skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, French nuclear powerplants were standardized and built in batches ("séries", in French).
This does not magically creates conditions for a perfect design and building process. See for example https://theecologist.org/2016/sep/29/sizewell-b-and-27-other...

Planes aren't perfectly safe (my brother was killed when SR111 crashed in 1998 after failures).

Anyone preferring not being exposed to a plane crash can abstain to travel in planes. Anyone preferring not being exposed to nuclear reactors boo-boos and hot waste has no real way to do so.
> Can you imagine pharmaceutical companies trying to improve "User engagement" with their products?

They effectively are. That's called paying conferences and travels to the doctors that will prescribe the pharmaceutics.
Unless you're an actual physician with expertise in this area and have access to their medical records, please stop trying to invalidate their pain and experiences and explain things away.

This behaviour is the reason people stop talking about it and part of why we still know so little about the long-term consequences of it all.
That's exactly the sort of task I'd expect an automated vehicle to perform better on. If they can't beat humans at that they're not ready for the public road.

Of course hand-off could be for liability purposes, like

Car: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm about to plow into a school, this is your problem now"

Dave: [looks up briefly from his game of candy crush before dying in a crash]
And that's ultimately why we had the most surplus deaths in 2020 in EU.
AMD only cares about data center. Anything below that, they don't care. They don't care about supporting anything other than linux. God forbid some person try to experiment with their hardware/software as a hobby before putting it to use in a work setting.
The point isn't to proof that these words are bad, the point is that people have already called for banning these words. 5-10 years ago you would have had similarly "bad" sources for banning blacklist et al., and yet here we are.
Maybe the big difference here is getting people to book slots?

Booking slots helps emphasize that this us a one-on-one opportunity for a conversation - not a situation where you might feel awkward that there are several others on the chat who already know each other.

It also sets up a small obligation that you'll actually show up, since if you reserved a slot it's rude to cancel at short notice.
In American English it can mean that too. The meaning of "certain hours where you work" and "certain hours where you have an 'open office'" overlap enough to be confusing, yes.
“Our goal is, and I feel pretty good about this goal, that we’ll be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York, from home in LA to let’s say dropping you off in Time Square in New York, and then having the car go park itself, by the end of [2017]”

At this pace the coast-to-coast test will take centuries :-)
I think the goal of scrum is exactly what you are striving for: to only have the end result count. If you can achieve this without a process, that's great. However, that puts a big responsibility on the developer: you need to weigh development effort against business benefits and really try to understand the customer. If you are up for it and capable of it, that's great, then you don't need scrum or any framework. You are then the owner, period. However, in my experience, most developers do not really care about the business side of things. Also there expertise is often not in prioritizing development efforts to maximize business value. So I can completely understand what you are saying, but most developers are not you (in my experience) and they do not naturally own the things they create.
I see you're hopping the Nordic countries. How similar are they in reality? Is it fair to place all them in the same bucket as always is done in these discussions? What made you move from one to another?
There is no difference. Whether something is immutable is to a large degree irrelevant.
But since they know not everyone is addicted, they want both.

Hardcore addicted people and people who are at least so on the hook to come back regularly.
I am no defender of agile as I have seen it implemented as a cargo cult. So yes, quality engineering can happen without it. However, the communication that can/should/could be provided by agile is required by quality engineering.

My first experience with seeing how effective this communication can be was before agile when a manager held short, goofy meetings once a week and we engineers somehow managed to ship, ship on time, and ship reasonable products.
The construction, fuelling and cleanup of a site is far from carbon zero. There is also a geographic dependency, or should be.

Nuclear power puts out more CO2 than solar or wind according to Nature (hydro isn’t mentioned for some reason).

“carbon emissions ranged from 1.4 grammes of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour (gCO2e/kWh) of electricity produced up to 288 gCO2e/kWh. Sovacool believes the mean of 66 gCO2e/kWh to be a reasonable approximation.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/climate.2008.99
> my employer has just announced that they'll lay off a couple hundred of IT people are replace them with an Indian outsourcing company, purely to cut costs

Not one large-sized Nordic bank by any chance? ;)

The flipside of using latest tech is you should have easier time hiring new people to replace the ones who left. But I am certainly not denying that hiring devs who are willing to commit to the business is a really hard problem. Companies should maybe focus this more in their hiring practices over just the technical skill profile. Good developers will learn the tech stack in the job, if they care.

