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But that is exactly the problem that happens all the time when you are e.g. working on a new statistical model.

I've worked in software for 25 years and rarely had difficulty finding a good functional breakpoint where my software could be demo'd in some form. It definitely doesn't happen "all the time" in development.

But it happens all the time with fundamental research.

Nor does it happen all the time with research. I've run research on a scrum basis with 2 week sprints for 6 years with great success. It just isn't that hard to break work into reasonable pieces. If it is really hard, even after years of practice, then writing software is probably not a good career choice. Do we always get it right? No. Our percentage of 'green' sprints is around 70%. But that's enough to provide some stability in planning, and to be able to track our incremental progress without too many nasty surprises.

If you have discovered a way of recording velocity that has even a weak predictive efficacy for forecasting completion, please let me know. Across all software teams I’ve heard of, worked on, or collaborated with, the velocity numbers carry no forecasting efficacy whatsoever. Not even for ballpark estimates.

This is a fair criticism, but accurate software estimation is hard, period, agile or not. Velocity may not be useful for telling you when a project will be complete, but it's very useful in warning you when it won't be complete, which in practice is just as valuable.

I won't defend anyone who applies deep statistical analysis on sprint velocity, unless they have a very large dataset to work with.
I don't see how to square "makes essentially arbitrary syscalls so we can run faster than Linux code" and "is safe". WebAssembly is not Platonically safe; it's safe for specific reasons. If you bind syscalls into it, or more generally, bind anything that allows you to do what syscalls do in an OS, you're going to be poking holes in its safety at a distressing pace, because you're taking some of the reasons WebAssembly is safe, and throwing them away.

It may be memory safe, but honestly, memory-safety is no great trick anymore... pretty much everything except the languages currently used to implement kernels is memory safe. Memory safe is still not "generally safe".
This reinforces the need to benchmark any 'human expert equivalent' project against the wattage of the human brain.
The value of Ethereum is determined by the supposed token utility. Which means it'll depend on what it is eventually used for.
When I pay for a diamond, I don't pay for its intrinsic value. I pay for diamonds because other people around me feel they are expensive and you've to be rich enough to set your money on fire (like you do while purchasing a diamond). It's a signal for others that I am "fuck you money" rich.

This may have been a sarcastic post (?) but why do you care if other people think you have "fuck you money"? That just makes you look intellectually weak and poor imho.

But here's one thing that "fuck you money" won't buy: class.
Seems you are shakey ground, without empirical justification, to say that in the majority of cases when applied scrum goes badly.

We are probably at the point of trading ancedotes, but I'd say in the majority of cases where I have seen it applied it has worked more than it has not. Even a poor implementation has yielded some benefits. And those pieces that have not worked there are reasons why.
Hmm I was more under the impression it was for context, in other words creating/executing strategies based on what audio cues were received (like when a key or coin is acquired) and keeping tabs of what actions the user performed after that point.
I'm a huge fan of MATE and use it with several different Linux distributions.
They say $1134/hr but actual experience shows it's much higher. It's like MPG. If you drive 50mpg sure, likewise the jet's published hourly operating cost is all about going on cruise speed and not as fast as you can, no headwinds, perfect conditions, cheap insurance, etc. Real world cost is closer to $2000/hr
They don't rely on any special geological phenomena. They work like a regular air conditioner or heat pump (compressor, refrigerant, condenser, evaporator) but instead of pumping heat to/from the outside air, they pump it to/from the ground.

The advantage is that, while the outside air is almost always the wrong temperature (hot in the summer when your pump needs it to absorb heat, cold in the winter when you need to pull heat out of it), the ground is basically always the right temperature.

The disadvantage is install costs because you have to put piping underground by either trenching or drilling.
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If I have a full and well-groomed backlog waiting for me at my desk, what's there to talk about? Sure, you can, but the the whole point of the PM is to take that off your shoulders and the parent is saying he doesn't want that lifted from him.
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so while its possible, Tesla is making changes that bring accident rates down. Everyone here is acting like its certain with absolutely no scientific evidence. Clearly by significantly more than they go up. Its stupid to come down on them like they're murdering people. That IS how you stop all progress.

