skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time cost is one of the major obstacles for more than just the reason of "it takes this X minutes out of your week". If you tell me I have to spend 45 minutes doing exercise 3 times a week my mind will be filled with excuses and the dread of how exhausted I will feel after 45 minutes and how it will likely be more like a 2 hour time commitment every time I do it. It's a much easier sell to say: 10 minutes where you're only spending 1 minute of time doing something intense and the rest is spent doing something quite light.
I have a feeling the current actions are economically optimal, and so, they’ll keep happening

- if they optimisitcally hire a ton of people, then fire most of them, that’s expensive in the bad years

- if they only hire as many people as they need, then they’ll be eaten by the bigger-risk-taking competition in the good years
Thanks.

Hm, the team is working together for maybe 2 years like this. Those sessions go the whole day with a few breaks (lunch, coffee, bathroom).

No hierarchy and we are all involved during the sessions but if you have a bad day it’s ok to be more passive…

We were told that we are quiet performant in comparison to other teams but that is maybe also due to the fact that we are all seniors and trying to be pragmatic with our decisions
https://www.totalwellbeingdiet.com/media/2266/18-00521-secre...

https://www.publish.csiro.au/RD/RD20326

The CSIRO has been researching for decades as to what the best bang for buck is with regards exercise.
I think, and this will not be well received, that US tech workers actually know they are paid extremely well compared to the rest of the working population, and that they don't have the right social skills and connections to get into the even more inner exec circle (which is also limited in number), and therefore although it's not as good as it was it's still better than 95% of the population.
All that to play a 20 year old game. Maybe I'm being thick and that's the joke?

Anyway, the vertical mount of the video card got me wondering again about how reasonable that is. I read something about vapor chambers being designed for the video card to be placed horizontally. The theory being that there is a heat > rise > cool/condense > gravity thing that happens inside these heat sinks that gets disrupted if the heatsink is on it's side making the cooling less effective.

I'm curious if anyone has more evidence about this.
Under "Security and Privacy" there's been "Developer Tools" for a while, within which I only ever saw Terminal.app (but any app could be added)

I'm not sure what it really does (could not find any docs, maybe someone can enlighten?) but the text made me think it could allow stuff like running unsigned debuggers:

Allow the applications below to run software locally that does not meet the system's security policies

Again I'm really not sure, but maybe it can cover some use cases without going the nuclear route of fully disabling SIP?
No it's not a meme but it's important to split this as a bi-modal thing.

For keyword based search (thinking index and crawlers e.g. 'motorized+camera+focus -autofocus') Google has objectively gotten worse since about 2016 (my personal theory is that it was when Giannandrea headed Search and started allowing ML to be used in the search team).

Search for the general population that is familiar with Natural Language queries i.e. 'what is that film where the guy keeps living the same day over and over?' That type of search is probably improved and is likely making Google a lot of money, which is why the keyword based search is degradating.

Also I think currently Search is putting too much enphasis on 'freshness' for technical queries. Most of the time I am looking for what is prior art on a particular topic, it is absolutely fine to show me a blog posted in 2004 by some geek in Slovakia.

The noise you hear online is that most technical people kind of rely on keyword and bolean operators to find what they are looking for and so are suffering the most from the business shift in Search.

Also not affilliated but definitely supportive... I wholeheartedly agree with other commenters, Kagi kicks ass in technical queries.
(See bio for my background) All of the replies you've gotten so far are very good and I upvoted all of them.

In particular:

cuchoi acknowledges the publication bias version of the risk here. Let's say your average effect is 1 unit with a confidence interval that is 0.9 units at a desired level of confidence. We can interpret this confident interval two different ways: one is that assuming 1 unit is the true effect, then repeated sampling would produce a sampling distribution of estimate effects that span 0.1 to 1.9 at the desired level of confidence. Another is assuming that, say, 0.1 was the true effect, effects as large as the one we see (1 unit) would occur a non-trivial portion of the time. Now, imagine many researchers do this experiment and the true effect is 0.1. Some researchers find negative effects, some find small effects that are not significant, others do larger studies and find small effects that are significant, others find larger effects. Now, imagine the journal will only publish effects that are both statistically significant and substantively interesting. The only person that submits for publishing is the version of the study that finds the large effect (1 unit). cuchoi is very correct to suggest that when your design can only find large effects, the published effect will likely be overestimated.

fpoling and sandgiant highlight the sensitivity risk argument. Suppose that the outcome is heavily sensitive to some confounders (socioeconomic status, nutrition, smoking status, race, etc.) And suppose poor people are slightly more likely to get treatment, just from coin flip chance. Because poverty correlates with both the effect and the probability of being treated (even though you tried to assign randomly), some of the visible effect is the relationship between poverty and treatment, not effect and outcome. There are designs other than simple randomization that try to explicitly deal with known confounders, but they can't deal with unknown confounders. Larger sample sizes mitigate the risk of imbalance of both known and unknown confounders.

