skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so we end Scrum… now what?

I understand the frustration. Even as a manager I can feel some disconnect. This series of assertions is this person’s observations.

It seems both one-sided and purely deconstructive. Even if it’s right, does ending scrum now actually produce fixes to this list of complaints?

Why not “fix scrum now” and a series of adjustments? This reads like a sophomore engineer that’s disgruntled more than a seasoned engineer trying to fix broken process.

Again, it’s easy to agree with a lot of it, but fixing it is harder than just stopping.
I'm more interested in ethics than the law since I'm not a lawyer. Hopefully someone challenges the constitutionality of that law though because it seems overly broad to me..
"The utilization of telecommunication devices without disclosing (one's) IDENTITY to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person at the called number or who receives the communications." Like you're annoying me over the internet right now and I'd like to have you charged and sentenced to 2 years for federal cyber stalking ?? Lol, that seems appropriate to you? I give up, have a good one buddy.
> Despite controversy in conservative circles, she won a Pulitzer Prize for this work.

This is a one-sided telling of the story. 1619 Project is controversial within academic circles. Numerous professors, including a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, a winner of the Bancroft Prize, and other historians found many defects and published a public letter requesting corrections. The aforementioned Pulitzer Prize winner described 1619 as, "So wrong in so many ways". Characterizing the controversy as occurring "conservative circles" doesn't even come close to painting a complete picture.

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/02/u-professo...

Additionally, the reason Hannah-Jones' tenure application stalled had nothing to whatsoever to do with State Republican influence as you allege, but was in part, blocked by a large donor whose name is on the School of Journalism. Donating $25 million dollars gives you a lot of say in a university.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/donor-concerns-hannah-jo...
Also, it's trivially easy to teach a real neural network to output a specific binary stream in response to a specific input. My OS AI could use the exact same technology as Copilot, I'd just train it very specifically.
In the real world, catalysts do in fact get used up, usually due to fouling from side reactions and that kind of thing. That's why you often need to replace a catalytic converter within the lifetime of a vehicle.
> Unbiased critical thinking requires one to only look at the validity of the message. The author should not matter at all.

This is obviously not what people do. It's not what experts in media criticism recommend. And it's also not even vaguely practical.

The number of claims made is effectively infinite. The time needed to validate a given claim varies, but is often quite large, and can be effectively infinite. No single person can fully validate even a tiny fraction of all the claims made. Ergo, a person must choose between almost never deciding anything or collaborating with other people to do the work of validation. This introduces the vital concept of trust.

The whole existence of journalism is part of that. If the world worked the way you suggest, we would just need something like 4chan: a bunch of anons posting messages. Then individuals could validate each one themselves.

Instead what we have is established, branded newspapers, networks, magazines, and the like. What most have in common is a reputation for accuracy, something they invest quite a bit in maintaining and defending through the use of standard journalistic practices, professional editors, and fact-checking departments.

The Washington Times purports to be a respectable journalistic outfit, inviting its readers to trust it. Its history demonstrates that is has a strong agenda and is willing to ride roughshod over traditional standards of validity in pursuit of partisan gains.

There's nothing wrong with noting that so that people don't mistake it for some sort of journalistic effort.
If you take your 90%+ as a baseline (ie zero) then you can fiddle with the stats to get a massive number.

Let's say the best effort is 91.001% and our smart new process is 92.001%. Now set the baseline at 91.000% This is the sleight of hand bit: If we say that "normal" is 91.000, we now set the best effort as 0.001 and our effort as 1.001. That can seem quite reasonable when trotted out by a news reader or reporter.

So we are (1.001/0.001) x 100 = 100,100% better than the previous best!

The real improvement is more like: 92.001/91.001 x 100 = 101.098% which is a bit obvious when you look at the numbers involved.

With a single quite clumsy move and a bit of misdirection you can turn 101 into 100,100 and sound quite convincing. Now that's only using the very basic arithmetic operations and a bit of bullshit. The clever kids can really go to town.

We need some sort of laws about the presentation of statistics because it really is getting out of hand. The nonsense I've just presented isn't fiction. I saw something similar recently, can't remember what for but it took a while for me to calm down afterwards 8)
> Managers become ghosts and do not work with developers or really do much of anything

This is probably the only good point of the article :-) Managers aren't a part of the scrum framework; so if scrum is running smoothly, managers gradually disappear from the scene. I'd say it's a feature.
I'm wondering: is the fact that a CS PhD finds resources like this as much amusing as educational/pedagogical gold telling something for the Academia, the Culture, or the Self?

