skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a new project site that's largely viewed by technically competent people. All my other logs indicate that I get a mere 50 to 75 unique visitors per day - not heavily trafficked. Google Analytics often counts about 10% of the visitors, which is easily confirmed by checking all the other metrics that are available to me.

So, yeah, I'm not sure how much longer they'll be a viable source of data.
plenty of places don't have that requirement, and bias goes a long way beyond that. But more to the point, why should google, etc, get to know that about you?
I am old enough to remember "Gorilla arm syndrome" talks.

People just love these big tablets even tough they are an ergonomical non-sense and they have always been for decades. Resistance is futile. Voting with your wallet is useless unless you enjoy the hermit lifestyle.
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As understandable as that is, what's a good working alternative? Google is no different and is becoming more Apple-like in its approach to software distribution. Admittedly, iPhones and Pixels provide a cruftless mobile experience. But I'd rather have an option that didn't require an ever-shortening leash or put on pretensions of concern for consumers or developers (privacy, censorship, et al.) while simultaneously shortchanging them.
Since when Bexos responsible for the government?
I can't convince myself that would work. What if it isn't that people hit a peak of productivity at 20 hours of work per week, it's the minimum they try to do and still be acceptable to their boss. This could happen if bosses just assume that people work close to 90-100% of the time during working hours. I am sure no one is honest about it.

If 20 hours were the new weekly target instead of 40 it could negatively impact people if productivity declines on crucial things. That could happen if the new minimum acceptable amount of work to management were, say, 10 hours. So people would similarly spend 50% of their 20 hour working week avoiding work. So there could be a temporary shock throughout the economy as supply of things decreased until things adjusted.
I'm surprised this perspective is not made more often. It's now much easier to work past 5 or 6pm or whenever you would normally end. Needing to return home to your family is no longer an excuse to stop working because you can be with your family while at work. All it takes is one developer on your team working evenings or weekends for the other developers to feel like they need to be working late too. There's also the fact that managers right now are more concerned about whether their team is working enough, rather than being concerned about their team working too much.
Remember that's 33 bits right now. You can be represented, uniquely, by 33 chained 0s and 1s as a GUID with no loss of fidelity. Add to that ongoing observation over time compared to a FLoC profile and the FLoC profile is a huge boon to the bit increase.

Think OutBrain a few years ago, who were egregiously intent on serving certain clickbait to certain consumer sets. With FLoC, your winnowing and funnel becomes much easier (rather than serving rotten banana ads with just one trick, you KNOW your consumer has a propensity for Dunkin Donuts and you can increase your ad coverage). Everyone wins but the product -- your eyeballs.
I've come to believe that big software projects are like a marathon. Burning up your maximum energy every step of the way simply isn't going to yield better results. You need to create a pace and keep to it. Sometimes you speed up, sometimes you slow down, but saying 60 hours/week from start to finish is gonna be counterproductive.
Attach your phone to a holder. Buy a Bluetooth adapter from AliExpress and your good to go with any car
Exactly -- Windows is the biggest vector for malware, by orders of magnitude.
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thats terrible. putting your notice in from your current job and finding out you don't have a new job.
I drove an Electra Meccanica Solo in Victoria BC a few years ago, and it was exactly this. The founder of the company wanted to design the air cooled Porsche of EVs. All analog, minimal electronics, incredibly nimble. One of my favourite aspects of it was the sound it made under acceleration, think: Star Wars Landspeeder.

(You can faintly hear it over annoying background music in this video [1].)

It felt better to drive than a Tesla, even though it was orders of magnitude slower. Unfortunately, last I heard they were trying to tone down the Landspeeder-esque “cabin noise”. I’m not sure if the current executive team at Electra Meccanica even realizes what they have.

[1]: https://youtu.be/0eUlPeXL8wc?t=40
Man this is true. I tried splitting a week between two contract gigs and I was wiped out by end-of-week. It wasn't worth the money.
I imagine that many organizations would like to know which of their employees did click a link that turns out to be malicious, so that the company can check those employees' computers for malware. Tracking could be useful for determining the severity of the damage done by a successful phishing attack.
This was worthwhile. Not sure why you're being downvoted.
> when the debts are due it holds the economy back.

This is just wrong. The only debt that holds the economy back is debt that didn't actually generate growth. If you borrow to start a business, you are stimulating the economy with growth, through debt. If you rack up credit debt at the bar every weekend, you're going to cause yourself problems.

The topic is just more nuanced than you're implying. Debt is very good for the economy overall, as long as you're not overdoing it or taking on frivolous debts that don't let you grow.

Student loans seem relevant here. I take out 50k of student loans. The degree I earn empowers me to make 50k/year. After 2 years that debt has been turned into profit, and that's only for me personally, ignoring the value my education will bring to my employer, the community, and the economy at large.

