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I feel like that journalist who wrote an article called "Stop making me defend Donald Trump". I don't particularly like Scrum, but articles like this just give not liking Scrum a bad name. I wouldn't trust anything it says, really.

Here's a sample:

> It has to be timeboxed into a Sprint to make sure software can be released into the market in an “iterative” cycle.

The key is "potentially shippable increment". You don't have to ship it. The point is that if you don't have that mentality then you start to forget all the 50 steps needed to actually release, and also that small changes are more reliable than big changes.

> Sprint Planning happens right before the sprint because that’s when you’ll have the latest insights on what to focus on, just in time.

Yes, true.

> There’s a Daily Standup to have on-the-fly “operational improvements.” (Only developers are allowed to speak and discussion is not allowed because that leaves the machinery idle.)

"Developers" being anyone in the team, including UX. It's not about "leaving the machinery idle" - working a bit of a silly metaphor from the article back into the "why" of Scrum seems pointless - it's about having quick meetings. You can have conversations elsewhere, and regular meetings elsewhere; they just aren't for the daily standup. Unless you have a retro and decide to change it.

> At the end of the sprint there’s a Review to view working software and to determine what was not completed or what needs improvement.

That's sort of right, but an odd emphasis. It's to get feedback from the people you're building for.

> There’s also supposed to be a Retrospective to discuss what went well and what didn’t go well, in the interest of increasing the quantity of output.

No, not necessarily. It could be spotting that quality is low, or the team is taking on too much and burning out, or that things external to the team are really slowing something down (e.g. Todd still doesn't have a new laptop and he can't run the latest XCode), or anything else that would be an improvement. Again, why try working the silly metaphor back into reality?

> The Backlog isn’t core to the Scrum practice, it’s an artifact of the collateral damage and detritus of everything jettisoned during the sprint.

I don't think the author knows what the backlog is (or backlogs are). They are part of Scrum[0].

[0] https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-product-backlog
If 80% of your design is invalidated halfway through the first Sprint, perhaps you are not developing software but rather you are chasing some dynamic business logic (or chasing trends), disguised as software.

The fact that stints are being referred to as sprints, is also indicative of something being out of balance. By definition not everything can be a sprint, just like not everything can have the highest priority. (I have had to explain this to multiple managers.
This is completely wrong. ZFS works very well via O3X [0]. I ran my home folder off of ZFS on various Mac Pros for ~11 years. ZFS works well in Linux and FreeBSD as well.

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0: https://openzfsonosx.org/
I use Arch, i3 and vim (not tmux), and I don't customize anything: I just use them as they are, no maintenance :).
They certainly count home equity and stocks, which could easily have doubled in the last 5 years. But none of that is very liquid. Salaries have been losing value due to inflation - there are plenty of millionaires living paycheck to paycheck.
I suspect you may quickly run into the basic problem that your worker-owners like getting paid. Which will be challenging to start with, given a lack of products and a sharply limited ability to raise funds.
Show HN: Small TypeScript library to work with quadkeys in a fast way
I am developing a website called Geocode Map Viewer(https://tools.9revolution9.com/geo/geocode/). I was looking for a suitable TypeScript library to visualize Quadkeys on the map, but unfortunately I couldn't find one. So I decided to develop my own library, using the sample code available on the Microsoft Tile Maps page as a reference.
The other thing is that, take airline pricing for example, 80% of consumers fly 0-2 round trips a year, and half of Americans don’t fly in a given year…which means that many consumers don’t do the repeat buying to get screwed and change their behavior, or want to spend several hours researching how to save $35…
I was a kid. My family came with the value of education and a lot of common sense and frugality.

That's the point - it's things that can be taught and learned. The person I am responding to is acting like an attempt to teach poor people anything is evil.
That’s a good point. I am planning on following up with them soon about another project I am working on. I will see if there is any room to ask about this.
Same. They’re pretty upfront about what they charge for. Only thing I’ve ever paid for is the $15 for state filing.
I appreciate this conversation a lot, but I’m more on the side of the GP than yours, I think:

> I also tried to avoid maintenance a lot with XFCE, but part of the problem is that I could never get it to look exactly like I wanted. There were always some minor GUI bugs that irked me to no end. Add to that, there were some weird inconsistencies because for a long time there were both GTK2 and GTK3 programs running at the same time and they didn't look quite normal

I take the point, but part of my maturation with “full time” Linux systems - personal desktop, laptop and work machine (Linux VM) to different degrees - was

(1) tinkering less,

(2) getting orders of magnitude more efficient when I did want to edit my OS or core programs, and

(3) buying an M1: while being amazed at many aspects of M1, and admitting I never got proficient with MacOS, I went back to Linux and i3 because I had just as many frustrations with MacOS as any graphical bugs I get in Linux

(4) the comfort of familiarly with my Linux configuration, rather better or worse

Now I’m comfortable with any configuration time I spend these days. It’s not much, and easily justifiable as some combination of work, hobby, and learning. I no longer think of it as serious work, which has been very good for me not wasting hours for stuff I didn’t really didn’t need to care about.
> That doesn't sound as interesting as this article suggests when stuff like USB, the touchpad, keyboard, speakers, 3.5mm audio, suspend/sleep are all still WIP downstream.

