skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using exogenous testosterone will shut down your endogenous production, or at least permanently reduce it. A lot of people will try to tell you it can be avoided with the right combination of SERMs and HCG, but there are a lot of people who thought they were doing the exact “right” protocols who end up on TRT because their testicles were permanently atrophied. It’s one of those topics where everybody thinks they’re the exception who will avoid the consequences, but do it long enough and it will happen.

There are also a lot of secondary effects that people underestimate. For example, the extra testosterone (beyond normal levels) will result in excess estrogen, which can grow excess breast tissue in males. There are medications that can interrupt this process, but getting the dosage right is difficult and many people fluctuate around ideal values. Fluctuation and low estrogen values will cause significant mental health effects. Again, these are theoretical avoidable under perfect conditions yet almost everyone ends up with some of it eventually. I had a friend who tried using testosterone all the “right” ways with excessive lab tests, HCG, cycling, SERMs, AIs, and everything else. It still ended up destabilizing his mental health and making him prone to anger and bouts of sadness/crying. He denied it for a long time because he thought it couldn’t possibly be his by-the-book protocol, but eventually we got him to admit it was a problem. Denial runs deep.

Basically: Don’t go down this path unless you accept that it’s going to have significant downsides and consequences, many of which are long lasting or permanent. And definitely don’t dabble in taking testosterone or steroids as an early step in a weightlifting career or as a trial to see if it gives you a boost. The consequences can/will be permanent for the rest of your life.
> Are there no repercussions if the contract isnt honored?

Basically the entire point of futures markets is to standardize the contracts and process by which these contracts are fulfilled to the point where all of that is just part of the pricing mechanism.
I mean a taxi driver is almost a perfect example of “work more get more work done and more pay)”.

At some point he crashes but it’s not at 40hrs.
Of course they can, but they feel better at elevated T levels.
>> We live in extreme times

I thought fear-driven hyperbole ended with the expiry of covid lockdowns. On to the next end of the world story.
There's obviously many factors at play here, a lot of people have mentioned different brain chemistry, interest in the work your doing (which of course also isn't a binary choice, you can enjoy your job but enjoy your personal projects more), etc.. But I think one thing that doesn't get talked about enough is, if I were to try to put it into a word, finality.

I can work for 4-6 hours and be completely wiped. Equally, in the past I've done ludum dares for 24, I seem to remember once even getting close to 48 hours straight, and at the end I'm full of beans (or more so than you'd expect). Again, obviously interest plays a part here but what is much bigger in my opinion is that I know that at the end of that 48 hours, my work is done. I'm "free". If I were to do 48 hours straight at my office job, I'd still be back in the next day, and the day after, and so on.

If the work has no end, what is the motivation to power through it?
Interesting that this page does not list Blogger. Confirmed deathwatch then?
How much of KA's web react code (I'm assuming?) can be re-used in RN land?

Or vice versa, do you use RN-Web or plan to?
It might be worthwhile to reconsider how qualified Celeste Kidd is to teach how to foster a healthy lab culture: https://reason.com/2022/03/14/how-an-academic-grudge-turned-...

TL;DR: Kidd's accusations about her colleagues were found to be unsubstantiated in four separate investigations. Not just unsubstantiated, but in some cases outright proven false. She claimed Jaeger groped a woman at a party, when in reality said woman was Jaeger's girlfriend who confirmed all contact was consensual. Kidd herself was proven to have engaged in the very behavior that she is claiming does not happen.
$ od -cx file

or

$ other_command_or_pipeline | od -cx

is from early versions of Unix. Prints both character and hexadecimal representation of each byte in the input.

$ man od
10-12 hour days can be great for getting shit done especially if it takes time to get going.

But that can also be combined with 3 or 4 day work weeks (and not necessarily repeated long weekends, day on day off day on can be good too for some people).
Well cool, TIL!
> It also has some obfuscated logic with bitwise operations, likely attempting to confuse the reader.

