skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which means they don't grow at all typically.

Really in the end that would push users to completely unmoderated forums, likely designed with protocols that are hard to block. The amount of bad actors and bad information would increase even further.

And, these small sites you're talking about are apt to be overly responsible because of the potential risk. "Oh no you said the word bullet" BANGO BONGO, you got the BAN YO.

But hey, most authoritarians would love it. They'll get a little bit of cash together and sue sites that talk about LGBT issues, or suicide prevention and say the content on those sites is terroristic in some way, further repressing speech.
This is why I always quote my total comp as cash when negotiating. I have multiple times been able to turn total comp into salary (with a slight bump overall). Last time I did it, former employer's stock tanked shortly after I left. Dodged one there.
Blog is live again as of a few hours ago! :)
When in doubt, best to start with something quick n' dirty and not worry too much about what happens when it becomes inadequate. Just make sure it can be easily replaced when needed, which means treating everything you write as disposable. When using hindsight, you can build something better.

There's a big back-and-forth thread about this where I explain why well-written code on our team ends up being deleted within 1-2 years, and the author's only mistake was spending so much time deliberating over the code.
I really think that the problem with Agile isn't really Agile as such. It's that Agile, at least everywhere that I've seen it done, is used as a mechanism by management to squeeze developers harder rather than to be a better method of development.

In other words, it exists to serve management, not product development. That's why it ends up as a means to treat programmers like machines.

That's not really Agile's fault. As long as management has the last word about things, any methodology will end up the same way.
thanks for putting my point better than I ever could :)
The fact that the two figures are 20% is scant reason to assume that these are or should be comparable situations. This shouldn't even require stating
Wait, so share prices move? /s

It’s the nature of a compensation package. Part of it is risk. If you didn’t adjust for risk during negotiating your pay, or was expecting more purely from past performance of the stock, that’s on them
I'm a huge fan of capnproto.org
Also the major players can lobby legislation to add burdens to new players that they already have in place themselves. This locks out new players unless they can invest upfront, while allowing the existing players to use what they already have in place.
This was the biggest issue with the EU copyright restrictions where it required a massive investment up front to match what YouTube already had implemented.
What a clear example of one of Paulo Freire's best insights: "When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor."

Go on with your career ladder game, not everyone in humanity praise that as much as you. On the contrary, lots will see you as either naive or moronic.

Your 6x10 work schedule is being spent on creating... A chatbot.
Your last statement is insightful. Thank you.

The major problem facing the industry is doing agile just because everyone is doing it, not because it is the right tool for the job. No matter how much money or people you throw at it, it's not going to work.
John Huntsman Jr, the Utahn, ambassador to China, &c? He never served in the Senate, and neither did his father. Which Huntsman are you referring to?
I started using Container Tabs on Firefox to isolate my Google account from everything else because of this.

I found it fucking creepy that random websites would say "Hi Symbiote, log in with Google" with my real name.
> We all know this "40 hours" nonsense is just historical happenstance

It's not happenstance. It's something workers fought and sometimes died to win against an incumbent 6 or 7 day, 10 plus hour a day norm.
How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning and Performance
Consultants make leadership feel good or look good, reduce cognitive load, provide cover for decisions, many other things along those lines, none of which are about a deck, which is incidental. They have to, as a firm, have the appearance of being vaunted and smart, otherwise it doesn't work, so the institutional credibility, regardless of whether one believes objectively in its merit, is important.

I'm not saying it's good or bad, but the sooner you realize that the problems consultants are solving are almost certainly not the "technical" problem in front of them, the sooner you understand the industry
It's good that it doesn't pretend to be a rebuttal, because it'd be a bad one.

I'm pretty sure the point of making a declarative content blocking API for adblockers is not to block all possible ways of writing a malware extension. It is just to make the most popular category of extensions safe by design. Once that has been done, it's then much easier to improve the situation with the remaining niche use cases.

What would those improvements look like? It could be finding other common ways of dangerous permissions being used by legit extensions, and extracting these patterns out as explicit and safe capabilities. It could be changing the messaging to make it easier for users to understand how dangerous the requested permission is (which they can't reasonably do while those dangerous permissions are still used by adblockers!). Or it could be a stricter review process for any extensions needing such permissions.

This extension that the author themselves think would never pass review doesn't really rebut that in any way.
You can run it all on linux and containers or whatever you want these days.
The thing is it's completely non-existent in nature. Not to get too into the Naturalistic Fallacy, but we're biological organisms that evolved in nature and have acclimated through evolution to it the things that do exist.

That is we have a circadian rhythm, because for millions of years we couldn't see much at night, so we just went to sleep. And all sorts of animals including us start getting frisky in spring because it means resources are about to become abundant so it's a good time to copy ourselves. Even women's menstrual cycles are roughly equivalent to the lunar month.

