skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the pathologies that get associated with Agile or Scrum in particular are in fact the manifestations of Managed implementation of Agile/Scrum. In my view, a perfect litmus test is the primary qualifications of a Scrum Master - if it's a PM, then it's rather a Scrum Manager, a chimera of the corporate existential doom.

Ideally, in my opinion, it's a rotating role among the team members. This may simply be impossible read unallowable in many organisations due to hierarchies, chain of command and payscale restrictions.

Stale organizations have underlying reasons to be so wasteful yet to live on. I often wonder how some visibly and practically crappy restaurants or stores could stay in business for many decades without much change. Perhaps change has a different meaning and value for different organizations.
Caeser was a VP at Google. In the story from when he left[0], his replacement has 3,700 people under him. So it's a single person with a huge amount of influence. Bill Ready came in and decided to do something different.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28251591
Some exchanges have good customer service, but Coinbase isn't one of them. They went the route of minimizing customer support staff that many tech companies do.
I would leave a company who uses this BS to pump craptocurrencies - its either dishonest management or no control over the publishing on behalf of the company, and both are equally alarming!
This already happens. The big trucks are UPS and FedEx and Amazon. This companies already pay to maintain their trucks, which includes taxes for road maintenance through gas tax and registration fees.

Those trucks are only on the road because all the people in the houses keep ordering stuff online.

Should FedEx/UPS/Amazon have to pay an extra tax just because they are popular with the people? The homeowners already pay taxes to maintain the roads to their houses. Why should the city get extra from the trucking companies?
As a person looking in from the outside, I observe that there are many worse things going on in American society than Facebook that could cause rising despair and suicide. I’m not saying it’s blameless but the overall picture there is not of a healthy society.
Don't we just need to supplement cattle feed with seaweed? No more methane.

I'm really getting suspicious of this drum-beat of "we have to stop eating beef." It's come from a number of places, like Bill Gates touting mass-produced synthetic meat from his industrial farming affiliations. He has substantial financial stake in controlling what people eat.

And there it is at the conclusion of the article:

> Fortunately, lab-grown meats are moving from Petri dishes to high-end restaurants (see Technology Quarterly).
Agree fully with this point if it is considered income and not a gift.

Let's assume the income case, a qyestion:
What would happen if someone took these coins then transfered them to a new wallet while claiming that their private key was compromised. So "theft" essentially. Would they still be on the hook for taxes?

The real downside to crypto to me is that there is no ownership, only proof of authentication credentials ownership.
Fantastic.

Can Wigner crystals be applied to weaponry? The Department of Defense would be very interested.

Cheers,

Henry Kissinger
One similar possibility I was considering are FBI body farms where scientists study various properties of decomposition to be able to solve crimes better. At least I saw it on CSI. How cool would it be to be one of the corpses there :-)
I remember the good old days when we had offline first by default. We called them just "computer programs".

Offline first as a principle is more important than web apps. If today's browsers have trouble with offline first, consider that a downside of today's browsers.
If there comes a real usecase that the average consumer cares about, it could happen. Right now it doesn't seem like it will, but I could be wrong ofc.

I've heard a lot of positive sentiment around "having you data available wherever you browse" - but does that not create a lot of new challenges? Will I have the same data available from all my devices with browsers installed? Everything has a browser now, even my nintendo switch (kind of). How can I make sure to trust a site to handle the parts of my data that they need to interface with?
> There are obviously lots of subtleties here.

Precisely, which is why the jump to "strongly implies willfully assisting in tax avoidance" comes off so poorly. In my opinion, it not only mischaracterizes what is happening, it imputes ill intent to boot. Guidance for DeFi apps is poor currently and policy in this area is actively being legislated. In the meantime, shifting the onus for tax reporting back onto individual users !== willful assistance in tax avoidance any more than companies not witholding income taxes from payroll pre-WW2 was willful assistance in tax avoidance.

