skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not my planning system but it was broken indeed even though they brought in a licensed scrum master as a consultant but he was more interested in running things the way middle managers wanted it as that guaranteed his job security.

Anyway, thank God I left, but from what I hear from other mates in the industry it's not better in other companies in my area since they're all run by middle managers.

Maybe it's a problem specific to Germany where managers are always right and their authority is unquestionable.
Agree. From the agile manifesto's principles [0]:

> Build projects around motivated individuals.
Give them the environment and support they need,
and trust them to get the job done.

> Agile processes promote sustainable development.
The sponsors, developers, and users should be able
to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

If either of these requirements are not met, you're not being agile.

[0] https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
So, reading this thread is making me really not want to have children. Seems like one would have to be completely insane to voluntarily sign up for that.

People that have children. Do you think it was honestly a good idea in retrospect, and if so, why? If your wife had been on the fence about having children, would you have preferred to go child-free, in retrospect?
That appears to be an incredibly classy thing to do, at no small risk to himself.

The billionaires have the most to lose with any social unrest, and he exposed himself to support the masses.

If so: Respect

Counter-possibility: it's a CYA maneuver, which supports both sides simlutaneously and either message can be declared as "intended" post-hoc.
Interesting how we develop tools and techniques to fit the environment.

I remember all sorts of tips and tricks from the mainframe and app server eras. Time to add to the current bag of tricks!
Interesting, four statements in a row that are obviously false. Can you tell us anything that's true?
Finally I can ditch the portable black hole I was using for work hour dilatation.
You can even provide boiled eggs plastic free. In the UK and Germany I've seen eggs painted with a special paint that seals the cooked egg and lets you keep it outside a fridge for weeks.
Trivial option: if cohabitating with the mother, I could see pregnancy having effects (via pheromones, or just behavior) that would be completely skipped over by adoption. Obviously it's not strictly a "does this child have 50% of my DNA" thing, but it does differentiate between biologically having a child and adopting.
The lack of spell-check was pretty great in helping to focus in on writing. I will try turning that off when I write in the future, returning to the old way of running spell-check after I have gotten the thoughts down on the page. Five minutes essay below... also, first post (hello!) to Hacker News.

This is a test of the most dangerous writing app in the world. I am typing in whatever comes to mind in a stream of consciousness, but with proper capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. I could never tolerate a stream of consciousness essay on a standardized test, such as the ACT. For example, when I was a junior in high school, I encountered one of these beasts which I found nearly impenetrable to digest, followed by thirty-odd questions asking for my detailed interpretation of the steaming pile, which I am sure was never written to be used to abuse young adults just trying to set up the next step in their academic career. I can imagine some panel of experts somewhere picking out this shining example of obtuseness as the essay for the test, cackling to themselves about how useless this is either predicting future success, or as a test of any specific (useful) skill. On the other hand, maybe we all have that one colleague at work who writes email in stream of consciousness mode. Who knows, if I didn't face-plant on that ACT back in the day, maybe I would never have brushed up on unlearning English. Such is life, we will never know. I do know however that I paid for that test, and I paid for the next test after that thanks to that essay. Ok, now this brings us to the present day. Here I am, writing in to a random screen buffer on the Internet, which promises to delete my text if I do not continue generating words for five minutes straight. It is especially evil in that A) there is no timer and I didn't think to check the clock; B) I do not know where or if this will be posted somewhere; and C) this is yet another useless life skill. Or is it... maybe the next time I am bumping up against a proposal submission deadline, I will think back in fondness to this experience on the most dangerous writing app.
I like the alternative phrase 'Quantity has a quality of its own'
It was in the St. John's college library, which is kind of fitting. They're a really unique hold out among US colleges, with a strong belief in the "Great Books" philosophy of reading original texts.

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...
... to humans. directly.

EDIT: (because i don't want to offer a second chance): are you guys that are down-voting me (a few already) not aware of Schopenhauer?

There is clear evidence of impact in the environment from microplastics.
I wonder how easy it would for modders to replace the art in those games, just like how people made texture packs for minecraft and tilesets for dwarf fortress. Sometimes a fan with free time is all it takes.
The smartphone choices are Android and iOS, and those use USB-C and Lightning (respectively).

I think they can actually reduce their offerings to two:

* USB-C and USB-A

* USB-C and Lightning

NFC on both variants.
The main observation is Tencent has a recent investment in Reddit.

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/tencent-invests-150-mil...
> If I had made that many games over 3 decades I would have at least

Yeah, but you have not.

Maybe Jeff having a single minded focus – maybe even bordering ignorance – is a huge part of the reason why he, in fact, has done it and keeps on going after 3 decades.

