skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The current norm seems to be two week sprints and all these things are done at the beginning and end of them.

Everywhere I've worked that did "agile" did it this way. The ending of a sprint is always the start of the next one; teams are always in a sprint. If that part of the process can't be changed or removed then one of the best things to do is decouple the sprint cadence from other events. Eg don't put demo, pointing, planning, and retro on the same day. Try to do pointing mid-sprint, if you know what's coming up, so that you're not cramming it in at the end. Don't release to staging/prod at sprint boundaries, do that mid-sprint. The worst is to clump all the meetings, distractions, and stresses together.
You are absolutely correct. This happens far too often, but I don’t think that is the case with Vitamix … yet.
Yeah, "the best martini in town" is unlikely to be based on a trade secret. People expect a gin taste, so it's probably the quality of the ingredients, the presentation, and the experience, as you said.

There are certainly some unusual liqueurs that an average bar wouldn't stock, so if you manage to find one that people go nuts over, you should probably keep that as a trade secret.
> if you implicitly claim to have solved some huge, difficult research problem but provide no real details

You do realize you can download the compiler and confirm for yourself that it's all working right this very moment?

There's probably a few aliasing bugs since I add new features. types and haven't tried to break my code or find difficult to run into bugs
Is blending time-consuming? I guess peanut butter takes a couple minutes, most blending is < 40s IME.
If you like old consumer products, let me tell you about cars from the 1970s and 1980s. Not fun.
Buy commercial appliances from a restaurant supplier.
There are several apps that use webrtc and skip over the download issue.

For example:
https://talky.io/
https://whereby.com/
...and the pen/quill/cuneiform killed the saga since people could now write it down, so why bother remembering to tell a story around a campfire at a certain time a week? (sound familiar today?)

I get the point, but I think "amputates" is the wrong word, like user "tootie" below who said "obviates" is the right word, but was downvoted into greyville. Tootie is right: it alleviates the need for something. It doesn't kill it entirely.

When the technology breaks, we still need to communicate. So yes, teach people how to write their language (or more!) But cursive writing has always been notoriously riddled difficulties due to individual hiccups in style. I agree everyone should know how to write in the simplest form: printing English/European languages, simplified Chinese, etc. But flourishy cursive is only readable by people who wrote it with artistic skills, or kids that were drilled for hours and hours on end, when there is plenty of other more important stuff for them to learn, IMHO.
I am curious, do you own a business that bids on govt contracts? This is something i am interested in learning but i am not sure if this is feasible for an individual
This just conclusively proves rounded corners or slide to unlock is more novel than the most original cocktail in the world.
> Okay, but even in your example of insulating a house, there are areas that can't be insulated.

Then thats what you have to tell that to the client, and the client is free to look for a different proffeshional if he is not happy.

However if you lie, and client thinks thay you have insulated things that are impossible to insulate, thats fraud. And that's happening.

> I'm not aware of recycling contracts that stipulate x% must be recycled

Think about, whats the point of a recycling contract that says 'you could recycle only 0.1% if you feel like it'?

> we were originally discussing ... consumers being somehow deceived

that happens too. I have taken my old electronic goods to a commercial recycler. You have to pay to dispose of large appliances.

Now I realise there is about 60% chance that they took out and sold the valuable copper, and the rest is sitting in a river somewhere, leaching heavy metals and poisonong children
GTA used a combination of pre-recorded real life audio and their own granular synthesis engine. (Granular synthesis uses sampling, but cuts up the samples into tiny pieces and processes them in various ways.)
Related to this, is there an easy way to run arbitrary programs in the macOS sandbox? AFAIK sandboxing is opt-in for app developers at the moment. Does manual invocation of sandbox-exec on the command line still work, and are there GUI helpers for running arbitrary apps with this tool?

