skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well you can't scale a business if you rely on only yourself as the workforce, so you will at some point have to outsource work to other people. It doesn't matter where those people are located. It's certainly unkind to overwork or underpay people, no matter where they are in the world (which must be looked at relative to local salaries). But that's not at all what the book recommended.

We all profit off other people's work, and are profited off of. I personally don't find this inherently problematic, since it's not a zero sum game.

To reiterate my point: I think it's not per se unkind to profit off other people's work. It's all about _how_ it's done.
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Any source for Thiel being a fascist?
Good point. In the pre-agile world, developers would work just as single-mindedly toward a goal, prodded by a manager; only after lots of time has been spent on coming up with a plan for the product.
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See another cool example at: https://mobile.twitter.com/zackfreedman/status/1517555638456...
You can definitely take your eyes of the road with Tesla's system as evidenced by the copious number of videos where people get out of their seat and leave their Tesla to keep driving.
It's cool that they managed to make the device work for them.

But on the other hand, I think it should not be the job of the consumer to "fix" shitty design choices. If we accept devices that are borderline defective by design instead of sending them back to where they came from, what we'll end up with are more devices that are similarly broken for the sake saving a few cents.

The only way we can truly fix bad design choices is by making them unprofitable for the manufacturers.
Do a full Karen and ask for the manager... every time.
> electronic caliper: Same, eats up 1 button cell a year, just sitting in my toolbox

Had the same problem; got a good Vernier caliper, never looked back. Some things just don't need batteries!
Autopilot can change lanes. This cannot.
Recently my trimmer turned on by itself and then stayed on. I couldn’t turn it off. Had to put it inside a bocal until it drained itself of battery so that we could bare the noise.
hi, this is intended behaviour, you cannot remove notes. just to clarify they are kept Only in your browser (in local storage to be accurate), so if you clear storage on the website they will be gone.
I really appreciate that Blogspot and Wordpress sort of standardized putting the date in the URL, I appreciate being able to spot dates in blog posts at a glance. Yes, your writing may be timeless (hopefully), but to me being able to know when something was written is important most of the time.
Scheme to disable photography in sensitive areas with mandated firmware [pdf]
Agile, these days, seems more like waterfall every 2 weeks.
If you've worked with any outsourced teams you will quickly learn that while of course your employer can and might outsource you, it is a terrible idea. Such a company inevitably turns into a digital shithole with many barely working components interacting in the most destructive manner possible.

Ask yourself if you work in a short-sighted company that exists only to enrich the next shark in the tank, or a company that is adding anything to the world. If it's the former, don't worry about being outsourced, worry about finding a job that adds something to the world. If it's the latter, you have nothing to worry about.
foone gets harassed when their tweets get linked here.
Pedophilia is so often on the news in the US (and UK) I'm not surprised. Similarly, I remember there was a period a few years ago that the British news I was reading was so intensely focused on toxic masculinity, their inherent desire for rape and violence against women (thanks, Guardian) for a while I carried the fear in myself I could become one of those disgusting people, even though there has never been a thought of violence in my head.

I'm in my 30s, I find my paternal instinct growing and joy whenever I see a family with happy children, yet news has conditioned me not even to smile at a stranger's kid that might make a funny face at me, even though I'd like to make a funny face back at them.

What a sad world we live in, scared to death because it sells news rags.
> whereas in EU you can often buy things with a heavy discount at the airport.

I've browsed the tax-free shops in European airports, it's... disappointing. They will bump up the price from retail anyway because people assume it's a good deal, and they'll focus on premium / luxury goods one wouldn't normally buy.

I mean at the same time, you wouldn't find said premium / luxury goods on the high street either, nor an enthusiastic salesperson having you try fancy whiskeys at nine in the morning, so that's a plus on these tax free shops, lol.
"everyone’s favorite kind of armored fighting vehicle"

Both the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts have proved without a shred of doubt that Tanks are effectively Suicide Cans that have little relevance in modern warfare. They only look good in military parades.

Anti-tank weaponry is sophisticated enough to blast open the greatest of tanks like a hot knife through butter. The warfare equation is changing where an expensive tank and it expensive trained crew can be annihilated at a minute fraction of the cost of building the tank and training its crew.

Citation: several hundred videos of tanks being blown to pieces by lone rangers in the Syria and Ukrainian wars using anti-tank weapons. In some videos a single guy destroys multiple moving tanks within a few minutes!

Today when a tank is seen on a road, the opposition smiles and is happy. They are going to have a blast and provide a viral youtube video. (which gets taken down but not before it spreads)

Unless there is a revolution in armour tech and some sci/fi shielding technology, the Modern Main Battle Tank (MBT) is a Dead Dodo.
This happened to me with a 8+ year old account. By no means was I a power user, maybe having only bought a few things over those 8 years. I go to sell a pair of shoes, the leather type being `Waxed Flesh` somewhere in the description, for like 250$, and was immediately banned for life on that account. CS refused to even acknowledge my existence pretty much after that.
While I get the motivation, I'd rather have my Apple devices which have some economic value to be findable using Find My, which can't function with a physical "hard" off switch.

