skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I agree with you, excluding them is biased as well. A more appropriate phrase to be used to describe "people who have jobs that allow them to work from home" is "a small minority".

And let's be real, biasing your sample by not including a small minority doesn't affect the outcome of a study nearly as much as doing the opposite and sampling mostly from that small minority. Does it make the results less accurate? Yes. Does it make the results nearly as inaccurate as it would be if they excluded most of people but that minority? Not at all.
How do you allow for generics? I personally love generic brands like AmazonBasics and Target's Up&Up because they save me a decent chunk of time and money.
One problem with just installing the packages for different desktop environments is that various config files in /etc may be optimal for Ubuntu Gnome but a poor experience for Kubuntu or Lubuntu. Installing a different DE doesn’t necessarily change all the other pieces that work best when configured a certain way. For example, I tried i3 briefly on my Kubuntu install once. It changed some configuration and made all my desktop notifications styled completely differently, even when I was using KDE plasma and not i3. Uninstalling i3 didn’t remove the change to my system notifications. I’m sure there’s something I could have done (apt purge? Maybe there was another package i3 installed that I needed to remove?) but I ended up just reinstalling Kubuntu.
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I ended up heading off to Arch. I've always enjoyed messing around with nonstandard desktop setups, and it was really appealing for that because of the lean default system that Arch provides, along with the availability of so much software through the AUR.

One perk of the AUR (although it does come with some security concerns, etc.) is that you can use one of several package managers to handle both it and the standard repositories under one framework, dealing with exactly the issue I had with snap without needing PPAs and the like.
I'm not sure what the relationship is, because all government loans are secured by the federal government. In this case there is a lot more oversight. And the government has put more restrictions on how loans are packaged. Investors and lenders were playing a lot of games in the early 00s, taking advantage of securitization with almost no oversight.
Based on...? It may do nothing but drive down future demand as people use up what they have.
We give our people Lenovo X1 Carbon, 7th gen, T490s, or T590. Our testing centers use Lenovo P73 and Dell Precision 7730 with 64GB or more of RAM.
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Agile can work well in embedded, I've seen and done it.

The thing people have to forget is the notion of "deliver on two week increments". It's not about delivering a product that can be fielded each increment, in the case of an embedded system, but about delivering something that has some improvement or new testable component. I can't make an embedded radio handle, in two weeks, a completely new message type (well, depends). But I can do things in each two week interval that is verifiable. I can show that I've actually received the new message, that I can send it back out, that I can pass it through the various internal processors (if multiple processors are used) or processes (if a single one). Then I can start transforming it, storing it, changing other things about the radio state based on the message contents. Each of those is independently verifiable and completable within a short period of time. But taken as a whole, it's a 6-month project. The agile way has you make those small things, verify them, and then move on to the next thing. I can deliver (to the test team, to others using the system) the partially-completed system, it just can't be fielded (and that's fine).

And that's not unique to embedded. If you only focus on things that can be fielded in each increment, you'll never develop the more complex tasks, or address the tech debt.
Theres some open source firmware available for these I believe that makes them work with more computers: http://www.gotekemulator.com

Found it: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki
I have a slow connection and I noticed the text is already loaded; I just went into reader mode and it bypassed the loader.
> that's the primary failure mode of waterfall

That's the primary failure mode of a straw man software development methodology called waterfall that Scrum practitioners like to use as a bogeyman to appeal to for rhetorical purposes during the inevitable arguments about niggly little details of how to implement Scrum during sprint retrospectives.

I've never actually done real waterfall, but I did study it way back when I was in college, and I have worked in government contracts, which tend to handle the work in a way that is similar to the waterfall I read about in school. One thing I distinctly remember is that it was designed to be a flexible and iterative methodology that would have been difficult to cram into a ticketing system in the first place, let alone cram into Jira while simultaneously carving the work into tiny pieces, up front, all at once.

FWIW, the only place I've ever been asked to do something like that is in ostensible Scrum shops. In fact, the only time I've ever seen anything that looks like the Waterfall of scrum lore is in shops that are trying to do Scrum. I am beginning to suspect that the Waterfall of Scrum lore isn't actually a thing that happens outside of Scrum at all. It's actually what naturally tends to emerge when you try to apply Scrum methodology in a situation where something along the lines of the real, textbook waterfall model would have been more appropriate.

