skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re in the midst of a ‘SAFe transformation’ from having been running in a fairly lightweight scrum-style manner for year.

There are a set of ‘good things’ that I can see from SAFe, and if you read the book and do the course there is loads about how you /should/ adapt it to work for you.

Amongst the issues is that SAFe, by its very nature, has stakeholders outside the local team and that mandates some sort of process.

Interestingly the size that Scaled Agile talk about is pretty big - a small Agile Release Train was discussed as ~100 people across ~5 teams. The full Portfolio SAFe is for multiple release trains e.g. 500+ people.

If you’re trying to enforce SAFe on something much smaller then I think you’re probably doing it wrong.

Also, if the “IT Department is trying to implement SAFe” rather than the “Company is undergoing a SAFe transformation” it has already gone wrong. You need to have your stakeholders throughout the organisation on board, and it is something of a top down thing.
It would be fun if someone did some systematic research to try to work out if this is actually happening and which companies are doing it.
You either can assure you have enough processing power to stay within cycle budgets, or prioritize objects or whatever and try to process the n most meaningful ones. Getting these priorities wrong can get you into trouble. But at least the framerate is ok =;-). This is normal business in realtime systems.
Not to mention we were all raised that way. It’s always a part of parenting and passing on culture. Pretending otherwise is abdicating necessary responsibility.
The Scripted Dialogue on Pawn Stars
Nuclear power has a bunch of controversy and politics behind it. It's not clear whether it will be the future. The existence of nuclear power doesn't make the energy variable negligble. Energy is still a huge limited resource in our world because of this.

Why would governments and scientists spend so much money on Fusion if Nuclear was the definitive answer? It doesn't matter. Whatever your stance is on the topic you can't change the fact that there exists huge political opposition against Nuclear power. The political opposition if anything makes the line of reasoning completely relevant.
https://www.tesladeaths.com/
Exactly! Scrum is just another tool in a project managers toolbox.

I like the process based aproach of PMBOK, which is a set of processes that can be applied or left out, deoending on the project context.

Unfortunately I see a lot of Scrum managers, and certified project managers constantly applying all processes they learned about and furthermore annoying those who do the actual work.
Is there any easy way to determine that? I’m not aware of one. The presence of JavaScript is not always enough to determine that the page is not usable without JavaScript.
How will browser behave, when you combine no-store and no-cache in a single header?
Too many people support the development of powerful weapons without considering what happens when their enemies get a hold of them.
Very interesting. Do you have any suggestions for reading more about this?

"It is actually one of the nice facts of life that as you dial up the local instability of a dynamical system you get a corresponding increase in the statistical stability."

I am a mathematician working in a tangentially related area and have never come across this before.
I think that shall have potential to become a proverb.
Statistics won't help you if one of those "every 20 years" disasters hit a highly populated area like Europe. The technology will still look "safe" on paper but you'd have depopulated a huge area and maybe even killed people or keep on killing through cancer.
Today's average user comes to the internet for Youtube, TikTok, Twitter, Twitch, and maybe more "useful" stuff like Maps, Translate, Docs, or information like news, recipes, guides, etc.

None of this would be possible without ads. No one is going to pay for all that.
> Edit, to add: as a comment below notes eBay only allows annotated versions of the book.

I wouldn't be surprised if this started as a copyright issue. Bavaria inherited Hitlers copyright and aggressively banned any sale of Mein Kampf, only annotated versions got around that ban and even that was a legal uphill battle as far as I remember.
I occasionally adjunct. What students call me at the beginning of the semester is always awkward:

Them: "Hello Professor"

Me: "Technically I'm not a professor."

Them: "Okay, we'll just call you Doctor."

Me: "Yeah, about that... not a doctor either."

Them: "So why are we paying you?"

Me: "Technically, you're paying the school. And the school is paying me... very little"

Them: "Answer the question"

Me: "Because I know stuff that you don't."

Mostly they still just call me professor and I feel awkward every time.
The stats I’ve seen quoted about Tesla are super misleading and not at all apples to apples comparisons.
There's a site of ancient iron works up the valley. It may be related to that, taking excess water away or something.
It is so hard to decide whether racism or racist hints (in the UK it is more discreet, disguised as classist but all the same) should be banned because racism is not compatible with todays civilized society or if it should be allowed so the stupid racists can expose their bigoted selves.
EBay has all the rights to do this, private platform and all that. Having Such books in the product portfolio is contaminating the brand.

Somebody interestingly said that working class latinos or immigrants in general do not care much or primarily about this kind of speech or imagery. Nothing could be further from the truth, they have human feelings and perceptions as well and the economical dependency makes people pretend to not care. Of course the people are offended, often for a very long time.

