skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of how well this particular case works, I'm in favor of people being able to modify their bodies as they see fit. If he wants to become more muscular, morbidly obese, or ten feet tall, that's his right.

Unfortunately, I could see things like this becoming illegal solely because they help people play sports too well.
It's not. I thought I missed the point of the previous comment.

Someone sent it to me...they were complaining about their last experience. That's all.

Thanks for clarifying.
I'm a big fan of Aqua Data Studio. I'd never heard of it until my current position, but it's very nice.
The saving grace for DDG is search directors (bangs) and privacy shielding. Their problem however, is these are incredibly trivial things for Google to also implement.
If you wanted to disrupt realtors.

Disrupt the corrupt and fraudulent bidding process. It's not the MLS that's the guild/barrier it's that only the brokers know what the actual bids were.
It makes sense strangely. Did you see the emperor bed build 6 months ago?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17558719
The student loan bonds probably benefit the ones owning them the most, which is not baby boomers in general. Maybe retirement funds buy them so they indirectly benefit?

Exclusionary zoning benefit those that own housing the most, so it does benefit a bunch of baby boomers. However, those with leverage of existing rental units seem to benefit the most because they gain leverage through rental income in the same market as they buy new units in so they can slowly gain new low-risk wealth over time without changing their cost/revenue balance.

In general low-risk investments such as student loan bonds and rental properties should be low-margin. However, due to regulations that stop the market from doing its thing that is not the case.
Adding new DNA letters makes novel proteins possible
At what point is a workforce sufficiently diverse? Is it just a matter of “too many white males in this room - remove some of them, replace with politically acceptable demographics”? Feels like even in a diverse workplace there are always going to be people not happy about “not enough people like me here”. Do we set quotas and start passing over qualified candidates to hit them? I’m all for fixing real problems, but the target on this one seems exceptional fast moving and mired in destructive unintended consequences.
I have a slightly off-topic question: what tool do you recommend for creating Entity Relationship Diagrams (also known as database models)?
A key thing I look at in graduates is what they did at university. I'm less concerned if they flunked their course just before finals, the things I'm looking for are

1) Independent living -- did they go to university a long way from where they lived? If they treated it as 3 more years of school, they've missed a major point. I'm not going to be parenting them as they are dropped into the real world at the deep end.
2) Extra curricular activities at uni -- did they do student radio? Or theatre? Or music? This indicates they aren't just doing what they think is required of them, but have the ability to think for themselves.

Kids straight out of school are a massive risk, not only can they do the job, but can adapt to an adult world? Graduates that just did 3 more years of school are the same risk.

Kids that dropped out at 16 and worked in a garage for a few years and solved some problems the business had? Brilliant.
Extending Kubernetes APIs with Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
"Jewish" and "white" are not considered to be mutually exclusive. It's very odd to see that categorization. Why do you group them like that?
I think this is an excellent way to look at the situation.

From a psychological POV (e.g. ego & identity), this aspect was particularly significant to me as I moved from developer to manager to CTO and then CIO:

> - being able to accept that you'll get less competent in things you're delegating
Wow. You must not airbnb a lot. I've stayed in such cute places along the years.

The only hotel I remember is the Marina Bay in Singapore. All others were just generic experience to me.

You should try to airbnb more :)
Sure, there's places to learn hip new tech that might not be around for a while and you'll have to continuously learn new languages/frameworks/etc. But there's also things like FORTRAN, COBOL, and C, which are all in-demand in their own little niches, aren't going away any time soon, and where you can till make a quite good career with only knowing one of them.
> It was very clear to me the interviewer only wanted to see perfect, compiling C++ on the white board, and had no interest in my problem solving or thought process.

It depends on the position you apply for, I'd say.

Some jobs require C++ and algorithmic skills. If you don't know how to write a basic algorithm in C++, then you might not be the best fit - and you might not want to join the company as a junior developer.
”I recently found documents on a shared drive”

I guess you aren’t supposed to have access to those documents. That, I think, makes this scary from a legal perspective. If it came to it, could you convince a judge that you weren’t looking for stuff you weren’t supposed to know? And could you convince a judge that you had to read the files to find out you weren’t supposed to have access to them, and couldn’t have concluded it from, say, the names of the files?

If not, maybe you should forget about this as much as possible or even report this to management, and certainly don’t tell your colleagues.
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I know where you're coming from, but I don't actually think it's very clear what type of questions will be asked for most technical interviews, and that is what makes it so frustrating and soul-crushing. There is always something I do not know, so the kinds of questions I face during interviews is seemingly endless.

If I'm applying for a Front-End Developer position, the interviews can ask CS fundamental questions, or things I maybe learned by reading Cracking The Coding Interview, or doing HackerRank problems; or they might ask specific questions about any frameworks or libraries listed on the job posting, or they might ask more software architecture / system design questions, or they might ask about the Software Development Life Cycle, what is Waterfall, describe AGILE, how do you write testable code, the deployment process, security vulnerabilities, etc.

