skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, Scrum is a sad story about how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Scrum does have a lot of processes and artifacts and things to measure. They all had a decent purpose: to give the product and project managers (Product Owner and Scrum Manager in Scrum parlance) information that allowed them to do their jobs more effectively. Story points and velocity estimates were supposed to drive decisions about what to build and when by giving the product manager some sort of signal they could use to decide things like, "Let's skip this feature; it's going to cost more than it's worth," or, "Let's push this bit a few weeks forward in the schedule, because it's looking like it's bigger and more likely to go quagmire on us than I had been hoping."

There was supposed to be an understanding that generating this signal would reduce the speed at which the development team could churn out features. (Of course it would; that time spent playing planning poker had to be taken from somewhere.) But this was understood to be worthwhile in the long run, in a, "Work smarter, not harder," sort of way.

On paper, it seems like a pretty good idea. The critical flaw, I think, is that, when you take a system that produces all those numbers, and even do something boneheaded like name one of them "velocity", and then drop that in the middle of a crowd of people who went to business school and have had heavily indoctrinated into Taylorist ways of thinking, well, it's like a will-o-the-wisp to them. They'll see something that looks bright and shiny, and follow it straight into deepest part of the swamp. And, since they're the manager, they'll be able to drag the whole team, or even the whole company, along with them when they do.

Years ago, I had an interesting "A Tale of Two Scrums" experience. I was on a product team that had been doing Scrum as their own internal thing for years. Quite successfully, too, everyone was happy, it was possibly the highest morale team I've ever been on. But then senior management decided they wanted the company to go Agile. So they brought in $FAMOUS_AGILE_CONSULTANT to deliver a week of workshops which was mandatory for all the developers and skipped by all the managers, including product managers. And then we had this very top-down, Taylorist, how-much-blood-can-we-squeeze-from-this-stone brand of Scrum rammed down our throats from above. Half the team left the company within 2 years. I found later that, not too long after I left, the company had subsequently divested of the product I worked on. While I was there, it was the market leader and cash cow.

Long story short, there's Scrum, and then there's Scrum. I can't tell you how much I loved doing Scrum, but I also can't tell you how much I hated doing Scrum.
Non-technical people do weird things.
What is there to research? I said what a bad faith argument is for (banning trolls) and why it is necessary (trolls are poison). This addresses the post I responded to in it's entirety.
It sounds like a machine jumbled up the structural elements of his other symphonies and spit pieces of them out. I hear the famous four-note leitmotif from the 5th symphony's 1st movement; there are the triplet rhythms and timpani from the 9th symphony's 2nd movement; there are the textures from the 3rd symphony's 1st movement.

Not sure what's going on with the brass starting at 1:30 (maybe that's a separate section stitched together for the sample?)

As an intellectual exercise it's interesting enough, I guess, but I don't hear any inspiration here.
Code hasn’t been law for “defi” since Ethereum reverted the DAO hack in 2016. Then the DAO went defunct later that year anyway!
That is a failure of Xbox in my opinion. Games are 100gb these days. Massive. My monthly bandwidth is line 400gb. That is pretty common in Canada. We can’t afford to download all the games, again. There should be a local transfer of games done over wifi. It should be made easy.
Exactly what I was trying to get across. The protected term is meaningless even if enforced, it seems to me, because there are no "reserved tasks," as you say.

It's bit like... being able to practice law as long as you don't call yourself a lawyer. You're a legal assistant instead. In a similar fashion developers are practising software engineering without calling themselves, "engineers."

I don't think we all need to be licensed in order to work -- but companies should be required to hire X number of licensed engineers per Y number of developers. They should be required to pay for the liability insurance to hire those licensed engineers. And there should be repercussions if the company goes against the engineers' direction.
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How does this work with inflation? Like you have to put your money somewhere that’s appreciating at at least the rate of inflation or you’re losing money.
I can't see the downside in affecting the financial wellbeing of the wealthy and powerful.
Ask HN: Donating to the mobile open source community – most impactful projects?
We owe much to the open source community and now it's more important than ever to keep developing it further.

Let's say we're creating a portfolio of projects we'd like to donate to that will have the biggest impact on the mobile open source community.

You can choose the impact vector of your picks to maximize the portfolio for general impact, number of future users, security, privacy - whatever, up to you.

1) Which projects would the portfolio consist of.
2) How much (% wise) would you donate to each.
3) Short and sweet rationale behind each project or the overall portfolio.

Example:

1) F-Droid, Graphene OS, Briar.
2) 33%, 33%, 33%.
3) Without secure & open source OS, app store and basic communication app we have no viable alternative that is ACTUALLY usable in the real world - the harder it will be for people to transition - the lower the number of people using open source will be. (maximizing for number of future users)

I'm all ears,
cheers.
A pedestrian will never actually get into the "hard parts" of a car even on an old car. But the "soft" internal bodywork that holds the radiator, headlights and front sheet-metal are more than enough to cause bad injuries.

