skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never done it, and I don't know why I'd do it.

The original waterfall paper[1] advocated for doing an initial version, by which point you'll have understood the problem domain (in miniature) enough to make a better attempt by throwing it all away and reassessing what tradeoffs make sense.

> Without this simulation the project manager is at the mercy of human judgment. With the simulation he can at least perform experimental tests of some key hypotheses and scope down what remains for human judgment, which in the area of computer program design (as in the estimation of takeoff gross weight, costs to complete, or the daily double) is invariably and seriously optimistic. [2]

The myth goes that someone in the Department of Defense looked at the first diagram (which the author claims right underneath is flawed), copied it in a rush for a diagram and that became enshrined in history as "How best to develop software" until agile and what not

[1]: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970...
[2]: Page 7 of the above PDF
Beyond experience and fear, I think an autonomous vehicle will need a reasonably accurate mental model of how other human drivers on the road are likely to react.
What does “ Always cut away from yourself” mean?
What works for me is to ignore the trash message, in Finder, find the App, right click open, macOS displays a warning and open prompt, click Open, next time around do the same and post it seems to be fine.
ah! I didn't know that... maybe that's what's happening each time I notice it. Thanks, I'll keep an eye out next time it happens. Thanks.
I have no idea who Jason and DHH are beyond this announcement, so I have no idea which political discussions they intend to prohibit in practice. But clearly there have been some political discussions there that they intend to prohibit now, so it’s not crazy to give same-sex marriage as an example of a prominent divisive highly-charged political topic in the United States. What’s a better example that you think these two people would intend to prohibit?
Noob question: why not make a big delay to start processing build jobs (something like 1 hour). By then, whatever input they wanted to hash will be useless as a new block will be already minted.

As for build scripts that require a network connection, just make the connection painfully slow.
At Coinbase, employees demanded that the company take an official public position on Black Lives Matter. Probably the same was going on at Basecamp.
Two judges have held that:

- BL did not waive any constitutional rights when she signed the cheer contract.

- BL’s Snap was off campus speech.

- BL’s Snap did not cause any actual or foreseeable disruption of school activities.

Here’s the appeal court’s ruling:

https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/191842p.pdf
I didn’t respond to the bribery comment I responded to the patch comment saying to let me know when scarcity is solved. I think it may be you who has added a step there, friend.
I think most people here don't run large farms, and actually want something for their garden.
When you talk about the cost of lockdown, I suspect you don’t understand the deal.

My experience of Covid, which is the same for almost everyone in Australia, is nothing remotely like yours. For the vast majority of people living here, Covid is a minor inconvenience that doesn’t materially affect our day to day life.

I meet friends at bars for drinks and dinner, my kids take public transport to school and go on school camps, I go to the office for work, and I’m even flying to Sydney this afternoon for a couple of days.

Australia is basically operating normally with almost no restrictions. Situation normal.

You seem to be saying that lockdown was too heavy a price to pay for the freedom I now enjoy, but I respectfully disagree.

It was totally worth it.

The only thing that I’m unhappy about was that Melbourne stuffed it up the first time and we paid heavily for that. But you know what?

Still worth it.
To be clear, my comment was referencing the use of the term "covered." Covering the cost of something means it pays for it in its entirety, not a fractional coupon. I wouldn't say, "this coupon for 3 cents off a gallon covers my next tank of gas."
I think the lesson they took away was "these don't sell" when the lesson they should have learned is "the dealerships are an existential threat to our business".

Even now, they've bought Cruise and relegated them to one trim level on one model? There's no hope for them. That tech should be default on every model in their entire fleet.
I can relate to both of you. It just depends on size and complexity of the project.
A reply shows that in a 4-year hypergrowth scenario where the employees holds through the period, the $$ difference in outcome is $21.6M for 4-year vest vs $13M for 4X 1-year vest[1]. That effect is not as bad as I expected, and it's not like this scenario at all applies to Lyft or Stripe anymore.

As a prospective Stripe applicant, this change doesn't really dissuade me from applying. $200k salary/yr + $200k stock/yr for Senior is just fine without the potential stock growth.

1. https://twitter.com/devahaz/status/1386729419650179072
Projects (and companies) that never ship or ship too late also don't scale.

In my experience, it's much easier to overbuild than it is to underbuild.

