, I mean I'm not surprised, but its existence is something I acquired by absorption over time to the extent that I really don't know where it came from. Strong candidate is a German roommate forever ago, but I'm certain we never actually had them.
The math here is doable. Approximately the inner angle of the cone of light comming from a laser beam is 1.22 2lamda/d (source: airy disk wikipedia). Where lamda is wavelength and d is the aperture.

Lets pick lamda so 1.222lamda is 1000nm (blueish light). Then by smal angle approximation, the size of a beam at 500km (starlink height) is 500km * 1000nm / d

Say we want our beam to be 50m wide. That gives an aperture requirement of 1cm.

Huh, that seems reasonable. So in a vacuum, it could perhaps be done. Atmospheric effects would make this worse ofcourse. And a 50m beam is not going to dump much heat, but it seems somewhat plausible in the near future.
RT propaganda is an organic part, a psyop, of the genocidal war in Ukraine. There is nothing about free speech in refusal to support genocidal war. If anything it is a duty of any normal person (and any company consisting of such people).
You don't. In the 00's I was into this tech and largely felt good about the FM implementation, though the initial work did make some very aggressive trade offs, some of which may be improved by now.

One was receiver side synthesized high frequency sound. Initially, real audio cutoff around 5khz and on a Bangles song, a finger cymbal could not be heard. There were some other issues, and I believe it was bumped up to 8.5 or maybe 10 on higher bitrate streams.

Some radios detect the IBOC easily, making seek, scan type functions less useful. My own SONY car radio was impacted. Would tune static, then the station, then static on a scan.

On AM the system was not all that robust, but did deliver low noise, but compression artifact laden audio. To be fair satellite radio does too.

In order to make it work, AM stations had to use a brick wall 5khz filter. Many stations were running 8khz. Major downgrade on nicer radios. It also required analog AM stereo be removed.

Analog stereo worked well and I listened a lot. Fringe areas were good too. Basically the noise floor would come up and eventually the broadcast would go mono, then fade away. Classic AM.

IBOC did not work well, and the difference in sound was jarring! Fringe areas were maybe half too, so very limited range. Buildings and other things made a mess of it all.

Rural flat terrain AM HD worked! I even liked it.

Analog AM Stereo at 8Khz worked better overall everywhere else, but there were not many radios...

I could go on, but AM was a mess and few stations are on air today.

FM sort of happened. There are plenty of stations and the in car experience has been improved a lot.
They shouldn't I'm fully pro people in India getting paid the same as the us. We are in fact seeing some equalization of salaries around the globe. Top talent is getting paid top dollar everywhere
Exactly the opposite for me - possibly für to astigmatism, I only use the rear screen, as then I can use glasses, but I don't see sharply through the viewfinder and with glasses it's just uncomfortable.
Just wait till the next shoe drops on DNA “evidence”. All the early tests used scary-low sample counts and the odds of a false positive vs someone else in your geographic location were fairly high.
yea it's frustrating how many people I've engaged with who lead with the "well who funded the study?" question before even looking at anything. It screams confirmation bias to me (the question is almost never applied equally to all information)
Wouldn't shutting down western tech companies in Russia lead to Russians being limited to just state propaganda?
Thanks for clarification. Very much appreciated.
You first have to know what to compute before you can compute it. A computer won't tell you that.
See other comment by me for some basic calculation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30575702

It seems not totally out of the question. My calculation yielded an aperture requirement of 1cm for a blue-ish laser. Which yields a 50m beam at the height of a starlink satelite
> Today I would need to rewrite it in a framework but it would be a huge job.

If it's been 5 years, you'd have to rewrite it anyway to use whatever the framework of the week is. I'm only half joking. The shelf life of a lot of these frameworks seems to be 5 yeas.
> further escalation w/ NATO including the US / West refusing to lose face / back off.

Here's a sovereign nation that tries to save its independence, pleading with the West / EU / NATO for protection. Then you have a ruler who has been saying for years that that nation should not exist and should be part of his empire, then proceeds to invade.

The framing of this as a NATO vs Russia issue, where NATO should "back down" to prevent further escalation, making Ukraine merely a pawn in some greater game, is absolutely disgusting.
>A source from you would be great

Much like you sourced your claim that transferwise worked? No thanks, I'll save my time.
“ the leadership of big tech companies generally does not look at revenue as a fixed-size pie to be divvied up between themselves and their subordinates. instead, they try to grow the pie as fast as possible so they can justify their own salaries and bonuses to the board.”

Right. And yet they collude to keep salaries low.
Some previouslies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20901358 2019, 56 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513222 2019, 33 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906113 2018, 48 comment

The last one is about the web port with some interesting comments from one of the developers about how they did a C rewrite in order to port it to the web.
Varlam Shalamov is a master of short form, although IDK how well his stories translated.

About educational part: it's a frequent misconception.
"Kolyma Tales" are not autobiography, it's a fiction.

E.g. His depiction of thieves wars reads as documentary but it's not. There is not a single personage that has direct match in reality. For some: it looks like combination of several real persons, some has no real analogues.
The same with events, chronology and geography.

To write a documentary was never the goal for Shalamov.

And keep in mind that it's a perception of Shalamov who always was a man of weak health.

Dostoevsky was in similar or even harsher conditions but he found the strength to see in criminals around him not only infernal bad.

If you suppose that Dostoevsky is not relevant: there are other authors with similar experience.I

For example: Ahto Levi, Estonian, Hitlerjugend on start of WWII, conscripted in SS near end, after war - criminal, repeat offender, member of nationalistic gang -he's one of thieves that Shalamov depicts.

His "Notes by Gray Wolf" shows both degradation to beast and then return to human.
I like it. Dont confuse tgis entropy with the von neumann entropy which increases (or at least stasy the same) when a measurement is perfomed (pure state turning into mixed state)
There is nothing bold about halting trade with Russia right now; as far as can be told there is a great deal of social and political support for anyone making such a choice.

To be honest, companies making emotional decisions is more concerning to me. It is reasonable and to be encouraged if businesses want to be a moral-less dumb pipe. Spotify is not equipped to make geopolitical judgements about what is and isn't a just war or propaganda & can achieve nothing against the Russian military. If they just stick to following the law that is fine. If something is required of them then the military leadership can ask them to do it.
DSLRs are no match for a Fujifilm GFX100 or a Phase One or the Hubble Space Telescope but none of those users seem to like comparing them as much.
> What is the ratio of the surface area of this linked cut to the surface area of the usual planar bagel slice?

The surface area of the usual planar bagel slice is straightforward, but what’s the most intuitive way to integrate the surface area of a twisting strip?