skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. I mean, I’ve worked at an autonomous startup and the problem with the timelines stated are the same as most tech companies. Management reports exciting but unrealistic timelines to investors and the media for (unfortunately) practice business purposes that are often rewarded with hype and funding.

Meanwhile the engineering problems that need to be either solved or discovered (and then solved) don’t go away and the timeline always seems longer than we constantly hear about.

Anyway, not an uncommon pattern but frustrating when we’re out here as consumers wanting to nap in the car on our drive to visit our extended family.
Political correctness is a horror
If there is no outrage, then you wouldn’t mind if those books continue to be bought and read to children and stocked in libraries. A reasonable outward rhetorical demeanor is not what is in question.
Economies are zero sum. Your statement is a fallacy I see touted everywhere.

All economic products cost energy to generate and all energy is limited in totality by the available energy on earth.

When someone uses this energy, another person cannot use it.

This holds true even for the most abstract product. Say the economic product of poetry produced/sung by a poet.

The poet needs energy to sustain himself and the time needed to produce the poem. When he uses that energy, entropy increases and someone else now cannot use it.

That is zero sum.

The transaction you are describing is the equivalent of two people taking gold from limited reserves and trading that gold. The fact of the matter is, the gold is still missing from the shared reserve regardless of how fair the trade was.
It doesn't have to be about retribution. It can also be a proxy for example for how seriously a restaurant is likely to take its food safety standards.
This is a good point. Feeds should be available in well-defined programmatic formats (such as RSS or ActivityPub) so that they can be processed outside the domain of the app whose data carries them; if necessary this should be enforced by law. This would make it a lot easier for users to consume those feeds in ways that they control, and not that Big Tech controls.
Agree, as another woman. People have had children in many adverse circumstances throughout life: I have friends who grew up in refugee camps, under politically repressive regimes, in real poverty. People make it work as best they can.

You can't do everything at once. It's a simple fact of life. Be a stay at home mom, sure. Be a mom with some daycare. Later on, allow your child to go to school. Make some choices! That's what growing older is about: pruning the tree of possibility so some branches can grow strong.

I am far, far more career-oriented now that I have a kid than before I did. Now I have someone who depends on me financially, who I want to provide for, who I want to be a good role model for. Having a kid flipped a switch in me that is leading me to much more ambitious work. Before the kid, I figured the world was just going to broil slowly and that it didn't particularly matter what I did. Now I have a drive to make a difference for her future life and ensure she'd be taken care of were something to happen to me. And for everyone who's gonna assail me for letting my child spend 23.8% of her waking hours not in my direct presence... well, you do you.

> With kids you just have to focus on a few priorities with the time you have left
This focus has been beneficial for me.
Agile: maybe, depends on definition and execution

Scrum: nope

Daily standups: awesome, do them, if it works for you and your team. Don't let anyone fool you into doing something called one that isn't. Actually stand up (if you're able). Actually demand everyone (who's able) does too. The end of the discussion is when someone's uncomfortable. If that cuts the discussion too short, tailor future ones to accommodate them. Repeat until unnecessary.

Real agile (and real things that are actually used in agile) are not micromanageable, they're the antithesis. I highly recommend a read/refresher on the actual Agile Manifesto. All of the things described here that sound nasty are just what agile was challenging, in agile clothing.

Edit: oh how did I miss my favorite target?

Sprints: definitely not for me. They're the Trojan Horse that lets all the fake agile stuff in. I prefer Kanban, but whatever flexible, adaptive, communicative system your team chooses go for it.
Mmm, are marginalized people not folks too? Im so very confused. I think I’ll simply become more quiet.

Is smiling at people still ok?
Again and again I've gone into the details of people's criticisms of scrum, and again and again it's turned out that they were just not actually doing it. Actually doing scrum does work 100% of the time as far as I can tell.
> He also didn't take care to avoid offense and misunderstanding when talking about certain topics.

I don't think it's realistic to ask people to walk on egg shells is realistic when misunderstanding and offensiveness are always in the mind of the audience and therefore can't be fully controlled.

> but he didn't consider the political ramifications of describing 3.5 billion people as neurotic

I think people working at Google have a basic understanding of statistical distribution...
> This would require that culture, broadly, stop believing women need to have a formal job

No it doesn't, the gender imbalance in one industry can cancel out over all industries.
I never use the “okay” hand gesture, I had no idea it was controversial now.
What are you getting at? This comment seems to be unrelated to anything I'm saying even if I could understand it.

