skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have been using scrum/agile for over a decade now. To most of the companies if not all I worked for, agile/scrum was nothing but just a fancy buzz word to the management team. They just did what they were already doing under the name of agile.

Put all that aside, scrum/agile is actually pretty good on tracking small and simple tasks. So if the whole project can be broken down to nice and small tasks and the estimates were accurate, agile/scrum will work perfectly. Unfortunately all the project I've ever involved were complicated, some were even super large. We humans are pretty bad at estimating and no surprise most estimations were way off. Also, there were huge tasks that could not be broken down. That's exactly where the short coming of scrum/agile. Also, in most projects there were for sure huge, hard and important tasks that needed to be solved as soon as possible. But in scrum/agile, the team tends to pick the small, simple and easy tasks first as it would make the metrics nicer. So when they finally have to pick those important hard and huge tasks, it would be most likely way too late as there were already too much done in the wrong way.
Sounds like the sunken cost fallacy
We have it, but I don’t trust companies not to fuck it up. I don’t want to allow the 5 or 10 companies I pay monthly fees to to each have the keys to withdraw money from my account. I mean we’ve seen what happens with tech companies like PayPal and how they screw you over. I’m not letting the local electric company have that kind of access to my account! One billing error, hack, or hidden surprise fee, and I could be wiped out.
> It’s similar to landlords who provide key FOBs or cards in lieu of metal keys

Cards don’t need batteries, don’t need internet connections and can be pretty robust. It is actually superior to smartphone in its simplicity and efficiency without needing its own power source.
> How is that "better than pulse ever did"?

Pulse would cause games to crash or not even start (i know this because switching to pipewire resolved that), for example. Pulse, for me, was beyond broken on every machine I used it, in some capacity. PipeWire is, too, but in a way that doesnt ruin my day ;)
I don't operate one but back in university did some calculations around these and another factor is that efficiency goes down with rising temperatures. If the panels are all on the ground, during summer they will heat up and there won't be much air circulation beneath them to help cool them off. So efficiency will go down for sure, and I'm not sure the 20% one time savings will compensate a forever-less-efficient running operation. I guess it depends where in the world you install them, if more towards the north it might be ok.
I’m sick and tired of the way software is nuit and how developers are almost always at the bottom of the food chain. We have to accept pressure from the whole org and deliver on things promises to others regardless of reality.

I would like to break the cycle and end my fellow developers’ misery by helping willing teams and orgs work better.

How could I do this? How is it called? I certainly don’t want to be another Agile(tm) peddler. But I also can’t go back to being a code monkey.

And before people here reply that I have to find better orgs to work at: while I believe they exist, they’re so rare that this isn’t possible for 99% of people. In my over 10 years in software, I have never interviewed with or worked at one of these elusive better orgs. I’m also not in the US which might be a factor. Anyway, I’d rather have a different solution to this problem than “work somewhere exceptionally hard to find”
A lot of the language learning methods out there really are built to be graded/measured. Books, courses, duolingo, anki - they all kind of seek to answer this question ‘how can we measure your language and make sure you’re progressing through it’.

There are a few applications out there that are far superior for me, that don’t focus on this two way feedback. Language transfer is amazing, glossika used to be amazing (still is, but they have a lot of grading by default now), pimsleur and Michel Thomas are also good products.

I’m also working on a product that explicitly tries to avoid this problem as well, but is a little meatier than the audio only products like I mentioned above. Won’t be ready for public use for a few months though but you can DM me for details if you’d like
> Maybe your hardware is the problem?

Sure, could be, though my hardware is quite common.
Your take on this is exactly correct.
Polymath Project
Victims of the gift card scam don't really think that the government wants you to pay your fines/taxes in Google Play money. The implication is that a government employee will make the problem go away if you pay them under the table. The victim is being made to feel that they're a participant in the scam, which makes them less likely to report it once they figure out they're getting cheated.
Oh, and the tenses. When the Military stops you to ask what you did in the past and what you’re going to do in the future, Rosetta’s passion por present tense won’t help.

That said, having shit tier spanish at the checkpoints can “naïveté” you out of some sticky situations. A cute dog helps too (when they ask, and they will, “ella no muerde”).
Hm, I might try that. I swapped headphones, mics, etc, the next thing to swap would be the motherboard, or to get a dedicated sound card.
As I was told last time I noted there’s lot of arid places you could put panel in, aside from ecological concerns arid places tend to be dusty and abrasive.

