skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but we don't do planning poker. We attribute points on stories in 2 situations:

- when we write the specifications for a project, we also create the stories and estimate their points

- when planning the sprint, we quickly estimate them

The points are useful to us because we roughly know how many points we can handle in a sprint, thus we know what we can commit to do in the sprint. We thought of using "short/medium/high" instead of points, but it's harder to get a feeling of whether we can embed one more story in our sprint.

We're not strict on scrum or stuff like that, but estimating properly is still useful when we have a roadmap to stick to. This is how we can know for sure which projects will be removed from the roadmap as the time goes.
Once systems are in place, all it takes is a change in will of who controls it.
It would probably actually reduce profits, as apps like Twitter make their money by showing you ads. Even if the ads were part of the data stream, because they'd have to be labelled as such, they'd be trivial to filter out.
What about Italy?

Are there more criminals in that country as opposed to other places?
Thanks for the recommendation. Most of the comments here suggesting Chrome Extension or tamper monkey scripts, but I can’t use them on my iOS phone.

To the HN mods, dark mode is an accessibility feature. Please consider adding it
> Noone uses it to buy things and yeah maybe it makes sense in Venezuela but no chance its going to displace USD.

Just this week there was some news that Iran was going to use BTC to work around some US sanctions. I am sure many countries will follow suit in the future, as the only way to really stop Bitcoin is if all countries would ban it's use together and that ain't gonna happen.
There is a tremendous difference between "never discussed" and "not brought up in public". Examples of topics that are discussed but not brought up in public are your child's struggle with potty training, whether you will provide them with birth control, whether anal sex is safe, when you and your partner like to have sex, when you intend to conceive, that weird discharge that sometimes comes out your nose, and what you will leave in your will.
Game streaming will become more common, so people won't buy PCs but rent games to play on the cloud.
The Costs of the Petrodollar
It's definitely influential and you can occasionally hear it in some of the clubs mentioned in the article to this day (typically at closing).
Isn't terrorism specifically the reason behind the Patriot Act and all limitations that American citizens are suffering?
As someone who is definitely considered "a progressive activist" I may add my 2cents:

I am not quite sure what you mean with objections? If you mean that people are not willing to talk about those things: I accept it, and stop talking about it. (Aslong as it is no direct issue like those people using the N-word, or being racist in general.)

About disagreement: It would be pretty strange if everyone would have the same opionion? I ask people about their reasons and try to understand their point of view. If they have valid arguments that I was not aware of, I am open to change my opinion.

BUT: If people come at me saying: Climate Change is a hoax, The complete media and science is controlled by the elites etc... Then i stop talking to them, as they would never consider an argument opposing to their opinion as valid.

AND: If someone considers people inferior only because of their gender, their race or their religion? Then I tell them indirectly, to go and **** themselfs.*

* At work I would try to be more diplomatic. Otherwise a whole team dynamic could be destroyed. But In my personal environment, I am as direct as possible. I do not want those people in my life.
It is absolutely a freedom.

The really important thing here is that your freedom does not overrule the freedom of others. It's freedom of speech, not an obligation to listen to or agree with or condone what you say.

As always, if your greatest argument for saying something is that you have the right to say it, maybe reconsider what you're about to say.
I don't get you either.

My main points were:

1) introducing global governance in space research or in general will go against the primary driver of human motivation, competition.

2) doing it anyway ("United Earth") requires force and results in subpar outcomes

You argued that there can exist large-scale organisations that are internally competitive, like the sports orgs or companies, and that competition can be constrained to its constructive forms.

To which my reply has two parts.

First, competition is necessarily unconstrained in the sense than an entity will do whatever it can to win (a football player won't maim an opponent because he is constrained by the larger entity, while a FIFA official won't bat an eye on thousands of stadium builders dying in order to advance his agenda, and Joe Biden will trigger nuclear war if he needs to). You cannot impose constraints on the largest-scale structures.

Second, if you put groups of people into these large orgs, the results are bad. The sports governing bodies are notoriously corrupt. The UN is notoriously corrupt. All large companies eventually ossify and die.
This is one of those kinds of things that looks simple, but turns into a land war in Asia by opening up endless bikeshedding and maintenance burden.
Gamers is a bit silly loaded term these days. Who do you exclude as not-gamers from the group that likes to play games?
Which European counterpart? Europe is extremely multicultural.

Speaking as someone who went through French school... nope, it's a brutal hellscape where they try to fit you in tidy little boxes and what they teach you is decided on the basis of how easy it is to grade, just like everywhere else.

Though multiple-choice question tests are a lot less common than in the US, I think.