Edit: Apparently sandbox-exec is still usable, just not (publicly) well-documented. Would be nice of Apple to make sandboxing easier for regular users running untrusted apps that don't opt-in to the sandbox. I’m thinking of Firefox and Firefox extensions in particular.

https://7402.org/blog/2020/macos-sandboxing-of-folder.html

>The only non-folkloric documentation is found in the man page for sandbox-exec [...]

>Sandbox documentation has been a moving target over the years. Because it is a private interface, Apple is under no obligation to maintain forward or backward compatibility. Take note of the publication date of any information found online.

>Just to be clear, the sandbox profile format is not documented for third party use. Feel free to experiment with this stuff, but please don’t try to ship a product based on it.
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I’m saying he had the skills because after he was thrust into the position, he lead military operations, then left for France to convince them to contribute more to the American revolution (which they did). Maybe that doesn’t count as true leadership to you but I know it would clear the bar at any company I worked at.
They have more techniques too, like having store- or region-specific models that probably are all essentially the same but have different model numbers and slightly different feature sets just to make searching for reviews and price comparisons more difficult.
"The Nature of Code" by Daniel Shiffman is a wonderful book that counts Vehicles as one of its inspirations.

https://natureofcode.com/book/
I used to eat Quorn in the 90's, then had to cut back on sodium for health reasons. Quorn has a ridiculously high amount of sodium added to it.
The problem isn't just with poor quality, but with integration or lack of modularity/standardization.

I've had exactly the same problem with blenders, several times, where for example a small plastic tab that secures the blender bowl to the motor base snaps off, making the whole thing useless.

It would not be such an issue if these couplings were standardized in some way, so that you could buy a replacement, other than the manufacturer's hugely price inflated spare part.

Contrast the situation with when your PC graphics card or memory stick fails, you can just buy a commodity replacement, rather than junking the whole PC, screen, keyboard.

The more philosophical problem of course is that market capitalism's one incentive is to make profit. Making good products is only incidental to that imperative, and clearly not always a requirement.
[0] is a critique of Gladwell's book about those bombing campaigns. I do not believe it will have all the answers for you, but there is one component of truth: The US was looking for an unconditional surrender for Japan. That was a choice.

Unconditional surrender in Japan lead to the US occupational government for 9 years (along with over 20 years occupation of Okinawa, which had to be pried out of the hands of the US military, who wanted to indefinitely keep it as a colony).

Now, I'm not going to cry over Nazis or the Japanese military not being able to get a conditional surrender. But Japan is especially stark: except for a handful of high profile executions, not only did most decision makers not face punishment, many of them ended up back in the government and as heads of state. All of this more or less at the behest of the US.

What is my point? The US chose to reach for an unconditional surrender, for some pretty realpolitik objectives, prolonging the suffering of the civilians on the ground. There is decent documentation that part of this is so that the US could determine surrender conditions rather than the USSR. There is an alternate universe of a negotiated surrender that shortened the Pacific front.

What does that universe look like? I do not know. It probably would not have lead to the US having military bases all over the country. But conditional surrenders are the norm in wars. Air campaigns allow for militaries to just decide "no, we will just continue to attack forever, as we suffer few casualties anyway".

[0]: https://thebaffler.com/latest/narrative-napalm-kulwin
There are certainly some patent applications in that space. I don't know if any cover a specific drink, but you can look through them [1] and let us know:

[1] https://patents.google.com/?q=cocktail+recipe&oq=cocktail+re...
I will produce one in my garrage for a price. I know good preamps can be bought off the shelf. I'm not sure about the heads, so I'll have to do some research, if I have to make the head cost goes up because I need to buy tools I don't have. Some for the other parts, some I can make already with tools I have, some I can buy quality, others I'll need to charge enough to pay for tools.
Oh yeah, the off-model and the multi-model tools are a rat's nest. I own a Delta 36-725T2 tablesaw, bought from Lowe's. Delta is now owned by Chang Type Industrial (who own the Delta name now). The same factory makes the Ridgid R4560 table saw, sold at Home Depot. The Delta Cruzer was one of the earliest zero-rear-clearance miter saws and there's a Ridgid one of those now, too.

