skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things not touched here is “what’s the alternative?”

Yeah, we talk about touching grass and meeting people in real life. Have you noticed how hard it is to meet people in real life and form any kind of connection? Men are lonelier than ever because they have nowhere to go to meet people just for friendship - let alone romance.

There are a severe lack of third spaces for all of us to congregate at. People start suggesting “hobbymaxx, bro! Rock climb, raves, CrossFit!” But completely ignore that some people don’t have existing hobbies or interests that align with these suggestions. I love motorcycles and sports cars. I’ve done group rides and whatnot. It’s all dudes. There has never been even one woman who has shown up even with groups of 50. A lot of these other hobbies are completely swarmed with men as well and then you have the status element of it - which takes years of grinding to achieve. You’re not likely to meet someone and go on a date in your first month of CrossFit or rock climbing. Maybe after 5 years of going 3-5x/week, establishing a name, and really getting involved in organizing and whatnot. Even then, might still just be too many dudes or it doesn’t attract the type of women you’re into! Hobbymaxxing advice is worthless for people who aren’t inherently interested in the activity and would do it anyway. It’s mostly people with survivorship bias that are advertising hobbies.

Our society is so atomized and individual. You can blame cars or whatever but even here in nyc, it’s hard to chat women up because they’re all getting increasing amounts of stranger danger. Creepy dude just hit on her last week in an impolite and aggressive manner making her feel really unsafe. Homeless dude just chased after her on the street a couple days ago. The guy manning the bathrooms at the club catcalled her while she’s going to the bathroom just now. This is a real example of a woman I know - not made up shit. If you had to deal with the level of harassment that attractive women get in places like NYC - you’d probably have your guard really high too. And only the most amazing of circumstances might ever lower their guard - which means your odds are real bad.

Point is: our culture sucks and the way we’re allowing a lot of men in real life to treat women is not helping women get out there more. We need to get rid of this violent homeless epidemic, get rid of these creepy aggressive dudes hitting on everyone and not taking no for an answer, and get rid of shitty people who just want to say stupid shit to any woman at all. I thought with me too at least two of these would be gone but not at all - especially in nyc. It doesn’t take much for most women to be traumatized and have severe dislike for going out btw. The woman I described is incredibly uncommon in her resilience.
Great read for the last laps, love the format. It's great
I was recently reading the New York Court of Appeals ruling on People v Aleynikov, which involves someone copying Goldman Sachs's software and taking it to a new startup. New York has a criminal offense called "Unlawful use of secret scientific material" that covered this case. Aleynikov argued that it only covers tangible representations of scientific material (which the court ruled covers computer source code), and that computer files are not tangible. The court disagreed, but did say:

Defendant contends that if "tangible" means "having physical form," then the statutory term "tangible reproduction" would involve a redundancy because all computer data is stored in some physical medium. We disagree. Someone with a photographic memory who memorized a piece of source code would not be making a tangible reproduction of the code (see generally Bottone, 365 F2d at 393 [referring to a hypothetical "case where a carefully guarded secret formula was memorized, carried away in the recesses of a thievish mind and placed in writing only after a boundary had been crossed"]). It is true that copying secret scientific material solely by memorizing it would not fall under the statute for a separate reason, i.e., that{*31 NY3d at 400} it would not be "writing, photographing, drawing, mechanically or electronically reproducing or recording such secret scientific material" (Penal Law § 165.07). Nevertheless, the word "tangible," as we interpret it, does not introduce redundancy; it adds a modest element to "reproduction," serving to emphasize that the crime consists in making a physical, not a mental, copy of secret scientific material.

(From: https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2018/2018_03174.h...)

So anyway, you're not violating New York State law if you remember how your system works and you take it to your next employer. Contracts you sign and patent law still exist, however.
What? 6240/3,000,000 = 0.00248, which is .248%.

No convention ever says you can put the % next to the raw ratio.
That is indeed true, but in practice, the features of AGPL might be enough to make most people avoid trying to commercialise an AGPL project.
That would not be out of place in a Monty Python sketch. Forums full of people endlessly debating the latest gadgets and techniques for not getting faster.
I can't see how any of this makes sense. There are not a lot more eligible men than there are eligible women. Interest in relationships is not constrained in any way to "guys". I think you have an alignment problem.
Would be nice if you could explain how/why this happens, given that normally, pointers aren't persisted.
This article is slick pabulum. Well written junk.

Every company relies on the quality of its people. Every company puts people into positions of responsibility. Any company would suffer if people abuse or cannot handle their responsibility. So what? Is this some kind of insight? No.

Incompetence is a problem regardless of role, and it’s more of a problem with more powerful roles. The author gives no reason why “product manager” should be his special target.

