skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the real answer would be not to forbid people from supplementing, but instead to pick some acceptable level of beneficial metabolic processes and let everyone get themselves to that."

that's basically how a lot of doping testing works. They don't know where the testerone comes from but assume that people will be within a certain range. In cycling they called Bjarne Riis "Mr 50%" because his hematocrite level was always exactly at the maximum allowed level.

Read Tyler Hamilton's book. It's a good read and gives a lot of insight into how doping works.
>Sometimes I get shocked by these numbers and it reminds me how little I know about business.

This is because you lack the most overlooked and most difficult to teach skill in investing: empathy. Zapier lets non-programmers, the vast majority of the planet, do things that programmers do. Many programmers have poor empathy and thus make bad salespeople and investors. If you can understand how most of the planet thinks and feels though, you can figure out what is going to work and what isn't.

Twitch.tv is something that amazed me that it became so big. I don't really play video games. Who would spend hours watching people play video games? I couldn't understand this phenomenon because I was limiting my exposure to people only inside my own little bubble of reality. I think one can't be a good investor without constantly developing ones empathy because the appeal of various things is difficult to grasp intuitively without a person who would be the customer in mind.

Personally, I think it's important to spend time with people one has nothing in common with to develop this broader empathy and thus be able to pick up on these trends.
The term "developer relations" goes back to the mid-90s at least. I find it hard to believe that nobody shortened it to "DevRel" in the 15 years before the term "DevOps" came to be.
Aha, but those two concepts would now be the same!
Buy an nvidia shield and never look back
Strangely, sometime last year I commented on HN about a contribution fiasco, and a bunch of "community" jumped on me, downvoted every response to their refusals to believe it. I've mostly abandoned Go at this point, partly due to the language, very much due to the "community". (Posted from a different account - to save you the time of looking).
I thought the same and bought an Apple TV. That thing sucks.

Turns out, Roku is way better. With respect to "terrible built-in apps", Apple TV has plenty of those. Netflix, Twitch, sports apps, streaming apps, all way better and more usable on the Roku than the Apple TV. Even after all this time with Apple TV remote, the UX is terrible even if the remote is decent
It's not so much about "value" (or most likely "money") they brought to individuals but more about which way they steer society as a whole. When you look at it this way it's not as clear cut as you appear to believe
Mac upgrade opened sshd to brute force password attacks
why wouldn't someone just hire a developer to do this?

Because developers are relatively expensive.

Because hiring anyone requires identifying someone who can do the job and trusting them to do it well. And even before that, you have to figure out what the job actually is.

Because hiring anyone requires some sort of contract, and that has legal implications that might require approvals etc.

As a developer with the required knowledge and skills, these services offer little value to me, but I'm not their target customer. That knowledge and those skills are the result of decades of study and practice, which is experience that most people don't have, and for all of those people the cost/benefit comparisons are going to look completely different.
It would strike me as a bad idea if I gave a tiny damn that LG know that I watch garbage on YouTube and Netflix. At some level, you’re ultimately giving your data to someone, so in my case, I use the built in apps on my entry level €300 LG TV. Works great, nice picture, 50” - and I don’t know if the ads are a US thing, as I’ve never seen one. Maybe it’s because I’ve never used it for TV, or perhaps because it sits behind double NAT, or maybe they just haven’t rolled out in this market (Portugal) yet - but honestly, I don’t mind being the product for an absolutely dirt cheap and very respectable for the money screen.
We don't know Apple's justification for it but I wouldn't be surprised if their testing concluded something similar to ours... users don't depend on an always visible scrollbar to scroll.
It's been said many times here over the past few years, and it'll get said a lot right here today, but rule of thumb: never enable WiFi on a TV except maybe temporarily to do an update or something. And even then only if it's absolutely necessary. Get a Roku or an Apple TV or a game console or whatever you want for watching streaming services. Never use what's built in to the TV, not just for privacy reasons but because it always seems to be a terrible experience compared to running Hulu, Netflix, etc. on anything else. But for privacy too- the TV companies were incredibly egregious about privacy years ago and AFAICT it's only gotten worse since then.
Anyone have a link to a good talk about this?
To elaborate on what it is rather than what it is not, when implementing poll based IO with rust async, typically you have code like “select(); waker.wake()” on a worker thread. Select blocks. Waking tells the executor to poll the related future again, from the top of its tree. The waker implementation may indeed cause an executor thread to stop waiting, it depends on the implementation. It could also be the case that the executor is already awake and the future is simply added to a synchronised queue. Etc. You can implement waking however you like, and technically this could involve an interruptible scheduler, if you really wanted. But you would kinda have to write that.
We're in kind of the same place. Org is indispensable for my work life, but it's not EVERYTHING and isn't the core of my overall life, because it's not really a great option for on-the-go.

