skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am talking about work being done in clinical trials at reputable medical clinics. They may be mistaken but I don't think it's "silliness." Here is a recent clinical trial evaluating UVBI https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331205X.2019.1...

Of course there are many other mainstream treatments that came from somewhat oddball ideas: Sister Kenney's treatments for polio, the Nobel prize winning discovery by Barry Marshall and Robin Warren that ulcers were caused by bacteria (H. Pylori), the use of leaches for treatment of venous congestion after surgery, and the use of maggots for wound debridement.
Also, car manufacturers force large rental companies to buy certain mixes of cars. For example crew cab pickup trucks are a horrible category for rental companies but they still purchase them every year. To get the insanely low prices they get on their vehicles they have to play by the manufacturers rules.
I'd say it's impossible to lift weights close to one's max, without controlling one's breath :- )

Meaning, one a bit learns to control the breath, without thinking about it, just doing?
This sounds suspiciously like the onboarding experience I had at my company.

In particular, Duo for 2 factor and LastPass, and the curl command to start downloading a bunch of stuff.

FWIW I thought it was pretty streamlined, better than what I'd had in the past.
It's something I've been struggling with. It would be nice if there were a one-size-fits-all onboarding script.

The company I work for has grown from 3 (founders included!) to over 30 in the time I've been there. When you're tiny, and someone new joins, there's no need for formal onboarding, osmosis sort of does its thing. This worked reasonably well until we reached ~10 butts in seats. Unfortunately, this 10 people mark was also where pressure started to ramp up. More customers, tighter deadlines, bigger workloads, and a struggle to survive -- because at this point the first round of financing was spent, and we needed to prove our worth to future investors. Everyone was stressed and overworked. Basically, there was no time for onboarding. Which is stupid, because it's an activity that pays dividends in the sort-of-short term.

Once we reached the 30 people mark, we were able to breathe a little easier in regards to workload. We're still growing. Onboarding is starting to become a thing. Where things aren't automated, they're being documented. We at least try to make time for introductions. It's far from perfect. It needs to improve. But it's hard. And I should probably take a moment to apologize to hire ten through thirty for what must have been a shitty first few months for them.
This level of extremist view isn’t very helpful. Typically the expectation is about making _reasonable_ changes which is, ultimately, flexible. There’s an office in my building that has a sign on the door stating that it is a nut free zone due to an employee’s severe allergy. I have dietary requirements that my employer accommodates. Employers don’t get to have the value of an employee without incurring costs: adapting process is part of that cost.

You can find extreme examples — such as an allergy to sunlight — and sometimes the accommodation for those examples may be different to “banning carpet from the office”.
Get over selling blues with Maxcalling
Happy to be told otherwise, but I think that Juju is the only tool in that space that understands inter-connected applications and to spin up services that span k8s/VMs/clouds and work together.
If microsoft was doing this there'd be a riot but since it is Apple but will rationalize this bad behaviour and say it is for the best.
It seems like scientists are always baffled. (What’s that old quote about “the most important phrase in science is ‘hmm, that’s funny...’”?)

Being baffled is pretty much a scientist’s job.
From memory, I believe it did. But since then I've taken up meditation which has had a much larger impact on my life, and so it's hard to tease apart which helps what, and to what degree.

The technique I learnt was at a 10-day silent retreat, of which we spent the first days (9-hours a day) exclusively on concentrating on respiration. With this new awareness, I realised, just in my day to day, and especially when I'm trying to focus, I sometimes forget to breathe. This is something I otherwise would not have noticed and not corrected. Also important to note that I used to have mild sleep apnoea, and I would always wake up feeling groggy from lack of oxygen. I haven't had a sleep study since I've started practicing, but I no longer wake up groggy, and now I can go to sleep within the hour instead of tossing and turning half the night.

I've noticed that yoga and meditation have also improved my breathing and form during exercise.
I enjoy VR games but none of those sound attractive to me or at least with head-seats and controllers.

Interactive virtual worlds are wondrous but not actually terrible practical for traditional tasks. Something that is perfect though is training for roles involving a lot of awareness and physical interaction in rare and extreme environments e.g. emergency workers, police, soldiers etc.
I created an Android app to rank your photos (up to 30 at a time) using an AI (it is a new feature, I did not update the play store page yet).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.delrieu.bes...
Self Hosted Intercom?
Why would someone want a self-hosted intercom?
Because somehow they still pretend to care about power and professional users.
At the request of an EC2 support staff, I left some machines running to help them debug an issue where machines became unreachable within minutes of being created. I was erroneously charged for this. Throughout the years Amazon has variously said that they could not refund me because they had no records from this time period or offered me AWS credits. I expect to the situation to never be resolved.
> Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves.

