skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was put in charge of a new team for a new project at my previous company, we did the most agile thing there is.
We got together and asked ourselves (all of us having previously been on teams that had daily standups): "So, what do you all think, is the daily standup worth it? No? Alright, let's try without it."

It worked great. We ended up doing a quick meetings 1-2 times a week to sync-up and get the idea of where we are. Any blockers would be brought up informally (through Slack or in-person). We all knew each other well, so trust was high to begin with. Also, it was a relatively small team of 5 people.

I guess the point is that "having daily standups" is not agile. Regularly asking yourselves if they are or would be useful (whatever the answer may be) is.
On paper this sounds great.

In reality I suspect they've created an extremely rich single digital target whose security isn't up to snuff if Aadhar is any indication, and the entire country is about to have an unintentional experiment with completely open finances.
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Department of Energy Selects Site for Electron-Ion Collider
Help with the joke? I understood the mathematician and the physicist, but not the engineer. What stereotype is being invoked?
> Especially with tools like Helm I believe we reached peak insanity levels. Instead of using a general purpose or configuration-specific (like Jsonnet/Cue/Dhall) programming language to build and then emit in-memory objects to YAML manifests, the industry is using YAML to define templated YAML and then parametrize this templating with even more YAML.

As a big proponent of Dhall, I gotta say, probably the primary reason for that at this point is due to a lack of language bindings. Most tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem are written in Go. Currently, there is no official Go language binding for Dhall - one implementation[1] is pretty close, but the marshalling features need some work, and it's not the author's day job. The only way to get Dhall configuration into a Go program today is to either shell out and call the Haskell-based reference implementation directly or to script your Go binary such that the Haskell-based reference implementation translates the Dhall configuration to JSON and then feeds that into the Go program. Even that's not ideal - you end up maintaining your schema in Go code and in Dhall simultaneously.

I very much believe that Dhall will solve the stringly-typed insanity which you refer to, but the language is not quite there yet. While I'd love for some of the Kubernetes core developers to step up, I mean, I can understand people's unwillingness to adopt something that isn't 100% perfectly well-supported and handed to them on a silver platter.

[1]: https://github.com/philandstuff/dhall-golang
Go Message Queue using Concurrency, zero dependency [video]
Why 'many eyes' isn't working and what we can do to fix it!
“Many eyes" in theory is perfect, but, in practice the "eyes" tend to focus only on the top 1% of packages, and those specifically with corporate sponsorship.

But it is possible to fix this! Today we know exactly what packages are most used, so now all we have to do is incentivise the eyes to look at all open-source code.

We are attempting to do just that with the launch of huntr (https://huntr.dev) on Feb 1st. With government grants and backing from enterprise who are excited about securing open-source code, we are able to spread the money across the spectrum, and redistribute the ‘many eyes’ to the many packages.

If you are interested in the platform, or want to try make some money fixing vulnerabilities, check it out at https://huntr.dev
They have a mandatory two consecutive weeks away from work rule.
I didn't say the maths is wrong, I just said it has reached its limits. And "no big discovery" for the last 40 years kind of shows that some limits have been reached.

> Consistency is a good thing

Lots of close but in the end ineffectual "epistemic" systems were internally consistent but in the long run they proved "deficient" (as in other, more efficient systems took their place). I confess I've never read Thomas Aquinas's work (to give just one example) but I'm pretty sure his "view of the world/reality system" is pretty consistent, don't think there are any internal contradictions in his writings. Problem is his internally consistent system wouldn't have been able to allow us to build combustion engines or modern electronics, so that we have had to come up with other internally-consistent "epistemic systems" that proved to be more efficient (because they allowed us to build and reason about combustion engines and modern electronics).

In the end and in the great scheme of things I don't think this theoretical physics road-block will be of any great importance for the general public, it looks like people are content with what they already can purchase based on past physics-related discoveries. Yeah, traveling through galaxy wormholes or getting to 100% know if the Universe is finite or not would be nice things to have, but people just don't care and there's nothing wrong with that.
> It’s not clear exactly what you hear on Geeven’s recording. She guesses it could be something small like a data transmission that is resonating, but she can’t be sure. In a Heisenberg-ian twist, it seems possible that some of the sounds were created by the devices themselves. "Exactly knowing what it is is not important I believe," she says. "Mysteries are important. They act as engines for new thoughts and ideas."
If you've forgotten about NoSQL or BigData, chances are your shop really just overshot how much data and traffic they have.
They can be uninstalled... with a computer and android adb
Ironically, since applying the force of law to dictate how these women may dress does not release them from control and repression. Freedom must be cultivated.
Let's say highly scalable app without surprise bills :)
because government project? although I imagine this happens in non-gov settings too, this is just my experience.