I'm honestly kind of glad, it means there's more better tools getting into people's hands now, but the color is an assault upon the eyes. I could've bought an R4560 probably two months before my 36-725T2, but I do woodworking because I like it, and I don't like "ORANGE!" being shouted at me every time I open the garage door.
Hold shift while you log in
Which is why it tastes so good! Shame really.

Like restaurant vegetables - taste great but the secret is a ton of salt and sugar.
No matter what it says on the tag , if it looks like Prada but it isn't from Prada, someone is getting frauded
You can copyright the exact text making up your "how to prepare it" as long as it's considered suitably creative. But that doesn't protect someone from rewriting your recipe in their own words (or removing all prose and chopping it down to only the necessary factual statements).

Cookbooks themselves are generally copyright-able as a compilation work. The individual recipes aren't protected but the compilation as a whole is.

> A recipe can also be protected by copyright law if it creatively describes or explains the cooking or baking process connected to the list of ingredients. Even if the description of the recipe is sufficiently creative and copyrightable, the copyright will not cover the recipe’s ingredient list, the underlying process for making the dish, or the resulting dish itself, which are all facts. It will only protect the expression of those facts

>https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...
In most wars until comparatively recently it was common to have 25yos in charge of 100s to 1000s of men, including on occasion general officer rank. Even with modern peacetime career trajectories it is possible to have a 25yo captain commanding a company of ~200 soldiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Bradford
You only have to do that for one ingredient. You make a spice/liquor concoction, put it in a random bottle, and you’re good.
NFL rookies know they're in the "playing football" business; but many of them, having a big windfall, are suddenly in a number of other businesses that they aren't aware of, whether they like it or not. Suh is pointing that out, and being at the higher end of the income scale, is doing a better job than most at managing the whole thing.
The newer model is more subject to failure due to scale buildup inside the heating tube, causing the thermostat to trip.
Yes, Jon Postel made the Internet's waist narrow! (according to Van Jacobsen)

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html#jon-p...
Understanding Masa Son’s Rationality
Truth.

https://www.jetsonaero.com/
Your own argument is that you need a roof over your head, either way, so if the value doesn't increase, then you simply live there. If it does, then you keep all the profit, tax free.
Just use VM for legacy application.
Since the only thing consumers use full size PCIe slots for now is for a single GPU, extra M.2 slots isn't that big of an ask. One M.2 keyed for an interchangeable wifi card, one for NVMe storage, and then an extra one if you want to upgrade to more storage later. If you only have one keyed for storage, you're SoL when you buy a bigger one later and it's very inconvenient to move data over.
> Circa Apollo 11 the average age of a NASA engineer was 28. In 2009 it was 47.

I find this highly dubious because circa Apollo 11 the space program employed its largest workforce ever, including bazillions of mechanical engineers making nuts and bolts.

A more meaningful comparison would be what the average age of the managers and leadership are/were.
If I recall correctly he modeled the acoustics of the exhaust using equalizers and filters, so not really simulated
This app works great. Used it to reduce my and my wife's email from 90%+ capacity back down to 20% which should be good for at least 5 years.
Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Phase 3 Trial
I try to buy kitchen stuff from kitchen supply stores, not the mall. If you've ever been to a quality restaurant where the kitchen is visible from the seating area, you can see that they don't use fancy-ass pots and pans, because they are very hard on cookware (heavy vollrath aluminum with no coating, no stainless steel!). Same goes with their appliances: if a kitchen is using an appliance, you know it has been abused.

I would have tried these first:

Light duty:

https://www.restaurantsupply.com/waring-wsb33x-quik-stik-7-i...

Turn it up:

https://www.restaurantsupply.com/waring-wsb40-quik-stik-plus...