Further, since these transactions are all captured on a public ledger, anyone using this for tax avoidance is really just electing to pay their taxes later with massive penalties and possible jail time once the IRS gets around to tying addresses with unreported transactions to fiat on/off ramp transactions that are KYC'd.
> Without the project's primary driver

Google has never heard of single points of failure? Strange. Is this how all of your products are run, in that if the "head" of the project leaves/gets ill/dies the whole thing just vaporizes?
I enjoyed this article explaining in more detail how the drug works, though much of it goes over my head: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-021-00657-8

Briefly, it causes the copying process of viral RNA to go wrong by increasing the number of G-to-A and C-to-U mutations. A potential worry is that such mutations will also increase in places where we don't want them, such as in host DNA, but apparently at least for mitochondrial RNA things look good.
Or get a CM4 with daughter board that has a SSD/eMMC, which also allows for a pci-e slot for a networking card.
Why? It’s my understanding that this flows from work done years ago at Emory University. With the exciting news, why shouldn’t they take a bit of a victory lap? Good for them.
Which comment are you referring to?

The only comment here on HN that seems to be directly dismissive is the one that claims about the study being made with a total size of 25 people, of which a final 7 people were selected for the in-depth interview.

Everything about this study seems to be terrible. How the study was made, the reaction by Facebook of the result, the researcher who conducted the study. It seems that rather than go with a establish company that do professional surveys they went with a small scale internal study that did not show favorable results and so they hide it and here we are.
Sometimes they're real, and sometimes they're idealized projections put forth by said people. This will happen in any setting but social media seems to encourage it for whatever reason.

There are no easy solutions to this.
It is possible that it could allow for more aggressive immune modulation and immune suppression in people where post-infection and immune damage is the main issue.
yeah I hate this line of discussion because it tries to form some sense of "both sides" equivalency... and I think there's a big difference between supporting vaccine mandates and literally taking horse medicine.
It is a bug fix, nothing fancy.
Liquid metal encased in hydrogel makes a promising energy-harvesting device
The other article you mention comes from the same website: https://rxdb.info/offline-first.html. It's in an opinion section, giving the arguments from both sides.
Those who think that their readers won't be using uBlock Origin?
The problem runs deeper than what the GP complains about.

If you rely on that, and write important things on the browser storage, a week later your user access some moronic site that doesn't work, and their support tells him to clear his browser cache, your data will almost certainly be cleaned with it.

The problem is that browsers do not even consider that they may be storing important data. There is no clear way to recover or backup that data, and it is tangled with what comes from every other site.
Which works fine until they buy a new phone and trade in or reset the old one without transferring the private keys -- and now you're locked out of your own account because you lost your second factor.
Tons of things actually. If I have to choose a few:

For one, JS feels clunkier with its expression/statement mish-mash. Once I started getting expression based syntax, everything made so much sense. It's such a simple feature that lets code compose granularily and is one of the key enablers for _seamless_ interactive development (and macros). One instance where this is pronounced is when you compare React JSX with Reagent and ClojureScript.

Secondly, you can do FP in JS but no matter how you do it, it feels tacked on, is typically less performant, doesn't compose as well and relies more on discipline because it isn't the default. I'm not saying FP all the things either. It's just that in interactive web GUI's you have tons of state and asynchronicity, so the type of bugs and problems that occur from mismanaging those are incredibly frustrating. There are JS libraries that mutate the stuff you pass into for no reason at all. FP by default is very, very relaxing and composes well.
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> I trust my bank to hold my money because there are legal protections in place to protect against bad behavior. I can sue them if they violate the laws that protect me.

I don't think it would be that easy in third-world country or dictatorial government or country in wars
> "No ideology allowed."

Is an ideology itself, it's contradictory.
TYVM! I usually delete it after a week or so from one of these posts and then add again at the beginning of each month.
I might be missing something, but I have trouble seeing how CRDTs can work for regular CRUD style applications.