Everyone is doing great!
I don't understand the discrepancy between EV kWh and house battery kWh.

Some cars have > 100 kWh capacity. Why do I pay > 1000$ per kWh for a house battery? At some point it is cheaper to just buy a car, even if you would never drive it. A Tesla Powerwall has 13 or so kWh? Why don't they use the car battery with nearly 10 times as much capacity?

It is just unit prices that are far better for cars? Is the charge/discharge speed relevant? Is the technology different? Are the capacities for cars just fake? Preferably I would want 200kWh or more capacity for my home.
There are apps for mobile devices, some sync with a GitHub repository (which you should make private): https://www.passwordstore.org/#:~:text=password%20(OTP)%20to...

The contents of the GitHub repo are of course encrypted with your own key, which you need to manually sync to your other devices.
No I think pretty most real old school developers prefer that, and it reads alot better on Lynx/Links2 type of browser. Browser != chrome || firefox,
AI Engine
FWIW (IIUC), python strings are closer to CS strings in that there are no 'chars', there are only length-1 strings.

[Edit: this is nearly pure pedantry; looking at the roadmap it's much more oriented to systems than to theory]
More likely a massive and internally unrecognized incompetence than some black project from sneaky agencies. I remember some experts in 2000s fighting months to convince banks that TLS with self signed certificate is the way to get customers scammed.
How to Make Scrambled Eggs
I've worked in several places like this, with similar over-the-top perks... and they make me cringe. It's a gross, flashy, consumerist, classist use of funds.

Sure, make your office pleasant to work in. Locate it near good lunch places, or even provide lunch. But the hammock room, massage chair lounge, private museum/art collection, and rooftop bar are all aspects of my employers that I'm ashamed to even discuss.
Look, it's okay to have a side you root for due to emotional reasons but this is just silly. When the Pixel 6a was introduced in 2022, its performance was somewhere in between the 2017 iPhone 7 and the 2018 iPhone XS. No magical thinking about "scroll speed" is going to make up for that underlying performance gap.

Since this is a technical forum, I am going to plug the blog post Alex Russell (not usually described as an Apple fanboy) made about real-world performance for web developers. One of the challenges we have is that normal people hang on to phones for a while and that's especially true for people who buy cheap phones since they often can't afford to buy a new one every year. When a developer testing on an “old” iPhone has a browser which runs code faster than the current flagship Android phone (iPhone XS ~= Galaxy S22), that means that they effectively have no idea what the web is like for a person using a $200 phone which they've had for a few years. There's a great chart here:

https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/#...

Now, the Pixel line does have a decent camera so that's potentially a plus but it's not really relevant to the device's capabilities or long-term support situation. It's also unlikely that a single test is telling you that such an old sensor is really the best thing in the world rather than Google's ML pipeline is good at adjusting images to make them appealing to phone users.
If I cut my calorie intake by a moderate amount, I don't lose any fat. If I cut my calorie intake by an extreme amount, I start to lose fat.

My hypothesis is that the equation that weight loss is related to calorie intake minus expenditure, but I think the conclusions one draws from it fail to take into account how much the body can control expenditure.

My body seems to naturally drift up in fat weight, very slowly -- probably around a pound per year -- no matter how much I eat. If I cut calories a lot, I can lose fat. After that, my fat level drifts back up to the old target weight pretty quickly, and then up slowly again. I'm pretty sure if I plotted my fat from the time I became an adult, it would be a pretty straight line, with short-term dips and recoveries for diets.

Losing weight sustainably would mean resetting that target somehow. I don't know how. Changing my diet and exercise levels don't seem to do much for fat levels (but do more for my general fitness and health).
It's a testament to good structure that the site is legible without its styling.

... legible, not good. If I had to read documentation that looked like that all day I'd consider a career change (or, perhaps, building an infrastructure to improve the legibility of web pages...).
Well, if we really wanted to bisect the bunny we could go for 'hare-brained'.
An hour later, wow. That podcast is mesmerising. That’s absolutely incredible what they were up to. Thanks for the share, on to part two now.
I've had really poor experiences so far from Elastic.co. Their core ElasticSearch offering seems to be on the backburner while they focus on "App Search" and other unrelated products like their APM offering. This leads to pretty sub-par knowledge and support for the ElasticSearch product. Even simple things like paginating results is an unknown, and you really have to pay deep into their ecosystem to get real implementation support.

