skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scrolling down this thread and reading the flagged and greying comments makes my blood boil all over again.

To quote one (awful) take,

> I’ll care when women worry about misandry.

Want to see the perpetuation of misogyny in the tech industry occurring in real time? Just take a skim through the rationalization, defensiveness, and whataboutism littering the bottom and following pages of this thread. This is a community including a high proportion of engineers and engineering leadership and the problems endemic to our industry are on full display in this filing and in the responses posed by more than a few members of this community.

If anyone reading this is privileged enough to have been insulated from these problems before, has truly been skeptical about whether this is a problem in our field today: this should be all the proof you need.

Edit: Enough users have opted to downvote this comment that it now sits at -2 and I think I am entitled to at least a reply explaining why.
I consider tools and processes more like being a code mechanic.

A construction worker is familiar with construction tools and processes. A civil engineer does the math and design work to "program" a building.
retool.com lets you build apps like this with a GUI and on top of Google Sheets or any other datastore.
Large sheets? Google Sheets has a much lower cell and row limit compared to Excel
Worse: the "nothing to hide" argument is mistaking who has the power with who would like to have the power.

You're the boss of you; no one else has a right to info about you.

(sure, barring legal circumstances -- which should be challengable in a court)
I applaud the creativity, but the phrase “strong suit” originated from bridge and refers to a different kind of suit.

I realize I’m probably being patronizing myself by pointing that out. As Bart Simpson once said, “The ironing is delicious.”
Not to mention that the favoritism and bias can be used as an inventive for engaging in the relationship.
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Yes. I have a problem with verbosity, and you said it with much greater clarity and brevity than I managed. Thank you!
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Well, many people on Earth do still read languages without space between words. (Chinese for instance)

Their languages are adapted to it; Japanese is okay to read without spaces with kanji, but when written for children without kanji it typically uses spaces or else it is very hard to follow without reading aloud.
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For non-ROS systems, we are working on an Extensions API that will eventually allow writing code to ingest data from a custom source. Currently it's just focused on custom visualizations, not the data pipeline piece yet: https://foxglove.dev/blog/announcing-foxglove-studio-extensi... However, if that's a strong need you have, we can show you where to modify the existing code to add a custom data source (it's possible, just not cleanly exposed into the extensions API yet).

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Instead one only needs to worry that one can’t get one’s work done.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a time when I wanted to use a spreadsheet for anything moderately complicated where gsheets was up to snuff. That’s not to say that excel doesn’t have problems or does things easily, but it doesn’t lead to quite the same level of frustration and hair-pulling, and indeed it’s usually possible to achieve things in excel when they are impossible in gsheets. Indeed that app even struggles at the ‘easy’ task of being able to fiddle around with table formatting. Its sole advantage is the collaboration. It can be used as a place to dump small amounts of varied tabular data to share but not really for calculation or analysis.
It may not be clear to end users that anyone, anywhere, can pull location data for everyone with not a lot of effort.
I posted saying yesterday that Blizzard's fall from grace has been absolutely spectacular to watch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911924

then 2 hours later this news appeared

apparently there's worse news coming out later this week too
It helps to be Susan Kare, who did both the original Mac icons and many of the original Windows icons.

She used graph paper and pencils to set individual pixels. Every pixel counts in her icon work.

It's easy to make icons if they're big. It's tiny, informative ones that are hard.

(Her web site, "kare.com", is gone. There is a copy at
"https://web.archive.org/web/20210403001323/http://kare.com/")
Engineering would be how you test it, how you document it, how you maintain it, how you deploy it. Implementing other peoples algorithms is just programming/coding.
All I have to say is ... /THREAD!!!
Looks good but needs text zoom (cmd =/+ and cmd -).

I'd also consider the sidebar include 'My Posts' and 'My Comments'. Maybe it has those, but I couldn't tell, as I turned off outgoing network access to firebase before logging in just to be on the safe side. Any reason you're connecting to firebase rather than storing preferences locally? I'm worried about my HN credentials being stolen.
I expect to live a long time yet, but have chronic illness that severly limits me, and life can be good, and it can be hard. I have also learned for myself that God is real, cares, life has a purpose and extends before & after this mortality, questions have answers, each person including you is of infinite worth, and you never truly have to be alone. And there is a way for us to be with our families forever, if we & they want.