I'd rather have Bluetooth use infinitesimal amount of my iPhone/Macbook battery than them being lost/stolen which could be potentially tracked when off with "soft off".

But besides some use cases like this, I agree with the post.
Many "classic" remotes are actually designed with the keypad itself being the power switch, they don't consume any power while not being used.

"Smart" remotes are a different picture. audibly sighs and walks off the stage
Using Microsoft Sentinel to roll honey tokens on Windows
Super bright LEDs is one of my biggest pet peeves on electronics. And 99% of them seem to be blue. This one is red, but pulsing - oh god.

For SMD leds it's pretty easy to destroy them directly by using a hot enough iron - they're heat sensitive and die easily. Just touch it with your iron and boom, annoying light gone.
Agile (Scrum rather, but this article appears to be about implementing agile through scrum) trades one set of problems of software development, for another set of problems. That needs to be understood I think. Some times when agile is treated like dogma and religion this somehow gets lost. It's a tradeoff.
It's popular because this new set of problems is deemed to be a better set of problems to have than almost all other sets of problems you'll end up with.

Switch to waterfall, and you'll have problems with that. Try whatever process, and there will be a set of problems that comes from it. Scrum is a flawed process, but there are many flawed processes. A lot of scrum-haters (understandably) argue against scrum, but what I'm missing is the presentation of the alternatives. We are going to be miserable and stuck doing scrum for the coming century unless we can formulate and demonstrate good alternatives. And if we don't want the processes to be upper-management centric, we better formulate the alternative as developers.

The places where I have seen scrum function well (teams delivering features without burnout, without losing grip of the big picture because of constant micro-development etc.) are in teams that are high performing and highly functioning. But of course those teams would have been well functioning and productive with any process.

The allure of scrum (in my opinion) is that it makes teams that would likely have delivered nothing, deliver something, or at least not waste time building the wrong thing. It's a way for management to increase the transparency and lower the risk of software development with poor software developers and/or bad teams. And that, to be honest, isn't something to be scoffed at. Throwing a poor process onto a bad team means you'll get miserable developers and risk having nothing produced. Agile means miserable developers and hopefully some transparency too. Not great, not terrible.
> but that’s very different to living that way all the time (which is impossible unless you’re some kind of psycho to begin with).

If you are not trying to do zazen off the cushion you aren't putting in right effort. You should be aiming to manifest non-discriminating mind at all times
It depends, a lot of modern companies (perhaps even most) have lost the ability to see workers as people. Turns out when you treat people like objects, they won't like you and will leave the moment someone comes along that treats their "property" better. This is less of an issue for the rare companies that still see you as a person to be investing in.
Just watched.

There is no suitable excuse for this, at all, full stop.
I admit I don't know about university endowments, so the question is: what are those $40+ billion dollars sitting there for every year? Does a university really need a balance that may be larger than some nation's GDP?
Everything with a battery should have an easy way to remove the battery.

Correction: MUST have a way.
Yes, but London has fantastic public transport to the extent where if you are living in the Ultra Low Emission Zone you probably don't need a car (if you could even afford a place with a parking space). Now the extension of the Low Emission Zone is a different matter, but its less strict and while people complained a bit before it expanded I've not heard of any major issues from it (but then again, I am probably in a bubble).
China is running it all across China, it's just that Shanghai fucked up implementation (central government set guidelines, provinces then implemented them adjusted to local situation).

Unfortunately reality of exponential growth of easily transmitable virus like COVID-19 (recorded cases where infection happened due to sharing common sewage main) is that if you don't keep it contained early on, you're fucked.
No, Elon responded saying that if they could describe exactly how world hunger could be solved "on this Twitter thread" he would donate $6bn. Nothing to do with "open source", everything to do with making the request undeliverable (UN staff did of course tweet links to already-too-long-for-Twitter UN documents at him)
Quite. Reading numbers is far easier than someone saying those numbers in a foreign language.

If someone speaks 10.43 to me in German, I have no idea.
Maybe one should stop the blame game i.e. "The g-government d-did it!!!" and wonder why debt is increasing in general. The answer is that saved money is taken out of circulation. To keep the economy alive, a certain amount of money must flow through it.

Let's say $20 trillion must flow through the economy per year. People save $1 trillion. Only $19 trillion flow through the economy next year. Usually companies would simply borrow a new $1 trillion through loans into existence. However, with population growth slowing down, companies don't need to grow and invest more so they stopped borrowing. Consumers stepped in until they too thought that they have no need for further debt. To get back to $20 trillion, the government must now borrow money on behalf of all the people who aren't credit worthy enough to borrow money. The more people save, the more the government needs to replenish the circulating money supply just to stay at $20 trillion.

