skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's impossible to say without knowing the product, technology, codebase, etc. In some cases, yes, absolutely -- you would have three separate teams with three separate leads. In other cases, there isn't a reasonable way to split it up. Either way, there's no reason for the standup to last 45 minutes.

Whether the codebase should also be split up is another question that is impossible to answer in general. I can speak from experience though and say it's easy to have two teams work on the same large codebase when they're focusing on different areas, different projects, different priorities, etc. I've seen 3-4 different web teams work on the same website with the same underlying codebase without any issues at all because it was clear in advance that their work wasn't going to directly conflict in any way. It would've been hugely counterproductive to force all those people into a single standup and a single team.
Windows, Linux, and web, for a messaging app. Alrighty.
A bad Telegram ripoff, basically.
I wondered this before joining a large tech company. As it turns out, a lot of engineering is done on experimentation to optimize the product. Only a small portion of users might see the experiment, and many don't succeed.

An example might be complying with food and alcohol law in a single region, which you would never see unless you lived there. Another example might be a complete experimentally gated refactor that shaves 1 second off loading time. A lot of effort would go into simply making sure the change can be turned off, and verifying with unit tests, which takes time and effort.

These projects might be pointless on a small app, but in a large business might be worth millions to the company.

Another aspect is your changes often have to be approved by a lot of people, which is not the case on small projects. Your projects are also analyzed by data scientists, to make sure they're not harming the business - and if they are, your work might be thrown out, which contributes to even less visible change to outsiders.

All of these in concert slow things down, and necessitate staff.
The site looks great, love the scale feature! What's your target demographic? I could see interior designers/companies who stage houses being a huge market for you.
Oh wow, thank you, this is really, really helpful to know!

We're so used to the paying-in-installments piece that we must have gotten blind to the fact that people seeing it for the first time would think it's the total price.

Same thing with the delta – it's always 1 / 24 of the final price (you pay the artwork off over two years), with a minimum monthly price of $30 (for the artist's sake.) Put differently,

if ( fullPrice / 24 ) > 30
monthlyPrice = fullPrice / 24
else
monthlyPrice = 30
end

(edited for line breaks)
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We’re not trying to replace others, just make something easy my life, btw the team integration on the road.

Any feedback is appreciated.
Not sure if you're familiar with reddit but question posts like that are incredibly common, especially in regards to technology questions and the like. It's still a forum when you get down to it so lots of people like myself post questions on niche topics because you can find small communities of experts on everything from dogs to obscure vintage computers.

Just saying, as a huge user of reddit - I'd expect the same as OP, those seem like reasonable searches to get those results.
> it was cooler

Cooler for some. Infuriating for others.

Do you remember that feature that you could use to "call someone's attention"? It would make a lot of noise and the window would shake like crazy in your face.

Found it. The "nudge" feature.

https://youtu.be/9QrS2cEyNrA?t=70
The ordinary flu would be much worse if we didn't vaccinate for it
The selection of work seems pretty high quality, but I'm curious - how does the artist/art selection process work?

I come from a fine arts background and have always had issues with the contemporary art scene for it's artist to curator/gallery process. In general, social status and popularity seem to be the main currency for getting great art visible to the public.

I would love to see a service like this that enables more "undiscovered" high quality work to be shown, and for more unrecognized artists to get paid for what they love, but at the same time opening it up too all work could lower the overall quality of the available work.

Curation is hard - what system do you have in place for it?
Not to mention the fact that I suspect most people interested in purchasing fine art aren't exactly the type who care to finance the purchase.
It's difficult to assess one's "comfort" with the math. I've been working with crypto for more then 10 years and I wouldn't say that I'm perfectly "comfortable" (e.g. the Ristretto stuff). Should I stop working with it?
I think people forget that they gave 48h warning before the lockdown happened causing a huge amount of what was likely infected people to flee.
Unfortunately, I trained only on what Reddit told me are the most popular 4k subreddits :) It was not trained on r/DevelEire :/

So, I think i need to train it on more subreddits to make it more useful. Thanks for sharing!
Sorry, I can't get behind changing the database design to accommodate under-specified data contracts and/or lazy software development.
I will forever be grateful to Elm, for introducing me to Functional programming. And the helpful community. But a lot of things could've been handled differently in that community. e.g if Elm had been made sort of the route that ReasonML is trying to go i.e a functional ML wrapper around JS. with full inter-op without the message passing madness.
That door is beautifully done.
Hitting the back button after initial visit gives me a login prompt. That's pretty annoying...

https://imgur.com/605DZMN
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That's good.

