skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was shooting for complete 100% accuracy:

> "Phytoestrogens, through their ability to bind to all human steroid hormone receptors, exert effects on the miriad of human biological systems that rely on hormones for homeostasis, both directly through SERM-like activity, and indirectly through HPTA modulation of hypothalamic hormone receptors."

If one were to ask "do phytoestrogens impact male: sexuality, sperm count, mood, etc." the answer is always going to by "yes," but it's a misleading yes. We don't get any specificity as to how much of an impact (certain) phytoestrogens have (that is a matter for you to make your mind up on by reading through hundreds of experimental papers and deciding which ones are worth anything ;).

Whatever other questions that stem from this start getting into the realm of public policy and personal impact, "are phytoestrogens bad? Should they be regulated? Am I going to avoid phytoestrogens?" Frankly I have no interest in getting involved in such a subjective matter.
> Only the previous week, he says, he returned from a 10-day trip to Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Before that, he boasts, he journeyed to a yoga retreat and juice cleanse in Bali, the perfect setting to unload the stress he absorbs working at a well-known tech company in Silicon Valley. After ending a five-year marriage and shedding 10 pounds of subcutaneous fat several years back — his sun-kissed body now carb- and toxin-free — Daniel has reemerged a new, seemingly younger man.

This must be fake. This does not describe any software developer I’ve ever met. (Maybe because I’m on the east coast but engineering culture can’t be that different, can it?)
It's not just about webcams or recording your microphone. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Hahaha, despite playing VVVVVV around the time of its release (it's really been 10 years, wow), I realized I could still feel my muscle memory firing up when I saw this level.
The only time I have ever heard of people moving somewhere because of laws is rich people moving to save on taxes. I have not personally known a single person who has actually voted with their feet on issues like this. Maybe I'm an outlier on that, but anecdotally it just doesn't seem like a real thing in practice despite it being a common theory. I would guess that is especially true on something like privacy which is likely very few peoples top priorities when choosing a place to live.
Yeah, it is a total mystery how adequately funding social welfare programs could somehow help the poor.

If the government is going to steal my money, I'd like to think that it would go to something like that But in reality it goes to enriching the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians that make the rules and run the systems.
I'm 57 years old and work about 8 months/year in Silicon Valley (the rest in Tel Aviv) I dye my beard (my head is shaved) and I've had work done on my face. I'm careful to stay in shape, and not be overweight. It makes a big difference in how I'm perceived.
I switched to `ripgrep` a few months ago and I can't imagine using anything else now!

Discovered `fd` and `bat` when I scanned this thread and immediately started using them too. :)

I'll try and evaluate and choose between `exa` and `lsd`. Already switched to `exa` but will still analyse `lsd` to make sure I am not missing out.
Maybe they just don't want to fool with the cooling issues. Tesla has to spend a lot of money on cooling features, in motor, battery, and electronics, to get that acceleration.
"The only way that happens is through practice and painful failure."

There are other ways to do this, but they require you to leave your world behind. For many, their environment is what built and maintains their unhealthy relationship to food.

For me, the day I left Texas was the day I started dropping pounds. Then, the day I left Utah for London was the day I dropped even more pounds. Then, the day I started running was the day I began approaching my lower limit (likely bordering into unhealthy body fat % on marathon race day).

The biggest challenge of you and the commenter above you was that you were swimming up stream. Hopping into a stream that leads away from fat behavior, instead of toward it can do much of the work for you.

I fully appreciate that's a luxury, but it's something people who have a choice should consider.
Quest is supposedly changing that. I had an OG Vive and agree that the setup often kept me from just hopping into a game.
This is absolutely true and applies to more than just your career. When I was fatter vs when I was in shape I’ve noticed huge differences in how strangers treat me and how much acquaintances want to get to know me.
Indeed. I've wondered if the 'great filter', and the reason why we don't see aliens is because evolution, with the inevitable struggle for power, is self destructive, because, uhh, war.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi

Or, it won't.
Not really.

That's ICE-thinking where more powerful engines tend to be inherently less efficient for the application. A 5.0L V8 takes more power to spin the engine. It weighs a lot more. It requires a heaver transmission, etc. So having the ability to go very fast costs a lot in terms of efficiency.

Electric doesn't work that way. A more powerful electric motor has a very similar efficiency to weaker one. It might be marginally heavier, but the weight impact is nothing compared to ICE. Having more available torque has almost no impact on efficiency / range.

What does have an impact, which applies to both ICE and electric, is how the driver chooses to drive. When given the opportunity to use more power, the driver may choose to do so. However, then the question becomes: Should you sell what buyer's want?

