skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't estimate. They don't matter and nobody cares about them anyway. If you're a sales driven/feature factory company, the estimates won't matter anyway as you'll demand to meet your obligations regardless of estimates.

If you're a company that plans far in advance, the same is true. You'll demand the work you wanted is done at a given date, again regardless of how difficult it was.

At my company, we have a well maintained backlog of work. We pick dates in the future to check in on what got done in between check ins. The product manager can (re)prioritize work as needed. We pull from the top. If there's a surprise deadline it gets brought up to everyone and then put at the top of the queue, sometimes over currently in-progress tasks.

You cannot bend the realities of time and complexity. If something is hard, an estimate doesn't make it easier. A hard delivery date also doesn't bring predictability. Ultimately, with or without estimates, you'll get what you get. If you want to get _more_, ask a team what's making them slow and then prioritize fixing the things they bring up. If every team is working optimally (they're not), hire.

I'll also add, the time it takes to prepare an estimate of any value is probably 10x what anybody asking you to estimate something is willing to provide. You're being asked to spit out a number to fit an existing narrative. If you wanted to estimate a unit of work with any amount of legitimacy, you'd need hours/days/weeks (depending on SOW). These companies scheduling weekly estimation meetings that last an hour and are bullshit scrum cards don't matter and aren't interested in being even close to correct.
Totally agreed. It always adds shutter shock to my photos
If this is true, what is preventing a British equity company from leasing a few dozen trucks, hiring from said 100k pool and arbitraging against the incredibly low 'slave labour' wages?

Presuming of course the customers want their goods delivered and can tolerate higher trucking costs.
Same. I think it's something to do with the writing style, the familiarity of the problem, and the sheer flexibility of FFT.
important note before reading the comment section in any part of the internet:

some people will never be happy, and will try to make happy people less happy.
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I’m skeptical. The drivers at Booker (Budgens), a Tesco subsidiary, were offered a 2% raise, which in light of 4% inflation is a pay cut. That suggests some HGV employers are not feeling the pressure:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/06/lorry-drive...
Americans are definitely better off though. What a huge drain of resources.
Tesla has this info but chooses not to share it.

However, here’s an analysis from a few years ago that should at least give you pause in claiming that Tesla’s are definitively safer:

https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...
If you don't know what I meant then why assuming malice as your first reaction?
But in intuitionist logic, "not proven" is bottom or disproven. So what is the concept for "neither proven nor disproven"? Is that literally "not disproven"?
This is not a general-moire-removal technique. It's basically a band-stop filter that removes those frequencies from an image that correspond to the size of halftone dots both horizontally and vertically. Nifty use case for FFT though, would probably make a good homework assignment on an undergrad DSP course.
Selling covered calls is a bet that the market isn't going to go up. In a rising market your equity gets called away so it just gives up much of your upside.
Yummy right-wing propaganda.
Green screens were fast to load and navigate by muscle memory keyboard shortcuts too.
It is reasonable. Refugee means people fleeing conflict and persecution - not economic hardship. Our elite circles have very recently redefined refugee in quite a revolutionary way.
The roast date is the important differentiator. Coffee from major brands (such as the aforementioned Paulig) do not include it. Rather, they have a best before date, which can be literally years after the roasting. But I guess the coffee can't get much worse after, as you said, being pre-ground and vacuum packed into a brick.
The referenced paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh4049
Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Belarus: Where Should I Outsource?
Nobody can make employees turn on webcams if they remember they're vertebrates and that they have the right to refuse. freedom = i won't
I have a more specific problem with it: I know for sure that the upturned edge would make my legs fall asleep. At least if the stool is not so low that my knees would point toward the sky.
>After the Brexit referandum in 2016, EU nationals had the privilege to keep their right indefinitely, with almost no paperwork and cost up until the beginning of 2021 and many did not take the opportunity.

The amount of applications by EU nationals to remain in the UK exceeded the UK government's recorded total number of EU citizens residing in the country by two million (5.7 million vs 3.7 million, respectively), which raises other questions about what went wrong with the former statistic

>If they recruit people from outside of Europe, how do they plan to make them leave the UK? EU is rich, even Easter Europe is a fine place and nobody will choose to work illegally in the UK(if they wanted that, they could have stayed legally).

Unless things have changed significantly between now and ten years ago (when I knew a handful of people who drove HGVs) many of the jobs even then were organised by recruitment agencies on temporary contacts. I don't see why now it'll be any different given that the wage pressure is there to pay them well.
I guess it could do, but electric cars are simply too expensive still.

