skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been a fan of a light agile process - every few weeks you sit down and come up with a target for the subsequent interval - 2 weeks is a good start, shouldn't be more than 6-8 weeks. Within that, you define what you want to work on - could be a particular milestone within the project. Could also be user stories, doesn't really matter as long as everyone has a good sense of what the next milestone is.

Then you check in as a group on a weekly, or maybe twice-weekly basis, with an explicit goal of identifying risks and uncertainties that have arisen during that timeframe.

The goal here is not to micromanage, but to give a sense of progress towards a goal - whether a metric shift, a release, a roadmap commitment, etc. If you don't hit your interval milestones a few intervals in a row, your high-level thinking about timing is wrong, and you need to adapt the project or the timing.
“User engagement” is code for “addiction”
I wonder how much more accurate estimations would be if we had engineers actually draw probability curves that are then aggregated and analyzed. As it stands now, having had some experience getting burned, I always give my estimate that's really at the tail end, and I have become exceedingly efficient at explaining why that estimate is how long it will "really take."
> It's like getting angry about mockery of the tobacco industry using feminism at some point to get women into smoking, because it puts feminism in a bad light and punches it down or whatever.

That would be more like the kind of wake-washing that "you people" (what's the equivalent of marxist? Adam Smith), you Smithes also dislike?
Reading that, I finally understood so many hours of debugging throughout my life.
There is zero evidence that a technological singularity is possible. In fact the technological gains to learning basic physics seems to have slowed over the last half century or so.
So we can't accept a premise that these are countries that mandate such transfers, because not all of them do. And we can't accept a premise that these are countries that all have the same laws, because not all of them do. And we can't accept a premise that these are the countries whose laws make doing this easy, because many other countries place no obstacles whatsoever. So what other law thing should we be thinking of?
Wikipedia is a well-known example of a vast amount of content that I can read without any tracking or targeted ads. In fact, there's very little advertising at all -- a few times a year they show me a banner asking for donations to the site.
>is not an optional checkbox of pride for men that want to exchange time for food and shelter and have a female partner

This is something that crosses my mind often. Work has some perks, but I would NEVER have taken a career so seriously if I never wanted to get married.
Performance has gotten really bad recently, I don't know if it is GPU drivers or Chrome's fault, but it has gotten very stuttery.
Its interesting I had a friend who got pregnant at University. I thought it would be ruinous to their career but maybe its a better solution. When she was 40 her child was already an adult and she could fully concentrate on working.
> X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest - appended by various JS frameworks including jQuery, to clearly differentiate AJAX requests from resource requests (which can't include custom headers like this).

What does the author mean by this? Why can't a "resource request" include custom headers? I am assuming that a "resource request" is just a non AJAX request. Any HTTP client should be able to include whatever headers they want no matter the source.
Please don't add nationalistic flamebait to this thread, which is flammable enough already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>>But sure that happens on traditional media too...i can remember we someone said something against invading Irak (2003?)

I meant by the media (fox and cnn etc), not in "real life".
This is not about banning ads or analytics.
The Wall Street Journal is getting into SEO and self-help content
> And they arent Russians.

Any other ethnicities you don't allow?
Popper has a point, but that particular quote has become an albatross around the neck of any discussion concerning censorship and cancel culture, to the point that it could very well be its own internet 'law'.

GP's point of mentioning it was a preemption of the inevitable citation that someone might trot out as a cudgel against further dialogue.
> If the executed algorithm is consciousness, then a second consciousness has been brought into being, same as for first consciousness.

A lot hinges on If the executed algorithm is consciousness.

I can see the sense in that argument though, in that the 'first consciousness' is acting as the computational substrate for the 'second consciousness', the way the physical action of neurons acts as our computational substrate. I'm not convinced this maps to using a card system to have a conversation in a foreign language. It doesn't seem self-evident that doing so should be considered enough to demonstrate consciousness, it's only enough to demonstrate than the algorithm is effective in having a conversation.

It's not self-evidently the equivalent of an accurate real-time computer simulation of a specific person, for instance. I think you can make a strong case that such a system would amount to a conscious person and should be treated as such. (It would follow from this that shutting down a holodeck simulation of someone is morally fraught.) The only alternative would be to morally privilege neuron-based architectures over transistor-based architectures, which seems like an uphill philosophical battle.

I don't put much stock in the question of whether the card-based algorithm 'understands' the conversation it is having. Is it competent? Yes. Is it conscious? I'm not convinced it is. Asking whether it understands is to conflate these two questions.
On practice, everybody was announcing at Google when it used the site's content to decide what to show, and kept announcing at them once they changed into targeting the user instead. The change went mostly unnoticed.

