skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They explained why they felt it was a bad comparison. Why did you ignore that part?

If an analogy is bad, it's bad. The parent explained why they felt it was bad. If you want to "engage seriously", you should address why their points about the analogy are wrong.
Grow something. Plants, fish, brine shrimp or microbes if you're impatient; tortoises if you want to invest time. Life you love can provide you immense, endless, fractal joy.

Slime molds make great pets.
I contend that it doesn't cause centralisation of power, but centralisation and power are inevitable should the project hit the mainstream, proper:

- GNU/Linux - GNU/Linux is open source but centralised. The userspace is the part that is distributed, via operating systems, and the source control is distributed, via git. But it's all for one Linux kernel. You can also build your own kernel, but that doesn't really make linux 'decentralized'. Similarly, Linux for a lot of people means 'Ubuntu'.

- HTML/JS - this is centralised under WhatWG/W3C, etc. Arguably, these days, it's actually centralised under Chrome, because what Chrome does eventually becomes the spec. You can freely build your own implementations of HTML and JS/Ecmascript but most likely, you are using the centralised implementation via webkit, blink, or gecko.

So, the fact that smart contract is open-source doesn't really mean anything. It'll grow big, then as a matter of convenience it will start to consolidate. git, for example, is decentralised, but git forges (github, gitlab, etc.) provide centralisation as a convenience.
Honestly I'd rather support a browser which did this than support the freemium sponsored-content approach the rest of the web have devolved into.
If Bob had a plan for doing the work that didn't involve Alice's library, there's a good chance he would have just jumped straight in to implementation without talking to anyone, and maybe the library wouldn't have come up until code review (if at all). By identifying the complexity mismatch ahead of time, they saved 3 points worth of effort. This doesn't affect sequencing at all, but still seems valuable to me.
I gave up and just put a file-upload CGI program (I'd say "script" but it's in C) on my own web page.
How much of all that provided any actual value?
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I think you need to have open ended meetings or you will miss a lot of things. It doesn't need to be every day.
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I tried to read this article but so many things were jumping out of the screen at my face ("CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CODE", "SUBSCRIBE TO THIS", "GO TO JUPITER WITH GOOGLE").

Impossible to pay attention. Why are websites so noisy these days? (Rhetorical question, just wanted to vent at the noise makers... If you design/build websites, don't do this.)
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People here may not like to read "Google" and "good" together, but yours is a description of how things actually work.

Of all the tracking Google does, this is by far the most justified, and least concerning to me. I'd rather log out and search anonymously, if my concern was being put in a bubble, rather than block this kind of feedback for search result quality. Then, again, I primarily use DuckDuckGo and I wonder if they do anything similar.
This is part of the reason why editors for programmers and editors for general text editing are not the right thing.

I have F11 in emacs bound to whitespace-cleanup, which takes care of it all for me. And supertabs mode in general works just the way it should with tabs-indent/spaces-align.

Then there's also clang-fmt, possibley used as a post-receive hook in git (and some other VCS) which makes irrelevant what the programmer's editor did, mostly.
> Replace "China" with "The USA" and "Eastern" with "Western" and the other way around and not much of meaning or value would be lost.

This is nonsense, and basically textbook whataboutism. Companies in the US are not an extension of the state in anyway near the way Chinese firms are, even if some collude. The US allows dual citizenship.
How about filesystem or object storage? That where you meant to put a FILE which is what the user uploaded.
I worked on a mid-sized online game a few years ago and we experienced several DDoS attacks. I recall one employee tracking down the specific botnet that was rented for the attack against us and we calculated the attacker probably spent a couple of hundred dollars based on the rates.

IIRC, we eventually used AWS Elastic Load Balancer to just soak up the attack, which was a pretty basic SYN flood. Then we waited the attacker out until he got sick of spending money. That temporary redirect definitely impacted performance and cost us some money but it pretty well mitigated the issue. We also spent a bit of time optimizing our servers to drop obvious nonsense requests as quickly as possible but in the end the ELB handled most of the issue for us.
Well, I'm answering an explicit question by the OP based on the information provided; but my observation from the schedule is that he seems to be running two teams as if they are big-T Teams - if those are actually two small-t teams of four people each, then IMHO he should devote less meeting time to each of them or merge some of the meetings.

