skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone from Compton or rural Alabama deserves the same treatment as any other elite that gets into HYPSM - they have access unlimited external social validation by society as smart and accomplished (because they are). I don’t understand why people don’t understand that you need to be a cognitive elite, a truly exceptional individual to get into these schools - normal people don’t get in. To emphasize, no matter your prior background you are an elite, likely on all dimensions, compared to someone that goes to University of Arizona.

If the tax implications are indeed the same for people at CSUs, it’s offensive that you used the Stanford example. It implies that normal people like me - the true 99.9% of society that hold it together - don’t matter at the expense of the people that already have literally everything going for them. I have nothing compared to them.

And yes, the people that get into Stanford are probably genetically superior to the ones at SJSU according to people like Thiel and anyone that buys into IQ having a significant hereditary component.
I think a key reason is HN has (IMO) a well-designed vote-based moderation system. Flamebait tends to get downvoted/flagged pretty quickly, burying it where it belongs.

Contrast that to pure engagement-focused social networks like Facebook or Twitter, which do the opposite: prioritize showing flamebait, because people are engaging with it and therefore it must necessarily be quality content!
The idea for this service is neat! However...

Given the increasingly hostile behavior of Reddit's mods over the past few years, I would prefer a service that searches for non-Reddit subReddit-like-things. I don't want to feed the new corporate monster that Reddit is becoming - I would rather join a new community that still has actual values.
>USB-C bashing threads represent the 'HN echo chamber' for me. :)

It is still a rather new phenomenon. Most of HN used to be USB-C supporters. Especially those on Apple camp. For years mentioning every single problem listed in this thread would get downvoted into oblivion.

Since most of them didn't bother jumping in to defence their beloved USB-C, I guess they changed their mind.
I think he's referring to medical doctors, who are licensed in a way similar to engineers and lawyers, not PhDs.
I'm not particularly convinced we've solved listening to genuine victims particularly well tbh.
I will try that. However, I have 2 more instances of problematic behavior which should be alarming to everyone:

1. I store my project/workspace files under ST's root installation folder and the upgrade DELETED them all

2. I'm running ST on Win10 and after the upgrade, ST4 is now installed under "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3". You would think that there'd be a post-install script to check executable path for 3 and change it to 4.
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Seems like an inoffensive route to monetization for the excellent MDN docs and I hope it's successful, but $5/month (presumably per user for an organisation?) is pretty punchy for the current offering.

Customizing the compatibility tables is a nice idea, but we're talking about shaving seconds of developer time per month.
Indeed you can interpret my comment like that, so I will rephrase it in an other way: REST represents everything as a resources and the creation, update, and retrieval of resources.

Unless your business is fundamentally about storage without any kind of associated logic, REST will be a bad design choice. Why limit yourself to 4 verbs ? This is insane.

Your business has more semantics than create, read, update, delete.

Git has commit, rebase, branch, tag, revert, amend, clone, and so has GitHub. A good API will represent these actions as actions and not as a convoluted mess of resource creations or updates.

There is an impedance mismatch between REST and most
businesses, like there is an impedance mismatch between an ORM and a relational database.
They weighed in on a person advertising themselves out as a “professional engineer” while their license was lapsed.

The claim that this is because of Strongtown’s position is not supported by any evidence. It is a very ordinary complaint and board action.

The only thing extraordinary here is lay people reading about it.
According to the official site, he is a professional engineer [civil] right now.

https://www.mn.gov/aelslagid/roster.html
Kalmykia is really hot and has camels. People are usually shocked to know about this region of Russia
No? The whole complaint, with the backstory, is linked to the article. Marohn was a practicing civil engineer until 2012; he kept his license in good standing until 2018, when it lapsed; between 2018 and 2020, he gave talks identifying himself as a professional engineer despite not having a license in good standing; someone complained (in May 2020); he reinstated his license (in June 2020); the licensure board fined him; he sued.

He has my sympathy in this case and I hope he wins, but the details are more complicated than your summary suggests. It's pretty basic stuff, as I assume a lot of us know, that part of the deal with licensed engineering professions is that you have to have the license to represent yourself as such --- people are always coming up with dopey arguments that the same applies to software engineers.
Agreed. This comment section is bizarre for HN. It's sort of like getting scared that "Prometheus" collects "metrics". Or that "Kafka" tracks "events".

These aren't scary things.
About 10 years ago I was harassed for months. In my case I wasn't able to find out who it was but they were able do some damage to my marriage and relationship with friends but above all to my well being. When they first started I tended to take my favorite approach in life against such things which is to just ignore the emails and the messages that were being sent to me as well as to my partner but when in a relationship with someone you can't choose not to play the game.

