skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like a low trust environment.

If you actually need to know whether something is falling behind schedule every few hours (which seems unusual), of course not everybody is going to provide updates that frequently of their own volition. But most good engineers, under the right circumstances, will have a sense for when something is not on track and can raise their concerns.

If you actually had a good level of trust on the team, you would work to get people to buy into it. Of course, it's probably hard to convince most engineers that you actually need an update twice a day, for good reason.
They are purely for management to feel like they useful and making a contribution when they mostly aren't. And with the stand-up/scrum mindset we get to waste everyone else's time too. I don't have a single example where another developer's stand-up update was useful to me. I don't even pay attention. I almost never know what I'm actually going to be working on at the beginning of the day so I just guess. That too is management's fault as they shift priorities constantly. The whole status update meeting is a waste of time. And it's not five minutes anymore it's thirty to forty five destroying peak concentration time in the morning. Because they are so early, I usually finish early and lose the peak concentration time in the evening instead of sleeping late and focusing on work at peak times. Then managers wonder why things take so long when they destroy every morning and every evening of work. When you treat and mistreat people like robots, you get shitty work. Yet management is oblivious and trying to change or even communicate this to them falls on deaf ears. Well they reap what they sow and it's a shit crop.
This was exactly my thought as well. This government has gone to extraordinary lengths to open up forests to industries with very little protection for the environment. They have also denied the rights of indigenous tribals to the lands.

Source: https://theprint.in/opinion/environment-is-the-most-under-re...

How can the tiger population increase when forest cover has dropped drastically?

Fact is, the environment protection under Modi has been a disaster.
Source: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/india/report-card-en...
Has anyone used rasberry pi as a phone ?
As a Facebook user I actually like this change. I'd rather see original pictures taken by my friends instead of links to external sites.
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5Linx provides telecommunication solutions par excellence. Beyond developing great hardware technology, 5Linx provides the support for telecom services, such as. Globalinx VoIP Digital Home Phone Service. Residents of the U.S., Canada and the U.S. Territories get limitless local and long distance calling because of this reasonably priced digital phone service. In addition, an extended edition of the plan allows for unlimited international calling.

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Well most of the software is crap because almost all of them use Shibboleth, where every configuration is stored in ugly XML files and then a reconfiguration means restarting the service with new XML files.

SAML is very used at Government level and because Government likes JavaEE so much, but the libraries/frameworks implementing/offering SAML are pretty garbage
>Erratic finally got arrested?

>Jesus christ, how many times did she come back into Discord rooms she was banned from under new names, just to brag about how she "snuck in," like within two weeks, and of course getting banned again. Being a desperate attention whore is bad opsec.

>I guess she's finally getting all that attention she's been begging for.

>She pulled the same shit with our tiny IRC network nobody on earth could possibly give a shit about. I don't know how a person can be this insane. Relentless stalking of individual users, histrionic rants, literally attempting to dox randos and flooding the server with spambots, you fucking name it.

Sounds like personality disorder.
This is...not correct at all. Dominoes stock has been on an absolute tear the past decade. I don't know what charts you're looking at...
There is a scale for depression and suicidal ideation that is highly predictive of future suicide.
Many more years, many more companies; there are good examples, but they are not 'in companies' (I am thinking Redis, SQLite etc). Especially 'fortune 1000' (local or global) have the most terrible software imaginable in my experience. Yet it works and, well, they belong to the fortune 1000 so apparently it is not that bad. But it is very badly written software and I agree, we must explore better ways of writing software. I just do not think this is one of them. It cannot hurt to explore though.
You are conflating two senses of the word "should."

Should you throw out expired milk? In one sense, no, you shouldn't let it expire. Use it faster, or buy less. In the other sense, yes, why leave it in the fridge?

Nobody in this conversation is trying to get out of tipping people who aren't making a living base wage. We all agree it's a moral duty. Our claim is that wages should be higher so we shouldn't have to tip, eventually.

And, yes, I would in fact disagree with tipping a person for good service. Everyone deserves a living wage, good service or not. If they don't meet your expectations, complain to their employer (chances are the cause of your bad service is out of their hands), and tip them anyway, every bit as generously as someone who provided good service. This too is a moral obligation.
California has been slow to address the problem.

Consider that the "... Central Valley has been sinking ... since the 1920s and is estimated to have sunk up to 28 feet. During drought years, the valley is prone to accelerated subsidence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_land_subsidence

As far back as 1988 there was scientific consensus that the earth was on a trajectory toward a doubling of CO2 levels and by 2001 the IPCC said "it was much more likely than not that our civilization faced severe global warming": https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discovery-of-glob...