Still don't see fully (fully automated) self driving cars happening any time soon:

1) Heavy steel boxes running at high speed in built up areas will be the very last thing that we trust to robots. There are so many other things that will be automated first. Its reasonable to assume that we will see fully automated trains before fully automated cars.

2) Although a lot is being made of the incremental improvements to self-driving software, there is a lot of research about the danger of part-time autopilot. Autopilot in aircraft generally works well until it encounters an emergency, in which case a pilot has to go from daydreaming/eating/doing-something-else to dealing with catastrophy in a matter of microseconds. Full automation or no automation is often safer.

3) The unresolved/unresolvable issue of liability in an accident: is it the owner or the AI who is at fault.

4) The various "easy" problems that remain somewhat hard for driving AI to solve in a consistent way. Large stationary objects on motorways, small kids running into the road, cyclists, etc.

5) The legislative issues: at some point legislators have to say "self driving cars are now allowed", and create good governance around this. The general non-car-buying public has to get on board. These are non-trivial issues.
It's not really hyperbolic - quote from the article:

> "We still don't know," he says. "I'm still kind of baffled."

Science doesn't yet know which motive mechanism these use (they might even use something novel), and that's really cool.
They are the world's fattest patent troll.
A story of entitlement and expecting a job to work like a kindergarten classroom. No matter how far companies go to cater to their privileged tech hires they get ridiculed, taken advantage of, discarded. Ask why these ridiculous onboarding processes exist in the first place.
There was clear structure, OP disregarded it. Direct supervisor would have thought OP was doing the general onboarding like every body else.
I got a bit fat and my wife suggested we got to the gym together (pretty much the first time ever for me, age 30+). I had no idea until she mentioned it, it creeps up on you.

Pilates/yoga were good for core strength and stretching. If you want to start at home Yoga by Adriene on YT is very beginner friendly. I was never a fan of cardio or strength training but I did a bit of that too (it was a gym with various classes and instructors).

Also got a dog, it's a great excuse for daily walks.

One day I realised I was actually resting my head on the headrest in the car and wasn't uncomfortable. Until then it'd never felt right and made my throat feel tight at the front. I still have a way to go though, I have back issues and you don't fix 15 years of bad posture in 3 years.

Edit: I'll add after reading the other reply, at the start it's a struggle just knowing what good posture is. It doesn't feel right and natural, because your version of natural has been modified. You don't know how it's meant to feel. I found that exercises which exhaust certain muscle groups helped a lot. They gave up some of their grasp and let other muscles work. After a really heavy workout sometimes my back felt looser and more mobile and this helped me learn how it could feel.
What do you use for amps for the speakers?
>“I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer but let’s be clear: to get a vaccine by 2021 would be like drawing multiple inside straights in a row, to use a poker analogy,” Dr Bach* says.

* Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Skyrim and Fallout 4 are breathtaking in VR.
I think a problem is that some people feel the dog is attacking them, when the owner thinks the dog is being playful. That's how people get upset about dogs in my experience.
Yes, no office that employs you. If we have to get crammed into one space to work together, we have to come down to least common denominator.

EDIT:
And I'm not trying to advocate for whatever group there is. It's just reality. You make software that is used by people, you need to make it accessible. You make books, you need to make them readable and so on and so on.

And you know what I noticed? I noticed that when people make stuff accessible with least common denominator in mind, that stuff becomes easier and more comfortable to use for me as well even though I don't have any issues.
The building I work in has at least one person with a serious enough dog allergy that dogs aren't allowed on that floor, and at least 2 people who use service dogs. It's a large building, though not enormous (5-10 floors), people seem to manage.
The quarantine is a bad example though as these apps represent the only access to these restaurants during this time.
I agree with this. I've had everything from "here's a laptop, have fun setting everything up," to a comprehensive intro to the company and basic systems that took about half a day, along with an assigned new hire mentor and a set of starter tickets to work on for my first couple of weeks. At the first place, it took me 3 weeks to get to the point where I could submit my first pull request. At the second, I obviously wasn't fully productive right away, but I wrote real code and merged it into production within my first week.
Always, er never, forget to check your references.
> candidate.support@triplebyte.com

Did they purposefully go out of the way to make this email address unguessable/non-standard/multi-word
Big Ideas from Rationality
Thanks I had a look and there are a few variations but yours seems simplest. A lot of these techniques seem to be about replacing a runaway train of thought with an innocuous focus of some kind to reset it.
It’s just a cultural fit issue. Different people have different personalities / preferences, and what may be one person’s “red flag” may be the other person’s preference.
> I no longer participate in personality test. If one is required during the interview process I decline and leave.

