skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment is only at zero, it means nothing. I made no qualitative statement about QA being beneath anything.

Most developers equate QA is beneath them. I also think QA is just as valid and not beneath dev, but I have also held nearly every roll in modern software companies. How we view QA doesn't mean that is how the tech job market sees it. Pay is lower, qual is lower and at companies that have a sizeable Indian workforce, I have witnessed that QA heavily skews female.

I didn't even notice until I have been on interview loops with Indian men that I thought were nice and that I had professional and personal respect for and this weird tiger came out when it came to interviewing women (for dev roles) that didn't come out when interviewing men. This is just anecdotal, not all not all.

This comment itself is going to get flagged or downvoted, but I can't put a caveat on every sentence.

https://feminisminindia.com/2020/03/02/sexism-in-engineering...

> A couple of women who I knew had studied STEM subjects but had changed their career trajectory after graduating, explained the systemic sexism that women face in universities in India which deterred them from pursuing it any further.

And then I see those pressures in the hiring loop (for devs), we didn't interview QA, it would make sense that they get pushed into QA or get pushed out entirely.

Sexism in tech is much stronger than men realize, women are fully aware.
+1 Linux here too, have a longer train-ride on the weekend and wished I could play this on the train. Then ONI or Factorio it will be.

Added this game to my wishlist, will buy it when Linux support is available.
Off topic, but phrases like "it is said that the books took six months to burn. We can’t know if this is true." bother me. Of course we can know if that is true. This is like saying "it is said the books, upon burning, all turned into unicorns, sang silly songs, and flew to the moon. We can't know if this is true."

The physics of combustion hasn't changed in the last 2000 years.
We are splitting our database into Main and CI
It's for anyone who wants to use it.

That's going to be spam bots mostly.

I hope you have the good grace to retire the service once that becomes obvious, but let's just say HN requires me to assume good faith and I'll leave it at that.
First of all I wish you all the best and want to be clear that I'm not trying to be mean spirited. By engagement I mean something like likes per tweet to followers ratio, and I'm seeing around 5-10 likes per tweet on your account with about 2700 followers. This sounds really mean but you asked so that's my definition. Hope you have a great future startup career.
Aerodynamic analysis of different cyclist hill descent positions
I’m French and had never heard of this. Very interesting, thanks!
Does C “build time” include the time it takes to load the binary from disk?
I skimmed the fair-code license and it… makes sense.
What about USSR Olympic athletes? Especially before USSR collapse.

Salient words at the very start of the article are "former athletes... suffer from poverty". East German Olympic athletes suffered poverty, which is a risk factor in any part of the world.

That's why I am asking about USSR statistics before USSR collapse - at that time weightlifters were treated very well, much like at US today, if not better.
What ended up working during the late 80s and through the 90s were ASICs that could be reused in areas other than just "pure" synthesizers - digital pianos, home organs, PC soundcards (IIRC both Emu and Ensoniq ended up being bought by Creative, the SoundBlaster company).

So this worked out well for those companies that were in a position to do a good job of both the ASIC and logic board development, and also use the resulting technology to address those broader markers - Yamaha being the pre-eminant example. (I agree with the point about the DX7 being a sidenote, but I'd say that all the other product lines that the tech eventually flowed into will have ended up being rather more than just a sidenote.)

Regarding the current market, despite all the retreads, I do think there's more interesting stuff going on than there has been for a long time (certainly in comparison to the analogue synth revival of the 90s), and I hope that manages to continue happening, even as I also kind of hope that the retro-appeal stuff will simmer down a bit.
So not useful as such, but I once had a pile of old computer and electronics magazines, and would give people their birth month edition. You should be able to find 1972 ones fairly easily; Wireless World was around then, not sure what else.
They're great fun looking at predictions and adverts of the time.
The big difference is that back in the day we had the interstate commerce commission establishing a minimum ticket price so that airlines didn't have to engage in "ruinous" price competition. Everyone had to pay what would now be business class ticket prices but everybody got business class service because that was the only thing airlines could compete on.
One model is getting a PhD. Even if you don't go to graduate school it will take a similar amount of effort.
>There are people in QA who are Patel

What does this mean? I thought Patel was a surname.
No I was more surprised that people from 97 are in fact walking and talking adult humans. Time flies.

I've got to stop sleeping in Foreverware..
There is OpenLieroX (https://www.openlierox.net/) (disclaimer: I'm one of the main developers) and then there is also a almost exact reimplementation of the original one (https://www.liero.be/).

Also see Webliero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980676

And there have been many other clones in the past like Gusanos.

Soldat is also similar, and has recently become open sourced. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26058312

And Teeworlds (always been open source) as well.
I grew up watching Mutant League cartoons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_League

It probably altered my view on doping.