This is all under the bridge now. Since then I've had almost zero social media presence. Internet as I learned about and explored in the 90s and 00s is long gone and what's left is a wasteland to spectate.
Nah as an American its a massive relief to have someone more predictable in office. Even if he stands for a lot of what is wrong with the status quo and weak center politics. It has been kinda nice to wake up these last few months and not open my phone to check on how the clown in charge was continuing the circus acts on a world stage.
So? It's still rack-mountable workstation-class hardware that will probably be running on Apple Silicon at some point. And it will probably be possible to boot Linux on it, similar to existing M1 Macs. That's pretty indistinguishable from many servers.
Agreed, regardless of political leanings Adams is clearly not someone to cite regarding civil or non-inflammatory participation in society.
But that explanation was given an hour after the question was asked. I think a lot of the downvotes vor supermatt are caused by HN's sorting by freshness, so many people read his slightly aggressive question after the answers, which makes it sound much more obnoxious than it actually has been in context. [Edit:] And of course as a reaction to asking the same question over and over again.
More people should know about the apparitions that have taken place in Catholicism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_apparition

These apparitions provide a lot of revealed knowledge which is not in the Bible necessarily.
You can always add an extra variable to your state space model to handle an integrated qty...
> US immigration and customs forms do not have sufficient space or characters for many common Hispanic names.

Also the other way around. I can't officially order from IKEA here in Spain because their online order entry demands a second surname (segundo apellido) which I don't have :D This is a typical Spanish thing. I do however have a middle name which tends to trip them up a lot (my middle name is more recognisable as a first name so it often confuses them)

I just put '-' or 'NA' or something but technically the delivery guys could make issues about it considering that is not on my passport.

However the rules are not taken very strictly in Spain which is one of the nice things about living here.
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PID controllers are so fun. I experimented with using them to animate tentacles for a game I'm working on. They're great for all sorts of controllers in fiddly physics based systems.

(https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1327051175112421377)

Judging by some of the posts in this thread, it amuses me that I might have a leg up in the oil and gas industry.
> It's the perfect combination of justifying vicious behavior while also absolving themselves of responsibility.

And Twitter/Facebook/YouTube just grin, raking in the advertising dollars from "engagement." The more people "engaged" in the activity, the better!

I don't think the concept of social media is fundamentally evil. It's dangerous, certainly, but I don't think the core concept must be evil.

Public "social media companies," driven to improve revenue from injecting advertising into streams consisting of repackaging other people's content? Those seem to reliably turn evil.
One thing we seem to be overlooking is the difference between representing yourself as X versus engaging in the professional rendering of X services to the public.

This is a significant distinction. While I'm generally opposed to the majority of occupational licensing requirements but I can understand the function of regulating professional offerings.

So in both this case and the referenced Oregon case from another comment, the "charge" by the licensure body is that the individuals are using the term engineer while doing things that aren't "rendering the service of engineering for payment."

I am a reasonably decent electrician and feel confident fiddling with my own outlets. The electrician's body does not have the right to regulate that activity. Nor can it regulate my saying I'm a decent electrician.

It does, however, have the right to regulate my rendering those services to the public for payment (with some legal gray area around rendering it for free).

This is what makes this a first amendment case that seems justified.

EDIT: I do understand by using electrician as an example, I invite comments about how I might be breaking fire code or my home insurance covenants. That's correct but it's a different externalities problem.
As I understand it, there's also trace levels of naturally-occurring asbestos pretty much everywhere humans live, so there's also no way to completely avoid exposure.
I’d like to think I could but it’s largely context and “acknowledgement + repentance dependent” on the part of the ‘accused’ (if they did do the bad thing).

That is, I am not going to defend somebody who won’t even be honest and open about their wrongdoing.
"private sector about troop movement, ordinance production, deployment of assets (fighter jets, naval fleets), sabotage plans"

I don't see these as playing a big role in the economy unless a fight between superpowers breaks out. The contracts for the items involved in these are generally well known.
OSX does this too, but instead of a % scale, scaling slider has detents for "look like" a different, standard resolution. I.e., native is 3072x1920 but it is scaled to look like 2048x1280
The trappings of having a terminally online social group, it seems.
Steams built in controller customization features are worth it alone - for every controller.
No digi pad makes them bad for retro games but I have others for that.
That was easily sidestepped in a Linux router by telling iptables to ignore RST,RST packets on the Bittorrent port.
But then again Apple GPU were limited to 10W Max and it was a design decision not technology limitation. There is nothing that stops Apple putting in 16 or 32 Core GPU which would bring its GPU performance on par if not exceed market competitors.
I haven't read it, so I don't guess. It is unfair to judge quality of characters in book one did not read.
That looks cool!