AKA why can't I stumble upon such stuff more often. Thanks OP!
Writing Can Help Us Heal from Trauma
Linus’ objection to C++, if you boil it down, is that it adds a lot of complexity without fixing what’s fundamentally broken about C: memory safety. Rust’s memory model is much safer than C’s, and it is a significantly simpler language than C++ as well.
If you look a the overhead map of Marfa, you'll see it isn't particularly land constrained. However, people living in trailer houses on small lots in town are seeing their taxes go up, so they eventually have to move. Also perversely, the land around there you see with cows or crops on it is almost assuredly in an agricultural tax exemption status, so the excess land has little pressure to be sold for new housing.

It's perverse because it effectively forces poorer people to sell to rich people.

I will also note Texas has a homestead exemption, originating in 1876, so this is a well-known issue. It does not appear to be inflation or value indexed, and does not provide relief to low-income people when their house suddenly appreciates. There is a limit on how much the appraisal goes up every year, but it's certainly more than wage growth.

Regardless, the point is OP's ideal town this is not, the people moving there are not moving for the local jobs and economy in a nice little town. The incomes certainly don't support the high house prices.
I think that they don’t trust the maintainer. However 4chan raids like this are often run by third parties that can benefit from attributing this type of behavior to “anonymous” individuals.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the people who bullied this individual had the goal of getting the original independent fork abandoned while also getting the new fork cancelled on the grounds of hate speech all along.

I visit 4chan and the site is full of propaganda from government and entities with enough capital to pay astroturfers or build bots. At this point it is safe to assume that “anon” is not always some edgy hacker kids but a government, bank, large company, etc.
Because they're collecting telemetry remotely
The problem here is not the AI, but the incentive design. The Chinese netizens who take this as inspiration to comment on the incentives in their own lives (under the 996 system) are the insightful ones, more son than those who worry about "AI ethics".

We have so many systems in the real world that set up bad incentives for humans, yet the concept is largely misunderstood by politicians and decision makers. Our democratic discourse is dominated by first-order thinking, our laws are too often written under the assumption that the affected entities' behaviour will remain the same under the new incentives, which never holds.
Aha. The other day you were arguing for education as a silver bullet /g
There need to be harsh, harsh penalties for showing up uninvited to someone's house based on something that's happened or been said on the Internet. This is little kid shit and they either need to learn or have their toys taken away so they can't keep doing it.
Not posting this under my main account for reasons, but 4chan harassed me for developing software too. They're a bunch of anonymous assholes that have nothing better to do. Their commentary was degrading and demoralizing.

They thankfully didn't find me in real life, but I pulled down all social media to avoid them.

Edit: I want to say one more thing. Sometimes people defend 4chan and say stuff like "that's just how they are", "they don't really mean it", or "you have to understand their community". But places like 4chan do real, measurable harm to people.

Just recently, Near/Byuu (SNES emulation) took their life after relentless doxxing and harassment. It wasn't 4chan, but these communities all harbor the same type of anonymity-enabled "for the lulz" harassment that brings out the worst in people.
Maybe just maybe some day we will be empowered again when digitalisation leads us to a Liquid Democracy.

Ah, who am I kidding, no one in power wants to give the plebs more power.
It needs gold and platinum catalyst. The trouble would be there would be no catalyst in the plant to process water, the day after it is deployed in a remote area.
That sounds more correct.
"I'm actually not even sure what point it is making."

It's not making a point. It's just a book review.
Or perhaps the only pain will be empathetic.
Calmness doesn't mean you stop taking action against injustice.
Nope. I have an ultrabook from about 10 years back, that runs Win7. I used to have both Windows and Linux on it. But I have just recently converted it back to Windows only. With a mere 128 gig SSD, it is sufficiently large for any Windows work that needs doing (Very, very little, these days) and Win7 was the last version with any quality.

That allows me to remove Windows 10 completely from my newer Lenovo P53 laptop and allow Linux to spread over the whole 5TB of SSDs.
Didn't read every word of that, but it seemed a particularly long-winded version of Moore's Law.
Today's Yahoo Combinator be like

500 votes for my fave movie flicks

40 votes for process heap data carving

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"millions of times more effective at killing viruses and bacteria than traditional commercial methods.." "..revolutionise water disinfection technologies"

I don't think this is comparable to a water treatment plant. No sediment settling, biofiltration etc. It's comparable to sterilising water using hydrogen peroxide or boiling it, in a camping context.

Not sure what the "millions of times" measures.
Step 1 is catching them, and it's the nature of this sort of attack that doing so is deceptively hard. This kind of harassment is basically a flash-mob.
Please don't conflate pain relief with impossible-to-avoid-murdering-your-mother-when-you-feel-better syndrome. /s

Seriously, if I wasn't in as much pain as I am in then I would be out hugging people. Not hiding in my house, sitting on my hands to numb them and so I avoid touching a mouse for fear of searing pain for several days.

I promise I won't lead a (further) reckless life just because my idiopathic pain of 20 years is gone.
Yes, but also because someone instigated them to do so.

