skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In reality there is no competent team, using waterfall or otherwise, that relies perfect estimates and I wouldn't insult anyone by claiming they're doing so.

The waterfall is process where you start by collecting requirements, make estimation and sign contract with set deadline. The rest is development in one go, then testing and then you give result to customer. So yes, it relies on precise estimations. Whatever else you have in mind is not waterfall process. Waterfall does not prescribe how exactly you make estimation nor how do you communicate inside the team.

It has disadvantages which is why no one was using it for decades. Except as straw process to blame when other processes fail or dont prevent dysfunctions. So, management tries to implement scrum, it fails or turns into hell. Then next guy will try to implement Scrum or whatever, claiming he is bringing agile to save us from waterfall. But that is just a way to avoid saying that it was scrum that failed and repeating exact same cycle.
The people the parent poster is talking about is more the "donates at least tens of thousands of dollars to local politicians' re-election funds every election" rich, not "can afford fancy coffee regularly" rich...
This question makes me wonder...what are some examples of "first class citizens in browsers" to you?
I'd not recommend this in general, no matter where. A friend of mine got robbed in Zurich, Switzerland (with crime rate way below most US cities). Because she wore her bag diagonally across shoulder they beat her up till they could grab it and she ended up in the hospital :(.

Health > belongings, always.
Brave warriors use Forth. I came to find out about it in the Computer History Museum.

I think that the information provided is a bit messy. There is a link to a German language website which feature a lot of projects the society is currently working on, with stuff hosted on GitHub instead of SourceForge.
> He is notorious for just taking off trying to find an audience to speak with, ever since the family barred him from accepting speaking invitations to conferences.

Why would you admit you did this on a public forum?
Know Your Limits: Cluster Benchmarks
Measuring system performance is challenging.
A design decision that you’ve made naively, may lead to degraded performance and even unavailability of your services later on as you scale. Something that’s not acceptable in today’s online world.
In my new post I’ll cover the way we at Riskified benchmark our clusters, allowing us to know our limiting factor, predict, and act upon it.
probably they mean

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probability(catastrophic outcomes) == e
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InfoQ: Creating a Secure Distributed DB Cluster Leveraging Your Existing DBMS
The majority of foodborne illness and death in the US is due to animal products. [1]

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/attribution-image.html#f...
For quickly loading bookmarks, I made an extension that lets you open or add a bookmark by typing a keyword for it into the address bar:

https://github.com/binarynate/omnibookmarks

I use it constantly (probably hundreds of times per day) to load common pages I use for running by business and living my life.
oh-my-zsh

https://ohmyz.sh/
> Fun anecdote: right now, I have tagged my father-in-law with an AirTag while he is in town for his medical check-up. He is notorious for just taking off trying to find an audience to speak with, ever since the family barred him from accepting speaking invitations to conferences. Recently, we tracked him talking to a bunch of Bangladeshis at a hospital about why they should learn the basics of English.

That is a horrifying abuse of privacy and this technology.
To be fair, the original comment read like an Infowars headline.
There was (or is?) a guy in Vancouver who would stroll around his neighborhood singing opera at full volume. I’ve had lots of conversations with people who bring him up in groups and we all trade stories the first time we heard him, and we called him Opera Man. I don’t know anyone who didn’t find it delightful.

Edit: I found this little piece on him. It’s so cool, I must have first encountered him 15 years prior to this being written.

https://scoutmagazine.ca/2019/06/03/opera-man/
Now, I wonder what about the vulnerabilities that NSA knows, or have introduced. Then again those are only known to them. So it is probably fine.
I suggest you learn a little bit of basic logic before calling people stupid. "Poverty happened under oppressive regimes", is pretty far from "oppressive regimes want poverty". I never said they didn't cause poverty, I said it's not what they want.

I'm not sure what more insulting: you calling me "incredibly stupid", or your incredibly poor understanding of basic logic. The former is kind of personal, but the latter is insulting to humans' intellect as a whole so it's a big deal.
What batteries did you get?
> Curious about people's thoughts on it :)

Where's the source code?