The author seems to think the solution is… teamwork? Really?

That’s it. Problem solved? No.

This article is part of a genre that extolls the amazing power of the group without discussing or acknowledging all the excellent reasons why hierarchies are so immensely popular in industry compared to self-organizing hives.

Most articles on teamwork assume the happy path. Speaking as a person with skills, experience, and strong opinions— I know what it means to collaborate with difficult people. I am one. Any company that consistently thrives with an egalitarian culture must either be tiny or it must develop a sophisticated and sober culture of conflict management. Ironically, only with strong leadership from the top can that be done.
When it comes to buffalo, in Canada at least, the term “mismanagement” is the most appropriate of all three.

For Plains indigenous people, the buffalo were a massive part of their culture, spirituality and history. Hundreds of generations had lived alongside the buffalo herds and become a part of their life cycle. Their hunts, while truly massive, participated in the life cycle and ensured stable herds.

When european settlers came, they had absolutely no understanding of that life cycle so their hunts were in opposition. Then as they started importing european land ownership and putting up fences, the ecosystem collapsed. They hadn’t followed the herds for generations so really didn’t know how much land a herd actually needed to sustain itself.

It was really the wrong hunting even more so than over hunting. Early communities had names like “Pile of Bones” that were indicative of the scale of earlier hunts.
It'll only make sense if insurance companies can use it to reduce your payout in an accident.
Your source would also have to have a reference to which exact version of which compiler to use, which versions of which external headers to use, etc. and now you're inventing Nix.

Conceivably there could be a standard for a sidecar file to specify how something was built (e.g. nixpkgs commit hash, or all of the parameters that went into the build). Or content address the inputs, i.e. invent Nix again.

So we could solve this problem by having everyone standardize on using Nix.
> We're talking about companies who hire experts and enforce code reviews, and they still enforce the use of linters and static code analyzers.

I'm not sure I'm following, are you suggesting that experts don't need static analysers or linters? Or that enforcing linters is not in and by itself a good thing?
It’s the recognition, not solely the value, which it is being conveyed. $2.50 is still worth more than $0.00.

Does that distinction matters to the person who the $2.00 and $0.50 is handed to? That’s an exercise left up to the reader to try.

Addendum: I interpreted the OPs comment to be regarding appreciation of people who work in roles not typically tipped in the course of their service.
Is there a U.S. equivalent?
I hate to say it ... Stephen King.
I’m of the opinion that these things are true if you’re going to be the next breakout success story - the unicorn of a given field.

But I think the tech industry trains us to think that that’s the only success. But there are lots of startups that make a product, are cash-flow positive, and have reasonable growth. And I think this version of success does not require the tremendously narrow odds that you’re suggesting.
So they invented the modern fiat monetary system before it was cool?
In my experience, close technical customer-developer collaboration is incredibly valuable.

What’s not great is customers arguing with engineers about which features to implement first or whether their bug report ought to have been backlogged. This is where a strong product role is essential.
Running uphill is also an incredibly high fitness demand. If you’re a 10:30 pace on flat ground, you aren’t running up a trail.
Here are the two patents:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/en?oq=us10%2c...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10945648B2/en?oq=us10%2c...

these don't seem to be typical patent troll stuff. Here's Claim 1 of the '648 patent:

1. A user-worn device configured to non-invasively measure a physiological parameter of a user, the user-worn device comprising:

a first set of light emitting diodes (LEDs), the first set of LEDs comprising at least an LED configured to emit light at a first wavelength and an LED configured to emit light at a second wavelength;

a second set of LEDs spaced apart from the first set of LEDs, the second set of LEDs comprising at least an LED configured to emit light at the first wavelength and an LED configured to emit light at the second wavelength;

four photodiodes arranged on an interior surface of the user-worn device and configured to receive light after attenuation by tissue of the user;

a protrusion comprising:

a convex surface extending over the interior surface,

a plurality of openings in the convex surface extending through the protrusion and aligned with the four photodiodes, each opening defined by an opaque surface, and

a plurality of windows, each of the windows extending across a different one of the openings; and

one or more processors configured to receive one or more signals from at least one of the photodiodes and calculate a measurement of the physiological parameter of the user.
I wonder if the footprint got smaller or bigger.
Why would I be working now? It's Sunday.
There appears to be quite a large contingent of women that are upset with so-called 'passport bros', as well as women that have hit the wall and haven't yet come to terms with the fact that it's too late to establish a family. But you are right that younger women are having the time of their lives; for that group, everything is possible on the dating apps.
- TypeScript end to end

- infra on AWS via AWS CDK TypeScript

- backend domain plain TypeScript

- frontend plain React, no framework (TSX)

- database RDS Aurora serverless v2 (Postgres)

- monorepo using pnpm
Read this pattern through Google (they have PDFs provided), isn’t it describing the finger sensor pretty much every health care provider uses? Especially the figures they put in, non of them looks like a consumer daily device.

