skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all true. No one should dogmatically follow Scrum or any other framework. But the trouble is there's two kinds of people who deviate from it. Those who actually know what they're doing and can move beyond it, and those who are scared of or threatened by a new normal and want to kneecap it.

If an aspect of Scrum is inhibiting flow . . . junk it. But also first make sure that it actually IS inhibiting you, and it's not just highlighting a weakness or cultural flaw in your organization that you'd rather not deal with and pretend doesn't exist. Step 1 in moving beyond Scrum is to acknowledge the elephants in the room, feed them a peanut, and decide how to efficiently house them somewhere else.
This is the most true-to-myself comment I've seen so far. I've only ever bought Toyota cars, but my next car will be an EV and Toyota's offerings are... subpar, and barely there. I trust Toyota build quality and manufacturing, but my current vehicle is probably going to need replacing before they have a proven, large volume native EV on the market. They waited too long.
Hydrogen could have made sense in an alternate timeline where government and industry cooperated on standardizing form factors for fast tank-swapping... but then, that would have made even more sense for batteries, and it didn't happen. People would whine about not "owning" their hydrogen tanks, just as they do when someone brings up the advantages of swappable batteries.
Every time someone talks about how great AI is going to be for business, I ask "how?"

The answer always boils down to greed. Every single time.
So this is very true, any exponential growth has to end at some point. If you just plot it out you’ll quickly exhaust the entire universe.

So a society, economy, or civilization predicated on growth would have to adapt to a steady state, or at least more controlled linear growth.

I think that’s what will just naturally happen. Current forecasts call for the global population to shrink. The economy will follow.
Though the southwest is a great place to farm if you have the water to leverage the sun and the relative dearth of pests. Given the economic potential of a huge fraction of the country, I'd wager that getting water there will be worthwhile within my lifetime.

I'd love to see an aqueduct covered in solar panels roughly along I-40. Drain the too-wet southeast to irrigate the too-dry southwest.
And also, I assume, because the concept of "species" isn't all that well defined?
Uh oh. That's like the original Numerical Recipes in C. All the arrays had their first value as 1, instead of 0. It was a conversion from FORTRAN, where arrays really did start at 1. The Numerical Recipes authors provided an array allocator which generated an address offset before the beginning of the array to make that work. It was awful. I rewrote the algorithms I needed with sane layout.

The whole point of SCIP was mathematical beauty. Losing that in translation is not good.
Writing modular code is good but that's a ridiculous reason to need to do so.

Xcode also trips on simple type errors and sometimes fails to even provide a line number where the error lies. As someone who just wrote a Swift app after no prior exposure, it's oddly immature in some basic ways after nearly a decade from launch.
Haha, ok, seriously: any answer I give you that you don't like and I haven't contemplated enough?

It's not a deep question at all, it's super superficial: the afterlife is a ruse to keep the gullible beholden to various power structures. It's a man-made construct that requires at a minimum something extra-dimensional for which there isn't a shred of evidence. How people live if they believe or if they do not believe is entirely up to them, and if they would live in a different way if they didn't believe in an afterlife means they've bought into the lies. I'd much rather people make their decisions eyes wide open informed by an ethical framework that does not rely on fairytales or outright lies.

And yes, pretty much everybody in my immediate circle except for one believes that we live only once and that one is a catholic priest of whom that would be expected. But I can't look in his head so who knows what he really believes...
I’m not really understanding how Twitter was becoming a threat to the US national security state. That “fact” being true is the prerequisite to this particular conspiracy theory, and I don’t think it’s a strong theory. This was a US-based public company where TLAs can knock on their door anytime.

I think the explanation is far simpler: Elon fully controls Twitter and is doing whatever he wants. Whether he lost $50 billion on it is immaterial at this point: he’s so wealthy that it will take him no time at all to recover that kind of money.

With only ~20% of its original headcount, I have to assume Twitter is profitable, even if it lost half its advertising revenue.

Twitter is still commanding a huge user base: the number of people leaving Twitter just because of Elon being a baby is way overstated. There are probably, no exaggeration, hundreds of millions of Twitter users who have basically no clue who the guy is (especially outside the United States where 75% of Twitter users are located).

I don’t even think Elon’s vision for the product as a “super app” is all that dumb, it just depends on whether it’s something that can be successfully executed. For example, Instagram added direct shopping within their app and it’s been successful. That would be a great start for Twitter or X or whatever it is going to be.
No paywall: https://indi.ca/how-mathematically-were-fucked/

Great acceleration graph: https://futureearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/great_acc...

