skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I've seen there are about four kinds of approaches to Agile, in the wild:

1) "We love agile! We have coaches and everything!" (terrible)

2) "We're agile-ish." (we have performative, hellish standups that are mostly about micromanagement, in which we all get to nervously try to justify our continued employment every day by acting out little one-man plays about how hard yesterday was while going into way too much detail)

3) A range of noncommittal responses that may look a lot like 2 in some cases (often really good, but it's hard to distinguish from #2)

4) "We love agile!" (they actually do, and they actually do adjust processes and add/remove/modify "ceremonies" pretty quickly when the team asks for it; this can be good)

The trouble is it's really hard to tell which you're dealing with (aside from maybe #1, though that can be hard to distinguish from #4 unless they really do start laying out all the dedicated "agile roles" they have, then you can tell it's probably #1).

At this point I'd probably insist on sitting in for a couple "agile ceremonies" before I said yes to a place that "does agile". It's bad more often than not, but can be anywhere from OK to good. When it's bad, though, it's really bad. I'm not sure how to tell which it is without observing what they actually do.
Inspired by Not Tetris, perhaps?

https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
If society, or "the oligopoly," wants to suppress you, the ad industry isn't going to help you. They wouldn't want to run afoul of these big movers and shakers for a couple of hundreds of dollars.

Try running ads now for the KKK's new "hoods and cloaks" business if you'd like a practical example.
What's your source for those? I checked UberEats and it's $5.06 in Seattle.
the level of damage from bitcoin is...quite astonishing.

even if every single cycle was powered by renewable energy, in a world with any remaining fossil fuel power it is displacing more worthwhile loads and so directly causing emissions.

I used to think it was just a stupid idea but it's now far far beyond that.

let's see how long before someone posts a defence by comparing it to the power use of banks (!?!).
1. No agile

2. Managers with a decade of direct engineering experience

3. No PMs

4. 100% Remote

5. Solid tech stack

6. Interesting problem to solve
You know, I could have sworn I read in the guidelines somewhere that downvotes aren't to be used just to signal that you disagree, but in diving a bit deeper I think that's just one of those things that people say, but doesn't actually ground to any specific rules/guidelines.

And in fact, an early post says the opposite -- downvoting because you disagree is fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
I remember the first time I discovered Sysinternals tools for Windows.
It was a game-changer for me.
Especially Autoruns and Process Explorer
Fair point.

If you use https://uid.dli.mt.gov/claimants/benefits-estimator to estimate your benefit for $40k/yr ($10k/qtr) you get $400/week, so with the extra PUA program it's $700/week.

$400/week is $10/hour. $700/week is $17.50/hour.

At 40 hours/week, $17.50/hour is $36,400 for 52 weeks. It's arguably more than a pittance, but it's only 1.3x the federal poverty level for a family of 4. It also effectively sets a $17.50 price floor on labor for anyone who is eligible for the PUA program.

I'm not convinced that this is a bad thing. Employers would have to raise wages and raise prices a bit to compensate. I have seen a handful of papers with evidence that price increases are generally a lot smaller than minimum wage increases, so I'm not worried about it just turning into inflation. But I am not an economist so I don't want to make claims that I can't back up.
> it will get abused in the same way it was on desktop where every second website asks for permission to send you notifications

I really wish Google would crack down on this between the Googlebot and Chrome. There's zero valid reason for a website to send a notification request without user action to initiate it. The Googlebot could record any unsolicited notification requests and negatively impact the ranking of those sites, it's a decent indicator of scammy sites to begin with. Not to mention blacklisting those sites from making a notification request to Chrome.

Chrome could also just watch for notification requests no differently than how popups are blocked already. I'm sick of the hordes of websites constantly spamming those requests. What's sad is that I'll frequently see other users actually accepting those requests and getting a barrage of ads that they don't understand how to stop. This isn't rocket science to fix.
It’s quite illuminating to see the very forum that PG created is calling him out on his shortcomings. Almost all the recent posts by PG were panned down by HN hivemind and PG seems to take no hints from the wisdom of the HN crowd. The case with MightyApp is the latest in the saga.
https://myaccount.google.com/signinoptions/two-step-verifica...