A suggestion would be to, on the edit page, add a link to or a pane with markdown syntax, just in case people forget something, or also to make it easier for people who might not be familiar.
One issue I see is that many (most?) such certifying organizations exclude themselves from having liability when they fail. In some use cases, I think exploring alternatives may yield a better blend of trade-offs. One example would be insurance-based approaches which incentivize more accurately pricing risk.
That is a product of tax money. FINRA is allowed to exist because the SEC is limited in total security examiners by budget limitations.
>The specifications are very carefully designed

I need assurance though that my cables were carefully designed.
Great list! Always looking for new tools to use. PrivacyTool.io and ThinkPrivacy.ch are great, but it helps to have something else to compare against.

Some quick notes on the actual list:
- Should add Startpage - private search engine that gives Google results.
- It doesn't explain why products to be avoided, just lists them. A few have explanations, but not all.
Yeah I cut Facebook out of my life and went cold turkey after realizing it was not healthy place and now find it actively repellent to be on it. The only reason i haven't closed my account entirely is because Messenger and my D&D group uses it for scheduling. even that I use the web site and refuse to allow it a foothold on my phone.
> People can upvote comments. Should you represent the action of upvoting as a resource creation, in a REST way ?

Maybe yes. Likes are a relationship between a User and a Post/Comment. In a standard normalised relational db model, they would have their own table. So `PUT /like` would add a Like to that table
Reddit has become a long-form of Twitter. An endless circle of pandering to the same claqueurs. It is so tedious.

My time spent on Reddit has dropped massively over the last months. And I moved back to 4chan. It is so refreshing to see raw and uncensored communication. Even if 4chan often borders on insanity, it feels so much more honest and real than the cleansed cliques of sameness.
Even other responses to your comment are confused. The primary use case is to trace requests that go through your backend of distributed microservices. The fact that it can also be used to collect PII-adjacent data as in sibling's example is about as relevant as the fact that it uses the HTTP protocol. I didn't see any similar comments raging against the HTTP protocol on the last curl post that came through here.

People here are blindly rage-triggered by the word "telemetry" without even taking 2 seconds to glance through to see what it actually is.
"Telemetry" has come to be associated with activities that definitely qualify a product as spyware (though they've become fairly common—thanks, "data-driven" marketers).

From reading the OpenTelemetry site, that doesn't seem to be their main, stated purpose, but thefounder's post in another part of the thread leads me to think it may, in fact, see that kind of use, too.

[EDIT] damn, sorry, downvoters, for explaining the reason this is getting knee-jerk negative reactions from people, when someone expressed confusion about it. Again, I think the main reason is the word used, and what it's mostly associated with now, among some folks.
A century ago, if Library's hadn't existed, someone trying to create one might have had a chance. Today they'd have no chance at all.

If you think to today's U.S. government would willingly choose to fight the U.S. vs Paramount battle again, you'll probably be disappointed. They're far more likely to close libraries.
I would love for this one to make its way up to a higher court. It seems like such an open-and-shut case of free speech.
it would be better if you can share some login info
"So what are we supposed to do in a world that’s gone mad? "
Step one: leave Twitter. It is a toxic cesspool.
Wait, you said:

> I haven't heard of a single case of them being used for user tracking or behavioral analytics.

and then you said:

> That we will start to see the potential to harvest these records for analytics…

So this can be used to gather analytics of any sort of data, such as spying then? This is still worrisome.
I'd be quite interested to see if there's any correlation between Valisure's measurements and time elapsed since manufacture for each lot.
The syntax becomes small, predictable and, crucially, is in itself a data structure. This means that everything composes in the same way, without special cases, and it lends itself well to meta programming when necessary.
Wait until they learn about incremental rebuild!
Why can't they lobby Valisure?
I would argue that games lasting 30-60min was an issue as well (for a 1v1 card game)
Look into envoy/istio - e.g. these introduce side-processes (sidecars) where your process talks to, and these create the traces for you at some perf cost. There are proxies for some of the existing services - like mysql - https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/li...

I haven't used it myself, I've used census, and now looking into OpenTelemetry (though from the least finished version - C++). Had mixed success with it in the past, but trying again. Also not looking at all into side-cars, etc. - We compile all our internal tools, so adding this inside is where I'm getting into.

I've had several times (while at Google), being asked by an SRE that I would call on issues, and they would request to bump the sample tracing from minimal defaults (was it 1 in 100,000 or million - forget) sometimes to 1:1 - for say 30 seconds. This way they'll receive on their end (in their systems that we use) flags to sample too, and at the end get full logs.

