skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing further from truth.

Companies still desperately need developers to make their business goals reality. This is not changing anytime soon. There has been no advancement that makes developers less relevant.

What changed is how companies react to perceived bumps on the road and productivity. Companies learned that global recession can affect them and it pays to prepare. Companies also learned that fast hiring causes low productivity down the line. The easiest way to fix this is to fire a bunch of people at a time rather than individually and then blame it on perceived recession (even if it barely affects the company).

My experience is also that large proportion of hires can barely program at all and got into business because every other job they could get pales when compared to software development. There are multiple reasons why these people got successfully hired (broken hiring, enormous pressures, etc.) I can't blame people for trying to do their best but from our point of view it has a huge effect on entire IT business.

Also companies started playing a kind of chicken game, it seems. Everybody waits for one company to lay some people off so that they can use it as an excuse to do the same.
Thanks. We did use tailwindUI for the app.
Haven't contrarians always existed though?

Also: decent job? House?
You are making strong assertions that are not strongly supported by evidence. Strong emotional reactions can happen for all kinds of hormonal disruptions including both added testosterone and all of the indirect consequences of using it (such as excess estrogen or other imbalances of that may result)

Absolutely some people can do massive amounts of steroids and have no aggressive tendencies, but other people immediately have problems. Its rather notable in some circles, like masters sports where lots of men are on TRT

and who knows what subtle psychological effects are at play, decisions being swayed by your new hormone makeup. Would make for fascinating research delving deeper
So you think, HN should have made an exception for him to allow his racist posts to be in the open?

Or to hire one person for him, reviewing all comments from him and filtering out the worst?

And assuming this is really what you think, how long till the next poor racist genious shows up, demanding equal rights?

Would you be able to operate a forum like that?
Test is associated with aggression [1]. I have to admit, I don’t really understand aromatization. Perhaps it’s the high test resulting in high estrogen that leads to the aggression.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23843821/
I'm building https://cubetrek.com
It's intended to be running/hiking/skiing/mountaineering analytics app focused on mountaineous terrain (think Strava but for activities in the mountains).

Just got finished on the 3D visualization of GPS tracks, now working on the user accounts to store/compare/visualize/share past activities.

It's definitely "scratch your own itch", as I'm building it to suit my exact needs.
I never played soccer with colleagues, at first being too tall and sucking at it and also seeing that as a sports for another "kind" of person. But nowadays I totally feel that its a great mix of play and sport, more fun and team bonding than gym, probably less taxing than cross-fit, etc. And now that I work remotely its even harder to find people to play... (And I'm in Brazil..)
You have the 4k version of the stick these days that's still super cheap.
As a seller, how does AppSumo work?

Is it just a notice board (like product hunt) where you get some exposure? Or do you pay for it (other than offering a bargain discount..)?
So you don’t have any Linux or Windows machines? We run off icloud calendar and use iCloud custom domains so this is great.

The iCloud sync is a travesty.
RIP Terry, beautiful but troubled genius.
I recently wrote a multithreaded web server and MVC framework in C from scratch using clang blocks and a request-based memory arena [0] and now I’d like to expand the endeavor into a custom compiled-to-bytecode DSL with web server and SQLite runtime.

The goal is to limit the environmental impact of serving web applications. Ideally memory usage should be less than a couple of MB for an idling server, a Docker container less than 100MB in size, and CPUs efficiently converting request paths into SQLite opcode and JSON responses.

[0] https://github.com/williamcotton/express-c
On mobile, you should download the app, instead of logging in on the web browser, as it's not responsive on the browser yet.
SBF is no alpha male
> “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device”

You don't even need to use the amazon services. Just run the Jellyfin app and that's all you need to keep alive as a service, the rest you can blacklist. There are also ways to root those devices if you want to remove ads and more.
The relationship between body and mind has shifted dramatically since ~2000.