Bitwise operations are commonplace to improve efficiency.
> It's basically all vanilla Java

Have you considered rewriting it in rust? ;)

In all seriousness, it's great to see something written in a "boring" language like Java, which seems to get a lot of hate in developer circles, hover at the top of HN.

Java really can perform amazingly well, especially if you minimise the use of unneeded libraries and frameworks. Super curious to see how your stack evolves as you get more load.

Best of luck to you on the journey!

Ps there's truly a world of difference between "Spring Boot Developer" and "Software Engineer with Java experience". I suspect a lot of people who hate Java or think it performs badly have only worked with the former group of people.
I have intimate knowledge of FB during that period. Any voice of concern about abuses of the service were repressed as a "we'll deal with that when it's a problem."

Concerns about lack of global moderation and enforcement were well known before the massacre. Mark and leadership made a choice akin to what the major oil producers did regarding global warming: kick the can until it's a problem.
The participation-award generation comes of age.
My brand new android phone cost me $50, no plan attached or anything like that. Granted, that was a steal but I've never paid more than ~ $300 for my phones and I use them for 3 to 4 years.
Monolegible
Hi,gus_massa. I have worked in real estate since I was 21 years old - never had another job. It has been an amazing ride. On your tech stack question, I can barely handle my iPhone. But if you would like to know more I can ask my co-founder if he can talk to you. Might be awhile we are both putting in very long days right now. My email address is on the top. Please get in touch. Thanks for your questions. Richard
I think your last sentence is the reason for the obsession with starting your own venture. Then there is a theoretical "end."
How is it difficult? Each product has a metric / OKRs behind it and if it doesn't then something is really really wrong.

Can hardly see an argument of everyone pivoting based on loudness and charisma. People would usually fail here on analytics, design or even technical questions of data flows.
A policy that only allows criticism of ideas is a poor policy. Criticizing the ideas of a person who consistently generates poor ideas doesn’t help that person to generate better ideas. That person’s idea generating process (and by extension, that person) is what must be criticized constructively. To do otherwise is to open the door to bad actors.
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I had a house built in 2016 in Forsyth County in 2016 for $335K with a 3.5% down payment FHA mortgage. While the median income is $80K, the median income for a college educated couple is $130K. I qualified for my mortgage when I was making $135k being the only one on the mortgage.

At 400K the rule of thumb is that a mortgage shouldn’t be more than 3.5x your gross income - that’s still less than the $120K that the parent poster said would cause you to live in a “rural area”.
> Doesn't this kind of depend on the law?

Applying a consistent process is what gives the population continuing faith in the system. Laws that are universally supported will sail through the process with ease, so what's the rush? Laws that prove to be more contentious, regardless of reason, will be negotiated and refined across small regions--either indefinitely or until common ground can be found.
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I created a UberEats scrapper that send you email with Excel when it finishes
TRT is tricky because patients will feel an initial boost in their early treatment. They assume this feeling is their new normal, but then things level out and they go back to a more normal-ish feeling.

Severe testosterone deficiencies respond very well to treatment. Going from 55 year old to 25 year old levels isn’t as dramatic.

TRT forums are full of people with normal or low-normal who thought TRT was going to solve all of their problems and make them feel young again, only to be disappointed that they don’t really feel much of anything after a while. However, now they’re stuck on it for life because their endogenous production has dropped off.
Refusing to pay your vendors is actually a surprisingly common (small) business strategy. Notice nobody else has shut them off yet, even GCP or their main office landlord.
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I only have one example of the fraud. A family member with a doctorate in botany who was told to either pencil whip her data or lose Federal funding. She refused to lie. She lost her job and moved on.

This is only one example but if anyone believes the data is not being manipulated then they themselves are being manipulated. There are things we must do but to blame everything on climate change backed by the printing press of the Federal Government something will go wrong. Horribly wrong.
ahhh yeah, wish i could update my comment to give that context. i learned swift via swiftui, as it seemed like the most accessible avenue (as far as quality resources go)!
Most of the costs are for managing the waste above ground. The overall cost of the project is estimated to be €5-6 billion, out of which construction is €1-2 billion. I believe the actual underground facility cost ~€1 billion, while the rest is for various above-ground processing facilities.

