skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Skype is an example of Scrum done well, perhaps that explains why Skype has been very unreliable from and end user perspective for 5+ years... the kind of unreliable where more than half of the outgoing calls are met with instant "So-and-so-contact is not available." responses [edit, added: failure responses so quick that you know the contact was never called, and the problem was within your client app or the Skype systems. Different computers in different locations behaved the same.]

Maybe they were missing what I noticed missing from my last Scrum-focused company: view and attention from the higher altitudes.

Scrum makes it easy to break down features and problems into nice little pieces which can be done within one sprint (often in one day). That is a win in many ways, but it doesn't encourage higher level reviews, refactoring, etc. It's the problem of not seeing the forest for the trees.

Of course you can intentionally create epics for these kinds of reviews, but those don't have a good short-term return value for time spent. And so, they get inadvertently or intentionally postponed. Eventually the system is complex and messy, few people understand the system in entirety, and the easiest Scrummy solution is a re-write.

For me, Scrum was a straightjacket, a hundred NOs against my creativity and my attention to broader concerns. There are times when you are implementing a simple ticket, but you keep touching things that need attention... or you see how the entire system has become convoluted, and you see a better way. To do it the right way either means creating new epics and tickets, debating those with product owners who don't understand the value, and generally NOT solving the real problem.
Remotion 2.4: Preview redesign and GUI helpers
Two questions.

Are the algorithms necessarily explainable? It seems to me that over time, the all-seeing eye will have a logic that no human really groks.

How is this different from surveillance and grading in any other company or profession? As the cost of spying on your employees drops to zero, I would expect this everywhere. Physical injuries are only one aspect.
Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery after extinction
Show HN: Secure Video Hosting for Creators
Tests were run beforehand. Just not the right test.
Godot Engine – Introducing GDNative's Successor, GDExtension
This enlarges Twitter from a social platform to a payment gateway. I didn't get it until I watched this video that shows a near-instant money transfer from Chicago to El Salvador, calling it a "Western Union killer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByPewKAiZA

Beyond huge for the diaspora sending money back home. Bitcoin's volatility is a problem, but widespread adoption (or adding a stablecoin/altcoin) would mitigate that issue.
Their reliability is absolutely blowing everyone out of the water......
if only there was already a payment system in existence that didn’t require trash crypto over engineering. Oh wait
Russian boots on the moon when?
Maybe, just maybe, in the battle between a billion dollar marketing and addiction machine staffed by world brightest minds vs a teenage brain, teenage brain looses. Probably adult brain looses too.

We dont expect everyday joe to fight a heavyweight chamption, or defend himself in court.

Some changes are needed.
These things are tools to be used. If you use focus on the tool and not the end user, things will go badly. Typically you will see teams that are very hyper focused on some particular metric (time, points, stories churned, etc). Yet not focusing on 'how do I get my customer what they need'. These tools help devs break down the tasks and tell the end users 'hey we only have this amount of time so focus!' If they become about metrics or just randomly skip steps that depend on each other, you will fail.
That's why you turn AVs off either completely or at least exclude your own code folder. It wont ever do anything useful and worse even I had it delete/quarantine my own binaries in the past because it somehow got triggered. Also by default it happily uploads all you debug exe files to MS and executes them in their sandbox environment. Absolutely unwanted behavior if you ask me.
Just read this book [0], sure the Chinese are doing it too now, they read the book, the EU as well probably.

I think it would be good to have good relations with Russia, "where goods cross borders, armies do not."

There are probably a lot of nice people living in Russia, and I bet they love their children too.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
Take the (rhetorical) question in context. The claim was that "Everything XML wanted to be, JSON did better." Of course it can be _done_. The point to defend is that doing it like this in JSON is _better_.

It's self-evident that XML is better for the mixed content problem (which makes sense, given that mixed content is something that it was consciously designed for). Anyone arguing otherwise is, ironically, approaching the issue by narrowly considering only the things that JSON is good for and then evaluating XML against that—e.g. without it ever occurring to them that they should consider mixed content, as in the example given—or they're deluding themselves/being dishonest.
Tensorflow (and by extension Keras) offload most of the actual work to C++ or C, so having those compile to WebAssembly would (I imagine) be a herculean effort.

Instead, The TF team maintains TFJS, which can run on WebAssembly[0].

