skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As many pointed out, unfortunately most businesses employing 'agile' don't seem to be 'agile' at all from management side, so we still have all sorts of broken practices used industry wide which are absolutely idiotic.

I'm working with a team that the PM follows Agile like its a silver bullet solution but is obviously terribly flawed.
100% this. I made a pretty large costco order with instacart yesterday and expected to pay 15% in fees and tip, but when the order came I saw the store receipt and they overcharged me on almost every single item. The instacart order total was 35% more than what was spent at the store. The total lack of transparency is infuriating and I very much feel cheated.
This is super insightful, thank you.

Hans Moravec goes over similar territory here:

>If simulation simply opens windows into Platonic realities, and robots and humans, no less than books, movies, or computer models, are only images of those essences, then it should be no worse to mistreat a human, an animal or a feeling robot than to choose a cruel action in a video game or an interactive book: in all cases you are simply viewing preexisting realities. But choices do have consequences for the person making them because of the mysterious contrivance of physical law and conscious interpretation that produces single threads of consciousness with unseen futures and unalterable pasts. By our choices, we each thread our own separate way through the maze of possible worlds, bypassing equally real alternatives with equally real versions of ourselves and others, selecting the world we must then live in.

So is there no difference between being cruel to characters in interactive books or video games and people one meets in the street? Books or games act on a reader's future only via the mind, and actions within them are mostly reversed if the experience is forgotten. Physical actions, by contrast, have greater significance because their consequences spread irreversibly. If past physical events could be easily altered, as in some time-travel stories, if one could go back to prevent evil or unfortunate deeds, real life would acquire the moral significance of a video game. A more disturbing implication is that any sealed-off activity, whose goings on can be forgotten, may be in the video game category. Creators of hyperrealistic simulations---or even secure physical enclosures---containing individuals writhing in pain are not necessarily more wicked than authors of fiction with distressed characters, or myself, composing this sentence vaguely alluding to them. The suffering preexists in the underlying Platonic worlds; authors merely look on. The significance of running such simulations is limited to their effect on viewers, possibly warped by the experience, and by the possibility of ``escapees''---tortured minds that could, in principle, leak out to haunt the world in data networks or physical bodies. Potential plagues of angry demons surely count as a moral consequence. In this light, mistreating people, intelligent robots, or individuals in high-resolution simulations has greater moral significance than doing the same at low resolution or in works of fiction not because the suffering individuals are more real---they are not---but because the probability of undesirable consequences in our own future is greater.

https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles...
It's even more apparent when you compare them by GDP.
Not really, if age separation can be achieved efficiently, herd immunity wouldn't be impossible.

The problem is that you really need an advanced country to organize separating people by age (making young people get through the virus without passing it to older people).
On a tangent here, but is there a reason to use <- instead of = for assignment?

Actually, to answer my own question (I know google), I found this very informative stackoverflow answer [1]. My TLDR: no difference, other than "<-" is more likely to cause carpal tunnel syndrome.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741820/what-are-the-dif...
Clinical trial of chloroquine use to combat coronavirus raises safety concerns
Realistically when you get into real world questions about performance the only way to be sure is to measure it.

In this case I imagine you're right. Although also worth pointing out that due to the way modern CPUs are basically frontends to generate uOps that it could actually perform the optimization by itself anyway. Time to break out PAPI (very cool tool for anyone unaware, you can get instruction level profiling in your program with basically 4 function calls and a header file).
Agile/software engineering practices broadly suffer a lot from the fact that not only is selling software a business model, selling Agile is also a business model, and when you buy Agile consulting it's impossible to disentangle whether it's being sold to you because it works or because it makes that person money. They don't even know because it's their job and they convinced themselves of its usefulness.

It can still be evaluated on the merits but IMO this greatly pollutes the speed at which software devs as a broadly conceived community can come to consensus understanding of this.

Also I think the comparison to lean manufacturing has always been very shallow. I get the metaphor, I just don't think that human resources in engineering can be optimized like manufacturing processes. This quote is the best part of the article:

> "You’d never hear anyone say, 'We help mechanical engineers be agile. That would be silly. And I mean that in the worst possible sense of the word".

As for the rest of it, I'm not dying to hear what the person who invented Agile thinks we should do next lol.
I am in complete disagreement with this sentiment!

If you're using my code and hit a bug, I am, genuinely, sorry. The goal state is craft software that works properly. That is not an unreasonable goal!

Of course, mistakes will happen, but you should be sorry, and you should think about what would have avoided it (better programming methodology? better testing?).

Aim to create high-quality software that delights its users!
I don't know if something is wrong with me, but I simply cannot "decompose" a single feature into 500 different sub-task Jiras.

I understand why it would be super cool if software worked like that, but I have to iterate on features holistically and sometimes speculatively.