As a concrete example, I currently work at a team that ostensibly uses Scrum, but where QA is a separate department with its own practices that the dev team does not control. They do still want some ability to anticipate work that's coming their way, though, so they're monitoring the scrum board for that purpose. This is the moment where it gets messy, because we're then asked to document things ahead of time, and it's a minor crisis if we keep it flexible during the sprint because any changes to the set of tickets becomes an inevitable hassle as they complain that we've screwed up work product that they generate based on those tickets. It's absolutely something straight out of waterfall horror stories from Scrum lore. But it's only happening because we're doggedly insisting on something that's at least cosmetically similar to scrum. If we weren't doing that, we'd be freer to choose modes of interaction and business artifacts that are better suited to the reality we occupy.
Could this be used to increase blood oxygenation levels in athletes prior to competition? Would it still be legal?

I'm not involved in coaching or competition. Just curious.
srsly - comments on this site are kinda outrageous. Is grammar nazi-ing really how people spend time?
> If Amazon is effectively a monopoly, so are Walmart, Costco, Target, and some others.

I looked this up. Walmart is bigger than I thought!

> Grocery sales account for 56% of Walmart's total U.S. revenue, making it the country's largest grocer.
Through, project managers lie about the being on roadmap. The answer to higher management is always "we are on time" to look good.

Asking specifics from higher ups is just smart.
Barrel shifters use n log n transistors, which isn't quite as bad as a multiplier but is still very significant. The Pentium 4 was notable for excluding it making shifts very slow.
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iirc the FCC moved from "recommending" STIR/SHAKEN to requiring it due to foot-dragging on the carrier's part
* using an enormous glitch.

It's really cool, but it's notably different from using actual ingame mechanics to compute.

And there are much more fun versions of pokemon yellow total control than the link you and the article have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZCqoHHtovQ
Not sure. Definitely not the USA, as pre-existing conditions no longer disqualify you for insurance.
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If you had known about the impact of COVID-19 last year (or earlier), what would you have done differently?
Separate namespaces for function names and data variables is a feature inherited from Lisp which is the language R evolved from. Not really a quirk. Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp also have separate namespaces, while Scheme has a single namespace.

The thing about a lot of R code not being written by programming specialists is a valid point, but then again not many programming specialists are also specialist in statistics so... the alternative is what?
Well, a C-style cast of a pointer to an instance of the derived class to the pointer to the base may not work in case of multiple inheritance, because it is equivalent to reinterpret_cast which effectively does nothing, whereas static_cast will do the right thing.
It can be stored in the freezer.
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Sadly I get “Could not connect to Reddit“ when visiting that link
So Amazon especially should have to pick a lane and stay in it

should have - why? who is going to go after them? If the risk of doing something shady is pretty small but the reward is huge, why wouldn't Amazon do it? Banks do shady stuff all the time, fully knowing the punishment if caught is usually laughably small fine - which they'd pay and keep doing shady stuff.

If the system is rigged (or not strong enough), players will take advantage of it, that is inevitable
On a related note, I wonder if there are/were common patterns in the sting sites set up by Dept. of Homeland Security, such as U of Northern New Jersey [0] and U of Farmington [1]. Both of those were initiated during the Obama administration and featured fairly nice modern designs, similar in aesthetic to much of the Obama-era digital overhauls (though a quick skim shows that they don't share similar CSS naming semantics).

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/nyregion/students-at-fake...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160327093120/http://unnj.edu/

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/i...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180414235355/http://university...

http://archive.is/qLrUi
"The office" can be the building where you may have your desk, does it mean that the desk must be owned by the company you work for? or that everyone in the room must work for the same company to build a relation ship? :)
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Aztec and Taos in New Mexico have been inhabited since 1000ad. They are considered cities, despite how small they are
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The U.S. is absolutely not the ideal place to live in. However, it is the ideal place to aspire to if you want to make a lot of money without being born to an already wealthy family. (Wealth of course being relative, because you need some wealth to immigrate nowadays)

Money, and opportunity for their children to earn money, is the reason so many people have immigrated to the U.S in the past century.

Money isn't everything, but you can sure buy a lot of freedom with it. Of course, nothing in life is risk-free, and making money is no exception, and the U.S. is unforgiving when it comes to those who come here and fail.
> it has a lot of well-tested functions

I tried to do a simple word cloud based on a Twitter search in R. The whole thing was plagued by mysterious failures due, AFAICT, to weird, rare, non-standard UTF characters in the source data that were crashing some of the R libraries I was using to clean the data.

Having done that before in Python, it was shocking to see how fragile the R ecosystem is.
But if your city only has one Uber driver, the fact that the data is aggregate is meaningless since it still tells you the exact location data of that one Uber driver. I think that's the point that's being made.