In your big-T Team, would you schedule a separate daily standup for each of the task/project small-t team you're supervising, and organize separate social events for each of your "groups of teammates" as OP is doing?
So at tank is more complicated than a battery...tell that ~every single rocket.
My wife started watching it with me which was a big surprise considering it was scifi.

Had to explain the backstory a bit but she loved the banter between G'Kar and Londo and their respective story arcs.
The "scrum masters" at my last place didn't interact with customers at all. That was the PO's job.
What I notice is no time to work on the meetings

When are the action items from all the 1:1s, standups, etc worked on ?
According to their public Statement of Information (https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=04...), the CEO of MediaLab.AI Inc is Michael Heyward, the co-founder of Whisper.
I have a BMW 1 Series and always fill to the brim, highest I've got is 48L so I expect full to be 50L.
Agree. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And it isn’t the skeptic’s job to prove any of that. Logic and science got flipped on its head.

It’s truly remarkable.
>Yes, it's a database. That's where you're meant to put DATA.

Most (all?) large-scale high-volume image storage architectures I'm aware of do not store billions of images as blobs in a database. Instead, they typically store the images as files. The database only holding metadata info and a pointer to the image filename location (or url if using AWS S3 or CDN).

E.g. Facebook is one of the largest MySQL sites (if not the largest) and they don't store photos directly in MySQL.
If you do that you can actually very easily switch to Kanban methinks. In Kanban you sort of have to size all work to be about (!) the same size so that you can make accurate enough predictions for your lead time and cycle time. That only really works if all work items are about the same size though, otherwise you get too many outliers from your statistics.

I've found that most Product Owners really care about predictability and less about actual estimates. They care that if you say you're gonna finish something by the end of the sprint, much more often than not, you will. Estimates and velocity and such things are just means to the end of trying to figure out which items are reasonable to take into a sprint together.

If your Product person knows that they can throw 10 "random" (but currently most wanted by stakeholders) work items into a "sprint" and 9 times out of 10 you will actually finish all of those, they're probably gonna be very very happy as they won't have to explain delays over and over again on their end.
>we, as a society, have already decided that the benefits of eliminating $5/hour jobs was worth whatever effect it had on unemployment.

We have eliminated some, but others we've simply relegated them to the black market so that those engaging them either do it entirely without unemployment insurance and other labor protections, or they do it as an independent business or contractor. Now a good deal of those jobs are instead taken by illegal immigrants (and I'm not judging these immigrants at all here, just noting what the effects are). What we really "decided" was it was worth making those jobs black market or self employment jobs -- and that is an opinion held by the tyranny of the majority against those who suffer under this regulation.

>With this is mind, it's obvious, that QFC closing two stores is completely meaningless

Somehow I doubt it was meaningless to the individuals who had the choice of move to a store not offering the hazard pay or lose their job. But meaningless from your priveleged perspective of not being immediately affected by the loss.

>I'll just also add that it's very hard not to take what you're saying as simply constructing a straw man (as opposed to misreading or misunderstanding), given how completely unrelated anything you wrote was to my other comment.

Rich from a person leading off with the straw man attacking Cato with the false argument that they had somehow claimed there weren't poor people making minimum wage.
The fact that it's so cheap makes it feel even sketchier, like who am I giving my credit card to if they are making it that cheap and easy to do; is it a trick to get my CC? They don't care how little I give, because the $5 isn't their target, it's something else.

As a developer I know you can build stuff that actually is that cheap, but still, makes some alarm bell go off. Maybe if the site was worded differently, it wouldn't push things over the edge and I would "just try it".

Also, I think if you want just $5 a year, why even ask for anything, unless you justify why it's so cheap and how it will just be enough to cover x costs or something.
Oh lord, yes. The scrum masters at my last gig had no technical knowledge at all. All kinds of certifications for scrum, had no idea about actual software development.
I see a lot of this on this topic. It's the fallacy of false equivalence.

For example, the United States clearly has dark stains in its history. Slavery obviously, Japanese interment in WW2, the treatment of Native Americans (eg Trail of Tears), segregation, etc. And these are all raised as counterpoints when criticizing China for human rights abuses.

But here's the difference. You can't end up in prison of a "re-education" camp in the US for discussing any of these. Now compare that to China's treatment of political "dissidents", the treatment of the Uighurs, Tibet, the Tiannemen Square massacre and the censorship of these and other issues.

So no, they're not equivalent.