Also, people retention / satisfaction is pivotal in keeping the commited people on board. Doing massive outsourcings to India is certainly not a good signal to send to those who feel their skills and commitment could be appreciated elsewhere as well.
This is not different from outside the EU, though, which is my point.

The EU is not perfect but moving within it is easier than moving between countries anywhere else in the world (outside of a few much smaller blocks).
Looks like it's 3.65 volts, there's a picture of the battery with the voltage stamped on it. But no indication of size and weight.
> That money would be spent 100x better in a church charity or something similar.

Or in the case of an evangelical mega-church to help pay for the tax free mansions and private jets, essentially charging the taxpayers twice.
Can be, but the last place I was in that tried to adopt agile ended up changing managers, and now have one guy assigning tickets and expecting people to show up to "his" stand-up meeting.

I wasn't the only person that left.
Depending on license, aren't you obligated to provide a repo if you're using the code (ie GPL)? Or do I misunderstand it?
>> The problem is that over time companies are consolidating into a few monopolies which are entirely out of public control,(...)

The problem is Far bigger than that, and the implications are indeed frightening. And Why is that... simply because a societal precedent has been set which could allow the Government to use this as a linchpin to control All speech and by default All Thought. When you control what people can say you also control what they think.
You are saying you'd rather be better targeted?

For myself, I enjoy their failures. It's better to be wrongly identified.

And that ad for adult diapers alongside another for a plausibly deniable grape de-seeding utensil... More entropy FTW!
So do you think I should be allowed to kick people out for being black, or that I should be forced to serve everyone no matter their actions?
> The US should have free testing available to everyone at least once a week. The capacity to test 100 million people in 2 days should have been built up, because testing is so vitally important to understanding what is going on. The fact we don't have that should be a crime because it has lead to so many deaths.

You're arguing that it's a travesty and a crime that the US didn't have something which no country in the world had, or even came close to. That probably wasn't even remotely feasible based on what other countries achieved and the fact that there was limited manufacturing capacity for pretty much everything that would be required to do so.

The frustrating thing is, it's not even surprising that you think that. For nakedly partisan reasons, the American media pushed the idea that the US would've had this kind of massive widespread testing and complete control over Covid if only its leader wasn't a monster who was sabotaging its efforts, warping perceptions of how everyone else was doing in the process. It worked too - they got the guy voted out of office at the cost of massively misinforming everyone about the biggest crisis facing the world, not only in their own country but elsewhere in the Western world too.
Again I feel like the "should" in my title is misleading here.

"I’d like to encourage more open source project maintainers to consider doing something similar."

If you consider it and decide that it's not for you that's absolutely fine!
A photo in the press release shows a battery with 3.65v stamped on it, if that helps
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Yes and more:

1. Lack of "manual memory management" can be taken as GC (though Rust is neither GC'd nor manual memory managed, it's declaratively memory managed) and a GC is unacceptably expensive for systems programming. Furthermore, until recently GC was also unacceptably bad for FFI. However stable Rust and Haskell with experimental features can nowadays GC across FFI without issue, but I'm still unaware of any other language that can.

2. Lack of "manual memory management" also means lacking direct memory access, etc. This is a problem in systems programming, though you do not need it for all systems programming.

3. Then there's green threads. Early on Rust had them, but they were removed when it was discovered it's theoretically impossible to implement them with acceptably low overhead for a C or even a serious C++ competitor. What's worse, you have to pay the overhead even if you don't use the feature. Nowadays, you can opt in by importing an ecosystem library that provides green threads but mostly people just use futures rather than green threads.

4. Interfaces: Even tinygo's documentation advises avoiding interfaces and tinygo isn't even a C/C++/Rust competitor, it's a micropython competitor.

5. ...
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Monopolies are de-facto government bodies. It isn't that Ebay is administered by USG (although I'm sure Ebay has an NSA/DHS detachment); it's that it makes no difference to the user whether a government bans the sale of books on online flea markets or the only practical online flea market does.

