skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nö amount of arguments can deny that the vast majority of Agile nowadays is just a blatant MLM scheme. Some people ripped off other people selling them BS "Scrum Master" certifications and then promptly proceeded into roping management into hiring them, so that more scrum matters and agile-related jobs are created.

In practice, I'm still to find a single developer that likes agile or scrum, and doesn't have to battle against the constant nagging and interruptions.

Agile is all about "letting developers choose what to work on" but in practice that's a delusional fantasy, everyone has people or customers above them that do not understand the slightest thing about how coding works and that want to prioritize some things over others.

For most people scrum is associated with shady figures with nonsensical diplomas that try to sell snake oil to their managers, and that's a hard reality any fan of Agile has to confront with.
It's a failure of the US government to democratize change for all. There incentives early on, but those were mostly clawed back.

The Norwegian subsidy approach made them cheaper to acquire and own than most other vehicles.
> One, often omitted, property is also simplicity of the language. If the language is straightforward, then there's a much larger audience who can be potential contributors.

With regards to "simplicity" people often seem to confuse syntax vs semantics. They mistake complex semantics for complex syntax. For example people say that Rust has complex syntax, but actually what's happening is that Rust is trying to represent very complex semantics which necessarily results in a complex syntax. This allows more choice for the developer in how things are implemented without extra cost. On the opposite end is python with very simple semantics but is highly opinionated on how things work underneath and thus is inherently incredibly slow for most any serious computation.
> The Nvidia 4090 turned out to be far ahead of the AMD 7900XTX.

7900XTX is on par or better than 4090 in alot of games, as well as some games favouring nvidia more than amd... (obviously not talking about Ray Tracing)

Coupled with a lower price...

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about since you're saying the oppisite is all reviews I've seen.
>In fact, I'm sure at least several people who have been trapped in a home renovation nightmare LOLed deeply after reading your post.

These stories are SO common (and I've seen it in my own family too) that I truly question the sanity of anyone who takes on a home renovation project.
What kind of fucked up country lets you be on call without getting paid for it?
I have a chrome extension with about a 1000 DAU right now [link below]. I'm getting messages to buy the whole thing out but the buyer always fails to answer why they want to buy it. they are also open to buying any extension whatsoever. I suspect it's to open up the permission model and started stealing user's data.

link: https://github.com/prakhar897/workaround-gpt
I don't care what his credentials are, this is just such a bad take.

He's extrapolating current progress into full mastery far too uncritically. AI is famous for having "long tail" issues.

He has a startup in this space, so his "expert opinion" is inherently biased towards "this thing I'm building is the bee's knees!"

Alignment for these systems is currently an unsolved problem. I'm not sure how he thinks this is a great idea.

His timeframe is delusional. It reeks of thinking from inside a SV startup bubble where you can Change The World(of California) in 3 years. There are huge swathes of the tech industry that don't exist in this bubble and move much more slowly.
that's subsidized but even the unsubsidized cost is maybe 50¢ a page
I understood the powder and the mission to be super cheap nutrition but then they pivoted to expensive bottled drinks and marketed it to yuppies.

I don't get how they are different from ensure outside of the marketing
I’m curious why we see so many papers and discussions about the difficulty in writing Rust relative to other languages. I would like to see more analyses of total cost of ownership.

Yes, Rust requires approaching writing code somewhat differently than most popular languages (different isn’t inherently bad), and it’s true borrow checker limitations cause it to reject code that is sound. But that increase in cost at the front end, in my experience, is significantly offset by the decrease in maintenance costs.

I’ve spent a non-trivial portion of my career hunting down and fixing memory corruption issues, race conditions, and other undefined behavior in extremely large codebases. Yes, we’ve seen great advances in tooling in Clang+LLVM, but writing that buggy C/C++ code is still quite easy (a point I didn’t see in the paper). Using validation tools to their full extent is costly from maintenance, configuration, and compute perspectives, and their correctness assessments are less strong than what an advanced type system provides.

Preventing such classes of bugs through an advanced type system seems like a better approach to reducing total cost of ownership because:

1. Some classes of (expensive to fix) bugs are eliminated by codifying system behavior into the type system.
2. The need for a variety of CI runs with Address Sanitizer, Thread Sanitizer, Undefined Behavior sanitizer, etc. and their associated corpus of coverage tests is greatly reduced because such issues are defined away by the language. This saves on CI infra costs and requires engineers to spend less time writing/maintaining tests to exercise the tools.
3. More engineers will spend more time moving the product forward and less time hunting down hard-to-reproduce bugs.
Interesting, thank you.

> This code is in JS because it has to run in the browser, so it is not super fast.

Try profiling heap allocations in Chrome Debugger. In my experience especially array-allocation can slow down JS-code a lot.
Airships like a Zeppelin or blimp have some propulsive component to them that let them navigate without the wind.