At least for me, software development has never been able to be so cleanly broken down into "first, implement the button" type tasks.

But maybe I'm just dumb.
I think the idea that there were shared design goals, was their fatal mistake. You illustrate several of these, thank you.

The speed difference is another - streamlining mattered not at all for a car at the speeds they were generally going at that time.

Further, a plane is always headed into the wind; cars are pinned to the road by friction and most often have cross-winds. There were tragic car rollover problems throughout the 30's because of this misconception/failure to recognize utterly different design goals.

Generally the only thing in common was, a factory making chassis and shells. Other than the manufacturing technology, there was almost complete mismatch of design goals.
There is an easy fix to this sentence: Ironically, one of the safest __workplaces__ to be right now is in a cleanroom (during a pandemic, a workplace is not usually perceived to be safe).
I remember with the 2008 financal crisis and the stimulus after that there were a lot of predictions about how inflation was a sure thing from even stimulus supporters.

Then it just didn't happen.

I think predicting inflation is pretty dang hard these days, economists seem to indicate in the past it was easier to predict, although I wonder if that is just hindsight.
I explicitly agreed with your point a few posts ago:

> It's hard to defend Trump's words on this topic. He's not a medical expert and doesn't sound like one.

My point is, the media is fighting stupidity with stupidity with this whole Lysol thing. They could have used this as an opportunity to say, we know Trump sounds dumb, but let us teach you about what he is actually referring to
That assumes the fractal nature continues at all scales, which won't hold here I suspect (i.e. it's not enough for the structure to exist on those scales, the scaling properties have to continue for the geometry to be "fractal")
> without bone are cca 4,50 Eur/kg

As somebody who's also from the central EU, it feels like you are low-balling that price there. You would have to look really hard to find chicken breast as such a low kg price because the average is more like 5 €/kg usually higher [0].

Personally I wouldn't even buy such cheap poultry because with a price like that you can be very certain these animals must be farmed in rather "optimized" conditions. Just like with eggs or milk, these are items I'm willing to spend a bit of extra money to support better and more humane practices.

Trying to do the same with meat is very expensive, did it recently ordering turkey breast, ended up paying 8€ for 400g, thus I reserve it for special occasions.

In that context, your comparison between peppers and chicken breasts is also not that good. Peppers are a very bad vegetable source of proteins, to replace chicken breast one would eat something protein-rich, like beans and those happen to be dirt cheap pretty much everywhere, particularly when buying them in bulk and dried.

[0] https://www.supermarktcheck.de/sb-haehnchenbrustfilet-frisch...
Unproven Coronavirus Therapy Proves Cash Cow for Shadow Pharmacies
Rosewater is a game designer; it's his job to distinguish fine details in his area of expertise. I find it interesting to hear an expert dive deep into things, especially into things which I'm familiar with as a complete layman (like games).

Anyway, if they were genuinely exactly the same concept, why would we have so many different words for it? Synonyms pretty much never carry exactly the same meaning as each other; they have different colour or shades or whatever.
So to answer the question posed in the article title "Does the World Need It Anymore?" we all know the answer: Nope.

Thanks for the welcome!
Look, if I genuinely screwed something up, sure, I'll apologize and either way I'll fix it. But if I didn't test some corner case because the software takes 30 minutes to build, another 30 minutes to start up, and can't be run without a live database and crashes with an out of memory error after it runs for more than 30 more minutes and no time has ever been allocated to improving the code quality because that's "low priority to the business" and the fix was one of the 20 I had assigned to me in this two-week "sprint", then I don't owe anybody an apology. If you think you can find somebody better, be my guest.
> There are other viruses like HIV where you can't get herd immunity.

Well, maybe if we had just engaged in a vigorous program of needle sharing and unprotected sex, we'd eventually have gotten there.
Oh come on. Not this nonsense here too.

Science and researchers don't "forget" things.

Things that aren't effective or practical are retired.

This is just someone trying to make the president seem less stupid but of course there is no way he's ever read anything about blood radiation and all the failed experiments over the years.
Do you have any insight on what differentiates Japan from other Asian countries like South Korea? Collectivism is not a unique characteristic to Japan and South Korea has arguably done a good job.
This "famous person" was selected to serve as the head of state by the citizens of the country with the second largest nuclear weapons arsenal. His pronouncements have the force of official public policy.
The Bank of Japan, can actually control inflation, because, as we have determined, they control the interest rate. Also, if necessary, the government could raise taxes and run a surplus to diminish inflationary pressures.

