skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so you're telling me CEOs aren't individually greedy parasites, but that the entire system is to be blamed? Thanks for the advice, comrade Bloomberg!
Wedding rain, sold in convenient spray bottles.
that would imply you can e.g. memorize a list of emails and then verbally tell them to another business for a price.
My quip on scrum/agile is that it "ensures mediocre results from mediocre teams." Its just a methodology in the end. It can help keep those that tend to have wandering minds focused, but for high performing teams the overhead slows them down.

The assumption of a standard programmer is just never a reality as well. I actually saw a startup try to go full religious agile and only hire "full stack" developers to try to homogenize them so that they would fit the agile mold better. It didn't seem to work very well, people are people and naturally gravitate towards data modeling, or UI, etc.
The troubling thing about the Fermi paradox is that the Great Filter may still be ahead of us.

As in, the universe may be littered with the ruins of single-planet civilizations slightly ahead of our technology level. We may have observed and cataloged many such planets, failing to notice the ruins.
Also, when we say the birth of "mankind", do we mean Homo Sapiens, or the Homo genus as a whole?
Start colon cancer screening at 45, not 50, American Cancer Society urges
The cookie law didn't ensure that you could opt-out and still receive service. Most sites just said "Accept cookies or go somewhere else" and since all competing services also used tracking cookies, you weren't given much of a choice.
Can microlensing account for the whole continuum of black hole sizes that might be floating around in the galactic halo?
That is really interesting reading! Maybe you should submit it as a separate story?
I've been using i3 for years now. For the past few weeks I've been using KDE with i3 as the WM instead of kwin. This mashup is pretty sweet.

E.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/64mihc/i3_kde_pla...

(Dis)connecting extra monitors has been automagic without any scripting/xrandr/3rd-party programs. KDE can handle that perfectly, and i3 obeys, so far.

It's pretty neat. And I say this as an i3 lover, not a KDE lover.
> German butcher's GDPR notice: "sometimes we ask you what your name is and notice your favorite meat. if that's not okay by you, loudly shout, when you enter, 'I don't agree to that!'...we will, from then on, act like we never got to know you."
The Ideal Scrum Team Composition for Agile Development
>german butcher's GDPR notice: "sometimes we ask you what your name is and notice your favorite meat. if that's not okay by you, loudly shout, when you enter, 'I don't agree to that!'...we will, from then on, act like we never got to know you."
USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
>Anti-lock brakes are forbidden in Formula 1 in order to make it harder for the drivers

That's actually not a 100% true. Professional drivers don't pump, they attempt to brake just at the threshold of locking in order to get the most out of their available traction. It's a fairly difficult technique that is dependent on experience more than anything, so for the average trackday racer ABS is fine enough.
And now I'm sad
I can imagine video quality on youtube varies more than audio, or that audio is easier to hash / make signatures of.
I'm with you on all of what you wrote and that is my understanding too.

But you didn't explain, relative to how I interpreted the comment to which I initially replied, why, e.g. libraries, are paying so much money to access journals. If the default method for reading those articles is ArXiv, what's the point of paying a subscription to the other journals? My model of academia isn't that it's that dysfunctional. I'd expect enough internal pressure to re-allocate those funds if ('read') access was really unnecessary.
One of the drawbacks of being dragonborn is the hoarding instinct.
It’s fiction, but America just got wiped out by a man-made terror germ
clang has a similar feature: optviewer [1][2]

Some sample output: CPython [3], KFR [4]

[1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-11/Slides/Nemet-Compiler-assiste...

[2] https://youtu.be/qq0q1hfzidg

[3] https://androm3da.github.io/optviewer-demo/output_analysis/c...

[4] https://androm3da.github.io/optviewer-demo/output_analysis/k...
Would you mind sharing which other, unrelated dataset you have used the model on?
I believe that private jets are 5-10x more dangerous than commercial aviation, but still pretty safe. Probably pretty close to commercial aviation if you own or charter through a very reputable outfit like NetJets, don't fly yourself, and don't try to order the pilots to load passengers and baggage above the maximum takeoff weight, takeoff during bad weather because you have to get somewhere, etc.
No such luck here. Rather amusingly, he objected to my "when off the clock" with "we're not a sweat shop that you punch in for 60 hour work weeks!" That made me reconsider my prior opinion of sweat shops. /g

To be perfectly clear here, I made it abundantly clear that my concern was regarding works not related to the company's domain, created during my personal time (see above:), and using my own equipment.
Thailand is new dumping ground for world's high-tech trash
I asked her if it was company policy and she said no, she just didn’t like it personally and would see it was made a policy.

It was a small town Christian credit union account my parents set up for me in high school to start building credit.