Does anyone know of solid research that analyzes a connection between that very big change, and anomalous physical changes like this?
We built an alternative Web UI for GCP because the default one is insufferable at times, especially when you have thousands of resources scattered across workspaces/projects, again due GCP’s problems of lacking more granular details on service costs such that you have to isolate resources to the project level.
I read multiple times during the invasion of Iraq that the opposite was true, that engineers greatly were over-represented in terrorist cells - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12FOB-IdeaLab-t....
In modern time people use Batari BASIC which allows relatively sophisticated programming for the VCS.
Funnily, plex supports H.265 (just not transcoding to it).
It’s a cool tool, but you are in a highly commoditised market with intense competition. Your product has to be more than good to win people over. I use Jira in a project right now and it’s a sea of tickets with no order or structure. So there may be a problem to solve if you can find a great workflow.
Yes a bit. With a focus on browsing/editing databases.
I just bought the lifetime license, because it looks useful and I hope you're successful. Reminds me a lot of the self hosted https://duetapp.com
I wrote a music synth library called Scott's MusicBox. The source is on github:

https://github.com/OhioVR/MusicBox

I tried to emulate orchestral sounds using an abandoned sample collection using it with some success but no one really liked it.

I also had problems with our point of sale at work which I tried to improve with a picture book with bar codes over the items. That helped me scan items without upc labels. Hit and miss but I'm going to have to sell my printer so that project is also dead.
> Today we’ll talk about a real crisis. The decrease of testosterone levels.

Why is it a crisis? What's the problem? Things change. But why is it a bad change?

(Assuming it's possible to even say what a "normal" testosterone level is).
What are you talking about? No software needed other than a random number generator. After election it's all about identity. We know how to handle identity for hundreds of years already. Thousands even.
Normally no, a 30 year old is supoosed to be stronger than a 50 year old. A 50 year old just has better skills and experience how to use his strength to compensate ..
Here is a detailed description: https://www.coppolacomment.com/2022/11/the-ftx-alameda-nexus...
Hey, Pulse dev here. We try to keep up with updates regularly (1 week to 2 weeks if we are busy). In the case of an exploit or critical update we try to do it fast as possible.
Idea for improvement: In the picker view, when holding down the mouse button, then update the game-canvas with the selected one and play a few iterations. This way you can get a live feedback.
My SO got 4 thermoses for Christmas one year, so I decided to build a simple wishlist service[0] to prevent it happening again. Launched it 6 years ago, and since then it's been used by friends, family and myself for all Christmas and birthdays - so I consider it a huge success. In addition to already being a success for me personally, it's growing organically, and last year really picked up the pace when I reached 1k users. Now it's at just over 7k, which is surreal.

[0] https://wishy.gift/
It's not intended to be derisive so much as a simple matter of fact that it's 1.) Not in the mainline kernel; 2.) Isn't supported by most commercial distros; and 3.) Has somewhat ambiguous legal status. For individual use? Knock yourself out. But I wouldn't approve its use for a company unless I had very good and very specific reasons to do so.
I love doing these. Some recent projects (before I started recording video):

Minimalist CSS “Framework”
https://neat.joeldare.com

Personal Digital Brain
https://github.com/codazoda/nolific

The Raspberry Pi in my Bedroom
https://joeldare.com/private-analtyics-and-my-raspberry-pi-4...

In January I’ll start to publish “live coding” style videos of some of the projects I work on. I guess it’s the cumulation of my toy projects. I’m recording them as a way to encourage myself to create even more. Most are very simple. Many are “reinventing the wheel”. But, I love the work.

In the first two video’s I write a simple binary in Go (a language I’m not very familiar with) then run it as a command over ssh.

In the third I write a command line tool to generate random character strings.

Each video will have a companion GitHub repo.

The channel is completely empty at the moment. I’ll publish my introduction the first week of November and then publish videos weekly starting on January 1st. I’ve already created the first couple video’s and I’m editing the third now.

