skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
devconn.io is a platform where worldwide startups can quickly find, hire and onboard affordable and pre-vetted Brazilian developers. We handle all international payroll bureaucracy and skill vetting. Our main goal is to enable early-stage startups to effortlessly grow their engineering teams with developers that meet their economical and technical needs.
Agree, I'm not sure how they can say with a straight face that people should use the other new forms services they are launching. If that is not profitable will it just be shut down in a few years too?
To me, Substack just looks like a clone of Medium. What makes it different?
This is the naive viewpoint.

Ever head about "The Clash Of Civilizations: And The Remaking Of World Order", which is actually a book?

Westerners do not truly understand how degenerate their political leaders can come across to the rest of the world.

A good of example if the policy of denying aid or some trade favours to countries which are hostile to the LGBTQ ideologies of the West.

In effect what Western leaders are saying is that in their view tolerating what to other cultures is an unclean sexual fetish is a more important human rights issue than the ability of children to be well-fed and have clean water. Gay marriage is not even a starter as it is an oxymoron as far as many cultures are concerned.

The west considers it more important for a tiny minority of men who never even asked for the West's support to have penises in their bellies than for children to have food in their bellies. Do you understand how demented that looks to other cultures? How many people have died as a result of lacking penises in their bellies compared to those who have died for lack of food in their bellies?

How do you think it looks to the world when Western leaders gather at global summits to iterate the importance of such an issue over some of the more basic needs facing a large number of the worlds population?

Obama goes to berate African politicians for not allowing gay marriage because it is a human rights issue, while ignoring the human rights dimension of drone strikes he personally authorizes and the immense suffering and death caused by US wars and support in other conflicts such as Yemen?

How many innocent people have been killed as a result of drone strikes authorized by Obama personally as opposed to people prosecuted or executed on account of sodomy in Africa?

You have no conception of the depth of depravity and dementedness it takes for mature adult males to stand on a global stage and moralize over LGBTQ issues when there are for more compelling issues facing billions of people around the world which they are both directly and indirectly responsible for.

This is only a small example of the way the West is perceived that is why the West's stance on Ukraine is not supported by the rest of the world. As far as the rest of the world is concerned the West has no moral leg to stand on, other than the fact that it is the population of an white country that is important to the West who are suffering.

Right now in Ukraine, instead of finding a way to get the parties to negotiate and find a peaceful solution to their difference, the policy of the West now is to support Ukraine with the weaponry and resources to fight to the bitter end, with no concern for the long-term damage and suffering that will inflict on Ukraine's population and their country. In effect is good that Ukrainians consider to suffer heavy losses in the near and long-term because they will eventually be "victorious".

Now how does that come across as concern for human suffering?

In the view of the rest of the world, the West is supporting Ukraine in this war to their own strategic goals, not out of concern for Ukraine's population.
That's the distance of an object away that has a parallax of 7.3 arcminutes and a baseline of 1AU. The 7.3 arcminutes referenced here is the width of the image on the celestial sphere.
1. Yes pretty much.

2. Yes the artifact shape is related to the mirror shape, and the support arms which block some light. this is called a Diffraction spike. There are a bunch of fake web telescope image videos on YouTube with 4pointed diffraction spikes so you can tell they are taken from a different telescope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
No idea. My company employees tens of thousands of people who all of this access. What I don't know is how many more also have similar benefits. I would guess most large companies give this sort of benefit.
My last phone, LG Nexus 5X, couldn't do this. My current phone, Unihertz Jelly 2, also can't do this. Guess I have to buy the "premium" brand Androids for this feature.
I always translate it in my mind to full moons. 30 arcmin == diameter of full moon as seen from earth.
I've been an amateur photographer my whole life and spent the best parts of my formative years in a darkroom. I've owned a number of film and digital SLRs that are quite dear to me.

That said, it seems like irrational nostalgia (which is perfectly understandable) is the only reason to prefer SLRs over mirrorless cameras at this point. The comparative disadvantages of mirrorless cameras were mostly temporary and rooted in the fact that SLRs had been around much longer. Now that the lens selection and technology has caught up, SLRs are strictly worse in every way.

Am I missing something or are there any durable advantages to resisting the seemingly inevitable march towards mirrorless?
on 1., I'm not sure but I'd guess so, yes.

on 2., you are seeing Diffraction Spikes[0] which are artefacts of the telescope's design.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
Not sure why people didn't just agree on -i. Qatar -> Qatari, Zanzibar -> Zanzibari, to me Myanmar -> Myanmari makes perfect sense to me.
A minute of arc is one sixtieth of a degree. (A "minute", get it?)

The moon is between 29.4 and 33.5 arcminutes wide, depending on where it is in its orbit. So about a tenth of the width of the moon.
It’s real light, just color shifted as the JWST is designed to look at severely very distant and thus red shifted objects. The nebula is however much closer than that.