So fuck Sarah.
Automation and AI will create jobs
Ask HN: What is the best functional programming language to learn?
I’m not necessarily looking for the easiest to learn, but more or less the most versatile/used
This completely misses the point: it's a joke.
Yes, so far there is. It's about getting more data from more airlines, now I get data only from 4 (Ryanair, Wizz, Easyjet, Volotea)
Yes, when it's worked for me, the team has also been great. What I mean, though, is that scrum was an active benefit to us. The project would've gone well with or without scrum because the team was good, but scrum was helping us achieve our potential over using other approaches (that I know of).
discussion on the similar project Cervus from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184410
> GDPR does not regulate what you personally know, it is about collections of information outside of your brain

So if the same butcher took notes about his regulars’ preferences, they would need to be GDPR compliant?
You hear Facebook all the time saying how it "automatically blocks 99% of the terrorist content" with AI to the public and governments.

Nobody thought to ask: "How do you know all of that content is terrorist content? Does anyone check every video afterwards to ensure that all the blocked content was indeed terrorist content?" (assuming they even have an exact definition for it).
Maybe it's 20 % independently of any temperature gradient ;)
Scoring sites on their commitment to the open web?
> then verbally tell them to another business

At this point it leaves your brain and becomes subject to the GDPR.
Current definition requires the object to be orbiting the Sun (and only the Sun not other stars) so by IAU definition these are not planets.

> A "planet" is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

> A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.

> All other objects, except satellites, orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies".
Ask HN: Is Yarn 500ing for anyone else?
We're seeing:

error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@user/pkg/-/pkg-x.y.z.tgz: Request failed \"503 Service Unavailable\""
Geo-thermal is a little misleading because the systems you are talking about use very high temperatures found in volcanic parts of the world, which is obviously pretty easy. A ground source heat pump only requires 10 degrees or more of heat difference, easily found 30 metres below ground in most moderate temperature countries - it then uses the same technology as air-conditioning.
Loads of them are already installed in the UK.
In my experience, SOAP is dying off pretty much everywhere. It's ignored for the same reason that we don't put steam engines in cars: it's unwieldy, slow, and wasteful.
Which is fine. The point (heh) is that the mapping can be adjusted in a feedback loop based on what you actually did in the past.
If I take notes about your movie or software do I break IP laws? Maybe US law is weird.
General aviation avoids TSA hassles at all airports.
Fall of the Designer Part III: Conformist Responsive Design (2015)
I'm curious as to whether that "median wage growth" chart takes inflation into account.
Well do you think a T. rex is going to be able to drive? If you visit the website [1] the large header text says:

> Audi development engineer Thomas Müller and his team sent “Lu Ban” and “Kong Ming”, two piloted Audi A7 Sportback prototypes, on a very special kind of test drive.

This is a very far cry from what Tesla and Musk are doing. For starters you can't even buy the car yet. If you look for information on "Audi Piloted Driving" [2] you can see they're just as cautious as you'd imagine a German company to be:

> In 2017 Audi will introduce what’s expected to the world’s first to-market Level 3 automated driving system with “Traffic Jam Pilot” in the next generation Audi A8. The system will give drivers the option to travel hands-free up to 35 mph, when certain conditions are met prior to enabling this feature — for instance, the vehicle will ensure it is on a limited-access, divided highway.

Note that it will only work on highways, but also only at non-highway speeds. Stop and go traffic.

> In 2020-2021, Audi will introduce a Level 4 “Highway Pilot” feature—technology similar to what has been demonstrated in our concept vehicle “Jack”—that offers hands-free driving at posted limited access highway speeds in which the vehicle can execute lane changes and pass cars independently.

Seems pretty cautious to me.

[1] https://www.audi.com/en/innovation/piloteddriving/piloted_dr...

[2] http://media.audiusa.com/models/piloted-driving
No one has to be pissed off, they will slowly adjust and learn. Eventually people will only think in UTC. If that never happens then, leave both times.
I think over time people will develop an intuitive sense of UTC the same way we do now for timezones but we lose all of the issues with having more than one truth.

There is no way to solve that problem of Uncle Steve (imo). But there is no difference in saying Steve is +8 hours so our noon is his 20:00 and or saying we should only call Steve between 03:00 and 20:00 UTC. It is an offset either way. It is only jarring to think that way now because it is the one way people have.

There is also the problem of someone driving across the US and suddenly they pass an invisible line and now it is one hour in the past or the future. The day changing while you work already happens for everyone working 3rd shift.

