skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently wrote about my experiences here, and especially, what makes a great project manager who can move a project in a flexible way. I quote myself:

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What about Scrum, Agile, Kanban, PMP and CAPM?

At this point many of you will be wondering, where is the conversation about all of the formal methodologies? Some of you will think it’s strange that I’ve written a whole chapter about project management without mentioning Scrum, Agile, Kanban, PMP and CAPM.

...I have not personally noticed that credentials (such as Scrum Master or PMP) are necessarily associated with real skill as a project manager. Rather, the key things that make a great project manager tend to be more qualitative:

• Does this person have the moral convictions necessary to take a tough stand against upper management, for the benefit of the overall company?

• Does this person have the confidence necessary to fire a poor performer for the benefit of the overall team?

• Does this person have the perceptiveness to correctly read team members and know when they are lying or boasting?

Certain people gain these attributes as they gain experience, but these attributes tend to be things that are not emphasized in formal credentialed courses. Strong moral convictions tend to be picked up in childhood and are only learned slowly in adulthood. In formal credentialed courses the focus on various rote processes tends to shift the focus away from the things that are really important.
AirPrint is also great.
I've never used an airtag, but from what I've read, it is quite trivial to disable the speaker on a hardware level.
That's exactly how replacing a fire hazard panel would cost me $80k. Random PG&E person decides it's not a like-for-like replacement (despite both being ordinary 200 amp panels) and therefore the underground feeder needs to be replaced (PG&E Green Book has changed guidance in the last fifty years, after all). And since that's on the utility side of the meter, only the utility can do that work, and at ridiculously inflated rates.

No thanks. For now I'm leaving the fire hazard panel. And sometime next year I'm just cutting the cord entirely.
Great article, Marius! I can absolutely relate to this.
https://archive.ph/NuLiq
Any good websites online to get them from?
Big tech lobbyists will kill it in the Senate. What they should have done is make it so "no warranties/liablity" in software licenses don't apply to damages caused by known CVEs. Then everyone is protected, not just DoD.
Seemingly a lot based on the thread where people are realizing they have an APD.
You're definitely crossing well outside the rules of this website my friend.

None of what you're responding to are things I've said, and your evidence doesn't contradict what I said either - if you read it as we're supposed to be reading it in this forum.

But you keep doing whatever you're doing, I guess.
I don't disagree with any particulars of your analysis except one omission: powerwalls compete with electric cars for relatively scarce high-tech batteries. It is globally optimal for the time being for those batteries to all be used to electrify transportation, while utility power can be enhanced with large, fixed installations using whatever kind of battery they can get. Lead-acid or anything else, it doesn't really matter. But nobody is selling turn-key residential power packs using anything but lithium-ion batteries.
See no mention of Bitcoin or Ether in that page, only centralized shitcoins such as Solana and a few buggy smart contracts. Also, if the system is to be operated by only the banks then transactions _can_ be reversed when needed due to security issues. I don't have a strong opinion whether this is a good option or not, just saying that it's not as absurd as it may seen.
Poverty for very many isn't around the corner. It's already here.

"In April 2022, the average monthly SocSec benefit for retired workers was $1,666.49" ... about 20,000/year. (CNBC)

"The poverty level for a household of two in 2022" is about $18,000.

So already the SS-only retired (guess what percentage that is) were already very near the poverty-line. $1500 a month rent, $1660 income? Oh, but "In 2022, Medicare Part B premiums ... increased ... from $148.50 to $170.10 ... the largest... increase in the program's history..."

Those numbers came from before this year's inflation. I've been hidden away from Covid two years, and only recently got a look around. It's a different world out there for consumers... multiple asking prices astonished me. Going by Reddit remarks, a majority of us are already 'cutting our life style' (something Target has also noticed lately).

FIVE years from now? Who dares think about it?
As someone who has been one bagging for four months now I can’t recommend having an air tag enough.

I have an air tag that stays locked in the same part of the bag that keeps my passport, alternative bank cards, laptop & kindle.

Definitely helps lower anxiety as I stay in hostels, hotels or travel in busses etc. Havent ever had to use it but have used it to see if the bag is still in the bus and moving with me or in the hostels locker while I’m having lunch.
Thank you for making Guix -- it's the only one os-as-code that I've tried and intend to use.

I don't think DSLs are the right answer (a la Nix) -- and the fact that Guix is written in an infinitely malleable fully featured programming language is awesome IMO.
The landlord still pays property taxes on his investment properties. It’s his income tax that is offset.
If you think of code writing as a process of organizing your thoughts, exploring/understanding a domain, and articulating it iteratively (for code/run/debug loop), then your pithy comment seems perfectly rational.
So then yes you agree with the person you are talking to completely, that yes it was secret, and you disagree completely with the person who was saying that it wasn't secret.