If the only store within a 2-hour drive is walmart, walmart is your equivalent of the soviet centrally-planned economy.
Does it works with rain, fog, snow and the night ?
I think your preferred way of working is pretty close to what scrum aims to achieve. Often scrum gets implemented in totally the wrong way so I can understand your negative experience.
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Its python wrappers on top of existing ThTensor library which was already provided by torch. But yes great engineering nonetheless.
*much delayed*

When two technology vectors merge, it is really nice when the product is simpler and purer rather than the simple union of the two becoming a Simpson's-esque swiss army knife.

It can be dangerous when two similar ideas are too close, for whatever reason they formed to begin with will continue to hold and now you have competing factions along with the problem you are trying to solve. Everyone has to agree before you can start using regexps in your codebase. Oddly specific but true.

I am going to say hold your papers, but this problem is not going to be solved just yet, but in two or three iterations, it will be amazing. It won't just be a hardware description language, that is much too narrow, and it will arrived at in a kind of Erlang way, discovered through necessity, not from a formal system. But who knows?!

I do think that folks should adopt some sort of language above VHDL/Verilog.
out of many places i,ve worked which practiced agile, only one did it well. we spent entire day on planning, another entire day on retro. we broke down tasks to no more than three points. we did not try to squeeze out more than possible. our software turned out robust and reliable, and our estimates were spot on. everyone was happy. the key was the manager.
How do you explain that even Google Fiber (with near-unlimited capital) has failed to make any progress? If I remember correctly they were denied access to telephone poles that incumbents were using.
There is no definition for it, in every company that uses this name it has their own meaning.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I definitely think it's helpful to explain the idiom for those not familiar. I just found the description "a lot of the comments..." rather weird when I didn't see any.
As someone who has suffered through anxiety issues and now have some form of long covid I can see how you would make that link but frankly for me it's not there.

The lockdown is not stressing me, if anything I'm the happiest I've ever been (no commute, more time with my wife, ...), but when I go on my daily walk the struggle can be very real when it wasn't a year ago: shortness of bress, tightness in chest when going uphill. Not every day, but some days it's just there with seemingly little to trigger it.

I also use to cycle about 150km/week, I can barely last 20 min on the bike now. Even during my worst period of anxiety cycling was not an issue, if anything it always made me feel better.

Anecdotal for sure but I'm not sure stress/anxiety is a factor of significance
> Even absent any controversy about racially insensitive artwork (I mean seriously: there are africans drawn as half-monkeys and a chinese man whose eyes are slanted lines! This is not stuff modern kids should be presented with), these definitely aren't "classics".

We all grew up with those bugs bunny cartoons with the same depictions, some even going so far as to depict them as cannibals, and I can't say either of those made our generation really think that of either of those ethnic groups. I think it was a realistic trope that 90s kids usually watched cartoons in groups after school with every ethnic group, that Sunny Delight commercial comes to mind [0], as does Dave Chapelle's joke about purple drink.

People need to realize that the World is messy, and racism and prejudice exits in all walks of life: none greater than in social class, which transcends ethnicity. And the sooner children realize that the sooner they will be able to acknowledge it and develop a sense of agency in the World to deal with an imperfect World.

Instead, all this re-enforces is a helicopter parents 'Karen' antics on to their children in which complaining to no end is the only way to get one's point of view, that ultimately drives to discord in Society: be it person or on social media--with the latter being critical to sustaining it's way over-valuations which mask their Black Mirroresque business models which that often provoke this type of behaviour and should really be the focus here and not canceling Dr. Suess books.