Anyway, that looks like science fiction because science fiction borrowed that look from astronomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula
Individual writers control their own email lists
Android, AdWords, MS DOS was acquired for $70k, instagram
God, this is such a good point. This gap between scheduled hours (~20) versus expected dictation of 'available' hours (~40) is one of the things powering the obnoxious "side hustle" idea...
"That’s why Medium exists. We aim to make it simple to share deep thinking and easy to find the thinking that’s valuable to you."
Ha!
Same for me. I mean for really difficult and focussed work I prefer a very quiet place but for rather standard work an open space is perfect, keeps me from falling asleep
I'll give credit to Medium for trying to diversify its content/revenue streams with things like memberships and in-house high-quality publications, but media is not an easy business.

At this point, if you are still posting on Medium, you many want to consider moving to your own platform since some of the network effects that made posting on Medium a good proposition are dying off as a result.
Food seeking behavior =/= thin males =/= thin citizens. Lot of weak linkages happening there.
Note that this mission was specced and designed ages ago too, so just as the observations it makes are views of the past, the engineering to do so is a time capsule too
I don't know what it's like from the inside, but from the outside the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook has gone much better than I expected. I really thought Oculus would be gone within a year, but they've continued to put out some great products. Other than the misstep about requiring Facebook accounts, it seems like a success.
Serious question: How do I explain this to my nine year old?
Our societal system does hold proverbial guns to peoples heads to force them to work. We all need money to pay rent, eat, take care of our families and our health, etc. That money has to come from working (or inheritance if one’s lucky).
Something which won't exactly inspire confidence for any similar attempts in the future
Ask HN: What do you currently use for feature flagging?
I'm curious to understand:

1. Which tools folks have been using to manage their feature flags
2. What do they like and dislike the most in the solution they currently use

Also, which factors led you to choose your current tool?
I quit Spotify a few months back for this reason.
Small pull requests is the key. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... was a study written on it (among other things.) This lines up with traditional code review wisdom.
I think the assumption in the case you are presenting is that efficiency is viewed from the POV of the use of resources aggregated over the whole society. There are other POVs, such as it being more cost or production speed or resource or factory floor space efficient for BMW or their suppliers to maintain one product line as opposed to two, or it being more cost efficient for owners to have the option to turn on the feature temporarily or permanently as opposed to having to have the feature installed afterwards (which may depend on the percentage of owners who turn on the feature).

I think an analogy could be a software package which have some subscription features. The features are already contained in the software, but paying for the subscription would turn it on, and stopping the subscription would turn it off. Regardless of whether you are subscribed or not, it's taking up storage space, although I suppose the low cost of storage makes a difference in degree (but not in kind).
If it generates, at most, 57GB per day[1], assuming 22h operation (2h for transmission), the sensors are generating 2.6GB/h or about 750kB/sec which is just about 6Mb/s (unless my math is wonky.)

[1] "JWST can produce up to 57 GB each day (although that amount is dependent on what observations are scheduled)."
When you are sidestepping the GC and have your object graph mostly in types built in the base language, Lua is no longer a pleasant language to use.

I think UE is a situation where writing a new language specifically for scripting it is absolutely the correct choice. The user base will be large enough to support it properly, and there are a lot of things that are a lot more ergonomic when the language will be built to support them after the base system is already built, instead of the other way around.
I have to resist the urge to implement Scheme in this, right now, but I hope someone else has a chance to try this out for Scheme soon, and help inform the standard before things finalized.
> Many people were working these jobs without realising what a bad deal it was. They were kicked out during the pandemic and learned that any other job is better.
> The only thing that was keeping this jobs in place is imperfect knowledge

It's not just knowledge. Many of these jobs are TIRING jobs because you are physically on your feet a lot. You just don't have the energy to go looking for another job at the end of the day.

The break COVID gave people was a huge boon to job mobility.
It confuses me sometimes that we split the entire community between GPL versions 2 and 3 to thwart the terrible TiVo, but making AGPL just GPL 4 never seems to be discussed. Especially since GPL 3 is self upgrading, so there’s no risk of a new split.
> Are there any surprises why there are staff shortages?

Heathrow is in the UK, not in Ireland, so I'm not sure how Ireland's minimum wage, and Dublin Airport's work contracts for security, could possibly create shortages of staff at Heathrow?

In any case, the number of security staff at Heathrow isn't the bottleneck. From the article: "by the end of July, we will have as many people working in security as we had pre-pandemic".
The company couldn't care less about privacy. As it is not human it has no feelings. Rather it is people – real live humans – who called for said "kill switch". It is they who seek privacy, not the company.
Agreed. Though some ppl seem to not have much issue with certain noises.
> But I suspect they will never do it until forced by law because of the cost.

