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> Most nominally "Agile" shops are in effect doing Scrum

No, most nominally Agile shops are also nominally doing Scrum, but actually doing not-Scrum in a not-Agile context, largely due to sabotage of both core principles of Agile and foundational elements of Scrum by management.

It doesn't matter what name and superficial ritual you put on the process if it's all window dressing over top-down disempowering command-and-control by persons who are neither doing the work nor experts on the work.

Which isn't to say that the Agile and Scrum bodies of work aren't part of the problem: neither really addresses as a key point how the team effectuates ownership of process and how interaction with management works, which means those gaps get filled in (or rendered moot, in the first case) in ways which compromise what those bodies of work do prescribe because.

Lean, which comes from basically the same perspective (while they don't cite exactly the same values as expressed in the Agile Manifesto, being Lean essentially implies being Agile and vice versa) and is a good body of knowledge to draw from alongside Agile, is better in this regard, and so places nominally drawing on Lean seen to be more likely to be doing what they say, because Lean doesn't leave as much of the core vital parts without good guidance.
Search for review sites for the product you're looking for. There are a shocking number of such sites all chasing Amazon's affiliate cash for sending traffic there.
I'm gonna give SQS a shot because authentication in redis seems to be quite a challenge, or was so the last time we looked about six months back.
Richard Preston on Legacy of the Hot Zone and the Future of Ebola Outbreaks
Dear Map People
I signed up to Twitter and followed exactly one account: Material-UI (a React component framework). I don't login to Twitter very much, I redirect the email notifications to my RSS feed. Every third email has no content related to Material-UI, it's just random ads-as-tweets about TV shows, movies and US politics.
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> WASM is already bad for user security

Any source?
Your older app may be serializing a lot of work. For instance, it could be issuing 10 SQL queries, one after another, which take 200ms each to answer - that's 2s total just waiting for the database. Compare to a JS client which issues 10 backend API calls, each being a 200ms request from the server's perspective (and the JS may parallelize many of those requests)

If this is a factor, rearchitecting the backend wouldn't necessarily be easier than an SPA rewrite. But it's not a fundamental limitation of server-side rendering.
More HTML and CSS Features You Didn't Know Existed
fresh local garlic that you lightly crush with the broadside of a knife and the peel just falls off negating the need for prepeeled.

That's what I do as well but I have never eaten a meal with a double-digit number of cloves of garlic. The most I've ever used in a meal was 6 and that gave me a ton of gas; never again!
The scroll snapping one doesn't appear to be working for me on Firefox for Android. Unless it is working and I just don't understand what it's doing.

EDIT: I just tried it on Firefox Focus, where it absolutely does work. That means it's broken on Firefox for Android.
You need 10 million to be in the top 1% in the US and 700k to be in the top 1% in the UK. There's a big difference between going from 0 net worth to 700k than to 10 million.
> The purpose of an A/B test isn't to always show the best performing result, it's to perform a _controlled scientific experiment_ with a control group, from which you can learn things.

Occasionally there is pure scientific interest.

But far more frequently, the purpose of the A/B is to optimize the outcome.

This is why Google Analytics has exclusively chosen multi-armed bandit for its its A/B test framework.
Burnout is an official medical diagnosis, WHO says
A further W^X refinement (OpenBSD)
Personal anecdote: every time I quit caffeine, a week later I still had lethargy and headaches. It might take a bit longer than a week for it to pay off. 2-4 weeks and you feel more human
Not everyone wants to climb Everest just because it's challenging or impressive. Many people do it for the same reason they go to the observatory deck of the world trade center - they just enjoy the physical and metaphorical experience of standing at the highest point in the city/world.

If overcrowding is really a problem, the Nepali government can fix it very easily by raising the permit prices and using the money to provide better social services for its disadvantaged citizens. And of course, when that happens, the same people who complain about not seeing the appeal in climbing Everest, will instead complain about how Everest should be made accessible to everyone.
By far my favourite remap in (Neo)vim is to map : to ; and ; to ,

I don't know how many thousand key presses I've saved by not having to hit "Shift" for every command.

" Use ; rather than : for commands
nore ; :
nore , ;
Two things:
1) proto buffers intentionally don't allow null values; values that aren't set will return a default value
2) gRPC uses proto3, which does not distinguish between a field unset and a field set to the default value
We already have a portable, stable, well specified cross platform language. It’s called Java.

What extra benefit does this provide, except avoiding Oracle?
Feature wise, both LaTeX and ConTeXt are similar. Where ConTeXt really shines is the ease of use and consistency of the interface.

1. No need to run `pdflatex; bibtex; pdflatex; pdflatex` multiple times. The wrapper script `context` takes care of that.

