skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main problem with standups is people really like to turn them into soapboxes. They're supposed to be short but if it's scheduled for 30 minutes, people WILL make sure it lasts exactly 30 minutes. Even if theres awkward silence at some point, they'll come up with something to bitch about. I think this is to show they're "engaged" or something. IDK.

Doesn't really hurt the team overall I guess, just an unpleasant interruption to my nap time.
most ramen places around my office (gotanda) could be considered fast food. customers usually go alone to eat in about 10 minutes and back to work (no time to talk). udon restaurants with no seats at all are also very common. that makes you eat even faster
People in this thread report the effect with things other than carbs, "even water tasted bitter".

Gymnemic acid could be an option, since it effectively turns off the sweet taste buds.
Compiling the interpreter to webassembly and running python code in wasm sounds pretty cool.
> You can compile RustPython to a standalone WebAssembly WASI module so it can run anywhere
They're working on JIT, which could really improve on PyPy (not that PyPy isn't great). It also supports WASM as a first class platform (as much as you can without standard library modules that interact with the OS). I also just like seeing another non-CPython implementation.

Not game changing for the Python world, but I think it's pretty neat.
For me it's just another straw on this camel's back: process that detracts from my productivity.
How to disable “Require approvals” for a protected branch?
Is there a way to see equivalent prices in USD? Also would my credit card be charged in Euro and then the card company will apply some arbitrary conversion rate ?
Avoid User.com
Avoid User.com!!! They turned off Segment.io support without notification. Now we can't use their service anymore but they don't repay any of the fee that they have charged us.
It's a good book indeed.

Here is another quote about metis, which I reread every time I need inspiration: https://markpasc.org/blog/gems/athena.html
A rather simplistic implementation of this could be to create regulations to require trash/refuse processing centers and incinerators in every zip code. Consumerism generates so much trash that well off folks are able to ship to poor areas - out of sight/out of mind. Making the effects from waste processing more “equitable” should change behaviors.
I think the "rewriting history" part is:

> It was never designed to stop transmission.

I can't find any source confirming or denying that claim, but I can say it's absolutely not the impression I got from governments and the media. Does anyone have a source saying these vaccines were designed as non-sterilizing?
TLS 1.0 didn't generate a shared key?
Let us ignore the Helium shortage.
It’s not clear to me what your position is. We are talking rare harms, perhaps dozens per million, and no deaths that I know of. So I’m unconcerned. As more data comes out maybe my mind will change and I’ll agree with you. But you seem to be nipping for a fight and I don’t really care to engage.
I take some issue with the comparison as an either-or.

Automation in its correct place shouldn't replace human effort - it should augment that effort.

In this case, it seems one step removed to just do both of these approaches, starting with the first. During the process of finding those 100 high-confidence matches, you could identify the ones that have the most general cases, and reuse the email copy from those.

I think the idea that automation is intended to replace human effort wholesale is improper. We should rely on automation to handle where computers are better than humans, to give the human more time to do things humans are better at.
Thank you for your feedback, first of all, I want to mention that our app is ranking lower and have fewer reviews because we are new on the market. Our strengths are that we use true encryption, all the photos and videos saved in our app are really encrypted with the key derivated from your password. We also focus on details, we have developed our product to maximize the best user experience. I think our mass import, is beyond any competitor on the App Store. I want to mention again we don't put a pin to your photos, we encrypt every file.

You can be sure that we are focused on values and not on maximizing profit. We decide to go with a subscription model because it helps us to continue working and improving our product. It's not a project that we developed and leave there in App Store.
This is the truth of course. Developers develop in spite of the current process management buzz word not because of it. With that said a daily 15 min standup seems to strike a reasonable balance for me/us personally between creating awareness within the team that might not have come up otherwise whilst not stealing too much time.
Incorporating this new information would lead to policies that support vaccine mandates and masking.

But then again, that's always been what I thought the policies should be since there was never any strong claims to vaccines preventing transmission.
No, because everyone pays higher electricity bills while a small number of people benefit from selling their mined crypto.
Always interesting to see the priorities of the media establishment put on display. On one hand there's the narrative of animal rights, the push to stop meat consumption to meet climate goals and on the other there's this blatant hypocrisy.

Of course there's always room to debate the merits of animal experimentation and where we should draw that line. When the experiments are performed abroad to skirt existing protections, it suggests that the experiments have already crossed that line. When the mainstream presses who are so fond of ever increasing regulation suddenly switch their preferences to perform damage control, that's truly special.