I would go further: I suspect that Google would just shut down many of its services if they had to provide human support, because the cost of serving the sheer number of people Google serves, with any level of effectiveness, would turn the the products from positive-margin or at least acceptable-cost loss-leaders, into highly-negative-margin.
I much prefer RTT games to play competitively, be it the Wargame series or, my personal favorite of all time, World In Conflict. Minus the base building and production minding, you can actually focus on the combat (and still have a platoon of tanks wiped off the map in a flurry of ATGMs when you glance away for a second) and map control, positioning, etc.

I really only play RTS games solo, or co-op comp stomps.
No problem, have fun! — and if you enjoyed that FE article, you will likely enjoy the 'Behind The Curve' movie too, it's really quite amusing :)
But do they keep the sound?
At least in the case of (many) startups, most are built with acquisition in mind. Many time perks are there only to attract talent to get the company to the exit, but aren't part of the long term business plan.
I dunno.

I worked part-time in an Amazon warehouse for over a year, then full-time for a couple of weeks in-between jobs.

Once, when rolling up to a bin full of non-descript boxes, I was able to choose one, flip it in hand for the six-sided box check, and scan it to determine I had the correct box, w/o having to consider any of the other boxes.

A trainer and a group of trainees nearby asked how I had done this --- it took a couple of minutes to break down the description from the scanner and compare it to all of the boxes and explain how the box I had selected was the only possibility based simply on a visual examination.

Given how many singles Amazon ships, I'm really surprised that they haven't gone to a standard of just packaging on receipt of product, then shipping the boxes by pulling them and slapping a shipping label on --- it would be far more automatable.
The UI is better.
Nonsense. Student loans are not some kind of enforced slavery or whatever. You are getting a education, you are investing in human capital and that will increase your earnings potential for the rest of your life. Just like every other investment.

You are like gone be working for 40 years, to spend some of that paying back university is not a horrible deal. People here act like you get absolutely nothing for student loans as if you were born a debt slave.

One can make an argument of course that another system is better, a system where everybody (including people who don't go to university) pay more taxes and you pay more taxes in order to pay for higher education. That argument can be made.

There are many improvements that could be made, less people should do formal education and more people should be doing apprenticeships and then part time further education. That would produce much less debt without actually fundamentally changing the system.

However to act like this is some draconian feudalism is crazy.
“proposal to move WASM towards a control-flow model friendlier to tail-call optimization, which would bring it more in line with physical hardware.“

perhaps it is nigh time to bring the CPU hardware closer to the current WASM design.

Might simplify a lot of issues related to pipelining, cache-busting, and Spectre-like mitigations, not to mention crazy varied breakout of legacy microcode to subfunctions (Intel, I am looking at you as well).

But what do I know, I just play with Unicorn engine.
Leaked “Uber Files” show firm lobbied for Finland's taxi reforms
Cheers!

Did I mention FAQ & ChangeLog support!
Do Netflix et al inject "noise" into their recommendation engines? Like 1/10 titles are random rather than based on your preferences in order to break out of "local minimums".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_space_observa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFIR is the closest to a proposed JWST successor; the others largely serve different purposes.
He was also most likely autistic and also asexual. Also, he was a jerk.
Yes, optionally. For some Japanese versions of mirrorless cameras, there is a forced sound even in silent modes.
If you were to fly into these nebula in some kind of spaceship they wouldn't be any brighter than they appear in the night sky from Earth. They would just look way way bigger.
The frustrating thing is that our eyes start to respond differently to colours when the light is really really faint.
So we would probably perceive them as a grayish green haze.
If the image was brightened artificiallythen we would see it as mostly red, with some browns and blues.
I saw in such cases a 2 step approach, the first part the developers write their code and later on the database administrators perf tune it. It worked well for my teams in the past 5-6 years, YMMV.
I am aware of blood mineral problem. I am typing this in Europe on a low end smartphone produced for the Indian market around 2015. While my footprint is not zero, it should be a much lower than regularly updating to the next high end device.
That's your speculation,

Also, the human there was able to apply the brakes in time so ...
Oh for sure. I usually add just a dash of vinegar to the cabbage to balance it out with some acidity.
All good reasons to stay away from software. Would be lovely to learn one "stack" and stick to it.
Too many people live paycheck to paycheck to have the freedom to quit their jobs to find something else.

Also, Uber isn’t making a lot of money. They have been hemorrhaging VC for years and aren’t making any profits.
You posted a whole bunch of submissions on the same story. Please don't do that—instead, pick the most interesting/informative submission, then include the other links in a comment in the thread.

