skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a common factor to all of your 1:1s, so that may be worth looking into.

Like the author, I have had some ongoing 1:1s be incredibly productive. Like really changing my life. Unlike the author, I wouldn’t broadly recommend them. They’re so easy to do in a way that isn’t productive. I think that’s the default, really. So if I was going to tell people to do them I’d be very explicit that you need to do something different than you probably think. Here are exacts steps and characteristics, if you don’t follow these then it won’t work and don’t come to me about it.

The overall general trend of why they’re not effective is they’re too surface level. You say some updates to your boss in a way that doesn’t get you fired, maybe complain about some stuff. You kinda just talk about things.

It needs to be a time when there is some work really happening. It’s metawork, but it’s still work. Like “what were the things that distracted you last week?” and you write them down, there in the meeting. Not “anything distracting you lately?” “nope I’m fine”. It’s a much more vulnerable, interactive process. This is probably why a 1:1 with your boss isn’t the most effective person. Too much image to maintain.

I think the sports model is better. In baseball, the Manager (coach or head coach in other sports) makes decisions about who is playing. Coaches (aka assistant coaches or trainers) are skill experts who help you get better. You can be more vulnerable with them. I think some industries, especially software, would do well to have more of a manager/coach model.
How to automate your meeting agendas in Google docs
This is a killer feature that I've been wanting to create myself. When my thinking is divergent, I benefit from a single dialogue that allows me to write without distraction, but my outputs belong to many different contexts. When my thinking is convergent, I have difficulty recovering my collection of useful material.

My experience with a 'second brain' has mirrored yours. Nice post! Good luck!
If you can only use POST, then the query is by definition not safe in the HTTP sense even if it would be with a QUERY method: POST is defined to be not-safe.

So an HTTP framework would not retry, moving retry logic into the application.

If you can only use POST, then you also can't cache the result because POST is not safe: you've no idea if the same POST is intended to produce the same response.
It's a post-exposure treatment, don't think that qualifies as a cure. Same thing with the rabies vaccine, it'll only save your life if given before any symptoms occur (and the disease has entrenched itself in the body).
what about cryptocurrency? stock trading? American football (concussions)? Cars?
Disney makes an insane amount of money off of its multiple theme parks.

There's a lot of people willing to trade their hard-earned valuables (coin, time, what have you) for a little gentleness and softness. I don't see that as a moral ill.

The world is sharp, cold, apathetic, and dangerous. People know. That doesn't imply people need to live in that part all the time if circumstances do not force them to.

In fact, one could argue most of the last ten-odd-thousand years of building societies has been a slow crawl towards figuring out how to make something less sharp, cold, apathetic, and dangerous for people to spend their days in.
Interesting to see a few posts on HN recently advocating for 'dumb' and 'boring' tech. I'd actually been working on an article on 'dumb technology' along the same lines. Comments welcome. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358248465_Dumb_Tech...
This conversation is referring to a specific phenomenon that has become strongly noticeable in the last 5 years or so.

That problems of nepotism, or cronyism have already existed to some extent, is another conversation.

I also don't know why "merit" is in quotes. Hiring based on merit is going to be the main goal for companies that are not corrupt.

Corruption should also be discouraged e.g. by stopping companies becoming "too big to fail", or by being anti-competitive, or by actually creating legislation that actually protects against discrimination, rather than by perpetuating it.

That corruption exists, is not an argument to ignore corruption in another form.
I suppose an important variable is what kind of content the algorithm recommends to you. In my recommendeds I mostly get clips from my favorite shows, funny prank videos, some cool informative stuff like Kurzgesagt, food content, and video game content. I'd guess that if you venture into the news / politics realm, the comments degrade accordingly, but I purposely try not to watch that stuff so I'm not sure.
> her philosophy department is leaving a lot of productivity on the table

The mind boggles as to what could be done with that increased productivity.
> Grandparent post is nuts. Youtube comments are mostly full of repetitive jokes in the current meme formats. Sometimes there is a quality contribution, but it probably won't be near the top.

I have noticed that they've improved from "zero-value abuse" to just "zero-value". I assume because they've gotten better at burying the abuse. Which is... something.
> The most interesting thing happening in online advertising today is the pitch made by the video or podcast creator that is embedded in the content.

Harder to block, so I manually skip it...
I wonder how much weight we could save by leaving out exactly the things the author mentions.

BTW budget cars sold in Europe like certain Dacia models are still pretty basic, yet with efficient and modern (ICE) engines.

I have even head Dacia does not in EVs.
¿No "Ñ" in the keyboard?
.NET is fundamentally built on the Common Language Infrastructure.

So C#, F#, IronPython, etc. are just higher level constructs on top of the .NET CLI.