There has been a lot of speculative bullshitting on what to do with nuclear waste since the Onkalo project started in the late 80s. So far, nobody has come up with any concrete alternatives. Given the high costs of managing nuclear waste above ground, it's cheaper to bury it underground than to wait for new breakthroughs.
Did you stop reading before the "and" in that sentence?

If you can lower your cost basis while keeping revenues unchanged it will juke the stock price. Mark has been laying people off trying to get the stock back up from his major mistake.
I feel like from my reading given they’re ground based stations that the major earthquake forming causes changes to the magnetosphere making cosmic ray activity appear to increase from the ground.
Those pricing page bullets should be improved to show the benefits / features. For a tech audience commodity product (lots of competition, audience in the know and knows what they want) just do the features I would say.

Talk about tax when we get to the checkout or as a small text under the price.
Most people can’t be honest with themselves about their own goals, let alone with a potential spouse.

For example, most people’s goal is closer to “work just enough to live comfortably” than they’d like to admit, I suspect.
Why wouldn't they pay you?
How well did the XP system work in practice? Did it seem to work well for learning or did students just learn how to game the system?
I was also looking at Flutter and had a similar realization with respect to Google Domains (which I use and will eventually probably transfer away), although mine is just for a hobby project.

To be fair, however, UI frameworks seem especially prone to dying off. Flutter has probably already outlived multiple UI frameworks from Microsoft (I can’t even keep track at this point).

In the end, I was trying to avoid using HTML because I didn’t want to have to rely on something as inefficient as Electron (specifically its memory and storage footprint), but I just don’t see Flutter or its competitors lasting anywhere close to as long as HTML. So I might just end up going with HTML/Electron. (PWAs aren’t an option in my case.)
I'm still hoping that Kotlin Multiplatform succeeds. Since kotlin is now the language recommended by Google so should be able to natively write for Android while also being able to deploy to other OS.
I agree with you 100%. Carmack also says he ensures he gets enough sleep. As long as you get 7-8h a day and take care of yourself reasonably well with food and the occasional run you can work more than 40h/week focused and be very productive in those extra hours. What surprises me most about Carmack is that for him the “why am I working so much? for what? I want a life” moment never came but maybe that’s because he’s been his own boss for almost his whole life working on passion projects. He openly said for both Armadillo and Occulus/Facebook that he started doing less when the passion fades or the corporate BS became too much.
You're invoking an ethos argument (appeal to authority). Basically, it's only valid if you accept US law as supreme, which in the very act of leaking documents showing how legislators and executive agencies abused their positions actually invalidates the very rule of law you apparently are so willing to kowtow to.

In a more uncouth context, it's the kind of argument that would lead to one being deemed a "bootlicker", but we can stick with an apophasis to such for now.
Undetectable Watermarks for LLMs
Main difference is that you pay flat fee $100-500 + you pay 2-3% commission to buyers agent. So let's say you're selling house for $500k and you go with Flat Fee MLS. You pay $100-500 and then you also pay $15k(3%) for buyers agent fees.
With us you pay only flat fee $995, no commissions.
Funnily, these days the first thing I do when I start typing at someone else's terminal is "set -o vi". I cannot function effectively without Vi mode in my shell :)
I think sometimes we preach metrics & data too much...
If you are a programmer, you are already using an editor. Who besides programmers needs to see hex dump of a file?
He's pretty fit - I think he's just way smarter than average and able to pair that with extreme focus (rare). It comes across in Masters of Doom.
Nobody is attacking you... hey is everything alright?
Nah the government could shore it up pretty easily. Just get rid of the cap on FDIC coverage and bank runs aren’t really a problem anymore.
Yes, Reddit uses plenty of dark patterns. Like begging users to leave a positive review.