Exponential growth vs. carrying capacity of the environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc
Slightly off-topic, but is there a good smart speaker you can more easily disconnect from corporate clouds and integrate with homeassistant? I was excited about the ESP Muse Luxe, but mine kept breaking, and from the reviews, it seems I was not alone. There are a lot of DIY guides for hooking a speaker and microphone up to a raspberry pi, but I'd like something a little less DIY.
Yeah, that's a good point. Mueller investigated only the dumbest possible theory really.

And then what crimes he did find for Trump, he refused to state right out on the even dumber theory that the President is above the law.
> I had maps of the entire US loaded on my pocket pc circa 2005.

How much did that cost? How many folks had it? When did it stop getting updates?

Most folks (likely including GP) didn't have easy access to offline electronic maps in their pocket in 2007 and didn't know anyone who had offline electronic maps in their pocket.

Does that make them stupid?
> Twitter was becoming a threat to the US national security state, imo.

I'm going to need a source for that one. That seems like the exact opposite of what actually happened prior to Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter.

Twitter was a threat to Donald Trump and those who allied with him, not the US national security state.

Per the "Twitter Files" that Elon Musk released upon gaining control Twitter effectively worked in concert with the Democrats, the FBI, and liberal media outlets.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairnes...
Your imagination is incorrect.
Current-gen customer service chatbots are pretty bad.

But I could see something ChatGPT-level working in 95% of cases. Right now this doesn't work because of issues like prompt injection, difficulty of training on company data, etc. But I expect these limitations will be worked out over the next 5-10 years.
There are ones that like this one https://doku.tech/ https://flossk.org/ https://ickosovo.com/events https://kosict.com/ https://itp-prizren.com/events/ https://makerspaceprizren.com/events/

Many more others, am also proud to be early student (shortly) of: https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/james-halliday/ who visited: https://flossk.org/projects/prishtina-hackerspace/ and mesmerized everyone with his skills and knowledge.
Ok Malthus.

This is exactly what prompted Alfred Russel Wallace to propose his theory of evolution to Darwin (who happened to have the same theory). Given the number of babies that die, the selection force drives the harmonization of the species to the environment. Wallace compared it to the governor of a steam engine — a cybernetic control system.
softdep is gone:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=168856997929968
I do Debian for my personal workstation.

For Cloud, Debian containers, with Ubuntu and Amazon Linux VMs as we run in AWS.
Ask HN: What are the worst problems with LinkedIn recruiters you've ever faced?
SICP, as a book, is very nice. It's a great size, not too big, light and nimble to carry around. Many books, notably text books, are pretty big and ungainly. But SICP is just a really nice package. (Mind, I have not seen the paperback, I have a hardback from mutter mumble years ago.)
> It's also a 4-bdr condo even in some parts of the Loop.

The average $800k+ condo in the loop is 2 bedrooms.

Sure, maybe there's a couple rare 4-bdrm's for $800k - but there's a reason they are so much cheaper...

At the moment - there does not appear to be a single 4-bedroom listed on Zillow for less than <$800k: https://www.zillow.com/the-loop-chicago-il/?searchQueryState...

In fact - there's not one listed above $800k either...

There are only 3 3bedroom condos for less than $800k - and the average HOA would adjust the price to well over $1M - making them not affordable...

I would not say if you can find 1 condo in a decent neighborhood that's semi-affordable at $300k that somehow my point is refuted that $300k - after taxes - is really not that much money...
Basically the concept is to create a company that does the "house keeping" (in the USA a company health plan for example, managing tax requirements) and a record keeping system of "points" related to work product of members, and an annual distribution of profits proportioned strictly on a point basis.

Because this was originally conceived for people who "could retire" but chose not to, employee pay would be $1/month plus medical coverage for the member and a spouse that is all paid for[1], office space, "lab" space if the space in the office is insufficient, and shared high-expense infrastructure.

Revenue sharing based on points and other work products (such as consulting and training classes).

There is also an "investor" option where for every $1M you put in you get $3M back. The trick though is that in the early stages it is unclear how quickly you would get your $3M. Later when rates of return are better understood that ratio could be reduced.

[1] Given the tax laws, there is also a requirement to include money to cover this "income" (US considers anything you give an employee income) so there is also a cash amount to cover those taxes. From the members perspective, they get $12/year "take home" pay, and if they did nothing else could file a tax return with $0 tax required. (caveat existing government tax shenanigans)
I disagree to disagree, I henceforth declare this a mathses space for all mathstronauts
Can you show sources for where he has caused "a lot of real-world violations of women, some even get drawn to outright terrorism and murder."?
They're not so bad when you have the pipe handle installed, which gives you a lot of leverage over the body of the drill.

