skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow... is that really a thing? I used to hear rumours/urban legends like this of certain venues when I was in my early days of nightclubbing... before I went away to college, living at home and the rumours were about venues in nearby $BIG_CITY

That was in the mid 90's...
I always also get a pirated version of whatever Kindle book I buy to put in my personal electronic library. It's only fair to pay the author, publisher and distributor their price for it, but I also want to be able to re-read that book decades from now. I'm confident that I'll still be able to read a txt or epub file in 2050, but there's no particular reason to think that I would still be able to access my Kindle eBooks then.
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What the article misses is that there are alternatives better than BOTH approval or IRV.
I will always find "Approval" to be unsatisfying because I want to say I like A more than I like B.
I will always find IRV to be dumb because it has bad outcomes and for no additional cost or complexity those ranked ballots could have been counted by a Condorcet method that results in better democracy.
https://bolson.org/irv/
I think it's super interesting to read the Timeline of Doomsday Clock changes from the bottom up.
Nothing about your reply has anything to do with why a person might create poetry.
This goes to show that "your" handle on someone else's platform is never really yours. The only thing that can not be taken away from you is a domain name. Start hosting your voice via your own domain.
It was using Calibre. I may have different ideas about what is a PITA to you though. Whatever, the effort involved, + my other points didn't move the needle far enough for me to choose books.
> Ableton is actually worse at beatmatching than the human ear.

I never relied on the automatic beat detection. I manually adjusted the beat markers on every single track I played ahead of time. For most EDM the BPM doesn't waver at all, and most producers tend to use round numbers, so it's generally not actually that hard. The only trick is being consistent about where in the kick you mark it. I tend to use the snare/claps to calibrate, because those are generally where you can tell if there's drift. It's also easy to shift a track by a few milliseconds live if you notice that it's a bit off.

> it's still 4x less accurate than the human ear.

It's still way way more consistent than even the best analog turntables. You have to adjust constantly when mixing with technic 1200s because of drift.
How tall are you?

Also, the article briefly mentioned rowing. I didn't enjoy it as much when I was competing when younger, but it's a brilliant exercise if you have access to even (or can afford) an ergometer (indoor rowing machine).

As long as you study form and adhere to that principally before exerting yourself, it's a great aerobic exercise that also helps build and maintain muscle mass (arms, back, and legs mainly). It's easier on the joints as well—again, and I must stress, as long as you maintain proper form. I see so many "cross-fitters" yanking and janking their arms and back and shooting their butts around it makes me cringe knowing what kind of hell it's going to render to their bodies. With proper form, it's one of the best compound exercises. I wish I had access to an erg these days, but I'm trying to keep my own costs down by using the limited gym in my building.

Also if you're in a town with a rowing club, they often host "learn to row" sessions that will guide you through a lot of it—and get you out on the water as well, if you're not averse.
> I will go to a runner store to have them pick my next shoes.

Do this now if you can afford it. Try to find one of the smaller stores that really focuses on runners and is staffed by avid runners. A good store will have a treadmill and cameras to be able to look at your stride and make recommendations on both your stride pattern as well as your shoes. It was a running store that helped me find the Saucony shoes that have helped my ankle issues go away. :)

You could maybe also be dealing with an imbalance of strength between your hamstring and quadriceps. When runners have joint issues this can be the culprit or at least a key contributor. Adding in a couple sessions a week of weight training that include movements like deadlifts, good mornings, and back squats can strengthen the posterior chain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_chain) and address those imbalances.
"Apache is used by 43.8% of all the websites whose web server we know." according to https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ws-apache/all/all

I would venture a guess and say it's largely because all the shared hosting providers use it. Less and less people actually choose it given a choice.
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Running the wrong way is hard on the knees and everything else, and is surprisingly common even among those who run a lot. When I started running nearly five years ago, I quickly realized that I was doing it wrong. A little research on stride and foot landings, a few adjustments, and things were a lot better. If I'd kept running the "naive" way I'm sure I would have wrecked my knees in no time. As it is, I've had fewer injuries (and illnesses!) than before I started. As with most systems in the body, making your knees work a bit is likely to be beneficial.

BTW, one irony with running form is that it's often the young fast folks who are the worst. I often see some high-school or college kid zipping by with atrocious form, because at that age it's easy to get away with. I cringe when I think of what's going to happen when they get older, their bodies change, and they're still slamming their feet into the pavement. By contrast, older runners tend to be more careful about form. The ones who aren't tend to become non-runners very quickly.
I've been taking a class recently about how terrorists use the internet/social media to spread their ideals. One of the biggest issues with actually cracking down on this is that it takes a lot longer for you to find them and shut them down than it does for them to create another account.

