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melissalobos

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CTO Izente Scientific Consulting

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melissalobos··on Centers of Population
That's kind of interesting, I think it might be more interesting if they didn't include Alaska and Hawaii and tracked those separately.
melissalobos··on No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation
> Don't worry, in 5-10 years it will be good for you again.

I don't know about that, it it looking more like Alcohol is heading down the path of cigarettes where the more unbiased funding and studies that are done, the worse it appears. There have been several convincing reviews[1] recently that showed an increased risk of cancer at any dosage.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32584303/ (First one I could find easily again)

melissalobos··on A simple math equation can transform your productivity
Cool, thank you! I appreciate the explanation.
melissalobos··on Show HN: Twitter Clone Social App
> Post Wall is an Elgg template developed by subterraneanwebZ web dev lab. This template includes all plugins with some customizations and improvements to quickly start your own social network (All-in-One Box). You can buy this template on eStore - Digital marketplace.

Looks pretty interesting, so this is a product to sell to other web developers? Or is the target a regular technical person who wants to set up a twitter clone? I hadn't heard of Elgg before, did you find it easy to work with? Overall how has your experience been, have you had any buyers yet?

Also have you thought much about content moderation on the platform? Are you expecting that to be a big concern from potential buyers?

melissalobos··on Is old music killing new music?
> Ask people on the street to actually name a Kanye West song and most of them struggle

I think Kanye may be a terrible example for your point since people tend to listen to his music for the lyrics, which are often well crafted. Your point makes more sense for mass produced pop music where the lyrics for almost every major song are written by ~6 different groups. In that case most of the lyrics tend to have similar tone and themes and so it matters much less who is singing them.

melissalobos··on A simple math equation can transform your productivity
I am not very familiar with the cult, but this just seems like regular self-help advice. Could someone explain how this relates to a sex cult(based on the wikipedia article)?
melissalobos··on Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges
Unfortunately the example problems are simple enough to be solved with AI. As a test I ran two of them by CoPilot, and it solved them instantly. I like the idea, but would want something more difficult as a captcha since it is easy for bots but hard for a human.

Maybe a better approach would be to have a prompt at the top with unclear specifications, or some kind of riddle instead of a function name. It would also be good not to have a bank of problems, since someone could just pattern match on them, but to generate them automatically somehow.

This is a lot more interesting than finding traffic lights though, and the website looks well designed. Thank you for sharing!

melissalobos··on Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
It is because it has google-analytics in the title of the resource:

Rule: `-google-analytics-$script,domain=~wordpress.org`

URL: https://isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/component---src-pages-g...

Edit: Couldn't get this formatted well, but it has google-analytics highlighted in the URL

melissalobos··on Ask HN: Tips for Engineering Manager
> I'm still trying to figure out a good model. Daily stand-ups? What to focus on in weekly meetings?

Usually these are things that are specific to a company culture, if everyone there does daily stand-ups do daily stand-ups. Same for the focus, try to get a feel from your boss about what the company is focusing on and try to emphasize that at the meetings. In general, if you don't have a passion or good reason for believing in a different method, it is better to follow the practices they are most used to. Make friends with someone else at your level and ask their advice.

> What are the things I should focus on to show I'm ready for managing managers?

At some level it stops being about the managing(who is working on what) and more about trying to give people the resources to maximize their value. Managing managers isn't really considered by most to be managing like it is for low level workers. It is about giving people the opportunity to improve the company and setting direction. It is also about saying no to the right things.

melissalobos··on Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
Latest stable Firefox on Arch, it doesn't crash but the person stops moving after a few times.
melissalobos··on Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
Huh, it is working for me. It looks like a valid cert from Let's Encrypt to me. Do you have any more details? So maybe the author can fix it.
melissalobos··on Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?
I like the scrolling banner on the side reminiscent of a news ticker being used for static data, it adds some vibrancy to the presentation. It might be nice to have more of the globe shown on the front, since it isn't "isgoogleanalyticsillegalintheEU". I really like the color scheme too, nice job!
melissalobos··on Show HN: SlateJS(rich text editor) Svelte view layer
So this is a view layer for Svelte of Slate? Like if I used Svelte I would add this in to get SlateJS incorporated in my app? I don't have a lot of context for this, could you tell us more about the project and your motivations?

Edit: Also this looks neat, thank you!

melissalobos··on Wine 7.0
It is nice to see the changes being moved to the open source version, I appreciate the fact that they do let non-paying users use those features.
melissalobos··on Wine 7.0
> Once the remaining modules are converted to PE, this will make it possible to run 32-bit applications without installing 32-bit Unix libraries.

That sounds really amazing, I can't wait. That will really simplify using 32bit windows programs on a 64 bit OS.

melissalobos··on The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism
Thank you for your response, I really appreciate it!