Bring the noise!...

https://www.restaurantsupply.com/robot-coupe-mp600-turbo-23-...
It is fascinating seeing folks flocking to these new meat alternatives not knowing about the neat stuff that had already been produced decades before.

Here in Australia - I still think the crown champion is the Not Burger by Veggie Delights. Discovered them in 2006 and I have yet to come across anything as good.

https://vegiedelights.com.au/products/classic-not-burger/

It isn't trying to imitate meat - it is just down right delicious.
Yep. But if it were me I would forget about the trademark and just make sure that everyone who is In The Know is aware that I am Freddie, the Likker is mine, and I haven’t told anybody else the Secret of its manufacture. What could possibly bring me more hipster cred? What could get more people to make pilgrimages to Freddie’s Bar?
All of these are correct
Saying an attending physician and a nurse practitioner are in every way similar would seem unlikely, given the radically different environments they work in. When we compare outcomes they look as good or better than physicians but that’s not to say they can completely replace them.

> A meta-analysis of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives in primary care

> This meta-analysis was an evaluation of patient outcomes of nurse practitioners (NPs) and nurse midwives (NMs), compared with those of physicians, in primary care. The sample included 38 NP and 15 NM studies. Thirty-three outcomes were analyzed. In studies that employed randomization to provider, greater patient compliance with treatment recommendations was shown with NPs than with physicians. In studies that controlled for patient risk in ways other than randomization, patient satisfaction and resolution of pathological conditions were greater for NP patients. NPs were equivalent to MDs on most other variables in controlled studies. In studies that controlled for patient risk, NMs used less technology and analgesia than did physicians in intrapartum care of obstetric patients. NMs achieved neonatal outcomes equivalent to those of physicians. Limitations in data from primary studies precluded answering questions of why and under what conditions these outcomes apply and whether these services are cost-effective.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7501486/
> I fail to see how that factors in to buying a property. You have friends who benefited from an inheritance.

I mean, somebody had to decide to buy the house at some point in time. I would have told them to do it.

> Owning a house in the Midwest is like having an $xyz offer to move to <area with even lower house prices>.

Yes, that is correct. The argument generalizes.

> I don’t believe most people are willing to uproot their lives simply because they can get cheaper housing elsewhere.

If I offer you a million dollars to move, then you're free to turn that down. What you are not free to do is pretend that it's not a real offer that you have that other people don't have. It exists. It's real. And if you own a home in California, then you have that offer. And other people do not. What you choose to do with that offer is up to you.

> What equity? You advocated for putting as little as 5% down. You’re already going to have a higher than average interest rate and with such a small deposit it’ll be easy to tip into negative equity.

The house I bought in 2020 is worth $xxx more today than what I paid for it. Had that not happened, then I'd just live here, either way, and I'd be in no worse position than had I stayed in the apartment I left to move here. (As you yourself argued, I need a roof over my head, anyway.) Since it did happen, I get to keep every bit of the upside, tax free.
Transferring funds between agencies or departments is onerous it isn’t substantially easier to do that than just going direct.
Surprising how many people take the stance that they don't have to do anything.

It's not that I disagree or anything, it is totally irrefutable, but many people have a sense of responsibility nevertheless and they feel a lot better when they've managed to justify themselves somehow. For example I know many people who refuse to go as guests to others peoples homes without bringing a gift with them.

Some people feel entitled to their space due to some contribution they've made to the collective or just simply because of their beliefs being "correct" .. there's all sorts, however, I am not expecting people to have that much self-reflection.. still it surprises me that most of the people who thought to answer would be of the "I have no need to justify myself" persuasion. I wonder what the lurkers think..
I'm not sure what the point is of linking to a reference that also features pieces titled:

'The media lied to you about COVID-19 – TAKE ACTION NOW'

'Critical Race Theory in schools, take action now!'

