skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No matter how you try to spin this, it's by all accounts an act of discrimination to pay one person less than another purely based on where they live. Think about it: if a company pays a person less because of the color of their skin or their gender, the company would be in big trouble. But somehow it's OK to pay a person less based on their location?

Yes, yes it absolutely is. My favorite example is a train conductor in the deepest netherworld of Saxony and a train conductor in Munich.

Both perform the absolutely same work, both in complexity and time, and yet with the usual "everyone gets paid the same" collective agreement, either the train conductor in Munich can't even rent a 1br apartment, or the train conductor in Munich barely scrapes by while his colleague in Saxony lives in a mansion.

Wage schedules in any multihomed organization have to be CoL based, there's no way around that.
macOS has either always lacked (like Display port MST) or later broken/crippled (like DisplayLink support) some important features for multi-monitor setups. I wonder if those things or similar things are somehow implicated in these KVM-enabled monitors.
This is mostly because money lost a lot of its value (eaten by inflation, and overly generous policies during corona to fix the restrictions they themselves created)
> msgpack doesn't support a binary chunk bigger than 4gb, which is unfortunate.

I don’t care what behemoths people store in the formats they use but at the point you exceed “message size” the universality of any format is given up on. (Unless your format is designed to act as a database, like say a SQLite file.)

> In JSON you could have a 10GB Base64 blob, such as a video, in a string, no problem

Almost every stdlib json parser would choke on that, for good reason. Once you start adding partiality to a format, you get into tradeoffs with no obvious answers. Streaming giant arrays of objects? Scanning for keys in a map? How to validate duplicate keys without reading the whole file? Heck, just validating generally is now a deferred operation. Point is, it opens up a can of worms, where people argue endlessly about which use-cases are important, and meanwhile interop goes down the drain.

By all means, the stateful streaming / scanning space is both interesting and underserved. God knows we need something. Go build one, perhaps json can be used internally even. But cramming it all inside of json (or any message format) and expecting others to play along is a recipe for (another) fragmentation shitshow, imo.
A sizable chunk of engineers from the most competitive companies got fired - people used to optimizing for everything - resume readability, LeetCode hards, system interviews, etc.

You think they won’t optimize their profiles for their next job?
I don't think you've understood what I meant by "flattening". I wanted to imply something like an embedding of search paths into a high dimensional space within which a point in the space represents a whole path, and the proximity of paths implies similar realisations.

I'd imagine one could directly realise this by training a network with chess games and the distances between them -- by some useful path related measure -- as inputs. I think that the network would succeed in learning an embedding for chess games. I wouldn't be surprised if such an embedding could be fine tuned to output win probability instead for example.

I also wouldn't be surprised if you could train a network on an auto-completion task of one-move-ahead prediction, and then using that to assign win probabilities, much in the same way that LLMs are used for part of speech tagging.
Because our congresspeople are tech illiterate and can't wrap their minds around this problem. Combine that with general anti-regulatory lobbyists padding their pockets.
It's no different except now you've set parent's height to 100% of its parent, which is the html tag. But the html tag is height: auto so there is a circular dependency. if you put html { height: 100% }, or set parent's height to an explicit height then its fine

This is the reason for the perceived difference between width and height. The rules are the same but the box's default width and height are different
If I get the time, I'll link the studies (if someone else has them handy or wants to dispute these claims, please do so):

Strength and muscle mass do seem to be very good predictors for longevity. Lifting weights does seem to be one of the best ways to increase these two things. The acute effects on blood pressure don't seem to be problematic for healthy individuals and don't really cause a chronic increase in blood pressure.

There's a lot of controversy over being vegan vs. being an omnivore, but it seems like the actual data on outcomes (read: not theoretical mechanisms) suggest that:

1. If you tell the average person to follow an omnivorous diet vs. telling them to eat a vegan one, even if you give them some basic guidance on how to eat healthy (try to stick to minimally processed foods, etc.), doing the latter does tend to improve various biomarkers associated with longevity. [0] for example, suggests this.

2. There's no clear case that this difference is caused by something other than differences in:

a. Average caloric intake (meat-eaters tend to eat more calories, and very broadly speaking, more calories = worse health)
b. Saturated fat (meat tends to have more saturated fat, which is associated with higher apoB, a big factor that contributes to heart disease)
c. Nutritional opportunity cost (obviously, all else equal, eating meat means you're not going to be eating something else - for example, eating a lot of meat could mean you don't get sufficient fiber intake, which seems to have positive effects on health).

That is, if meat-eaters controlled for these things - making sure they didn't overeat, making sure they didn't overconsume saturated fat (by, for example, eating leaner cuts of meat), and making sure they had a balanced diet, it's not clear that meat has some other detrimental effect.

