skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do recreational distance runners care about speed so much?

People want to know their health and measure its improvement.

Speed is a proxy measurement for fitness. If there is another way to measure the health improvements of exercise directly comparable among groups, I'm not aware of it. Once a runner accomplishes the feat of running a certain distance, and doing it repeatably, the runner can either go longer distance or faster over the same distance.

Yes, you can go get a VO2 max test, RMR analysis, or body comp assessment, but those are specialty services costing money and requiring professional evaluation. Not something most people can have done every weekend.
> Very few engineers want to maintain relationships with customers

That’s what CX is for.

> interview users to identify potential features

That’s what designers are for.

> manage leadership, play politics for resource allocation

That’s what your lead/people manager is for.

You don’t need a PM. You need an org chart.
Such a silly question. Why do people care about improving in anything?
Interesting. The meter was defined in 1791. James Bradley got the speed of light correct to about 1% in 1728, and I think that value stood in 1791. That value was less accurate than either the 10000km pole-to-equator or 1-second-pendulum, as measurable in 1791. And until special relativity, the idea of speed of light being constant wasn't really firmly established. Ultimately, I think in 1791 I think using the speed-of-light as the basis wasn't really practical.

P.S. Not really necessary but in writing this comment, I read these documents, each of which taught me something new:

https://interestingengineering.com/science/a-brief-history-o...
https://spie.org/publications/tt82_25_speed_of_light
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
Perhaps it was inelegantly put by the original commenter, but I think the gist is that the product managers who lack some of the important product management skills around vision, ability to be customer facing, and effective and articulate communications tend to work more like project managers—effective acting as tactical managers within a product as opposed to strategic ones for the product.

We can define and name the roles all sorts of things (project manager, product owner, product manager, product marketing manager), but what it boils to is for any complex product there is a need for the management of the product at a holistic level and a need for management of a product at a granular level.
Some might know this, but:

Rental car companies make their money on re-sales. That is their margin. If the new equivalent drops in price, the margin is gone.
I have a hard time with this. For one, a dating site where there is 3 women for every 2 men is such an anomaly in itself, and then when word gets out that "hey, it's a dating site that isn't a total sausage fest" (to be blunt), then I can't see that ratio doing anything but skewing rapidly in the direction of every other dating site.
Money and debt aren't exactly the same thing though right? The quipu is a system of IOUs iirc. More like the English debt stick. With currency/money (gold, silver, copper, fiat notes), we make a transaction on the spot and we're done. There is no debt in the simple case. The poster is saying they didn't use money and it sounds like they didn't. They used a system of tracking debts which could likely be traded.

I know it's all tightly related, but I believe there is a difference.
Modern Sherlocking
Maybe it's just me being jaded after at least 15 years (or at least it feels like it) of the HIV cure "coming soon" and the personal impact this has had on my community and multiple friends (LGBT).

This article being written kinda bothers me? By the authors own admission we know almost nothing. We really just know it's safe but don't even know if anyone stopped taking their ART.

Sure it's great that we are not getting a setback from it being unsafe... but I am just tired of hearing about the false starts that time and time again turn out ineffective.

Like I said maybe I am just jaded here but something about this rubs me the wrong way.
I find Google's Material design horribly ugly, and like all flat UIs with abstract monochrome icons painful to use. I need my UI elements to have text labels.
This… and trying to squeeze dates out of everyone to fill boxes in a document.
How is it not patent troll stuff? It's a meaningless tweak on something that existed some 10 years before 2020 when this garbage was filed.
I love projects like this, but I really wish instead of converting text resources to web sites that these projects would produce epub outputs. It's great for distribution, offline reading, and scaling to different display sizes, aspect ratios, and resolutions.
Absolutely! Newer cars are a tech nightmare. I'm much happier keeping older vehicles on the road than even considering the issues on newer ones. The problem for me now is that if I don't do all the work myself, it is getting harder and harder to schedule a mechanic to do it. Everyone is booked up and I keep getting the impression they generally don't charge enough to feel like they are making good money even at crazy high rates. It's a west coast thing with the incredibly high cost of living.
> he infamously wrote ponderous and impenetrable litanies on the precise cadaveric origin of the particles he thought he was combating

