skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an experimental feature that allows you to use ERB templates like ViewComponent. https://github.com/phlex-ruby/phlex/pull/867
You want milestones and progress over estimates and deadlines.

The value equation of a software development team isn't a product of their time and salary compared to the code/features/whatever-unit they produce. It's the theories and knowledge they build in their heads and share through the process of understanding problems and developing solutions. You can't optimize that process in a Taylorist fashion.

If there is a process called Agile that's still useful, it's built on this manifesto that eschews management in the Taylorist sense. The principles are built on a preference for organizations driven by the workers rather than the managers. It was perhaps too radical and too naive.

"It gets done when it gets done," is a glib way of saying that progress is more important than deadlines. The idea that systems take time and what's important is that people know where we're at and where we're heading more than threatening punishment for not delivering what we estimated at an agreed upon time.
Sorry, but why would a Mars colony only work with indentured servitude and/or slavery, as proposed by Elon Musk? Not disputing this, just curious what his proposal looks like.

He doesn't exactly strike me as a democrat, but I would like to know his plans?
>as nobody in his right mind will create anything new only to be immediatly copied without anything in return.

People consuming and copying your work means you are making a cultural impact

You think the only reason to create anything is to profit?
For what it’s worth, I didn’t know this and I suspect a lot of people don’t. Thanks for this!
"When managers imposed fake deadlines on me, I hated it. By experience, I know it sucks. Now that I am on the other side, I choose to forget about my experience and do it anyway".

Sounds like being beaten as a child, promising yourself you will never beat yours, and do it anyway.

It seems easy to me: if you call it "fake", then you should not do it. It's never worth working nights and weekends for something that is fake. As an engineer, you do that to me once, I tell you why it sucks. Do it a second time and I will never trust you again; you have just made our relationship adversarial forever. You're the manager of course, so I can't openly go against you. I can just make your life harder everytime it's possible. Every. Single. Time.

Now in a big organisation, you can agree with the team on internal deadlines. Those are not fake: maybe you want a milestone to present to the rest of the company. Probably it matters: your team needs to show results, everybody understands that. But this is definitely not fake, everybody understands that it is internal, and it is probably more flexible than an external deadline (as in: we won't work nights and weekends if we're late, we'll just postpone it).
I think there is some undercurrents in economy which means that people are less willing to make reasonably sizable investments like getting new cars. Outlook for many is somewhat bleak.
10 years ago at Facebook we had a systems design interview question called "botnet crawl" where the set up that I'd give would be:

I'm an entrepreneur who is going to get rich selling printed copies of Wikipedia. I'll pay you to fetch the content for me to print. You get 1000 compromised machines to use. Crawl Wikipedia and give me the data. Go.

Some candidates would (rightfully) point out that the entirety is available as an archive, so for "interviewing purposes" we'd have to ignore that fact.

If it went well, you would pivot back and forth: OK, you wrote a distributed crawler. Wikipedia hires you you to block it. What do you do? This cat and mouse game goes on indefinitely.
At what ambient humidity do you do this? Where I am we are having a dry day at 45% humidity today. Tomorrow it'll be over 90%, and it'll stay between 50% and 90% through the weekend. I would expect that you need a more consistently dry environment for this to work
Thanks. That would mess up vibe coding in the future when LLMs scan it. Haha.
WWII had little to do with America? Go look up lend/lease and then remember we were bombed by Japan. The US was intrinsically linked to WWII from the beginning, just not with troops on the ground.
But isn't it like 1kg more water retention? How did you notice it?
Seems like probably yes! The rest of our legal system overwhelmingly favors errors that let the guilty go free over ones that punish the nonguilty. Due process is not just for citizens.
I've been lifting a similar period of time (although only 3 days a week, with some breaks during COVID etc.) and would concur. I have improved intra-workout endurance when taking creatine, i.e. I can do more reps/the last reps feel easier.

