skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly retell a story where I was waiting in line with a woman at the DMV who used a smartphone as a pacifier for her toddler. The kid had a full-blown meltdown when she had to take the phone to make a call. This is the kind of behavior we are putting in our children when we take the easy tech-enabled route.

Similar points can be made about the ubiquity of surveillance tech: giving up key personal rights in the name of "convenience".
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no need to re-architect the program at that point, since heap pressure was reduced.

The big takeaway for me here is to learn how your target language allocates memory for new objects.
That just sounds like Agile...

Agreed!

It's Scrum. Scrum has the cargo cult.

What do you see as the problem: Scrum itself, or the cargo cult of folks who do it badly?

Scrum done properly is very low overhead, at least from a developer's standpoint.

At my old job we did fairly strict Scrum and I estimated that it consumed only about 4 (so, 10% of a theoretical 40-hour week) of my hours per week.

I feel that is very low overhead. I don't know of a lot of development scenarios where you don't need to spend at least 10% of your time communicating with management.

I mean, people really have to think about what their actual dream scenario is. Some kind of world where they only have to spend 1% of their time interacting with management? 0%? These people need to get real. Management/stakeholders exist and you are going to need to communicate with them.

I have had jobs where upwards of 50% of my time was spent in seemingly endless meetings, plus "drive-by shootings" where management randomly stopped by and wanted to see progress and dump new shit onto my plate. Scrum is not perfect, but for most workplaces would be an upgrade.

Agile just seems to get drug through the mud by
everyone that implements some authoritarian variant
of Scrum.

I feel it is close to the opposite.

"Agile" is a nebulous term that has lost nearly all practical meaning. Bad management does some weird, loose version of "agile" (usually with some trappings of Scrum) and gives both Scrum and "agile" bad names.
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"The laundry are converted into a mini central heating for every guest."
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The legacy isn't avoided in upper level classes. And an intro survey in philosophy will cover it. But if I am in an upper level course on contemporary philosophy, I don't need to rehash Platonism. I know philosophy is said to be a series of footnotes to Plato, but this isn't literally the case.
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if you think it's naive for your users or loved ones to call you when they have the slightness doubt about something, then perhaps the problem is with how they feel treated or the way you present yourself to them when need help? are you welcoming to their questions or do you act annoyed with them?
I read about this guy who made a fortune in the stock market. His secret? He always sold too soon.

That is, trying to sell at the top means that you sell too late, and therefore that you take at least part of the drop. And the drops tend to be much more abrupt than the climbs. Taking the first part of the drop can mean losing your shirt; it can cost you a big part of the gains.

Hmm. I wonder if I should actually take my advice? I'm pretty long on the stock market at the moment...
It's all in what you want as a reader.

For some, it's comparing 'holding a physical book and turning the pages' to the more active, not taking readers.

I don't think the leaders in the ebook industry really understood what the target market was when they took on the endeavor.

For me, ebooks made a lot more sense. Using exclusively the kindle app, I can keep track of my progress across multiple books, score and rate them, make notes (which are preserved and easy to access), and share insightful quotes from my favorite books. If you're a social reader there's really nothing like it.

If you're more of the page turner type, or someone who enjoys the catharsis of reading a book, nothing is going to compare to the feeling of turning a physical page, sipping on some tea in just the right amount of lighting, etc.

I think ebooks set out to capture the first market, and they did it, but people expected it to dominate the book market, which it hasn't and won't.
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This. Everyone can be scammed, without exception. Being smart is not very protective. In fact, some studies have also shown that very intelligent people are more likely to fall for certain types of scams.
"However not everyone has the opportunity to be thought of that way by others."
I wasn't comparing performance at a specific task but performance at tasks of equal or greater difficulty.

Mouse and bird brains have evolved to operate mouse and bird bodies, not cars, and their learning ability isn't as powerful as a primate or a human so I doubt they could learn to drive a car as well as us or our specialized self-drive computers.

But... what they do manage in terms of controlling mouse and bird bodies is vastly more sophisticated and impressive than driving a car. A mouse runs around on four independently controlled legs and can tackle a vast array of terrains while dodging or chasing moving objects. Birds can navigate in 3d space while flying with articulated flapping wings with complex control surfaces operated by dozens of muscles.

Driving a car is ridiculously easy compared to anything like that. If mouse and bird brains had evolved to control cars I'd absolutely trust them to drive me around at least as much if not more than I trust a Tesla's autopilot. Driving is a simpler problem than operating a mouse body.

Don't get me wrong: our self-drive AIs are amazing engineering achievements. I'm just pointing out the impressive performance of tiny brains using fractions of a watt of power at much more difficult tasks.

The thing that blows my mind and makes me hypothesize quantum computing or even P=NP is the power requirements of those brains. It's "impossible." I'm not suggesting that we can't figure it out, just that we haven't yet and that it's probably going to take more or different approaches than we think it will take.

Immune systems were once considered so "impossible" that it led several researchers to abandon science in frustration, but we eventually got a good understanding of what was going on (and it's impressive!). Understanding immune systems had to wait for molecular genetics and modern evolutionary learning theory among other things. I suspect that really replicating brain-like performance will have to wait for something as far beyond our current state of the art as those were in the 1920s.
>At least three military police officers (at CFB Comox in British Columbia, CFB Petawawa and CFB Kingston) were assigned an unusual task: wander around their bases, smartphones and notepads in hand, searching for virtual Pokemon infrastructure.

there is a comedy gold here. Cleaning the base from Pokemon infestation before an inspecting visit by General. The Major pondering whether he should salute to the Pokemon in General insignia. Soldiers getting to/from AWOL presenting themselves as undercover secret Pokemons to the drunk clueless Major on duty (my imagination naturally drifts to the specifics of the military i'd known from my childhood, ie. USSR/Russia) - they disappear AR-style when the Major looks at them through the phone.
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This has been a major frustration for me as a UI developer on the current application I work on. The UI is often hamstrung by how the backend API was implemented. There are frequently cases where we stitch together pre-existing API functionality to make something work in a far-from-ideal manner just because it would take longer to do it right and no one is interested.
> I'm not sure he ever got around to explaining how it saved "half a million dollars", though.