On the other hand, it can be that people detected the change on their results metrics, and decided to increase their spending because of the change. I really don't know how to differentiate this scenario from a normal increase on internet advertising that should naturally happen at the earlier days of a fast growing web. I don't think even Google (that has all the numbers) can tell them apart either.
I'm not sure if this is a feature I got grandfathered into, but I've got WhatsApp set to back my messages up to Google Drive every week. On my Android phone, the setting is in settings -> chats -> chat backup.
Is there something special or interesting here? I cannot read Hindi and the English part seems normal.
>Physical reality by definition is everything that exists.

The problem with this statement is it assumes we have a solid definition of what "physical reality" is on a fundamental level.

The current state of quantum physics shows that we do not.
The way I get out of that conundrum is to ask what would happen if the Earth were destroyed in some cataclysmic event and there were no humans left. I mean do you agree that the universe would still exist?

Do you think some other life in the universe might have consciousness, even if it's organized in a way that would be unrecognizable to us? How would you go about examining that question?

Carl Sagan spent a lot of time looking for ways to pose that question in ways that make it possible to "do science" about it and not just trail off into ideas that are beyond discussion, beyond meaning.

I mean if you are looking at a planet to see if the surface has been worked in a way that proves the existence of a technology-capable species (even if it was long extinct), you're talking about something "real" at that point.

Also, the book "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem is really wonderful in the way it evokes the mystery of how a being can be sentient and utterly non-comprehensible to us. Quite brilliant really.
The surface area of a project is a fractal. Don't rathole. Writing tickets is the problem. Stand ups are so the mngr has something to say to his boss at his stand up.
SF (and the US tech sphere at large) isn't an environment where people are taught to bridge the divide and understand others who think differently than they do. But booting someone from YC for simply supporting a pretty mainstream viewpoint would be surprising, even in that environment.

Then again, I was downvoted for requesting confirmation of a statement that turned out to be inaccurate. So maybe SF (and the tech zeitgeist to which it is fused) has fallen off that cliff already. He wasn't booted for supporting the wall. He was booted for being an obnoxious asshole to many others, including YC peers.

I don't believe anyone in this thread has expressed surprise that racism and support for building the wall often go hand in hand.

But that doesn't mean all comments supporting a wall are necessarily racist. If you say "we need a border wall to stop cartels from profiting off of human trafficking, and should instead offer more visas for migrant workers from Central America," that's not a particularly racist view.
No. The clients are open source, and (at least on Android) you are able to verify that the source on Github is the same that was used to compile the client on Google Play with reproducible builds [1].

And even if the servers turn out to be malicious, the clients are designed to expose as little metadata as possible with things like private contact discovery[2], sealed sender[3] and private groups[4]. It's not perfect, but the data a malicious server could collect is limited.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/master/repr...

[2] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

[3] https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

[4] https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/
100% agree that any stigma against being a stay at home dad (viewing the issue from the opposite angle as you ask) is also unhealthy. In my personal journey, at least, I have not encountered men who stigmatize my desire to be a stay at home dad but I have (surprisingly often) encountered women who stigmatize female homemakers (or the concept thereof). I guess it’s only anecdata there, but I don't think I’m wildly off base with my experience.
My thought to every line quoted is "why?" What are the actual principles involved, and why don't we just jump straight to those when making process decisions? Manifestos do more harm then good because their vagueness enables reinterpretation.
I was curious about "less praise", as it seemed counter-intuitive.

> [As Americans,] one of the craziest things we do is praise children constantly.. I recorded myself to see how frequently I praised my little girl, Rosy, and I noticed that I would exaggeratedly react to even her smallest accomplishments.

> [..if you look around the world and throughout human history..] Everywhere I went, I don’t know if I ever heard a parent praise a child. Yet these kids are incredibly self-sufficient, confident, and respectful — everything we want praise to do, these kids already have it, without the praise.

> ..I decided to try. It’s not that there’s no feedback, but it’s much gentler feedback — parents will smile or nod if a child is doing something they want. I started doing that, and Rosy’s behavior really improved. A lot of the attention-seeking behavior went away.

Not being a parent (yet) myself, it's hard to understand the emotional/psychological dynamics. I suppose it means that parents' praise is often counter-productive, and encourages children to expect such attention all the time - and, I guess, to misbehave in order to get it.