I use an Exchange calendar for work, and I don't have appointments as part of my agenda in Org. I carry a notebook with me when I'm out and about for jotting things down. Like you, I can get to my corpus of org files via Dropbox from my phone and whatever editor I want to use there, but that's more of an "in a pinch" kind of use case than anything I'd want to do on the regular.

If I need to write something real on the go, I just do it in Notes on the iPad, and then migrate it into org if that's where it needs to go when I'm back at my computer.

I still blog, too, but I use a dedicated tool called MarsEdit on my Mac to do it. I haven't seen a reason to move that into Emacs, though I'm sure it's technically possible.
Maybe, but even if it is, does it deserve to be banned as the top comment (as of now) suggests?

I certainly don't think so.
Yes. It's a bit surreal. The farthest western part of China has a time that doesn't at all reflect the reality outside because it's like 4 hours behind what the clock shows.
I'm in the UK where options as part of job compensation are relatively rare. I joined as a contractor originally so wouldn't have been entitled to them regardless, but also they're a US company and only recently (1 year ago) set up a UK entity (I don't have options in that either) so I wasn't surprised to not get any.

I don't fully understand options, admittedly. I joined because I love their product, and I needed a better paying job than the one I had originally. Plus, the culture was pretty amazing at the time I joined! I left because they didn't pay me enough in the end plus cultural issues :P so I've got a new job paying more with a culture I prefer.
Just wait until it's permanent and the sun doesn't rise until nearly 9 in the morning all winter. Not sure we can say how spending your whole morning in the dark will effect your SAD. Personally, sunlight greatly helps me wake up, and darkness helps me go to sleep.
Thanks, that's a bit interesting. I only know a little bit of Go, but I would have assumed you could just use an array ([4]byte) directly without a slice ([]byte) on top of it. Guess not.
Because people want to click and get it done without dealing with hiring someone else.
Tasks that need to be automated could be also very small and not worth the effort of hiring contractors.
> If Windows 2000 wasn't "aesthetic" then we wouldn't have Vaporwave, after all; look how that late-90s look is glorified now.

Isn't vaporwave a self-consciously nostalgic aesthetic though? It's glorified because it captures a kind of ideal of human-computer interaction that wasn't recognized as such at the time.

Personally I don't mind material design (which is not really the same as flat design). I'd just like to see a little less padding and fewer hidden UI elements.
Probably due to the percentage labels being rounded to whole numbers.
I would mostly agree. The only bad move was that they ported Pocket/Bedrock Edition to Windows 10. Thats where most of the confusion orginiates from.
China's Economy Slowly Edges Toward World Dominance
The Apple TV app is horrendous on LG. No HBO Max as well. I agree it's way nicer to have native apps.
Yeah, attaching a simple $1 accelerometer to the frame sounds like a great solution, I wonder why this isn't done more often.
I think the majority of the population is OK with ads everywhere and paying for multiple streaming channels for 5-10x more than basic cable from the 90's.

