skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A secure phone or more importantly a secure phone OS would not allow an app to collect information like this. The exact geo-location is not something an app like this needs. A "find someone with in 10 kms" is probably good enough, but "allow me to be found within less than a meter" is just waiting for abuse. If it is a 911/999 app, then sure, let them have my exact location. However, the center of the "within 10 km" needs to be significantly offset from my position, otherwise, it's kinda pointless.
Matt Godbolt gave an example of a significant performance hit caused by unnecessary short-circuiting in his CppCon 2019 talk[1]. EDIT: Deleted tangent.

[1]: https://youtu.be/HG6c4Kwbv4I?t=45m
While the laws of physics remain the same, the folding machinery between species varies to some degree. Protein folding is determined by the unique environment/machinery of a cell. A concrete example is disulphide bonds (S-S, ex cystein-cystein) that require a certain pH to form. The primary pathways of disulphide-bond formation are localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of eukaryotic cells and the periplasmic space of prokaryotic cells. So two complete different mechanisms to end up with the same bond (protein structure) depending on the organism.
Yep, we do need to improve our onboarding flow a bit. We plan to include that Twitter followers list integration, and also suggest you people based on your interests. Thanks for the feedback.
I guess it depends on the product. I just recently posted my newest side project there (an NFT minting webservice) and I even got a handful of paying clients. The conversation rate was quite high, and it has dropped significantly afterwards.

So I guess if you want to reach a techie audience, it's not a bad place to get the word out.

Edit: the website is https://Nuftu.com, you can find it on producthunt by searching for the name
what would python be working on then? a .csv, textfile, database, something else? Or would the data be stored as part of the script itself?
Not a worry. We don't have eBook watermarking/stamping yet, so every customer will get the same exact eBook.

That said, it's relatively easy to implement this specific feature (pretty sure I've got the relevant code from our old codebase somewhere) if/when a seller requests it.

It's mostly either downloadable goods, or serial-based products, but we launched just last week so I anticipate the type of popular product types will change as we grow.
I see nothing wrong with that definition.

The exclusively bit I take issue with, but that's about it.
This brings up an interesting dilemma.

For example, there are some religious schools that require you to agree to certain living standards in order to attend (such as Biola, BYU, etc.). For example, no premarital sex, no drugs, etc (rules depends on religion and institution).

Say you attend such a school and decide to break the agreement you signed and go to a party and do drugs and have sex, etc. Then, at the party, you get raped. So, you report the rape to the police and during the investigation into the crime the university discovers you were at the party breaking the agreement you signed. Does the university have a right to terminate your membership at the institution based on information it got from a police report?
Thanks! Agreed — and simple enough for us to fix. :)
> In 2018, Grindr, which uses highly granular location information, was found to have shared users’ anonymized locations, race, sexual preferences, and even HIV status with third-party analytic firms.

I've become pretty cynical at this point to the endless stream of privacy issues but even I found this part shocking. Even extremely private health conditions were shared with 3rd-party advertisers? And they thought anonymizing a few attributes was good enough protections while including timestamped GPS locations?

This ranks up there with the worst of them...
x86-64 Troubleshooting Tales: Why only half of my interrupts work?
If you enjoy the idea of discussing how to translate (poetry in particular) I can't recommend enough "le ton beau de Marót" by Douglas Hofstadter of "Godel, Escher, Bach" fame. It explores various approaches to translation, discusses a lot of funny stuff and has a zillion different translations of the same poem, which is pretty entertaining tho it gets boring after a while.

And interestingly enough, the Italian version of GEB contains a pretty horrible, in my opinion, translation of the Jabberwocky, where the monster name is translated as "mascellodonte", which seems academic and dinosaur-like rather than fantastical as the English one.
Yes, hijack my scrolling. I really don't like have a consistent feedback when I am scrolling pages.
I don’t disagree, it just doesn’t seem like that is what most people think.
Great - now we can hack a $20k internet connected trash can.
For now, but we're trying to not be! Who are some folks you think we should add? I'd be happy to get them indexed.
Ah yeah you are right, I misread that.
I really dislike the term "individual contributor".

I know it's an industry standard term for anyone who doesn't have direct reports, but it feels very inaccurate to me.

Just because an engineer doesn't have direct reports doesn't mean they aren't exhibiting all kinds of leadership behavior that elevates their contributions above the level of "individual" - teaching, mentoring, strategy work, leading projects.