If I go on eBay, a Nissan leaf is still about double the price of a much more practical ford fiesta of a similar vintage.
That’s how Americans use the term, yes. It’s original meaning (still in partial use by the rest of the world) is shorthand for “liberalism”, which is a well defined political and economic philosophy that is actually somewhat conservative and center-right leaning in modern American political terms.
I really wish there was a way for me to share this type of article with my company without coming across as the "difficult" guy.
> I would be interested how you can get management to let go of regular estimations,

They have to convince themselves.
The main site (https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ as opposed to https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/) has normal images (for example https://krisdedecker.typepad.com/.a/6a00e0099229e888330282e1...), so I assume it's a deliberate choice to go with the low-tech aesthetic (while having practical benefits around bandwidth and so on).
I Googled that a bit and couldn't find any news about the shortages in EU, except for the claim by Shapps.

There were some articles about structural shortages, like the situation is not ideal and in 5 years it would get worse kind of articles.

Any links demonstrating that market shelves are empty and fuel cannot be delivered to the gas stations across EU?
The US education system already produces people as good as the best minds from foreign countries. That has been the case for well over a century. It doesn't produce all the best minds, of course, no nation can do such a thing and that's why high-skill immigration is valuable whenever you can get it. The argument for the US taking in the best from around the world, is that more is better when it comes to that.

The US is a massive, diverse place, filled with good and bad outcomes. Just as Europe or the EU are, just as Asia is. There is enormous poverty and tens of millions of poor education outcomes across Europe. There are literally over a billion very bad outcomes spread across Asia, Africa and Latin America in terms of poverty and education. Asia still has a billion people trapped in third world outcomes.

The top quarter in the US will match up very well against the top quarter from most peer nations. There may be a few exceptions among tiny elite nations, like Switzerland, just due to the fact that 1/4 = 80+ million people in the US.
The plans did indeed exist and Czechoslovak People's Army was expected to fight its way up to French Lyon until it would be utterly decimated by tactical nuclear weapons of the enemy.
This again? Recreational bisexuality between men is still the answer if you're serious about ripping the bottom out of the market for sex workers.
Same way I did 20 years ago, I get to play "guess the number I'm thinking of." Only now I play it with a product person instead of my manager.
That's not the full list of requirements for the H-1B; not for the applicant nor for the employer.
So, you're against hybrid crop varieties? Because you can't save the seeds of those and get the same results.

You aren't at the mercy of the companies supplying the seeds because they compete with each other.

Also, presumably if this were the objection then something like Roundup-Ready soybeans would now be ok, since those are now off patent. You're ok with those now, right?
Asylum law is very clear about who qualifies and who does not. It narrowly allows people suffering from persecution in their home country, on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a certain social group, or political opinion.[1]

It does not apply to anyone and everyone seeking work, or those who want to live in a more wealthy nation.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylu...
With GIMP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30XaCfM2QGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9I3uGITR0

With Photoshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb4XFNC4MvU

I am sure there are more tools for it. Good search terms seem to be "FFT Moire".

Fourier transforms can be easily computed in realtime at full HD resolution these days since GPUs are very fast at that kind of math.
They're still a plaything for the rich for that reason.

I think getting chargers to the street is pretty feasible but I just know it'd get outsourced to some company run by the friend of a minister with no history.
Mars?
How else do you expect people to immigrate here if not on a visa?
still planning on linking that code?
It's not universal but depends on the slopes of the demand and supply curves.
>Imagine being able to edit the nutrition label and see the food transform in front of you.

This is a surprisingly good description of an FFT.
My company doesn't require it but they strongly ask you do for clients just to be respectful. Face to a name and all that. Humans are still human.
There is a WIP unofficial project from developers at Google called Schism [1].

[1] https://github.com/schism-lang/schism
Whoa, personal attacks like that will get you banned here. Users need to stick to the rules regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Well yeah, the people who voted for Brexit have to put the blame on something other than Brexit, or else they would have to admit that their decision was wrong...
Chris Dixon: Why Web 3 Matters
The opportunity to switch jobs is still there. The reasons you gave for not finding a new job boil down to "it's hard". That's certainly true, but you shouldn't let that stop you.

> And eventually one will have the same problem no matter which company.

Once you've developed good interviewing skills finding the job after that will be far easier.
So any sane person will immediately recognize this sounds crazy.

However, epistemologically it might be sound, I've been thinking about this for a while now. Mainly because of the simple potential well problem and considering Hegelian epistemology.