But a 7 day period? Only exists in society because of - essentially - the bible.

In nature (on Earth) there are days, years, months, seasons, but that's really it. Even an hour is an arbitrary amount of time in a day (the length of which actually varies anyway!).
Wait until you see what’s possible with executables!

I like this project, but I also worry that eventually we’re going to lose access to extensions entirely because people will take away the wrong message.

Safeguards are good, but at a certain point I want my devices to trust that I know what I’m doing.
https://archive.is/GvwHE (non-paywall)
This is really great. I could see myself using this all the time! One minor critical feedback I have is that on dark mode it is very difficult to see the linked sources on the natural language explanation side. The grey is very dark and a bit more contrast would help a lot here in usability. Congrats on the launch!
I prefer cuts where the benefits flow primarily to workers, rather than billionaires. Weird, I know.
Why are the shares down so badly? I'm out of the loop.
It just removes the OnBeforeRequest() way of injecting javascript. There are other directly supported ways to inject javascript, some of them easier than OnBeforeRequest(). The counterpoint would have to be something like removing that was just the first step, and that they plan on closing all the doors. But, if you close all the doors, really all the most popular extensions are hobbled.

Edit: Removing just OnBeforeRequest() js injection does sort of uniquely harm mostly heuristic ad blocking and things like tampermonkey. It's not hard to feel like that was probably the real goal.
Because browser makers and web app devs want to be able to do everything desktop software can, but inside of a browser.

In theory it’s kind of neat.
Any plan to add future predicted weather patterns?
I'm not a fan of Agile for precisely the reason you give. If the principles are constantly misinterpreted, it exists as name without an anchor.

I have encountered advocates of Agile who say that other people only say they use Agile but don't really use Agile. They are keen to point at successes an say "look They're using Agile" and failures as people who said they were using Agile but weren't really.

You can't point to the foundational document because advocates will claim that Agile has evolved since then. It is unfalsifiable in the sense that no mater what critique you have, it can be avoided by using the shifting definition.

The article here talks about Cargo Cult Agile, but the people doing that Agile don't believe it to be a Cargo Cult phenomenon. Who is the Author to claim that their view is the ground truth? Declaring that there are large groups using the name without the principles is the akin saying "My principles are less popular than you might think"

It has gotten to the point that I don't believe the name is meaningful unless it as a Tribal identifier. To be frank I would like the name to go away completely. The principles should be able to stand on their own merit, people should be free to take the things that work for them. There is no need to Proper Nounify ideas other than to show you are talking about the same thing. For Agile, that ship has sailed.
I can’t even comment on generic “Agile” because it is so vague as to be meaningless.

Many teams I have worked with who have been successful work out their own process but slap “Kanban” on it as a label. It may or may not be Kanban, but by calling it Kanban, it is “acceptable” by TPTB as acceptably checking the agile box for management.
I've used the same setup for as long as finances have allowed, a mac laptop for travel and a windows/linux desktop for home.
I also feel like material fatigue would affect the ball's performance over time in ways not experienced by ordinary balls.

i.e. It doesn't need air, but does it bounce the same after thousands of bounces and hours of sunlight? Is the wear evenly distributed when left in the sun but not used? What about when it is used, but damage occurs for other reasons?
There are two fundamental problems:

1. The value of a social media site is directly proportional to the number of people you want to engage with who are on the same site, and hence directly proportional (probabilistically) to the total number of users. A free site is always going to attract more users than a paid one, so a paid site will always be at a competitive disadvantage. Because social media tends to be a winner-take-all economy, no paid site will ever survive.

2. Different people want and need different things from a social media site, and so no one policy is ever going to make everybody happy. For example, the needs of people who want free speech will always be in conflict from the needs of people who want to filter out falsehoods.

Other than that, it's a cake walk.
PyLisp – A Tiny Lisp in Python using Fuzzy logic
Why don't they put the hotbox detectors on the trains themselves? I'm cynically assuming cost?
Why are the shares down so much?

Edit: sorry for the duplicate question. The first question's response asked me to try again.
DMT: The Antipodes Of The Mind (2011)
so far things are playing out exactly according to Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
It definitely feels like I have to work to maintain the state of each algorithmic step when I'm multiplying two three digit numbers in my head. It's a lot easier if I can maintain that state on a piece of paper.

I'm definitely not calculating the path of a projectile in a similar manner when I catch a ball.

I'm definitely not "computing" a sentence when I read it in the same way that I compute the multiplication of those two three digit numbers!
I'm working on a project that is trying to apply "Agile" to document production.