Which doesn't invalidate the fact that women provably died less after his methods of combating those particles were implemented and published. Faced with that evidence, they should have accepted the method even if they don't agree simply because you can't argue with results. They could have saved women and followed up with further study on the exact nature of the problem which would only become clear when Pasteur came along. They chose to institutionalize him out of embarrassment.

I'm not "putting you on the other side" of anything. I don't agree with your minimization of the guy's achievements nor with your characterization of him as "crazy".
https://archive.ph/wMLtj
Apple doesn't need to feign interest to hire away employees, it doesn't need to put itself in any kind of "position".

It literally just has to create job openings and have its recruiters reach out the employees with attractive offers.

And there's nothing dishonest about that whatsoever. As I mentioned in another comment, Masimo had revenue of $1.24 billion last year. They're not a tiny mom and pop company. It's their job to pay their talent enough, and treat them well enough, so that they stay. If they fail to do so, then that's on them.

(And of course, companies undervalue their employees all the time. It's why the best way to progress in your career is often to be constantly switching companies, because another company will pay you what you're worth when your present company refuses.)
It's not a hack it's a message. All of the other guys are shyly waiting in line for their "turn" you on the other hand are far more bold.
But let's compare it to a Ford 250 which is about 2x the weight. I think it's more than lack of awareness, but ignorance. They dont ask why EV = cancer.
I know that among Dutch writers, it is a public secret that one does not have an English translation because the US (and rest of Anglosphere) is an interesting market, but it's a requirement for getting on the NYT bestseller list. This means worldwide visibilty and worldwide sales. I never managed to get hard numbers from anyone, but reading between the lines, Dutch and American book markets appear to be on the same order of magnitude, not necessarily in favour of the US.
I have a $6000 bill to show you for a physically impossible Toyota driving into my passenger door on a roundabout. A roundabout is just collection of T-intersections, nothing forces you to take right turn, you can drive straight, right, or left, physically.

And as for the self-preservation, running a red light on a normal intersection is doubly dangerous as you are risking both frontal and side collisions from both sides, if self-preservation is how roundabouts are safer then a normal intersection is doubly so (it is not, people who cause accidents are not guided by self-preservation).
Not sure if the author is a newbie or never comes across a good product manager in his career. The post is very much generalised which it shouldn’t be.
You can't compare a mechanical watch to a modern web app. If you told the people building the modern web app were allowed to make one release per decade and not allowed to "maintain it" you would see the feature list drop off, the release date shoot out.

If you have different constraints, you get a different result.
> Thankfully insurance covered all of it and I didn't pay anything out of pocket.

Tesla's fragility and high repair costs are presumably increasing insurance prices for everyone.
In the end, hehe, it was a medical doctor who greenlit the procedure. Patients don't get to decide their own treatment trajectory, but they can certainly respond enthusiastically when the Certified Medical Doctor suggests it as a possible route.

And yes, I was bleeding heavily out my ass and had recurrent stomach and intestinal pain for months that went away and then came back the next year. Not as if I went in for a cut finger and demanded an anal probe for it.

Turns out I'm sporadically - not consistently - lactose intolerant. Russian Roulette. Makes me shit acid that tears up all my soft tissue causing bleeding and eventually clotting. FODMAP, or just lots of oatmeal until it clears up, is the way out again. The lactose sugar-based colon purge laxatives they give you to prep for the procedure work REALLY well on me.
CPS has had massive overreach in power. Somehow they are now both able to make life difficult for decent parents and are just as bad or worse at protecting at risk youth. I think they probably realized that they would have an easier time going after struggling but generally decent parents vs going after complete degenerates.
Nodejs

Plain SQL with Postgres

React
I haven't yet met a designer who understands the concept (let alone the merit) of Android's universal "back" button, I think almost everyone involved in "UX" decisions anywhere is an Apple user at this point in time.
Yes, T-Mobile is IPv6-native, but the gateways they provide for T-Mobile 5G Home Internet map to IPv4.
Only if you consider software a commodity.