Of course in practice the government doesn't try to maintain a stable GDP, it wants a stable GDP plus some. The reason for that is that increases in productivity necessitate economic growth to maintain full employment. Yes, it's quite stupid. If you have an economy that isn't growing, then increasing productivity will concentrate income within the most skilled individuals even if they have no need for further income, which reduces overall economic efficiency as money is being allocated away from basic needs like housing or food and into the financial market.

Ever wondered why poverty appears to be a "human constant"? Because we think we should give all the money to the most skilled individuals without any regard to whether they actually need that money. When you think about it, jobs shouldn't be allocated to the most skilled, they should be allocated to those who need the money most as their spending will drive further economic activity that then lets the skilled work on useful things. Someone with a broken down car knows better how to spend their money than an investor speculating that you are going to spend your money on a $800 juicer. However, we know that the guy with the broken down car is in distress and we love abusing that situation to our benefit despite the fact that the economic inefficiency is obvious to the naked eye.
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Related to the topic, besides the energy argument and the ability to cycle system state, I'd argue the huge importance of being able to power things off for personal freedom, especially for things with connectivity. We still have the power to shut off devices and largely the ability to block their connectivity (e.g. routing TV ads through a network filter).

With 5G and future connectivity, it feels as there will be push towards not being able to block the network access of individual devices, such that a TV or fridge will just speak to its server directly via some XG/IoT network which the user does control, without any user ability to block this communication.

After losing control over connectivity, it seems as power switches will be the next thing we'll start to lose control over, for engineering and ergonomic reasons, but also for control reasons. Such a shift may be further pushed by more ubiquitous and long-range wireless charging, if it gets to the point where devices such as our phones can be sufficiently charged simply by being inside buildings.

Just thought I'd throw in my $0.02 vote for the ability to power off things.
This example of great community work is why I would pick Neovim over all other flavors. On the other hand, GitHub-specific tooling like this makes me sad that nowadays I have to use Bitbucket because of client's infra
No, it's short-sighted people from US not realising that the internet is broader than the US.

Please, if you are writing an US-centric article, state it in the title. Example: "Agile and the Long Crisis of Software in the USA".
Just remove one battery and it's off?

To be honest, I also have a Dymo label printer (very old model), and it does have a physical on/off switch, but even with the switch off it still consumes batteries like in 6 months.
Ugh... the 3070 has been mia in the US and the only thing you can get are those dreadful (imo) 3070ti's that use something like 50 more watts than the vanilla 3070 for only 7% more performance.
Intelligence is a higher order trait so harder to describe, but it is still a discernible trait. Roughly speaking, intelligence is the ability to achieve an objective through modeling scenarios in order to determine more optimal behavior.

Intelligence across species shares common characteristics even between dolphins, apes and birds which all evolved it independently.
I personally see a global tyranical system (quoting the GP) as a far bigger threat than climate change doom scenarios. At least during our lifetimes.

Only time will tell.
> It's a way for management to increase the transparency and lower the risk of software development with poor software developers and/or bad teams.

So, it's kind of an "observability tool for teams' production process management"? (to reframe it in a more contemporary fashion)

Edit: I guess we're headed to having pulse, blood pressure, VOmax, weight, daily exercise and so... metrics also displayed along mood and burndown charts. :p
I've read a take on NoSQL that it's aimed at web developers who don't want to understand or work with a proper database. I find that in a lot of businesses, the core data is still a regular database, with NoSQL databases only used for non-critical data; it ties in to CQRS as well, with writes being done to a central database, and a read-only cache like redis being used to provide data for the client-facing applications.
I sat on a citizen's jury about cycling a few years ago and one speaker we heard from (in our lead up to working on recommendations) was from the trucking industry. We knew trucks had poor visibility, that cyclists could get knocked over and swept under the trailer, etc but this guy was an absolute buck-passer and unfortunately he had the rest of the jurors spellbound with irrelevant excuses. He'd admitted that 'skirts' on the side of the trucks would make a difference, but there was zero appetite for that change because obviously it would cost transport companies money.

Even just better visibility with the side windows has to be fairly achievable.

That said, I have a lot of respect for truckers here in Australia. In my experience, they're some of the more responsible drivers on the road, through sheer mileage and consideration of their heft. They'll almost always signal when it's safe to overtake, through necessity they're wary brakers and so on.
With the Econic[1] Mercedes Benz as one of the established manufacturers of utility vehicles already offers a product which implements some of the mentioned advantages of lower position for driver an extended window area. Here in Germany they can be often seen as garbage truck or fire fighting truck[2] in the cities. An BEV version was announced[3].