You just agree 100% with the person you were responding to, and brought up an irrelevant point.
You described the US (regarding not signing, you are mistaken about the signature aspect). Most places stopped accepting signatures several years ago. Card readers are almost always 'insert' except in the very rare case where a card doesn't have a chip. Tap and pay is not common, however tap and pay is more common than signing something (in the US companies have been resisting tap and pay due to higher transactional rates). I haven't signed for a transaction outside of a restaurant across 17 states and 4 years. As I mentioned above, the last place I did sign for a transaction was in Canada.
My brand new HP laser printer literally won’t do anything until you use the app to set it up and agree to never disconnect it from the internet or use an unapproved cartridge. This is what the printer’s internal web server shows: https://pasteboard.co/L4AbwCTw7G3s.jpg
Did you read the article? It doesn't sound like the police were defunded, they weren't even using the budget they had:

> The budget includes funds for 1357 officers and SPD says right now, there are 1,120 officers on the force—which leaves 237 open jobs.
As the meme says: Alway was
Maybe to help explain what I think you are getting at. A year or two ago, you had senators preaching about how we needed to stop china's slave labor of the uighyurs. Okay, fine, I agree with that. But what about the horrible labor practices American companies rely on in central Africa where there, slavery also exists? The people who say bad China about labor practices have their blinders up to our allies who use the same labor practices. The reality is, if you think a company should not use slave labor in China, you should also thing they shouldnt use slave labor in Africa or Vietnam or any other emerging country/economy/third world country.

For a specific example, I did a quick search and Malaysia is one. Malaysia has the same or worst labor practices then China, but no one complains about tech companies relying on Malaysia's poor labor practices.

A blog post that talks about it. https://medium.com/swlh/forced-labor-in-tech-c91daf979201
Not with Warby Parker online ordering.
If your kernel gets updated, things that rely on kernel modules may not work properly until the system is rebooted. It's always good to delay kernel updates until you have the time to reboot.
I think you have that backwards. Nearsightedness, the one where you can't see far, is the one that needs a prescription.
Replying to myself.. there are some caveats obviously that getting days when this payment happens is presumably not guaranteed, although with temperatures tending to rise one could expect it to happen. And maybe the price is not guaranteed either beyond a certain point. In other words, maybe don't buy a PowerWall unless you need one for other reasons.. it's probably not a reliable money making idea. Just in case, on the off chance, anyone was thinking of this as a small side income, lol.
I say the same about perl.
Not everyone needs to be specially fitted but every hearing aid is priced as such. I know I'd like to try the lower end of the spectrum before I decide I need a specialized hearing aid.
For reference:

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/powerwall/pow...

If it's being used for solar-piped home backup it's covered for unlimited cycles, and for any other usage they rate it for 37.8 MWh of lifetime AC output.

Now, I don't see anything talking about the Powerwall's warranty within this article explaining Tesla VPP, so whether or not this might be considered when they determine warranty eligibility is anyone's guess.
Described my current gig to a T except our useless project manager outright said he doesn't believe in agile and runs everything from excel. He came from a defense contractor and it shows. Everything has fallen apart, we've been late on every release, lost huge contracts and now we're outsourcing work to India, but, inexplicably, he still has two brand new cars and just bought a hobby farm. The bastard.

The only thing he did in response to failure was to pivot us to feature driven development, and then he screwed that up by not clearly defining teams and muddying responsibilities.

Pick your jobs carefully or be prepared to walk away :(
The main impediment for this approach is still the battery pack. Unless you can reduce the cost/kwh of batteries the corolla of the ev world won't happen. Battery costs per Kwh are on a downward trend. Tesla is probably around 100-110$ per KWh translating to about 7-8K for it's flagship 70 KWh battery pack.

7-8K in about 30K of manufacturing costs.
https://electrek.co/2018/05/31/tesla-model-3-teardow-materia...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2021/12/01/ar...

So am not sure a low margin approach would fly right now, simply because of supply constraints for volume production. Probably at a 10M/year run rate, the economies of scale would tip in the low margin high volume favour.

How would you solve this conundrum. Can you just stick to a low margin approach from day 1 ? Focus relentlessly on cost reduction in all parts of the cars except the powertrain and the battery since those are the key reliability aspects.

OR

May be a conventional 5 seater car is an overkill for most usage and can you instead build a version with a 35KWh battery pack but a 2 seater like a Miata. No frills, fast and safe car at nearly half the cost but am not sure if you can maintain the same range.
90% humidity in Hamburg and similar throughout Germany as of writing this. Is it feasible to site plants on the ocean and upgrade HVDC to the interior of the continents?
I don’t know about the UK but in my SEPA country only companies can create pull-based schemes and they can’t do it without authorization of the bank account owner.
Mostly used for things like utility bills. So there’s zero danger in sharing your bank account number with someone.
Could be. I find that if I haven't printed anything for a while it does it's cleaning thing (which takes a while) and then prints as expected. Some folks have complained that the 'dump tray' (where it puts ink as its trying to clean the nozzles) fills up to quickly but I've yet to see that issue pop up.