Because so much money is involved in sports, I think we should legalize it even knowing that it has these health effects.

People volunteering to test performance enhancement will improve our understanding of human biology. If everyone knows they kill you, people will search for versions that do not over time and will be able to weigh risk/reward.
> Climatologist Bill Patzert estimates that more than 80% of the region's rainfall ends up diverted from urban areas in Southern California into the Pacific . “All those trillions of gallons of rain, which sound so sweet, really end up in the ocean,” he said. [0]

> Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban, although the
percentage of water use by sector varies dramatically across regions and between wet and dry years. Some of the water used by each of these sectors returns to rivers and groundwater basins where it can be used again. [1]

[0]: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-rainwater-lost-wet...
[1]: https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/jtf-water-use.pdf
I guess toxic is an adjective with a similar meaning, but a worse connotation in my view. Both words imply that she is to be avoided, and she will probably have some difficulty finding a new job after her very-public departure from Google.
Congrats, that's also thinking like a poker player.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
> a lot of these problems just look like super tedious calculations

Analog Stack Overflow?
Some old photos of you cats together at different stages of your lives. Put them in a nice scrap book. Write a thoughtful message at the end.
Actually, if he has a power-tool brand he enjoys maybe splurge on something that uses the same batteries that he doesn't have or can't quite spend on.

For example, the Milwaukee lawn mower is highly rated but also kinda pricey.

In that area they also have some real nice tools for car working now, impact wrenches, etc. But you'd need to know what he currently has to find something nice to have.
Openscope[1] - an air traffic control simulator. I used to spend hours playing it.
I don’t know if it’s my favorite open source game, but it’s the only one I know of.

1. https://github.com/openscope/openscope
I don't like the excuses that things are harder to solve in the US because it's so big, diverse or whatever. If anything I think it should be easier in the US because it can solve a lot of problems without having to think about what the impact on neighboring countries is. As far as water goes, the US has pretty much all types of climate zones under its control so it could divert water or move agriculture to more favorable locations. A small country like Israel doesn't have access to water rich areas but the US has.

The only reason why the US can't solve problems is because it's dysfunctional and people prefer to fight each other and not accept facts they don't like.
Go, Python.

DevOps/SRE tooling (structured data) will remain in demand as well
I always wanted to try a game where you join an economy and your supply impacts the demand of others and changes the price, etc.

When playing Minecraft as a kid I always envisioned getting specialized in finding certain minerals or making certain items and selling them but I guess it was too early in the game and that wasn’t an option. There might be a mod now that allows for thag
> You really think it's appropriate for some white American manager to lecture his Indian subordinates after spending a few hours in training?

If he/she sees a clear violation of discrimination laws/policies, then yes! Although "lecture" wouldn't be the best start. Asking questions to the alleged discriminator would be a better way forward. Find out what happened and why, and ask multiple people for their input. Start by assuming innocence and let evidence prove otherwise, not the other way around.

The truth about a given situation is not completely inaccessible to people without "lived experience". That's why words are so powerful - when used truthfully and in good faith, they enable to bridge gaps where we lack that personal experience, and make accurate judgments.
Not mentioned yet:

Unknown Horizons https://unknown-horizons.org/
I agree with this. The Java I learned in 2002 is still applicable, but you could also make a career using only technologies that had been invented since then. No one suspected that Apple development would be a viable tech path, and ruby was the nodejs of the day.
If somebody says "Turkish doctor" I somehow assume he means a doctor who grew up and educated in Turkey.

I don't argue with people who identify as Turkish or German. I don't know if Sahin identifies as either or both. I know that it is harder for Turkish immigrants to get a good education in Germany, especially during the time he grew up in. I also don't care much about the debate of how useful immigrants are, because the result may very well be that they aren't on average that useful and that quite a large portion of criminals are immigrants. Usefulness or consequence to society should not matter for the rights of an individual. And immigration control always comes down to violating someones rights in order to somehow get rid of them if they are unwanted for some reason.
Biologists/phylogenists have always known this - even when working with morphological features, there's missing data, judgement calls, etc etc. Lots of room for mistakes. When modern phylogenies get calculated, it's almost always done on a statistical basis. And there's always a note about uncertainty in the text of the papers.
Good thing they've all been dead for close to a hundred years then.
Thanks for reaching out!

I'll check it out.
I love the Kelly criterion! I should reread it in order to see if I can make a better heuristic on optimal bet-sizing.
Ask HN: What’s something you do that seems to others like magic, but isn’t?
How does it actually work? I’d love to demystify some critical parts of the economy if you have an earned secret to share
> inb4 I'm replying to someone who works on the Firefox IPC team or something lol

The danger and joy of commenting on HN!
I am referring to the way, data was handled in Germany, during the pandemic and how there was an extreme bias to make public health authorities the sole arbiters of truth, not so much how this particular study was handled. I now realize that I wasn't clear/ontopic enough.
> If people evolved like technology, you’d be 6,000 lizards, 30 chimps, and a couple Neanderthals all glued together with an anguished human face stretched across it as a “visual refresh.”