Considering different choices, could he be more successful? He probably could, but considering the immense improbability of the level of success he enjoyed over a couple of decades in this particular profession (indie game maker), it seems far more likely that any big change could have made it all crash and burn somewhere along the way a long time ago.
1) With gmail, they have the foundation for good filters.

2) Google knows the identity of almost any internet user, as shown by the new recaptcha system.

3) They don't allow banned people to recreate new accounts. At least that seems to be a problem for people who were banned from the app store.

If they link this up, they should be able to keep inboxes clean. And if this fails, they just have to offer an option to switch to a whitelist approach for people whose inbox is flooded.
I think you may have got better at managing both your tasks and time :)

Very possible that been a father cornered you to think more pragmatically in daily life, and that translates to how you do things at work.
That basically just moves the problem to a land grab for the group name. Because people don't think Alice/regex looks professional enough, there will be a rush for regex/regex.
The comment is not about obsolescence, it is about depth of study.
> Combining two existing patents isn't novel

Okay, bevelled rectangles.

Instead of pinching pennies like a depression era farmer, maybe Apple should spend some of that $250B in cash to aquire RED.

They get the patent, and the royalties AND can put RED sensors in their iPhones and charge another $250/unit.
AT&T TV Combines Worst of Cable, Satellite, & Streaming for One Inflated Price
I really really hate websites that hijack my back button. Come on pc-gamer, do you really think that making me click two extra times on the back button to return where I came from is going to make me spend more time on your site?

Crazy excel project though, well done.
But the std hashmap implementation[0] already depends on a PRNG via the rand crate[1], and thus OS random (for the initial seed). So it's in the standard library even if you can't use it directly. Which is what makes me think this is an API issue, not an implementation one.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/hash_map/struct.Ra...

[1]: https://docs.rs/rand/0.7.0/rand/rngs/struct.ThreadRng.html
We have public key encryption and digital signatures but no one wants to put them to good use. Seems by design to me...
What you are describing is called "Negative Utilitarianism"
Security Alert – U.S. Consulate General Barcelona, Spain (August 2019)
It might have been John Quiggan, in this interview:

John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019).

Media: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT7223813423.mp3

... and if it's not, it's still a good interview to listen to (I'm giving it a repeat). Long, but informative.

The other likely candidate was a Marketplace Radio segment a few weeks back. I'd have to go hunting for that.
Possibly. But extinction of the species completely eradicates hope; I would prefer "life under torture with a chance of eventually obtaining a good life" over "permanent nonexistence".

Unless cloning counts? Is extinction okay as long as we have some copies of their DNA and plan to clone them into a decent life eventually? I feel rather uneasy about that resolution; at the very least I'd want to see a species successfully reconstructed in this manner before giving the possibility moral weight.
> The cancer rates in wildlife have been increasing

Do you have a source for that? It looks difficult to measure, and also most wild species are shortlive so the incidence of cancer is smaller.
Alright, cue the usual:

Monoculture bad

Microsoft bad

Git is distributed but all the things around it that we really need aren't

You can set up git to push to multiple remotes automatically

Nobody is actually using git in distributed mode

Did I forget anything?
> Should it know pain or pleasure?

It should probably have rewards, positive and negative. I think reinforcement learning is the closest paradigm to AGI.
Probably not, since package lock files were only introduced 2 years ago.
E. Glen Weyl: Why I Am Not a Technocrat
How effectively we can seperate microplastics?

Yesterday I was playing around with some PTFE nanopowder and mixed it with achohol and applied it on my mountain bike chain.

I am wondering if I throw this powder in river, are water cleaning units able to remove nano particles from the water? Not that I am going to do this, just curious.
The USA is one of the few places which confers citizenship based on place of birth. Most countries confer citizenship based on the citizenship of the child's parents.
Having two kids myself, it has been the best thing to happen to me by far. I never really thought about having kids until my late 20's, so I can understand why people may want to go child-free. Kids are a huge investment of time and effort after all! But personally I could not imagine it any other way.

Also, it is nice to have a receptive audience to dad jokes.
Show HN: GitHub with Bounties: Boss
The Collective Memory of American Shoppers
If you speak Chinese, you'll find it's very easy to squeeze sentences in exact same characters. Almost all poems in China (except very modern ones) do this.

It's so easy that people in forums do this a along - being sarcastic or just funny. You could have positive meaning literally, but hide dirty words in structures.