Which... sorry to inject my personal opinion here, but it's not. Software is a finite intellectual product designed by motivated human laborers. The hardware can be a commodity, and the design can be a competitive advantage, but software layer is specifically what people consider "monopolized".

Nvidia is not the only company designing GPGPU hardware, and they're not the only company capable of affording commodity silicon from TSMC. The only high-demand thing they entirely control seems to be CUDA, a software feature other companies are too lazy to reproduce. Maybe it's the rest of the market that's being anticompetitive?
Maintenance intervalls are not a scam... And high performance engines and cars are obviously different from normal cars...
If you're only keeping the car 2-3 years you can get away with pushing the oil change intervals out or skipping some of them and other maintenance. I would not believe that rental companies are strictly following the manufacturers maintenance schedules, when they can save money and not suffer the consequences of deferring maintenance.
This one knows what's up
Pete Townsend > Roger Daltry.

Fight me.
While of course the bison there are fine, this reminds me of the National Lampoon's joke newspaper from Dacron, Ohio. One running joke there was an effort by environmentalists to protect the Dacron Nine-eyed Trout, which was only found near Dacron's nuclear power plant.
There are those holes that briefly hold your ball, and then something may or may not happen, like getting the ball back with extra kick, getting multiple balls, or having the ball launched on a precise trajectory that makes it fly exactly between your paddles. There is a decision point there, and the decision is made by a program (software or purely hardware). That program is a system that could force defeat.
Don't the cars just dial back ignition timing when they detect knock? Unless your car has no ability to dial back, maybe with a custom high-octane tune, regular fuel should still be safe to run.
Exactly, a calm black and white design does not need to be unfriendly.

Hubbard & Hubbard or MacKay are two examples of beginner-friendly books with great typesetting.
> We switched from AWS ECS deployment to Vercel after tiring of figuring out how to support Next features that require very tight cooperation from CDN/distributed cache magicks.

I guess that's how they get you, by making it onerous to self host and instead offering a clean yet more expensive solution.
Mods book this guy he’s being mean to me.
I mean, how would you even do maintenance over 10,000 years?

At some point your descendants will be too far to remember the reason but not far enough to need it and they’ll stop wasting resources on a nothing activity.
A bigger population just hasn't been trained properly. We have no controls for that, so people get lucky with disparate learning being just enough for their first job, then that turns into experience towards the next job.

Then they find themselves among high performers and can't keep up, really through no fault of their own.

Some high performers are just natural and born with it, which is unfair to let that affect how anyone judges others' performance, but it still happens too (esp. if the high performer is doing the judgment).

What I generally see when people categorize their workers into high/low performance is from a bigger issue of poor stewardship over the industry and training its talent.

This means I don't actually have to improve, I can instead just spam job applications and get lucky just because technology is such a large industry.
>All the Hertz shareholders who have lost real value are... well... that's the shareholder's problem now

Let's see them meme their way out of that one now.
> What is the best evidence for this historically?

Mostly archeological. There are many burials that contain items that were clearly not locally sourced. In some cases, they had to be transported for thousands of kilometers.

