skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use Scrum at work and I have to say, I am pretty annoyed by it. I think it is fundamentally rooted in the idea that ideal software development is just a continuous production of small improvements to the code. And from this come all its micromanagement failure modes (which there are plenty).

I think in reality, SW development done right is nothing like that. It is highly discrete when it comes to output, because it takes time and experimentation to come up with the correct way to approach a problem, but if you do it right, you save yourself an incredible amount of time. It's more like mathematics, where it takes time to discover that things are actually rather easy (this quote comes to mind https://micromath.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/andrew-wiles-on-d...).

Of course, if you look at the project from the longer time perspective, it can appear as continuous production of improvements. But it has a kind of quantum nature, if you decrease the scale of time, you will see less continuity and more discrete bursts of code production. There is something like uncertainty principle that on certain scale, it's pointless to try to predict things, because making the correct prediction (which is needed at least to define thing DONE) will take as long as doing the thing in the first place.

I don't consider myself special, but it is possible that Scrum ruins great minds because they seek conceptual clarity (we sometimes humbly call it "lack of technical debt"). I am not sure how to make that work with Scrum. Perhaps if everything was done three times, punctuated by a team discussion, each time with shorter code.

Second thing that I dislike the most about Scrum is that it threw away (or at least "conveniently" renamed) pretty much everything that was ever known about project management. Of that, probably the formal estimation methods (replaced in Scrum by intuition for some reason) are the biggest loss. (I think it comes from the fact they actually realized the quantum nature of development is a problem.) To me, that is a huge red flag that it is, in fact, a snake oil.

P.S. I am tired of the YADIW excuse. Let's have a nice honest discussion about how it can be fixed.
Many of the protesters want democracy, they will never get it under the CCP government. So in that sense they reject China, which is understandable (since the CCP did a very good job at making party, country and government seem like one entity).

The reaction of brutally suppressing protests and rejecting any form of discussion, as well as creating these laws that will effectively allow them to shut up their opponents under the pretense of "rule of law" is anti-democratic.

The countries you mention are democratic countries and would (in today's world) address the demands of the protestors (not saying accepting all of them and totally giving in), start a dialogue and find a compromise. The protests would have calmed down a long time ago if there had been any kind of de-escalation from the CCP and HK governments.
I know locals.com. I like their UI and they have a couple of bigger names on their platform. My impression is that most of the creators lean right.
In Denmark, the majority of shops have little signs "Due to Covid-19, please pay by card or phone" or sometime "Due to Covid-19, cash is not accepted".

On a recent trip to Germany, I didn't see a single such sign.

Germany is changing gradually, perhaps due to the EU's limits on the fees Visa and MasterCard can change, but Covid-19 doesn't seem to have much effect.
While I agree with your statement, the lack of binary linking has been a blessing in Go and Rust. The inability to give a binary "SDK" forces many companies to provide source (and in many cases open-source their library). I would find it very irritating if I can't navigate into the library source at least during debugging.
> There have been several Supreme Court cases that have answered that question with a hard “No”

No, they cannot be sued for failing to prevent crime. You are not guaranteed a crime free life by the presence of or even reports to the police force.
How is everyone's mental health at the moment?
With a 1/100 year pandemic sweeping through the world, recent progress with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and one of the worst economic recessions since the great depression, I think it's okay and appropriate to ask this right now. The goal is to provide emotional and psychological support to those that may be struggling in this unknown chapter of human history and through these challenging times.
Please, make the call.
Sure!

So I used to be damn near chronic to the point I was going through NeilMed saline like other people go through other white powders.

Went in, they did the procedure in office with whatever that anaesthetic is that makes you not remember. About the most eventful thing during the procedure was apparently I got a bit mushy, and when they were in my upper left sinus I might have kicked the doc. (They had to cauterize something up there,
apprarently, and it was my most impacted area generally, as even on X-rays, you could hardly see a difference in density along the passage.)

After the recovery period was like... Well not night and day, but instead of measuring my saline rinsing in boxes per two weeks it'd be boxes per 3-6 months. I've not had to visit the doctor or regularly do Flonase since. When I do rinse, the crap I get out is never as bad as it used to be, and I don't end up with that horrible sinus breath or weird cheesy aftertaste anymore. On the rare occasions now I do feel like something is acting up, I can just do some Flonase and some hot tea and I'm set.

Can still smell just fine! Even better, really, and on a more regular basis.

My sinus headache frequency plummeted, (tension headaches went up though since I'm terrible at getting away from the computer regularly.) I can think more clearly, breathe better, and I'm not on antibiotics anymore every two months or laid out feeling like the front of my face wants off.

