skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a mistake was made when points and estimation came together. There is some history there and lots of debate. What I've landed on is points are good at driving a conversation around "should this story/ticket be broken down into something more manageable that still delivers value?" With that as a guide post, our team only points stories as 1, 2, or 3. 1 is "we know exactly how to do this straight forward thing." 2 is "we have some figuring out to do, but think we can do the thing in a reasonable amount of time and effort." 3 is "there are some big unknowns, but we can't think of a way to break this into smaller, useful chunks." If the team points a story as 3, it is a flag that we need to talk about it and figure out if we can break it up. We usually can.

For estimation of work we can pull in, it is about letting the org know when they might expect things. We pull in our average number of points minus a buffer, and then will pull extra things in as needed. But by committing to less, we are more likely to deliver what we said we would. That keeps the org happy.

For long term planning, I think points fall apart. The best I know to do is list out all the things that likely need to happen, break them up into stories/tasks, and make an educated guess and add padding for the unexpected and padding for optimism. And remember Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
I do know what it can do, but it seems like a specialized tool for screen-scraping command line apps that don't have a proper API. That seems like a rather unusual task these days?
Gave up after a full minute of waiting on a 2014 low-end phone. I thought the idea was to be LESS annoying than Google. This is a valiant effort, but it will drive away poor people while only incrementally impacting efficiency rates for bots.
I fly recreationally with a Spark. There is a class B airport and a few helipads in my vicinity (urban city) and a large national park not far away. As long as there isn’t a TFR, rescue, or police operation not going in the immediate vicinity it’s not too difficult to let the ATC know you are flying. And if you use KittyHawk or AirMap you can submit a flightplan within the app.

Launching is a different matter and the author is right. You can certainly fly in a lot of places but touching the ground can be tough. Public parks can be difficult and depends on the whim of whoever is on duty. One park I flew out for months then one day a ranger tells me there is no flying there. Nothing is posted and when I go to challenge this imaginary rule it only made the ranger angry. Now I fly from public easements: sidewalks, river fronts, jetties, high tide lines. There appears to be no central authority. And the people who would try and chase you off don’t think they have authority there (lots of waterfront is Corp of engineering)
I am way off topic right now, but this is what chills me about some of the ideologies that I see people perpetuating online. Ultimately whether we get the future we are discussing or something much better will depend on ideas.

Be very careful what ideas you invest time and energy in perpetuating. Think through the consequences first. What would happen if this were actually believed by many people and by powerful people?

If the dominant idea is that the value of a human being is quantitatively measurable as their contribution to GDP or their IQ, we get a future like we are discussing. Racism is the same idea but with a much less sophisticated metric.
Thing is, you'd have to oppress in this situation. If you're just sat tight then the masses can go elsewhere and build their own utopia.

Im not sure that there's the stomach for active oppression throughout the whole of the ruling class.

Additionally, comms being what they are, cheap mesh networks can win through attrition so the masses can simply go off channel and avoid monitoring. From there the only way to find out what they're doing is through trust ie. Be (or pretend but then the entry bar gets raised) a good actor at which point the oppression stops.
The software is horrible though, probably because of that monopoly position.
Why Margaret Atwood Said 'No' to a 'Handmaid's Tale' Sequel – Until Now
"UBI now require certain conditions to be claimed"

No it does not. That the idea of universal basic income. Everyone gets it.
The one thing that's necessary above all else is a strong Estate Tax regime that battles all the sneaky ways to avoid the taxman.

Dynastic wealth is what creates civilizational rot. A mobile populace with fluctuating power centers spells dynamism.

Let us think of all the poor children born to rich families who would not get the chance to tell the story of their self-made wealth.
The HN Guidelines ask us to "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize".

See the guidelines for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A lot of time people talking about 'basic income' intend the 'basic' to indicate it would be sufficient to cover needs.

12k in the US is not so bad for costs other than healthcare (lots of families of 3 are living on $35,000).
They have been hiring tree planters for decades in Canada so clearly there’s a reason they do it, not as easy as letting it grow.
There’s also a good chance that some, many or even most soldiers in the military would end up on the side of the insurgency. They oath is sworn to the Constitution, not the federal government.
I don't have that many and the ones I use tend to enforce password type (say, a 4-number PIN as part of MFA).

But yes, I do remember a bunch of important unique passwords, and I do have to reset them occasionally by physically visiting and showing my id.
>why doesn't any SUV come standard with built in car seats in the back for infants and children

Not every SUV buyer has children at car seat age. Those children will outgrow the need for car seats, at which point the built in car seats are wasting space that could be a regular seat.
I always see the degradation argument.

