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What happens when you complete your work before you know what you need to do next?

If this never happens, then you have some invisible queue, as you do have things to do next.

As far as your example, that's a great example of a task that seemed like it would take long, and ended up being very very short. Can you describe why this would be bad to add into your task system?

- Add Task: Run banking API in $BigBank test environment
- Start work time clock.
- Find out we don't need to do it, and switch to prod mode
- switch to prod mode
- Close task, and time clock

This is now data for your estimates of future tasks, as this will probably happen randomly from time to time in the future.
I literally just watched the Seinfeld episode about Jerry's NY Public Library late fee. So weird.
I think the problem is much rather that for anyone not poor late fees just don’t matter in any way financially. They do not cut into any basic needs, they don’t even matter in the grand scheme of things.

The thing with being poor is that any additional expense will mean you have to make difficult trade-offs. Which is to say that even if someone who is not poor is much more likely to be late to return a book the late fees just don’t matter to that person, while they do matter for someone who is poor.
Besides, when I speak about ignorance, I speak from experience.

I can open BBC news or CNN and read something about Russia and make facepalm 1000th time when I read about some fact about the place where I live or some event I witnessed.

You, people on the West, don't know what we know about you. What we read in our news about you, what we think about you.

So even if you suppose we're brainwashed, you can't have any evidence of it.
A recent video leak shows an oil company lobbiest saying thay they publicly support a carbon tax, because they know it won't pass because they privately tell politicians to not pass it.
> Biden can order the military to start doing this.

Sure, let's short-circuit democracy, it's useless...
After many decades we still discuss and wonder how work amount estimates should be done and why they are always wrong. The most brilliant software engineers and project managers have developed countless different methods and nothing works.

For me it tells that nature of work is such that we just can not estimate work amounts. We are just pretending that it can be done.
I have the impression that it would take a long exchange before we could discuss this matter in a manner that doesn't annoy me, and I am not interested in a lengthy exchange. A few suggestions on 'HN-iquette' that might mean you get fewer downvotes and more constructive engagement:

1. You tend to couch your opinions using IDW political jargon. I've done that right now: IDW is itself political/cultural jargon; jargon is useful in making your points briefly and accessibly when the reader shares your terms of reference. But these terms are very imprecise and ask a lot of the reader if they don't share them and set up the following discussion for motte-and-bailey arguments (more jargon [1])

2. Instead you should throw away your jargon and share why you reach your conclusions in an accessible manner. This is bad for winning arguments, but it is good for the curious conversation that dang is trying to encourage with his moderation [2].

3. Links are good for two purposes: first, pointers to more information for the interested, but very many sites have a much worse browsing experience than HN; and second, checking claims but most readers want to know enough about the quality of evidence for your claims without actually clicking on them. If you are going to link to any sources that are notorious for clickbait and/or culture war, I advise you to summarise the content so that readers don't simply assume the worst about all of your sources.

With regards to your question, you lump a whole lot of things together. DEI initiatives might be put together by people who are very concerned about the risks that online outrage mobs pose to a healthy culture. I don't know what you mean by "determinative"; DEI initiatives might involve a wise attempt to balance freedom of speech with solving problems of underrepresentation that are sensitive to an organisation's culture, or they might be a poorly constructed exercise in risk-aversion that put people in intolerable situations.

[1]: Cf. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey although I don't regard it as being a determinate fallacy, rather a bad pattern that happens in argument when there is not a shared understanding of the imprecision of the terminology.

[2]: Your reputation is high enough that I guess you are generally aware of dang's approach, but you might not be familiar with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25048415
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> It's China's one child policy, but applied globally, through economics and social dynamics.

Ironically, they repealed that policy because it was having a negative effect.

> Make children extremely expensive so that only the elites can have multiple children.

Another irony since it's the elites that tend to not have many children, not the poor.
"Just call BS! Geez, that was easy. Why are all these HR people so incompetent?"

This assumes you are more intelligent than them, and can see through their insincerity during an interview process.

But have you considered that these "smooth talkers" can be smarter than you? Or at least have been perfecting their BS craft (while you perfected yours, such as programming), so that you are absolutely no match?
It’s true that oil companies favour carbon taxes because they know they won’t ever get passed but by supporting them they can appear to care.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-cau...
If you see something you have never seen, you have no stereotype/pattern associated with it, negative or positive. You have lot of stereotypes for people you are aware of. And those are based on attributes that are differentiable. If race is an attribute that is indifferentiable then you never learn to utilize that trait in your mental framework of how the world works. I don't think stereotyping is illogical, I just don't think it's a positive approach.
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Work pass holders can absolutely marry Singaporeans. It just takes an extra step. I know you're trying to portray Singapore in the worst possible light, but false claims are not necessary to do so.
Don't worry, it's not actually true.
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Yes that was my point discrimination exist just not along racial lines, which still sucks, but the benefit is that you can see the world in a non-racial way.
“From 1 January 2019, as an FDW employer, you must not keep your FDW’s salary or any other money belonging to her, even if she requests for it.

