skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming there's competition, doesn't dominating a market mean your product is the new mediocre? Competitors will try to compete on price but be low quality, compete on quality but be high priced, and you're in the sweet big middle spot?
Counter-counters:

- GSM price check is extremely random and can basically be ignored. Afaict, the price is stable with inflation.

- Agree on RAM. Still, a doubling over seven years is not exactly Moore pace anymore.

- Checking on cpubenchmark.com, A53 vs A55 is like a 20% increase. The A75 is admittedly a nice step up.
Ask HN: Startups Interviewing Like FAANG
Just got off a call with a recruiter for an ok company. Their process involves multiple interviews and a take home assignment.

I plan to just tell them if they want to recruit me, I would like to talk to the CEO first and see if it is worthwhile.

It used to be the CEO would seek out top talent. Increasingly I feel like CEOs are leaving hiring to the lower ranks who basically do a random job and hire people who don’t scare them.

It is a recipe to 100% ensure you get the worst talent.

Is this normal? My understanding from all the literature is recruiting is CEO’s #1 priority.

My experience is most teams throw out a random dragnet and hope someone good wanders in, and then gets past the low level intermediaries who are 100% chance to not be able to discern who the best talent is.

I am no longer interested in these interview loops. I am pretty sure I’m in the top of the talent pool.

Is there a polite way to say: “I am transformational to your company; I’d like to see that you understand what I can do.”

Startups hiring like FAANG is a red flag - It means they are adopting an approach to hire the middle tier.
Stock went up ~18% per year since Oct 2015. Does anything else matter to Pichai's bosses (board & shareholders)?
As people age, they experience the difference between:

- the future-that-is, and

- the future-that-could-have-been,
or the future they imagined based on their collective experience as a younger person.

Computers completely shifted the potential of the future past the realm of imagination. I was born in the late 80s, and watched the trajectory of technology with anticipation. My father, a programmer, was heavily into technology - and he could not imagine what I imagined. He couldn't imagine basic things in the 90s, like widely available terabyte hard drives in the future, or what they would be used for. I knew they were coming, because quality video files were just too large. When PDAs came out, I patiently waited years for a version with mobile internet (smartphones). These are the things I thought were "obvious" progressions, and they happened.

But I also imagined that technology would work as a system. It doesn't. Everything is fractured and isolated.
Door plugged seats maybe don't have a window or something that makes that row less desirable, so it gets filled last.

As to the flight terror, we're mainly scared of it for two reasons:

1. Disasters seem personally unavoidable - you can choose to drive better, etc, so any car accidents you see you can comfortably think you would have avoided. But once you're in the metal tube, you have no control over the results.

2. When it happens, it's rare and big news everywhere for weeks.
It’ll save them a good chunk of time when they eventually get split off like Baby Bells
YouTube Plays Diffusion: Your Comment Becomes the Video
I know this is a joke, but to just entertain it for a second, if they truly must have telemetry, then why not just have the device submit it anyway?

Local API for control, then submit telemetry via the cloud-version of the API they use for the app.

The obvious answer why not is: it enables people like me to just block the telemetry uploads.

But they can't have it both ways then, they can't make inefficient cloud-based control mechanisms, and then complain when people (ab)use them, because the truth is that that will not stop no matter how many cease and desists they send.
Why would they bother when then can just openly ship it by rail and sea? It's clear from these stories the authorities don't care about retrieving the vehicles. Until they do, stealing them is an easy, low risk crime.
There's a few reasons and it's not because it's from "stuffing your gob with too much food" and deciding not to "move your ass"

Meat is expensive and fresh and frozen vegetables aren't particularly cheap, leading some households, particularly families and lower income, to pick items like rice, potatoes, noodles etc which are cheap and can go farther. They're calorically dense but not filling so it's easy to consume a ton of calories to feel full from eating rice and butter or butter noodles.

There's also the education aspect as one might not know or be able to eyeball what 250g of cooked rice looks like and serving sizes (at least in the US) can be deceptive. Until recently, there wasn't a sticker on 20oz soft drinks that contained the nutrition facts of the whole bottle.

Also, while push ups might be free, walking and running isn't. There's a ton of places in the US with sidewalks in poor condition if there's any sidewalk at all. Pedestrian deaths are way up recently as well so walking/running on the road isn't completely safe

Sure there will be some that have problems "self inflicted from their own gluttony", but you're making this out like it's the case for everyone using Ozempic while also attributing obesity 1-to-1 with choosing to be overindulgent. You could do with a little more compassion as it's not as simple as you're trying to make it.
> if you're just background on somebody's recording in a public space and don't want to appear, just walk away.

