skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds wrong to me? Surely you could do something like ingress / egress filtering of the numbers, and not allow an American number from India, for instance? Am I missing something in the setup.

I guess what you're really saying is that most phone systems are nowhere near that sophisticated?
> There is also the x86 memory ordering extension used by Rosetta 2.

That one isn't really a requirement either, and is handled fully in kernel mode.

Wkdm and friends are handled fully in kernel mode.

APRR? Not a strict requirement for user-mode, JIT regions are just left as RWX without it.
as another aside, this seems to be a problem with modern discourse in general. In multiple arenas I see pendulums swinging so far to one side or another that what might have been seen as satire or parody not long ago now has to be considered as someone's serious commentary on a topic.

Pendulums can't keep swinging further & further without destabilizing the entire fulcrum & structure. To stretch the metaphor further, I hope as they're on the down stroke this time around we can put a little bit of equal & opposite force against their inertia.
Do these spectral ranges represent the limits of the emission, or the limits of the instruments measuring it? Perhaps the emission is broad spectrum, and different instruments are picking up different parts of it?
Happy New Year Everyone!
I fully agree that the problem is the "JIRA mentality". Specifically, that a developer should be managed with a task list instead of giving them roles/responsibilities in the organization and letting manage the tasks themselves. Sadly, almost all project management tools fall into this trap. A whole different type of tool is necessary to get us out of this rut.
> The right way to do it, imo, is to put your faith in a tech lead and a trusted team to deliver it in a timely fashion

I've been on both sides throughout my career, as the engineering lead sometimes, and as the project manager other times, and let me say, this is often just results in blowing estimates and deferring uncomfortable conversations until after things blow up.

Let's take two projects. Project A is estimated by the eng team to take three months to complete. It's not broken down into tasks that are individually estimated and tracked. Just one monolithic task: Do Project A. The project manager says "go!" and then leaves the tech lead to basically run open loop, maybe with a monthly "So, how are things going, eh?" conversation.

Project B is estimated by the engineering team to take three months, but is then broken into small week-long sub-projects, and days-long sub-tasks, highlighting dependencies. After stacking the tasks up and assigning them to the team, it looks like the project will actually take four months. Throughout development, new tasks are created as bugs are found and assigned priorities. The project manager and eng lead watches the finished/remaining task lists daily or weekly, and can easily tell when something is taking much longer or much shorter than expected, and what other parts that depend on that will be delayed.

Which project do you think has the best chance of making its estimated complete date? If the complete date is actually a deadline, which project can be more easily re-sized half way through if we need to cut scope in order to make it? Which project can the team's boss's boss's boss more easily obtain status information about? How does anyone besides the eng lead know whether Project A is even done?
¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Sometimes this site can be quite irritating but I always return because there is a big subset of very nice people here.
Think Star Trek Deep Space 9.
I got pulled in as the acting sysadmin of an on-prem atlassian suite at my last job after the I.T. dept lost everyone who knew how to use linux. The worst part of doing upgrades by far were the 3rd party addons everyone had added to Confluence etc, they always screwed up the upgrade process.

I didn't really mind using JIRA to track my daily dev work, it seemed fine to me. It was annoying that each team had different custom fields etc and seemed a bit unwieldy in that respect.
Not really, but they did recently migrate the login to Atlassian so what was once a quick one-step process becomes a multi-page, multi-redirect mess.
Ok, we've put a qualifier in the title above.
Happy New Year!
నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు!

In case you are wondering what language it is, its Telugu! :)
The north is where the majority of the food is grown and people live. At higher latitudes is also where the majority of change will be felt. Not to discount the affects in the south, but they are very likely less impactful.
> it's easier to be exposed to all the good fiction

Exposed or actually read? If you read on average 1 book per month and are aged 50, that's at most 600 books you've read.

There are thousands upon thousands of books that have received awards and are worthwhile (obviously that is subjective but even if you consider 10% to be "worthwhile", there is still a huge corpus), so to say you've been exposed to all the good fiction is unlikely.

I think you need more influences if you are out of ideas. Or you're not trying hard enough.
We should probably count ourselves fortunate that the title wasn't more directly contradicted by the first sentence of the article explaining it. I've noticed this a few times recently.
I hope all months not just May!
What I don't like about Jira is that eventually everything ends up in a poorly structured pool of "Work complete" tasks.

I regularly come across situations of the form "we finished Task XYZ a few months ago, but I want to come back to it." Maybe the ticket has an attachment we need for long-term documentation purposes or a test detail we need the next time we review the code.