So perhaps that's why I tend to clob the two together :)
Surprised to hear that. The ACC on my 2019 CR-V is the best adaptive cruise control I've used, a lot smoother than ACC I've tried in substantially more expensive cars. I agree the LKAS is pretty crappy (off of highways, it seems closer to 60% of lanes), but I've never experienced anything with it that's caused actual problems. The crappiness just comes from it frequently not knowing where the lane is, but I leave it on at all times for the times where it does recognize them.
I don't think it works on iOS. Works perfectly on Android though!
I read that supposedly Google had to rename elements of their website that advertisers use to manage their ad campaigns because the website would break when ad blockers blocked elements mentioning ads. So the people running these ad campaigns were themselves using sad blockers!
I share the same sentiment. Something I've realized recently is that people who complain about car-centrism (myself) often fail to identify ways to start solving these problems. To remedy this, I've been thinking of writing a set of practical posts, sort of a how-to, in which I explore ways to solve these problems. Is that something that would interest you?
I would love to know more about it, I know about as little as it's possible to know about emacs while having also used it. If you have anything more guided than me just doing a google search, please share!
Is it possible from geological evidence to confirm that Sun was dimmer billions years ago? I am asking as stability of Earth orbit cannot be taken for granted for such periods. For example, we could underestimate the effects of solar wind in past that could have pushed Earth, or the could be an interaction with passing close stars.
Having had to do that quite a few time, for instance for audio / control / visuals graphs in https://ossia.io as well as some proprietary stuff, I'm pretty much convinced now that it's easier to just whip up the graph data structure that fits the problem rather than trying to make a generic framework for that. Every time I tried to use a library of dataflow nodes it ended up not doing what I wanted the way I wanted, and rewriting something tailored to the use case was just much faster especially considering that you likely want user interface features which will be specific to what you are doing with your dataflow graph.
> Several of them were even verbatim duplicates of other comments on the same video.

I don’t know how many of these are robots vs knowing karma whores, but it’s definitely a pervasive problem.
> Laws are made to protect the majority, not the minority.

That's not what the US Constitution says.
I know a guy who's actively interviewing to take on a second remote job while keeping his first. He has no plans to make either party aware that he has other employment.

His argument is that at his current job he can get all of his assigned work done in 10-20 hours a week (though he doesn't share with them that he's basically only working part time) so he has plenty of time to take on a second job where he also expects to get his daily work done in just a few hours a day.

I don't have an issue with it IF both parties are aware that he's only working a few hours a day but are happy with what he's getting done. It's the inevitable lies when there are conflicting meetings, etc. that bother me.

I told him so and he was undeterred.
I was confused about Twitter's business model from the very start. But, I didn't think Uber and Lyft made a lot of financial sense, either :P

Usually what you'd do is pump the platform full of ads and then offer an ad-free option, or make it into a subscription service outright, but I don't think twitter has enough of a moat for the latter and won't be successful on the former.
User conventions don't work, because there is no mechanism for enforcement other than "hope they remember!" I would say most users don't even know about this convention, given I work in an environment where notebooks are used heavily and have never heard of this. Because these mistakes are allowed to happen silently, they will happen, and it will almost certainly make the code harder to manage.

On top of that, Pyflow seems to rely on the user to define dependencies between blocks as well. This means that the user would have to both perfectly maintain the convention of one-variable-per-block, but also link every block that touches that variable going forward. Without ever making a mistake. It's such a well-defined graph problem that it's practically made for computers to handle, not fleshy people.

This is why tools are so important: they can impose constraints that allow you to act more freely elsewhere. When I change a cell in Observable or add a reference, I don't have to think. The engine handles dependencies for me, without fail. I can't make an entire class of errors, which means I can just focus on functionality.
This was the math I did when I bought 6 months ago...

... waiting for a housing crash makes no sense because my stonks would crash with the housing market.

Of course this was just my pocket philosophy.

(In general, waiting for a crash that might not happen also feels risky)
The above comment was a follow up for the grandparent since the question by the GP indicated unfamiliarity.
I recon decreased energy consumption would be achieved by decreased water consumption, since less water needs heating.
Yes, and no one can withstand the barrage of internet dopamine bullets. I agree, we weren't designed for it. But I disagree that no one can withstand the barrage. People can teach themselves to fend these things off, in fact I think its the only thing that works.
Mitch was the best! RIP.
> My motivation came from GraphQL as it responds everything with 200s, and so far it has been humming along fine.

This is slightly annoying though, as other consumers (like `fetch` in JavaScript world for example) behaves differently if there is a error. If every status is 200, suddenly you need to manually check the response inside the returned promise, while if you answer with a correct status code when the server encountered an error (5xx), then it'll jump to the `.catch` part of the promise chain instead, which you're probably already handling anyways.

