skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about how everything is implemented. I've worked in places where sprints were hard deadlines and there was no acceptable reason for missing said deadlines. We worked 12-15 hour days, including working weekends to try and meet our release schedules.

Run into a blocker? Too bad, should have seen it coming during our scrum meetings and follow-up refinements.

We engineers had two business analysts, a scrum master, and two managers that resided "above" us in rank all working to keep the "flow" of the sprints alive to help ensure we meet our deadlines.

It was the most stressful tech job/environment I've ever been part of and everything was micro-managed by said 5 people to the point that they were blockers to our progress - scheduling multiple meetings everyday that would easily consume 3-4 hours.

Our backlog would grow everyday as everyone scrambled to finish tasks and our architecture was a patch-work of systems that only one person truly understood because he had been with the company since it's inception.

I was hired as a senior engineer along with three other mid-level engineers - all three quit within four months. I left after six.

Sprints/agile/scrums are generally a good thing IF and ONLY IF you have a capable manager/scrum master leading and organizing the team who truly understands time management and finnicky nature of software development. Otherwise, it quickly falls off the rails and leads to churn and burn.
Or determine that there’s a common factor in all humanity’s mistakes and solve all our problems at the source.
"Tensor does imply a set of operations that are expected. Multiplying two arrays together is an ambiguous operation; multiplying two tensors together is well-defined."

In programming too, multiplying two arrays of arbitrary types is often undefined, and many languages allow their programmers to specify what they want to happen when arrays of specific types are multiplied (or may have built-in defined behavior for certain specific types of arrays).

I'd love to learn if there are any actual differences between tensors and arrays commonly used in programming, but so far it doesn't sound like it from reading through this HN thread.
The idea that people are driven primarily by economic impulses is very America centric (to some extent, western centric).

Any cursory study of recent history will tell you that people will readily accept poorer material conditions as long as amorphous ideas like pride, identity, etc. remain intact.
Got it, thanks! I assumed it was that, but couldn't find explicit info on the site.
This article goes way off base in it's first point.

It claims that EU's trade with Russia didn't prevent war, but weakened EU's response to Russian aggression.

Except that's exactly wrong. Russia's trade with the EU 100% prevented EU going to war with Russia, and is preventing Russia from being more ambitious.

Did it prevent the war in Ukraine? No. But it absolutely did prevent the EU from actually going to war with Russia over their actions in Ukraine.

This article is basically making this argument: If Bob and Jane went to the grocery store, why doesn't Sally have food in her fridge? Clearly grocery stores don't sell food!
sounds like myspace
That is backwards. It is the reserve currency because it is stable and desirable and backed by an enormous military and economic engine.

You also implied it was a fragile position. It is not. Because of the above.
Agreed and this is what is so dumb about the whole fake "debt ceiling". Laws were signed that require the spending of $XX and then the ceiling says the government can't spend more than $YY, which is a lower number. So the government is required to spend money it isn't allowed to spend. It is all nonsense and political theater.

It isn't like any President can just go spend $4T on some random thing or that the FBI or FDA can do the same. Usually you only see them misappropriating funds from a different mandated budget area and spent on something else.
They are charge cables that come with random accessories, I think I bought some long ones as well. Also A to C cables. As long as they're only used for low-draw devices it should be safe but requires keeping track.
That’s a service to run code in a very brief (not noticeable) time when you go to a link.

It would be pretty bad at DDOS attacking.
“True Free Markets Haven’t Been Tried Yet!”
Hey look, the market fixes everything!

(/s)
> two dozen chess Grandmasters who have admitted to cheating on chess.com. The fact that online cheating is so widespread

chess.com globally has more than 93M members. There is cheating, but a dozen admissions can't be accurately described as "so widespread." Research has shown fewer than 0.02% cheat. While this is mildly shocking, your statement based on 12 grandmaster admissions is a sweeping generalization.
Which is completely fabricated. Quick Google search has 1/366 for every 1000 miles you drive.

https://ehlinelaw.com/blog/odds-of-being-injured-car-acciden...
Pocket Cast

Started using it when other tools didn't have all the features that I need. I settled down and never compared tools any more.