If that's what customers want, or continue to buy, I guess that makes me a grumpy old man like the OP.

Last year my 10+ year old Roku was EOL'd: it literally STOPPED working. Had I paid more than $50 for it, I'd probably be more miffed, but I think this is a consequence that will become more egregious if we continue to buy "smart" things. However it was getting less and less use because there's just nothing I'm interested in watching, or rather, I don't want to pay to click channels like I did in pre-2000. Every show I"m interested in requires a subscription to a new service, so I just said fuck it around 2012-2013 and stuck with Netflix DVDs, and then cancelled that in 2018. Now I rent an Amazon Prime flick once or twice a week for $2.99, which is about 12-24$/month.
I can, and do. What's your point?
I’d wish more technical projects would focus on competent and professional engineers again. Instead, we see calls for more diversity everywhere, including this very survey. I wonder what would be the advantage of having people from different ethnical backgrounds over having people from different tech backgrounds...
It does require you to use the tag.
Anyone with experience from owning a recent Sony smart tv? Is it equally as bad as LG and Samsung when it comes to ads?
Yep. It can be "C but good" or it can be "a language with all these fancy features". It can't be both at the same time.
Vizio <<<<<< LG. Also OLED >>>> Anything (Don't say Plasma)
In general maybe, but in this certain circumstance I felt it was clear. On a second read I hear your point though
You don't know anyone is really worth it. That's why it's called "research." You pay smart people to explore being smart, because even though most of the effort and money are wasted every so often something wonderful falls out.

Try building GPS without relativity. Try building modern chip designs, lasers, or many medical applications without quantum theory.

It's no different to funding start ups. Most fail. A few win big.

But... a room sharing startup is still utterly trivial compared to finding life on other planets or inventing a new kind of computing. Or game changers like EM theory, quantum theory, relativity, Shannon's information theory, or Turing/Church.

And a room sharing startup is still vastly more useful than the weaponised parasitism of most of the financial sector.

Academics are not the problem. The problem is poor allocation of resources, especially creativity and intelligence - all of which have been badly warped by the peculiar value system propagated by contemporary economics in ways which have left them far less productive than they have been in the past.
I only have anecdotes to support this, but unless I'm a really weird outlier, I'd say it's indicative:

- Almost every discussion on Apple and scrollbars I see on-line has someone telling a story of how they didn't realize some app was scrollable, because its visual grid happened to align perfectly with viewport size of their iPhone/iPad;

- I got caught myself by this a few times on PC, where the design of the page looked complete, scollbars were hidden, and I didn't realize I could scroll down;

- I've been the person to tell some confused non-technical people that they could scroll down to see more, because the layout of a webpage did not make this obvious, and without a scrollbar visible, they were just puzzled why there's so little information on the screen.

Plural of anecdote is not data, so I'm open to the possibility I may have just had peculiar luck, but I think it's fair to assign a low prior to that.

> that an actual human being would simply not scroll because the only visual cue/indicator that people use is a scrollbar, rather than the multitude of context specific information available to indicate whether more content is available

What these cases had in common was that there was insufficient context-specific information available to make it apparent the content is scrollable (and - anecdotally, again - in my experience, non-tech-savvy people don't have the nervous tick of just randomly scrolling on the wheel, to check if it does something). Sometimes, the only such contextual information was the feeling you got after reading everything on the page, that something is missing. But if your users have to reach that point to figure out they can try scrolling, the UI failed at its job, and wasted them a minute of their lives.
I think the first step to better languages is to go back to basics. SQL queries are turned into imperative query plans [0]. Expose that interface. And polish it as nice as possible. When that is done, that's when we can start building alternate abstractions on top of it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_plan
"zero trust" is a terrible misnomer. It just means "non-network-location+based trust"

The cameras trusted the Verkada password that Verkada gave to a couple of random teenagers on the internet.
> I was previously employed by a company in the state of Michigan, and to match the same coverage was not even possible on healthcare.gov. The closest thing was nearly double the price, and when you're going through your first pregnancy, you take a ton of other factors into account.

