skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to put a name on it, Pivotal is just a type of scrum. They have their own sauce. I personally called it the Pivotal Process... but I'm probably the only one.

At Pivotal, the forecast of what will be delivered changes all the time and it is tracked in a single tool that everyone can look at and keep up to date with (along with a few short meetings to keep everyone on the same page).
Invasive advertising is a kind of propaganda - information that is intended to manipulate people. Bruce Schneier said that surveillance was the business model of the internet, but perhaps more precisely, propaganda is the business model of the internet. At least the user facing part of it.

Put simply, we have come to accept that it is okay for businesses to manipulate people, so it should not come as much of a surprise that other entities will use that same well-oiled machinery for their own purposes.
I actually like the candide talk, commonly you have two options. 1. Invest a good amount of time researching and making sure to write a privacy policy that match the your goals for the site short term and long term. 2. Copy one and hope for the best.

This third option is nice, is honest, it's not a lie, and makes clear to the end user who is responsible.
Is there a flow chart for figuring out how to make more money from one's day job? I've heard this line of thinking before but people are always frustratingly vague about the income side of things.
They throw the plastic bags as well, often ripping them open in the process.
P.S. Adelaide, South Australia forecast for 42 degrees Celsius tomorrow, but a cool change coming the following day.
> authoritarian or democratic does not make a difference?

You think it it does? Democracy without freedom is an empty shell. And surveillance is antithetical to freedom
The same is true for everyone else too. Yet still everyone must decarbonize or eventually face even worse consequences then bushfires, tragedy of the commons or not.
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[Germans] are burning ever more and more coal

We've missed our reduction goals, but reducton did happen (about 20% over the last 15 years, and the decrease has even been monotonic since 2013).

I keep having to correct this on hackernews specifically. I have to wonder, is there some sort of concerted effort to lie about this?
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Nothing, I own my parking places (both home and office ones)
I don't think I understand, could you expand your idea further?
That’s irrelevant for people on the planet sending the spaceship.

Particle physics get matter to 99.9999% of c which causes crazy time dilation to the particles and nothing to the scientists. Further, constant 1g acceleration of a starship to high fractions of c is basically science fiction. Not even matter anti matter reactions can keep up those energy demands for very long.
I had the thought of how obfuscating this technology could be to hide information. Imagine this going off and publishing an unlimited number of images with generated descriptions that are indistinguishable from what a human would do. There would be no way to verify what the correct information is if you are someone just casually searching the Internet. (This could also almost apply for any type of information...)
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Ironically though, I'd be willing to bet that end-user performance on most traditional server-side-rendered apps using the "heavyweight" RoR framework is far better than the latest and greatest SPA approach.
For this specific case, nothing, however let's say you need to know when the user got a specific scope and from who. You probably can answer this question in SQL if you prepared your database to do it (i.e: a changeset table), however in an event sourcing architecture you would gain this information for free.

However, just because you're using event sourcing doesn't mean you don't have a database with the current state of your entities.
>Unfortunately, I don't believe voting one way or another will make much difference. One party might be slightly better than another, but ultimately none will dare to implement sufficient measures.

Then you are simply giving up on the whole thing? Because there is no other way to make much difference. If the current party platforms aren't sufficient, then those who care must first work to change those too. Become party members, work to select delegates that will then change it, etc. Same as any other democracy, regardless of details (in the US "party" (coalition) platforms and choices are determined by primaries before the country decides which one will assume government).

>Climate problem will have to be solved outside of party politics. We need something akin to civil rights movement. On the global scale.

It can't emphasized enough how completely, utterly wrong this is. Solving collective action problems requires coordinated use of power, which by definition is politics. Regardless of how the politics gets changed, it still will ultimately depend on politics. It's not some dirty word or concept, it's a descriptive/truism, when you work to get groups of humans to do something you're doing politics. It is our great good fortune, built on a mountain of blood a treasure, that so many of us live in democracies where it is so easy relative to history to work for radical political change through parties and government structures.

You mention the civil rights movement, but that ONLY WORKED THROUGH POLITICS. There seems to have been a huge forgetting in modern times that protest movements and the like are only means to a political end, not constructive in and of themselves. The civil rights movement had organized leadership that used the protests to mobilize voters, to gain public interest and recognition, etc., all with the ultimate aim of changing politicians/parties and actually getting actual for real legislation passed. They worked to the extent they translated into votes and in turn into actual power.