Another example of good debt can be a car. I purchase a 20k car, with credit, which allows me to make 70k instead of 50k, in the next town over. After a year, that debt has paid itself off and is now earning for me, despite the fact that the value of the car instantly dropped 20+% as soon as I purchased it.

The idea that debt holds the economy back is terribly misinformed and over simplified. It's literally how we grow, and how the US has become the economic powerhouse it is. The most wealthy nation in the history of the world (what we do with the money is a different topic).
I wonder how many other coroners ruled a case of myocarditis to not have been caused by a recent COVID infection because other coroners had not been willing to make the association either?
Wouldn't the control group have the same level of inflammation in that case?
> It's impossible ... ?

That's our standard? Anything beyond the impossible? This is gonna be a wide-ranging discussion.
There was a piece about this on NPR (I think earlier this week, but I can't find it right now).

It sounded like they're making some assumptions because the mRNA vaccine causes most people to produce a higher level of antibodies for a longer period of time vs the real virus. However, antibodies are not the only part of immune system, so it's possible that other parts of the immune system may still be effective.

The real answer is we don't know that yet conclusively, but we do know the vaccine is effective, so until we have a better understanding it's a good idea to be vaccinated regardless (especially if you have any risk factors).
Yes, GNU APL is quite slow. There was some primitive implemented in GNU APL (as part of the interpreter, in c). A pure-APL implementation running on dyalog outperformed it by a considerable margin.

If you're looking for a performance, opensource APL, try j. Though if performance is not a priority then, as the sibling says, dzaima/apl or april should be more than adequate.
I agree collaboration is very important. What's interesting to me though is that very early in my career (pre ubiquitous video conferencing), I worked for a large multi-site corp. Me and another developer were the only developers in the local office, yet somehow we were able to collaborate using phone calls and email to build some pretty cool software with other team members in various offices around the US.

I'm not saying that digital tools are always perfect replacements, but there is a large gradient between a single person on an island and sitting shoulder to shoulder at a fold out table (which I have also done).
Unpopular opinion: watching people struggle and fail or just plain refuse to engage with covid (wear a mask, socially distance, get a vaccine) has really shaken my faith in democracy. I was worried after Trumps election in 2016. But it's not a one-off phenomenon. People just behave randomly, they don't calculate risk, they don't care about facts, they're not even able to be self interested as far as I can tell. Just noise. Sometimes the noise seems to get louder. But that's all I can see.

Edit: I've never had a comment sink so fast. Cest la vie. I'm sort of glad other people think human civilisation is working. Maybe my depression just has me jaded.
Somewhat related...a 2018 study of 19 European countries ranks countries by how much 'ultra-processed' food is purchased by households in those countries.

The UK takes first place, followed by Germany, Ireland, Belgium and Finland.

Countries that purchase the least amount of 'ultra-processed' food include Portugal, Italy, Greece and France.

See the map listed in this article for the full country ranking:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-proces...
I believe the currency conversion charge can be avoided by only charging your customers in your own currency or another currency you have a bank account for.

It can, but then your customers get hit with varying exchange rates and potentially high conversion fees on their side. This will not make you popular with your international customers, at least the ones who didn't already back out when they saw a foreign currency anyway. Depending on which research you read, the rate of lost conversions due to lack of local pricing could be as high as 50%.

Within the overall landscape of payment processing options, Stripe looks trapped in an awkward middle ground now.

Above them are the merchants of record. Including currency conversion, international sales using Paddle seem to cost 7% + 35p at current USD/GBP exchange rate and their standard published pricing. But for that, you get real tax compliance.

Then we have Stripe, coming in at 5.9% + 20p (4.4% + 20p for European cards). Even with Stripe Tax, you're missing much of the essential functionality for global tax compliance and the reassuring liability shift, so that extra 1.1% + 15p or even 2.6% + 15p would be the easiest sale since bottled water in a desert to a lot of merchants.

Further down the price spectrum, we have services like GoCardless that are offering direct payment schemes rather than cards (duh) but for a fee of only 2% + 20p including currency conversion. You don't get any built-in tax support here, so it would be fairest to compare with Stripe at 5.4% + 20p or possibly 3.9% + 20p, but that's still quite a difference. And while you have to do your own tax compliance as with all payment processors using this model, you do get other benefits, notably in much improved reliability of collecting payments via direct payment schemes compared to card payments.

I wonder whether Stripe's medium-term goal might be to establish its own merchant of record service, and Stripe Tax in its current form is just the opening move. Otherwise, it doesn't really make sense to me as a strategy. But I have no inside knowledge on this and there are several Stripe people around who probably do, so no doubt if they want to elaborate at this time they will.
Just chiming in to say some of us live in the big expensive cities precisely because of the life we lead outside of work. Otherwise, agreed.
You mention a best case scenario for middle management, while the article discusses a more worst case one.