I wonder what kind of realistic ETA there is (if any) for these kinds of features.
The only evidence I have that these countries even exist is hearsay; I’ve never seen them.

For all I know it could be an elaborate prank (unlikely as that seems).

The human sense of reality boils down to “this input seems real enough to accept as fact”, and internalising that idea really helped me to stop and listen to the people in my life.
Living in the south of the country (near Breda), I wouldn't be caught dead in Amsterdam and I despise the city. But this is certainly a worthy cause, so I'll gladly donate.
The industry disagrees with your hot take. Configurations will almost always be serialized into some kind of struct, YAML/JSON/TOML/etc work well for this. The neat part is you can use other tools to do the templating to YAML more intelligently, instead of having each tool DIY their own config templating setup.
By getting a reality show on the History Channel. Maybe the time slot between Oak Island and the Victorio Peak treasure hunters
Is this an AI generated summary?
Possibly they are deliberately abusive towards their users.
This is something that the Indian government has done quite well. Although the website has had some growing pains (68 million filings is apparently not that easy to scale to) it is getting better and works exactly as you described. It even looks quite modern and not at all like a typical government website.

Moreover they also created a parallel tax system that forgoes all the deductions for a slightly lower tax rate so it's very easy for simple filings to just hit the OK button.
The C++ experts here will be able to confirm, but if my memory serves, I think the story about virtual destructors doesn't make sense:

> Specifically, the class had a virtual destructor, but the derived class failed to declare its own destructor as virtual.

The derived class doesn't have to declare its destructor as virtual. What matters is that the base class does so.

> This led to undefined behavior when deleting objects of the derived class, which in turn caused the program to crash.

No; the undefined-behavior case arises if the base class destructor is not declared as virtual, and you then try to delete a derived class via a pointer-to-base.[1]

So this is a nice example of ChatGPT producing something that looks plausible, yet on examination, betrays the fact that it has no actual "understanding" of the topic.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/destructor
Laughed at this
Do you have a family?

Costco sizes makes perfect sense for many people. There’s nothing weird about buying 3lb of chicken at once or a 4 pack of butter. It might even be better by minimizing amount of trips and packaging material.
Even the wealthiest man in the world is a few hands of poker away from poverty.
Alternate headline: Milankovitch cycle destroyed an entire coastline with seawater.
Sure I understand that. The thing is, I like tinkering and customizing. I'm sure most other people here do too. The fact that my chosen OS is kind of crappy in that regard is an advantage as it stops me from getting distracted and then I can spend that time working on things that matter to me instead. I'm pretty good at being focused, and getting better over time. But nobody has perfect focus, we're all prone to distractions. I want my desktop to be a tool for running software, not a source of yet more distraction. It's the same reason I don't install games on my work computer.

I did use Ubuntu as my main desktop for a while, I guess about a decade ago. I stopped because it took so much effort to get basic stuff working on my system at the time - graphics drivers were especially hard. As others pointed out, I did learn a lot from this experience. But nowadays my life is busy, I run a business and I need to focus my work time and spend it, well, working. Not tinkering with the systems I use to do work.

My free time, I also don't want to spend tinkering with the OS. I'd rather go to the beach.
Equity is valuable to investors in no small part because they have the expectation that they'll be able to sell it should the enterprise become very successful. That isn't usually available to a cooperative - there generally isn't a liquid market.

Something is only worth what you can sell it for. If you can't readily sell your equity to anyone but your fellow worker-employees, how sure are you that it'll be worth the same to them as it might be to investors?
My comment was not motivated by any notion of politics. Notice I didn't say "organism", but something far more general. A galaxy is a subjective agent in the sense that experiences incident upon it are subjective in nature (localized in time and space vs its environment, subject to some notion of "interpretation", broadly defined, on the part of the receiver).

Besides, there is nothing about a public-facing forum that prohibits anyone commenting on your posts for whatever reason. Since you brought politics into this, I will just say we live in a society and you have to accept that if you are to avoid such unhealthy and reactionary outbursts in the future.
Good question - we have a rating system where we compare companies on a variety of dimensions. If we find areas that need help post close, our clients engage us to work with the company.
The latter is very common in the desktop/server space, too. If you ever write or work on drivers, you know.
Netflix's 'Bank of Dave' review: A timely, feel-good, true story
Boy bands have been around since the start of TV.