Here's the reason: managers are so spread thin that they don't want to be in 5-10 standups all morning, so they combine around organizational structures rather than product(s)/deliverable(s). Another case of the software delivery matching org structure...
> Getting advice on which fields to study, which schools to apply to, what friends to make who also know which schools to apply to, and which companies to apply to all count as “right connection”.

Or you can "just" get into a top 5-10 MBA. Still hard, but at least you're an adult at that point
Post author here again, for the clickable version of the links:

https://isometricks.com

https://github.com/NicolasLetellier/isometricks
A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2017)
> A sequence is normal if and only if every block of equal length appears with equal frequency. (A block of length k is a substring of length k appearing at a position in the sequence that is a multiple of k: e.g. the first length-k block in S is S[1..k], the second length-k block is S[k+1..2k], etc.) This was implicit in the work of Ziv and Lempel (1978) and made explicit in the work of Bourke, Hitchcock, and Vinodchandran (2005). [1]

If pi is normal (as it is conjectured to be), then yeah it has to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number#Properties
There are lots of options out there. I'm currently exploring Cloud Foundry for our platform, since our core API is written in Spring Boot. This page from AquaSec has lots of links to articles comparing Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes. https://www.aquasec.com/wiki/display/containers/Kubernetes+v...

I also found this book to be helpful https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T1Y2JRJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
Next Steps When You Have a Great Business Idea
Yeah, but if you've followed Hossenfelders writhing you know that it's been wobbling along the line between relevant critique and pure clickbait for over a year now.

This is likely the first time I've seen any claim that she has a good idea of what to do instead (she's had the idea before, but not claimed it to be a good one as I recall), the past year it's been mostly about how all other physicists are stupid... and it's not like this supposedly "superior" strategy has yielded any great advanced for in her work.
Individuals don't, but the managers, who may be well meaning, feel the need to.
So if you drill through the crust to the mantle, will magma come up the hole? Will you create a little volcano?
Notes on Gene Machine by Venki Ramakrishnan
> Linus should avoid authoritative statements about projects he's unfamiliar with.

I'd side with the author here since he's shown to have experience and researched his points with using ZFS here and is quite frankly clear around explaining the background of ZFS enough to disqualify Linus's arguments for telling those who agree with him "Don't use ZFS".

I may have not gone as far as the author to do the benchmarks themselves, but the most misunderstood claim that Linus clearly went off the rails on what the claim about ZFS being unmaintained. As a part time Linux/BSD user, using Linus's own ranting language: This is complete B___S___.

When talking about "The" Linux kernel (no distros), Linus has his merits and his most excellent and decorated highness is respected by software engineers worldwide for the kernel. But as soon as he gets involved with topics which he has done little research and a clear lack of understanding, then the real experts will notice.
Why is Mojeek forgotten? At least it's a real search engine, and not just a front-end.
If you have fiber you're probably plugging your SFP into an ONT which is already acting like a modem anyway.

> With cable this becomes a lot harder or even impossible due to all kinds of network specific systems such as DOCSIS.

You're probably on a PON which doesn't use DOCSIS exactly but it's still doing TDM and/or WDM multiplexing because you're sharing a laser diode with a bunch of your neighbors - the ONT transceives the multiplexed laser signal. You're still dealing with DOCSIS-like functionality.
Historically related, reminds me of Futurama, an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair, sponsored by General Motors, which included multi-lane highways within a futuristic looking city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_(New_York_World%27s_F...
Deep Borehole Disposal
>> I imagine this rules out kids shows for most adults.

Not necessarily. Maybe if you understand everything, they become boring, but to me watching an interesting enough show where you understand 50%-80% of the dialog and try to understand the rest by context is kind of fun.
Reaper goes this way. They have regular updates with fixes and the rare huge new feature like the notation editor.
This reminds me of the organizational paradigms[1] from Reinventing Organisations [2]

I think they map quite easily as:

Power oriented → Amber "command and control"

Rule oriented → Orange "predict-and-control" (management by objectives)

Performance oriented → Green "culture and empowerment"

[1] See "Exhibit 1" table: https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00344?gko=10921
[2] https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
The vast majority of shops have less data than the NoSQL vendors wanted to convince them they had. (With the ability to handle big data, some shops have started creating huge datasets e.g. as part of the targeted advertising arms race, but it's not clear they really need to.)
You're just assuming it was lightning. Or that lightning was the only culprit. Which is most likely false; Natives have been setting control fires for centuries, yes. That's wrong and primitive i think. But the problem was most likely aggravated by climate changes;
Well one thing that "How to win friends and Influence People", "Never split the difference" and "Non Violent Communication" in general has thought me is that it's very hard to "convince someone you're right". Dealing with people successfully to win them to your cause is a very hard skill to master, one that I'm struggling with myself.