Maybe the person just did so out of a random thought of finding it funny, or maybe because of personal dislikes or maybe because of other reason.

Let's not forget people which go to extrems "for the lulz" tend also be easy to be used if you are lucky (i.e. just need to pitch the right idea to the right person in a "innocent" way, through it also comes at a considerable risk for you because you can never be sure who they end up harassing in the end).
The New Fandom Formula
EU Politicians pass anti-privacy legislation to 'protect' us from terrorism....

Which is caused by the open borders and migrant settlement programs promoted by the EU in the first place.

Convenient isn't it?
Thank you for the encouragement. I'm still hoping to solve it one day. No spoilers, please :)
The point is that you can use 1/10,000,000 the H2O2 than you would otherwise for the same amount of sanitation.
I would take the first two, and replace 3 with Monk/Assassin.
Just because someone says something doesn't make it true.

There are very few people not raised in religion or similar belief systems, the few I do know though simply don't worship anything in particular.

It was strange for me to accept at first, like... Ok but like what are you? What do you believe in? And having someone answer: "I'm just me and I don't believe in anything, I don't even ask myself that question, I just live." was perspective changing for me.

Some people actually don't worship anything, and don't care about it.
IANAA, but I believe we already had a very rough estimate, from our models of solar system formation, and it's huge - at least tens of billions and very likely much more.
Fork creator put up a poll to name the fork, and a 4chan meme won. Fork creator then decided that name was dumb and discounted the poll result.

4chan then did what 4chan do.
Sometimes it's because someone stole it for the platinum.
The scanwatch isn't yet available in the US though :(. Seems like my ideal wearable ( I have an oura ring and it's too big at times)
The sanctions affect everyone in Iran. The elites and people actually involved in the nuclear program in Iran have access to dollars/western markets via smuggling networks and other underground efforts (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reza_Zarrab, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-us-citizens-one-pakistani..., NIOC and ship-to-ship transfers, etc). The result is that unconnected people suffer and the elites continue on like before. Is it fair to deny a rug vendor in Tehran who wants to export some of their carpets to Europe their living because they live in a country with a terrible government?
Are you telling me the art market is artificial!?
I never said that central planning must work better or worse, just that Hayek's reasoning doesn't hold up because it starts from the ridiculous assumption that markets always find the equilibrium, always propagate local knowledge, etc.., and those are the reason why they theoretically are better than planning according to Hayek. I'm arguing against a purely theoretical argument that was cited with purely theoretical reasoning. The source for Hayek's assumptions implying P=NP is this : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284

I personally don't care for the purely theoretical arguments that Hayek makes, and yes the arguments are full of apriorisms and assumptions but that's the Austrian school for you and that's what you need to prove that markets must be better than planning.

The actual argument I'd make why planning can outperform markets in many industries and cases is pretty straightforward - markets require duplication of labour, they cause intrinsic crashes, they hurt knowledge transfer because they require intellectual property, they require infinite growth, and more.

Meanwhile actual implementations of planning have been plagued by incredibly slow iteration times (in the order of 5-4 years), access to data so horrible that CIA data was sought by planners, excessive centralization due to the impossibility of getting popular input, very low transparency, limitations in processing as data was collected and processed by hand, allocation of resources by hand, etc...

Planning is fundamentally a computer science problem at every level, and every single major defect can be fixed or palliated using techniques developped from computer science.

Because of this and the relative competitiveness, on the order of 1/3, of planning despite horribly deficient implementations, I think that there's a solid shot that planning can be a better solution than markets in most cases, though not all.

Finally, central planning doesn't actually mean eliminating markets - they are still useful for gaging the relative value and demand in consumer goods. Rather, the goal is to replace capital markets.

There, that's my case for why it is very probable that planning can be a better alternative to capitalist markets in most cases.
Yes ofcourse the view is not inconsistent. The trouble is most people immediately want the government to get involved to regulate it all the activities that they do not like or do not approve of.
See these articles, for example:

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/5/25/17395210/gdp...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17378688/gdpr-general-dat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/gdpr-europe-data-...

Becoming GDPR-compliant is no small task if you take it seriously.
West Texas has highs several degrees higher than central Spain, which is the small difference between unpleasant and deadly.
Funny, just posted this to a parent comment thread on a whim.

Representative democracy is really not that good, when you can't recast your vote; and you're forced to pick X/Y for Z years. Your options are vote a representative, don't vote a representative, become a representative yourself.

I personally am a firm believer that due to the proliferation of technology, Liquid Democracy can become feasible for our generation. But I doubt those in power would let the democratic process evolve in that direction.
Ya, unfortunately it's a supply and demand issue. Lot's of people use it temporarily for patient-care hours to segue into a type of medical school or career. So pay isn't of concern to most of them.
One of the biggest pollutants now in water are PFAS, microplastics, and other hormone disruptors.

