skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual for things where people can have strong incentives to lie, revealed preference is the only reliable indicator. But since that can't be observed in a psychology lab, instead we see questionable attempts at mind-reading like drawing spurious conclusions from response times. It would be just as scientific to hook the subject up to a polygraph and ask about biases.

Since obesity is generally seen as a moral failing rather than something that can't be controlled, people are comfortable admitting their bias. However, for race where it's rather unfair and also doing so will get you fired or worse they prefer not to.
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Sorry, my apologies. I misread your post read to mean that you were happy/excited to have your kid understand Google as a brand (i.e. valuable).

As for parenting, we may just agree to disagree. I concur with your assessment that siblings will definitely teach more than parents. That's to be expected. We just would never reward bad behaviour with acquiescence. But to each his own. Our seven-year old has wide latitude when it comes to choices and actions, but he also realizes that the consequences of those actions are not in his control. We gave him his own iPad at the age of 3 and access to his own real spending money in Grade 1. He gets to decide what to spend it on. At the same time, we've made it clear to him that poor impulse control and bad behaviour will never get him what he wants. He negotiates everything, including daily bedtime or routine tasks, and we're perfectly fine with that. It seems to align well with his personality, and builds some valuable life skills.
One thing I've been wondering about is how smaller organizations handle on call. Looking at the roles laid out [1] and assuming an on-call schedule of 4 weeks off, 1 week secondary, and 1 week primary, that's a team of at least 25 people.

For an organization of just a handful of engineers, how do they make on call work? A single on-call rotation would stretch the team to its limits, and it's likely that certain domains would only have a single Subject Matter Expert.

[1] https://response.pagerduty.com/before/different_roles/
They use FullStory, which probably means all employees can see your data if they wanted to. There's no option to remove it, as far as I can tell.
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An RFID tag is an excellent way of labelling a furry animal, no doubt about it, and a national database administered by regulated and trustworthy professionals is an excellent way of making it possible to prove ownership, no doubt about that, either. However, as I see it, it's the database plus regulated professionals that's the essential ingredient here, not the particular way that labelling is implemented.

Though I introduced the thought myself, perhaps removing microchips is not all that relevant. If there was no reliable database and vets were all corrupt then you could have an animal with six RFID tags attached to it, and six people each claiming to be the owner of each of those tags, and how would that help anyone prove ownership?

Nevertheless, if one did want to remove an RFID tag, I'd hope there would be a better way of locating the thing than X-rays. It does, after all, contain a transponder and I seem to recall that when RFID tags were first proposed one of their advantages was supposed to be that you could use them to precisely locate things. If someone had attached an RFID tag to my property and I was worried that they wanted to do something nefarious, how would you recommend that I locate and remove/destroy that tag?
Yes, but that's a royal pain. 'cdf' are 3 adjacent keys.
Paddle looks really nice actually; switching providers probably won't help with the motivation factor, and it looks like they don't provide HTTP API SDKs (that's a lot of acronyms, sorry) in any language, so it would be a bit more work to use, not to mention that it's a lot more expensive, but I wonder if it's worth it either way? You've got me curious, I'll have to look into it a bit. Thanks.
Notion is just awesome and I have been using it for 6 months now. It's the only app I have used so far that feels like a text editor and despite covering so many use-cases, excels at each of them and outdoes individual apps made for that specific purpose.

Tools I have replaced with Notion:

- Todos & Planning: Evernote, Workflowy, Text Files.

- Notes: Google Keep, Text Files.

- Work Wiki: MediaWiki.

- Collaboration/Project Management: Confluence, Trello, Asana.

I also use it for pros and cons lists, inspirations and moodboards for design and so on.

One thing that would be quite helpful in Notion is to have some sort of "marketplace" where users can share pre-made templates. I am not sure if they have an API for extensions yet, but that would be awesome.
Hmm, I cannot seem to create an account without sharing my Google contacts; which I see no need to do and it's needless friction.
I get into a loop of clicking checkbox "I don't want to share my Google contacts", then being rerouted back to login page and requested approval to share my contacts.

Pricing wise, I wish these types of apps didn't have such a steep escalation as soon as I want to share. $4 for individual, but $8/team member, which means wanting to share this with my wife is four times as expensive as just using it myself, with limited to no appreciable improvement.
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Agreed. I heard Seth Godin say something like "When I need knee surgery, I don't give a shit of the surgeon is feeling 'authentic' in his job that day, I want him to be a PRO and fix my damn knee. I don't care how he feels!"