I definitely agree that collaboration is essential though!
The Shock Doctrine applied to product management
In any economy that isn’t post-scarcity dude, money wasn’t invented by capitalists nor was the idea of an exchange.
For any given decision you make, you either only affect yourself or you can affect others. Similarly there are people making decisions that could affect you. In the situation where a decision could affect you, wouldn't you want to participate in that decision? That's what democracy allows you to do.

committees increase your autonomy because you can participate in decision making that could affect you.

obviously if it ONLY affects you and nobody else, then a committee should not be involved.

The alternative is someone unilaterally making decisions for many people, and where I'm from, that's called authoritarianism.
> while others are ‘just accumulators’. They say it is surprisingly easy to get to 17

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/gun-ownershi...
Had to make a throwaway because I was nervous to discuss opinions even remotely related to politics with my personal account, but wanted to share regardless.

This is an interesting move and I really don't think we are getting the whole story on what caused such a drastic change. It's interesting because, for the most part, I think it is safe to assume that most basecamp employees are liberal leaning, including the founders. My first thought was, why not just deal with these specific problem employees individually? Well, surely they must have tried. I can't imagine going public with such a drastic change if they didn't first at least try to correct the behavior of misbehaving employees. What's misbehaving? I would classify that as slinging personal insults/threats across the room. Would you fire these employees if they didn't stop this behavior? I'm not sure. It doesn't seem like something basecamp would do. In fact, it might make it _worse_ for them from a PR perspective if they did this, even if the employees were completely out of line for what is appropriate workplace conversation.

So not sure. In this situation, I would give them the benefit of the doubt(other than on the poor communication). I've never worked at a place where politics was discussed heavily in either work chat or in person (outside of friends talking with friends, which IMO, is perfectly acceptable), but I've seen some conversations (such as the leaked Github chat) that are just plain toxic and I wouldn't feel comfortable rebuttaling extreme views without fear of retribution. I personally don't think that people should have to deal with that in a work environment, but just my 2c. I guess it's just where do you draw the line, and internally, they must have hit that point.
Why would this blog disable text selection? What an obnoxious UX choice.
Many European EV chargers have a "dynamic load balancing" feature that measures current at the main breaker, and dynamically allocates any spare capacity to the car.

I'm not aware of any North American chargers that do this... https://dccelectric.com/ sort of solves the problem with a big relay, so charging either runs at 100% or 0%.
So basically, California specifically forced them to create a special contract, different from the one they use everywhere else, that couldn't be discharged and then censured them for not clearly enough stating that the special California contract couldn't be discharged?

Sounds very California.
uhm, except for the fools you employ to maintain them
I don't understand why it's surprising to anyone that not every project needs the same approach to software engineering. Complex tasks need much more careful design than simple ones.

The million dollar home page made a million dollars and was probably a single file of PHP.
Opinions are my own, obviously. But I just stated fact. I'd say the same when I were Amazon employee - this is convenient.
The government could crush bitcoin in an instant. No laws are needed nor are any direct enforcement actions necessary. Its quite simple: Quit printing so much money, quit living with perpetual deficits, and enact strict financial policies.

We all understand thats not possible, hence the rise of bitcoin (and other hedges). Bitcoin is a response to a failing financial system, not the cause of its collapse. In a sane world with sane money, the project would've never gotten off the ground.
It's easy to put up fake street signs to troll/manipulate human drivers, yet that hardly ever happens. I have read stories of people putting up fake speed cameras in their front yard to slow down traffic, but no one dares to fake speed limit signs.
While that might be true, from an outsiders perspective looking at things like: the anti-immigration agenda, the death penalty, and the almost willful refusal by a large minority to wear masks (to name a few) - you can see how somebody might draw the conclusion that for a country whose population strongly identifies as Christian, it seems to be lacking in basic Christian ideals such as compassion and empathy.
Berlin and Texas are still under construction, with neither having produced a single delivery car yet. I think they did conflate models with factories as you suspect, though.
Without supporting justification, you literally said that only members of the baby boomer generation who also have lead poisoning would continue to act in such a shameful way after being rebuked. I'm not a Boomer, but I feel like sloppy reasoning and other prejudices should be resisted whenever they are encountered.