Maybe all of that doesn't sound so bad to you, but for a young, mostly inexperienced developer who is trying to get a better job, it is daunting.
"crazy f-ed up startups like Peekmap".

Sounds synonomous with "scum bag" to me, priansch.
All the jewish people I know are white, so I am not sure these categories make sense. It may make more sense to refer to caucasians (albeit a broad category).
Headphone Specs Explained (2017)
I thought I could modify as long as I either pay or give money to mongodb?
> Build good-will and political capital in your organization.

It’s very easy to overlook relationship building. Even just stopping by, saying a quick hello, and giving a smile to execs in different departments can make a world of a difference in how well your departments can work together. This can make a big difference at whatever level you’re at in your career but is especially impactful the higher you go up the ladder.
This shouldn't be legal. If people fuck themselves up the worst case isn't just them dying, they can accidently unleash a virus. Pretty unlikely, but just the smallest possibility is still too much when the outcome can be so bad.

It's not unreasonable that tinkering with dna will unleash some dormant retrovirus.
Well, what did she write? How did she "criticize the lack of diversity"? I feel like it's a non-story without detailing what she wrote and what the backlash was.
> large and increasing cost of education due to subsidized education with no cost control of the product, leading to bloat in administration and unnecessary spending at universities [cost increase is both monetary and in time due to grade inflation]

One could replace "education" with "health care" and make another valid important point.
Many vehicles are switching to indirect measurement (this is just my impression, I haven't exactly been tracking which years/models use what system). It's certainly cheaper, you only need to write the algorithm once. Early systems mostly used sensors. I'm not sure why they used sensors to begin with since it's not like there's been a big improvement in VR sensors (the thing used to track wheel speed) enabling more accurate measurement. I suspect that the unwieldiness of big engineering organizations plays a role.
Minidisc vault: a jumble of thoughts on a once-great medium
We replaced our entire overnight testing and on-call operations department with SSD and a little bit of SQL optimization. Jobs that used to kick off at 5pm would run until close to noon the next day. When I stopped interfacing with that unit those jobs completed by 9pm. Went from a department of 25 operators to a team of 15 or so. We weren't able to reduce further due to vacations, on call, sick time etc.
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You're missing the point.

There are structural problems that inhibit participation from underrepresented groups. The objective is to level the playing field so everyone has a fair chance at success.

disclaimer: i am a black engineer who is tired of wasting time arguing with people who harbor views such as yours.
I have to concur that Agenda Item 109[1] (Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes), is vague as feck.

I'm looking forward to the report from the Secretary-General, to get a better understanding on the scope of their intent: Unlawful as per the UN or unlawful as per the member nations.

[1] - http://undocs.org/A/C.3/73/L.9/Rev.1
> I have no fucking clue how to write a BFS. I've never needed to know how to write a BFS. [...] If there's something I need to know and don't, I simply research it.

The problem with that is when the best solution to a problem is a BFS, you may never recognize or realize it, because you know nothing about BFS. You won't know what to research for.

I see it when people who don't know what calculus is go to enormous efforts to develop workarounds that sort of half-assed work.

I see it in my own work when I didn't know about a class of techniques, so I invented some crappy solution. For example, reinventing bubble sort when I could have used quicksort.

BFS is awfully basic knowledge. How do you know you've never needed a BFS? Maybe you never needed a BFS because a linked list is your go-to data structure? Maybe you've been reinventing bubble sort. (I'm not the only programmer who incompetently reinvented bubble sort, not even close. I just didn't know any better.)
There's Nothing Wrong with Open Borders
Then they can file a bench warrant for your arrest, right?
Yep. I've done both FORTRAN and COBOL in the late 80s, and today's versions only have a vague similarity to what I recall.
Millenials are largely healthy on average due to their youth which is why I didn't include that. However, for the ones that are sick that is definitely a huge problem.
The pessimists' view is that automation will deprecate a heap of jobs in the tech industry that will never return. The optimists' view is that automation simply allows companies to do more stuff: things they couldn't afford to do before, and soon, things they have to do in order to stay competitive. For the optimists the number employed in the tech industry stays the same or increases, but the proportion of different roles changes (ie no more green light watchers).
Google new data centres powered by 1.6m solar panels
Someone who used the same one for years - this was one of the most popular bluetooth headset for years.

Sales went down as price goes up, but I estimate it was selling 100+ units/month when the price was $150 and got worse as price got higher
In Southern California I think the plans are to mix the brine discharge with the treated sewage outflow.
I wonder what percentage of CSV represented data 1) passes through a spreadsheet at some point from data source to final data consumption and 2) how much of that spreadsheet action is specifically MS Excel.

