skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. Particularly early on, there are a lot of minor hurdles that you won't have a clue about. Silly things like versions not matching, missing semicolons, documentation that is outdated. These are all things that have you tearing your hair out if you're new to it.

One problem is the idea that you've ever "learned to program". It creates an expectation that you'll know whatever it is that you need. In reality, I've never coded anything where I knew everything about what to do. It's all an exploration: learning git, learning how to compile c++, learning how to deploy things in containers. There's always a new piece to learn about, and that's the real skill. It's both intellectual and psychological: you need to be smart, and you have to force yourself to learn things.

The problem with being new at anything is you don't have the map. There's a bunch of terms describing your space, but you don't know which ones are important. You can google anything, but you don't know what to google. When you get dropped into a working team, you at least end up with something that works, and people who can tell you how they think about it.
Sure, I'm not trying to disagree with you on the general point.

I'm just pointing out that the metric you used is pretty deceptive, like the average life expectancy for Romans was mid-30's, but that definitely wasn't the modal age of death (that would have been 0).
You're not asking 'the expert', you're asking everyone in the team.

'The expert' may turn out to be the junior you just hired.

It's also about flagging issues. Sometimes 'This is not working' is not synonymous with '...because I haven't figured out how to do it.'

It can also mean 'This is actually broken' and the team hasn't realised.
> The Indian middle class has never been more prosperous under any other government.

It would be pretty worrying if they weren't.
Ebay is not the government. Just start your own red-pilled eBay and sell Mein Kampf and Dr. Seuss
Or always pay them after they complete a part of the network instead of upfront?
This and at least one other post of yours in this thread were [dead] with no responses so you might have been shadowbanned.
I find your comment offensive
There is a difference between those things, but that doesn’t mean we should automatically support all discrimination that isn’t based on immutable qualities.

If eBay decided to delist all copies of White Fragility we should oppose that too. Ideas need to be freely exchanged and debated not forcibly censored by whoever happens to have power at the moment.
Although not an EU country, Serbia would be the best example. However, I would say "Russian ties" rather than "Russian roots". For instance, they both are Slavic, Orthodox countries, and have been historically allied.
> Naturally, our teacher wisely pushed hard on figuring what
> you could out on paper first.

Specifically in the case of the Commodores (I grew up on a C128) I find this observation backwards. Sure, if you only had three machines for twenty students then time on the machine was valuable. But on those machines there was so much to explore with poke (and peek to know what to put back). From changing the colours of the display to changing the behaviour of the interpreter.

I think that I discovered the for loop at eight years old just to poke faster!
Europe does well to keep talents in relative poverty compared to our peers in the US.

Most IT people are in the 50-60k/pa bracket.Some are in 80k and anything > 100k/pa is an exception.
And this is usually with progressive taxation starting with 30% and going upwards.

Most of the good housing costs > 400k and we are talking small apartments because it's Europe and if you live in the suburbs you give up all the great infrastructure.

Moving around in Europe is a nightmare especially if your spouse is in a field that requires intermediate/native level of the local language.
Yes, because it’s certainly plausible that the leadership of Big Tech that are always at each other’s throats to dominate their corner of the digital market would want to put aside any such differences in direction, and decide that this is the one issue that they could show a United front on because this after all is what affects their goals of market dominance.

It’s this that dominates the meeting of their leadership, who are always just hanging out with each other, combing through a list of things to cancel, put together a coordinated plan to cancel the thing, and then — in secret, nobody should know! - execute on that. Because what else could they possibly be bothered with?
Sounds like not a great book... but also not particularly sinister.
They are, nobody stops them doing that.
Defamation is illegal in plenty of non-dystopian countries.
In the most recent Debian installer, if you want to do FDE, it does:

partition > LUKS > LVM > swap volume

That way you get encrypted swap without having swap be a file in your filesystem.
Not in my experience. In my experience, if you give the devs leeway, they'll come up with some totally overengineered architecture with the latest tech in it (which is great for their CVs) and will spend a lot of the time bikesheding over nonsense (e.g. killing each other PRs because "too functional" or "not functional enough"). The developers don't care about the company goals, but they care about their CVs and personal preferences regarding languages, tooling etc.

Also, if they team does not deliver, at the end of the day it's their manager who gets the blame, not them - so why should they care? Basically, smart devs are repaying the psychopathy of the typical company owners with a 100% selfish behavior of their own. That's the what I've seen in the wild, not the positive scenario you're describing. Perhaps it's "late stage capitalism" in the flesh.
> which I struggled to provide.

I don't mean to be rude, but this mostly just sounds like you're not knowledgeable on the topic.
> My advice: Freeze your eggs/embryos.

