skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I requested an octopus omelette and was told to boil the egg, fwiw.
I'm sorry but I still don't get it. I've never had a job where being very good at it left a lot of free time during which to be very good at another job. It just left free time to move more things along more quickly or improving things. Like, I think mechanically I understand what you're saying; I think you're saying that each week or couple weeks or month or whatever, you commit to projects sized to fill about 50% of your time, and then you finish those commitments. But if I were your manager or tech lead or teammate and I knew you were employed full time at the company, I would instead want you to commit more than 50% of your time, like improving things or doing more projects or and same projects faster or helping other people with their projects or any number of other things, but not just, "welp, I got my tickets done, that's it for me!". So I still don't really get it, are you working part time at these companies, or are your managers happy to pay you for a full time job despite you working half time, or do they think you're actually filling all your time?
I think this is an amazing response. The researchers demonstrated that a malicious server can inject itself into arbitrary Matrix groups, and thus get all the keys required to decrypt messages. The response: "we'll just try to have an alert pop up that tells you the server is reading your messages".

Anyways, my point is just: this is a good illustration of the phenomenon described by the root comment.
I haven't seen that happening to tech/tutorial channels. Most of the categories where such kind of drama happens aren't worth watching on the first place.
I completely agree with the author, it’s the environment. Scrum was intended to empower developers by allowing them control over when new work got scheduled.

In reality it has been used by management to export their responsibilities onto developers while not ceding control.

With scrum, planning and estimation are now done by developers. But management still reserves the right to reschedule mid-sprint for the all so urgent pop ups they need handled.

The only thing developers can do to make scrum work is be completely devoted to the process and not the business, but that is a career limiting move; scrum masters are put in positions to either be ineffective or be ablative armor for their teams.
Sharing a part of that post so others don't have to look it up:

> We have long-deferred to the U.S. Government Department of Commerce (DOC) and Department of Justice for the regulation of pricing for .COM registry services, as per the Cooperative Agreement between Verisign and the DOC. That hasn't changed. Verisign continues to be required to provide at least six months' notice to registrars of any .COM wholesale price increase. This allows registrars, on behalf of registrant customers, to register or renew .COM domain names during the notice period for up to a 10-year total registration term, at the then-current price, prior to any increase. This allows the ability to lock-in current wholesale prices for up to 10 years.

It looks like there's a couple things going on here. The US DOC and Verisign decide the price; and they have to give 6 months warning. I don't think I saw anything stopping them from raising it to $30 next year, outside of inertia and the US Govn't (who really-really owns .com, iirc) saying otherwise.

edit: ... or .... the US Govn't has authority over .com? Or ... something, I don't think I ever knew / understood the details there.
He posted it in a public platform and he is an executive. You can sneeze wrong and get fired for an exec role, that's why they get paid the big bucks, so they represent the company and lead , no such thing as clocking out. They don't get paid because they work hard.

A senior apple engineer doing the same thing wouldn't get fired.
It's not just the license requirements. The standard for maintenance and at a German TÜV inspection is far beyond most state level inspections in the US (if they are required at all in your state).

In Florida it was very common to see cars with bald tires, dangerous lifts and modifications, and plenty of heaps broken down littering the road side.

Even in New York where inspections are required annually and are stringent for the US, there's a lot of ways a poorly maintained vehicle will still pass. I wouldn't want a car with worn brakes, summer tires in the snow, etc trying to do 100+ on the highway, it would not end well.
You're mistaken. I tweeted twice, once with the .win link, once without. The one with the .win link does not appear even when logged in as a different username. It does appear for me when I'm logged in as the same username.

So there is shadow moderation going on. I'm not so bothered about whether it's called a shadow ban or shadow moderation. Also, I can see why some former Twitter employees want this distinction to be understood given the post they previously put out. I just think that's a hard sell for the public who is just coming to understand this issue. Even I didn't know about Twitter's 2018 post.

Finally, there was already substantial dispute over whether or not Twitter's initial claims were accurate. See "Shadowbanning is not a thing": black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms" by Kelley Cotter:

https://kelleycotter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Shadowba...
What TLD was it, if you don't mind me asking?
Don't forget the high pitched noise when they try to close their eyes.
Seems to me it's fully honest if the original offer was made without any deceit. In fact, acknowledging that the original offer turned out to be impractical is also honest. However, that does not mean that some other criticism or pejorative cannot be leveraged against this action.
Three of Twitter's Trust and Safety team resign
When .app was launched we saw a sustained 1,000 QPS of domain registrations through the first minute. We literally are not allowed by ICANN to prevent any valid registrations, as we must treat all registrars and registrants equally. Also, how would you do such a thing anyway? How do you possibly know what is a squatter and what is a 'valid' registration when you have basically no information to work off of? And do you really want a world where some domain name registrations are arbitrarily rejected like that? Better to have the situation where if it's available, and you can pay for it, it's yours.
Squatters absolutely do. Why do you think Discord and Blizzard provide numbers at the end of your username? It's to provide uniqueness.