Every step towards eradicating racists and bigots from society should be applauded. They have never brought anything good to society and their freedom to express themselves and edgy comments were never funny.

Will not happen in my lifetime but every little step towards that is welcome.

The author is most welcome to change the title pictures to something deemed less offensive.
You cannot expect your freedom of expression being enforced on something like eBay to promote the broadcasting and emission of your crap. It is not just the c level who do not like it, maybe some other employees do feel offended by beeing part of such a company.
This is why I'm not going to bother with a Pi-Hole. For my girlfriend, half the things she likes to look at would disappear.

On a more positive note, I bought my 81 year-old Dad 'Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World' for his birthday in January. He's so knocked out by it that he sends me PDF scans of certain pages. So probably the way to go is starting with a little covert education.
If it is calculated client side, what keeps my browser (or a plugin) from always returning 42 as my ID?

That would hide me rather well, especially if implemented by a large browser like safari or Firefox.
This is ridiculous. A transmission failure and a self-driving failure have very different implications. Automatic transmissions don't have pedestrians walking through them, etc.
Hey, feedback on "What is it?" part.

> What Is LearnObit? (Short Answer: It's a web app that uses algorithms for learning based on Spaced Repetition, along with a specialized note-taking tool.

I appreciate you're writing this as you understand it, but it might not make sense to others. I don't know what the spaced repetition is. A simpler language might explain it better.
I have no objection to claims like "Men have gender-based advantages in many things" or "Women face many problems which are hard to understand when not experienced daily". The problem with the term "male privilege" is that it comes across to many people (including me) as a sort of attack - it seems to suggest men should feel embarrassed or ashamed about their gender. (And this isn't just some crazy scenario I made up - I've heard mainstream figures say they're embarassed to be men as many words.)
I cannnot say it is benifecial for delivery, but it is beneficial for engineers, cos' focusing on processing not the results.

A good agile process, make development work less stress.
Wondering why this post was flagged. Is it for copyright infringement?
It’s bad enough that the company self-cancels the books.

But now we also can’t even have a secondary market for what already exists.

People have severely underestimated the influence these woke people have.

In my company, we receive forms from clients asking us to survey our employees for their sexual preferences and racial categories, essentially based on the same nomenclature used in nazi Germany.

It is completely bizarre and abhorrent.

At least this particular piece of poison is thus far resisted in Sweden.

All of this is connected and needs to stop. It starts with each and everyone of us no longer “just going along” with each new book burning and each new forbidden word they introduce.
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Well, of course a lot of people stop caring way before. I'm not saying introspection is not necessary because we are all wired to automatically create groups by excluding other people from them be it race, religion, gender or whatever other reason. It's good to rationally think about your own biases.

My point is precisely that other people is continuously drawing lines and everything is binary.
Because having read the EFF article, it is clear that personal information is not secured to my browser. By definition, putting me into a category exposes my personal information, in a summarized form that is potentially reversible.

It enhances the ability to fingerprint me, effectively exposing my browsing history.

If Google offered it as an "opt in", giving me some reward for sharing my personal information that Google sells to advertisers, then that is a fair deal. In return for some form of sharing the revenue, Google gets to sell my information.

But that's not the model. It's still the "you're a product" model where Google not only gets to sell my search history, but now also continues to sell my browsing history.

I can see how it benefits Google and how it gives them/you something to sell to advertisers, but what's in it for me?
Farewell DAB, the radio technology we didn’t need
> Loading the Y Combinator logo in here is almost certainly not tracking

Except it does, it tracks how many times the image was loaded. That's tracking, even if you're not getting any user specific information.

FLoC is the same, you're not getting any individual user information, but you're tracking cohorts.
China’s Tianwen-1 zooms in on Mars surface on cusp of new tech era
It's the last thing that keeps me on Nvidia with proprietary Linux drivers. I wouldn't mind ML training on a AMD card to be slower but I need my workload to be at least GPU-accelerated.
I want to chip in here and say that accouting for limited resources in an economic model is definitely useful, because the negate ( not accounting for limited resources ) has led to the environmental disaster that we find ourselves in right now.
I had the opportunity to ask a very social-justice-minded friend of mine how custom pronouns and genders could possibly work in Arabic, which has many deeply integrated rules on gender modification of words. Adjectives, verbs, and pronouns all change depending on the gender of the object. Her response was that the language must be changed to suit the preferences of people with nonstandard genders.

