skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in this situation what the team learned is that the new developer isn't confident making the change and that if they pick up the task they should expect to help them get up to speed. This outcome is preferable to someone else estimating the task from on high and handing it over to someone who then spins their wheels and feels pressured to do it in an unrealistic amount of time. It's about visibility. It's also an opportunity to clarify what is expected-often different estimates come down to different interpretations of what the story is asking for!
The article specifically claims that Safegraph only provided location pings.

All other data came from correlating that data with census data.

The actual BS that is going on is that this data is being collected by "numerous smartphone apps (e.g. local news, weather etc.)"

More reasons to not install apps unless necessary.
This is a perfect example of a concrete problem arising from lack of privacy in electronic devices. It's not some abstract fear of being manipulated, but instead a simple and direct invasion of privacy that leads to dire consequences.

I didn't know police had such free access to Google data btw. This is super concerning to me.
But that's the thing, there are risk premiums, but most of the time their not priced in way that reflects the risk "accurately" because the writers don't think they'll have to pay out (and as along as most insurance works by calculating payout probabilities and collecting payment as income, there will be systemic incentives to massage probabilities of the unlikeliest events, rather than say, treating it as short term loan where you can derive income from lending part of it in money markets while still covering payouts, and returning the value/rolling the coverage for the next interval).

And sure, it might enable companies to survive longer if premiums were higher, but "bad" companies/projects can still come into existence because its not obvious ahead of time that if choosing at random (or even if you made an better than random guess, you cant eliminate the possibility), which particular company will be a "bad" company, or a "bad" project.
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It is often used as a synonym for “sympathy.”
The only way you can fix scrum is by burning it on the stake. One of the core principles of Agile is to recognize that the best work emerges from self-organized teams. however, most scrum methodologies completely ignore this and put control back in the hands of senior management by introducing heavy handed processes (daily stand ups, retrospective, bi-weekly planning sessions, scrum masters, etc). You know you are in trouble when a team introduces a definition of done and you are in deep trouble when senior management starts discussion burn down rate charts of completely made up story points.
Do you know how many old people die every day from respiratory problems similar to Corona symptoms? But until the corona showed up no one cared. Coming to work sick with a flu was a common thing everywhere I worked. Sending sick kids to school etc. People stay at home now because there are too many unknowns. Once it's treated as another flu things will go back to normal.
I feel like you've gotta either be willing to give the benefit of the doubt or treat empathy as by definition inapplicable to corporations. It's always possible to come up with a story where companies doing nice things are secretly just maximizing profits.
And there's no way this kind of study could factor that in. Maybe people don't go as often to the stores where this is prevalent, but maybe the positive image it gives them of the chain causes them to go to other franchises more frequently.
> don't have to spend personal funds

No, they spend taxpayers funds!
never have i ever been involved with a _successful_ software project where product decisions were made entirely by product people and handed off to design/eng.

in my limited experience, good product builders exploit leverage points that in order to solve customer problems / test assumptions quickly. for example, usually the product people don't know how flow X is really easy to restructure like Y and solve the same problem. kind of related, but pushing all the speccing responsibility to product is also kind of boring for me as an IC.
The aircraft could probably be safe and pass certification with MCAS in place, but the following issues made it dangerous:

* It was undocumented.

* It had too much control authority. It was able to adjust the trim such that the elevator could not overcome the trim's pitch-down force, and such that the average pilot did not have enough strength to use the manual trim wheel to neutralize the trim in a dive.

* They removed the switch to turn it off. On older 737s, there's one switch to turn off automated control of stabilizer trim, and another to disconnect power to the motor, completely disabling electric trim. On the Max, both switches perform the latter function.

* They made it rely on only one sensor. I can't imagine the logic for that since two sensors are physically present, and damage to AOA sensors is not rare.

* The AOA disagree warning light, which would have clued pilots in to the presence of a faulty sensor was not present in most aircraft, despite documentation to the contrary.
Take it further: Why spend billions in the first place on tools that aren't compatible with their system?

Surely you don't have to buy two to find out they don't include the source code.
GP meant the dictionary definition

>the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
I was surprised when I visited the Starbucks on University Avenue in Palo Alto recently: the bathrooms require a code to enter. The baristas happily gave me the code, and I wonder if homeless are also able to get it, but it did seem a bit weird. Wouldn't an easier solution be to just say that bathrooms are reserved for customers?
In authoritarian states you frequently get situations where you're punished for not meeting certain bureaucratic metrics. For example, in China word is factory output is used as a proxy for productivity, so they're allegedly running factories without producing anything just to raise the power bill to appear productive.