(I enjoyed the article, and many have posted nice comments. Thoughtful comments to this are appreciated, if downvoting.)
It's interesting to see that this decision was made years ago, because it feels like he's had a much larger impact on the development of Boundary and Waypoint, to their great benefit.
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In case this get flagged or if this does not get traction, there is an official monthly post for Freelancers by the whoishiring account https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Remember to look for the correct thread and post a message there on August 2nd.
> I think it's plain at this point that you are not approaching this in good faith

I'm not being critical of the point by picking a narrow interpretation (they meant to be critical of all men), despite acknowledging the limits of the point in the same post. Therefore, I'll disagree with the quoted assertion, as well. Good luck with whatever.
Oh, you mean an iDweeb.
I never thought I'd be someone to do this but 'mito' is slang for pathological liar in French, i.e. short for 'mythomane' haha, kind of funny for something that's supposed to be a persistent source of truth. Names don't matter at all, but just wanted to comment on this. Lol!
I don't understand what the alternative policy would be. Obviously California has no control over federal immigration and border policy. So, if there's a homeless person in California, what do you do? Scan their ID and ensure that, not only are they an American citizen, but that they're a long-term California resident and... then what? Hope Georgia makes their assistance cushy enough to entice them away from California? In practice, just watch the encampments of economically disenfranchised people grow? Not that, at least from afar, Newsom seems not to have managed much about that. But the cynical parochial attitude of this piece does not seem to offer any solutions either.
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It's your obligation to prove me wrong, not me prove myself wrong.
In excel, I can make a plot by typing in my numbers, then clicking the 'plot' button. Excel shows a selection of plots of my data and lets me choose the one I like the most.

To do that in Python, I'd have to first choose a format to enter my numbers (I'd probably use Excel, then export CSV). Then I have to install Python, pip install a graphing library, import the CSV, then plot. I have to go through the different types of plots one by one.

I've taught python and graphing, you need much more than a 2 hour lesson before people can be left alone without help I'm afraid, if they have zero programming experience.

I don't claim Excel is good programming practice, or scalable, but it is much easier than Python or R. The best future thing (I think) would be an excel like interface which would show you, and let you edit, Python that did what you'd just chosen in the GUI.
> nobody had to pay for this fork

Actually, everyone had to pay for that fork. Excel is a paid product, and isn't even included in the cost of Windows. It is, however, bundled with MS Office, which includes Word, which is even more of a must have at almost every single company/org.
> Does the Algolia hackernews api ( the specific API this client uses ) still require you to query in a tree like fashion, every comment item id if you want an entire page of comments?

I’m using two different APIs — the inefficient API that requires you querying in a tree fashion is the HN official API[0], but there’s also the Algolia API[1], which is much faster and gives a much sensible data shape. I also do actually fetch the HN website as well — it’s needed for account/voting features. With these sources, it’s much faster than a usual client that gets it’s data from the official API.

> The HN website I think is pretty ideal for the type of content its displaying, a native app doesn't give you much over having a HN tab open.

I guess it’s a bit of difference on how one uses HN? I didn’t like HN tabs being mixed with other work—related tabs. I felt that having an app would be a perfect solution to me, but YMMV I guess.

> The only benefit I see from a native app is the ability to save articles and comments for offline reading

I guess that’s one more feature that I should add to my backlog :)

[0]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/api
> Where's the politics?

In the seemingly lopsided extradition treaty between the US and the UK.

(Which I was hesitant to comment on directly simply
because we risk veering away from the core focus of HN - which is arguably the technology angle of this story rather than UK/US extradition policies)
You're the one who said there were none.

Now you admit there were, my original question remains. Why didn't any CEO hire them at a white firm at half pay and make a bundle?
On a phone, I can see apps being easier to use (saved credentials and ideally the UX is streamlined for touchscreen use). But if I have a keyboard and mouse, I strongly prefer a web app for stuff that requires minimal interaction from me because it's sandboxed and accessible anywhere.

A native app should be snappier and maybe offline capable, but I'm not expecting to use Hacker News offline.
> this implies that literally every measure possible taken at every possible corporation in the entire broad field of "software" continues to be ineffective at solving these problems

OP did not imply that; read their comment again, you will note that they actually stated the opposite of your accusation quite clearly. That there is more work to do (their point) directly contradicts your assumptions.

> implied that it was endemic to women working together with men....what other possible alternative interpretation is there?

The only interpretation of OP that I can see is that there exists a problem and that being aware of the problem existing is a key factor in solving it.