> Google prompts

> "To stop getting prompts on a particular phone, sign out of that phone."

Well, f* you too.

I genuinely hate this idiotic future where I'm not given a choice.

I have a yubikey, a TOTP, and backup codes. Leave my phone out of this.
Relevant parts of the Wikipedia article linked to by parent:

> Tetris 99 is a multiplayer puzzle game in which 99 players play against each other at the same time, with the aim to be the last player remaining. [...] As with normal Tetris rules, players have the option to store a tetromino piece to swap out at any time. By clearing multiple lines or performing continuous line clears in a row, players can send "garbage" to other players, which will appear on their board unless they can quickly clear lines in response. More garbage can be sent by completing combination moves in succession of making a "tetris" (matching 4 lines at once) or performing a "T-spin" (squeezing the T-shaped tetromino into a position it would otherwise not fall into by rapidly rotating it).
And to make it more complicated, both "regular" ifs and ternaries may not generate a branch at all, e.g. by using the CMOV (conditional move) instruction on x86. This avoids a branch but can obviously not eliminate the data dependency between the condition and a later consumer of the result.
Out of interest, what are the ballpark daily rates for the contract market in EU/US ?
If the spent fuel were contained, you could first run it through a breeder reactor[0] to reduce volume by an order of magnitude or two. The remains are still highly radioactive, but now you have much less volume to deal with.

I assume that the waste in Chernobyl is largely/entirely distributed and contaminated with sand, dirt, other various debris, and thus probably couldn't benefit from that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Waste_reductio...
Many people can’t become pilots (pre requisite) because of poor eye sight.
True, the cult seems modelled after Scientology. It's like if a group of Scientologists supported Trump and then the whole religion is then associated with Trump.
The money will be made by charging corporations, edu's & gov's who want just that : centralized control.
In case you want to get your mood up afterwards, here's an easy version of the 2048 game: https://sbeyer.github.io/2048/
How we built a serverless stonks checker API to monitor Wall Street Bets
Hmm that doesn't really make sense to me. If the software you were writing while moonlighting is competitive with your employer then it seems like the IP ownership law wouldn't cover it -- your employer could in fact claim ownership. So the non-compete doesn't matter and the outcome is the same in either CA or NC.

But I'm not a lawyer and I'm sure the lawyer you hired knows better than me.

(FWIW I think this is fair. You shouldn't be allowed to compete with your employer while still employed by them, as this creates a massive conflict of interest. Though if your employer is claiming that any and all software you write "competes" with them then that is obviously BS...)
I don't buy that data is a technical problem. It's a business problem in as much as holding users data hostage is central to a lot of business plan. All of the data in my Google account, for example, fits on a microsd card. Of course I want backups of it, and so I don't want to actually store it on a single microsd card, but the point is that this doesn't require much logic at the core. You can push processing to the edge while using a storage service. But you can push storage services towards the edge too. For a lot of data we already employ near write-once for the core of the data, which is ideally suited for synchronisation schemes over fully connected centralised storage. Your e-mail, and things like Google Photos are good examples.

Consistency is less of a challenge than it might seem. It's a challenge if you're frequently disconnected from the network for extensive periods of time and might access and modify data from multiple disconnected devices in that period (note modify, not augment and create something new, which is easy to accommodate). But supporting that is very different from supporting mostly-local computation.
Coal miners tend to die later when they're retired (at least in more modern times), it's not so visible as to create fear. And people directly affected by coal smoke pollution aren't even counted. Again, this doesn't create enough fear.

