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Ask HN: No Meetings Culture?
In a previous thread [0] someone posted about having very few meetings:

> This is precisely why when I started my company I committed to only hiring contract devs for 10-20 hours per week. No meetings. No bullshit. I pay you a high hourly wage, you do as much (often more) work than if you were a salaried 40 hour FTE, and you likely make more money in the process.

If this is you, or your company/team functions the same way I'd like to understand how you got there. This is in the name of self interest. I want to be a part of such a team. I'm part of 2 teams right now and have an average of 3 hours a meetings a day.

1. Was the company/team started as a 0-meetings [1] company at the outset?
2. If not, how did it transition to 0-meetings
3. How do you onboard new people?
4. How do you deal with business folks that require lots of face to face?
5. Any other tips?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26457597

1: "0-meetings" is a stand in for "very very few meetings".

Thank you
Wait until you guys find out your operating systems were written in a 50 year old language.
No, it was a photo of a building. The "demo" was the guy right there playing with the software, no video.
Denouncing white supremacy is delusional leftism?
Interesting... What framework did you use to write your parser? I've been curious about tinkering with some exploratory language design myself.
The lambda's purpose here is only to turn it into a one-liner. It can be rewritten as

def fizzbuzz(n):
num_map = { 1: n, 6: "Fizz", 10: "Buzz", 0: "FizzBuzz" }
return num_map[n**4%15]

for i in range(100):
print(fizzbuzz(i + 1))

The real skill would be to demonstrate that you know/remember/can apply Euler's totient theorem off-the-cuff in an interview!
clang 11.0, gcc 7.4, O2. I did that with whatever was already installed on my machines, YMMV.
> They are still studying them to treat some specific things like PTSD, alcoholism...

They are still only studying them to treat health issues because we had a relapse of ~30 years of non-existent research into them.

> Yet here, people seem to believe it can treat other things as well.

That's because the professionals are finding that they treat other things as well:

https://imgur.com/frIFOcJ
You forget the other part of the equation. Gaming companies. If gamers can't get their hands on decent hardware they'll stop buying games altogether. Thus the pressure doesn't come from consumers alone.
Yes it's the world's most advanced and also unique tech which they designed specifically for their needs.
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> The doctors were completely dismissive of and uninterested in the symptoms

I had exactly the same issue! GPs ran a few tests and couldn't figure it out. They labelled is as fibromyalgia, even though I didn't fit the criteria. I pushed to see a neurologist, who ran a few tests and couldn't figure it out - he also labelled it as fibromyalgia, even though when I questioned it he admitted he knew almost nothing about it!

There was a lot of back and forth, with GPs and neurologists being really dismissive. I forget how long this went on for, but a couple of years at least.

So I did my own research over a long period of time. I found only a handful of other cases, but with the symptoms I came to the conclusion that I must have small fibre neuropathy. I pushed the neurologist, who grudgingly did a nerve biopsy, which confirmed small fiber neuropathy. He stopped being dismissive after that.

For pain, I ended up with a similar situation. I tried gabapentin, pregbalin and all the usual things like topical capsicain, TCAs, SNRIs, diazepam, opioids etc. They either didn't help, couldn't be tolerated, or caused more problems. Within the public healthcare systems, the list was eventually exhausted, and they weren't interested in trying anything else. They didn't believe how bad the pain was, and were unwilling in any case to go beyond their list of standard treatments. In the end, I paid to see a private pain specialist, and eventually found ketamine to be really helpful - not just with the pain, but my mental ability to live with it.
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Interesting, that's exactly the opposite of my experience. First off I'm not writing plain CSS any more, at all. It's just so much more cumbersome. Maintenance is 100x easier as I don't make unintended side-effects. Btw, did you notice you can also build your own higher level classes like buttons with it? That helps with keeping your design system coherent.
I have not yet, but I would like to. If you can help, I would appreciate it.

Due to the wide variety of scenarios and configurations I already have tested with, I think it would be more likely than not that I'd be able to complete my base features test script with few issues.

Your question is a perfect example of why I go so far with testing.
As a technical point.
I believe that it's quite difficult to buy such small parcels of forest in Sweden without already owning adjacent lots if the land is "zoned" for forestry. You can "sneak" into this by buying derelict farms where the forest is included, but expect to pay more.
I don't know what is bizarre about it. I think cryptocurrencies are fundamentally flawed due to their environmental impact, and should be banned on that merit alone. Add in the inability to reverse fraudulent transactions and their role in the rise of ransomware, and cryptocurrencies are easily something that should be banned.

I don't see it as bizarre to be frustrated that one's hobby is being priced out of reach by what amounts to an environmentally-damaging pyramid scheme.
In Tcl's expr:

^ stands for bitwise XOR: so [expr {-2^2}] results in -4

* stands for exponentiation: so [expr {-2*2}] results in 4

Both seem correct to me, taking into account how integers are represented in binary (two's complement for the negative ones).