Does this even work, scientifically speaking?
For those that don't understand (and I'm an Aussie so was a bit confused too), in US colleges, Professors have "office hours" which are pre-assigned times when they are available for 1-2-1 Q&A etc.
Not if they wanna reuse though. ;)
I doubt there are many people buying Mein Kampf as a bedtime story for their children though
Nobody is burning these books, it is the estate that doesn't want to publish certain books anymore. So the party holding the rights doesn't want new books out.
My ISP doesn’t prohibit doing business over the connection or hosting services for commercial gain, with the exception of reselling internet access - like using your broadband connection as a paid hotspot for anonymous customers is disallowed in ToS.
That would perhaps be NONTRIVIAL SOLUTIONS :)
L.A. startup is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors
> Yes except Muslims. Thats the problematic part. Religion is used as a defining position for 'repatriation'

How is that problematic? Many religions originated in India. Don't these people have the right to come back and get accelerated citizenship for their homeland if they are persecuted in other countries?

Also very importantly, the CAA does not prohibit Muslim immigrants from seeking citizenship [1]. Which is what you are suggesting here. And it is patently false [1]. So please desist from spreading lies here.

A gentle reminder that Israel also does the same. So why are you holding Israel and India to different standards?

[1] - https://hcikl.gov.in/pdf/press/CAA_2019_dec.pdf

> They have effectively captured all media houses and they telecast blatant anti Muslim propaganda 24/7

The biggest media houses (by viewership count) in India are NDTV, AajTak, Times Now. I view them daily and I don't see any anti-muslim propaganda 24/7. Perhaps you can give examples from these three houses that is anti-muslim propaganda?
While I'm all for this. Won't this mean websites and SaaS applications will get EVEN more heavy?
Oh sorry, I’m under a Pi-Hole + Unbound DNS and I haven’t noticed the trouble.
I used the Intel neural compute sticks [1] for my porn detection service [2] and they worked great. Could import and run models on a Pi with ease

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2018/fight-child-pornography-with-ra...
[2] https://nsfw-categorize.it/
Germany, the country, never banned the book. Instead the right owner, the state of Bavaria, decided to stop its distribution (until 2016 when the copyright expired and a commented version has been published).
This reply might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26354999
> I think Agile is best learnt by first failing a 1-million dollars Waterfall project.

Very high quality engineering work has been getting done ages before "agile" status-reporting was invented and it was often not waterfall (I've been around the industry since the 80s and have never done "waterfall" - the false dichotomy of agile vs. waterfall is a myth).
I keep hearing this all the time and it never happens.
The US is also recovering much faster from this pandemic than the EU.
I've uploaded a small example, a small clip taken from the CD followed by the same clip captured from Spotify: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F3NvOpqcMfvNSmyyvbgfUlV6XMO...
> Some situations appear and develop in less than 3 seconds (think small child jumping in front of your car from between parked cars). You might only have 1s to react and if you are not "plugged in" and fully attentive at that instant you missed the window to react.

Yeah, humans are weak at this task, which leads to numerous deaths on roads. Can we develop a tech for this? Something, that will watch the road and will assist the driver.
I was more getting at that if they aren't interested in the US market they're unlikely interested in the other ones I mentioned either, rather than commenting on sidedness.

Yes, technically it's easier to bring this car to other RHD countries but I'm assuming Honda has plenty of manufacturing capacity to do that if they want to. It just seems like they don't want to.
Either it will swing back or its momentum will topple the base with it.

We've seen revolutions before and they were not pretty.
Well seems their working from a premise of ‘prejudice + institutional power’... so in that sense, ‘white’ could be seen as shorthand for that in some countries. So being less prejudice and more aware of institutional power is a virtue/good thing.
Your standard of racism must be very extensive if you consider said pictures racist.

IMHO they are just stereotypical, but engaging in visual stereotypes is not the same as racism.
And they're welcome to read those at the library or other sources - eBay, as a company, is under no obligation to facilitate dissemination of historical documents.
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (2009)
The discussion is not about whether racism occured, but how did it manifest. Unless something is specifically anti-racist, it is bad. Therefore all culture is bad. QED.
This is true. Visual Studio makes recommendations during compilation when you use these functions to replace them with them with the more secure variants.
Do you know Fuseki?
Your experience is not about Scrum, but about a poorly implemented management: the process or tools proposed by Scrum (or Agile) is there to help the team, and allow to do, make their magic, not to micro-manage and assign tasks. Your previous team clearly failed at it, or we should say it succeeded at using a trending keyword to make their own agenda.

