skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no economical way for public transportation to cover the kind of transit patterns serviced by highways. If I had to take buses from Bozeman, MT to Boise, ID, any plausible bus network would take 5x as long to get me from A to B.

Making everyone ride busses and bicycles in a country with the geography of America is a fantasy, even if you buy the premise that this is otherwise desirable.

I don't even buy the premise, because things that are valuable to me include:

1. Expediency

2. Comfort

3. Not being subject to timetables decided by other people

4. Not having to deal with homeless or crazy people while transiting

5. Sanitation. Public transit and pandemic mitigation measures are mutually incompatible

While driving, I only have to deal with one network topology (the road system) instead of two (the bus network on top of the road network), leading to vastly shorter travel times in practice. My vehicles are customized to my comfort. I don't have to get permission or wait on someone else to use them. I don't have to share them with anyone. I can keep them as clean as I please.
> Rail transit still works in many non-dysfunctional countries.

Define "works". Sure it can move millions of people each day, but those people live miserable lives most of the time. Have you lived in a city where commuting one hour each way by train is considered "very good" ? And some of the worse are around 1.30-1.45 hours each way, each day? Even if for a while the train is fine, if the city is growing it will become unbearably crowded, smelly, hot and just a nightmare to deal with when you're tired and want to get home at 6 PM.
Different breeds. Chickens we eat commercially are bred to to be that way. They can’t even walk without being in pain.

“ Most broilers find walking painful, as indicated by studies using analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs. In one experiment, healthy birds took 11 seconds to negotiate an obstacle course, whereas lame birds took 34 seconds. After the birds had been treated with carprofen, there was no effect on the speed of the healthy birds, however, the lame birds now took only 18 seconds to negotiate the course, indicating that the pain of lameness is relieved by the drug.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broiler
Is it just me, or is the Antikythera calling out for a Dr. Who episode tying it to aliens or some other fantastic explanation?
If driving demand can be induced by massively subsidizing it with billions as is currently done, so can other forms of transportation.
What do you mean? Torrents are legal in many jurisdictions around the world.

How do you feel about DMCA being used to takedown NFTs via Google and Cloudflare, in some cases against the original artist?
you have to execute it like this:

await foo();

Then you will see the error
I'm torn on this feature.

In the one hand, an application should never be able to replace itself with "random code" to be executed. I want my systems to be immutable. I want my services to be run with the smallest set of privileges required.

On the other hand, it encourages "consumer level" users to keep their software up-to-date, even when it wasn't installed from a distribution's repository etc.

So I think in general it's a good feature to have, as advanced users/distributions will restrict what a service/process is able to to anyways and won't have any downsides of not using this feature.

It should be optional, that's all!
I think you and OP are saying the same thing. Everyone can pay 4% more for their sandwiches so employees can earn a living wage, and saying it would be everyone paying $15 vs $7 is disingenuous.
Since when grandmas represent the trendy narratives?
For Safari iOS: Settings > Safari > Close Tabs > After One Day/Week/Month
> These days you need to have your kernel driver signed by Microsoft

However, this is required only for a “proper” kernel driver specifically; kernel code execution can still be accomplished without any signing at all using /dev/kmem-like mechanisms, which Microsoft explicitly does not consider a bug[1].

> or edit your boot config options to put the machine in an insecure state mostly useful for testing.

Or fiddle with undocumented registry settings (used, among other things, to support upgrades from Windows 7 installations with unsigned drivers) and suppress signing checks for your driver even outside of testing mode[2].

> To get it signed you need to pass a basic test suite which MS provides [...].

You also need to register a business entity and cough up upwards of 300 USD/yr for a Microsoft-approved EV code signing cert[3] before that, which is the biggest hurdle for me at least.

I have to say, even if this new Microsoft is not the same as old Microsoft, it sure looks very similar from some angles.

[1] https://github.com/ionescu007/r0ak#is-this-a-bugvulnerabilit...