Conversely, consider all sorts of modern disorganized protests, no matter the size. It's perfectly possible to spend enormous amounts of time, effort, and resources and accomplish absolutely nothing whatsoever. It's a very dangerous and corrosive form of virtue signaling, and can actively harm progress because it burns people's limited capital to no useful end. And that in turn helps further breed disengagement, because people feel "they did something" "yet nothing happened". But "doing something" doesn't mean it's actually useful.
Could you point towards an authoritative source for this claim?

As a consumer, if I request deletion of my data, I expect it to be actually deleted - not just have a "deleted" flag set.

With soft-deletion, the data is still right there, ready to be abused after a breach.
Sure, but evidence is required said value is being provided.

Otherwise, you’re arguing a rock is providing safety against tigers because there are no tigers around.
> more liberal and free

I think you 're confusing "alive" with "free". Merely surviving in a world of surveillance is not a life worth living.
NYC has plenty of "laws" but the volume of people makes it impossible to thoroughly enforce. Plus we have so many people visiting from elsewhere. Our mayor adopted Vision Zero a few years ago and we're making improvements but we still have quite a lot of fatal accidents.
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One of the factors in UK bin design in certain public places / spaces is blast resistance.

About 25 years ago I watched a documentary that focused on how the IRA were using litter and the bins themselves as shrapnel to ensure that small devices had a larger impact radius, especially in busy areas.

At the time this lead to a removal of bins in major public places (and they are still 100% absent from the tube system for this reason), and for those areas that required bins new designs were sought that were blast resistant.

Blast resistance in this context typically meant that the shell of the bin acts like a cannon, and the blast is directed upwards so that the impact radius is greatly reduced and the worst case is that trash rains down on people.

A lot of bins were replaced over the following decade, but this is not a requirement I see mentioned much any longer. Are other major cities factoring terrorism into their street furniture and garbage designs?
I like Godot to play around with because there's no mental effort attached to "but what if I release this eventually". 99% of everything I've ever built is just quick little play projects, but taking on a commercial engine (even if the license is free) ties my brain to different concepts.

Godot just frees your mind from that side of things, and so in that case, it's a 10x experience if that long-range commercial element taxes your mind.
What do you do about the opaque firmware that talks to wherever and has who knows what vulnerabilities?
> Compilers don't do clever masking tricks to avoid branches, in general

They actually do a lot of such tricks. Check out the GCC sources, for example tree-ssa-phiopt.c[1] and ifcvt.c[2]

[1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/tree-ssa-p...

[2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/ifcvt.c
> Maybe we should tackle China first, as it is producing 45% of the world's coal, compared to 6% of Australia.

Who is 'we', and how do you suggest 'we' tackle China first?

Each country has to take care of its own emissions — we can’t wait for China to act first.
The way I frame it is that the problem is in some way more complicated than it seems on first analysis, and they aren't so much asking for your help coming up with a solution for the problem as they initially frame it so much as they are using the conversation to think out loud. So the proper response when you realise you're in this kind of conversation is to ask clarifying questions to help the person articulate what the problem actually is.
> For example Signal didn't have a way for a group to boot out a member against their will.

This article says just as much. Sure, you could brute force a 128 bit key to get into a random group. And if you were kicked out of a group, you could re-add yourself if you had saved the group key. But even the article says it's not super likely.
I guess it's just part of why something as seemingly simple as a street corner trash can is such a challenging problem to solve. I wish I didn't need 500 lbs of safety features in my car but you need to account for bad actors, idiots on the road, and accidents. I appreciate when thought goes in to the worst-case misuses of everyday objects, even a trash can.

It also assumes that the household garbage dumper is going to carry their trash back to their house and wait for garbage day, when really they'll just drop their garbage back next to the trash can that it doesn't fit in. There's another solution to that problem, and they might have the wrong angle entirely here.
Pivotal solved that by requiring everyone to work the same exact hours. It is a bit military in that regard, but it works for them. You don't get a job there unless you buy into it. Their reasoning is more around their culture of pair programming.

It sounds like you have found a solution that works for your company and that is great! The way I look at it is that as long as we are shipping software around the time when we say we are going to and the quality is high and people aren't killing themselves (weekends) to make it all happen, all good. =)
When I was in western Norway, I noted the abundant use of roundabouts, wouldn’t be surprised if that contributes.
Could you convert "pretty reliable" into a percentage?
Imagine if Pokemon go used the elevation data from gps. It's just lat long. People would be climbing trees, using prybars to open the locked roof access doors of tall office buildings, etc.
Yeah, I first encountered them living in East Asia where the majority use them consistently (including foreigners who generally pick it up pretty fast).