My only problem with it is that some podcasts take a little to appear in its platform and nobody makes links for it. I'd like a single source of all podcasts.
This is not an argument against living in cities. This is only an argument that you shouldn't live next to sites with significant industrial operation if you care about your risk of cancer. Look at the map I posted. There are plenty of places in plenty of cities that don't have elevated cancer rates.
> The US military and the resulting stability if the US is keeping it up.

Do share with the larger audience how the US military is funded when you run a deficit year after year?

It is weird to conflate "military" with "currency strength".

Prior to the US being the reserve currency it was the British pound, how's that working out these days?

> for some reason defaults on its debt obligations,

this tells me you are unaware of the topic you discuss. You can NEVER default on a debt issued in your own currency. You simply print more (The US calls it quantitative easing).

You only default on debt which is NOT in your own currency.

So Russia's default for example:

"On 4 April 2022, Russia technically defaulted on its foreign debt by failing to pay its obligations in US dollars (and after the grace period it actually defaulted because it did not pay 30 days grace period interest of around 1.9 million USD)."

Notice this was "obligations in US dollars"??

Argentina:

"The Argentine debt restructuring is a process of debt restructuring by Argentina that began on January 14, 2005, and allowed it to resume payment on 76% of the US$82 billion in sovereign bonds that defaulted in 2001 '"

"Sovereign bonds" - Again, notice this is US dollar debt?
California doesn't want to reduce inflation. (It would be of at least questionable legality, too. Because monetary policy lies with the federal government - Article 1, Section 8)

What California does want to do is ensure poorer people aren't bearing the load disproportionately.

Also, while we can certainly argue if this is the best use of those funds, a quick reminder that the size of the US money supply is almost 22 trillion. We're about $6T above 2019 levels. California retaining $10B is not going to have any measurable impact on inflation.
Allowing this person's gift card shop but not allowing POST requests is clearly overzealous in my book.

I understand that some companies want to block certain websites. However, if you're in such a restricted network, I wouldn't expect a website like "Thankbox" to work at all.

An overzealous filter like this prevents normal POST requests (logging in to websites, etc.), lets through random websites (gift card website) and allows all manner of data exfiltration and other nasty stuff. The goal is laudable, the implementation is laughable.
So IF lost just as much weight as normal dieting. Are you unable to comprehend it that way?
PM is a full-time job on its own, and it doesn't match up well at all with being a PO! You should probably try and find someone else to do one of those roles.

If your retros are super-negative, then try limiting everyone to one positive and one negative comment/post-it each per retro, and when you discuss the retro comments, talk through the negative ones first and the positive ones last so the retro ends on a positive note. Limiting people to a small number of comments forces people to consider the things that really got in the way rather than raising every little moan they have.

There are lots of different ways of doing retros, and as PM you are ultimately in charge of facilitating a useful retro. If the retro is overly negative then it becomes less useful.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-a750-a770-arc-linux

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-graphics-linux

TL;DR: quite good, open drivers, but not yet in distro releases. Some reports power management is still broken, leading to very high idle power usage.
To be fair, everywhere is high crime. The world in general is less safe than what we're use to.
What "different click substrates" are you talking about? As far as I remember There's only one class that's been developed (alkyne azide cycloaddition) -- sharpless really wants norbornene to take off but no one has developed that afaict - and of these only one that can be done in vivo (cyclooctyne + azide); the others require copper catalyst which is not awesome for living cells.

> ... methionine substitute that incorporates into every protein, purify out

This is crazy labor intensive, I feel like if you are at this point in considering using this to understand a biological you have really burned through a lot of simpler, more established, and easy to calibrate techniques.
As a parent of kids in the FM district (and an FM graduate myself), it is indeed a fantastic district for most kids. If your kids need any sort of supporting services though, there are much better options in the area. FM fights pretty hard to avoid providing any kind of services.