Just the first example that pops into my head: edit A sets an invoice status to paid, edit b changes the invoice amount from 100 to 120. The merge is a paid invoice with an incorrect amount.

A workaround would be to record a separate PaidInvoice that wont be changed by the application logic.

But that's just a really trivial example that only involves scalar fields inside a single object, and also relies on the application logic considering all ways that the CRDT might behave.

There are countless ways to end up with data that violates the constraints of the domain.

Is there any theoretical groundwork happening on how CRDTs can preserve domain semantics?
> "being your own bank" is actually a terrifying and merciless burden

It's amazing how many smart people take so long to realize why banks exist.
More like, they realize "heavy regulations" are meant to protect incumbents from having to compete against new actors.
This statement very much depends on the kind of app you're developing, as mentioned in the article. Is the main use case communicating with another user? Do you need a third party API for your app's basic functionality? Sure, don't even consider offline first.

But what if the app is only about storing and displaying data entered by the user and you'd definitely also want to be able to use it on an airplane, e.g. a todo/notetaking/journaling app? Then offline first can make sense.

I'd even say that the complexity of developing an offline-first app can be lower than that of a classical client/server app + caching logic. Sure, you need to figure out how to do schema migrations and you probably want a kill switch to lock out older apps at some point. But the same applies in a classical setting when API-endpoints should be changed or removed. Basically, your document model is now your API. And a very simplistic conflict resolution strategy like „just take the most recent version“ is often good enough.

Once that + basics like auth and account creation are set up, it's very productive and low overhead to work with PouchDB/CouchDB and offline first:

- no need to coordinate with a backend team because nothing else than auth happens there
- simpler state management and error handling because the state in the local DB can always be assumed to be correct and the DB is always there

- no need for schema migrations as long as you only add new docs or extend existing ones

- it's great for quickly hacking a prototype or for beginners who just know some HTML/CSS/JS
For a safety trial, likely not, but for an efficacy trial, this is pretty conclusive. In any case full approval will not be granted with even more in the way of trials.
It sounds worrying, and it is. But it's important to make one distinction.

It's not "transgender people inherently have a 40% suicide rate". It's "transgender people are in situations where their suicide rates climb to as high as 40%".

It's also important to understand the difference between "suicide ideation" and "suicide attempts" which are two different numbers that are often mixed up.

- https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/...

- https://issuu.com/trevorproject/docs/talking_about_suicide_a...

To answer your question, here is a source I am familiar with as a Canadian:

"Among trans Ontarians, 35.1 % [...] seriously considered [...] and 11.2 % attempted, suicide in the past year."

"Lower [...] transphobia [...] was associated with a 66 % reduction in ideation [...] and an additional 76 % reduction in attempts among those with ideation."

- https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

US numbers are higher: the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS) found that 41% of 6,450 transgender respondents said they had attempted suicide. I don't have the source other than a PDF saved on my local machine, but you should be able to find it easily enough.

It's also very important to look at the sample pool of such studies. I remember that one number that was widely used in debates was actually done on the transgender women population of a men's prison in south america. Of course the people there are miserable but the numbers won't be representative of the larger population. It stopped being used as much after people pointed out that fact.
> So an abbreviated trial in 775 people is considered sufficient to move forward with drug approval now?

No. They don't have full approval, and aren't likely to get it in the next few months.

From the article:

> Merck Plans to Seek Emergency Use Authorization in the U.S. as Soon as Possible

Emergency Use Authorization is not full approval, and obviously comes with oversight and data gathering. "as soon as Possible" is not now. But they might get that in the next few months.

Other than that, I don't know what to say about "sufficient to move forward" - any drug at any stage of trials is either abandoned or moving forward? A small trial that meets its goals is sufficient to move forward to the next trial so .. yes? But not to full approval, which they aren't getting anyway.

This is an existing (but fairly new) drug so there there is other data on safety etc, links seem to be about 2019 onwards, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molnupiravir
Stocks represent ownership in a company. Apple has $200 billion in cash currently. Owning a share of Apple quite literally means that you own a share of that $200 billion.

