skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all pure bullshit. I’m sorry to be blunt, but this bullshit is harmful and somewhat compelling, so needs to be called out.

> …to challenge the team to scale new summits in the coming week

> … If their chart is on an upward trend, I would congratulate them on a job well done.

Let’s use some basic logic here. If an engineer was working hard and smart last week and the week before, you’d want their chart to be flat, not going up. Or to put it another way, if you have team members whose chart keeps going up, what does that mean? Have they been sandbagging all along, and are gradually ramping up effort? Are they learning to game your system? These are not positive things.

In one part we have:

> if their chart is on a downward trend or significantly lagging behind their teammates

And in another we have:

> you should explicitly avoid comparing them against one another.

So don’t say you’re comparing them against each other, but definitely compare them against each other. Guess what? Sooner or later people realize how you’re BS’ing them, and how they just think you’re duplicitous.

The real way to manage teams is to (1) ask them for what you want; (2) listen to what they say in response and take it seriously (BTW, if something they say doesn’t make sense to you, it’s probably you who isn’t getting it — keep working at figuring it out).

You don’t need, and shouldn’t use, any numbers at the team level inside the team. As companies get larger numbers are necessary, but above the team level. (As a manager in a multi-team environment, you are going to need to play the numbers game — that’s going to be part of your job.)
I agree many of the criticisms in other comments here, but the author does make at least one good point that I have not come across elsewhere, around whether and how to factor "accidental complexity" (which is mostly a proxy for tech debt here) into your velocity estimates.

> And conversely, if the team is picking overly complicated tech stacks, over-engineered designs, piling on tons of tech debt, and rubber-stamping all pull-requests, we should expect to see the velocity drop. And that will not happen if we score tasks based on their accidental complexity.

As much as we (as developers) may not like it, our performance is (sometimes) going to be measured, and it is often going to be done under the guise complexity points, and this part of the argument does seem at least like an improvement to the way it is sometimes conducted.
It would be really nice if the Rust standard library were to get structured concurrency similar to what Ada has:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/Ada_For_The_CPP_Java_Devel...

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Style_Guide/Concurrency

It allows multiple concurrent taks to run within a parent block of code and terminate at the end of the block.

It is extremely useful for embedded and parallel programming which would help Rust to further succeed in those areas.

So much concurrent and parallel Rust code relies on third-party libraries because the standard library offers primitives that work but lack the "creature comforts" that developers prefer.

It is good that futures-concurrency offers better choices for Rust developers, but ultimately it would be great for the Rust to adopt better concurrency APIs.
IIRC the last time someone tried something like this was dissenter, and that got censored by google and mozilla.
It's more of a challenge than centralized moderation, but spam and other junk comments could be managed through personalized reputation/trust systems, or subscription/collaborative filtering systems.
Maybe a federated wiki? (Since the 'verse is cool right now)

Bad actors would probably ruin it :(
yes and.. you are looking at the top.. nice views! but the mass of people, their entire lives, were not at the top. Serfs, peasants, vassels, indentured servants , slave markets -- look there, at the labor force, and compare the herding of cattle to no-rights people, for comparison to intelligent, able, digital serfs.
Slightly tangential but when working on a particular problem at work, grabbing the notepad and paper is my go to. I feel like it helps me organise the info without being overwhelmed.

I write down something and mentally my kind can almost not worry about focusing too much on that particular part and continue to work through the problem.

I actually feel proper frustration now if I don't have one available, but on the writing itself for writings sake, I've never been interested or even felt the urge to write thoughts. The idea of people owning journals always was fascinating to me.

After reading the comments though I might give it a real effort to try and see.
If they even think you are spamming, you get banned. Pretty much closed to individuals (according to Reddit, if they don’t even like the way your ID looks, you’re banned) while businesses get more leeway to do things.
Canada’s Attempt to Save Journalism May End Up Crushing It
That's terrifying. I'll think twice before cloning any repository from now on.

> not disabled by default yet

You're saying there's a way to "disable" this behavior?
> Would've been easier to capture all of the Twitter refugees now

With which backend? Scaling from 200k users to possibly hundreds of millions that quickly?
Bluesky is an invite-only preview with fewer than 200K users, just started earlier this year.

Twitter is a 17 year old service with more than 200M users. This comparison is not useful.
Maybe if you live in a apartment I suppose.

But as a landowner and a business owner, having the right tools and materials. at hand is essential.

If you live a lifestyle conducive to renting things then more power to you.

Its just not for me, and never will be.
The risk is not "being punished under a new law for things your business did before the law existed". The risk is "there's a new law that made your whole business model illegal, now what?"
example is ferrari, they are so well known that they don’t need to advertise their cars.
> Feudalism didn't start with manorialism in the dark ages.