A better strategy I think is to try to get emotionally in sync with the other person first. Win them as a friend so to speak. And visual queues in that case become paramount. Co-location is even better, but we're talking about remote now don't we.

People sadly don't usually listen to the facts, especially if there's an argument, and double that if the argument is public (more than two people involved). It requires enormous emotional courage to admit someone's right before a lot of people, so we hardly every do it. That's what most of the advice from those books is to get to know people first, gain their trust and talk to their emotions rather than the facts.

Dailies are not meant to fix that I think, more like keep the team working in the long run if it had a good start, and help leaders find out about problems quickly and address them elsewhere.

Going off topic a bit though but in your example - a team lead that's going off to a demonstrably wrong direction - well they have more things on their mind than that particular thing probably, "does my team listen to me" might be one of them or "other business consideration that we're not privy to" is another.

One way to approach this is to support them publicly but have a one-on-one with them and express your concerns, without personal judgement and the like. After which you can ask them to help you with a particular task, preferably one that you know will hit the problem where you've thought the direction would be bad. And never say "I told you so!" Help them through the arising situation and bam! You will have them on your side plus the project would be moving in a good direction.

Also a lot of times it might turn out that this direction was actually preferable. You'll get to say "yeah you were totally right" and win them to your side as well, and learn a new thing in the process!
Scale: the problem (almost) nobody has, and (almost) everybody wants.
uhm, ok.
There is no JS in this post, it is pseudo-code for a wholly different kind of language/runtime system:

> Let’s rewrite the program above using a sort of new “language” with different execution semantics.

The semantics of it seem to be "wait for an event with some tags".
Nope. The criticism is of searching for new physics by chasing mathematical elegance, instead of trying to explain observations.
Does anyone here have any idea what https://usaviationacademy.com is? A 7,000 foot runway, they also own a total of 3 airports in central Texas...with dozens of planes, 10 helicopters, and multiple private jets? All owned by about 7 different business names it looks like and 7 different non-working numbers? Apparently they teach...air to air refueling. Lol sure that is standard pilot training for Delta.

They also conveniently left open an Elasticsearch cluster with 600,000 US Air Force personnel PII records.

Yesterday it was posted about front companies acquiring massive resources in the US. Who are these people?

http://40.113.239.204:9200/airmen/_search?size=100&pretty
Embarrassingly parallel workloads kinda don't have mutable shared state... that's why they're "embarrassing".
>Apple really dropped the ball on this and the argument they make (thing about all of the old accessories!) is pretty moot for the consumer.

Not entirely moot. A billion people (1-2 hundreds of millions in Europe) have at least an old accessory with lightning interface). When the old style interface was deprecated many people were angrt (but at least the new one had some benefits - size, reversibility, etc).

That said, USB-C is where Apple's going as well (e.g. the new laptops, iPad Pro, 2019's USB-C iPhone rumors, which
were probably confused with a future model, etc.).

Besides, thanks god Apple didn't move on to the same spec as the other phone manufactures. Instead of USB-C we'd have what they settled-in to: mini USB and then micro USB, two equally horrible designs (the only worse probably being the Micro B USB style, mostly used by external hard disks).

Also people seem to forget that Apple was heavily involved in the design of USB-C, all the way back to thunderbort from when it was an Intel-Apple initiative known as LightPeak. The modern USB-C, as a cable with adaptable "logic", includes support for several interfacing protocols from old-school USB to Thunderbolt. The "speedy" part of USB-C is Thunderbolt:

Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface developed by Intel (in collaboration with Apple) that allows the connection of external peripherals to a computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
My thoughts: Earnest invested in my company[1] in September 2019. Through the lens of the company receiving the investment, this has been far from underwhelming.

I've been able to hire a few folks to join the company, ship features faster, increase revenue to new heights and are always there as my first point of call as a solo-founder. It's a tough job but the support has been super helpful. From other founders in the same position as me as well as from the mentor network.

From the inside, the other founders are growing each month and bringing in more and more revenue - so based on the way they invest it looks like everything is going in the right direction.

I'd recommend it as a current Earnest-backed founder for sure. Happy for others to reach out if they're considering it too.

[1] https://www.makerpad.co/
"Taking IP is not a "wealth transfer"" But it is, because you didn't need to invest the capital to gain the IP. You just stole it. It's rather easy to make a much cheaper product if you didn't have any R&D expenses.
I live in Tokyo, and for me, the combination of walking and a proper train network scales surprisingly well.
Okay, now that makes sense. I have originally understood it as "...and the dev team also gets to manage the no-code thing."
This is actually really clever. Maybe Uber can set a base rate of $0.75 per mile and then the driver can elect to increase it at a 25c per mile interval so that the supply is grouped together
1. Example is too simple, functions could modify anything in a model depending on context.