That being said, even the cordless ones have an absurd amount of power. At my work we use them to send a 3-flute, 1 1/4" auger bit about 5 feet straight through Douglas Fir (drilling concealed electrical wiring chutes in columns). I've seen them roll a 10' 8x8 (~150 lbs) across the sawhorses when someone forgot to clamp it before drilling.
It’s best they dog food this type of thing hard before the public gets their hands on it. It’s one of those high profile areas they have to nail
Laptop, charger, mobile & earphone. What's your?
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" does not mean no processes and tools. It means the processes and tools used in the organization should facilitate and enhance individual interactions. Everything on the right is still there, it just is used to enhance and promote what's on the left.

The best term I've heard used for this is Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. You can't ever get rid of all of it, and you shouldn't.
"... reminds me of java"

i was having doubts before go introduced generics. But the fact that they managed to add it so perfectly while maintaining the unambiguous focus on simplicity and structs made me confident they've really nailed it.

The only feature i don't get why they haven't added yet is proper enum to get some kind of ADT. It looks super orthogonal to the language and quite convenient. However at this point i fully trust their taste. If they think it's going to lead to catastrophic design decisions, i fully believe them.
There's a lot of reasons ChatGPT could neither ask clarifying questions nor get any examples of the clarifying questions nor interpret all the levels of code and purposes of code-that-was-never-written-before.

Language does not handle most business process nor efficiency goal and even security restrictions. People and logic do. Little of that language (!) is in the written word. It is done mostly by failures and historic-obvious-cultural practice.

Emulation does not mean 'comprehension' of all the purposes involved in craftsmanship of handling data for business or for even computation.

Most AI-solved problems are search reduction for spoon fed problem areas of data.
Refreshing to see some love for early return. Often people like to say they are an anti pattern, but then you have to maintain each layer of if nesting in your head (as they are sometimes off screen) when reasoning about code in the middle instead of handling edge cases first and leaving the rest of the method for the core/common case.
I had no problem getting into college after homeschooling using a Microsoft Word based transcript. I'm old enough that back then standardized testing mattered more, so a good score on the SAT or ACT meant that your transcripts were less critical as a signal for future success.

OTOH, some places recognize homeschooling provides a unique perspective on education. For example, I was invited to interview at Yale's biology graduate program at least in part due to my homeschooling background.

My guess is that low end institutions looking for respectability are more sensitive to getting official transcripts, where the high end is looking for more diversity of background.
Question to you: why shareholders are giving out RSUs in the first place? Are they doing it out of kindness of their heart?

If you look at the whole picture, you will see that “to align employees with company goals” is simply “to incentivize employees to make shareholders richer”.

Shareholders usually own 90+% of the stock, while employees ownership is in single percentages at best. That includes early employees.

The deal for Capital is very simple: give away few percents of stock and make Labor grind tirelessly to increase value of Capital by orders of magnitude.

Percentage wise everybody wins, both Labor and Capital (so called not zero sum game), in absolute terms however the distribution tells a different story.

Another counter-example:
Imagine startup fails or is acquired at decreased valuation: will be it zero sum or not?

Well, employees options are wiped out first, VC capital gets first claims to money pool, Founders have second claims after VCs (or would have made liquid in separate deals), while regular employees are the ones who screwed.
From a confidentiality viewpoint, isn't this equivalent to uploading my docs to ChatPDF? (Genuine question, I'm not well versed in LLMs.) Because I'm uploading the embeddings to OpenAI or a similar service provider-if their chatbot can then answer my questions about my docs, wouldn't the informational content also allow it to answer any question asked by anybody other than me? E.g., "what's the document about?", "what's the PII of principal X?", etc.
You didn’t craft an argument. You just made a statement/assertion. Do you get to be lazy simply because your statement is the conventional wisdom? While I don’t get the same privilege?

A premise of your assertion—that one lives in a democracy—fails in the case of the US (a popular country I hear) since a Princeton study shows that there is zero correlation between the policy preferences of 90% of Americans and the policies that are actually enacted.

But the Walter Lippmann sense of propaganda is still relevant since the News is meant to herd the beliefs of that Political Class—the top 10%. See for example the book Manufacturing Consent.
Well, sure. But this has existed for a long time. The last documentary was about 'generational poverty', 10 years back or so, pointing out what the GP said: families who haven't had a job in 4-5 generations. That this large group exists hasn't been news for a very long time.
Google times out the downloaded maps without warning, so you go to use them and find out it won't let you use them.
I liked Onion Future News from 2137:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKC21wDarBo
This is what the HSLDA is for.

Colleges have become increasingly comfortable with accepting homeschool high school transcripts both because of their increasing regularity but also because of the actions of the HSLDA. One of the reasons we’ve been members for well over a decade.
> Until you realize that Toyota is peddling hydrogen as the future which makes about the least sense of anything you could choose.