I look after my vinyl with a properly calibrated turntable.

I will degrade faster than my records!
This only works if you have a single type of parenthesis. Is that applicable to regex expressions in general that only ()’s can nest?
An ocean liner is basically a party on the ocean. This is essentially doing a month-long sentence in a cell at ADX Florence supermax - with no yard time.
I just draw them on a whiteboard next to my desk and then capture using something like Office Lens (it has a really good mode for whiteboard).

It's way faster and easier than doing it in software. This allows you to iterate really quickly using rough sketch diagrams (also helps to open your mind up since it's just you and the board), and then once everyone agrees on the design someone can take your whiteboard sketch and turn it into a computer-generated diagram for the final documentation.

We have actually found very few cases where we need to have 'formalized' diagrams generated using software. Most of them just live in our GitHub issues and pull requests. With enough practice, your hand-drawn diagrams can look good enough to ship directly to a client for approval. If we do need to make a computer-generated drawing, we just use some web tool like draw.io or use a local copy of Visio.
Carbon dioxide (what makes the bubbles) turns into carbonic acid in your mouth, which erodes the enamel off your teeth. So that could be considered a harmful effect of Coke Zero, although all carbonated beverages share this potential side effect.
The quality isn't necessarily worse. Vinyl is analogue, and so good quality vinyl has a different sound to the same audio played from a CD. That isn't to say that all vinyl is better, just that the best vinyl is better than the best CD recordings.
It's a shame you can't land or take off from a national park.

Rules and advises about using it would be better than the current prohibition.

I understand no one wants ten jerks flying their loud drones during summer time at Yosemite's most crowded areas... but this ignores the fact that you can drive 1h inside the park and find a place no one will be bothered.

Regarding dealing with wild life, etc. the best thing would be advises on how to deal with such an encounter. You can fly a small plane near a whale, and no one will complain... but try to fly a small drone 100m away, and suddenly, you'll be shamed for scaring the huge mammal.
I understand that, but old cars are a hobby of a limited number of people, not of "Joe Average". This would be like old cars out-selling new ones.
As someone who only buys physical music on vinyl, it’s not just one thing but a whole ritual around it. I love having bulky gatefold albums to explore while the record’s playing, I love the intricate precision needed when dropping the needle down, I love the many limited edition pressings I have that come in ridiculous psychedelic colours, I love the overly expensive setup I have that sounds incredible, I rarely buy used records but I still love peering through endless dusty records in second hand shops. It’s timeless. I’m sure audiophiles will show up and talk about the exact sound qualities of it vs digital copies, but I don’t particularly care about that side of things too much. I enjoy it the same way some people enjoy the ritual behind drinking whiskey.
This is a great question which everyone should ask themselves.

It has to be user-friendly enough (which Bitwarden IMO is). You need to do a CIA threat assessment yourself.

Confidentiality I solve by using WireGuard; hence I don't mind if I use HTTP or HTTPS with self signed certificate. You might be able to use Lets Encrypt instead. Integrity I solve with offsite backups of the most important data. Availability is solved by having decent uptime on my cable provider, about 25 mbit upload. I also used RAID1 on my server. My server is a Synology NAS with Docker.

If that gets compromised by hackers, they have access to private data of mine anyway. If you include the government in your threat assessment they are very likely able to get access to your server (VPS or my example). That is why I prefer to stick to my local government/jurisdiction. I'm already bound by them anyway. If they want to screw me over (including working together with US government) they can and (since we are part of Nine Eyes) likely will.

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Strange life-forms found deep in a mine point to vast 'underground Galapagos'
The deontology (paper straws) and eschatology (the end is nigh) of some environmentalism smacks of religion to some. And, given that, the focus in state action incorporates many of the downsides of state adoption of religion, including sectarian bickering, a lack of grace, virtue signalling, and hypocrisy.

A reasonable response to those takes is "but this take on things happens to be true". That's fair, however that's the premise of the defense of basically every belief system.
And then, after said minimal amount of effort, it turns out that the patch actually hurts performance on some AMD CPUs, and people bring out pitchforks for Intel intentionally slowing down AMD?