I do this as well. I've had companies send me online personality tests with seriously invasive questions. With no explanations as to the purpose, no guarantees regarding data protection. Just a quick "fill this out to see if you're a match". I'm sure it's designed to carefully skirt around anything that's overtly illegal, but fuck that. They go on my shitlist.
> Do you see how ridiculous applying that logic to any operating system is?

Somehow, when you ask a person about PC or a Mac, the answer is: Windows or MacOS, and then the discussion is about their quirks, or advantages, or deficiencies.

You ask about Linux, and this is what you get:

> Linux isn't a disaster. It's a kernel. There are Linux distributions with great user interfaces and great UX

So, once again: which one of the hundreds of permutations of <distro> x <DM> has a great UX?
The Kinesis has been my workhorse for the last 4 years and now I have 2 (one at the office). I think with any reprogramming it takes a while to settle in; when I switched over to this from a standard keyboard was also when I took the plunge to relearn touch typing with the Colemak layout - productivity plunge as I struggled to do even 15WPM. Now I'm at 82-90WPM.
You are very much mistaken. No product is priced based on that. It is always primarily about supply and demand, labor market included.
A customer wanted me to help them integrate the API I built for https://forwardemail.net with it. They have client-side bundles that threw errors and the pages rendered blank.
Hmmm, I worked at a place with a mean old German Shepherd. It took a few months, but I got him to love me eventually. I seen him attack one of my coworkers once and tried to keep him out of the building. Turns out that coworker was a raging meth head who regularly got absolutely fucked out of his mind at work. That's actually one of two times i've seen a dog oust a meth head. The other time was at a party.
I think there is a place of both - and that is the beauty of a free market. In general, larger batteries run by the power company should be more efficient. However there are a few reasons why you also want your own home battery.

- you become less vulnerable to short power outages

- the power companies can't ask much more for electricity than solar plus battery would cost you

- the grid might become more stable, as the battery can smoothe of sudden power demands, also grid fluctuations shouldn't affect you any more

- on the one side, you probably can shave off a few dollars of your energy costs by not storing surplus solar vs. sending it to the grid

- on the other side, home battery companies can't sell at prices higher than what the grid offers

So I think there will be a combination for both, working together to get the costs down and supply more reliable. The number and the size of batteries installed at home in a region depends on the parameters of that region.
Nobody needs to spend inordinate amounts of time rewriting 18-year-old C++ code just to put appointments in their diary. FFS use GCal or Outlook like any normal human being. Or if decades-old technology turns you on, use a Filofax or a PalmPilot.

The reason I mention this is that nearly every post I read by this author, who seems unaccountably popular on HN, stinks of some tech-fetishist with poor communication skills who insists on doing everything by the most difficult and convoluted means possible. This is not the sort of attitude we should be idolizing in an entrepreneurial culture. I would love to be a fly on the wall in the HR meetings and hear the other side of the story, because I would certainly not want someone like this on my team, however gifted or experienced they are.
You made a good point, I edited my comment. I didn't mean to be snarky about it.
The biggest red flag is the author.
"Take a deep breath", and suddenly your whole mood has been adjusted.
Kinda reminds me when LinkedIn invited your Gmail contacts without your consent. I think fb did something similar in the beginning. So the lesson is that if you want to grow quickly you do a land grab, just stomping on your user's rights.
Unless the ice cream shop provides you with hundreds of flavours, 90% of which are nearly indistinguishable from each other. And hardly anyone on this planet can answer a straight question of "Which flavour is good".
Solid state batteries.

The tech is tantalizingly close, although not perfected yet. If and when they become available, these batteries will have a far higher energy density and degrade at a far lower rate than existing batteries.
Hah :) Pretty funny - what is the motivation for posting it for the whole world to see? Is Rachel just so good at her job that she can get away with it or what?

I understand why people vent, I don't quite understand how it doesn't catch up to them and teach them a lesson in discretion.

I remember commenting on another one of Rachel's rants a couple of years ago it must've been - I can see that the rants have gotten more brazen, it's as if she feels she can do no wrong in the tech scene :D

I'm almost tempted to subscribe to her blog to see where this zero-f's-given trainwreck leads.
Presumably because taxing me less doesn't do anything to help those less fortunate than I. Taxing those who make more than me more than they are currently could.
"Anonymous" is a bit much to ask for this, yes. I'm really just asking for the company to--for once--lower its defenses so we can have a conversation. Air the frustrations without fear of immediate professional retaliation.

If a company, manager, exec, or leader can't exercise that kind of humility, then quite frankly they don't deserve the position.
YouTube Censors Doctor Wittkowski for Opposing the Tyrannical Lockdowns
Adobe XD uses some Wasm also.
Although it might feel weird as onboarding, as developer you should get used to use commands like curl or be able to set your development environment by typing in the console.