Basically every service that gets any traction on the internet whatsoever has a bunch of people running in and getting the tiny or interesting or unique usernames as fast as possible.
I do not believe it follows from "Much much more people die from processed foods/air pollution in the world than from motorway accidents" that nobody should care about speeding and motorway accidents. After all, far fewer people still are murdered, but the consensus seems to be that we care about murderers.
> It isn’t symmetric. Being X kph faster than traffic is significantly more risky than being X kph slower than traffic.

You're neglecting one very important fact:

A driver who is correctly taking advantages of the freedom of a derestricted section, following all the rules and driving fast "the right way" doesn't interfere with other traffic at all. Likewise for a driver who is driving in the same manner on equivalent roads in other parts of the world that don't respect their drivers in the same way. If you're driving fast the right way, you don't interfere with anyone else.

Compare that to a driver going significantly slower than the normal flow of traffic. That driver is always interfering with other traffic. Everyone wanting to drive the normal speed has to maneuver around them which creates problems for the next lane or two over. Depending on how easy it is to get around the slow driver they may also create road rage.

Now, obviously if you screw up while driving fast the consequences are generally going to be substantially more severe, but slow drivers cause problems of their own just by being there, no matter how well they're driving otherwise.

There's a reason most controlled-access highways require that your vehicle have a minimum level of power and some even have minimum speed limits. When the flow of traffic is X, a vehicle moving X-20 is a dangerous obstruction.
That sounds good, sort of a mindset of flexing and changing direction as you move forward. You might call it... agility.
I see sample course content:

https://fireship.io/courses/git/basics-init/
Why Is Twitter Shutting Down Chinese Activists’ Accounts?
I was only matching queries against parts of the YouTube auto-generated captions. In theory, this should work for queries that are guests' names because Lex states the guest name in the beginning of the episode. But, in practice it doesn't because of transcription errors and how results are aggregated/sorted/filtered. Now, I'm matching queries against text that accompanies each episode as well as the transcripts and separating results into "Episodes" and "Clips" sections. This seems to enable querying by guest. Thanks for the feedback!
Since most tech companies don't pay dividends, I'm very curious as to which company you're referring to.
What's the best way to learn to implement ideas (and in a way that leads to a profitable business)?
I wondering if all this is to train it to avoid going out of bounds. People figure out a way around something they want off limits, and they cut that off and wait for us to get creative and find a new way around.
Dealing MtG[1] cards on eBay.

[1]: Magic: the Gathering.
WRT #1: How does one get a board position for roughly $1k/hour?
> One person’s “bullying and harassment” is another person’s “intimate honesty”. There are no easy answers.

No. You can be honest with someone about something without being an asshole. What exactly do you mean here by "intimate honesty"? You should give a concrete example
Right now you could PGP encrypt what you post and only share your key with your intended audience, but that would seem to defeat the purpose of publishing activities to the open web.
Yes, yes... not for an executive. This is like my third comment on this thread explaining this simple fact.

Public company figures can get fired for doing anything at all that doesn't feel right to their bosses/shareholders because that is the nature of their job.

Even if this wasn't a public platform post with his consent and someone broke into his home and caught him making a terrible dad joke, c suite or the board can say "nah, we don't want this guy representing us, he is goofy" and fire him. And for those that whine about how execs are paid too much, now you know one more reason why.
> The response: "we'll just try to have an alert pop up that tells you the server is reading your messages".

First, they have not said they will add alerts, they say that such alerts are already there. Second, they did admit that the current situation can be improved, and have said they will add cryptographic signatures to membership events in the future. To my reading that would be precisely what the researchers were missing, aka if new folks show up, even with support of the homeserver, they still need to present a signed invite from one of the group members to be given the keys.
I'll have to defer to the registrar team then, as we're getting outside the purview of anything having to do with the registry. I feel that the volatile exchange rate with high sustained inflation might have something to do with it though; maybe he got a too-good exchange rate at time of initial registration and now they're updating exchange rates more frequently? Not for me to know.
Could anyone be so kind as to comment a tl;dr of this one? I am curious but it was very long and I haven't the time at this moment.
I’m building something similar for Chinese[0]. Every time a new language model was released, I tested it with pinyin conversion (the standard Mandarin phonetic romanization), and they all failed miserably - until ChatGPT, which so far has performed flawlessly.

