skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I found myself weighing in 84 Kg naked, I also stopped eating sugars. No change in other eating habits or exercise, only stopped snacking between meals and stopped eating baked desserts.

I was down to 73 Kg within a few months, which is the upper limit for my BFI at 170 cm. I've somehow since stabilized at 75-77 Kg, but that is a huge difference from the scary 84.
I think that this should be true for any position. I find you can generally get better people working with you if you put effort into making them feel like they will be valued, compensated fairly and that the role will be meaningful. And then delivering on it.
I think it varies by company, but at mine the questions are very much domain based for senior people. The focus is greater on algorithms for new grads.

The questions being asked aren't extremely challenging, they can be trained for. Willingness to learn new things (even if useless) and put in the effort to pass interviews is a positive signal imo.

On that note, it seems like HN has assumed the only work that exists is writing CRUD apps and not worrying about performance. There are many roles where you do need to have a strong understanding of performance and algorithms, and those are the difference between a smooth rollout and crashes in the middle of the night.
The author is just expressing their frustration of having to constantly correct this particular strain of naivete. Contained naivete (e.g. keeping incorrect opinions to oneself) is mostly harmless to everybody, but if naivete spreads that's bad.

Of course, there's also the "outrage gets you likes" aspect, but I guess if I were in the agriculture field I might have reason to genuinely be somewhat outraged.

I probably wouldn't call it classist af for someone to not understand efficiencies of agricultural logistics, though..
The font provides a slashed zero in the private unicode area at E007: 
Speaking from user space that has G65 macro-b option, not machine tool builder (sudo) space.

>I think of G-code as ASM.

>Eventually, something actuates a servo, and servos don’t understand iteration.

I think of it more as an intermediate language. Interpreted on the CNC control and JIT compiled to whatever the RT system needs for servo control.

>Do you agree eventually something with g-codes level of detail must exist (even if it’s just unspecified internal commands)?

It does exist and a strict subset with enough primitives to bootstrap an application VM should continue to exist.

>If so, do you agree you’re just advocating for that layer to be part of the machine?

I am advocating for a DSL one layer up to be part of the CNC machine with support offline in say the JVM.

I want to answer this question, “how do we deploy MBE?” https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2019/04/model-based-...

The answer needs to be a single digital file that can render real parts and virtual parts. Why not?
It's different for each test and intervention, and different again depending on why you're doing them. Balancing risk vs benefit is a major job of the doctor.

One example: the humble chest X-ray. You may think the main risk is radiation, but IMO you'd be wrong to think that. The main risk is finding something. We call them incidentalomas. You would never have found it if you didn't do the CXR. It would never have caused you worry or morbidity. But now we know it's there, you need to get a lung biopsy. And that leads to a pneumothorax. That leads to a longer stay in hospital. That leads to time off work. You end up with no benefit to a patient who now has less trust in the medical system because they got a pneumothorax for nothing.
I’m curious how often these kinds of symptoms are caused by an undiagnosed chronic viral infection.
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"Principal engineer"? Do you actually have an engineering degree? Have you formal education in engineering?

What is system engineering?

It's not just you; the entire IT industry is suffering from systemic curriculum vitae bloat. That's why the working conditions are so bad in the professional sense.
Though Inconsolata was inspired by Consolas, I wouldn't consider it all that similar. For example, the digits in Inconsolata are much closer to the Franklin Gothic model. Also, Consolas has excellent hinting for Windows, while Inconsolata was originally designed with no hinting at all. They're not drop-in replacements.
I think I know which article you mean, but I really don't think it works that way - on either end. Companies just don't care about your writing. And had they cared about documentation, they would reward writing documentation and people would be more likely to write that. I mentioned express in tutorial about graphql does not seem to me proof of anything much less about such person being comfortable with express. It usually shows that you know that it exists, you can do basic coding and that is pretty much it.

People who write tutorials gain very little from it. The structure is more often determined by mimicking other tutorials, writing for himself (e.g. people exactly like me because that is easiest) and writing in a way that is easy and quick to write. Or even more directly, writing literally for yourself so that next time you are wiring the same thing, step by step is available. That is not laziness, before somebody throws it, they are already doing more then those who don't write at all.

It is really often written while that person is learning new technology where writing helps you to learn and allows you to keep log. Writing in depth is harder and takes way more time then people who never tried assume.
>Many western countries have very simple or near-automatic tax systems and I would argue that the tax you pay is actually much more visible to residents of such countries.

I think if you want to counter the poster, you need to give an example of a western country that has simple/automatic tax systems and have a lower tax rate than the US.