Same for airplane accidents vs car accidents.
I read a scifi story as a kid where the protagonist was paralyzed. in space, her disability actually gave her an advantage because she adapted much more easily to moving through the station.
But the core problem is that dirty electricity is not (yet!) taxed for its CO2 emission. If the same plant would be used to power a data center for Netflix streaming it would be equally bad.
> At the end of the day, a custom font just isn't very important for the vast majority of sites

IMO custom fonts are fine (beneficial sometimes, matching fonts used in any relevant logos and so forth) for titles and other big text, but for body text stick with something basic and/or familiar to the user.
From a privacy perspective alone, it’s a terrible idea to give a company your browsing data.

That is dangerous and certainly not best practice. The critique is valid.
Thanks, this is great context! Especially the very different focus in these two projects explains a lot (lightweight control channel for A/V [1] vs. the entire reason for using WebRTC in all of these file transfer projects).

Curious to see how the new implementation will play out for the browsers!

[1] https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions/issues/71#issuecomm...
Yes, I read that part. The article still ends with the claim that this drawback is not actually harmful.
No, really, the core problem is that bitcoin has negative value for society.
In my experience, mischaracterizing other people's arguments is... not a great argument. A person would have to be mighty well blind to believe "because I said so" is what I wrote, or... well, to be so willfully ignorant of obvious consumer demand.

You're making this far more complicated than it actually is, which suggests you have your own "motivation", though I don't want to guess what it is.

I suggest you might want to talk to people who actually use the skin tone variants, since you seem so mystified by it. I think they will open your eyes for you.

I mean, calling it "a speed bump on the way to your actual goal"... it seems clear you are totally ignorant of how deeply and patently offensive that statement is. Equating expressing one's skin color to a speed bump is... a pretty shocking thing to write.

So maybe talk to some people who don't consider it a "speed bump". Actually educate yourself. And you'll see this is literally as simple as people building a feature for people who want it. End of story.
"For all the jblows and muratori's in the world, there's a lot more people who don't care about perf and just want to make cool stuff. For better or worse."

And that it's mostly people who don't care about this on deeper level are why we have such a bloated ecosystem. Layers of bad code stacked on layers of bad code.

If there were more jblows and muratori's in the world, Mighty would have no reason to exist. The web would already be performant. That PaulG is bullish on Mighty strikes me as a pessimistic view and a bet that the underlying problem won't be solved.
I don't care for this sort of discrimination. What if the guy with no legs is also the best for the job? You're gonna exclude 'em "just because"?
I'm blind and though a big cosmos fan, I know that I'm not fit for the job and would not expect to be included. However, this might not be true for people with other disabilities and if they are fit for the job, it is pretty logical the requirements to be adjusted in order to allow them to participate.
The whole value proposition is that the beefy remote machine is handling the rendering, isn't it? At least half the performance of a web page is wasted on DOM re-shuffling.

Not to mention, it's not like Chrome can run Javascript without looking at the data, and if they're not running Chrome, they'll start getting into compatibility issues.
It isn't FOMO, it is just that the real world is boring since nothing happens without a lot of effort. From a computer you can go and see what most parts of the world looks like via Google maps, play any game, watch people do anything you can think about on youtube etc, all with no effort from you. It is very hard for reality to compete with that.
I work at a big 4 (not tech, consulting/accounting) company as a contractor. They recently offered me a FTE role. $40k less pay for 10-20 hours more a week; meaning they expect their FTEs to work 50-60 hours a week for 4/5 of what they'd pay contractors to only work 40.

The work is interesting, I love my team and such, but cannot and will not give up 10-20 more hours to what amounts to just another job. There's no incentive to convert, no justification to work 2500 hours a year for some lousy bonus.

Atleast I get to keep my contract, keep billing my rate and only work about 1960 hours this next year.

I'd say until companies get realastic about hours, expectations and salary it's going to be difficult for them to convert people. I mean, your company makes lets say $100,000,000 in profit this year with what a 50% margin; probably higher with software. You can pay the contractor $200-$250 k this year, but only your staff $160k, or $190k once benefits and all that get factored in. Really? You can only pay $160k for perm and $200k for contractor? ?!? You're a team of like 30, making like $100m

...