This become infinitely more difficult depending on the medium. Computers are really fast at matching strings and searching for keywords. Image recognition, on the other hand, takes a lot longer and video analysis even longer. My hope is that machine learning will develop to the point where it can be quick and effective enough to identify and remove content.

The biggest problem with all of this boils down to the freedom of the Internet. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the Internet is bad. I love the freedom it provides, and don't think it should change. But it poses large problems that allow it to be abused and society has to move at the speed of its slowest, evilest people.
I am very curious if OP can share some stats on number of times two people were thinking about each other at the same time.
Uhm, someone might argue that you're still living off the windfall of state subsidies your technological complex received during the Cold War to win the arms race with the Russians...

... but that would be needlessly sarcastic wouldn't it? ;/
It seems like you could solve this problem in an even more dev-friendly way by sticking to one of the most fundamental principles in scrum (and possibly others): Don't schedule 100% of your developers' time, and definitely don't fill them up to 100% on coding work. Not even close. Devs are supposed to work at a sustainable pace.

A sustainable pace leaves plenty of time for kicking your feet up on the desk in order to think about things. It leaves plenty of time for chatting with one's teammates to make sure ideas are fully baked before implementing them. It leaves plenty of time for trying out new ideas.

And, importantly, it leaves the time for doing this relatively unstructured. Because the dev team is a bunch of working professionals who should be free (and trusted) to figure out for themselves when they need to take a pause from cranking through tickets in order to do other stuff. A "3 weeks on, 1 week off" approach doesn't get you this.

I think that the spot where the car always ends up upside down in a ditch on agile implementations is a misunderstanding of the basic idea behind velocity. It isn't a KPI that you're supposed to maximize. It's a feedback mechanism that the product owner uses to manage the pacing of some of their own work, in order to make sure that the pipeline neither empties out nor becomes jammed full of work.

If the PO is doing that job correctly, then they would be making tough decisions about what is and is not reasonably doable in a given timeframe, and providing backpressure to stakeholders when they're asking for too much. If they're instead accepting every single feature request, and dealing with the resulting backlog logjam by continually pressuring the dev team to work faster and faster (and more and more sloppily), then, no sense in mincing words about it, they're doing a bad job as a product manager. And the dev team is well within their rights to push back against them on that.

Which, incidentally, is what the orthodox Scrum formulation is trying to do when it disallows the PO from deciding how many items (or story points, or whatever) to pull into the sprint. That's supposed to be based solely on the dev team's own opinion of what's a reasonable amount of work to take on.
“Zero” rules are vulnerable to abuse and leads should not be naive about this. You’re not fixing bugs, you’re sweeping them into a hole.

For example, how might a team reduce its backlog easily? It could close year-old bugs (that obviously look bad), giving vague or no explanation, and assume that any real issue will be opened as a new bug again. The project clearly doesn’t have any fewer problems, it just has problems that are now much harder to track.

Also, “zero” is a number, saying nothing at all about realistic strategies for getting there. Some bugs are fundamental flaws requiring gargantuan rework. Some take weeks to understand but literally one line fixes (like setting a 0 to 1). Shouldn’t we at least have a handle on categories of problems and how to “zero” certain subsets of issues, and how to make progress? How do we keep people from getting promoted for closing 50 trivial bugs and firing the guy who spent a month on nothing but one huge and more-crucial problem?

And pity the new manager who comes along and sees “few” bugs; they’d better start looking under rocks. The entire state of the project that they’re taking over may be misrepresented.
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> Flipping through an ebook looking for something is impossible

If you're looking for something in an ebook, wouldn't it be easier and more effective to just search for it?
I think the author has made the mistake of "what works best for me is what works best for everyone". It's easy to make. Likely, they had many bad teams that used "agile" as an excuse for poor management systems, leading to burnout. Then, they found a system that worked really well for them in their project and said "aha! everyone who isn't doing it this way must be experiencing what I experienced before I did this!".

Look, the point of Agile is that the team builds the process that works best for them within the parameters of the work that needs doing. If you're burning out because of your process not working, change the process.

For most teams I've been on, a month-long sprint is too much. Once my team switched from 2-weeks to 3-weeks, and in that situation it was pretty good. But on other teams, requirements and priorities shifted frequently, and sometimes 2 weeks felt too long. This same "well that might work" pattern applies to most of this document's recommendations, in my view.

