skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a lot more status meetings going by the name "standup" than I've seen actual standups. A good clue is when there are people on totally different projects in the same "standup". If a lot of the people in the room are very unlikely to give a shit what most of the other people say for their part of the standup because they're not even working on the same things, that's a good sign you're actually in a status meeting. If someone's likely to get on your ass for being more concerned about surfacing blockers and communicating usefully with your actual team members than strictly following "yesterday I... today I will..." format, or folks are often getting "OK, but where are you at on X?" or "how much longer on Y?" follow-up questions from a PM or manager, not a direct contributor for whom X or Y is relevant, you're likely in a status meeting.
People will stay home if there’s no detriment to doing so, and you say people don’t want to suffer the productivity setbacks. What are those setbacks? If they can be addressed people will almost certainly stay home when sick.
Out of curiosity, what happened to her ?
I won't buy another iPad, because my perfectly good iPad has essentially died from being cut off from most of the services it needs to run. Apps have been "updated" to versions that won't work, and the ability to download older versions is sketchy at best. Most recently, I discovered that my magazine access has stopped working, so not only did I stop getting new issues, I can't download older content that wasn't on my iPad when they killed it. Discontinuing system software updates was bad enough, but actively killing off the functions it needs to keep operating at the old level is too much for me.
Nothing really specific to developers in the article, more a future of work / AI speculation and predictions for tools / processes used in teams
Likewise, good luck Brad!

Many probably already looking forward to what your "building something new" will be! :)
While I don't share the sentiment, I get the refusal to participate in the Apple App Store ecosystem. It's clear what the ideological issue there is.

But I do not at all understand the enmity some nerds have for non-replaceable batteries. Over the last 10 years it seems like Apple has run an experiment on whether batteries work better when they're tightly integrated and not replaceable, and that the results are demonstrably in. The performance I get from non-replaceable batteries has been so much better that I would automatically be suspicious of any device that had replaceable batteries. Meanwhile, if I really want to carry a spare battery with me, I still can; it just takes the form of a USB charger.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236722
What iPad do you have?
Not sure I ever heard of that being used seriously. FrontPage and Dreamweaver on the other hand...
>Should colleges be putting smart speakers in dorms?

No.

From the top of the article:

>Administrators say installing listening devices like Alexa in student bedrooms and hallways could help lower dropout rates.

No. Stop. Just stop.

In fact, I think installing these devices in the offices and conference rooms of administrators is a much better idea albeit just as 
minimally
 equally thought-out.
I supplied the 3,064 number. In Android, some of the changes get propagated to different branches by an automatic process. It's very much possible that the real number is lower by 10x or so (I didn't check)
When a Data Warehouse Can’t Keep It Real-Time
> The whole exercise felt like taking attendance.

In my experience, almost anyone who insists on synchronous, in-person standups is doing so because they want them to function this way, whether consciously or unconsciously.

I also suspect that standups with no active brevity constraint frequently come about not because of a lack of leadership but because they're actually a means for disordered thinkers to feel productive, which I think goes part of the way towards explaining why you see such irrational attachment to standups even among ICs.
automation is coming for all jobs, most people forget that it comes for developers first
> Of all the weird things in the US, a house having "too many" bathrooms really doesn't seem like a problem.

"Problem" is a bit dramatic, but it is annoying to me when a house I'm looking at has, say, "3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms." Who the heck needs that many bathrooms, and ultimately you're paying for all those toilets, and they're taking up square feet from living areas.

Also, hot take: en suites suck. I don't need to be _that_ close to where I take a crap. Feels like a prison-cell layout.
2.5 years is short now? Pretty sure that’s longer than Google’s median tenure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22130874
since this is explicitly against site guidelines... no, not particularly.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

If you want to learn about Kobe, tune into literally any other news outlet.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
f12 - Application tab - clear site data. Enjoy article.
Works for NYT, Medium, WP, not sure about WSJ.
>They don't say they're sorry,

>We’re very sorry for this truly unfortunate incident and we offer our sincere apologies to anyone impacted.

https://news.gandi.net/en/2020/01/major-incident-on-our-host... (linked in the Postmortem)
This link doesn't go to anything specific, just Twitter in general.
While I agree there is an even chance that Google will allow S4TF to fade away after Lattner's departure, that is more of a reflection on the company having no commitment or consistency to good ideas: ex: https://gcemetery.co

However S4TF should be taken seriously if you understand what they are trying to accomplish and how deeply they designed machine learning support into the language. Take a look at http://fast.ai new course offerings using S4TF. Swift has always been a long bet. If it doesn't work as you want it, is still short sighted to discount it in the future.

also: https://twitter.com/JokerEph/status/1221831507351748608
Great individuals should really reconsider joining Google. I saw this so many times, you get lured by the money and the big name and after a couple years what you do is associated with Google only.