So if you'd like a Snr Eng here's what I'd do:

1. Work life balance. Make it so I can do my job in 40 or less

2. Don't take advantage of me

3. Don't make false promises

4. Pay me really well

5. Give me generous time off and benefits

6. Let me work when and where I want

7. Don't ask me to believe in the culture, or give a shit about the mission. I'm not here for the mission. I'm here to do my 40, make a lot of money and enjoy my time outside of my job.
Exactly. The CO2 tax would force miners to switch to renewables, boosting the green energy industry. Here comes the positive side of bitcoin.
The best thing I’ve done for my sleep is simply not needing Night Shift (or f.lux prior to that). The solution is just not being on your phone or computer before bed.

Now, I thought that wasn’t an option for years because my anxious and impulsive brain kept telling me I was too far behind, didn’t get enough done that day, need to learn x or y, etc. I was fully convinced by this part of myself.

What I discovered over time was that this habit was producing terrible work in a compounding fashion. I’d do terrible work, feel like shit about it, wake up feeling like shit, rinse, repeat.

These days I read a book at night, if circumstances allow, and sometimes listen to nice calming sounds or music at the same time. It eliminates me. I can fall asleep within 15m pretty reliably. Now instead of getting better at my job or finishing work that could probably wait, I enrich myself with something actually meaningful to me. I love to read philosophy and psychology for example.

I avoid screens for hours before bed, then fall asleep very normally, and wake up feeling way, way more refreshed than I used to.

And the best part? I do better work, I learn faster, I get things done sooner - I accomplished what I set out to do for years by simply doing less of it.

Night Shift isn’t going to save you from bad habits. To all of you who can endure it, I envy your physiology, because it was literally ruining me.
The problem occurs when someone thinks they can determine “best” from traits that probably don’t actually matter in space, like being shorter than average or having uneven legs.

I found the movie Gattaca to be a surprisingly good argument for this position despite being fiction and entertainment first and foremost.
"Last gas station for N miles!"

Whether true or not, it will convince you to top off your tank, and potentially purchase some things from the shop.
>In life, your only opponent is yourself.

This argument reminds me of people who try to deny things like white privilege by describing how hard they had to work to get where they are now. Yeah, well, for a lot of people working hard (or not) isn't the only important factor that's determining their odds of success. That's the privilege...
People are going to be impressionable regardless if the current majority enforces its stance on something or not. This includes well educated and well off people like you or me a lot more than many would like to admit. In the end this is a great method for preserving the status quo but it does nothing for answering the actual question of how we can reliably chase truth it just says to trust the currently written truth - something we often find to be completely wrong or intentionally misleading throughout time and location.

A shorter version of the above might be: If a method only tells us what was undebatable is so it's not really all that great a method it just happens to be right (to the best of our knowledge according to actual methods) in the completely obvious cases like the holocaust.

As to what's a better quick answer? Well that's the million dollar question but it doesn't mean any other answer we have at the moment is inherently good.
The Nimitz incident apparently took place over an entire week. All that instrumentation was wrong... for an entire week? Doesn't pass the smell test.

> They were logged as high as eighty thousand feet, and as low as the ocean’s surface. After about a week of radar observations, Commander David Fravor, a graduate of the élite Topgun fighter-pilot school and the commanding officer of the Black Aces squadron, was sent on an intercept mission.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentag...
Easier on the eyes -> more time spent using your phone and not sleeping?
The important announcement is behind a paywall. If they're looking for a new maintainer, it would make more sense to make that post public.
Thats so cool! I wasn't aware of this. I wish more companies were as open as this to flexibility, it almost feels like a 'taboo' subject
Toucan Events
Yeah, I had like 3 upvotes and then boom, were back up 0 points.

Weirdly, I don't feel what I wrote was even negative against China.
> designed to convince you to do things you wouldn't normally do.

