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• Oldest cave art found showing humans and pig

  Fortunately, Yonatan (who was in fact the main engineer working on Google+) reposted it to Medium: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/how-the-price-of-paint-is-set-in-the-hearts-of-dying-stars-c33e520186a8 After he wrote it I pointed out most historical barns in many parts of the US are white, using whitewash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewash) which doesn't really change the conclusion of the article, which... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Show HN: Parsing books for time expressions with Python

  Https://medium.com/@gabrielcodes/parsing-thousands-of-books-for-time-expressions-with-python-b317dd534911 The website and data both have a lot of bugs, but it works for a lot of times, and it was a fun little project :). - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

  The search engine is still under construction you can try it here: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=f13dcea58f19d44de#gsc.tab=0 SyriaInfo | https://medium.com/@Syriainfo. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Google has been lying about their search results [video]

  SEO "experts" and scammers are salty. Define a metric and people will game it, how will bots and promoted content be filtered out now? A new set of problems. I am slowly replacing Google with ChatGPT: https://medium.com/@trendguardian/a-new-search-engine-1f91a5c05ebb. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries

  The submission title has almost nothing to do with the meat of the announcement. This is a manufacturer of stainless steel battery cases announcing Apple will use them for the battery in the iPhone 16 [0]. > Sunway is a major supplier of stainless steel battery cases. > Apple uses the stainless steel battery case for the first time as a thermal solution > Looking forward to 2025, if all 2H25 new iPhones adopt this... - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

Gather Town mentions (68)

• Training Juniors Remotely Is Possible. Here's How.

  Tools like Gather Town to encourage more ad hoc group interaction. One team I led used this tool daily for nearly a year, and the frequency and quality of our interactions were on par with an in-person office. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Simple but customizable alternatives to VR meetings

  Well, after some more googling I found a good candidate: gather.town if anyone is interested. Source: about 1 year ago

• Registration Now Open ~ Complexity Adventures April 28-30th 2023 Summit, a "uniquely global" Applied Complexity education experience!

  Our Guides will host live sessions throughout the April 28-30th weekend in our custom http://gather.town space to spark connections and learning among global participants. You'll form diverse teams, uncover shared goals, and explore a wide range of issues through the lens of Complexity! Source: about 1 year ago

• Do people miss informal chats with coworkers when wfh?

  I'm really digging gather.town for this. Our team has it set up & the ad-hoc "meetings" have gone up tremendously. You can choose to engage or not but it seems to be way more informal than slack for a quick sync, which is a gigantic strength imo. Source: over 1 year ago

• Do you agree ? I don't but this company also asked new joiners if they'd join at half of what they were offered. I don't know if they are feeling the heat or are we wrong about remote being best model for IT jobs.

  As mentioned above by @yowzas648 you should check out https://gather.town We started using it this week with my team and it is game changing, it does exactly what you just described. Source: over 1 year ago