Furthermore, no one is forcing anyone to buy Teslas. People should be free to do as they choose. I have no doubt, for example, that a corvette, lambo, m3, or convertible all increase certain risks for their drivers by far more than autopilot - which probably decreases their risks.
Feels like a bit of 'jump the shark' moment for google...a geothermal heat pump called dandelion from an advertising and search company. Does it connect to nest and phone home information about our homes?
The observation is more about people. You take random people from good teams, mix em up and put them in a very different environment, they're still going to do a good job.

What if there is no reasonable and reliable way to become a good team, and the only way to go from a bad team to a good team is to replace most of the team?
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That was one issue that stood out about the claim that most NSF proposals are submitted shortly before deadline.

Even if you have a proposal 95% complete months early, there's no real benefit to submitting it, and some value to waiting - to polish, or perhaps to amend the proposal for a changing world. I've certainly seen professors go back and rework proposals at the last minute because someone else had published related work they needed to account for.

The other issue that came to mind is that people finish work near deadlines with procrastinating, because work takes time. If there are two proposal deadlines per year, and the average person takes ~6 months to write a proposal, you'd see a normal distribution ramp-up of submissions, and never see the declining count because those people missed the deadline.
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What about wedding gas, if the wedding dinner fails to create any flatulence?
Next winter will probably going to be going over that 92% across all domains.
This is correct. The article (and grandparent) seems to quickly jump to the assumption that the members of a scrum team are mindless drones - and don't get me wrong, some scrum teams are - but they are empowered by scrum itself to have a say or two itself in what to deliver when. The PO only decides priorities, and is not (officially) allowed to pressure for time and deadlines. In return, the scrum team gives feedback in the sprint ritual about how fast they're going, relatively, in story points delivered. This is only relative to that team's own (previous) sprints.

I think the main issue is that people are doing scrum wrong, applying traditional management to an agile process.
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For a long time I felt that way as well. There are days when I still do, and this is from my current perspective as a tech lead who spends ~50% of their time in meetings with other parts of the company.

Sadly once a team scales up past a certain size its not practical to have developers also going out, finding out what people want built, and handling all the feedback on that. You need someone (or a team of someones) gathering the often conflicting requests coming in, and prioritising them against each other.

Having said that, I do believe once a piece of work makes it to a point where people are likely to start working on it the developers who will be doing that work should be involved in the process. They should understand not only what is being requested, but also why its being requested, in my experience that often results in them suggesting alternative solutions that either bet solve the problem, or provide a 90% solution with significantly less cost. It also gives them the context needed when deciding on technical trade-offs involved in different design choices.
That may simply be an artifact of most writing we have from older periods was professional, like magazine articles.

Not personal/casual, like Reddit/HN.
I believe the other person working on a wasm kernel in Rust is also in high school. They take two different approaches, I can’t wait to see how all of this turns out!
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I always thought of the engagement ring tradition as a financial safety-net for a woman, in a culture where it was customary that only men work and women stay home. Woman in such setup has no "her" money, but if she owns an expensive ring that she can easily sell that gives her some level of freedom, if needed.
Obligitory:

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I often wonder why connections aren't made more lightweight in Postgres, or if there was an option to steal a connection and have a "RESET" command that destroyed all state. In my Postgres library, I have to keep state information too just so I can "reset" a connection. Also maybe the protocol can add a (optionally client supported) PING to check for socket death to know if a connection is stealable.
What I've learned in engineering (any form, including software) is take the estimate (acquired in any decent enough way like averaging) and multiply by PI (or 3 if that suits you) to get a reasonable amount. In practice it works more accurately for larger sums than smaller ones so your mileage may vary. I guess it is easier for everyone to guess smaller workloads more accurately.

In my practical experience, I multiply the amount gathered from the previous statement by two to have sufficient negotiation space for people 'higher up the chain' who have no idea about anything of this and simply pull estimates out of thin air or their rear without any proper experience except "previous time it was xxx so it should be the same" (which it almost always is not).

edit: I prefer to have some time left on larger projects to avoid overrunning, even though that might be common practice. Usually though time is cut short due to delivery constraints or selling a product before asking the development and you get the 'wasn't it done yet?' speech.
That strikes me as a problem with fiscal irresponsibility, not a problem with the object of the irresponsibility.
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This is why people say you make your money going out the door.
> Normally, this would be super dangerous, but WebAssembly is designed to run safely on remote computers, so it can be securely sandboxed without losing performance.