Anecdotally I do also notice a cognitive impact when taking it, e.g. I seem to have improved concentration. Or more that when I have stopped taking it I have decreased concentration. Anecdata 1 of 1.
Do you really need Anastrazole at that dose?

General marker is x4-6 weekly dose for free test, so I'd wager you're taking somewhere between 150-200mg?

I found that contrary to popular advice, I felt much better without taking an aromatase inhibitor and letting my estradiol float at the higher end of the reference range.

There's some science backing the idea that Test/E2 are meant to exist in terms of a relative ratio to each other, rather than concrete numbers.

IE, if your free test is 1,000ng/dL, you'd want more E2 than if you were sitting at 300ng/dL.
People choosing to use an LLM for therapeutic support probably do so with the belief that it is, while maybe not as beneficial as a human therapist, better than nothing. Early RCT results[0] so far do seem promising.

It's not equivalent to choosing to drink poison, which would very clearly be far worse than nothing.

[0]: https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIoa2400802
If they do better than humans on a Turing test then we can still pick them out :)
Well said. The average person these days is mostly buying faster computers and phones so they can run more and more bloated web pages that just get in the way of getting to the text, images or video they want.
Studies show that sedentary men on steroids gain more muscle mass than active men that aren’t on steroids.

So you don’t always have to work for them, especially if you used a steroid like Tren which is 5x more anabolic than testosterone.
Different purposes. If you're building a user-facing web app Django, if you're building an API-only service then FastAPI. To me the big selling point of Django is it's a batteries-included way to build a web app that works with a bunch of pre-integrated stuff including the ORM, form validation, admin site, background tasks, etc, and it is used by so many people that you are unlikely to run into any sharp edges.
Show HN: Aperture -Flip your phone case for a less distracting minimal interface
We explored combining physical interaction (flipping a case) with minimal UI (potentially generative) to create context-aware interfaces for digital wellbeing, without needing new devices. Concept stage, building prototypes, sharing for feedback and use cases.
There is some signature compression that comes with paulstretch that sounds exactly like the output of a square wave interpolated to a sine.

You can see, hear and almost taste it if you stretch white noise.

Tonality makes no difference.
Fancy vs spartan
This kind of behavior also rewards the wrong behaviors. A lot of "I think my team isn't working hard enough" is optics not output.

It's very easy to be performatively more busy to please these types of bosses. This does not add any value and erodes trust. It also makes me lose all respect for a manager when I feel I need to do this.
Why on earth should people facing extreme legal sanction (deportation) not be entitled to a trial to dispute the claims against them? This is basic rule of law stuff. Currently the admin is trying to deny these people the right to plea their case in front of judges at all.
Hey Phil! Also you're 100% right. I should use a different word than scale. I was meaning scale in the sense that they "scale" durability and availability. But obviously it sounds like I say they are scaling performance.

I've changed the wording to "They are designed to keep a set of stateful nodes that maintain connectivity to one another in sync.". Thank you!
So if I rowed crew and could calculate Hessians in my head, I was a?…
Whoah, and a few links later: https://www.dotmana.com/weblog/2014/05/kobo-mini-gps-mod/

Awesome, I have a few Boox devices here but no Kobos. Guess that's about to change...
To add, coming from a research environment (industry AI researcher turned community college professor), there are deadlines in industrial research labs and academia, too. All of my industry research projects had to fit within management-defined schedules. Back in grad school I was well knowledgeable of the “call for papers” deadlines of all the major conferences of my field, and my professors also were well aware of the various deadlines for applying for NSF grants.

I hate project estimation with a passion, especially when doing research, but I recognize that funding isn’t infinite and funders want to assess their own risks. This, we as researchers and engineers have to try our best when it comes to project estimation, even though there are so many “unknowns.”

The only situations that I could think of that are free of deadlines and estimation pressures are projects that are not on the “critical path” of a business or organization, such as a tenured professor working on a project where the outcome doesn’t negatively impact job security, or a student’s side project (like Linux circa 1991) where the only constraint is time.
They got andrew tate out of a foreign prison without much trouble so it's just about priorities I think.
There is no projection.

