skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And explicit profit-sharing exists and is found in some companies; but rarely Silicon Valley ones. (They seem more common in factory/service companies)
IG is a photo sharing site with ads interspersed and WA is E2E texting. We gotta tone down the rhetoric here.

They’ve gotta be two of the least toxic social media sites compared to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube — any why: because the format is cancer to news.

Social media itself is great — Snapchat, IG, BeReal, Radite, Discord as long as
they are successfully able keep them from becoming political megaphones. TikTok has come the closest to being a general purpose broadcast social network that hasn’t been corrupted but long term I’m sure it’ll get poisoned too.
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I assume it’s because the SA construction projects are more visible today than NA projects. Nazca lines are still visible along with Inca and Maya stone buildings. NA mounds and these canals are not as visible so people just can’t see them and walk around them as well.
I doubt this is an unusual situation.

I'm not falling on my sword to defend Facebook here, BTW. The company does a lot wrong. I just suspect it's not much worse than anyone else.
Assault Rifles seem to be ok for the US government to place into the hands of US civilians.
We have some CSAs and a couple health food stores that focus on local agricultural products. I don't think any of them are true coops though.
I posted it to have comments, before seeing it completely

it appears a total fake :(
There are some very important instruction on that small set. Most of the integral arithmetic is there.
What happened to FondationDB? It is used elsewhere?
You’re missing the point of the parent comment. News Feed and FB posts are a small fraction of activity in the FB family of apps. Messaging is massively important to billions of people worldwide. WhatsApp or Messenger usage is greater than SMS is some countries.
There are a few points here:

First, the various claims made by Stipa that jet engines were inspired by this aircraft are not credible. He even thought the V1 missile (pulsejet-powered) was derived from his concept.

"Stipa later claimed the Germans stole his patented ideas when they developed their V-1 flying bomb, although the pulsejet engine actually bears little relationship to his intubed propeller."

"Luigi Stipa died in 1992, embittered at not being recognized as the true inventor of the jet engine."

https://web.archive.org/web/20220306183856/https://www.histo...

So it's a sad story for Stipa, but his indignation doesn't mean anyone stole ideas from him.

Secondly, the turbojet and turboprop were first patented in 1930 (Whittle) and 1929 (Jendrassik). These patents predate the Stipa-Caproni, which doesn't involve the Brayton cycle (obviously) so isn't really in the running for first jet propulsion. Now, you might argue that the ducted fan is a "jet" technology, but the absence of turbomachinery makes Stipa's invention very distant from either turbojet or turboprop.

Thirdly, you seem to be misreading the diagram comparing turbojet, turbofan and turboprop. It is the turboprop (not the turbojet, as you seem to imply) that is more efficient than the turbofan up to Mach 0.75. The propfan is exotic, anachronistic as far as the Stipa discussion goes, and is best thought of a high speed development of the turboprop. Early turboprops were prevented from developing into propfans by technological constraints back then.

Finally, when you "stick a propeller on a turbojet", making a turboprop or propfan, you largely give up jet propulsion. The exhaust of the turbine produces only a small amount of residual thrust. The Stipa-Caproni, being piston-engined, didn't have exhaust thrust.

So why are there no ducted turboprops? That (not the turbofan) would be the logical adaptation of the Stipa design. Well, these sort-of exist
(https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34919/at-what-p...).

Stipa wasn't working with the Brayton cycle or with turbomachinery. His claims that the idea for early jet engines (even the V1!?) were stolen from him seem really unlikely to have merit. On the contrary, the turbofan principle is suggested by the formula for propulsive efficiency of a turbojet. It's not a configuration, like the Stipa-Caproni, but a theoretical insight about jet engines that could be taken advantage of by adding a bypass. I don't see anyone claiming that Stipa saw this. A turbojet with a fan and bypass is not a copy of Stipa's annular duct. It is a lot more complex, and the devil is in the details.

The fact that Stipa went to his grave convinced that he deserved the credit for the jet engine is regrettable, but it would be a big surprise if he was vindicated. We all know people like him.
>The thing is companies in the EU can't use slave workers and there is no access to cheap resources that are mined without regulations and so on

Sure they can. In the 1940s they did it to several million people (a large part Jews). Up until the mid-20th century they stole resources and took advantage of human capital directly in occupied lands ("colonies"). Now they do it through outsourcing work to sweatshops, child mines, and such, in Asia, Africa, and so on. They also do whatever they can to keep those "unregulated mines" and cheap resources flowing, by by the traditional way of meddling in their ex-colonies, toppling governments, and so on.
ahh never mind. in a different article there are indeed horizontal platforms[1]. spotted in this article[2].

[1] https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads...

