skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem in cities is that as they get more expensive, it is harder for businesses like small restaurants or boutiques to afford rent and labor. They get replaced by larger chains with big economies of scale that can absorb those costs. You end up with the same chains in every city. Larger cities still may be the best, but the best stuff can often be found on the peripheries, not the expensive core.

Tyler Cowan makes a good case for dining at strip mall restaurants in the suburbs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/six-rul...
Isn’t this already one recursion level too deep? ;)
Yes, there was razor-thin margin for the Leave campaign, with massive lies being told, partially financed by Russia, and the younger generation generally opposed.

It makes travelling in the EU harder, let alone it risks upsetting the Ireland situation. You can expect an international audience to disapprove.
This is because businesses chronically underinvest in developer/engineering resources.

Developers tend to be viewed as something that is not "core" to the business, and generally only necessary on a project-by-project basis. So, projects are initiated, resource needs identified, and, since nobody wants to hire a bunch of full-time staff, most likely a consulting firm or off-the-shelf product is selected and configured.

The downside is now you have a thing that needs to be maintained, and probably it will be maintained by a limited pool of "in house experts", who are also responsible for just about everything else.

The net result is that you've got this centralized resource that is under provisioned and, well dear reader, what does your training as a systems engineer tells you will happen with a centralized resource that is under provisioned? Contention? Rising latencies and queue lengths? Disastrous to recover from failures?

You betcha.
1983 floppy user here. Small permanent and/or electromagnets would be driving the metal bell ringers of many telephones in those days. Don't store them under your telephone.

But floppies were always hanging out on and beside and behind computer monitors which, in those days, were exclusively CRTs like TVs. Perhaps don't store your floppies on top of the speakers on the family console TV.
> the world economy is changing faster than people can be educated

how can people learn if large parts of humanity's scientific and technological feedback/learning loops are commoditized and made artificially scarce by our economic system? especially now that we have digital technology available that could make the storing and transmitting of informational artifacts super cheap.

so i think neither of the two reasons you stated, but because we are living in a black box society. we are being forcefully disinherited by the propertied class.

knowledge laborers who get 2x median income have just been less victim to capitalist gatekeeping, since a few are needed to generate more intellectual property for the propertied class. [2]

[1] Aaron Swartz, Guerilla Open Access Manifesto: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...

[2] Wendy Liu, Gatekeeping in the tech industry: https://dellsystem.me/posts/fragments-50
Yes I came from GB to Germany a month ago and I can say that definitely the lockdown is basically over back there
Visidata is a great interactive tool. TV seems like it would be better when scripting, or in one-liners.
I'm a freelancer and not a "startup", and I had the impression this is true.

The less competition I had the less bullshit I had to put up with. Just "We want what you supply, how much do you want for it?" and that's it.
You can also write git hooks to turn their spaces into your tabs & vice versa.
> And what are the issues that make such technology not apt to see our landscape constellated with mini nuclear power plants?

Political ones, mostly. Though there certainly seem to be valid security/engineering concerns.
> In the case for instance that there is an out of stock, or you need to go to another picking location, the system re-calculates the required distance.

There have been reports from workers to the contrary.

I don't mean to refute your arguments. I'm just suggesting workers don't (or haven't) believe this to be the case.
That is unless, someone hires all the people that want to be infulencers to read ads to other people, in exchange for money.
Man.. TV is such a good name for a visualiser tool that it'd be excellent if it could pretty-print any content given to it.

Does your framework support the idea of pre-parsing the file's content and selecting an appropriate renderer, or is it fairly tied to CSVs?
Maybe if you don't fill a team with nine juniors that have no mentors, you don't get this problem?

It's not like FAANG isn't hiring boatloads of new grads every year. Why don't those people need scrum to get on the right track, but half the rest of the industry seems to?
The problem is that many corporations were allowed to amass unimaginable wealth through loopholes and corruption and they can now use that money to keep themselves above the law and also teasing subsequent administrations with censorship of opposing views. This situation is going to be impossible to resolve, as people will be manipulated to not vote for an option that will dissolve these corporations or significantly curb their influence (and make them pay back taxes).
> The success of companies and project management approaches is not always correlated

Glad to see the author admit this... unfortunately most scrum cultists can't believe this can be the case.
There’s this image that big tech teams build software where everything is automated and has 100% test coverage and all the infrastructure heals itself and all teams are hyper efficient. It’s not really true, the biggest shared practice between big tech is letting the team’s manager pick whatever methodology works best for them.

The big tech version of scrum is just sprints, stand ups and shipping often. There’s still a waterfall process, mounting technical debt, huge backlogs where everything is high priority, and over committing to slipping deadlines.