California's government has officially acknowledged global warming since at least 2006: https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm

Also in 2006, the Union of Concerned Scientists noted that global warming would impact future water supply by reducing the Sierra Nevada snowpack: https://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/im...

About 30 million Californians rely at least partially upon groundwater sources for their water, but the state didn't get around to regulating well drilling until 2014 with a relatively weak law that "does not go as far as other Western states by granting state agencies the power to authorize or prohibit groundwater withdrawals": https://www.kqed.org/science/21706/what-to-know-about-califo...

I predict that we'll keep seeing well failures in California and that government's actions will not be enough to reliably provide safe tap water to all of California's communities.
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Is this not a tooling problem? There are two compiler targets: the runtime, and the engineer. A system like this is sustainable iff it can compile a subset of the runtime-necessary information into a readable, interactive, sequential form.

And this very much exists in the real world: every moddable video game, every audio/video tool accepting plugins, every multi-team business workflow, every browser plugin architecture, every SQL trigger... all are collections of independently developed state machines, intercepting a global event list and interrupting with their own events, just waiting to conflict with each other. Plugins and (blocking/yielding) extension points are the only real way to build software with massive feature surface areas.

The tooling to visualize and debug these flows is IMO quite lacking, and I don’t think this is helped by systems engineers’ general love for all things textual. One needs to not only understand the flows they think will happen, but also fuzz the ones they don’t, and all this needs to be presented in a way that doesn’t overwhelm human working memory. I don’t think that’s a solved problem by any stretch. And I doubt the solution will look like our current text editors. But it’s something I think about quite often.
Nah. You just see the same patterns repeating over and over.

Do you have a backup of your photos? videos? What about emails or text messages? game chats?

Have people or companies taken advantage of you? How about people you know and love?
If you sell or give away your current device to someone who would have bought a new phone you aren't adding to waste.
Discovery of liver cell with stem cell-like properties
I can understand your feeling, but I'm not sure I share it. I did a series of extremely bad Dwarf Fortress videos on YT. I've gotten hundreds of views for some of them (and only a few for the latest ones: a testament to their lack of quality ;-) ). Mostly I think my views come from DF being a small community and it's easy to advertise to those people. If you are making a general comedy channel, I don't think it is surprising that you will get lost in the shuffle. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of them. Even if it comes up on my suggestions, I'm not going to watch it unless I've heard of it.

I think you are correct that YT caters to the big names, but I can hardly blame them. It makes money for them. The platform is not about being fair: it's about making money for Google. I have no problem with that, really. They host my content for free, make it available to almost anyone, retain it for who knows how long... The fact that you have to do advertising and marketing for your content yourself is not really something that bothers me.
Addresses that are obviously professionally inappropriate are one thing. Otherwise I pay approximately zero attention to them, outside the context of "do I have the right one" and "how likely is this to be a phishing email."

In the context of picking one for myself, I would also worry about usability factors, like if people are likely to confuse one thing for another, or not doing things like putting a long random character sequence as the user name.
IANAL, but I'd guess it's a felony because of legislation, made by legislators.
I think parent’s point stands: if JIRA is hard and requires excellent discipline, why bother in the firth place, and why not go with a rougher board and the micro status checks only ?
Heh, not even close. I know several individuals who should be in prison for their cyber crimes. But the fact is, not only have they never been caught, the victims probably don’t even know that anything happened.

There is such a lack of talent out there right now in the cybersecurity industry that it’s very easy for criminals to slip around undetected. You’d have to be a total idiot to get caught, or catch the attention of someone really motivated to catch someone.
They did test them. Dowsing rods work very well in unblinded tests. That's a big part of why so many people believe in dowsing.
YouTube is no longer for funny short clips, it's not really set up for that.

I think YouTube could do more to expose people to more small channels (especially when you run out of videos from subscriptions if you are lucky enough that they will even deliver them to you).
My project was to port DOOM to the seL4 microkernel (on rpi3b+). To continue with that I’ve been porting NetBSD Rump kernel components to seL4 as well.

DOOM itself is a breeze to port. NetBSD can get confusing at times but it’s nice to know there’s always a logical reason behind the design decisions. It rewards you for spending time to understand the code and I like that. Rump kernels are especially cool.

It’s a myth that you can’t get paid to work on BSD ;)
Battery life, probably. Faster isn't always better on a device that has to worry about its power budget.