[2] https://allthatsinteresting.com/seapod-floating-home
Most voters don’t see housing price inflation as a bad thing. They see it as a good thing because it means their net worth is increasing.
Ask HN: Are cloud services too complicated and clunky?
Hi,

I was wondering of solving this problem for startups and non technical founders of helping them get cloud services running without having little to no knowledge. Simple interface, simple APIs and documentation and tutorials. Everything is just simpler.

IMO it’s what I needed when I first started devleopment and working on startups and I think this problem persists but not much choice out there.
Give me your thesis source code, I will just remove one bracket from your complex equations Let’s see how many hours you will spend to fix it.

The compiler will just tell you “out of memory error” with no line number. Good luck finding it.

Latex and its tooling ecosystem are atrocious for productivity. For a type system that promises “just write, forget about formatting” the effort it requires to get document formatting right is insane.
One of the oldest food coops is in Park Slope Brooklyn, which is not rural but sure does have a bunch of hippies.

https://www.foodcoop.com/
Rebels, more likely.
Most of us agree that we like open systems; it's also well established that certain companies have a tendency to design closed systems. What do you think needs discussing here that hasn't already been discussed in hundreds of other HN threads?
What system uses .ROM files? Nothing. Buying a Switch game is literally just as easy as buying a Steam game. In either case I still have to bypass some DRM to use it somewhere else. It's not a service problem because fundamentally they are the same.

While emulation CAN give a better experience it can also give a worse experience. Not every Switch title is playable, many have glitches etc.
git rocket-filter[0] is a friendlier CLI alternative to filter-branch or BFG, although it's a dotnet app and requires the (cross-platform) dotnet runtime.

I've used it successfully to remove huge or sensitive files people pushed to the repo by mistake, it removed them across many branches and merge commits.

That said, I agree with all your points. Personally I almost never use the CLI, I use a GUI front-end (Tortoise-Git, which is windows only). I do use the CLI for occasional scripting or complex operations, but that's rare.

I also train junior devs on git in our company. In fact I just spent part of the last couple months preparing an internal Git course, after having written a non-trivial Git integration for my internal app, which was a painful process and took over 2 years, mostly not Git's fault though.

The Git course I've prepared teaches git using only GUI tools, I now consider the CLI to be an impediment for teaching Git.

> (I train junior engineers on Git often. Once you mention the "staging area" and "index", you'll usually lose them. I can't blame them...they just want to track their work!)

I'm with you there. In fact in the course I have a slide which says something like "most git courses teach you about the Index/staging area at this point. We won't teach you about that. It's not very important right now and it's confusing. If you use Tortoise Git, you simply check the checkboxes for files you want to commit, and don't check the ones you don't. That's all. Now we move on. If you want to know more about these things, see those other courses.".

[0] https://github.com/xoofx/git-rocket-filter
>Unless you are very good at manoeuvring around long documents, liberally split them up. I think it's fine to have sections in their own source files.

That's cool. I'm a lawyer. Often those section becomes snippets-like text I can re-using in other documents.

Also, making those _snippets_ help me to think more clearly. LaTeX wants me to think as crisp he is.
but Kyiv is no where near the front line, having any equipment like artillery deployed there makes no sense.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28500871/
Ask HN: Will there be more liquidation preference in upcoming exits?
For companies that raised at high valuations in 2021 only to see said valuations drop precipitously in 2020, are employees likely to get screwed by liquidation preference in the coming years if there isn't a substantial recovery?
There's not confusion. The study did an intention-to-treat analysis, which failed to find a significant result.

"Intention to treat" here means that you count everyone in the group that got an invitation to get a colonoscopy, regardless of whether or not they actually did it. Though this sounds counterintuitive, it's the "gold standard" because, if you don't do this, you leave yourself open to bias -- maybe the people who seek out colonoscopy have some symptom, family history or other reason that leads them to seek out treatment. Maybe the people who get a test get more treatment, and that treatment is harmful in the marginal case. Or just as importantly: maybe the people who don't have the time/inclination to do one would be better served by an alternative test.

Everyone (including GP) is fixating on the magnitude of the primary outcome and squabbling about whether or not colonoscopies help people. But I think the more interesting aspect of this study is that it shows that the genetic tests probably aren't inferior to the invasive, painful, time-consuming rectal exam. If that's true, it's great news!
Ask HN: What would you change about Notion?
What would you improve on Notion you could? My personal one is the interface and file management with privacy based setup.
Not a very expansive post. Here's a few more things WebGPU is missing (at least on the web):

- Push constants (wgpu has them as a native feature for all backends) (allows avoiding a uniform buffer write and bind)

- Texture binding arrays (https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.Features.html#associ...) (allows for rendering multiple materials at the same time)

- Multiview rendering (https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.Features.html#associ...) needed for WebXR bindings (https://github.com/immersive-web/WebXR-WebGPU-Binding/blob/m...)
The past thirty years of offensive drones has shown the military power offensive drones. The US fields drones from the size of passenger aircraft to tiny little palm sized ones. It's also been firing missiles from them for decades now.