'Gender activists are politicizing the dictionary: TAKE ACTION NOW'

'Stand up for Rush – TAKE ACTION NOW'

'VOX buries the truth'

'CNN admits Hunter Biden ‘a real problem’ for Joe Biden, not ‘a right-wing media story’'

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Accuracy_in_Media

I am less confident about either your contention or about the position you are attacking than about the idea that this particular website is going to lie to me about it.
The vast majority of lotto cash comes from poor people. It’s a regressive / intelligence tax.

The government encouraging poor people to make a poor financial decision is really bad social policy IMO.
Sometimes they aren't essentially the same, but instead different in invisible ways. DeWalt grinders at Canadian Tire used to use plastic parts where metal was typically used. Outside of the different SKU it was difficult to tell the difference.
> The 'Reopen windows' feature is a complete crapshoot on what the app actually does when it comes back up, so I never use it.

I do use it, frequently. So frequently that I have designated Force Quit as my “turn it off and on again” mechanism for nearly everything for years. Granted my daily usage app catalogue is minimal, and I agree some aspects of normal behavior are less predictable than one might wish (the article covers those). So I respectfully defer to your experience and decision not to use it. In my experience it’s as reliable as Quit or Shutdown for every app I use, and sometimes more reliable for misbehaving apps which have custom state saving functionality. VSCode in particular comes to mind, it restores undo/redo history when force quit and falling back to built in system behavior but comes up with no history if I so much as agree to a software update.

> Honestly what is the benefit? A computer is off, on, or sleeping.

The benefit is that, excepting certain details most use cases rarely encounter, the computer and apps running on it have only one state instead of three: resume where you left off. For active multitasking, that means waiting for volatile storage. For “App Nap”, Force Quit, and crashes that means waiting for non-volatile storage. For reboots and logins that means waiting for a bunch of other apps and services to resume. But if the app uses the functionality even semi-faithfully, you’re only waiting for it to become responsive again, then it resumes as if it were in the same state you left it. Regardless of whether your computer or even your app was on, off, or sleeping.

Again, not saying it’ll work that way for you and I’ll defer to your experience. But if you want to know how other people benefit from it, my experience is I can kill almost any process on my computer or even force reboot, and the only consequence before I resume what I was working on is how long I might have to wait.
I collect quotes from HN that are inspiring to build new features, or feedback about other apps that do something wrong or lack something that I can improve on. That's good fortune :)
Ask HN: What is the most effective self discipline behavior you have?
From [0]:

> In the three weeks prior to Hiroshima, 26 cities were attacked by the U.S. Army Air Force. Of these, eight — or almost a third — were as completely or more completely destroyed than Hiroshima (in terms of the percentage of the city destroyed). The fact that Japan had 68 cities destroyed in the summer of 1945 poses a serious challenge for people who want to make the bombing of Hiroshima the cause of Japan’s surrender. The question is: If they surrendered because a city was destroyed, why didn’t they surrender when those other 66 cities were destroyed?

> On August 2, you would have arrived at the office to reports that four more cities have been attacked. And the reports would have included the information that Toyama (roughly the size of Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1945), had been 99.5 percent destroyed. Virtually the entire city had been leveled. Four days later and four more cities have been attacked. On August 6, only one city, Hiroshima, was attacked but reports say that the damage was great and a new type bomb was used. How much would this one new attack have stood out against the background of city destruction that had been going on for weeks?

Of course the perspective of people who actually were on the ground is totally different. But if we are talking about strategic objectives, then how the leadership sees thing is in fact relevant!

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160221160530/https://foreignpo...
The dark ages of history, circa 2030
I’m willing to bet money it will never happen. People said the same about self-driving cars, but the initial razzle-dazzle blinds people to the actual dullness of the algorithms, and obscures their limitations. AI can only recombine what has already been created. It has no ability to imbue art with meaning or to push the medium forward.

What you describe can only happen with general intelligence, not these fancy neural nets. If anything, they will become powerful tools to help artists augment their creativity.