Usually the whole trace is visible in few minutes. There were few UI's (nothign like zipkin/jaeged/others outside) - some of them with very "imgui"-like hacky (in good sense) view - like programmer art all over (which I loved - it was much more condensed than standard zipkin/jaeger).

You could've marked something as important, and it'll retain for longer period - otherwise - poof - soon gone. Also it would collect info sometimes directly from the machine it was in (rather than wait to populate).

Obviously, I don't know the details - I was just an user, or more like - allowing (when oncall) trace sampling to be bumped by the SRE - so they would get more info. It's what hooked me actually, because how else would one get everything end-to-end.

Surprisingly it's also useful for single apps, where you have threads (or concurrency tasks, like with TBB/ConCRT) doing nested parallel_for's or spawning jobs, and you want to get idea what's going on. The only tricky bit is how to get your "context" propagated from one thread to another (also not readily done).

It's one thing that the "golan" got right with their context for example.

So it's really awesome, but probably really hard to get right the first few times.
did you get yours?
Sorry, but all of that is media narrative. You’ve been spending too much time consuming other people’s opinions.
In the case of a buyback, cash is literally returned to the shareholders who participate in the tender offer by selling their shares back to the company.
This is new to me, but when I noticed the project is a Java app, I immediately recalled CMapTools

Wasn't that another passion project?

https://cmap.ihmc.us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CmapTools
I added 'autocmd BufEnter * syntax sync minlines=4000' to my .vimrc to make it buffer more of large files initially, so it gets less confused when you reopen a file and it resumes at a prior location deep inside and has no syntax highlighting.

I guess fromstart would work as well, but is probably best manually run like you do so a very large file doesn't bring the system to a halt.
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reddit is still like half porn. It was so bad they stopped showing NSFW content on r/all, before the change if you sorted by new, literally half the posts were marked NSFW.

https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lhnvok/removing_...
Yes - and it's driving people further into tribes where the only way they feel "safe" is in and around their own "kind". This isn't civilization, but a regression and if it goes on for a few more generations it could be very damaging to our social fabric.

I just hope it's a weird early-21st century "intellectual" movement that eventually dies out.
That may not be true anymore - I looked into the engineering exams (FE and PE), and they've been much more specialized. I think this happened fairly recently.

https://ncees.org/engineering/fe/

So I could (but almost certainly won't) take the "Industrial Engineering" exam and focus mainly on IE topics:

https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Industrial-and-Syste...
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> it's difficult to determine compatibility without bricking the device

This is the problem! This is what everybody talking about the specs doesn't get - it's difficult to (1) tell which spec a device claims to support and (2) verify that it actually supports it (see: a lot of cheap devices on Amazon) and also (3) in real life many devices do not support the specs (i.e. this isn't a theoretical problem).
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The regulation of building trades goes back to the Code of Hammurabi. Literally as far back as the oldest written laws.

The legal precedent is 3500 years older than the First Amendment.
After having watched all of the show released so far, I just finished Leviathan Wakes.

Maybe it's my fault for having mostly read Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams for the last few years, but I found the writing to be extremely bland. It does the job of narrating the plot but the lack of all flavor would have turned me off immediately if I wasn't able to visualize the characters and scenes from the show.

That said, I'm pretty happy with the changes they made for the show. And a bit annoyed that most of the things I didn't really like about the characters were details carried over from the books.
Most laptops are not capable of pushing 5K for external displays. Even my '18 MBP can't handle a 4k monitor at 60Hz (at least, I couldn't get it to work).

So the market for these is limited to people with desktop workstations or pretty high-end laptops. Which is probably why they aren't going anywhere.
"The Juice" is also magic, but totally worth it to see high-G maneuvers.
>This copyright trolling based on false rights has become a growth industry

Truer words have never been spoken right there. I feel like there’s an industry of folks that will perform DMCA takedowns on anyone’s behalf and they don’t care if they are correct or not. The onus is on the defendant. It’s sick.
A total of 173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously.

That’s more than 10,000 times the world’s total energy use.

We can transition to solar and wind power.
Why don't they host on an alternative to GitHub?
It certainly has a huge 'legacy' look about it.

Using '-------' as a horizontal line. Using less than even 80 characters on a line. Definitely something that has its roots way before the 2011 it's marked as.
I believe you (and many others here) have misunderstood the article. They are talking about telemetry on their backend systems to track performance metrics and the like. Not the usual telemetry that HN loves to argue about.
Aesthetically, sure. Materially, nothing has changed.