And for what it is worth the capitol rioters have been widely condemned by libertarians and conservatives.
> other illnesses, such as pneumonia

Not sure how to parse this. Coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, are among the many causes of pneumonia. Do you just mean other pathogens that also cause pneumonia?
I've never had an issue communicating with a team without scrum, even when very new. On the other hand, communication gets worse with scrum, in my experience. Because everyone knows that the meetings are the time to communicate problems, they often delay all communication until the next day. And in some cases the morning meetings drag out to noon because that's when all the communication is going on, when it really just involves 2-3 people.
My aversion to such systems is primarily motivated by the fact that every one of such system somehow penalized resubmissions. I probably don't have anything against "you have to write program that is compiled by this gcc/llvm commandline without producing any diagnostics and then passes this intentionally partially documented test suite". But in most cases the first part ends up meaning something like "cc -Werror -std=c89 -ansi -strict" where the real definition of what that really means depends on what exactly the "cc" is and the teachers usually don't document that and don't even see why that is required (ie. you can probably produce some set of edge-case inputs to gcc to prove that gcc is or isn't valid implementation of some definition of C, but this conjecture does not work the other way around).
As a non-local, I am inclined to interpret this as most likely the effect of massive rent-seekers protected by institutions which are not accountable in practice. Bad government, bad regulations, and bad laws are usually at the core. But it's certainly not a public sector problem alone.

For a possibly off-key analogy, it seems much like the issues with the US healthcare system. The money just gets sucked into a thousand little diversions that have little to nothing to do with actually providing healthcare. But legally, there has to be an environmental impact assessment on replacing that window. And management must have their training updated twice a year at a conference. And there's legal compliance training. And I haven't even touched intellectual property. Or the fact that many of these are for-profit interests, that benefit financially if they get latched into the system permanently like that.

Even without a profit incentive, I think this can happen. We see this same problem in some private charities. Even if they have the best intentions, they are so entangled by yellow tape, the status quo, box-checking, and "that's just how things are done" that it strangles them. It seems to be a particular peril for "awareness" charities which can end up existing almost solely to advertise their existence in order to raise funds for more advertising, endlessly. It's for a good cause! And I'm sure this kind of dynamic happens even in the church.
It is not just about the absolute income number but also about job security. If I make 200K today but am not guaranteed to make the same number 10-15 years down the line, it is better if my spouse works as well so that there is more chances of at least one of us having a job if other one gets fired or laid off or offshored. In 50's and 60's, one could reliably count on their job and pension for the lifetime, thus allowing psychological security needed for planning a family.

> I don’t accept the “we” here. Who did what exactly to “destroy” it?

Companies decided to outsource manufacturing jobs to third world countries and politicians accepted free trade in the name of some stupid theories about "greater wealth" creation, without pausing to think about a fairer distribution of that extra wealth. That led to stagnation of lower- and middle- middle class in the West while yielding vast gains to the rich Westerners and the newly middle-class people in developing countries.
Huh? How are people not contacting the experts or reaching out for help? Seems fundamental to being a professional, doesn’t matter what profession.

That seems like a bad culture more than anything else.
yeah i am afraid of another Robespierre just as much as i am of another Mussolini. and at this point i am not sure which side is closer to taking over.
I'm someone who actually has some form of long-covid or perhaps just damage from the virus. March 12th will be the one year mark for me.

I was a mild case, stayed home for 2 days, right back on my feet after that. 32M, no health issues. Symptoms just lingered and lingered. They would go away then come back days later. Mainly sinus pressure and dizziness. Then 4 months on I started getting intense chest pain and shortness of breath. Cardiologist noted some abnormalities but was not concerned. Put me on beta blockers. Fast forward to today and I still have shortness of breath, some cardiac symptoms, and random pains in my left arm and back. It really eats into my quality of life, but I am thankful I don't have it as bad as many others.

I keep tabs on the long haul community to see if researchers have figured anything out/others found anything that helps. So far there really isn't much. I'll note that there are a surprising number of people who aren't aware they are long hauling (they "recovered" and then months later developed issues - not making the connection until stumbling upon another long hauler) and that people are really hostile about the idea of long hauling. I don't know if it's a coping mechanism or what, but people want (need?) to hear "I fully recovered" when they ask how you are doing. I don't tell anyone except those close to me about it, it's completely not worth the debate they are going to want to have about the validity of my symptoms. It's pretty common in the LH community to not be publicly upfront about it because of this. There are plenty of people who know me, know I got sick, and will relay that I fully recovered.
> It can free drivers from driving in congested traffic on an expressway when travelling slower than 50 kilometers per hour.

Sounds exciting until they got to this bit, only works when travelling below 50km/h. I wonder how this compares to Tesla’s autopilot. I’ve seen a few of those around here in Japan but rarely hear any reviews.
I think a lot of commenters are missing a crucial piece of information about this. These books are being removed from publishing by the owner of the IP, don't blame ebay for this.

I would argue that this isn't really censorship, although it is muddied by the original author being dead, and this being a company set up to manage his IP by his wife.

