skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason time planning doesn't work for most teams is not neatly broken down into two points as in TFA. There are way more than two points. Consider confounding factors like computer/power outages, windows updates, bugs in upstream, developers' personal lives, etc etc etc. One hung over developer day, poorly timed, can add weeks to your project. To accurately predict a team development process you would need Chaos Theory level of mathematics (and foreknowledge of variables). Asking developers to guess time values for tickets and adding them up does not cut it.

OR you handle it the way casinos do, using the law of large numbers[1] to make extremely accurate predictions over many consistently-produced values. There's a good reason why every single formal study on estimation, and every single agile framework has come up with abstracted estimation units and the same velocity calculations. A mature estimation process, run for a month or two, will give you medium- and long-term estimates that are at least within 5% of reality - that's perfectly useful for long-range planning. So the first half of the article is simply showing off that the author has never learned about professional estimation processes. Fair enough, most developers haven't.

Others have already pointed out in this thread that the purpose of long range planning is to indicate what we expect comes next. TFA acknowledges this as a good use of long-range planning.

There is one good remark in there, however:

> Instead of rewarding teams for delivering useful, profitable features, companies which worship conformance to plan reward developers for features on time and within budget; it doesn’t matter how useless or broken those features are.

As an organizational principle this is exactly correct. By all means use long-range plans, and adapt them as the situation changes. But don't build a rewards scheme around them!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
"All right, I just got down from the mountain, and the good news is that I have some simple rules for living in harmony with God. The bad news is that there's something a little awkward that will need to be cut off..."
This is why I love HN. This thread including sibling comments gave me a new way to to think about this quote. The way I always read it was that "strong men" are your "protectors" the kind of folks who run into the burning building, who risk themselves for others and the greater good. When you have a lot of those types in society, society will prosper. I think of it as literally a "strong" person, physically and psychologically.

As the strong people make the world better we have good times and end up not paying attention to building (or valuing) strength which makes people weaker, things get crappy and then we need to build more strong people to pull us out.

Think of the early 20th century. In the lead-up to the depression, the 20s were all about partying and buying stuff of on credit and watching the market boom (at least at the broad scale narrative that we're taught, I'm sure there are nuances about it). Then we get the depression and WWII which required men to become strong and fight which lead to the post war boom. I'm sure there were many smaller cycles in history too, but I'm not really a scholar of history.

I look at today, we have an epidemic of weakness around us. Everyone needs a safe space, needs the government to take care of them and provide them with things, everyone gets offended by everyone else and has to go lie in bed because they "just can't even". At least that's what the grand narrative on social media is. And even from that, I see the cycle beginning. We're entering a tough time with famine and such, and people who decide to get strong and face the challenge are the ones who will do well and provide the next round of good times (The irony is that they probably won't be participating in the good times).

Long rant, sorry. But one of my mental models that I've been refining is that problems are caused by weakness and fear. If you are strong and confident, you are more likely fixing problems or taking care of people, not causing problems.
To be honest, free version of BitWarden might be the best you can get at the moment and it is enough for the majority.
But you have to pay for better two-factor security.
I think this time it is because someone posted a tool for converting exports from a Singaporean bank into a format that can be read by gnu cash.

There’s a karma train on HN that you can collect when a related post can be made.
T2 Linux 22.6 “Résistance” released supporting 25 CPU architectures
A major milestone update to ship full support for 25 CPU architectures, variants, and C libraries. Of course all the architectures, including: alpha, arc, arm, arm64, avr32, hppa, ia64, m68k, mipsel, mips64, nios2, ppc, ppc64-32, ppc64le, riscv, riscv64, s390x, sparc, sparc64, superh x86, x86-64 and x32 can be rolling release updated thru the scripted build system from source – optimized to the native system.
Peapod has been around since pre-Web 1.0 in the US. It's owned by a grocery chain which probably changes the economics somewhat. But they charge a $10 base price (non rapid delivery) so I assume at least the breakeven for a fairly low overhead business is somewhere in that range.

Hannaford's pickup service is $5--which COVID aside seems like it would be mostly useful only in specific cases.
Is it really surprising? After all, Obama used is Blackberry for quite some time after he became president ("Obama: I'll Give You My BlackBerry When You Take It From My Cold Dead Hands") and The Verge says that "In 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was testing Android phones for secure usage. Then this April, The New York Times said that some White House staffers were upgrading to iPhones."

https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-f...
The group of people that go through the hassle of signing up and setting up everything again to avoid paying is probably equally small. If the account setup is so frictionless that a lot of people do it again and again, you should work on adding benefits to loyal accounts instead of banning new users.
Yes, the classic "cmp sbb das". It's well-known amongst the Asm/demoscene community. The opposite, ASCII to nybble in 4 bytes, is a little less well-known:

; AL = 30..39, 41..46, 61..66
and al, 4fh
aam 37h
; AL = 0..F

It's case-insensitive too.
If you don't mind me asking, what method or software were you using using prior to Gnucash?
What happens to the old messages of the reused handle at that point?
100% it is - wealth is a predictor of “risk-taking” in general (in quotations because the relative risk is actually fairly small when you’re wealthy)
> one for removing HTML elements via the context menu

Isn't this equivalent to the element zapper in uBO?[1] It's not available from the context menu but you can assign a shortcut to bring it up.[2]

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Element-zapper

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Keyboard-shortcuts
The question which always comes to mind is this: Is it actually needed in this market where there is a huge demand for IT-staff and you can basically choose from many future employers if you put some effort in it? First of all, kudos for those who are blogging and created some sort of brand out of it, but the reason for me dshould be about sharing knowledge and experiences. Documenting mistakes so you don't make them etc. etc. But in the end it's the actual work you do which is the best brand. No blog/insta/twitterfeed can replace that..
Unpopular opinion and probably culturally influenced but I always find it amusing that my fellow IT crowd in the US (disclaimer: I am Dutch) seem to be focussed on "branding" as if everything needs to be "sold". Everything seems to be a sale to some of them.
The movie was actually all about Milton
But the way it changes ALU operation is similar in effect to doing "DAS" after subtraction (it doesn't "convert" to BCD, only adjusts the result). There may be differences in how invalid BCD values are handled though.
To be fair, even a passion project will use analytics because it’s nice to know one doesn’t produce passionately for the void.
Which is why the Texas model fails in this scenario. It's unprofitable to have emergency backup load, so it doesn't get built.
I think the complaints are fair, but I’d frame them differently.

It serves the power user/technically adept individual user, and the very simple corporate user (e.g. books for an entity that holds an investment property, personal consulting business) quite well, but think commercial software is the much better solution for basic individuals and SMBs+

For individuals with any sort of modest complexity double entry accounting is the only solution and it’s great at that.
Nice project, and an important step in the right direction.

Can't help but think that the real tricky part comes after provenance is recorded.

What do you do with all of that - is there something enforcing an allowlist/denylist using the data?

How is being kept updated with new builds and the CI/CD pipeline?
All the builds or just with a certain other metadata?
How do you handle exceptions?
How do you handle devs experimenting?

How are the attestation signing keys being protected?
There's no way. Even dropping from 270 to 245 was a couple belt sizes and one shirt size for me. Going from 310 to 200 is at least 3 shirt sizes and maybe 10 inches for pants. It's like 50 liters by volume. Think 25 big soda bottles or 13 milk jugs worth of fat.

It might be worth your while to talk to someone about body dismorphia.
You make a plan not because you expect to follow it but because making a plan forces you to consider both the situation and the resources you have available, then when the plan falls apart as they nearly always do you at least know what you have available to deal with it.
I do not have a personal brand online, but I wish I already had it and I will hopefully put more effort towards attaining one in the future. I am determined to do this because it feels like the best way to protect myself from ageism in the future.

To get known within a niche I am interested in would mean I would have a wider array of opportunities to choose from and would give me a leg up towards other candidates or among fellow contractors as I get older and face the possibility of ageism. That's what I tell myself anyway.

It seems to me that in our industry eventually older developers who won't go into management are forced to go solo or to settle at a job they don't like or that doesn't utilize their full potential just because of its security. This seems like a trap that I am looking to proactively avoid and having a personal brand seems like a great tool to achieve that.
Someone who's consistently working extra spoils the situation for the rest of the team. They'll eventually end up having the most knowledge and experience since they're working with the code more and they'll almost certainly be the most productive person on the team. When it's time for reviews, raises, and promotions who do you think a naive manager will flag as the all star top performer on the team? One can argue that that's fine and they deserve the raises and promotions because they're working extra, but it ends up putting the team in a very unhealthy place where the other team members can't really compete with the workaholic unless they too start working extra.
Jetbrains has one specifically for this: DataSpell - https://www.jetbrains.com/dataspell/.

It's like a tweaked version of DataGrip + PyCharm, but catering specifically to the particular needs of data scientists.
The tech part maybe, and the tech part is only a small part of the entire interview. On top of that, since IQ tests exist, you don't need a bad proxy to test IQ.

Leetcode-style tech interview segments aside, that still leaves the myriad of other things happening during the hiring process which either do nothing, or function as poor proxies for other things. Personality testing through mundane questions, for example. If we're following this train of thought, since certain personality tests do have support, interviewers shouldn't be using their gut instinct to begin with.
> At least that's what the grand narrative on social media is.

The grand narrative is not reality, though.

We're building more and better stuff than at any time in history.