Billions of dollars in waste and confusion happen today because of forgetting about timezones. One study suggests that international trade is decreased by 5% per timezone between countries.
EU data privacy laws are likely to create barriers to trade
Both Samuel's chequer's program and Deep Blue used alpha-beta pruning for search, and a heuristic function. Deep Blue's heuristic function was necessarily more complex because chess is more complex than draughts. I think the reason master chess games were used in Deep Blue instead of self-play was the existence of a large database of such games, and because so much of its performance was the result of being able to look ahead so far.
How does this compare against existing services? Wondering since we use box for file sharing at our company, and file upload speed has never really been an issue for us.
Rough translation:
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation

Attention!
In our butcher shop we might ask you for your name and memorize which kind of meat you like. If you don't want us to do that please shout "I do not approve!" when entering.

We will pretend to not know you in that case.

Btw, it's an Austrian butcher shop :)
As noted below it wasn’t a company policy she didn’t personally like seeing things like “emergency eunuch surgery” on checks.

She said she would make it a policy. All bark, no bite.
> kidnappers would rather not kill anyone and also hold themselves in rather high regard, like "a man of my word" and such

You're assuming a certain value-set here. If instead their highest value is to appear ruthless to their peers (think prison, or for that matter the Dothraki), then no.
> Installation isn't cheap. Dandelion estimates the cost at around $20,000, depending on home size and state and federal incentives. But the company notes that consumers are likely to save about 20 percent annually on the cost of home heating and cooling.

Are they aiming at regular home owners?

Our heating/cooling is ~ $2.4k/year - about $200/month. Fluctuates - summertime is sometimes higher, winter can bring high heating months, but our electric bill is often under $100 for the spring months, so ... it evens out.

This would mean a ... $500 savings per year? $40/month? Are other people paying much much higher heating/cooling costs than I am, and this would make sense?
the idiocy of this law really grinds my gears.
So NaCL and PNaCL are not good enough to be comparable with WASM?
From hes profile: https://github.com/losfair

> High school student. Interested in rust, operating systems, distributed systems and virtualization.

Hehe, when I was in hes age, my friend call me a hacker because I know how to use ping and ipconfig command on Windows.

Compare to him, I was really lame. What makes me more sad is, I'm still lame even today LOL.
Hmm not sure why that wikipedia article calls it geothermal, you need 0 geothermal activity to take advantage of the temperature difference in the earth.
Gary Bernhardt explains it better in this talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

But to summarize, jumps between kernal-space and user-space are expensive. Instead of doing that, we can run a well-vetted interpretor in kernal-space, and run "userspace" programs in kernal-space, in the interpretor.

This actually isn't slower (or so it is claimed), because a JITed interpretor can be native speed on hot-code paths, and the inefficiencies for most workloads are more than made up for by not having expensive syscalls.

So what you end up with is something that is about as fast as normal compiled code for cpu-intensive workloads (maybe faster sometimes), much faster for workloads involving a lot of syscalls, and interpreted languages like python/javascript end up much faster as well, presuming they can take advantage of the efficient JIT implementation.

Personally, what most exites me about this technology path, is that it should reduce the cost of interprocess communication to near zero. Combined with a shared object model, and a capabilities system, it could be pretty awesome.
> What? I don't assume Scrum should or can fix bad management practices.

What? Scrum fixes all bad management practices?

> I'm saying adding Scrum to already-bad management practices is like throwing gas on the fire.

There we need evidence that it is actually so. Haven't seen any convincing data for that.

> Scrum doesn't help.

The sentence before claimed something else: Scrum makes it worse, quickly.

> Also, if Scrum is only some kind of special snowflake process that only works when applied in sociologically perfect companies, well then it's useless.

True, but that's not the case. Scrum can be used with advantage in average to good companies - but the reality is that good software product development is not that easy and has many ways to fail - for example the software could have a huge security problem, it could have architectural problems, it might not earn enough money, etc. - nothing which the scrum process will fix. There are many areas on the management and other levels, which scrum does not address: payment, office, product, market, hiring, ethics, ...

Scrum is really on a tiny framework addressing a few basic things in small team organization.

> I'd rather use custom, ad hoc, duct-taped together management practices that get the job done even in the midst of bad corporate sociology.

Personally I'd rather work in a company willing to learn how to successfully develop software in some reproduceable way.
Sorry, my statement was vague. I did mean cache as in horde. They have stockpiles of "value" that they will protect at all costs.
> Genetic evidence has conclusively proven our roots are in Africa

No, it did not. I didn't see any proof of that. Or is your proof the fact that you work with the human genome and we must believe you?

The whole African origin theory rests on the fact that the oldest bones are there and so the Homo erectus came from there.