Also because it's so easy that this was defined as serious crime in many dynasties. There were even people committed it by coincidence were sentenced to death.
Yes, some packaging seems ridiculous but so is food waste. People typically won’t consume good that doesn’t look appealing, such as bruised peaches in your example. My wife and I started using Imperfect Produce, and we’ve been fairly pleased with it as it seems to address both problems.
how's the war on drugs going?
i have no problem with this.
> - using `any` nearly always comes back to bite you as you trick yourself into feeling typesafe

This. I was so frustrated with this point that I created a tool for automatic tracking type coverage on PRs called TypeCov.

https://github.com/codechecks/typecov
It's not an age thing I don't think. I'm 22 and after I finish any tiny section of code I format it and then save. I don't know why, it's just habit now
Mullvad just got wireguard through the official client on Linux and OSX. Works like a charm.

I pay by cash, so they don't have my payment info.
At the time I did my AI post-grad, there were broadly speaking 3 schools of thought on how general AI would be achieved: via (i) symbolic AI (or "classic AI"), (ii) connectionist AI (i.e. neural networks, now "deep learning"), and (iii) what they called "robotic functionalism". It sounds like this article is referring to the last group, i.e. that embodiment in and interaction with the physical world are a necessary requirement for general intelligence. Can't find any references to it by this term, but as others have noted this is not a new idea. Personally, I've never been convinced by the idea that you had to have physical presence, and sometimes suspected the theory existed to allow robotics to fall within the AI camp, but that said I do think hybrid solutions (i.e. the combination of more than one "narrow" approaches) are one of the most promising areas right now.
Announcing Qt for MCUs
I do not think the article makes the case for the necessity of physical embodiment, as it seems that the author's issues could be addressed with a) data at a lower level of abstraction, and b) more interaction. Arguably, however, physical embodiment is the fastest/easiest way to get enough of these things.
Ask HN: Is Communicating with your hairdresser a problem worth solving?
I recently moved to a new city and I faced an issue of describing the haircut I want to the hairdresser. Its hard to explain what I want so sometimes I show him a picture of my previous cut, but even that's not very accurate.
Even when I don't move cities, I often find that my hairdresser doesn't always "get it right". Do you guys think this is a problem worth solving through tech? Please share your thoughts. Thanks!
Well, having 1TB drives is useful, having the average joe in space is not
A Guide to Magnetorquers for Satellites
Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about GUI apps or websites, those are separate conversations (cough cough 350mb Electron apps and 10mb Webpack bundles).

I'm talking specifically about CLI tools, webservers, and other tools distributed as static binaries or via package managers.

What's the reasoning for so many package maintainers optimizing for <5mb binaries at the expense of usability?

It seems like when >90% of hosts are running on 2008+ hardware with SSDs or even moderately fast HDDs,
loading time and storage space are not major issues below the 30~50mb mark.

A recent example from HN: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/2019/08/21/rust-bloat.html
> “everyone knows what 4 / 6 /89 signifies”

This annoyed me quite a bit. No I don’t. Most people probably don’t.

It’s the date of Tiananmen Square.
The usual fluff about migrating away to Gitlab?
What Can I Do with Useless Tokens? Cleanedapp – ETHParis Hackathon Winner
Seeing the graphics I was reminded of Realmz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realmz), which was a game I absolutely loved as a kid. So to me the games hit a nostalgia spot.

It seems like Fantasoft published the first Spiderweb game (and looking at screenshots there are definitely some shared assets) so there is actually a connection there.
Which is still about 3 more than reality
Or is it because they can move to Portugal if they want to, thus feel like they have an escape?
I'm not from the USA, I've just been using this site for over 10 years and I'm familiar with the guidelines and norms that ask us not to engage in nationalistic battle ("flamewar topics"), or use all-caps for emphasis, or to complain about downvotes (which seems particularly apt when the likely reason for those downvotes is that multiple guidelines have been broken).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
WMAF
Wasn't this just a trial that had mixed results? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38843341
Democracy chilled by campaign against Boston Calling verdict
> My point is that although many only think about ISO C libc when talking about C's standard library

I wasn't. Even with POSIX, it is spartan by today's standards. Look at the standard libraries of Python and Go. POSIX doesn't have JSON (de)serialization, HTTP servers, XML parsing and a whole boatload of other crap. So I don't think there is anything wrong with my characterization.
FWIW, we have a local market/co-op type thing where you can bring your containers to be filled with laundry detergent, various liquid soaps, and similar products. I wish this type of thing was more popular.
Maybe I didn't communicate my point clearly. I cannot just go out and get whatever dependencies I want to use. It isn't possible. What I have on the system is what I've got, and I can't add anything. I cannot put the dependencies on the system by any means.

Thus a lot of things get done in Python and Java, because of the ample standard libraries. I was able, after a year of lobbying and procedures and approvals, to get a Rust compiler, but there is zero chance of me ever getting anything off crates.io.
I think that depends on size. Some systems remove the larger nano particles but are not yet capable of removing the smaller ones.