However there is a large difference in mindset between the following:

1. I don't like the topic or the conversation, so I'm closing the tab or leaving.

2. I'm going to shit on the people who are talking, and force THEM to leave.

That's what flagging does.

And I'm arguing that flagging a post with 150+ comments where people are having spirited discussions is a terrible poisonous thing for a community.
The Saint did have an awesome soundtrack, and I forgot all about that! Thanks!
I got curious and tried searching for it, ended up finding out they actually sample James Brown's "Funky Drummer". Very interesting either way. Thanks!
His tweets that exudes power against other nations suggested otherwise.

At this point he loves being a bully.
They shouldn't be "fake" though. That implies that the deadlines are meaningless

Telling a team that "the deadline is May 8th, but the _fake_ deadline is May 1st" doesn't do anything for motivation, and could actually backfire since it's arbitrary. Saying something reasoned like "we need this delivered on May 8th, but we need feature development to be complete by May 1st to allow for a week of testing and deployment rollout" gives meaning to the "fake" deadline and sets up some expectations for what will happen once the "fake" deadline is reached

Of course, with proper planning, these cease to be "fake", so I guess the point is moot
Frameworks like Vue 3 don't actually work on older browsers since it requires ES2016 support in the browsers.. that means IE 11 and older browsers are out. With Svelte you need Microsoft Edge (IE 11 is not supported). Also, it requires Firefox 74 (released in 2020) or newer Firefox versions.

With React, you can make it work with older browsers using Polyfill etc.
"Vibe coding" is an unfortunate buzzword. I do think it's gonna help with burnout, but imposter syndrome is bound to spike.
I was born and lived in USSR for quite a while... life wasn't pleasant there, and technology was not the culprit really. They ran out of carrots a very long time ago, and were left with just the stick to try and enforce the ethics advocated by the communist program.

There was a joke that I didn't quite understand at the time:

--What are the benefits of group sex?
--You may slack off.

The idea was to say that in order to optimize almost every aspect of industry, everything was centralized, gigantic... which also created a situation where most people could only see a very tiny fraction of what they were working on. Virtually nobody knew what their individual effort contributed to the whole. And in this situation, say, you come to the factory and during your shift you cut a thousand of bolts... or ten thousands... or just ten. The system is too big to adequately respond to your individual input. You just don't know whether your extra bolts were smelted again to make more nuts, or whether some other department in your factory was sitting on their hands waiting for more bolts to come.

People who enjoyed their work usually worked outside, or even against the establishment because the system couldn't provide them with adequate reward, not even in a form of recognition.
The millions of registry options are not for joke, I guess
Those error bars suggest this was underpowered, and it did find a significant increase in females:

https://www.mdpi.com/nutrients/nutrients-17-01081/article_de...

Poor interpretation of the study.
How Google built its Gemini robotics models
Meanwhile, deglobalizing might increase domestic manufacturing, over time (years)... except there's going to be minimal activity on that for a while, unless businesses are sure Trump-like policies are going to last a decade or more.

Since he's flip-flopping day to day on trade policy, it's hard to see how they'd be sure of that, even if he personally was going to be directly setting trade policy for the next decade, which is itself a pretty pessimistic assumption about rule of law (so, political and economic-system stability) which doesn't help with the "pulling the trigger on major capital investments" thing.

There's no clear high-confidence route forward at all right now, so businesses will be stuck in a holding pattern until things stabilize, and instead of any meaningful material benefits (setting aside whether they outweigh the harm) from these policies, we'll only feel pain.
I actually have a project like this, it's an alarm clock though. The idea was to not have something additional glowing at night and could pull my alarms from an online calendar. I've been procrastinating rewriting the code for an esp32 though since I think using my raspberry pi for an alarm clock is kind of a waste.
Atlassian Typography Update
Semi-related in the same vein of background ambient music:

For fans of the film Heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHP4qbgAN6s
One of my absolute favorites to work to.
You the point.
This is the best joke I have seen in a while.
ssh2incus – Connect to Incus instances over SSH protocol
Woah that's awesome. Using Effect to represent mutations is brilliant!