I think weight lifting being good for your health is relatively uncontroversial. The data does not really seem to suggest that meat in a balanced diet has detrimental effects, though the jury is still out.

It might very well be the case that the vegan yoga trainer lives longer than the meat-eating weight lifter, but it would probably be a mistake to infer a causal relationship between an otherwise healthy diet with meat in it/weight lifting and lower life expectancy.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10690456/
Well, if people would watch it I kinda have to now...
The problem is that things are not supported by politicians in a vacuum. It's not a la carte in a 2 party system. If we put unrelated and unacceptable policies alongside universal healthcare you can't be surprised if it doesn't attract some demographics.

I'm still waiting for the politician who's gonna have the figurative balls to say "let's fix school/college because they are failing boys". When the issue was women not getting enough degrees there was no problem calling this a national cause, now crickets.
Interesting! I’ve about six weeks into StrongLifts, based on the Starting Strength program (which I am reading concurrently). What about the Supple Leopard book do you think makes it pair well with SS?
As a counterpoint — Paris’s bike infrastructure changes.

Despite all the talk of less regulation in the US it seems our cities and suburbs are much more protected and lethargic to change many European counterparts
I know it a balance between image quality and framerate, and presentation will benefit from a sharp image (nobody like to read blurred text) but presenting a screen that contains some moving elements or even a video will often be a poor experience. I wish there was a way to select between image quality and framerate when presenting sometimes, but in the meantime I use the OBS virtual camera to "present" something as my camera feed so that I broadcast a video at a decent framerate.
If it’s hosted by Spotify, the easiest way is to plug in its Apple Podcast URL to a tool like the one I linked. Try Joe Rogan’s for an example of this (his RSS is hosted by Spotify’s Anchor and every podcast index has that link.)

If the podcast is just distributed to Spotify, as most are, then the feed will be hosted someowhere else.
Really? Is it a walled garden when like 90%+ of recruiters are on there?

Would you say “a good resume is a red flag, nobody producing value has time to tend that”.

The big irony is making things look nice, be readable, be sellable is creating value. In the case of making a LinkedIn or a resume, the value your creating is in terms of your very own capability to get a job and have a high take home pay!
Is it a reference to Star Trek? Otherwise, why would they focus on animals, when mankind is the most visible and most affecting the planet?
This is the thread for employers who are looking to hire.

The thread for employees is usually called "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?", here is the one for this month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217308
Just goes to show that free markets aren't always the best for the citizens of a country.
I'm not sure why you'd equate "some weightlifters sometimes have red skin" with "my cousin sometimes got red skin and he died" with "vegan yoga is good for you."

Veganism is associated with a slew of health problems.[0] But regardless of that, the first two statements are completely unrelated. Weightlifters don't naturally have higher blood pressure, and lifting weights regularly lowers your blood pressure, it doesn't raise it. I've seen the flushed, red, vascular look you're talking about. I'm sure in some people it's natural due to low body fat and I'm sure in some people it's a combination of pre-workout and creams designed to give exactly that look.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027313/
Still not as bad as the English upper house!
Try out Perplexity. It's really awesome for search with it's RAG feature.
Your framing is a bit disingenuous.

For one, there’s, of course, the simple matter that these kinds of things shouldn’t happen and that cases like hers bring it to light.

The implied alternative by you would mean companies can keep being poor employers because people would walk away, and nothing would change for the ones that stay behind and are affected by it.

And then there’s, of course, your implication that everyone is in the fortunate position of being able to walk away from a job or let go from a job without the slightest inconvenience.

In reality, a lot of people work because they have to survive. Losing a job can be an earth-shattering experience for many because of the implications it has on their ability to survive.

The solution to employers creating poor or dangerous work conditions isn’t to say, “Let the market sort it out,” and then blame the victims. The solution is to regulate employers and to punish them hard and often when they create those work conditions.

The main reason for this is because of the highly skewed power balance. One side has a fundamental need for survival, the need for money to pay for shelter and food, while the other side mainly has to worry about shareholder value and profits.

This power imbalance always ensures there will be people desperate enough to take on any job, no matter how shitty or dangerous, to the point that they’ll even rationalize it and delude themselves.

One way to balance out the powers a bit more is regulation on working conditions, and another is creating social safety nets and improving standards of living that guarantee a level of survival regardless of whether you hold a job or not, which allows people to walk away from poor working conditions.

It is in countries where these measures are lacking or non/existent, where you see many people taking up jobs that have questionable or outright poor working conditions.

This is why you see a proliferation of gig workers, MLMs, and people willing to take on jobs with poor pay and poor working conditions in those countries. You’ll also see the exploitation of people with lesser legal protections in those countries, such as children or undocumented immigrants.

Ironically, in countries with better regulations and where they facilitate programs that ensure everyone can survive regardless of employment status, you’ll see more of the classical “free market” effects you allude to.

