skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might find this (very) pre-blockchain page on smart contracts interesting: http://erights.org/elib/capability/ode/ode-bearer.html
Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework
What town? I also live in MA (just outside of 95) and have never once lost power
I wonder if there’s one of those observational “laws” that states that any idea, no matter how flexible and open-ended, must eventually harden into a rigid unthinking cargo cult.

As a corollary, all ideologies end up as self-parody, contradicting their original intentions in sometimes egregious ways.

> The retrospectives are gone

Oh, they’re still there, they take like seventy-five minutes, they do produce some good observations, aired-out grievances, and action items, the latter of which are never ever followed upon in full or even half.
When I was working on a cable company it affects some of the satellite channels and we always get advance notification of this events. So we always monitor earth storm and sun storms :D
The only thing stopping everything from being solar powered is you may not have a solar panel and sunlight when and where you want to use the energy.

Batteries solve this somewhat, but are big, heavy, and expensive.

Fuels are small, light, cheap to store, and inefficient.

You're not going to want to store energy for 6 months with batteries even if they hit the $30-60/kWh range.

You're not going to want to store energy as fuel for a few days unless you really need to pick it up and move it.

Solar derived fuels are nearly competitive with nuclear ($130/MWh with maybe $10-20/MWh to burn it according to this claim https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/12-proton... vs $100 for nuclear).

Other safer fuels are not far behind for applications closer to people.

The energy component of that cost is going to halve or better on a fairly predictable schedule around 2035, so if the cost of the manufacture can be brought down to half or better there's not really any reason to continue with fossil fuels.

So the correct metaphor is a replicator that only makes perishable non refrigeratable foods on public holidays. To be able to eat the rest of the time you'll need to make a lot of soup even though you don't really like soup.

Also worth noting is this particular project is just buzzword soup that absolutely reeks of a pump and dump scam, and is closely tied to y combinator. Please don't dismiss real e fuel projects when they run off with a few billion dollars of investor money in two years. Edit: found their news article where they break down costs a bit, might not he a scam -- the slicm marketing still reeks of solar roadways though.
From what I understand is that some hearing loss is actually a loss of certain frequencies so you won’t hear things in that frequency anymore. Using a hearing aid that just increases the volume may work but may also damage your hearing farther. What I was told was that is why you need a doctor and a prescription because they determine what frequency is missing and they don’t make the sounds louder but alter the frequencies you don’t hear well into a frequency you do hear.
With that said I have also heard there are apps that could easily determine what you would need for frequency adjustments without the need for a doctor. I think these apps with paired over the counter hearing aids would be the best situation.
About $38 million was lost
Recent and related:

FDA Clears Path for Hearing Aids to Be Sold over the Counter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32482714 - Aug 2022 (15 comments)

Also:

Ask HN: Hearing Aid Industry Disruption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30536064 - March 2022 (3 comments)

Silencing the Competition: Inside the Fight Against the Hearing Aid Cartel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28946158 - Oct 2021 (4 comments)

The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28921244 - Oct 2021 (448 comments)

Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15537513 - Oct 2017 (251 comments)
So true, causal inference is much more valuable than prediction which is a relatively cheap commodity.
This classic Yegge piece is almost 16 years old now and seems to describe more or less the same thing

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agil...
From Google: "a beginner cyclist may average around 75–100 watts in a 1-hour workout. A fit participant will average more than 100 watts, and pro cyclists can reach 400 watts per hour."

So 1KWh would be the output of a pro cyclist going hard for 2.5 hours, or a decently fit person biking for maybe 8 hours.
This is my nightmare. I wouldn't ever give up but would hate wasting every moment while fighting it. Fuck these kinds of people.
Another model is phase change: there are critical points around which a small change in adoption can trigger a large change in aggregate behavior.
> nautilus, they are likely running a Hacker News upvote ring

That's reddit-level submission spam[1]. Altough single user account with multiple links to the same content[2] would
possibly get filtered there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nautil.us