As always, reality is someone in between. Though in my experience, there’s usually more toxic middle managers.
> Management can be extremely strong at shielding you from unnecessary distractions and silliness when it's done well.

It is unfortunate that a good manager, not unlike a good sysadmin, is invisible; you never realise how much of a shit umbrella they are.
Once can use fractional words for increased precision.

Then there's the matter of rational and irrational words.
That's a fair concern. There are other ways to address it though. For instance, release the new UI as a "preview" that users can switch to if they want to. If they hate it or can't understand it, they can switch back. Even better: redesign the UI in smaller parts and roll it out slowly over time.
> Imagine a non-pandemic environment where you could go to a buddy’s house and work.

I'm imagining it and it sounds like the literal worst thing.
Note that commercial-grade appliances may have unexpected side-effects. I have a speed queen commercial coin-op washer and it's highly reliable and easy to work on, but you can't do anything but a full cycle on it.
I've checked that my router continues to point to the pihole (no fallbacks, though I've tried with fallbacks and no difference). I also setup the pihole with cloudflare. I'm just always confused because it seems like some people have absolutely no problem and there's others in my camp and the former just stop after "just follow the directions." I even remember the LTT video mentioned this specific problem.
It seems very unlikely that this would lead to value based pricing.

On the contrary: with async WFH + everyone-a-contrator, the supply of work will become much more homogeneous and undifferentiated, which will lead to commoditization.

Doesn’t mean prices will converge to minimum wage! But bargaining power will shift in favor of the buyer (i.e. the businesses)
I can't help it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso
> Assuming the caloric intake is the same, how does eating a peach smoothie differ from eating a peach?

Increasing the number of masticatory cycles is associated with reduced appetite and altered postprandial plasma concentrations of gut hormones, insulin and glucose [0]

[0]https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

TL;DR It's not just about calories, it's about what the food makes you do later.
If you made a peach smoothie out of nothing but pure peaches, it would be identical to eating the peaches, I'm sure.

I am also not a nutritionist, but from my reading processed foods are bad because (1) they just have far fewer nutrients, vitamins and minerals that our body needs to function, (2) the additives and chemicals that are added sometimes harm our body directly and/or require the body to dedicate resources towards removing, or (3) they harm our microbiome by feeding bad bacteria which similarly produce stuff that isn't good for your body and damaging the good bacteria which we need.
> how does eating a peach smoothie differ from eating a peach?

I think that eating a peach smoothie, one where you just take a peach and some ice - throw them in a blender and mix away, is no different from eating a peach[1] but ordering a peach smoothie at Jugo Juice is not peach in a glass, it's some peach and added juice (containing added sugar) and added sugar also some ice, probably with added sugar - all mixed together with some "healthy protein base" which is probably a bit of whey with added sugar - basically a smoothie ends up having very little relationship to the fruit.

Additionally if you slurrify raspberries you can drink them by the dozen in a single gulp - while eating them by hand you'll strike a more leisurely pace and stop once you're feeling full - often times with smoothies and the like we'll over consume because it takes a while for our body to actually realize we're full.

1. Maybe a slight loss of healthy stuff due to fibers separating out and not ending up in the juice but ideally that's negligible.
I think the article is pretty thin on the low fat foods.
Ask HN: Should we charge $700/hour?
What I can build in 1x hour with Bubble.io is equals to what I would build in 10x hours as a React developer.

A React developer gets $70/hour, more or less (depending on where they are based).

What’s a fair hourly rate for a No-code developer?
As a candidate I can say I've faced the gamut of everything from online automated assessments to phone interviews that seemed little more than running through a list of "how do you do X" to high pressure white-boarding sessions involving solving algorithmic/architecture problems on the fly but the kind of assessment that seemed most reasonable to me above everything else was one where I had a small take-home coding challenge with a discussion of the submitted solution afterward, the latter part being key and here is why:

1. You can see how well I explain my solution, how I approached it, and my reasoning for any trade-offs or choices I made and how well I respond to any questioning or criticisms of my solutions.

2. It shows respect for my time, because there is always more that goes into doing these things than just the code that comes out of it, and gives me an idea what it would be like working for your company and/or the people I would be working with.
S.F. condo sales hit 16-year high with 'ferocious' buyer demand, price discounts
I understand why buyers like digital novelties in cars: they're flashy and sexy, and they make your 4 year old car look old by comparison.

I also understand why car makers like digital flash: your 4 year old car doesn't support your latest iPhone, network, or peripherals, so you're motivated to buy a new one every few years.

(And of course, old car tech distracts your driving LESS, however that fits into the picture.)