I feel that whatever teams merge shouldn't break the overall build but I'm not winning the argument.
Thank you! And yes, the linked sources in dark mode are a known issue and will be fixed by EOD.
Connection Graphs (1986) [pdf]
Your last paragraph makes me wonder: are there two sets of people, one of people who perform better under Agile, and one of people who don’t? We acknowledge the above is true for, e.g., work from home, but have many ever taken the time to consider the same might be true for development process?

I’ve worked with (and supervised) developers who I’m fine with sending off into their corner to do what they think is best for weeks at a time. I’m confident they’ll come back with something great, more often than not. I’ve also seen developers who I’m not comfortable with sending off on their own for even a day in between daily standups.

I wonder if there’s a process that allows to reap the spoils of both types of developers. Naturally, I’d rather have a team of the first type and think hiring those is the best way, but inevitably, some of the second type make their way in.
Here in Latin America, the hiring of local developers by companies in the United States has decreased. Since July of last year, it has been much easier to hire and retain local talent.
How will Nintendo's hardware run new games? Will it be a Nintendo cloud gaming service like Stadia?
1. Large families definitely are common, although getting smaller. Decreasing family size is trailing the general populace by a couple generations. In my experience 3-4 kids is probably the modal family size now.

2. The church was in a very bad financial position until the early 1900s because of persecution by several states and the federal government. There's a strong, strong cultural sense of preparedness and self determination to make sure that we're never in that position again. Apple in the modern era is a good comparison - better to save and have the resources on hand rather than need them and not have them.

3. Thank you, we work hard at it :)

4. There's also a strong entrepreneurial culture, both out of necessity from starting new settlements several times in the early church history, and intentionally cultivated starting after the relocation to Utah, so that the community would be more independent (see also #2).
Always sell your shares when they vest! You are extra exposed to employee trouble. Would you buy that much employer stock if you had the cash?
Study: Even 1 Covid shot can lower heart attack, stroke risk
it's more about clipboard interop between Office applications, even old ones, and old documents created with those tools.
Oh you can print it all right. Good luck getting all the support material out of there. I printed a Voronoi-pattered sphere with SLA, and even then it was quite an operation to get all the supports out of there.

I would not try printing something like this in FFF or SLA without supports. SLS is perfect for this.
Where at? Do you have a link?
Quite a lot of years ago, when I was much younger (and incredibly naive about "consultants") and doing onsite support, I was tasked with helping out some security consultants as they ran some sort of pentest, in case they needed some assistance with the client computer they were assigned.

We chatted, and despite their being clearly disinterested in their work and talking to me (instead going on and on about which bar they were heading to), I learned they were literally doing this. They were running nessus with a default ruleset and turning that in as the flaws. That was it.

I felt incredibly disappointed, sorta kinda angry, and learned a huge lesson that day.
Covid19 is gone. We need Covid20 to get Amazon stock up again.
But is it good for the purposes of this article? It's not like its a wordpress or similar. I think the China in the cabinet will remain intact.
A large amount of EC2 team for example is in Cape Town South Africa, and the other is in Seattle.
The company was not giving raises when the stock was going up with the rationale that there is a compensation target that was exceeded.

Now that the compensation is way below the target the company is silent.

So 0 risk for the company, all the risk goes to the employees.

And btw the stock that AMZN was giving to the employees was coming out of thin air. Not from buybacks. So they were compensating people with dilution ?
New chip for mobile devices knocks out unwanted signals
Until one of those humans figures out how to write a Chrome extension that automates things... which, sadly, is something a lot of them would rather do than learn how to write.
Being polite is "noise" in the real world too. It just so happens that the noise serves to lubricate the interactions of humans by adding the frills of niceness and respect.
This is totally legit. Kanban is nothing more than tracking work by using tickets on a board organized by priority and status. It does not entail any Agile ceremony at all. I don't think it even requires that you track all the work on the board.

It's a very lightweight system that most can benefit from.
So, you're saying that "the value of art" is reducible to the economics of the price you can get someone to pay for it in a capitalistic marketplace?

I'm sure glad that there was sufficient demand for the 10,000-year-old cave paintings we still have access to when they were first made, so that the original artists had an incentive to create them.

Truly, what makes them so valuable as works of art today, is the lack of supply of new ones.
The Pentagon knows more than I do. China has definitely changed strategy and expanded recently. It is impressive and scary how much they've built in last couple of years.

I can see a few reasons why they would stop nuclear expansion early. They are already at a place where can deter. They don't need the same number of platforms like they don't need strategic bombers or as many SSBNs. The main reason I can see them building more warheads is to match the US and Russia especially if they expand after arms control failure.

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2023/02/stratcom-says-china-h...

I found article about potential increase and the US stockpile numbers match what is needed to fully MIRV all missiles.

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2023/02/if-arms-control-colla...
The amount of spam I get from recruiters in the US hasn't decreased either, and yet I'm at ground-zero of the layoffs.
Not sure, as hanky panky has historically been a great motivator to get a car.