So I agree. However, I also think if you have the opportunity to move to a career you love you should do it. Not everyone has that opportunity, sounds like this guy might.
Wow, that sucks is again super user hostile, I'm so happy I removed their app.
You can use an ad blocker to block FS.
> More specifically, why does the cook only make $24 per hour while the waiting staff gets $42-48?

That was my takeaway from the article as well. Does anyone know if this par for the restaurant industry? Does FOH make more than the line cooks?
I would tend to argue that institutional racism is also bad for your health and mental well-being.
Show HN: Hack Beyond LinkedIn, Rankings of the Best at Something Somewhere
It's simple - stop trying to right prefect code because it doesn't exist. Next, go sell it. Building a company means creating a balance and from what I hear, it's one sided; software development.

Get people using it. Get people to give you feedback to drive the features, Engineers typically suck at sales and get caught up in building. Release it.

Your customers don't give a shit about the code. I know you do and I respect that, but release it. Make a few extra dollars and see how it goes.

What's the worse that can happen? People don't want to pay for it and you terminate the project? Or even worse, enough people want to pay for it and you invest more time into it :)
Do it full time and realize the only way you get paid is to re-write billing and get some revenue.
The "quality" feeling of sublime app for me is majorly undermined by the constant nagging popups to pay for it. so many other services I happily pay for and somehow sublime has made me not want to pay for their services.
Bitwarden offers self-hosting as one of their paid perks (Docker image and documentation included), in addition to a free tier. It may not be viable as the only business model, but I appreciate that they cater to the small number of people that will make use of it and I imagine the token of goodwill does something for the product as a whole.
It looks like they use FullStory, so employees can probably see everything you're doing. I'd be surprised if they were recording without ever watching the recordings.

(FullStory records what you do in your browser. It records all DOM elements, so all your data is being recorded and sent to a 3rd party.)
Right, and my point is that bugs will exist for all devices, not just these. Applying the logic, "bugs could happen" to just these devices isn't rational because it applies to all all devices, especially smart phones. We shouldn't ditch devices because of future potential for bugs that don't exist yet.
This is exactly why I hate Agile garbage. Just about everywhere I've ever worked has applied "agile" and all it's lead to is them building crap software quickly. I'm all for releasing early and often, but not "in whatever state". Have some pride and build good, well tested software.
There's a similar dynamic for men. We can also "feel free from the tyranny of worrying about our looks". For one thing, I'm old enough that there's no point in trying to hide it.

But I do get to hide much of my sagging face under a beard. And in my case, it's a totally untrimmed beard (but clean and well brushed). I can pass for old hippie or Duck Dynasty, with just a little tweaking of clothes and language style.

And there's another aspect. I'm also "free from the tyranny of worrying about" what employers and clients think of my looks. Because, for the most part, I don't have or need any. And for the few clients I do have, I'm just some ~anonymous guy who does stuff for Bitcoin.
There is already TONS of negative cultural bias towards being overweight/obese. The fact that there are still so many overweight/obese people shows that we really still don't understand the problem or how to treat it.
> Unlike being of a certain skin color or sexual orientation being overweight is actually bad for your health and both mental and physical performance.

That also would have been once an argument used against homosexuality.
Ask HN: What skillset does the world most need in your opinion
I've spent the last 8 years doing web dev but recently it's been feeling less exciting and I've been wanting to do something that feels more meaningful to me. At the same time my finances are getting shored up and I'm not rich but Ive at least insulated myself from basic hardships to the point where I can afford some risk.

I'm thinking I would like to go to grad school but in the end school isn't the goal, it's gaining a unique skill set that would allow me to make the most meaningful contribution to the world around me

I judge usefullness on two criteria

1) The ability of the skill set to solve a difficult problem that will minimize suffering or maximize quality of life for some group of people

2) A lack of people solving that problem already. For example while pediatricians are very useful to the world, I believe the marginal utility of one more pediatrician is not huge because there are already a lot of them meeting a majority of the need out there.

One thing I'd be interested to hear about are specialized skill sets within earth science that have a lack of research manpower. But I would love to hear about anything very different that you feel passionately that the world needs.
Just so I understand you right, you're saying it's okay to violate people's rights, so long as the pay is good, your family really needs the money, and you hold some kind of internal objection to your own work?
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That seems to be pretty hard. I just finished a long search for an Open Source one-page markdown editor (no split windows for preview and editing): the closest I could find was an editor called MarkText but even that doesn’t have half the functionality of Notion or Dropbox Paper. It’s hard to compete with fully funded and devoted teams.
Never mind HN, that's a classic Slashdot response.
>Battery life consumption rarely comes up as a feature bullet-point for an app writer, because visibility on whether a given app is a battery hog is low (both for developers and users).