There is a hint of that in the excellent Histoire de la France rurale (History of Rural France), in the first [1] of the three volumes.

As far as I remember by the late 200s - going into the 300s present-day Île-de-France was littered with Roman villas which were, in effect, very similar to the future manors. Any one of those villas was headed by the pater familias, followed by his close relatives and by the villa's dependents, who dependants nowadays someone might call "serfs" and "oppressed" (like the author of the article does when talking about the dependants of the féodalité), but who were, most probably, neither of that (meaning they were not real serfs/slaves and they were not that oppressed).

For those interested, Roger Agache [2] has done an excellent job of documenting the existence on the ground of those villas/manors based on aerial archeology. This page [3] does a good job at presenting some of Agache's work (including some photos), the French Ministry of Culture used to have a page dedicated to aerial archeology but, unfortunately, I now see that it has been taken down.

[1] https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/histoire-de-la-france-rurale-c...

[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Agache

[3] http://sehet.andre.free.fr/dedetextes/photosrogeragache.htm
UK, still many retailers do just fine - I just bough 2 portable AC's to compare, returned 1, and got a discount for damage in transit. Appliances Direct
I've been itching for months for a Twitter alternate, and I'm not placing much hope in the members only waitlist. Whoever is funding them needs to open the wallets to get them to scale up asap, it's like they can't take advantage of these moments when Twitter falls apart.
Writing software that boosts positive behaviour within a community is devilishly difficult IMNSHO. Those who do it deserve all they earn.
This assumes that sites exist entirely to drive clicks to monetise, and maybe that there is some stand-alone right for that business model to exist universally.

In some (many?) cases (including mine) sites are interested in getting information out there as efficiently as possible. If a search engine can save the searcher a click and the host some load, then that is often fine.
ClickHouse and DuckDB UDF: OLAP enemies with benefits
I agree with you, which is why I’ve found nand2tetris to be a joy to read and work through.
With NixOS someone else has written that script and now I can use a DSL to configure my desktop
As someone who’s had an account for awhile, I probably contributed to the problem that led to this action.

You see, I’ve been sitting on a handful of invite codes because it’s not like people have been begging me for them. That was true until yesterday anyway. The Twitter fiasco revived discussion about alternatives, so next thing I know I’m handing out invite codes to people in HN comments who are showing interest in the platform, contributing to the (apparently) massive, single-day influx of new users.

That being said, there have been interesting scale and latency issues with Bluesky as it has grown. I suppose it can be chalked up to platform growing pains. At least they haven’t DDoSed themselves yet.
“Well for the last 2 weeks I’ve been sort of coasting just cuz I’m in a lull, for whatever reason”
I’d like to think of entropy in terms of randomness or rather uniqueness of elements/compounds within a system.
I gotta say, I am disappointed so far at both bluesky amd mastodon. They both have interesting ideas to solve problems with technical means but mastodon wants to transfer a lot of problems to whoever runs the server and to the user and bluesky sounds like it might get popular a bit but I have yet to see something about it that makes regular people care about it. Both platforms are nice for people that care about elon musk and his twitter or fediverse stuff but they are just not cool yet.

I mean, clubhouse and tiktok are cool for example. What really cool stuff can I do on them that isn't a rehash of something on some other platform? What is the revolutionary thing here?

If it is just an alternative then good luck being mediocre.

Here is what I think would be cool (just my view): Do something like yik yak, location centric social media but also like next-door except better but not as a substitute but an improvement over twitter. Do livestreaming but in a way that is easily monetized, think cable subscription but for social media personalities, kind of like podcasts except live is paid but select recordings are free. And you know what else would be cool? What if there was a tiktok/vine like feature except! It was like reddit.

I am just spitballing here not to say my ideas are great but this sort of a new and interesting experience is what makes it stand out not being able to take your accounts or have some guy on a vps control your entire social media life.

I feel like they are trying to do the same thing differently instead of doing something new and exciting. Even the UI of these sites is frustrating to me. Honestly, I am sick of the web's UI entirely, this is like the future and shit! Where is the cool futuristic UX? I am still clicking on buttons and typing in the same kinds of text boxes and all that as I wad 10-15 years ago.

I am just saying, let's not be complacent with even basic things like html, js and css. I look forward to new tech not just v1000.0.99 of stuff. But I admit, these last two paragraphs are just me ranting about UX in general.
Oh for the good ol days of Napster, Torrents & Skype!
I want to be paperless. What is the handiest way of incorporating a stylus into my workflow? I have an M1 Mac and don't also want to carry an extra iPad.
As far as you'll ever know, it is.
Wait, not even a Wayland version of x2vnc? (Since AIUI Wayland does have VNC servers.) That wouldn't take much, surely?
I give the author full points for thinking through the problems and trying to mitigate the flaws, clearly he has significant experience and good intent.

