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You are right.

I miss Friday's at Pivotal Labs where we went as a team to a conference room and wrote a happy face, meh face and sad face on the board.

We wrote out things that happened during the week under each column. Everyone votes for what they want to talk about and the items with the most votes get discussed first.

Doing this religiously helped with team cohesion and allowed us to develop better products together. Those 30 minutes were a great way to end each week and set us up for a productive new week on Monday.
Your comment deeply upsets me. Perhaps you need to be taxed for your comments that upset others. We should also tax low-quality off-topic comments as well?
Starlite is an ASGI API framework built on top of pydantic and Starlette
i had it already installed too. took a look at it and it now includes a 3d animation showing how you tie the knot. It's pretty good.
So you want to tax the lightest cars and give a pass to large trucks which have a poor 0-60 time? Just like the comment you are replying to, you're taxing the wrong metric. Need to be more direct in taxing the problem.
It's just you. There may be various reasons for a civilization to leave its planetary system. Its host star may be dying and turning into red giant. A nearby star may be close to going supernova or hypernova. The civilization may send its own space explorers on a passing by free-floating planet. For example, if the civilization's scientists determine that there is a hypervelocity free-floating planet passing through their Oort cloud and heading to a nearby star, they may send their machines to ride the free-floating planet to that star to study it. Why would not they catch a ride when an opportunity presents itself?
RED have some very nice people.

However, the product was/is okay-ishm but the fan boys are utterly toxic pricks.

the charged for everything, made special names for all sorts, and had tesla levels of bullshit when it came to deadlines and capabilities.

For example, the "RED ray" laser projector, which supposedly was a 4k native laser based projector, except that it wasn't, never ran at 4k during NAB and if I recall correctly at some point was replaced by a barco. (https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/126579-red-ray-4k-ci...)

They made "redrockets" that were supposedly super high tech decoding cards, but were in reality rebadged from another company. They were extra ordinarily fragile (I personally accidentally killed 3 in just one event) and fucking expensive (£4k each)

It was me, apparently that was the problem, not the design. In the same event I replaced graphics cards, a boat load of Fusion IoDrives, none of them died.

So yes, they were anti-consumer to a certain extent. However if they liked you, they'd invite you to the ranch, you'd hang out with other RED people and generally have a good time.
In what world does this even affect the Chinese economy? We’re talking about restricting Chinese payment apps from American app stores. The Chinese economy is driven by users who have access to the Chinese app stores
A pyramid scheme is a distributed, decentralized Ponzi scheme
The even more obvious thing is the lockdowns. Regardless of whether you think the lockdowns were appropriate or not, it’s pretty clear that many of the advantages of living in a dense cultural center like SF go away when you’re mostly confined to your home and can’t participate in night life, the art/music scene, restaurants, etc. Heck you barely even benefit from the weather any more.
I read this in the 4th grade and it changed the course of my life. It explains everything up to RSA with math that a middle schooler can follow, with exciting stories of cryptography and linguistics across history. Lots of cool spy stories!
The bigger Prius models weigh as much as a light truck used to (when light trucks were still available). It isn't just the supersized EVs that are contributing to the bloat.
But financial liquidity can be made out of thin air. Real world products can't.
> You do understand that this is why people don't like contemporary movies, right?

Though I strongly prefer independent films, people "vote with dollars". Take a look at Disney.

The problems with filmmaking are the institutional capital, planning, and complicated logistics required to create a film. There's only so much money to make movies, not everyone gets a shot. This is why generic "for the masses" films get made and get theatrical release placement. This is why we have more Twitch streamers than filmmakers.

It will change.
"my $foo = 0 if 0"

I was stuck on a version of perl at work that could crash if you did that. If the clause was false, it did something like create the internal C-level variable for that variable, but never initialized it to anything, resulting in a true crash-the-process segfault if you ever looked at that variable again. That was fun to track down, and resulted in a slow trickle of trying to explain to a new programmer why they shouldn't do that.

I don't think it reads terrible well anyhow. And I don't mean that as a postfix condition argument; I have opinions about that, but I don't mean that argument. I just mean "create this variable conditionally" doesn't really make a lot of sense under Perl's model and while I learned what happened when the clause was false, I never felt like that was really obvious.
Good questions. The usual answer is “because it’s a good staring point for teaching the team to talk and coordinate often”. As with most scrum ceremonies, the standup should probably be adapted to match the needs of the team. It doesn’t have to be a reporting circle where you tell your PM “what did you do, what will you do, what is blocking you”.

_edit_: Adapted or removed or reinvented.
> DC statehood has been a hugely locally popular movement for quite some time.

I'm sure many locales with 670k residents would love to become states, that'd be a pretty sweet deal.
Not sure what you mean by “hiding information”. Encrypted data should appear no different than random noise right?