Your new team example doesn't seem much better to me: even-though the freedom you like is what should be, the lack of process can't work in any reasonable even middle-size team. The process is not about slowing you down or giving power to management: it should be there to help you as a team member keep the vision and target, and sharing. How would you know how to collaborate with others on the team if you don't have any way to know what they are doing or how would you improve your creativity if you don't have any feedback on what you are doing?
The whole surveyance thingie and underhanded data gathering with all the implications when it comes to my privacy really seems mighty bad.
Decentralized DNS
Thanks, no thanks. Solves literally no problem and forces everyone to decide for everybody else.
But, ironically, you are being 'Agile' in this new role.

I mean the term is sooo elastic it is hardly meaningful, but if you have a high skilled team, with clear shared concrete goals, producing code at pace, where the code is the measure of progress then that meets pretty much all the things that got written down in the Manifesto.

The fact that the manifest is just an observation of what we all know - how it feels to do really good work in a team, well, great.

The problem with Agile / work / life is that its hard to get all those pieces together and just as hard to maintain.

I think Programmer Anarchy is closest to the right idea. Get a bunch of (skilled) programmers together and give them a direction. But it is called anarchy to emphasise the idea you cannot have non-programmers in charge, or an organisational hierarchy getting in the way.

Changing that is what derails almost all Agile projects - its why Acqui-hires fail to keep the esprit d'corps, its why startups slowdown as they grow, its why steam engines were great before the factories, its ... humans aren't good at letting emergent order handle their day to day lives.

tl;dr - its not Agile or Scrum. Its us - its the difficulty of organising humans, its the constant fight against entropy, its scale and centralised planning vs letting the market decide.

We should all probably live and work under the Dunbar number, and allow markets to find where value is created.

I see ledgers as enabling that. The supply chain will set us free.
So don't do it? If it doesn't work for you, remove yourself from the target audience of this post lmao

Classic SHOULD vs MUST.

This comment thread is being upvoted because.. wait we're not supposed to suggest someone didn't read the article here are we :)
This is a very disingenuous comment and the intentions of "bshepard" are suspect. Nothing in the post is true.

Nobody has ever heard of any "Himalayan Reconfiguration" project. What you have are actual seditious groups funded/helped/fanned by India's enemies to divide and break apart the country.

The linked website "referendum2020 DOT org" is actually a frontend for a "Khalistani Seditious Group" banned by the Indian Govt. They were one of the groups behind politicizing and fanning the flames during the recent Farmers protest in India.
Your question contains your answer - "It only accelerates the citizenship process for religions that originate in India. Not sure what is discriminatory about that?"

You pick and choose which religions get an "accelerated" citizenship process (whatever that means). Also India has millions of muslims (or christians) whom you can deny citizenship because it is a "foreign" religion :)
I have never understood why people add sentences like: "probably a minority" to their arguments. This is something that weakens your stand. Let me explain:
If a minority (nerds/D&D-players,etc) gets bullied in school. Is them being a minority:
A) a fact that aggrieves the bullying
B) a non-relevant fact
C) a fact that absolves the bullies from their wrong-doing?

Because it seems like you are implying that it's option C by making this comment.
There is a slight difference between a monopoly and a dominant market position. The latter is only achieved by consistently being better than competitors and it is easy to lose once this is no longer the case. Google with all its current power is not in the position to dictate what all the browsers should do - and prohibiting Firefox from its servers is a) an evil move that would make people reconsider their dependency on Google services (and there are a lot of companies that would be happy to get these customers) b) Is easy to circumvent by using Chrome for Google services and Firefox/whatever for anything else.
My issue with Tracker was it's horrific spin on what agile is supposed to be and the two instances it was being pushed hard I found extremely problematic. And the cost of partnering with Pivotal overall was ridiculous. Doing things the "pivotal way". Companies were taken for a ride with the idea that they could "outsource" the management and implementation of their software development through their tools. People over Process.
It was funny tho.
They do bring value, but that value can greatly depend on how it’s implemented and what your team does. Personally I have found agile to be great the closer you are to the customer.

Agile at its core is about a few things: committing as a team to work (shared accountability), creating reasonable expectations of what can actually be delivered (as opposed to how much the boss wants to get done), creating a cadence of delivery that is aligned with value to the business, and continuous improvement (through metrics and retros). It’s not perfect, but an agile process run well creates consistency, which over the long run is very important.

Scrum is a way to force communication, create awareness, and adjust prioritization. A lot of people think this is a waste of time, but a high performing team requires excellent communication and this is one way to achieve that. If your team is not getting value out of it, that might mean people are too silo’d.

Having said all this, it’s all about how the team works together. These processes are meant to focus a team on delivering business value. If a team uses another process and performs well, there’s no reason to be dogmatic.
Regulation has failed in the face of expediency time and time again. That's the reason I opposite nuclear. Sure, plants CAN be run safely. But WILL they be run safely? Even in 10, 20, 50 or 100 years? Even under the next 100 years worth of social, economic, and political circumstances? No one has managed that so far.