I'm wondering if they will be able to sustain this now that the Google brand-name is not specifically being seen as a good thing anymore.
https://ukhas.org.uk/ has some really good information for people launching balloons in the UK (such as how to track them, along with the power etc. you can use).

I've only tracked one once, using an old scanner and antenna, but I'd like to get a decent collinear antenna to use with an SDR.
Given that the researcher was a participant directly, and that he lied about his actions (he in fact presented suicidal thoughts, etc), I believe the balance of evidence says we should reject the study.
The scale would be orders of magnitude bigger.
Ex-user myself, and although I can empathise with your disappointment, I frankly have to disagree with your small business owner parable.

It was never easy as advertised. Novices even had trouble following the tutorials and making significant modifications to them. Basic tasks, as those mentioned, were easier accomplished with Google Sheets. And if they needed more they'd get someone professional to do Apps Script. Hence how I know of their pains.
This reminds me of my site back in 2006. It was an art project, not unlike yours. It was not in english, but in language barely anybody speaks (a few million speakers). And unlike your retrospect, it was about beginning of a journey not completely unlike yours.

What i'm saying is that your site hit a string in me. I like it.
Examples of Bauhaus Graphic Design
Notable that the word "Perl" appears nowhere in his write up of technical legacy.

He was once Chief Architect at Six Apart, developers of the Perl-based Movable Type blogging platform which once rivaled Wordpress.
Passport.js

The issue here is that rails is full stack, while the three libs you mention are frontend only. You will need something for the backend like Express or Prisma
> Honestly, I too was looking for a straightforward 'We screwed up, sorry.'

They do so a bit here: https://news.gandi.net/en/2020/01/major-incident-on-our-host...

>We’re very sorry for this truly unfortunate incident and we offer our sincere apologies to anyone impacted.
After reading through the guides on the official website I went through the course on learnelixir.tv- basically the creator runs through each topic in the language in a series of videos in his code editor. I think it's $20 or so for permanent stream/download access and access to any new videos he puts out. (Maybe the creator is on HN?) I got most of my team up to speed on elixir this way.
"Most" is not "all."

The fact that the biggest basketball player in a generation died is arguably a "new phenomenon."

There's plenty of stories that are upvoted that are covered by the news. It's not really just about learning that he died so much as having a thoughtful conversation around him and his legacy from this community's perspective.
‘Floating feedlots’: animals spending weeks at sea on ships not fit for purpose
I noticed it too and it definitely took my respect for this community down a notch. There is an unfortunate air of condescension towards "sportsball" in the tech world.

Pity, there was an interesting discussion to be had about the decision to fly the helicopter into bad weather.
I don't have a dog in the fight. I'm just reading the article casually. I understand the point you are making and have some sense of why Redis has the license structure it has. I don't have any criticism of it. I'm glad for its success.

The description of Redis would be out of place in an article about Redis. For an article about licensing, the statements about Redis are not a terrible way of pointing out that there are a myriad of flavors in the world of open source. The description has cosign similarity not relational calculus's exactitude. But I still see why it might elicit your response.

Anyway, thanks for all the fish.
I've seen a similar accidental case where some internal cable in the PSU had gotten dislodged and was partially in the path of the fan blades, with the repeated contact making a chainsaw-like noise. Luckily it was discovered before the fan cut through the casing on the wire.
Watch+Strap: Extending Smartwatches with Interactive StrapDisplays [pdf]
No, it just means they are hiding the "Skip" button in the Qt SDK installer.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/sEDMC.png

End-users don't have to install the Qt SDK.
Could the glial cells be somehow responsible for backpropagation in the brain?
Love seeing Watts in the wild. That site is a gold mine for interesting bits of biology (and more).
The whole point would be to not have a zillion features. Project management is to serve projects, not to become a thing of its own.
So many companies, even non-tech companies with tech divisions adopted this plague and now it seems there is no turning back. I find the constant movement to be the biggest distraction over noise.
Since we're recommending other language tools, I've found the Michel Thomas method to be really effective. Better than Pimsleur: https://www.michelthomas.com/
You'll want to find out the laws in your area about launching them. In the US, you can launch them freely without necessarily notifying anyone as long as they're below a certain weight and meet other requirements (maximum breaking strength of the line used to attach the balloon to payload, using a radar reflector, etc.) However, it's still HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you call and let any airports know if you're launching close to one.

