skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's that bad but you are right. One big problem with capitalism and the free market is that people are really overdoing it with efficiency and optimization.

I once read an article with the thought experiment about what we should do if the productivity in everything we do doubled. We would have twice as much table salt. So what do we do? Well there are two options. Keep the table salt just in case. Downsize production immediately and use the spare capacity on something else.

The funny part in economics is that most of the time the "something else" is unemployment and so many economists believe that this is a good thing. Fans of the gold standard will talk about how you are supposed to suffer through the bust while forgetting that gold mining picks up and saved the day so many times even though it is wholly unproductive.
On the other hand, Australia has spent a lot less time in lockdowns, a lot more with bars and restaurants, schools, churches etc open and had far fewer deaths per capita.

Sounds pretty free and democratic to me.
My and other's regional accents have been the source of consternation at work. Speakers with regional accents have been encouraged to modify them for the benefit of non native English speakers by the DEI group. I find that ironic.
There's also "historical precedence" for governments to systematically exterminate vulnerable or minority parts of their population. This doesn't mean that it is a necessary component of a functioning government.

Sanitation expectations and standards fluctuate wildly amongst different cultures and populations; that doesn't mean your ethnocentric view on sanitation makes your civilization better than other ones.
What is the difference between sales tax and VAT?
The following two:

> or social anxiety, or they haven't learned that skill or they have been stuck on an issue with no progress

> or they've learned management makes their life harder

are radically different problems; the former two belong to the developer, the latter to the manager.

Actually, standup is the best opportunity to communicate that there is a problem (a dev stuck with an issue) and find out how that can be better approached/solved.
Hmm, you think it's clear cut that people in the US shouldn't be allowed to read whatever official statements the new government of Afghanistan decides to release? Or do you mean something different?
I like your comment and agree. Unfortunately I think your last sentence got cut in the middle?
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I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the dessert. Near them, on the goo,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, editor of engines of creations:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level protein-goo stretch far away."
No comment on the Apple aspect, but I found that apartment story well-written and detailed. I don't even live in the same hemisphere and have no real reason care yet I still read to the end. Normally that sort of scenario is inevitably a hypochondriac conflating drama.
Did you try telling them that that is _absolutely_ how "agile" works? Even Scrum, the way most companies adopt it meticulously, is just a list of recommendations. The key is that the team finds a process that works for them and keeps evolving it. I guess in your case it may have called for a compromise.

Unfortunately, if those guys had gone up the management chain saying how you're "not agile", they probably would have won...
I think the multitude of downvotes you got just shows how political this has become - you just shared your own experience and the experience of those around you.

And the mental health issue can't be dismissed. Singapore just had its highest number of suicides in 8 years.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/452-suicides-reported...
Oxford recognises guesstimate too! Drat.
> Lots of comments saying the font is hard to read, but I don’t find it to be so. Perhaps a difference in browser rendering?

I think the issue is with the font size in combination with the font itself. It's terribly small on big screens and the blue color of the text doesn't help either.

Overall, not the greatest example of good web typography.
At some point in the future, AI will make better humans than naturally occurring humans.
>> Any supplier who could actually sell right now would be able to take advantage of this market and build serious market share. So it’s a company with these reserves that will do well in a similar situation.

> It might do well in these crises, but if it can't survive the times where everything works well, then it doesn't help.

See also: all the new US N95 respirator manufacturers that popped up during the pandemic. Now they're laying off most of their staff and most will likely go bankrupt, because their customers went back to buying cheaper Chinese masks as soon as they could.
> A movement, or an ideology, doesn't need your approval nor does it need to convince you in particular, that it's methods are just.

So trying to coordinate an effort into taking someones website down by filing multiple fake reports even through VPNs is legal isn't it? Majority of them are not even from Texas and are flooding the website to try to bring it down.

If you are trying to defend script-kiddie behaviour on someones website that you disagree with, then maybe you think it is fine that this should also happen on anyone else's website that you don't like. How is that legal?

> Is your argument that a website that encourages people to report violators of the anti-abortion law a net good for society?

I didn't even make that argument and I already said I was against the website. [0] But feel free to create a straw-man argument.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28400386
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I think what worries me most is how quickly those values can be abandoned. Maybe their demise has been building up silently for a few decades, but it feels like a near sudden collapse from a society that values diversity of speech and thought to one that is much more homogeneous and intolerant. Will classic liberalism always be so easy to dismantle and so difficult and lengthy to rebuild? Maybe historians have seen these cycles previously and have an answer.
> when have private arms been indispensable in advancing the cause of liberty in the US?