Couldn't get it to work: A 429 from `https://api.pexels.com/v1/search?orientation=landscape&query...` (why is that required?) seems to make he rest of the page noop.
i call cap too. agileis the way to go, but requires focus, lots of communication and a concrete foundation of trust. that does in fact not scale well, in that angle.
Does it bother you it was the ONLY jail sentence associated with this enormous disaster? You can kill 70 people, just dont say bad things about them, mkay?
If private citizens can’t launch prosecutions it doesn’t matter what the law says.
Not quite, new variants develop and new to adult variants will appear every few years.

It's less able to spread than COVID so adults get the flu about every 5 years[0].

I'm sure you've heard of Spanish flu by now, but may not have heard of Encephalitis Lethargica [1] that followed it.

Luckily nothing like that has happened again and CFS is tame in comparison. But the flu still has surprises in store for us.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
John Stuart Mill’s Moral and Political Philosophy
I'm trying to figure out how many "miles per hour" I get while charging my vehicle. I have a 3.3KW charger and I average 3.1 miles per KWh while driving. I expect that I am charging at a rate of 10.23 miles per hour.

So

3.3 KW * 3.1 miles per KWh

Says "3.3". The math is wrong and the units are gone.

Actually, it doesn't seem to understand the concept of a KW. I'll try "kilowatt" and "kilowatt-hour" respectively.

3.3 kilowatt * 3.1 miles per kilowatt-hour

Says "Incompatible units".

The closest I got was

3.3 kilowatt * 3.1 miles per kiloWh

Says "10.23 kW mi".

insect.sh is able to do that last one.

3.3 kilowatt * 3.1 miles per kiloWh
3.3 kW × (3.1 mi / kW·h)
= 10.23 mi/h
I don't know if this counts, but how about a Rubik's cube?

Or just, read books.
Tiles, yes. Airtags, no. Although Apple provides an Android app that will tell you if someone has placed an Airtag on you without your knowledge.
talking about the US?
They didn't. Many insects are even literally kosher. It's just that farming them didn't make much sense until recently.
Plants and mushrooms, having far more different biology from us than insects, are probably a worse concern when it comes to toxins that can't be cooked away. And yet humans managed to cultivate food with plenty of those, like cassava.
In C goto is scoped.

void Foo(int x)
{
if(x == 10)
goto goof; // don't work.
}

void Baz(void)
{
goof:
printf("goof isn't in scope");
}
I take the requirements from the customers and I bring them to the engineers! What the hell is wrong with you people?!
FedEx Bans Shipping Ghost Guns
If your Android phone can read NFC tags, tapping the tag with your phone will tell you who owns it.
That's the exact idea behind Agile. Sure it may limit some impact of success, but I bet you way more people are blowing millions of dollars trying to pull big products out of their hat.

And for the record the number of "visionaries" is incredibly small, and pretty much everyone I've ever met that considered themselves a "visionary" is a con artist that talks a good game, has the technical acumen of day old mayonnaise and excuses being a colossal a-hole because Steve Jobs did it that way.

EDIT: Further I am realizing your talk about creating markets isn't so true either.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, none of these companies were really visionary, and they are the biggest names around.
Are you seriously telling me you expect an ARM board running mainline Linux to play virtualized Android games? This is beyond beyond disingenuous, is somebody paying you to write this or what?
Incremental updates does not work on macOS, that's why
Over the years I've seen several female friends try to stay vegan. One managed a decade before she couldn't put up with the anemia any more. The others quit sooner, because of weight loss, malnutrition, and other issues.

It seems humans were evolved to scavenge animals as well as eating plants. It's not just protein, it's iron and fats, and a few other things.
Yup. (I'm still flummoxed by the success of Dropbox. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Richard Restak's new book looks a lot like this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50896930-the-memory-of-b...

Which led me down a confusing path. Can anyone shed any light on it? Is it common for a publisher to reuse the same cover and style for another similar book? Why does the ISBN for Ilchi Lee's book take me to Restak's?