(I would also argue that ebay removing them in general isn't something to scream about, private companies should be allowed to curate their systems however they want. But that's a different argument)
You could do something similar to how FF implemented their new cookie isolation.

Make the key (original domain ^ final CNAME).

Which probably would still have issues, but I think it's worth looking into.
We're at 30 million confirmed cases in the US! Over 115M worldwide! If "only" 2% of them develop something like long Covid, that's 600,000 Americans and over 2.3M people with long-term illness from this -- and those are only the confirmed cases which probably understate the prevalence by 2x-3x. How are people still so blasé about this pandemic?
Ever get a sunburn?
Self driving car company
I don't disagree with your larger point, rayiner, about "figur[ing] out a way to allow women to have careers and also children". But I agree with the GP poster (hycaria) that the top poster (astan?) creates a false dichotomy, that one must either have a high pressure grinding 100-hr-week job or be a SAHM, which are certainly mutually exclusive. Many of us do just work 40-50 hours per week. Further improvements in work-life balance and support for families of all kinds would definitely be good for the US.
I've got a pleasure to watch this Scrum thingy in action while consulting for one rather known company. To my eyes it was colossal waste of time and resources. I was an independent vendor so I did not really need to participate and only came to their offices every once in a while. Still out of curiosity went to few standups and that got me pretty depressed. In my eyes at least from what I saw the only "value" it brought was giving a job to a people who should not be let near software development process.
Having one of my direct reports mention that they are trans and that using "guys" to refer to the team made them feel left out was really all it took... you have to take people at their word at some level and "consider alternatives to 'guys'" is a pretty minor ask.
eBay clearly has competitors; you could buy or sell a copy on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/If-Ran-Zoo-Classic-Seuss/dp/0394800...
> They can start digging into ME/CFS, and "long-SARS" while they're at it.

Heck yeah.

And isn't "long-SARS" just another long-covid? Along with long-hku1, long-oc43, long-nl63? If 'covid' stands for coronavirus disease, then it stands to reason that the discussion about 'long covid' needs to be independent from which coronavirus is implicated in the chronic condition. It's apparent that they all cause this (albeit rarely).

It seems to me that focusing on one pathogen to the exclusion of the others, despite this phenomenon being documented across all of them, is likely a political decision.
> Paid services to align interests with the user (best user experience wins) are the way to go

I agree; aligning interests is important.

> I really hope they win out in the long run

It's hard for me to see how they can. Advertising supported services are free to the user, which improves take-up which means that network effects are in their favour.
I can imagine there’s a “right” amount of this sort of thing. Like, if you work on a project doesn’t have much traction, it can be nice to have the people using it meeting up and talking about it. It can keep energy and motivation high. And hearing what people are working on (with demos) is a blast.

On the flip side, if you work on a project that’s already popular, you don’t want to be spending all your time doing free Q&A. Especially not for enterprise folks who have money but aren’t paying anyway. This is how maintainer burnout happens.

There’s a sweet spot here, which will vary by project and by maintainer.
So brave.

Who is working 60-80 hours a week, regularly? Who is running those companies? Who is funding those companies?

Microsoft didn’t change until most of management had kids. Why do you suppose that is?
> Over the span of 15 years France went from 10% nuclear power to 80%.

Ok, that's much more fair. Thanks for pointing out the fallacy.

> we don't have a feasible plan to provide that much storage let alone how much it'd cost.

I think part of the idea behind smart grid initiatives is to use electric vehicles as part of the storage mix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid

Not sure if you're writing that off as unfeasible, but clearly there are solutions being thought about, and there are companies in the market today selling storage with costs going down every single year. It's not unreasonable to think that the 'feasible' plan for storage is to, well, simply buy/install it; which becomes cheaper every single year.

Also, solar thermal plants (no storage required) are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
Isn't the point to avoid worrying and talking about it, once these initial posts are written? They decide once for everyone, and they're done, which eliminates a whole class of negotiations and uncertainty.
Lack of interfaces and the GIL are my biggest complaints about Python.
Good points. Thanks. This isn’t really my area (I start to glaze over around when ‘fiat’ is the main topic), so I’m sure I’m ignorant of some subtleties.
> Blacklist and whitelist, when looking at the etymology these terms are obviously problematic

Am I missing something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_te...
Don't Jump from Company to Company
How do you think GDP grows? If you have land and money and I have water, I can sell you water to grow crops while using the money for expanding my business. Do you really not see winners on either side of any trade?
Wait until smiling or even looking at someone will be deemed offensive if you don’t do it the only right way. Cameras will be everywhere and and wrong look will be penalized harshly
This is more or less also how IBM operates. I know someone who had to interview for other teams at IBM because their other IBM project ended. After a while of trying to navigate the politics of it all they just gave up on IBM completely.
This is the most lucid argument for T+2 that I’ve read in awhile.