With regards to debugging dynamic programming languages, it is different as compared to their static counterparts, since much is delayed to happen at runtime (as opposed to at compilation time). But it also opens up possibilities (like introspection, ability to intervene in the scripts while they run, ...). It requires a different mindset.
This. Great video documentary. Another, more hippy fun: Yukon Passage - a NatGeo production.
Yeah so apparently the founders failed to get it off the ground in 2008, went and founded another unrelated company, earned a load of money off it and are returning to the original idea!

I think I'm right in saying that they've got a much better plan to mass manufacture now
> the agency told The BMJ that the levels of truncated mRNA “and the amounts of a potential protein produced by the truncated mRNA would be too low to constitute a safety risk.”

I still plan on getting vaccinated, but I always wondered about the failure modes of the mRNA as it decays and what materials it could produce. I'm hoping prions are not possible, but are they?

The story also asks what happens to the lipid nanoparticles, but I am wondering about another aspect of these crafted mRNA sequences. The "U" in the mRNA has been replaced 1-methyl-3’-pseudouridylyl, denoted by Ψ in their sequences. What happens to the Ψ and its byproducts as it decays or is metabolized?
these are not standard panels and are unlikely to be cheap. PV Panels on roofs or boats are standard panels and any equivalently rated panel will work. Not the case in a car.
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I have seen one concern expressed as potential imbalance in demand for different refined components. For example, if demand for diesel were to hold steady, but for gasoline diminish, to some degree gasoline potentially becomes a leftover pollutant.
Which are both completely optional and opt-in.
If you care for your can you will not want to leave it in open sun for extended periods, especially when you live in lower latitudes where this car would have more sense.

Stuff deteriorates in open sun and high temperature and this applies to batteries. If you are cash strappend and own an EV then the batteries are going to be your focus as keeping them alive for as long as possible is going to largely determine your cost of owning the car.

All people I know that can't put their car in a garage will try to find shade. And that's in Poland where sun is never directly above.
One possible use case of solar panels on a car in bright and hot environments would be running the air blower to continually replace the interior air with the exterior air in order to maintain a reasonable temperature. It's not uncommon in the south for temperatures to exceed 140f inside of the car.
Show HN: Crowdstack – like FB Groups and Slack had a beautiful baby
And a well-defined TCO guarantee would probably not rank very high on the already long list of things that make it ... a bit tricky to discern the performance of a function from looking at the text of the function body.
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You can use (as you guessed) an `userExternalId` - https://developer.magicbell.io/docs/browser-js#identifying-u....

That's how we built our HN Chrome extension that never asks for your email - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-notifi...
"feeling healthier" - you skipped a step there. Your hair feels X, which you then associate with healthy hair. What's the X?
> Many people wondered last summer why, for example, on the Black Lives Matter website the organization declared (and has since deleted) a “disruptive” stance on the nuclear family. What did that have to do with mobilizing against police violence?

For a long time I was very sympathetic to BLM, I would even have considered protesting with them. It was the above that caused me to rethink my position and eventually decide that BLM was actually antagonistic to their very goal.
Says Gartner
>> PV in the Sahara

Classic deserts aren't the best place for solar. They may be sunny but wind-blown dust covers panels. Sand+wind etches glass. And heat reduces PV efficiency. A better option might actually be the high north. It gets plenty of sun for at least half the year and when it isn't getting sun it is getting wind.
I'm aware of a couple of companies who behave like that - "well, we could increase our user based by an order of magnitude at any point here, so better spring for the order of magnitude more expensive database, just in case we need it."

Feels like toxic optimism.
I enjoyed the solar bicycle.https://www.thesuntrip.com/en/the-most-incredible-solar-bike... Around the world here I come (in my dreams).
Cars come with all sorts of stupid stuff because people think it looks cool. Fake hood scoops, spoilers that aren't going to have any real effect at legal speeds. So why not a "green spoiler" that gives the owner something to crow about but not actually do anything good for them?
Aha, you mean as "tomt". I was looking for "Gårdar/skogar", to have some forest within the lot.
I am unsure if this is the incident that they are referring to, however a teenager died in 2007 after jumping off a bridge while under influence[0]. As per the article, that was the catalyst for getting hallucinogenic mushrooms banned.

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dutch-mushroom-idUSTRE4AR...
This is changing somewhat though. Several of the larger cities in Norway are struggling with poor air quality during winter, so studded tires have either been banned or require you to pay a tax in order to use them. [1]

This doesn't apply everywhere though, and people are require to use common sense and use the tires (and chains) that are best for where they live.