I don't have a good suggestion for an alternative term though.
I absolutely love Postgres' JSON and array support. Its saved me from needing a document database in a few cases, which drastically simplified the overall deployment (one DB instead of two, or trying to represent relational stuff in a document DB). I really like JSON for stuff that is user defined, that I don't need to query into, but postgres' support means I still can should I ever need to. Which has happened once or twice for debugging.
Well tastes are different. I liked it because of the interspersed backdrop. Granted i am reading this on a chill evening not on the go. Would be different if i had expected a to the point article.
I’m optimistic about inequality. I think the introduction of hundreds of millions of Chinese workers has depressed wages in a lot of sectors, but wages in China have shot up. They went up by over 60% from 2011 to 2017, and the country is climbing up the value chain. This is good because it makes it a valuable market for high value developed world goods and services as well as raising the wage floor for workers globally.

I do think there’s more to do to cut down on rent seeking, but I hope the dynamics that gave capital an unreasonable advantage over labour are playing out. What we don’t need to do is discourage investment, it’s critical fuel for generating prosperity.
This is programming/hacking. Software engineering is more related to the tools and processes an used to build and maintain software.
I don't buy that "good-bad-good-bad" pattern that everyone references. It's a mildly funny observation, but it's hard to say that Windows 10 is really that good. It's more usable than Windows 8, but the bar was so low, that's not a very useful metric.
>Can you elaborate on how people choose to enjoy content in the privacy of their home amounts to sexism and misogyny? Complaining about men enjoying content that caters to the male gaze seems as pointless as complaining about how romance novels cater to women's tastes.

People can do whatever they want in their own home. I'm not complaining about that. I am complaining about how their complaints are voiced in public, usually in an aggressive and derogatory manner. Have fun, enjoy the butt, but I am going to laugh at you if you whine in public that "the evil woke mob forced companies to remove the butt" and I will get angry if you start harassing people over it.

>If people want to alter the remastered edition to more closely resemble the original 2010 release of Mass Effect 2, that doesn't strike me as sexist or misogynist at all.

The more context you remove the less sexist and misogynistic it becomes. No one can argue with making a remake more closely resembles the original. It starts to get iffy when you add the context that the change is to add more gratuitous ass shots. It becomes clearly sexist and misogynistic when the addition of those shots is celebrated in a community that already has a reputation for sexism and misogyny.
Excel is more than just a hammer it’s the fork that is in every single drawer of every single company/org in the world.

It’s not about every problem looking like a nail, it’s that, nobody had to pay for this fork, somehow everyone has it and it’s such a great fork that it can do 90% of the problems you throw at it.

Yea sure some problems would be better solved with specialized tools, (eg knife, spoon, etc) but those require training and budget. No one has those. Everyone has a fork.
Again, like stated in my other comments, we initially started out with these people because they were the people we mainly read, but we plan on expanding outside of the bubble.

Let me flip it back on you - which types of people would you want to see?
I hate Excel, not because it's a bad program but because in my experience people misuse it more often than not.

Excel excels at creating spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are pretty reports used to report tabular data. Excel is capable of so much more, but for eveything beyond spreadsheets it's medicore at best and its complexity often makes it a liability.

It's a bad calculator. It's a bad database. It's a bad medium for transferring data. It's a bad front-end. It's a bad notetaking app. If your use case goes beyond making tabular data look pretty, Excel is probably bad at it.

People use Excel for everything because they're comfortable with it. But other solutions are often much better and I'm so tired of cleaning up all the issues Excel has caused (and continues to cause) me.
This was supposed to wait on the verdict in the civil case brought by HP(E?) on that sort of thing, which at least seems right. The Register covered it in detail, and currently has https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/mike_lynch_extraditio...
Already a settled issue, Universities have removed students who had "extreme" beliefs in the past, or for going to parties without masks, or not being vaccinated. Because "extreme" is arbitrary, and universities can remove students, no reason why not. She might sue, but that's up to her.

If you can remove a student for not being vaccinated, you can remove a student for violating your code of conduct.
This looks amazing, and I plan to switch to this from Rviz ASAP. Out of curiosity, can Foxglove be used with robotic systems that don’t use ROS?
No discussion on this thread yet of the role of AKT1 gene, which I find surprising after 300 comments.

If you have a C/C pair at AKT1, your risk of developing schizophrenia jumps from slightly-below-average if you don't smoke marijuana, to over 7x average if you smoke every day [0].

If you've done 23andMe, you can check your own genotype for this risk.

[0]: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...
> I disagree with the general narrative that Blizzard's games have gone off a cliff. That might still be coming, but it hasn't happened quite yet.