[2] https://geoffchappell.com/notes/security/whqlsettings/index....

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/da...
VR desktops apps nowadays let you place windows around your head in VR, so that you feel fully immersed in whatever you're doing.

Back in the Compiz days, my virtual desktop switcher was a 3D cylinder. Holding the middle mouse button would zoom out my current desktop, placing me in the center of a giant 3D cylinder which I could rotate by moving the mouse to switch to a different desktop. And it worked with my dual monitor setup!

That was immersive as hell, and I felt so freaking productive having that spatial awareness of my other desktops. Back then I was doing Android development with Eclipse, and I would have one desktop for code, another desktop for logcat and an ADB terminal, and another desktop for documentation/music/etc.

And of course, all of my windows were wobbly.

Today I don't use anything fancy like that anymore, and I barely ever use virtual desktops for anything, even though switching between them with a keybinding is much easier/faster than that old setup I had. ALT+TAB takes about as much effort as CTRL+ALT+ARROW, but one is muscle memory and the other is not. If I ain't getting a fancy 3D cylinder, why bother?
The restaurant industry is notoriously high-risk to start with, and they certainly have been impacted more than most other industries. Many other businesses were simply shut down (i.e. you can't have customers), which is devastating on its own. But, that period lasted a relatively short time. With restaurants, they had to make new investments in plexiglass crap, outdoor dining areas, etc..._and_ they were partially or fully shut down, or had to adapt to takeout only -- all of it costing time and money, and adding risk. The rules for them changed more frequently and unpredictably, and have been in effect throughout these 2 years.

The author should also mention another factor limiting the number of patrons who show up, and aggravating those that do: turning the restaurant into an enforcement arm of The State in demanding proof of vaccination.
Yea, but that's kind of my point. Actually decentralized software is just out there and you can use it if you find a use case for yourself, there is no one that would shut it down if it isn't popular enough.
Considering they market it as "PC's idle time into cash", I don't think they're much interested in telling you that you're in fact burning through electricity to make Norton money.
Ok, we've revised the title above to try to make it more accurate about what's being reported here.
> Every single tiny aspect of work is dictated by somebody else, commitee or some kind of process.

That is not the way Scrum is meant to be implemented. The goal is to have a cross-functional, empowered team with the ability to make their own decision. The Product Owner - as part of that team - makes ultimate decisions as to what the product will be.

> It creates unnecessary hard social situations

Yes, social conflicts in team can be tough. Following the values of Scrum, respect and openness in particular, helps teams sort these things out. I know that in practice, it involves a lot of skill to guide a team through those phases.

> the components of motivations in pretty much any other fields are autonomy, mastery, accountability

You are absolutely right. If you read through the Scrum guide, you will find all those aspects in there. I think what you are describing, though, is how Scrum is "lived" in many organizations, which have difficulties empowering teams and provide the environment necessary to do Scrum.

In these situations, the answer is often that Scrum simply don't work, it's clashing with your culture and structure. Many teams opt to implement parts of Scrum - which is fine and might work exceptionally well, but it's not Scrum.
Interesting. I think the author got it wrong but by totally different reasons, LOL.

I really don't like SCRUM, but sounds like the Author got it totally wrong.

Problem #1 - Scrum Is Vague: Nope, it can be vague, you can create your own dialect from SCRUM, but you can do SCRUM by the book and it's fine

Problem #2 - The “Sprint” : The context switch is a problem, however you can build a feature or a set of features iteratively, in 2 weeks block. It is doable and normally I have to admit you move forward with more confidence because you are able to expose your work sooner to the users (i.e as a beta feature)

Problem #3 - The Scrum Master: "In addition to all of their development work, the engineers are now interrupted frequently by the scrum master who is asking when the Java code for the React app will be done.": Nope it will never happen. Scrum Master don't do follow-up on the dev team. SCRUM has well defined cerimonies to introspect the development. At least I never saw or heard of this issue.