Heat was probably a consideration too. It's all well and good to compare this thing to a Pi 4, but I'm not sure you'd want to hold that Pi under load.
I think it could be yes. We have the exact same campaign for Uber in Berlin right now (in German language of course). But the essence of the campaign is identical.
Expected and wished for a heatmap instead of something quite so... interactive. Good resource nonetheless.
The habitat also swings, so behavior specialist sub species for every part of the cycle, which allow long term adjustment to circumstances by percentages would be quite beneficial.
Modi said the tiger population had risen from 2,226 in "2014" to 2,967 in "2018".

Highlighting their(NDA/BJP) Govt at centre has positive effect on Tiger conservation.

big cats breed and live in only about 10% of India's total potential tiger habitat of 300,000 sq.km

Even if we cut back a tiger's territory size from 450sq.km to 100sq.km, 3,000 Tigers at this time covers all the potential tiger reserves.

Now should we poke into actual healthy tiger reserves?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India#Goals
https://www.letsstudytogether.co/complete-list-of-tiger-rese...

India added a billion people since 1950 to its population. Should it be called a successes of erstwhile Govts?

Healthy sustainable growth without putting any life in ecosystem under threat is desired. India can sustain a healthy happy human population of 330 million without degrading natural wealth of the nation.
Ed Glaeser on the Future of Employment, Inequality, and Joblessness in America
Assume 12-15k miles a year and a 6-8 year useful life total cost to own and you might be surprised. People debate the details but even compared to a toyota camry or honda accord the model 3 is pretty affordable.
Most internet service providers are gone – Sonic has survived and thrived
No, they're not. The only 'evidence' for this is cranial size. Neanderthals had larger brain sizes than modern humans. Now let's look at all the other evidence. Neanderthals existed longer than the entire existence of humans. And in that time they never managed to get out of the stone age. Stone age sounds nicer than it is. Beat two rocks together, sharp stuff falls off, use it => you're in the stone age.

Contrary to pop media, there is also literally no clear evidence they even engaged in the most basic of symbolic behavior such as self adornment or even primitive art. [1] Now mostly disregarded efforts to show such were highly optimistic. This included things like bird bones being laid near a corpse = self adornment, or scratches on a cave floor = art. Even in what they did do - hunt, despite engaging in hunting for hundreds of thousands of years there are extremely high rates of traumatic injury among neanderthal corpses which suggests they never even managed to refine their hunting ability.

And the brain size : intelligence correlation is just so broken in so many ways. If you go based on raw size sperm whales should be, by far, the most intelligent species there is. If you go based on the ratio of brain matter to mass, ants should be, again by far, the most intelligent species there is. Suffice to say you're probably not too worried about being put in zoos by sperm whales or ants.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Culture
Came here for tips on improving people skills.
Saw mostly 'self inspect' mechanisms.
So its possible that modern races of humans are actually our archaic ancestors?
In many cultures the purpose of jewelry is to give the woman wealth independent of the husband. When she is a housewife with much less earning potential she will be completely dependent, and so the gifts of gold mitigate that.

Diamond though are a terrible way to store wealth. As soon as you walk out of the store they lose significant value, and they will only depreciate.
Tesla is already recycling batteries at Gigafactory 1.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1122631_tesla-launches-...
It was not a live device according to the article. So whats the big deal... Also sounds like it was luggage not carry on. Also from understanding its even possible to have firearms as checked luggage but requires it be prearranged or something. A deactivated launcher should be less of concern. He probably forgot some paper work.

Althoug, guy should have probably just mailed it to himself then...
> Nuclear isn't flexible capacity; plants are always run at max output.

In France and Germany, nuclear reactors are configured and permitted to run in load following mode. It's harder on the valves and similar equipment, but it can and is done. [1]

> unless the renewables become incredibly overprovisioned.

Which is the likely outcome, as solar and wind are still declining in cost and in some places the cost is as low as 2 cents/kwh. The generation will be cheap (what's the old saying? "too cheap to meter"?), and it'll be the storage that'll cost a bit more.

[1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/nea-news-29-2-lo...
Everyone complaining about regulation should take a read through Common Law on Wikipedia and understand how U.S. regulation ends up more additive than subtractive in many cases over the years.

The reason we have inordinate amounts of regulations to fill out paperwork for is because “reason” doesn’t work the same way in law as it does in practicality. What’s absurdly stupid in layman’s situations is but a part of the game of legal chess in court.

We could have a law that says “Use common sense and don’t be an idiot”, which makes perfect sense in theory, and without very specific precedents will debated to hell in court with how common law cases work.