If you can find a way to make data "aggregate", you can abuse it. How about aggregate data on all Uber drivers named Bill who drive a 2014 beige Camry with a license plate ending in "DEF". Yes technically this could return multiple results, but in practice it's irrelevant.
Isn't that what a paper bag is for? I was told in America it's perfect because it's unreasonable search.
I play a Unity game; Hearthstone. The number of engine-related bugs shocks me. My favorite is how the game completely locks up at the start of every match. Sounds stop playing, the UI freezes... it looks like the game has crashed. (I believe it's writing a ton of text to a log file, which is unfortunately part of their public API now because of deck trackers that read those files. Maybe it's also reading assets; I've never profiled it.) What amazes me is how consistent the behavior is across all platforms. It locks up on Windows, and it locks up on my iPad. Write once, run anywhere!

Of course, I don't think it would be worth writing your own game engine to work around that one bug, but at some point, one wonders how many oddities it takes to justify a rewrite. People still play the game despite this one bug that's existed (I hear) since launch, so I guess it was a good cost/benefit decision to use Unity. But for a game studio that prides themselves on polish, that particular bug makes me die a little inside every time it happens.
If I'm not misinterpreting, the post you're replying to wasn't claiming that a general aggregation in principle was the same as individualized statistics, but rather saying that Amazon's definition of "aggregation" effectively mooted the normal argument for it. In particular that last bit, where Amazon would count it as "aggregated" even if the only "other seller" were Amazon themselves in the form of reselling returned/damaged/refurbed goods. In practice that would probably be pretty close to having individualized analysis generally available, if not identical (because employees could separately get Amazon Warehouse Deals alone, since that's "in house", and then simply delete it from the "aggregated" sales and have both).
They can tell you anything they like, doesn't make it true.

When put up against a real triangle/discrimination test, they just don't stack up. I'm not saying they don't do anything, but claims of being able to discriminate individual compounds in any sort of detail are not substantiated.
Nothing beats Neapolitan-style pizza. If you are ever in Chicago, skip the deep dish and instead head over to Spacca Napoli on the city's northside.

https://www.spaccanapolipizzeria.com/

Supposedly, the owner shipped in Italian raw materials for the clay oven, as well as Italian masons to build it. I don't know that the oven is the reason for why their product is so good, but it is just miles apart from any other type of pizza in Chicago.

They also have wines that can't be found anywhere else in the US.
I can assure you that it is possible to not trust people you see every day, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
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I can't speak for the rest of the countries in the region, but in Romania if you work in IT for a decent company you pay 0 income tax if you graduated from a local CS department and only a 10% flat rate otherwise.

A senior position at a good company in Bucharest will mean at least 3000 Euros net per month which means that you'll live like a king, since rent for a great apartment will be something like 500-600 Euros.

The downside is lower development you notice regarding infrastructure, education levels, pollution, etc.
> Developers are your biggest cost

This is unlikely to be true. Bad decisions are your biggest cost.

An employee has a "return multiplier" - for every dollar you spend on them, what is the return to the business? Sometimes it is high. If so, the developer is very cheap. Sometimes is it low, or negative. If so, the developer is expensive.

Why would it be high or low? Part of that is developer skill, but mostly it is how well your organization runs itself and makes decisions.
I find it amusing you seem to believe that you are capable of adjudicating another person's value judgments as they pertain to their own internal belief structure, and furthermore that you have literally referred to the use of some "objective knowledge" to do so. You have made a point, to be sure, but it's definitely not the point you think you've made.
> Costco, Target and Safeway have to pay to maintain inventory in their stores, and thus have 'skin in the game'.

Can you clarify this? No major retailer pays up front for inventory. They do pay rent and other overhead though. Is this markedly different than Amazon?
You can always buy a new stereo and install it. If you buy it from Crutchfield, for like $19 extra, you can get it prewired/harnessed so you don't have to splice the wires. Pretty sweet deal.

Also, some stereos come with a backup cam. This has to be spliced in though.

HUGE NOTE: I bought a 4.5-star receiver on Crutchfield, but the receiver didn't have Sirius XM on it, so I basically don't have radio (unless I use an app on my phone to stream the radio). I don't listen to the radio often so it's not a huge deal for me, just something to be aware of.
A recent MedCram video on COVID-19 and lung function[0] mentioned the technique, and how he hopes it is used to figure out the lung failure modes for this disease. The lungs are very complex systems and the video goes through three possible ways for lungs to fail. COVID-19 is so new, doctors don't have a good understanding of which failure (bottleneck) is killing people. The technique was invented in the 70s to be able to disentangle all the flow factors and pinpoint where the rate limited step is in real diseased lungs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4xgcIaPeA
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I've only used dynamic_cast in unit tests, to verify that a base class pointer is indeed of a certain subclass.
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Doing a project for a security class right now about open source programs that have had known vulnerabilities (I have to find 5 and do a writeup on them). Do you guy shave any recommendations for projects to look at? All suggestions are welcome.
What would you expect a sufficient response to look like?