Have you played the last 2 World of Warcraft extensions? Or Warcraft 3: Reforged, the only "new game" they released since 2016, which is also commonly known as Warcraft 3: Refunded? [1][2]

[1] https://www.warcraft3refunded.com

[2] https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blizzard-botched-warcraft-iii-re... (published 7 hours ago)
What Got You Here Won't Get You There is a frequently recommended book about changing yourself to get to wherever There is. It seems that Mitchell has chosen to stay the same and change where There is instead. Sounds like a fantastic way to live.
There’s an expectation that that information is compartmentalized somehow, a bit like how everyone at a gay bar can see you there but only the people at the gay bar can see you.
As an employee of Hashicorp, I'm very excited for this change. Not that Mitchell was anything less than a great leader—on the contrary, I thought he was excellent. It's just that he's also got such a great ability to identify the right abstractions when tackling a problem. The fact that he'll be "in the trenches", so to speak, gives me even more confidence that Hashicorp will continue to make tools that strike a nice balance between power and simplicity.
Intel Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results
This is very much engineering, discoving an extremely effective solution based on system knowledge.
I think it's plain at this point that you are not approaching this in good faith. The original statement was an 'all' statement, as are statements like 'women do..' or 'men do..' or 'black people do..' and 'white people do..'.

The comment about 'unprofessional assholes that won't take no for an answer' was a discussion of specific bad conduct, i.e. the behavior the original comment actually had a problem with, as opposed to the entire identity they originally called out.

If you don't believe me, fine, but I think I explained what my actual point was very well.
FWIW, I would probably call this "applied mathematics"; "software engineering" is a discipline that studies how to create software.
You'd probably come off as missing the point
I love the use of patch cables to make graphics, like a visual modular synthesizer
This is a maximalist view of sovereignty that happens to be common in very few countries on the planet, namely the ones not afraid to use violence against anyone stating the opposite: the US, China, Russia, and a handful of rogue states.
Thanks - will add them to the queue of people to consider indexing
Don't sign these sort of moronic agreements if you aren't willing to keep them. Instead, go to a secular school that doesn't make such demands. If more people chose not to give these schools their tuition money, they will be pressured to reform.

You may as well go to their church then complain when they shun you. It's self-inflicted. Don't go to their dumb church and don't go to their dumb school either.
The claim was 24/7 powering with "a 400W panel and some batteries" - which is simply false.

I deal with the realities of off-grid power in my office on a daily basis, and a vast majority of what's written about solar and batteries by people who don't have experience with them is simply wrong. I try to correct it where I can.

With a 400W panel and a few kWh of batteries, you could reasonably accomplish 14-16 hours of access during peak sun in the summer, 8-12 hours in spring and fall, and 0-3 hours in winter, except for 5-6 hours on sunny winter days.

Although I've heard that the newer Dishys use somewhat less power (50-70W), which does improve things.
Yep, as someone who sucks at frontend design, I was absolutely blown away by Tailwind.

Is there any way to follow the development progress of Sell.app? And best of luck to you as well!
I think there always is if you can accept it yourself.
Think of “contributor” as the key word in the term. It covers all that leadership.

Then note “contributor”’s absence from “manager.” :)
> If we're going down this road, why not take it all the way

Hunger and war and disease all have the potential to make furthering space exploration impossible. For example, we just had a pandemic that impacted a lot of people?

However, in general, all of those problems have existed for the entire span of human history. I am not concerned about any of them[1] damaging the earth's ability to be a base for launching humanity as an interstellar species.

Climate change is different. It's especially different because of our inability to face it so far. If we had done the sensible thing and reacted to projections in the 70s by ramping down fossil fuel use, I'd consider is less severe. But we have not.

[1] save nuclear way ofc
When consumed as high-potency edibles, cannabis has the effects of a psychedelic.

We know when using a psychedelic dose, set, and setting become critical.

People taking a strong dose of a psychedelic and expecting it to be no more than a regular pot high might be in for a rude awakening, especially if they treat it casually instead of with great respect, take it in inappropriate circumstances (like at parties or clubs full of people they don't know or trust), etc.

It's no wonder that many people suffer from paranoia and other adverse effects from casual use of edibles. They should really be treating a strong dose of edible cannabis like they do a strong dose of LSD.
You literally answer your own bafflement in what you typed. You said it’s a flimsy case for any systemic issues, indicating you believe this to be a collection of one-offs rather than systemic ones if you then believe the individual cases.
Maybe technical contributors? You're right. In the most efficient organizations, leadership lets the technical decisions bubble up from the experts, rather than dictating them from the top.
of the last 4, (ie WoD, Legion, BfA, and SL), Legion was the only one that you could call well received. WoD, BfA, and SL are all utter shit.

WoD deserves a special place in game design hell for choosing to implement garrisons over another tier of raid content.
Stepping down from a leadership position in order to focus on engineering is something as rare as a unicorn. This person has my respect, as always.
Unrelated to main topic, but a case exactly as described by you made the news yesterday in Italy: a man accidentally firing a gun after falling down (accidental trigger press or not is still investigated) [Article in Italian].

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/07/21/news/voghera_as...
Are we reading the same thing? In the very first sentence they claim that the DFEH's descriptions of the past are distorted and false.
I blame UX design, personally. Trying to make everything conceptually trivial made interfaces that glossed over a lot of important details. I'm all for simplicity, but this is shoving complexity under the carpet.
Wouldn't matter.