I'd probably have your stance if I hadn't experienced it IRL.
... Meanwhile Russia was developing hypersonic ballistic missiles.
Mattermost CEO here, to the extent it's helpful, here's a demo video of how it looks and feels importing a Slack team into Mattermost from 2017: https://youtu.be/AKqHWqrAgpk?t=249

This is when we were largely just an open source project and before raising $70M in venture capital, which has been accelerating development: https://mattermost.com/blog/category/releases/
>This is totally different from, for example, Copenhagen, Stockholm

That's not right in my experience. Swedes walk across when it's red. Danes wait for green, even when standing by an empty road in the middle of the night. When the Øresund bridge was opened, Swedish television made news spots informing people in Scania that Danish motorist aren't used to people stepping out on the road, and to be attentive spotting danish cars.
That's a staggering number, but isn't the article including the whole country in this count of 256 deaths? It sounds like "only" 12 of them were in Bangkok:

> Over the Dec 27-31 period, Bangkok had the highest number of deaths at 12

(...which implies a very long tail of cities outside of the capital.)
I think it's easier and more correct to view it the other way round: propaganda is a form of advertising. Specifically it's political advertising which intends to bring you round to some viewpoint.

Viewed this way it's much easier to see the evils that advertising can and does propagate.
Wikipedia has some stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
showing Norway #3 after Monaco (0 deaths) and Micronesia
Telarc have a number of albums of music reproduced from piano rolls -- this https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000009RCS/ is one of my favourite collections of classical works.

The sleeve notes tell of how modern scanning allowed a more complete reproduction of the notes played than contemporary players allowed, which by all accounts were already pretty good.
They are trying to make a better trash can to combat dumpers, worker injury, and rats.

It does not mean this is the only thing they are working on.

Your comment is 100% whataboutism.
Commercial buildings?
The issue would very much exist for residential buildings(especially Brooklyn) even if the commercial building did not put out their trash on the sidewalk so that would not solve the rat issue.

What proposal do you have in mind for the city to solve this?
If you need even more concrete, then how's this: the civil rights movement could've easily been classified as "hate speech" and legally squashed because it was unpopular when it started.

That is not a concrete example it is a hypothetical, furthermore civil rights activist were literally beaten in the streets for their speech and subject to extrajudicial punishment on many occassions - far worse than the current "hate speech" laws that are afforded due process.

Just give a concrete example, do it!
They work on the side of the road, in proximity to heavy equipment, moving heavy objects, in all weather and the state doesn't go out of its way to make life a living hell for anyone who happens to harm them (accidentally or intentionally). It's no surprise that they have a higher fatal injury rate than cops and tow truck drivers who both only work under a subset of those conditions.
The problem I've seen over and over again, and others have mentioned here in this great thread, is that when you have a 2 week sprint... if a feature misses the sprint, it is another 2 weeks before anyone sees anything... so now it is a month, which can be really unfortunate.

It gets especially bad if there is a lot of fire fighting happening as well because someone might get pulled off that feature and now the time goes to infinite...

The idea is to try to prevent that type of common delay.
yes you are. you said nothing to the other two people who stated that my original comment was harsh (for whatever their reasons were), of which their comments added _nothing_ to the conversation, they were personal attacks against me. i simply just stated that they are being over sensitive and need to grow up (which, personally i think they are being and need to). i didn't use any profanity and say anything threatening, yet i get called out by you and not the other two. why? don't cite and hide behind guidelines if you're not going to apply them to everyone. you are ridiculing and personally attacking me and i'm not going to stand for it.
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this ^^^^^
what's the plan after E2E is on by default? Can you still downgrade to no encryption or will you just block clients that can't do E2E?
the rate is for general trash collection, not just those cans. From the link in the article:

> Lam: Do you feel like you still need to be careful, even though you’re doing the same task every day?

Veloz: Absolutely. Every time you get out of the truck and go to the [trash] box: Don't become complacent. In this business, if you become complacent, you're looking for death. It's very dangerous because the cable bringing up the box is like a slingshot. If you make one mistake, and break the cable, it'll come through the window behind you and it's not going to be a good situation. You've got wires overhead, you've got trees you could hit that could fall on the truck. I take every load like it's my first time. We also get safety bonus $10,000 every three years, which I’ve won.
It will nag you even in the back?
How are you going to relabel it when you can't yank it?
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Do you have any idea data to understand how many friendships were formed exactly ? I'm curious to compare vs. daily encounters of people.
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I'm curious how all the permaculture farms and homesteads are faring. Are these alternative landscapes surviving or maybe thriving dispite the droughts and fires?