I guess John Brown triggering massive paranoia and escalation toward civil war should count.
I couldn't care less. Proper grammar can be sacrificed for my own sake (read: laziness) but never for someone's "I'm in the mood of inventing a new rule thus a I state that...".
But this isn't an instance of the GNOME or GTK devs complaining. It's an independent person making applications for the platform. If the GNOME devs are against people doing things with their code then it's a whole different issue to this one.
It can also be the Abilene Paradox [1]. No one likes the stand-ups but no one wants to rock the boat so everyone says they do like the stand-ups. Not saying that it's happening here, just that you need to be aware of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
> an increase in drug & alcohol use during lockdowns

The first wing to have been changed into a Covid wing in Colmar (First French hotspot for covid, pre-lockdown) was the addictology (don't know if its an english word) service, since it had with a lot of beds, small ventilators and IVs. My cousin's wife told me that most of her "regular" patients disappeared, whether they were in remission or not, and either students/young workers did not had alcohol poisoning anymore, or they stopped calling the hospital.

On the other hand, while they were a lot of death, some functioning addicts (again, is this understandable for English people?) stopped consuming during of lockdown. So i guess a mixed bag.
God save the Queen because you just wait until Charlie and his Great Reset comes along. Pure evil
Sure. I tried out Clojure on a whim, realized it's nice, later switched to Scheme because the JVM made it hard to interact with native. Also touched a bit of elisp, but more out of necessity, since it's the only way to configure emacs. Not at all academic, I just do stuff, though I did have a bit of Haskell experience which made these languages feel more natural.
This is where Python being dynamic makes things like this hard. You have no idea what range does, as that name may point to any user defined object by the time the code is being executed.
So no, I don't think it can "optimize both loops away".

Come to think of it, you don't particularly know what sum = sum + i is doing either. There could be an __radd__ implementation in whatever your custom range spits out that indexes the WWW, renders a Mandelbrot or whatever.

And yes, of course overloading range and __radd__ that way would also be considered stupid, but if the loops were optimized away, it wouldn't be a drop in replacement for Python.
The number in a rating tells you the minimum amount of airborne challenge particles the mask protects against: an N95 mask keeps out at least 95% of particles but isn’t oil resistant, and a P100 mask is oil proof while protecting the wearer from at least 99.8% of particles. (AKA just a better mask).

It's a real bummer to hear such comment - why spread this?

P100 Approved, NIOSH's highest rated filtration efficiency in a filtering facepiece respirator. It is just a higher rating. "P100's are significantly harder to breath in" <- not at all! You should try one - they breath great. They are meant for workers to wear all day. They even have a nice leather like seal making it easier to have proper seal. Also! They are perfect for a quick trip to the grocery store or standing on a bus.

ALSO! The screw on versions are great but they are MUCH heavier and impossible to put in a pocket so they are not practical at all. Nothing about your comment was accurate :(
Yes: you need trust so people on the team feel safe to share what they think.

I’ve personally tried to earn as much trust with actions as possible. E.g. this was my approach in having (eventually) all team members lead projects [1].

For example, on the projects people led, I gave them free hand on most, if not all things. People were free to decide how to do standups (or not do them at all, like some did) and hopefully these experiences helped them both shape their opinions and share these more freely in other situations as well.

As an engineer, I also hated being micromanaged and remembered situations when I was not comfortable speaking up. I tried to remember all of these and create and environment where this does not happen - eg never shoot down anyone’s idea, don’t assume I know better just because I have a manager title. Basically, try to live up to the manager I would have wanted back in the day.

And yes, managers’ words always carry more weight, which is the nature of a hierarchical dynamics (as much as I wish it was less so). I don’t know how to counter that beyond trying to foster a safe place where criticising the manager (me) is also completely fine, and to be celebrated (as it takes courage) and never result in any real or perceived retaliation.

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/a-team-where-everyone-is-...
The built in "touch up my appearance" feature in my phone, various video chat software etc. means that future is already here [1].

[1] https://mothership.sg/2021/03/japanese-biker-actually-man/
No, I mean it's clear cut that it's a terrorist organization. I'm the kind of person to think people should read Mein Kampf and the little red book in order to understand history, I won't argue we should prevent people to have access to knowledge.

But I get one company may want to avoid being the one hosting it.
Yeah, back shortly after Trump's election Google had a staff meeting. The content of it was something like we weren't successful this time, but we'll win next time. OK I found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NE
> states that retain private arms ownership probably aren't heading toward tyranny, but ones that lose them might—might—be. Seems pretty weak, still.