Not a typical pattern troll but an innovative one. Now they can pretty much go after any companies in this area! I feel they are after Apple just because Apple Watch succeeded.
2023-04-04T22:10:32 is the timestamp of Python-3.10.11/Misc/NEWS from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.11/Python-3.10.11.tar...
What's the best evidence we've found for alien life?
I only had one experience with this early in my career, but I remember it wasn't good. Basically, we had a 5-6 person team that had to support like 10 important legacy services. One person essentially ended up being on call for a week, having to wake up early to debug issues with a thing you didn't build in the first place and only vaguely understood.

Do you think this company had good CI/CD and automated tests? They did not. There was fortunately a lot of monitoring so at least you knew when the service was in a bad state, but absolutely nothing else other than a ticket and an angry customer.

I would much rather have extensive test coverage, very good CI/CD, make sure not to do releases on weekends and holidays, and have a few people whose job is to do the monitoring and escalate to the right people rather than just putting a target on a random engineer's back and hope they can fix things quickly.
I meant pensions/retirement.

Nothing is perfect of course. Lots of pensions destroyed/raided, and retirements screwed up by greed too.

And going crazy in the other direction marriage wise definitely has very real downsides too!

I’d be curious to see how the majority of cases went though, overall.

We’re discovering the downsides of going too far in our current direction now, and I suspect this winter is going to be a doozy.

We currently are getting the worst of both worlds near as I can tell on both fronts (men and women), but it often gets worse before it gets better!
No, we all need to start self hosting. Decentralization is the real way forward. Aggregators need to be running locally on your device to create a seamless experience and a feeling of centralization but we need to stop relying on meta and youtube to host our content.
Evidence I think shows was plenty of back and forth trade and population movement between Britons and Gauls in that period. And at this point in history or just prior I suspect Brittonic and Gaulish were more dialects or branches of a common P-Celtic language, but there is controversy about this topic.

In any case, language aside, esp after the Romans conquered Gaul, many Gaulish tribes had power centres among the Britons in areas of what is now England. There's been chariot burials discovered in Britain that look basically identical to those from the continent.

E.g. the Parisi were a Brittonic tribe mentioned by the Romans that share a name with the Parisii of Gaul (for which Paris is named), and likely were quite connected.

I believe in fact that part of the justification the Romans gave for their invasion of Britain was in fact that the (defeated) Gauls were using it as a power base to cause problems for the Romans in Gaul.

And then a few hundred years later, it got flipped around and some Britons fled from Saxon invasion back to the continent into what is now Brittany in France and Britonia in Galicia in Spain.

This is a good book on this topic: https://www.amazon.ca/Blood-Celts-New-Ancestral-Story/dp/050...
Fiction requires a suspension of disbelief- that a certain person is real, or that certain things have happened, etc.

Good fiction asks its audience to accept things that don't require special knowledge. Bad (historical) fiction presents false things in such a way that the audience accepts them without realizing that is is part of the fictional narrative, because they lack the specialized knowledge to understand when artistic liberties have been taken.

Since the audience is already in a state of suspended disbelief, they aren't prepared to be skeptical of what is presented as real but is not.

I have a similar quibble with American Gods. Several times I've seen people parrot ideas from the story that sounded like one of many historical facts but were actually very wrong, such as the background of Easter.

Edit: I may have been overly harsh with the use of the word "Bad". They're good stories in their own rights, but this particular bone has been stuck in my craw for a long time.
An absolutely comically bad logo design. I mean, that is worse than atrocious. If you're going to attempt to design something, at least possess the intellect to know that you must be good at what you're spearheading.

Just looking at the horrible logo mashed into the header that is 100% illegible because its like 50px wide is all you need to know.
The source for the cpython build is the release tarball (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...).

In that case, NixOS sets SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (which I suspect will be picked up by the python build) to the latest timestamp found in that archive (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-supp...)
By restricting full-screen, you're punishing the top 85+% of users who are fully capable of understanding what a permission ask for "Is allowed to display full screen while locked" is asking. Generally spekaing, the race to design everything for the bottom 10% of users is resulting is a world of forced conformity, severe artificial limitations, and basically the Simpsons episode where Homer bubble wraps the entire playground, but in a tech sense.
Though not new, the well known example of Norman claims in France is a thousand years newer than this coin.
In the Freeze video clip from TFA, the guy he's racing looks over his shoulder towards the end too. Its pretty hard to run forward with any velocity when looking backwards. That maneuver alone probably cost him a second, maybe more.
Unions are like government. They can and do serve a very important, often necessary, role. However they can also be easily corrupted without special and meticulous care. We as a society seem especially bad about the burden of collective accountability over government and unions.