I think people should think twice before looking at big tech as the place to learn good management practices from.
The French government is massively subsidizing conversions from oil or gas furnaces to heat pumps, and their electricity is majority nuclear.
Obviously, I agree. I presume part of it is that the platforms REALLY don't want your app to take over the SMS.
When I was using it i quite liked it. Speed was not great, but custom workflows for Jira worked nicely and confluence was fine.
Operation Sea-Spray (biological warfare)
I definitely sense a smug air of "this is all your fault and you deserve every ounce of pain for leaving. Let that be a lesson to you!"
> They don't just grow on trees,

Reminiscent of Teresa May's "magic money tree" comment
Your claim that "there is no shortage of drivers" according to "everyone in the industry" is incorrect. From [0]:

BP blamed the restrictions on “delays in the supply change which has been impact by the industry-wide driver shortages across the UK”.

Tesco said it had “experienced temporary supply issues caused by driver absences in recent days”, adding: “We expect the situation to improve in the next week and apologise to our customers for any inconvenience caused.”

[0] https://inews.co.uk/news/hgv-driver-shortage-bp-to-start-rat...
no problem. And even if they are not PE owned now, the current owners may very well be eyeing a sale to those sorts in the future and already running that playbook.

Good luck!
This looks great.

How well does it handle the edge cases of CSV, like escaped commas, quoted text, escaped quotes, and all that fun, fun stuff?
I will sometimes give an estimate in multiple ways -- "This takes about four weeks for the engineering work, but unless we remove all other priorities it will take about 3 months to complete."

A lot of the time when you are working the delays aren't just the uncertainty of an individual task; it's that you're working on several projects at once, you're attending meetings, etc, so that you might only average 2 hours / day working on a particular task or you might not be able to start a task for several weeks (depending on whether you work sequentially or in parallel).

You still need a realistic, achievable estimate for that first time, in case management calls your bluff, but distinguishing between "the amount of effort this will take" and "how long it will be before it is complete" can help set realistic expectations while making it harder for management to mistakenly think you need two months to complete a task that could be done in two weeks.
My team doesn't really argue about points next to each other (on the Fibonacci scale) anymore, we just pick by majority and move on.

The conversation is meaningful when it's about 3 vs 8 because exactly as you say, there probably is some hidden complexity not everyone knows about, or sometimes some work has already been done or there's a framework feature that makes it easier than it seems.

But 2 vs 3 or 5 vs 8... this is explicitly designed to be an imprecise number, so let's not waste our time debating which one to choose.
It's amazing how infantilized this industry has become during my short 10 year career. I'm so thankful I switched to product and don't have to deal with this BS anymore.
Well, I can't choose for you or your peers, but you can say to them those who have looked into it, think iMessage is a security nightmare and there are better options that help you all sleep better at night.

It's not that Telegram started being good, it's that the experts felt it was so bad they decided it was for the public good to give pro bono advice on the topic and didn't feel too strongly about advocating wrt the matter ever since, aside occasional social media chuckles when more vulnerabilities in Telegram have been revealed.

Sure, all messaging apps have problems, bugs, and issues, but with some there's clearly more effort in building a foundation that's not accumulating technical debt like there's no tomorrow. If Telegram suddenly wanted to enable E2EE, they'd have to start from the ground up. You can't glue E2EE on top. So when you look into the software engineering aspect, you're inclined to look into how the product was made, and the design rationale. None of that holds water for Telegram. What you get is something that on paper looks exactly like FB Messenger, and a bunch of promises to never abuse the access to the insane amounts of private data that accumulates.

I've been looking to secure messaging for a decade now and Signal's by far the best option right now. Threema is pretty good, and Element's getting there, although it needs more time to mature. You were already using Signal, abandoning it wasn't perhaps the smartest thing to do: Downtime is of course very unfortunate, but I've had more outages with Telegram than with Signal. Also, again, it's easy to fix a broken window, much less easy to rebuild due to rotten foundation.
Given these points (and point #2 in particular), I'm certain that project management using Google Drive + Google Sheets + Google Docs (or whatever cloud based office tooling you prefer) would be far more productive and cost effective than what Atlassian is selling.
Of course, hence my use of the word, "all". :)
I'm sorry but you can't know that. The vast majority of people had probably made their decision before the messaging kicked in. Also you can claim the same the other way. The only reason people voted to remain is because of the scare of no drinking water, no medicines, fear of an instant market crash etc. Both sides can and were manipulated to some extent by false messaging that never came to be, but certainly not everyone voted the way they did as a result of that messaging.
> These days, mandatory Scrum is a contra-indicator for any project that crosses my path as a freelancer.

Yes! Although I don't agree that Agile is a good idea that scrum ruined.
Really reassuring to see every party to the dispute displaying so much integrity and good faith
Is there any way to get lighting wallets on iOS?