You're exactly correct that all that empty plastic in the top front of modern cars and crossovers is there to protect pedestrians (hood designs have been revised to facilitate this as well).
It's definitely a difficult balance to strike, to provide guardrails for diverse groups of individuals, that ensure everyone can behave and be treated civilly.

I applaud you for your ability to stand up for yourself in moments of discomfort or where you feel others are being mistreated. Unfortunately, not everyone is as confident or as self-advocating as you, and a CoC can help protect those who are more likely to weather abuse in silence. Codes of Conduct serve several critical roles in large community gatherings but specifically they are a method for an event organizer to set expectations for acceptable behavior, this serves to:

1. Signal to attendees the atmosphere of inclusivity and tolerance which they can expect to experience (as a marginalized group or not)

2. Provide clear examples of inappropriate behavior so that individuals who are less proactive and self-confident do not dismiss their feelings for fear of being 'over-sensitive'

3. Ensure that transgressors cannot plead ignorance when they are admonished or removed for abusive behavior.
> Normally being a Korean conglomerate or Chaebol I would have thought SK must have some subsidiary competing with Netflix. But this doesn't seems to be the case here.

Your guess is indeed correct! Two out of three major ISPs in South Korea operate their own OTT services (Wavve and Seezn). LG U+ is an exception and also the first major ISP to join the Open Connect Appliance program for the obvious reason.
Well well, another anti-capitalist op-ed from Bloomberg. The least surprising thing I've read today.

"Recent events suggest their [Redditors] suspicion that the decks are stacked against them is justified – which is a terrible look for capitalism."

Insiders profiting from private knowledge is hardly unique to capitalism. I think the author should check out China over the last 20 years to see truly stunning examples of insider profiteering. Feels more like the author wants to fill out their 2021 finance article bingo card than make a real connection here.

"[Insiders] also increased their buying and selling in the gaps between audit reports being produced for company boards and being made publicly available, and exploited rules governing scheduled trading schedules for profit."

I mean - insiders are required to schedule their trading activities ahead of time. There are whole groups of people who's trading strategies revolve around reading those disclosures and make the same trades.

And of course a little bit of the 2021 media's favorite tactic: "guilty until proven innocent"

"And while they said the trades were within the central bank’s rules, both are being scrutinized further. “We’re looking carefully at the trading that was done to make sure that it’s in compliance with our rules and with the law,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee."

So wait, no concrete evidence their trades were against the rules, but Bloomberg will publish this hit piece anyways.

"And the growing prevalence of the fastest-growing companies staying off public markets and funding their expansion instead with private capital keeps them out of the portfolios of retail buyers, further stoking suspicion that the covenant between capitalism and society is asymmetrical and biased against individual investors."

What....? Loads of IPOs this year. And for those that are still private, or eschewing the public markets for whatever reason: no private company has an obligation to give Joe Retail Investor the ability to buy and sell shares of the entity.

Bloomberg has really become a joke.
There is no way that this is anything other than a clever bit of PR.
Your scheme of public keys on websites only works for the Taylor Swifts of the world once they’ve become Taylor Swift. It depends heavily on the social capital of websites verifying identity, a system that is pretty useless for new artists.

This is roughly as practical as pgp key parties were: not practical at all. What are you going to do, go manually check the signing key on every artists website before doing some NFT transaction with them? Crypto already has a UX problem, don’t make it worse!

> A lot of NFTs forego the physical court enforcement over IP. In the same way that fake Luis Vuitton purses don't devalue the original, it's largely ignored. It's still quite possible to find free MP3s on torrents, but the vast majority of people nowadays just use streaming services because it's official and they want to support their favorite artists with revenue. Same will go with NFTs.

You can interpret this in one of two ways.

1) NFTs are completely incapable of managing royalties, so they don’t matter.

2) Things wildly unrelated to NFTs do royalties way better, so it doesn’t matter.

Neither is a good argument for NFTs, as they tacitly admit that NFTs are incapable of doing royalties at all.
Yeah that was a huge transition to make when working for an agency. Realizing that the bullshit work to communicate with the client while technically slowing the whole project down was the most important task you had. Reason being, the "product" wasn't really the code you were developing for the client, it was delivering client happiness, and often they cared more about being in the loop than getting the maximal amount of functionality.
This is delightful reading for the puns alone, never mind it being my favorite condiment.
Though A/C doesn't really need much in the way of electronics.
>> it's torrent-like traffic, but legal,

There is nothing illegal about torrent traffic any more than any other form of traffic. "It's streaming-like, but legal." "It's VPN-like, but legal." "It's cyptolocker-like, but legal." "It's SSL-like, but legal." "It's Tor-like, but legal."
NFT's doesn't prove anything though. The art world care a lot about originals, but an NFT cannot prove that something is an original. Nothing would prevent the author from just issuing a lot of NFT's pointing to a lot of copies of the same art piece. They are even worse than that, NFT doesn't even represent the piece of art, if the service it is connected to goes down then the NFT points to nothing, you can't even prove that it at one time pointed to a specific image.