Look into APRS and how to build (or you can purchase one) an APRS GPS transmitter, that'll be the most important bit as if that isn't working, you'll very likely never find your balloon. Once that's working, you can use a site like aprs.fi to track the balloon in realtime from a laptop/mobile device and follow it as it flies. Keep in mind it could VERY well travel over a hundred miles. We launched ours from Decorah, Iowa and we had legitimate concerns about wind patterns causing it to fly as far as Chicago.

I'd also recommend looking into how to build a "Fox" and how to foxhunt. That's a big part of these balloon launches too! Once you've gotten as close as you can with GPS (once the balloon falls below a certain altitude, relays will stop picking it up on APRS so you'll have only a general idea of where it fell), you'll want to use a directional (for instance, a Yagi-Uda) antenna and a handheld radio to try to directionally locate the fallen payload. Funnily enough for us, we didn't have to foxhunt since it landed in the middle of a guy's field, when we parked across from his house, he asked what we were up to - he was friendly and just curious - and we told him, he said he thought he saw something shiny in his field and assumed it was garbage blown over from the road or something and let us come over to look at it. Turns out it was our balloon! The shiny thing was the radar reflector.

Then, put whatever you want in your payload really! We used a paint can stuffed with foam (it gets REAL cold up there, like -100F, keep that in mind!) and shoved sensors into it and attached a 360 gopro to the side. You can find stuff about how to build temperature/humidity/etc data logging setups that log to an SD card. I'd also recommend that after you retreive your balloon, go to some place like aprs.fi and download the GPS track data from the launch! Those sites don't keep it around forever, you'll definitely want a copy for yourself.

You can get the balloons themselves quite easily, and welding gas suppliers should be able to get you a cylinder of helium.

Good luck!
If the teams themselves don't want a standup, you're probably gonna get a "dead standup". The actually-useful-to-the-team part of the standup is something a team that's been exposed to such will probably self-organize without some not-on-the-team leader or manager telling them to, if they feel they need it for their situation/project. I'd say imposed standups are only useful for teams that aren't already familiar with them (the done-right version of them, that is) so may need an introduction to understand that it might be something they want to do, or as a simple micromanaging status meeting under a trendier name.
Hard to standardize on something that can't be maintained in the same place all your other filesystems are in (in the Kernel) for licensing reasons.
I have met the writer and he is a nice fella but he is so preposterously missing any kind of substance in this article. A lot of great Apple technology has the ability to get out of your way and I often feel that people are being angry on principle. Making things maintainable or serviceable is a design requirement from the get-go, with all kinds of trade-offs and compromises that are endlessly speculated about on the web. But some people seem to think these trade-offs don’t exist. Hypercard? Great at the time. How much did a Mac cost to run it though? Anyway, this article is poorly thought-out and badly-written on top, with absolutely nothing to offer that you didn’t already know.
How do you measure the performance you get from non replaceable batteries is better? Batteries have generally been getting better.
Last Friday's xkcd happens to be very relevant! https://xkcd.com/2259/
Totally agree. It's useful to bear in mind European legal systems are different, and more spirit of the law. It's hard to imagine these highly knowledgable people didn't know what they were doing, and the trial will try to show this.

German culture also doesn't encourage or reward rule breaking. Famously, you don't jaywalk. (There are downsides to this, see Tesla vs German car industry.) This doesn't bode well for anybody involved with Cum-Ex deals.
There is advertising on Google Maps and YouTube, and if I recall correctly, YouTube has been profitable in recent years, and I imagine Maps will be the same if it's not already.

It's hard to find numbers online, but it seems like Maps generates about 10 billion in annual revenue, and YouTube 10-20 billion. For comparison, Netflix has 20 billion in annual revenue and 1-2 billion in annual profits.

The person I was replying to said Google is the most unhealthy of the FAANG companies with nothing to show aside from search. But... one part of their "nothing" generates as much revenue as one of those FAANG companies.

Google is one of my least favorite businesses, but I feel like everyone is downplaying their accomplishments and diversity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093787
While true, phage therapy was dismissed as propagandized pseudoscience from the Soviet Union since they were the pioneers in the initial research (and the research did appear dodgy TBH). The landscape has changed, but really recently that was not the case and many microbiologists viewed anything phage related as utter nonsense. I am happy to see more research happening.
Ha, I forgot about that door opener! I found the page: https://bradfitz.com/misc/projects/remotedoor/
Same with me. I just figured out at some point, 10 years ago, that it is nice to have snapshots on root disk. And figured out FreeBSD is supporting ZFS. Tryed it, loved it, used it. The ZFS on linux was destabilized in latest versions (`ls /.zfs/snapshots`) and they blew it considerably by adding it to systemd (I need to reboot fedora multiple times before it boots ever since), but at least I know that my data are not lost (unlike btrfs, had two major crashes in two years). Quite frankly I'll rather wait for Raisser to get out of jail than use btrfs again. Anyway, I bet on Hammer2.
For that level, I would consider it short - no?
What do you prefer to Jira? At a former workplace we used Gitlab, which was a pleasant suite to use. These days we use Atlassian and often find myself incredibly frustrated by their products
Why You Should Try FastAPI
Call it simplified_jira