Well that should be expected since your employer is not longer covering part of the plans cost.
Any idea what soundbar that is ? Is that a Sonos Arc ?
They seem to factor this in, table 6 shows how they weighed it:

> the environmental impact of animal production (compared to a plant-protein substitute) used to feed dogs and cats is 25–30% of that used to feed humans

Based on this paper: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/664S/4690011?logi...

So unless I misunderstand they're saying it's 25% as bad as meat production for humans. I'm too tired to look at their methodology though.
Bitcoin definitely has some neat properties. It is interesting having control of your funds being driven purely by your signing keys.

That drew me in with some geeky allure as something quite unique. And the scenarios like "crossing a border with a fortune stored as a memorized passphrase in your head" are cool in a cyberpunk kind of way.

But these days I'm in the "bitcoin is a paperclip maximizer" camp. I don't really want control of my money to be based on crypto keys that I could lose or have stolen with one bad mistake. And proof of work is so wildly expensive for what it does, I can't endorse it.
Ask HN: How do you lead/manage areas where you aren't familiar with the domain?
Look, I get it, in an ideal world you've been in the trenches and can do, or at least have experience in doing something similar to what you're asking the people that report to you to do.

The reality is, however, that at some point this doesn't scale and despite my best efforts to continue learning new technology, there are just some things that I don't know yet.

I am at a jumping off point in my career where I will have to start managing larger organizations, including organizations where I am just not familiar with the tech/domain.

I'm being hired because the bulk of my experience is applicable to the role, but, I can already foresee there are blind spots that I have that will make this job challenging.

At the moment, my first order of business will be to leverage my network to hire people that I can have at least some confidence in are competent in these areas.

Any tips on what to do here? From the strategic to the day-to-day managing of engineers, what are some things I can do so that I don't fall flat on my face?
I've got 2 printers - an artillery sidewinder and a big duet driven beast...both have an octoprint. Octolapse is soo much better then anything I've found for the Duet.

The SideWinder was a breeze to setup. I need to sit down and spend a day hooking up the Duet though - gonna try using https://github.com/kriechi/DuetRRF-timelapse
Read Sandro Donati's books (not available in English afaik, but Google Translate now works pretty well).
I don't see how more of a bad thing makes it good.
Yup, I intentionally made my comment a little hyperbolic, but I really want to drive attention to the "everyone" portion of my comment. The errand everyone must correctly perform punishes the most at-risk for failure. If everyone complied perfectly, then the IRS would not ding anyone, but also the population would likely resemble a sad army of soulless drones.

Instead thousands upon thousands of bureaucratic errands end up stacked on sticky kitchen tables next to crying children and loud-talking relatives. Life has way more to offer than pithy remarks from suits about box checking especially when the penalties the suits hand out deal such crushing blows to the people at the kitchen table.
Probably, not obvious though. In this case, my sarcastic comment was probably too superficial.
Works great with Marlin based printers.
Just as a side note, the name "kimsufi" comes from the French "qui me suffit", which roughly translate to "enough for me".
Maybe you tried it really early on? I have had no negative experience with it, and it starts up really quickly.
Counter-racism is still racism. And racial populations not being exactly equally large does not imply racism either.
> "Moreover, such a wormhole would be unstable. If for example a spaceship were to fly into one, it would instantly collapse into a black hole—an object in which matter disappears, never to be seen again. The connection it provided to other places in the universe would be cut off."

Can anyone expand on this?
No: genocide is what white people did to native Americans.

I'm talking about the opposite: preventing catastrophic global warming and creating a better world by performing natural selection intentionally and gradually.

In all reality, I'm not even advocating it. I'm merely observing that we are heading towards needing mandatory birth control, and once that happens there will be a societal conversation about who gets to procreate.