It is weak. For instance, Nazi were cool with private guns and made it easier to own them. They liked themselves the guns and violence. And they were heading toward tyranny full speed.
Well-trimmed lawns give me the creeps, as if I was suddenly dropped in a terrifyingly dystopian Εdward Scissorhands town. What is the point of growing ugly, nondescript grasses next to your home? Freely growing vegetation with flowers and fruits is better in all cases.

Forbidding your plants to flourish is akin to cutting the tails and ears of your dogs.
Hey look a bunch of important people
From the typeface’s Behance page [0]:

> Cormorant is an original design for an extravagant display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage, hand-drawn and produced by Catharsis Fonts. While traditional Garamond cuts make for exquisite reading at book sizes, they appear clumpy and inelegant at larger sizes. The design goal of Cormorant was to distill the æsthetic essence of Garamond, unfetter it from the limitations of metal printing, and allow it to bloom into its natural refined form at high definition.

In the comments, the font’s creator states:

> As for a text version of Cormorant, that's basically covered by EB Garamond already... and if that's of interest of you, I am developing a sans version of Garamond for use as a text font. It's called Eau de Garamond already in quite usable shape. You can find it on GitHub.

None of this is to make anyone feel silly: Cormorant is a nice free typeface, albeit difficult to read at those sizes – there are tradeoffs made to make it look better at heading sizes. Knowing all that, I even considered typesetting a paperback in Cormorant Garamond, and I was surprisingly pleased with the results. I don’t remember what we ultimately chose, but Cormorant Garamond was a strong contender. The author did want the type quite large on that book, though, to the point where other Garamonds looked a bit 'sludgy' – what the Cormorant designer calls 'clumpy and inelegant'.

As for the article’s author, they did seem to notice the relative lightness of the typeface and adjust the weight to 500:

> The font used here is Cormorant. To make it look a bit better on screen the default weight was increased from 400 to 500.

This looks about right, comparing the google fonts pages [1,2]; however, Cormorant wasn’t really designed to work well at those sizes.

[0] https://www.behance.net/gallery/28579883/Cormorant-an-open-s...

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cormorant

[2] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond
Find the root cause. Solve it as it suits you.

Stand-ups as such are a band-aid to fix an easy to spot issue, that you may as well resolve in other, non-prescripted way by some methodology: miscommunication within the team.

If your team is able to communicate naturally (morning checks, informal or formal reviews, lunch, coffee stop, walk, whatever...) you don't _need_ stand ups.

The problem is people joining well-functioning teams and saying "what? you're not doing stand ups? let's fix that"
It happened to you = you noticed it? That could he related to the second chance pool, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
So in your experience they are bad for the general team member but good for leadership ...

All three of your points suggest you see benefits for the general team member, but when you were the recipient of the 1) focusing / refocusing, 2) management follow up or 3) encouragement and recognition, you yourself did not like that forum?

Is it possible that your team feels the same way as you did when you were in their position?
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By your own admission you didn't do daily standups as a rule. The only time you did daily standups was as a temporary policy in response to a massive and sudden change in the dynamics of your company.
The US government is not threatened by the Taliban, nor is the US in general. You're conflating very differing kinds of fight.
Using IPs to block attempts is no longer feasible since the IPv4 shortage. Mobile carriers in Europe and even landline cable providers use NAT for IPv4, so thousands of legitimate users will appear to use the same IPv4.
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you don't need to make this comparison, as if twitter wasn't shitty enough
>> Yes, but you must use regulation to require a resilient supply chain, as it’s cheaper not to build it to be resilient. Capital optimizes for capital, people must optimize for people.

> Please no. The last thing we need is another bunch of half-baked regulations passed because a bunch of people who don't know what they're talking about demanded "something must be done!" in response to some temporary crisis. COVID will subside eventually, dysfunctional regulations have much greater staying power.

Pick your poison: either capital decides to build a sufficiently resilient supply chain or they get subjected to "half-baked regulations." They're not going to do the former, so say hello to the latter.

Do nothing and profiteer during the next crisis is not an option capital should be permitted to take.
I'd be afraid to prank someone with a tool like this. It seems like it would be easy to unintentionally hack said friend or at least make them believe that you might have hacked them.
My country is enforcing medical masks (FFP123, N95, N99 KN95 and co) but also allows surgical masks, which don't work against aerosols at all. They only protect against droplets.

Probably worse than the common cloth mask but those aren't accepted. I fear it will get more irrational from here...