Probably the classic software vanity formula:

profit = efficiency
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You can't help but feel that the Dad has some attention deficit issues that need addressing, let alone having to approach issues in such an indirect way instead of directly.

Though that whole aspect that this made the news, does somewhat fuel my initial thoughts about this.
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Yes, thats the primary way I consume web (including HN). If a website doesn't have an RSS feed (or feedly doesn't have it) then I don't care about that site.
My take home is focus on the thing that matters, and there is always low hanging fruit when something flips from "don't care" to "matters"
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What do you mean by "still exist"? Obviously a vuln was found in one that was inside a Model S, reported to Tesla and fixed.
Third time this has been posted in 17 hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21931895
Most of these billions of people have a much lower material quality of life than you or I, which is demonstrably unsustainable re: global warming etc. Nobody wants their quality of life to decline-- Austerity is always proposed as a solution for Other People. And technological solutions are a matter of faith at this point. So it seems reasonable to consider overpopulation a problem.
The most common reason is that you used to have to surrender your passport to get a visa. Not too long ago (my first China trip), I had to leave my passport at the Chinese consulate in NYC for up to 30 days (where it went from there... who knows, but came back with a big ass full page sticker as a visa).

If you are still in possession of the original passport, the US will issue you a second passport so you can travel internationally during those events.

Same goes for applying for green cards (married a UK citizen? moving to the UK? They're going to take your passport for 30+ days).
Some interesting "behind the stage" insights about this post.

I've posted this a couple months ago. Just before christmas, I've received an email from the mods asking me to repost, as they thought the story was interesting. Initially after reposting, it didn't get much traction, but, when I look at it now, it actually has upvotes. However, the number of upvotes it has is much bigger than the amound of Karma i received. I wonder how correlated this facts are.
For awhile, I was responsible for all tech support. While this was a pain, it protected my parents from scam support calls. Then, that burden went away. My father now has Alzheimer's, and my mother has no interest in using computers, except minimally. She doesn't even check email. So long as Apple TV doesn't have scammers on it, we're safe for now.
> Lawyers typically start billing in the range of $20,000 for anything beyond a letter in large cities.

Off-topic, but I'm always flabergasted at the rates I'm hearing US lawyers charge. Are these guys totally swimming in money? If so, why no extra competition emerges to bring prices down?
I was about to write a similar comment but you wrote it a minute earlier. :) Seriously, the writing is long-winded and meandering.

To add to the summary:

"This particular trick also no longer works. As I found out while writing this article, modern JDKs do not allocate any space in a HashSet until something is added."

So.. The article might have been better organized (and edited to 1/4 length) and focused on the section, "Four one liners every Java programmer should know". Unfortunately, it'd still be a click-baity title.
> Not particularly well informed on this

This will help you understand everything about Ghosn case.

"Debito.org’s stance on the Carlos Ghosn Case, at last: A boardroom coup making “thin legal soup” that might shame Japan’s “hostage justice” judicial system into reform"

https://www.debito.org/?p=15548
Isn't using Kubernetes kind of an anti-pattern due to failover and rebalancing logic clashing? If Kubernetes is killing and re-starting nodes and the cluster's brokers are detecting dead brokers and rebalancing partitions as a result, it seems counterproductive.
Yes - you have to have a valid reason for it and they will issue you a second passport of short (usually 2 year validity).

Usually this valid reason boils down to having to submit your passport frequently for visas (eg. Brazil) such that it would impact your ability to travel internationally for other business.
I think this is a valid point. I suppose if I'd elaborated better, I might have explained why I thought the author's point was weak.

- Do we know it's only young girls getting screamed at, or is everyone getting screamed at?

- I vehemently dislike the diversity exercises, but it's clear that splitting people into groups and identifying stereotypes was meant to be a helpful, progressive exercise. (I don't believe these are actually helpful or progressive, but it's clear that this is their intent.) Because of this, I don't feel that calling out how asinine these diversity classes are is proof of bigotry in google. I'm not suggesting there is not bigotry (I really wouldn't know) -- just that the author did not make a strong case.
In general this is an example of how abstractions in high level languages become increasingly leaky as production workloads grow.
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> I've had my parent's PC on Linux for almost 10 years

I did this with my daughter, and never told her it wasn't Windows. She didn't know or care for years -- until she developed a taste for cutting-edge video games.
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On the topic of how those modern libraries manage to reproduce those effects, couldn’t they have used either pure bruteforce (i.e., recording and sampling every combination of notes hit together) or some advanced modeling of physical properties of pianos to recreate how the sounds coming from piano strings would interact simultaneously? Or even better, some combination of those two approaches (modeling and extensive sampling)?

Disclaimer: i by no means have any expertise on the topic and am just as curious about figuring out how it actually works as the parent comment.
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What do you use for a mail client? Besides web-based?
I really feel like schools should concentrate on conversational language skills before delving into any sort of grammar rules. A lot of the grammar rules end up sorting themselves out by “not sounding correct” when you speak the language.
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Premature optimization is not great, but for low hanging fruit, just do it.

As much as developer time is more expensive than machine time it seems people are forgetting best practices and/or minor improvements that can have a big impact.