The particle form isn't determined until it is measured, this is okay in regular epistemology and transcendental idealism. Not an issue, all appearances are human activities anyways created by our limited senses and tools.

But the amazing thing is that the particle still complies with our concept of causality despite not yet existing (its probabilities are completely dependent on potential energy)!

There are several theories to try to reconcile this. Real many-worlds theory, holographic universe, superdeterminism, single-electron etc. But all of these have either epistemological issues or cannot account for all phenomena.

This has led me to what I think is the most satisfying interpretation so far, which I call retroactive superdeterminism (RS).

In RS in order to resolve the problem of maintaining causality for an object which does not exist, on information of the appearance of the particle which may otherwise contradict causality, the mind changes the entire history of the world so to be that the particle existed the entire time with defined position and momentum, thereby producing causality. Thereby saving the mental framework we have on all things (phenomenology).

In this way the universe 'learns' but of course it is merely the ensemble of the appearances of the world and their properties that are changing as a result of that mental activity, which from one perspective can be argued that the universe is learning.
It's a nice language for code golf. Hazardous features like implicit type coercion and assigning to undefined variables can really help a chef portion out unreadable spaghetti onto very small plates.
Hm. What about it? These are two different tools for different purposes
it does not support webgl2
> Like, why don't we just let projects be "done"? Things don't need to be maintained and updated for eternity.

As the Buddha taught, desires are numberless. I don't think I've ever even heard of a piece of software that hit 1.0 and people were like, "Welp, it's perfect, never change a thing." I've certainly never worked on one. Indeed, the biggest sign of project success to me is releasing an initial version and people being shocked, shocked at the obvious features I missed. And I love it, as that's proof that they're really trying to use it for their real-world needs.
Right - that's the point. If it's a low priority crime, fine. I understand they can't track down everyone and prosecute everything.

But the same crime shouldn't get vastly higher priority because the victim is a cop (situations in which a cop is targeted because they're a cop excluded, but that wasn't the case here).
Leaving aside the future improvements(50% larger plants) in agriculture as well:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/splice-human-gene-potatoes
This. Reputation based review standards is pretty low hanging fruit.

You literally already have an ongoing relationship with the party in question, which is usually one of the biggest hurdles to reputation systems (new users).

I expect the real reason they haven't moved in this direction is fundamentally App Store review is seen as a tool of ongoing control rather than quality. So the more frequently something has to pass through it, the better.

If Apple can "find an issue" with your app every time you update, that's a very different relationship than an ongoing approval.

PS: Would also require developers to inform Apple of any company sale / dev team replacement to prevent abuse (Didn't mention you sold your company? Ban).
Working conditions are way better for drivers in the EU. They have rest stops with restrooms, for instance, so they don’t have to do their business on the roadside. The UK government is just showing how out of touch and incompetent it is if it thinks there will be any takers.

A bigger problem is the horrendous backlog in licence applications at DVLA that means new drivers cannot start working.

Finally, the IR35 tax treatment of many drivers means they would actually lose money by driving.
should be fairly obvious. There's no reason to assume the competence to govern differs significantly between the sexes (by definition a good democracy is representative), the fact that in many countries women constitute less than 20%-30% of representatives is obviously going to lower the performance of government.

Same observation could be made about age. If you installed a quota tomorrow to make government representative on that metric you'd eliminate a huge number of quasi zombies from power.
Eastern Europe companies flood the rest of the EU with slave like, very cheap truck drivers that have no choice or see their families starve. They will send some of these and everybody will look away again. I believe to call goes to these companies, not to individuals.
Scala got a really nice solution to this whole problem area lately.

Its new "cps-async" implementation has "auto coloring" as a highlight feature. The Scala compile will just do the right thing in an async context.

Details can be found here:

https://rssh.github.io/dotty-cps-async/

One of the more interesting parts is also that "cps-async" works fine with arbitrary effect monads. There are integrations with Cats' IO and ZIO and some more.
> I'd say it's infeasible to improve US education that can produce population as good as importing the best and brightest mind from foreign countries.

While it certainly benefits you personally, can you see how offensive and frankly racist this is?
I was thinking more of pumping air across a surface coated with a catalyst. Although a releasable catalyst would also be an interesting option. Not sure if flame farts would be a hindrance or a feature.
That looks like a great read. I feel tempted to buy it right away. So few books about this topic our there. Huge thanks for letting me know!
Guess how long it ought to take, double it, then double that.
Been using this technique for a long time, great to see an in-depth look at it.