That said, nearly all the patents for the early inkjets have expired now so it is presumably possible for someone to build an inkjet printer, with affordable (and refillable/recyclable) cartridges without worrying about infringing. I don't know of anyone doing that but I could see it happening.
I've had one and it was by necessity as we were building something new and we were a tiny company. It's great when it works.
Which bias would you prefer? Immutable characteristics or those that can be build with hard work and intelligence?
tl;dr

> Before WeWork CEO Adam Neumann invites investors to his Chelsea headquarters, he sometimes directs employees to “activate the space,” for example by throwing a party. Then, when the investor arrives, he casually points out the great work atmosphere.

It also says he pressured investors to drink tequila shots.
A lot of people here are saying the US and Vietnam are close now. Can anyone fill me in? Last I was aware, there was no extradition, and a museum about the War of American Aggression, etc. I wasn’t aware we even had functioning diplomacy with Vietnam. I guess I should have though because Obama went and ate noodles there with Anthony Bourdain. Serious comment. I thought they hated us since the North won the war.
I don't really understand why "we" tolerate FDA regulating non-invasive medical devices at all.
Why does Meta Quest – Horizon Worlds look so terible?
A friend and I were just watching this video about Horizon Worlds.

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/04/testing-creator-monetization-horizon-worlds/

Does anybody have any insight into why it looks the way it does?

A small game development team could make some dramatic improvements to this.

Do they not have game developers on the team?

Is there no art director?

Why is there no lighting?

Why are the characters wrists all held unnaturally?

Why do the football emotes float up into their heads?

What does a football mean?
> have a weak understanding of economics

Economists hardly understand the economy, so I’d say they’re in good company…

Jokes aside, demanding better treatment of workers and onshoring of jobs doesn’t seem as insane as people here are making it seem? This whole thread feels kind of irrelevant.
"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Codebases on fire, edited in production. I watched websites uploaded from development through an FTP gate. All those files will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die()."

More seriously, the volume of development happening without version control is astounding. FTP-ing an entire codebase to a production directory, with the files named ".bak.1", ".bak.2", etc. is still a common thing.

(For what it's worth I wrote a book on Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP https://leanpub.com/mlaphp so this subject is close to my heart.)
I feel like I saw this exact same post with the same comments a couple days ago.

Of course that’s all good but I just wanna make sure someone else concurs and I’m not being haunted by Egyptian demons?
No you're not. A fairy high proportion of the poplulation can afford the small luxury of $10 to take a company laptop to a coffeeshop and buy an overpriced drink. When we're talking about who the police are fighting crime for, rich is the 1-2%.
> Chargeback protection is necessary in India.

Why?? Practically all transactions using debit card/UPI require PIN/OTP.
A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel and YARP to Azure App Services
How long until someone makes another Haxe/OpenFL website that actually plays these maps? (Random party generator, AI DM...)
I want to say there's a lot of powerline communication on the grid, but a lot of that infrastructure can't talk through transformers.
Yes but they would need to have more than just the location of some air tags, which was the case in the linked article where they were already investigating another theft.
This has been my experience as someone who has worked at a variety of large and small companies. Do you have a (generally B2B) product to market, with fixed release increments, and features set by some external marketing / sales team? Your agile is probably going to be "that agile." Are you a small company developing a new product that you don't fully understand yet as you're still developing it? Your agile will probably be closer to the experience people are seeking.
Officially yes, but in practice you can buy glasses online if you know the power of the lenses. Contact lenses do have a prescription verification requirement for sellers.
>99% chance the people complaining about labor conditions are doing so on a made in China phone.

Is there any other option?

Don't stop people from complaining about lead in the water supply, just because they have nothing else to drink.
I am amazed at what software can do. Kudos Tesla.
Do you really think that the soviets who were whaling weren’t concerned with profits?

Do you seriously think that the Soviet system was some sort of perfect expression of a political ideal? Come on.
Yeah, like all those cads who say "Joe Biden" instead of "Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.". Who do they think they are?
Sorry I live abroad so buy them infrequently when back in the USA and I can’t find my order receipts in my email to check. I’m sure all the sites work. Funnily enough I’m pretty sure the “Canadian” site I ordered from shipped them to me from a warehouse in Washington.
> The Seattle Police Department’s budget shrunk after a final vote from the City Council.

> In 2021 budget was $363 million and in 2020 is was $401.8 million.
> Even an experienced driver can appreciate not having the view completely obstructed by...

Couldn't agree more. I have ~50 hours of seat time driving a high performance mid engine car on a track but in any amount of traffic I prefer my truck. Better visibility, and (imo) better safety due to weight.