That being said, there is a _lot_ of privilege in my complaint here. There are plenty of schools in less affluent areas where the idea of even requesting services would be laughable; there just aren't the resources to provide them. FM is frustrating because it _has_ the money, but fights hard to avoid using it.
> particularly if it involves setting up real time access to a powerful engine

You might be overestimating how difficult this is. The free Stockfish app on your phone is enough to crush any human player.
> You are aware that the Russian invasion was stopped, and Russia is being driven back? That was, oartly, due to weapons deliveries from the West and NATO, which includes all major EU countries.

Yes, I am aware. I didn't contend that Europe isn't doing anything to resist Russia, I'm alleging that increasing energy dependence on Russia was a mistake, especially after the 2014 invasion.

> Keeping gas from Russia flowing kept a door open for Putin and prevented escalation.

Big "citation needed" here. As far as I can tell, "keeping gas flowing" (to the extent that it is) is directly paying for the war (notably Russian gas is bought and paid for in Rubles, helping to prop up the Ruble's value)--quite the opposite of "preventing escalation".
That first one indicates something is being injected and the checksums are failing, that's ... worrying.

Or npm and pip use their own certificate stacks and refuse the firewall's cert, which is ... good I guess.
Do you "modulate" a sprint's length once a year, once a month or once a week?

I've seen open sprints named after a pair of calendar weeks multiple months in the past. And for some reason those were still called "sprint". I'd call unwillingness to modulate rather low on the cargo cult scale.
> "Sprints" are a very bad name, giving the impression that the team is always running, which is a bad for morale and quality. In reality, they are just "cycles".

Agree. Actually, my first experience with Agile used the term "iteration" instead of "sprint" which I thought made much more sense. Everywhere else I've been has used the word "sprint". I suppose a "sprint" does includes three parts: start, run, stop; parallel to an iteration of the development cycle: branch, develop, reintegrate.

My paranoid, anti-management brain still thinks the fact that sprint for most people is associated primarily with speed rather than starting/stopping is a feature, not a bug. In this case idea of always being in a "sprint" is inherently stupid and insulting.

Anyway, another word to file alongside "grooming" for Agile words with unpleasant associations.
Cost of settlements went way up too.
> When you have a couple of friends with a similar need, blnk instantly provides value, no network effect needed.

So you still need a network to have value, only that you don't need a large network? You mentioned newsletter and RSS, which you don't have, so people have to visit your site to get the links. So compare to newsletter and RSS, your site has less value on the same scale of network, right?

When all the onlookers are gone, there will be only yourself on your site. Do you still want to post links there, when no one else is looking?
>www.foxnews.com

No thanks.
byteorder != row/column order
I had very good results with psychodynamic therapy, but it takes longer than cognitive-behavioral approaches.

Psychodynamic therapy is like refactoring your brain: you look at old patterns you haven’t thought about in years, consider if they are still serving you, and make small, incremental changes that increase your cohesion of self & improve the interfaces with the rest of the world.

CBT is like bug bashing: find a problem, fix that line of code. If that line is the only problem it is amazing. If there are external reasons for what you are feeling, or a bunch of code written under unrealistic deadlines with unexpected behavior all over the place, CBT isn’t designed to help.
I think the parent is just saying that Laravel has a lot to do with PHP's renaissance. Codeigniter 4 was a complete rewrite to bring it up to modern PHP standards. I haven't used it, but I hear it's quite good.
Sorry for the double comment, but I think you may be wrong about burnout. There's reasons to think that long pauses won't help with burnout. Once people return to the original conditions, they often wind up right back where they started.

You bring up financial means, but the issue that it puts you into a lower caste of citizen, entitled to fewer rights. This position may be temporary, mitigable, or you may be in a position talent / career wise where it doesn't matter.