Two of the ones you posted ended up on the front page at the same time. We cant have two threads about the same story on the front page at the same time, so a mod marked one as a dupe. I'll restore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071949 now.

It's a good story for HN! We just don't want split threads—plus, frontpage space is the scarcest resource we have.
Nikon has 3 mirrorless cameras under $1k. Other manufacturers also have tons. What features are you looking for?
The Nexus 5X is nearly 7 years old at this point and from a quick Google the Unihertz is advertising the fact that it runs Android 10 (released in 2019) so it's probably to do with the out of date software.
Guy Kawasaki: The Only 10 Slides You Need in Your Pitch
It's important to differentiate between things that matter to my emotional well being and things that matter in a universal sense. Plenty of things matter to my personal monkeybrain - I want to have a stockpile of nutritious, calorie dense foods. I want to feel free of danger from predators and natural hazards, I want members of my tribe to prosper and multiply, etc. All those things might as well be noise on the universal scale.
> A site or app that doesn't allow user content isn't in scope.

I agree, but the article's author's phrasing, IMHO, claims the opposite.

> In practice this will end discussion and comment sections from all but the largest sites that can afford all the regulatory compliance.

My possibly contrarian (for HN) opinion is that the Internet's "wild west" approach of disclaiming liability when republishing and algorithmically editorializing content on a platform isn't acceptable, so I'm actually in favour of this. Otherwise we have people being harmed with nobody to hold to account.

If when tracking down an offender the offender cannot be found, then they're effectively being shielded by the platform, and the platform should be held liable. They shouldn't be able to have it both ways.

I don't think this would necessarily exclude all discussion or comment sections because I'm only talking about (my definition) a "platform". I would exclude "mere conduit" direct communication apps. This bill probably doesn't achieve the distinction and exception I want though.
Coca-Cola hasn't contained serious levels of cocaine since 1903, although it did use some coca leaf extracts up to New Coke, but that is not the same as cocaine just as poppy seeds are not the same as heroin. It's not clear that they were "forced" to remove that.

The New Coke story is quite interesting, but I don't buy in to most "explanations" of it. I think it's far more likely it's a case of "competitor X is more popular! We need to do something! Let's copy competitor X!" This is a classic business mistake, because customers are choosing you instead of X because it's not X, and if you merely copy X you lose your value.
Thanks! This site actually produces attractive output which includes some instructions, as well as the network name and password, something other sites don't offer. It is handy to be able to have the password visible for situations where the QR Code isn't a viable option, like setting up a laptop.
They weren’t IQ tests, but results tended to be correlated with IQ.

When you are testing for reasoning, analysis, etc those are exercising the the same parts of the brain as an IQ test.

When you make a test such that you can just memorize grammar rules and know facts, you’re assessing the willingness of the candidate to study, or have access to study materials.

Depending on the job, it may not matter at all. Your IQ over a moderate threshold is irrelevant to many occupations.
That's why we calculate stuff like effect size and power of a test (or even better, use Bayesian statistics); just p < 0.05 is practically almost meaningless.
I think balance is important. I think I remember that studies indicated that it often works well to immerse yourself in a subject and then rest. Your subconscious then processes the thing further and might come up with shower thoughts.
This works for me.
If I spend too much time alone, I end up mentally running in circles. If I spend too much time with people my mind becomes saturated and stops absorbing new information.
Google engineers use Dart to create many apps, including some that are essential to Google’s business. For example, if you use the Google Ads web or mobile app, you’re using a Dart app that supports much of Google’s revenue. Also, the Assistant team at Google uses Dart for features in Smart Displays, as described in this announcement.

https://dart.dev/community/who-uses-dart

Flutter 1.0 is officially announced on Dec 04, 2018. After that, the demand of dart programmers is gaining popularity now. Because entire flutter app development is completely based on a dart. It seems that tech-giant Google has some big plans with the language. That’s why dart is implemented on two big projects including flutter and fuchsia OS.

https://dev.to/harshuinc/dart-the-language-behind-flutter-an...
Is there any attempt or is it even possible to correct for the distortion caused by the gravitational lensing?
Depends quite a lot on how you look.

If you use an optical telescope to look at the Orion Nebula, you'll see it, but it'll appear pretty much grey. (No scope and it'll be what looks like a bright star, with perhaps a little bit of a blobby nature.) Hook a standard SLR camera up to the telescope and do a long exposure, though, and the reds and blues become readily apparent.

Here's one I took with a standard camera and a 6" scope: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMtHMicBwvI/
The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
I know this question is rhetorical, but hypothetically, one should be able to load the same map inside of the child DOOM instance that loads the same map, which would allow you to run as many DOOM instances as you could fit within the CPU bounds of the system running it, or the RAM bounds, up to 2 GB of RAM or whatever the system has, whichever comes first.