The cumulative deaths are now doubling at a slower rate (something like 5.5 days?), partly because stronger social distancing measures have been put in place.

But also, let's see what the CDC says next week, because those figures are laggier but more accurate.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
I use Python a few times a month for some simple scripting usually. Every time I have to look up how to use `range()` correctly, usually because I forgot if it's inclusive or exclusive. Academics that are used to Matlab or Julia will also have to look up if it starts at 0 or 1.

Furthermore, it's obvious what `time()` does in this context, but if I was writing this code I would _absolutely_ have to look up the correct time function to use for timing a function.
I like the idea of making art more accessible by spacing out the payment. Congratulations on the launch!

I won't comment on the art for sale, because I think it is too much in the eye of the beholder but I will give some feedback on your website and concept.

- Why fixed installments? Why not say "this piece costs 300$ buy now, or pay 10 installments of 35$ or 20x20$" (forget the numbers, just an example).

- why are there so few pictures of the work? If I buy a piece of art I want to look at it from all angles, get up close, see the structure, see it from far, see the frame etc.

- since you got excited from seeing artists' workspace, why not show them to us? Why not show those cool warehouses/storage containers/houses where the art is piled floor to ceiling?

- When I click on an artist's bio, the last thing I want to see is a full-bleed picture of his face. I want to see where he works, how he is inspired or how this piece was formed.

- out of curiosity: how did you come up with the 30/70 split between fees/artist's check? How do the artists respond? Have you had anyone say the fees are too high?
Don't forget about amber road that moved amber to other side of the world. They didn't go back with empty hands.
A lot of great progress is happening in PackageCompiler.jl (large binaries, very useable) and StaticCompiler.jl (small binaries, still immature).

I'd argue that Julia is much closer to having a good static compilation story than Swift or Nim are to having vibrant scientific ecosystems.

> Plus it's easier to package binaries than scripts which usually require Docker to deal with dependencies in a sane way.

Julia does have a really good story for reproducible dependency management. We learned a lot of valuable lessons by looking at Python's dumpsterfire.
Why do you assume they're features the parent liked from other languages rather than features to make Go a better language?
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I don't necessarily think Swift is more clear, just that the original argument was unjustified in claiming Python was "clearly" superior.
Yes in an interesting way, I can see how bats with very sensitive echolocation can be reading cues from the earth, exchanging stress signals and becoming stronger viral reservoirs.
I have yet to be given a good usecase for Redux. All I see is code that ends up causing issues:

- redux pollution (not cleaning up state and things leaking)

- because you can't access redux state directly, components have to copy redux state and store them as props (which makes 0 sense, its state not props). But now you run into the issue where the local prop is not in sync with redux since redux updates are correctly done in chunks.
>Do you think it's fair that they can make those decisions and still be entitled to favourable loan agreements when their mismanagement comes back to bite them?

Ex-shareholders technically. Remember, stock buybacks only generate value when you exit the stock. Technically, if you've been holding, you're up shit creek.

>Why do we not let the airlines have an asset selloff of their "super expensive machines" in an attempt to bridge the coronavirus gap before giving them public funding? Could they not declare bankruptcy and restructure themselves to survive until shelter in place is over and business returns to normal?

Who the hell would buy them at this point? Wealth is so consolidated right now it'd be right back in the hands of the same people who were incentivizing the behavior in the first place.

The rest of your post is 100% spot on though in my estimation though.
If you only have limited supplies its immoral to help somebody geographically closer than you than somebody further away?
John Searle makes sense when wiriting on the mind. Jacques Derrida, who I have read, does not. The post-modernists are obscurantist charlatans who en masse form an institution that demands attention rather than the quick dismissal like one would give a rambling bum on the street. Similar to religious apologists they have created an enormous enterprise of bullshit. You are confusing its nebulousness for profundity.
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The meaning of this wasn’t immediately clear to me. The listing is months old? The artwork room thet many months to make? It’s only available for that long? Using “for” rather than a dash would be more clear.
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No inflation. Amazing.

We must be living in a different place.

Childcare, Healthcare, Education and Housing have experienced huge inflation.

A home in the bay area was 700,000 in 2008. Today you can't find anything for less than 1.2 million.

When this inflation hits the economy what will a home cost? What will education cost?
This is such a real shame. I miss ICQ; the original had features I really liked which I haven't found in dumbed-down, modern chat software. Examples:

- status and visibility could be controlled for each contact at a granular level

- locally-stored, fully searchable chat history that gave results in a sensible manner and which you could migrate to new computers

- notification intrusiveness (ding, flash, etc) could be adjusted with one or two clicks

- dense UI (less whitespace meant more information packed into a smaller window that took up less of my screen)

- hitting X actually exited the program
I think of it like `success = (luck * skill)`. Meaning that if you have all the skill in the world, but the absolute worst luck, you can still fail, and vice versa, but with that said, the majority of possibilities for luck can be countered by higher skill.