It will start out really rocky as I learn techniques for recording video and audio and improve my process.

My (blank) YouTube Channel
https://youtube.com/codazoda
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzhaf_power_index
Expressed this property, that it's not your size but rather how many coalitions you can swap from loosing to winning which matters.
I wanted to learn how databases work internally, like how they store and retrieve data, build indexes, etc.

I built an educational KV store to teach someone to write a database from scratch. I have set up this project in TDD fashion with the tests. So, you start with simple functions, pass the tests, and the difficulty level goes up. There are hints if you get stuck. When all the tests pass, you would have written a persistent key-value store in the end.

link: https://github.com/avinassh/py-caskdb
Phytoestrogens actually make it harder to grow breasts because they compete for receptor space and then don't do a whole lot.

Similar effect with Estrone (E1) and Estrogen (E2). Many trans people switch from oral HRT to other methods that bypass first pass metabolism (which converts E2 into E1) because their E1 is too high and the desired breast growth doesn't materialize.
testosterone levels affect reproduction, if I remember correctly
It's worth doing! A few projects I've done:

I once needed a database of EV charging locations, but at the time(2011) there were no open databases, so I built https://openchargemap.org, that now serves millions of API queries per month for other apps and services

For another project, I recently wanted to control my guitar amp (a Positive Grid Spark) from my computer instead of using a mobile app, so I built https://soundshed.com which is both a bluetooth web app and an electron app you can install. It now has a few thousand users :)

And finally, another time I had some SSL certificates I needed to manage for another project (for the above mentioned https://openchargemap.org), so I built a GUI to manage and renew certificates on Windows. It's now a commercial app with hundreds of thousands of users and it's my full time job: https://certifytheweb.com

So yeah, worth doing!
Doesn't that imply an EA enthusiast earning to give at a wall street hedge fund is doubly good, because they're charitably giving mosquito nets to developing nations while engaging in commerce and making money flow around the economy?
You can't disagree with their revenue breakdowns. That doesn't even make any sense. Apple $365b 2021 revenues had $31b from ads, about 8.5%. Amazon $31b/$470b. Microsoft $10b/$198b.

None of these companies are ad-driven, or have cultures based upon them. Losing the ads division would not irreparably harm the business.

Youtube had 2021 revenues of $28.8b. Google ad revenue for 2021 was $209b. That's what an ad-driven business looks like.
^ Spam
Probably video games (joke)
Because of synthetic estrogens in so many consumer products and likely the water supply

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7067547/

https://www.endocrineweb.com/lifestyle-diet/everyday-chemica...
Biological set points don’t usually change on these timescales and are always cause for concern.
If I may ask, do your have significant customer numbers? I'm asking this because I think all of the PM tools you mentioned are very popular.
What are you talking about? Spotify premium is currently USD 9.99/mo.
Mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties
Is this something that could benefit other functional programming languages like Haskell, as long as you're willing to add a SMT solver into your compiler? Or is this technique only relevant when you have complicated array slicing operations? Could a language like e.g. Julia benefit?
I don't want too. But I think in shoes of others. Clearly we want them to not want to too but the market share speaks itself.
If you liked the pyramid you might love the hapax: https://squarp.net/hapax

Squarp does a phenomenal job of continuously updating the firmware to their devices, both to fix bugs and to add new features/improve performance.

Part of the reason for releasing hapax was that they'd reached the limits of pyramid's hardware capabilities after five years of firmware updates.
Currently re-implementing the Focus Sessions feature of the built in Windows clock app. I had been using the Windows version as a quick way to track time spent on a learning goal but found it buggy and lacking some features I wanted (like a pause button!) so I'm rewriting it as an Electron app. It's giving me a chance to write some plain JS for once and I've set a challenge of importing as few front-end libraries as possible (so far only react and immer). I'm excited that I have it at the point where I can dogfood it for tracking the time I spend on developing it.
Good project, keep going!
Why not use “we built it” instead?