Problem #4 - Estimates: You don't have to over-engineer it. We size cards to make sure that everyone understood the problem. If I card a card as L and the whole team sized it as S, we discuss to make sure that we are all on the same page. It helps us a lot to map all work to be done in one card

Beside that I don't think doing SCRUM you spend more money than necessary.. Normally the SCRUM master is one developer and SCRUM actually can be used to reduce the development costs. It's pretty common to have teams with 1 or 2 senior devs and the rest juniors, forcing the seniors to do coaching and micromanagement from the junior devs...
Where are you getting the 'knowingly' qualifier from? Are the operators of $random_auction_site also knowingly facilitating the sales of stolen goods?
Reading the etymological link [0] from Wikipedia I have an idea that it comes from a diminutive form of the first syllable to the word German. This English StackExchange answer [1] seems to conceptually back me up a bit, calling it hypocorism [2]:

English forms nicknames in a variety of manners. Shortening, often to the first syllable . . . . Addition of the diminutive suffix, usually -ie or -y. It is often added to the end of an already shortened name. This suffix connotes smallness or endearment.

I'm certain someone will object to the idea of soldiers having a term of "endearment" for the "enemy," and so I'll stress "smallness" rather than using a name with MAN in it.

0. https://www.etymonline.com/word/Jerry

1. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/8767/changes-in-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocorism
Well China is trying are they not? We will probably have to wait another 5-15 years to see the results...
The scroll is really hard to use on my macbook. I can't scroll slowly enough. It moves massively up and down with each scroll even when I am very careful.
Psilocybin is very safe.

It is short acting so the distress that often accompanies major psychedelics is short and wears off quickly (unlike, say, mescaline which drags on for hours)

There does seem to be a effect where taking magic mushrooms several days in a row produces deleterious effects, I am not sure that is due to the psilocybin but it is unpleasant physical side effects that are not apparent if doses are spaced.

Repeated use (even when spaced enough to avoid the above physical effects) usually resulted (in my anecdotal observations of other people) in sever paranoia developing. That faded as quickly as the effects of the drug.

It should be available and it should be widely used. Psychedelic drugs are good for the mind, which is why people take them.
The Spy Next Door
I think the harm was caused by using the investors and prestige of the company to build the consumer confidence into passing faulty testing on to patients and some patients testified to receiving pretty devastating false positives and results. Their customer service was directed to minimize their potential failure rates until one of the later lab directors voided a lot of the faulty test results after discovering how bad it actually was. While I believe she was mainly convicted of defrauding investors, it's not like her actions happened in a bubble. They operated for like 10 years like that.
Franchisees still benefit from the supply chain. Even if individual stores wouldn't be subsidized by the company, they benefit from brand recognition and already operating at the price floor for food you dont make yourself.
His "University" is somewhat questionable as well. It was very much not a university when founded and only achieved legitimacy by proxy when ASU took them under its wing. And ASU seems to have dropped any reference to the ridiculous "Hero" pretentions in its marketing of the program-- I don't see any reference to it from ASU since 2018.

It also doesn't appear to have produced many notable alumni in its (nearly) decade of existence: Some of the Alumni they feature are profiles of people with defunct products. The QTUM crypto currency may be an exception as a somewhat moderately successful coin w/ market cap ~$1B, although that's not quite the same as a Unicorn valuation since it doesn't really all belong to QTUM as an organization.