Sidenote: I'm sure their is some SJW interpretation for canceling Sunny Delight to be made about this as well as the kid was 'accosted only after a white aggressor perpetuated violence which provoked the black one to do the same' type narrative, but either way it's just best to ignore them.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ddM-FpiMg
I was working on a few projects where SCRUM was used. All those projects - with only one exception - were screwed. On one project Daily Standups were always more than an hour (of the most valuable and most productive morning time) where we/they would talk mostly about topics I wasn't involved in. Reviews were 3 to 5 hours every second week... On another project estimates were in "story points" and projects manager had to "recalculate" them into man-days in order to be able to communicate with customers... And so on... Not a help for developers and for customers either... But on my current project - it is working! It is lightweight (most standups are finished in 5 minutes, Sprint Reviews are mostly finished in 30 to 75 minutes every third week), Sprint Plannings are short because we have regular Groomings (twice a week). Sprint Retro is also short (30 minutes). Groomings may be time consuming, but they are needed in order to understand what needs to be done in details. We estimate in man-days and break all tasks larger than 8 or 12 man-days into smaller one. Everybody must be able to pickup any task. If one finished his work, he must take the task with highest priority from the list (for current sprint). Sprints are 3 weeks long. I have to say this is the first time it is working for me as a developer. And business ("non-technical") people are satisfied, because they have much more insight into development and understand better how everything works. All new wishes and requests flow into Backlog and are prioritized and then groomed and estimated. So we spend in average weekly 30 minutes for ALL standups and 3 hours for grooming (which is actually part of planning). It is VERY lightweight and I like it the first time in my life. We are doing it in this way for 2 years now and nobody has any plans to change it.
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The irony is that one could still have predictability and metrics without Scrum, and they would likely say as much if not more. Instead of expecting your devs to manually participate in rituals, you can use their actual output over a large time frame and extrapolate those.

Admittedly, that is my biggest problem with Scrum. Humans are by default the most volatile factor. While we could minimize its contribution, Scrum instead inflates the importance of the human factor. Example: estimating.

Grooming the back log for priority with just the people who are critical in deciding that priority, is common sense. Almost every methodology recommends this. Yet estimating is a tough sell: at the start, it is largely deemed useless due to inexperience. Yet as experience in estimating furthers, so too do metrics become available which make estimating unnecessary. Worse is when estimating and even re-estimating practices can easily eat entire days worth of productivity (a few hours per person + a high likelihood of hours around that meeting to be less efficient than could-be, loss or lack of flow). This is before we add that estimating has very little empirical evidence behind it (#NoEstimates) and psychological effects make things even more volatile (anchoring effect, Parkinson's Law, etc.)

I can't speak for others, but I went into this field because I want to minimize the human factor in anything mundane or boring, allowing people to maximize their participation in anything fun and exciting. For me, Scrum does the exact opposite.
Couldn’t agree more with what you said. There’s definitely “us vs them” developing and that’s a direct result of western analysts looking everything through American lenses. India thinks and acts differently, and even it’s left-right political spectrum is different. It’s become a big mess of various actors trying to manipulate the discourse, exacerbated by social media.
Cool! Anything to bring back the weirdness of the internet is a good thing
I used the phrase They were one of the groups.

The technique of hijacking a perfectly legitimate movement to push a particular agenda/propaganda is as old as Politics.
Are you kidding me? The 'first' was the Voltaic pile, copper and zinc. The first practical rechargeable was lead-acid. Li-ion is a relative newcomer, but had a sufficient power density to lead to a lot of applications which in turn led to a lot of research on improving Li-ion in a virtuous circle. We are pushing the limits of Li-ion and know that is sucks for some environments or application requirements, which is why people research alternatives.

This particular alternative is useful in some very specific niches in which Li-ion will _never_ be competitive.
This isn't a one-sided exchange: I'm getting just as much, if not more value out of each conversation.

If I wasn't then I wouldn't be doing this (or suggesting it to others).
The way the metric is designed is dumb so they do their testing elsewhere. It is a California rule. Basically if you wanted to game the metric you could just drive an autonomous car around a circular track and have no disengagements. But anyone trying for true level 5 is going to have to have lots of disengagements along the way towards training the system. So if Tesla put their actual numbers it would look really bad because city driving is very different than highway driving. And of course all the Tesla haters would go around talking about how their FSD system sucks which would hurt their stock price which would hurt their ability to raise money which would reduce their R&D spending.
>Is going to lead to more deaths.

It'll lead to the same number of deaths and slightly more complicated lawsuits.

At a statistical level Nobody(TM) is heeding fine print warnings.
> It's disrespectful

How do you respectful tell someone you think they are mistaken? I'd rather not be pussyfooted around by someone if I'm in the role of "person who has asked a question based on a faulty assumption". Don't be rude but don't avoid trying to answer truthfully to the best of your ability.