[1] - https://www.stavanger.kommune.no/en/waste-and-environment/mi...
About 70% of Sweden is covered with forests, so acquiring some land covered by trees should be fairly trivial assuming one has the money for it. An article about this particular young builder mentions he built it on land owned by his family[1].

I'm not entirely sure about Swedish regulations in regards to building permits, but based on a quick Internet search it looks like one may or may not require a permit, based on the location, size and purpose of the the log cabin, and as a rule of thumb one should check with the local authorities before starting construction. The Swedish rules seem to be more lax when the building is to be located in sparsely populated areas.

If it's anything like the rules in Finland there's probably a bunch of environmental and building codes that needs to be adhered to, but on the other hand this is a traditional build so it might be perfectly possible that he just needed to submit the plans and get someone to approve them.

[1]: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vastmanland/han-bygger-en-...
The numbers for the losses are way off, at least for high-voltage direct current transmission lines which would be preferrable for such distances.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
Will do. I know that my biggest deficiency is using what little information I have at any time to make big, risky decisions without ever thinking to verify (i.e. Orient) that hypothesis. It will come down to an effective playing style that suits my abilities (which are also malleable).
I just played around with this tool some, and it seems to paint a reasonably accurate picture: https://howmuch.net/cost-of-living/ny/new-york

In general, the more rural an area is, the lower the cost of living. Rural college towns are more likely to have an abundance of cheap apartments than the average rural area.

However, it's all highly relative. San Francisco and NYC are the two most expensive locations in the United States. By comparison, everywhere else is cheaper. Lots of major US metro areas are extremely affordable by comparison, and $120k could probably last a frugal person for 2 or 3 years near those locations especially if living with roommates... so you don't have to live in the middle of nowhere to be somewhere affordable. Compared to a lot of places outside the US, even the affordable parts of the US probably seem expensive, but my limited understanding is that most of Western Europe is relatively expensive... so probably not too different from the US in many places, but definitely outside my area of expertise.
I worked in an iron foundry and not an aluminum one, but I was under the impression it was just a nitrogen blanket.
At least where I lived in cities it seems like I wouldn't have had much opportunity for direct sunlight parking on the street. Rooftops make a lot more sense.
I don't know about Jane Street or Galois, but Renaissance is full of mathematicians so I doubt they'd be impressed by Euler's theorem. Math students learn it in undergrad, it is considered basic.
That Gumroad states it is "for creators" but the original Gumroad creators will not benefit from the new funding round.
How about when you release WidgetReader 31.0? Or maybe 201.0? Does WidgetReader 1.0 still have any value?

Which is the case in TFA.
I understood there was no pressure to release source code, I was just using source code overlap as a measure of similarity.

An expiry time, like 10 years, sounds a lot more reasonable. It's a bit like the expiry for copyright and pantents, at least in their original concepts. Come to think of it, maybe the solution is simply to dramatically reduce copyright expiry, maybe to a simple fixed 10 years for creation point. That would probably benefit everything, not just software.
Why did we decide to create Crowdstack? For years, the mantra has been, “build it on Facebook, everyone’s there already.” Entrepreneurs, creators, nonprofits, small businesses all believed they should just set up a Facebook Group and call it good.
What happened? Personal data exchanged for a “free” service, shady ad metrics, unwritten content moderation rules, shutdowns with no recourse, zero customer support (you’re not the customer). Not good.
We were tired of thinking “someone should come up with an alternative.” So here it is.
I've made the same changes in recent months and agree that it's improved my consumer experience significantly. I didn't realize just how much time and energy I was spending sorting through cheap Chinese made junk and counterfeit garbage on Amazon trying to find quality products.

In terms of cloud providers: the major three (Azure, GCloud, AWS) seem to be cut from the same cloth... maybe IBM or Oracle cloud are better options (I don't have any experience with either, but both companies obviously have skeleton filled closets)?
This company is a disaster. They are even too stupid to understand the concept of account deletion. "How to delete your Gumroad account: From your Advanced Settings page, scroll to the bottom of the page, then click Delete your Gumroad account? After you've deleted your account, if you try to log back in, Gumroad will make your account "live" once again. Therefore, if you really want to delete your account, click Delete your Gumroad account? and don't log in again. Just... just go." WTF? That's not DELETION, that's SCAM and a GDPR violation. https://help.gumroad.com/article/37-how-to-delete-your-gumro...
You'd have to remember to park on the roof!
So does mine, and my skin too. My ancestry is half Scots-Irish Borderer and a quarter each Austrian and Italian, of which the latter seems strongly expressed in my integument; for example, despite half my family being very fair, my skin has an olive undertone, and I tan easily and well.