It's the same for "pressure" on US companies. It's a question of degree. The US has courts that can check the power of executive or legislative overreach. US companies can (and have) resisted the US governments efforts within these legal frameworks.

Twitter and Facebook, both US companies, removed a sitting US president from their platforms after excessive policy violations (and justifiably so) so whatever "geopolitical pressure" you imagine, it's simply less in the US.
The trouble with Nord Stream 2 is that it removes the dependencies which keep Russia from invading Eastern European countries like Poland by creating a route to sell gas to the richer parts of Europe that doesn't go through them, whilst also creating a dependency that would make it painful for the rest of Europe to take action if Russia did such a thing. This is probably not good for peace in Europe.
This works via Google blackmailing publishers with the threat of SEO downranking without Amp
If you have an agreement with [country A] to work together in pursuit of the same goals, and you don't have an agreement with [country B] to work together in pursuit of the same goals. Which one would you trust more?

Building alliances is nearly synonymous with building trust.
Maybe a naive question but do you really need 1:1s every week? At my first startup we did them like every 2 months and it was a treat. If you needed something in between you just asked for it. At my second company even once every two weeks seemed sort of ridiculous, at first it was a welcome excuse to not work for an hour and eventually they just got boring and took me away from things I liked working on.

I think somebody's going to say "you or your manager were failing to extract what you could from those meetings, that's why they seemed useless," or something like that. But I really just think they weren't necessary to do that often.
Fair. I would not call them meetings. They are 2, maybe 3 person “white boarding” sessions. They are problem solving and ideation things.
The proof of work idea is cute, but at this stage it's not necessary as profiling seems to show attacks don't get too deep into the netcode before getting dropped. It's hard to know without testing but I'm fairly certain any kind of PoW would cost more to check.
This reminds me of a blogpost that is at least fun to read: http://ithare.com/udp-for-games-security-encryption-and-ddos...

Regarding the HTTPS request thing, we already did this for an event and I'm currently getting it set up on all servers. The blog post forgot to mention this one :)
> So for practically all purposes, treating each note as an image which should be rendered to the side of a particular part of the dynamically-flowed text will solve the problem.

I don't think this is true. Even without underlines, which are common in notes, people place their notes based on a combination of the layout of the page and their personal preferences. I don't think it's possible to know, given one layout and note placement, how to place the note in a new layout.

It is also worth saying that many historic uses of marginalia (for example, commentary on the Tanakh) are also associated with particular parts of the text and could not be laid out as you are describing without losing intended meaning.
It seems like there's a dispute of fact, whether this person was paying you or not: you say "You had a free account," and they say they were a paying customer.

I don't think "half a decade ago" is a reasonable time horizon after which to consider accusations of outright fraud irrelevant. If this person is telling the truth, then not only did you defraud them a few years ago, but you're lying about it now; this seems like an important thing for potential users of your new service to know about you. (Presumably your character has not changed much in the last five years, whether it was good or bad before.) If you're telling the truth, they're lying, presumably in order to hurt you.
They grow a Facebook page they can then use to push sponsored content, sell it off to the highest bidder or use it to brag about how they’re a successful content creator and sell a course on how to be as “successful” as them.
Same as Imgur. The current image hosting sites suck and you know you can do better

Then it works and you need to pay the bills

10 years later you sell it and some new guy makes one
I don't disagree that the vast majority of the activity derives more or less indirectly from price speculation of some sort. But the thing to note is that so much of it is done on-chain instead of on centralized exchanges which have comparatively negligible fees. At the very least this proves the technologies themselves as suitable platforms for speculation (vs simply being the target of speculation).

"Speculation platform" is already a big, legitimate and very popular use case (the importance, influence and appeal of Wall-Street in the US and the whole world is evidence of this).
Minecraft drives actual profits on consoles - you have to subscribe to play with your friends. Some of these consoles (XBox) are even directly owned by MS.

Github is a massive piece in the developer ecosystem. It drives adoption of other MS products that can integrate with it, and generates a lot of goodwill towards MS.

LinkedIn, eh, that's probably the weakest property. On the other hand, it's massive in the enterprise space - again lots of goodwill, this time from "suits", and maybe some cool metrics about hiring.
You mean some tough-ass gun owner is afraid of a pasty-faced college professor? Anybody messes with a gun owner, they'll know they made a mistake.
This is what I’d expect a bot to write if it was only trained on zlatan ibrahimovic comments.
I believe all targeted advertising where you wouldn’t want the ad running on the front page of the New York Times is immoral.
“…even if it does pass, that would only force the incoming Berlin city-state government to debate the proposal.”