2. Easy to add graphic elements to the page and layout in a consistent and _fast_ manner.

3. Export to XML/XHTML/ePub.

4. Can compile XML.

5. Programatically generate documents using a Lua interface (this is different from LuaTeX; ConTeXt has a nice Lua interface called ConTeXt Lua Documents, so it seems that you are writing Lua code rather than a wrapper script).

6 Consistent of interface. See
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4987/why-should-i-be...
This is literally the logical fallacy. You could get lucky. Maybe you have obvious gains to chase. But bad logical arguments are bad because they never work forever. They are corrupted heuristics that can get you in trouble without critical thinking.

Edit: added in forever. Phone dropped some wording I originally had. I think.
It's probably not bad news since there are still plenty of active traders. It's just a milestone.

Nobody can predict the future and you shouldn't get your investment advice from Hacker News, but putting everything into one investment tends to be a bad idea.
You mean that "Explore nearby" thing? I wish it would just stay down. Every single time I open the map I have to drag it down. It uses too much space, and what do I want to explore in my home city for? I know all the places I want to go to. It really serves no purpose on the average use of Google Maps. There's an "Explore" button that brings it up, so why does it have to take up 50% of my screen every time I open Google Maps? "Explore" by its very nature is not so useful that the UI needs to prioritize it at the same level as the map itself.
I used to resort to binary translation for experimental CPU projects, but WASM looks like a much better starting point. The controversial lack of arbitrary control flow is a massive advantage for me.

Writing an complete compiler backend/asm/ld is a significant undertaking which is only worthwhile for very stable architectures.
Look at the effort PARC Smalltalk people put into this Byte magazine issue, reaching out to the early microcomputer enthusiasts and industry.

Imagine if some of the more powerful early home computers (which often came with BASIC and nice intro-to-programming manuals) had come with Smalltalk instead, and the first generation of microcomputer whiz kids had started with that world of influences.

This Smalltalk issue of Byte was before my time, and I didn't get to use Smalltalk until a decade later. It was in a class taught by Bob Beck from Sequent, teaching OO as an adjunct on the side, using Smalltalk, C++, and object databases. This was one of the most influential classes I ever took. It also started my open source contribution habit, when I released my class project, a visual class hierarchy browser for Smalltalk. (A few years later, I actually had a chance to go work at PARC, in a junior role on a new project, and my overwhelmingly biggest regret in life was instead choosing to do something else that also seemed like something one had to go try or always wonder.)
Stack Overflow is great for me; I was empathizing with someone in the position of receiving criticism instead of answers.
Seattle’s entry-level workforce in high demand, employers struggle to keep up
You need to breed out intelligence in humans. Because that comes with boredom etc. Its also why we're not farming any intelligent animals. Hunting them ie dolphins, etc doesn't count because the process cannot be industrialised unless they can be farmed.
Looks like a good platform for Fuzix
A good read, thanks to the author.

Biggest surprise (for me): Nobody uses Twitter.
Every year the bureaucrats' reach deeper and deeper into citizens' pockets.

Since when is it EU's business to spy on everyone's CO2 emission details?

The EU ought to be destroyed as soon as possible.
Aside: Most importantly, I would like to see the older Google maps interface back that did less trying to predict what I want to click. The current version continues to mispredict nearly all the time.
True, though in Calif some foreign owners bought land with water rights to grow high water consuming but high cash yielding crops. Then again, I think Harvard did similar.

Plus it’s not the same as what China is doing in east Africa as it pertains farmland since some of that is tied into deals more or less obligating the countries to comply.
Let's be honest, America has been violation of so many treaties and rules they themselves have written that it really doesn't matter anymore. Some countries retaliate, but with different methods.
Didn't we go through a period worrying about this (non farm land that time) with the Japanese?

Didn't work out for them...
Old Scotch Collie (1991)
Imagine a world in which buying food at the supermarket were like this. You could only ever buy name brand anything, otherwise your cereal might be cardboard or your baked beans might taste like vinegar or whatever.

I'd much rather there were just a nonshit Amazon that didn't gouge.

Maybe it's that UK supermarkets' economy ranges are just really good.
Nobody really was/is freaking out over broad equity active mutual funds that hold assets with a very high correlation to the index. ETFs offer intraday arbitrage opportunities during market panics (up or down), unlike mutual funds.
There's at least one plugin for that: https://noiszy.com/

With accompanying HN discussions from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002995
Some weird cognitive dissonance here. On one hand farmers are concerned that companies buying up land to use for windfarms means the land is no longer used for food. But we produce so much food that the government sometimes pays farmers not to sell it... and taking farmland out of production would theoretically increase crop prices for everyone else.