It's useful to think about this in terms of a company's tangible assets because it provides a lower bound on the price of a share (assuming the company has no debt). If the Apple share price ever dropped so low that the sum of all the shares was worth less than $200 billion, a savvy investor could just snap up all the shares and effectively purchase 200 billion dollars at a discount.

Any premium on the price of a share beyond the company's assets comes from either the dividends that you expect to be paid out as a result of owning that stock, or from an expectation that the company's assets will grow in the future (so that share will entitle you to part ownership of $300 billion instead of $200 billion, for example).
No, one of the positive studies about ivermectin had questionable data. There are dozens of studies with positive results. This post and the article you linked are misinformation.

Edit: I don't normally comment on downvotes but the sentiment expressed by the silent downvoters in this thread is pretty gross. We're trying to have a discussion here, but clearly certain perspectives are not allowed, even if supported by data. There is nothing incorrect about what I posted, or what GP posted about studies showing that ivermectin does potentially work (these studies exist, are peer reviewed and published, even if they are weak studies as claimed), yet here we all are sitting at -4 for daring to go against the so called "consensus" by citing published literature. This censoriousness is uncalled for, counterproductive, and, totally ascientific.
We should if we purport to have any say in how that software treats us.
Unlike the other areas Google operates in, banking is actually regulated even in the US

Though I'm sure we would quickly discover the exact boundaries of what's allowed by said regulation
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> do not want to be vaccinated
What's the reason for this? The vaccine has been approved fully by the FDA and hundreds of millions of people have received it.

> 2. ...
Sure, and people who have had covid and get it again as well. But why risk sick days, lost productivity, severe illness when there's an effective, safe alternative.
The capital cost of caring people who get sick with covid is far higher on a per capita basis for those who are unvaccinated.
Oops, I just realized I was thinking of the Philosophize This! podcast. Partially Examined Life is still great, but I was totally describing Philosophize This!

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I feel like I dodged a bullet. A lot of my peers (in STEM, not humanities) stayed on the academic treadmill because job prospects weren't as good when we graduated as they are now. But their experiences with advisors, course load, university attitude, etc mirror Brett's description. I finished undergrad feeling sick of school and would not have thrived in that environment.
This is great news, but I worry that many people are going to take it as a continued excuse to actively avoid vaccination. Halving hospitalization rates would still leave ICUs everywhere filled with COVID patients taking beds away from people with other life-threatening conditions.
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This is using the next-generation Iridium network which is capable and marketed for offshore maritime, for aviation purposes, land mobile data, land based portable terminals (where people would previously need an INMARSAT BGAN), etc.

It is still very costly on a dollars per MB of data transferred basis.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28720411
Maybe the other option is the "creepy guys" table?

All joking aside I can only comment very generally obviously, but just because people will tolerate a particular aspect of someones personality doesn't mean they actually enjoy it.

Remember that 30 years ago in the Western world lots of women got patted on the ass at work and the normal response was to nod and smile because that's just how the world was.

I once met someone in Australia whose best friends all called him some racial slur as a nickname (I forget which one now). In a short moment alone I asked him if that was actually okay for him and he answered "No, but that's just the way people are around here."

I obviously have no way of knowing how close you are to these women but you should probably at least be open to the possibility that there is a similar dynamic at play here.

Personally, I have a unique physical characteristic that causes even strangers to approach to comment or joke about. I've got a pretty good catalogue of witty retorts by now and one of them in particular is so spectacular that I quite enjoy the opportunity to use it. I still think the people who make the jokes are boring idiots though.
Can you read my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28721310 and let me know if it clears up my explanation?
The only issue with color is that it's more of a "greater than or equal to" situation.

So you'd have to say things like "you can plug in the red plug into a blue, green, or yellow one"
I'm excited to hear why the EUA for this drug is good when anti-vaxers have said they didn't trust the EUA for the vaccines.