skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're in Canada, where the covid stimulus was $2000/month up until October 2021. Not disagreeing though, CERB is long over and anyone who got that money has spent it. Before the pandemic, I lived in a relatively cheap bachelor where the rent was $1250. I got laid off in the first week, and didn't find a job til a year later.

My groceries used to cost $200/month, now they're $300. Internet and my phone cost $120, leaving $330 month to cover anything that wasn't bare minimum essential. Thank god I already had a bike, because paying for my car would have eaten the last of the money. Also, CERB was a taxable benefit, but deductions weren't taken, meaning that I'll have to pay back some of it at tax time.

Not even joking, if I hadn't moved in with my wife a month before covid hit, I'd be homeless today, CERB or not.
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The real question is, does the Agile Manifesto accurately predict or reflect reality?

Place I was working at, my boss arranged something of a coup so he could work for Boss-Boss-#2 instead of old, not "with it" Boss-Boss-#1. A project appeared, Boss-Boss-#2 wanted to meet with me. Told me we would be doing Agile, also when would I have this done? I hadn't seen anything at this point. Promised meetings with stakeholders; no such meetings occurred. And so on and so forth. But we were doing Agile, he said.

Despite having zero to work with and being ill the entire time, I delivered ahead of the deadline. Turns out the deadline wasn't real, nobody looked at it for seven months. Felt very nimble, very Agile!

It doesn't matter what the Manifesto says. It was written without orthodoxy. There are no section where it says, "If this doesn't happen, you are no longer Agile. The Stakeholders must be beaten with wooden rods, then they are to purify themselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Should the PM fail to beat them with wooden rods, the PM is no longer Agile, and must be beaten by the devs." It has no teeth.
I’d love to believe that but I’ve never seen it in practice. The misses always outweigh the hits and it creates a frustrating team dynamic. You end up with seniors steam-rolling through estimates (hah! I did a large in a day! Applaud me!) and juniors stuck on a small for a week.

External stakeholders may see that over time you end up with performance and estimates averaging out to match up, but that’s very vulnerable to turnover in a team (a few juniors join and the team is underperforming and it’s all the juniors fault) and the internal team dynamic does not mirror the external.

Tasks and engineers are not fungible, allocating the right developer to the right task and giving it a developer-specific estimate will have much greater results.
> It's important to use precise language when talking about addiction. It sounds like you're interpreting "addiction" as "habit forming", whereas I believe GP means "physical dependency". I see a lot of people talking past each other in this thread.

I directly quoted the part I disagreed with. They very specifically said:

> That said it's almost impossible to abuse mushrooms,

Trying to change the topic to specifically physical dependency is a straw-man argument. The topic was literally about "abuse".
Have you missed the entire #MeToo movement? Because people were cheering themselves on for (justifiably) canceling Harvey Weinstein using that exact same word to refer to the actions taken against him.
Depression and mental issues are physiological (in the brain). Otherwise there would be no psychiatric medication.
The things children are born not knowing is crazy. The pre-programming is limited! You have to teach them how to blow their nose.

"Don't eat your boogers."

Holds finger out to me. I wipe it off.

"Don't pick your nose, blow it instead. No, don't pick my nose either."
Simon's a top notch interactive graphical user interface designer and programmer. Not just static pictures, not just fixed animations, not just functional code, but rich interactive animated feedback that's actually useful and helps you complete your task while it's also beautiful. When you can design and program stuff like this all on your own and give it away for free, then you can make up any rules you want about commit messages. Look what else he can do with icons and emojis:

https://schneegans.github.io/news/2021/12/02/flypie10

>More Fly-Pie Updates!

>In the last couple of months several new versions of Fly-Pie have been released. In this post, I want to highlight the major new feature.

>New features were added in version 8 and version 10. The versions 9 and 11 were released as well, but they contain bug fixes only. Here are two trailers to celebrate the respective releases:

Fly-Pie 8: New default dark theme and support for GNOME 3.36, 3.38, 40, and 41!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9t7hfkE_5w

Fly-Pie 10: A new Clipboard Menu, proper touch support & much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXtckqhEIk
You keep saying 'western' medicine. Is this to imply that some other method exists to study long term harms? I suppose long traditional use might, but this doesn't seem meaningfully different from running medical testing over a long period of time.
> so this really just turns into a demoralizing exercise in lying about what you did the previous day

What depressing places you worked.

I have worked once at a firm that had a daily meeting of developers. It was very useful, no expectations, we kept each other informed.