Saying "only a boomer with lead poisoning would continue to act so shamefully" isn't conceptually different from saying "only a black person with lead poisoning would continue to act so shamefully". Does that make it more clear why that phrasing should be called out?
The secrecy thing was very much a part of the iPhone era. Jobs oversold the Apple III for months before its underwhelming release decades earlier, and the culture he left behind spent years promising a 68040 machine that Motorola couldn't deliver.

It's true that "surprise release" was a Jobs thing where it isn't a Musk thing. I just don't know how definitional that really is -- at the end of the day they're selling very different products with different sales processes. My point was just that they both could lie with a straight face and make 60% of the audience believe them on a reliable basis.
I use to write a prototype and rewrite, before I worked in startups. Now days I write once and it’s in prod within a couple of days. It has taken some adjustments, to be sure, my first ~6 months was full of submitting little mistakes that I normally would have caught in the rewrites.
Pretty sure they're explicitly suggesting indirect fire, actually. Base station fires at mirror, and drone uses mirror to reflect laser to target. There might be stability problems, angle-at-which-it-hits-the-weed problems, and more-laser-scattering-due-to-longer-beam-path problems, but line of sight itself should be fine since the drone is up in the air.
The CDC's best estimate of COVID-19 infection fatality rate for people under 45 is more like 0.05%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
You don't have to pay immediately to avoid interest. They aggregate all your bills within a given 30-day billing period, then you have 30 days from that date to pay. Interest only begins to get accrued after that last deadline.

If you wanted to, you could have the credit card companies float you a purchase for almost 60 days without interest if you timed your charge and the payment right.
Well, my life here is pretty much back to normal too. But primarily thanks to the vaccines. My question is how many lockdowns you had and the length of each lockdown to achieve the normal life you're having now. I'm really asking as I don't know the details.
Ottawa's move to regulate video posts on YouTube called 'assault' on free speech
It's not but dividing people along connected issues makes PR (manipulation) easier and that's worth a lot of money.
> As for the exercise: yes. There’s already preliminary evidence that exercise is highly coordinated with covid outcomes.

GP asked “lack of exercising one’s immune system” not “lack of exercising” in general.
Keep it simple -stick with the defaults. This is the right advice for everyone professional designer or not.
If I was in a position to offer you something I would but I’m not. With some luck, someone else will see this and help you out.

That said, I’ve read through your profile and you’re a heck of a good writer. You likely don’t need any help and you’re going to do very well for yourself!! :)
The whataboutism is the precisely the issue.

No actual union will encourage or allow union business on company forums, for example. If you want to talk to Jodie about marching in a parade, give her a call or message her offline.

I’ve worked for employers where it is illegal to discuss politics with their systems. Honestly, it made for a great work environment... I don’t need to know or care whether you’re a Baptist minister, a drag queen or both in your spare time. I just need to work with you.
I assume you're right on those techniques, but 2 things:

1. It sounds like they'd have to be pretty well targeted against the precise systems of that particular company in order to work. Which would tend to suggest more targeted spear-phishing attacks and extensive recon being done against the company systems somehow before anybody launched a real black-hat attack.

2. At that point, it feels hard to blame the individual employee versus whoever misconfigured those corporate services in the first place. Though I would guess it's fairly common for those kind of things to happen due to many systems being set up without the help of true experts and the unlikeliness of a real attack against them without either a highly-skilled black hat targeting them or securing the services of a skilled and prices pen test team.
This might sound pretty laughable but seriously try a standing desk. If you have a bookshelf or something that you can prop a laptop on to just try it without buying anything, do it. I find that when standing I'm able to get my brain to engage in problems or boring work that I otherwise wouldn't do and would instead avoid and watch YouTube. The ability to fidget and move around (calf raises, jumping in place, pacing back and forth), and not having the ability to sit back and relax has actually made a huge difference in my productivity.

It's also important to not do leisure activities like watch YouTube or browse reddit at the standing desk. Make it a work-only space.

Another thing to consider is ADHD and the emotional wall. When confronted with the idea that you have to do 3 hours of unit tests it seems daunting to start, because it's going to take so long! Instead, start by doing 3 unit tests (or something that will take 15 minutes). Even if that's all you get done today, do 3 again tomorrow. If you can make it through a much smaller task you'll likely have the momentum to keep going. And even if you don't, that's okay because you made some progress and can do a little more tomorrow.
You aren't the customer, you're the product.
taking the lead on a declining market (while producing more cars overall) is impressive, assuming that market isn't due to be completely wiped out.
I (I should say we) have used UML class diagrams to build object oriented systems. The class diagrams are something a reasonably sophisticated, but non-programmer, person can understand, so they can participate in the design phase. Of course there's lots that comes after that design phase, but it set the stage.