Face is ingrained in Chinese culture partly because in an authoritarian state where your behavior must fall within rigidly defined qualitative and quantitative metrics, appearances are everything.
How about https://www.packet.com/solutions/kubernetes/ ?
Politics and the impact of bureaucracy?

It was common that quotas were created by leadership who were often not close enough to the need to properly design the quota. That got passed down through multiple layers of management, all of whom could care less if the trains were full and were more interested in meeting the quota so could advance in their career.

People complain about unethical behavior in capitalist systems, but that's not a property of capitalism, that's a property of humans.
I appreciate the cynicism, but I find it incompatible with more typical cynicism.

This could just as easily be a single executive implementing a comprehensive policy without justification based on a personal hunch.
Meltdown goes much further back than that, potentially all the way to the Pentium Pro (1995)

It was also independently implemented in POWER and ARM A75
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GP mis-spoke, s/he meant "O(N) of what?" rather than "N of what?"
Zerhoedge has also been a month ahead of the media with respect to coronavirus reports.

The fact that ZH speculates about conspiracies does not mean that everything on their site is BS.
I agree that DO is awesome. I'd argue though that they can make a better UI because they offer less. Everything is a littler simpler. It would be hard to condense AWS into a similar type of interface.

Having said that, DO is enough for virtually everything I've ever worked on, and the user experience and price are so much better. They're a clear winner for almost everything I do these days.
In Italy the average age of patients who have died is 81
Errr, right, N counts input, N^2 or whatever should count stalls. I should learn not to post from on the train.
The word is commonly misused. What they probably mean is sympathy, but that isn't really right either. The correct word would be compassion or altruism.

But /altruism/ is a word that sometimes sets people off.
"Using a large panel of anonymized cellphone location data" Some completely normal and academically ethical practices right here.
One doesn’t have to anything, and indeed, I won’t. You’re concern trolling.
Indeed. Anyone who follows zerohedge has probably noticed that the economy was on the brink of collapse every single week of the past decade.

I do follow zerohedge since they often report on things others won't, but I take their analysis with a grain of salt.
For HTTP, an external load balancer/CDN such as CloudFlare or Fastly could easily fulfill that role, though you obviously have to jump through a few more hoops to get there, since it's not built in. But with some of them you also get things like TLS termination, DNS hosting, advanced rewriting, caching, and DDOS protection.
As other have pointed out, they probably didn't have a bunch of executives sit around in an empathy session. They made a cost benefit analysis that this was the best course of action given the current cultural/political climate.

Nothing to do with empathy.
If anything it reminds me of the criticism of F.R Leavis who often railed against a tendency of making English more Germanic and thus less elegant, often in pursuit of filling one's writings with a professional jargon that would sound more intelligent and devoid of energy.
Might consider a pre-emptive approach that always keeps a few warmed up and ready to receive a request. The determination on how many to keep warm could be a function of traffic over the last X period of time.
The article is about rules in Europe.
Call me old but what is so great about the smart key? Not having to pull it out of your pocket? I know this is an old rant already but car have reached the crappyfication curve, when something cannot improve its main purpose anymore it starts adding unneeded features to be able to push a “new” product.
Fitbit bought the company and presumably the IP (what else is there to buy?) so it would be up to them.
The problem with restricting (psychedelic) therapy to supervised, one-on-one clinical settings is that these places by their nature cannot provide experiences, intimate connections and understanding that are necessary for self-discovery, -healing and -improvement.

The transactional institution that doctors, therapists and mental health hospitals represent can only provide a foundation and safe environment for such opportunities.

Talking to people who have or had similar life experiences, who truly know how the pain one suffers feels and what it means to live that way from the inside is of the highest value.
The Lovins Stemming Algorithm
Normally if you're doing SAfE at the Enterprise level, you're also doing Scrum at the team level. Scrum is preferred, but not required.
That would match the behavior of a boomer liquidating his portfolio before retirement.
Cellular location data is not nearly as precise as GPS. A cell tower could serve an area of many square miles (the fewer users there are in the area, the larger an area the tower can accommodate), so just knowing which cell tower you're talking to can't place you at a particular address.
This is just another instance of the classic Soviet problem. A scarce resource is allocated by a government bureaucracy instead of a market, and the bureaucracy's design is imperfect, so nonsensical incentives fall out of it sometimes.

There's no irony. It's just kind of quirky for the West to manage flight/landing slots this way, instead of an auction (as the FCC does with spectrum).
Take the case of F-35, the only country which has source codes apart from the U.S. is the UK. A very special exemption. They are also the only Tier 2 partner.