Which makes me wonder why y'all prefer to believe that reddit itself is buying reviews from black market bot farms in a giant conspiracy, rather than those dark patterns just being, you know, effective at pushing users to leave low effort reviews?
I don’t understand your question.
Fixing your underlying issues is a better fix. Losing weight and leading a more healthy lifestyle will improve your levels. You can also inject every other day subcutaneously. You won’t spike your estrogen due to the more consistent levels.
Were geologists skeptical of the actual data from your sensor network?
This is one of the reasons they often start after getting fired.

But sometimes it’s something you can moonlight.
I get what you mean but sometimes it's really difficult for a bank to tell if it's really you or someone pretending to be you. Funnily enough, if we all "walked in" physically to a bank, it would be much easier for them to tell :). But now, they have to rely on phone numbers and emails and SSNs to tell them if it's really you. They don't have much of a choice - would you have any suggestions on what they could use?

Going to a branch physically is impractical these days - how many of us have even been to a branch that houses our brokerage or 401k accounts for instance? And so many mainstream Fintech apps like Stripe and Robinhood don't even have branches.
I'd argue we have different perspectives on the matter and wont undermine yours. My thoughts are that Digg sealed its fate with Digg 2.0 (or whatever major redesign they had) that made the site unusable and degraded content quality.

I think the lesson Huffman is missing is that quality content from your 2% contributors makes the site worth visiting.
Like my username says, I'm definitely not anything close to a power user, but you're 100% right. Moving to a new city, need info on your current city, or just visiting somewhere? Check their reddit out, between searches, maybe the wiki, and asking questions, you're set. Got a question on random topics? Find the 3-4 subreddits and fire away, no need to worry about quora or stupid articles online. Worst case the community you ask will have some RTFM-attitude to them, but boom - now you got a manual. And like you said, new hobby? Bruh, hit the wiki & the sidebar, go through their resources, ask the community for more if you feel like it. Get detailed help for your issues inside a week, for sure. It's ridiculous how useful it is to have a curated list of resources and a community ready to talk you through those resources, on day 1 of your future hobby, for free. For pretty much all interests. Shit was glorious.

I've read about some people calling for a return to forums. That lacks the one-stop-shop-for-all-interests feel, though - besides, subreddits are quick to tell you about other online communities you should hit up. For some of the older folks on here, how were the old newsgroups compared to reddit? From the little I know - and I mean "I learned about newsgroups from a joke on the Simpsons" little - it kind of sounds like Reddit...
I read "To win a nuclear war: the Pentagon's secret war plans" by Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod last summer. I had thought I was very well-informed on military matters, WW2 history, nuclear strategy and SIOP. After almost every chapter, I would look up at the ceiling or out a nearby window and think that a madness had overcome the US government and military after acquiring and using the atomic bomb against Japan. This weaponry combined with the apoplectic fear of the USSR and communism has shaped the modern world in ways that are hard to overestimate.

I think that it should be required reading at all the US military academies.
Wow. Thanks for taking the time to explain your decision making process.

Thanks to you I've narrowed down to cloud flare and pork in.
Big fan of Carmack but yes, he was blessed to have his interests, abilities and 'job' align near perfectly.

Being able to solve interesting problems all day and directly reap the rewards is positively alien to the avg SWE enduring their 9-5 grind on 'business problems' in a CRUD gulag to pay off their boss' new yacht.
Your life is pain...

I don't know if you know the feeling: it's like watching inexperienced chess players play -- you want to scream when you see them making dumb moves, but then the opponent also makes a dumb move, which makes it more funny than sad.

When I look over the shoulder of people who work like you describe your workflow, just like with chess, I feel this kind of mix of embarrassment and frustration -- it was so easy to do it right, yet you decided to do something silly instead.
I don’t buy the conspiracy theory that eco-terrorists set them, but I would 100% endorse this kind of behaviour if that’s what it takes to shake our society from complacency. It’s totally wild that we are slouching toward ecosystem collapse and it hasn’t become the key talking point in every human interaction the way COVID was.
Amazing!

