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Great Question (YC W21) | Founding Engineer, Rails | REMOTE | UTC-11 to UTC-5 | USD 110k-130k + equity | https://greatquestion.co/

Great Question helps companies democratize customer research - making it easy for anyone in your product team to run customers interviews, send out surveys, and make research part of every sprint.

We're looking for an experienced Rails engineer to come join our small (but highly performant) team (currently 4 of us, 2 engineering). We're funded with product in market and customers that love us. We're after someone who can come in and own key parts of the backend, champion best practices, write performant, robust code, and help us build a world class platform.

Interested? Apply directly via email at pj@greatquestion.co or here: https://careers.greatquestion.co/founding-engineer/en

Must have strong overlap with PST work hours.
More information and publication biography on the company's website. [1]

I'm not sure if I read this correctly, but part of their approach is to take biomarkers from suicide victims

The validation step 3 is usually done in an independent cohort of clinically severe subjects (or, in the case of suicide, a cohort of suicide completers).

[1] https://mindxsciences.com/faq/
This has worked spectacularly for me as well. I’ve gone so far as to always log out of a service after logging in. I only use a tool when it’s worth the effort to log in. I’ve also found Firefox focus to be an ideal mobile browser for this kind of approach to using the internet.
Mutex::lock() takes &self. RefCell::borrow_mut() takes &self. Those (and try_ variants) are the main ways people will use those types to gain access to their interior mutability.

Sure, both do have get_mut() which takes &mut self (though these came after 1.0), but that’s seldom how you’ll actually access it.

> But even if Rust had &uniq and &shared pointers, the challenge would be the same.

Remember again that the mutpocalypse wasn’t ever about changing the semantics, just about fixing incorrect labelling. I’m not saying the challenges would be different, just that &mut is false advertising, giving people the impression that & means an immutable reference, when it just doesn’t. &/&mut misleads people into thinking they can have immutable data structures, but you’d actually need an OIBIT (like Send) to achieve that.
Girl Scout cookies take flight in Virginia drone deliveries
தெரியாமல் தவறவிட்ட தெம்பளிக்கக்கூடிய தன்னிகரில்லா
Which countries are irrelevant?

By the way, your graph only shows the data for Canada. I guess the rest of the countries are irrelevant?
It seems like the phone is at least in part a symptom, not a cause. So I'd suggest, for starters, seeking medical help for your underlying conditions.

That said, since the phone issue may also be causing a feedback loop of anxiety, I'd suggest a few things.

1. Schedule "phone time". Set an alarm for when it's over, and commit to not using it outside of that time.

2. Set "Do Not Disturb" on your phone. At least with Android you can do this just by talking to the phone. Or at the very least set quiet hours for the majority of the day.

Alternatively, (2) may cause more anxiety if you're constantly wondering "but what if" - in which case, perhaps set it to whatever is necessary to hear it, but tell your friends/ family that you're trying to stick to specific hours for phone calls/ texts.

3. Some sort of cognitive behavioral approach. Think about what triggers you looking at your phone, or your anxiety - write this all down. For every trigger, consider what actions you could use to directly address that trigger, in a healthier way. This could be as simple as counting to ten or focusing on your breathing when you feel that anxiety, giving your mind some time to rest.

Consider writing down when you feel that anxiety. Instead of turning to your phone, perhaps just with pen/paper, write down what you were doing, how you're feeling, and how you'll move past those feelings.

4. Log out of accounts. Even just having to log back in can force a pause, and give you a chance to back off. Remove distraction apps entirely. Don't just rely on blocking them or whatever - uninstall them. When you're feeling better, and have healthier habits, you can reintroduce them.
We're already inadvertently causing the extinction of countless species anyway. What is it about this one that's so vital we can't afford to lose this one?
Right, but notice that wasn't the emphasis of the post I was responding to. OK, there was 1/2 a sentence that touched on profits as almost an afterthought.

The thing that sets me off about these threads is the (I believe sincere) thinking that 'well if that's the share price, it must be worth that much'. That's fine if you're speculating/trading but is absolutely wrong if you think what you're doing is investing.
this is so dumb. how is this news
DHH was “so sick” that he was barely present for the most important meeting of his career. Fortunately he was able to post on Twitter several hours later storming at Apple, then going on a twitter blocking spree. What a “miraculous recovery”.

I wonder what things will be like for him when he becomes an adult.
Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy Review – A Plastic Classic
The XData project[1] at IIT Bombay is an interesting use case. The problem is to figure out whether the query a student wrote is semantically equivalent to that written by the professor. There is too much variation and many syntactic differences between different databases to do equivalence testing using just syntax analysis.

Instead, Z3 is used to generate a small test data set, given the schema and the query. The core idea is to make sure the data set smokes out any mutation to the query. That is, if I use a join when the prof intended outer join to be used, or '<" instead of '<=', Z3 is used to generate a data set that will yield different results for the original and mutated queries.

