skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That surgeon may have made a mistake, but you're suggesting to inject (more) unrelated incentives into this kind of decisions and expect them to get better? I'm sorry, but this sounds completely idiotic.
I don’t think that facebook facilitates this well. Since you have to go out of your way to find a discussion there. And there is no “right now” feeling if you do find a relevant discussion. But here I just visited the home page of what I consider a general newsfeed and we’re talking to their new owners.
The canonical way is just to grab the static build from the home page. You don't need a full OS container image to run a single binary.
Hire better, more responsible engineers then you won't need a passively micro-managing set of processes to get things done.
Tesla scores a mere “acceptable” rating in IIHS front overlap safety test
She won a pulitzer not just while in _a_ class, but while she was in a _journalism_ class.
"I don't appreciate the service they provide and they're terrible people !!!"

"Okay, we won't serve you if you're just going to trash us."

"EVIL HOW DARE YOU!"
Microhydroelectric has come up on HN before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582

This open design looks interesting, but there are a couple oddities in the Wikipedia article I'd appreciate clarification on from a subject matter expert:

>It was first patented by Greek-Australian Lawyer & Inventor Paul Kouris in 1996[1], who was searching for a way to harness the power inherent in a vortex.

What power is inherent in a vortex apart from gravitational potential energy being converted to kinetic energy?

>after a year of use its operation cost was approximately one US dollar per Watt capacity of output.

Shouldn't that be installation cost, not operating cost?
What, you didn't notice the super unsubtle advocacy of Agile at the end?
Banning leaked steam-keys, tutorials and sunshine
Low mortality is a good damned measure.

I don't want to be operated on some yahoo surgeon who unconditionally operates regardless of risk and has a high mortality track record as a result.
Who is to say that Facebook isn’t part of the United States broad scope cyberwarfare effort?

Given what the government needed to do in the early 2000s, and the runaway success in preventing large scale terror attacks, it seems unlikely that companies like Facebook would not be part of that.
It's sad to hear this when it's totally unnecessary.

Hear disease has been a solved problem for decades. Just compare the rates of disease for vegans with the general population.
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How did you get work done before Scrum?
As you get older, it gets harder to learn new stuff.
Possibly. Ha.
> That train route is truly a love-letter to America

Jesus, now that is a great line! You should write more poetry, or just more in general.
I like your test idea but its lack in supporting evidence is stunning.
Engineers won't just naturally align with the organization if nobody rewards us for doing so.

Hoes does Scrum reward the engineer for such alignment?

edit: grammar
black holes do not emit appreciable amounts of radiation themselves. Their accretion discs do. That in turn requires mass influx large enough to form an accretion disk with enough friction to radiate. The gas in the galactic halo and for that matter even the interstellar gas in the center of the galaxy[0] is just too thin on average to provide that. We only see them when they're draining mass from a binary companion or swallowing a gas cloud.

[0] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dozen-new-black-holes-fo...
(I think you mean "caret" and not "carrot".)
I meant if you left a bad review somewhere else...

Of course someone should not go back where they don't like to go....
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Reminds me of why some devs will not touch critical pieces of code because the next time a bug comes in that module, git log shows they were last editors and will be asked to take a look (even if the bug is unrelated to them)
I just put my teams on scrum and they love it. Immature scrum that focuses on metrics and jira boards can be a very tough transition, but mature scrum that focuses on collective ownership and continuous improvement is heavenly.
I wonder, could this apply to open source? Do we build better code if it's open source because it has more of an audience?
First, and IMO most importantly, questions you should ask yourself:
- Do you believe in the business and its potential to succeed.
- Do you trust and believe in the current team and their capability to execute on a plan to succeed.
- Do they have at least another full year of runway given their growth, costs, and hiring plan? If not, how likely/soon is their next fundraise/sale/capital-infusion to keep them going?
- Do you fully understand the expectations and role you'll be taking on? Try to identify how you'll learn and grow from the experience. Perhaps they have senior talent that can mentor you or maybe you'll be given the opportunity to build and grow a team within the company. Maybe you'll be responsible for bringing an entirely new department/platform/etc to life from scratch. Also, the earlier the stage of the company, the more you'll likely be exposed to other aspects of the business which, in itself, offers a great experience.

Most of the rest depends on the size/stage of the startup. Equity grants are determined by a combination of your role, their stage, and your negotiating ability. Salaries tend to be lower for earlier stage companies since cash is limited and valuable - discuss a plan ahead of time for a bump upon next milestone/fundraise. Recognize that at a startup, you're anchoring yourself at the salary/equity to agree to when you join - so be comfortable with the agreed upon terms. Ask friends, look on Angel List, etc. to make sure you're getting a fair deal.