Here are some numbers: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/ra/c7ra0569...
Ahh but WY has 0.577M people while NY has 8.623M! Thus, NY still has more "pull" than WY. Electoral college just helps level the field a bit.
Bit of a disadvantage for big families (lots of kids-per-grandparent) or this without grandparents around...
People need to start seeing the value of unions again.
The author clearly misses the mark. Not all hours are created equal.

Or is it physical labor under the sun, constant exposure to the elements or a furnace more "leisurely" ...than sitting on a desk with air conditioning?

This kind of comparison is exactly what gets you into financial crisis. Reading the data is only 1 side of the equation. Understanding its implications is, sadly, a major failing of most academics outside of risk management
Have a look here for wildlife - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cancer-wildlife-e... If I remember well the same is happening to urban animals.
Not all autism is the typical HN "autism is my superpower" meme. For many it is a serious struggle.
So are the others in this thread exaggerating the negatives? Or is it more that those difficulties are fairly short-term, and in the longer run don't really matter / are forgotten? Say, like preparing for and sitting a difficult exam, or going to the dentist, etc.
Would be true if Typescript significantly differed, but as it is, it’s basically JS with a few type annotations. The only learning curve is typing these dynamic constructs properly, rather than wrapping your teams head around other concepts, constructs and patterns.
> My understanding is that it is not really useful to compare Power9 to other cpus in these types of benchmarks, that Power9 is all about computation with massive datasets, not how fast it can zip a file.

Your understanding is wrong. For instance, running Java workloads on servers is a major Power9 use case.

The thing to remember, though, is that the Talos is only two four-core CPUs, for eight total. These benchmarks are comparing it to the Epyc 7742, which is a 64 core chip.

Naturally the Epyc will kill it on most highly threaded benchmarks. The individual cores on Power9 are quite fast, though.
Don't they just block anything that even barely mentions HK independence?
The problem is bad design and/or integration of components. VMS clusters over leased lines went years without outages. Record was 17 years at a rail yard. They also did rolling upgrades across both different OS versions and CPU architectures. The methods are public if any competitors want to match or exceed them:

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na...

These modern cloud services using Linux ecosystem are doing rolling outages instead. I'm amazed people keep making them dependencies. Maybe their local systems using similar technology went down more often. Maybe this is an improvement. I'd still put mine on an OpenBSD or OpenVMS cluster if it was business-critical with lots of money on the line. I want it staying up, up, up. :)
So startups are like the art market now ...
> What is the motivation behind writing tools like these in JavaScript?

I mean it's probably as simple as the person writing it being most familiar with JavaScript. There are a LOT of javascript developers who have never used perl/python/ruby before. They're not going to learn another tool just to write the tool they want.

From a technical perspective, node also has much platform support (notably on windows) than perl/python/ruby.
India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution
10 hour day would be great, because if I am already at work, it doesn't matter much if I stay for 8 or 10 hours. But I'd rather work 4 x 10 than 5 x 8. That one extra day would go a long way.
Git is designed as distributed VCS, so an outage of a centralized server should not matter too much. So far, the theory. Using Github excessively is the way back to centralization, nowadays handing control over to Microsoft. Everybody who is concerned (probably not too much) should have a look into alternatives.
We assume 4 hrs, that not only accounts for meetings, breaks etc, but also allows people time to help each other with unscheduled support/help/discussion.
Its interesting how there are 3 top rated articles today on working hours / patterns.
> Universal healthcare solved that in Europe.

As a person which lives in Russia and Germany, I'm really interested in what you mean by solved?

Universal healthcare in Russia is a total mess. Universal healthcare (edit: in Germany) have a lot of problems too, of which the most significant is underpayment, low salaries, and such a lack of personnel, that CDU people did really suggest to use conscription to draw the free workforce.

The very flaw of positive rights is that you can't guarantee them, since they cost money. If you have no money, your positive rights end there. Yet people still believe that one could guarantee such rights.
Strictly speaking, there's no country called South Korea - there's the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, both of which make a territorial claim over the whole peninsula.
sorry that i didn't make it more clear, but in the context of the discussion i thought it was obvious i was referring to addictive substances. it appears it wasn't obvious.

i would say that a ban on juul but not on tobacco would be (and is) a joke. and since we're banning stuff, alcohol would be another one.
The Avernum trilogy, starting with Escape from the Pit[1] is a remake of the original Exile-trilogy. I highly recommend especially the first game in the trilogy.

[1] https://www.gog.com/game/avernum_escape_from_the_pit
So I need to subscribe to a mailinglist in order to get the index/free chapter? No thanks.
The TV Industry Has Nowhere to Go but Down