I’m not an expert on this stuff at all, but it seems also unlikely we could depend on it being concentrated within a single frequency band.
It looks to me like this is a response to the FastAPI project which has had some challenges forming a community of maintainers:

https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/4263

https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/discussions/3970

For those that don't know - FastAPI is a Python web framework built on top of Starlette https://www.starlette.io

Starlette is a Python async web server founded by Tom Christie who was a lead figure in Django REST Framework.
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In my experience, most retro meetings I have been in start with the scrum master asking things like "what did we do well this sprint?", followed by complete silence from the team until someone points out a non-point like "we collaborated well...".

One team I worked on decided to not pre-schedule retro meetings. Instead we had a 'retro board', which was just a section of a white board where team members would write down specific things that they think would be worth discussing in a future retro meeting. The team would decide to hold a retro meeting once the board had accumulated a few things to talk about. We found this approach was super effective because we knew what we needed to discuss when we held the meeting, instead of waiting for team members to recall something to talk about.
This is why Pivotal Labs would rotate people on teams quite often. Nobody gets "stuck" doing the same thing endlessly.
Ask HN: Can we have a search engine that filters out paywalled results?
It's so simple and it would improve everyone's life on the internet.
Can I ask you a question?

Did you actually believe, or even think about the position you're now taking prior to reading the comment thread about it?

I'm highly skeptical that someone genuinely holds the position "businesses aren't consumers."

I think it's more likely that you're just arbitrarily taking a contrarian position to argue online to pass the time.
To me, Scrum has always been something of a paradox. The whole point of agile is to adapt the process to the team's needs - if you're doing dogmatic agile, you're not actually doing agile. But what Scrum seems to add on top of the agile manifesto seems to be mainly dogma.

I like the term "just-in-time process". A team should have only the processes in exactly the amounts that provide value to the team, and no more. If a daily standup is found to waste people's time, don't do it, or do it less often. If team members are found to need to do more coordination, maybe other avenues of communication could be encouraged?
This tax isn’t assessing externalities; that’s something you’d build into the gas tax.

This is a yearly punitive sin tax assessed because someone feels a moral imperative to coerce the behavior of others.

> “You can’t ban sales of these things,” says Mary Cheh, a D.C. councilmember who developed the new fee structure, “but you can make them pay their own way.”

My 3 ton pickup truck is my sole vehicle, and has been driven a total of 19,000 miles over the past eight years.

That’s an average of 2,375 road miles per year, over eight years.

In absolute terms, I’m doing a lot less damage to the road and producing a lot less pollution than the individual commuting to work every single day, even if they’re driving an EV (charged by our existing non-renewable infrastructure!).

My truck will also last me for at least another decade, further avoiding the massive carbon footprint inherent in building a new vehicle.

It’s reminiscent of our sugar tax. I now pay an extra 60 cents for a diet, sugar-free soda when we go out for hamburgers, because restaurants are required to collect the tax if you could get a full-sugar soda at their soda fountain.

In a city that was already the healthiest in the country, and has absolutely no obesity problem.

Assessing the cost of externalities is fine.

Useless laws that do nothing — other than soothing the anxiety and moral panic of their authors — externalize the cost of doing so onto the rest of us.
I vouched for your comment, because it seems earnest but was marked dead. I don't see anything in your comment history to indicate that you are shadowbanned.

I have not read the book, except to verify that it was real and looked plausible. If your comment was downvoted for content, I hope people will comment instead.
Given that often human-driven, or human-parked, cars create similar temporary obstacles, the most important question here is: does this happen more-often, or for longer-periods, with autonomous cars?

I don't see the article, or quoted sources, even trying to make that comparison - so this is really only a half-story, compared to what's relevant.

Further, given the remote-guidance possibilities with autonomous cars, it's plausible to think they'll eventually be far, far better than human-driven cars at making-way for higher-priority traffic.

Human drivers sometimes fail-to-notice sirens or other high-priority demands on road capacity. But, an automated system could broadcast the planned-routes of dispatched priority vehicles to every autonomous car in the city, allowing the autonomous cars to preemptively clear paths, before it even becomes an issue of local-reasoning about an exceptional-situation.
Browser-based is a plus for sure, as the browser is more sandboxed than the OS. There was the time Zoom left part of itself still installed after the user uninstalled it on Mac, and it listened to a port which could be accessed from the browser [1]. Zoom was the product that made me realise that the "locked down" phone model was the right one after all, after a decade of me complaining about it. We are in an adversarial relationship with software and the companies that produce it.

But Zoom can be used in the browser as well, which is how I use it.

If we're talking to say 10 people, I can't get all the pictures of everyone to appear. Google Meet doesn't do this by default either (I think it shows up to 9 people by default) but you can change it to show more. Maybe you can do the same on Zoom but I haven't found out how.