I'm not sure there is only one good answer to that, but I'm quite sure that any good answer would involve not still having the broken product and misleading presentation all over the WD website right now.
> I don't know which model of fingerprint reader is in the 6th gen, but on the 7th gen, enabling the beta firmware made it work perfectly.

The USB id of the fingerprint reader on X1C6 is 06cb:009a while on X1C7 it is 06cb:00bd.

This is the list of supported devices: https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

As you can see the one for X1C7 is supported, X1C6 unfortunately isn't.

This is their gitlab issue for it: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/issues/13...
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I think this is called TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control
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A reason you often see Waterfall-in-Scrum is because people who were using Waterfall wanted to get away from it, and they made it as far as Scrum (the name). They usually keep the same practices of massive design/spec documents that are developed in advance. They try to plan out the next 20 sprints (hah, I saw a team that tried to plan out 60 sprints 4-week sprints, it was kind of hilarious if I wasn't dying inside from the thought of it).

The biggest difference for Waterfall-in-Scrum versus Waterfall is that they've sufficiently (hopefully) decomposed tasks to have short target dates for delivering something to a test team or facility. They don't use it to get feedback from customers (the actual users, not the ones writing the checks). They don't use it to replan when things go wrong. They just use the whip and OT and get back on track.
Haha definitely not the cheapest project I've built. Happy to share specific with you over email: mariusz at cyberspaces dot app
In fairness it does break down constantly, but I can usually repair it on my own. I should mention that it handles well in difficult terrain, and it appreciates in value over time.
It could certainly be a config flag on the profile that can be optionally enabled, and wouldn't need to be enabled by default.
For anyone buying this, please keep in mind USB-ATAPI floppy drives are especially broken in nearly all modern OSes.

I'm speaking from experience with ZIP drives, including the internal ATAPI and IDE versions. Support for Linux was dropped a while ago, but you can load that in as a Kernel module. I still haven't gotten that to work.

Current Win10 install kinda works, but the best success I've had is with an old 32-bit installation of WinXP. Even then, doing the things you'd like to do with a floppy drive (reading reliably, reading when inserted, decoupling the unmount/eject ((as opposed to the old way Mac handled it))) mechanism is difficult. Also, some USB->ATAPI bridges simply don't work with ATAPI floppy devices.

If you've ever wanted to solve a problem that no one else has attempted (because no one cares, at all) there's a project for you.
Yeah, I think trying to perfectly describe the work in advance is Waterfall thinking. Most of what gets sold as "Agile" these days is Waterfall dressed up in Agile terms.

But as an example of early Agile intent, here is how we worked in 2004: http://williampietri.com/writing/2004/teamroom/

You'll note that we never did detailed planning more than a week in advance. We could have, but it would have been a waste, because it would have been speculation on speculation. Instead we'd agree on something small to build, get it working, and then see what we thought.
Thanks for this data point, I stand corrected!
> Countries that I wouldn't want to go to:

> 1. Eastern Europe

3-4k EUR net (after taxes) is pretty normal salary for senior enterprise dev in big cities in Poland. That's perhaps a bit less than in say Berlin (although I'm not too sure of that, given high taxes in Germany), but the costs of living are so much lower.
monitoring after the close still struck me as a bit... odd, but not out of the realm of possibilities, I'd guess.
That is my worry as well. people who are used to eating out have now bought a lot of grains and flour. they would just sit in their pantries when they start eating out again. ironically, those who eat out would not be able to estimate what they need. the poor would be paying for the ensuing shortage unfortunately.
Thanks. That's what we concluded as well, and having now had chance to try it, it does seem to be sufficient here.
How about:

Thousand-Year-Old Mill Producing Flour for First Time in 50 Years Due to Inability for Supply Chains to Divert Product from Shut-Down Commercial Buyers to Personal Customers
Companies like Home Depot and IBM aren't usually considered 'too big to fail', so these aren't really great examples for the point you're trying to make.
Apologies for my misunderstanding (hah, very topical for the post). The way it concluded made me interpret it as if you were trying to suggest that the person's actions were the same, and thus the scenarios were the same.
people who are used to eating out have now bought a lot of grains and flour.
That's exactly correct: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control for details.

Basically, NAS drives have a hard limit on how long they'll try to recover from errors before just reported the failure back to the RAID controller so that it can handle them.
AWS is deprecating their trusty pricing calculator in favor of one that makes you describe what you're building first, and this makes me sad.

This one only works internally to one region at a time, but it compares various costs in different storage mechanisms on an apples-to-apples basis as best I can.