When I search "good USB charger" in Google and get an ad, click the ad and make a purchase for a USB charger, how was that nothing something I normally would do?

There's absolutely deceptive advertising, but to pretend all advertising is "intrusive" and "convincing you to do things you wouldn't normally do" is disingenuous.
I’ve been using f.lux for maybe 10 years on a fixed lower color temp. This is basically killing blues and renders everything pinkish. This has been a very good solution for my eye strain. Another very good one is to look at magic eye stereograms for 3-5 minutes a day

I tried using other people’s computer and the regular image is noticeably bothering my eyes.
I worked in the same office as a nuclear safety expert. One day he mentioned all the issues with why Chernobyl melted down. I can't remember the details (pulled the rods partly out then re-inserted?), but I think the summary was that the people on shift were inexperienced and did everything wrong every step of the way. People in general knew how to manage reactors safely, the corners cut by a communist regime made it unsafe. Sadly, I don't have any sources, and I'm open to refutation.
Home schooling is not lockdown schooling. My daughter in fact has even more friends than when she was in public school. We outsource part of her education to private instructional centers, we participate in a homeschool co-op where parents teach each others kids in areas in which they are competent, homeschooler activity groups for park day/beach day, game night, dances and Girl Scouts. There is various overlap of kids across that spectrum. IMO the “socialization” narrative about home schooling is utterly false and what I would characterize as “Homeschool Hatred”.
> Again: I like the language a lot. I also like Ruby a lot. But when a new project with serious complexity requires me to pick language I go with something that has: no implicit nulls, strong type safety, sum types, exhaustivity checks.

Which language is that?
> call stack

strace -k

> specific IRQ

IRQs are very low level and can't be traced by strace or procmon. both can easily log specific syscalls, e.g. strace -e. strace can't quite filter on ioctl, but apparently procmon can't trace ioctl at all: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9947933/how-to-log-the-d..., so strace is ahead there.

> specific file

strace -P path
> In a case like this company should be ... denied a licence to operate as a social media.

Gov-issued Social media licenses aren't a thing - excepting dictatorial-leaning countries like the UAE.

Introducing them would be a very Big Gov thing to do.
Yeah, this is pretty much it. Be a place I want to work. That means interesting work, good people, sane management, and good pay. (You don't have to pay more than contracting, but you have to pay well. I might take somewhat less money to work at a place I like, but if you're pay is lousy, I won't like it no matter how nice the people are.)
Burning coal causes cancer. A lot of cancer.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/reliance-...
Finding staff is an interesting negative of Clojure to mention.

I searched for a Clojure job off-and-on for several years in the 2012-2018 timeframe. I had attended the very first Clojure/conj in 2010 and had development projects in production very soon after that - so I had some Clojure specific experience and was otherwise a reasonable candidate.

My opinion was that there were far fewer opportunities than the inner core of the Clojure dev world admitted. This opinion seems very much not shared or mentioned by others. I also think that Clojure opportunities seem more limited now than a few years ago - Clojure seems to have become one of those programming languages listed on job descriptions but Clojure isn't actually part of the job.

Never getting an offer from a Clojure-oriented job was kind of weird to me at the time because I did get lots of interviews outside of the Clojure world and pretty regular job offers from those. I never figured out why I couldn't catch an offer from a Clojure dev org.
> poor use of swap space

Swap is configured by the user. You do need to know what you're doing in order to configure it to your usecase.
NYS AG report: Millions of Fake Comments to Influence Repeal of Net Neutrality
I would think regenerating teeth would be a big market.
No it wouldn't, because with those higher prices, you'd have fewer sales.

Edit: Incremental revenue? Okay, that it would double, but so what?
Uber had/has unlimited vacation time. When I worked there I took no less than 6 weeks a year and one year took 8 weeks. The formula is one week every quarter and then 2 weeks at Christmas. That already brings you to 6 weeks.