You must not keep her bank book or bank card.”

https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/work-permit-for-fo...
Set aside a marketing budget, and then basically sell the $10 item at $9, justifying that the $1 difference is marketing.

Have a marketplace. Buy $100 of goods from users selling stuff. The $100 is a marketing expense. Add $100 to GMV.

Have 5k users on Android, 3k on iPhone, 8k on web. Add them up to show the product has 16k users.

Raise money from an angel who owns a conglomerate. The angel forces all his businesses and people working in these businesses to adopt the app that others wouldn't otherwise trust. Use these totally legitimate clients to create glowing testimonials.

As an early stage investor, instead of putting a lump sum into the account, create a dummy company (or several) for the purpose of feeding cash into the startup. When you're raising money, just sign off half a million dollars of consulting fees to show that the startup is making money.

Create a review site targeting the users. Write a glowing review about how amazing this app is. Share it to gullible Facebook groups.
Exactly. I was somewhat in agreement with that person until they dropped this sociopathic nonsense.
1.2% drop in Hong Kong

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3144845/...
> As for Malthusianism - it seems to me the GP is correct in pointing out ecological stress is proportional to human population size, and that the ecosystem is in crisis.

Population size? No, the problem is human greed and corruption.
A model is not required if you use data from your team's past performance with a tool like this:
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216661/actionableagi...
And who is going to break up TikTok or whatever comes next/instead?

The social media is like tobacco, and FB increasing the engagement at all costs is like when Big Tobacco were increasing addictiveness of the cigarettes. Like with tobacco, the way to deal with the issue is to wean the population off by in particular educating the population about the damage it does to them .

Btw, "Statement from Mark Zuckerberg" - that reminded that foundational tenet of Facebook :

Zuck: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

Zuck: just ask

Zuck: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?

Zuck: people just submitted it

Zuck: i don’t know why

Zuck: they “trust me”

Zuck: dumb fucks
I wonder when the Apple Watch will get ketone detection. "Just pee on your watch" :D
Already happening. From their S-1:

In August 2021, a putative class action complaint captioned Williams v. Udemy, Inc., Case No. 3:21-CV-06489, was filed against us in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging violations of California’s unfair competition and false advertising statutes as well as the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act in connection with the promotional “strike-through” pricing for courses offered on our platform, alleging that the reference prices used for comparison purposes are false or misleading. The complaint seeks injunctive relief, unspecified damages, restitution and disgorgement of profits. We are in the process of investigating the claims alleged in the complaint and have not yet answered. We intend to vigorously defend ourselves in this matter.
Depression certainly has fatality rate. And do you think it could not be construed as contagious?
Quite arrogant in assuming everyone has a Facebook account.
9989 will never work because people won't do it in good faith, they'll do it in whatever way they believe will make their music or their friend's music more popular. Go check out the mess that tags are on soundcloud.
Peer review in and of itself is of limited value, and usually reveals cosmetic, as opposed by structural, errors. How many code reviews can be summarized by the letters "L", "G", "T", and "M"?

Replication matters. The echo chamber of peer review much less so.
Everyone raising money is expected to be unprofitable, no?
I like rock wall climbing but tree-climbing sounds dangerous. How could you fall safely without hitting branches on the way down?
I have had some thoughts in the same space, as I believe that I could help a lot of non-technical founders, but never found the right approach. I agree with a lot of the problems softwaredoug describes in his answer.

If it were to work, then it should have long-term focus. So act as a busines angel/VC "knowledge fund". Get a few percentages of ownership and hope to one day have advised some successful companies. Maybe have a deal where you transition from On Demand CTO to Board member as the company grows and can hire a fulltime CTO.

Another point should probably be to only take on startups that have actually been incorporated in some way that enables percentages to be exchanged. Otherwise I can see a lot of wasted time on peoples great ideas.

Seen from the other perspective you would probably also struggle a bit to gain traction. Have a good track-record for founders to contact you and give a way a few percentages. They should be comfortable that you can actually help them and that they can have enough of your time to make a difference.