The TLDR is “netting”.
The only way I can see an intentionally low comp model working is if the company is doing good for the world and plowing all the profits in good works. Otherwise it's just capital exploiting labor.
That degree of pedantry doesn't lead to useful analysis, though, especially since most of those factors don't end up weighing in to the human consequences, which are what are being considered.

"The universe is a zero-sum system" is a true statement, but utterly useless - a tautology that has no relevance to the discussion.
Decentralized exchanges allow users to exchange funds without ever entrusting their asset to a third party while other users are the ones who provide the liquidity and take the profit from the fees, again without anyone having to trust anyone else beyond some publicly deployed code.

I'd say that at least some of of the advantages cannot be recreated by a traditional service.
You sound like the people who went to a hospital that was overflowing with COVID patients, saw fewer cars in the parking lot than they expected, and concluded it was a hoax.

I'll take actual data over anecdata, thanks.
I’m really sorry for you if you kept your money there. I alway keep it in my own wallet. How much did you lose?
Sounds like a recipe to end up alone.
It’s very cool that this interactive HTML is the actual published and peer reviewed ‘paper’. I didn’t know such journals existed
But it does violate their own practical policies:

> After the announcement, one woman said she listed two titles, “On Beyond Zebra!” and “McElligot’s Pool,” for sale on eBay on Wednesday. Later that day, she said, she received an email from eBay explaining that “On Beyond Zebra!” had been removed from sale because it violated eBay’s “offensive material policy.” The second title was pulled Thursday morning, she said.

As in, the usual über vague policies that give the interpreter of the rules carte blanche to deem whatever he will a violation of the “rules”, — the typical prætence of rule of law, for what is really rule of men.

> Will they apply the logic here to all categories of goods for sale? T-shirts? Political buttons? Historical political pamphlets? Current political pamphlets or campaign material? How about baseball team merchandise that has racist mascots? (Why haven’t they?) Merchandise of companies where the CEO may have bigoted views?

Logic? If ever there will be a consistent thought process, it will be based on analysing profits and on nothing more, not on the actual qualities of the work removed, and most often it is not even about profit, but about gut feeling and arbitrary bandwagons and standards of being offended.

> How about books that have words in them that discuss race, or in any way describe an unflattering picture of a certain group? Or scientific studies that may come to race-based findings?

If ever they become notorious enough that they end up on advertiser's networks blacklists, and thus hurt their profits, then yes.

Consider the situation with TVTropes that implemented it's “content policy” to ban certain content in 2012 for advertisement reasons. The policy itself speaks of content, but in implementation, only matter notorious enough to end up on advertiser's blacklists was removed. So Kodomono Zikan, a work infamous, but actually quite mild when one takes the time to read it, is banned from being mentioned there, but less infamous works such as Prisma Ilya which go far further in serializing minors can freely be featured there, as they never became popular enough to be featured on advertiser's blacklists.

If ever a company have any rational thought process, it shall be in the pursuit of profit; morality is never a rational objective.
This was very insightful. Thank you.
But not in finance apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26345982

Oddly the links were right next to each other.
That's interesting. One transaction not mentioned in the article was Japan's Dynamic Map Platform acquisition of Ushr Inc. in 2019.

Apparently DMP had created something called Pro Pilot which powered Nissan's ADAS capabilities⁰ and it seems like the Honda Legend is using a version of it, according to at least one article¹

(Disclaimer: I was a financial advisor to Ushr on their sale to DMP)

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0. https://www.sip-adus.go.jp/evt/workshop2019/file/DM/dm03/DM0...

1. https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/11/honda-to-mass-produce-leve...
Is this the African island of Yerka page? If so, that prob hasn't aged well for 2021 but... Eh, just looks more like a stylized/caricature more than anything.
Yes, Agile Scrum is definitely beneficial for software delivery in my experience, but only when actually practiced. I see far too many teams doing stand-ups and using Jira and thinking this constitutes Agile Scrum...
I just don't understand why 2-4 years off work is the ideal. Have you spent 2-4 years with a baby/toddler? The moments of delight are interspersed with poop and boredom and any human would want a break. I think the neo-American ideal of having a single adult human hover over a child non-stop for four years to give them the "best possible childhood" is really f(*&ed up. As a child certainly my parents were important but playing without them, with other kids, out in nature were all highlights! Children are not hothouse plants.
Colonist is exactly how my Mexican born and raised wife feels about Latinx. She finds the term highly offensive.

As far as she is concerned, Latinx is just another instance of white colonizers trying to impose their will on the indigenous population.
Fair point. But I mean, their children, grand children, etc.
True. But if I’m given the choice, I’d usually rather well written javascript than badly written C. And there’s a lot more decent JS programmers out there than decent C programmers.