Jira search rarely finds anything useful-- the S/N ratio is terrible with non-development tasks mentioning XYZ, yet ignoring actual XYZ tasks due to poor naming and heirarchy. I usually instead look at the code itself, see in the git history "This was modified in ticket 345675" and then use that to index Jira back to the info I want. From there maybe I can walk between linked blockers and sub-tasks to get what I want.

My pre-Jira experience was on Basecamp v1/v2. I appreciated the forum-style layout, because it tends to allow for a few key things:
* "Search" and "browse" are both well supported use cases
* Old content remains usable and structured, rather than dropping off a cliff after the last ticket closed.
* Content can be grouped as it makes sense-- say you get a customer feedback item that touches on three eventual tasks. It would have to be (possibly sliced up and) attached to all three tickets in a Jira model.
* It felt "discussion-first"-- the discussion of what to do and how we want to do it is central. This tends to archive some of the subtle choices and gotchas that won't appear automatically in a ticket.

I always dreamed of a system that basically added lightweight ticket/kanban model on top of Basecamp. I can see the value of tickets as a trackable unit of work, but it feels like this would be little more than a few tiny tags decorating a readable discussion flow.
If you're not doing anything wrong why do you need to cover your tracks?

Let's not be disingenuous - they're not stupid enough to believe that Robocaller Company A, who is charging them a quarter of what other telemarketing companies are, is all above board. Hiding behind plausible deniability of shell companies and third parties to me isn't demonstrating "they aren't doing anything wrong and swear to god, we had no idea what the company we did business with intended".
Don't try that with Arch Linux. That distro lost me forever because I didn't log into a computer for six months (in 2012) and the OS was recoverably broken.
Happy New Year!

(wise words I'd not expect from "thunderbong" but Hacker News is pretty exceptional)

If you want to see 2020 send off John Oliver Style (blockbuster movie style too) and have a minute thirty seconds, this was pretty fun: (And we can wonder if that button he pushed was a prop, blutooth or perhaps zigbee?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDk_R__Relw
"Developers don't like having to have their work parceled out so specifically. But it's not for them. It's for managers and stakeholders who have to report progress and who are responsible for budgets."

It's for developers too.

As a developer I want to know what the history of work on a certain issue was, who requested it and who worked on it in the past (not just at the code level, the information for which should be in version control logs, but also at non-code levels like approval, review, etc), what the communication was with other stakeholders, etc.

Much of this information is useful to me to figure out who to talk to if I have some questions which the documentation or sourcecode does not answer, and also how to communicate how/what was done on this issue.

This is the strength of a ticket tracking system, and that strength helps everyone.
I think all three of those things came to domestic ubiquity around the same time - late 60s to early 80s.
What job do you think they would be doing instead? And why do you think they aren't doing that job now?

I ask this sincerely. I've worked gig-economy jobs when and only when they were what I judged to be my best option at the time. When I've found other opportunities that had a mix of compensation/flexibility/benefits I preferred, I've switched to do that instead.

My experience strongly suggests to me that the same is true of most gig workers--they're choosing the best of the options available to them.

I don't see how removing their current best option somehow makes a better one appear that wasn't there before.
Haha fair enough. The issue will be, and currently mostly is, the effect you see on performance at scale. Small instances don't have instantaneous interactions but they're still much faster. Here's a quick video (https://imgur.com/a/8ZJrhMZ) of a dev instance (slower than prod) with the new feature. Loading of this view feels way faster than the board does.

The work I'm doing is separate from the performance improvements, so hopefully the two initiatives combined will get us a lot closer to what you're asking for! Again, we'll have to see what it looks like in production at scale, but I'm optimistic it'll be a much better experience.
> A key factor in US law is that a company can't use independent contractors for its primary business function

Uber maintains that their business function is providing a marketplace for drivers and passengers to buy/sell "chauffeur" contracts, the way eBay does for goods.

Whether this interpretation is the one the courts should accept is what's in question, as there are obvious differences with the well-established eBay example. But its not facially ridiculous, and ignoring their claim entirely just provides more heat than light.

Regarding your link, it refers to a law passed in Sept 2019 that was superseded by a proposition passed in Nov 2020: https://www.zenefits.com/workest/what-does-californias-prop-...

To be clear, I don't think Uber is necessarily right here; my complaint was narrowly about the GP's /r/politics-quality comment about "companies choosing to ignore that pesky autonomy requirement" without engaging at all with the arguments being put forth by each side.
Many if not most of those safes would have been in fires for days if not weeks. No safe could protect papers from charring in circumstances like that.
The wormhole paper mentioned in the article:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15331
Andrew Gelman on Pedro Domingos' claim that algorithms are incapable of bias
Over workers of this nature are the source of their own problems. I pity them, but at the same time the power to fix their problems lie entirely within themselves. She is (almost certainly) not in an instance where she needs to work 80hrs/week in order to make enough money to feed her family.