Both platforms offer extremely easy to access, at-a-glance views of which apps are using the most battery for any given period.
The risk with any IPO where you see a 30-40% pop means the company sold shares below what they were worth, diluting the cap table more than necessary, because they needed dollars in the bank.

Since Slack has tons of cash in the bank, they don't need to raise any capital - just provide liquidity to shareholders/employees.

So this makes 100% sense for them. If they need to raise money later, they can do so at the market-clearing price, rather than the low-ball number that the investment bankers usually give them so they can allocate "instant profit" IPO shares to their wealth management clients...
Thanks for the advice; there's some really good stuff in here.
And of course you get this wonderful site too:

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Also, after selecting a voice, the voice dropdown should blur / lose focus, because I tried playing the keyboard with my "G" key and it jumped right back to Grand Piano on the first note.
This seems really focused on express.js and hosting http servers from node, not just general node stuff.
That's certainly a good explanation.

Still, for instance I wasn't able to find anything for either the French or the German authorities in their respective local languages.

For Dutch government services on the other hand there's the Rijkshuisstijl styleguide: https://www.rijkshuisstijl.nl/

(I just didn't find it at first because I searched for something along the lines of "nederlands overheid" rather than the official term "rijksoverheid").
Sure. But those are effectively lower end models and I find it a shame AMD don’t ship GPUs on the CPUs with higher core-counts.
Also says in the same instructable that once the device is trained that there's no need to have the device connected anymore. It also doesn't need to be connected to the internet - you just need to be able to get to it via a browser with a microphone - I was able to train the device with no connection to the internet.
From my understanding, just because these devices are always listening, doesn't mean they are always recording. Only when you say the wake word do they start recording and only that information is used for advertising/etc.

Right??
After spending too many hours unable to decide on a color theme (those color theme designers are not all that great IMHO) I saved myself the time and trouble and paid a real designer a good chunk of $ to get an actual logo, a great color scheme, and a PDF of design language guidelines.

I'd rank it as the single best decision I've made for my startup. With the design language guidelines I can throw together UI screens super easy, I just need to assemble the parts I've been given in an appropriate way. The logo receives constant positive feedback, and having a good set of colors simplifies a lot of UI and UX tasks.

No way could I have done it myself to this level of quality in anything resembling a timely fashion.

A good logo and color scheme can had for ~$1000. Yes that is a lot of money for a super early stage startup. Figure it'll take multiple days to do it yourself, 20 hours, $50/hr, unless you seriously low-ball your time, just pay someone else to do it.

Honestly, if making anything resembling a consumer facing product, throw a couple thousand and get preliminary design work done up front. Ask for a few sample UI layouts based on whatever rough ideas for "functionality" exist. The important part is learning how information is going to be structured on a page/screen. Colors, font, font size, font style? What sort of grid is being used, how much white space, rounded or non-rounded UI elements, drop shadows yes/no, what do confirmation/cancellation buttons look like?

Have someone who is good at it make all of these decisions. Having the same person make all of these decisions means there will be a consistent look and feel to the product.
In my old team we managed our on call rotation for years with five persons. One primary, no secondary, 7 days in a row. Of course we had to arrange ourselves because of vacation and sick leave but we always managed.
We also had an organizational rule that forbade being on call for more than ten days in a row or on two consecutive weekends.
”I think writing an OS from scratch is discouraging and not very accessible”

A lot of work, yes, but, IMO, fairly accessible if you are willing to skip the steps initializing the hardware (“it’s tedious, but luckily somebody did it for us”), don’t aim for replacing the state of the art, and support limited hardware (certainly no USB-C, for example)

For example, your first usable system doesn’t need paging, memory protection, or even a halfway decent memory allocator. You also need not support zillions of different devices (Linus didn't, either, with his first usable system)

Just start with an OS that runs a fixed max number of processes each in some fixed amount of memory in round-robin fashion. Let’s say you have a gig of RAM. Split it in 1024 1 megabyte blocks, reserve one for your OS, and require programs to be position independent.

Yes, that’s almost equal to a single process running multiple threads (in some sense even worse, as a program wanting over a MB of memory can’t run, even if the other processes take only a small fraction of their megabyte or memory) but that’s what makes it accessible. It also isn’t too dissimilar from what was done historically (it isn’t that many steps away from the original model of Windows CE, for example, and that isn’t even 25 years old).