The "share" button (at least on the web app) is green at the bottom. It looks like it's selected to me, which always makes me panic I'm sharing my screen.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a...
> For a country that likes to jerk itself off about being the epitome of ‘freedom’, they sure do like to tell people what to do.

> The laws are a direct result of these people existing and voting for them.

I see these as contradictory statements. In reality independent legislatures are making laws along the lines of their constituency's prevailing ideology. Both sides of this cultural divide are increasingly unable or unwilling to even entertain each others' points of view in good faith debate.
Yup. I was definitely surprised at the puny suggested increases.

If they are goint to increase registration costs, it should also not be merely "if >6000 Lbs, increase $500", but a formula steadily increasing the cost so that mfgrs don't merely post the 'official' curb weight 10Lbs under the threshold. So, something more like $10/year for every 100 Lbs over one ton curb weight.

It'd be even better to do this via fees combined with a congestion tax system. This has worked very well for many cities to charge road use tolls higher in congested times, therefore motivating people to not use vehicles if they can avoid it. In this case, just increase the costs based also on vehicle weight, so the heavy vehicles have higher fees even at 3AM. Plus, this will avoid people avoiding it by registering their beast at their out-of-city home, or their brother's address or something.
I can go to the store or the store's website right now and just get a new xbox series for MSRP (or €50 less than msrp, in the series X case). In fact, last month I did just that.

If the PS5 equilibrium price is say... €800 (the buy it now price on ebay right now), and Sony raises prices to that level, some number of customers are going to throw in the towel and buy an xbox, with the loss of €120/yr PS plus revenue, 30% of their game purchases, etc. to MS.

Is this number of people and their spend higher than Sony will gain from pocketing what scalpers currently are? Clearly at Sony HQ they either suspect it will be or are too scared to find out.

Compare the GPU shortage where both major manufacturers were affected and hence retail prices did go up and per AIB card makers, at least part of that was nvidia and amd. Because their market didn't have an instock competitor to worry about, and a big chunk of their market (miners) were more economically focused on expected returns vs cost, while consumers for entertainment products may not look at it from such a calculating perspective.
You need measurement too. You need a way to measure the success of the change that was agreed on in the retrospective. Story points, LoC, tickets, whatever.
"Nobody drives in LA. There's too much traffic!"
Reflection is not so scary once you have a wave that doesn't go everywhere but really approximates a point source.
And if you go high enough with RF frequencies, you'll get significant attenuation when passing through objects just like with light.
It is an arbitrary ritual. I never understood why everyone is so dogmatic about planning process. It’s like any other development pattern—it should be adapted to the context it’s in.

The whole point of a standup is to keep the a team coordinated and it’s manager/lead informed. Standup isn’t the only way to do this. It can happen asynchronously. It can happen at end of day. It can happen as often or as infrequently makes sense given the size, maturity, and scope of your team.

Agile and Scrum have a lot of great ideas, but there’s so much dogma and cargo curling I feel like orgs take all of the ritual with none of the insight: iterate quickly and use the delta between plans and reality to gain a sense of predictability. That’s all it really boils down to.
Still, why wouldn’t they?
Keep going, it's going to be okay. The blind 75 is your best shot for quick results:
https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/460599/blind...

You can skip dynamic programming unless you're planning on tackling Google
>If your team just carries on doing that same old things because "that's the way it's always been done", then retros could easily be the most important part.

This tends to happen even with retros. Retros assume a lot of things about a team in order to work which just don't hold for a vast majority of teams.

That's the problem with almost every methodology. They make assumptions on how a team should work in order for the tool to do its job. If the team doesn't work that way, it's the teams fault. You obviously can't blame a tool, but a tool isn't particularly useful when it doesn't solve the problem, either.

Example for retros. They solve agreeableness and bottling things up, in theory. In practice, a lot of people stay agreeable and continue to bottle things up. They don't want to share frustrations. Maybe they try a few times, only to notice what they say doesn't really affect the future, leading to more frustration than just not saying anything. Which then puts the time spent doing the retrospective in question, or worse, it causes frustration because it keeps individuals from burying their problems. There are so many ways retros can be a big nothing burger, none of which are inherently the problem with retros.

Then someone comes along saying "have you tried this". No Captain Obvious, I haven't tried using a coconut to smash against the wall instead. I'm sure it will break now, and I won't risk getting coconut splinters in my face.
The app doesn't actually show the knot tying process for many knots. Yes, any knot can be created by carefully weaving one open end through the entire process (what is shown). But that's not how many (most?) knots are actually tied in practice. And for many knots it would be impractically difficult to tie it this way.
Good advice. Also applies to reading code.
The most important part is making the changes to processes. Sure, retrospectives are part of it, but when retrospectives become just a place for the team to air their grievances but all suggestions are blocked by management, it is hell on earth.