Wind kicks up dust, dust clings to panel, no rain for months on end, panels get covered up and scratched. Turns out there’s issues to using these spaces, and you need additional hardware (and thus have additional failure modes) to mitigate them.
Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences
I have been using https://sharegpt.com/ and it works really well.
I have some concerns about model induced false signals but clearly the professionals who have to do this really do value alternate takes on the featureset.

A side issue here is the natural feedback loop: clinicians will tell radiology services too many false positive referrals are coming through (my partner already experienced this push back on finer grained diagnostic for a venous issue the consultant said was un-imagable 5 years ago and was 50/50 for risk/reward to work on. "Why are you here: on this diagnosis you shouldn't be here" response)

My point is that advances in imaging probably always has leaps and bounds and reconsideration.
And no typos allowed or you start from zero!

Because as everyone nows, real native speakers never make typos
Knew about it, but didn't quite understand how to use send until I read through the link you posted. Thanks for that!

Regarding that article specifically I think it could've done better service to 'yield from' had it mentioned recursive generators. One example would be flattening nested lists: have a flatten function that checks if its argument is iterable: if not just yield the thing else yield from flatten for every item in the iterable.
Does this help with getting kids to sleep at all?
Very revealing how self interest can blind a type of person to an obvious scam. This guy got lucky but they almost had him. I can’t help but think of crypto.
The <hr> at the end of the page needs some padding at the top, otherwise I don't think there's anything wrong with your website. It's a little too minimalist for my taste.

There's also the classic "Tufte" solutions, here's one: https://jamstackthemes.dev/theme/tufte/
For me, its still a WIP than a full fix, but definitely better than pulse :)
Hi. The most important step is permitting as it's a highly regulated industry. The rest is easier. Every jurisdiction has its own rules for permitting. Some govs want to push it more and make it easy (like Spain used to do it). Some don't need solar plants (like Switzerland). I heard Maryland in US is pushing it. I was planning to visit Maryland ministry of energy to learn more actually.
And legal side is already solved in EU since 2014 with eIDAS regulation.

Estonia was one of the first to make digital signatures legaly binding with its ID-Card system.
This is the issue distilled. And the retort seems to be “but we give a warning”.

Awfully weak stuff for a cypherpunk-ish protocol. The CCC crowd that rabidly hates anything centralised, thinks it’s insecure and corporate, are probably having a existential crisis. Matrix is doing a terrible job fixing the issues, worse they seem to downplaying and denying too. And the Tech press seem to dismiss the issue believing Matrixs’ claims there isn’t an issue.
A lot of us around here seem to live perfectly fine despite effectively seeing zero advertising with a combination of ad blockers and avoiding ad-supported services so I’m wondering why do you think advertising is an essential concept that needs to be preserved and defended?
Bitcoin is not the only digital token technology. Ethereum consumes a fraction of the energy Bitcoin consumes.
I built an Add-In for Microsoft Word for creative writers that counts occurrences of different types of words and displays each occurrence next to the sentence it occurs in for context. The copy on the website describes it differently, but it's basically just a list of lists with a good UI - nothing complex about it, no AI or ML.

It covers word and phrase frequency, adverbs, dialog tags, etc.

I spent a good bit of time working on it years ago alongside my full time jobs, but haven't touched it in years. It still brings in about $1000 a month.

I Google every one who buys it and they're all published writers or run editing shops.
I have, and it’s fantastic to learn. I think there’s a focus on ambiguity that is incredibly important for language learners (combine some gestures with your hands and ‘it’ ‘this’ ‘that’ ‘there’ ‘he’ ‘she’ can get you really far).

However, it’s really not great for review. I’ve tried to go back even after a couple years and listen to the Italian course again, but couldn’t do it.

So it’s a great (amazing (fantastic)) ‘boost’ but I wouldn’t rely on it entirely
Can't stop the instruction set being able to write. Can stop higher logic invoking them, sometimes. Good to do. I really like the level of integration with compiler, low level boot, trusted code regions, "you will almost never call this, but your OS might on your behalf"

Live patching un-stoppable systems may be a challenge unless you code to passing live IO and state across process boundaries
A computer's job is to do whatever you ask it to do; that includes using all disk or memory up, if that's what you really want. There's not really a way to prevent breaking the OS (or just using up the battery) without preventing you from using all the computer you bought.