There are also tractjs[1], and onnyxjs[2], both of which allow you to run (most) ONNX models (which is an open standard for specifying ML models) using WebAssembly and WebGL(only onnyxjs supports WebGL). A bunch of frameworks (caffe, pytorch, TF) support exporting to/importing from ONNX.

[0] https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/03/introducing-webassembly-...

[1] https://github.com/bminixhofer/tractjs

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/onnxjs
They can only do this one time.

AFAIK they do not have a history of doing this, only when terms of actual gas deals are not met. Which is common business sense.

edit: you are downplaying US influence. Are you aware The Netherlands is a host for US nuclear weapons?
Implicitly indicated compression is also a "feature" of LZJB which we've used for firmware update files. Figuring out what was going on and fixing the issue when a bootloader suddenly started rejecting new firmware updates was interesting and annoying.

The updates were processed in chunks, and rarely a chunk doesn't compress at all - which means that it took a long time before it happened the first time. Always fun to find issues with code that has "always" worked and suddenly doesn't any longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZJB
I had an overall good time working an entry level job with a quota in the Bay Area, that is to say with very smart mostly young folks. The model was clear when I paid attention to how the numbers changed. Our app showed us a velocity metric in real time. Little doubt it was gamed by supervisors and smart employees alike. Some activities pushed the metric up fast, while others chipped it down quick. Pressing buttons in the app faster gave me the biggest performance boost. There were about 3 phases to the job and one gave basically no credit and another was at the whim of customers not keeping us waiting (or their predicted arrival not being too optimistic). I never worried about the metric because I had a detailed enough account that I could defend myself. I left the job for others reasons, overall was happy with it... being a manual job done mostly solo it just gave me time to think a lot. Glad for the workers who are subject to the metrics still because it was indeed a pretty bad feeling to see metrics drop and rise so fast for certain activities and know we could have problems because of it.
Is biweekly twice a week or every two weeks? My previous gig had grooming/internal grooming every week. We had stand ups twice a week (biweekly). Almost all of these meetings were relatively worthless imo. They existed to justify a BA's position and "track velocity".
> Sure you do.

I mean, I'm not sure what your point is. This is absolutely a key problem that newspapers have; on the one hand, no-one wants a news environment where newspapers just publish press releases, but on the other hand most people don't want a repeat of the News of the World scandal either. Newspapers have to tread a fine ethical line on just how involuntarily disclosed information can or should be used.

Clearly, an environment where newspapers _never_ reported on leaks or hacks would be a problem; realistically they'd just be press release services at that point. On the other hand, an environment where newspapers uncritically published every leak and hack would _also_ be a problem; this would cause a lot of problems and would, frankly, be such a huge volume of information that it would be useless. They _have_ to editorialise.
"The Army has a $95 million contract to foam up to nine million square feet of building space in Iraq, of which about 60 percent has been completed. The Army also let a $29 million contract to foam structures in Afghanistan. So far, 150,000 square feet have been foamed. It takes a mere 26 days to recoup the costs of the foaming through the fuel savings."
https://www.army.mil/article/20777/army_saves_fuel_and_lives...
I have to push back a bit. Internet research only gets you so far and can be quite difficult. In the best cases, we were able to get into from our vendors that wasn't normally accessible to the public. And even without that, customers were happy to have someone who could answer their questions directly. Even when we had to look something up, they often appreciated that we were more familiar with the relevant terms needed to find the information they were seeking.

Occasionally, a customer who was very knowledgable would come in; it was 50/50 whether they were someone we could accommodate by skipping past technical advice and focusing on inventory ("Is it in stock at the sister store?"), services, and deal-making. The other 50% were, frankly, assholes who definitely should just be buying possible counterfeits off Amazon. Sorry that we don't have time to research the differences between two high-end receivers that we'd have to special order anyway; for every one of your exceptionally rare requests, there are dozens of customers who need us to walk them through troubleshooting a basic system set-up (where components can be from one of a dozen different companies), so that's where the energy is going.

Best Buy functioned most effectively as a sort of library-esque community center where residents could receive basic tech assistance across a wide range of microprocessor-driven products (which we would then sell you); something similar goes for much of retail. Workers are conscientious, but there is a limit to the advice the structure can afford to give for free.

You wouldn't walk into a grocery store and expect the butcher to be able to walk you through preparing a sous vide steak with white wine sauce or whatever; they could point out what cut would work best, but beyond that, you'd hire someone to teach you.
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My favorite thing about podcasting is that it's largely non-mediated. With the exception of the insertion of ads in some podcasts, what I hear is what the podcaster intended to say and there is largely no algorithmic timeline style sorting or other mediation. Podcasts win by having content that interests someone, not by gaming algorithms.