Any chance your project is public? I'd love to dig into the details. Alternatively would you be willing to nerd out on this over a call sometime? You can reach me at hello [at] orbitinghail [dotdev]
Exactly, the whole idea behind the test is flawed. ELIZA was already enough to fool some humans. Humans are very easy to fool.

See also the Chinese Room argument, which got a lot of airtime back in the day. It added no useful insight to questions about the nature of machine intelligence, but it did reveal how little we understood about the nature of language.
If adhering to rule of law is inconvenient, the state doesn't get to ignore it. What if I were to anonymously report you as a gang member? Surely then we'd want to remove you from the country expeditiously, in fact so expeditiously that allowing you to make your case in court would harm public safety. Have fun in CECOT!

That's the strength of the evidence that this individual was a gang member. If it can happen to him it can happen to you or to me.
What's the source?

How can you build muscle without amino acids, the building blocks of protein, which muscles need to grow?
Ignoring all of the absolutely insane things about that job description.

Do they have a list of clients I can access, so I can avoid using any of their products? The first time I get a phone call from an AI bot starting with "I see you opened our email about...", I'm throwing my phone out the window.
3D Printing Cable-Driven Mechanism for Actuation, Deformation, and Manipulation [pdf]
Caffeine production is likely difficult in the face of a drier climate. Caffeine is present in the plant as a pesticide. Insects are a much bigger problem in wet climates over dry.

Having grown up in a wet climate (Chicago) but now living in a dry one (Utah) I can say that finding a droubt tolerant species which concerns itself with pesticide production may be difficult. The same water which coffee relies on is the same stuff pests rely on to reproduce. My mother was from Utah, and she always lamented at the small size of her flowers growing up in Chicago. They are much larger in Utah because they can get big without insects eating them.

(I say all this as a point of interest, but I don't drink coffee myself.)
How to stop a robot dog [video]
Here is another take on Trump's tariffs --- they amount to the largest tax increase in US history --- magically shifting a huge chunk of the tax burden from the wealthy onto the backs of MAGA supporters.

Not just my opinion but that of Peter Navarro, Trump's jailbird economic adviser.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/peter-navarro-says-tariffs-6-1850...
Ultra-high resolution multimodal MRI dense labelled holistic brain atlas
He is literally dealing with himself when Starlink and SpaceX are getting government contracts. Or rather, agencies trying to curry favor with him and president (or trying to avoid their wrath) have to give them contracts. Same goes for Tesla.

Also, there is literally zero to suggest he was "good faith trying to improve the government". He was buying political influence so that he can make changes beneficial for him and damaging for those he looks down at. That is not the same.
At least in the TLA+ community, the new state-of-art approach is to use the formal model to generate a test suite.
I would add 3. There's an aesthetic change too. (Obviously a preference/eye of the beholder thing).

ChatGPT: "This process, known as cell volumization, contributes to muscle size gains."

So there's also that reason to take it :)
I spent a few years iterating on how to design a dbms / query language/ database platform that has user definable authorization datatypes as first class data. Still wanna revisit it but the value is really only in settings where you already have complex stuff going on.

Early stage engineering tends to want something much more initially simple.
The Evolution of Graph Learning
They're going to end up with a candidate they deserve
At a normal company, as CEO, Elon's behavior and performance would get him removed the the board. I suspect it will eventually. He's on a real Howard Hughes trajectory for loss of sanity. It's kind of sad really.
Random lithium battery fires are extremely rare. It's like people freaking out about serial killers. It's something that definitely happens, definitely catches the news, and definitely is unlikely to happen to you even in 10,000 lifetimes.