After writing this I actually think it less of an un-viable idea than when I started writing :)
Can we at least agree that 40 hours / 5 days a week is an arbitrary amount of work? Not so long ago the norm in many countries was 6 days. So why do you think the current amount is the optimal?
most ppl don't want another extra day of childcare at home. They don't want 4 day school.
if you use JIRA you can do it with a tool like this one and use past performance as input so you don't need to model anything https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216661/actionableagi...
In networking parlance, BGP is a distance vector routing protocol, as opposed to link state routing protocols like OSPF.

Distance vector: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-vector_routing_prot...

Link state: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-state_routing_protocol
The article indicates that previously she was unable to care for herself. While not exactly fully objective, i feel like - do you need someone else to take care of you, is not a purely subjective measure.
It depends on the type of work. Generally and counterintuitively, the more individual random variables the work contains the easier it is to estimate. This is because random variations cancel each other out when they are in large quantities.

With programming, one random variable can add days, weeks or even months of work.
Not a scientist, but I think this is one of those highly individual things.

Some people can drink X and stay in ketosis. Others can't.

This makes scientific studies on ketosis a pain to do, because we don't know whether something works at all or is it just due to individual differences.

My guess is that this is due to gut/intestine flora, but that stuff is still a complete mystery. Maybe we'll figure some of it out this decade.
This is not just about the loss of PRs or citizens. Singapore is one of the most expensive places in the world to live in.

More people in SG are choosing to marry later, have kids later, or have fewer kids. Many people register a marriage just to qualify for subsidised HDB housing, get that out of the way and focus on their careers.

Talking about children, schools and universities are highly subsidised for citizens, and somewhat discounted for PRs. For example [1] a citizen admitted to the National University of Singapore to study engineering pays $8,200 (about US$6,050) a year vs the $38,200 a year that an international student without any subsidies would pay.

This differentiation is even more marked for primary and secondary schools and junior colleges [2] for example a citizen pays $0 in primary school fees while a foreigner pays up to $775++ a month. A permanent resident attending secondary school pays $400 a months vs about $20-25 for a citizen.

This is a direct incentive for citizens to have more children, but also discourages PRs and foreigners from having children in SG, or to remain in SG for a long time if they don't plan to become citizens.

Healthcare is also subsidised for citizens, you are covered by the CPF (pension scheme) MediShield plan, or a linked insurance policy, whereas PRs pay more and non-PRs have no CPF coverage.

In my experience, what you're seeing here is a readjustment towards a new normal, nothing alarming, and probably what was planned all along.

[1] NUS tuition fees: https://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/administrative-policies-pro...

[2] MOE school fees: https://www.moe.gov.sg/financial-matters/fees
If you choose a) you don't really get to avoid b), since something still has to bootstrap your Kubernetes nodes themselves. So it's more a question whether you'd rather write a Kubernetes manifest or a Salt/Ansible config; and with the complexity and limitations of a lot of storage operators, and no real "orchestration" benefit once you have pinned deployments to particular nodes anyway, sometimes it's the latter.

The main force that's pushing us to move our storage into K8s isn't simplifying our node configuration, but to keep parity between our prod and more dynamic staging environments. For the latter k8s storage operators are great because we don't generally care about data durability or performance.
"You must log in to continue."

Seems like a weird thing for a CEO to come out and say.
It's not the setup of the author, it is just a stock photo.

https://unsplash.com/photos/xV3CHzfhkjE

I wouldn't use it as a build guide.
Wasn’t defence, but somewhere with highly competitive commercially sensitive engineered components. You needed a card to open a door in either direction, but exit routes all had “Break to Exit” bypass switches - which lazy engineers often did, particularly if the door wasn’t covered by CCTV.

My curiously downvoted point was, I’m surprised an internet problem would stop an high security access control system from functioning - they’re supposed to be designed to cope with that and continue to work autonomously in emergencies.
India's corruption rank was 94 before Modi came, and is currently 85, which is the highest it has been since Modi came. It has reduced quite a bit I'd say.
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There’s also PEP - personalized employment pass. It’s something in between of pr and ep.
"Workable" is arguable, "easy" is a bit of a stretch.(assuming you're not trolling.)

I suspect most westerners are not going to be thrilled when receiving the government email about their mandatory sterilization.