Good luck! Startups are exhilarating and, more often than not, they help you level-up your skills faster than most other opportunities.
It’s also something to consider from a business perspective. Every first world country locked down broadcast media with licensing. I suspect the same thing is coming for the internet.
Here's the converse of that, though: why do we think it's okay to expect a team of doctors and nurses to be okay with almost assuredly killing someone during surgery? They're not robots, "it's their job" is not an acceptable answer.

Even if the surgery is in a patient's best interest, if the odds of killing them are all but guaranteed then it's most definitely not a matter of looking at the patient and rationalising it with "they will die otherwise anyway". It's not just about the patient.

People who make this argument seem to forget that there's also an entire team of medical professionals that your rationalisation says should be okay with going into a surgery knowing they are almost guaranteed to kill this patient. They have the stats, the stats say "this person will die under the knife", many more lives are affected in this decision than just the patient.

So expecting them to just do the surgery instead of going "No. This will kill the patient, I don't want that on me and my team" is very far from an okay attitude towards fellow human beings, and leads to terrible medical practices.
> do any current-day Christians believe that Christ is not (also) God himself?

Yes lots, they are known as Trinitarians. Those that don't believe that Jesus is God incarnate are non-Trinitarians. Without being disrespectful to those that know far more than I, this was basically (simplistically, more or less) the reason for the Schism or the Orthodox Christian Church.
It's not just that they have a lot of influence and a lot of people on their platform, it's that they've shown zero interest in responsibility, especially if showing responsibility would reduce usage or advertising dollars.
I'm a true artist and no one understands my genius. Heathens!
Then you track the deferral rates.
No, the point is that hating on journalists is a group dynamic. It’s so common on HN for example, that it is frankly impossible all of its purveyors came up with the idea independently. That’s true even if the collective complaints have a basis in fact.

People are social animals, susceptible to group-think. There’s really nothing wrong with that, as long as we’re willing to accept the possibility and don’t succumb to the firehouse effect.
He's a smart guy when it comes to technology, but with respect to physiological, emotional human behavior related to habits and persuasion, he may have a mental blind-spot.
> Scrum isn't good or bad.

There isn't enough evidence-based science on what produces the best software -- but Scrum can be measured against other software practices, and should be.
> It assumes that engineers cannot conduct a meeting effectively without a facilitator (Scrum Master)

Scrum isn't perfect but this is certainly not true. If the team is well-functioning there doesn't need to be a facilitator of any kind present. Sounds like OP is either in a bad team or with a bad Scrum master—or both.
A better way to make this claim would be to plot the mortality rates for the states over time and show that the rates in those places requiring reporting begin to diverge as the new policy is implemented.
The interesting thing about Qanon isn't Qanon itself. The account just spews out vague randomness continuously. It could just be a markov chain generator connected to the text of news sites.

Its the first derivative of the feed that's scary. There's a whole bunch of "cloud-spotters" convinced that they are seeing patterns in the madness and recompiling bits of it into a conspiracy theory narrative. If all the downstream see is this derivative output, you end up with a collection of "Q is real!" believers.

Its just a fascinating emergent phenomenon, if not for its very real political consequences.
Theoretically, Scrum is a way to say 'work on this, because it's what aligns with the organization'. But, of course, whether it really does or not depends on who is implementing it and how.
The author is from the UK, so they are probably using the British definition of corn[1] which can refer to many different kinds of grain. Using that definition of corn, the article doesn't seem to be inaccurate.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corn#Etymology_1
Prettier stopped working for me for 2 weeks some months ago. Least productive 2 weeks for me for a long time.

The cognitive load it costs to worry and fret about code formatting....

(thank you)
The eastern countries (Russia, China, etc) have for a long time always been more deft at political and psychological offensives.

It seems implausible to me that the American/British "power pole" is anything like disarmed in the face of sinister Eastern Psiwar. The US invented public relations and has a vast advertising industry. A wide variety of public companies and private consultants exist mobilizing all the tenants of psychology and sociology for the purposes of influencing the view of the masses. American democracy has served as an excellent laboratory. And that's not even mentioning US secret organizations, who engaging in coups utilizing psychological operations in numerous countries.