I still seem to have a little bit of nagging with left sinus on occasion, and the ear on that side tends to swell a bit more than the one on the other side, but that's really it. It is pretty safe (for you, can't speak for your doctor...).

I'm not big into pushing or trying to sell/evangelize things, but life is too short for sinus problems, and they're too debilitating in my opinion as a long time sufferer. I had great results, and I hope you will to!
"Apple, Google, and Samsung should allow users to choose to switch 2G off in order to better protect ourselves. Ideally, smartphone OS makers would block 2G by default and allow users to turn it back on if they need it for connectivity in a remote area. Either way, with this simple action, Apple, Google, and Samsung could protect millions of their users from the worst harms of cell-site simulators."

Yeah, how about it Apple, Google, Samsung? Why do you allow this known backdoor into your customers communication channels? Allowing 2G downgrades is like reverting back to using TLS 1.0 or SHA1. It's 2020. Users should be able to disable 2G just like these other weak protocols.
Nope. Just that police are not liable for failing to prevent crime.
It's not financial responsibility or learning lessons, it's the fact that you consider earning cashback to be a reward for the ordeal you endured.

By participating in the cashback scheme you're putting more people through that ordeal by means of higher fees.

The only way to win is not to play.
Kind of agree, I think if they have a good way to create the underlying dataset, a NN to go in the opposite direction might be more interesting.
Hayek was influenced by Bastiat's idea of Economic Harmony -- a story of spontaneous order.

Also, Hayek was influenced by Henry Charles Carey, who wrote about harmony in economics and the unity of sciences. He was Abraham Lincoln's economic advisor and put in place "The American System".

Both theorists offer a classical middle ground between completely free trade and government control. They identify the objective principle as harmony and indicate the way to get there is through liberty -- and a sprinkling of protectionism.
This is a bullshit article, not backed by data, but backed by the agenda of the journalist.

When there is no Dollar General, the situation for poor residents is not better. It's worse. The cheap prices seem like they don't mean much to this yuppie moron journalist, but they are critical for families that live paycheck to paycheck.

This idiot thinks urban economics are driven from the retail sector ... he basically thinks the horse nourishes itself from its asshole. In truth, there has to be some economic activity in the city to drive the consumer spending which in turn drives retail. Dollar General and its ilk cannot simply create a healthy city by paying its workers more, even though this dumbshit journalist thinks so. Does that idiot theory even pass the most basic smell test.

I'm so sick of this anti-market rhetoric in America. Every ill in society is in some roundabout way placed at the feet of the market and companies.

If companies are so bad, we'd expect to see great happiness in places that have no corporations. In fact, its the f'in opposite. I actually do work in rural India. When its just "mom and pop" stores in a village the people are pretty much destitute. When corporations are present, incomes go up, goods and services improve ... its just common sense.

This idea that urban retailers somehow create urban decay is like a freshman Marxist take. How does this garbage get printed in newspapers in America?

And BTW, there are many security measures that stores can take to protect their employees and merchandise, but I can guarantee you this idiot journalist won't like them. They aren't pretty. Armed guards in stores and bullet proof glass, and merchandise under lock and key is not what consumers want.
> The pro-China (conservative) party was heavily favored to win

Contrary to popular belief, mainland Chinese often hate the pro-Beijing party. Because all they want is more economical gain, rather than political unification. Some radicals even advocate Tsai's presidency and urge her to declare independence so PLA could have a Casus Belli to invade.
What do you want America to do about it? Hong Kong is Chinese soil.

Let’s flip it, how well would America receive pressure from China because we won’t allow Washington DC equal representation by becoming a state? We’d be pretty irate and tell the CCP to pound sand it’s not their business.
This is the Walmart problem made worse and I'd recommend you read this article [1]. The problem is multi-faceted: When a discount chain comes in, it often does so at the cost of what remaining local business exists. Because discount chains operate at a much larger scale than local businesses, that means not only can they sell things at far lower rates but they can also do things that would destroy a local business. The example brought up in the article is that having people steal your goods and money is baked into your losses. They can operate with little security or care about the store itself, increasing revenue and further pushing out local businesses.

When cities suffer from industrialization and suburban flight, discount chains swoop in like economic vampires, draining and destroying what's left until there's either nothing left or they're the sole business in town.

This isn't an easy problem to solve because both of the answers to it would require doing something that Americans seem to generally hate. The first would be subsidizing smaller businesses so that they can compete with larger ones or opening local government-owned store [2] but that tends to invoke cries of socialism or complaints about taxes. The second option is to admit that these cities are dying and encourage people to instead move to economic centers, but people are stubborn and there's growing resentment towards larger cities.