Including the "strong stuff", if you're into that, think of military stuff.

Our problems are a lot more complex than in the past, and we're working on them.

It's just not glamorous or in the news daily.
This is also an important step not to skip:

>the pipeline for the high school’s math team must begin long before students reach high school, so Mr. Frazer searches for prospects in elementary school and steers them to accelerated math classes in middle school.

>“You wouldn’t grab a kid in ninth grade who’s never played football and expect him to be a great high-school football player,” he said. “For most of these kids, this is their football.”
Why the edit in the title with the added incorrect spelling? (Original title : Wealth Is a Strong Predictor of Whether an Individual Pursues a Creative Profession)
I've also had queries (usually really large ones) run without issue in SSMS but crash Azure Data Studio. The only advantages that Azure Data Studio really has over SSMS is that it's a lot snappier (unless you're working with really large queries) and it has a dark mode. Other than that SSMS seems better in just about every way still.
> Those are both effectively the same things.

They are not even close to the same thing.

And if you were more familiar with the Asahi Linux project, you might remember that Apple has done a thing or two that made their work possible/future-proof.
> Would you ever deny a friend something they wanted to do that you knew wasn’t good for them?

Ahm...yes? A friend isn't characterized by how much they agree with you. It's perfectly valid to say no.
>>> How long have you been eating the yoghurt?
About 3-4 months now

>>> Do you use any other tablets/pills/etc to make it?
No, but there are other recipes in the book than combine different bacteria

>>> Why make the yoghurt instead of just eating the pills?
To increase bacterial count; often like x1000 (from millios to billions)

>>> What do you think it's done for you?
I did not take it for any particular reason, so I was not expecting much. Most definetively, improved mood after 3 weeks.
Yes, the article is bad.

But lets not discredit the findings. Even if it's 90% in 2045, and if 1% of plankton dies every year (https://www.goesfoundation.com/), it means we've lost so far 70% of plankton since 1940.

It still seems like a reason to be worried, and not to say "it's absolute garbage => everything's ok, no reason to be concerned".
That's an US problem: some grid operator are also owners of power plants. Of course they don't want to make the grid friendly towards distributed solar power generation and microgrids because it would eat away from profits from their power plants.

And they are allowed to lobby politicians yadda yadda... This is a political problem, not technological. And should be solved at a political level.

> The future is distributed microgrids even if it isn't the theoretically optimal future.

Distributed microgrids does not imply that they are not connected to each other, but you are right: democratizing energy production is much more important than nitpicking at efficiency.
No-code is more likely to be written by people who are direct experts in the business domain, unlike the telephone game that is the development cycle in most software orgs.
"This time is different" around inflation because people don't believe in it yet.

When inflation has gone on for many years and people see signs of a shortage or rising prices they think "I'd better buy it now because I might not be able to buy it later."

Today people see high prices and they think "I can't afford that" and they do without. Thus a constriction in used-car supply leads to a constriction in used-car demand. If this holds up, instead of the pattern of "central bank raises interest rates and crashes the economy", consumers will crash the economy on their own without help from the central bank.
My guess is that the Mx GPU is probably the toughest target for reverse engineering -- as it is very unique to Apple. It will probably take many years to reverse engineer. I believe the Asahi Linux X11/Wayland graphics interface still works on the CPU today (Mesa) and _not_ the GPU. I don't think they have the GPU working except for small proof of concept things.

In general, I think the porting effort depends on whether Apple has used a freely available industry component. So if the WiFi chip is something that is available in a non-Apple system, one could tweak the AArch64 Linux driver a bit and get it to work on AArch64 Mx Linux. If the silicon is totally custom I can imagine the task being much more difficult.

My guess is that many of the components on which Asahi Linux has made good progress in porting over to work have good support already on vanilla AArch64 Linux. Understanding the integration and working around Apple's proprietary sauce, of course, makes the task totally non-trivial.
Anyone serious about their business will see this warning as a deal-breaker.

Running a business is hard enough - I cannot imagine debugging my accounting tool.
While I understand curry and compose, I just don't consider them simple or intuitive in usage because normally I get cleaner result by not using them. I don't understand your recipe explanation unfortunately.
GitHub Copilot users feel more productive
Having run blogs for brands and now running blogs of my own personal brands I can say that it was/is valuable.

There was another post on HN a few days ago which likened publishing blogposts to increasing your luck surface area and I very much relate.

When I get hit with writer’s block and can’t seem to come up with my own work - which can be months at a time - I end up reverting to something like email interviews to highlight other peoples’ work and still have content for my blog.[0] Similarly, guest posts (that you seek out, don’t let random writers write guest posts aka insert links on your blog) can keep your blog “alive” through periods where it otherwise would have died.