It really feels sometimes that this is a sort of soft English imperialism, forcing other languages to the margins by making their use "impolite" to the global audience.
[0]> Estimates vary, but between 7,500 and 52,000 people in the United States meet early deaths because of small particles resulting from power plant emissions.

That is the US. That is just air pollution. It is reasonable to conclude that there are other sources of pollution, such as water (which no matter how you cut it, air is in contact with).

> it [goes boom] about once every 20 years

This keeps beeing peddled by the anti-nuclear fraction, but you are comparing apples and oranges: the "large number of explosions" is based on "if you include 3 Mile Island and use bad statistics because now that number is 26 and ignore that we can't do this type of analysis will small sampling, and naively act like no progress has been made and that the probability isn't dependent on this". I mean seriously... 1st reactor: 1942, 3 Mile (not an explosion and isn't comparable to Chernobyl or Fukushima): 1979, Chernobyl: 1986, Fukushima: 2011. If we drop 3-Mile we get 40 years (39.5) btw. And you think no one is learning from this? That technology hasn't advanced in that time? This argument is ridiculous. It is bad faith. And I don't know how anyone can make this argument with a straight face.

> The "lots of people die from coal" vs. "nobody dies from nuclear" story

It is literally 39k Americans per year (mean of above) to 81[1] EVER (31 Chernobyl immediate, 50 Chernobyl after, 0 3 Mile Island, 0 Fukushima). You might want to retort about cancer and/or future deaths (which is still smaller than the lowest US YEARLY deaths), but we've already recognized that we're not doing that with coal either. If you get cancer from coal and survive you don't get counted, just like our nuclear numbers.

There's better arguments to make but this one is just absurd and is trivial to prove so.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-other-reason-...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190725-will-we-ever-kno...

> According to the official, internationally recognized death toll, just 31 people died as an immediate result of Chernobyl while the UN estimates that only 50 deaths can be directly attributed to the disaster. In 2005, it predicted a further 4,000 might eventually die as a result of the radiation exposure.

[2] Side note: the highest estimates use 60k for potential Chernobyl deaths, which is still 8 years at coal's best case scenario. Again, only counting the US for coal and world for nuclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
And why is the same not true for FLoC? How come when it comes to FLoC, the bare minimum amount of information is magically enough to identify you, but when it comes to IP, you just shrug it away as it being too difficult?
The author is dead.

Perhaps you would like to ask authors of books from earlier centuries to modify them so as to not be offensive.

Are you serious?
What made advertisers thrive is now going away. I guess it was time.
Most CMS will add this automatically. I doubt this was an intentional move.
According to this article [1] you may have read the updated version.

> Seuss actually grew to become more aware of his harmful images later in his life, and to regret them, eventually revising the Mulberry Street text and illustration. "I had a gentleman with a pigtail. I colored him yellow and called him a 'Chinaman,'" Seuss said. "That's the way things were 50 years ago. In later editions, I refer to him as a 'Chinese man.' I have taken the color out of the gentleman and removed the pigtail and now he looks like an Irishman."

[1] https://theweek.com/articles/969777/complicated-quagmire-dr-...
Why? It's not like Germany ran out of power or something like that.

The opposite is the case. It has been a frontrunner for renewable energy for years and moved the development for everybody on this planet and now they even have a plan (law) to phase out coal despite it being an important source for jobs in regions struck with unemployment.
> I wonder if it would make sense to have a setup similar to music where commercial users of software pay a fee to an organization that distributes money to the producers.

Based on what we see in the music industry I suggest we don't do this.
I loled at this, not at all because I find joy in your situation, but because it's so difficult to picture (A) someone who buys a cybertruck being price sensitive, or (B) someone who is like "well, ok I guess" in the face of a $9k price hike on a truck.
No it is not[0],stop this shilling.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/28/new-te...
> How is the best situation for a prideful introvert to have a scheduled meeting every morning where they can make it known to the entire team exactly how stuck they are?

Because the whole team's doing it, because it creates a space where it's ok to have got stuck, and because the once-a-day schedule sets a clear expectation about how long it's ok to be stuck for without at least considering asking for help.

If you were happy getting yourself unstuck asking for help 1-on-1 you can still do that, and you'll never be stuck when it comes to the standup, so it should be no skin off your nose. The standup is for the sake of the people who would previously be stuck quietly for days at a time.