You're right, there is no standard that I'm aware of, though the answer to those first two questions could well be a proxy for a de facto standard in practice.
> Personally I have no appetite for breaking any customer. Sure they may be "in the wrong" because they have an old dig recipe, or a load balancer health check tool, or a latency measurers, or some kind of DNS canary, that mistakenly used a wrong EDNS version, but if we change our behavior and break them they will a) feel it viscerally and b) rightly, blame us for breaking things. We're pretty serious about maintaining backwards compatibility always and treating every API like a promise.

That's completely understandable.

What I'm wondering is whether you could accept it for now, but reach out to customers you see it from and provide guidance, in addition to blogging about the issue.

I'm not suggesting "turn it off tomorrow and break people", I'm suggesting "work towards a long-term plan of turning it off".
Nice. Transphobia. Height of comedy, right here
Depends on the algorithms. Some people can brute force something basic, and the brute force answer will usually be slow and stupid at scale.

I'm working on something at the moment, and one of the key features is that while there's a fair amount of data, none of the structures are particularly big - and are very unlikely to ever become big.

So my thought process is that stupid brute force algos are absolutely fine for this domain.

If I have performance problems I can look into optimising them.

If I had hundreds of terabytes of data to start with, I'd take a different approach, and I'd research - not invent, because I don't care to reinvent a wheel if someone has already produced a much better solution - more efficient algos.

If none of the above work, then I'd consider improvising something and testing how it performs.

Would this pass your interview process or not? Do you want someone who's going to brute force an answer to your toy problem and think they've solved it with something that works but is inefficient, or someone who has memorised a collection of standard answers but maybe can't improvise something new, or someone who is going to check what's already available to save time, or someone who can improvise a super-efficient answer and do it even if it's not needed?

Who would you pick?

Do you really think this question has a simple answer?
I use pgModeler for Postgres. Although lately I've been using Valentina Studio and it has a decent schema modeler too.
> Another, many commenters here are saying "Hur de hur, I have a lot of stuff, I'm such a hoarder."

Yeah, it's like when a person spends a single night on a friend's couch, in between apartment rentals, eats a warm meal in a safe place with friends, and cheerily posts pics of their "homelessness" on socmed.

One of my neighbors is a hoarder. He currently has 2 stationwagons parked in the street filled to the brim with garbage. (Only 2 because his daily driver, also filled to the brim with garbage, is gone at the moment.) He has a truck parked in the street with a huge specialized bed, with a volume probably equivalent to about 4 or 5 pickup truck beds, filled with garbage. He also has an orphaned trailer, parked in the street, filled with garbage. He can't park in the garage or driveway because they're both filled with garbage. The entire yard is piled high with garbage. To enter the "backyard" he has to climb about 12 feet over a mountain of garbage. I've seen him while standing at the summit. There are sharp things pointing in various ways, and a fall could be lethal.

His "home" is the domestic equivalent of a superfund site. My favorite item in his collection is the old gas station pump near the plastic pony, and my favorite activity of his is when he burns plastic. When he dies it will cost more to remove all the garbage and toxic soil than the home is worth.

I can only imagine that the inside is the unintended equivalent of a series of boobytraps, which are illegal. It would be very dangerous for a first responder to enter the structure to save him, if need be. I assume his bed is a nightmare.
I'm confused why the USPS has to pay up $3.5M in this case. They purchased the image from Getty Images I assume with the proper license for printing/distribution. However, since this is the statue in Vegas it's not in public domain? How does that work? Are you not allowed to legally photograph the Vegas statue?

Does this mean if the USPS wanted to create stamps for the major cities of the US say LA, Chicago, NY and were to use pictures of Santa Monica Pier, Sears/Willis Tower, and Empire State building that they can't purchase pictures from Getty Images and would need permission from the owners of those properties? Also what stops me from suing Google or Zillow for taking a street view shot of my home and claiming copyright infringement on monetizing google maps / Zillow listings with a picture of my home?
This is how that movie starts, where it ends with cancer becoming airborne, contagious, and terminal in hours.
Transmissible CRISPR gene edits are not impossible (Paywall link below). Vectors for these edits probably aren't limited to injection. Which makes me wonder if the obsession over 3D printed firearms ought to share a bit of worryshare with do-it-youself genome editing.

https://www.genomeweb.com/gene-silencinggene-editing/paper-o...
My favorite conspiracy theory (which I totally believe) is that mattress stores are mostly for money laundering. No market can possibly support as many stores as there are, and every time I go by one, they're empty. It's probably because I don't understand the economics of the industry, but wow are there a lot of mattress stores. I know we all need to sleep, but spending $2,000 once every 10 years can't be a reliable source of income. Plus people will sleep on anything rather than lay out that sort of cash.