[0] www.thehighestcritic.com
Brings back memories of why I liked Perl so much back in the 90's. Nice work solving this.

I'm curious about this bit:

my $debitAmount = length(trim $fields->[4]) > 0 ? trim($fields->[4]) + 0.0 : 0.0;

That patterns repeats itself a few times

It feels like you could safely shorten that down to:

$debitAmount=$fields->[4]+0;

Because the forced numeric conversion sort of does a trim on your behalf anyway, and "all spaces + zero" is zero.
Also, if they have an existing solution that they're looking for someone to maintain/port/update- it's more likely to be some cobbled together spaghetti monster without any documentation.
Turn off analytics and learn to enjoy the process.
Planting forests increases the overall amount of carbon stored in biomass, but the forestry program is also designed to harvest trees for use as fuel or building material (from the main article linked in the post):

> "In the meantime, Iceland’s forests have begun to produce wood for a small timber market. Forests planted between 1950-1970 are now supplying around 5,000 square metres of wood per year: miniscule compared to industries abroad, but a start. The Icelandic birch, Siberian larch, Sitka spruce, lodgepole pine and balsam poplar are producing quality wood of equal or superior quality to that which Iceland imports from abroad. Yet an overwhelming 80% of the trees felled are burned as fuel in silicon smelting."

Iceland has a silicon production industry, which relies on geothermal electricity interestingly enough. The wood is included to grab the oxygen from silicon dioxide to produce elemental silicon metal (being emitted as carbon dioxide). Overall, if they could eliminate the coal from the mix, this would be a carbon-neutral fossil-fuel free silicon production system:

https://www.pcc.is/

> "Silicon metal is extracted from quartzite, aided by the addition of wood chip and coal, in electric arc furnaces at temperatures of around 2,000 degrees Celsius. The new plant obtains its key raw material quartzite primarily from PCC’s own quarry in Zagórze, Poland. However, the related logistical costs are more than outweighed by the advantages of electricity procurement. And the dust emissions generated during silicon metal production are almost completely removed from the ambient air by high-performance filter systems installed in the PCC plant. Taken as a whole, therefore, the production process offers exceptional sustainability credentials."
I think I understand. Someone who doesn't have anything better to do might as well contribute their idle time to working, as long as it's voluntary and without expectation.

I might agree were the worker a shareholder or founder or otherwise long hours were the explicitly stated, well-compensated expectation when hired.

For the average full time employee, absolutely not, particularly not even for junior/entry-level. Spending unpaid evenings and weekends at work prevents someone like yourself from acquiring and maintaining a social life, emotional resilience, physical health, community support, romance, poetry, moments that make life worth living. I'll be damned before I participate in the crushing of souls like that, my own included.

That said, there are roles for people who cannot live another life. If that's you, do not waste your ambition as a full time employee. Be a founder, or work in finance. Or at least a freelancer with unlimited hours. Be compensated for your time.

Otherwise, pick up a hobby. Hit on that cute barista. Learn to play ukulele. Join a tabletop RPG club.
I use it sometimes. It's good for fast drafting of diagrams.
I'm so tired of juggling a hundred "MVPs" and never going back to finish them.
Iceland has almost no forest at all. It would not take much to increase the forest cover.
Yes, you are right, I completely forgot to mention that other (substantial) change.
Phoenix, not Pheonix.

Internetworks introduced tabs in the 90's and Opera was the 1st modern, mainstream browser to implement them.

Google captured massive market share with Chrome installers/hijackers added onto many(most?) 3rd party app installers in the late 2000's & early 2010's.

Love him, or hate him, Mozilla suffered massive 'brain drain' when Eich departed, aka, was shown the door.
>Can we still do that in diverse school districts in CA and MA?
You would be able to do that for one year, and then people would start noticing a pattern in the teams' composition, and yes you'd get your uproar and the whole thing would be canceled.
Zizek’s “Less than nothing” makes the best case for Fichte.

If you know Zizek as the media clown he presents himself as, Graham Harman’s “Tool-being” (a book about something else entirely that briefly surveys other philosophers and gives a very positive appraisal of Zizek even though they’re polar opposites) makes the best case for Zizek.

I guess the best case for Graham Harman is the edition of the journal “Collapse” on speculative realism.

I guess the best case for that journal is Quentin Meillassoux.

And the best case for Meillassoux is Ayache’s “The Blank Swan”

And Taleb wrote a cool review of the Blank Swan somewhere that gets a pull quote in the book’s cover.

I guess the best case for Taleb is made by Paul Wilmott. Ayache also wrote for Wilmott.

And presumably Wilmott made money in the financial markets.
Noticed the same thing and went back to comments just to check if I was alone or not :) Pretty odd for sure…
That makes him kind of a social hero. My respect to him.