Lastly, there is no reason for a service provider to issue NFT's. Service providers earns a ton from taxing the market when people trade items, there is no reason for them to give this away by issuing NFT's. Rather every service I've seen issue NFT's did it to sell items that will never be valuable, but that NFT enthusiasts now think will be valuable thanks to the NFT.

Anyway, best case NFT's are just an untaxed market associated with a game or service content. That is the absolutely best case, in what way does that sound novel?

Edit: The untaxed part probably means that governments will shut it down if it becomes too popular. So even less reasons to invest.
Usually, yes. But banks have a process for reclaiming funds that have been incorrectly wired so it’s pretty unusual for the “legality” of it to be litigated.[1] Blockchain has no such process. By design.

[1] A recent high-profile example where the facts and circumstances meant the wrongly wired funds were legally kept by the recipient: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/19/citibank_money_mistak...
I don't think you should ever demonize trivial contributions. I really dislike any COC or even the intent to further "professionalism" but that is another matter. You will never lose anything if someone contributes, however small the change may be.

I have a project with an extremely narrow purpose. Someone corrected a missing dot in a sentence. That was awesome and unexpected.
Because matrilineal vs patrilineal descent doesn't matter much anymore in the modern (western) world.
Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka
ITYM OCXO
There has simply never been a product or feature in the search world (online or offline) where Microsoft got it, everything they have that works is when they dropped their idea and just copied whatever the other guys were doing.

For me they just don't get search, like, the very idea of search or not just searching, it's understanding what you're searching for. And when you bring that down to the start menu, it become super clear and obvious that they're out of their league.
And don't forget on different ways to perform regulatory capture: sometimes it's cheaper to stage a military coup than to try to make "your" politicians win popular elections. That usually is reserved for banana republics, of course.
This doesn't look like Javascript to me:

https://twitter.com/Mudit__Gupta/status/1443454935639609345
If you have any information about vulnerabilities in the published specs for the system, do present them.
Not to mention the current administration has been very clear that they will enforce vaccination requirements on everybody they can EXCEPT those violating our immigration laws.
I will still call any web app a "web site", and if that is my age showing, so be it.
There is a huge problem with the collateral model: liquidity.

If you put up $X in FOO_COIN as collateral and FOO_COIN starts tanking in value, the contract is supposed to auto-liquidate once it hits a certain point. But there is absolutely no guarantee that this can find a buyer. So the "guaranteed" collateral recovery is not exactly guaranteed.
> Do they have a problem with racism and sexism? Which would have been unusual because it was a lefty place.

Очень хорошо, товарищ
Not always. Remember the Citibank Revlon case?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/business/citibank-revlon-laws...
Yes, exactly. Debezium (debezium.io) provides log-based CDC for a variety of databases, exposing a unified event format as much as possible. It can be used with Kafka (Connect), but also stand-alone or as a library embedded into your app.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28690929
> The purpose of taxing tobacco is to discourage consumption. The tax is directly the mechanism for achieving the desired purpose rather than a hardship imposed on some otherwise innocent people only incidentally. It's not a taking, it's a penalty.

And the purpose for environmental regulation is to discourage extinction in the same way. You are arguing black with one and white with the other...

> When your neighbor builds a house next to yours, that's not a taking because it's not the government doing it.

So when I'm overshadowed, my view is blocked, added noise etc. thats not 'taking'? Only governments can take not private citizens? I don't understand this view at all.

I agree zoning has been completely overdone but its definitely necessary unless you want your neighbour to be a 24-hour chemical plant.

> If there is to be a collective benefit then it should be paid for out of the collective fund and not disproportionately imposed on unconsenting innocent people at random.

Its going to have to be a huge fund to pay for all of this. Where's all this taxation going to come from to compensate me for not being able to build my chemical plant? or skyscraper?

> The fact that courts decided not to do that with zoning

I think you need to look deeper into the history of zoning. For me the new york zoning of 1916 is a good start in the United States - it was obviously needed and lobbied for by all the boroughs, as well as huge numbers of residents and landowners. Nobody could have had the money to pay for the compensation you ask for. The Euclid case I would tend to agree wasn't a proven good and has started a downhill trend.

