skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying I disagree with the idea of mandatory voting, per se. But in the U.S., a fine for not voting would quickly be labeled a "poll tax", which would immediately raise the connotation of being racist in nature. In a day or two, the whole idea would be scrapped on grounds of unfairly targeting minorities and the lawmaker who suggested it would be accused of secretly being affiliated with the KKK.

I'm not saying it's right, but it is what would happen.
You are correct - unless there is an actual need for exogenous testosterone, you should avoid TRT. However, natural T levels will drop with age, and it's not too uncommon for men to hop on in their 40's or later. Sure you'll need to take it for the rest of your life, but it's generally worth the improvement of quality of life.
KAUST have been doing good Coral preservation work for years now and the Red Sea is a great place to experiment because the corals evolved to suit higher temps than most places will get with warming factored in especially their shallow varieties. Glad to see them pick up talented people to make this happen.
My wife wanted some different ways to track stats for her runs/walks. Stuff that was not available or tedious to pull up in the default apps.
I wanted to learn SwiftUI.
Made an app to implement the things she wanted. Some of her friends made feature requests, so I added them. More people asked for it, so I put it on the App Store. It is on track to make 10s of dollars this year, hehe!

https://807software.com/runalyzer/index.html
By the time the vaccine was widely available we were in full Omicron territory and there was already no risk to hospitals overflowing.

For background, if it matters to you, I believe the vaccine saved many thousands of lives of elderly people. It probably did not save the lives of any meaningful number of young healthy people because those people were statistically not at risk of covid. So I believe the vaccine was safe enough and effective enough to use, particularly for the elderly and people with certain co-morbidities. Lack of risk stratification is ANOTHER violation of the social contract.

The criminally sinister thing about vaccine mandates is that the people at risk of severe covid were already lined up out the door to get a vaccine. You didn't have to mandate it for anyone, much less the people who were at practically no risk of covid since it would not stop the spread.
It does seem comparable to PGP and the whole FBI Clipper chip program from the 1990s:

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/12/business/data-secrecy-exp...

> "Mr. Zimmermann developed the software as part of his personal campaign to make it simple and inexpensive to send scrambled messages. Using such software is not restricted or illegal within the United States, but export control laws treat the software as a weapon and place strict prohibition on its export. The Government opposes the scrambling because it wants to be able to check on the activities of criminals overseas and hostile foreign governments. The Clinton Administration has retained strict controls on the export of data-coding software, and has been trying to create standards that would make it possible for law enforcement officials to gain access to scrambled conversations, whether by electronic mail or telephone."
At what point of TRT does your own production of testosterone stop permanently?
Curiously I tried something similar yet opposite: I stopped eating junk food and I started eating more leafy vegetables, but also I stopped eating seed oils (except for olive oil and chia oil which is rich in omega3), and gave myself green light to eat whatever amount I want of foods rich in proteins and fats, as long as it's not ultra processed.

To my surprise, my weight hasn't skyrocketed, I feel full way faster without having to exert loads of willpower to stop eating and my sugar cravings have reduced by a lot. Only from time to time I want to taste something sweet and even then I'm happy with just a green apple.

Sugar is a drug and it messes with our satety hormones. No matter how much you eat, you end up always wanting more
Do you think that you can come up with an example of a "diverse point of view" that isn't dictating to people what medical services they're allowed to have?

Alright, tell them you voted for Trump, or that you're happy Elon bought Twitter.
Regardless of how you make the election rules, if everybody is basing their vote on; 1) hating the other team more 2) thinking the other individual candidate is an all time bad candidate that must be stopped at any cost 3) doing what the tv commercials told them to do 4) building their political views based on what the entertainment news channel wants them to believe 5) mixed with foreign nation state propaganda masquerading as organic individual opinion

you still end up with what amounts to an uninformed electorate. You've figured out how to count an uninformed opinion in a better way. And maybe eliminated number 2 and some of 1 from being a complete problem, but unpopular controversial people will still manage to drive the conversation.
Why not give the benefit of doubt?

Maybe the OP just followed the structure of every other showHN post?
This is not a reasonable expectation for a digital assistant. At all. It is reasonable for a hacker to expect it. But the majority of the public doesn’t care that Apple tries to push Apple Music. If this was sold as a separate service however, maybe people would have other expectations.
A little startpage/bookmark solution to go on my home server, listing the services that run on it...

https://github.com/daledavies/jump
> people know that academia is more about networking, PR, politics etc rather than the exactness of academic analytics

This is generally true, but academics (I am one) are at least vaguely worried that analytics will take over.

Any good department chair will be prepared, at any time, to give their dean and provost an account of how our department is doing really fantastic work, despite how badly you underfund us, you should really direct more resources to us right away.