I think we will never see cars with modular digital tech that can be updated. A car with replaceable digital hardware and software won't rapidly go out-of-date the way current cars do. They would cost far less to update than replace. So nobody wants it... except perhaps grownups.
I agree with "war rooms" not being as effective...but whiteboards, standups and deep dives personally can be helpful.

I think the key thing for me is that I never force people to sit in on these.

When an employee starts a large piece of work they don't understand that I feel have some knowledge on. I ask if they would like to whiteboard a solution with me...or deep dive something in the code, or do daily standups just to talk about w/e is on their mind

Doing these remotely is totally fine, but I do feel these activities...or atleast whiteboarding and deep diving is nicer in person for me
And that’s on 90% rehypothecated deposits. MakerDao has lower margins with 150% collateralization.
Better ads isn't a product I have much interest in. I have very much literally never seen a targeted ad I like or even found useful. This sounds like Google employee speak to me.
Some things (maybe with a focus from a German perspective):

* some words are too complicated or seldomly used - "tenure", "runbook" are not words people know here.

* seems like a gdpr nightmare (connecting okay to all kinds of data sources like calendars, repos, etc. You would need legal agreements, in the best case servers in Europe) so yeah, maybe just focus on the US :D

* as a data source in Germany you would definitely need Outlook and Azure DevOps

* upload the product demo on a new YouTube channel. Add a voice-over. Currently it's too fast and I did not understand it.

* I'd prefer a "getokay.com" domain, hq makes no sense, also hard to understand
As a counterpoint to all the doom-and-gloom articles, SF condo sales have skyrocked in the past month as companies move past COVID and have started requiring workers to come back to the office on a full time/hybrid basis.
Old Linus is not okay when discussing terrible patches, but doubleplusgood when discussing anti-vax. I bet if he lashed out at vaxxers we would already hear calls for his head.
Often some additives may get absorbed by your gut.

A smoothie vs a peach may well have different glycemic indices. Few people chew their few up to the extent that a bender will break it down. Also, how many peaches go into a smoothie, and how much extra sugar via, say, yogurt, or smoothie mix?
Didn’t think of that, good point!
It doesn't matter if the car drives itself or not. What matters is how money is withdrawn.

It's enough to have "on/off" somewhere in settings, and have it "enabled" even if you don't use it.

Good grief, there are countless articles even here on HN about dark patterns where people are tricked into subscribing to something, or being unable to unsusbcribe except when going through the hoops. But sure, a car manufacturer charging maney for a subscription will never ever do that as long as you "don't use a feature".
The Italian "auguri" means "best wishes"; "chiamatemi" means "call me". Neither is a plausible translation of "hello". The obvious one, "ciao", is missing.
The post is referring to the codebase of k8s itself, not the experience of deploying go code to k8s.
It's not so much that the food molecules are different, but the amounts that ultimately makes something "unhealthy." It's right there in the first paragraph:

> high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt diets

Much like how the attention industry has refined advertisements, games, news, etc to become exceedingly effective at targeting the pleasure areas of the brain, making us want to consume more, so too has the food industry.

Humans have evolved to find pleasure in eating fat, sugar, and salt, as the former are excellent sources of energy, and the latter is required by many processes ("Brawndo, it's got what plants crave!"). Processed food has optimized, distilled, and combined these components into foods that could never be found in nature, and which our bodies are ill-equipped for.
But until that actually happens, the possibility of it maybe happening in the future has zero impact on current natural selection.
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I get what you are saying. So let's start with the hypothesis then. We must ask a question first to begin to create tests ( thought experiments in this case ).

"Environment and/or society ( which is part of your environment ) apply selective pressures favoring cognitive abilities. These selections produce increased cognition in decedents indicating genetic influence in cognitive abilities."

Human cognition has not remained stagnant over time. It has evolved. This evolution of cognition was driven by selective forces regardless of those forces being social or environmental or combination thereof. It is important to not confuse technology with our ability to think. However, there is a point where cognition allows for the advancement of knowledge and technology. Somehow we reached that point.

To assume that once we reached this point, human cognition stopped evolving would be more elective than attempting to explore hypothetical situations as applied to our understandings of past peoples to help analyze the question.

We know that we can force selection for intelligence in other mammals [0]( dogs in this thread ). We also know there are significant indications of intelligence related to genetics in humans [1]. ( the wikipedia names a number of caveats, however there remains significant evidence that a portion of intelligence is determined genetically ).

The fact that societies advance to where the selective pressure for cognitive abilities reduces is recognized and not part of this argument. The argument is specifically regarding the selection for intelligence. It is also understood that IQ can be increased through training and society.[2]

[0] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA555235.pdf
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
this comment thread makes it apparent that WFH, hybrid, in person will become part of recruitment. allow people of all types to self sort