A balloon can only navigate by catching different winds at different altitudes. When you can control the altitude from 60,000 feet to 120,000 feet there is a significant amount of variation in the direction of winds.

https://www.govtech.com/question-of-the-day/what-is-now-stee...

https://blog.x.company/drifting-efficiently-through-the-stra...
Citation: The OG gpt-3 paper has ~23 authors and two with Chinese last names (and both are Asian Americans) :)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

Jokes aside - you can replace Chinese with Indian too and still the same answer holds. There is something magical about Silicon Valley and it is definitely not about the salaries. Fwiw, bytedance pays in the 7 figures usd in Beijing!
GC languages just move the complexity around. I've never done it but I've heard GC tuning is an incredibly difficult problem.
People keep repeating that Zen4 and M1 are close in efficiency but what is the source with actual benchmarks and power measurements?

At any rate, using single points to compare energy efficiency isn't a good comparison, unless either the performance or power consumption of the data points comparable. Like, the M1's little cores are 3-5x even more efficient when operating in an incomparable power class, and Apple's own marketing graphs show the M1's max efficiency is also well below its max performance [1]

Those perf/power curves are the basis of actually useful comparisons; has anyone plotted some outside of marketing materials? It might even be possible under Asahi.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-m1-pro-an...
The obvious solution for water rights seems taxation. You have old water rights claim? Fine. Pay a kind of property tax every year.

Suddenly there is an incentive to reduce claims...
> There seems to be a sort of sleight of hand in programming communities where...

I don't think there's anything sinister here, just the classic difference between old and new. Old things are familiar, and their downsides are facts of life. New things are threatening, and their downsides get a lot of scrutiny. I'm not even complaining; it's a pretty reasonable heuristic most of the time.
That is seriously impressive! Good work so far and good luck for the future!

Personally I hope it ends up either freemium or with a reasonable price ideally token based. I very much want to pay to incentivize development of good products but I already subscribe to enough things which is why I hope for more token based services.

(Of course if something is good enough and the pricing is reasonable there are sometimes room for exceptions. Kagi and Telegram are the latest ones for me and only Kagi is "safe", Telegram is mostly as a way to express my gratitude.)
I am from India BTW
Alas the web standards world has been a trashfire useless pile of nothing at giving webdevs any use of http2 or http3. Push support for fetch was one of the first issues opened[1], and summarily ignored by nearly every browser & spec author & never made at all accessible, right up until modern times where the browsers said, oh hey, we never really made this feature available to webdevs, but since you all havent used it anyways, we're removing Push from the browser. SMDH. Monstrous shit.

In short, the browser failed to make basic modern http usable by anyone so there's no hope of getting off the janky ugly grpc-web trashfire & making grpc from the client just work, like it always should have been able to do.

Pathetic pathetic showing by the browsers here. Beyond neglect, how they mishandled http2 and http2 and gave webdevs access to almost none of what the most exciting new thing on the www was. Huge huge miss. Incredible bullshit.

Some day we'll be running http3 over webtransport & fixing their wrongs. Thia is such a bullshit long workaround, such a pathetic way to handle the browser getting nowhere with new http standards, end running around their utte unmoving complete inability to advance at all. But we'll start to actually use http intensively again, soon, in spite of the browser & standards community being such ridiculous & farcical impedances against using http2 and http3 at all. What a tragic shit show of uselessness it's been, trying ro actually enjoy the new http standards; resistance on all fronts to real usage.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/51
"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."

I'll keep my gut reactions, thank you very much. They protect me from phishing and other, higher-profile charlatans.
the lil inside square is inconsistent in chinese

For instance traditional chinese in china will be left 過. Most computer systems will type this one

But in Taiwan they do right side. That said, i dont entirely understand how it works. You cant even copy\paste the right hand version into this comment box for instance- but you can see it on wiki. Maybe theyre separate fonts? Really not sure. Maybe somebody knows better

And simplified is entirely different 过
> Our team is paid no overtime, because we're considered "able to tend any emergencies and organize themselves if required" at off-hours too.

Imagine a private business accepting these terms from a client.
So.... that means an Apple M1 killer is in the works? Anybody? That's the type of energy efficiency everyone can get onboard with.

Also, IMO software needs to take a lot of responsibility for energy efficiency, we just pawn that off on the hardware vendors. I wonder what the carbon cost of javascript is, I don't think I'd want to see the results, or python for that matter.
It's a lack of leadership and will to bring systematic infrastructure investment.

The US is stagnating and slipping backwards in time on multiple fronts.
East Texas is lush.

> Wildfires and related homeowners insurance raises

this is the bit I would have expected not to be better in Texas, between floods and energy instability.
You're missing two key points to the cost benefit analysis.