Oddly enough too, due to the way their cloud hosting infrastructure works it seems they double dip into bandwidth pricing that should otherwise be free (eg AWS => AWS). It's also treated less as a "Software" as a service, and more a "platform" as a service, so you are left ultimately with the responsibility of managing, maintaining, and updating your Elastic cluster, without any ability to SSH into the servers its running on.

Then there's the unprofessionalism of laying off your account manager during a client call, or telling your client that you're sorry their ElasticSearch infrastructure is down, but they can't really help you unless you're on their "Sapphire Extreme Plan" [sic]...

Even if OpenSearch is just a cog in Amazon's offering, at least it's of a known quantity.
Muscle atrophy from not maintaining exercise for a year will absolutely make your BMR change. In the same way, spend a year at the gym lifting weights and your BMR will absolutely go up, even if at the same weight.
For some reason, ISBNs having check digits seems really strange to me. I wonder why. I am sure that Australia's smart meter numbering scheme also uses a check digit, but on learning that it that didn't strike me as odd. Maybe the association with books and "old stuff" makes it seem incongruous to me.

In general, are check digits common in schemes like these? Is it something you'd do if you expect lots of manual copying, or scanning or other potentially-error-producing conversions?
Reading about the diet of DK Metcalf that is Low carb, Intermittent fasting, with plenty of vegetables is according to the latest science.
Eddie Hall has goal based diets, Normal people wouldn't be able to process the amount of food he eats, can't be healthy to eat that much. But at the same time it's clearly working for him. Just saying genetics does a disservice to them.
> They’ve struggled to stamp out repeated successes (because that’s inherently hard, not because they suck).

Partially it is also because Google has a nasty reputation by now for closing down services with bare minimum notice, despite many millions still using them (RIP Google Reader), or for barely keeping them on life support (Gmail). Stadia was the most recent victim of that - consumers didn't want to invest actual money into something Google made no public commitment to keep it running for years, and where there are no consumers the game developers didn't want to invest money into porting either.
NoJS I was aware of (and support where it makes sense, which is most of the time), but NoCSS? When did that start, and why?
Hats off @anakic this is class! It would be a game-changer if Microsoft licensed QueryStorm built in to Excel. Let's hope the right people at Microsoft are paying attention to you.
You probably haven't been exposed to it as much, but the term DevRel is as ubiquitous as DevOps, and any other buzzword from the last 10 years.

P.S.: Love all your OSS work!
> People tend to overestimate their "skill/contribution" even in poor luck or even rigged scenarios.

I don't personally understand this one, although I don't doubt its veracity. I am an engineer with years of experience in the industry, but I don't think my contribution is high or important; I could be fired at any moment and would anyone notice? Maybe in the short term yes, but mostly no. I am easily replaceable, my boss is easily replaceable... Society will continue on without me because like most of us I work a B.S. job. So I really struggle to empathize with the viewpoint of a self-perceived 'Hero IC', is it just narcissism?
What's not to like! 0K CSS, responsive, works in desktop, mobile and tablets, and not to mention blazing fast load speed.
Oh by, Trash 80s! I learned FORTRAN programming on a collection of TRS-80 Model III/IV in high school. (Yes, for the programming class we were not allowed to use basic, so we used FORTRAN).

Seen my old computer/math teacher last summer, he now owns a brewery he bought in retirement, and we laughed about how things have changed in such a relative short period of time. He was excited, though, to find out that I did work as a FORTRAN programmer for a period of time after college. He is pretty sure I was the only of his former students that every wrote a line of FORTRAN after those classes.

I have some old images made from some of my old school floppies. I'll have to give this emulator a try, pop up to the brewery with a laptop, and let my old teacher look over my shoulder as I debug code, again.
Interestingly, at least with Firefox on Linux it seems to be decompressing the .css files ok... but borking on the javascript file that has the same incorrect content encoding header.
For some things though that's just Step 1 of many. Still doable but too much of a pain.
a lot of software support including configuration files, so what I do is that my configuration has a permanent configuration and a temporary configuration through including a "local" file. This even helps as a workaround to managing secrets for some stubborn stuff to which you need to put some api key or password on a text file (shitty software exist). Otherwise, I haven't seen much problem with managing home with home-manager. I also can load the same config with the nixos and darwin modules.
> I hope more organizations started to invest in fuchsia before it dies inside google.

I hope they don't. There is no incentive to contribute to such a project where you have 0 influence - especially when it is steered directly by a potential competitor. From Fuschia's governance page:

> Google steers the direction of Fuchsia and makes platform decisions related to Fuchsia. While Googlers contribute substantially to Fuchsia’s code base, the Fuchsia project encourages contributions from anyone, not just from Googlers [1].

Why would any other tech company contribute to something like this?

[1] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/govern...
> Why draw a salary then? Or stock? Well obviously I have to feed my family.