Maybe it's an elaborate joke on memory...
According to QFT, the quantum fields permeate the space everywhere, but the field itself can be in a "vacuum state", which means it has the lowest possible energy. (But unlike in classical physics, the lowest possible energy is not zero.)
Didn’t know about Tapback support on Android. Wish iOS had that support for non-iMessage chats!

I think the point I want to stress is that when everyone uses iMessage, it’s as easy as texting, but just about as good as WhatsApp/etc. from a feature/user experience point of view.

Agree that we can be friends. Hopefully my comment wasn’t seen as adversarial. I just get annoyed when I see the green text bubbles, because people try to use iMessage features and it’s just bad. Non-techies don’t realize it’s different because it’s the same app, but then wonder why photos aren’t high resolution, or things don’t work as expected.
As a fellow anti-agile dev, I can understand why its so prevalent. Labour estimates are crucial for business, even if they're bad - the goal is to improve iteratively over time and gradient-descend towards an accurate picture of resource allocation.

Is there a better way to do this than agile? No duh, but that's another topic. :-)
I had to smile the whole article while reading.
You think a person writing hello world needs to hire a consultant at hourly rates?
All of those things are easily fixable via legislation.
The same old tricks are being used it seems.
That seems like horrible deal, is this meant to discourage people from biking? So you should waste one hour today you can use any way you want for not guaranteed one hour gain far into future where you are in poor health and hardly do anything anymore?

And if it's about commute, can I read book or whatever I want during bike ride vs commute by public transport? I doubt that and I write it as someone who used to commute to work in Beijing on bike (though I would say that potentially shortened my life expectancy considering Chinese drivers).
Beats me. Browsers should have something like Zotero directly built into them.
No, they are not right about the attitude. We just don't do proprietary software and so discussing it on our channels is off topic and distracting. "Go fuck yourself" is much stronger, much ruder attitude.

On the #guix IRC channel you'll often get a private message to direct you to other channels where it's fine to discuss proprietary software and how to make it work on Guix.
To be fair, the comment you're replying to is borderline offensive.
Software isn't in a great state, granted, but I'm skeptical that it's a genuine civilization-ending crisis. It doesn't seem like knowledge is being lost, for one thing. For another, we're still exploring new techniques that help with program correctness, like borrow checking in Rust or adding gradual typing to already established dynamic languages.

To be clear, we shouldn't get complacent about the quality of software or ensuring knowledge gets transferred to the next generation. But I don't think these issues are putting us on track to a crisis.
Thanks for a great answer. I also feel that 50 pills/day seems really excessive, but at least you seem to be very knowledgeable about the subject, and to have done extensive research, with the right dose of skepticism.

I think it would be nice for you to write an article on your approach, and share it with the world - or at least the HN crowd :)

I don't think I'll ever try to emulate you, but I would happily read how you got to this point, and which supplements you decided to include in your list.

Also, your view on multivitamins, and how "poor" most supplements are, is equally intriguing. It seems that the world of supplements is full of garbage and get-rich-quick schemes, and even if you can theoretically nail the right type and amount of supplements for your health, it is very likely that you won't be able to source them properly.
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
It's kind of narrow minded to singly attribute singing as an attention seeking activity, although it can be. It's fun without anyone around, and singing is as much for the listeners pleasure as it is for the singer's ego.
At the moment there is no real reliable procedure to diagnos APD. It is the, we tried everything else but we can't see anything wrong with you type of diagnos.
In normal high-tech countries the domestic software megacorps match or exceed FAANG salaries. Spotify & Booking in Europe, RazorPay & Flipkart in India, Gojek in SEA all match or exceed FAANG salaries but not in Japan
Japan urges its young people to drink more to boost economy
Yeah measuring efforts in hours is the wrong kind of agile. That's the whole point of their effort point system.

Also the fact that you're alone and only you to do them means it will get done when it will get done and they should only prioritise items in a list.