1. Modern GPUs are remarkable at holding value. 3080s are selling on ebay at over half the launch MSRP.

2. You'll get better performance locally. People buy 4080s because they want the best.
US working hours are legitimately higher than most of the developed world.
> No other company I can think of has invested in such a rigorous Privacy review and support structure in an attempt to reduce risk.

In recent court cases Google employees admitted they have no idea where user data is stored (specifically location data), which systems have access to it, and how to fully turn tracking off.

80-90% of Google's revenue comes from online ads. There's a huge conflict of interest between Google's business model and whatever "arbiters" pretend they want to block.

And of course the number of privacy things that Google pioneered is minuscule to non-existent. Google has been dragged into caring about privacy against its will, kicking and screaming, by government actions like GDPR and CCPA.

Facebook poaches Google's privacy people because Facebook is the only one of mega corps who are worse than Google, and wants to continue its practices as much as Google.
I could be mistaken but I don’t believe that v8 snapshots support saving the vm in an arbitrary state. The snapshot is created after the script is compiled and that’s about all you can use to restore (it’s for speeding up loading the JS only).
This seems to study intelligence as in IQ adjacent items, rather than intelligence as in distilling the algorithm which makes us tick.
OP could have worded the criticism as an organizational attack and not aimed at the individuals that make up the organization...

But anyhow, you work on the system and can't point out if this is an issue or not in the end-to-end sense? Like, why say OP is "missing the point" if you are not sure if they are missing the point?

TBF you do say "I'm not even certain that an extension that requests more than 5 permissions would be approved in the first place." Which if true, would make this pretty low priority.

(On the Empathy note, I just want to add: stating "Trust me you really don't want this job." In this context to random members of a forum is a bit of an empathy-lacking thing to do)
> It’s too bad the pitch data out there for Japanese is either proprietary or pirated without attribution

I have serious doubts whether this kind of data is even copyrightable, as long as you're not redistributing it verbatim.

A specific selection of words with pitch data (e.g. the NKH pitch dictionary) might be copyrightable as there was creative expression involved in picking which exact words to put into the dictionary and in what order. But the data itself? A 猫 is always going to have a HLL pitch accent (in the standard accent). That's a fact. And facts itself are not copyrightable.

You can't copyright a phone book[1]. Quoting from the case:

> "Notwithstanding a valid copyright, a subsequent compiler remains free to use the facts contained in another's publication to aid in preparing a competing work, so long as the competing work does not feature the same selection and arrangement"

Sounds exactly like the pitch accent data dump that's been floating around which a lot of people use. (Not the verbatim NHK one; the other one.) They probably used the data from NHK's pitch dictionary to compile it along with a few other dictionaries. But does it feature the same selection and arrangement? Nope.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications%2C_Inc.%2C_....
GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838251 - Feb 2023 (74 comments)
What's our Problem? – a self-help book for societies – by Tim Urban
Weird, the one I launched in SG flew over to Africa and then flew back, didn't really traverse much distance compared to other spawn points.
Extensions could, and this action could be triggered from browser JS.
Why would existing neighborhoods become suddenly walkable? Will there be a change in zoning? Will some single family houses be replaced by retail stores? Will there be sidewalks constructed everywhere (a prerequisite for walkability)? Would be great to see examples of suburban walkable neighborhoods. I might even consider moving there.
Yes when you can create a form of in-effect regulatory capture you can engage in monopolistic practices to gouge the customers via creating artificial scarcity. Movies continue to climb in costs.

None of that applies to software development which is a global phenomena.
Your tool is 24% longer than your father's
A meta-analysis study published in The World Journal of Men's Health shows that erect penile length increased 24% over the past 29 years
AMD said it themselves. They're "undershipping" to "reduce downstream inventory". [1]

The take from multiple[2][3][4] journalists on that call is they're trying to avoid a
"supply glut" and maintain high prices.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4574091-advanced-micro-devi...

[2] https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-undershipping-chips-to-help-prop...

[3] https://gamerant.com/amd-undershipping-graphics-cards/

[4] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/342781-amd-ceo-says-it...
Being able to lift cookies from every website you are logged into sounds crazy and amazing. Anyone have any clue what people are using it for? Maybe roll your own session sync?
Seems like Scrum is Anti-Agile.
GDPR does not mandate the popup (which in most cases is even illegal under GDPR).
Contains Sunflower Oil and Canola Oil. Would much rather be consuming dairy fats.
But isn't the scrolling problematic here only because macOS by default hides the scrollbars when there is no traditional mouse connected?
There is absolutely nothing inevitable about winning after organizing. It might help, maybe.