It's possible I'm not being fair on the Alumni though: It does seem that fair number have gone on to modest success, and as I reflect on the above, the SV focus on multi-$billion valuations is possibly coloring my judgment. ASU-Draper doesn't necessarily have to be a Unicorn factory to be successful, so I'll temper my above judgement with that.
This is why it can be better to just -prioritize- without -estimating-. Make sure you clearly and strategically prioritize the work to do, and plan for continuous delivery, or release milestones. Assume that your engineers will work just as fast as if they made inaccurate estimates (keep in mind overestimates might result in engineers slacking off to fill the over estimated time). You can always look at the work that engineers deliver, see how long it took them, and senior engineers will be able to tell if that engineer spent a reasonable amount of time for that task. You could call this post-estimates vs traditional pre-estimates. So tl;dr: just do good prioritizing and do post-estimates to gauge whether people are slacking off
> * Ben, a junior dev, says a week.
>
> * Carol, a senior dev, new to the company, says 3 days.
>
> * Dara, a team veteran, say 1 day, at most.

Maybe it's just me, but usually the estimates get longer with seniority. It might take them as long as you said it would, but the stated length would probably be reversed, since the more senior employees can easily see the pitfalls and the required housekeeping that the task brings.
I like to think of it as solving the problem in the right place.

It’s often possible to work around issues in lower layers, but it's usually at least worth raising it upstream to get it fixed 'properly'.

It'll help me when I dont have a blocklist active, and it'll help new programmers who arent familiar. It'll reward good sites with extra traffic and discourage new spammers entering the market.

In the worst case, if Google really can't or won't address tge issue, understanding the upstream problem more fully can help make a better workaround.
I'll bet you $1M that civilization doesn't collapse within 30 years!
> Here we go...down the same rabbit hole that these Linux vs whatever else conversations always go down.

At risk of sounding like a school child: you literally started it.

My point was initially just to say that other people get on fine with Linux. Then you took us down the rabbit hole conflating preference with technical fact.

> Just to reiterate: Every OS has problems but…

Exactly my point. You try to sound impartial but then drift into anecdote and bias. Like what you like, I’m really not here to argue you into using another operating system.

> I am not going to ignore what I have experienced with the OS just because you said it was good.

I feel like I’ve said this a dozen times already…but: I’m all for people having preferences and I’d never dare try to change someone’s opinion. But you’re conflating preference as technical fact. Maybe you should relax a little and appreciate other peoples preferences too instead of assuming you’re right :)

If you read back what I’ve posted you’ll see I’m not here to argue with you that you’re experiences don’t matter to you. I’m just saying it’s all subjective.

Having done as much research as I have on this topic over the years (had to for work) it’s funny how much of what we believe is fact is actually just down to preferences and those preferences are usually just down to comfort (like an old friend) rather than technical capabilities.

But I’ll happily end the topic here if that’s you’re desire. :)
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Did the collapse of democracy in Russia lead to nuclear war?
The Mac Malware of 2021
Well, JIRA isn't terrible. It does its job reasonably well, but it really shows that it's a project management tool that developers happen to be forced to use, and it's the standard "agile" tool. Its use is a red flag that maybe the org hasn't put much thought into encouraging developers to work efficiently and cultivating Csikszentmihalyian "flow". A typical corporate JIRA workflow is an example of what I call switch-cutting: making the production of metrics that will be used by management to crack the whip later, the responsibility of the line workers (akin to the old-timey practice of making a child cut the switch with which they will be beaten). But Scrum itself has this problem as well, and JIRA is just a tool to that end.

Like I said, there are far worse things that could be forced on a developer team -- like VersionOne, switching away from which to JIRA will seem as a breath of fresh air.
If you optimize for space it's not too bad. Even a thin blanket of the right material is a huge improvement over nothing. That and nest things inside of each other where possible and/or use vacuum seal bags. I've typically been able to jam everything in the least convenient corner of the trunk.
> It is not the governments job to fix this. This is the market playing out in a pandemic

But in many ways, the government is contributing to this via:

- Government benefits competing with wages

- Government-imposed shutdowns / reduced-capacity.
>Aren't most McDonalds franchises?

his point still stand.

https://boxaroundtheworld.com/mcdonalds-supply-chain-managem...