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Another interesting point in the interview is about how parents react when children misbehave.

> Rosy started having a tantrum, and I was getting ready to yell at her to stop. But Elizabeth, our interpreter, came over to her and addressed her in the calmest voice.

> Immediately, Rosy just stopped — when she was around that calmness, her whole body relaxed. I was like, Okay, I’m just doing this tantrum thing completely wrong.

> ..Young children are..illogical, irrational beings who haven’t matured enough and haven’t acquired understanding or reason yet. So there’s no reason to get upset or argue back — if you do, you’re being just like the child.

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And this part about raising children with an extended family:

> ..Young children are basically designed to be raised by a group of people, not just two.
Upvoted (although I'm not sure I agree with the last point, but the top 2 are definitely spot-on)

The agile manifesto is tiny and a scrum guide like this one: https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html is readable in a couple of hours. But the version of "scrum" forced on many people is a far cry from that.
There is an imperative to be a high earner due to skyrocketing housing, medical, and education costs in the United States. At the same time popular media like Wolf of Wall Street, The Social Network, and Shark Tank, show how life affirming and beneficial it is to gain wealth.

To many start-ups seem like a short cut - even if they are laughably not.
> fwiw, I realize this comment doesn't help much either.

I like your comment, it cracked me up!
It might not be emulating men as much as it is simply dressing business casual or business professional because it’s required while in the office.
I don't think that the intention was that, but since we are commenting on an article that suggest to women to "freeze their eggs" while pursuing a carreer as a founder, it's probably honest to acknowledge the fact that men don't need to freeze their eggs if they want to have kids later in their lives and can have them while pursuing a career because, in some countries more than others, like in the US for example, women are highly penalized for the fact that they can get pregnant.

So it's less a men's problem than it is a women's problem.
What you say is true, but partly orthogonal. If not owning a car is one of the most important things to you, then as a friend, I would counsel you to arrange your life to prioritize that. Live in NYC or Boston. Or Amsterdam or Paris. In all of those places, car ownership is a net negative and so you'll find a lot of life arranged to assume you don't own a car and as a result, a lot of like-minded people.

If your frustration is that many others choose to own a car and prioritize their consumption differently, again as a friend I would tell you in the most polite way I could muster to make your choices based on your values and let others make their choices based on their values. You can also try to reshape all of society or some small corner of it, but first and foremost, I'd advise you to make pragmatic choices to improve your daily existence.
That’s a useful addition. I was thinking it is kind of pointless to have this indicator that only tells you that something might be wrong when it is too late. The article does not address this aspect if I’m not mistaken.
Thanks for pointing this out. It makes me so sad when I see my friends waiting too long and struggling with their fertility.
I'm sure there are all sorts of negotiations and esoteric adjustments going on behind the scenes - $45k was the total of the itemized invoice sent to my insurance company. I'm unsure exactly of how much it will cost me out-of-pocket, but I'm expecting $3-4k.
Yeah SLA is more important at that point. I've lived in apartments/had-service that would only slowdown/drop like once a month and I've had service that's dropped nearly every day. The later is incredibly frustrating.
Somebody is down voting you, possibly because of the non-gender-neutral language, but I agree with your message: we currently overvalue wealth and job status and undervalue the joy of raising a family.

I switched to a 4-day week to find a better work-life balance and couldn't be happier. Time with my kids is more valuable than the salary cut.
If I'm not mistaken insomnia is also using electron. I wouldn't really put it as a lightweight alternative to postman.
Just because a vest can prevent death does not mean it does not incapacitate the officer(preventing his further response) or doing serious harm.
If I had to guess, I'd say that Apple and Google probably have a contract that covers how this transfer takes place, and it takes some amount of effort from their legal teams to ensure that it's a valid contract that complies with the laws of each jurisdiction. As a result, they started with the highest-value jurisdictions like the US and EU first.

Regarding Liechtenstein, it is (along with Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland) part of the European Single Market [1] via trade agreements with the EU, so it's possible that it was trivial to adapt whatever contract they were using in the EU to cover them as well. I don't think it's a coincidence that all 4 are on the list -- but again, this is just a guess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market
not that effective - i've also been on the lookout for this, but without your comment wouldn't have realized that's what this website was offering.
Would those work on any compiler, or are they compiler-specific? If those are non-standard compiler-specific extensions, not even a library, is it truly a part of C++?