You don’t want to give your teammates a credit?
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. Harry S Truman

I went thru the previous crashes. It feels like the start, but not the eye of the storm. Companies are cutting jobs, not going going out of business. The casualty rate of startups in dotcom felt like 90%+. In 2008 major banks had to get bailed out. Today, companies are making cuts to get back to 2019 levels. There is still a long way to go before it's a hard reset.
So? It's not like there's to few people. Population growth can't be exponential forever.
There are more languages spoken in individual provinces in india. Language is not a source of heterogeneity. Pretty much all heterogeneity in the world was invented and entrenched due to colonial rule, so you can hopefully understand what I mean by not heterogenous.
A good story is enough. Good to know.
Low T is associated with depression in men.
The only expected role of the male in today's society is just to be present. To be there. What does this mean, no one knows. For this certainly there is no need of much Testosterone.

I somehow feel uncomfortable next to macho people if full display, it might be that it has become a non-adaptive trait?
How do you see this used by authoritarian governments?

Authoritarian governments just buy normal radars, and illuminate to their hearts content.
At this point everybody is pretty competent at identifying pyramid schemes. Now people enter them willingly hoping to cash out on time, no different than gambling. The scam now is making people believe they are higher in the pyramid than they really are.
I jumped into the Common Lisp rabbit hole and enjoying it. I've completed Touretzky book on CL. I'm now reading Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming.

I know enough to start some project which would help in learning the language but haven't pulled the trigger yet. Nothing like stumbling around trying to figure out how to get something to work in a new language to get a deeper understanding.

It's quite an interesting language; completely different from Python, JS and Java that I use.

A side benefit is I've learned emacs well enough to be productive enough to use as a daily text editor.
and anyone that can get that working is also capable of installing Tor Browser.
plex also syncs on FS change (It's never failed for me) but that might be an OS/FS dependent thing. Works great on ZFS + Linux for me.
From what I understand, things like testosterone just amplify what already exists.
My scratch was actually kid related. I couldn’t find a simple, quick and ad-free tool for my daughter to learn reading. Hence, I created https://czytanko.org/ to practice with her a few minutes per day (Polish lang only).
Forcing people to vote may give an election more legitimacy to a certain kind of mind set that I don't quite understand (I think the opposite).

But is there some reason to think that it would tend to improve the decision making quality of the population? That when compulsary voters are included, there would be better choices made on laws and representatives? I can't think of one. On the contrary it would seem to compel the participation of a lot more people who don't care.
> Welcome to discussion of China in Western media.

Yes, as someone who lived through the Cold War and has been studying Mandarin for a few years, I cannot help but see parallels in how everything about China is being muddled.
You are definitely expecting something that the camera makers' market segmentation does not provide. If you need clean HDMI, you can buy a camera that has it, but I estimate only a quarter of currently available DSLRs do.
Are people who have high testosterone dying before they are able to breed?
Phalates!! in plastics!!. Stop drinking bottle, avoid any food wrapped in plastic. Its almost impossible to do it fully, but if you seek whole foods and cook from scratch one can get close.
Looks great!

There seems to be a bug with dates (maybe timezones)? I'm in the central US, and just created a task with a date of today (Nov 13) -- it shows up as "Yesterday".
The fact that GitHub identifies HolyC as a proglang is magnificent.
I'm working on a simplified bookkeeping system for my own use as a contractor. Seen a cool way of making a product with it once it's featureful enough. Started as an invoice system.
Physics – Explaining Mercury’s Superconductivity, 111 Years Later
Yeah, as a developer it sucks that most users don't get the best perf we offer because they happened to use to the slower one.
A few years ago I discovered Anki (a spaced repetition app) for helping me learn Japanese. I immediately recognized the power of spaced repetition, but really did not like using Anki (it's pretty clunky and requires a lot of configuration to work right). I started building my own alternative, Mochi [0], which I wanted to kind of be a cross between Anki and Notion. I'm pretty happy with where it's at now and I've been using it almost daily ever since.