His/her complaint is primarily that if a system is too simple, it's much easier to raise taxes. You're giving exactly the example he/she is looking for - a country where it's easy and the tax is higher.
Trust-busting was a thing in the past, Teddy Roosevelt was known as the trust-buster, and ran against Taft with the Bull Moose party, splitting the R vote. Taft actually was more prolific with trust-busting than Teddy, it may be his biggest presidential legacy.

Gary Kasparov pointed this Taft fact out as well, so people are thinking about the need to break up monops.

I sort of worry with a global system, you break up a local monopoly, will a foreign monopoly take over the vacuum?
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Certainly healthier than not doing it! "Healthy" in the context you've used is not a binary state. "If I do X it is healthy, therefore I will do X and I don't have to do anything else". Unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

It's more like a curve and it's not just one thing. So you can be super fit training for marathons, but honestly you need some excess muscle mass because you're going to start losing it when you are 50-60 years old. You need to make sure that you are flexible because when you get older, if you aren't flexible you won't be able to balance and walk, etc. It's best to start training early so that it's easier to maintain that flexibility. Even if you are running marathons and staying trim, if you eat junk you can die of lots of different conditions. So endurance training, strength training, flexibility training, and diet all work together to help your health.

At the same time, there are lots of ranges of activity where you will be just fine as you age and there are ranges of activity at both ends (sedentary and over training) where you won't be fine (although it's a heck of a lot harder to over train that to be sedentary ;-) ). Finally, there is something to be said for not overdoing things at a start. So while you might want to have this amazing training regimen someday, it would be a bad idea to start out tomorrow and do it -- you want to slowly work your way up to it.

So the answer you are probably looking for is "No, it's probably not sufficient to keep you fit and healthy for your whole life". But it's certainly a great start -- especially if it gets you doing other things that you might not have tried before. And it doesn't have to be training -- it can be playing soccer with a local league, or cycling with your friends or any number of social and pleasant activities.

How much is enough? Try to keep your weight, muscle mass, endurance and flexibility a fair bit more than what you actually need so that you can afford to lose some. Eat a diet that makes you feel good and consult with doctors when you have health problems. It's hard to say exactly what that will entail, because it is different for everybody.
> will lead to imbalance that could cause pain or bad posture

Citation needed.
It's not pseudoscience, but misinterpretation.

Unfortunately, the author cherry picks the studies (eg. [0][1]) to get the narrative she wants, even though the research groups were small to begin with (n=34 and n=18 respectively) and were quite different (trained men[0] vs just older individuals[1]), etc. etc. etc.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30153194

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465144/
And all you have to do is try it yourself to have your answer.
The problem isn't lower salary, it's the paltry options most startups offer these days.

The YC startup I worked for got acquired recently. I was employee #38. I've still made more in RSUs working at a big tech company than I would have made had I stayed the full four years and vested all my options. In fact I got a bigger RSU award this year than what I got from my stock in the acquisition.

Startups would be well-advised to hire fewer people, get rid of under-performers quickly, and reserve an extra slice in the cap table for really high performers. If someone comes along that creates entire new features on their own initiative (features still featured prominently in your marketing) then may I suggest you continue to award that person either their initial grant or half (depending on how much it was) on a yearly basis? Even if that means you skip an extra hire that year you'll still come out ahead, both by keeping your high performer happy and by saving the extra salary.

(I want to be clear: The founders were well within their rights to deny my requests for more options and I hold no ill will toward them. It was their business, not mine, and they were free to run it however they wanted.)
It would be much better as a once-piece article. I am still at loss at why people use twitter to write long forms. I mean, you know it's going to be long. Put it on Medium (or whatever, I don't care where it is) and if you need Twitter audience, post a link.

Yes, I know threaders exist. But that's solving a problem that shouldn't have existed at the first place.

OTOH, in my eyes, posts like that is pretty much the only redeeming feature Twitter have left by now...
Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield
I found https://jsonnet.org/ to fix several issues with the Borg configuration language.

https://github.com/ksonnet/kubecfg is an attempt to reboot the borgcfg experience with k8s + jsonnet
Millennials :)

They do for free but raise the taxes to cover the -100%, there is no free lunch buddy.
I actually remember running into this issue a lot when building Docker images. Generally you want your docker image to be reproducible so you'd want to lock versions of your dependencies. But when doing this with apt-get install, a lot of the time I find that when a new version of a package is released, the old one gets removed and becomes no longer accessible, so locking versions actually ends up resulting in _more_ build flakiness than just using the latest of whatever package available at build-time, which is obviously not ideal.

Deleting older versions of packages that people may still be relying on seems like a very obvious no-go in a dependency management system. Any idea why this happens regardless? Is it just a matter of costs? Or is there more nuance to it that I'm missing?
Actually being disabled should give you some protections. Companies are required to work within your disabilities if you are still able to perform your job.