IMO they’re essential, but the state we end up in feels inevitable. I’m quite a pessimist as a result.
Definitely sounds like a bad PM experience, especially with the repeated insistence about handing control of the company over to the PM.

Maybe I just have good experiences with PMs? At my company they're there to figure out what customers want and what the product should deliver, and then with our EMs to balance that with what's technically feasible and what we have capacity to implement. If an EM says "there's no way we can do that on this timeline" the PM works out some alternative plan for the product.
And ironically it seem like the things you'd positively attribute here to a product manager used to be/are actually part of the scope of what was traditionally a "project manager" or "program manager."

For example, look at the scope and definition of a "program manager" from Microsoft or the US DoD in the 1980s, 1990s+, as well as literature describing the role of a program manager and the discipline from that time.
^ concur
I don't think things have changed much. Your explanation pretty much blames men which has been in vogue. The dating apps just expanded the size of the "town". Women still look for the top tier guys. I don't believe they are choosing to be single but convincing themselves they can do better when in reality they can't. Dating apps feed the illusion of choice that mr. right is easily obtainable.
What is it about Fastify specifically that makes you lean more toward Express?
Tbh that’s a fairly uniquely Chinese thing I’ll wager
A few things come to mind, the longevity of digital based information, how electronics doesn't survive as well as clay and paper, encrypted storage, commercial software stored information, and how well we may nuke ourselves.
Samsung OneUI has good UI and performance, but the 3-year support limit is terrible and unacceptable. I own various Samsung devices, their policy of abandoning 'old' products to bit rot or quietly making them disappear from SmartThings with an update convinced me that they are not as dedicated to their products as Apple is. Today's phone OSes aren't "just" OSes but whole ecosystems of devices. When I buy TV or smartwatch I expect that it won't become e-junk in 3/4 years. The rate of change is currently so slow, that new devices don't bring any new features that are forcing for the upgrade. They are just a refresh.
Related: https://www.google.com/search?&q=svalbard+global+seed+vault&...
Nevertheless it is the role called "product manager" at many companies.
Except it's Docker, and like virtually all Dockerfiles, it immediately runs "apt-get update", tossing reproducibility out the window.
>The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm.

Since when is the Apple watch measureing glucose? It appears they are not fighting about something the was in the original scope of the patent but something that was added/emphasized later.

Difficult to pick sides here.

Massimo was/is the incumbent in their medical space and they are now, to some extend, being disrupted by a consumer-market focused company. Of course they need to defend their territory. On the other hand, this is also not the first instance where Apple is accused of predatory behavior towards potential suppliers.
Well I have to say it’s very primal and instinctive. As cavemen I’m doubtful there was much chat going on we probably did it like many other animals do it today and strongest man got to have it’s way. So I don’t think it is all that weird people just want instant sex we probably had that for hundreds of thousands of years. In my experience though a lot of the apps you can specify what you are looking for. Set your profile to long term and you will meet people that chat first and get to know each other. I’m week on into chatting a girl. It’s going to be 2 more weeks before we can hang out. Our profiles are set to long term so no expectation of sex right away.
If you can’t implement a patent without spending millions of dollars on R&D filling in the blanks it isn’t an invention. This was an idea, and it shouldn’t have been granted a patent. *IMO NAL
Yah. What about "ycombinatorr" or "ycombinatoor" or "yombinator" or...

This stuff is very common. The easiest way to find it is to locate infrastructure associated with one homology (nameservers, or IP addresses of nameservers or hosting) and then see what other domains are on those servers / hosting, assuming you have access to a crowdsourced Passive DNS database.

(Crowdsourced in this case is important, and I draw a distinction because most commercial PDNS DBs are crowdsourced, and I offer free software which synthesizes PTR records from locally observed PDNS because it serves a different purpose.)
I think they meant if you cast a pointer to an integer, do some math on that and then store that. Then you will a stored result that will likely differ from run to run
Programmers Aren't Productive Anymore – Jonathan Blow [video]
Nothing about this is economically prohibitive. This is predictive maintenance 101.
Digital data that we don’t have a very long history of maintaining and largely not maintained and most paper print matter is very short lived relative to what we have gleaned from metal, stone and clay used by prior civilizations.
Running on Azure on top of Windows, aka Hyper-V and Azure Host OS.
Thank you! Setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to the most recent file timestamp found in the source input is a clever hack.
U.S. eyes 5-year timeline for China chip decoupling