Usually the idea floats in circles of people convinced we'll reduce the birth rate of "other" people (wink wink dog whistle yeah they're thinking of Africans)
That’s not the statement I want a source for, it’s actually a source against what I quoted ;)
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If not, you will be placed in team “Parasites and all other societal dregs that contribute less than they consume”
I have roughly the same thing, and while I never followed any actual keto diet, I do maintain a relatively low-carb diet. After not eating many carbs for a few days and losing some weight I also have to urinate quite frequently. That need goes away if spend a few days eating a lot of carbs (holidays where I overeat whatever I want, for example), so I'm not particularly worried about it. My guess is that it's a result from not having much to hold the fluid around in my body, so it goes straight to my bladder. Also a lot of caffeine and liquid consumption in general
Do you have proteinuria (protein in urine) which can cause painful urination and feelings of urge to urinate? If so you may want to be wary of high protein diets like keto, and maybe see a kidney specialist to make sure your kidneys are in good health...
Zero sympathy, fuck this guy
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Console browsers should render full text, FWIW.
5 minutes is great, try 3 weeks (due to various "objective issues" aka fuckups across the organization).
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That's a bit pessimistic. Internet has its ups and downs, I'm not entirely sure what its net value is at the end.

But that's why I said that AI must be implemented right. It has both the power to be extremely good or extremely bad. Time will tell what's to come of it.
My next door neighbor illegally withheld their maid's passport and did not pay them for a half a year. When the poor woman finally convinced her employer that her young children back in Indonesia need to eat, she was frogmarched to a Western Union outlet and given some cash to remit, while being closely observed to make sure she did not keep any of it. When they decided to get rid of her, she was given one hour's notice to pack, driven to the airport, and had the cost of her flight ticket illegally deducted from her salary.

All this happened in 2020.
> A 'Do-er' is at least at present motivated

And since (according to you) the educated person was motivated too at one point, there's no guarantee that a 'do-er' will remain motivated. We also know that at one point (s)he wasn't motivated.

Furthermore, how do you even tell who is a "do-er"? How do you know that that person has the capabilities of learning the task? How much are you willing to invest in education vs. "losing" on hiring the educated person?

None of this makes sense, nor is it backed up.
A framework to enhance deep learning using first-spike times
Researchers at Heidelberg University and University of Bern have recently devised a technique to achieve fast and energy-efficient computing using spiking neuromorphic substrates. This strategy, introduced in a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, is a rigorous adaptation of a time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding scheme, together with a corresponding learning rule implemented on certain networks of artificial neurons. TTFS is a time-coding approach, in which the activity of neurons is inversely proportional to their firing delay.
Gosh that is bs. A friend of mine, a resident, married an ep holder 2 weeks ago. Singapore has not been very foreigner friendly lately, but this marriage thing is just not true.
Also learned the same thing in my late 40s. It is surprising how many days that I would previously deem as useless (hangover, tiredness, "not in the mood", other "reasons") turn out to be really productive. All I needed is to disregard the internal excuses and start doing.
I think this is only partly true.

The other big benefit of monads is that they can automatically work with syntactic-sugar such as do-notation to allow non-linear code to be written in a linear way.

Monads and syntax, even without HKT, allow the user to write their own async-await, option, result, list, etc. expressions.
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I agree. Also, until you get super technical, it isn't really any different to "if you take the natural numbers, and split them into odd and even, you get two copies of the natural numbers".
Borsuk-Ulam applies to surfaces homeomorphic to a sphere, but the picture shows that the earth's surface is a sphere with at least one handle, a donut with at least one hole.
GIGO, the first thing I learnt, as I entered the industry 20 years ago. This was from a 60 year old engineer who told me that experience is only a nice name for "all the @#$% I made I will try not to make again".

A very nice thing about Monte Carlo simulation is that at the end your distribution of results are all within the feasible range. If you do error propagation using uncertainty on your parameters, you can get non-sense results.

For example, suppose you have a pendulum, you simulate it with error propagation and you have a non 0 probability of having an increase of the energy in the system over time.

It is easy to spot this in such constrained example but with more complex models, this is sometimes pretty hard to control.
I'm always surprised with these kinds of software I'm assuming this is like a open source TurboTax etc.

Americans fill out their tax return and then the IRS checks that it's correct against? Well against their information, which they could give you in the form of a pre filled tax return you could alter if something was wrong (and both the IRS and you would be sure to have the best information for that year, then fraud check could be done primarely on those with changes, primarely over a certain sum etc. Just guessing but that's better use of tax dollars.

But then again I'm in Norway and understand that I'm lucky in that sense. Here tax returns are fully automated, in 15 years I've had to perform 2 maybe 3 minor changes. Everything for salary, pension, deductibles, loans, interest, stocks, fortunes etc. Is prefilled.