Putting aside my views on the proposal itself, I think I can state with near 100% certainty that the city state government is not going to respect the will of the people in this instance.

The reason referendum results are always way more left wing than the policies of the city government is that while you can’t bribe the whole populace, you can certainly bribe any representative government.
1-1's are a cargo cult thing that someone decided was a Good Management Idea.
I mean... how would you do those things without talking and meeting?

Like, I get what you're saying, but I think it might be a little unproductive to consider all communication work as "not doing."
After he imploded later in his comedy career, I kind of wish I didn't remember him
Most likely they're worked on by someone else, and then the manager uses half of the next meeting to follow up on them.
how much time is typical for 1:1s? At my previous job I had around 30m/week, but at my current job I have 20m every 2 weeks. Not sure what's more common.
some type of ad network of data gathering company is behind it.

its pretty straight forward and easy to do. just promote one post to a certain targeted audience(say women only) then run another campaign targeting a specific region or an age group, now you have another dimension of data. Rinse and repeat a few times and you will have a decent data set that you can then cohort out and show targeted ads to on other ad networks. running tens of thousands of these campaigns will net you a lot of very useful data. since you are paying the platform to promote things, they don't care, its still revenue to them.

the folks behind some of these things seem to be doing pretty well at it too, at least, their social profiles show a very lux life.
Ozy, their investors/backers and surprisingly Goldman themselves all seemed to have gotten over the incident a little too casually. Google was the one who raised up a storm and got the FBI involved, despite not even really being part of the whole situation.
The Tobacco industry knew that their industry was doomed. It's coldly rational, if a bit sociopathic, to decide to extract maximum value from your industry before what you perceive as an inevitable decline at the expense of your customers health. The oil industry is in a similar situation now, IMO.

The private health care industry is not in such a situation. There is no guarantee that socialized healthcare is the future for America. But the more and more they attempt to extract from consumers per year, the more likely they make it that socialized medicine will happen here.
I found the copy hilarious, refreshing, and delightful.
If only we could expect the haunting to motivate change. The pressures that move CCP members are incredibly opaque.
This can be blocked easily in a variety of ways with forward proxy as well.

Google generally does not allow POST method for user-iniatiated queries, e.g., from HTML forms. However POST method is commonly used for tracking.

Using the web today with a "modern" browser and trying to exercise the slightest amount of control is like being in a Spy-vs-Spy MAD magazine comic strip.
Absolutely a thing. Our dedicated agile lead establishes and "runs" a 15-person standup, story refinements three days a week, a short S2 standup three days a week, sprint planning, product increment (three-sprint groupings) planning and pre-planning meetings, a demo and a retrospective and a standing "team lead AMA" every sprint, and handles setting up inter- and intra-team discussions when that need is expressed in standup or via slack. Also, they maintain "Program" section on our team wiki, set up story boards and pull team velocity metrics, and generally work full time doing all the things that I would be doing for these teams as a team lead, if they weren't there.

Having been without an agile lead for a couple months this summer, I'm acutely aware of how much they do, because they're often doing things that I was just letting drop on the floor as non-emergency.
Lately only the 8 GB models have been in stock at Micro Center, as well as a smattering of older models and a few Compute Module 4s.

Apparently this year's seen record demand, and even with a better supply chain, Raspberry Pi Trading's had a hard time keeping up [1].

[1] https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/08/20/raspberr...
... depending on the type of data.

Binary data in databases is usually not a great idea, but tolerable in low amounts.

I can't imagine storing images in a database, you're probably better off with a document store.

Relational Databases (well, the ones that I know the internals of) tend to have soft limits on row sizes, in PostgreSQL this is 8kb (which is very small for an image); to overcome this limitation Postgres uses what they call a TOAST table, which forces compression by default, which absolutely crumbles on binary data.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/storage-toast.html

But, if it works, I'm not complaining- and I'm very certain that other such sites have worse architectural flaws in the beginning- this one is pretty easy to overcome if it becomes an issue and can be alleviated with aggressive caching of CDNs/varnish to buy you time if there's immediate issues. :)
And if your answer isn't a random string of three words, you're a good mark.
I miss working in a company where the engineering managers mostly coded, and also did a bit of management.