Gave up after first attempt:
https://breez.technology/

Leads to empty TestFlight
You might be the second person to run into this. Just to confirm, you were using T3 instances?

(BTW I have a Patreon for anyone who wants to contribute to my FreeBSD/EC2 work or can convince their employers to: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva )
Please keep in mind that this video shows a transfer from one Strike account to another. Is the value backed by Bitcoin? Sure, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt (though the temptation has got to be there to maintain a fractional reserve). But Strike owned the coins before and after the transaction, so it's hard for me to be impressed. How is this different from Venmo, apart from being denominated in BTC?
I seriously doubt this claim 'Literally everyone I spoke to who voted for Brexit did so entirely on the lies' - that seems to be a coping mechanism for anybody on the opposite side of a debate.

If I had voted remain you could say I had done so on lies if my motivation was to prevent house prices dropping by 18% [1] - where as actually they have moved about 18% higher [2]. There were no specific claims about removing foreigners, only the factually accurate statement that we could move to a points based immigration system if we wanted to.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/20/eu-referend...
[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/housing-index
I hate packaging. It frustrates me so much that I don't buy my two favorite Japanese candies because I refuse to throw out so much trash just for one of those (admittedly amazing) kiwi gummies that most of you are probably familiar with.

But I have the same issue with buying starbursts, hi-chew, jolly ranchers... I only buy candy if it's not individually wrapped. I just can't.
We've kept them because they link well and through to GitHub, and you can generate decent regulatory documentation through querying Jira, which we need to do.
Have a buddy with multiple 50 gallon "drums" he fills up with gas anytime he even suspects that gas price is going to go up.

Sounds like a lot of work to maybe save $50, but hey... mostly fun and games (unless you barn catches fire).
not the world, just your team or company or project. Some tools are better suited than others depending on the team/company/project.

But yep you’ve gotta have just one, more and the network effects break down rapidly - at which point it’s no longer a useful tool.
Anecdata, but a number of people in the online guitar group I'm in report that their iDevice can't really hear their bass guitar. My iPad Pro can, indeed, hear my bass fairly well, but I don't use it for recording the bass (long story).

The microphone is, as I understand it, optimized for voice communication, since its main original job is to be a telephone.
I think hedberg10 and all these 'fuck off' advice guys have a point. It's just really hard to achieve that.

Don't take this wrong, but I noticed that your last paragraph could've been one of mine, and that it reads like defeatism (which I admit I practice a lot). It's a bad habit to have, and I'm struggling to get rid of mine.

It's that habit that makes me not want to start going into the gym in the first place to fix my body and my daily routine. That habit makes me think that gyms are full of people, commuting sucks, it takes time out of my already full schedule and because it takes years to get a perfect body it's not going to fix my daily life now, so why bother?

I've been trying to fix my productivity for a while and this realization of my self-defeatism inspired me to actually go jog after I post this comment. And for what it's worth, if it does not work, at least I've tried it.

Hopefully this can act as a mirror for you as well, as your comment acted for me. Good luck getting your emotions in shape.
A lot of places are looking for new people (even remotely), don't stay in a place that makes you miserable. You don't have to suffer for other peoples mismanagement.
Thanks! Found some other interesting posts over there as well
Mexican YouTube influencers are starting their own cell phone services
This. You can recognize the agile cult members by how they respond to failed projects. No matter why they project failed they always say "we need to be more agile next time".
> My current job is the opposite. Some tasks take 15 minutes of discussion (no, they aren't complex tasks) with people debating whether it is worth 5 points or 8. It is just tiring and pointless.

That was my last gig. The whole organization eventually just collapsed under the increasing load of being "Agile".
I thought this article was about a new way of understanding actual televisions
... that's usually the people that try to bring this stuff in...
In order to reduce complexity in the main project, can’t you separate freetype into a tool that caches fonts as bitmap glyphmaps, and use the glyphmaps directly? That way, the editor itself doesn’t need to worry about that.
Cars have advantages that a clear majority of drivers, wannabe drivers, and economists would tell you about - driving to work, for pleasure, shopping, giving freedom etc. Motoring deaths per US inhabitant per year is 0.01%

It's very hard to claim that Instagram has anything close to same number of advantage as motoring
New NASA satellite to continue half a century of changing Earth observations
Everyone is correct in this thread. The stimulation of discussion is useful, and numbers are arbitrary.

Instead of worrying about 5 vs 8 though, the team should be discussing relative difficulty: is story B easier/more difficult/complex than story A? And then ranking stories based on the relative difficulty of each other.

Story points can then be derived based on that ranking, if the team chooses. They're useful for being applied to velocity calculation, and also helpful when picking up a story to work on (maybe a bad idea to start an 8 pointer on a Friday).