On the other hand, even tallest semi trucks (here 40 tons class) are allowed to roll through German cities widely. They are often involved in accidents with pedestrians or bicylclists with fatal outcome. The main reason is bad sight when turning right. Therefore turning assistants[3] will become mandatory. However, placing the driver better and giving him more field of view is preferred.

[1] https://www.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/de_DE/models/econic.htm...
[2] https://mbs.mercedes-benz.com/de/special-trucks/feuerwehr/au...
[3] https://www.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/de_DE/models/eeconic.ht...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_assistant but better see German version : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbiegeassistent
I understand and agree, but the use-case is a bit skewed since that's not even true for a bare "naked" battery or cell.

They all self-discharge [1], some chemistries more than others of course but phone batteries certainly do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-discharge
> I'd love to try working on a Scrum project that doesn't rely on JIRA. Just notes on a corkboard with a quick "need anything?" conversation in the morning.

Don't you find value in keeping the digital record of the work? For example, if you want to keep track of dependencies that a given task has; or want to get back to the description of a given piece of product that was captured in a ticket (a user story, links to designs, references to other documents, etc.) after some time has passed? Notes on a corkboard are transient; tickets in the Jira are permanent. Isn't there value in that?

BTW, why do people dislike Jira so much? Apart from it being slow or not allowing assignment of tickets to more than one person?
> broken perception of risk based on “optimism, underestimation and invincibility"

How about artificially low interest rates? An interest rate is exactly the coordination between risk and time, with a low interest rate you're subsidizing stupidity and wastefulness, and with its concommittant inflation you're forcing people into making those investments to stay afloat.

Maybe if we weren't goosing the interest rate lower for "growth" we wouldn't be destroying the environment.

But I guess it is hard to get someone who works for an organization like the UN, who is predisposed to meddle, to see that the problem is meddling, and not that the solution is more meddling.
No they aren't, they are now labeled by HR as "devops".
If one doesn't want to get linked to on the internet, one shouldn't post things to the internet. It is as simple as that.
Regarding Kitchen Scale:

I recently bought this [1]. It works with friction - you turn the nob once or twice and you're good to go for a couple weigh ins. It feels rather cheap - so let's see if it really lasts. I love the idea though. I wish we had more energy harvesting gadgets like this.

[1]; https://caso-design.de/en/p/caso-kitchen-energy-design-kitch...
Granted it's a somewhat of an edge case because of the state monopoly, but at least alcohol is 20-40% cheaper at the airport in FIN airports

UK duty free (pre COVID) also seemed to be slightly better priced in contrast to high street
> Life is suffering — the only escape to that is death; instead, we should seek to choose our suffering, as befits our goals.

I don't know what this is, but it isn't Buddhism
This implies that Ampère was a paper launch, which it wasn't. Compared to the previous generation, they delivered more units. It all got snatched up by the crypto miners directly at the factory. Since crypto prices are falling and ETH moves to POS, the situation might reverse substantially.

According to Jon Peddie Research, the combined number of desktop GPUs sold by AMD & NVidia:

Q3/2019 ~10,5 M
Q4/2019 ~11,8 M
Q1/2020 ~9,5 M
Q2/2020 ~10,1 M
Q3/2020 11,5 M
Q4/2020 11,0 M
Q1/2021 11,8 M
Q2/2021 11,47 M
Q3/2021 12,72 M
> Why is “this would take away jobs” an argument that can be made in any non-communist country?

Because a capitalist economy is rooted in self-interest. Labour bodies have power to shape the economy, and they represent the interests of their members, who don't want to lose their jobs.

Plus, people are not perfect market actors with such little empathy that they are willing to abandon their colleagues for a bit more workplace efficiency. So if you know that Bob in your office will be fired due to automation, and you like Bob (and worry you are next), you're going to oppose automation.
It's vague as hell though. Everybody from the agile consultants to the CEO down to the lowliest engineer projected their desires and intrinsic meaning on to the agile manifesto.

If you ask 10 people what agile "really" means you'll get 10 different answers, many quite incompatible with each other.
I found it in the wild, in the source code of the (1980s) Unix `expr` command. I used it in my own parsers for a while, before getting started with yacc/bison. It was only many years later that I learned the technique is called “recursive descent parsing” :)
During undergrad in the US we used to use Xbox connect. It would function had a lan bridge to other people so you'd just use the regular halo UI to find a game.

So it has no real online features but they were grafed on by a bunch of tricks.
I don't think there would be anything malicious here.

It's likely they've just been looking into how to add more side effects to their tables and an engineer has jotted down their findings and made them public.

One note on this site, it's very hard to tell the source of it the author. Is it an official blog? Who wrote it? Is this an external Notion user or internal?