I wish everyone just did Montessori or something similar.
As for spam from the contact forms, you could look into integrating with https://www.oopspam.com/. It returns score similar to reCaptcha in addition to the outputs from different analyses.
It has nothing to do with a price of land. Surely you must be a citizen and abide by the laws (and yes, i am certain that not having a particular place of residence must be a crime, and it is in many countries).

It's about price of land. It's easy to buy cheap land, just not in places where anyone wants or can afford living in.
Or perhaps massive option interest is keeping a cap on the stock. Once they expire, maybe there´ll be a pop.
Why would Retool blog about this? I don't get it.
Very solid write up though.
" When he was on the far side of the moon he was truly alone in a way that no other person had ever been in human history."

Well, in terms of distance maybe, but I would argue, a lone surviver on a shipwrack no one knows about, or in some dessert - would be more alone, than an astronaut, being watched and thought about by millions and in direct communication with peopke.

(was communication with earth possible, when the moon was in between?)
> If you've committed to a feature or fixing a bug and it takes longer or shorter does it matter?

It's not, but it's still nice to get a rough estimate, isn't it? It's also useful when you need to prioritize things, because you often cannot fix all bugs or implement every nice to have feature.

It can also be interesting to find out why a feature estimated to say 3 points took a whole sprint to be implemented: is there tech debt? was it badly specified? maybe even the dev would have needed help (pair programming, formation, etc.) but didn't ask for it? It's useful for self improvement
> But it's about political issues like 'diversity in the workplace' and 'Corporate support for Social Justice' (such as BLM)

but the problem with this view is that we are implementing a policy in a political way. There are many ways to argue for diversity that are either purely economic or practical. The issue here isn't the policy, its who and how its sold/pushed through.

There are companies that are run by, or full of shouty political types. Part of the interview process is to sniff out that kind of company and avoid like the plague. The post you linked to is evidence of that.

The other thing to mention is that US based companies are far more willing to let their works talk politics in the open. In the UK you are rightly looked at as suspect if you speak out on politics or religion.
My theory is that at least some of these people are needed for managing the rush hours or possibly big regular events such as fireworks festivals that bring in hubdreds of thousands of people.

So normally they might seem unnecessary yet their role might be crucial for directing the people flows during the rush hour.
Laws that affect right to protest such as the one that's currently proceeding through parliament.

Anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-trans columns in papers like Telegraph, Mail etc.
Any reference about that documentary ? The rev's, FLA, 242, all my not so youth :-)
No only does lack of trust prevent innovation, on the other end of the spectrum you have people who won't tolerate failure because it might give the distrustful of government people data point or talking point.
Not sure why you want to encourage empty lots?

Yes these owners 'can afford' more but it will definitely discourage what OP was talking about that it's just land banking for future asset appreciation. The land value on this kind of property is extremely high so tax is not low even if it's a tall building
Yes. The funny part is that, as I said if you're not familiar with the nitty gritty details of division, you might think the library just exposes a function (a,b)->a/b, which works at runtime.
> for 317 you can build

Or you can just walk into a shop and leave with a new phone.
Would be funny if murder in fiction was banned.

All the movies, theater plays and games ect.
"Losing the Signal" sounds like an interesting read, so adding to my reading queue.

Thanks for mentioning it.
Freedom from speech can only mean freedom from consequences, but virtually nobody thinks all speech should be free from all consequences.

For example, if the government allows its critics to speak freely, but then puts them in prison [1], is that free speech? No. So because of a consequence, speech is not free.

If someone says they hate you and want to kill your family, and you avoid them as a result, is that free speech? Yes - no significant number of people would say it is not. So here, despite a consequence, speech is free.

Some people connect free speech specifically with prior restraint. But prior restraint is also purely about consequences: if the government bans your book, what that actually means is that anyone distributing your book will be punished, and that's a consequence.

Some people connect free speech specifically with government action. But if a tech monopoly deletes its enemies from the internet, is that free speech? I would say it is not.

It's meaningless to be for or against free speech in some binary sense. What you can have is an opinion about the mapping from speech to consequences. You might think that speech should map to lighter consequences than it does at the moment across all speech, or to heavier consequences, for for some kinds of speech to be lighter and some heavier.

[1] Idi Amin is reputed to have said "There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."
Let's separate discussion of the Soviet system from the individuals caught up in that system. I am not ( nor do I think most people) saying that this was a problem purely with Lysenko overstating scientific claims (which he certainly did). It is a problem with a system that looks towards Marxism, says what science fits that best, and embeds it into society. That is in stark contrast to the way science is supposed to be done, where we reserve judgement and endorse a theory only when it has sufficient evidence and no alternative has better judgement.
Monopolistic behavior seems to be a principle of the modern economy.
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How slow can these disks be? Could they be tape-drive slow? Or "1 million blurays in a stack" slow?
As an iww organizer with friends across the US in Amazon warehouse management and on the ground- no

Unions are just bringing democracy into capitalism. How can any red blooded American oppose them?