Why would you lie to your comrades? I can guess answers to that....
That is almost certainly way too high. As a point of comparison, in order to burn 1200 kcal in an hour of running a person your size would have to cover 11 miles. That would be a major effort for a highly trained sub-elite athlete.

If you want a sanity check on your fitness tracker data you can do a lab test where they sample exhaled gasses to directly calculate energy expenditure rather than inferring it from heart rate.
TL;DR: you are not alone. Every web dev feels this way. Learn what you can, and in a year you'll look back and know what you could have done better, but will still have some level of the same feeling of being an imposter. As long as you kep coding and trying to learn, you ARE NOT AN IMPOSTER and will continue to progress. Sadly the industry just progresses faster and it feels like everyone EXCEPT you are progressing faster.

I think we've all been here. I've been a web developer for almost 15 years (freelance, agency, in-house, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Wordpress) and I STILL feel completely useless most days and on most projects. Even when I work with Junior Devs, I feel they are faster, know more popular frameworks, produce cooler output than I do.

I've had the conversation with managers about my productivity and skillset. Every single time when I've had the 'imposter syndrome' conversation, my managers would very bluntly tell me my productivity was shit, but my knowledge and code were great. The problem always seems to be myself overthinking or self-doubting, so I become a self-fulling prophecy loop of failure.

Have the talk with the contractor you are working with. Listen to what they tell you. Learn from it. Know that a year from now you will probably feel the same BUT will look back on this project and clearly know what you could have done better and will have more experience to do so going forward.

I think the problem with Web Devs is that we are always comparing ourselves to someone better and further along in their careers, rather than with our peers at our own level. Also, I think since our industry moves so fast and there is always something new to learn that we feel we are falling behind and that adds to an already stressful project/career.

And as for "the code base doesn't look like what you were taught in uni...is this really it?", yes - yes this is really how it is. After I freelanced for a year (and was sure to follow 'best practices') I went on to work in-house for a multi-million $ e-comm company with a team of developers. After 5 years I spent the next 5 years at a branding agency on a team of 3 devs. At neither place did I ever see a 'style-guide', code tests, official processes or best practices, or docs. At the in-house position, we actually built the e-comm cart up from scratch and you'd be lucky to find a comment in the code, let alone official docs or style-guide.

In the real world, at most companys and on most projects (not all, I'm sure there are exceptions at much larger places), you don't have the time, nor does anyone else have the inclination to spend the time on creating documentation or style-guides for 99% or projects. It's just not the priority most times. University is good for THEORY, but for web dev it is usually grossly outdated and not representative of the real world in Web Dev.
How do you mean that not all subsets of an infinite set are finite, or in what cases would this be so?
"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps you don't feel you owe businesses that you feel are pet rock businesses better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. We're trying for a culture of curious conversation here.
Skip the abstract and head straight to the caption for figure 3, then go back and read the whole thing.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
I work with a pixel artist whose work was sold on OpenSea. The "owners" of the NFTs certainly didn't seem to understand the nuances you've commented in this thread with - they (and all their buddies) straight up harassed him on every online channel they could find him demanding to talk about "ownership" or otherwise spamming obnoxious and obscene things. So it's not just potential IP theft and fraud, it's also harassment from an army of crypto cultists who don't even understand what it is they're rallying around.
Podman Runs on Macs
so console.log(ex) is never executed?
Careful with 2cb though, it's gotten me into some sticky situations more than once.
I'm reading this with an open mind, but I have questions:

> Problem #1: Owning Your Own Digital Identity & Fixing Authentication

My very technical friends who are security minded are on keybase.io. Multiple usernames and passwords across the internet is solved in various ways without blockchain. There are a lot of good password managers (I use and encrypted text file.) I don't feel Google owns my identity because I use their authentication system, so unless I'm missing something, I don't see a problem.

> enables advanced features like social recovery, which lets you recover your account if you lose your key via a smart contract that takes votes from guardians (friends or paid services).

> The idea here is that you could give keys to your friends and family, or to some sort of business service, then if you lose your key, use your friends to “vouch” for you and move the account to a new key.

This doesn't seem very workable in a practical sense. It seems like this could be spoofed fairly easily or the business service gets hacked
It's safe to say that most people searching for 'ruby <term>' have absolutely no idea what the ruby programming language is, and didn't mean to find results for it. If you're running a non-personalized search engine like ddg, which results do you show?