Similarly with curl if I'm not mistaken (don't have it in front of me). A 2xx would make the process return 0, while a 5xx would make it return non-0, so you can handle errors without having to read the actual response.
Insane when people tell me they pay for crunchyroll and youtube
why no ñ?
If the work is getting done, whether by 2 or 1 person what are they scamming you of?
Don't trust comments
The Bluetooth in my 2102 Scion xB's stock calculator-display headunit works great.

I turn on the car, my phone auto-connects, and my last podcast immediately starts playing where it left off. I don't even know how it does that. I receive a phone call, and my music is paused and I can hit the green "pick up phone" button on the headunit, and I'm talking. Call ends, and my music resumes. I can pause the music with the "1" button, skip within a track, skip tracks, even thumbs-up or thumbs-down in music apps, all with a handful of manual buttons on a stock headunit. No "flipping menus", the existing buttons just work.

It's amazing. It just works. All without any god damn embedded mobile operating system or fancy graphics. ... oh, and because this headunit has a CDROM bay, it holds my magnetic phone mount better than any of the stick-on or vent-grippy ones. Thanks, dumb car!
It's a reason to have a 1-1 meeting. It's not a reason to have regularly scheduled 1-1 meetings.
I use Brave Browser along with NextDNS.io or a PiHole and 99.99% of ads and trackers are non existant for me
> So a lack of anything to detect, means a lack of anything to spread an infection.

One should add that for that the threshold for detection has to be lower than the threshold for infection.

Example: let the detection threshold be 10 particles/ml and the infection threshold be 100 particles/ml (*) -> then undetectable implies that it is very improbable that an infection will take place.

(*) This is a very crude description. Think of it like this: Every single virion (virus particle) has a very low probability of causing an infection itself but there is a high number of them and for one them it might just work out (higher viral load -> higher risk of successful infection)
Interesting to see a few posts on HN recently advocating for 'dumb' or 'boring' tech as I'd been writing an article on 'dumb technology' along the same lines. Comments welcome. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358248465_Dumb_Tech...
looks very different then everything else that's for sure (and I don't like it)
Is there a way to query your notes, or is it intended as a way to capture and maybe review the most recent few notes?
The easy way is thru the late Robert Chassell's book "Emacs Lisp Intro". I know someone mentioned it , but I bought a hard copy of Chassell's book and its great to learn, esp from one of the core members, in a different style. My brain refuses to dig books written in the same "new" way.
I'm not a biologist and this is based on general knowledge and some quick google searches but:

We're quite good at detecting viruses if we really want to. PCR can amplify DNA so much that we can detect even 50 viruses per milliliter of blood. A milliliter seems like actually a lot of blood to get into someone else and your innate immune system is capable of finding and neutralizing small amounts of contagions relatively well even if it's never seen it before. I do suspect this is a statistical impossibility though probably you could somehow get incredibly unlucky, for example in your blood momentarily all the free floating viruses end up in the same bit of blood and that somehow gets into someone else, but I think we can all realize that probability is tiny and in practice I don't think there are any examples of transmission with undetectable levels of HIV.
I haven't looked into the Moderna vaccine but in general there are many ways to get rid of a virus. Using the typical B cell + viral glycoprotein is the most obvious way as viral activity is hard to detect when replicating inside a cell but there are many stages in the viral replication process which can be inhibited. Inhibiting protease cleavage of the viral polyprotein or preventing polymerase formation are all possible solutions. They don't really count as vaccines though.
The parent poster is saying the technique is less important than being well-meaning and trying sincerely.

Having said that, perhaps the lesson we can learn here is that reading is a powerful technique to learn to employ.
Is discussing performance not a worthwhile endeavor?
See that's the thing, it's so easy to just say 'oh an anti-vaxxer' with a smirk and not think more. But I have done a lot of research and informing myself over time and things very much don't add up. Yes the vaccines do have some efficacy and effect for the elderly, but beyond that the research doesn't support it, unless you just listen to the hand-picked 'experts' the media chooses.

The data doesn't lie. Were you aware Pfizer finished their phase 3 trial after 3 months partly because 97% of the control group got vaccinated? Is that good science?

Are you aware many countries count a covid death as any death within 30 days of a covid diagnosis?

Are you aware in the US that doctors and hospitals receive compensation specifically for recording a covid case but not for other illnesses?

Are you aware that in the UK, out of 170K+ deaths, less than 100 were under the age of 20, yet vaccines are pushed to all with a higher side effect profile in the young?

Are you aware that in Pfizer's presentation for approval of their vaccine for under 12's that they didn't even demonstrate a clinical outcome?