What is your source of revenue? Is it classic ad-sense revenue?
Corne Keyboard
Don't confuse a federal "subsidy" with a federal contract with SpaceX to buy things from SpaceX.

> The billionaire class also pays less taxes than any other income bracket in the country.

Obviously, they don't pay less than the 0% income tax bracket.
"Hospitalized" normally refers to staying at the hospital, not just visiting the ER, though it is a bit ambiguous.
Hello arjonagelhout. I feel accomplished, but I learn something new every day. There are over 600 posts on the dearmonty website. I write a syndicated Q&A column every week, so I feel it is helpful. Ann Landers was my hero and she answered every letter. I have done the same. lost count but over 5000 replies. This is how I learn more about the problems people have. Thanks for the plug. Richard
> Using exogenous testosterone will shut down your endogenous production, or at least permanently reduce it

Can, not will. You're right though to point out that the body loves homeostasis and will downregulate endogenous testosterone production if serum levels are high from supplementation. Testicular atrophy from extended use is a real potential problem.

Unfortunately, TRT clinics are like the Internet Viagra doctors: they are drug dealers with an MD.

If you have low testosterone then see an endocrinologist or a urologist for treatment. There are certainly cases where exogenous testosterone injections are indicated, but depending on the kind of hypogonadism in question there can be better alternatives that don't involve injections or infertility.

It's worth noting that the secular testosterone decline is not a "new normal," but rather basically every man in the West is suffering from some kind of hypogonadism. We can speculate about the causes, but the precipitous drops in average population serum testosterone levels measured over the past decades is anything but natural or normal.

> many of which are long lasting or permanent

True, but not all of the permanent effects are negative. Exogenous testosterone causes muscle cell nuclei to multiply, and there is a permanent anabolic effect as a result. It's nowhere near as dramatic as being on exogenous androgens, but it's still significant.
IMO, I think Forsyth is pretty far out. Most of it is exurban and far enough from Atlanta that most aren't visiting much. You pass a lot of suburbs on the way into the city. As a county that voted 70% red in 2020, it's a WORLD OF DIFFERENCE culturally for a blue state tech worker in a way that Atlanta ITP, Cobb, Gwinnett and the actual core suburbs are not.

Even so, a lot has changed since 2016! A $335k house is $500k or more now. Which is the entire point I am trying to help you understand: even if you think the money is ok TODAY, when discussing 20-30+ years of retirement, you have to think about how well it will be in the future.

With places like Forsyth going from $350k to $500k houses in about 6 years, you can only imagine how inflation will eat away at your $80k.
Accepting the conceit that the music industry is a meritocracy and that demand drives supply, Rick Rubin is clearly a 10Xer genius who gets the best of the best out of the best of the best while the tape is rolling.

Entertaining the conspiracy theory that the music industry is a cartel ran by a group of unscrupulous and insular gangsters with functionally-unlimited ability to promote and push garbage on the public, with marketing dollars and pay-for-play airtime being the primary means of popularity, one might assume that Rick was involved in projects whose success was a fait accompli, and that Rick's presence and observance in the studio goes beyond music.

Personally, I've noticed the wild variance in artists' opinions about working with Rubin: some say he's a genius and inspirational, but just as many say he's a useless loafer who checks-in from time to time without adding anything creative or useful. It seems, to me, that the former group come from "non-muscian" backgrounds: they are "artists" who usually contribute vocalisations which are a component of tracks created by producers; the latter group tends to include musicians and bands who are self-starters capable of producing songs on their own but expecting a pro producer to help the effort.
Corded tools? You must be a city dweller
No it doesn't.

There are couple dozens of projects which link with NumPy. In order to declare NumPy working, you need to support all of them too.
Exploring data flow analysis in the Rust compiler