For reference, Ruby is only has 6% on the Stack overflow dev survey https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...
Are we assuming that food prices did not go up at all with this calculation?
A little off topic but I have to say that the design of this car is very disappointing. It looks like a formless bar of soap. If I glanced at it on the road I'd think it was a Toyota or something
Its been proven that repeated use of psilocybin quickly builds up a tolerance to it, along with cross tolerance to LSD. Your statement about festivals in Europe is just plain false, by the end of the week you have to consume significant amount of mushrooms to get the same effect. Festivals feature a wide variety of drug use and taking small dosages of mushrooms for recreation for recreation isn't abuse.

As far as addiction, there is chemical addiction, and psychological addition. The former isn't present for a lot of drugs. The latter is very hard to control for, because it really depends on the individual. People can definitely find comfort in escape from reality that psychedelics offer, which can lead to dependence.

However, given an addictive personality, psilocybin use is still safer than comparable drugs, including weed. First, the method of intake through digestive tract is generally better for health than smoking. Secondly, there are no negative withdrawal symptoms from stopping, even with micro-dosing (so in the case of your festival goers, the supposed straight week of use produces no negative withdrawal effects). Thirdly, the desire to get a stronger escape from reality will involve someone taking a higher dose, which isn't a euphoric experience like weed or MDMA can produce - its fairly exhausting even when you are having a good time.

So in the end, given the society view to alcohol and its comparable effects, psilocybin should absolutely be decriminalized and promoted as medicine for use, especially with therapy.
Agree the kibi- mebi- etc is more clear and resolves a lot of the confusion. Better yet would be to drop the base 2 measures entirely.
> I don't think a couple of infrequent Covid stimulus checks is the equivalent of paying people to not work. Even minimum wage pays a lot more than Covid checks.

I assume the author was talking more so about the extended unemployment benefits and not the stimulus checks. At least in the US, working 15 hours instead of 30 wasn't going to be the difference between getting a stimulus check or not, since the cutoff was something like an AGI of $75,000 for the previous year, whereas the unemployment benefits are done one a week-to-week basis and are based on how much (if any) income you're bringing in.

edit: I understand the author's main business base is Canada and things are different there
I was wrong – it was $3.99, so $4 :)

I picked up Thundernews when there was an "unlimited for $4" sale going on, and have used it ever since. Keep an eye out for their sales, because they don't seem to expire them. They resell UsenetExpress so pick up a block account or two from another provider for fills as always.
Perhaps it's down to how JIRA is configured. At $JOB, if you mention the JIRA ticket in a commit message, a link will show up in the ticket to show the commit (it may take some time to show up, but it does eventually). Also, there's an obvious link on the ticket to see all activity.
Labor participation fell even as unemployment dropped back to ~4%. The significant repeated stimulus payments absolutely were the root cause and are a big part of why inflation is rocking 8%.

Raw materials + labor + profit = end price. If raw materials go up, labor goes up and profit stays the same.. that would suggest prices will increase too. The fed has already stopped labeling inflation as transitory and it will continue likely through a good portion of this year too.

I'm glad only 2 restaurants of the 50 near you have closed. About 30% of the restaurants near me have closed, most were small and locally owned. A few chain locations closed too. Most of the remaining ones significantly cut hours. They seem to still be bleeding.
Swiggy and Zomato might have to make food orders costlier for consumers
It's even more astounding to witness the entitlement of someone running a "small business" in LAS VEGAS complaining about paying living wages and related business costs all the while married to the co-founder of Shopify and financially more stable than 99.99999+% of her employee base... the lack of self-awareness is shocking, though not that surprising given the bubble she lives in.
Sounds scary. That's a no from me dog.
The theoretical limit is irrelevant. It's like saying you can't always improve emergency response time because of the speed of light. Nobody is really up against the theoretical limit.

The practical limits are all trade offs. How much does it cost to add two lanes? How much does it cost to maintain low ridership bus service to low density suburbs? There are circumstances in which adding more lanes is the best available alternative.
I always wonder why people who buy Tesla's fsd think that is any different.

The company literally tells them the hardware is there, it's "only" missing the software.

Like, what's a robot worth without the undeveloped software.
Wasn't trying to scare-quote so much as emphasize the idea in the GP comment.
From my casual reading of these journal articles over the past several years, it's easy to make such statements about "healthy" people. Any underlying psychiatric disease discovered _after_ psilocybin can be retroactively applied to the participant.

"Oh, that guy had underlying bipolar disorder and therefore wasn't healthy."
So many of these restauranteur articles. One thing is certain -- it is not the governments job to fix this. This is the market playing out in a pandemic. Restaurants are non-essential and faced with this level of distress should perhaps consider shutting down and coming back when the market can support them. Unless one has deep pockets or the will power, I'm not sure how many can survive.