Could the country promote or even mandate permaculture style landworks?
For the safety of the pedestrians. It signals clearly to large vehicles at a safe distance for them to stop that they MUST stop, so that there are fewer accidents due to lack of visibility of the actual pedestrian.
There's the basic fact that almost no hard data of any kind exists to back up your apocalyptic claim. If anything, by all major metrics, human well-being is dramatically improving, not just in the north but also in these supposedly infernal tropics. And data indicates that this will in most ways continue, in terms of reductions in the population explosion, better access to technology, better health and welfare and even better environmental practices becoming more common in the developing world, just as they did in the developed world over previous decades.

You remind me of people like Paul Ehrlich back in the 70's. Predicting doom and disaster because it was fashionable, extrapolating without good supporting evidence or consideration for human development and innovation, then later just shrugging off their nonsense when it proves to have been totally, absurdly wrong.

The climate change crisis is a serious problem for our species and societies, but it too has possible solutions that are already in development. It's not simply a pre-ordained act of god.
i never knew that. i always wondered why judges handed down sentences like that.
It sounds like management at your company isn't doing a good job pushing back on these requests or insulating the dev team from this unreasonable client?
It would double count emissions but it does mean that Australia could do more than just eliminate their own emissions, they could limit other countries' as well by stopping export.
Having a steady stream of deliverables and seeing that the devs can deliver on their promises, enables management to shift from control to guidance. That's not to say that it always happens, but I've seen it work.

Getting development done has traditionally been a game of getting developer attention. Scrum is one way of clarifying the contract between the stakeholder and the development team. I'm sure there are others too.
Am intrigued, as I was an early Defold user and the analytics requirements were quite explicit at the time (as was the requirement to put code through their VCS) throughout the dashboard and general information pages. When were you using it?

I believe both of those are now no longer required though.
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Interesting! My experience was based around Nova Scotia.

However, I actually meant at intersections (which is, I guess, where I mostly crossed streets). This arrangement was new and refreshing to me.

However, it is of course reasonable that pedestrians can not assume to just walk on a street everywhere, at any time.
Actually the urban areas pay higher. Starting salary where I'm at is roughly 15% higher in "difficult" school districts. I'll stipulate that this applies to my state and a half dozen or so nearby states; States further away may differ, but I know of only 2 or 3 states where teacher pay is actually quite bad. In those places, privates and charters probably are just as good in pay.
Yeah, in my experience this is “boundary setting” — and it’s absolutely critical to a healthy dev culture.

When I was a baby manager, I focused hard on Agile process and deadlines / roadmap commitments. And you’re right; it completely ruined my relationship with my team. They saw me as a representative of the oppressive corporate overlords, which is totally fair because those were the people I was trying to impress.

It took a few failed projects for me to get it through my thick skull that “doing things right” meant protecting my team from this behavior pushed down from above. It meant giving them space to do the job we paid them for. I realized I was letting my anxieties overrule people who knew way more about the issue than I did. It meant listening more and pushing back on unreasonable requests.

And it turned out my boss didn’t care about missed deadlines for the most part — he cared way more about production incidents. The best way to reduce production incidents is to work deliberately and not take unnecessary risks. A side effect of this was that we had way more power to say “no” to other teams, which made maintaining the code base a lot easier.
While versioning for libraries is important, and one could argue about different ways, app versions (ie mobile or desktop) with anything other than whole integers is dumb. Our mobile apps have versions like X.Y.Z and X changes at random times for no reason, and in general in mobile you never see the version anyway, and with auto updating on customers don't even notice.
This was in Berlin.
Slack is not “successful”. Slack is a for profit business bleeding money is slow and still not seeing adoption by many major corporations.

How many Slack users are on the free plan?
I could be wrong, but I believe that's what they mean when they say they hired a "generalist" this year to help cover off those things. It's not a direct 1:1 of "I pay, I get support", but donating will be intrinsically linked to it and seems part of their overall plan for the future.
According to this article, the problem is oligopolistic markets: only 5 major book publishers exist, and they have no interest in competing.

The article also doesn't examine the consequences: are consumers getting as many books as they want? Is society better off with fewer books available? What about the effects on authors?

Oddly, neither phrase "copyright" or "intellectual property" appear in this article. That's the legal construct that underpins the oligopoly, though.

This article is pretty shallow. It barely scratches the surface of the issue(s).
Frameworks also effectively hide “bare metal” from developer, so they develop magical thinking. I’m really tired at my job of debunking magical and simply wrong assumptions and claims about how something works. Being unable to understand and implement something yourself, shadowed by Framework Authority, dooms one to remain in a pit of false incompetence.