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I've read before -- though right now I can't think of the source -- that if a group of interviewers are weakly against a candidate but one is strongly for them, you should trust the instincts of the person who's "strongly for." When hiring, I'd probably have that than a room of people who are weakly for a candidate on the basis that you'd rather have a person who's great at one thing than someone who's okay at everything.

Obligatory wisdom from The Dude: "Hmm... well, I still jerk off manually."

The article is making it seem like trap-neuter-release is a completely new strategy, but groups in NYC and elsewhere have been employing it for a long time. What's new is that Flatbush Cats is building a new vet clinic to provide more spaying / neutering capacity.

Are all the hooks on the site made by ui.dev?

It'd be great if each hook linked to the Github code for that hook, as the first thing I thought of was (a) what is the hook doing, and (b) is it easier to adapt my existing hook and reduce the number of dependencies I have to track?

Interesting thoughts. I was actually going to say that _Uber_ had the advantage in this deal, since it owns the customer relationship and can shape demand toward or away from Waymo.

Google has a distribution channel via Android, but I don't think it's strong enough (otherwise Stadia would still be around). They'd still have to build a destination for consumers to remember, in addition to the interface, matchmaking, billing, etc.

I guess in any deal like this, there's the potential for advantage and disadvantage from both angles. As Clay said, a good compromise is one where both parties are dissatisfied.

> Mobile games are filled with ads and in-app purchases and I never found a simple game I could play and enjoy while waiting for public transport.

I bought Threes for $3 in 2014, and I still play it for hours each day -- on the subway, while waiting at restaurants, while watching TV, wherever.

A lot of people play 2048 because it's free, but it's not nearly as polished.

Wow, I didn't realize they produce a Synology package!

I see a lot of love for Tailscale, but I'm curious what people use Tailscale for? Is it mostly to access services running on an internal network? Do you use it for work or for fun?

The use case I can see is streaming from my personal Plex server from anywhere outside my home, but maybe I'm not thinking big enough.

No. Zoom bought the company during the pandemic -- after a period of being criticized for their security practices -- to beef up their security engineering team. (I worked with several Keybase members when they worked at OkCupid, and later worked on projects with Keybase.)

Hi! I'm hiring right now for a backend role (and have hired for more than eight years). I'm happy to give constructive feedback about your resume. morley - at - daylight.xyz.

As a counterpoint, I think context matters the _least_.

I've read a lot of business writing where the writer's mindset is clearly:I am writing for business, therefore I must sound business-like. Lots of "in terms of", "for the purpose of", "ideation", "develop needs", "affect change", "going forward". From what I hear and from what little I've read, a similar overwrought voice has developed in academia too.

I've fallen into this trap before, partially to "fit in" and partially because it's hard to simplify. But many famous business communicators -- Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett come to mind -- show that clarity is more effective than sounding like the context.

My impression of the gas stove hubbub was:

> First they made specious claims about gas stoves, and I made a big stink about it because it got me activity on social media.

Notably absent from this list is L'Industrie in Williamsburg!

Is it that much crazier than previously, when a movie was shot on film, scanned to a digital intermediary, then printed back onto film for distribution?

EDIT: Now that I've read up on Greig Fraser's reasoning, it makes a lot more sense for Dune! https://ymcinema.com/2021/12/03/dune-was-shot-on-alexa-lf-tr...

I hate to ask a stupid question, but I'm new to administering a Postgres database.

Do admins usually upgrade their DBs with each major release? I'm guessing it's highly contextual and depends on how easy it is to do so, but I've heard about places that never upgrade until it's a huge problem for them to do so (in order to avoid an even worse problem.)

I'm surprised how widespread nonalcoholic beers have become. I was back in the Czech Republic a couple of years ago -- maybe the last place I expected to sell N/A, given they have the highest beer consumption per capita -- but Staropramen, and probably some other local breweries, have N/A labels.