I also though that a study showed that sensible ventilation is at least as much effective.
Your conclusion was the same thing I was thinking. Hiring a fall guy.
Thanks. It is incredibly frustrating that clicking the post to view the whole thread on Twitter prompts a login. Such an annoying but increasingly common dark pattern.
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Your second point nails it. Stand-ups don't have to be boring exchange of information. They can serve as small team building exercises.

Edit: just to clarify I don't mean heavy handed HR stuff. Just what OP said. Crack some jokes, tell a bit about your life.
Let me sum up for you: we spent 40 years looking for "cheaper".

Whether it was the right thing to look for, I don't know. But "cheaper" is the word that has shaped the world in the last decades.
I think the fact the environment industrial complex (and it's SciFi supporters) seriously thinks putting solar panels in orbit, compared to on the ground is a good choice says everything you need to know about this cult.

Other than every roof you have 70% of the world is ocean, but what about salt. Outer space must be easiest. Dealing with salt is hard.

Way to hard to create power lines 1000's of km long too. Beam it in from space is easier.
Nowadays you can get a used smartphone for free.
I also thought never, but since IANAL I had to google before I commented and found something about some specific kinds of fines in Spain :D
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The people who invented ivermectin got a Nobel Prize in medicine for it. Hardly "unstudied", especially compared to something that required emergency use authorization to be used on humans.
> No, therefore I’m revoking your right to operate any motor vehicle within city limits.

I largely agree with your statement that rhetoric isn't helpful.

However, interestingly, Driving is a privilege (at least that's how it's framed in Australia) not a right, and you must pass tests to be allowed that privilege, and that privilege will be revoked if you misuse it.
Noticing latency is very context sensitive. A fun example is drawing lines on a touchscreen. Even ~20 milliseconds manifests as a visible gap between the tip of the pen and the line that "chases" it.

Temporal resolution of human hearing obviously varies with what exactly you measure but I believe it is in a single digit millisecond range for discerning between two clicks in quick succession and a single click.
As a person who has sold and bought domains:

1. Do a Sedo.com search and see if it is listed there.

2. Search on Godaddy.com and Name.com and see if the domain is offered for a lower price.

3. If 1 and 2 didn't yield any results, monitor the domain using the many services available. If it drops, you will get notified. Expensive domains do get dropped once in a while, due to various reasons.

4. As throwaway158497 suggested below, offer a much lower price, if you can withstand the potential consequences.

>How would you go about it?

Think of a clever short .com and hand register it for less than $20.
Or, if there is a second choice domain available for a lower price, buy that. Keep the rest of the money with you.
Did you actually look at the page the list is from? THis isn't some sketch, it's a fully implemented way of working with git repos that supports everything you ask for. Committing just specific files is done in gitless via

gl commit a.foo b.bar

committing all but some files is done with

gl commit -e a.foo b.bar

gl commit -p allows you to interactively commit parts of files.

gl doesn't take any abilities away (it's just git under the hood after all), it just exposes the abilities in sane ways.

If you actually look at the homepage of gitless you will also immediately see what fuse does:

https://gitless.com/#gl-fuse

I believe that by reading that one, not very long page, most people (including non-programmers) can use gl correctly most of the time. This is not the case for git.

BTW, gl branch is for creating/deleting branches, gl switch is for switching your working tree from one branch to another. These are very different things, why should they be under the same command?

For git, the last paragraph is a necessary but in no way sufficient step towards using it proficiently. Gitless is actually much closer to realizing that vision.

Seriously, people need to go back and teach beginners git to realize how bad it is. We have internalized so much of the bad design decisions in git that we don't notice them anymore.
I know. It's like we are going to need reverse Zero Days after a while. As soon as they publish it becomes the old new way to detect Deepfakes.
There are also a lot of competent managers that are lazy (laziness can be good!)

And, worse perhaps, there are a lot of incompetent managers that are NOT lazy.

Now, the OP is a specific point of view. It's not unprofessional to have a clear cut point of view on some arbitrary practice.

It's no unsympathetic neither demotivational: from my pov, it's rather a sign that everything may not be lost in IT if there are still people thinking differently.
I think I'll happily take our freedom from the virus, where we can live and work unmasked. Our pubs and restaurants are packed with people having fun, not having to worry about whether they'll be one of the hundreds of thousands dead.
Yes it did:
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20201212-switzerland-intr...
How strange. Humans are interesting critters :)
Contrariwise, consider the famous quote from Judge Learned Hand:

> Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.
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