Once a sufficiently robust data set is created that covers (an extensive list of) common errors, it can be used to vet student queries automatically. Interestingly, the system can award partial marks as well.

[1] https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/infolab/xdata/
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Teraflops per second is the speed at which computing speeds up. Eyeballing Wikipedia's list of fastest supercomputers, between 2018 and 2020 we clocked around 100 petaflops per year, which comes to around 0.00317 teraflops per second.

For homework, you can calculate teraflops per second per second, which would measure the acceleration of teraflops.
Surprising to me to read a story of someone growing in the midst of the second world war, lost his father to Auschwitz; further down the story he's super annoyed that some of his students had a website collecting his writings. To me it almost feels that those two worlds are completely disconnected, yet here we are.
Yeah I use some RPi 3’s with MusicBox around the house and they work flawlessly. They’re all linked to a shared folder on my NAS for MP3s and also do Spotify/AirPlay/etc.
On this note, can we also have some regular phone meetings again?

I mean, I've worked remote for 13 years now. Although it has been available for most of that time, we almost never used video during calls in the past. When covid hit, suddenly calls I've been having for 10 years require everyone to be on camera.

Video has its benefits of course, but it's not always necessary and it's more exhausting than a voice call. If I'm talking to people I've worked with for 10 years, I actually think it's worse to always do a video meeting. We're not looking at each other anyway, we're looking at what we're working on, and being on camera is so much more draining.

Does anyone else feel like a step back to more voice calls would actually be a step forward in happiness?
ShellCheck and templates from the Shell Field Guide[1] is what keeps my bank running.
Rust cmd_lib[2] is tempting with safety, though tougher maintainability.

[1] https://raimonster.com/scripting-field-guide/

[2] https://github.com/rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib
A friend of mine did something similar, although in a tax office.

Ploughed through weeks of works in days (he is really fast at typing too).

When he came back with his work the manager of course wouldn't belive him, set two men to verify it for weeks and they concluded it wasn't only correct but even had less errors.

After that he was "promoted" to a customer facing job (since he was "unqualified" to program).

My dad told me this story when I was a kid. It's how I ended up as a developer and why I still am.

Delighting customer by making weeks of boring work vanish into empty air is still fantastic.

Edit: I've been luckier than him. It is not always that people can be helped but I was never punished.
Utiligize | Copenhagen, Denmark | React Engineer, Infra Engineer | Full time | Onsite | https://utiligize.com

Our software helps utilities invest in the right infrastructure to support challenges related to electric vehicle charging, heat pump and solar deployment. Our platform includes a mobile app for data collection and a dashboard for visualisation and control.

We're looking for a React developer to understand customer requirements and develop new features. It is preferable if you also understand Node.js, Postgresql and Typescript.

Having some mapping (GIS) experience with Mapbox or Leaflet is a plus, but it's also something you can learn on the job.

We offer competitive benefits packages (salary, equity, free lunch, 401K, fully subsidized personal healthcare, cell phone allowances, etc). Get in touch at contact@utiligize.com
The timeline of events is pretty evident from DHHs twitter feed + this article. They had the meeting in the morning, and by the afternoon he had mustered up the energy to go back on Twitter to fight with Apple. :)

> (There is already so much bad, that his absence/presence is a moot point)

This dude is one of the two founders of the company and has a leadership/ownership responsibility. I don't think his deciding to duck out is a moot point at all. It's that exact attitude that led to what's happened there.
Show HN: On-chain auto-battler game written in Rust
It would remove those less fit. I think the point of the effect only being at second generation is that it makes the lack of fitness signal weaker in these males than ordinarily sterilised males. Added to that they keep releasing the modified mosquitoes so they are more numerous (in effect more fit since they have a massive breeding advantage from the humans breeding them).
It's true and sad.
Humans have trouble dealing with three particle systems
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem), so "limited and ignorant" seems like an good description imo.
Consumers make decisions based on how and why products are recommended online
We must have attended different meetings. I watched people think they were going to turn into mosquito peter parker. I do agree on the conundrum about needing more data, and I think the Keys is a fantastic place to try.
Zipline is hiring embedded engineers and folks with robotics backgrounds, among plenty of other roles. Both internships and full time.

We're scaling up a drone based delivery service with the goal of making life saving medical products accessible to everyone in the world.

Remote is possible for the right full time fit, but all the really fun engineering is happening onsite in the bay area.

https://flyzipline.com/careers/

The robotics prototyping internship roles require solving our Zip Sim coding challenge. I designed it with the intention above all of being fun, so check it out even if you're not seriously looking for a job.

If there isn't a posting that fits what you're looking for, just apply for the internship and abuse the Zip Sim text entry field to describe exactly what you're looking for, and we'll go from there.
> they're not all favorable

That doesn't matter. It still generates buzz. People will pour resources into a crypto-currency even when it's established up front as a joke.