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=We+Might+Already+Speak+the+Same+La...
The network effect here is cost and word of mouth. As more and more people buy these batteries, they get cheaper. And as more people get them, more people get to brag about keeping their lights and TVs on during a blackout.
Latency. Nerves are not fast, but it's irrelevant if they were: if the man-eating giant cat has a the edge, speed becomes relative, yours vs cats, not absolute.
Scrum is ritual heavy process by definition. There is no way to do scrum without being heavy on process or dogmatic. The moment you start doing that, your process cease to he Scrum (and any advocate will point at your difference against process as reason why it issues are not cause by Scrum and why it is not scrum)
I have done CMMC3 waterfall development, though the maturity model certainly did not dictate that. I have also seen agile done in the way you describe. I have also been on teams and run teams that used agile ceremonies to foster communication and teamwork and set a cadence, while long term planning was going on elsewhere. The two are not mutually exclusive, and even mediocre agile is miles better for delivering working software than bad waterfall.
House should pass bill that congress can't have any equities
Hardly a pittance, $2/kwhr is a crazy high rate.
Now? Of course not, it would look stupid. At the time? The Soviets had plenty of advocates on the left.
We do. Furniture companies use it a lot already. You can be licensed to import lumber, manufacture using local labor, and export -- without having a license to sell locally. We don't have SEZ, but do have big industrial / IT parks offering support for foreign enterprise. Some are pretty nice.

Overall, the permitted activities on your business license matter. Getting licensed is usually easier than people think, except a handful of sensitive areas.

A small slice of life: this does make furniture tradeshows sad affairs. You can see great things made in Vietnam, but you can't actually buy any of them. This has improved a lot over the last 10 years, but it's still somewhat of a thing.
> so maybe it's okay that Bob ends up more represented

In this example, I'd say it is very legitimate that the Bob has over time more influence how local things are run, since he's a long-time local that has to live with it. All the others are transients that come and go.
And the worst part about it. Holding your ass to the flame over your shit estimate.
I'm not misusing the word "backed." I'm assuming some sophistication from the reader.

And to that point, it is true that nothing backs the dollar, but nothing backs nothing if you go down that road.

In past times, when, let's say a city was being attacked and there's a seige, and food runs out, people will sell their $500,000 diamond ring for a potato, so diamonds and gold have no value as compared to a potato.

However, if a meteor like the one that hit the earth 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, hits again and wipes all of humanity out, there is no "back" of any currency anywhere.

I mean, if you're going to go down that road, let's take it to it's conclusion.

However, in the everyday world, the US dollar has a lot behind it. Like a huge military. No country is going to come in and take over the USA and throw out our money. Because we have a big military. There's a lot of trade going on with greenbacks. It is the world currency.

I'm not saying it is impossible for the dollar to go down the tubes, please don't assume I'm that stupid, nor anyone else is.

But there's a hell of a lot more reasons to stick with US dollars as a store of value, rather than bitcoin. Bit coin has got nothing, just a bunch of narcoterrorists and billionaires trying to smuggle out ill-gotten gains so they don't have to pay taxes. And the speculators working from the greater fool theory.
I was under the impression that we can mutate it into a corner because there are only so many shapes it can mutate into before it doesn't work and the virus can't get into cells.
Definitely my experience of Scrum! In my part of a FAANG we do a sort of sloppy waterfall and honestly it's the most effective method I've found.
From my experience, there is usually a fundamental lack of trust and communication problems behind all of these project management approaches and initiatives. Ultimately it all stems from anxiety about the potential for a date to be slipped or something to not get delivered. It's not about peers, it's about tracking everything in a ticketing system so nothing is missed.

In practice, the only thing that ever really happens and I've never see anything deviate from this is as follows:

1. Product team wants something feature or new product
2. A plan is formulated to get there, often by a certain date with engineers present.
3. An individual or team is entrusted with the delivery of said imitative
4. People go off to do the work to make it happen. Often for months, often without a ticket associated with the work, they just want to get their work done.
5. If you're lucky, the senior resources on the project will flag any issues as they arrive or foresee them.
6. A the end, if everyone isn't too burned out, it's nice to have some time of retrospective about how things went.

Ideally through this process, there is a lot of open and healthy conversation about the progress and status of the work. Anything outside of this is really almost always just cruft, a distraction and leads to bad feelings because the people who need to get the work done are distracted with silly things like poorly ran daily stand ups.

Sometimes things make it so the project is late, no level of agility or number of waterfalls can avoid the sometimes inevitable so it's better if product acts under the assumption things might not always be on time and have a more flexible marketing schedule etc.

None of this would be a problem, except now there's a lot of anxiety about not "doing agile", or waterfall or something...
I think the problem is we are utilizing software so much more and it is often so much more complex—perhaps more often than not needlessly so.

I do sometimes share his frustration. Every single day I feel I am working around the limitations of the tools I use and the bugs that just seemingly exist forever until someone decides to rewrite the whole thing and replace old bugs with new bugs. Corporations probably are not the best stewards of software for reliability purposes.
Because web developers aren't game developers... Oh and hardware limits of quest
The DoD is not worried about lawsuits. Is it really not clear why the DoD is not ok with no warranties software?
Because it's the same. A label is a label. Both involve health.