Any one of these inconsistencies would be worth critical examination, but when taken together the pungency of foul odors overwhelms. Hopefully this leads curious individuals to ask: What is it about Dr. Anthony Fauci that is so sacred?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=whitecoatwaste.org
Using paper printouts to analyze code is a very old practice.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20001002
For those mystified by certain bits of Perl, the built-in Deparse module is nice.

perl -MO=Deparse /some/script

Outputs a (usually) more readable equivalent, and also works for one-liners that use -e "somesnippet".
> This is all well-and-good, but how do we read all that data in 500 years time, or even 20 years time?

If the data is important enough, we'll find a way. Perhaps by then camera phones will have sensors with quantum resolution that can capture the optical pits in one snap and use AI or whatever to reconstruct the bits from the image on whatever magical storage exists.
The dinner table is a place for socialization. This is where conversations take place, where people discuss all sorts of things (including subjects of political relevance).

Appealing to COVID to enforce silence especially in settings where a good portion of communication takes place is a great social harm. The isolation of the pandemic was bad enough in this regard. We've lost our minds where COVID is concerned. We've made rituals of real or imaginary effectiveness the highest standard of conduct.

COVID is not synonymous with death, as if by voiding COVID you or others will avoid death. The extremist, fallacious, and obsessive thinking surrounding COVID very much qualifies as a phobia and one which leads to imprudent and irrational fears unmoored from the reality and risks of everyday life.

You will die eventually. Everyone will. Get used to it. And it probably won't be because you got COVID.
So there is clearly a market for bitcoin cogen, either city scale or the scale of a single dwelling.
Somehow these last two sentences seem to contradict each other.
Sometimes there just isn't much more to mention than "things are going well" or "things are done". Both of which I would expect a competent team to take as the default if nothing is being said, with the difference between the two shown through your list of issues / graphs / whatever people are using to track progress. At which point, if all you have to say is the default, it isn't that difficult to criticize the usefulness of doing things daily.

On the other end, having to report things based on a timeframe that tight relative to the work done will quickly devolve towards finding things to report on, no matter how unnoteworthy. Teach people to speak up and show noteworthy things instead and have a bit of faith in your other metrics and report pipelines.
Where I work we have something that other software developers might consider ”shitty standups” or a waste of time. We show up one or two minutes late, we often chat about life, topics outside of work for anything between 2 and 15 minutes. Only then we actually start the standup routine. Each person chooses if they want to just say ”worked on feature X yesterday. Will continue to work on feature X today” or to share a complex coding problem or business doubt they want help with. Then it is over and a bit more chatting until someone decides to leave.

But it works great for us. We have explicitly discussed it before and that’s how we want it, at least for now.

The thing is, it’s a completely remote team of 9 people (two PMs, two engineering managers that code, 5 developers). 5 of us never met in real life and the rest were remote even before the pandemic. For us developers it is the only group meeting in the day 90% of the days. The PMs and Managers have lots of meetings, so they are often the ones leaving the standup early, and that’s ok.

We want that meeting to be loose, to allow for non-work conversations, to be flexible in what and how each person share their status. It works great for this team, of this size, with these people.

That’s the thing with advice like the OP. You have to make assumptions about how teams behave. But teams behave in an infinite combination of size, members, companies, and time (we might decide a year from now that we want to run standups differently).
prevent: to stop something from happening or someone from doing something

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/prevent?...
All big scale BTC mines buy at industrial prices.

You cannot run a mine bigger than what your wiring can support in your apartment.

None of them is using the subsidised residential rate.
I wonder if cryptominers in poorer countries speed up the buildout of more stable and robust electricity networks in the long run? I understand they sometimes stress it too much in the short run such as here and then the regulators have to take action but the interplay on a longer timescale would be interesting to see.
> It (a) increases bus width, (b) builds the team and (c) takes 20 seconds.

(d) creates a daily source of anxiety for developers who doesn't handle public speaking well. Which is a lot of them, but it is a shameful thing to admit.
Flowchart:

Person A >Transmission> Person B >Transmission> Person C

Person A >Transmission> Person B (Prevention)
Once a week is fine.
there is a lot of research around this topic, and it is pretty black and white, buying experiences makes you happier than buying things.
You got cause and effect flipped. Cryptocurrency's value determines how much money can be poured into mining it. If bitcoin is at $60k, the block reward is 6.25 BTC, and there's a block every 10 minutes, then the entire mining bitcoin mining system can only consume 6.25 * $60k = $375k worth of electricity every 10 minutes. If the cost of electricity doubles, all that would mean is that the system can consume half as much electricity.
It does happen in reality. I've seen it many times, and it works.
The air of legitimacy leads some people to do heinous things without retribution.
Many countries are still heavily dependent on coal, including many much richer per capita than China.