> don't break the site guidelines like this.

I take it the rule was triggered by the word "campaign":

>> So in other words, there's a campaign (centralized or not) to pump Chia on HN? :(

I pretty clearly indicated that I don't think it's necessarily a coordinated thing. It's more of a phenomenon than a "brigade" or "astroturfing", but what should we call it? What should I say? How should I feel about a disturbing trend that you've pointed out?

Furthermore, you've already shared your data, so there's no reason for me to email you about it per the guidelines. I appreciate the vigilance and hard work, but I think we can agree you're mistaken this time.
But that’s not good writing, it’s just junk remixed, what would be the point? And that could be procedurally be generated.

In general I don’t see utility of having AI write stuff for us to read, it’s not like we are running out of things to read. What I’m more interested in is getting an computer to memorize facts, understand the context and then subleties of a convetsarion to the extent that you could ask back questions and infer answers from that ingested knowledge we fed it. And I think we’re far from it though we’re making fast strides towards a different direction.
> A site without a user facing login really doesn't need SSL. And SSL is pointless on said site if it's for instance a Let's Encrypt.

Depends what you mean by need. SSL/TLS still provides benefits like privacy (from third parties) on what you're viewing on the site, as well as no malicious content being injected. It's not just useful to protect your POST requests of username and password.
It's all right. For every unjustified cryptocurrency sceptic such as myself, there are 10000 cryptocurrency zealots pumping and dumping every day. Hodl, right?
Property value have doubled in Portland in the past 10 years, from a median of $250k [1] in 2010 to $500k [2] in 2020.

Whatever small pain home owners feel from this, it's absolutely nothing, nothing, compared to the pain of renters. If you bought in 2010, and property taxes were 20% of your housing cost, and increased to 40% of your housing cost, your total housing costs only increased 20%, plus your home doubled in value, dwarfing any cost from an increase in taxes. In contrast, renters' housing costs increased 100%, and they saw zero equity gain.

Complaints about property tax should not be even entertained, IMHO, until there is a more fair way of distributing the massive economic gains that property owners enjoy through rentierism. If their gains were due to their labor, fine, but their gains are not, it's only through the suffering of others. It's from creating a zero sum gain where the homeowners profit and those with less starting money pay for it, regardless of who was more productive.

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2010/01/portland_home_pr...

[2] https://www.oregonlive.com/realestate/2020/11/portland-homes...
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You're right that media can be manipulative without explicitly lying, but let's be clear, Trump's actions alone were more than enough to make people hate him without any media manipulation whatsoever. All that hate was earned.
Earth has greened considerably over the past few decades.
Yes, I have a feeling I would be dismissed now for some of the things I've done in the past.
The cycle repeats itself, maybe it's a successful pattern, that's why it keeps coming back..
> In May 2020 researchers at the University of British Columbia published a study in the journal Anxiety

I dunno why, but it cracks me up that there’s a journal called Anxiety. Do they poach their editorial staff from Mad?
With just an instruction trace you can't figure out which application code the interpreter executed. AFAIK modern Java VMs all use tiered compilation which means there is likely to be some interpreted code sprinkled around even if the majority is JITted code. This is going to mess you up.

As for the JIT, it's not clear to me that modern Java VMs actually maintain a complete machine-code-to-application-bytecode mapping. It would be good for Pernosco if they did, but I think it's more likely they keep around just enough metadata to generate stack traces, and otherwise rely on tier-down with on-stack replacement to handle debugging with breakpoints, at least for the highest JIT tiers.
Well, it's not just women, I have read and enjoyed such writing. But you are correct, writing that lacks substance intended for people who expect nothing more. Sex is easy to write about. It doesn't take much to turn people on.
What does 'H' do? The other system monitor references in the comments here don't quite do it this concisely.
Sorry, I haven't really thought about the specifics. Are you insinuating that these questions are insurmountable?
Try that argument in an alternate universe where 89% of Democrats are imprisoned and impoverished.
Basic jobs get expensive invoices from pros because they'd rather be out there working a more substantial job. They don't want to drive out to your house, maybe need to make a trip to the store, and then be out of a job for the rest of the day since they couldn't schedule in anything else afterwards. I don't bother calling a pro for something unless I know it's something that will either take the whole day or isn't something I can finish before it must be done by. I can take my time redoing a spare bathroom or painting the exterior but a kitchen renovation would need to be finished quickly.

You could apply your logic to home building though. Builders get volume discounts on materials and labor. When someone is working the same repetitive job for months on dozens of homes, they can afford to charge their base hourly rate because they know their schedule will be full. If I built the exact same home the builder cranked out, it's going to cost me more despite using the same materials and people. When people build their own homes, they are usually going for something custom so a builder-grade starter home is not the goal.
This comment sure got shorter...