How to we get rid of those without needing to rely on expensive multi-stage filters that need to be replaced every 4 months?
The kind of people who hang around 4chan is fucked up; I've always said that.
Really hard to do that when the state has been behind incidents like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

One could argue that the FBI could be behind this too, for reasons we won't find out for another couple of decades.
Am I the only one who would just … walk outside and talk to the 4channers who showed up? Probably offer them a cig and a meme.

I’ve been thinking of tweeting my home address, so this is a relevant concern. What do you even do when someone comes to your house, other than listen to them?

It could also be true that they did something a lot less friendly, like “bang on the windows and run away laughing.” That would be unsettling to experience, particularly at night.

This is a sad situation. Their Internet notoriety is the source of the problem, one way or another, and they felt like they couldn’t continue. I respect that; family is #1.
> The code is literally stored in the weights of the NN, in a weird codification.

This is a massive simplification. It's adequate for most purposes, but when discussing at this level this simplification breaks down.

Tokens are stored, and the NN contains weights of likelihood of a token occurring after another, given a sequence of prior (and possibly post) tokens.

Verbatim retrieval usually means there is very little variation in the training data for that sequence, so the same set of weights gets stored.

So "retrieval" is actually the same generative process as unique code uses, but the NN hasn't seen any other versions.
how were you able to say shit?
Sounds a bit like Christopher Lasch https://newcriterion.com/issues/1995/4/christopher-lasch-vs-...
It turns out that all they have to do is split the angry people in two to confuse who to be angry at and that works for decades.
This was definitely a snooze-worthy review of what seems like a dull book, but I don't have a problem with articles pointing out racism and sexism.. especially as there's so much of it in our culture and history.
China has a lot of challenges coming up in the future that is slowing that growth now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTbILK0fxDY

It's making the CCP jittery, which is a theory behind the increasing authoritarianism in the country now.
A bit of self-promotion, why not: also Collaborative Groups in :-P
I don't know what kind of usage numbers their secret chats have, but if that's the case maybe that's a sign most people prefer the convenience of non E2E chats to the security of E2E? And if someone is just a tiny bit interested and motivated the secret chats are there if they want them.

In fact, I'd argue that it's better to use encrypted chats in a common chat client than having to explain why you use a specific encrypted client if you ever find yourself in a situation where that's necessary, like a border crossing or police interaction.
Slate Star Codex Book Review: Secular Cycles (Peter Turchin)
Taxing emissions just allows some government a-hole to make a buck and you still get the emissions how is that better?

If you think it would be structured in a way that would stop emissions you’re naive because tax makers would rather still make money than stop something.

Think I’m wrong? Cigarettes and alcohol still kill people they’re just highly taxed.

Taxes solve nothing and ONLY exist to keep poor people poor and middle class people middle class.
19th century-Bucket Shop

20th century-Contract for Difference

21st century-Tokenized uh stocks

This is not a new idea
Correct. The posters in 4chan are often manipulated by propaganda into these extremes behaviors. There is tons of threads in 4chan itself detailing how this happens.
It could very likely not be 4channers who show up at your house, but a SWAT team looking to take you out for holding someone hostage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting
If a troubled workplace’s response to its troubles is, “might as well do something, who cares if it works”, that’d at least help explain why it’s troubled.
A Python Roadmap
This is the trouble with most academic research which focuses on trying to maximize one aspect of the problem while a useful commercial application needs to simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting aspects. A similar stream of useless papers also are published in energy storage (beyond Li-ion batteries) which are not likely to be ever commercialized.
They are hilariously good. No matter what else happens, those videos are worth watching.
I really thought that he'd touch on the fact that one of the differences between movies when he was a child and movies when he is adult is his age. That he doesn't still play with Legos is probably not the fault of cinema.
The main reason I'm not going with Bubble is because I can't transfer users should I make another site, because of how password hashing works.

Otherwise everything else about it works fine. The nature of no code is that it scales terribly; it's often the best choice if you're building something in 10 hours, but bad if you have 1000 man hours. Code is code because it's the most efficient way to communicate. Startups are often willing to stick with it for a very long time though.
The one on your headset may be analog unless it's a USB or Bluetooth headset.
I don't think that is a fair characterization. Instead, dissatisfied proletarians are more of a political threat than Co. Placenta ones.

The most dissatisfied and dangerous proletarians are those who thought they were bourgeois and now realize they aren't.

It is the mismatch of expectations and reality that drive the dissatisfaction.
Phased arrays are everywhere. An incredibly common example are many cellular base station antennas. They are fancy but nothing particularly special these days. Active phased arrays, e.g. steerable with either analog phase / delay shifters or with digital front ends are less common but still much more common than the BAE Systems phased arrays in F35's.