China has been invested in nuclear for decades with several power plants coming online in the past couple of years and many more under construction right now. They also have an extensive hydro power programme.

Having a population of 1.4 billion and being the workshop of the world does require a lot of energy and a lot of their emissions are in fact ours that be delocalised there along with the factories.
U.S. Blacklists NSO and Candiru for Harming 'National Security and Interests'
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29086916
> They're working on JIT, which could really improve on PyPy

Have they got a big new compiler idea?
I postulate that presence of mngmnt bs speak at levels below VP level will cause shitty standups :)
This means I cannot login just using my password?
Oil prices are not about cars only imo. Everything increases in price because everything is transported via oil :(
> Enumerated errors. Some part of the tooling should be able to tell me all the errors that a function could raise.

I don't know if I'm missing the mark here, but aren't you describing Checked Exceptions?
Kazakhstan used to have big oversupply of electricity. They used to sell electricity to Russia before bitcoins appeared.
A process that works well for motivated, skilled developers working on a clean codebase is... any process.

I agree with your sentiment that it's a problem of skill and motivation - but that said, the usual problem to solve with any process is: how do you make your day to day operations as efficient as possible given the level of skill, codebase quality and motivation you do have, not the one you want. Developers (on average) are only average. Code bases aren't great. Motivation will vary.

So it's a chicken and egg problem. If the reality is that the developers are tired underpaid undersupervised and undermotivated. All that could change, but it would take time. The process happens now.
Interesting take on how to value something, even if it is a top performer but wasteful in how it uses resources, the lack of efficiency make it rank lower.

Thing is, most top of category performers in anything are wasteful in some resource. I think kinda by definition. Lets go way out into left field and say even top performing artists and athletes are wasteful, because the slope of the gain to expensive curve flattens the higher up you get.

I think for large orgs to be high efficiency it has to be baked into their culture. If you don't have high efficiency, the worst thing you can do is also get large.

I think the gamedev world could be akin to digital coal, toxic work env, low pay. Your entire labor force could walk/pivot to something else if better any dimension you compensate them on changes.
The project manager interpreted what they thought a stand up was and enforce we follow a template, they see themselves as part of the "scrum team" so they also attend these meetings.

You have to open with "Today I commit to..." and then the following day you had to start with "Yesterday I committed to ... and I achieved or did not achieve my commitment because ...".

This was followed up with a new commitment for the following day which was again followed up the next day, five days a week.

It's horrible. I hope one day I can be part of the kind of agile which hasn't been weaponized against developers.
Good leaders will never do standups by their own choice.

They will only do them if they're dictated by the company, or the the team members are unable to work and communicate independently and requiring constant micromanagement. The latter is usually a case when the team members are provided by the outsourcing company, or they're some kind of "team extension".
I mean, as an authoritarian state whose elections are generally considered rigged they probably could let their peasants choose between darkness and food/heat to ensure wealthy foreigners continued to to use their country to print themselves money, but I'm not sure it would make sense to do so...
If a parachute doesn't stop the fall why use it? Let's jump without.
Having every layer in the chain also implicitly supporting HTML makes this 100% accurate to how things end up eventually.
This is already in BF2042; does art imitate life or life imitate art?
The real-world data here in the US has supported continued efficacy against hospitalization and death. The CDC's current numbers[1] say that unvaccinated people are at 11.3x greater risk of dying than vaccinated people. The current guidance for boosters is specifically for those groups where efficacy has waned more over time (elderly, immunocompromised) and there's some evidence that Moderna's higher initial dosage has caused its efficacy to wane less (and the booster is only half the original dose).

My point is that frequency of boosters and necessity of new boosters is not at all a clear picture. It has now been 6 months since I got my second shot and I'm not even eligible for a booster, let alone having someone mandate it.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective...
The approach is different, but made me think of OJ, which was posted to Hacker News way back when:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6382490

http://ojjs.org/
I agree but then again it's hard to predict which (encrypted) data will be relevant in 15-20 years
just to put numbers on that - 28M children[1] * $20/dose [2] * 2 doses >= $1.1 B

Considering you can't sue the vaccine manufactures for anything and the vaccines are being mandated in various venues, they are definitely a "safe and effective" way to make lots of money...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-20/...

[2] https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/the-price-ta...
The storage on the network is being subsidized to the tune of $20 million per month, which means there's a massive oversupply of storage and nobody buying it, hence very cheap prices.
Maybe we should use the word "use unknown" instead of "useless" when dealing with things we don't fully understand.