I sincerely hope that these "podcasting 2.0" efforts fail. It's one of the few remaining parts of the Internet ecosystem that has not been ruined by gamified social media.
Like some slightly cryptically worded sentence as "this page intentionally left blank", you mean? You may be onto something! Quick, apply to IBM.
You can tweak the power limit settings for your application. In many cases you can drop the power consumption (and heat generated) while still maintaining > 90% performance but this will depend on your actual use case [0].

In my experience for many models you can reduce the power limit even further than what has been tested in this guide while barely impacting performance.

[0] https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...
You can “care” and be incapable.
> In my experience, you will always spend the time.

not in mine, but I've seen a fair amount of very one-off, time-limited projects (the shortest being a client calling a morning for a very simple customized video playback app needed for that very evening, and a lot of it being only needed for a few months)
I've been finding this approach incredibly useful too with teams and trying to manage the needs and concerns of business vs product vs engineering. I quite liked how it's described here: https://spin.atomicobject.com/2009/01/14/making-better-estim...
Well put, thanks. Also, (I know I'm possibly jinxing it by writing it out loud) we currently have a pretty decent crash-free rate, thus, there weren't that many (fatal) issues to choose from :)
I can understand the need for a multiplier as a lot of estimates are based on (a)working continuously and (b)nothing going wrong.

My best estimates were more along the lines of 'how long did this take last time' and then building a schedule by subdividing that.
> Apple’s site is showing ~$250 for a screen replacement (a little more or less depending on the model).

Can you link to this please? I cannot find it.
Prejudice is superstition, paradolia, and statistical undue weight fallacies like "one black person mugged me once, therefore from a sample size of one I am concluding that blacks are criminals."
They do claim to know your age to target ads, so what gives? Either it doesnt work or they don't care
I think it should be the parents responsibility. If we let social media determine what is acceptable for all children it is guaranteed that the bar will be too low for many and too high for many others. Parents should be the final say in what is right for their kids. Kids develop at vastly varying rates. Not absolving themselves of liability implies that they are making decisions in a vacuum that parents should be making themselves.

But like you said, most parents don't understand the risks. That's why social media should be forced to perform studies on the risks associated with their products and make those studies public. Then, when you use a device for the first time it should show you in plain language - like a new user signing into Windows ("Hi, we're getting everything ready for you...") - where to find that information.

When a single change of code can instantly impact millions of children (or anyone really) the stakes for the public are high enough that the public deserves transparency. If nothing else to ensure that Instagram is making decisions backed by due diligence.
This article did not live up to the promise of its headline. I stopped reading part way through the meandering generalizations (with no references or citations) before I got to the main thesis.
Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain
First two paragraphs - amazing. Gives me hope for future generations!

Last paragraph - what? Why would I want to stifle this?
There is an SQLite compression and encryption "add-on" which seems to do what you want. Check the official website.
Hint: You have to buy a license to use it legally.
Ask HN: How do you use a whiteboard to plan your code?
I've helped some friends learn how to get into tech who now make a great living and enjoy their jobs.

I consider that among my greatest accomplishments.
I don't think this is true. First, as others have pointed out, you can absolutely do a full day of manual labour. I've done this myself before. The hardest day of my life was unloading 12 kitchens from the back of lorries and moving them across a muddy building site. I woke up at 6:00, got home at 18:00 and slept the instant I hit the sheets.

Secondly, we do work for more than 4 hours a day. In fact, I work in my sleep. The brain doesn't just shut off. The reason you can't just "keep going" at the keyboard for more than 4 hours is your hands are faster than your brain. But the brain doesn't stop. It keeps crunching away. Every morning I find myself with new insights and new ideas that I didn't have the day before. I'm not just being paid for the hours I spend bashing away at the keyboard, I'm being paid to engage my brain with the business.
I’ve worked at a couple big tech companies and one scrum. Notable differences, much less ceremonies, planning is also more up front with deviation allowed but not needing additional planning, and ticketing being optional thing that varies by team.