[0] https://mochi.cards/
What relationship between body and mind are you referring to? What change? And what happened in 2000?
Man uses brain implant to send texts from his iPad
I built a thing that integrates with my ISP's TV API and makes it look to Plex like an HDHomeRun tuner. It also generates XMLTV EPG (again, based on my ISP's data) so that I don't have to faff around with third-party EPG providers and with channel matching.

So as far as Plex is concerned, this is an HDHomeRun tuner + XMLTV EPG.

I can also tune directly into any of the TV streams using VLC, in one of three ways:

1. raw MPEG transport stream over UDP multicast

2. same stream over HTTP (via udpxy)

3. my ISP's transcoded HLS stream (lagging by a few seconds and missing certain features)
A gut-derived hormone suppresses sugar appetite/regulates food choice Drosophila
Anytime I read "no established evidence", I think about cigarettes in the 1950s and 1960s.
That line is tongue-in-cheek, the author agrees with you:

> Personally I see the decrease of testosterone levels more as a reaction to our changing environment than reason for concern. The world changes and we change with it.
The Nokia N900 has an FM transmitter built in
> Good luck finding mayonnaise or ketchup in glass jars now.

I've never seen ketchup in glass, but mayonnaise is sold in glass in all supermarkets in the Netherlands, as well as small aluminium tubes and plastic squeeze bottles.
Jeremy Bentham’s “Auto-Icon”
After reading this I’m fully confused by how they define dark matter. Stuff that doesn’t come from the distro package manager? Everything installed via other mechanisms? Assets copied into the container as part of the build mechanism?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to define dark matter as all the stuff that is installed in a container but never activated (unless exploited?)
Well, cereal is mostly junk food, so just skip it all together. You can find oats, nuts, fruits not plastic wrapped.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11714207
Population growth is at the lowest level in decades.
Why would anyone help him out when he won’t be able to donate in the next election cycle? I’m just speculating since I’m not a billionaire lobbying congress, but I’d imagine there’s little reason to help someone who cannot donate in the future.
What are the supposed dangers?

I can think of turning drones into self-guided missiles, obviously intercepting from the front since they are slow, but you can track planes visually too.

And if this is to prevent foreign states, I'm sure in a couple years you'll be able to buy this stuff on AliExpress.
I don't want to throw out this idea but I think the much more obvious answer is people being sedentary and terrible sleep. Boys that are playing video games instead of running around outdoors. Playing video games until 3 am one night, waking up for school with 5 hours of sleep, then drinking massive amounts of energy drinks or other stimulants to stay awake.
No I don’t think so. For the pizza analogy I would say it’s more like “the science of pizza making” vs. “how to make a pizza”.
Have you tried those with space for the eyes? They should lessen the pressure. But personally, I enjoy it.
Wavelets: A mathematical microscope [video]
Doesn’t look like. In 2022 (and probably part of 2023) we’ll see tech companies fixing what they did wrong during the pandemic. That’s all.
You can open the due date picker to set the time, or go to the Daily Planner page and then drag and drop a task onto the right sidebar Calendar to set the start and end time.

Weekly Planner and Daily Planner are the two main views, so you need to go to these pages to check for due tasks.
Cheap I agree but objective is definitely not one of them. It’s a way to not get sued.
Testosterone increases whatever leads to a higher social status in a given society. So it can increase competitive but also cooperative behaviour depending on the circumstances.

This is why I think the drop in testosterone is such a problem for many men. Your brain does not optimize for success and SMV anymore.
Kid related backstory: during the pandemic I started recording videos, telling the stories of Trump, the pandemic and other family stories. The idea is that my kids will watch them when they are 25 and see me while I'm young, telling them about current events. (kids are currently 5 & 8)

I'm building a web app to make this easier and also sharing with my parents to record & save the stories from their life.