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It always felt like such a contradiction that police could lie to you but had to read you your miranda rights. Apparently police are allowed some threshold of deception (e.g. can outright lie but can&…

I never understood articles trying to put objective criteria on a system that’s as much a function of supply and demand as any inherent ability. Most companies have set percentages for titles and prom…

That's a good point. I imagine this advice would be actively bad advice for building more complicated things (e.g. an IDE, perhaps a game, a turbotax alternative). Part of the skill of engineerin…

Eh, the more I think about it though the more I can think of times that "Going by my gut" when my brain and gut disagreed where my gut was wrong. Like suppose you're talking to somebody…

As somebody under that umbrella myself > soy turning me trans or social media turning me trans I agree is absolutely mind-numbingly naive. However, I feel like there's only so many options fo…

I believe .codeowners does that

Obviously this is baseless speculation, but I sure do wonder if various psychological conditions that are so diverse and hard to pin down (i.e. 3 out of these 9 symptoms around attention, social behav…

How much would I need to reimburse you for giving you Down syndrome, for example

I heard it’s even worse than this: I heard any app can access a list of wireless access point unique IDs your phone is near and that there is a database of enough of these to lookup your location rega…

Moreover, even if it was say 15% better than git (and I doubt it is), the overhead of moving a whole industry across VCs is billions of dollars of loss. Every single engineer has to start over in thei…

I guess then my thought is that whether it's one disorder or 4 or any number perhaps is best understood as a statistical question. For example, if a parent exhibit autism symptom X (e.g. trouble …

I feel like that's saying weather forecasting is voodoo bullshit because it's all quantum mechanics deep down

Maybe you put a 500% tariff (at least, since plastic is such a cheap product) on the most dangerous plastics (the ones that are known to disrupt hormones). Also a domestic plastic tax - by making plas…

A monad is a weird/unnecessary concept for a type that wraps another type (and makes certain guarantees). Like you can have a List<Int> so List is a monad type. There's also an "o…

Every chart shows a trend down from peak but still way up from 2019. Seems like what I’ll call a tee-up article - very fact-light with a provocative title so people can vent their preexisting frustrat…

I like the connection between Goodheart's law and overfitting. However these examples are a reach: --- Goal: Healthy population Proxy: Access to nutrient-rich food Strong version of Goodhart'…

That's such a weird attitude. It's so weird to say "unproven" when you're talking about a 1000 chemicals, because statistically the odds that they are all harmless seems negli…

Yeah, important distinction. But also I think hopefully there's some understanding that random things aren't good. My attitude used to be "who cares if there's a bit of random chem…

I feel like maybe you're intentionally misunderstanding the point I'm making, because your example kind of illustrates my point: In that case you'd probably find nearly 100% agreement o…

Meh, I get people hate Jira, but every time I ask people "What would you rather do instead" there's absolutely no agreement on what's a better solution. I think it's imoprtant…

Well I would never use a script like this at a real job outside of local testing. What you'd want on stage is probably using opentelemetry, which I believe has auto-instrumentation for all networ…

I've always used a proxy, like charles proxy, for this exact purpose. A neutral middle-man that gives exact timing/response data.

This song is amazing, it's like midieaval FTL. The game's good too.

Because interoperability is key to competition...? Imagine a universe where different hardware doesn't interoperate (e.g. androids can't call iphones, Macs can't use google.com, ChatGPT…

Great, I'm sure he's equally excited if we have a future where we're tapping all billionaires phonecalls with their accountants to make sure they don't form a fake shell corporatio…

5 paper straws is probably better for the environment than one plastic straw.

If you can do this repeatedly, say 15 times, and record the numbers each time (say just put them in a spreadsheet), you can actually pretty easily run a "statistical test" to prove your theo…

Yeah I guess my hot-take is that exaggerating summary articles maybe shouldn't exist at all, or not be shared on HN. What I've found is that, and this article is a great example, the summari…

I really don't like these articles that don't necessarily link to (or even have the same title as) the actual research. I'd be curious if anybody is collecting distribution of the ages …

So for what it's worth here's my experience -- generally not super impressed with supplements, tried cod-liver oil, didn't notice much effect, but after starting to make homemade salmon…