People love coming up with new physics tricks or clever engineering for fission power. But what we actually need is new Political Science or even Political Engineering.
While its goal is to "empower" developers to build usable things quickly, Agile/Scrum is often used by management to give themselves insight into development progress. And because its not a "fixed" process and is inherently malleable, the way it gets implemented is usually to serve management first and developers second.

A perfect example of this is the misuse of things like story points. It's supposed to be a reference as to how complicated a task is to complete. Ideally, over time, management gets a sense of how many "story points" a team can complete in a sprint. In practice however, development teams basically get brow-beat into treating story points as shorthand for how long they think something will take. So for example, something that involves a bunch of basic drudgery that has no real impact on the system gets scored high. Whereas some minor change deep in the bowels of the system that breaks a cascade of tests and causes massive regressions gets scored low because hey its only 5 lines of code!
Sure it's a funny checklist but not very useful since it can be used to dismiss anything. Coal can generate a lot of electricity even in the dark or in the gentlest of breezes yet we still develop tech for solar or wind power.
I hope this helps the confusion about why people are concerned: It's not about having temporary obstacles right now that are easy to get around, it's about the roadblocks that will be constructed in the future.

This is the "just make your own ${thing}" repeated in the past where ${thing} has progressively moved from: forum, messaging system, website, cloud service, internet platform, ISP provider, ICANN membership etc.

Because it's okay, approved and society thinks its good for one store to stop doing it means that it's okay for other stores, services, provider etc to also do it. It will and does happen as we have seen on Hacker News every week.
You seem to have read a lot into my comment that wasn't there. I wasn't advocating for a specific policy, only pointing out that giving the same thing to everyone doesn't always result in outcomes that are equal.

Also, I never suggested anything that would violate Title VII. At most law firms (including the one I worked at for many years), a parent who birthed a child received much more leave than the other parent.
Your basing this on what military / historical experience?

At the sharp end of a military I certainly see SCRUM/RAD/DSDM as analogous to the ww2 German style of pushing tactical decisions down to a lower level rather than rigid command from above ala the French.
Expanding your thought a bit: for example, for people with ADHD-PI, cramming may in fact be the only way in which they can learn the stuff they're not currently being obsessive about.

That said, you can't optimize for everyone simultaneously. There's plenty of cramming-friendly resources available.
I once messed up my user agent string (set it to ten years old FF) and it happily gave me the classic Google homepage.
> Most open source maintainers work in their free time on those projects, and have an additional fulltime job to cover the bills.

Are you certain? I'd think most open source development is done by paid developers, on company time.
> the way the US structures its relationship (guns, border walls) is mostly responsible for an insane drug war.

I suspect the drug war is just a consequence of insane amounts of money to be made due to US banning drugs. Combine it with very weak law enforcement in Mexico and you end up in a medieval-Europe-like scenario, where warlords rule the land, and their rule is bloody.
Are you joking? 50k is not "relative poverty" by any definition.
All countries have a deep corruption problem. Do you have any data to suggest that India's problem is bigger than others ?
What's happening on the 16th?
It seems like your team is at war within your own company. You are actually building a wall! That doesn't feel right, and doesn't feel any more positive than what the previous comment was describing.
It was not on sale until 2016 because Bavaria refused to publish it. When the copyright expired, they published a commented version. And as far as I know, that version is in free circulation. Using it to preach would be a potential crime so.
"Overnight". Swastikas and salutes become appropriated by the Nazis, and suddenly the pledge of allegiance in America became a hand over heart, instead of the Bellamy salute. Do you think that was wrong too?
To add to this, there are a couple of string types in Windows API in addition to C-strings, e.g., BSTR, UNICODE_STRING, etc., which are similar to strbuf and require usage of Windows API functions to manipulate or read.
Serbian is not Eastern Europe...
De-platforming for decades?
If you think SCRUM (done well or at least competently) is onerous then I am afraid your not doing SCRUM properly
If we have evidence that this is an issue, I'm on board with that.

If it turns out this is not an issue and we unnecessarily made self driving cars less common, that would have the same effect as shooting a few hundred random people every day (3,700 people die every day from crashes)

We'll find out in a couple of years
Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part I: High Fiber
What does it mean that "tables with multiple columns aren't strictly necessary"? Do you use tables with 1 column?
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Anyone who says the Agile Manifesto and Scrum are not directly at odds is trying to sell you something.
Which of Fussell's classes do you reckon are most often found commenting on HN threads? What gives them away?

Roll 1d6. Phrase your response in the manner of the class indicated by the result of the dice roll, as follows: 1: upper ; 2: upper--middle ; 3: middle , 4; high prole; 5: mid-prole ; 6 low-prole.
The best about such a process is when you have grown up above the book and can adapt it to what best suits your context.