But yeah, I honestly don't care what mosquitos do that's useful, we should eradicate them.

The sheer scale of human suffering they've brought via disease transmission is just too great. Malaria makes COVID look like cooties.

We've "accidentally" eradicated much more beneficial species than mosquitos, this is the very last place to start taking a stand.
I guess so. I mean, he's from a generation when most women didn't work and I'm from a generation when most women do work. He bought his house long before prices skyrocketed, I wasn't in the workforce until long after they did. So, I'm not sure it's a fair comparison, but you're not wrong either.
You’re totally right, I’ll spruce up the front page. Thanks for the feedback.
Google Docs for code – a comparison of collaborative code editors
>"Wordpress and WooCommerce are King

When the goal is to quickly create a custom-designed site where a client can edit every piece of content I can think of no better tool than Wordpress. 41% of the top 10 million sites run Wordpress making the community ginormous. If a client wants to add a feature to the site such as a live chat or email notification, chances are there is a plugin for it. This overabundance of plugins makes the process infinitely easier for developers and the client gets the result they want much quicker.

If you are not a Wordpress developer you would also be largely surprised at how extendable it is. Want a React frontend on part of the site? You got it. Want to use Wordpress as a CRUD backend? You got it.

I am by no means saying Wordpress is flawless or the best written CMS… but the pros of the community heavily outweigh the cons Wordpress brings to the table. For example, Gatsby offers 2,714 plugins on their Gatsby Plugin Library. Wordpress offers 58,285.

I am interested to see what the future will bring for CMS technology but with Wordpress steadily rising from 13.1% to 41.1% in 10 years, I don’t see it falling off any time soon."
Canada has lots and lots of fresh water. And global warming will open lots of farm land.

Could easily see Canada become the agricultural leader of North America.
Yeah. I wrote, a long time ago, a small experiment where you can calculate the area of a crazy drawn shape and approximate it's area using monte carlo simulation.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/monteCarlo
The FBI approached him and offered to help him carry out the plot so they could arrest him. Would he have actually blown up anything if they hadn’t entrapped him? Who knows.

What I do know is it’s not worth surrendering my liberties for.
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No client/customer information is on dev machines.

You can ssh to a set of machines where we push logs from our production servers, but this is only offered if your team owns the micro service. And those logs won’t contain anything that identifies a specific customer.

There’s a daemon that runs on all hardware that will revoke temporary privileges. If you kill the daemon you’ll get banned from the network - which blocks you from accessing any host as none of these hosts are directly accessible over the internet.

That’s not say everything is 100% bullet proof and couldn’t leak if someone really went rogue.

One of the things we did in recent years is run an internal repo of approved software packages. Some guy wrote some code for us, threw a copy of it on the web, and then tried to sue us saying that code was written before he worked for our company, blah blah blah, and that we stole it and owe him money. So thanks to Carl, my financial partners demanded stronger “regulations”. We now have a small team that will sometimes manually approve packages and pull them in. I also wrote some software to automate this so if you pull in some dependency from GitHub with one of our approved licenses, it’ll let you pull your package into our repo automatically.
No matter which way you fall on the death penalty-morality equation, you have to not be happy that the likelihood that a particular person is executed depends more on a self-reinforcing bureaucracy than on the particulars of the crime itself.
Nowhere in the message is there even a single vague hint that the product will "charge" anything in the future, let alone a "threatening" (with a knife) statement.
This interpretation is pure bad-faith speculation if not downright misleading libelous statement from article's author, iMore.com, yet another (paid for?) Apple bitch, desperate to make people look anywhere else than Apple's ongoing litigation for monopoly practices and abuses.

Yeah, also don't say that Apple requires all other Ads business to go through a "scare screen", to "protect users", while sneakily making _their own Ad network_ completely free of such shenanigan. Nothing to see, absolutely not another disgusting monopoly abuse.

https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1387044025442594819
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/french-startup-lobby-targe...
AngJobs | London, UK | Angular or .NET C# Engineer | Remote | https://angjobs.com

This is an open source project on Github, AngJobs.
Angjobs - is a job board. It is currently displaying the jobs listed here, yes just the jobs listed in this HN thread.

The goal of the project is to make a simple, attractive UI and a pleasant job search experience for software engineers.

contact me at hello@victorantos.com, any feedback is welcome! Thanks!
> insurance company's phone menu asking if you're interested in purchasing a policy or submitting a claim, where the former choice get you an instant human being and the latter a 45 minute wait

Insurance (in my experience at least) seems like this astonishing scam where they collect premiums for years and then as soon as you try to collect on a claim they refuse to pay and cancel your policy.
Email in general is an antiquated technology for which security came as an afterthought.

If you want to use your PGP key to chat securely with others you could try Keybase.