Edit: not sure why I'm being down voted, did I say something offensive??
Credit is how central banks print money.
> from my perspective

Since it is the first thing you mention, what is your perspective, then, that makes your opinion extra qualified?
In my opinion, the issue with this collectivist society attitude is, very few people think for themselves unless they're explicitly told what to do.

That's not limited to Japan, we have plenty of it in the Anglo-sphere as well.
Not the O.P., but speaking from experience, yes, a thousand times yes.

Here in Sydney, Australia, both office and WFH are available at my work. I'll have anywhere between 0% and 90% of my team in the office depending on the day or week.

In my experience, even being the only one in the office is a thousand times better than WFH.

Whether teammates are WFH affects me less than whether I'm WFH.
I agree, and this is kinda new but to be expected.

For a long time some minorities were particularly silenced by our societal systems. If you were a foss advocate, vegan, ecologist, feminist, LGBT aware, what have you, in the 90', you were ridiculed and you didn't have a voice.

Now the table have turned, and the pendulum is balancing to the other extreme: those who were frustrated 20 years ago now created an anger culture out of it that they express loudly. I understand were they come from.

It will go back to balance, but things take time to stabilize. In the meantime, those who had a point of view that were common in the 90' now are considered bad people by default.

I don't think this is the right move, but I understand the process.
Where did they write that they were going to force you (or anyone else) to download stuff from these alternative app stores?
I worked in this field, posted elsewhere on this page about working photo finish at Amstel Gold in the past. Around that time we also experimented with transponders, maybe even at an Amstel Gold Race, else at the Netherlands Tour (or Eneco Tour). The accuracy, at high speed, of transponders, didn't quite solve for the close finishes. A bigger problem were the practical issues: transponders gone missing in crashes, bike switches, transponders being mounted in the wrong place (enough to matter). It's not a substitute for photo finish. It is, though, a great substitute for reading bib numbers off of a poorly lighted photo finish. They're complementary.
They can, however, still coerce you to give away your text-based password. I agree, though, that slicing one's finger off is simpler for all parties.
> Your comment clearly shows that you haven't read the article.

This was my first thought. Then I thought about it some more, and became persuaded I was wrong. I definitely did read the article.

According to the explanation in the article, it’s a narrow slice, so the back of the wheel would be photographed when that passed the finish line, even if ~30cm out – at which point the front would be clearly over the finish line.

The point being that the wheel is bigger than 30cm. It’s subtle, but I’m persuaded – unless I’m missing something, like them not having or not actually enforcing wheel-size regulations.

I personally find it very difficult to reason about something that looks so much like a photograph where only vertically-aligned points were taken at the same time.
Disks are about $20/TB right now.

So 1 exabyte is $20M. Well within the scope of VC funding for someone who wants to make Chia appear to be a success.
I'm amazed at these statistics:

"In high school each extra IQ point above average increases chances of male virginity by about 3%. 35% of MIT grad students have never had sex, compared to only 20% of average nineteen year old men

...

If you’re smart, don’t drink much, stay out of fights, display a friendly personality, and have no criminal history – then you are the population most at risk of being miserable and alone. “At risk” doesn’t mean “for sure”, any more than every single smoker gets lung cancer and every single nonsmoker lives to a ripe old age – but your odds get worse. In other words, everything that “nice guys” complain of is pretty darned accurate. But that shouldn’t be too hard to guess…"
Funny to see this news on a website with cookie overlay for half of the window.
Oracle security chief to customers: Stop checking our code for vulnerabilities (2015)
Email is async, distributed, offline first, nobody controls the complete platform.

What is needed to fix email is to have structured messages, which can better be automated. Either on the MUA or MDA. But exactly this standardization of message structures is something that won't happen anymore... It's not the '90s anymore
"Easy" is a hell of a word to use there - plenty of settlers in Australia and America had gumption and got nothing for it.
Was ACLU a neo nazi sympathizer in 1970s?
Interestingly Mighty seems to be a browser built with Electron, and Electron's docs themselves say [1] this is not what Electron was build for and it's discouraged for security reasons.

"With that in mind, be aware that displaying arbitrary content from untrusted sources poses a severe security risk that Electron is not intended to handle."

That's not a great start is it.

[1]: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/security
Is levels.fyi inaccurate?
I agree - interpretation is super important. The above is a good example; someone who isn’t paying attention might not take into account that there are 5-6x the number of white vs black people in the US, which puts a very different spin on the raw figures.
It's great that hacker news avoid politics. Long may it continue.
Why am I getting “sorry” message on trying to submit Show HN?
Why am I getting "sorry" message on trying to submit Show HN?
Unknown or expired link.