A phone is different since it always has to be able to make phone calls.
Your study is only about asthma and bronchitis

This study estimates that the disability adjusted life years lost by PM2.5 are orders of magnitude higher than from NO2:
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/pdf/10.1289/ehp.1104035 see figure 3

I'm fully agreeing that electric cars reduce pollution, I also ordered one myself. But they do not fully solve the pollution problem and reducing our dependency on cars is the most effective way to reduce negative effects.
I'm glad to see someone with the same idea was able to take it to completion. Life got in the way for me and I never got to implement that part. If I ever get back around to it I will consult your solution if I get stuck.
I didn’t do cold calling though maybe I should have. Instead, I trawled LinkedIn and used tools like hunter.io to find email addresses and then cold emailed folks.

Fwiw, Apollo.io seems to do a good job surfacing contact info as well.
Yup, boredom makes a teacher's nightmare. Spitballs, tweeters, paper airplanes, animal noises, the full litany.
ah, interesting, what projects do you normally do? i really like this approach but struggle to find a good starting project... I always pivot bewteen too simple and too complex
At least now you don't need to plug in a quarter (nearly a dollar in today's money) to keep practicing.
Thanks, this looks much better.

Glow does too much. I don't care about using their cloud, a new pager, or a TUI for that matter. Just render Markdown and let me view it with my pager of choice.
They've never written a _cheque_, they have written a _check_
It can be enough to change the lifestyle. I'm working with a charity where we're increasing people's income by $90 a year and that makes a significant difference to their lives
An Awesome List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe about National Borders :-/ should probably include an item a la "Wrong: at any time, the border between two nations / countries / states is a single line that partitions an area such that every given point either belongs to the one or the the other, or a third one".

To my surprise, OpenStreetMap's treatment of the disputed northernmost part of the Dutch–German border is such that they display both versions, with helpful labels that indicate the region claimed by both countries.
this is a very good point. would be good to see data for a couple of years of production and compare vs. traditional system. it's most of the time better to spend upfront for ongoing production increase. If 5% loss during 25 years, 20% upfront saving might not look that good anymore for a plant that pays back in 7 years or so.
Yeah, it's in the nightly and going to GA Jan 23 according to the latest blog post on it.
I believe she was targeted by the ruling political party, who have a history of harassing and doxxing their critics, (or the current indian government itself) to demoralise her and besmirch her reputation as a journalist. And that happened. She is now attacked by her critics for her "naivety", and ridiculed by them, and she went into depression and took a break. (It all points to that as she was never asked for any money, as is is usual with these kind of scam. )
No one at Facebook knows what it does with your data
My friend, if you have time to ask for a tl;dr and ask follow-up questions, you have time to read the original post. Off you go.
Huh? Apple has a robust bug bounty program.

https://security.apple.com/bounty/
Something else I read reminded me Citizen Kane was submarined for years by the industry on Hearst's say-so.

But this is different: people are drifting away as eyeballs from arty films? Maaaybe, but also maybe not: I love scandi quirky sheep farmer love stories, maybe the foreign Oscar segment is alive and well?

Art films cost a frightening amount of money but far less than waterworld or heavens gate. It's all relative, when it comes to residuals and like citizen Kane, it can take time to get there.
Sugar free additives (at least aspartame and asesulfame K, jury is out on sucralose, stevia and the others) make my intestines ... not work according to empirical studies.

I drank exclusively sugar free drinks for a good 15 years and started to notice that my farts started smelling _really_ bad. Like "_I_ need to leave the room" bad. Thought it was gluten or wheat, it wasn't. Changed to sugary drinks for a few weeks -> boom, bowel/intestine issues gone.

Had a second bout of "issues" when Pepsi sneakily changed from pure sugar to sugar/artificial in their non-max lineup. Took me a while to actually read the label and see WTF happened. Now I'm a Coke drinker, not because I like it, but because it's the only one that's sweetened only with sugar.
Clearly not worthy of being discussed on HN, groupthink at it’s best!
That's bonkers! It costs at least an order of magnitude more to process a cheque than a credit card transaction. And debit cards are even cheaper.
And you could swap pandoc with multimarkdown. Achieves the same.
By the time they launch an API, all the cool stuff will be gone and it won't even be worth it to pay for.
I wonder if he’s still thinking about moving Twitter out of California.
You don't need to be able to perfectly describe something in your head. That's what you hire an artist for. Almost nobody hires an artist to produce the exact thing they are imagining - they have a general idea of what they want, and the artist works with them in a back and forth way to find something they like. These image models seem quite capable of doing that to me. You enter your vague description, and iterate from there until you get something you like.
> In controlled studies (same caloric intake, ignoring the sweetened water), mice gain more weight with artificial sweeteners than with sugar.

they gave her high fat diet, which causes ketosis and that's likely why mice didn't gain weight https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/apnm-2016-0346#.W...
This post seem to blame victims for the problem, and that is not fair. People can be in dark places mentally, struggle with disease, family issues, etc. Not everybody is mentally sharp 100% of the time to identify a scam attack and fight it back.