At the end of the day though, his obsession with quantifying dev performance is doomed to failure. Goodharts Law can not be routed around by adding more metrics to capture all eng considerations. This can only work in a sanitized environment with low expectations and homogenous feature requests. In fast growing tech companies, there is far too much chaos and change for anything like this to approach an objective measure of what activity is producing value.

What I’ve learned over my decades a TL, EM, Director and CTO is that team performance has a human chemistry aspect to it where you need certain traits present, including a healthy dose of intrinsic motivation to do good work, and enough judgement on what that means in relationship to both short and long term business needs. Ultimately as a manager your only option to scale is to empower individuals as much as possible and relentlessly pursue and elevate those with the judgement and maturity to have more authority. Yes, it’s subjective, but there’s no faster way to kill the motivation of your top people than to reduce the output of their contextual reasoning to a metric. You’ve killed the golden goose while pursuing your control fantasy.
One simple workaround might be to get a wireless SD card? There are a few of these for DSLRs, where they have some (relatively small) amount of storage but come with the ability to join the network and share it via samba seamlessly...
Is Bluesky still the only software which supports the AT-Protocol?

Is it open source so you can run your own instance?

Does Bluesky federate with other AT-Protocol instances?
I am not a climate scientist so my ability to adjudicate the finer details of climate science is very limited. But I have a decent understanding of how science works in general. If I am confronted with two rivaling interpretations of the data and one side is supported by the consensus of 99% of the subject matter experts from virtually every country in the world, while the other is brought forth by four dudes, at least three of which are not subject matter experts, I know which side I trust.

I'm not sure if you understand how the IPCC reports are put together. There are working groups for each specific subject matter, comprised of subject matter experts. They put together their findings and open up the draft for comment to the entire scientific community. The version that is published in the report is the lowest common denominator that all involved experts in a given field (literally hundreds of people from around the world for each chapter) can agree on.

If I read the 2023 study you cite correctly (I am not an hydrologist and my guess is you are neither), it looks at a very specific set of data and interprets it under a narrow set of questions, bringing up some potentially interesting questions that would need to be studied further. At no point do the authors claim that it fundamentally contradicts established scientific consensus. They argue that their results could help better understand the phenomenon of climate change and its effects, which might well be the case. My guess is that their findings will be considered as we speak by some of the people involved in the IPCCC reports and matched with other studies that have studied aspects of the issues in question.

Global climate change is an incredibly complex subject and I do not claim to understand more than a sliver of it. But having followed this topic intensely for 20+ years, there has never been a scientific subject of this complexity that at the same time was supported by such a broad consensus of the actual subject matter experts. If you say that a fundamental aspect of this consensus is false, that claim is extraordinary and demands extraordinary proof. A couple of random studies one of which you haven't researched the authors for and the other which you probably do not have the required knowledge to understand just won't cut it.
It's just impossible to have the same level of configuration with your own custom script, NixOS goes way beyond: its configuration capabilities goes from your bootloader to user-level Firefox add-ons, and you have niceties like reproductability and rollbacks.
(A) How is a CTO responsible for deployments? CTO oversees the development evolving the company’s strategic technical direction so that's its beneficial for a business. Twitter is not your typical YC startup. Large companies' CTOs should not care about things like "this could DDOS us". These are the responsibilities of SDEs.
(B) No, but I just googled it and I can't see how the term applies here. In my opinion, it doesn't.
I would rather third world countries be exploited by the US, since it would mean my country projects its power to those regions. My stable, democratic country.

The lack of realpolitik in this thread is astounding. We don’t live in a perfect world, where economies of real people in countries that need roads and telecom get to say “No thank you, your country’s history is gross.”

Belt and Road is a massive soft power grab by an autocratic dictatorship. That has enormous implications in geopolitics. China is about to collapse because it’s in a demographic tailspin. What happens to these initiatives — and those countries that depend on them - is a huge open question and risk.
Does takeout include backups to drive made by applications on your phone?
Fair about the dam. If that happened in the West then yes, it'd change things. The biggest dam failures in North America for example have never been that big. And you'd surely never get a major new dam built today anywhere near any kind of populated area in the USA.