Drones in warfare are not new at all. Even the use of commercial drones is not new.
The correct link to visit was this
https://popresolve.com/support

I guess the /support part was stripped out.

EDIT: It wasn't
The original Business Insider article - referenced by the article linked on this post - writes [1]

"Executives told directors across the company that they should select at least 15% of their teams to be labeled as 'needs support' in an internal review process, one of the people who spoke with Insider said."

So, as per Insider - and the article this post is about -, this information should be below the VP-level now, at director levels, and widespread in the organization as per Insider's reporting. I talked with people who supposedly should have been told about this 15% target. In engineering, I could not find any sources (including at director-level people).

We'll see soon enough if the Business Insider article is right, as the article claims:

"Several employees told Insider that as much as 15 per cent of the workforce could be cut within the next few weeks."

Let's check back mid-November to see if this did happen by then. If it would, there will be plenty of news on it.

I would not see the business sense. It does not mean that I am right. I offer my analysis, and I cannot predict what will happen, beyond assigning likelihoods to events. I assign a low likelihood of engineering layoffs happening at Meta the coming months. I see an even lower likelihood when considering that right now Business Insider reported about the performance review touchpoint happening - as previously planned - which tends to not be a trigger for letting people go, at least not in bulk.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-quiet-layoffs-will-...
Not sure how either of those things mean Apple has won. Samsung outsells Apple, which has only 20% of sales.
According to my hounds: To taste as much of the world as we can comfortably reach.

Works for me.
> That is incorrect. The title is completely wrong....Look at the confidence interval. This study was both consistent with a 36% reduction in deaths or a 16% increase in deaths. It's just a really wide range. All we can say about this study is that it didn't gather enough data to identify the size of the effect, not that there wasn't an effect.

In a randomized controlled trial you either find a significant difference in your metrics, or you don't. There's no other option. In all cases where you don't find a significant difference, the problem is that the confidence interval is too wide for whatever difference seems to exist. Your argument here is a fallacy (i.e. "you just didn't do a big enough sample!") which is a variant of my personal favorite: "it would have worked if you'd done X, Y or Z!"

There's always another X, Y, or Z. The negative study is always too small for the people who believe in the thing it's testing. As a supporter of some intervention, the onus is therefore on you to prove your claim in a demonstrated scenario, not on everyone else to disprove it in all scenarios. Could it be true that colonoscopies have some significant benefit to mortality smaller than detectable by a 80,000-person RCT? Sure. But that doesn't make the headline wrong.

This study didn't find a mortality benefit. Arguing that there's some theoretical other study that might find a benefit isn't relevant.
For a fraction of the others yes it does. And that is a loud fraction, which also completely controls the media. Putin had to make the Ukrainians hurt at this point because his minions are whipped into such a fervor from recent defeats
There is a local group trying to "disrupt" coops in this way: find members to shell out $$, have a steering committee, do a lot of marketing, all before the coop even has a location in mind.

Meanwhile there are actual coops (though they don't call themselves that) with skyrocketing membership who are doing, not planning, and slowly growing to encompass more than just produce. One of them now has a year-round greenhouse.

I haven't been impressed by the style of coop the author writes about. It seems like the doers are much more successful. Just this past year a new farmers market started in an urban food desert with two vendors in a church parking lot. Now they are trying to find new space because they have 20+ vendors weekly. To my knowledge, they raised zero dollars to get started.
In some places, a job at a company someone has heard of, or a job that doesn't require you to be on your feet doing manual labor all day is prestigious. These tech companies are still jobs that carry prestige and life changing money for some people, it's all relative.
That article is a great example of snarky pile-on.

Remember: you’re not being paranoid, if they are actually out to get you.
I've noticed some (but not all) meats are becoming more and more "factory packaged" with tight (and sometimes even resealable) bags that are more like ziplock.

I suspect as the number of grocery stores with actual butcher/deli counters continues to decline, we'll see more and more of that, especially as leaking into a plastic grocery bag is annoying but leaking into your reusable bag is really annoying.
The day before the invasion everyone knew it was going to happen.
Node is standard tooling for younger devs -- who also find JavaScript more tractable than Make, CMake, or Autotools.