Frank Sinatra was probably close to the original "Boy Band(tm)". Singers were originally an appendage to the orchestra who was the big name. With TV, being young and attractive became much more important than the music and that equation flipped.

Sinatra, Elvis, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, etc. All of them relied on being "boy bands" to spread their music initially. Sure, many of them became more sophisticated with time, but much of their initial catalog was ... extremely derivative. There were a bunch of contemporary groups who sounded just like Elvis, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, etc.

Without being Boy Bands who could move records, they never would have lasted long enough to get better and become the legends we now know them to be.
You are reading far too much into my comment.
"Chinese" doesn't really invoke the incredible ethnic diversity of China (Han, Uighurs, Tibetans, Mongols, Manchu, etc.) so I use the term "Chinx" instead.

https://twitter.com/PlsWatchGundam/status/133142513909597388...
I don't think they already have access to what you own in any practical way. Sure, for any given person they could figure out what they owe, but they don't have the nearly enough resources to figure it out for everyone all at once.
People these days need to grow thicker skins.
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...

They do briefly mention this survey. It states that 76% of Latino adults have heard the term. Of the remaining adults 20% have heard of it but dont use it while 3% use it. Later in the survey they say of those who have heard of Latinx 10% think it should be used while 50% prefer Hispanic and 31% prefer latino.

The survey shows that younger people prefer it more than old and more educated people prefer it more than uneducated.
This is a good point. While fan fiction authors generally don't have a legal right to make derivative works, the copyright owner isn't obligated to sue them, either. This article is a good overview of the copyright issues around fan fiction: https://blog.jipel.law.nyu.edu/2021/04/is-fanfiction-legal/. It notes

"While on their face, these fanfiction communities may seem like harmless outlets for fans, existing copyright doctrine actually renders much of these works as infringements of copyright. The problem is that most fanfiction could be characterized as derivative works of other already existing original works, as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101."

Marvel clearly tolerates online fan fiction to an extent, but I imagine if someone tried to publish an illustrated anthology of Marvel fan fiction and sell it on Amazon, or make and release a film based on it, they would probably find the limit of that tolerance.
> It has to be timeboxed into a Sprint to make sure software can be released into the market in an “iterative” cycle.

No it doesn't, you just want to be able to get feedback from stakeholders at each iteration.

There also exists the idea of spikes, where the whole purpose is you throw it away at the end.
It's basically don't waste your time with corp dev. http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html

You hit the nail on the head that it's way too much work when there's not even a contingent offer on the table. A real buyout would come in with either a stated sum, or a methodology for how that sum will be calculated.
I am genuinely surprised by how many people find that 2h a month is a lot of time, especially when it's about maintaining their work station.

I mean reading HN comments probably doesn't take them much less, does it?
As per the article, the "7 tons" figure is from the FBI's geology consultants
Each choice we make in this world alienates some.
We don’t need to avoid it.
The upside of recognizing people on the team probably far outweighs the downside of missing someone.
One should probably know who made significant contributions on one’s project. If films are able to have credits for everyone who worked on the project, then so can we.
At good companies they do adapt to engineering timelines.

But marketing (reasonably) wants to know if an app launch is 4 weeks away or 8 weeks away and what features will be included so they can plan their campaign accordingly.

And then there are things that are immovable like a holiday or a legal deadline, where it’s helpful to know the progress and ETA as accurately as possible as early as possible.
This was the first year I paid for the Deluxe. Stripe didn't withhold enough taxes from the severance, and now I owe the IRS $11k. This station, combined with moving states, made me want to ask a tax analyst a few questions.
Clearly you have no idea how these kinds of issues are resolved, and how policies are reviewed and modified, following such an occurrence. An abhorrently depressing view on humanity's future that you believe there is nothing that we learned from this. I thought this discussion forum was about our progress toward the future by the virtue of the hacker spirit?
> I've been to the southern hemisphere and I've seen the toilet flush the other way.

That’s a myth, by the way.
Chemists create methane fuel from sun, carbon dioxide and water (2022)
I dropped out of a cushy job to start contracting, and since then the axe has always been there. I have 4 months left in my current contract, but with only verbal promises of extension, I have been networking for the past 8 months to make sure that I can get back up into a new contract with days to weeks.
// If you pick a person in poverty, and give them a million dollars, they'll probably escape poverty and probably go on to live a prosperous life

You sound like you have never been around a poor person. Most people if they get a raise, their spending magically goes up by the same amount.

And people don't understand how money works.

My in-laws provide healthcare and profit sharing for everyone who works in their business. And guess what, a big percentage of their turnover is someone gets a 50 cent an hour raise somewhere else but doesn't understand that they are missing out on much more in profit sharing and healthcare. When they leave and get paid out their profit sharing, they are like "what's this??" even though it's been explained to them a thousand times.