Also, it's worth noting that nuclear disasters remain dangerous for amounts of time ranging from "one generation" to "longer than human history so far", adding an extra element of catastrophe.
In that case NixOS rebuild will fail telling you exactly what to do. This is better than upgrading MacOS, where a system upgrade may break tools installed with homebrew and there is no way of knowing until _after_ the upgrade.
Twitter got a lot of grace when it had growing pains 17 years ago when it was new. Remember the Fail Whale? It got a name it was handled so positively. So yes, Twitter did get positive spin when it did the same things.
While I agree about proofs it's not intuitive to me. A triangle can clearly be visualized as half a square. Look at any videogame square made of 2 polygons.

A 2D projection of a cone isn't intuitively 1/3 of a cylinder with the same dimensions.
Good point. I've seen some crappy situations, and I know there's all sorts of innovations in crappiness that different people have to endure.

Let's say I'm in the crappy scenario from TFA, and I have to be able to report the employee velocity metrics to upper management. I can still be honest with the employee about it.

Maybe one conversation would go like this: "You and the rest of the team are all doing great work together. There's a process thing I've been asked to do, which I wanted to get your input on. It's individual velocity metrics, and pressure to have the charts trend like so. Thoughts? ... Understood, and we're going to have to see how this works, and give feedback. For now, ideas on how we can get metrics trending in the desired way, honestly, and without significantly compromising our work? ... Are you OK doing that extra process? ... Will it save your time to offload the Jira part to me, and you just tell me the numbers? ..."
> I think writing is overrated

I'm not sure what real good a downvote can serve. I will make an appeal to your understanding of human history.

Writing is a representation of language, and as such is the greatest, clearest manifestation of generalised human intellectual capacity. Writing as a technical achievement is the foundation of human civilisation.

> moreover in HN. The people around me, mostly don't care about writing other than code.

The best coders are coding for others to understand. In the great tradition of human writing, coding is communication.
When a new ice cream place opens and gets overwhelmed because the McDonalds across the street can’t get its ice cream machine to work more than 2 hours a day, it would pretty funny to see a bunch of people dressed like Ronald McDonald whining that the new place gets treated differently.
They're actually a great example, they have a defined amount of financial runway they maintain, and they don't exceed it. You might notice they don't leave the fundraising banners up all year.
someone wrote a script to install only the applications I want and configure my .config files the way I do but for guix? this seems to be a conflation, i'm not producing packages for my distro which is what the equivalent guix script would be, no?

edit: and isnt shell a DSL too? one i already know in contrast with Nixlang.

edit2: and not just already know it, but also much much much less likely to fade into obscurity than nixlang... bash/dash/sh aren't ever going away
Twitter has had over 17 years - nearly 10 years as a public entity - to get its act together.

You don't expect toddlers to behave themselves, but you do expect 17 year olds to be a little more responsible than toddlers.
> regarding African governments as some gullible, uneducated bunches of toddlers

They’re not stupid, they’re corrupt. The elites get a slice of the pie. It’s how development finance has been done for centuries. “Stakeholders” are bought off. The country is left with the bill.
yes, i am fine with that personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here
I managed to get in without login few minutes ago and its still sending api request every 130ms and getting 429 Too Many Requests error, how is this possible? :)
> Genuinely curious, do you happen to have a link about that? When did it happen? The ‘70s, the ‘80s?

There was a recent Odd Lots podcast on the genesis of the Eurodollar market.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-19/josh-youn...

Or, if you prefer video or don't pay for Bloomberg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0EN8_WuvK8
I don't know that limit is the key factor here, but I agree on the calculus part. The arguments that rely on Cavalieri's principle to relate the volume of the cone to the volume of a slice-by-slice identical pyramid, for example, don't really involve a limit per se, but they are clearly motivational for integral calculus.

Basically every intuitional argument for this, and other volume formulas, are somewhere on the road to integral calculus.
>The support for the resolution for Russia to leave Ukraine has far more support then the invasion of Iraq

Duh. It mirrors because the support America could muster for its invasion was not much more than the support Russia mustered for its invasion.

This was also when America was at the height of its power and could cajole and bully other countries more easily.

>Yeah and what percentage of the population voted against it?

Probably a similar order of magnitude that supported the invasion of Iraq (in spite of furious and enormous protests for doing so).
Entropy only made sense when I learned it from the perspective of statistical thermodynamics. It's a very programmerly understanding, IMHO, and it's quite intuitive. EXCEPT that the language used is ridiculous: grand canonical ensemble indeed! Anyway, the idea that a system can be in some number of specific states, and that equilibrium is that unique situation where the number of possible specific states is at its maximum, really spoke to me.
I do have a prediction, but only time will tell if it actually pans out. Things will get a lot worse the same way things got after introduction of printing press. It will, however, eventually result in equivalent of 'usda organic' content for news.
Notion users, Reddit users, etc.

I will say that forward slashes are still more common in regular english text even among non-programmers than underscores. For example, listing options a/b/c.

And you know, URLs.