"Having no process at all" beats "Performative Scrum".
We similarly did this at a hackathon.

> Droplock is a tool to help you when your laptop is stolen... The thief is prompted with an option to donate to charity (through JustGiving, another BattleHack sponsor) or pay the laptop owner directly via Braintree. If they fail to take one of these options, the laptop gets locked down until payment is made.

https://dropbox.tech/developers/droplock-a-dropbox-hack-wins...
That's about right. But what I see happening, when done right, is that people are forced to talk about what's holding them up. Without it, people tend to just keep spinning their wheels instead of asking for help. With Scrum, instead of asking for help, they're forced to just state their situation, and someone will jump in and help if they can... Or at least the team lead will know about the situation within a day, instead of finding out a week later when the thing is due.

Done wrong, and it's a grueling 30-60 minute ordeal that wastes everyone's time.

It's important to keep everyone to the 3 talking points. What did you do, what's blocking you, and what will you work on.

It also keeps the team up to date with what's going on, and I know that I personally feel disconnected without that information.

Do we scrum? Nope. But we do have a meeting every morning that also doubles as a time to chat about any random things we like, and it usually runs about an hour. We take care of business stuff some time during the hour, depending on how excited someone is to talk about non-work stuff, but the work stuff can take as little as a few minutes, or as long as the hour, depending on what's happening. Joining the meeting is mandatory for programmers and project manager, but staying in the meeting isn't. That said, I don't think any programmer has ever left early unless there's some emergency. It's optional for sysadmins, and each of them has treated it differently. I think it works best when they at least pop in and say "Hi", but we leave it up to them.
even tradesmen don't need trucks with these monstrous front grilles that block visibility. kei trucks, transit vans, etc do not have this problem and are used by millions.
Kei cars don't have good crash performance. Even the North American Camry has extra structural reinforcement that the Japanese domestic doesn't because of laxer regulations.
Vermont and Wyoming have fewer residents.
I agree standups are a ritual, but for me, they help me pace my day. I typically start work for standup and they are great for ad-hoc discussions and team announcements.

As an EM, Scrum notes log of what people have been working on which is helping for reviewing during performance management.
You act like I am inventing the concept of credibility.

If you routinely say things you then have to walk back (don’t wear masks, vaccines prevent infection) then you have to expect that your credibility is damaged.
-- not disagreeing with you! - just talking to the linguistics - the distinctions here are interesting :=) --

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/compassion/definition
Agile, but reinvented, until it becomes full of gurus, coaches, and certifications, at which point we will declare it dead and continue to reinvent the saming manfucturing system we've had since Deming in the early 1950s.
We have that rule in Germany (§ 11(1) StVO). Believe me, it doesn’t help. Everyone ignores it and blocks the crossings nonetheless. It doesn’t get sanctioned anyways.

§11 (1) StVO: https://dejure.org/gesetze/StVO/11.html
> I don’t know if a human driver could have been expected to do any better.

The problem is you can't communicate with an autonomous car. Even if the human driver doesn't know what to do you can indicate them to move in the right direction.
To put this another way, hopefully these fees could pressure manufacturers to produce vehicles that are just as useful, but don't create as bad externalities (pollution, danger).
These kinds of threads give me the impression that HN is comprised of gargoyles who never travel more than 1 mile from their home
Absolutely, some things we actually need surgery for. But most of the time it's not necessary and really the only solution is to fix poor movement patterns and to strengthen the body. A lot of back pain comes down to strength and flexibility issues.

For my shoulder the main thing that worked was getting into the habit of doing pull-ups and stretching out my pec minor. Anytime I neglect pull-ups for a while the discomfort will creep back in. I probably should also buy a split keyboard.
I’d argue that the Agile Principles are all you need, and that they are pretty much timeless. Really, please read through them: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

Everything else tends to devolve into ceremony/dogma.
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> Even if updates are opt-in, 99.9% of users are just going to click through and update.

That's still automatic updates. A non-automatic update occurs when the user takes some unprompted action such as clicking Help > Check for updates, which by design mostly only happens when the application's current behaviour is unsatisfactory.

> from a 'logicless' third party CDN like S3 or Github

Those aren't logicless, you just haven't caught them using nontrivial logic. (Or you have and conveniently forgot about it - I recall hearing that Github returned different results to queries from Iranian IP addresses at some point - those were error messages, but could as easily have been state-supplied backdoored versions of the requested software.)
Yes agreed
Higher taxes on fuel would do this too.

Larger heavier vehicles need more energy to get around.
They just....... die?
The alpine butterfly is one of my favorite and most used knots in my workshop. Very easy to remember, very strong and useful.