If we make it a based on capitalism then only those who prop up white supremacy gets to procreate. That is not equitable: the conversation will move towards racial justice and the social collective will override capitalism.
It's very tough to rejoin tech or engineering once you go to mgmt. The fields move so fast.

Meanwhile litte changes in mgmt.
I wonder if/how they measure survivorship bias. They mentioned it was about the same number of responses, were they all the same people?
From what I know you can go pretty far without PED but good genetics. But in world class everybody has good genetics and if some of them use PED you can't beat them without. So my rule is that if people in the world top 10 get caught taking something then the other guys (especially the number 1) must be on something too. Worked with Lance Armstrong who constantly beat guys who afterwards got caught.

Just curious: How big were you? Did other people in your gym take stuff?
It's also been done in 1976 and it barely lasted one year. Turns out no sunlight at 8am is worse than no sunlight at 5pm
What does elite mean anymore? What makes Harvard elite?
I just wish there was a good octolapse-alike for the Duet. I'm gonna try https://github.com/kriechi/DuetRRF-timelapse but really wish the was a more 'native' solution...
Is that on load, or when the user finally switches to the tab they opened few minutes before by middle-clicking the link?
To be fair to them, they do a pretty decent profit share every year. It is compensation based, so it's nothing life-changing (only say, 5-10% of your total compensation) but it was nice!

First and only place I've ever participated in profit sharing.
Hilarious. Thanks for sharing!
These (software) are the most incredible the companies the world has ever seen. Sure, valuations may look crazy compared to historical norms in different industries, and may be due for a correction. But still, best businesses ever built.
One aspect is overlooked in the article.

When you are playing Minecraft you sooner or later want to have your own Server.
There are of course "as a Service" offerings but i personally know 3 or 4 people who got into Linux / Admin stuff because they were running minecraft servers for there friends.
Very well deserved. Having worked on 3D capture and reconstruction for the last 10 years I can say that CR is really way ahead of everyone else technologically and it was only a matter of time before someone would buy them out. I'm glad it was Epic.
> What's the point of owning the stock?

to sell for capital gains when it is higher in the future. Dividends aren't the only way to generate a profit. And for a lot of high income earners, dividends are very tax inefficient as well.
Meh. Child indoctrination has always been the price of entry into the elite. And of course sometimes it'll be uncomfortable - cultural imperialism doesn't work without some kind of force behind it. But how else can you ensure one common enlightened culture? (Count yourself lucky they're not going to Istanbul for the levy, and move on.)
Developers are ridiculously expensive and comparatively slow for many tasks.
If it was old hat, it would not have been upvoted to the front page.

Besides, it's a good story and a cautionary tale. I read through the whole thing once again. And bookmarked the new thread of comments.
When they switch to the tab.

It’s when the control displaying the content first appears on the actual display.
Push back school, and you have to push back work (no, not everyone can work from home). And then you have to push back entertainment. And then everything else. And then you've changed the clocks, but in a worse, more complicated way.
> I guess people use the terrible built-in apps?

At the end of the day yes. Especially, with older generations around.

Having a separate remote for volume (separate receiver) and TV is enough of a challenge. Having a 3rd creates all sorts of confusion.
Watched the first 20 minutes, this is surreal. Critical fuselage parts didn't fit together because workers at the subcontractor (Ducommun) traced a template with magic marker onto the material and cut and drilled the part by hand. Officially, the parts were manufactured by high precision CNC machinery with extremely little tolerances. At Boeing, if drill holes didn't match up in parts A and B, workers were told to just put the parts together and re-drill the hole in part B through the hole in part A, or hammer the parts into place. Internal Boeing investigators who found out and documented the issues were threatened to be sued if they spoke up.
I don't care if X sees everything (hell, even if X didn't, the kernel certainly still would). I only care that I can control which programs see which X11 events. Like, my hotkey program can see everything, but my Web browser can only see its own x-windows' events.
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