In particular: if you load an SVG in Chrome via an img tag, the webfont is not run because the environment tries to execute as little as possible. It'll instead use whatever fallback font is present on the system.

Source: I just dealt with this problem a few weeks ago. I also spent all last week implementing a custom OG image in Canvas. Wish Satori had come out a week earlier!

> slightly different every time we look back, but with no way of knowing what's changed

This is already the case with different image compression algorithms improving on one another. Users couldn't and shouldn't tell the difference between JPG, or slightly smaller / resized JPG, or WebP, or whatever. I personally don't think image hosts should have to alert users when making undetectable changes to their images like this.

Design is highly contextual, so I think it'll depend a lot on how they're used. These fonts seem a lot more polished than what you would find in old-school clip art packs. I can imagine some interesting use cases for these.

And even if these fonts don't hit, people will make more!

I've used the weather.gov site for the last ~5 years, and it has been great. I bookmark both the 7-day local forecast[1] and the hourly dashboard[2].

[1] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.71234500000...

[2] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w0=t&w3u=1&w5=pop&...

Leveled thinking is common in competitive games, for obvious reasons. There's no better illustration of what you're talking about than the poison scene in Princess Bride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo

The way I've heard most competitive gamers talk about the line between leveling and tail-chasing is to play at level 2:

Level 1: The obvious strategy

Level 2: Strategy that beats the obvious strategy <-- Default to this level

Level 3: Strategy that beats level 1

The problem is, if you're playing in a competitive environment, everyone knows about leveling, so you may actually gain more edge by picking a strategy randomly. I've heard competitive Magic player Huey Jensen would make random plays when he was behind on the chance he could throw his opponent off and trap them in leveling second-guessing.

IIRC when Rock tries out material, he deliberately speaks in a dull monotone. He's such a great performer that if he uses his normal standup instincts, he can get laughs off of weak material.

And video games cause violence, and DnD leads to Satanism, and TV rots brains, and movies lead to illiteracy, and books lead to dangerous thought.

> though not the cleverest engineer, [I] was one that worked quickly to prototype new ideas and took on some of the gruntwork that not every engineer wanted to work on.

This is basically all I want from anyone I work with.

George Saunders' recent book "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" is great: he goes through four classic Russian short stories and dissects how they work.

He also has a Substack where he does the same for other stories, in addition to answering misc questions.

The full quote for context:

> Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots.

Their CEO is certainly not calling everyone an idiot, just that there are some in that group of people. And personally, I greatly prefer this sort of frank talk to run-of-the-mill generic PR speak that usually comes from CEO interviews.

The next thing he says in the interview:

> I’ve been in the gaming industry longer than most anybody – getting to the grey hair and all that. It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand. That model is baked into the philosophy of a lot of artforms and medium, and it’s one I am deeply respectful of; I know their dedication and care.

This is stating the obvious, the HN community generally leans against blockchain. That coupled with negative news traveling further than positive news means that HN mostly sees negative stories, and comments on both positive and negative stories tend to skew negative.

If I were designing a system like this, I would not trust clients to perform legitimate analysis nor report legitimate results.

I remember reading in the last year about one of the crypto companies that hired an anonymous employee. (Maybe it was the Zcash Foundation? I can't for the life of me find the article about what they did.)

Basically, they kept as low as possible the number of people who knew their real identity. That person or persons would verify employment and file the appropriate paperwork.

I've also heard this topic referred to as "results-oriented thinking," which is generally what you don't want: you shouldn't judge a decision based on its result, but on the information you had at the time.

The key to this idea, which I don't see covered in the blog post, for making future decisions is that you shouldn't let past bad luck affect your future decisions. If you lose a positive EV bet, it shouldn't shy you away from making the same bet again.

Some examples off the top of my head about decision-making traps people could make: - Continuing to bet at the roulette wheel to "regain" what you've lost - Not going to a well-rated restaurant again just because you had a random bad experience - Not investing in ETFs after being burned by past downturns - Playing MTG and not burning them out just because they had a counterspell last game