People who walk away from a job that has poor working conditions or people who won’t even take up a job with such conditions, which in turn motivates employers to improve the working conditions beyond the minimum conditions as prescribed in regulation.
It turns out that when people don’t have to worry about being homeless and hungry, people can negotiate better working conditions, even if the negotiations are done with their feet.
I honestly don't know if I want to be delighted or horrified by the need of a physical hack to trick your OS that there is a virtual monitor to share
Nothing was worse than a clean bulk. But deadlifting 405 and seeing the bar bend was an amazing feeling.
Prices depend a bit on the region but here it's around 0,26 €/0,28 $.
Sam Altman says Apple Vision Pro is '2nd most impressive tech since the iPhone'
Wealth is not limited by the amount of gold you can mine from earth.
I guess this may be true. But my lack of knowledge of these things is on a different plane to the "knows well-enough" vs "expert in" distinction that might be useful for gatekeeping.

My grasp of trig has relapsed to 13-year-old level. It's an embarrassment!
RSS is still pretty great
Yes. But not for that reason.

They've grown taller in order to reach into stronger wind and thereby produce more power.
Or you could just pin yourself.

Body dysmorphia sucks already, you don't want to add to that the loss of love for food.
Oh yeah. Orcas. The other highly intelligent, highly social apex predators that haven't graduated from sexual violence for domination and torturing lesser creatures for fun.
It probably should be total debt load. Or even debt to income ratio. Credit score is a poor proxy but someone with 300k in debt is not a good long term candidate unless they are bringing in 250-300k
ShellCheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
I'm curious if a) they looked at self-reported exercise regimes, b) they looked at objectively measured exercise (everyone thinks they exercise more, and better, than they actually do), c) 140 vegans is enough to draw conclusions broadly given the total sample size.
AI Tools Engineering: An Emperical Study on GitHub Copilot in the Coporate Env
So, it's a "stop making me hit you" kind of thing then?
From TFA:

> my salary was around €120 000 per year [...] For The Netherlands this is a good salary, and you'll have a hard time finding companies that offer better and let you work from home full time.

For his country, he was well paid and worked from home 100% as well.

> But if I had instead lived in the Bay Area, I would've earned at least twice that amount, possibly even more. Not because I am somehow able to do my job better in the Bay Area, or because of any other valid reason for that matter, but because I would be living in the Bay Area instead of in The Netherlands.

He says it was "not fair" that he wasn't paid the same salary as people in a different country.

There are no Victim Points to be scored here.

The author has a poor understanding of economics.
I guess it would be based on level of intelligence of their environ..

Who actively destroys their environ? Humans. these animals master their environment without destruction. Humans destroy.
From the review: "But is any of this really language? Kershenbaum shrewdly sidesteps the question." Of course he does, because it would ruin his thesis. He'd rather use the word "talk" because it's vague enough that he can use it without being called out, yet sounds meaningful enough to the common person that it sounds like he's saying something, while at the same time pulling in all kinds of feelings about how nice or smart some animals are. (And yes, I've had pet birds, fish, cats and dogs, and at least the cats and dogs, and maybe the bird, sort of communicate. And they were--one of the cats still is--nice.)

Peter Wohlleben does the same thing in his book "The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate", using the word "communicate". Trees exude certain chemicals when injured or infested, and you can sort of kinda maybe call that communication--but of course you can't call it language.
not to be pedantic but

> and I was working my deadlift reps towards 225 lbs—four plates, in meathead parlance.[1]

in meathead talk that means 2 plates, because they typically count one side only. at least in my experience thats always been the case. so 405lbs deadlift is 4 plates (aside) 8 plates total.
Debug or a flowchart for computed properties would be amazing for learning.
"NDD bikes were designed to be more aerodynamic by completely eliminating surface area."

Not sure nut they do not look like they are eliminating surface area. Not saying they are less aerodynamic.

Also, I raced road bikes in the late 80s. I am wondering how much these bikes weigh. Then light weight was what was sought after.
From reading the article it seems the authorities won't or can't figure out the perpetrators. A California judge denied the victim's request for Cloudflare to unmask the blog owner under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and even forced the victim to pay the blogger's legal fees. Seems like the current system is not only unprepared to protect people from online abuse, but even punishes the victims.
Was not familiar with AWS Outpost and honestly just want to get away from the monopolistic tech companies. Though I'm curious. Isn't this product just a way to interface with the storage as you would if it were stored on AWS servers? We would be storing the data locally?
Far more bulk than was previously affordable by many is also a big factor though, i.e. better nutrition leads to a taller generation and height correlates with risk.