It's rarely brought up but even an elementary understanding of physics makes it obvious that less massive things are more fragile and susceptible to deformation than more massive things, all else being equal. Sadly that last point involves a zero sum game: the safer a heavier vehicle is to its occupant the more dangerous it is to others. Even more sadly its a game many people are forced to play.
I am wishywashy on details too sorry. There is a combination of your card (debit/credit[visa/mastercard]) and the merchants setup. I am not sure who processes the payment on the merchant/supplier side for EFTPOS vs credit.

So, if you have a Visa credit card, and the money comes from your credit account, like many, then it is clearly using Visa Paywave.

But historically, it was Visa and Mastercard that started it with "no pin required" as an opt-out thing(IE it was enabled for you by default), and their main market is credit. Most people just rolled with it.

Using the phone NFC however should give you more control I would think. But I honestly have never set it up.
I'd say it a little more complicated then that when it comes to analyzing the American worker. You have the American worker, who has a high standard of living because the cost of goods are driven down by the fact that the Vietnamese worker gets access to running water. This is just to use your terminology/example. The reality is its not access to running water, but a job that will higher their standard of living. The American worker wants the to buy the 72 in TV, but also wants to have the job to make the 72 in TV and the only way he can afford the 72 in TV is if it is made in Vietnam.
> I should be able to track my things.

not by using my device
Correct, I haven't argued any differently. You introduce fx in, start writing tests and it will convince the other developers you're working with that there is importance to how you build the codebase in such a way as to enable testing.
High frequency hearing loss is associated with decreased intelligibility, and some of the harder situations to discern people is in a group or noisy environment.

I had a fairly rapid decrease in my high frequency hearing (basically my ears aged 20 years in a few months), and the biggest indicator to me was how much harder it was to understand dialogue in loud shows. I was turning on subtitles and/or turning the volume up where before I was fine with a fairly quiet volume.
uh? Evil is the people stealing my stuff. Tracking it is good.
Yep, it will flag any references to variables in the outer scope that it doesn’t know for certain are stable.
> No one wants to hear "We don't know when we will deliver X because we're working on Y this sprint".

You need a good PM who knows how to handle this for you. I did agile correctly in a large bureaucratic organization because our PM shielded us from those requests, and basically told the business that they could prioritize the requests appropriately in the next sprint planning session.

If they showed up and participated, they got to duke it out with the other competing business units about who got priority. If they didn't show up, we told them that their work was not prioritized because they failed to attend the planning session.
Tap on what sense?

The government doesn't hide the fact that all this data can and will be used by the IRF equivalent in Brazil (Receita Federal)

I would assume the same for any credit card payment in the US
Can you show me an example where she refers to herself as "Liz"? I can show you a ton where Joe Biden refers to himself as "Joe".
Dartmouth BASIC did no such thing. It lacked any concept of structured programming until 1975 (Pascal was introduced in 1970), and for many years its variable names consisted of a single character and a digit. Goto's went to line numbers, not labels. User functions were designated with a single letter. These limitations weren't removed until the mid '70s, and then only by replacing the whole system with a better language informed by Algol 60, which had been around for 15 years at that point.

The result was generations of Dartmouth students who learned how to write unmaintainable spaghetti code and thought they had learned "the principles of computer programming", as you put it. They deserved better.
Lower price is good but I'm looking forward to the variety of hearing aids and the improvements to them that are bound to happen.

Apple has been interested in getting into the health space. This is a perfect new product for them. The only problem I see is that the market might be too small to make a difference in their profits.
Every time I see the FDA doing anything it drives me nuts.

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.

Why did the FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ever keep HEARING aids off the open market?

Im so happy SCOTUS started using the major questions doctrine. Hopefully this can fix some of this stuff

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2022/07/supreme-court-embraces-...

Remove the executive authority to regulate hearing devices, eye glasses, prosthetics, etc. I’m fine with a stamp of approval, but not banning sales.
Cool, as a user of Emacs for 35+ years, I had never looked at eshell. I bookmarked the link. I recently discovered both treemacs for rapid file navigation as well as a better way to setup Emacs, so Emacs has once again become a large part of my workflow. I use the LispWorks IDE a lot, and the editor is Emacs-like, but Emacs is great because it supports every programming language I use.

BTW, the author’s book Mastering Emacs is very good; I bought a license last month.
It seems that Jonathon has moved over to Endeavouros which does seem from my reading to be Manjaro done right.
Wow, $2 per KWh? I'm willing to lug some water up a hill and let it drop for those rates!

Edit: turns out 1 KWh is 2.6 million foot pounds, so that's either a very tall hill or a lot of water :-)
Indeed. Our Air Jordans are unstoppable.
Any particular effects on us here on Earth? Mainly auroras, I assume?