And quite often this was done for non-functional items such as jewelry or dyes.
A robotaxi crash got Cruise's self-driving cars pulled from Californian road
"The whiplash from approval to ban in just two months highlights the fragmented oversight governing the fledgling industry"
Most modern products seem to have planned end dates.
For anyone else who's as bad as me at mental arithmetic:

3,000,000 ÷ 6240 = 0.00208 = 0.208%
Unbound is not the intended to be a PiHole service. It's a resolver.
They sell the cars when they are done with them, and regular maintenance is monitored by the onboard computer. It would be stupid to save a few dollars to obviously ding the resale value.
Yup. I think this was a sideways swipe at my analogy so I'm going to double down now because I'm right. You would never get your food before closing at a restaurant if the cooks had to do sprint planning and provide estimates and deadlines. For some reason this is not only acceptable but preferred in software industry.
Exactly this, but I’d only deploy to a simple cloud virtual machine, and not from AWS, Azure or GCP…. 9 cents a gigabyte is crazy.
My CS degree was full of classes where we had to deal with problems like that.
With modern cars incorrect octane will decrease available power, as the knock detector reduces the spark's advance, but it won't otherwise hurt the engine.

Low-octane gas will cause problems in older carbureted cars, but most cars sold in the last thirty-or-so years will not have this problem.
Why a simulated PDP-11 CPU rather than compiling to wasm? I guess because wasm is pure computation
with no interrupts and so forth? Also no access to the stack

Also it’s probably a lot more work to retarget the existing compilers to new back ends

Although if this is a new Go implementation, it’s probably a lot of work anyway
Just pure ol' JavaScript with a couple libraries.

Frontend: Lit and Tailwind (in reality, unocss, a tailwind runtime that doesn't need build)

Database: indexeddb + some CRDT

Backend: no backend, webrtc to sync between devices without a central server

Hosting: Github and cloudflare cache, the app has a functionality to deploy itself, generating a minified tailwind CSS and if needed, a "SSR" version of it (but without hydration, this is the part of the frontend craziness that I don't wanna get close).
If the laptop has access to the NAS, the attacker could wait til the user logs in with MFA and piggy back that authentication session. MFA is a bummer, not a defense in this case.
https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
Is that a common source of typing errors? Genuinely wondering as I don't have a whole lot of experience with statically typed languages. I've personally never had a bug related to it.

I wasn't meaning to imply everything is perfect, though. For example equality operators take anything. I believe there may be changes coming around there.
Log:

Human footfall.
Branch break.
Human footfall.
Branch break.
Weapon cocking, AR-15.
Weapon firing, AR-15. No hit.
Weapon firing, AR-15. No hit.
Weapon firing, AR-15. No hit.
Weapon firing, AR-15. No hit.
Weapon firing, AR-15. No hit.
Weapon firing, AR-15. No hit.
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Also in real life, you get way more information about the other person, than from a mostly fake profile and picture.
Literally passing the smell test ...
Which is exactly why I think money is not the issue here. That $600 is trivial to raise for a project this widely used, should the need arise. The issue is likely about having to pay in the first place, and the reason behind it.
A review of Her by Ray Kurzweil (2014)
Very interesting time to rewatch and discuss this film
Do you deploy .NET on Windows or Linux?
Is there any trick to implement live updates in a scaleable way? In the limit for a naive implementation, every mutation would have to check every subscriber to see if the change is relevant which seems like it would cause large bottlenecks for writes.
This guide gives the overview of breadth of concepts. This is a good starting point.

There’s one more github repo called “awesome-scalability” which has the good blog posts by concept.
One element of dating apps that breaks it: it requires no bravery and no effort to approach a girl. So the dynamic is broken from the very first second and it's fairly difficult to fix.
Unfortunately this hasn’t resulted in people being more happy. It’s quite the paradox. What are we doing all this for?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/505745/depression-rates-reach-n...

I don’t post that to be negative, because I agree with what you are saying about a unique time to be alive and have done the same Atari to Xbox Series X glow-up and I marvel at the improvements there. But I do think happiness (and decreased mortality, increased lifespan) should be the ultimate end goal we are striving for for humanity and we seem to be failing, at least in the USA. The reasons are certainly multifaceted, but increased transistor density may be one of the reasons just like obesity, environmental toxins, etc.
Show HN: Spinner Game – Let the worm finally catch its tail
I've not even heard of any of these shows before, but certainly in that first clip in British English it'd be more normal to say "You ain't worth shit".