He approached them first. They declined participating and in about 3 minutes one woman approached him back and asked not to put their faces on TV - that's when the whole fuss had started.
Could be the basis for a pretty funny class action or mass arbitration.
I live in an area that has a lot of "free range" cattle. The sometimes eat the party balloons the people release at parties and other events. It is not good for the cattle. So there are other good reasons to ban the balloons. Helium conservation may or may not be the best reason to ban the balloons.
I think the Forest for the Trees take is this:

They don't plan to instigate war in a vacuum, or trigger anything themselves.
They think that there is high probably of global conflict in the next 4 years, and think that they may capitalize from it / would mobilize given certain opportunities (and blind eyes / distracted nations).
I believe USSR had a preference for mobile launch mechanisms (like trains) over silos, so maybe the US had to prioritize other targets for the relatively inaccurate ICBMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-23_Molodets
There are solar powered christmas lights. That seems more much more practical.
I think attribution would be nice. Both from a honesty standpoint, but also generally useful.
In one project we had testing setup which costs 600k USD allually. It was three times more expensive than production setup we had for product which was more than 3 year old.
Nothing special, just mongo and Kafka with enormous size. If you run automation tests Manu times per day but do not clean anything - you'll get mongo with terabytes of test data. And then, on top there was elastic search which multiply bills.
Ah cool, I had an older one, a LJ4100. I needed the external one.
I had thought Kayak was a metasearch product and searched airline sites on your behalf, but maybe that's changed in significant time since I was involved in online travel.

Either way, search how you like, but you'll almost always get better exception service if you are booked directly with the service provider than if you're booked as a 3rd party customer or a code share. For airfare, costs are usually similar or even a little less expensive if you book directly; for hotels, there are times where the prices are significantly different, but you may be able to get the hotel to match prices if you call them to book directly.

Exceptions would be if you have a high value relationship with a corporate travel agent, or maybe a high level amex?

If you book through an online travel agent and something goes wrong, chances are the provider will send you to the travel agent's customer support and they will be slow and may not be able to do much, because they don't have the right access.
It was quickly followed by an iPad that was much thinner, nearly 2x faster, a bit lighter, and supported for 4 more iOS versions.
It doesn't matter the colour of employees' skin. It matters how many there are, and how the company insists they act. A company that cuts its own staff, reduces the bargaining power of unions, lets its supplier fuck it even harder, and cares about volume over quality... is going to be worse.

https://www.levernews.com/profits-and-payouts-over-passenger...

> "Cost-cutting was the single major reason behind selling commercial aircraft-parts operations [to] the new entity named Spirit Aerosystems [which] introduced its own cost-cutting strategy, even harsher than Boeing's"

> Spirit executives explained that they "hired 1,300 fewer people than the predecessor had employed" and implemented less-favorable union contracts which "provided for wage reductions of 10%"

> Boeing took advantage of Spirit's weaker union and more cutthroat business tactics by further squeezing their supplier to do faster, cheaper work.

> In a federal securities lawsuit [...] some of Spirit’s former employees alleged [...] many serious production issues including "out-of-calibration torque wrenches" that mechanics were using, and "defects such as the routine presence of foreign object debris (“FOD”) in Spirit products, missing fasteners, peeling paint, and poor skin quality."

> The complaint concluded that "such constant quality failures resulted in part from Spirit's culture which prioritized production numbers and short-term financial outcomes over product quality."
so basically they did keto for 2 weeks -- just enough to really get into ketosis -- and then gave them oreos at 100/g per day (which isn't really much if you're already down to < 50g/day carbs.

keto + oreos had a better impact at lowering cholesterol than statins.
If this is the case I'm thinking of, they basically tracked it on the train to the port in Montreal. They knew where is was the whole time and police just didn't care. So it's not international law, it's disinterested local authorities.
Same when we sold our house. We had some pretty muted pastel colors in our rooms, nothing flamboyant like bright pink or whatever, and the first thing our realtor said was "we need to repaint everything light gray." We also offered to leave some of our furniture around in order to make the home appealing and show better. Again, nothing wacky, just a few sofas, tables and generic non-family pictures on the walls. Realtor said "nope, you need to stage it for 30-40 year olds" (with the most generic, bland, airbnb-like non-furniture I've ever seen). I can't argue with the results--she successfully sold the house in the recent toughest house market we've seen in 10 years. But, wow, that's the aesthetic now??
What about “threads” accounts? I believe these are directly tied to IG accounts.
I don’t know the source or veracity but that’s deliveries vs new orders.

Planes being delivered this quarter were probably ordered before COVID hit in my understanding so any order differences would take a long time to show up in the delivery numbers
I started using BiomeJS for a small personal project after reading that they won a Prettier bounty. I can say it is wicked fast! But, my project is very simple in scope so unfortunately I can't speak to concerns for large projects or migrating from prettier/eslint.
Sorry for unclarity--that's not my query/assertion. Assertion: looks like a commercial adapter. Query: why use the commercial adapter if you are already milling a custom bit?