However it's very _COMMON_ for company's to just fire someone who is disabled and hire someone else who can do the job without needing a babysitter.

Most people don't see a problem with this until it's their child; then they will be angry.

Lastly normally when a good company fires you go because of downsizing or problems that employee is given an exit bonus. Sure it might not be a lot; maybe a months salary.

Might not happen for everyone.

Lastly we need to be real about the problem of loosing your job and getting back on your feet. Those of you (like me) who get right back up and get a job the next day or next week... I congratulate you. It's hard.

Those of you who don't understand; you should try having over 100 different jobs before you are 23.

Really fucks with your self esteem.
One problem with Roman concrete is the very long curing time, which makes it less suitable for very tall buildings, because they require that the lower floors are almost fully cured before the upper floors are erected above them.
Sometimes I think our only options going forward are a world where all natural habitat has been completely decimated, or an eco-fascist regime enforces pollution (and thus effectively population) control on the whole planet.
OCR-A font was made to be recognizable by 60s OCR tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A
One of my roommates in college was from Michoacan MX, and worked Washington state, Oregon and California's Central Valley/Watsonville growing up. At fruit stands this was standard practice.. inedible/bad fruit was tossed out but damaged fruit went into pies, salads and other products because it wouldn't sell as well, even 30-40 years ago.

The problem is manufacturers and retailers optimizing a deep supply-chain for what's easiest and most consistent: picking fruit green so it lasts a long time and doesn't get damaged.

There's a difficult-to-defend market for almost as beautiful but insanely delicious produce that can shorten the supply-chain and deliver just-in-time... hydroponics and gentler processing may help. How much would you pay for an apple or tomato if it were 3-8x better than the generic produce aisle? (People also want organic non-GMO if they're paying more.)

Finally, there's a good deal of issues around monoculture risks, especially with cloned products like bananas, that already had to be reengineered once and about to be tweaked again because of pest and disease evolution.
It's all semantics - I don't understand why people want to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation, but, lets say, that NYC didn't write off 5 billion to Amazon. Could the city have budgeted more for the failing subway and nasty harbor given that they received more in taxes? Maybe.. if they really cared for the city.

All these corporations do with their profits and tax-incentives is hoard them overseas and spend them on stock buy-backs.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/2018-record-stock-buybacks-...
Sorry, I see this at the end and I can't really take the article seriously any more -

> I have more than 7 years of experience in Software Development, Product Management and Project Management

7 years is enough now, to be making industry recommendations about difficulty hiring senior staff?

I'm not saying you can't get a good idea of part of the industry in that time, but it seems a bit of a stretch to claim sweeping knowledge of the whole space.
Having a 100gbps nic in a node isn’t the same thing as doing storage at that speed in an HA cluster.

Also, don’t confuse 100 gbe networks where spine links are 100 but the node links are only bonded 10s (much more common at $fang).
Misleading title. The article doesn't substantiate the claim and just points out a coincidence. It even says so:

> Still, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how much streaming has contributed to the recent shortening of songs. The length of pop songs had already been falling through the 1990s, before accelerating in recent years. Some music industry observers blame shortening attention spans—but there isn’t much rigorous evidence that our ability to focus has changed (paywall). Others believe that shorter songs may be a result of more consumer choice—songs need to be more compact and catchy to stand out in the crowd.

Interesting that the last part of the url is "is-spotify-making-songs-shorter". Maybe that was the original title and the editor wanted more clickbait?
Thank you for your curiosity! My other comment may answer the "how I started" question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958335

But one thing I'm wondering about:

> All of the tooling for writing code defaults to monospace...

Do you have an example of such tooling? One that I'm familiar with is Google's coding standards, which are obsessed with lining things up in ways that only work in monospaced fonts. Is that the kind of thing you're thinking of, or something else? Thanks!
How does it compare to OCR-A? OCR-A font was made to be recognizable by 60s OCR tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A
I totally agree.

What I was trying to say is that _if_ you go down the many services route, a lot of automation and integrations will be needed, and perhaps in completely new places.

No free lunches ever... just a lot of hard work. :)
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I didn't think to begin with that in order to look better and feel better I needed to exercise for hours.

How about eating healthy foods? Getting enough sleep?

For me its about what my motivations and intentions are and if your article provides a measurable result to compare.

That bloody autoplay video at the bottom of the page got me too
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/oyster-tecture/ is an excellent podcast about this project. It summarizes the history of the ecosystem and the intent behind the project very well.