We end up with a lot of nonsense clauses and rules and requirements due to this, but it also is how chaos is supposed to be kept in check from erupting at the seams when people use lack of specific regulation as an incentive to find ways to screw other people over.
Ethiopia plants more than 350M trees in 12 hours
Interestingly, that appropriation will take up to 130 million dollars a year for the next decade from a fund that was originally designed for something different: helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The drinking water plan has alarmed some environmental groups, who worry it sets a precedent of the state using the cap and trade money for other purposes as the state struggles to meets its emission reduction goals.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article233066507.html

So, it sure looks like, in order to address certain water supply problems, which are admittedly exacerbated by global warming, California will diminish its own efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions!
> As Berners-Lee told The Guardian, he created the internet with the intent of it being “built for the public good” ....

Sir Tim B-L, inventor of the world wide web, did not create the Internet...
Non coder here. I read another thread that there is a glut of entry level programmers and a shortage of experienced programmers. I suppose that many people are jumping into this field now? My first college major was computer programming in the mid 1990’s but it wasn’t for me and I switched to MIS
Obligatory link to video (I can't help it, my name is Peter, I love this movie and I work in tech lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLUidiYm0w
From my understanding, Mobile chips have VLIW DSP chips in them still. So it seems like VLIW designs they have some advantage in minimizing energy usage.

Qualcomm Hexagon (aka: Snapdragon 855) is still used for a lot of mobile applications, and its definitely a VLIW architecture. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~danav/pubs/qcom/hexagon_hotchips20...

But VLIW isn't popular anywhere else by my understanding.
Is the answer: almost nothing?
Maybe I'm being too cynical, but the ASCE giving infrastructure a D+ feel a little self serving. It's a little like the American Plastic Council highlighting people getting food poisoning from using reusable shopping bags.
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The Art of Micromanaging Software Engineers!

Here's the thing: as programmers we sometimes have a bad day. Sometimes a bad week or two. Sometimes there is unresolved ambiguity in how something needs to be done that we tend to procrastinate on it until it becomes clear. When you're working through an agile/XP backlog - a never-ending backlog mind you - you're expected to produce at a consistent cadence, not much different from laying brick after brick, but unlike construction, this one is an infinite pool of uninteresting work.

This is common in consulting work. Agile and XP were created by consultants to create predictability in delivery. It makes sense for that context - clients are often far removed from the consultants, there is no intrinsic alignment between their incentives, and being external people there is always an information gap in what is best for the company and whether the contractors are making actual progress.

So you need a way to smoothen this out. Transparency, constant communication, a structured process, consistent cadence, measurable metrics, and most importantly number of hours with your bum on the seat.

When consulting companies start out, there is a distinct messaging on their websites: "we don't want to be just consultants, we want to be an integral part of your team" or suchlike. See, we also want meaningful work, we want to truly participate in your business. But as consulting companies mature they realize this is not a feasible approach at scale. While external messaging might not change, internally they realize the business is about selling X number of hours in a year per consultant, with a percentage of their earnings as your profit margin. To make this work, you need Agile/XP. You need to bring Taylorism back into the world of programming. That is just the systemic incentive of this sort of business. Companies that fail to realize this and change accordingly (the idealists) go out of business very fast. Others thrive.

Within this system it is still possible to have meaningful work for developers (I've worked in such companies, and I've enjoyed it). But if you have a micro-managing PM like in this article, then better run for the hills or you'll find out hating IT and fully burnt out in a few years.
Happiness Is a Hybrid-Electric Ferry
yea after looking here probably did not properly declare things. Although, no idea how a deactivated device is classfied for flight.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunit...
A criticism of this "model" is that building a ridesharing app and cloud backend is now not that hard.

So some developers with VC money can develop an app, launch in a city, and force Uber to cut prices, because people will be happy to install a FastRyde app and get rides for $3 less than Lyft/Uber.
I suppose if you've run in these circles a long time some of what you hear from the greybeards feels a bit tired. But as someone with just two decades in computers (okay three if you count hobbyist teenage years), I actually think some of those old ideas are much more interesting than what passes for political discourse amongst techies today. I mean has RMS' ideology ever been more relevant?
You should take a look at the data, or share it! Either way I'm super curious.
It depend on how you use the debt.

If are able to make slightly less ROI (due to cost of capital, cost of servicing debt) at larger scale, it's worth having debt and will have positive effect on stock price.

The relationship is not as simple as you claim.
Not in my country. Here it is a private property and also a one I can simply "refuse" to give to the goverment.

If they started to extract it by force (the same way some countries steal land) believe me, it will be a desert of dumb people here, because anyone half decent would migrate..