The infamous Samsung note 7 exploding battery catastrophe was 90 incidents out of 2.5 million phones, or 0.003% exploding.
Have you checked out Outer Wilds?

Closest thing I’ve found to the wonder of exploration, puzzle solving, and gradually unearthing a story.

Another one to look at would be Heaven’s Vault.
That wasn't a "glimpse", that was S-tier idiocy on display.
>Not sure why this got downvoted

Because HN doesn't like comments that are blunt about harsh realities, they like a warm tone that coddles and softens the facts.

>They may say things out of social niceties, but they really do not care.

My favorite part is when companies pretend to tackle burnouts with giving their workers subscriptions to yoga or mindfulness apps, instead of you know, the sane thing that actually works, which is less workload and a less toxic work environment.

> Maybe if it causes their cost share of your healthcare plan to go up they might, but not really.

Would be nice if that were the case. I live in a country with universal healthcare, so all the externalities of burnouts get socialized from the private system to the state healthcare and welfare systems, not to the employers. It's incredibly rare that an employer here is reprimanded against stress induced onto the workers. Only if there's hard evidence proving the employer is the cause, or an employee kills themselves you might see the state looking into it and fining the employer.
People who know better shouldn't publish misleading and damaging headlines like this.
At one time I worked at Oldsmobile for a summer. You know Oldsmobile - the big car company. It was a battle ground, not a car factory. I worked on the bumper line where sheets of heavy steel were crushed by giant presses into bumpers. This was long ago of course, because Oldsmobile is gone and so are heavy steel bumpers.

But it was clear that there were sides from the beginning. Management thought workers were scum and treated us that way. We thought management was scum and treated them that way.

And now American car companies like Oldsmobile are gone.

The warfare was ongoing, but there was one time that made it clear to me. The bumper line was an old fashioned assembly line of giant presses, probably twelve or so. We started with a flat sheet of metal. The first press cut it into a rough shape, the next cut some hole, the next bent a part. Each person took the incoming part off one conveyor belt, put it on their press, stamped it, took it off and put it on the outgoing conveyor belt.

When a press would break the whole line would stop, the person at the press would push a trouble light, and eventually a mechanic would come, fix the press and off we go again.

One day we had gotten to the part where the mechanics had arrived. Everyone stood around and watched as the mechanics checked the press for about twenty minutes. Everyone of us watched, as the mechanics spent twenty minutes working on the wrong press. The wrong one. All of us knew and no one said a word.

Finally, the mechanics turned on the press and it worked and they told us we could start again. At that point the guy at the broken press asked about his press.

So why? Management manipulated us, treating us like we were not capable people and not to be trusted to do the right thing. And in turn we treated them like they were manipulative, dishonest chain gang bosses.

So when you use fake deadlines, this is the road you are going down. You are on the road to obsolescence because the people you are lying to will begin to expect you to lie. Then you will be frustrated because people don't believe you. So you will treat them like the scum they are. Been there done that.

Your job should be, but probably is not, to help a team of people accomplish a common goal. Because it takes a team to do software. Actually that is wrong, even slaves can write software.

The truth is that a good collaborative team will run circles around you. So it is not that you will fail, it is that someone will come along and start developing software in 1/2 the time that is twice as good.

Feel free to repeat the mistakes of the past. However, do not be surprised when the results are the same. sigh.
Tea also has noticeably less caffeine than coffee, yet it has been treated as an energizing drink since it was first discovered.

When you don't have any adrenal stimulants in your diet at all, even a small amount is noticable.

Caffeine also has a metabolic half life of roughly 5 hours in the body, if I remember correctly. A few berries might not do much, but surely a handful will be enough.
I didn’t take part in advent code. Topological sorting is a really old algorithm. Anything dealing with dependence would need it, like makefile.
tech has changed, but it's fundamentally doing the exact same job. GCHQ/NSA is still using the techniques pioneered at Bletchley.