It's amazing how much of an oyster mecca new york used to be...
Ignorance is no excuse. You might not be classist if you're too ignorant to understand the thing you're passionately protesting, but you're many other voluntarily bad things.
nope, the right would be everyone be able to have a place to live. There is no dignity in supporting the poverty.
Because nothing is ever “free”.

s/free/paid for by the taxpayer
No plans yet but I guess I'd have to adapt. Do you know of any ways to get that look on 8.1 or 10 natively? At least without having to install a third-party theming app.
>The whole reasoning behind not prefilling makes no sense.

While I don't support the reasoning in the GP, it does make sense, and in my experience, is largely true. Many people I interact with (coworkers, etc) have very little understanding of the tax system - precisely because they don't do their own taxes (they either pay a very expensive person, or use something like TurboTax). If the government gave them a prefilled form, I fully expect that most people will not understand taxes.

The reason I don't put much weight in the argument is that their feared scenario is already the current reality. Right now there is a burden to do taxes, and yet most people still have almost no understanding of it. They just pay someone to do it for them.
He does and he is correct.
There is no such thing as borgcfg experience. It’s just a configuration dsl applied to producing borg specs.
In the Netherlands we, as hydraulic engineers, are working on something called 'Building with Nature'. This is a perfect example of that. If you guys like this, check out https://www.ecoshape.org/en/.
I’ve got a 5K 27” iMac with a 4K 24” external monitor and find I prefer two distinct (high resolution) panels rather than a vast one.

Being able to have individual workspaces on each (and switch between then with a two-finger swipe on the mouse) is a great way to switch between individual contexts.
That's exactly the kind of unreasonable hatred I'm talking about. Wise people would understand that these companies (including the ones who you think are much better) are only as 'evil' as the law of the land allows them to be, and most of them are 'for profit' and will do everything they can to maximize the profit still being in the legal framework. Which company do you like instead?
I‘m closely watching the E-Ink monitor space. There is already one that looks promising, but it’s monochrome and small and there’s still a lot of lag: https://youtu.be/Laa-cN15uGI

I wouldn’t watch movies on that one, but it _could_ be fine for programming already.

With f.lux and macOS‘ dark mode I‘ve noticed how my eyes like low-light UIs better (probably because of lower blue light emission?), and I think an e-ink monitor would be almost zero-strain, just like reading a book.
> One hopes the oysters being served are not local.

Whether you're consuming the local waste or waste from somewhere else doesn't make much of a difference.
Sure, because that won’t have me thrown in jail or possibly even killed.
Blockchain and AI: Do they go hand-in-hand?
> Who cares where it comes from

The city gave away $5 billion in tax breaks to ensure billions more in tax revenues. The deal was tax-positive. What those extra billions get spent on is up to us.

The Amazon thing is a massive red herring. Yes, it’s distasteful. But it’s also tiny. Giant political deals are being struck in Albany right now—Amazon is a distraction.
I googled it. Maybe the results were misleading.

So, you're saying that the phone you bought you didn't use as a phone? Hmmm....

Also, this isn't a fake account. I don't think anything I've posted was intended to troll.
What you consider ‘scale’ is a high watermark used by cloud providers that is irrelevant to 99.999% of the industry.

Supporting all of a Fortune 500’s business operations is very reasonable to call ‘scale’ in the normal world.

Your comment is a like a billionaire claiming that somebody that managed to hit 30 million isn’t rich.
> The laws of physics remain unchallenged by this, however.

Of course. Who's claiming otherwise?
I love how firms have an issue hiring senior engineers, when the last few firms I've spoken with deemed me "overqualified".

Another buddy with longterm CTO experience had 150 applications with a 2% hit-rate.

On the "better" AngelList CTO/Senior jobs we can clearly see that there's already 50-100 other applications submitted.

So is this really that big of an issue as presented?
Subscribed to this for several months.

90%+ of what they shipped me was ordinary surplus produce. Even the "ugly" carrots they sent me were ... just ordinary carrots, as far as I could tell.
Her examples really don’t have very ugly produce in my experience. Like, all the stuff at Grocery Outlet or the Dollar Tree looks pretty damn good, although it’s often not very fresh. The only time I see really misshapen or bruised fruit is at the farmer’s market in discount bins. Is my experience abnormal?
It's healthy, in that it's miles better than doing nothing. In really simple terms, anything that increases your heart rate that you can stick to 3+ times a week, every week will keep you physically fit. The limiting factor for most people is boredom. If walking, pushups, and sit ups is interesting enough for you then keep going. If you get bored, try running or adding some more exercises from /r/bodyweightfitness.
Not trying to make any value judgement of my own here, but I think the parent was more referring to the marginal cost/benefit of a $60 font compared to some of the free options available.