Pick a random day in the past year - I'd love to hear her argument as to why the work she did on say July 13th was so important and time sensitive that it couldn't have been delayed 12 hours so she could spend a little time with her family.
In many cases, an expectation of working long hours is self-inflicted. A lot of managers would be surprised if their employees told them how many hours they have been working while at home during the pandemic, because they didn't expect them to work that long.

The easiest way to clear this up is to just talk to your manager and get on the same page about what is expected.
Can You Crack the Code?
Does that overlap, I wonder, with the LISPers who would like to arm bears?
Not that you should have to, but look into Nomorobo, which can help with robocallers, and spam text messages.
It's the original/technical definition. In common parlance telephoto means small field of view.

The commonly used meaning has drifted from the original/technical definition. The same has happened with other things. 'Lens' for example, is technically one single element; the whole assembly is technically an 'objective'. But in photography the latter is what is commonly referred to as 'lens'.

Language isn't always precise and often context dependent (I don't always like that but there's not a lot I can do).
I have coworkers and managers who will email or instant message me at all hours of the day or night. I simply don't have company email or instant messenger on my phone, and if I'm not "at work" then I don't read, answer, or even see them. I personally have never had a problem with replying to people when I am actually working rather than whenever they've messaged me. It's actually often useful because very often they'll figure things out for themselves rather and the delay means I actually have less work to do.
Thanks for posting these.
I’m unclear how severe this is but it may be reversible. Near the end of the article is this

>>> A separate report by a group of U.S. doctors published in the medical journal JACC warned of the potential of heart damage to children from the novel coronavirus.

The report detailed the case of a 2-month-old infant diagnosed with COVID-19 who experienced a myocardial injury as well as a type of heart failure most commonly seen in adults.

"Most children with Covid-19 are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, but our case shows the potential for reversible myocardial (heart) injury in infants," said Dr. Madhu Sharma, the report’s lead author.
For quite a while, Windows was the holdout. MacOS wouldn't even flinch if you moved it to another machine; Linux might have needed a little help finding its root volume or NIC but would otherwise be happy. Windows, however, would fall over with a BSOD.
> It's so weird to hear people talking about Austin like the "next big thing"; I first visited in 2010 and thought anyone who wasn't already there had missed the proverbial boat.

For vibe, quite true.

My barometer was the local Austin guitar stores.

When the local guitar stores disappeared and/or quit catering to the working musicians, I knew that the Austin vibe was dead.

People have the mythos about Stevie Ray Vaughn and his cohort. The reality of the time is that they regarded those folks as the "undesirables." Those musicians tended to live in the really slummy areas because they were so poor ...

When we walked on 6th Street on New Year's a couple years ago, it was DJ after DJ after DJ ... all nice and clean and corporate. No scummy bars selling to minors here.

If you want vibe, you're probably talking cities like Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Detroit, etc.

I will caution you a bit about Pittsburgh, it seems to be gentrifying fast in a lot of areas. I know that practically all of the excellent little family bars and restaurants that I used to go to are all gone. The O disappearing simply reinforces that. :(
They are doing this to survive, not because they love open source and Linux. MS is still every ounce of the company they were in the 90s, they just saw the writing on the wall and decided to play for the new generation of developers. I don't trust them any better.
No one said that. Don’t strawman.
It's weird that I start reading an article agreeing with it, and want to disagree with it by the end. Instacart has _a lot_ of problems as a business model, but this idea that it's super exploitative of this entire class of people is a bit missing the point.

A lot of people working for instacart lost their jobs, probably right about the same time they lost the ability to drop their kids off at school all day. Instacart gave them an income stream that's flexible (they can pull a few high value shifts in the morning and then disappear for school hours, etc).

It's not as if Instacart was secretly walking off with bags of cash - they're losing money. The article sort of takes this snide about venture capitalists making money on it but that's speculation based profit - in other words, it's not taking money from the business or it's employees.

Instacart may never be profitable and that's an issue. They've avoided the very problematic behavior of DoorDash who was literally taking tips away from runners, and most people who post accounts of working for Instacart seem to like it though there are hiccups at times. In general my experiences with them have been decent - I always tip well and keep my orders simple and at off hours, only had the occasional issue.
The year of the coworking space:

- Substantial number of tech workers remain remote as vaccines role out

- Remote workers crave community after covid lockdowns

- Commercial real estate is cheap

If remote is the future I expect to see mega coworking spaces filled with desks, gyms, spas, bars, workshops, etc. Will have the benefit of being able to choose who you're around every day and without the gaze of your company's HR department.
In America, we tend to amplify outrage at irrelevant things instead of silencing the important ones. Works just as well and is harder to prove.
Old Testament version of Christianity? You mean Judaism?
>It was trivial to know when you had to return a book. Is this done differently in Germany?