(though if I'm on the receiving end, I'd prefer to nudge you towards asking in standup or at least in an async way, rather than interrupting my own flow by asking me for help)
The issue isn’t whether having the technology saves more lives than not having the technology. The issue is whether, given the technology, the marketing creates a perception that results in unsafe usage of the technology, costing lives.
America is probably just one of very few cases in human history where slavery was based on race.
I thought partitions used to be faster but files are just as fast now.[1]

[1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.0/1690.html
Germany here, we banned Mein Kampf from being sold (used copyright law to do that). I once stood in a book shop (teenager, time to look at books but not enough money to buy them) and some skindheads wanted to buy it, it wasn't available. They went away.

Providing context is good, but frankly also really difficult and why not just provide newer childrens books that are more inclusive.
I came into the comments section to see what this article is all about and whether I want to read it, thinking it would be about working on open source projects only 9 am to 5 pm. So this comment helped me a lot, and I'm voting it up so that it may stay on top.
I have a stone that keeps covid away, you can't afford to not buy it.
Which websites are the best to search? Anything in English?
Well, you'd have to heat it faster than the heat conducts away through the ice, so that's a bigger heat flux than you can easily deliver with em radiation. You're doing a big area if you want a runway so you'd probably be better off with a floodlight than a laser. And you're just gonna melt the ice to water so you probably want a pump or something to remove the water.
I don't really see anything to get excited about. It's just a sign that the pendulum is about to swing back in the other direction.
Are there any <10W boards that have better performance/watt for object detection?

If it exists, I wanna buy it
Keep in mind that you are only going to hear the voices of those who did not understand. Those who did had no reason to comment on it.
> It does all this with zero input from the driver

Isn't this different from things like Tesla's autopilot in that in certain conditions the Honda will take full responsibility for driving and the driver can concentrate on other things. But needs to be ready when the car tells the driver to take control/responsibility. I'm guessing these conditions could be quite specific and limited - like traffic jams and freeway driving when the car is effectively in a 'convoy'
Full self-driving right ?
Like you need 3 person remotely operating that vehlices 24/7, that means 8 working hours, thats 3 people per day if every of one of them is driving 24/7.
Blink blink. (internal joke for honda guys).

Another one of my ideas, do you know why Musk is building starlink ? To operate fleet of cars remotely all over the world by using remote operators and avoid paying NET connect to telco operators. With LEO orbit latency is piece of cake. Only thing is trsutworthy of that operators.
The price for autdriving, will be payments for operators, calculated from local country HDP, to pay operators by local country "minimal" HDP wages.
Problems with unemployment "solved".
An instance of that fraud is that re-selling would generate money. I buy that apple for 95ct. Sell it to the next supermarket for 98ct. They sell it to a customer for 100ct of which the customer pays 95ct. Goes to the next supermarket etc etc. Today you'd just accumulate more and more tax so nobody does that. With negative VAT this loop is now generating money.
Just like tobaco is forced to print "this leads to cancer" on their products, self driving cars should have labels like "car crashing into wall" and "car killing other human".
Is there such a thing as long flu? Long cold? In a way, don't most illnesses cause long term effects?
Airplanes are highly standardized. Dozens and hundreds of essentially the same model are built. A few of them are built specifically to test in various ways and even crash and burn, and make sure they behave reasonably in such situations.

Civilian nuclear reactors are mostly built by a handful, rarely by a dozen. This makes learning from past mistakes and taking preventative measures across the fleet hard.

I think France has partly solved it exactly by having a small number of standardized reactors, and a number of nuclear plants which can be run in a reasonably uniform way.
To those of you who don't know it yet:
Recently, some of Scott Alexander's emails were leaked [1]. He comes across as horrifyingly racist in them, to say the least. He is a pseudointellectual.

[1] https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1362153191102677001

Backup of the original source who deleted their tweets due to threats:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.c...

More info and discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/lm36nk/old_scott...
Pareto improvements are theoretical concept. neonological argues here, that those are impossible in reality. I think this is pretty hard to argue one or other way, because side effects of our activities aren't always obvious. Things like tumbleweed in northern america or any accidentally imported plant/animal is good example about costs, that arrive later and for other people.
Though I think there is possible to construct some clear Pareto improvement cases, like early improvements of internal combustion engine, where I don't see possibility of negative effects, only additional power out of same amount of fuel.
Indeed, but also no incentive for bypassing safety checks that are redundant most of the time (which is how you get the normalisation of deviance that eventually leads to catastrophe). Sometimes that's the right tradeoff.
Freedom speech as defined in the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

What we are seeing here is a consequence of our capitalist society. It is now more profitable for eBay and other companies to pull or ban things that may cause controversy. There's no censorship here. You can find these books at other retailers. In fact, you're likely to see some businesses thrive by specifically carrying the things that other retailers refuse to carry.
Why do you believe that’s the commit that caused the bug?