You should also understand that land has historically always had a communal quality and this is growing more important in the 21st century as a scarce resort. Land use regulation of some kind has always co-existed with land ownership through history.
Yes, I'm also from Europe. Public transport in Europe is much safer than in some urban areas in the U.S., but that is often true in general for just walking down in the street in a place like Bern or Frankfurt than in New Orleans or Oakland (these are the two cities where I had friends assaulted on public transport).

That's why it's so shocking when these things happen and are accepted by people who actually resist reform because they view enforcing standards of cleanliness and safety as being "anti-poor" and suggest that even complaining about these issues is being classist instead of just advocating for basic human decency and higher quality public transport.
What actually is native compilation? Anyone mind explaining?
Best case to make a point on the internet is to argue the opposite and doing that very badly.
One of the most successful implementations of VDFs in crypto right now is Chia, which uses proof of storage space interleaved with proofs of time from VDF servers. There is not an incentive created by the consensus algorithm to have many VDF servers, since only the fastest VDF server participates in block creation.

Also, it alters the PoW economics somewhat by utilizing already-existing general purpose hardware (storage) and has an implementation which does not yet seem susceptible to special purpose hardware attacks (i.e., increasing storage density / decreasing TCO already has a huge bounty)
I mean, there's always the time it takes the signals to make it in or out. I think they estimate it at around 80ms? Seems like that'd be a hard cap (yes, our brains can compensate for that in some scenarios, but it doesn't always do it correctly, look at the phenomenon where you look at a ticking second hand and the very first tick seems like it lingers a bit longer than the following ones, because your brain literally lied to you about what it saw).
> Bank runs like from the movie "Its a wonderful life" - they don't happen anymore.

Another example of a bank run is the bank run of Northern Rock on the 14th September
2007. This was the biggest banking problem in the United Kingdom since the banking crisis in
the seventies, this was also the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. Eventually,
this resulted in the nationalization of Northern Rock. It is interesting to analyze this bank run
because it is one of the most recent bank runs in Western Europe. Furthermore, the bank
run from Northern Rock is a special case because it was a ‘reversed bank run’. Normally
during a bank run, a lot of depositors first withdraw their money, due to lack of confidence
for example, and then the bank will as a result of the huge withdraws get into a liquidity
crisis. However, in the case of Northern Rock, the bank first got into a liquidity crisis and as a
result of that, depositors withdrew their money from the bank.

https://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=116241

It certainly looks like a bank run - the scenes in London today fulfilled the dictionary definition.

And heading north to Nottingham, and Middlesbrough, the same extraordinary scenes. savers forming long queues to drain their life savings from Northern Rock.

Banking -- an industry built on credibility, confidence and trust. But the Rock looks wrecked even in its home town of Newcastle.

Deposit guarantees should prevent this. But even after an extraordinary unlimited lending facility granted by the Bank of England and agreed by the Chancellor, customers preferred the sight of real cash.

https://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/the%2B...
Your copy doesn't just lack 'authenticity', it also lacks something uncopyable, and which is only relvant to physical artifacts: 'age'.

The fact that digital copies can be perfect, and never age or deteriorate due to the inevitable march of entropy, is a fundamental difference and yes that affects how valuable 'owning' a digital artifact is versus owning a physical one.
It was very easy to take apart as it just used same size Philips screws.

Replacing cracked glass was hard as you had to soften glue and required a uv curing glue to attach the replacement, but would assume the fairphone treats the digitizer screen and front glass as a single replacement assembly also.
Thiel is my hero. I really can’t wait to get my green card so I can start a company, write a libertarian book and try to move the needle in the right direction.
> The platform disappears, or bans you, or changes policy, or is blocked, or whatever, and your NFT is back to being a bare-bone blockchain contract number and a token id.

So what? You can obviously right click to save the JPEG, so if the platform goes down it doesn't really matter. What you're buying is ownership of the NFT of the JPEG, not the JPEG. Even if the platform goes down, you'll still be able to see the name of the piece in the metadata.
This is a good list. The app I built (https://about.homechart.app) is "read only" offline first, it's a compromise I chose over having to solve queuing writes and consistency checks during the (assuming rare) occurrences users find themselves offline. I'd add write support, but no one has asked for it. Don't go into offline first thinking you need to solve for writes, it can be added later if necessary.
How often were people upgrading computers in the 1990s and 2000s? How often are people upgrading now?

For a lot of folks when they get to good enough they stop. Understandable.

But the "good enough" of IPv4 has taken a lot of effort in the last few years. How much gnashing of teeth has NAT caused and having to invent TURN and STUN and a bunch of others things?

Anyone remember Skype supernodes?

With IPv6 you "just" have to do firewall hole punching without all the drama of packet tuple munging.

And good luck with double-(CG-)NAT hole punching.