Sentence generation isn’t perfect though (at least with my rudimentary prompting) - it will regularly generate “Chinglish” phrases (like word-for-word transliterations from English which are not native Chinese) and occasionally just regurgitate nonsense. It’s not something that I would freely unleash on the end user but there is definitely a place for it somewhere in the pipeline in future.

[0] https://polyvox.app
Are cheques even used for anything except for fraud anymore?

Open call: Anyone out there paying or receiving payment with cheque in the last ten years?
I think the blog mentions this, and I'm glad its not just another complaint listing the failings of Scrum as it exists at an unnamed company. But I would put forth that no process can save developers from pathological management with poorly conceived products and even not "having a process" will help. As long as NPD* continues to be a great indicator of success in gathering VC funding and upper management success, developers will be exposed to horrific work environments.

These environments will be label 'Agile', 'Extreme' or whatever label can attract talent. No manner of 'Process X sucks' blog posts will change this. If the Hacker-News Scrum hating community comes up with a "better named process", or a successful manifesto advocating the 'end of processes', organizations led by sociopathic management will quickly adapt these slogans and then distort the environment to their likings.

If management is beating you with sticks because you missed getting your story points done by end of sprint, the problem isn't a process that measures stories by points, and has biweekly sprints where velocity can be measured; its having management that is willing to beat developers with sticks.

* Narcistic Personality Disorder
Or private company didn't want a goofball representing them as a public figure. Perhaps it should be illegal to fire people when their mistake is racism related?
My background is more in the applied end of things, not research, so I suppose that colors my perspective.

But let's say I'm playing red team, and I get root on the box where my target is running their Matrix server. Practically, what can I do to extract information without setting off giant red flags? From my read of the paper the answer is "not much", since a bunch of big warnings popping up would probably alert the users that something sketchy is happening.
For some context, it was announced some months ago that atom would be sunsetted.

https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/
mimmutable() for OpenBSD
Phones are toys, cars are tools. Completely different design requirements.
Somehow I doubt it. They will just use different language.
These things are very cheap to produce, don't have a lot of parts, are small and light (cheap to transport).

A few days ago I bought a 12V air compressor (for filing car tires) for 6.99€ (it was a reduced price, but at a store where everything is always reduced... the base price was 9.99€)

So... 22% VAT removed, then the sellers margin, shipping a not-that-small box from china... then you add the shell packaging, papers inside, the electronics, the motor, the pump part, pressure gauge, plastic shell... then you have to account for all the fauly ones..

I honestly have no idea how they can make something that cheap.
I had the same shock and awe response as my circle of friends who teach communication at advanced levels in the US.

What I've noticed is that the GPT text developments have given rise to the standard expectation that we are by-default speaking to bots, whether they are robo calls, support chat, email, or recruiters - they're computers no matter the form of their sensing or communication. The loss of connection reminds me of Sherry Turkle's Alone Together as I've realized how much I value interacting with a human cashier at Whole Foods post the self-checkout parallel to employing customers as part of supply chain (grocery baggers being the last mile just like gas pumping).

The need for humans to evolve toward robots in a reverse anthropomorphism that I don't have a word for was predicted by Janna Anderson almost a decade ago in various online publications:

https://www.elon.edu/u/directory/profile/?user=andersj

For me, the sadder story outside education is the kind of structural unemployment we're likely to see given the fact that entire skillsets that took decades to build, while not instantly evaporating, will be disrupted by 2030 in ways that will make 2005 onward social media unintended consequences look pale by comparison.

The outcome of the sea change we're seeing now is likely to be similar to the way that "computer programmer" and "software engineer" became proxies for "before 1990" and "post-y2k", respectively in our culture that gave rise to the T-shaped employee. That is, I'm not sure what "communication professor" and "english teacher" mean going forward but post-2020 is likely to be an inflection point in that world. The difference, of course, is that in software, the move was always additive in terms of breadth, depth, and skill.

In communication, that difference is subtractive and closer to the impact of declarative vs. imperative technology. I'm not sure I look forward to leveling the communication playing field with a parameter on an API that says voice="David Foster Wallace" or voice="Byung Chul Han" or voice ="Geoff Dyer", but it seems likely that those are all well within reach soon given the data.

I can only imagine what this looks like at a legal-social-cultural API level.