> For sure. In my experience, in the U.S. that use is almost always preceded by "little":

Yeah, we often say "little shit" in the UK if we want to emphasis how unimportant we thing they are.

That said, I've since thought of some almost counter examples to my original comment. I know "shizzle" derives from "shit", and I have heard "It's the shizzle" before (but again originally from US sources, it became a popular phrase in the UK around the late 90s, but largely disappeared now). Thinking back, I've also heard "It's the m**f**g shit man!" but it was always done in an over-the-top way, also rarely, and usually as a parody.

Maybe it's just the intensifier in that. I think "It's good shit" and "It's bad shit" mean the same as without "shit". And I still don't think I've ever just heard "It's the shit" on its own, other than that source you cited and that's from the US not the UK.

Even "That's the shit" to me would just mean "this is the stuff" with an implication that there's something wrong with it, maybe illegal, maybe broken, whatever.

In the UK, "the shits" also refers to diarrhea, so maybe that's why we don't use "the shit" in a positive sense here. Of course, maybe the younger generation do, and I've just never noticed it.
Sure. I wasn't really trying to insinuate anything, although I think in a more-ideal world the licensing arrangements of all projects would be in a prominent place, especially if they use a "Star us on GitHub" call-to-action. It's a vital part of evaluating this sort of thing.
Seems helpful if you are looking for a committed relationship.

Many of us are not. Where can we go?

This is the question that really needs answering; else we will have no option but to continue to flood the same spaces that commitment-seekers use. The relative signal to noise ratio is hurting all of us.
When we designed our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle back in 2003 I considered using a guitar pickup for that, to pick up vibration and get a measure of how rough the road was.
Indeed. Even today "there are people...". What I am curious about is how much does the average degree of seriousness differ between our and their times. We seemingly tend to assume people of the distant past predominantly were extremely naïve and sincerely believed whatever we find written by them. But what if they were almost as rational as modern people are and that's we who are naïve when reasoning about their beliefs?
> As an avid runner (10 miles every day, over 3k miles last year), shoes and tracks mean less than you think.

I’m also a fairly avid runner and I’m going to call BS on that.

There’s a ~14 second difference in world record times between track and road in the 5k. Track surface technology is a real thing, just as shoe technology is.
I read: 'I had a bad experience with a product manager, so all are bad.'

I agree that there are tons of bad PMs out there. But allow me to summarize what a good PM does:

Talk to customers; either to dig deep into their use case, deescalate a situation, figure out solutions, or conduct research.
Monitor the rest of the market.
Plan launches, pricing, and coordinate with sales teams, etc. - I had Product Marketing staff before, but they missed context and delivered bad experiences. I find it way harder to find a good product marketing manager than a good product manager.
The PM is the DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) and therefore takes a lot of shit. The PM acts as a filter so you can continue doing your job.
A good PM can even write a line of code here and there. Prototyping is part of the job.
Roadmap, strategy, vision, build vs. buy... often the center of friction between what the business wants, what customers want, what the business can afford, and what engineers want to build. Finding a middle ground.
You are right; these are not skills you learn in school. A PM wears a lot of hats. People with a solution architect or engineering background with a customer-facing element to their past tend to have the best chance of being a good PM. But by no means is the PM job an unnecessary one - do you want to figure out how to price a product and be responsible if sales can't sell it? I hope you come across a good PM in your career.

'Just hire great people' - what's new?

PS: The success of a PM highly depends on the engineering culture. If engineers are convinced all PMs are useless and they have no real job, or as a real-life example: engineer thinks A, PM shows data that shows B, but engineer just thinks the data is wrong and will do A anyway... it will be a highly frustrating collaboration for both. Please keep an open mind.