And stop adding features unless 90% of customer demands it. Sometimes it’s worth it to tell other people: you don’t need this feature.
Google Drive is out of service in some areas
Here here! Having only worked in object oriented languages before, learning Elixir completely changed the way I think about programming.
Can't remember ever closing an article I was interested in reading simply because I had difficulty processing the font. The narrow font face on the white background just makes it unbearable to look at, it's so narrow. It actually hurts my brain after a while.
Prometheus internally, for metrics. You will want something outside of your stuff for uptime, in case things get real bad.
I think they're largely fine with carrying a USB charger, the complaint is that the built-in battery is known to degrade over time. If your device has a removable battery, you can get a new one and pop it in. But when everything is sealed together that becomes a much riskier job.

A lot of people replace their phones on a 2-3 year cycle. If you could get a new battery for $30 and install it yourself in 30 seconds, would people be throwing less phones out?

You'll note that Apple's warranty language (and probably everyone else's) specifically defines batteries as a "consumable part." Given that, it's a bit of a dick move to make them so difficult to replace.
The color itself isn't the thing really. It's what the color represents: all of the features that iMessage provides don't work with SMS. Instead of little icon reactions, there are long messages ("pwinnski liked 'Okay, see you there'"), location-sharing is ugly, URL-previews are wonky, etc, etc.

It's a diminished experience because SMS is a terrible protocol, the color just lets us know what to expect.
I want to second this sentiment and EXPLICITLY call out Mozilla.

I am the lead dev for a relatively small Firefox extension. We do not do ANY tracking.

We were rejected and removed for simply including the sdk for Microsoft outlook addins as a script in one of our html pages (we share the codebase for an outlook addon as well). This script is well documented and published by Microsoft.

I find the hypocrisy here staggering.

I know that Firefox gets a lot of love, particularly on HN because it feels like Mozilla is still a trustworthy company. I want to clearly express that I no longer believe this. They want addons in the store that they can use for marketing and sales. Period.
I doubt any single party owns enough compute to perform 51% attack on Bitcoin. Not now, maybe in the future if bitcoin's popularity significantly dies, they can do that.
LTS and offline installer to become commercial-only

"All you freeloaders will become the test monkeys for our actual paying customers" :)
Pretty sure I'm not missing the point, because that's exactly what I said, in different words.

I specifically agreed that, if you can replace the assignment given to the miners ("replace the pool and announce their own work to you"), and see the output, then you can steal the work. It was in this paragraph:

>>Okay I see what you mean about replacing the work assignments going to the miners -- if you could tell them to solve a different block/fingerprint (hash of new block + previous block) and receive their output, then you can steal their hashing power.

That is an agreement with your:

>In a route hijack, an attacker can replace the pool and announce their own work to you, and receive all results you produce.

That is me communicating agreement that that's the attack that "makes sense" as in your sentence here:

>They're going to replace the work that's sent to you in the first place, because that's what makes sense.

I made my original because it sounded like you were saying a miner not (separately) authenticating their output to the pool would be an issue, which I now see you (always) agreed is orthogronal; my only objection in the follow-up was that your comment was addressing something different than I originally raised:

>>>That's not correct in practice. There's no authentication of the work going to the miner at all, so an attacker can just change the destination before the miner even sees the work.

>>I was referring here to the solutions the miners send out.

So, if I agree with you on every question of what and where the threat is and is not, and said so with slightly different words than you did, what point do you think I'm fundamentally missing?
Really tragic. RIP.
Many people create content to achieve some other goal, like activism, education, or building a business, which usually benefits from many other people seeing the content.
I was kind of having the same idea, except any site you bookmark gets added to a personal web crawler, and then you have your own search site for things you find interesting.
No mentions of https://tiddlywiki.com/?
Microsoft forced to create a free Windows 7 update just days after updates ended
Kobe Bryant raped a woman. That may have had something to do with it.
Avoid “premature optimization” doesn’t mean avoid “optimization”.

What is “premature” is project dependent.

It is not premature to start 99% focused on optimization for a project where achieving an efficiency threshold is needed to validate project viability.

“Avoid premature anything” is tautological.

“Performance first” violates a tautology. All I need to say about that.

We need tautological reminders, because we humans easily forget obviousness in the face of complexity.
How about a malicious country/government that is capable of doing this?