> Autism is not a disease.

I will try to keep this in mind in the future.

melissalobos··on Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?
> What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured ... web browser ... ?

I think the biggest issue is the complexity and scope of work. If you want a web browser, I can make you one over the weekend, it just will only work with a tiny subset of pages. To fully handle every website is so hard even Mozilla gave up on their rewrite of their engine, Servo. If it was easy, they probably would have finished.

If you are suggesting, "Why don't we all pay a bunch of progammers to make the world's best browser that is everything I want?", you can try, but everyone has different ideals about what a browser should be.

melissalobos··on The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism
So is it possible that autism might be more than one disease? Instead of a spectrum, in the future do you think that one or more of these subgroups would be broken out into newly classified diseases?

For instance a significant subgroup has sleep issues and elevated levels extra-axial CSF. Another had significant GI problems. Does it seem like those subgroups may have autism from different causes, and maybe different diseases?

melissalobos··on Native American restaurants
I think this may have to do with the availability, price, and restrictions around food safety. Most of those places are out in the middle of nowhere, have an audience that cannot afford $20 for unusual meat, and if they wanted to hunt elk to have on the menu, they would run a large risk if the meat was tainted or had prions or whatnot.

Usually the food they cook is what the tribe does eat. Things have just changed over time.

melissalobos··on Wt, C++ Web Toolkit
I am posting this since I am curious if anyone has any experience using it? I have done a few toy projects with it, and like it, but am not sure if it works well in production or if anyone has had any bad experiences.
melissalobos··on DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same
It looks like a whole bunch of people have done this, if you search for "phone dslr lens diy", you can find videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOtctDtdo44
melissalobos··on Outline of benefits of Thorium over vanilla Chromium
Looks like it is mostly just compiling it with better flags than the google default, and adding in a few patches for other video support and such.

It is neat and all to see young people doing fun stuff, but the title should also be: "Outline of benefits of Thorium over vanilla Chromium."

melissalobos··on Ask HN: How important is it for telemetry apps to have something listening?
> because what kind of indicator exists in the unix socket when at the application layer the protocol client drops messages with no fanfare?

I think you already understand that they are unreasonable people. One answer is that the person who implemented/validated it and the person who decided it needs to be TCP were not communicating well.

It obviously works well enough as is, with the current system, so they probably aren't looking into how/if it works much.

I would just do it whatever way you want as long as you can meet whatever needs they have. Clients often specify that things need to done a certain very particular way, then never really care if it is done differently as long as it works.

I have been told before that a service only uses TCP when in fact when I tried connecting to it, it turned out to be only UDP. They didn't know, and bringing it up to them just made them confused and angry.

melissalobos··on Ask HN: Just bought a new domain “linkedrecords.com”. What should I build?
Scrap as much public domain data, facebook profiles, reddit accounts, discord, etc., and try to correlate people real names and faces to their profiles and sell that to interested parties.

Actually please please don't.

melissalobos··on Nim Community Survey 2021 Results
One of the most surprising things about the survey is that in the editors section, they didn't have anyone using QtCreator, it has had support for Nim for a few years now. It is experimental, but it has worked well for me.
melissalobos··on Hacker News Guidelines
According to https://web.archive.org/web/changes/https://news.ycombinator... the last change was on the 5th of January, but since they are doing maintenance on the archive I can't see the changes at the moment.
melissalobos··on macOS is Hot Garbage: misleading, awkward, or just plain broken
> Technically there is a way to cut-and-paste, but it’s not what you‘d expect. It’s not cut and paste. macOS has copy and disregard-copy-actually-move-instead. Holding down the option key reveals this extra menu item.

I feel like they address this here, but I don't use macOS. Is there really a cut and paste option in Finder they missed? Or what is wrong there?

melissalobos··on Hacker News Guidelines
Did something in the guidelines change recently? I am not noticing anything new. Or is this meant to be a reminder to people to be kind in their responses. I feel like I am missing some context.
melissalobos··on A large-scale study on research code quality and execution
I thought this was interesting:

>we retrieve and analyze more than 2000 replication datasets with over 9000 unique R files published from 2010 to 2020.

> We find that 74\% of R files crashed in the initial execution, while 56\% crashed when code cleaning was applied, showing that many errors can be prevented with good coding practices.

In my experience a lot of code I have seen from researchers is very dependent on their setups and often hard codes file paths.

melissalobos··on Ask HN: Ghosted contact who I met a conference. Now need their help
I would just explain the situation and apply:

"Hey {NAME}, I saw you had a new job posting I think I would be a good fit for. We met a few years back, and I forgot to write back to you, sorry(I had some issues at that time that took a lot of my focus)."

Then continue on.

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