If you have twice the mass you are rolling twice the dice.
I recommend "to sell is human" by Daniel Pink to anyone unease about starting basic commercial interaction. I have received good feedback so far from those I recommended it to...
They dont destroy.

You are fun at BDSM parties.
What Is Kubernetes? An Unorthodox Guide for Developers
I personally would argue that the issue happens to coincide with a language shift. While 'trauma' was indeed adopted to mean 'I stubbed my toe yesterday' ( and not without help from media, which popularized it ), similar to word 'mid', I am sure a new word exists that encompasses absolutely brutal treshold for PTSD.

Damn young people. They ruined English!
Ask HN: Declarative Configuration in IoT
Hey HN!

I was wondering if there is any standard or pseudo-standard when it comes to IoT configuration.

Is always something custom the correct solution here?

I want:

- Interoperability between Go (backend/cloud) and C (devices).

- Validation (Schema?).

- Versionable.

- Allow partial configuration updates.

- Declarative.

I took a look to CUE but I am not sure if it fits in this scenario.

Any ideas of experience on this field is welcome.

Thanks.
Ask HN: Do you watch developers livestream?
What type of content do you enjoy watching, is it mostly live coding or non coding?

Who's your favorite streamer?

Have you tried streaming yourself? What do you like/dislike about it? Any advice for folks who want to get started with streaming?
Show HN: Write your own Telegram Wallet bot
It’s rather nonsensical though, you would have to admit. CSS isn’t a spec just for computers to parse, unless you consider it a write-only language written by savants.
There are plenty of vegan lifters too. You can’t change two variables (diet and exercise type) and attribute all the difference to one.
It is also on GOG and other game stores so for anyone who also plays commercial games it is easy to track updates the same way you do with other games.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/openttd
> A SaaS and self-hosting don't go well together

About two months ago, I was commenting on my struggles working at a place that offered cloud and self-hosted solutions where it was not going well. I was mostly convinced that the problem was organizational, but thinking more about it, it’s more complicated than that.

To be clear, I don’t think it’s impossible to do both. If your application is very simple and self contained, then of course; we use such services every day in a variety of environments. However, you have to design the software from the ground up for simplicity, and to carefully dogfood your self-hosted experience via your cloud offering to ensure both models are aligned. And of course, complex system architecture is a significant obstacle; assuming your customers are going to wrangle dozens of microservices, multiple database and distributed caches, etc. is not reasonable for most organizations.

So, if you strictly and carefully design your product to be self-hosted-first, I think these two models can coexist… up to a point. If you’re fortunate enough that your cloud offering becomes huge, you might reach a point where the simplicity of self-hosted-first becomes a restriction that turns into a liability. At that point, you can simply make a decision: who butters your bread? That sucks for your customers who lose in that decision.

If I select self hosted, it’s often because I am concerned about lack of agency, control, and partitioning, or I need to flatten my costs, or I have an external requirement that is incompatible with the cloud offering. Is it not a risk, then, to hitch my wagon to a company that offers both, and at some point may make a decision to rescind or water down their self-hosted solution? If it’s closed-source or open-core, then I would say so. From that perspective, I think it would be better to go with a vendor that just picks a lane, and avoid those that use watered down self-hosted to funnel customers into more expensive cloud offerings (in other words, open-core model is a big red flag for me). I suppose this is maybe getting into whether you should rely on proprietary software whatsoever for vital parts of your business, but let’s not get into that. Like I said, I think the question is complicated.
The racial disparity situation in America (and all over the world) is complex enough a topic that it cannot be boiled down to such a simple explanation. I encourage you to research the various systemic challenges people of color have faced since they were forcibly relocated here such as redlining[0], loan discrimination[1] and examples of literal war crimes committed against black communities that have been swept under the rug for reasons[2].

[0] - https://www.marc.org/news/economy/history-racial-discriminat...

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/the-history-of-lending-discrimi...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/move-1985-bo...
Show HN: Programming is easier than you think
So the pyramids are visible out to 3000 light years away if the aliens have extremely powerful optical telescopes. More recent developments, like satellites, might be visible out to 60ly. It is basically a signal travel speed issue.

So, the paper doesn't mention this, but if -- and only if -- they're looking for pyramids, we're visible to about 0.1% of the galaxy.
I expect this is particularly borne out when there is no obviously good move, but many options. The grandmaster will "see" implications without calculating and then confirm them.

I think most strong chess players can "evaluate" a board and decide who is stronger to within a small error compared to an engine score. I think if you were to test this by giving strong players N seconds per position -- not enough time to calculate to any depth -- it would be shown that many are within a small (but consistent) margin of error compared to an engine.
You still gotta eat big. You can pin HGH if you really want to gain weight, but understand that it doesn't discriminate in what kind of soft tissue it grows.
How things change… The word used to mean “not written on a computer”, now it means “not written by a computer”.