Also the trends regarding hanky panky and relationships don't look that well, for teens with and without cars, so I'd bet it being a cause, not an effect of lack of cars.
Don't all Firefox extensions have to be signed by Mozilla in order to be installable (in non-developer Firefox editions at least) these days? Even if they're publishing it on their own site, it should have gone through the review.
Share prices went up due to increased spending at the start of the pandemic (after the initial lockdowns) and it’s weird that people didn’t expect them to come back down - they’re basically back where they were in 2019
I have learnt that it is not the methodology that matters most, but the people carrying it out.

Second to the people carrying it out (the set of individuals) what matters next are the relationships between those people.

Methodologies like "agile" are not completely stupid, but are mostly useless. It is the job of a team manager to manage their team effectively. A rule book has its uses, (not totally useless) but if a manager follows it slavishly, or in the face of resistance by their team, it is really bad.

There is no rule book for good management. There is good and bad management, but the difference does not come down to a written set of rules.

So, getting finally to my point, the age of "cargo cults" must die.
Recruiter: <buzzwords, no pricetag>

Me: ok how much are they paying

Recruter: keep BSing. Or reveals a salary that is laughable compared to what people throw in at HN.

Me: disillusioned. I guess should be happy to have my current job. Happy not have spent my time with uncomfortable phonecalls.
> It'll take me far longer to figure out what FarGate and Cloudflare Pages and all these are and infinitely longer to keep up with the latest and greatest because it keeps changing constantly.

First, Fargate and CloudFlare Pages are completely different things. Fargate is "serverless" Kubernetes while Pages is just static hosting (if you don't count workers).

While you have a point about the former, you can't beat CF Pages (or Netlify, or Vercel, or any other modern static hosting system) in simplicity. You just push your changes to your own Github repo and it gets automagically deployed. It is also free up to the point your cheap dedicated can handle. Try it and you will be pleasantly surprised.
Seems to be up for me, and isitdownrightnow [1] agrees...

[1] https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/icloud.com.html
Librarians might give you a funny look if you show up at a library and start printing out books?
Yep. The Mac Mini gives you more performance for your dollar, and opens up a world of peripheral choices, like a TV monitor or a mechanical keyboard.

But TBH the M1 and M2 family seem like a waste for programming workloads since they are so GPU heavy. Their niche is power efficient media manipulation.
This was the theme of Bedazzled, the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore film (remade in 2000), itself a twist on the Faust legend.

In this case though, the increasingly desperate engineering of the prompt was each time intentionally side-stepped by the devil, though much like GPT, he couldn't help being like that, it was just his nature.

We need a name for this, something like genie effect

Investigating why the prompt isn't working:

"Debazzling"?
Eastern Europe here, local full time offers are down, US remote freelance offers are up. Not sure what to make of it yet.
This is the commit in the Rust repository that achieves the speedup by reducing branch misprediction:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/b7089e0dd3e988270f3...

Do I understand correctly why this works?

In the `if` condition on line 201, `child + i < v.len()` is easy to predict but `is_less(...)` is hard. Because of this, `child += 1` on line 202 needs to be walked back with a non-negligible probability. This wastes time.

200 // Choose the greater child.
201 if child + 1 < v.len() && is_less(&v[child], &v[child + 1]) {
202 child += 1;
203 }
204
205 // Stop if the invariant holds at `node`.
206 if !is_less(&v[node], &v[child]) {

After moving the `is_less(...)` call from the `if` condition to the consequent on line 205 below, we still need to fetch both `child += ...` and `is_less(...)` but we are much less likely to need to walk these instructions back. We waste less time and we reach the `if` condition on line 209 sooner.

200 // Choose the greater child.
201 if child + 1 < v.len() {
202 // We need a branch to be sure not to out-of-bounds index,
203 // but it's highly predictable. The comparison, however,
204 // is better done branchless, especially for primitives.
205 child += is_less(&v[child], &v[child + 1]) as usize;
206 }
207
208 // Stop if the invariant holds at `node`.
209 if !is_less(&v[node], &v[child]) {
Reportedly it took 2774 attempts for Edison's people to figure out the lightbulb. So probably more like agile and less like Waterfall. Unless 2773 failed attempts were all part of the grand plan.
19 is the discovery year, not the iteration. It'd be COVID-23 (year, disease) and SARS-CoV-3 (iteration, virus) if we found a new SARS-causing coronavirus this year.
McKinsey delivers whatever results the funder wants them to as an objective outsider.

Same thing with university research grants. Results better make the funders happy, or they don't come back to your farm stand.
This is why I didn’t get my license until I was an adult. As soon as you turn 18 or 21 in many states, the process becomes dramatically easier.