Instead of some fent analogue cooked up in a chinese lab, this knockoff would be cooked up in a chinese lowest cost, cheating encouraged (if you don't get caught), grab parts from wherever, alibaba store room.

We do need to evaluate trade offs between danger, effectiveness, quality control, and price.

IMHO so long as the hearing device won't cause further damage this is a great move and should be treated like OTC glasses.

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As to SCOTUS rulings, see below about this specific mandate by law.

However both parties have ceded massive authority to the executive over the last two decades (accelerating with Cheney).

Feels like that is a big part of the problem here.

Regardless, I don't think SCOTUS is making the right rulings on a ton of things, including EPA specifically per your example. Everything under the sun shouldn't have to be enumerated. we have to look holistically and allow the executive to adapt as dangers and circumstances change.

Executive should be allowed to use the powers Congress has given and often been purposefully ambiguous about (see 9/11 security state).
HTML as a UI is geared towards making documents and displaying text and graphics in a rigid layout/format.

It's not geared, imho, for a UI with lots of interactivity - e.g., imagine trying to implement blender or an audio processing app (like audacity) in html/css. You'd basically be creating new primitives on top of html, and build your UI on that (or install one of those UI libraries that _renders_ to html).
Our scarcest commodity is attention.
This is a very good guess, but she reports that the camera activity light will stay on throughout her browsing session. Not every time though

In contrast, our tests today show that swiping right to camera mode does cause the indicator to turn on briefly (as expected), but it goes away almost immediately when returning to the normal browse mode. Not the same.
>Why do the football emotes float up into their heads?

I think it only LOOKS like the clouds float into their heads because that one guy on the far right has hair geometry that makes it look like the background is clipping through it.
> We should definitely work to improve the regulatory process, but just giving up on the whole concept of regulation seems counterproductive.

Who suggested that?

The original comments suggestion was to improve the regulatory process to the following ideal:

> They are a labeling agency. Ie they confirm and enforce something is what the manufacturer says it is.

> That’s the level of consumer protections I want. If it says it’s heroine that’s good, don’t want fentanyl laced heroine.
Can anyone with more knowledge on this topic than me (I’m no expert) assuage my fears: by giving human populations such artificial resistances (non-live vaccines) we run the risk of selecting for viruses that are even harder for even our own immune systems to detect and destroy. Current Covid strains don’t seem all that bad, basically everyone I know has been infected now. Might we run the risk of making things worse at this point?
Please do not post flamewar comments like this to HN. We ban accounts that do it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have a theory that it's all a facade, and Facebook is using the metaverse to attract investors / publicity and/or hide funding.

Either that or Zuck / Facebook execs are just in a massive echo chamber. Just like crypto enthusiasts. Yeah it looks bad to us but they're so deluded they literally don't realize.
> Paper ballots. Optical scanners for poll sites.

Okay, again - what's the big picture difference between VVPAT and paper ballots that are scanned by a computer? If the computer leaves a receipt that I have to sign and confirm and leave with them - how's that different than one I do by hand and have scanned? It's just a difference in the order of operation.
Sounds like someone is working at a growing company.

Agile is great when you can be agile. Not every busyness fits into that mold. Some software projects are big, regulated, public, etc. They need more structure.

For instance, you don’t update the cloud provider at a 500 company with agile. It takes planning, coordination, contingency plans, and often 2-3+ year timeline. Agile is for smaller companies or smaller projects that can be broken up into sprint size pieces. Many are not.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamewar comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quora Discontinues English Partner Program
Basically a new thing has been introduced into the world and the world has tried to fit it into an existing paradigm and when it doesn't fit, well let's invent a new paradigm that looks like the old one but better...

The problem isn't how the business solves software. It's how software dissolves the business.
You may want to try https://dbeaver.io/ + SQLLight for the start.

You just download binary for your OS, create a db as described here (https://www.sqlite.org/quickstart.html) and then connect to it with dbeaver.

This is more the enough to get familiar with SQL.
I have bad news for you re: humanity.

The size of the video game micro transaction market is enormous, growing, and consists almost entirely of ways to extract money from individuals for goods which don't exist or provide utility.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/online-microtransaction-globa...
I've pretty much never experienced police caring much about typical stolen items. The only thing that they tend to expend effort on is stolen cars IME (non-US experience, developed country). They might help with a stolen laptop if helping is utterly trivial for them.
Metrics. The way the MBAs will throw the world (further) into a meat grinder.

My wife is a teacher and she was telling me that a panel who was responsible for hiring a new permanent teacher was "not allowed" to consider their prior knowledge of the applicants' teaching abilities, and had to go with the teacher who best answered the Department of Education's paperwork questions.

They chose (against their personal better judgement) the worse of the two teachers because "on paper" they appeared better.