Since academic work looks so different from discipline to discipline, administrators find it difficult to evaluate who is actually doing good work. And thus swoop in companies like Elsevier, Clarivate, Academic Analytics, etc. with bright shiny dashboards, with tables and bar graphs that purport to measure productivity. Sure, their measurement is shit but the alternative is often simply to take people at their word.

As a working academic, I do not wish any of these companies well. But I wouldn't underestimate them.
I went on it and the only thing that happened is my sex drive went from zero to low. I wish I got the psychological effects and all but I didn't.
Yeah, the tool is specifically designed for solos and small teams with basic needs and simple workflows. Big teams will find it not powerful or flexible enough. Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it.
> 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

"Hence it is to be remarked that, in seizing a state, the usurper ought to examine closely into all those injuries which it is necessary for him to inflict, and to do them all at one stroke so as not to have to repeat them daily ... For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer."

-- Nicolo Machiavelli
Building a simple shell in C – Part 3
If you have {Windows, Mac Linux} and {Android, iOS}, you can use Iriun: https://iriun.com
As proof, here is a blood test with 7,500 testosterone:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fk9P55VCuld0iQOO88dNxk0eIel...

And then years later, with 150 (slightly above female):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uhDVTBtYARCDrtL5ZL-zVrWLNjX...
Currently learning more about programmatic seo, and found that there wasn't a good way to share that resources I found, so I'm building a tool that will anyone to build sites like:

https://pseo.ai/

I'm interested in the rise of learning communities and sharing resources the community finds is central part of that.
I've worked with several of these low code/no code things.

It does not pan out. Syntax is the easiest part of being a software engineer.
> Is it really a given that high testosterone leads to aggression?

I've spoken with researchers that actually administered testosterone to human subjects in experiments, and they found no effect: it doesn't seem to trigger aggression or violence, at least not in the short term. It probably is a bad idea to ascribe a range of complex behaviors to a single cause, and limit it to those behaviors as well.
Crypto.com Withdrawals Rise After CEO Admits Transaction Problem
I would add to it that there are a lot of devs that can't build stuff but they try (frequently successfully) to sell that they are doing a lot of volume of work (like closed tickets, lines of code, hours clocked).

And these people frequently last surprisingly long at companies because it is pretty hard for managers to understand how individual team members contribute to overall productivity. Managers tend to focus on short term goals (like getting a feature delivered or a bug solved) but have hard time understanding long term implications of bad decisions their people make.

It is pretty easy to fix a bug or write a feature but a bad developer will cause large amount of debt along with it that will slowly deteriorate productivity in ways that will be difficult to understand. The people who understand what is happening -- senior devs -- will frequently not speak up about it or their voice will be downplayed ("Hey, this guy can't be that bad, he is delivering after all?")
Yes, the Aranet 4 is even featured on the front page of SenseAir.

"We're incredibly proud to have our CO2 sensor Senseair Sunrise inside this popular product."

The sensor itself costs $229.00 at co2meter.com.
Absolutely true. She's published a bunch of videos about all sorts of topics where she obviously has no clue what she's talking about and hasn't done any research besides reading the Wikipedia page. She gets basic facts wrong. Yet people on HN mistake being a cynic for some kind of insight and upvote them.
It's actually an easy and understandable development mistake to make. It's usually an opt out situation, not opt in.

Development teams build and test with debug mode builds, send out these builds to internal teams to beta test. These telemetry tools are used to collect data, errors etc.

When it was time to ship, they forget to turn it off for the stable builds. I've seen it happen a lot.
New FTX tokens worth about $350M appear out of thin air
this potentially qualifies as blasphemy so i should probably steer clear
You seem to be referring to "interspecies hormonal interactions between man and the domestic dog" [1] which is about short-term hormonal changes during "a dog agility competition" – not the long term hormonal changes which the opening post is about.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00185...
I'm about to start a small microcontroller/radio project using low-cost low-power LoRa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa - radio devices, to settle my curiosity on LoRa and how well it performs (i.e. its reach) in a city environment. Nothing advanced, just a few LoRa transceivers bridged to computer using a USB-capable microcontroller, hosted with me and some friends to send short text messages to one another.
The title is misleading as it has nothing tk do with zsh being slow.

He basically had a sleep statement in his .zshrc and removed it.
NixOS is Linux
Usually people get it if it already is down.
In 2000 the only companies in the Bay Area not going out of business were the “For Lease” sign companies.