Sorry you seem to hate agile and I could see why but hopefully some day you get to be part of an effective team with a common sense approach to agile.
Rather, what we think of as a "solid" has very different definition than what we would intuitively think. But in the end, that's just semantics. (According to the linked prof. Moriarty, the "boundary" of a solid is the point in space where quantum degeneracy pressure is in balance with van der Waals forces – so there is a well-defined boundary!)

Also, I think that "point particles" are a rather illusory concept. More like, interactions between particles are highly localized when observed by a macroscopic classical observer.
> Humans have been eating insects for a long time. In south africa they eat ants, china they eat scorpio, thailand they eat crickets...

I'm in South Africa. I've never heard of the ants thing, but it is most definitely NOT NORMAL over here to eat those things; rich people may do it as a delicacy, like they would eat caviar, but it never was normal to eat insects over here.
The Bizarre History Behind Fika, Sweden’s Mandatory Coffee Break
This is always the same, they usually reveal this information a few days after the release is made. For two reasons: 1. they don't want to hand out this information to attackers until a significant chunk of their users has updated; 2. they may also be preparing updates for users who are not on the latest macOS/iOS versions (as they usually do).

This is the level of support you get from a trillion dollar company?

Apparently they care about their users not getting exploited. Remember that many macOS/iOS users are not subscribed to the debian-security list and running apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade twice a day.
Alternately I liked the high physicist take on :"Why is the sky blue?"
Answer: That air is blue.
Not rayleigh scattering etc etc.

Reason: why is anything the colour it is? Because that is the colour of light that comes from it. You don't ask why an orange is the colour orange, or a good strawberry is red, you just accept it is.

And then if you want to go into the "why is anything a particular colour?" then it isn't just the sky we're talking about.
Whenever I think of Egyptian Demons I think of "Pyramids" by Frank Ocean and all the cryptic symobology laid into the verses. Interesting stuff, nonetheless!
This isn’t even that far fetched. The justification for the “nine-dash line” that claims all of the South China Sea in violation of international maritime law is based on some spurious claim like “China controlled this sea at some point in the past”.

It’s only a step from there to making Korea and Japan vassal states because they were at some point in the past.
Can you read book/news, play game, etc. while riding bike as opposed to sitting in bus and doing things you like to pass time?
I have been wanting to work with a professional. Any advice on how to find one ?
> Boils down to how they're ... prepared.

Indeed, boiling down for a half hour or so would probably help.
Don't trust 'self-interested' billionaires like Elon Musk to improve transport
I've always been confused about the arbitrary lengths of patents. Surely for something like this, six months or a year is fine? Enough time to get to market and make a considerable size of buck, but brief enough that a much needed thing that is subsidised by public money can be used as widely as possible. (Remember, philanthropic funds are often treated favourably for tax, so are, in a way, also public-ish money)

On the other hand, you may have invented a novel type of hammock which is neat but has no social function, so, by all means have a quarter of a century of monopoly on that.
True, but it also works the other way, the variations that are currently less successful but have a mutation that avoids this antibody may be more virulent.
> The way I think of it is every day I exercise is another day I get to live.*

* unless you are hit by car or have accident, which is quite likely to happen on bike (even if you just fall on your own), which will immediately erase all benefits
Move to Italy. I grew up here, lived abroad for ~13 years, 9 of which in San Francisco (before: Luxembourg and Singapore), working for AWS and other tech firms. I can assure you that the quality of produce I can find in Italy cannot be beaten. Comparable in some parts of the Mediterranean. Whole Foods? Give me a break, not even close.

I'm not too serious (I know it's not easy to "move to Italy", just like that), but I find it really interesting that the US is so rich, and yet the quality of food is so poor.

The tomatoes are a great example. Visit Italy, buy some tomatoes, eat them raw. You will not believe your senses.
You may be interested in the addendum: https://alexanderwales.com/addendum-to-the-ai-art-apocalypse...

Which attempts to address some of the stuff wasn't addressed in the original article.