This seems a like a pretty strong claim. I hope that it's true, but I'm not going to be running WASM modules in ring 0 any time soon.
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having a private jet is likely not "economical" unless you fly a lot. but it's still a better experience than flying first class in almost every way.

the biggest advantage is that you set the schedule yourself. some routes only have one or two non-stop flights per day. now you have a non-stop flight whenever you want. combined with the fact that you no longer have to show up early to make sure you have time for security (now you never go through security at all, and if you're late the plane waits for you), this is a huge time saver.

you can also have much better accommodations on your own plane. better alcohol, food you actually want to eat, even more comfortable seats, etc. you can guarantee that a child will never scream in your ear or kick the back of your seat.

comparing a private jet to first class is honestly ridiculous, the experiences are leagues apart. i would fly privately if i could remotely afford it. the real question is what advantage is there to owning a plane versus simply chartering them on demand. i assume it just comes down to frequency of travel.
That was my first thought as well. There are tons of file sharing services that already exist, but I think their advantage here is allowing people to send files larger than 20GB. Using DropBox, the limit is 20GB or smaller.
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It is not about the object itself, it is about respecting your partner's values. If an expensive ring means a lot to your partner, then it is definitely important for your marriage.

The same can be said for extramarital sex. Assuming proper precautions are taken to avoid medical issues, rationally, it is not a big deal. And yet, besides a small minority of couples who embrace open marriage, this is hugely important.

If requiring some compromise warrants not getting married, no one will ever get married.
Also, how do they know how much terrorist content they aren't blocking (the 1%), since they by definition haven't found it yet?
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Possibly, but will it be called AI winter, if e.g. average human has 88% accuracy and best human 97%?
My local well drilling guy has offered "geothermal" for years (decades?) Despite a large inventory of wealthy second home owners, he didn't get and still doesn't get many takers. Meanwhile, rooftop solar is everywhere.

My parents almost bought their "retirement home" with an existing geothermal system - it remains the only "real world" home instance of this technology that I have encountered.

$20K also seems very close to the price he told me years ago - I fail to see the innovation here. I'm sure there's something here, but the article doesn't help illuminate it.

Edit: Another HNer posted this, apparently it's a cheaper drilling technique: https://blog.x.company/introducing-dandelion-2706eded169a
Have you looked into how Patchwork approaches this issue? It's not quite equivalent to Mastodon, I think, but I am fascinated by their approach to 'mapping' social relationships. Would be very curious to hear what you or others with more experience on the matter think about it.

EDIT: to elaborate a bit. While I'm only just diving into these topics, I can't help but feel that a fundamental problem in many cases is that many problems of 'online social' have to do with a very unintuitive/inorganic implementation that just fundamentally doesn't work well for humans. What I found interesting about Patchwork is that it tries, to some extent, to resemble the way humans 'naturally' interact.

Now I'm not at all opposed to experiments in augmenting the way humans interact with others, but I can't help but feel that many of the things we've come up with that are popular went too far in not considering human nature (or intentionally messed with it). And perhaps a more constructive way forward is to come up with 'online social' tools that start with a more conservative resemblance to how humans have interacted for much of their history, and iterate from there.
The website references its Wireshark article under "Wrapping Up": https://hackertarget.com/wireshark-tutorial-and-cheat-sheet/
Yes, this seems like a major flaw with the grant proposal data discussed.

Young professors and grad students are often really busy during work hours, and don't necessarily know all their deadlines well in advance. If you give them a six-month window to write a proposal, they'll probably work on it incrementally while fitting in as many other deadlines as they can.

Obviously procrastination happens, but it's also possible to get last-minute submissions from good time management; people use the full time available to create more space to get other work done.
I should add that I like the other interludes, and now when I re-read that first part I enjoy it. It's just the initial reading of the set up, introducing Chronicler, the stuff with the scrael, etc. I didn't know where Ruthfuss was taking this.
I want to be the guy who talks to the rest of the employees, implements things and get direct feedback from them. I dont want anyone in the middle of that.