I don’t think a two year hiring spree with a pullback spells the end of anything other than an aberration caused by a global natural disaster.
It's interesting that other peoples that were in contact with the Egyptians, or were aware of their ways, had strict prohibitions against marking their skin:

https://www.sefaria.org/Leviticus.19.28?lang=bi&aliyot=0

And, I'll add, the people who had these restrictions are still here, and the Egyptians of this era have been conquered by the Arab world and this culture no longer exists.
Totally agreed. Companies were over leveraged when we started seeing the excessive hiring during a prosperous time. The fact that most layoffs ranged in the 10-20% range and the similar company growth during that time speaks very loudly. This was less of a end of an era, and more of a temporary correction.
Is Mastodon Better Than Twitter?
Yup “do better” is the generic siren of those who like to complain but never have anything to contribute.
I seem to have lost a sentence in my editing. The electoral threshold reference was there to indicate they try to avoid too many small parties, but I'm not convinced it's working very well at the current level.
I think the clinical evidence for this is… limited, and no doctor is going to recommend a tanning bed or exposure to more sunlight. They should do a hormone panel to see why the T is low - could be an underlying thyroid issue or overproduction of something like aromatase which is converting too much T into estrogen or SHBG which prevents T from being utilized.

Treatments like HCG mono therapy to increase upstream hormone production might be used, but usually the easiest, most effective and simplest thing is exogenous injectable testosterone cypionate or test entheanate, injected once or twice weekly.
Oh, yes, this quote I lacked.

Also, when you fire one person, you have to explain in detail why this person. You open yourself to risk of being called for discrimination whether you intended it or not. All this scrutiny disappears when you do the same in bulk.
Crucially Norway doesn't use "winner take all" voting and people are able to express more nuance in their preferences, otherwise Norway would also have 2 parties. When most Americans hear "multi-party system" they tend to assume voting works the same way as in the US, but that somehow other countries reach a different equilibrium with the same inital conditions.
That's because US domestic propaganda became legal again about half a decade ago.
Except Apple clearly owns its users, not the other way around. They get money from you for everything you do with their devices (music, vids, books, ads, even purchases of anything now), AND get money from the sellers to let them just talk to you.

"If you can't freely do anything on the device you own, you're the one owned."
> Can we do better?

I hope yes! Some people are interested in this field. I think, we would need more mor flexible, adaptive scrapers based on content not the HTML structure. This week alone, I had interactions about "AI assisted web scraping" with two people:

- https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1589677131873021953

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33555426
Rui, can you open a new Discussions thread at https://github.com/rui314/mold so we can transfer the whole conversation there?

We could ask for advice from other project developers that have succeeded on their own journey.
Britain + Australia is, what, less than a third the US population? So naturally Americans dominate the English language internet. On any feed driven social media your fellow Aussies and my fellow Britons are likely to be exposed to lots of American things
> it seemed to intensify over the summer and into the fall.

It "seems" interesting that, despite interviewing lots of people who should be in a position to record stats, the article never quantifies the size of the headline issue beyond this sentence.

> Several paragraphs later:

You seem to be implying the article doesn't connect the progressives to the crime increase . It does, repeatedly.
The title sounds like clickbait bullshit but there's real, genuinely amazing career advice from Teller included, so well worth a read.
This is a lot of fun. I used this step by step tutorial to write the same editor in Go.
I wonder if (some of) SEC will play the same role in this story as BaFin played in Wirecard's.
This is exactly what he is trying to say. The fact that you have such an extreme opinion is the intolerant problem.
Listing on AppSumo is free. They have two options:

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The social contract is just coercion by force with a nice fancy name so you don't murder the people who threaten you with violence and prison rape if you don't give them 40% of your income.
Don't drop salt, imo.

It is essential for strong stomach acid (a whole system benefit), your body always ensures the salt level in the blood (and will even extract it from bones). Ask yourself - 'what is the most common medical intervention' and you will see it is a saline drip. And farmers ensure that salt is available to the their cattle for their health. And Japanese have a highly salty diet and live long, with fewer bone breaks. And, and....

Salt is essential, and a low salt diet is terrible.

Then ask, why is a low salt diet recommended to people, if it is so good? The answer, sadly, is that the 'health' industry actually requires ill people - they make money treating disease, not from keeping people healthy. It is in the big pharma's interests to encourage poor behaviour, and, yes, they will even lobby governments to mandate behaviour that creates disease.
It's not like their accounting was public.
Post cycle meds have improved a huge amount and can reliably restart test production and get you back your normal baseline so that you are not stuck on them. But if you’re normal baseline is low then you’ll go back to needing TRT.
- "Talks a lot about progress"... this is a mixed bag.

if you're producing code, it is not just talk. i'm talking about a scenario where you've heard about the great struggles they've faced, and after a week you get a commit with 4 files cahnged, and it's on a "sample" of the full work. overdone is fine and not what i meant.