Those who rely only on simple installers are the one classified as red-flags
On the flip side thanks to the way Zuckerbergs mind works, he will attract only certain sections of the 'best and brightest' spectrum.

Nothing new in what he is doing and we have seen what trajectories companies take - you just end up becoming either a Yahoo or an Oracle.
Best tidbits from the article:

> Software developers should provide expertise [...], but also in the externalization of mental models to facilitate communication and enable collaborative modelling.

> Software development is largely a communication problem. [...] We should contribute to better concepts and a richer language to describe the domain.

A while back I understood my work as a web developer as a translation from "business speak" into the language of some web framework. An activity not so different from translating a novel from it's original language into some other.

The key point being that one needs to fully understand the "business speak" side of things before one can write it out as computer code.

> We should lead in this effort, not wait for someone else to do it for us.

But neither can we, software developers, do this on our own.

I guess something I had been missing before is the feedback aspect (i.e. the externalization of mental models). However, in my experience most people in the 'business side' aren't interested in understanding the software side, so they are not receptive of what the software engineers have to say about the problem domain (i.e. the business side of things).
I think this is down to being nervous for a large part. Maybe you could have noticed some of these red flags when you were interviewing at the company. But you're in a new environment, with new people, being bombarded with questions. Sometimes you're there because your current job is a giant shitstorm you want to walk away from. It's easy to miss things in that state.

That goes both ways, of course. When I'm hiring I sometimes dimiss red flags because I think "they're just nervous, they're not really this dumb". But sometimes they are.
Wow. Did you work with a guy named Milton who had a red stapler by any chance? That's just terrible.

Before I finally landed at a decent company, I used to have this concept of the "Dilbert coefficient." Basically, if there were too many Dilbert cartoons on display, it was a red flag, and if there were none, it was a potential red flag, because I thought it implied people might be afraid to put them up.

I'm happy to say office I'll be going back to when it's safe to do so has zero Dilbert cartoons, but several memes and semi-permanent pieces of whiteboard art.
Walks in the door and starts whining about the touchbar MacBook.
For cars, price and density are very important, and Tesla will certainly improve in those specs too. But for energy storage, longer durability directly translates into an effectively lower price. As power companies often invest in the scales of several decades - a power plant often can be run for 5 decades - the costs are calculated over those time spans.
Even fast devices have slow internet in the underground. So many websites load 3mb of data for a few kb of relevant info.
Regarding strength training and injury you have a point: if you are a beginner avoid anything with a powerlifting bias (i.e. adding weight is the main objective). Stronglifts, r/fitness, ... Also bench press will not do much for posture.

Bodyweight training/calisthenics is interesting but is lacking on two of the best exercises for posture: Face pulls and (Romanian) Deadlifts. For Deadlifts light to moderate weight is enough, with perfect form, be careful if you have tight hamstring to work on mobility.
Just wondering, if I was touching my dog and carried some fur into the office on my clothes would you have a reaction? Or does it take more than that?

Dog friendly is a selling point here in Australia for some people but it's still very rare. I personally didn't like dogs much until we got our own a few years ago, and he's great, but I'm still largely indifferent to other people's dogs. Most of them have very poor manners.
Compliance and security for PII and data storage.
I should probably stop reading her posts when they are submitted (I think I skipped the last few). Invariably I agree with portions of what she says, but it's always couched in what I view as a very poor attitude. I get it. She's a jaded bay area developer. I sure hope it's mostly just a persona for her blog, because otherwise why put yourself through such misery? She obviously doesn't respect anything about the companies she's working for, if her writing is anything to go by, and she's obviously in demand enough to get jobs at big companies. I think she would be happier if she looked for a different class of employer. If that's hard to find here, move somewhere else. Do what you have to to be happy.

> As for why I didn't recognize the CEO: I had just started, and it's not like I memorize names and faces of these people. Hello, stalker-ville or ass-kisser-ville, and I am neither.

That's just great. I'll just be over here, being a "stalker" and "ass kisser" because I want to know who I'm working for before I join a company. But that's just me, I'm sure I'm being overly cautious. It's not like a bunch of developers have joined horrible companies helmed by horrible people that have instilled a horrible corporate culture before because they didn't pay attention to that... Right?
I understand perfectly. Why should we not redistribute wealth from the comfy western middle class to poor Chinese/etc workers?

We can stand up for the working class by paying for extensive welfare spending via taxing the rich.
> He came from privilege and wealth from colonial South Africa to Canada

He turned out to be a complete asshole so that doesn't matter. Him siding with white nationalists, the whole pill thing... No, he better go back to Africa with his billions, go fix the world from there.