Anyway, if Facebook can ignites all these powder-kegs, one might also ask where the powder came from. I'd say 30+ years of neoliberal policies have put a wide range of countries under considerable stress and second-string state authorities maintain themselves through inter-ethnic tension (ie, blame ethnicity X, not us).

And Britain, colonizing half the world, is no stranger to divide and conquer, which one would usually classify in psychological strategies. One might say, things are coming apart now, not because of those Eastern Psiwarriors but because the psychological tactics of the center and periphery can no longer hold back the problems of material degradation.
What are the rates?
There's generally a consent process but the patient is often in no position to decline or comprehend what they're signing. In the case of heart surgery, or even a catheterization procedure, they may not be conscious to consent.
Unless it's a global recession, I imagine they'll be able to find money.

Also, Tesla and Elon aren't just an electric vehicle company and a founder of a single company either, and this might give him the credibility and belief in him for a recession to be moot.
They need to add a difficulty correlated metric to the statistics. Maybe BMI and age? I am sure IVF clinics wouldn't offer the procedure to anyone over 35 if the rather detailed statistics they are required to report didn't also include the patient's age.
Your criticism might be better understood with less prejudice; perhaps something like this instead:

"Websites should not unnecessarily require JavaScript."
YOU think that, not Icelanders. Hydropower has its major issues and thermal also has its own. So this is the classic "not in my backyard." Also, what good is it if an industry builds up, cities spring up as a results...and then it collapses?
"The likelihood is very high that this is occurring."

...uhhhh, where are you getting that? I mean you've made absolutely massive and bizarre claims here and made no attempt to substantiate them. The likelihood is high that this whole extremely specific and strange scenario is true and that none of us have any idea about it??? How do you figure?
> Also funny that they are singling our Facebook as the match instead of the other social media players. You can likely wreak havoc with Twitter and Google ads as well.

Those services don't have the kind of reach in Sri Lanka that Facebook does.
They make it easy to communicate to a lot of people at once. Whether those communications are good or bad is in the eye of the beholder.

Expecting our communication channels to sort out the good from the bad is how we get to Chinese levels of censorship.
When the option is "or die" I think you'd change your tune.
If the team is well-functioning there doesn't need to be a facilitator of any kind present.

This is a tautology.
As long as Elon is learning, increasing his understanding, and implementing improvements to these systems and efficiencies - and he does publicly discuss these fairly often - then they'll be fine.
Or use this VS Code plugin for Intellisense:

https://about.sourcegraph.com/docs/integrations/editor-plugi...
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I don't think "killing millions" is the point, nor a metric worth measure. You want to destabilize your enemy and civil war is like the ultimate form of that. On that spectrum, I believe, is also simply polarizing nations. Making a red and a blue and setting them against each other. I think the U.S. is a fascinating example of that, and it seems that Russia has done a pretty competent job fanning those flames.
At this point, what's clear to me is that it is criminally irresponsible for Facebook to continue operating in countries where they have no local presence, no active communications with local authorities, and no ability to effectively moderate content. Their passivity is literally killing people.
Appsec firms routinely test iOS applications with pinned certificates.
I guess I'm just shocked that the surgeon could offer that level of assurance about something like that.
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A common recurrence I see here when people say how their life improved after quitting fb, is that people seem to have been addicted to it.

I like fb. Messenger is useful because almost everyone I know uses it. Seeing events of venues and making them directly, getting updates from the host is very convenient. I like getting into political discussions.

But I've never felt the need to look at the horrible FB wall all the time. I never felt compelled to go to FB all the time.

I also went through the settings and set my privacy settings as I wanted them, long before any of the FB scares happened.

I think Facebook is a tool and if you become addicted, then yes, you should probably quit.
But otherwise, use it in a way that helps you.
Can we get a (2016) on the thread title?
> Just compare the rates of disease for vegans with the general population.

"Disease" is such a broad category that it's sort of meaningless here.

Maybe veganism is healthier than an animal diet, but the degree of its impact can only be stated only after removing the many other environmental factors that might be contributing to lower disease rates among vegans, including income and location.
Scrum telling you how to align with the organization is not rewarding the engineer in any way. Orthogonal concerns.

How does Scrum reward the engineer, in a way that it does it better, and more profoundly, than other methodologies?
Can someone really sue their surgeon in the US?
I doubt many app makers (or users for that matter) are interested in allowing that.
Why can't it be ground truth and sync to browsers' bookmarks? - I refuse to use anything that is not integrated with the browser bookmarks. All these numerous web "bookmarks" are just silly.