I'm currently struggling to find a job (my current contract ends in a couple of weeks), and I just don't have the ability to be the level of ass-kiss dishonest, straight-laced, official textbook answers that seem to be what lands the fish. I'll get something eventually, and that's all I want, but it really feels like the world is tuned to the sizzle even when you can smell that the steak is rotting.
Who benefits here then?

Older more established higher paid people, or younger staff trying to build their career.

This is where I see a lot of remote work being in favor of people who already have a career and are on the path to retirement. If you're younger looking to get mentored and build networks, you're out of luck.
One of my favorite resources on accounting is https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html It's application specific, but has enough examples in there to remind me of accounting principles from years past.

Combined with the other plain text accounting resources, it was the first resource that made everything "click" for me, well, for varying definitions of "click". I often refer back to it when I need to remind myself of things.

One thing on my todo list to expierment with is modelling double entry accounting as a graph, with nodes of the graph an account, and edges of the graph a transaction with the two amounts on the edge.

That's nice and all but the part I'm really interested in experimenting is modelling reconciliation as equivalencies of graphs. I have a separate graph that models the real world bank accounts and flow of cash, and organisational flow of money, and then I have my accounting graph that models all the transactions. For reconciliation I would go "these whole bunch of edges in this graph A are the same as all these other edges in graph B"

I just want to see what falls out the other end...
I remember stumbling on that video after randomly typing metaverse into youtube search - it's a video with the head of Meta himself personally promoting his intended technique for monetization of the metaverse, and it had about 300 views, after being up for a month or so. The hype is so fake
I have a stellar pair of four-driver custom molds from Alclair. Including mild-taking, costs were around $700 all-in. Your $2500 figure seems very high, unless your “good” means “absolute top of the market”.
Actually, the cost will likely include shipping and handling, as the manufacturers can sell direct to consumers. As I count it, that's at least 2 layers of middlemen that can be removed.
Reducing the spread of existing variants reduces the number of replications the virus can make, which in turn reduces the occurrence of mutations.
What website do you use?
https://youtu.be/7xvNNt-dRrA?t=93

playstation home had the quality of the metaverse in 2008. lol
Tracking your personal belongings is fine.
You posted something like this 3 times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32492333

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32449114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447702

Can you please not? Even if you're right, the only way to respond that doesn't contribute to exactly the problem you're talking about is to respectfully provide correct information and better arguments. Fulminating at the decline of the internet (or this corner of it) just adds to it.
As I said in a comment to another person, if you go down that road, nothing is "backed."

I'm just talking about regular everyday stuff. The US dollar has been exceedingly strong for a long time, due to many factors, none of which is that it is "backed" by gold or baby diapers or star trek transporters machines or orange juice.

This is just a colloquial conversation. If you want to be exacting, I can write 200 pages on it, complete with sources. But are you going to want to read it? or would I be wasting my time writing a long and thorough explanation? Wouldn't a couple of paragraphs suffice and just not have people nitpick in order to score "gotcha" points?
> Either that or Zuck / Facebook execs are just in a massive echo chamber.

I know people who work at Facebook, and based on my conversations with them, it is definitely this one.
It will happen one day, but until someone buys a headset they keep using for more than a few days before locking it in their cupboard, it's not going to happen
What's unique about iOS device hardware that enables them to seamlessly detect AirTags? Pretty much all Android devices have Bluetooth.
The worst part about agile is it has become whatever each company wants it to be. Product owners dominate the pace and direction of development often to the detriment of engineering quality. At least in waterfall model, there is some one like a program manager or delivery manager taking overall responsibility for delivery and coordinating dates with stakeholders. With agile and scrum, there is no one taking responsibility for achieving things. Often product owners end up doing this for which they might or might not qualify for.
add in exec functionality and you've got xkcd!
They always were.

Worse even, 'agile' gets used as an excuse for project managers and architects not to document requirements or plan properly, even in situations where all the goals can be known ahead of time, because that's a lot of work.

It's also rife with "It's not working? Clearly what we need is more interference, more monitoring by management, hire more 'agile coaches' to inflict more 'ceremonies' on developers and use even more of their time."

Never mind that planning is always thrown out of the window because priorities shift. Never mind that none of the changes that were identified as necessary in the retro get any sort of management buy-in, rendering it pointless. Never mind that 'stand-up' has become a management-run progress-report session. Never mind that this kills the feedback loop and developer-lead benefits that are supposed to come from this. No! Do more agile! Whatever the hell that means! Do it harder!
> this way is threadsafe by default

No? Concurrent updates of integers can be accomplished with atomics: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/multi-threading/#Ato...
…and logging