Everybody else has basically a black box of code given to them in terms of code for the aircraft.
The most complicated orbit in history: The ISEE-3 mission in KSP | RO+Principia
What do you think concern trolling is?

And the "have to" has an implied "to get the math right". You're being weirdly hostile to take that literally.
> “How can we, as software developers, minimise the chance of building the wrong thing?”

I had an immediate histamine reaction to this statement. With a site title like Risk First, it’s like he’s standing right next to the solution but looking the other way. I suppose we’ll see in the next article if he’s being coy setting up a scenario so he can make a dramatic turn or not. I’m worried he’s instead being sincere.

But that question? It’s so much the wrong question. We know from surveys that couching questions the wrong way invites certain answers and precludes others. So I have some questions of my own, that are biased toward my agenda.

Who cares if you built the wrong thing? Or more informatively, why do you care that you built the wrong thing? Is it because you were wrong? Oh boo boo. This is a trap intellectuals set for themselves all the time.

You want to know the stuff I recall from school? It’s often the stuff I got wrong on the test. I get it. It’s a bad feeling. But bad feelings aren’t automatically bad. There are worse things in life and software than bad feelings. Like hollowness. A grey heckscape of empty mediocrity teaches you almost nothing and doesn’t even leave you with a story to tell. Nothing happened at all, and it was horrible.

How do we, as software developers, minimise our investment (time, energy, mindshare) in building the wrong thing? That’s a much better question. And some times it means steering toward the stupid, or the crazy, instead of just being averse. Steering past it, not away from it.
sssh they don’t know that yet
On an anecdotal note: As someone who is self employed, I used to sit at Starbucks a lot to get work done in a different environment than my home. Getting out really helps me.

However, I've started to avoid Starbucks because of the homeless issue. I'm in SoCal, and I completely relate to the struggles of the homeless. I even donate my time to a local food pantry and our shelter. The smell and crazy stares are one thing, but what really drives me away is the bathroom use. The Starbucks near me have 1-2 bathrooms, and it's happened to me that these bathrooms can be occupied by a homeless person for 30+ minutes. This is an unreasonable amount of time for me to wait when I have to go and coffee is a diuretic.

Now when I want to work outside my home I drive to a library that's in an area without public transportation or nearby places for the homeless to congregate, and I can use it because of that. There's a starbucks with similar characteristics (not near public transport, no place to congregate near by), but it's too far. The library that's closer to me, the one I would prefer to go to, is completely overrun by homeless.

The homeless issue is so complex. Every solution has its pros and cons. The terrible thing is that there seems to be two sides to our communities and each side seems to only see the pros or cons of any solution (depending on their ideological bend) while the other does the same. No one seems to be weighing the pros AND cons in a reasonable way, or accepting that there are no perfect solutions. The issue is so polarized, even very intelligent people seem incapable of even admitting something as simple, and I would hope obvious, as the fact that any solution will have pros and cons. It's as if there's no getting past 'the other tribe has terrible ideas' mentality.
I did a bit of digging and found some (old) data to (largely) back me up! The Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report in 2000 [2] on "Defense Counsel in Criminal Cases". The following points are for defendants in state court in the 75 largest counties. The report has data for Federal defendants, too, and the broader picture looks pretty similar for them. According to the report, only 5% of criminal cases are in Federal courts.

- Felony defendants were represented by publicly-financed attorneys over 80%(!) of the time.

- Defendants with public and private attorneys had similar conviction rates. They pled out at similar rates, too.

- Defendants with public attorneys were more likely to get prison sentences, but got shorter sentences on average.

- Defendants with private attorneys who were already in prison (i.e., convicted) talked to their lawyers earlier and more often. The part about prison just seems to be because that's where they collected the data.

- Defendants with public attorneys got pretrial release a lot less often (50% vs 80%) than those with private attorneys. This looks to me like it's mostly about not being able to afford bail.

- Workloads for Federal appointed attorneys rose faster than spending on them. I would guess the same to be true of state courts and for the trend to have continued to today.

[1] http://civilrighttocounsel.org/, the civil right to counsel I forgot in my post.

[2] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dccc.pdf
2000 appears to be the most recent report on this subject. It's possible they've collected more recent data elsewhere and I didn't turn it up.
Source post: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/airlines-are-flying-...
FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Merging
Not really. Have you ever done the maths on what it costs to recover 1TB in a recovery situation.

Definitely not worth it.
I would modify this: Software increases our effectiveness at what it's applied to.

Sometimes, that's what we were doing before. Sometimes it isn't.
Yeah, or Telegram. Telegram is not even end-to-end encrypted by default, you need to open a secret chat, which of course is not supported on PC!