UPDATE:
And now I can post. I don't know what changed, though.
Thanks for everyone
Developer here. It's also available on MacOS and I also added post/comment reply notifications yesterday to the app. Let me know if anyone has any feedback.
A lot of literature available, e.g.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28166901/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001872081351550...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/
From looking at the Chia wiki, the farming process seems to be very slow. Slow enough that a tape- or optical-media robot library would easily keep up with it.
I don't think popcorn is part of it to be honest. It's some adjacent siderail of groups like Mannheim Steamroller or BBC Radiophonic (eg Delia Derbyshire/Dr Who theme) or for that matter, video game music.

Check out the "Soothing Sounds for Baby" album by Raymond Scott (1962) for an early example of this.

To put Popcorn in comparison to what would be on the techno track at that time, look at Hugo Montenegro's Moog album, released the same year. His MacArthur Park rendition I would argue is a closer direct ancestor to techno being in the pursuit of electronic dance. Direct link https://youtu.be/eNM6187cznE

There's certainly "bridges" between the worlds like the 1979 Automat album https://youtu.be/w7nQHBiv_u0 or the Droids "Star Peace" but synth and techno are kinda like the catholics and eastern orthodox, they split off a long time ago and kinda have their own worlds.
I don't think the competition really is: who's the fastest in a 216km race? Rather: who's strong enough to endure a 200km tour, and then still have the energy for a 16km race? I say this half jokingly only.
I agree about the magnitude of the risk, but it is not obvious to me that risk magnitude is proportional to compensation. Clearly there is some relationship between the two, but I don't see why it would be directly proportional.

If we think of executives as machines or devices, then it makes some kind of sense, from the standpoint of a balance sheet. If there's a $5M risk, you might buy a $3M device to mitigate it and still clear $2M.

To this I would observe that executives are unlike machines in several important ways. There is no guarantee that they will perform the way they are advertised, or as well. They are generally guaranteed to be lavishly paid, whether they succeed or not.

Most importantly, if, as I believe, the compensations are synthetically high and there is no genuine supply and demand basis for these compensations, then there is no economic need to pay them so much. Those same jobs could be done by those same people for less. There is nothing particularly special about these people other than their ability to be identified as a magic, oh-so-wise business executive.

My central premise (that I assert without evidence) is that the astronomically high compensations of these people is a social construct. It is shored up by years of legal and corporate machinations that have worked a bit too well. Not any sort of basic economic force. And now it is fait accompli.
Looks interesting! For some reason, .xyz has a slightly non trustable signal for me
Drumcode is still going strong and Beyer does a weekly podcast, which is excellent (and supports RSS too). I still love that sound even though I'm now far too old to have the stamina to party like I did in the 90s/00s.

IDM has also been a huge love of my life. I'm not sure I could pick a favourite out of techno or IDM though. But Drumcode Radio is certainly good music to run to.

Slam did a rather nice podcast that sat somewhere between techno and experimental. I don't know if their podcast is still going but their RSS feed has certainly stopped :(
I would be willing to listen to that line of argument, but having seen the Amazon manager training videos, the doitwithoutdues.com site, the countless other articles, evidence and anecdotes about Amazon's particularly aggressive forms of trying to prevent unionisation, the twitter ambassadors tweeting the official talking points etc.

I don't think we can rule out the possibility we don't actually know what the employees truly think because they're in the middle of an all out propaganda war.

And I certainly don't think Amazon would put so much effort into fighting this if their employee treatment, benefits and compensation and general employer track record made employees genuinely not even consider the Union option.

As an outsider, it just feels like watching media reporting a war. I don't trust it due to propaganda and clearly opposing biases at play between the interested parties.
I'd be more worried if my dishwasher found me an annoying jerk.
“Your margin is my opportunity” will lead us nowhere good
Last week, data began circulating that is allegedly ~250M records of US citizens
Dut
gsg
I got the idea the trash collection days are there for capacity reasons - there is simply not enough space to place separate containers for all the things that are being collected. Not to mention there often being no containers, just a designated spot on the ground where to put garbage in bags & anti cat net to cover it with.

Here in Czech Republic we have separate recycling nests each having one container for paper, plastic and glass. Some nests also collect old textile and electronics. And it actually takes quite a lot of space, not to mention not being the most tidy spot arround. And you still need to place your regular communal garbage bins elsewhere, taking up more space.
plus cost of peripherals, HD, mobo, case, even OS... the list goes on. Also, not everyone wants to learn how or do the work themselves, which is fine.
> help the GPU scheduler assign tasks to specialized blocks

Source? I can't find anything for '"cublas" scheduler'…
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