I think the main issue is a fast EV would make Mazda's ICE cars feel slow. When customers can't afford the EV, and are disappointed with the cars they can afford, Mazda is afraid they'll walk off the lot. By keeping the cars more similar they can make the ICE cars seem better.
You would have thought when you're engineer you'd only be judged based on your technical skills, your work output, performance, efficiency, ideas, design etc. Most of my team is remote so for all I know they're just those things I listed above, and a voice and a pixelated set of images Google hangouts show me. It's devastating that people still need to be discriminated in this industry.
Also, be tall, that doesn't hurt.
I don’t mind a tax on my bank balance over $32,000,000 for example. I would need multiple lifetimes to spend so much money. Most of my money comes to me from real estate ownership and investments. I do not exchange time and life force for it. My bank account just grows.

It is ok some of it to pay taxes to make the lives of the less fortunate a bit less unbearable. After all I take 25-35% of their incomes in rent :)

(Note: well, I don’t really have such a bank account but if I did, I wouldn’t mind the tax)
It would be mistaken for these engineers to think that something that leads people to pass on their offering and instead choose an ICE car would be better for environmental impact.

Better acceleration may use more power, but if it means people buy EVs instead of ICE cars, then it is helping the goal.
> Held wealth past a certain threshold (500k? 1 million?) will be taxed at X% yearly.

By definition, the revenue stream will run out. You tax, say, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates until their net worth is exactly $500,000. Then, next year, they make $50,000, so you tax it again and their net worth is now exactly $500,000. Nobody else can ever pass that magic threshold once everybody’s been leveled down to it (unless they play games with offshore accounts in which case you still can’t get it). Now you have progressive social programs that rely on a steady stream of billions of dollars of confiscated wealth and nowhere to get it from.
Tech worker doesn't necessarily mean software engineer.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted so much. Acceleration that is too slow can be very dangerous (my old girlfriend had a junker that couldn't get up to speed quickly and almost got rear ended a few times) and also disruptive to the flow of traffic. The more efficiently a car can flow through lanes (i.e. merging farther left on the highway without having the next car have to brake for you) can reduce traffic.
assuming you plan to return does it matter if the trip is 1 day, 10 days, 100 days? you still have two flights.
DMV's are SCUMBAGS
Nah I’m good. Just watched a couple of people suffer unnecessarily for the sake of a life insurance contract. Figured it was worth checking out before I threw the cash into one.

Thanks for the concern though :)
Looks like this does not include certifi [0] and loads system certificates by default. This is a breath of fresh air to see, because so many packages want to use their own certs and have a custom system to override it to use system certs.

Edit: Well, looks like it does use certifi. But my grumble still stands, I don't understand why does everyone want to mess with your certs.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/certifi/
But I think this is one of the problems which requires a national solution (or for small countries an international solution). Look at the EU where many of the member countries had their own privacy laws, some of them stricter than the GDPR, but until the GDPR few cared about privacy laws, not even all government agencies in did. A unified privacy law at the EU level got a much higher rate of adoption than the previous mesh of local laws.
Some are being "proprietors, private household employees, unpaid volunteers, farm employees and the unincorporated self-employed." From a link somebody else posted https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/july/nonfarm-payr...

Unincorporated self-employed sounds like tradesmen, laborers, and some kinds of professionals which is a lot of men.
Yes, you can read about fire risk being reduced after Black Saturday.
That's entirely besides the point, though.
The time is right for this step, Rust will benefit from having a proper umbrella organization. Also, it's a very well-writen post on what could be a boring topic.
Other commenters may be dismissing this article as obvious, but silicon valley does have a problem, particularly in young, hip startups. These companies want to hire young, hip people, and when products being produced are very vague with no clear market, then things like image matter a lot. Juicero, comes to mind. That's fine, you don't have to work there.

However, as you get older, develop wrinkles and grey hair, that appearance of being older far outweighs your experience in initial impressions that you make. I've personally been a software engineer since 1995, quite a while now. My hair is grey, my face has wrinkles, and I'm an expert in several domains. When I go interview for a new job, it's typically by people younger and less experienced than me, since I'm definitely past the median age in this industry. I get asked questions like, "do you feel you still have relevant knowledge", or "we do things differently than in your day", or "do you think you can work in a fast paced environment", etc.

Tech is arrogant and judgmental and image matters a lot. I can understand how people might resort to plastic surgery to buy themselves a few non-judgmental years.
I’ve thought about this as well... probably the “best” way to do it is the first, give everybody the money equally. It’s not a bribe, it’s a UBI, and it lifts the whole country out of poverty, which generally means the curtailing of whatever issues we probably had that was driving us to conflict with them in the first place.
> I wonder if there is a mechanism (there probably isn't) which instead rapidly matches folks so that they can catcall exactly the people who want to be cat called, assuming there are any.