The fact remains that in the eyes of our society you have become less valuable as a person. Lots of people can't take that hit.
> Most of them are tiny towns

They were all tiny towns when they were first named.
They could also just default on just the portion of the debt that China holds. I never really understood this fear. If you go to war with a country and burn it's debt holdings sure you get a knock on your trustworthiness a touch, but it is literally war. Bond holders in, I don't know, Brazil aren't going to bat an eye.
Quran translations and tafseer.

If have more time, study Arabic and try to listen/read the Quran.
Exactly. I would argue the world is divided between free democracies and authoritarian dictatorships. If the entire world were like Germany or Taiwan, it would be a far more peaceful place. Trade increasing is a small incentive. Democracy has checks and balances on power.

We need a League of Democracies rather than a United Nations.

Treating all nations as if they respect human rights the same is a major folly that experts like Henry Kissinger have made all of their lives. The world is not a game of Risk where it's power vs power. The system has a fundamental impact on the behavior of the state.

The democratic world should not do business with dictators or Communist countries. All we do is empower those with no checks-and-balances on power. Hard empire building as China and Russia are attempting is difficult to do in a democracy. Not impossible, but far less likely.
The US wouldn't default in any case because it has fiat currency and printing lots of money would be less bad than defaulting, though still awful.
More specifically, I don't know of an exception to the rule that sustained hyperinflation and economic decay go together.
OpenBSD devs don't want to maintain any binary compat layers. They were all removed. Linux binary compat layer is now vmm/vmd.
The past is prologue.
What is the recommended MMIX emulator ?
Have you considered that his power of persuasion is very dependent upon what he himself practices? Leading by example.
Two 14th century lion bones uncovered in the heart of The Hague – DutchNews.nl
Take a read sometime : https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises

He covers many historical "reserve currencies" and how they eventually ran out of time and were replaced by another.

He also feels the US is in a fragile position, and given he only makes money when he is correct..and he has been making money since 1974...

I did not imply it was fragile, i said that should it lose reserve currency status the US debt will become a far larger problem.
Extremely misleading to imply those two outcomes are similar.
Now, do Elasticsearch, please.
This is purely dependent on what SD card you are using. If you use a random cheap SanDisk off of amazon it will probably corrupt and fail eventually. A SLC or pSLC industrial card has better ECC, write longevity and power recovery than a commodity card.
> put these high threat users in a separate subnet

Ideally a subnet belonging to one of your competitors? I thought that nowadays only very ignorant people follow links or open attachments in spam emails. Certainly all the spam I've seen for a few years has been as plain as the nose on your face: only an ignorant person would mistake it for ham.
Ah yes, this is the minorities' fault.

> You have to assume that affirmative action has thinned the talent at the university to the point the student body can no longer get through the rigor that separated the smart kids from the elite kids

Oh, do you? So affirmative action has pushed out the elite whites and now mediocrity reigns?
@dang Could you kindly fix the title?
Why are they allowing you to run npm, pip, etc from public repositories at all? That's a huge supply chain risk. If builds are worth doing on prem they also need to be pulling solely from internal, vetted repositories.
It's not just the economic factors, though of course those are very important, it's the other stuff that comes with trade like stronger familial and social ties, joint cultural appreciation, and so on, that bind together countries more closely. Absent boarder disputes or mass immigration countries with trade and joint problem solving (e.g., climate change) tend to get closer over time.
Question marks help on this. For example, sometimes using keywords is good,, but sometimes you have to be like "What is the species of worm that never dies?"
I work in proteomics, where the field decided to standardize on XML based file formats. It can take longer to parse the data out of the XML container than it does to actually run the analysis.
I’d prefer a brand new 62 f-150 to a 2023 maverick.

But yeah housing is a better example. We really fucked that one up didn’t we?