Wrong: salary is determined by your ability to negotiate, and your ability is higher when you could be doing the same satisfying activity for someone else.
Two weeks ago they were affected by the Elasticsearch outage[1], too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34337518
You are very right to question this!

While the thermodynamics aren't assailable, it turns out that the calorie system is in fact quite fallable and bad!

There's a lot of good material on why, I like this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJQxadvsmEQ

But simply put:

- Our system for measuring how much "calorie" is in any given food is extremely problematic and unrelated to how the body captures energy

- Our system for estimating how much "calorie" a human body uses is extremely problematic and error-ridden.

- Our systemized ignorance towards the relationship in the body between energy storage and energy consumption, as well as all the factors influencing this system. The same advice or strategy simply doesn't work the same way for two people. But our advice and labels can't capture that.

As we engineers know "garbage in, garbage out". Well, when all of the data in this system is garbage, it's no surprise that the function outputs garbage.
Microsoft actually built that already, then they decided to kill it. It was called VSTA (not to be confused with VSTO). It shipped with one of the apps of Office 2007.
The point, I believe, is not about Linux kernel but rather "Linux userland". I'm sure you could replace "iOS" with "Android" and the meaning will stay the same: smartphone OSes go to great lengths to isolate apps and prevent them from messing with the user's data, while desktop Linux does not.

I hope the situation will change once Flatpak becomes more widespread and polished. On paper, it offers a comparable experience to smartphones — you get sandboxing with granular permissions, easy installation without messing with the command line, and so on. In practice, I had enough issues with Flatpak apps breaking in non-obvious ways to make me not recommend it to others. As a recent example, I tried using a JetBrains IDE from a Flatpak and spent quite a bit of time diagnosing issues with paths before resorting to Google and finding out that it's not supposed to work at all (https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...).
I'd recommend that you looks at one of the topics, linked lists, using C, just so that you get a feel for explicit pointers. Then do exactly the same using Python (where pretty much everything is an implicit pointer). Then proceed for the rest of the topics with Python.

C++, Java, too big and objecty; Rust is too hard for a beginner.
So the analogy doesn't hold up because computer does it more efficiently?
> when I caught the error I asked it to further explain since it appears to contradict the code it generated. It then came back with an apology and it did state it made a mistake and was able to understand the error and fix it[..]

I sense that "I'm sorry, Dave..." isn't quite as far away as we thought...
If I'm not mistaken, Diablo 2 Resurrected is not a 20 year old game, since it is a remaster of the original Diablo 2. It has been released ~two years ago.(21/08/2021)
One word of caution - do you realise that anyone with your iPhone + PIN code can access all those passwords?

All you have to do is go to settings > passwords and enter the pin and there they all are.

Sao if you use this, have a really good iPhone pin!
To view the missing CSS:

wget -qO - https://www.w3.org/2008/site/css/minimum | gunzip -
Incapable of running malware… what might that mean? Perhaps each app running in an enclave, only permitted to access one IP address and one directory in the local file system? I can't imagine anything less strict having any hope.
Felt like an ad, even though I could imagine that someone would want to post this out of normal interest.
You can still have a separate team for it, to monitor and/or guide the processes in the other teams. But that team should not have sole responsibility for execution, because you end up rationing the concern you claim to care about.
> "A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems" — KEB
I get it for a smart meter, you don't want to mix up numbers and provide wrong readings. And they could be read manually and entered into a system, even if they're "smart".

But for books, the worst that can happen is that you get the wrong book. Maybe back in the days when people ordered books via phone it was good to have a checksum, but even then the seller would probably read back the name of the book. So I don't really see how it's necessary here.
It can, yes, but under ordinary circumstances remote websites cannot access the ME/PSP.
That job you can't be fired from, that ensures employment as long as you want? It's in the public sector.

But Republicans especially and Americans generally are allergic to the public sector.

So really you want that lucrative highly competitive job without the competition.

If after 20 years at a company at 45 years old some kid from a developing countries is better than you at your job that's on you.
There's no doubt exercise is essential here. There's just lots of people pushing the idea that diet / food restriction alone is sufficient for weight loss or that the goal of exercise is to "burn calories", suggesting the two are directly correlated.
Less than a third of workers feel engaged at work
It is gzipped
a comment you can only see on HN. I really like the pointless hatred towards CSS and javascript on this site lol
You can rollback with plain home-manager:
https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/do...
> The reason why you don't have that ability

And why is that?
What about people using Apple computers? Were they simply advised to borrow something capable of running Windows from a friend?
I remember reading about Matchbox Game-Learning Machines in a book in my school library in the late 1960s. It was partly responsible for getting me interested in computers.
Eh, they did lie about it repeatedly (as to why and how bits like location and aircraft trajectory). But they did acknowledge it happened I guess is your point.