I think this is what dating apps are for to some extent. Except the 'catcall' becomes ... conversation on a date. Although some of the apps are more on the catcall end of the spectrum.
All done, thanks again for looking out!
Some of this is necessary, I think. When you get an auto insurance quote, companies like ChoicePoint (LexisNexis) are what provide driver history (accidents, violations, insurance fraud info, etc).

So it's not like they're Google/FB/Amazon using this data for ad purposes.

Obviously, not all of the money comes from carriers like this, but I wanted to point out that some of it is legit.
Sure!

p.s. I asked Drew to post another version of his comment praising Ethan, so we could move the replies to that bit to another subthread which isn't so offtopic. He did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22014064.
Sort of but not in a good way. When forests aren’t managed well and allowed to burn, the build up causes the fires to burn much hotter, making the soil itself burn underneath. There’s going to be significant nutrient loss for a large swath of land.
But the choice wasn't Next vs MacOS, it was BeOS vs Next.
Quite an eye opener. Yet, due to the enormous amount of money generated by the alcohol and smoking businesses, no one dares to go after them. Who care about people dying when there's so much money to be made?
I’m surprised so many people are taking this at face value. It’s satire, right? This bit leans into it hard:

> If it was raining, obviously, I couldn’t reasonably be expected to ride my bike. Or in the winter months when it’s a bit dark in the mornings, or when it got too cold, or when I was just a bit too tired. Let’s be reasonable here.

I guess it’s satirizing people who carve out tiny pockets of differentiation from others then mentally inflate it into some kind of deep uniqueness.
I own both a bike and an e-scooter and one of the things I really like about my e-scooter is I can fold it up and bring it in with me to a restaurant or my office or wherever else I am going. A bike I have to find a place to lock it and pray it doesn’t get stolen, as has happened to me multiple times in the past.

This isn’t necessarily applicable to a rental market, but as far as personal ownership the e-scooter is just vastly more convenient in a major city with high rates of bicycle theft.
> That's probably good UX if your market target is first-time EV buyer's

The F-150 FX4 truck I'm driving lately has a "sport mode" that completely changes the character of the acceleration and the "pedal feel" when driving. Why couldn't Mazda do the same thing?

> many people aren't looking for fun in a car, and aren't interested in aggressive driving.

I feel like those two factors aren't actually mutually inclusive.

> cars is tuned to the characteristics the designers want,

Why does that have to be the case? We allow customization and control of every other device in our lives, why not EV cars?
>goverments give subsidiares

1. pretty sure you mean subsidies

2. not all, wisconsin actually charges an extra tax if you drive an EV
Because wealth taxes are harder to implement than income taxes while being economically isomorphic to them. The great triumph of financialization is establishing a clear equivalence between present value and future cash flows, so taxing one vs the other is tomato tomato.
No issues you're aware of. I see a lot of blithely self-unaware tailgaters who seem to fear hanging back because (I guess, from personal experience not as a tailgater but as someone who has driven ICE cars) that they'll have trouble catching up again if they give a little space.
Super easy. Haxe's Flixel is probably one of the most full featured and easy to use 2d engines around.
> How about a piece of art?

They already have to do it to determine tax deductions. It's pretty subjective: https://www.irs.gov/appeals/art-appraisal-services
> that aren't in a retirement account

You give the progressives in the U.S. government more credit than I do. I’m just waiting for them to collectivize retirement accounts to “help the needy”, promise to redistribute it fairly so that I won’t have anything to worry about in my old age, and then break their promises when I’m 90 years old and too old to earn a living any more.
Is it also fair to ask a company that does business in a country to not undermine the values of that country?
"One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."

What about your allies' homes? If an aggressor can pick off victims one at a time, you won't have any allies left when they come for your home.

It also assumes that there is no form of dramatically assummetric attack that is hard to defend against. That may have been true when this was written, but nuclear weapons changed the game.
They were making a joke about the phrasing because it sounds like it was 10 days of travel to reach Italy.
I’ve worked both on the east coast and in Cali and California is a very different place.
Interesting story about China and leg lengthening procedures.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obj...
A lot of people think we didn't land on the moon, and that the Earth is flat.
Accessibility will define technology in the 2020s
IDN Homograph Attack on 'google.com'
Eh, I wouldn't qualify technical debt as having less mind share. This is like saying code is worse because it's more concise and has less moving parts.
Those monitors going blank when people stand up? Static electricity from chairs
I don't know about Australia, but here in Northern California, that's not how it works. 500 years ago, forest fires were common, cool burning, and did more good than harm. Today, it's been so long since the previous fire that there's a huge amount of underbrush and dead material. When a fire comes through, it's so hot that it kills everything, including huge, old growth doug fir trees. However, it's not hot enough to actually incinerate the old growth trees, so you get left with a bunch of standing deads, and plenty of dead wood for another fire.
Hearing many horror stories over backing out at last minute, I wonder why breakup fees and escrow are not more popular in startup world.