I have no idea where you got these ideas from in OP's comment, I read quite the opposite from it actually.
the company never, ever, ever, ever, EVER admits fault or any sort of mistake (even trivial ones)
I prefer PWAs since it combines the window-ness of regular applications with the security sandbox traits of websites in the browser.
Because the layperson I'm talking about can't think in terms of abstractions, kind of like a math student who hasn't learned algebra yet. They can only verify the correctness of their algorithm by inspecting the intermediate values at every step, and scrolling down through the input set to inspect the corner cases. The problems with this approach are extremely obvious (which is why spreadsheets error out so often, or even worse, produce the wrong answer without any visible errors), but in many cases this is the only way for the people with the domain knowledge of what needs to be done to build an application to meet their need (they don't know how to code and they don't know how to write a functional spec).
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I think the modern pop-science book (eg this or Thinking Fast and Slow) is more or less the same thing as older natural philosophy writing (eg Origin of Species).
I have a left side taskbar on my work laptop. I hate it, but it's better than a bottom taskbar when im constrained to crappy 16:9 with 720 vertical pixels.
The UI seems very thoughtful, it's clearly a high-quality effort! I'm pleasantly surprised by how intuitive it appears at first glance. It's one of a vanishingly few examples of a "modern"-looking UI with high information density and minimal whitespace.

Your team also picked the right hero image for the homepage, and I love that it opens up into a YouTube video. It did take me awhile to realize that it opens into a video though - the bright purple "Play Demo Video" button was treated as spam by my brain. I believe that's because the UI in the image is very busy, so there are a lot of higher-priority details that I can focus on/explore until my internal "look elsewhere on the site" timer expires and I scroll off the hero image.

It feels like this does deserve more attention. I suspect people who aren't currently working with self-propelled robots may be skipping this as they aren't able to envision where they'd use it. I'd enjoy exploring it with something like this starter kit, though: https://foxglove.dev/blog/building-and-visualizing-your-firs...
Apple let’s you take the naked core of safari, stripped of chrome, and slap a skin on top.
Fwiw, I have learned for myself that we can be with our beloved family members forever, if we and they want, and do what is needed for it. All the best. (slightly more in my other comment on this page; thoughtful comments appreciated with downvotes...)
I always prefer the native (so long as it's really native, not just electron)

I'm usually lost in a sea of browser tabs
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At least you could request to be unlisted in the phone book but still have a phone number. True, you paid a fee for the "privilege," but at least it was possible.
I don't agree with this. I had a great salary negotiation, over the phone. It was all prepared, i had answers ready for me for the negotiation, prepared by my stepsister (who recently had a mission at a recruitment firm), she listened to the interviewer/manager, pointed me to the correct idea for negotiating, and i landed +60% of my old salary (loosing two vacation weeks, i only have 8 left, but still). Nothing to do with being a good communicator.
> as far as i know, i am sticking to standard SQL

PostgreSQL documentation is very good about comparing each feature to the standard.

For example, the SQL standard specifies that triggers fire in the historical order they are added to the table.

PostgreSQL chose to fire them alphabetically.

Technically nonconformant, but in practical terms, far better.
You would read in the csv, edit what you need or add/remove data, then write a new file or overwrite the old one. You don't need to implement any interface, there are tools that do all of this. You could probably write the code up for something simple like this in the time it takes for excel to open the file and you to make the change manually by finding the field, clicking away with the mouse, and typing it into the cell. Specifics beyond that can be searched for on the internet as there are a wide variety of methods you could tailor to your purpose.
Notice how I never said that being gay was a disorder, and even said "There is nothing wrong with being gay". It seems like you have issues with the Catholic church rather than me. The disorder I spoke of would be sex addiction, which exists independently of what gender a person is attracted to.
Both, though plate tectonics are the ultimate limit. There's extraordinarily little primaeval crust extant on Earth. The Canadian Shield / Laurentine Plain is one of the largest, and is dated to 3.96 billion years, though the oldest is in Australia (Jack Hills region), with dates to 4.39 billion years via zircon crystals. (I believe that may geologically related to a region in southern Africa, with which it was originally joined, though cannot find a reference.)

The ocean floor is virtually completely newer material, little of it over a 200 million years old (about 5% of Earth's total age), due to subduction. Continental crust is lighter, floats on top of the heavier oceanic crust, and has at least a chance of survival.