Well, actually there's still quite some old DNA in our genes, and we still go through various past forms as an embryo. Also we still got a tailbone despite not having a tail anymore, and a lot of similar cruft.
This paper is an excellent jumping off point into the academic literature.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Combining-Markov-Rando...
Helium prices have risen significantly over the past few years. We can obtain some as a byproduct of natural gas extraction but it's limited.

https://geology.com/articles/helium/
> For my hobbies there are still bulletin boards! Of course, Reddit's very useful as well.

Find me a forum with 10k members and hundreds of active users that’s dedicated almost entirely to the North American use of the BMW M57. Because that’s the sort of thing Facebook has.

You might think that you’re getting along fine without these forums but I promise you, if you’re not on the site you’re missing conversations.
Do you demand this strict moderation and sensitivity also when it's white people that are being accused of discrimination?
> The same reason speakers on Palestinian rights often can. While they may be on the right side of the issue, it's also very easy for closed discussion spaces to rapidly devolve into pretty viciously anti-semitic tropes.

I agree. Maybe a more precise way to think about this is that they’re only on the “right side” of the issue to the extent that “the other side” is “Israeli settlement policy” rather than “Jews” or “the existence of Israel as a state”.
> I'm not necessarily saying Tesla is absolutely wrong here, just that the argument that "well Tesla is doing it, and they know their business, so they must be right" is BS - companies are routinely wrong about how to optimize productivity.

That's not what I said - I said tesla genuinely think it. I never said that they must be right, but also they are probably in a better position to judge than you or me for their business IMO. If their existing remote work situation was all sunshine and rainbows for Tesla then they probably wouldn't be making the move back.

They aren't doing this to spite people working from home, they will be doing it because they genuinely think it isn't productive in their use case.
This is maybe the strongest out-group bias in elite circles in the US currently. I believe that is largely because it is acceptable, or even required, in the current elite ideologies that dominate corporate and academic entities currently. And they hate to have it pointed out.
Then they won’t invite you to the table again.
Not to be confused with the Romanian people - i.e, people from Romania. (Though some of the Roma people can obviously also be Romanians!).

EDIT: I absolutely condone discrimination, but I think for the people that live in areas with very visible Roma people, it's kind of obvious why.

At best, you'll just see them begging on the streets. At worst, you'll experience getting hounded down by them, getting robbed, or your property looted. Mostly just an issue in larger cities, and it used to be much worse 10 years ago.

We had this one older Roma guy that would have his usual spot, and he'd sit there and beg all day long. Rain, snow, or wind - he'd always sit there. In the end, he became a fixture in the city scenery.

But one particular winter got really bad, and some senior citizen offered him their apartment (rent-free) for a couple of months, as they were away for the winter. He passed away a couple of years later.
As a PS4 gamer, I don't understand why I can't predownload and install a game's assets. Let me download and install what I need to ahead of time so when I do get the disc and pop it in, it just launches.
"rather than bringing our community together and raising awareness — was creating division and rancor"

Insert every social movement in the last 10 years. Absolutely hilarious that a company that goes out of it's way to participate in the US culture war identifies an actual systemic issue in the country where the CEO just happens to originate from, it is suddenly a divisive action to make half baked hyperbolic social statements.
CA brought a civil rights case against Cisco for caste discrimination. I believe its still in progress.

https://thewire.in/caste/cisco-case-caste-discrimination-sil...
As a leftist, one of the things that gives me pause about identity politics and the language of identity divorced from class struggle is how easily it is repurposed by reactionaries:

> But Google employees began spreading disinformation, calling her “Hindu-phobic” and “anti-Hindu” in emails to the company’s leaders, documents posted on Google’s intranet and mailing lists with thousands of employees.

I don't have a solution, just a depressing observation.
I'll try using different terms, in hopes that'll help:

* The author of the email is <no-reply@youtube.com>, verified by DKIM.

* The sender of the email is <postalerts@robtoledoyour.com>, verified by TLS.

If the author and the sender are the same, then there's no problem -- that's who the email is from.

If the author and the sender are different, you think the email is "from" the author, and I think the email is "from" the sender.

IMO whether the content was originally authored by YouTube might be interesting in some vague abstract chain-of-trust sense, but it's not useful to me as a consumer of email. I want to know (1) why some message came to arrive in my inbox and (2) who sent it to me. The desired UX is something like this:

[postalerts@robtoledoyour.com] Updates to YouTube's Terms of Service

(ideally also tagged as spam due to the mismatch between author and sender)

An analogy might be physical mail. If I receive a copy of Dante's Inferno in my mailbox, then I expect the return address to describe the person who put my address on the shipment. It would be beyond useless for the return address to say "Dante Alighieri, Italy" even though that is an accurate description of the work's author.
I've also heard this topic referred to as "results-oriented thinking," which is generally what you don't want: you shouldn't judge a decision based on its result, but on the information you had at the time.