If you have that and a minimalistic file system, you probably can run quite a bit of Linux userland on it (slowly because of the round-robin scheduler, and crashing often when processes run out of memory), but then it’s just a matter of scratching itches as they come up. Memory protection probably would be one of the first features I would add, as it makes the system way more robust. An editor and a (simple, say a single-pass compiler of a pascal-like language) compiler also would be high up, to make the system self-compiling. VM paging probably would come late in the game now that small systems have at least a gig of RAM.
Why would Dr Su leave a company that is on a massive upswing, for one that has been stuck in a rut for years?
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> Users do actually benefit from this on balance.

Users don't benefit from lazy ham-fisted hacks. There is no benefit to killing an app without notifying it in any way, or killing a background app that is using 0.2% of available memory and 0.0% of CPU just because it has been open for a long time.
I see that your site only includes screenshots of Notion pages. Have you considered asking people to share Markdown exports of their pages as well?
Hello! My name is Przemek - I'm 25-year-old software developer, Learney founder and its first user. If you want to learn more about the motivation behind this project please visit Learney Blog - https://blog.learney.io/post/learney-hello-world/
Great advice for industrial lifting robots. For actual living human beings, this is nowhere near the mark. Most people are terrible at self-motivation outside of traditional structures that keep them accountable. Many people even struggle to remain productive at the office since there's plenty of procrastination slack there too to hang yourself with.
Ask HN: Should I take time off while wife earns?
My wife is a recent MFT graduate has a pretty good shot at getting a job at a small mental health facility in a tiny town in Colorado. Her salary would be more than enough for where we will be living plus paying down student loans (3-4 times the median household income).

I've been getting burnt out in tech for closing in on a decade, now... or at least, working on other people's tech, I think.

Should I use this opportunity to step away from tech completely and invest in getting better at my other hobbies (carpentry, hiking, writing)?
Assuming they didn't do that already, a couple more mics in the device base with noise cancelling circuitry if implemented the analog way or in software will defeat this project in no time.
I applaud the intent, but unless one knows for sure how many mics are there, including tiny MEMS devices like accelerometers that can be used as such, and can physically disconnect them all, there's no way to know the device isn't listening.
Sure it is, but institutional racism isn't a trait or property of any individual that they have control over.
Can we at least agree that "just tend to" is much different from "has no ethical obligation to"?
> Surely somebody in the '90s said something similar with regard to location data, and yet your location is tracked 24/7

I remember a Romanian politician and member of Parliament complaining about the local telecom providers displaying the GSM location data on the phones’ screens sometime back in 2002 and 2003, I remember of laughing at his ludicrous (that’s how I viewed it at the time) complaint, I mean, he was a stupid politician while I was a CS student, couldn’t he see how cool it was to see your neighborhood name on your Nokia 3110’s screen? Of course that the stupid politician was right and I and the fellow technophiles like myself were wrong.
Is that just because you don't actually like running?

I used to always want to quit running ASAP, and the feeling just didn't go away whether I ran for five minutes or an hour. Fast forward some years, I'd gotten into cycling, enjoyed my rides and was in a much better physical condition. I also had a heart rate tracker and was used to training with heart rate zones. So one time I went for a run, first time in years, and tried to stay in the <60% HR zone. I started at my normal speed, realized my heart is racing, slowed down and eventually realized that even at my slowest possible running speed I'm going over my heart rate target. I had to settle for alternating between very slow running and walking to keep the exercise level light. Of course, after a couple of "runs" i could keep up better, but still running at any kind of speed is hard exercise for me.

I gather this is a common phenomenon, and most beginners run way too fast.
Are you saying you don't believe it's unhealthy to be obese?
Ah, I remember this one! It was essentially a webcam with storage, batteries and a shutter button strapped to it :)
It may not have been much, but it came at a price point that made it much more attainable than "real" digital cameras at the time.
Actually there were 2 persistent bitcoin chains to emerge from that conflict, one led by Bitcoin Core’s consensus rules and one led by Bitcoin Cash’s consensus rules. Nothing technical prevented the fork. And to claim one is more “bitcoin” than the other is moot. In fact the argument of which bitcoin chain is what Satoshi would have wanted is still being argued about every single day...
yes, dnscloak acts as a local vpn that forwards dns traffic only, i believe. however i also just remembered it was removed from the app store for some technicality recently (apparently vpn apps must have a company as the dev and not an individual? i assume to crack down on shady vpns). hopefully it will be restored soon