But those are moot points, because the problem of Japan for the last 20 years has been deflation, not inflation. Despise that, as you can see in the comments here, there are people that still predict inflation in the future.
He asked a question, he didn't peddle a theory.
Blood Sugar Can Trigger a Deadly Immune Response in the Flu
When companies do buybacks they don't control the shares they buyback, the shares disappear. The market cap of the company decreases because they know have less assets but the stock price doesn't because the cap is split over less shares. Either way, the market cap theoretically decreases by the amount paid out.
Could mean moving away from manual SSH key management to something like a bastion-hosted SSH Certificate Authority.
For my wedding we blind tasted 20 wines and wound up unanimously choosing $7/bottle Mark West Pinot.

It won out over several wines that where four times as expensive.
I read the title as car-shaming....and thought wow that's a thing?
> but the market is much smaller

How do you figure that? Statistics just say Linux has just over 2% market share in Europe [0], ~1.74% in the US [1], and ~1.5% in North America. Apple has a 30% higher market share in NA than in Europe. ChromeOS has a ~5 times higher market share in NA. This goes out of everyone else's market share.

The EU alone is ~450 million citizens, ~30% higher than the US. Europe has ~750 million citizens, ~50% more than North America.

Any reason to suspect that despite the higher population and the higher market share within that, there are still substantially fewer Linux users in Europe? And if so, what are the actual numbers of end users for each? You'd have to assume the "desktop market" is more than 3 times lower in Europe vs. NA to conclude that there are fewer Linux user in Europe.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-ame...
My beard isn't completely grey yet but I've been to redhat offices in Stockholm and most people there use Lenovo laptops.

I've enjoyed them for many years too. My first Lenovo "ultrabook" was X1 Carbon. It was quite obvious that there were very few (perhaps none) CRUs on it. But it has served me for 4 years and still works. The battery discharges faster now of course.

So late 2019 I got an X1 Yoga to replace it, 2nd Lenovo Ultrabook. So far so good.

I work in Fedora every single day, very extensively. I find these laptops and Fedora to be very dependable. But of course that means little because people who run OpenBSD make the same claims.
Okay, so they do succeed, they just take a long time. Good to know! Thanks.
In theory, yes. In practice, shifting is usually a very simple operation, while general multiplication (and especially division) is not. There have been (and there might still be, on the lowest end) many processors that have shift, but no multiplication or division.
He's not clearly talking about anything, which is the problem, and the reason a good faith interpretation based on context is important.

You can inject light via fiber optics. We all know 'inject" isn't the right term, but it's how he was using it.

Regardless, and most importantly, he never specified any disinfectant, so in the context, he meant UV light. No contortion necessary. It's all there in the quote you provided.
I don't want it to die, I want it to become what it was originally supposed to be.
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I wonder - does YouTube still serve ads in ‘demonetized’ videos and just cut out the creators commissions?
I'm not familiar with what changes occurred during the financial crisis. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac always enjoyed an implicit guarantee that their balance sheets were secured by the federal government. It was a big inside joke forever.
Call me jaded, but that's probably because the cow stopped giving milk, and they need to come up with a new cult/religion/ideology to continue selling books and conference tickets (and consulting gigs of course).
The US government doesn’t make 100% of GDP. GDP is $21 trillion. US government takes in $3.46 trillion.
One should also not pretend that, because both sides did bad things, that automatically makes them morally equivalent.

Bad things happen in war. German troops committed war crimes in World War II; so did American troops. That doesn't mean they committed the same number of war crimes, or crimes on the same scale, or that the American cause was therefore morally equivalent to the German. Volume matters. Scale matters. Intent matters.

Your logic leads inexorably to false balance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance), where anyone who isn't perfectly pure is therefore completely impure and therefore all sides are always the same. That's not how the world works. Even the best-hearted people make mistakes and do bad things. Saying one crime is morally the same as many crimes, or one small crime is morally the same as one gigantic one, or one accidental crime is morally the same as one committed on purpose, only serves to give the worst among us a free pass.

> prove me wrong otherwise.

Spare us the Ben Shapiro posturing, please.
Sorry I'm a different guy. Should have kept out of it I suppose.

But yeah, its a game now, pointing out how (nearly) everything the guy says is dumb. Its not a game we should be playing; he should be sticking to broad goals and comforting the public. Like, you know, a leader. Instead of a regular schmuck way out of his depth who likes to hear himself talk.
I have a Dell Precision 15" with Ubuntu pre-loaded for work and a ThinkPad X1 Extreme with PopOS loaded by me. Just on hardware, I would take the Thnkpad. It's lighter (like WAY lighter) and I vastly prefer the keyboard and track point, not to mention I got it for 1/3 the price of my work Dell.

That said, I wouldn't not recommend the Dell. It's my second Sputnik system from Dell and this one had way better support out of the box.

Disclaimer: I am not a grey-beard.
There's Big-A Agile and agile. The manifesto is really the latter, the former is a set (different depending on where you are) of very specific practices that neglect the principles in the manifesto (though, typically, they were derived from them originally).