As the article points out, farmers are retiring and their families don't want to run the farms anymore, so someone needs to buy it. Your choices are generally going to be either a mega farming corp or investors.
I have read the other comments which are interesting and useful in their own ways. Having said that:

The question I have is why should we feel so compelled to taaaawk? I am assuming small talk is a prelude to talking, which it is in most cases, unless it is a greeting.

If a greeting, initiating ST is easy: look for clues into the other person. Whatever they are doing, you can ask the obvious indirect question: oh, you are watering plants. Or, walking your pets?

AFAIK, weather is too cliche and may appear boring or fake. Unless the weather has done sth it does not usually do, like pear-sized hailstones.

If someone initiates a greeting ST, you just go with the flow and say whatever you want. This one depends on what the initiator said. In general, you can just be yourself and speak honestly. Your metaframe should be: "this is who I am, therefore this is what I say", rather than "I am gonna respond to your initiated ST because you initiated it and I must respond".

If ST is not initiated aa a greeting, whether you want to respond to it so it becomes a real talk depends on who the initiator is.

If it is a wise person with tons of knowledge, some of which is shared by you, you will have no trouble talking because topics reveal themselves.

But if it is an imbecile with zero real erudition, what is the need to talk to such a person?

Also, talking is overrated. I talk because I want to, not because I am supposed to. If I don't want to, then I don't. In that case, I read HN or write a comment to interesting questions like yours.
As Adam Langley has observed, fully implementing DANE doesn't get rid of these "hundreds of CAs", but rather adds a hundredsth-and-first --- the DNS hierarchy.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html

Meanwhile, CT has done more to protect the Web PKI in a couple years than DNSSEC ever has, and without forklifting out infrastructure. In fact, if rumors are true and at least some of the CA misissuance was detected due to broken pins, you can say the same thing about HTTP certificate pinning, and that technology wasn't even successful.
It depends on your personality type, which I do not know.

But if it was me, I'd stay with the high-paying job and look to make it better for a while. Start jogging or doing low-impact exercises over lunch time. Try to pick up new challenges. Look for ways to make it more interesting. Do this at least a couple of more years if you can, saving as much as you can.

Good luck.
Direct link: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=155899373514678&w=2.

The refinement is to reallow some pages to be writable and executable (to allow Chrome to run its JITter), but to disallow syscalls being made from writable memory. That should make it harder to take advantage of the W|X pages (attackers can’t just download shell code into the writable page and execute it from there)
If they were doing it at scale this wouldn't be the first time we are reading about it on HN.
Delete Facebook and download the new way to connect http://foxie.cool
I can confirm the same issue on Firefox on Android. I can zoom out partially but not all the way.
We are all descendants of slaves at one point or another in our genealogy. Where does this victimhood-chic eventually lead?
Eat What You Kill
Because it's for your mum that doesn't know what a program is.

Because you're in a place where you don't have the right to install new software.

Because it's quicker.

Because it's OS independent.

Because you don't need to update it.
Everyone is under the influence of power. Most of your behavior is shaped by the power organizations and individuals have over your life. Your value judgements are shaped by them. For instance, being a useful employee, a good student, even a good spouse is defined by the people who have the power to judge, reward or punish your behavior. To want power is to go against this current and push your own values.

The why of power isn't as relevant as the how. Historically every powerful person has had a "purpose". To give some moral underpinning is a shallow veneer that excuses the actions necessary for power, since power is a full time job. If you have power then that is your purpose, since anything else would keep you from it.

Look too closely at any powerful person with a purpose and things get ugly. Whether it's FDR, Bill Gates or Walt Disney. Power comes first or not at all.
Food isn't a valid comparison for many reasons. If you buy food from Amazon you'll be fine.

And if you go to your local flea market and buy random electronics you're likely to get just as bad a result as if you do that on Amazon.

If you want a curated selection go to a place that curates it.
Only because I'm one of Maciej's number one fans am I going to point out the delicious irony that more skill in digital advertising would have been helpful to his mission this time.
>I'd much rather there were just a nonshit Amazon that didn't gouge.

Aren't most online retailers that control their supply like this? Amazon and Ebay are platforms, but walmart and target for example have actual warehouses full of every item they sell right?
I'm confused by how difficult it was to get a meeting and convince these people to change their ways, but how easy it was to hand them a USB device and "Collect information about what devices people are using, their email provider, whether they have two-factor authentication, how they share documents in the campaign, how they keep track of passwords, and so on".

Were you just some random outsider to them, coming in to do free security training? Or did others have to vouch for you? It seems like it would be terribly easy to do all of this under the guise of being a helpful security person, but you're actually just sabotaging them with rogue USB devices and learning the details of all of their security practices. Especially by getting on their good side with things like "A friend wrote a script that did this conversion automatically when you dragged things to a desktop folder, and I would mention this during campaign visits. Suddenly I was no longer the dentist, but Santa Claus come early."