It should be. The due dates are all listed on the webpage

And some libraries even send reminder emails before the due date

But that is how they got me. I got used to their reminder mails, and then - "Our mail server had a failure and now you have to pay 60€"

>I like the app but I believe people won't buy/subscribe to an app that helps you only if you forget to return a book in time. Most people will believe they will return it in time and won't invest in this type of "insurance".

I wish someone had told me that before I wrote it

But there is also the secondary feature of keeping a record of read books. I read a lot of incomplete series before I had it, and now I want to read the rest of the series, but I do not remember what the series was.

>You could/should look whether university/free libraries are interested.

They are the worst. They have much less patrons than public libraries, and almost never answer emails. I think I might have gotten email PTSD from them.

>Hope you enjoy working on it.

I enjoyed it 13 years ago. But not anymore.
Speaking from Ireland.

- Car traffic will be only slightly less than 2019 levels, despite rolling lockdowns all year.

- Brexit will start to be noticed on supermarket shelves.

- The built-up stresses of 2020/2021 will turn some relatively minor issue into a genuine political crisis, in a straw-that-broke-the-camel's-back situation. It might bring down the government.
But inconvenient truths come out all the time, don't they? If the CIA had the power to keep stories they don't like out of the national conversation, they surely would have used on the Snowden leaks or Abu Ghraib.
KIC 11145123 is a good example.
Apple's incentives and the incentives of the child laborers are surely different.

In this instance you have children who want to work, but aren't legally allowed.
Change job, dear Akiko
Many years ago Google had a mass email problem with Gmail that ended up with people losing part or all their email. Google referred users to their terms of service that spoke to the fact that they weren't responsible for the loss.

Yes, you can lose all your photos and there's very little that you can do about it and finding someone liable is not likely.

I trust Google is better at keeping people's email safe now but ultimately it's up to me to make sure I secure the data that I treasure.

Secure backups require at least 2 independent places of storage. You might was to setup a local storage place that you can access if your photos go missing.
Reviving Ex in 2020
Totally, I'll bring it up with some people post-break! The JSW marketing team is really open to any kind of work that'll help product usability. Interesting fact, a couple of them are actually prior Jira Admins.
Not really comparable. Slashdot’s fine for flame wars but much less interesting than HN. Narrower in scope as well.
BITCOIN $250K
The only physical thing I can see worth sending would be Von Neumann probes [0], essentially nanobots that could build things including more nanobots.

To get to the highest velocity you need a very low mass fraction. You need your ship to be mostly propellant. All the mission equipment would be constructed at the destination out of ship structures and raw materials at the destination.

If you've got nanobots that can directly construct anything you want you live in a post-scarcity Soviet so economics aren't terribly meaningful anymore.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft#...
While Windows 10 i pretty good and stable system, the bundled programs that are default for photos etc are truly awful. In corporate environments it's often hard or impossible to install 3rd party programs, so when the default bundled software suck, it is frustrating to deal with...
As austhrow alluded to, I was indeed alluding to actual forced/child labor in the DR Congo.

I would invite you to peruse my comment history (perhaps via the search functionality) if you really think I’m a shill for either Apple or the CCP. I would be even more outspoken about the issue were it not for the often-aggressive moderation of “nationalistic flame war” that I’ve seen on HN. But the truth is that none of our hands are clean given the complexity of global supply chains, the resource curse, and the apathetic attitude of the developed world towards human rights issues in general.
I think it’s important to realise that the vast majority (I’m sure it’s more than 90%) of software development being done is technical people from enterprise A building something to help nontechnical people from enterprise B with process C. That’s not something that startups have ever competed with, for good reason.

I love startups and I love working on that space, but you must stay aware that it’s a tiny galaxy within a much larger universe of software that is built and sold like any other engineering project.

And in this “enterprise” (for want of a better word) space, management is important. Not because managers are omniscient or omnipotent, but because at the end of the day, when a customer is paying a large amount of money for something intangible, they need people to talk to, they need figures to see, they need metrics. And in business, the customer is king. Again, except for the startup galaxy where customers are two a penny
I think the confusion is not in what the USDS does, but rather who their Play Book is intended for. Is it prescriptive or descriptive? If it's the former (as I took it) then we're not talking about the USDS itself, but the USG. If it's the latter then I defer to you, but still don't think it solves the structural problems that makes the USDS relevant in the first place.

Going back to our US Special Forces team, the US Army actually did (attempt)to solve for this by simplifying the pipeline with the 18X "X-Ray" Program.