"McDonalds is a fine example of how vertical integration can keep costs down and profits up. They grow their own beef through contracted producers, process their own meat, create their own spices and mixes in factories that they contract, grow their own potatoes and other vegetable through contracted producers, transport their goods on their own. McDonalds owns the land that their restaurants are situated on, so they do not have to deal with leases and landlords. They have taken control of their supply chain nicely."

edit: a mom and pop operation can't compete with McDonalds.
McDonalds can increase employees wages thus force others to do the same even if mom and pop doesn't have a vertical integration like McDonalds. by increase wages, it force smaller operators to cut staffs or shut down. McDonalds can keep their competition down.
I use KeePass databases synced with SyncThing. One database for passwords and private keys, another for TOTP 2FA (which I only ever update/unlock on my phone).

As for the software I use to access the database:

* On Windows/Linux, I use KeePassXC with the corresponding browser extension. I also use the built-in SSH agent integration so I don't need to store my private keys in ~/.ssh nor manually type in their encryption passphrase.

On Windows, auto-type works great for the most part, except in ancient applications that only support scan-code-based input and not Unicode-based input (shakes fist at IPMI consoles of brand new servers that _still_ use ancient noVNC versions without support for Unicode input). I build KeePassXC from source to include a not-yet-merged patch for scan-code support.

* On Android, I use KeePassDX (open source). It integrates with Android's autofill API, but also has a keyboard for typing the username/password/TOTP code into apps that don't support autofill.

* Back when I still used iOS, I used Strongbox (open source, but does not accept contributions). It integrates with iOS' autofill API.

For syncing, I use SyncThingTray on Windows/Linux and SyncThingFork on Android. On iOS, I used to have Strongbox connect via sftp to my server running SyncThing because I could not find a decent SyncThing client. (I'm not even sure it's possible to implement on iOS without resorting to abusing location services for background execution, like iSH or most SSH clients.)
Dark Crystal
My spout has on two occasions, come off completely and ended up inside the tank! Looking at it, this shouldn't be possible, but it somehow happened.
Don't ask. Tell. Do some research about what your comp should be, and then tell them.

"Hey, boss. I've been here for two years. I've built this MVP, upgraded this system, and make most of the tech decisions. I've increased revenue by $A and decreased latency by B%. I've mentored this person and that person. Given that it's been two years, and the value that I have brought to the company and market rate for the role that I am performing, a C% raise bringing me to $XX,XXXX seems to be a reasonable comp adjustment. Let me know what you think."

You have leverage here (other offers/opportunities). You aren't begging for more money -- you're stating the facts. You are saying "I'm worth this much. If you agree, then we're good." And if he doesn't agree... well, you have options, right?

Happy to help more if I can, but this is my best advice as a manager. Good luck!
You realize speed bumps are not there to 'ruin driving'--they are mechanical means to stop drivers from speeding as signs are useless and as soon as people are past the cops they speed again.
The former Jefferson Davis Highway (now Emancipation Highway) has never had the capacity to back-stop I-95. It can be used in emergencies, but only if one wants to get stuck in a slightly different place with an occasional soda machine within walking distance... A feature one stuck on that road may be able to take advantage of, given the speed one will be going.

And I don't imagine it would be much use in a sudden-onset winter storm, since it's right next to I-95; it's going to get blanketed about as fast as I-95 will, and most of it lacks enough shoulder for plows to get along it if it gets jammed with traffic.
Sounds like tipping, but optional to the business what makes it to the employees.
The dose makes the poison.

The study was testing at 10mg and 25mg which are TINY (microdoses)

Your experience appears to be with people who take macrodoses repeatedly.

I'm not sure these two situations are comparable.
This is exactly how I felt as well. The most surprising part of that article was that many people think it was originally envisioned as a trilogy. To me, it feels exactly like one movie that was extraordinarily successful, so they grafted on some stuff to make it a trilogy.
Discussed at the time:

Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23233683 - May 2020 (86 comments)