But kudos to the author for finding a system that works for them in their current situation.
Please show where you came up with the $45K price. On https://www.tesla.com/model3/design, a black RWD standard range Model 3 with no options is exactly $35,000 (or "$26,950 after savings").
I read the article, hence my reaction. Because to me, the claims of the article do not match my understanding of the procedures defined for dealing with a failing MCAS.
Definitely, yeah. I'd hate to be tasked with creating an interface between SWI and SBCL. I would quickly go mad. Not that it will be a cakewalk with Rust, necessarily, but Scryer is much smaller, and Rust is way better behaved than C.
My understanding is that in the old days of planar transistors it had a clear meaning but with modern designs not so much.
>because it has bad outcomes and for no additional cost or complexity those ranked ballots could have been counted by a Condorcet method that results in better democracy.

Can you show how the differences in outcomes is better using the Condorcet method?
Depends on how you define bullet - sling ones had lead as a better but more expensive option.

Some really early ones used stones or wooden bolts but firearms hadn't really taken off then and they fell into obscurity for a reason.

Before they also had more common /even worse/ practices like casting bullets by campfire for better fit and logistics than early manufacturing.
Hmm, I haven't given it that much thought yet. Maybe I should start writing integration guides for the major frameworks. You are more than welcome to open a GitHub issue about this, and I'll get to it.
Algorithmic governance models (like China's Social Credit System) are spreading
> Index cards were his instrument

That frames it elegantly, thanks.

Holy shit, that was dang
Cats know their names – whether they care is another matter
This is another time to ask uncomfortable questions. Why are issues coming up in the middle of the iteration that "take higher priority"? Why can't they wait?

Is it a production bug? If it is, can it wait? Just because it's a production bug doesn't mean it must be addressed outside the normal iteration cycle. Criticality should matter.

If it's not a production bug...

Is it a missed critical requirement? WHY??? How did the entire team miss something that must be done right now? That's a major process failure.

If it's not a missed critical requirement...

Is it someone with great power just disrupting your iterations for their pet project? Do you have multiple customers who are competing for your team as a resource, and not hashing priorities out together in iteration planning?

Following from that...

Are they directly in your chain of command? Is it your superior changing horses in midstream, or your customer? Because you can tell customers no. Even if they scream and shout and say they're gonna tell Mom. The customer is not always right. Learn to say no.

And if you still feel like you have no authority and no control over your work...

Quit.
I think you over estimate the cognitive effort required. Just look at how quickly emoji were adopted into every-day communication. Maybe you can't transliterate Shakespeare into emoji very effectively, but some meaning is lost just reading it in modern English anyway and we could reserve the more complex systems for this kind of preservation.
I never understood the argument that ebooks should cost less. The price of a good usually isn't determined by the cost to manufacture and sell. Why should books be different?

For me, I'll pay more for an ebook than a paperback because it's a more valuable format for me. Aside from being more compact and searchable, I can select a larger font. If it's more valuable, why shouldn't it cost more?

One thing we do agree on though is that DRM on books should be banned. At the absolute minimum, it should have a failsafe built in so that users never lose their books and when copyright expires, all protection is removed.
I think it's possible to work out too much:

1) Scar tissue formation in heart after repeated episodes of prolonged ischemia (ultra marathon)

2) early joint wear necessitating joint replacements at earlier ages (marathon, lifting)

3) ligament and tendon damage requiring surgical correction (cross fit, power lifting)

4) high regeneration of tissue causes premature aging of tissues (increased cell replication and tendency for DNA damage)

I think society's glorification of extreme exercise does more harm than good.
Yes, there are plenty of consulting firms that will make you an iOS app, web site/application, data processing pipelines(my company). IBM and Accenture are large companies that provide these services. Outside of tech, there are large firms like PwC that audit your books, and do other things you don't have the in-house skills for. Pharmaceutical firms ofter consult out their marketing to companies like ZS Associates.

The consulting you're talking about is "management consulting", but there's a huge world of stuff out there.
I believe Raspberry Pi's SDCard port is limited to a bit below 25 MB/s, so that's gonna be the actual limit very often.
These objections make sense, and in the right climate open windows will meet most of your comfort needs. In other climates controlling the movement of air is the only way to control the energy needed to heat and cool.
You’re completely right and wrong at the same time.

Since Medicare reimbursements are so much lower than private insurance - the consequence of moving to all Medicare would have immense consequences, and the dollars removed would Largely need to be replaced, or quality and access to care would be dramatically impacted
Fantastic comments and very true. This echoes my time spent living in Europe.