Read SAFe Distilled or SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide for what happens in large enterprises (god SAFe is a fuck up). It consists of some good ideas, but also some very explicit practices that don't help in every effort (and sometimes hurt). It is literally the opposite of Agile, which is supposed to be about flexibility.

If you want to hear about its "success", just remember it was used for F-35's software...

Big-A Agile is based on the belief that adoption of practices is sufficient, and that deep understanding is unnecessary. This is the realm of cargo cults.
Just download Ubuntu, or Fedora. Both have great hardware support baked into the live image. Boot from the USB drive, and test all your hardware. There's absolutely zero cost or headache to you, outside of the 10 mins or so it takes to download and flash the iso to the thumb drive, and lets you 'try before you buy'.

I've been a full time Linux user since 2004, and can't remember having -any- hardware issues in the last five years. Prior to that, closer to 2004, I would have agreed. Finding and compiling alsa drivers, network drivers, graphics drivers, etc was a real pain in the ass. Not so today, AMD and Intel graphics are built into the kernel, even!
Its because the guys who made this are actually a visual novel engine development group
In hardware terms, adders are simpler than shifters. You can usually do both in a single cycle, but it's going to be lower power to do the add instead of the shift.

To put this in more concrete terms: an N-bit adder involves N 1-bit stages to add each bit, and then a 1-bit carry network on top of that, which has N stages in it. So overall, it's O(N) in terms of hardware. An N-bit shift unit is going to use lg N N-bit muxes--or O(N lg N) in terms of hardware. Total gate delay in both cases is O(lg N), but adders have O(N) hardware (and thus energy consumption) while shifters have O(N lg N).

A secondary consequence of being larger area is that a superscalar architecture may choose to have one execution unit that has an adder and a shifter and a second that only has the adder. So an addition may schedule better than a shift, since there are more things it can execute on.
>I expect HDD to be slow

The problem is how slow. 10MB/s sounds ok since it's faster than many home internet connections. But it's going to take you 3 weeks to re-build a 15TB drive in a raid array. Much longer again if the array is used at all (causing non-linear access as it has to rewrite changed blocks.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15623937
You lost me at "software is a business model."
None of that is ever going to happen until management accepts that developers can't give an accurate timeline on the spot, immediately, after a 10-minute overview of the project. Which means never.
Apple / Google have updated their 'Contact Tracing API' to v1.1
It depends on what we know about covid-19 by the time the vaccine is available.
Canada doesn't have Lenovo with Linux preinstalled (only Windows & Chrome OS) on their product list. I would assume Mexico and the other islands are also excluded. So it's really only US vs EU.
This is a nice list for playing with people already familiar with euro games. If you’re looking for more social games that can be picked up by casual gamers, I’ve been keeping a running list of sites I’ve used at the bottom of https://blog.metamorphium.com/2020/03/19/play-from-home/

The list is focused primarily on games that are good for remote team building, but work well for any casual group.

So far, games include Secret Hitler, Codenames, Love Letter, Spyfall, Jackbox, Avalon, One Night Werewolf, and some others.

Let me know if you have more links in this category of games!
I currently use a T460p which after almost 4 years of constant use and lots of traveling still runs perfectly and hasn't had any hardware defects. My battery even still has 95 % of its initial capacity, which I find really surprising in a positive way. The model I used before was a T430, which had to be repaired twice during its 3 year lifespan and which had many issues (broken/loud fan, failing hinges, broken display connectors, broken chassis parts). For a while I also used a Carbon X1 and a P60, which I had very good experience with again. So I'd say the build quality and materials can strongly vary depending on the model, though I think it has become much better again recently. The prices have gone up as well though, so I'm seriously thinking about buying a Macbook Air as my next laptop as the price difference to an X1 or T model isn't that large anymore.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969986
> That's unfortunately not the way statistics works.

It absolutely is. That's why we have things like confidence intervals.
This was a hard article to read. Why does it try so hard to draw parallels between our world and Animal Crossing? It's just a Nintendo game. Tom Nook's not some "capitalist oligarch", he charges exorbitant prices so that the player can enjoy the process and slowly make their way towards a larger goal. "Conspicuous consumption still haunts the animal village". I'd bet this was far from the mind of the creator when he designed this game.

This is like those literature memes where the teacher conjures up a fantastic narrative trying to guess what the author meant when he really just meant that "the door is red".
Don't worry, you can replace him with another old man with dementia come November.
Pretty cool. The prospects of being able to make a MMO is one of the many things that inspired me to choose SE as career.

There's something very cool about being the creator and master of your own world.
I love my 2001 Corolla. It's got 164k miles on it (had about 140 when I bought it), and I hope to get another 100k out of it!
Got any recommendations on how someone that can code a little but isn't a professional might go about learning to make an engine?