So what's left is the problem illustrated in the parent article.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/09/what-happene...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/22/baldwin-flo...
There have been a number of Hayek posts, though sadly few of them gained much traction: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hayek

For those new to Hayek, here is an entertaining overview:

Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
The fact that the view leads you to ask “why do it?” does not mean that it is an overly simplistic view.
I have a DC and cc from the same bank.. not sure if it gives much of any redundancy, but it was the best deal on a cc I could find.
If the merchant doesn't offer the same cash discount for debit cards, then it's tax evasion. Debit card fees are a few cents, and the only reason to offer a big discount for cash, but not debit cards, is to not have the transaction on paper and hence evade taxes.
How are those different in practice?

(Genuine question, no snark intended)
Uhm, video disappeared or silently geo-blocked.
If you are not liable for failing to do some thing then by definition you are not responsible for doing that thing.
> You have 14 calendar days to return an item from the date you received it.
https://www.apple.com/shop/help/returns_refund

That might be just enough time to render your student film.
They're asking for war, for the UK or US to engage China. That is too much to ask. Neither the UK or US has the will or the ability to wage such a war. China wants Hong Kong to be part of it and it will get it just like Russia got Crimea. There are no repercussions to China passing laws and doing as they see fit. They could full out abolish the entire agreement and bring HK under Chinese rule like the mainland if they wanted to. The only way to stop such aggression is war. And that is especially not going to happen as both the UK and US are struggling to get a handle on corona. Agreements and contracts don't mean shit if they can't be enforced and there are no consequences to breaking them. Whatever agreements China and the UK had before don't mean shit anymore because of exactly that.
I don't see any reason why copyright would not apply. If you take someone else's photograph, change the white balance, and start selling copies of it, that's classic copyright infringement.

As for input data to models, my intuition is that they would be tainted by the copyright of the input images. It's just that nobody has a bot for scanning AI models for their photographs, so you don't see a lot of litigation or DMCA takedown requests here. It's easy when someone just uploads your photo to their website. It's hard when the photo contributes some weights to a neural network.

My main takeaway is that copyright is very imperfect. It doesn't allow for any unsolicited enhancements of someone else's work.
Dollar Stores exemplify the extreme mediocrity of retail in America. So many products are more expensive at the grocery stores compared to dollar stores.

I'm upper middle class and I shop at dollar stores because everything from envelopes to pens to bags of chips is cheaper at them.
why bother with the package system at all then? Why not just copy/paste the code into your project?
No... I'm talking about things like 'privately-owned public space' in cities like San Francisco (so Salesforce park), or city sidewalks.

In most cities, the land owner even in downtown will own the sidewalks, but there is an 'easement' that says it's a public right of way. However, it's a public space, and anyone can protest or say what they want there. Their freedom of speech is protected, even though the land is private. The land is certainly private because the landowner is responsible for upkeep and can generally modify it so long as the sidewalk meets certain requirements.

Here's an example in New York City where the Occupy protests took place: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/the-21-million-sidewalk-how...

All this is to say is that we have a model for privately owned public space -- spaces where private interests have certain rights and obligations and ownership but where accomodations for the public must be made.

Here's another example in London and Portland: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/public-space-battle-playing...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseu...

In San Francisco at least -- only using it because I'm most familiar -- certain buildings are required to have public spaces, and you in general have a right to be in this space for free. There are even some beautiful rooftop decks that are privately owned but have been made public to meet the requirement -- like the deck on one kearny.
This isn't just in tech.

I am still very surprised vast majority people dont know how to compare. And that is why branding and marketing matters.

I used to be furious at marketing. They are always hype and spin. But the older I get the more appreciate I have for it. Not because I agree with them now, but generally speaking consumers just aren't very good at judging values and knowing what they want. Marketing helps that, and push things forward.
Long-term resident of Japan here. I agree with what you say about public transportation. I'm always struck, when I return to the Los Angeles area on visits and go around by city bus, how overwhelmingly working class the bus ridership is. In Japan, especially in the urban areas, nearly everyone takes buses and trains.

The Japanese parallel to the dollar stores described in the New Yorker article is not convenience stores, which are as you state, but hundred-yen shops. They tend to be in low-rent locations, they pay low salaries, and the clientele tends toward the working-class side.