With the thin margins, most can't afford to pay more and many customers aren't either regardless of how much they want to eat out. I love restaurants and it has been sad to see some of my favorite ones shut down -- hopefully they'll be back!
One trick you can do is just to Print the recipe, and you get all ads removed in a nice clean view. Almost all the recipe sites I use have a Print button somewhere on the page.

You could make an extension that literally calls Print on the page, and turn it into a PDF view from which you can save it. Your recipes could get stored locally or something, so you always have the website URL + clean recipe view stored.

That way you support the site, and you get your recipes without destroying your eyes.
to avoid external calls
In your #3 you seem to have overlooked the phrase “about Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs,” which is what the eye-roll about conflict of interest pertains to.

I get what you misunderstood and I think I now get why, but I disagree that it’s what the “verbal eye roll” (love that phrase from another commenter) is actually doing on the, er, page. Guess we can summon the English teachers now, but I’m sticking to my style. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
We're just starting the 20s. I don't think I ever heard of the decade from 1910 to 1919 being referred to as the 10s, but I definitely heard of the 20s. Maybe the first 20 years of a century are kind of hard to name, so, yeah it's about time.
I agree that people can be both stupid and cruel.
We're willing to pay. We just think the employers should be paying their share too.

"Dozens of big companies headed by top-paid CEOs collected COVID-19 government benefits" https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ceo-pay-covid-19-1.6303304

"Canada’s top CEOs saw average pay increase of almost $100k in 2020" https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/01/04/canadas-top-ceos...
> and the world is a harsh place that doesn't owe anyone anything.

Which is just another subjective view...

Not sure if your comment concludes actually the opposite: You should do Psilocybin if you want to have a happy idalistic life with less career struggles.
I have read a few books that talk of eugenics in the way that I am describing it. Matt Ridley for example (genome book covers it on a chapter).

Most discussions I have had on the topic with experts and such in their labs are usually in good faith with collective enthusiasm for what science can one day bring to humanity. It is only online that I encounter a sort of political extremism in opposition to the idea of leveraging what we know (of DNA) to make the world better.
The job market is still complicated and not that easy. I know quite a few people that ethically disagree with their job and have been trying to leave for over a year and the phone is just not ringing. So now they should just be banned from working anywhere else? What are the supposed to do? Quit and starve?
I don't think any of those events will come to pass, but I suspect you might live long enough to see The Singularity arrive, and that might be the harbinger of doom you are seeking.
I agree that code review is not a great medium to disseminate information about the codebase, but assigning individual ownership and accountability doesn't make the need to share information go away.

Ownership and accountability are workable as long as the same person sticks around long enough to fix all their mistakes. If that person leaves, the code becomes orphaned and it's up to one of their teammates to find out where the skeletons are buried.
> Eating out is expensive and should be expensive if you want businesses to sustain themselves when there’s turmoil in the industry.

Why is it only expensive because there can be turmoil? Isn't it primarily expensive IFF labor is expensive?
> Scrum isn't a recitation of minutiae for its own sake

In 12 years of having to deal with the annoying fad of agile/scrum, I've never seen it be anything other than precisely that: "a recitation of minutiae for its own sake".
Meh. People have all sorts of beliefs about the afterlife. Nobody knows what’s going to happen. Unless you know somebody who came back from the dead and reported on it?
In this case, a major issue was that the weather was rain transitioning to heavy snowfall. VDOT couldn’t pre-treat the roads because the rain would wash it away, and they couldn’t clear the roads of snow fast enough to prevent ice formation. Similar to the Atlanta “snowmageddon” in 2014, once you have enough 18-wheelers stopped, they can’t start moving again on ice, and they (plus the normal car traffic) clog the roads enough that the snow trucks can’t operate. I am having difficulty envisioning how a hypercompetent northeastern DOT could do better in these circumstances, other than improved communication.
> Mushroom drawl is a pretty classical tell of usage, but I wouldn't consider it a de facto detriment.

> For some people, being a little slower to speak means they're more careful with their thoughts,

It takes some wild mental gymnastics to try to flip a drug-induced speech impediment into a good thing.

It's also fascinating to watch how some of the psychedelic enthusiasts will vehemently dismiss the idea of mushroom-induced speech issues, while others will readily acknowledge that "mushroom drawl" is a classic, well-known phenomenon but it's okay because it's good actually.
email/password is terrible UX for vast majority of user. it's forgettable, it's not secure, and it exists only because it have existed since dawn of computers.
I predict the Republican party will make an about-face on immigration. Businesses have come to depend on a semi-infinite supply of cheap labor, and the only way they're going to get it is by letting in a new flood of unskilled workers.