E.g. if you would like to acquire for $5mln you need to deposit $100k. If you walk out, this is a breakup fee. If startup bails it also have to pay same amount to the acquire.
Nice article, I wonder if there are good examples of significant basic research being done by outsiders as hobbyists and amateurs ?

I imagine in mathematics this would be possible, but increasingly less likely as the research becomes more capital intensive
What is VFR and IFR??

I know nothing about flying but it's something that I am always thinking about learning, but if VR is good enough to scratch that itch, I'm up for it.
> ...I work with a lot of people in mainland China and no one has any problems with the government, they stick to their own business and are doing pretty damn well.

The topic of this subthread is not the attitudes of mainland Chinese, it's the attitudes of mainland Chinese who have immigrated to work at Google for economic reasons. I have friends who came from mainland China, and have talked to them about how their attitudes have changed over time. They don't all stay fixed in the officially-sanctioned mainland mindset.

> Obviously this could change one day but thats not our job as non-chinese citizens to decide.

So you're saying if someone is happy with something at least in part because they've been lied to, it's wrong for someone to interfere with their attitudes by trying to tell them the truth?
The issue isn't for insurance companies (where there is consent).

> “Nobody — from agencies like the DMV to large corporations like Facebook and Google — should be profiting from sharing or selling personal information without meaningful consent. Congress must get serious about ending practices that violate the privacy of ordinary Americans,” Sanders said.
Selflessness or altruism are not the same things as reciprocity.
It's also not a bad idea to be rich, and whatever the most desirable gender and ethnicity are for your area, but those things are less actionable than social skills, fitness, and beauty.
I agree with you in principle on this particular example, but where is the cutoff, and how often will it move? Will it move accurately, or will inflation be used to sneak it downward?
To be fair I see a fundamental difference between changing a words pronunciation and meaning.
For me, when I google "cgi wet fabric" the top result is your comment here referring to the top result that you found in Google when googling "cgi wet fabric"!
During such an early stage, I would do it in an "inofficial capacity" - do you have friends at other companies who work in a similar role as you? I would reach out to them and gauge their reaction, from "sounds like a neat idea" to "oh my god, I literally spend 1 hour a day on this and I've been looking for a solution to this since forever. I (or my boss) would pay for this in a heartbeat!". I've found "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick to be great for guiding you along this process step by step. When asking friends, there's the risk of running into something called "interviewer bias", where they will rate your idea more positively simply because they like you (and would have dismissed it if some random stranger had proposed the same idea), so that's something to watch out for if you go down this route. Good luck!
What do you mean? Which part of it does not concur with your idea of a software developer?
Maybe, but that's also not generosity with expected reciprocity. That's just buying something.
Apparently not so easily recognizable considering that the Russians shot down a Korean Air flight in 1983, the Americans shot down an Iranian flight in 1988, MH17, and now this.
Last year when we were looking for a new car we considered a Mazda and were told by our salesman that Mazda didn’t have an EV because EVs were not fun to drive. And they would not sell an EV until it was fun. Their commitment to this idea was very awkward. I’m honestly not not bothered as much by their decision to tune the feel of t he e car: we do this in tech all the time, but I’m confused by the spin put on their decisions as in the name of “fun”: whose definition of fun? What metrics do they use to decide what’s fun? In this case it seems fun is “same as it already is,”
Two quick thoughts on this.

1) The amount of transparency that this company shows is insane. I have a hard time imagining any one else in this situation sharing the way they do. I hope it works out for them long term.

2) The due diligence work they did for this deal was absolutely not a waste (even if they never sell the company). Having gone through this process once will make it orders of magnitude easier if they sell in the future (especially gathering and organizing documents from the very early stages). Even if they don't sell, the process would have shown light on potential liabilities and issues they hadn't even been thinking about. This is helpful regardless of who owns the company. Maybe not worth the time and money; but definitely not a waste.
I'd guess this is a bit of a West coast thing. I've known quite a few health obsessed engineers here.

I myself was very fit and usually tan, at least in summer, until I found myself a lot more other serious life responsibilities.
I think the argument goes like this:

1. The US Presidential election is decided by a small percentage of voters who have an open mind and live in the right districts.

2. Facebook’s targeted advertising allows advertisers to efficiently buy the votes of these select voters.

3. Without Facebook, this wasn’t already happening.

Personally, I believe #1 is more or less indisputable, and I’m willing to believe #2. But I’m not so sure about #3.
You'd still need some way to map the tire tax to location of utilization, though. There's no real point in applying a congestion charge to people living in rural areas w/no access to public transit who have to drive to work, it won't have any beneficial impact. Regressive taxation, sort of like sales taxes.
Amazon partners with India’s second largest retailer to sell its goods online
Which studies?