- "Says shit like I don't write tests". I don't write tests. There are good reasons that are out of scope of this discussion.

This mindest is the same to me as saying "we only need a single point of failure for all things". "I can just read the source" is the same thing as saying "i can just take a course on it later that will take hours without the help of the original context". I firmly believe that anytime you build a big suite of software without tests, you're just unloading tech debt on an org with no guidance on how to handle it. comments, tips, and tricks can drift from the code overtime, a test can't and is the only provable way to validate your code. if you don't have time for testing at work it's an organizational failure that will only come due in the worst of times. Remember when Jira deleted a bunch of shit and couldn't get it back without one engineer fixing it manually? boy, i bet it would've paid to have _any_ testing in there!

- "You repeat same comments in loops because thy aren't taking feedback".

When you tell someone "commiting secrets to the repo means they are no longer secret" and they go oh yeah, makes sense, and then proceed to dump credentials into the next four commits, that's what i'm talking about. not this "i dropped a whole new concept on you. learn it in one" concept that i may have implied. i'm talking about poeple who just aren't even trying to listen, they just want an approval or w/e from you to move on.

fwiw: i'm a bit of a stickler for testing, and will acknowledge that my stance comes from my experience, and is therefore a known bias, just one i have a hard time letting go of
Is this supposed to be a forensic accounting forum?
During the pandemic I built an online version of Rummikub so I could play with family.
It embedded video calls and the game playing on one screen.
We still just use it as we are all on different continents.
There may not be historical evidence, but first principles tell me that most people prefer cash to trading pelts for groceries every week.
Since nobody has mentioned a tip for his cache problem: I would just solve this with cron. Run it daily and just write the file at 5am then forget about it. Could also spawn a subshell at login to generate the file in the background

This article reminds me of my shellrc which used to have a progress bar. I had it print \r{##..}, with increasing number of # after every big source (2-3 second start. Looking back I don't know how I used that daily
Haha, I don't necessarily disagree with you on this..

My only view on this is it would be nice to have a general chrome compatibility switch. I've not accounted for the feasibility of this from a technical or commercial perspective, so I can't advocate for it beyond a nice to have feature.
> if there could be a world where we have a standard...

Probably not.
I was tired of "backups inside backups inside directories with yet more backups" I accumulated over the ages.

Stuff as old as:

/home/pub/oldbackups/hddConner800MB1998/olddos/...

Yet I like to try to keep everything personal. I've got nearly all my emails. Since the nineties. I still have my DOS source code files.

Same for the more recent stuff.

This is saved in many places.

Yet at times I like to organize some of that mess. There are files I definitely don't give a crap about anymore: files/directories from that old Windows driver for that long gone laptop.

So I wrote my own system which allows me to "tag" files and directories based on their cryptographic hash (I'm using Blake3 for it's very fast). I can, for example, tag a file "for deletion". No matter what, when file with blake3 hash 0c340c79... is found, it can be deleted.

I'm also not happy with hash-based content addressing systems I found so far, so every file that's never ever going to be modified again got part of its hash appended to its filename. So I can also verify that the file isn't corrupted.

And it works as a file deduplication system too.

It's not a big "scratch my own itch" as I'm reusing lots of stuff that already exists but it's lots of fun and works fine.

It's very satisfying.

No more: "but I already deleted that, why do I need to delete it again!?".

Instead I launch my berzerker (that's how I named it) and it goes berzerk.
Terry Davis was clearly the mad scientist we didn't know we needed. He brought many useful insights to OS development. Maybe one day the seeds he planted will grow out to become a wonderful tree. On days when he wasn't hampered by his medical issues some people remember him to be an extremely skilled teacher, patient with people who asked genuine questions. There was that side to him too.
Ask HN: I seem to lack personality beyond my work / university. What can I do?
I come from a very poor background, so I quickly learned that if I wanted something I needed to cling onto any opportunity that came up as if my life depended on it, because it did. From high school, to university, now to grad school, all I have done is stay indoors and study. It seems that learning and accumulating information is the only thing I am good at.

I am almost done with my master's and I am also working FT at a FAANG company. I had some free time this weekend, when I realized I could do anything, but there was nothing I wanted to do.

I know that to some degree I am burned out due to studies, courses and everything else, but I honestly don't know where to go from here.

I don't find my job particularly engaging, and I am considering returning to academia. I am having conversations with my co-supervisor on working with them after I graduate, and if that goes well, a PhD at the intersection of privacy, medicine and ML.

It that unless I find some big goal to work towards, I am empty, a vessel, becoming what I am doing du jour. I spend all my time working and thinking about the problem and when that stops I don't have anything else.

What can I do to deal with this apparent emptiness? I don't think diving into another project will cut it.