Is Ken Thompson lucky? Probably was very lucky to have influences to point him towards electrical engineering and computer science, but with his level of skill, it's hard to imagine him not having a huge impact somewhere. Ending up at Bell Labs (let's say that's luck since he could've worked in a variety of environments) is definitely lucky, but he wouldn't have created UNIX if he didn't also have the skill. I think this goes for the majority of figures in computer science (I don't know enough about other fields to say that about them).
Thought I'd write up a technique that's helping iterate a lot faster on our startup. Would be happy to answer any questions or entertain thoughts I may have missed.
> ... , and though he steadfastly refused to believe that man had set foot on the moon, he adapted swiftly to the idea of satellites. The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when “the stars began to go quickly across the sky,” and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: “People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars.”
That starts off broken and abusing the Scrum process. It's supposed to be "what I completed yesterday" and you move your tasks to done. Then "what I'm working on today" is you move your tasks to in-progress. And you raise any blocking issues that you need help with.

But it always devolves into "what I did..blahblahblah" because both PM/Managers want an accounting and people feel like they need to justify themselves (as you mention).
I've followed Agafia's story for a few years, and I have a similar conclusion to yours - she demonstrates the core value of human nature, that it really can survive on a simplicity of needs. I was struck by the realisations of many that visited her, that she was a civilising force in the rugged landscape in which she lived. This seems to be an irrefutable aspect of human nature, given the right ingredients for its exposition. Just the simple act of cutting grass for her goats reveals human kindness at its core.

I also think its pretty neat that she encourages visitors. Altruistic, as in - she wants to share the beauty of the world she's made for herself - or is there some selfish desire for human interaction, unfulfilled, which motivates this act? Either way, she's a beautiful human being.
While I agree with everything you posted, I'd like to raise the saltiness and state that quibi is still better than having a CCP member approve your tik-tok post...
I think that in 1-2 generations of VR headsets, we will no longer need monitors. For now my HTC vive isn't comparable to my 4k screens.
Generally speaking, this is the right call - though you don't necessarily need to rebase the whole log. The hypercore logs that Cabal uses can partially sync. You can choose not to sync certain chunks without losing verifiability; all that would persist is the hash of that chunk.
There have been a few of those samples.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-what-proportion-are-a...
I think this is what it looks like when the government becomes more activist in the overall running of the economy.

The pendulum swings. We had a lot of government involvement in the 40/50s. It declined through the 60s and 70s until we got peak deregulation in the 80s. People forget that near-free telephone calls and cheap flights everywhere were a direct result of all the deregulation. Now I see things swinging back. Maybe it's generational, we forget/become blind to how good we have it, and only see the disadvantages, and then swing back the other direction.

My sense is that we're heading toward something more like China with all the good and bad that entails. Much closer cooperation/coordination between the federal government, industry, finance, and academia. Government that doesn't let big business fail, more stable and "guaranteed" employment/income for people, more state direction of the economy. More emphasis on big firms, "national champions" (Trump creating the CEO advisory council with Apple/Tesla/etc. CEOs, bailing out Boeing), America-first (China-first!) industrial policy, and limited scope for foreign ownership/takeovers (US blocking ZTE's takeover of Qualcomm, arresting Huawei execs in Canada). With the accompanying reduction in freedom of expression, individual rights, ease of hiring and firing, economic freedom, and overall dynamism/ability to adapt and invent new things.

It's been heading this way for a while and frankly, seems to be what people want. Massive escalating bailouts every 10 years, and a serious push for a socialist, worker-first government. It seems there's been some kind of deep shift in our culture away from risk-taking and more toward the stable academic/government/state-directed way of life.

Look at all the main street businesses around you, especially hotels, dry cleaners, diners, gas stations, auto repair shops. It's striking how many were started from about 1940-1970 or so. Nobody wants to own or operate this stuff anymore. Everyone would rather go to college, get a stable job at a big, high-paying, high-productivity company, usually that offers good insurance, paid parental leave, etc. and work there for a long time, or hop between various versions of this same arrangement for a few years at a time.
Yelp is accused of predatory practices on business owners including pushing them to sign up for a paid subscription to hide negative reviews on their Yelp page. Otherwise, you are vulnerable to their algorithm which hides/shows reviews that are often less than favorable. Yelp reviews are now overtaking business' own pages on Google searches leaving businesses with less option to control, let alone, curate their brand's messaging.
I've found accounts (possibly bots) that seem to go find the accompanying HN thread, and post a comment from it onto the reddit thread for karma. I sent reddit's anti-evil team a note about it since it's probably karma farming, but they never responded. Maybe it doesn't matter? It's not like we hold exclusive rights to stuff on here, so there's no legal issue, it just seems to be an efficient way of getting karma for that specific subreddit.