Tbh I'm kind of surprised they didn't use Gulp.
I would guess that the canal they built would need dredging to stay operational. But I think the discovery is about the canal itself not about what they’d have to do to operate the canal. Not sure I understand GP’s statement but trying to find some connection.
On Explaining Confounding Bias
"...Analysts are often interested in the explanations for surprising or unexpected results produced by their queries.

...A major challenge that hinders the interpretation of such queries is confounding bias, which can lead to an unexpected correlation. We generate explanations in terms of a set of confounding variables that explain the unexpected correlation observed in a query... We propose to mine candidate confounding variables from external sources since, in many real-life scenarios, the explanations are not solely contained in the input data...

...We present an efficient algorithm that finds the optimal subset of attributes (mined from external sources and the input dataset) that explain the unexpected correlation...We demonstrate experimentally over multiple real-life
datasets and through a user study that our approach generates insightful explanations, outperforming existing methods that search for explanations only in the input data..."

[PDF] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.02943.pdf
I've been looking for a non-DJI drone with a Swift SDK for a while. Does this exist?
Go outside the SF/HN bubble and try to find people with a negative view of Google. Out in the real world nobody cares about ad tracking. In 2020 I walked around suburban Colorado wearing a FB Messenger hoodie and had multiple people comment on how cool it was that I work there and ask what it’s like.
Got it. Feels like this will be a lengthy process and require a lot of work, i.e. collecting evidence and documenting over multiple quarters, having people manage the process, all for 12k people. And my understanding is when you get PIP’d, you get offered a package of some kind to leave. I would be surprised if this approach is cheaper than just laying people off.
Semiconductor Stocks Tumble After U.S. Announces New Chip Restrictions
When I spoke of inferior experiences, I was referring to the Pine Phone, not the Pixel 2. I'm sorry that wasn't clear!

That said, the iPhone 8 is still supported by Apple (probably for the last year), while the Pixel 2, like the Pixels 3, 4, and 5, are no longer supported by Google. This likely doesn't matter to someone not running standard Google-supplied AndroidOS, though!

My use of the closed-source iPhone is not solely based on feature quality, and I've got no illusions that every feature is the best in class.

P.S. Just before clicking the reply button, I decided to do the search myself, curious. The iPhone 8 was a weird model; that was the year they released both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X, because (IMO) they lacked the courage to switch things up in their flagship product so much in one year. (Okay, and maybe also supply issues?) Still, when I DDG'd "pixel 2 iphone 8", I got results[0] that seem to not be the same as yours. The first doesn't really make any determination, the second is mealy-mouthed but seems to give an edge to Pixel 2 based primarily on price ("the Pixel 2 is a better value, starting out at about $50 and £70 cheaper than the iPhone 8" vs "you'll actually get more bang for your buck with the iPhone 8"), and the third, well, it's right in the title: "iPhone 8 vs. Pixel 2: Why Apple Beats Google." So I don't know, I bought an iPhone X that year rather than an iPhone 8, and just replaced that with an iPhone 14 Pro this year after five years of faithful service. But choosing a 2017 phone today, either one, while very clearly a step up from Pinephone for all the of the reasons mentioned in the article, maybe still reflects a but of compromise in service of wanting to run LineageOS. In 2017, was photo quality the same when running LineageOS rather than Google's own camera software? Maybe it was after that they started to apply more and more AI to the photo-taking process, I'm not sure.

0. https://www.techradar.com/news/google-pixel-2-vs-iphone-8
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/iphone-8-vs-pixel-2-phone-c...
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-8-vs-pixel-2,review-4779...
And not having surgery for it can mean death. Steve Jobs, even it wasn't prostate cancer, should serve as good example of how not to tackle it. Or at least to show what not tackeling it looks like, because feel free to do what you want, but be aware of the consequences.
I don't think the Fed will back off
This seems like an arms race you won't be able to win. The adblockers will just adapt.
How to Growth Hack Your Way Through a Recession
Unreal Engine Public Roadmap
More people need to just work out. If you lift on a regular basis and you're having a day where you don't feel great, you'll know for certain very quickly if it's a "real" down day or not, without needing some special ring, because you'll miss lifts. It's somewhat true of cardio, too, but it's much more possible with extremely low energy output per rep exercise to just power through and do it. With strength training, you'll know for certain when your strength isn't there.
I love this! Thanks for sharing the details. The world needs more co-ops.

The US needs to make it easier to incorporate co-ops. As someone who looked into building both a software co-op and a housing co-op, getting the paperwork in order was such a larger hassle than seeing up an LLC.
The process of flagging is just very opaque to me. I don't know why it was flagged. I don't know who flagged it. A moderator, a high karma poster, multiple people? I don't know if I could appeal it. Your question as to the reason remained unanswered. It's an anonymous process abstracted from transparent human engagement that is somewhat typical for technologized user enviroments.