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-old-is-the-ocean-floor-3960755

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

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

https://www.geologyin.com/2015/11/44-billion-year-old-zircon...

https://www.geologyin.com/2016/03/the-oldest-mountain-on-ear...
i mean, people link to twitter all the time even when i do as you suggest.
I think initial development/prototyping was done as an offshoot of the WC3 engine so in a sense you were stepping into Warcraft. That's not to take anything away from the great design and art direction consistency between these titles - just that it also had a practical technical component.
> it is one you see a lot on the internet, but if you talk to actual women in the industry

You seem to imply that women on the internet are not actually in the industry? Not sure what you're saying here, unless you mean IRL, in which case,

it is likely that women are not as comfortable talking IRL to men about these issues as they are online. I'm not a woman, but I sure am more comfortable discussing these things online. Seems like it would go both ways.

> Some don’t perceive any problems at all,

A person's perception or lack thereof of a problem does not mean that the problem does not exist. Millions or billions of people are discriminated against every day without knowing it in the moment, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen or cause harm.
Somewhat related, this is a fantastic talk about the design of the first electronic spreadsheet VisiCalc by Dan Bricklin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvbDiJZpy0
What I don't understand is why so many devs choose to accept Apple's rules. These devs know full well that they will likely be f***** over like this in the end. Yet they still give Apple their business.
People are also learning excel because that's the only way to program in a big company without going through "official IT", which won't listen to what you have to say if you're not a $100 000 project they can offload to a third-party.
Thanks for the feature requests! Will definitely add a text zoom feature and a ‘My Posts’ category.

> Any reason you're connecting to firebase rather than storing preferences locally?

All of your preferences are stored locally — the firebase connection is due to the official HN API[0] implemented on Firebase. Your HN credentials never leave the app (except for news.ycombinator.com) — it’s tucked in your keychain.

[0]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
You responded to my edit previously. You are bringing it up again instead of responding to my comment.

This doesn’t change anything about the discussion or explain why you keep leveling personal attacks and accusations.

You can plainly see what’s written, and complaining about an edit has nothing to do with the points I made.

Let’s consider again what we have in summary: You spoiled the discussion by introducing personal attacks for reasons that are not clear, your argument is a straw man, and even the straw man version is simply not true.
Nah. Spreadsheets are poor man's MapReduce.

Most Excel tables I've seen aren't just data and presentation. It's computing the data as well as presenting it.

And how is the data computed?

* Applying formula to a row/column range to get another range

* Applying formula to a range to get a single-cell output out of it

Obviously, I am not talking about clustering and performance here, but a computational paradigm.
I love Tom's speculative fiction talks. He tells such a good story.
thats what you are hearing. what everyone else is hearing: "_my_ code is self documenting, so obviously its more legible!"
The lasers are more a nice idea than a plan. It's entirely possible they are not doable with realistic technology, given the speeds and other constraints of space, even in LEO. They are certainly not going to be there in the near future, anyway.
A past colleague of mine told me a shocking story. He was a heavy weed smoker (multiple times a day) and one evening couldn't find his weed and as he was searching for it, became increasingly furious.

Eventually, he was so angry that he blanked out. He told me he found himself in a hyper lucid state, but in absolute darkness and in a state of pure dread.

He felt the presense of millions of dead egos that were "roaming" like zombies in this strange environment. Some were screaming like their skin was being pulled from their body, some were tormenting others. A total nighmarish trip.

He was so shocked by this experience that he stop smoking pot that very evening and never touched it again.
Any chance for Mojave support? It currently requires Big Sur. Looks good on screenshots tho.
Can't you build workflows for auto addition? This way, your platform would have exponential more content and therefore interest

- if more than x ppl searching for a person then add

- if more than x followers on twitter

- if more than x citations on google scholar

You get the point.
From the movies, you'd think the world is full of people willing to kill for $2m.

And maybe there are but none of them are business execs. 'Cause, yeah, seems super easy.
I like native apps (as in, uses the host platform’s UI toolkit) where available, because it’s almost a given that the operating systems’s typography, color scheme, etc are more legible and less annoying than whatever choices were made by a website’s designer. This is especially important now that all major desktop OSes implement a dark mode, which many sites still lack.

Things like reader mode and user styles help a lot with that, but they’re both kind of clunky bolt-ons and in the case of userstyles, often manual since many sites don’t have any readily available.

A lot of this could be improved if browsers had restyling built in as a first class feature and site owners were incentivized to make their sites work with it.
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Of course desktop software, as they are way better than web sites.

- don't need to create yet another account (and won't be deplatformed arbitrarily)

- my data stay in local and are not used in shaddy way by the service provider

- usable offline or with poor connection

- better performance

- I'm in control with upgrades

Webapps in general are hostile to the user and are just a way for the developer to take over (undue) control over the software usage and user data.