The key to this idea, which I don't see covered in the blog post, for making future decisions is that you shouldn't let past bad luck affect your future decisions. If you lose a positive EV bet, it shouldn't shy you away from making the same bet again.

Some examples off the top of my head about decision-making traps people could make:
- Continuing to bet at the roulette wheel to "regain" what you've lost
- Not going to a well-rated restaurant again just because you had a random bad experience
- Not investing in ETFs after being burned by past downturns
- Playing MTG and not burning them out just because they had a counterspell last game
Practice a lot with those whose skills you seek to learn. This can be academic training, apprenticeship, solo work or whatever. But it has to be challenging and ideally guided. As the internet meme goes, “always be the worst musician in your band”.

Repeating something 100x builds rote or muscle memory. Doing new things 100x expands one’s horizons. Both are useful. The Beatles learned how to gig in Hamburg. They learned how to record at Abbey Road. And even at their peak they worked with others.
Why stop there? Why not 10?
I forgot about one of my favorites! LiquidWar, a distillation of RTS into one the most engaging multiplayer games ever.

https://www.gnu.org/software/liquidwar6/
I doubt it. In fact attrocities on brahmins is rarely discussed [1]. Infact his state TamilNadu there is a strong anti-brahminism sentiment in political sphere. This is one of the reason why lot of upper-caste men/women go outside India.

[1] https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/the-brahmin-files-why-atro...
posteo.de still has a fixed monthly fee with this model. They just limit the account if the credit is used up.
Elon Musk ends remote work at Tesla – 40 hours per week in the office or leave
Elon Musk demands Tesla employees show up to the office full-time
Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study finds
> That seems like the definition of "unnatural" to me

Arguing with pseudonymous people on internet forums isn't particularly natural either, but here we are.
(Disclaimer: Didn't read the article, just played the game straight away.)

Played until level 20 using a fairly basic heuristic ("click largest prime number that gets you closer, until you can find a clear solution path"). Without a limit or goal on number of steps to the target, it loses replay value relatively fast.

You can always reach divisibility by two in at most one step and divisibility by three in at most two steps * (etc.), so any target with small prime factors is trivially reached once you land in the vicinity by just repeatedly adding its smallest prime factor. If there's no small prime factors in your target, apply the above rule backwards from the target and you're in easy territory again. There's often shortcuts (e.g. you're 18 away from the target - you can replace 5x -2 with 2x -5 at some point along that route, and/or 3x -2 with 2x -3).

Finding optimal routes seems arduous by hand (even if I had memorized primes above 100, finding the remainders of your target and the possible steps remains intractable to me), but it might be an interesting programming exercise. I wonder if there is an even better solution than the obvious graph traversal one.

* Well, assuming you want to go a certain direction. Divisibility by three is technically also always just one step away.
True. I'm largely sympathetic to the argument for decriminalization. Just on the grounds there should be limits in using government to protect people from themselves. But it's too often proposed as a quick an easy fix. Society does have an obligation to keep people from falling into a pit with relatively modest measures.
I'm six foot and am pretty comfortable in them. In any case, they're more comfortable (even if you don't put them all the way down) than old first class seats--which were basically like the seats you get in most domestic business class today.
"HTML has almost never thrown things away,"

Really? MDN web docs indicate a lot of deprecated/obsolate codes.
Which is really interesting given how male-dominated the web design field is
> I believe this is because `while(1)` runs so fast that there is no "idle" time for V8 to actually run GC. V8 is a strange beast, and this is just a guess of mine.

Java has (had) weird idiosyncrasies like this as well, well it doesn't crash, but depending on the construct you can get performance degradations depending on how the language inserts safepoints (where the VM is at a knowable state and a thread can be safely paused for GC or whatever).

I don't know if this holds today, but I know there was a time where you basically wanted to avoid looping over long-type variables, as they had different semantics. The details are a bit fuzzy to me right now.
> With virtual locations, the registered IP address matches the country you have chosen to connect to, while the server is physically located in another country.

How does this work then? How can you have a Indian IP address, while the server is located in the UK?
It’s very blunt and to the point as well, no beating around the bush or wriggling around to try to make yourself look less bad for it like in America.
I had enough fun to save and play again
Although there are good, competent and motivated professionals in all governments, they are overwhelmed by a cult to inefficiency.
My plot to find fellow cpma'ers worked! Wanna play some cpma? :) add me on discord keeb#1337 and we can set it up. Would be so fun.