Wrong. It is the only technology in current existence that actually makes sense. Everything else is unsustainable and eventually has to be abandoned.
Launch android /web platform fast
If you are writing functions that the current/latest Swift compiler can’t handle on modern hardware then I feel sorry for anyone who has to someday read your code.
How much should you tip on food delivery?
No, they didn't. They still don't. Not having a victim on the other side of the case (possession of child porn, not production of child porn) gives judges an easy excuse (and no opposition) to sympathizing with the accused and suspending the sentence.

Child porn is just leverage to pry. We used to care as much about sending information about birth control through the mail. And with the modern movement to sexualize children as soon as possible, they might have to use another excuse in 20 years. "Terrorism" will always work, because it doesn't mean anything.
If we didn't do "progress" we'd both still be farming in the dirt and washing our clothes by hand. It's kind of hypocritical to ask for it to stop as soon as it starts inconveniencing you.
Roadtripping is much nicer in an EV, IMO. You just set your destination, it tells you where and when to stop, you almost always go to the bathroom and eat at those stops anyway. You never deal with gas station bathrooms, you just pop into a Starbucks or whatever. The car is almost always ready to go by the time you are, or maybe you wait 5-10 minutes.

There's an intuition that the minor additional flexibility gas cars give you on a road trip makes the experience better, but in practice I think it's worse.
This is a lot of what folks refer to as compiler bugs when dealing with ObjC++, yeah, usually when they not asking for help and instead just cobbling together their own workarounds.
Yeah, though might want to use Number(is_same_variable(..)) for additional clarity.
Or the macbook with the one usb port for charging, video-out, and general usb.
What would you tell the people who are out of their job thanks to AI and now can't pay their bills?
Inigo Quilez – Where did my intersections go? [video]
Well if you look at thr pictures/Videos it's not really more paint it's just that he created shared space. In other words he put all different road users more closely together without obvious separations. This is much in line with research which shows that bike paths are much safer when put on the road than when put together with footpaths off the road.

This very much aligns with my (admittedly anecdotal) evidence. I find riding on the road is typically much safer than riding on a bike path on the side of the road (like the typical German ones). On the road you are in the way so drivers pay attention to you, if you are on a bike path next to he road, cars will overlook you at the next intersection). That said completely separate paths with minimal intersection with cars are obviously even better.
:( did not have a patience to watch the entire video while focused. I know you could use rounding errors to replace non-linearity. Can somebody summarize what exactly he does for gradient descent here and how well does it work?
It's Llama-2 chat that is too much filtered, not "llama-2"
Hydrogen refuels just like gasoline cars. It is the most logical replacement for current cars. It probably will just happen via natural progress without any external desire for CO₂ emissions reduction.
Not without exploits. This is a cryptographically signed chain of trust from hardware to booloader to kernel to the OS to Chrome. If any of these are tampered with the signature will not validate and they won't load. If you try to run an unsigned version the layer above you will refuse to sign the attestation. The only solution is finding exploits in the chain. If at any point you get unsigned code running or manage to get a signature outside of the signed environment then you can "spoof" the attestation. But while it is a big stack it is explicitly designed to prevent this exact issue, so it won't be easy and it will be quickly patched.

This is the same setup as SafetyNet on Android. SafetyNet can be worked around right now for "Basic Integrity" but this works by making your device claim to be an older device. Newer devices support hardware backed attestation for which there is no general work around. You can be sure that this proposal will be using hardware-backed attestation from the start.
It seems to be run by a third-party company that the government latched on to for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID.me
"L"LM. No way this model will be "large" in any modern sense. For mobile devices both RAM and power consumption are very limited.
Having hopped around for years, I finally came back to Linux Mint with Cinnamon. My setup had become so opaque to anyone but me that I was concerned about my wife not being able to actually get into my stuff if something happened to me. Plus, I share this machine with my daughter and use it for teaching her, and the extra polish makes it more accessible to her.

My servers all run Debian. Keeps things consistent, stable, and boring.
IIRC average car weight has been stable for ~20 years, not increasing, and also pedestrian deaths have been decreasing over the same period, even as people are buying big weirdo trucks and whatnot. Also, I'd expect increased prevalence of active safety features is more important than the weight of the vehicle for pedestrian safety.
It's easy to say someone else's job is a failure of society. Contact centers do pretty important work, and not all of them are run as soul-sucking, penny-pinching, toilet paper usage measuring, hellscapes. At some point work has to be done in most businesses. In many, the contact center is where the work is done.
Are you using GPT-4 (the paid version) or GPT 3.5?

3.5 is as you describe. 4 isn't perfect but it's good enough, in my experience.