While I'll grant that Rust only has one fully functional compiler at this time, those functions have been part of Rust's corelib since 1.0. Any Rust compiler would have to support them.
This is the pinnacle of human interface guidelines. Recent ones focus way to much on pleasure and joy brought on by superfluous, disorienting animations while totally disregarding getting work done or understanding how an app organizes its cognitive models.
SEO was a thing before tracking and widespread advertising, though, and I can't see it disappear even if we somehow manage to ban those widespread tracking practices. Remember keyword stacking?

Businesses providing paid services on the internet will still want to get noticed before those free smaller websites and will do whatever they can to appear first in relevant search engines results regardless. The reasons to get people on their sites would shift from showing them ads to selling them a paid product, but reeling people in is still going to be the objective.

There are many great arguments against tracking, but IMHO, SEO isn't one.
This does the opposite actually, it forced the federal government to de-prioritize areas with worse service in favor of areas with good but not as good as 100/100 service.

There are parts of the US that don't even have access to 15/3. This reclassification would put them in the same group as people with 75 up and down.
I disagree with this - I think it's very much a reflection of the modern world being quite focused on profits and revenue - you can build an exceedingly successful thing that doesn't provide a clear revenue stream. It won't come with the glamour that other options may have but if you look at passion projects from things like open source libraries all the way down to dwarf fortress it's quite possible to make a living building a thing - it just won't give you 200k+ in annual income.

There is a place for artisanal projects in the modern world - a lot of creative folks subsist greatly on patreon as a source of income.
>1. I didn't say it needs to be a women, I am highlighting that there’s a stigma against women performing that role today.

I'm not aware of any stigma from women being stay at home moms. My impression is that most, if not all, people are aware that money gives you power (or freedom, if you will). And who doesn't like freedom.

There's also less security of income for everyone, so a household relying on one spouse's income is risky. Especially if there's no extended family around that can come to the rescue in the event of loss of income.

>Why do we assume having a career requires more ambition than wanting to raise a healthy family?

Because it's too easy to say "I want to raise a healthy family", therefore it's a poor signal. Proving yourself with work, well remunerated or not, is a better signal. So I would say there are a lot of incentives for women to work, but not because society stigmatizes it, but because it leads to optimal results for women (and men).
I had a massive ketchup blow-out recently. It took out my entire refrigerator. There was leftover lasagna and broken beer bottles everywhere.

I'm just glad I'd bought the extended warranty.
It only happens when people are discovered, begin arguing, are told to leave, and don't. It's mostly drunk people who have brought alcohol into a movie. Cops remove them as trespassers who refused to leave after being told to.
People also thinking ML is some kinda panacea and trying to shoehorn it into everything to make the product "sexy". I have also wasted 1.5 years of time on an ML based log analysis product, where they wanted everything to be learnt, it was death by a thousand cuts. A little bit of coding and writing parsers would have made the product successful.
Google's internal style guide basically had this same suggestion. Was it publicized already? If so, please dont down vote me.

Just a hint that this is a very sound suggestion.
The daily standup is not part of agile.

Agile is defined here: http://agilemanifesto.org/
> when the US begins playing vaccine diplomacy with under supplied EU countries.

In a few months at least one of two things will have happened:

1. The EU managed to sort out its logistical issues

2. Russia and China already stepped in (as they already do in some places), leaving no room for Washingtonian vaccine diplomacy
No.

Agile/xp started at Chrysler as a way to push back on management on give engineers a chance to pace/structure/set expectations for their work

Modern agile is just a management framework used as an excuse to micro manage the shit out of your work force.
A look at the Covax program in Ghana: refrigerated trucks and drone deliveries
The infection sounds like pizzle rot
Funny so they’d rather lose business than sales commissions.
Speedtest.net isn't a great a measurement because cable is notoriously bursty. Cable ISPs will give you the full (neighborhood) pipe for a minute, and then throttle you back to some set speed. This is helpful to speed up web browsing, but not when measuring bandwidth.

I'd recommend timing any big upload that takes at least an hour. Ideally encrypted and somewhat unique, so that it's not likely to be prioritized or served by an edge box.
Barrett's views are not the only ones there are, and they are still debated in the field, however much she may insist to the media that her view is the only correct one and that all else are myths. Things are not nearly as settled as she claims.

Panksepp, J. (2007). Neurologizing the Psychology of Affects: How Appraisal-Based Constructivism and Basic Emotion Theory Can Coexist. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(3), 281–296. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00045.x

Panksepp, J. (2008). Cognitive Conceptualism—Where Have All the Affects Gone? Additional Corrections for Barrett et al. (2007). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(4), 305–308. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00081.x