The reposts also result in a lot of not programming related content getting on that sub, which none of the mods seem to delete very often (stuff that should go to r/sysadmin or even r/technology).
That simply does not work in the real world. Also, why does this only applies to crypto? A RCE vuln can have a much larger impact than mishandling cofactors. Should we have canonical implementations of every piece of software imaginable?
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I think the article mentioned using birch bark containers when their pots wore through. To heat water in them, they probably heated rocks in the fire and dropped them into the bark bowls full of water. I'm not sure how they made fire, but it was probably tedious so maybe they kept it going constantly--no shortage of wood.
The problem with that is how far back so you look for things to be “normal”? After all, most of North America was covered with ice at some point.
I get paying artists in monthly installments, but I have zero interest in doing that as a consumer. Art is a luxury good and those that can afford it are trained to avoid financing things they don't need. I would charge the users the full upfront cost and pay artists in monthly installments. Maybe instead of taking a cut off the profits you can invest the money that hasn't been distributed to the artist yet like RobinHood.
I have the same problem with specificity and sensitivity. Always have to look up the damned terms even though I’ve used them countless of times.
I'm a native speaker and I didn't see that…
I've also read that one of the reasons that California has relatively low infection numbers given it's circumstances, may be do to the fact that Covid-19 had been spreading earlier in the year. Many people may have been unknowingly infected, and either have recovered and have immunity, or unfortunately may have died from it.
The Weimar Republic had debt obligations that it couldn't repay and so they printed money. Meanwhile the balance sheet of the Fed is just that. A balance sheet. The only way they can create inflation is by making the balance sheet bigger. As long as inflation is below the target they can just keep increasing the balance sheet. There is no obligation to decrease the balance sheet unless inflation is above the target.

Why are they even doing this in the first place? The Fed buys assets during deflation and sells assets during inflation. Buying a cheap asset (e.g. $50 for a share) with money created from thin air increases the money supply and over the long run increases inflation. Inflation causes the prices of cheap assets to rise above the original value to $100 for a share. The situation is out of control! What can the fed do? It can sell assets in exchange for $100. In other words. The fed never runs into a situation which it cannot undo.
A global government could very well have planned this diversity. Just like hospitals organize different test groups.
I was tempted to say something like ‘are you recently out of college or a bootcamp? What stakeholder are you impressing here with a Redux stack trace?’.

I tried to avoid it but your post just brought out it of me.
Be careful with insurance as they may consider this voluntary parting as opposed to theft if someone refuses to pay and refuses to return the painting
I'm not sure what's your domain but for machine learning that will be slow:

- Parallel matrix multiplication may be embarassingly parallel, you have a reduction step that is not trivial to parallelize across processes. Also you need to take care of register tiling, L1 cache tiling and L2 cache tiling. It is way easier to do this in OpenMP

- Parallel Monte Carlo Tree-Search: it's much easier and more efficient to spawn/collect trees with a proper spawn/sync librairie.
Very good question. A quite tough challenge but probably not impossible.

IMO, bad curation is something that is very apparent on sites like Etsy and Redbubble. So I do believe it’s worth it to try to find a good system for it.
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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, is a bit newer but it has been incredibly enjoyable. The two hosts (Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith) pick a single technology topic each week and discuss it in extensive detail.

https://techpod.content.town/
COVID-19 is SARS2. Not sure what your point is unless it's to be pedantic that Novel Coronavirus is not what is colloquially known as "SARS".

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/covid-19
Let’s give tech philanthropists the benefit of the doubt on Covid-19
I was so excited when it was announced.

I got my invite early November 2009, then... Well then I was the only one of my friends using it, so my interest quickly decreased. It's sad it never took off, the idea was really cool.
Not really though. Naked RNA is incredibly unstable when just out in the environment or floating around in blood, mucus, etc. Sure, if you dump a pot of naked RNA on the floor, mop it up and analyze it that second your PCR test will pick it up, but you would have to be right quick about it.
Sounds like a huge SAP project I was involved in. Went from being "SAP is the solution" to "SAP is the problem" in less than 3 years.
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No need to repeat what is already spoken. YouTube ROSSMAN YELP for more information.