Could anyone else have been doing this without being vouched for?
Farmed salmon isn't naturally pink or red
Thanks. That makes me feel a lot better about a recent decision.
How much land do American citizens own outside the US? Probably a lot more than non-Americans own in the US?
I want to buy a few acres of farmland, but either it's too expensive or its in remote location.
Is it possible for too much money to be in funds that automatically allocate based on company value? Imagine if 90% was in index funds like the S&P - would that distort the accuracy of the market?
> Underlying the pathetic quest for all power is fear: the fear of death. Some billionaires are building posh survival compounds and funding Frankensteinian research programs to defeat genetic decline and death.

Where the hell did that come from? Is the author saying we shouldn't even try? Why, because trying to reverse ageing (and its consequences) is unnatural? Because corpses in a fridge are disgusting? Because our fictions are full of tyrants and supervillain trying to achieve immortality? Because there's some natural "balance" that would require the many to die so the few could be immortal?

I sense a cognitive dissonance here. As far as I can guess, most people living now will die in less than 120 years. Possibly everyone. If we do achieve significant life extension, there's a good chance it will only be accessible to rich people, at least for a time. And the longer we live, the wider inequalities may rise. That's unfair, so it's better if everyone dies, right?

Wait a minute, you'd solve inequalities by killing everyone?

I'm tired of those stabs at transhumanism that don't even try to justify themselves. Yes, many post humanists scenarios are a hell even Lovecraft couldn't comprehend. See Robin Hanson's speculations on mind uploading to get a taste. But assuming that all such scenarios are bad is a failure of the imagination, I think.

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To the author's credit, the paragraph ends with a Woody Allen quote about "living on in [his] apartment" that is spot on. Almost contradicts what I've quoted, so I'm not sure what the author actually thinks.
That’s grain products, especially Corn

This is something to worry about as our economic policy is finishing off whatever is left of the small farmer.

Concentration of food production resources is an obviously bad thing that will be harmful to the country in the future. Particularly obvious which vegetables and berries, where a few dozen entities in 2-3 California counties essentially make the market.

In the meantime, the former seasonal prime growing areas in places like New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts for these crops are now subdivisions. So when climate change makes irrigating the Imperial Valley less fruitful, we’ll have permanently lost that capacity.
Wow, I'm surprised Huawei went to the press with this-- but it's certainly bizarre.
Good write up that I think extends to many environments beyond congressional campaigns.

One thing I would like to add (and perhaps the author mentioned but I did not see). Secure your cellular accounts such as Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon with 2FA, good password, etc. This also includes the maximum length VM password, although usually that is only between 7 digits to 10 digits sadly.
I'm pretty sure.and I'm pretty sure that pension finds already changed market dynamics and price isn't accurate anymore...
With a realistic, that is, not 100% reliable, queue you can have either "at most once" or "at least once" delivery anyway. "Exactly once" can't be guaranteed.

So a duplicate message should be processed as normal anyway, e.g. by deduplication within a reasonable window, and/or by having idempotent operations.
This is mentioned.

> You should understand that there are a zillion people and groups out there who want to do tech experiments on campaigns, and without someone to vouch for you, you will make no headway.
Sometimes when buying gifts for hard-to-shop-for people I'll use a random-word generator and put that into Amazon and see what comes up. The process has also found some interesting books for myself that I'd have been unlikely to come across either as recommendations or on my own browsing.

Sometimes you have to be open to a less direct search style, or just pick a new word. For example trying it now, the word was "corrod" (I believe it's meant to be the Welsh plural of "cor", which is "dwarf or pygmy") and nothing was found so I might just move on to a new word. But something in Amazon's systems must be interpreting it as "corrode" and so one of the suggested sub-categories I noticed on the side is "Steampunk fiction". Here's an entire genre I didn't realize existed and would be unlikely to find or notice if it even exists at a library or book store. Now I can go look at random books in that category, or google for "best steampunk fiction" to get some good suggestions for entry points.

You have to create the circumstances for serendipity.
> I have enough savings to survive for five years

Then do it. And do throw your whole self into it. Make at least one attempt, otherwise you'll regret never having tried. You'll generally figure it out as you go along and it's never as bad as you think it's going to be.

PS: Currently doing the same thing (working on a product) and I'm almost out of savings which is very very stressful, would do it again in a heartbeat, only this time with far more conviction.
Seriously, 5 years of savings is the giveaway. That is a dream scenario for anyone starting their own business. Also reminds me that regardless of how much one has to live on, there's always a nagging doubt...
Determining whether or not nearby ambient sounds indicate potentially illegal activity. Or, perhaps, mapping the content and emotional valence of conversations to understand whether or not you deserve a lower social credit score.