Shibboleth?
To be honest, one can easily realize that this "Marc Cannon" is a fake with the amount of spelling and grammatical errors he makes. Real professionals do not make spelling and grammar errors such as:

"Do you have any other question ?"
"Good morning how are you this morning."
"I will send you later"
"Good morning, How are you doing today ?"
"This is very disrespectful and all director are to meet you for training on monday and you're 'suppose' to have all your materials before then"

It was practically a dead giveaway when the guy used "autonation.com@proton.me", because the guy doesn't have access to the domain's email, he probably didn't even understand what you were saying.
I still pay landscapers, cleaning folks, and a nanny that way
What does that offer to it as an editor? And Visual Studio Code is open source as well.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute
Only if you're a public figure.
Yes, we pay for a yard service a few times a year to do some bigger projects and they only accept checks. Sadly, not everyone has moved digitally
Scrum is not for developers, it’s for anxious leaders.
The Perils of Gamification
He brings that up at the end of the article:

> Yes, I could pay an artist to make art for the game. But I’m not yet good enough at game marketing for this to make sense: The original, 1990s Myst had 2,500 images, which would cost me more than I expect to make this year. Also, it would take an absurd amount of time.
The emulator core is worth checking out:

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn/tree/main/item/src/uxn.c

Less than 150 lines, each opcode is defined in a single line in terms of a dozen or so basic operations which are single line macros themselves.
Classic fake check, send us the money before it clears scam. The premise this time is that the check is for office equipment for a fake job offer.
Guy gets a "job" as a software engineer with a WHOLE lot of work, onboarding, paperwork, etc. Then the first thing they ask him to do is deposit a check into his account and send them the Cash immediately, before the check clears. They had the check UPS'd to his house, too.
> There are good points to discuss on this topic, but my opinion is that this "debunking" is full of junk with twisted facts or "opinion" being confused with facts.

You should carefully reread your own post, its actually all opinion being confused for facts! It's very striking, since the original article not only supports its claims with data and cited sources, but specifically refutes the points your making. Did you just read the title and decide to refute it?
Aluminum Coca-Cola cans are lined with BPA plastic on the inside. Although Coca-Cola and other companies using it with food say it's safe, independent studies suggest many unfavorable health effects of consuming BPA. For example, increased risk of hypertension, diabetes and cancer.

https://www.coca-cola.ca/faqs/coca-cola-faqs-health/do-coca-...
Definitely a cause for alarm for someone that supposedly works in software in Florida, but there are professionals who don't have English as their first language.
Programming books are a start, but they hardly ever mention stat(), inodes, sockets, named pipes, the fact that kernel calls are extremely slow, deadlocks, data structures…
It's not unworkable when we see other countries in the West with frameworks that prevent such routine abuse. The fact of the matter is that much of the people in the country want police performing such actions.
No "Marc Cannon" would begin any sentence with "Kindly" either.
I suppose it depends on the terms of the licence. I've permanent/lifetime licences for various software, applied to either particular versions or all version released within a year of purchase; this means that the licensed persists indefinitely or until a violation of license (or until rightful transfer of license or voluntary termination of license). I've very few licenses which include all future versions, and those are mostly open-source volunteer projects.
Your comments remind me of Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame.
I've never been in an environment where Scrum was used to create real pressure.

I've been in environments where it creates fake pressure. Standups where you have to say something for fear that you'll be axed if you say nothing. Questions about whether a ticket is going to get done by Friday. I call these fake pressure because it becomes obvious that there is no teeth to them. People get away with doing nothing and making up a few sentences at standup. People say a ticket is going to be done, but it roles over through two or three sprints.

It's always been a sham for me. You can't point at the Agile Manifesto and say that we're focused on process over interactions. You can't point out that we need a Product Owner who is focused communicating the needs of real users. You can't point out that standups should be for the team's benefit and not status updates to project managers who are barely involved.

Still, I'm a firm believer that the Agile Manifesto makes some good points. I believe that there are elements of Scrum that are really beneficial if implement well. I believe all of it is subverted by management that wants a semblance of control/power. Most of the workers don't care whether it's subverted, they're just there to be paid while doing as little work as possible.

So, who's left to change it? A few righteous agitators? Who are they going to agitate? The managers who have control aren't going to give up the reins. The hoi polloi will ignore anything that takes extra effort.

Saying the scrum master needs to be accountable is true. Everyone should be accountable for something. However, there's simply no way for that to happen in many environments.

I've had scrum masters that were basically just required to gather status updates and report them back to the CTO. I've had contractor scrum masters that were hired because Scrum said they had to have that role but they ignored the part of Scrum that said there was a product owner role. I've had scrum masters that were just engineering managers who ignored their engineering manager roles to be the one who screen shared the Jira during standups, including one who was a Director of Engineering.

All of those scrum masters were installed by the people in power not to be held accountable for anything. Most of those scrum masters, like all the other workers, just want to get by with doing as little as possible while being paid.