A million dollars is nothing. You can blow it on a few ill advised purchases and be back where you started. It takes brains to make it last, not to mention make it grow.
We don’t have any proof of that, as we don’t have proof also about its opposite. We have no idea why neural nets work, or how our brain works in context of this. There is definitely something human-like in neural networks, but we don’t have any idea why, and what exactly. It’s a completely empirical field and not a theoretical one. We don’t have any good idea what would happen if we could built a 180 billion neuron large neural net, because there is no theory which would prove what would happen even the current ones. That’s why I’ve seen almost every single prediction about what AI would solve in the following years in the past 40 years fail. We have no clue.
I don't want to argue about the semantics or definition of AGI, since that is a rabbit hole that I don't believe contribute anything to the subjective danger that people are feeling.

The only thing I want to say about ChatGPT and other LLM model is that they don't know what they are doing. Give me something that knows what its doing, and perhaps more importantly, what it wants to do. Then I'll acknowledge my personal obsolescence, if not at that point then in quick succession, but until then.
> > It's not just about dollars per person - the difference in size of the countries makes country-wide solutions much more challenging. The Netherlands are about 16,000 square miles. The US is 3.8 million square miles.

> I’m not hearing concrete evidence of a gulf that can’t be bridged by money.

The land area differences provided is part of the concrete evidence: I can invest a lot of value onto a small plot of land, but it will take many times more money in order to do the same for an area the size of a small town. The costs for infrastructure skyrockets as the amount of land in need of servicing increases. 15% more money per person is relatively useless if the people are spread thousands of miles apart.
Dup of the story I posted hour earlier from the source I believe better describe the whole situation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34871755
I like your style. I spend something less than two hours per year waiting on my Mac updates and something like 1 hour per year managing my Windows 10 machine. My WSL Ubuntu "instance" takes about 15 minutes per year. So, more than you, but not a terrible management burden on any platform, in my estimation.
It isn't just turbotax - voting to adequately fund the IRS is political suicide anywhere but a handful of blue dots on a big red map.
Because they still never tested us they had tapeworms

This hypothesis is guessing that this distribution of the population did and that’s why they are convinced they are seeing such positive correlations when using Ivermectin after a Covid ailment.

Supporting aspects are that Covid affected a broad enough population for the tapeworm statistics to map 1:1 with a population, and that many severe covid cases and deaths were exacerbated by opportunistic infections.

So we have to look for what the opportunistic infections could be? How strange that a horse dewormer happens to work moderately okay in those regions.
I also don't really spend time maintaining my Linux, but I don't think 2h a month is a lot.

I mean, I probably spend more time reading HN comments or restarting Xcode (after cleaning the cache, and the hidden cache, and the DerivedData) when I work on macOS xD
Shake hands!
Are you suggesting nothing can be done? I'm just advocating for reasonable sustainability. Our current path simply shifts harm to the least fortunate of today.
A word can have more than one definition.
Ask HN: Is burnout possible after only a year?
I've worked as an SRE/DevOps engineer for 3ish years now. In my previous role, the company was smaller and there was a healthy on-call rotation that respected my psychological safety... but the job was boring.

I moved to a company that I'm a lot more interested in, but, my WLB is... not balanced.

I am always on-call for issues, and I have a lot of coworkers who aren't eager to assist, so a lot of things fall onto my plate. It's overwhelming, but I do usually manage to get things done. That being said, lately I've been feeling... burnt out? I am not even sure what burn out feels like, but I feel like I do not have energy or focus to tackle tasks like I used to. I used to be a machine, but nowadays I always feel bogged down.

I guess my question is... is this burnout? OR do I just need to find another role? Or am I having some other issue? Looking for some veterans to opine and maybe make an inference about my situation.
Show HN: Wiregasm, Packet Analyzer Powered by Wireshark Compiled for WebAssembly
Wiregasm lets you build applications that can leverage Wireshark's packet dissection capabilities in a web browser or nodejs.

The project is in its infancy, the goal is to make most of sharkd APIs available in Wiregasm. The bindings at the moment are not perfect as I'm still trying to familiarize myself with Emscripten.

It is part of a bigger hobby project that my wife and I are working on, to make some of the development and security tools that we use available in a web browser.
"Up to...."

"Save ___ or more!"

"Sale! X% off" (but is always 'on sale')

"Only X left! (Where x is random number from 1-9)
I see a lot of comments along the lines of "it's just predicting the next word".

But there's evidence that's what humans do as well:

"In the last few decades, there has been an increased interest in the role of prediction in language comprehension. The idea that people predict (i.e., context-based pre-activation of upcoming linguistic input) was deemed controversial at first. However, present-day theories of language comprehension have embraced linguistic prediction as the main reason why language processing tends to be so effortless, accurate, and efficient."

https://www.psycholinguistics.com/gerry_altmann/research/pap...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23273798.2020.18...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009...