It seems to me that the current approach is the most conservative: limit the impact to what you know best. Leave it to the experts of the other system to do whatever is needed.
The Zettelkasten method and The Archive allow you to link to other ideas/notes. It takes a bit more effort than I’ve given it, but it looks promising. They have a pretty active forum with a lot of good ideas for using it. The method can also be used in other apps such as nvAlt, Sublime Text, and Notion (I believe).

https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/

https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussions
sort of a nice idea but im always somewhat wary of a headphone company that doesnt seem to talk much about sound quality.

long battery life and modualr design are all well and good but if it sounds like crap then its all for nothing. Dali have just released their wireless headphones which costs a little more than 2 years on this service for the entry level model, not only will they sound excellent they offer upto 60 hours battery

now were this a service where i could pay a fee to choose from a wide selection of high end headphones which you could swap at any time id be sold (something like this kind of exists in japan where you can rent headphones from e-earphone on a weekly basis)
Yes! I'm a volunteer with them as well, great non partisan organization trying to get some simple but absolutely transformative changes done in how our Democracy functions.
Only a little bit. Opportunities are still few, but at least they're not paid starving wages when they happen.

I've very early decided that it was a hard life with little reward, so picked the other thing I was excellent at. It was a good choice. A lot of music teachers and performers subsidize their at with odd jobs or contracts.

And a major skill is snoozing the political boss of given opera or orchestra.
I like to collect vinyl for a few reasons. I like having a physical copy, it supports the bands I love, and it comes with the digital copy.

There's a lot to be said about the imperfections in vinyl playback combined with the analog output.
This is error. People are starved for novelty and contact with talent.

Rather than try to storm this particular upper-bourgeois shrine to "dead shit", fail, then get upset about it, why not make something new, or share the gift with some place that needs it?

With these people, that's inconceivable! The answer is always public subsidy. That way, lower-bougies get a fair and equal opportunity to let their shit roll downhill, and land on the same people who subsidized them--the same way they see "justice" in getting a bunch of plumbers and mechanics to pay off their student loans for sociology degrees.
> If you’re saying it’s permissible to stand outside the park and fly the drone in ...

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. They want to ban flying over the park, but they don't have the legal power to do so. So instead they banned a bunch of other things (launching, landing, operating) to make flying over the park as inconvenient as possible.

The hairsplitting that goes totally against the spirit of the rule, in my opinion, is not the hair splitting that lets you continue to fly over the park, but the hairsplitting that let them pass this regulation in the first place.
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Go smoke some weed and drop the needle down onto Dark Side of the Moon. You’ll understand.
Is “Neurolaw” Coming Soon to a Courtroom Near You?
maybe. it would be a lot of work to actually make the map accurate. you'd have to parse FAA airspace regulations and also federal, state, and local land use regulations. many of these might not ban drones explicitly, but be vague enough to possibly include drones. most people aren't going to be willing to pay a monthly fee for a service that tells them when/where they can fly their $200 drone.
Note that this is talking about revenue, not unit sales:

The new report states that vinyl records earned $224.1 million (from 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019. This figure is impressively close to the CD numbers ($247.9 million, 18.6 million units).
Probably, i've tried once or twice to find a pre-SML ML compiler, but not had any luck so far.
I wonder at some point if film cameras will outsell digital ones
By revenue, not by units sold.

Still interesting, and not really surprising based on my anecdotal experience of artists I follow. Streaming audio is good enough for most sound systems commonly in use.

Vinyl serves as a better collectible from a favorite artist for a few reasons.

- more room for cover art

- physical analog medium (superficial, but has value to some)

- requires more care than CDs (proves the owner’s dedication to maintaining the collection)

- limited production runs make it more scarce than easily copied CDs
Honest I think this is worse than ReCaptcha. At least with ReCaptcha I know I am helping someone somewhere labelling their data and possibly used for autonomous driving.

With this captcha I feel like I'm just wasting world's energy on useless computations.
Money affects the course a person's life takes after recovery from an illness or injury.

I have two friends who started at Ivy League universities about forty years ago. Both got sick and had to leave school. One was from a very poor family, and was the only person in his family to have even begun college. The other was the daughter of a Harvard professor. The one from the poor family started working as he recovered, so he could help support his family, who were supporting him. The daughter of the Harvard professor convalesced in her family's big house in Cambridge. The friend from the poor family never achieved "escape velocity" to get back to college. It was odd that he'd done it the first time. The friend from Cambridge got better and, as was expected, returned to Yale with full family support and backing and the understanding that of course you go to college.

Money and social support make it fairly easy for a person to relaunch after a crash.
Could it be that a "great" product and a "commercially successful" product are not the same thing?

I work at a large employer who spends a lot on tools. I would characterize many of those tools as not being "great" for our needs. Replacing those tools is difficult because of the costs and logistics of licensing accross a large enterprise.

In my experience, businesses (and consumers) would rather buy a "good enough" solution for a complex problem than multiple "great" solutions which solve the same problem when engineered to work in conjunction with one another. Why do you think MS Office is so popular?
Project Pacific: VMware’s New Road from VSphere to the Kubernetes-Based Cloud
Yes! Thanks for sharing.
> That means there will be more stuff than anyone can consume, thus it's less expensive to give it away than to store or demolish it.