I do not usually track my current task with a ticket or story. I have once week meeting with my team to discuss what I did last week and what I’ll work on next week. There is no 2 week sprint/constant stand ups/individual ticket estimates/retro. A typical plan is for a project that will take a month on short side or 2 quarters on long side. Deadlines tend to be soft with it culturally accepted that most deadlines are rough estimates and a week or two so deviation being fine. Process feels very light for me and I’m pretty happy with that.
I know many companies running SAFe on the east coast and it’s generally an improvement across the board from everybody I talk to. The only problems I’ve seen are from 2 camps: the people who don’t want to have to plan anything and the people who want everything that is planned to be 100% accurate and not a best guess. Either of these two groups will cause problems to a process like this with the latter usually being in some type of leadership role.

SAFe consultants or not, it’s still up to your company leadership to implement it. A lot of SAFe consultants I have talked to try to advocate for things that follow Scrum because many teams are already familiar with it. This is honestly one of the biggest issues that I have found with the teaching.

80% of SAFe is based on Donald Reniertson’s “2nd Generation Lean Product Development” book, which is fantastic. Once you’ve read that it’s easy to spot the differences.
Supply of gas isn't endangered currently, on the contrary. There are parties competing to sell ressources.

What drives energy prices in central Europe are investments in changing the infrastructure to renewable. Yes, that isn't cheap. But not really a crisis in the common sense. Some people would like to see the gas prices inflated perhaps.
Being ISV I do not do SCRUM but I did see the examples of it at couple of my clients and did sit on few SCRUM meetings there (never again). My impression was that is is nothing but feel good tool for managers to cover their asses.
Yeah, I learned this one watching Soylent, the meal-replacement drink: everyone was talking about it, saying how awful the name was. It clearly wasn't a bad name, though, because it made everyone talk about it, and nobody actually mistook the real product for the fictional namesake.
Yea, I don't see the complaint here. It's part of my job to let whomever the client may be that what they're doing may be a bad use of resources (typically in a documented email in a very positive tone with lots of "decision makers" on the email, also with a nice lead in explanation as to a way it could be efficient under some set of circumstances so they can copy paste that as their "well we weren't sure" pathway forward).

After that, I really really don't care anymore, that's someone else's problem. I've played that soapbox and it's a waste of my time and energy. I make sure responsibility is passed back, documented and proceed. If you want to throw hundreds of thousands or millions at me and whomever to some wasteful request, go for it. You have the option, you've been warned, and I've given you a valid excuse to proceed with high risk, high uncertainty of ROI option with everyone important involved.

I do a lot of contractual/consulting work so even warning can mean early termination of work forward, so I'm taking a risk even informing you (some people actually listen and work stops early during consulting time and development follow up never occurs, these are the smart people and they're bad for my livelihood)--I could just do whatever you ask and get paid. If I were salaried, there's even less risk of me losing income forward by informing so I say in those cases just do your professional due diligence go let people know it's a bad idea without creating political land mines for anyone, then allow them to step on land mines at their own discretion.
I can see your words are amicable but drawing an equivalence of wrongdoing to another wrongdoer does not exonerate the former (Russia).
Textadept[1] is also quite nice, and configured (but not written) in lua. It seems to work fine in MacOS, but I haven't used it extensively.

[1] https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
No, I want to be able to represent myself as authoritatively as the guy who proclaims to be “scrum certified,” as though scrum is so valuable as to have a certification.
Why Understanding Is Impossible
NPR is just referencing a quote from someone in a book. Not saying NPR is untrustworthy, just that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
> Surely paper mills have or will turned back on, esp considering the raw commodity prices have dropped.

It's hard to resurrect industries that have closed shop. The staff (without whose experience you can't make it work anyway) will have left towards retirement, other employment or have migrated away entirely, the supplier relationships need time to re-establish (particularly if the industry in question was the sole or biggest client), and often enough at least the equipment and sometimes even the buildings / real estate will have been sold away to the cheapest bidder (aka, China).

And everyone knows that the crunch will be sort of temporary, so why go through the trouble of dealing with all of the above when there are no guarantees that the government or someone else will keep the investment above water once the crunch passes?
I think they mean when your retro board has a theme; I've seen various themes applied successfully i.e. sailboat:https://metroretro.io/templates/the-sailboat-retrospective
It always makes me sad to see these beautiful ideas to use technology to bring about a better life for everyone squashed by ineptitude and greed of bureaucracy.

In their view, it was the Bulgarian worker rather than the system that was to blame—shirking responsibilities, pilfering the petty change, and sleeping on the job.

It's amazing how similar this is to capitalist thinking. Guess it doesn't matter if the people are exploited by private owners or the state.