(Also totally unrelated: as a software dev I would be scared to lose my job but also unbelievably excited for "an automatic programmer")
The importance of proprietary software is quite overstated in my opinion. I've used stock Guix System on a large number of off-the-shelf servers and not once did I encounter missing drivers. I've used Guix System with linux-libre on old Sun hardware and the newest Dell servers --- never once did I have a problem due to the linux-libre kernel.

"dead in the water" looks different.
> Sounds like a good way to have even more corrupt and worthless policing

leaving things to market means making "corruption" legal/explicit, pay for service (not judging it's bad or good, just saying). having more popularized, optional, "police to hire" may not be that bad idea after all. a bit like having public care system with optional private sector, or schooling.
I thought it was a commonly held thought that Google didn't want Chrome users using bookmarks because it directly competed with their search (and advertising).
personally i think thats time better spent then a lot of what the police spend their time and effort on
> The Food and Drug Administration moved to make hearing aids easier to buy over the counter without a prescription or medical exam

But you can already buy hearing aids without a prescription or medical exam. I do mean the United States, and I do mean devices labeled as hearing aids and not personal sound amplification products. See this article from Consumer Reports dated November 11, 2021, where they talk about Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Aids and Self-Fitting Hearing Aids, neither of which require a prescription or medical exam, but are still labeled as Hearing Aids:

https://www.consumerreports.org/hearing-aids/your-guide-to-h...

An example is the Bose SoundControl Hearing Aid that I know for a fact has been available for purchase without a prescription directly from Bose for many months (in the USA only).

It's true that a lot of people don't know about the Direct-to-Consumer and Self-Fitting Hearing Aids. But I don't understand what benefit comes from the new FDA rules that didn't already exist.

EDIT: It sounds like the FDA could be making it worse. Quoting from the Consumer Reports article above, it says, "FDA-Approved Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids could at first look like some of the Direct-to-Consumer options already available—but they will be subject to additional rules." Why would any manufacturer want to market with additional rules when they're already allowed to sell under the Direct-to-Consumer or Self-Fitting Hearing Aid rules?
Yes and: I just reread that (excellent) ncsl.org link from 2019. Some tidbits:

Ballots are not signed. In my jurisdiction, if a voter signs their ballot it spoils the ballot.

NCSL links to (also excellent) Verified Voting, which is kept current. (D'oh. That would have saved me some research effort.)

https://verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#mode/navigate/map/ppEqu...

Note that Arizona does not use DREs and so does not have (or need) VVPAT. Instead, Arizona went with the much superior ballot marking device (BMD) for enfranchising disabled voters.
I’ll pick the salad over the steak any day, though.

Above all I’d love to see better technology and attention for food safety, though. It’s stunning to see how many people suffer from food born illness today — something I’d thought was far more under control up until my mid 30s. It’s better under many circumstances and I’m not going to pretend it’s anything like it has been in the past. However, we could do much, much better than we do now and it would literally save lives.
Perhaps.

If you feel you have an understanding of the system I'm criticizing, why not help me understand why it has to be this way? I get it if you don't have the time or inclination to do so, but surprisingly I'm actually really open to learning new things and it would be appreciated not only by me but by other people reading your comments if you could explain the current system, perhaps other systems that have been tried and failed, and perhaps compare it with other systems (if they exist) that don't do it this way (giving the IP to the university even though it might be considered, by some less knowledgeable people, to be a 'work for hire.' Where it would seem that the agencies providing grants are doing the hiring.

Always ready to listen an learn new things.
what does ITS mean ?
What is the point of police if they're not gonna do anything when our rights are violated?
> Ask yourself why humans refrained from eating them

Plenty of humans don't eat plenty of meats and sea animals either. Traditions don't necessarily contain good wisdom.

I think seeing a bug feast on feces and then having it sneak up on your food stashes might trigger an obvious reaction (similar to pigs and the reason why some don't eat them)
It's really complicated regarding Taiwan, though. There are groups in both countries that say there is only one China and the other one is just occupied by an illegitimate government.