2. Good luck trying to optimise this (just merging all behaviours together at the end does not equal optimisation).

3. You're just pushing the problem elsewhere - now I need to understand all behaviours from a black box, then wrap them, all while dealing with all the other wrappers people have already put in place. Imagine dealing with that complexity.
I agree. I thought this would go more in depth but it resembles a practice review that you would find at the end of a pointers and memory chapter.
+1. Pointers are the pain point for beginners in programming generally and sometimes for those who switch from other languages. This article is good start point for them to catch up if they need to.
To me it's a bit like event-based programming: separating the event (when to do) and the eventhandler (what to do) where handlers depend only on events and not on other handlers (or state), so the logic the handlers depend on remain separate.
I think this is great, this is how I would hope they would use this information. They internally create a drug, based on information - then sell the drug to someone who actually knows how too distribute it.

Where these companies are scary, is if they sell personally identifiable information to insurers, or someone who can use the info to actually create rates based on your dna.

Or the other scary way in taking them, is in theory at some point an insurance company can ask if you have ever taken a dna test, and if yes, they could ask you to tell them about it, and then you can't lie.

pretty sure the above is currently illegal, but who knows in the future.
I'm working on a bug right now where we have some timestamps that are wrong. Just saying.
Do you think horses don't sweat ?
I'm working in this area, been doing a lot of "exploratory coding" that has evolved into something I find quite powerful, a modern spreadsheet application with features that I think makes it suited to the current time. (Summary at https://lightsheets.app)

At the moment I'm working on improving performance. I can already load 1 million rows into it without too much trouble, and the next step is to load some Kaggle-size CSV's (e.g. 5.6 GB) and then be able to run data cleaning or other transforms on it without it choking.

If anyone's interested in this kind of stuff feel free to drop me an email (in my profile)!
It tracks that I would not be the first person to think of this, but long term nuclear "waste" storage came to my mind immediately when I read the article.
And this is exactly what software engineers and other high-impact people should aim to do eventually.
If it uses the timestamp of the upload, rather than timestamp of the picture then it is possible. However I don't remember if Instagram could use pictures from the camera roll in first version.
When I was interviewing for roles at tech companies while working on Wall St., I remember having conversations with recruiters where I would tell them my salary and my bonus (which was usually 30-40% of my overall comp), and they would say something like, "We don't give out 30% bonuses here. Is that okay?" And I would say, "If you can match the overall comp, then yes, that's terrific."

The point being, bonuses are just a way for finance companies to flex your salary down when the firm has a bad quarter, or you're unvalued or working on an unvalued project. From that standpoint, I don't see bonuses going away any time soon, but if they do then all the better for the employees.
how so?

I see it as 'batteries not included'

So long ss batteries are standardized, it's not a problem.
I second this. People can go very, very far with simple and sand boxed Domain Specific Languages that are targeted towards the core function.

There are so many commercial successes for this approach: CAD, MATLAB, Simulink, LabVIEW, Dymola, Excel (?)

The biggest issue with many of these tools is that they tend to be closed source, proprietary formats, onerous licensing terms, not easily extended and aren't easy to deploy into an automated production workflow.

Some are addressing this with an option to export a compiled binary, but many try to up sell you complete ecosystems (PLM) to keep you locked into their proprietary formats. This tends to frustrate devs.
I keep reading this title, and thinking that it's going to propose a final solution to the vim vs emacs debate, or tabs vs spaces, or one of the other fonts of engineer discord.
The closest I've been to "no code" is using LabVIEW, Function blocks diagrams in PLCs, and more recently Node-RED.

I've seen engineers (with self-professed terrible programming skills) build working things with those tools - and yes, there's some code here and there. But those have been for rather specialized and smaller tasks...I can only imagine what a HUGE LabVIEW project would look like.
Well, yes, a 20 person standup is a little more than twice the maximum size conventional wisdom holds is appropriate, so it is going to suck to start with and much advice for normal 5-9 person stand-ups will be counterproductive and make it worse.
So this judge changed the interpretation of the laws which made student loans more easily dischargeable.

Any chance to make it into the supreme court? Cos arguably, this could make student loan widely dischargeable for people who need it
A good friend and old coworker has been hitting me up for how to do stuff with docker since his job now uses containers. He has about 15 containers (on 2 hosts) that do not change to much and was asking about setting up k8s (it was a buzzword his manager heard). i talked him into just setting up swarm.

It took all of about an hour (over text messaging) to get it set up and all stacks/services running. They could not be happier.

It comes down to the right tool for the job. If you don't need all the bells and whistles, then keep it stupid simple. I realize swarm is not a 100% "enterprise" solution, however before they they were just issuing docker command after each reboot.