The above mentioned floccus/nextcloud looked promising but then they mentioned they can't sync different browsers from the same root. Somehow Xmarks doesn't have that problem. I am still looking for comparable replacement. Bookmarks are a way for immediate direct access to things I don't remember than a search tool for me. For search I can just google.
Could we argue in comparison that Tesla is benefitting from global warming concerns? In fact Elon's foundation and stated mission is based on this.
This is one thing that still amazes me to this day.

It's like doctor's stop thinking after they get their degree.

Whenever I've visited a doc within the past few years I have noticed that instead of actually getting to know someone as a patient, many act as if they are a quick reference book.

This is especially horrifying when you consider that there is a non-trivial portion of the population that exist outside of the medical literature.

Every one of the best Doctors I've ever had has ALWAYS been a researcher at heart. They observe, take notes, treat what they can now, and come back later and can clue me in on the latest research they've come across.

Nowadays, I'm usually making Doctors aware of advancements in their field... Scary stuff.
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It's been my experience that people who design their database around an app, or people that just dump data to fix for later, tend to have much greater issues in the near and far future.

Of course things can change, but most tables have fairly immutable designs.
We do scrum and this doesn’t describe how it works for us at all. Our scrum master isn’t our manager and neither is our product owner, for example. And we have gone some time with minimal direction from the product owner at all, when things were going well.

My main complaint about scrum was how much of my time was spent in meetings vs working.
One problem is that fee-for-service incentives strongly distort what people think they "know full well."
Editors like n++ have column editing, but Sublime takes it to a different level. It's most generalized, it's multi-cursor.

You can for example put your cursor on a word, spam ctrl+d (of press alt+f3) to select all instances of that word, and start editing them all at ones, no matter where they are. They don't have to be perfectly in a column. You can also copy X items from anywhere, and if you have X cursors again somewhere else and paste, they'll each go in their respective slot.
It may surprise you, but the people I worked with the last few years strongly preferred very senior developers.

So on the contrary one could argue that they are cheaper (yes ;)) but also can learn something new. Also I think that very junior people bring some kind of enthusiasm into teams. I guess the right mixture must be there.
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I don't think that ML-style type systems address the fundamental problem that Sussman is trying to articulate in this note.

I'll try to explain.

Your definitions of Ring and PolynomialRing are incomplete because neither specifies the appropriate set of axioms. Because you do not specify those axioms, your type signature is underspecified. As Sussman puts it, "It is probably impossible to prove very much about [the] program" (at least, without inspecting the implementation itself).

To give a concrete example, the type signatures of Ring and CommutativeRing are the same in System F. And as Sussman puts it, "a program that depends on the commutativity of numerical multiplication will certainly not work correctly for matrices."

Now, this doesn't so much matter for human-written code, because us humans will implicitly fill in the details and never pass a mere Ring into an algorithm that expects a CommutativeRing, even if the two types are structurally identical. However, this does matter a lot if you want to use the structures of types (or their programs) to direct automated program mutation/construction.

And automated program mutation/construction is exactly the sort of thing that this note is about ("The most robust systems are evolvable").

Of course, there do exist type systems which fix this problem by allowing you to specify the axioms to which a Ring or CommutativeRing must conform. But using those systems is a crap load of work, requires a PhD's worth of effort to become efficient at, and of course now you have to do full-blown theorem proving. Which, IMO, introduce the same "brittleness" that Sussman talks about at the beginning of the essay". Data propagation and decorated values are Sussman's proposed alternative, from what I can tell.

So 1) it's true that type theory provides one solution to Sussman's problem. But that type theory is something much more expressive than System F. And 2) given the difficulty of using those systems (eg CIC) in practice, I think Sussman's proposed alternatives are worth seriously considering.
> I've found that "certificated scrum masters", "certificated project managers" and their ilk are the problem. Anyone who says we must follow a specific process because that is how agile development is done is missing the point.

If the best argument they can come up with for the process is "because that's how agile development is done" it's because they don't actually understand the process but that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with them being certified or not.
Or maybe very small flying RfID androids that hover around the beer, and permanently attach to your hair, like head lice.
I don't necessarily disagree - I was trying to establish what position the above poster had. (i.e. where they saying the decisions are being made by the officials in office or by the lobbyists or by the people hiring the lobbyists). None of those options deny a plutocracy, they just describe the means.
I use sshfs for that..
The eastern countries (Russia, China, etc) have for a long time always been more deft at political and psychological offensives

Russia knows perfectly well that Western psyops cost them their empire, the old USSR. For them, this is a grudge match.
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