You could also, you know, stop producing stuff at that point?
Right, it's not a problem with technique. There are lots of storage management paradigms whose backup and restore strategies don't involve filesystem copies of the running servers.

The problem here was that there seemed to be no backup and restore strategy at all.

That said, though: if you're a tiny group like this and don't have the time to invest in a gold plated storage design, "Just Back Up All The Servers" is a pretty reasonable choice to make.
I have already done that, what I am unsure of is how to go about convincing you.

With compilers - I just fix the bug myself. With humans, I have to convince the human to self-correct.

Common problem in distributed systems that - leader election.
Yeah but it describes what that organic practice was. Which was changes to improve the sustainability of the soil.

It’s again referencing a specific organic practice which is sustainable.
There's a lot of albums that aren't mastered correctly for digital. They end up clipping outside the dynamic range because they're too loud. Vinyl doesn't really clip in the same way. And this isn't an old phenomenon, it's getting worse in fact.

You can see some of that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Additionally, bands will typically get better margins on vinyl (although that's starting to disappear).
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Try Spain, the rules here are so ambiguous and bad written that no one knows if there is indeed any place in the country where you can fly drones
What’s the best way to learn more about it? I’ve been poking around the hydroponics subreddit(s), but I don’t yet feel confident enough to invest in/start making any equipment.
I think it's mostly nostalgia because if you listen to music a lot in album form you'll ruin them, if you have kids you'll ruin them, if you have friends you'll ruin them, if they're near a window you'll ruin them, your record player can ruin them, an earthquake can ruin them. This is a music format with moving, degrading parts.

I think LPs are bad for our environment compared to digital. I don't need tens of kilograms of plastic to enjoy music even if I would enjoy the process more than digital music players.
Agreed. Its fixed now [1] as I added in another fuzzy search. (I was using fzf which missed some small things and I've now added Levenshtein as well to compensate).

[1] https://nowwhatdoiread.com/?q=The+Glass+Beads+Game
Have you ever asked yourself if an API can return an infinite amount of responses how many conditional you would need to handle that?

The output of a terminal is just simply too unstructured to work in any high reliability environment.
Yeah, thats the same state of affairs as traditional captchas. There are sites where you can pay under a cent apiece to have real humans solve your captchas. This is just shifting the cost from human capital to compute, it will suffer the same limitations.
I do PRs for any minor/major features on a project that I work alone :) it helps to see a better diff in github, also see CI status (using drone) and also to review it after few days when I can be objective about it. Project is quite big at the moment with a lot of moving parts so it helps to have a process. Also, each PR has a name and short summary of what was changed, added, fixed. So when something breaks in 6 months it's easy to track down related PRs and refresh my memory.
Carpel tunnel and tendonitis? How'd she do that?

My career is in applied math and computing, and now I'm heading for an alpha test for my startup, but for hobbies I like both classical violin and mathematical physics.

For violin, for the muscles part, have two hands, one chin, one left shoulder, and one back. There have long been plenty of pictures of great violinists -- e.g., Heifetz -- that show really clearly what positions of hands, chin, left shoulder, and back should be. The left shoulder position is made easier by the long very popular shoulder rests that attach under the violin a little behind the bridge.

I got through some plenty serious music, e.g., about half of the Bach Chaconne with no problems with injuries.

I played violin because I like it: I don't have a good singing voice so can use violin, e.g., with some of Bach's music, to scream out to the heavens the passion of the human spirit! In this way, violin is great fun!

But it was always totally clear to me that there was no money in classical music for me and very little for 99.99% of everyone else in music. E.g., I did clearly understand that all the people who could have a good career as a classical solo violinist could meet in large SUV -- literally true. E.g., there was a report that each year there are in all the world only about 50 solo violin performances with major orchestras.

But also gotta mention, there are not many people, only a small fraction even in that SUV, who can play the music as well as Heifetz. Each year some young violinists come on the scene with a big entrance, but too soon it's clear that for world class performances of the major pieces they need more time in master classes, a practice room, and most of all thinking about the artistic expression of the pieces. E.g., the last few bars of the central D-major section of the Bach Chaconne are the climax of the piece, and that needs to be brought out clearly to the audience but is rarely done effectively. Net, it appears that there is some room at the top for solo violinists.

Also a violin doesn't have to be wildly expensive: Mine cost $600 and is plenty good enough. My understanding is that the violin makers have made amazing progress in recent decades and routinely make violins as good as the best ever.
What a waste of effort and talent.