More to the immediate point, I likewise have rather oily skin and hair, to the point where if I don't shower daily with ample soap and shampoo, I start leaving smears on anything I touch. I've tried the experiment of going without soap a few days, to see if the oiliness was in compensation, and it wasn't; it's just that I either wash daily or turn into a greaseball, and always have done.

(I'm also one of those people whose skin oil gradually dissolves ABS plastic with regular contact. Of the last ABS set I used, to the tune of ~10M keystrokes, before switching to PBT caps, the spacebar had enough material removed to put a distinct curve in its lower edge where my thumbs would strike. Too, I now belatedly wish I'd put a protector on the Wacom tablet that doubles as a touchpad for my work machine. Not sure if the plastic-melting thing is related, but it seems fairly uncommon and so worth mention in this context.)
It is better. It’s just not perfect.
I am not trying to help kelp specifically. I wasn't even aware of this particular thing happening. But I know for sure that every time I spend a dollar on something new, there is a direct chain of multiple events set in motion which does harm to my own habitat as well as those closely related to me.
Checkout my pet project, Darch: https://godarch.com/

It is truly immutable. Here are my recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes
I use docker compose only. It is much more convenient than vanilla docker.
We are thousands of times over capturing economies of scale in gas production, we support thousands of independent drilling and refining sites.
They anticipated selling stripped down cards to miners for a higher price.

If they wanted gamers to have these cards they would just give out purchase invites via gaming hardware sites like Gamer's Nexus. They already make deals to supply OEMs before general retail, so all the gaming hardware being build is getting a supply either way.
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I think you have no idea what you are talking about.
in my own experience (with my wife's chronic condition), most doctors are extremely dismissive if they don't have the answer off-hand. I don't know why this is - but reactions ranged from saying she was lying or was addicted to painkillers (despite not asking for painkillers) to switching back and forth between two common diagnoses even though they were quite clearly inaccurate. I have no faith in the front-line medical system to be able to deal with anything less blatant than a broken bone or a flu, if only due to what appears to be doctors' near-universal refusal to respond to uncertainty with humility and curiosity.
How is this stupid ? Facebook does the same thing.
Yeah, it may be par for the course for your average American company, but it's exceptional for tech companies - then again, most tech companies don't have as many high-supply-low-demand jobs as Amazon (or they "outsource" them, like Uber).
> What really saddens me though is when people advertise recreational use of possibly dangerous substances.

Anything done recreationally that puts someone in harm saddens me. I don't tell friends to go skiing down a black diamond unless they are comfortable down a bunny hill first. The same goes for drugs, especially those that have legitimate health benefits and enjoyment/entertainment purposes.

My advice is: do your research, understand dosing, and have a support network of people around you that are more experienced. That goes for any drug - including alcohol.
If you are more comfortable with apt/Ubuntu/Debian, you could use Darch: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes

There are also base images for Arch and Void.
This is why I cant accept the climate alarmists. From TFA:

>> The discovery helps confirm a new and troubling understanding that the Greenland ice has melted off entirely during recent warm periods in Earth's history—periods like the one we are now creating with human-caused climate change.

What is troubling? That this goes against the alarmist narrative? That this has happened before, and might well happen again even without human activity?

It's like the final episode of that Neil Tyson show where he's looking at tundra eroding in the arctic and they note there are buried leaves and such in there - ignoring the implication that it used to be nice up there.

Does this invalidate human effects? NO. Does it invalidate the idea that we are solely responsible for some cataclysmic outcome? IMHO it suggests both inevitability and that it won't be so bad. I'm more concerned that the warming somehow triggers the next glaciation - which... is there a reason to think won't happen?
Assuming you aren't parked underground. Many airport parking lots are multi-tiered parking garages for density. Sure, you can park on the roof, but maybe rooftop becomes the more 'coveted' spot if this did take off.
There's no magic bullet, you have to put some effort to maintain your todo list. Years ago, I naively thought that I could come up with an algorithm that would prioritize tasks for me based on a formula and I'd have to open my app and it would tell me what to do. No such luck.

I've been using GTD with great luck. The short version is:

- everything that you have/want/need to do goes into the inbox.

- inbox gets periodically reviewed. At this point you must ask yourself "do I need to do this". I made the mistake of dropping YouTube links and various other links into my inbox. Don't do this as it increases the cognitive load of processing your inbox. Be honest with yourself if this is something you wish to do or need to do. if it's only a wish that you'll never act upon delete it. If you can't delete it, stick it into a "later" file. If this is a must do, stick it into an appropriate category ("House tasks", "Project work" etc).

- periodically review all your projects. Be honest with yourself here as well. Are you going to do this or did it slip past your "Do I need to do this?" filter.

The inbox gets rid of anxiety, trying to remember everything. I can't stress enough about reviewing your task list and throwing out things you're not likely to do.