(I have a SM cert, working as a TPM. I applying Agile principles to teams, but modified to how they want to work and be most effective. No militant Scrum here.)
> quality evaluation is not something that can be boiled down to quantitative measurement.

It can be, but the question then is should it be? And is that a safe and humane relationship between employers and employees?

If Amazon could get away with it, they would probably do worse; but the role of regulation in this regard is to represent the employees. In the absence of a strong union, the employees rely on the government to push back against the unreasonable demands of employers on their employees. The entire use of an algo is a larger move in sidestepping previous regulations.
Sometimes importance is related to size. Points are arbitrary, but lets assume that on average a developer will work the entire sprint on an 8 point task. The PM might decide that feature is not worth the time investment in that sprint, if they could instead get 2 smaller features out the door, or some bug fixed - they might prefer to deliver that to stakeholders.

That's why there's even a velocity expressed in points, like the tasks - it's the PM's budget to work with. So 5 points or 8 doesn't change the work you have to do as an engineer, but it changes the number of things a PM will put on the team's plate in the next sprint, and the points force them to make trade-offs, otherwise they'll insist that the bug, the small feature and the large feature are all high priority and have to be delivered in the next sprint.

I'm not justifying the 15 minute time investment for sizing, that is clearly way too much time, I'm only highlighting that in scrum, as an engineer, you don't necessarily know or decide what the next most important thing to work on is. That's the PM's job.
Making Letters to a New Developer with Dan Moore [audio]
I had some free time so I thought I'd revive a blog post that made me join HN. All HN front page posts since 2014 have been fed into a Markov Chain (code from @gamegoblin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815282) and the results are displayed on the same page. Nothing much to it but it gave me some good giggles.
The stack is vanilla JS, Python w/FastAPI & Nomad.
I helped a friend to land a programming job. He was smart but he had a harsh life.
There are also product managers and UX engineers. It's not like every random coder is interacting with sales on the go to market strategy.
Oh yes, the ETA should always be significantly higher than the work estimate. I sometimes say I work in my sleep.
I’m one of these hypothetical gatekeepers and would be thrilled if a dev could successfully take this off my plate. Just prioritizing the incoming requests from stakeholders is a full-time job.
... except there's also news reports everywhere of an energy crisis in Europe too? Also maybe Asia as well.

I've been trying to read into the causes and dont feel like I've come to understand it any better. I'm tempted to see it as part of the broader supply chain crisis but I get the impression its a little different.

Then again I'm not sure I understand why the broader supply chain disruption is as pervasive as it is at this point in time.
Guru does this. Full disclosure I work for Guru. It's pretty interesting working for a knowledge management company and seeing this topic on the front page, then reading the comments describing exactly what we are working on.
Anecdata, but in my experience most normal people (i.e. not extremely politically engaged) understand they're usually choosing between imperfect (often even less-bad) options. I don't get the sense that there's a ton of cognitive dissonance required until you get into the Very Online subset of people for whom politics is their life.

I think where the phenomenon you describe is extremely visible is in elected officials, especially at the federal level. You see an example now with Liz Cheney, who is in the process of transforming from a fairly generic Republican into a fairly generic Democrat as her political incentives change. The same can be observed going the other way with JD Vance moving from generic institutional Republican into post-liberal Trumpist (though perhaps the signs were there for those with eyes to see). The question then is whether the convictions were real or merely convenient.
Correct. It can be part of a cocktail of treatments so there is no opportunity cost either. But it seems like monoclonal antibodies are the best option if one must choose. Ivermectin has not been too impressive in recent research. But research has gone stupid over politics this past year so it’s hard to trust the so called experts at this point. Even if the research is good things are spun by medical pundits with ego in the game.
Awesome, thanks! TIL.
I'm sure we'll all shed a tear because 'brenda #fbpeu' had to queue up for some petrol she didn't need.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to equate reddit with other EU member states.

As an EU citizen I’m sorry that UK left. And I do hope that things will not get much worse in the UK, though I fear they might.

I do think that brexit is the biggest self-inflicted harm a country has voluntarily done to itself in a really long time.
I'd be leaving, too, if I'd spent Christmas stranded on an airfield. https://jalopnik.com/uk-airfield-becomes-worlds-largest-truc...
At the last large traditional place I was at it seemed a lot like the upper management types had put these gatekeepers in place so they had people that would pander to them. The amount of times one of them told me they couldn't tell their boss some bad news for risk of getting fired or chewed out, but wouldn't let me go and tell them the truth was mad.

From what I could tell no-one was firing engineers because it was too expensive and we didn't really care since we could get more work within a few hours, and the "bosses" didn't like the lack of power they had in that dynamic.