I personally, at 47, have never bought a new bed except a Ikea, from which I've bought several, all for much less than $2k.
Not legal in Europe? That's a bold claim, can you cite any documentation please? I'm in Europe and I know of many local shops, plus at least two pub chains that do this right now.

The pub chains are registered with our Information Commissioners office and I am struggling to understand how every one of those people (including the ICO!) could have missed this.

I note Bluetooth also uses MAC addresses, so this issue is not limited to WiFi. Spoofing your WiFi MAC on a mobile phone with Bluetooth may not be making you as anonymous as you hope to be.
Chinese startup competition with 2.5M entrants
Does Amazon Aurora Parallel Query Deliver Advertised 100x Performance Gain?
Holy cow good catch.

This is very weird.....

EDIT: Nice to see their open development position is an unpaid internship.
Exactly! Another one I missed
Thanks for the feedback. Quite frankly, I never found a comparable workflow in Mercurial (but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist). Commits still felt like a permanent thing that made me pause and think about whether something was "worthy" of a commit, thus I was unable to track my changes. This problem just doesn't exist in Git, though some care is needed when publishing (as w/any system).

I'm unaware of anything within base Mercurial that lets me do what I can do with git. Maybe the answer is to use the extensions, however that's a bit unsettling when some of them are being depreciated (eg. hg queues). Often times I found myself cloning and maintaining multiple directories for something that was better off as one thing. This led to reluctance to track changes, which is clearly evil. I guess I must have been doing something wrong, but I've heard similar feedback from others regarding Mercurial. I loved using hg and would have no problem using it (it was my first); I just prefer git now.
McDonald’s Loses Big Mac Trademark in Europe﻿
Doctors are trained to believe that sleep deprivation isn't something that affects good doctors. During their residency, doctors routinely work 24 hour shifts. This goes back to William Halsted, who for all intents and purposes invented modern medical training at Hopkins. Halsted managed his always-on work ethic with his cocaine addiction, and drove his residents to the same extremes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/magazine/the-phantom-mena...

> Of course, the overworked, sleep-deprived doctor valiantly saving lives is an archetype that is deeply rooted in the culture of physician training, not to mention television hospital dramas. William Halsted, the first chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins in the 1890s and a founder of modern medical training, required his residents to be on call 362 days a year (only later was it revealed that Halsted fueled his manic work ethic with cocaine), and for the next 100 years the attitude of the medical establishment was more or less the same. Doctors, influenced by their own residency experiences, often see hospital hazing as the most effective way to learn the practice of medicine.

It's bullshit, it's killing patients, it's ruining lives, everyone knows about it, yet no one does anything, because "it's the way we've always done it". If a doctor has been awake longer than 18 hours, and a patient dies on the table, they should be charged with manslaughter, traditions be damned.
On a sample of 2 tear downs, I’d say harvesting Apple products for parts is where the real money is.
I agree, but there are externalities. Medical care resulting from personal choices should be paid by the risk-taking individual (or the research firm, if it's a sponsored experiment), rather than society or other people in the insurance pool.
World's Biggest Eye Contact Experiment (2018)
So if it's not magic, what is the 'energy' whereof you speak?

[Edit: that question's a tad rhetorical. Qi is the epitome of a pre/anti-scientific 'magical' concept]
How do I get better at dinner conversations?
Recently, I invited my colleagues over for a farewell dinner and inadvertently put myself in the spot, by being asked a lot of inquisitive get-to-know-me better questions such as 1) Who among us did you feel turned out the most different from what you originally expected? 2) What are the top 5 things you'll miss about leaving this place? (Mountain View, if that helps) 3)What are the top 5 things you learnt over the course of the past year? etc.

I had either one-word responses or some very uninteresting answers and knew I was making the conversation stilted and boring. It was pretty awkward, and there came a point when I just wanted to be put out of the misery, and just be a fly in the wall, listening in on the fun conversation that the group would have, minus me.

So, to all the guys who make smalltalk seem effortless, how do you guys do it? Can this be learned? Should this be learned?
There is also https://github.com/cyberman54/ESP32-Paxcounter

"Wifi & Bluetooth driven, LoRaWAN enabled, battery powered mini Paxcounter built on cheap ESP32 LoRa IoT boards"
That seems unlikely to me.

What does seem likely is that they give both themselves and their germ line a genetic mutation. Editing yourself and then having children would be incredibly irresponsible. If you affect your germ cells, you're not just editing yourself, but all of your descendants.
I'm currently monitoring for Wifi probes with a RPI 0W and external Alfa USB adapter.

Interestingly, some parcel services use handheld barcode scanners that don't even try to randomize their MAC or hide their name.

(German blog post https://blog.rolandmoriz.de/2019/01/08/eine-flasche-metadate... )
How are the jewish people 'white'? Are black people white? Arabs? How are YOU drawing the line?
To the point, they are orthogonal and it's an incorrect comparison (regardless of any viewpoint on diversity).