As an "American" with a British father, and having lived overseas for much of my life, I still value European social mores and overall cultural far more than my American side. If I could only convince my wife to move to somewhere besides Texas. Vermont is first on the list, followed by anywhere in south rural England or Spain.

Europeans tend to not get starry-eyed like Americans. I don't need or want a sports car and big-assed house. It does nothing for me other than put me behind the power curve financially. I'd rather have universal healthcare, 6 weeks paid holiday and the ability to travel cheaply in the EU bloc.
As a French guy I think the money-first approach have some advantages.

We tend to view money as "dirty", when in reality, it is just value. America seems to be more aware of that.

For example, if you are writing a book, of course you want it to be a best seller and make tons of money. With that money you will be able to live a comfortable life so that you can write your next book in the best conditions.

You have kids? Yes, staying with your kids is important but so is making money. More money means better food, better education, more exciting and varied activities, etc...

Feeling generous? Earn more money so that you can support more charities, pay over market price for more ethical products...

Maybe it is a little too strong in the US but the money-first filter, as long as it is not absolute is simple and effective.
That sounds like a rough commute, I sympathize. What I'm hearing is that Sydney needs to be funneling more of the toll revenue into the transit budget so that trains and buses would be a real option for you.

As a resident of Chicago, I would be in favor of congestion pricing within a few miles of the loop. The traffic congestion doesn't just affect other drivers, but those of us walking, biking, and using public transit. I would welcome a far quieter city with less road noise more priority given to multi-modal transit.

Due to Chicago's budget issues I'm not sure how to do that beyond providing direct incentives to do something besides drive.
> monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

For those who hadn't seen this before, here's an explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870088/a-monad-is-just-...
One oddball case does not a "critical" make. That's part of it. Not every bug is a critical bug. Not every bug is worth wrecking your iteration over.

And if you're seeing critical bugs that wreck iterations on a regular basis, we're back to my point - you're not planning very well.
No, Facebook and other social media websites do not provide value, they suck up value for the shareholders. Facebook and others like them are a disease, and they have effectively killed the internet. Your point about being able to show your grandparents pictures totally ignores email and other technologies that “solved” this problem more than a decade before Facebook. Hell, you could create a personal website with password protected pages if you were worried about the public finding certain photos. That’s how the world worked prefacebook, it was wonderful! But instead you are sending those private photos to Facebook, for free! They now own your private photos and will use them against you. Maybe you should have just used email. Of course you can’t monitize free/open, so the money people have convinced you that you need something better than a personal website, or email, or ftp or irc or Usenet or any of the superior technology that existed before the money people killed the internet.
I'm also libertarian (leaning, in the sense I have voted for libertarian candidates in multiple elections at multiple levels, but not most of the time) but do research on this. I am not sure what to say to allay your concerns, except to say that mathematically/statistically speaking approval voting is what I would implement after a rating system, which I think is the best but also maybe the most cumbersome.

I personally don't really care about the political impetus behind changing the election format (not to say I don't care about politics, just that in the case of alternative voting systems the standard US format is almost the worst you could do). Anything that moves the US toward something better would be an improvement.

My one concern is that for whatever reason ranking systems seem to be the thing being pushed most, when approval or rating systems would probably be better.

Changing to an approval system would probably be the easiest way to increase 3rd party viability at the moment. Which of those 3rd parties would benefit is a different issue, but approval systems allow people to diversify their expressed preferences, so at the very least it wouldn't be worse for 3rd party candidates.

The basic issue is that plurality voting is a very poor measure of preference. Imagine if you were asked to measure height of 5 people in the room, 3 of whom are over 6 feet 10 inches tall. You could report how tall they are; this is most similar to a rating system. You could rank order their heights; this preserves rank ordering information but not anything about absolute difference, so the two people who are 7'2" and 7'1" look as different as the people who are 7'2" and 5'2". You could also ask people to just mark which are taller than 6'10", which at least acknowledges that more than one person could be taller than 6'10", and preserves some info about absolute height. Or, you could do as is standard, and just indicate who is tallest, which doesn't preserve much information at all about height.
You seem to be describing congestion pricing working as intended. To go by the shortest, least congested route, you have to pay the tolls. If the tolls weren't there, it would not take you 45 minutes to make this trip. The real problem, as you point out, is the absence of adequate public transit.
It's a very well documented topic. If they planned to move the data out of EU and/or process it in new way it doesn't surprise me that they'd need to get new agreements. But if you don't have the details it's hard to tell.

https://www.dickinson-wright.com/news-alerts/the-gdpr-and-me...

https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/publications/2018/0...

https://gdpr.report/news/2018/06/21/buyer-beware/