Wire is lame, too, it stopped supporting older Android versions, so I cannot use it on my ~3 years old phone. I will no longer be vouching for them, they have done nothing but make it worse through many different ways.
Maybe. Saying the outcome is much worse is too early. There are many numbers reported that are likely incorrect. The Corona ship had around 700 people infected and less than one precent died (six people). All were 70+. We don't know if they had any pre-existing conditions but at least two of the people who died were close to 90. That's much lower than some of the numbers coming from China and Italy. But at least we can trust the numbers from the ship since it was a "controlled experiment".
There is something weird going on. There are only ~4000 confirmed cases in Italy but people in multiple countries returning back from Italy bring the virus with them.

How they manage to find these infected people out millions of Italians?

Can somebody explain this to non-virologist?
OMG do you have links where I can read more? So that's why they did this whole mess! It never made sense to me that saving a little money on certification was the reason for this but if the plane couldn't be certified today as a new plane ... that'd make a lot more sense.
I think people are reading into it deeper than they need to. When the news says things like "people are stockpiling X" then a lot of other people who otherwise don't wear tinfoil hats might be more inclined to stockpile some X for themselves to avoid needing it when the stores have already run out. It's not that they are worried that coronavirus will suddenly make them need so much toilet paper, but that the apparent toilet paper hoarding forces people to stock up before they run out.

In that regard, I see it as a cyclical sheeple problem.
Yet it's work that funds the taxes that would pay for basic income.

Unless people are willing to take a massive decrease in quality of life to fund such a system, it will never happen.
It's linked in the article at the bottom.
I also live in Vietnam for 4 years now. The forced school closures have really impacted the economy.

All the school teachers are not getting paid and a lot are stiffed on their contracts. There is no viable actual recourse in Vietnm. Many have to leave the country as a result and now won't be back because they leave on bad terms. You see them posting constantly in the expat groups looking for help.

The teachers eat at all the expat places and tourism has been decimated... so all the non-local restaurants are suffering and will go out of business since they already operate on small margins. Viet landlords are more than happy (greedy) to have a place go empty than reduce rents... entire streets have shut down [1] literally over night.

Places like Halong Bay, who depend entirely on tourist revenue have stopped all cruises and those workers, who make tiny salaries, are now out of work.

What I'm trying to say is that the ripple effects are going to be huge in Vietnam... it isn't going to be pretty and it isn't going to magically fix itself over night. Especially as more cases keep cropping up.

[1] https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/business/20200305/stores-close-e...
I completely agree with that. The article refers to a trickle so far of interest. It was non-existent over a decade ago. If they get good returns that is and brag about it, then it might be a “flood”.
This is like not wearing your seatbelt so you can escape faster if you're in a crash.
Oil prices crash as OPEC fails to tackle coronavirus crisis
I remember Starbucks catching a lot of hell because on 2001-09-11 they made rescue workers pay for water a downtown NYC location.
Tbh I feel like Gen X'ers will make better older people than Boomers ever could.
That's really cool! Besides identifying abrupt changes in metric X, for me the most difficult part is trying to understand what caused this change in X. Great to know that you have this issue in the roadmap, but do you think it's possible to develop a model/automation that is generic enough to be used in different business ?
Maybe analysing the correlation between different time series could be a way to go ?
> but honestly, this isn't that bad of a virus to warrant that.

How bad would it have to be?
What is Starbucks getting on the benefit side of the equation? Fewer visits, less money spent, and less time spent in locations.
Yes, people have to work together and all roles have something important to contribute. I have been in plenty of situations where product managers and users tried to solve a problem and I could guide the discussion towards solutions that made sense development wise and also satisfied the users. Having customers or product people defining solutions alone is a surefire recipe for misdesigned systems.
PR has a positive as well as a negative value and the backlash from changing this would be negative PR and impact sales, if by carrying on they gain no value and more neutral PR.

Though it is bemusing as a PR example as it is a case of allowing people to Pee or else they will go aRggghh. Public Relations will never sound the same from now on.
Over the phone - sure, nobody at Goldman Sachs will pick up to receive your buy order for $10k, but many bonds trade on electronic markets. You can just place an order there.
Being Agile has often little to do with being agile. True "agile" development has nothing to do with story points, daily stand up, bi-weekly planning poker sessions, retrospectives, spikes, scrum masters, etc, etc
Unfortunately this isn't about helping people. I think they feel pressured to do some thing related to the physical stores to avoid an optics problem. And this is the problem they are trying to solve, not poverty.
Damned if they do...damned if they don't. Why don't you just appreciate the actions if you can't assume someone is acting in good faith ? Have you opened up your bathrooms for the homeless ?