Healthcare is hard because we have so many better technologies, but worse outcomes so the price increase is arguably not worth it. Maybe this one is like the truck. Lotta new technology, at the end of the day not better.
I buy cards primarily on:

- Machine learning / GPGPU support

- Stability

- RAM

A 16GB card for $349 is a good deal. That's more than a 3080, and same as a higher-end 4080.

If Intel is ever able to ship stable open-source drivers supporting pytorch, tensorflow, numpy, etc., this will be a game changer.

What I really hope Intel or AMD decide to ship is a card designed to disrupt the higher-end NVidia products here: something with e.g. 64GB RAM for $500-$1000. That would bring voice recognition, image generation, speech synthesis, etc. to a much broader audience. Or better yet, some hybrid model which can make use of system RAM as well, so the memory is upgradeable.

Yes, I know all the points about performance, things being IO-bound, and whatnot. I'll take it. For gaming, they could also include a smaller amount of very fast RAM.
Opera Cake
The one feature I miss the most on Cloudflare Workers/Durable Object is TrueTime.

Durable Objects are fundamentally replicated state machines with a nice JavaScript API. You can build an automatically sharded (yet correct) Kafka API implementation, or even an entire Spanner-style distributed database on Workers, given the right primitives (DO + TrueTime).
Well maybe we should modify property rights so that they include externalities.
Even in a metro area with nothing but cars (& a token bus system), it's still the fastest, safest, and most convenient method of transportation, because there is no real alternative.

If you attack the fastest, safest, and most convenient method without providing an alternative that is even better, you will face resentment. If you can provide an alternative that is even better while making driving better too, you'll probably get enough real support to make it reality.
The Dark Side of Chess: Payoffs, Points and 12-Year-Old Grandmasters (2021)
I think what you are saying is you can't make public transport more appealing just by making the alternatives worse.
I think it has some basis in real events and characters, eg The Judge was real (though obviously somewhat reimagined here).
Hyperinflation is not on the table for the scale of money printing required to continue paying foreign owned debts.
Funny how I didn’t even open TechCrunch here because of ads
Is Fully Homomorphic Encryption quantum resistant?
nobody would buy such an expensive iPhone. I bet they will just switch to usb-c, like they did with the iPad.
There is no requirement that everything should be done at the end of the sprint.
Just demand shifting of charging will have a big impact. EVs are a battery and and a computer on wheels. Charging automatically when the grid is cheap and green is going to really help the roll out of renewables.
Intel Arc A770 and A750 Review
In reality it's being replaced by TikTok. End result is neither reclaiming time nor better politics ...
The root of this thread is rejecting the idea of appeasement. Escalation that ultimately ends in appeasement is not a counterargument but evidence that appeasement is a valid strategy for ending a conflict when it comes to nuclear weapons. If you’re saying we should escalate and then appease, ok, but almost everyone I have engaged with on this is under the grip of a very poorly conceived Hitler analogy leading them to say that we must never, ever appease dictators. Meaning, I suppose, that as long as Putin remains in power, we must continue to escalate until he either gives up or nukes us all. What could go wrong?
I wish colleges wouldn't hate on failing a class so much. Failing a class is an excellent learning experience allowing students to realize the extent of their knowledge and ability. Failure forces reassessment of priorities. Instead, colleges make it a black mark against a student to be avoided at all costs.

I mean, how hard is it for these students to just take the class again with their added knowledge? Why not just overwrite the previous grade with the new one? Why do they run these classes in series so that anyone who fails pretty much loses an entire year? Why is it such a huge deal that they had to fire a teacher over it?

It's not like colleges aren't getting enough money. Especially NYU! Acadamia is so gung-ho about research and papers but so freaking lazy about teaching. Just look at what they pay TAs and associate professors!
It is envisioned that this will replace HDF5, at least for astronomy — based on this 2015 paper.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221313371...

I’ve used HDF5 before but not ASDF so I can’t fully evaluate their points one way or the other.
Same for YouTube.