Did you see Bourla himself say two doses do nothing against Omicron, three 'a little,' and yet they're still being pushed/mandated?

And look at Ivermectin. The response has constantly been 'more research needed' yet no big investment, even though the investment in the vaccine was unprecedented. Why wouldn't masses of funds and research be put towards it if it looked promising (which a number of studies, though not all, showed).

I change my mind if the evidence and data are strong. I don't sent the vaccine does work to an extent for specific groups, but you have to work really hard to not see massive problems with things like mandates and vaccinating kids based on the data. Locking down seems to have worked best, but that's political suicide now so 'just get more jabs' that don't stop spread or hospitalisation is the go...
This isn't so much an article about 1:1s in general, I would say, but more of a rant about bad Ph.D. student supervision in one particular case, which the author generalises from N=1 observations.

Of course there are many stories of poor grad school experience and the notable Prof. Smith from the legendary Ph.D. comic; but just to point
out that there are also "rock star" supervisors:
for instance, I was blessed to be able to email
drafts of conference papers to mine at 11 p.m. and get corrections back by 5 a.m.

For example, here are some interesting supervision anecdotes from CMU (computer science, not philosophy):
https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3361714_1/component/file...

Now I can't say I know how the distribution of grad student supervisors looks like on the good/bad scale, but let's just be careful not to extrapolate from a single data point.

PS: I applaud the author's approach to try to help using the methods he knew - a beautiful example of making use of transferrable skills (computing is full of them).
That takes two steps, needs authorization, and needs queries created that way to be stable so that when you execute them with GET you know what you're executing.

This is a lot of application logic to add just to avoid adding a QUERY method. It's just too much.
> TV: NEC P461 commercial display - I found the model number by climbing behind the arrivals/departures board at the airport.

Huh. Trying to imagine someone doing that and not getting detained. "I just wanted to read the model number, officer, I swear!"

Other than that, good advice. :)
What I find interesting is programmers who are very scrupulous about documenting their code completely fail to document makefiles.
I do not like to ride a bike at 0 °C. Buses are fine, waiting for the bus at 0 °C not so. But yeah, owning a car which is only used 1% of it's lifetime is pretty laughable and actually prohibitive.
It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker
Luc Montagnier.
Yes he's a quack now and yes he was immediately refuted.

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Disputed-French-...
We are working in https://hal9.com which is language agnostic and allows you to compose different programming languages; however, we are focused at the moment at 1D-graphs but have plans to support 2D-graphs in the coming weeks.

If you want a demo or just time to chat, I'm available at javier at hal9.ai.
Larger windows mean more cooling and heating needed, and high window sills especially on sedans are needed because of how insanely high SUVs and trucks are these days, because people need to overcompensate.
HALO was originally based on Myth. That is when Halo was briefly (conceptually) an RTS. It evolved into a Third Person Shooter, and finally First Person Shooter. After Bungie was acquired by Microsoft, they had a year to make their game, so they made the decision to start over from the beginning and create Halo as a first person shooter.
The last time I made a deliberate effort to read a YouTube comment was, I think, sometime around 2007.
In the software industry it should be pretty easy to track tickets someone is working on and compare that to how long similar tickets are completed by coworkers.
Use the Vanced app. It's ad free youtube

Edit:
https://vancedapp.com/
Fair point. It'd be helpful if there was some transparency from Youtube.
My Out-of-Body Experience
Disney+, HBO Max Get Waves of Subscribers. Keeping Them Is Hard
Didn't realize certificates are really free (according that that site), I've been paying GoDaddy $94.99 for a Standard SSL Renewal yearly.
doesnt works for me, the only places I disable my adblocker is basically financial websites & healthcare related stuff. other than that it is all off.

Another thing is, since these adblock extensions get cleartext view of all the site you visit, you really want them to be completely open sourced. So only ublock origin for me.
Chordates are known for their chemistry weapons. The bioluminiscence warning must be there for some reason.
Coupling bluetooth to all sorts of unnecessary stuff as part of a "technology package" was the mantra for Euro car manufacturers for a decade or so until bluetooth became something people expected, no matter what.
>In comparison: Sony paid 20x less for Bungie. What they lack in variety of products, they make up for in, in my view, Potential. Destiny is a great franchise

Strongly disagree. Bungie have one IP. while AB have many well know IPs. Blizzard proven, you can make a new game out of old IP. Warcraft is used to make Hearthstone the card game.

you are comparing one franchise IP to multiple franchise IPs and claiming Bungie is a better deal. that just stretching it.
https://libera.chat is where people migrated after Freenode ... imploded. It's mostly FOSS stuff, programming languages and software.

XKCD has their own IRC channel(s) too: https://xkcd.com/about/