History has humbled us countless times. I recall a recent Veritasium video wherein famous mathematicians of centuries past labelled the concept of negative numbers "useless" (because they didn't understand how they could be useful). My high school bio teacher confidently claimed that the appendix was a "useless organ".
As noted in other responses, the problems
of excess fossil fuel consumption and the problem of being poor are separate problems and can have separate solutions.

The fossil fuel tax solves excess fossil fuel consumption, and redistribution wealth from rich to poor solved the poor problem.
> team members do not believe in their core that their work is valued

Yes, that's the reason. If you know the work you do doesn't matter, you're going to get subpar results.

I won't speak for everyone, but the work I do doesn't matter. I do the work to get paid. The alternative is not get paid. I don't really have a choice. Something that I would consider matters more: building something with my hands like construction, electrician, trades, grocery workers, social services, train workers, factory workers, agricultural workers, bus drivers, etc. That stuff matters in my mind more than whatever widget I'm being paid to make. Those jobs are what keep society moving.

I suspect that for most people in tech, most of the work people do isn't benefiting society and the masses in a good way, it's just a way to make more money for other people. So, it's natural to not believe that their work matters. You have to convince yourself that it matters.

With that said, the solution is a restructure of society that encourages and reinforces work that people find meaningful. No little scrum standups will change any of that. If you truly believe that what you do is meaningful, then you'll get better results. Along those lines, you often hear the question, "What would you do if you didn't need a paycheck?"
Can something like quartz be used for this kind of storage? Will it age better? Or is it more expensive?
> Electricity = keeps you warm

Computers also generate heat. Wish I could use cryptocurrency miners for my heating needs. Why burn fuel or pass current through resistances for that?
So if the point is to gather and declare "no update" maybe there is no point, really?
And if you have something else than "no update", why not to share it with relevant persons only, at any convenient time?
which might not be possible in Kazakhstan considering the state of its infrastructure compared to energy use by miners.
If DNA is a blueprint, mRNA is a photocopy that's used as a working memory of it for a ribosome to use while making a protein. It's chemically unstable and soon falls apart. (The individual nucleotides night be recycled into other mRNA strands that the cells make.) Since the vaccine mRNA does not have any corresponding DNA to make more copies from, that's the end of it.
Common Bean Myths (2006)
> It’s increasingly obvious vaccination doesn’t prevent the spread.

The idea that spread is something that should be stopped at ANY cost is false. Now, what is the price we are willing to pay to stop it? We've already used a novel vaccine. What next? The highest price acceptable by me has been paid.
I interpreted the parent comment as: Artifacts of the virtual machine that physics / biology / chemistry "executes" on (i.e. the universe and potentially minute physical properties we aren't aware of) may be reflected at the macro-scale in the "output" (life).
Wöhler proved in 1828 that there was nothing special with organic molecules by synthesising urea.

I guess you could view molecular formation as a complex system involving atoms and atoms as a complex system involving quarks. That would define chemistry and particle physics as the study of said complex systems which makes sense to me. Still at that level that’s not generally viewed as the study of organisms. What we view as biology, the study of the mechanisms of life, really starts at the molecular level. If you go lower, things stop being specific enough.
>If mining is a net positive for Kazakhstani miners, doesn't that make the country better off?

How does that work?
Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City
Because otherwise big pharma couldn't get richer and politicians pushing it wouldn't get their commission, which is more important than the lifes of catt...citizens.

Political actions like forbidding hospital access to unvaccinated people in France showed long time ago that the purpose of vaccine mandates is not health related.
Yes this is also important. A complaint the new folks had for the “do nothing” scripts is the ability to browse all of the process without the script.

I’ve added this logic afterwards.
Oh, God, I hate that. I would rather get the stand-ups out of the way first thing in the morning so I can have interrupted time before lunch, but most software engineers are massive divas, who think it's a horrible affront to be in the office before 10AM. And even then some people are regularly late.

And now with no commute for most of is, it's still somehow difficult.
At function exit. You can of course always create an anonymous function to emulate a block like:

func() {
defer something()
...
}()

This basically has the same behavior as having a block there, but with the defer being called at the exit of that functions body.
Vaccination isn't a ticket or an anointment, it's an injection that prepares your immune system to better fight the coronavirus.

Saying that there's no need for it because it's not a complete solution is like selling your car because you still have to walk to get from your couch to your car.
There is no capability to increase supply. See my other post - Eastern Europe is out of coal and nat gas. Belarus has excess energy from Nuclear, but is still triaging exports. People will go without power this winter if this isn't done.
"Shitty standups" happen because in anything like a healthy team, they're a complete waste of time. Things like "I am having a problem solving X" should not be deferred until the next standup, they should be communicated in real time, at the very least to the team lead.