If they would find homo erectus bones that are 1 million years older in China then the theory will change.
Ooh, this is just in time for me. Was searching for a React charting plugin with multiple styles just in the morning. Will give this a spin in development and come back with more comments. Thanks :)
I remember that scene. Now I have even more reason to read the book :)
This describes 60% the personal interactions I see and participate in, just hanging around a hackerspace. Actual collaborations happen, but a large portion is just unblocking each other -- the little tap on the shoulder, "hey, I think there's a better way to do that" -- and then going back to working on one's own stuff.

I wonder if there might be a social solution to this, simply by changing where you do your work.
Good can mean different things. A given volume/weight of diamonds will typically be worth much more than an equivalent amount of bic pens, or even of gold, so in that sense, diamonds are pretty efficient.
The day we create a superior intelligence will be the greatest day of humanity. It will be fantastic if there's something beyond humanity. A logical, evolutionary conclusion to us.

All our Darwinian ancestors never had the capacity for intellectual fear of their superior successors...

Hopefully we as a species can get beyond our fear.
If there's a Scrum Master, what does that make everyone else involved?
Show HN: Europa by Reason – Professional synth running directly in web browser
Nope, don't understand the trade offs if you're suggesting scrum is slower than waterfall. That just doesn't line up with my experience. "Results may vary," though.

The issue I've had with every other project management approach is the illusion of structure. I'm not an expert on all or any approach. But my experience is that everyone wants me to be able to project, since absolute certainty, what my team can get done in 12, 24, 36 months. And I can't. No one can. It's all bull shiitake.

Scrum does not solve this problem. But it's honest about it.

It says: "We can't tell you what could be done in 2 years. But we can probably tell you fairly accurately what we can do in the next 2 weeks. And if you let us proceed in these honest 2 week intervals, we'll probably get way more done than if we all agreed to the collective insanity of the waterfall lie."

If you've done waterfall successfully, meaning you delivered a project on time, on budget, and on scope based on your original estimates for all three, then congratulations, you're a mythical beast.

I, for one, cannot do that. I've failed every time. Every team I've worked with has failed every time. I've never seen it work.
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My favorite scam I've seen lately has been the "We're gonna give you a promotion with no salary increase, see how you do, and then discuss a pay raise after X months! You should be grateful for this opportunity!"

And then of course in six months, the pay raise is basically a small bump, versus what one might be paid if brought in as a manager/higher title.
There might not be a clear consensus what a given person does but there are three types of tasks or concerns on the project, as I outlined them. Do you disagree with that?

So if Scrum (or any other methodology, for that matter) wants to define a new role (to what end?), they should explain, how they are related to these concerns? What tasks that were traditionally done by the triad are supposed to be done by the new role, and why? And moreover, how are the concerns from the triad dealt with in Scrum?

That's what I miss from Scrum. There is no connection to what was before, aside from using waterfall as a straw man (it's not a methodology to begin with). It's an ideology, its own world.

The result of Scrum being an ideology is, somebody who becomes scrum master in Scrum, and effectively doing project management work (in the better case), by default, has no idea that there is a field called "project management", and that he should study that field. So they don't know, for instance, the classic like Fred Brooks.
Yes, you're right. I don't understand the myopia on this forum when it comes to people spending money irrationally. Human beings are not hyper-efficient savings maximization engines. Every time the story about why "diamonds suck" hits the front page (maybe once a year or so?), the same rounds of patting-on-the-back are exchanged in the comments for rehashing a one-dimensional social commentary that buying diamonds is silly.

Yes of course it's silly! But that's not the point, and it never has been. Once you're at the point of buying a gift that costs far more than its intrinsic, utilitarian value, worrying about its "true scarcity" is just haggling on the details. I purchased an engagement ring for my wife that costed about $30,000. She didn't ask for anything remotely as extravagant as that, but she likes it and I enjoy it for frankly vain reasons. I take immense pleasure out of the reactions it elicits from other people. Despite being very clear-eyed about the artificial scarcity of diamonds and DeBeers marketing, I still bought it because I enjoyed being able to make a frivolous purchase. Personally I don't like spending a lot on things that aren't either experiential or somewhat long-lasting, so I'd never spend much at all on a wedding dress. But I don't begrudge people for spending money inefficiently if they can afford it.

We're all the same species. With very few exceptions, none of us is hyper-vigilant, hyper-rational or hyper-efficient. There are many, many things we idly buy which are artificially scarce or inflated in price. Buying them is not categorically different from buying expensive jewelry under a cultural zeitgeist perpetuated by a global conglomerate. I think most people really don't have much self-awareness about how high their floor of wealth and personal spending is over the ceiling of frugality and efficiency they talk about so much.
About as safe as other managed languages...the security here is dependent on how well implemented the sandbox is.
Dandelion uses a cheaper drilling method to reduce up-front costs. https://blog.x.company/introducing-dandelion-2706eded169a