The problem is not victims, the problem is scammers. There should be better mechanisms to quickly clamp down on them. In this case, it would be really good if there was a mechanism or institution where the victim could report the scam and once verified it would gather information from Google, Dropbox sign, the bank receiving the funds, and other tools scammers use to build a case against the scammer in the relevant jurisdiction, and avoid them using the same tools for further scams.

My strategy to repel scams is to stay humble. Mo matter how much I think I'm prepared to identify scams, I am still vulnerable and I will continue to be vulnerable. Arrogance is your worst friend if your objective is to stay safe. No matter how many ceremonies you do when you're 16, in the right context and with the right words, you will still fall for a talented social engineer.
i find this....doubtful. sorry i'm just not one to believe everything i read online from anonymous people.
Cinema has been dead for a while.

The people angry at Martin Scorcese for saying Marvel movies are like theme-park rides will turn around and say that they only want spectacle from their theater going experience.

(BTW this is a good case for seeing a lot of these movies on a big screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89XKjjsa7PM Watch this on the biggest screen you have)

People want to watch trash. And that's ok.
Equity 101
The amount of microplastic you get isn't really limited by the overall amount of plastic. But rather, it is limited by how fast they can break off the main plastic layer. The more surface area that's in contact with the drink, the more can leach. The leached amount is minuscule compared to the total amount, but it may have health impacts regardless.
People don't appreciate how hard old games are. Somehow just because the graphics are "retro" now people assume old games are easy as well but consistently I find old games much more difficult than modern ones.

The fact every gamer now expects a tutorial level just demonstrates how much gamers today expect to be hand held.
Paying with one's principles sounds terrible. But, fun aside, there is actually a segment of people for whom this might be pretty bad news, now that i think about it.

> 56% of Americans can't cover a $1,000 emergency expense

For these folks (56% of the entire country), equity is one of the very few sources of cash if anything happens. If they even have it. Also, for the reckless subset of them, it's also a potential source of bling like iphones or maybe cars they couldn't afford otherwise. Both good and bad will have their life changed once the equity disappears.

Note: clearly far from all 56% are homeowners, but googling "house poor" doesn't bring up numbers that are too much better.
Your scheme of society (government) deciding everyone's wages. Many times. It doesn't work out very well. In fact, people in those societies are always trying to get into the US, where wages are set by the market.

BTW, you're free to donate whatever you feel is just to your garbageman.

> Try to transcend for five seconds the decades of propaganda you've sustained

Are you sure I'm the one affected by decades of propaganda?

For one thing, you appear to subscribe to the Labor Theory of Value, where someone's effort and time determine their wage, rather than what actually happens is what one produces that determines their wage. The LToV has been thoroughly discredited. It's pretty easy to discredit:

Consider someone digging a hole in the ground. He works hard, sweat pouring off his body. Then, he fills it in again. What value has he produced? Nothing. What would you pay someone to do such a thing? Nothing. I bet you pay for results, not sweat, when you pay someone to do something for you.
Direct link:

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It's not hyperbole, although prior to 2022, getting $400k total compensation as a senior meant working at a handful of companies, even ones like Google and Microsoft weren't paying out that much unless it was through stock appreciation.
I think it's more that they need jobs than possessing any special abilities. I get the impression that math and physics are hard to get jobs in specifically, and the low hanging fruit has all been plucked.
Isn't that how Apple Pay works?
The problem I have with this is always the “when is it enough”? Setting is speed limit of 130 is not unreasonable. But the exact same arguments apply for a speed limit of 120. Or 100. Or 80. Or 60. Or 30.

It basically the same as the Apple CSAM issue: where is acceptable to impose restrictions to freedom, or to impose inconvenience, for a marginal improvement to safety.

It’s frustrating to see essentially the same issue come up so many times, without having any real framework to discuss it. (See: gun-laws, speed limits, CSAM-scanners, porn internet filters like in the UK). It makes it very easy for the side advocating for stricter regulations to twist the argument into something that cannot easily be countered (“Think of the children! You surely don’t want [bad thing] to happen?!”)
It's not AI doomerism, I'm not worried about that.

I mean I don't understand the value proposition of all these tools.

In large part, being good at something is not just about producing text, it's about context, style etc.

Just having a tool which gives you something "pretty good" doesn't mean much on it's own.