Part of little-a agile is making changes and adapting -- it's literally in the name. If you have a process in place that prevents you talking to the people you need to talk to, change or delete the process.
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I can't unfortunately, proprietary stuff being plugged into existing business right now.
If you want to feel better, I didn't know what a variable was until I was 28. I feel pretty lame compared to virtually everyone here on HN haha.
Its an interesting theory, but falls apart in practice. The parent article mentions the abysmal resell value of diamonds.

Ignoring the advertisement at the end, this article sums things up pretty well: https://www.diamonds.pro/education/sell-diamonds/
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Rust’s standard library types do not give you that control. The language doesn’t know abou allocation, and you can build whatever you want on top of it.
I've seen a few systems mixing up their clocks, sometimes using the database server clock, sometimes the web server clock, sometimes the user's local clock. Whatever clock you're using, be consistent about it.

Users can and do configure different time zones than where they're actually located, e.g. if someone in India is working with a team in the UK, they'll probably have Indian time on their local clock, but select UK in their user profile.

Also, some people travel.
I'm probably oversimplifying, but this looks like 3 different ways of saying "get feedback often" :)
> In studies testing the four common supplements of multivitamins, vitamin D, calcium and vitamin C, there was no reduction in incidence of heart disease, stroke or premature death. This means there was no benefit from taking them, but also no harm.

I don't know if this is just a poorly written statement or if the study's findings are flawed themselves, but saying that there's no benefit at all because it didn't affect three (rather major) phenomena is very misleading.
You act as if 'overcharging' for something is always a rip off.

Syntactically those 2 terms indeed have a similar feel to them - 'over' doesn't have a good connotation in 'overcharging'. But I'm not sure why you think I consider them to always be equivalent, I don't.

they still deliver value to the people buying them

It's exactly the worth of that (perceived) value I was questioning.

It's really not your call to make whether spending on luxury items is worth pursuing -- depends on how high your income and wealth is.

You're not claiming I cannot take part in this discussion if my income isn't high enough, are you :] Anyway, rest assured: my income and wealth are such that I could buy more than a bunch of VT bags or rings with diamonds or whatever. Even more I'm no stranger to having bought overpriced luxury items in a distant past so I kind of know what I'm questioning here. Ha, it's exactly the reason I'm questioning it. But even if it were not why would I not be allowed to ask questions about other's motives?

Also: perception is everything in the world

Correction: a part of the world. A part which is way too big for my liking and for which I consider myself extremely fortunate I don't have to deal with it often. I want to be taken serious for who I am and not because of what I look like. Also: one can look well dressed (to whatever standard) in clothes which don't cost a dime so there's a fine line between 'well dressed' and 'expensively dressed so it must be well'.
And to elaborate even more:

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The cherry on the top about these job descriptions is usually at the end when they're basically throwing a few peanuts in your general direction and suggesting 'here, feed yourself and your family you bitch'. The only way they're filling these positions is using desperate people, there is no other way. If they actually paid 500,000 - 1 million some people might actually do this for a set period of time, say 4-5 years and then at least be able to quit with a house or something, but to do with for years on end living paycheck to paycheck, that's almost hell.
My quip on scrum/agile is that it "ensures mediocre results from mediocre teams."

And honestly that is all that most companies actually want/need. Most teams are mediocre and most projects only need a mediocre result. Getting something as good as a mediocre results out of your mediocre teams would be a massive improvement for a lot of place.
> I was talking about diamonds and extravagence desired purely to display wealth and social status (women are particularly vulnerable to this folly)

Now you're just being casually sexist. If you want to judge people for how they choose to celebrate their mutual affection that's fine. So diamonds aren't your thing, thanks for sharing. But let's not go down the rabbit hole of litigating one gender's susceptibility over another's.
Well, the breathless hype around deep learning (with and without reinforcement learning) is bound to subside sooner or later, and attendance to staid academic conferences like NIPS sooner or later will revert back to a smaller group of academics and intellectuals who are truly interested in the subject over the long term.[a] That much is certain.

But we're still in the early stages of a gigantic wave of investment over the next decade or two, as organizations of all sizes find ways to use deep learning in a growing number of applications. Most small businesses, large corporations, nonprofits, and governments are not using deep learning for anything yet.

[a] https://twitter.com/lxbrun/status/908712249379966977