There are probably some practical answers to this if I gave it enough thought. Like, the CAD file to mill a hex bit was already available to NASA; or, it kept the overall length the same so the clamp could be developed in parallel.
Sundar is coming out as inspiring as Ray Ozzie, let's put it this way
In my neighborhood (just outside the M25, so desirable for younger families), at least half of the houses are occupied by old people that are rattling around in houses that are far to big for them. They are waiting as long as possible to downsize because they like the house that they have been in for 40 years, and the asset continues to appreciate. We bought such a house last year, where the old owners couldn't climb the stairs anymore and they moved to a retirement 'caravan' somewhere. Their similarly old neighbors thought that they were making a big mistake, but we suspect that they needed the cash.

Four bedroom houses in commuting towns with garages and gardens, that are better suited to families, should not be endlessly lived in by retired people. As per a sibling comment, the social contract is broken, and there seems to be little incentive for existing owners to move the stock on.
The other day a dude walked up to the cold case in line at a coffee shop, grabbed a coke, and left. This is the level of most crime. There's no mastermind or great tools, just straightforward actions.

The fact that this guy's car was tracked didn't really help him so much did it (police are sadly incompetent)
Yet software is not a chainsaw and a huge amount of people never learn to use their software tools. Especially since they're 100x more complex than hardware tools and nobody has time to master everything.
For whatever reason, the anarchists I've known are generally all "anarcho-communists" and trans or trans-adjacent. Weird situation cause they'll say how they hate rulers but what they propose seems to be where they don't really get rid of "bosses", but instead empower every busybody around you to treat you like they were your boss. The hierarchy is much more insidious than any capitalist dystopia they describe, in my opinion.
text book public bullying trick #23 ... use any reason or no reason to viciously announce as loud as possible that you feel threatened and then some loud remarks to manifest your moral high ground. disgusting. experienced it myself at least once.
I had to implement a 2nd deploy for a QA environment, and my first question to the infrastructure team was “won’t this be costly is there a better way to handle this?” They shrugged off the cost and said they would optimize my deploy once I was done with the initial implementation. 6 months later their optimization was to undo all the work not because it wasn’t a good implementation but because it revealed how much non-optimization had went into the QA environment before I even touched it. A lot of cost is probably due to the “we just taped these two things together” strategy for lower environments.
Not using them, or deleting accounts
Lack of destructors/RAII is the deal breaker for me. I know that this causes a function call to be made when a variable goes out of scope, which is "hidden control flow" and therefore banned by the language design.
Amazing.

> But as people embrace [the model of subscription video games], they will see that these games will exist, the service will continue, and you'll be able to access them when you feel like. Thats reassuring.

-- The Ubisoft director of subscriptions just the other day.

What is going on at Ubisoft? Is it incompetence? Like, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?

They do understand how terrible this looks, right?

Right?
EFF adds Street Surveillance Hub so Americans can check who's checking on them
I tend to have the opposite problem. I obsesses over the cost of things, and am pretty bashful about bringing it up to my manager, and he's always surprised that scaling some resources doesn't cost more. But I learned the hard way as a contractor about letting these resources run crazy and had to pay out of pocket so I have PTSD about it, which is why I'm vigilant.
Where can I learn more about Jai's release timeline?
There are also downside for European regulations. There is no free lunch and some toll needs to be paid.

Some examples include

- Banning encrypted messaging (almost passed)

- Cookie pop ups

- Various regulations harming open source (discussed before on HN)

Also due to how Europe is wired up, the cost of doing startup business is higher, why there are fewer and fewer successful European software growth companies.
> If the article has some length, it's because it takes the subject seriously and doesn't compromise on nuance and context just for clicks.

And yet it feels fluffy. The incident could be described in a single paragraph. The response could be an other. The organisation of the crew training and how it effected the incident could be third, while future instances when the lock was used could be a fourth. So about 800 words, compared to the 3000 words it is.

Multiple of us on this comment thread feels it is fluffy, you are asserting it is not. But you are not providing any reason other than that the author is a professional and we should trust them? That is not quite convincing when at the same time I am reading their fluffy article.

Why do i feel it is fluf? Because the article is going on and on while not answering any of the basic questions I have: what did factually happen in the cabin? Did he just say what he said and then went sulking? Did he move closer to the hatch? Was he trained on how to operate the hatch? How long did the fix take? What were the consequences on the schedule? What were the consequences on the experiment itself? (Did it perform as intended after the fix or did it only hobble?) Why did they had highly trained payload specialist if they were not given latitude to perform fixes? You don’t need a physicist to push buttons on a schedule. Did NASA let any further payload specialist who had this deep connection with one of the experiments on? Were fixes performed by the payload specialist a normal thing ever?