Grindr requires GPS.

On a 'properly secure' smartphone, you enable location access to use Grindr... or you don't use Grindr.

The user remains the insecure link in the chain here regardless of how 'properly secure' the smartphone is.
Can you please follow the site guidelines? They include: "Please don't fulminate."

Also: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oracle is selling Enterprise features and Support, i am sure they make a lot of money with MySQL.
Is US email retargeting legal?
I don't think the majority of people are against privacy. I think the majority of people don't think that the level of privacy they give up is too high a price to pay for the services they receive. That seems reasonable to me?

It often feels like privacy advocates start from a position that anyone who doesn't hold the same view as them must be missing some key piece of information, and are unwilling to accept that a person might decide that the tradeoff is actually worth it to them?
> Just because an engineer doesn't have direct reports doesn't mean they aren't exhibiting all kinds of leadership behavior that elevates their contributions above the level of "individual" - teaching, mentoring, strategy work, leading projects.

That's a good point, but in my experience "individual contributor" is just a code phrase for "not managing direct reports".

Being an IC doesn't mean you're not contributing leadership or strategy, it just means that you're not doing hiring/firing or performance reviews of direct reports.
It also managed to absolutely torpedo an incredibly popular series - don't forget that Kevin Spacey went down during MeToo as well.

I know that women still feel frequently disempowered in the workplace but I hope the movement helped them feel like they've got more widespread support than they did before. Once upon a time sexual harassment claims were seen as direct attacks on the success and health of a company "Gosh Susan, if you just told us in private we'd deal with it - instead you've cost all these people their jobs" - I think that impression has very much shifted. If you're being harassed then the company is failing at it's mission, any ill effect that comes to the company as a result of the report is a consequence the company should've (and failed to) protect themselves from by having a more robust and responsive HR department.
That's not universally applied though. Religous organizations do not have to provide birth control to employees. Religious schools can not employee teachers based on differing beliefs. Religious business does not have provide services to people they do not like.
It feels like you're attacking a design without understanding the design principles behind it.

Looking at https://petstore3.swagger.io, the API is `/pet` (singular), because that's exactly what it represents: the type of a singular pet. This design choice has to do with orthogonality: for example, what is `POST /pets` supposed to do? Create a new list of pets? That makes no sense. If you want to argue that it should create a new pet, then that makes no sense either, because the endpoint is explicitly about a collection of pets. This distinction may seem like nitpicking, but consider an entity type of ambiguous plurality like `/group`. You want to be clear about whether an action on this endpoint applies to a `group` or to individual entities in the group and you want that semantic to be consistent with other endpoints.

On the same vein about orthogonality, `/user/{action}` is orthogonal to `/pet/{action}` in the sense that they both follow the same OOP-ish pattern. Calling an endpoint merely `/login` doesn't fit into that mold (e.g. Can a pet login? Why is `/login` floating without a noun, but `DELETE /user/{id}` isn't? etc)

The choices of PUT and POST have to do with what the HTTP spec says about idempotency. `PUT /pet` must be idempotent (i.e. upsert a pet), `POST /pet` is not idempotent (i.e. create a pet).

`POST /pet/{id}` is a bit of a seemingly counterintuitive one, but again it has to do with idempotency. It's actually a deliberate choice to indicate that there may be internal logic that isn't pure (for example, there may be a lastModified field).
Whatever underlying mental state you have running in the background will come to surface when you use psychedelics. Marijuana is a mild psychedelic. Many people seem to be under the impression we should live free from scary thoughts, dark thoughts, things that make us worry or anxious. This is all part of the human condition though and as long as these states are transitory and lead to positive change they're not "bad". Recognize there's a time and place for everything. If bringing these things to the surface helps you grow and deal with things in your life, even if it's scary, good. If not, then stop ingesting / smoking it. Really simple. People seem to want things to be good or bad when in fact the state of isness really just is. It's not good or bad. It just is. What you make of it, how you live your life is what matters. If you smoke weed and it helps your back pain, or if it helps you think about your feelings and deal with something you've been putting off, that can be "good". If you smoke it and have heart palpitations and freak out about taxes that can be "bad" but the weed hasn't changed, it's just brought something to the surface. Our minds are complicated. Especially now, in a culture where we're overloaded with information, entertainment, manufactured outrage, and expectations about what we should or shouldn't be, all compared to thousands of other things. How can anyone, smoking weed or not, expect to be sane or live a simple life that doesn't lead to mental health problems?
> Tarring an entire sex as having any problem in particular is disgusting.

Yes, and it misses the point.

“I have a problem with men coming up to me at work and slapping my ass”

Should not be responded to with

“No men I know have done that, this is clearly sexist!”

It’s a semantic argument that doesn’t address the actual problem.