This is great for other types of regular patterns, not just moire. For instance, if you scan old 60s/70s photos on textured/fiber paper, you can use this to smooth out the texture if desired.
I use Fiji every day, and I love the first impressions from someone who does not use it regularly (all correct too).

FFTs are amazing. In xray crystallography, you can use them to recapture the original image of a crystallized protein from the scatter of dots left by passing through it—essentially acting as the role of lens. They never cease to amaze me with their usefulness!
Right, EU citizens didn't leave UK they are just hodling until the price hits 100K.

The thing about that kind of jobs is, if you are not working your family is starving. No one is waiting for the wages to increase, they simply work somewhere else(apparently, not UK).
Generally, I agree, and I find package systems and social coding tools to be a net positive. Perhaps there is something like a license that can help in these situations?

I’m admittedly pretty ignorant to software licenses but I’d imagine they can help in at least this scenario.
History is written by the most pompous.

Ignore history. Buy guns.
That’s the thing though. Those statistics aren’t showing that level of rigor. They aren’t even saying “miles driven at highway speeds”, just “miles with autopilot engaged”.

They don’t control for things like vehicle age. They don’t control for safety features, or even for driver assisting software control. They aren’t comparing driving conditions. They aren’t comparing driving duration. There aren’t comparing driving speed. They aren’t even from the same datasets. Etc etc.

It’s not a rigorous study but used as if it’s evidence when it’s only slightly better than anecdotal
Good writing, yes. But there are ways to properly re-heat old pizza and it's almost as good as fresh. One way (the best way) is to put it in a skillet with the pizza slice on one side and a little bit of water on the other side (not touching!) and cover it, and put over medium heat for 2-4 minutes. Another is to use an air-dryer (if you have one). You may need to test temperature and durations but once you find the proper settings it's perfect.
99% of the value from Facebook or Instagram--both of which we call "social networks"--comes not from seeing content from strangers but by seeing posts and comments from our friends.

I follow a bunch of people on Twitter, and they talk to each other: I find that social! (And, if someone new joins the conversation, and the people I follow want to introduce me to them by marking their content as kosher, well that's a "network"! <- In parentheses as you didn't care about "network".)

(FWIW, the reason why that parenthetical you are responding to mattered was if you follow my other complaints about how this all ties into Section 230 and how and when platforms should be held legally--or merely morally--culpable for content and why, and you tried to square that with the idea that by letting users moderate threads you shift, in my framework, the culpability around. I do happily admit that there are some use cases for existing social networks--and Twitter likely in particular!--that I don't really support... but I don't even think they should be legal more than I simply think that some UI or another is better for them. But this is a wholly different conversation that isn't really really relevant on this post and involves a ton of content I have written before: I mentioned it only so people could see that I am not being inconsistent in my beliefs set, whereas I do feel like this complaint "stands alone".)
I'm the author of ghapi, the lib discussed here. I'm very happy to see it on the front page of hn! If you're interested in getting an overview of the github API and ghapi, there's a useful explainer on github.com:
https://github.blog/2020-12-18-learn-about-ghapi-a-new-third...

One thing you might find interesting about ghapi is how I covered the entirety of the thousands of endpoints of the github API in a 40kB download. Ghapi uses a nifty approach of dynamically generating python docs and methods from the OpenAPI definitions. Thanks to python's dynamic features we still get autocomplete, docstrings, etc.

Let me know if you have any questions!
I think I need to talk to my therapist after reading this
A different way to look at this question is to ask why do certain roles have lopsided gender distributions. For, e.g. nursing, it can be explained by gender preferences towards human care roles.

For leadership, there's elephant-in-the-room factors that explains higher rates of male leaders, i.e. perception of competence in patriarchal societies, the relationship between boys clubs and wealth as prerequisite for successful political campaigning, etc.

If we were to control for these factors, we should be able to see representation rates that are 50/50 (or at least rates that are explainable by "morally acceptable" factors, e.g. rate of interest by gender)
It's implemented in affinity photo. You get realtime feedback- it's pretty amazing.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's important not to react to the most provocative thing in an article by copying it into the comments to complain about it. It just leads to the threads turning into the same flamewars over and over again, which is the opposite of what HN is supposed to be for. We want comments to come from a place of curiosity.

I know it takes a certain self-regulation not to take the bait, and this is not easy - it seems to go against hard-wiring - but it's something that we all need to work on as a community. The idea is to maximize interesting discussions and minimize hideous ones.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...