Did anyone from Nasa follow up with him? Was this a misunderstanding? Are we sure he didn’t just say he is not going to return to space one more time just to try his experiment again?

Where the expectations about the experiment shared between the experimenter and mission control? Have they discussed contingencies in the planning steps? Did they in future spaceflights?

But they could say: “oh, the actual incident is just a jumping off point, the article is about the human factors and how we should design machinery to account for (and prevent) emotionally disturbed people harming themselves and others with them” in which case I have an other set of questions: space is not unique in the sense that people have access to simple means to end themselves. People who drive are often a simple twitch away from dying as surely as you do if you open a hatch in space. What are the statistics about that? Same about airplane piloting, same about weapons. In which ways is space different from the above, and in which ways is it the same? Are there other things to worry about, or is it only the hatch? Did anything similar ever happen on a submarine, or an artic station?

And instead of answering any of these important and interesting questions the author is going on in length what feels like the same 2 and half facts again and again.
Yep, just wanted to write that exact same reply. It was one or two weeks ago and asked for permission to unlink YouTube, GMail, etc... from each other (as I understood it, when "opting out", login with the same Google account will still work, but they're not allowed to share data for ad profiling, recommendations etc...)
My experience is that stuff like this gets framed as "pro consumer" in Europe and "anti corporation" in the US. The difference runs deep.
Some things are being taken too far, imo. I think all controls being moved to touch screens in cars make them objectively worse. A touch screen requires the driver take their eyes off the road, while knobs, buttons, and switches can all be done by feel. I hope we eventually see things return to a more logical balance.

Phone size is another one. I get it, people want their phone to be their only device, and that makes them want a big screen to do more stuff... but for me, a phone should be sized to a human hand. If I can't do everything with one hand, or they need to add software features to compensate for the size of the hardware, it's a failure. I do wonder how much price comes into play. If someone is only going to have one device, because that's all they can afford, it's going to be a phone.

In both of these cases, the technology seems to forget about the humans that need to use these things.

From a repairably point of view, older devices are easier to understand and built to be repairable, where modern devices are cheap and complex (or proprietary), which leads to more waste. This can also be considered worse. That complexity can make for a better product during its serviceable life, but that life may be much shorter. So we have to weigh the improvement of the product against the cost of replacement. Not only the cost in terms of money, but also cost in terms of the environmental impact.

Sometimes it is worth taking a step back to make sure we are taking a thoughtful approach to technology and improvement, to make sure it makes sense and we're not just doing it because we can. I think some people, especially in silicon valley, forget how normal people live and are too wrapped up in technology for technology's sake.
This assumes they have something like RI etc for those resources. Those are typically used for production, but far too often, dev/test resources are usually turned on ad hoc.
I'm confused by "No hidden control flow"

To me control flow is "if", "switch", "?:", etc. What article describes are abstractions. Abstractions are not bad. They, just like anything else, can be abused. Maybe one may argue are easy to abuse or tend to be abused. But "Zig has no abstractions" is hardly a selling point.

On the other hard there are statements like "defer" and "try" which actually are very hidden and unusual control flow statements. Why the naming? Who the hell knows. I see try, I look for catch/except/finally, but there are none. Try in Zig means something else. "defer" is literally "try/finally", but less explicit about the scope.

"A Portable Language for Libraries"
"A Package Manager and Build System for Existing Projects"
"drop-in GCC/Clang command line compatibility with zig cc"

Is it still so after ditching LLVM?
Yeah I’ve seen people buy two batteries so you can just cycle them.
> Always felt like Apple didn't WANT us to make apps.

No, they want you to buy each developer a Mac. Then they can be sure to hold their market dominance for developers because a Windows or Linux machine can't be used for iOS dev, but a Mac can be used for all development. This artificial restriction ensures that unless you want to buy each developer 2 laptops or have different laptops with different OSes for different teams you just go Mac.
rerere has worked pretty well for me when handling conflicts and it’s built into git.

I’ve worked with hundreds of engineers in a single codebase. Never had any issues like you’re describing.
> Also AFAIK Masimo didn’t just want to be paid they wanted to have some direct on the development of Apple Watch.

They had concerns about some of Apple's design and functionality decisions around the sensor on the watch. They didn't want their technology to be associated with a poorer user experience...

... you know, kinda like how Apple has a whole review process and has input on the development of your apps for their platform?

Conflating that as "they wanted to be have some direction on the development of the Watch" is a notable exaggeration.
“Ultimately, the goal is to keep drivers from looking at their phones by giving them enough information and functionality in the infotainment screen.“

Perhaps simply less information and greater focus on operating a moving vehicle is appropriate.