In case it's of interest, the things we were modeling were bilingual dictionaries, and morphology and phonology (linguistics), all of which had a ton of structure we needed to model.
when using a knife, make the direction of force and the blade be in a direction which does not include you (or others, for what it's worth)
CCGTV is so, so buggy. I have to restart it constantly because:
- Sound won't play
- Subtitles stop working
- Some app specific issue (there's no way to kill an app that I know of)
On the digital wave, yes (that's the definition of a sample, or of the wave). On the analogical wave, no.
This is just the typical Gartner hype cycle. It applies to most new technologies, although the time scales differ.

https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3887767
It's $200. Also the remote sucks, although maybe the new one is decent.

I sold my Apple TV 4K and bought a Fire TV 4K and pocketed the difference. The Fire TV does have slightly more stupid ads on the home screen for shit like McDonald's but the Apple TV would gladly advertise me shit to buy on iTunes. Slightly more relevant ads maybe but still ads. Otherwise it does everything I did with the Apple TV plus works better with my Echos plus has Firefox for watching random vids on the web. Also the Fire TV doesn't suffer from the maddening Netflix bug that made the interface slow to a crawl if browsing for 5 minutes.
100%. It might have been a civil cause of action before, but now it's regulated by the DPFI.

Obviously ask your lawyer if you need legal advice, don't rely on anyone commenting on HN, but just as a general rule of thumb it's a bad idea to make deceptive or misleading statements to people you do business with.
In defense of teenage knife fighting
For you it's the best of both worlds, but for most drivers it's the worst.

1. More expensive than an equivalent ICE car

2. Less environmentally friendly than an EV

3. More complicated than either

4. Harder to fix when something goes wrong because now you have two powertrains crammed in one package

5. Zero cool factor
Considering DDT was banned in 1972... any suits who were alive during its production and would be behind the decision to dump all of this stuff out into the sea, assuming a median age of 40, would be 89 years old today.

TLDR: Those responsible are probably all dead now.
I'd give cxx a shot. I've only written c bindings but I've heard great things about it.

> This library provides a safe mechanism for calling C++ code from Rust and Rust code from C++. It carves out a regime of commonality where Rust and C++ are semantically very similar and guides the programmer to express their language boundary effectively within this regime. CXX fills in the low level stuff so that you get a safe binding, preventing the pitfalls of doing a foreign function interface over unsafe C-style signatures.

https://cxx.rs/

If you're interested in chatting with a random inexperienced student about a month into writing his first Rust bindings I'd enjoy sharing approaches. I'm dzfranklin on the Rust language discord. (If you're not already aware of it the channel #black-magic is great for getting help with unsafe code)
No. Evolution is built on favorable mutations being preserved (e.g. the tautology that things which cause life to continue cause life to continue). Survivorship bias is arbitrarily associating traits that survivors have with success. It's the difference between correlation and causation.
In reality this is likely because they suspect the US EV tax credit extension to pass and they're slowly increasing the price to indirectly grab some of that as profit.
Are people still using lots of hand sanitizer? Why?
> Cryptocurrency is not a stock and lots of people make predictions and bold statements about other things like gold and silver.

Surely you have an example then of a publicly traded company picking up a pile of assets like gold or silver, talking them up on social media while selling them?

Would your blanket exception for crypto apply to security tokens or just utility tokens?

It’s interesting that you once again accuse people of not knowing what they’re talking about because they disagree with your opinions.
> But I also think it’s disingenuous to leap from “banning political discussions at work” to “the LGBTQ family has to pretend they don’t exist”.

Conservatives are the party and political movement who explicitly doesn't want LGBTQ to have rights that straight married couples have. Republicans called gay marriage "an assault on the foundations of our society." Opposition to it is still on their party platform.

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/13/485899139/republican-platform...
Not to mention that order mix is almost always guaranteed to be a highly prized secret that companies rarely give out. You don't see Apple breaking down iPhone shipments by their variants in detail.