But the parallel doesn't go very far beyond that, as the problems of crime, food deserts, neighborhood decay, etc. described in the article are much less serious here (if they exist at all) than in the U.S.
This reads like an ad hominem.
Externalities are costs of doing business that you the business don't directly pay. Their point seems pretty straight forward to me. What part of it is confusing?
What was on NP2 that it's been censored by Mastercard? A quick search online suggested it was right wing politics but I suspect it must have had some content cross some legal line in order for it to be blacklist.
Brilliant loner can bring up 20x the improvement though. Especially in the creative business, productivity could mean very different things.
I interviewed a long time ago at a med tech company in Boston where Jeff Sutherland, one of the inventors of scrum, was the CTO (I believe). I had recently been through scrum master training at my current job and was quite keen to see how scrum was applied in the place where the guy who invented it was working. I asked my first interviewer how they used scrum on their team and his answer was that they didn't use scrum. I was pretty shocked. Then he explained that scrum didn't fit well with their team and the way they worked best together, whereas on some other teams they were really happy with scrum. Made me realize that's there's no one size fits all process for software teams. Some of these "pre-baked" processes can help teams depending on their composition and maturity, but teams/companies really need to find the way of working that works for them.
> The key question left unaddressed in the rather long article is whether it's economically infeasible to make the stores safe, or whether it's callousness and profit optimization on the parts of the companies.

Anyway, if they did more they would be criticized for treating all their customers as criminals and creating a self-perpetuating threatening environment or whatever.
I suspect you do not need to use 670nm exactly, however I suspect you need to be above 650nm. Note that many red LEDs are at a lower wavelength (~630nm). So you need to search for deep red or by wavelength.

You can use a OSA, but yes they are expensive. Spectrometers are typically cheaper, but still expensive (you could go to a university optics group and ask them if they could measure it for you). That said if you buy from a reputable source you should get the right wavelength.

If you are trying this out be careful with the brightness.
Microsoft adds WINFR file undeletion tool to the Microsoft Store
There are a few videos of early/beta version of 3D Studio (dos version)
You realize that the court case in question was about the police refusing to deal with a crime in progress, correct? If the police cannot be held accountable for their job, then what exactly is their role?
This is actually an absolutely awful idea. Every time I used the code browsing and search features I was disappointed by how poorly the search is working. Lots of false positives. Usually fail to find what I'm looking for. When I git clone something and use my text editor's search feature I usually find what I'm looking for on my first try.
That’s an artificial limitation, not helped by the National government’s penchant for seizing State orders and stockpiles under the current administration.

Without crap like that, there’s no reason California or New York couldn’t create their own medical stockpiles. They could run their own testing regime at least as effectively as the Federal government, but the FDA actually hindered testing both by the States and private companies early on due to an old regulation based in an old law that they could not shed fast enough. States were also quick to shed regulatory barriers of their own making, which should probably remain shed after this is all over.
Yep, we had one guy like that, that was kind of weird and thus was unpopular and made fun of by a couple of guys. It was far from the scale of "industrial bullying" that I imagine the US/UK schools are - with regular beatings, putting heads into the toilet etc.
Show HN: Tool for Linux to create window groups / layouts
Interesting, so this is a keyboard with a camera that can translate the camera image to text using OCR?

You might want to add a few sentences in the README explaining exactly what this project is, the images aren't that intuitive.

Looks great though, should definitely help you get hired!
Although white supremacists may have to infiltrate, it would appear racially profiling bullies can simply get themselves elected.

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/08...

"A POST certification is not required to serve as an elected sheriff."

https://post.az.gov/
Robert C. Martin – The Land that Scrum Forgot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4LH6P8Syk
No. I cannot be reasonably sued for blowing up my company's software systems for a failure on my part as an employee. It doesn't mean I am not responsible for keeping them up and running.

You can fire me. You cannot successfully sue me for the costs of my failure.
I work in a large European bank. Mind you, the coder who was made PO is very good at human interactions and politics - but that's kind of a prerequisite for this role.
Is his spat because they are corrupt or because they investigate him for corruption? I suppose he would argue they investigate him for corruption because they are corrupt.

However, I have not seen Trump allege any cases of corruption other than investigations of Trump.

In that case, it is not so much corruption as it is political bias. But if that were the case, wouldn’t we see a disproportionate pursuit of other liberal objectives, like corporate malfeasance and voter disenfranchisement?

(Purely anecdotal) Most FBI agents I know are loudly conservative.

Basically, it seems we could
A. take Trump at his word that he has not done anything wrong and that thousands of Americans have forsaken their oaths in order to pursue a nefarious plot against a leader for whom many of them voted
Or
B. let them do their job. If Trump has done nothing wrong, the facts will bear him out.
> If there is a parallel reality where [...], mentioning this would probably get you in some trouble.

This is probably the point I would have wanted to make, had I realized it :)