But it also might send jobs overseas and to non union shops, just like Colorado and New Mexico have become havens for filming outside of Hollywood.
The difference is mostly on the tooling and support.

https://www.baeldung.com/oracle-jdk-vs-openjdk
I worked on a greenfield project for a few years then went to working on some not so good legacy codebases and it turned out to be so much more satisfying. On the greenfield project we'd made a real effort to do everything the right way and avoid technical debt, but constant scope creep from the business eventually defeated us and it turned into a mess. Working on a messy old code base has been great because rather than taking the inevitable path to awful codebase, I've been improving the old code and making it pleasant to work with.
> Just set a MutationObserver to watch the entire page, and reapply listeners as needed.

I did not know such thing is possible. I want to make an extension which undeletes some chat messages in typical chats (usually that happens because of moderation)
Ungoogled Chromium. Chromium is open source, but still has most of the google stuff baked in. This project strips that google stuff out and that’s about it. I’ve been using the build available on home brew for a few years with no complaints.
The more populated parts of Texas get plenty of rain. For example, Austin averages 35 inches of rain per year and Houston gets 50 inches (compare to Seattle at 38 inches).

If it came to it, Texas also is on the coast and unlike California they actually build things in Texas, so desalination is available.
Maybe you're confusing the 4080 with the 4090?
You don't seem to understand how unions work. They insert extra layers of management in between the workers (developers) and the management. They create a go-between where all negotiations must be done with the union rather than managers interacting directly with developers. This slows down development and would actively make the lives of developers worse by having to deal with a bunch of things they don't want to rather than just being able to live life in peace and code.

As a software engineer/developer if I ever see coworkers trying to unionize I promise to try to work against them and prevent any such activities from continuing. It'd ruin the company I work at and would force me to have to leave for a new job.
Graviton, M1/M2, Ampere etc but I’m sure you’ll be able to explain why Arm is seen as ‘legacy’ tech when billions of smartphones are being shipped every year with Arm CPUs.
But do you own other consoles or a gaming pc?
+10

I like this focused list. I’m always in favour of understanding the need for methodologies yet at times too many people use a methodology name as an excuse and alternative to saying “I want it now, I don’t care how, and I’m not interested in excuses nor if there are problems. But make sure there are no problems.”

Common sense, teamwork and cooperation can help us embrace the salient features of different methodologies without the barriers and no-entry poses sometimes presented by leaders or masters in the name of leading-edge box-ticking, often forgetting that we’re working with people. I’ve not seen many unhappy yet productive, professional and inclusive workers, in any field. Explanations, regular feedback and carrying a team with you can help to reduce stress of everyone in the team.

Processes are key to this, irrespective of the ideology.
Used cars are a market for lemons. Maybe less so these days as they are more
mechanically reliable.

But dating and cofounding isn’t. People with nothing wrong with them break up, become single, appear on dating sites.

People who are great cofounders may decide to work in great jobs first.
Computer vision is a specific domain in the tech world. Google it and you will see.
Loveyou
oo thats a good, fair point. and common acronyms are whatever but these seemed very domain specific
Every person I personally know in the industry works less than 50 hour weeks. And often they go home and work on their own projects at home, in effect working a lot more.
This doesn't mention anything about passkeys though, only traditional password fields and one-time-passwords. I'd love to see some confirmation that their passkey implementation is going to include the same support.
I think this comes from people trying to use rust to replace fast gc languages (e.g. C#/java). rust is much lower cognitive overhead than writing correct C/C++, but it's a lot harder than writing code where memory is automagically dealt with for you.
It’s useful to make a distinction between what is one’s job and where one spends his time - that is, the theory and practice of job titles. Data cleaning is 0% of a Data Scientist’s job despite occupying 90% of their time. My hope is that AI can help bridge that gap.
I missed the fact that the engine was dev-oriented. Thank you for pointing that out. My question was too general indeed.
If anyone is looking for animated stroke orders for Chinese characters, Hanzi5 is by far the best resource [1]. I built a small app to make them searchable too [2].

1. http://www.hanzi5.com/

2. https://dragonmandarin.com
It’s a good song but I’m struggling to see how it applies to the topic under discussion. Maybe if Amazon was paying their workers in Amazon gift cards I could see it.

Or maybe if Amazon owned apartments that they rented out to their employees? Afaik that’s not the case. GP said they own “skyscrapers” but really they own their own office buildings which are mostly like 4-10 stories tall and do not include apartments
Sure. But if you have a large enough body and cap terms at 12 years or so, then the concern about experience is negated because there will always be enough experience in the body. The one paper everyone referenced is interesting but that study badly needs replication and verification before at just blindly assume there’s a there there. It was one state legislature which works quite differently from the federal government which typically has rules making agencies and other supports. After all, presidents get 4-8 years. Does this mean they’re so unable to do the job they outsource to contractors and lobbyists? To some extent maybe, but they also have staff and other sport resources.

It’s certainly possible to design term limits that avoid various pitfalls.