skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extreme Heat Makes Electricity More Expensive, More Polluting, and Less Reliable
I have a lot of issues with scrum and I think twitter post and the comments here touch on a lot of them, but one of my biggest annoyances with the whole thing that I hardly ever hear anyone mention is the term "sprints".

If you asked a marathon runner how to run a marathon, they're going to tell you things like run slower, make sure you conserve energy, and control your pace. They're not going to tell you to mentally break the marathon into small sections and sprint them all.

I know it seems minor (and it probably is), but it's always felt a bit telling that the recurring segment for work in scrum is named after something you cannot do repeatedly without completely burning yourself out.
Degrowth isn't helping
The amount one can inherit before having to even pay any tax is roughly 36m yen (pretend that it's USD360k equivalent). Considering that we're talking about properties in abandoned rural villages, there's nothing of value of inherit.

People are abandoning their inheritance not because they can't pay for it, but because the hassle of inheriting a worthless property only to have to spend your own money trying to sell it for less than 0 doesn't make economic sense. It gets worse when said property belongs to some grand aunt/uncle you've never heard of and thus doesn't even have any sentimental value worth forking over for.
How I get the first 1k paid user (MRR=10k) in 45 days
My launch strategy in general: make splashes & word of mouth
Here is a an overview of what happened:

Stage 1: Making posts on reddit → 10 signups/day

Stage 2: Multiple ProductHunt launches → 200 signups/day

Stage 3: Shout-out from angel influencers → 1000 signups/day

Stage 4: More organic posts from influencers → 2000 signups/day
Why the hell is passive voice so frowned up by Americans?
Why is this a link to what used to be Twitter? It’s very unhelpful.

I tried looking at the poster’s other posts for more info than a single tweet, but now Xes are no longer displayed chronologically so all I got were posts from 2019. When I managed to find a link it said it was expired.

Please don’t post Twitter links. Even prior to the changes this looks like it would have been one of those annoying essays divided into 2 tweets.
We all failed at #1
The unconventional takeaways
Luck is important, which may surprise you.
What worked for me might not work for you. Every successful story is 99.99% irreplicable.
Reaching the break-even point is incredibly satisfying!
I was away from my hometown for a couple of years, and had gained quite a bit of weight. My long-time, long-distance girlfriend wrote me a letter telling me that she'd gotten engaged to someone else and it sent me into a spiral. I lost somewhere on the order of 50 pounds over 6 months. I was depressed, I had very little appetite. I didn't have a car, so I was walking and biking everywhere. And I was in my early 20s, which makes a bigger difference than most of us are willing to admit.

It's a really lousy way to lose weight, but very effective.
For the purposes of planning, I think they understood them about as well as most modern people do. Specialists now understand them a damn sight better but in practical terms I suspect a brewer in Egypt knew when the beer was ready about as well as some hipster with his alcohol meter, and the Egyptian shepard knew when sheep fell pregnant, and how to tell which ones had been tupped by the Ram.

Very few people trying for a baby think about DNA. They think about the fertility of the woman in terms of her menstrual cycle. Thats practical science which has been unchanged for a very long time.

You're not wrong. I am literally wrong of course. Figuratively I think I'm less wrong than you say.
Someone has the courage to speak h truth. I have to finish work within a deadline, or it would look ugly, and I am trying to work today with ill health.

Why doesn't Scrum be a thing for humans? I feel like I'm a robot who has to be predictable all the time.
Perhaps I was a bit unclear. I was not referencing the general idea of raising sheep, but the negative end result - slaughtering (i.e. malicious). The major Christian view of raising sheep is in the positive. It was unique experience for me to read this in the negative light here.
In case anyone else is wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason_(Iowa_judge) made a career in law and Iowa politics, but was not exactly a historical figure at the national level.
China taunting Japan to break moral before the war
Do you have any data that says it's happening? I looked at wikipedia and in 2000 there was 470 billionares and now there are 2,640
Yes, seems like on mobile the table of contents collapses after you scroll past it. That causes quite a bug jump.
Thought exercise: functionally speaking, how similar is ~compromising the quality of high-school sex education (i.e., getting rid of it, making it elective, giving parents any control or veto over the curriculum, converting it to an abstinence-only curriculum, ensuring it's taught by prudes, etc.) to rolling back access to birth control?

(Edit: not really directed at parent poster. Just something you made me think of...)
Or we could just leave it alone and not worry about the demands of 0.000001% who want to accumulate yet more wealth at 0 benefit to society, unlike ham operators who can help during emergencies and natural disastors when all other means are down.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37134050

> Not everybody knows that, but Scrum was invented to manage a team of dysfunctional COBOL programmers at a bank, not for product-led tech companies, and certainly not for startups.

> If you're mostly hiring juniors, low-skilled, unpassionate, unable to work autonomously without constant handlholding, reactive instead of proactive people, then you'll certainly need some micromanaging SDLC like Scrum.
Presumably the speculated value exceeds the value of the physical houses.
I don't feel like most of those stereotypes are really that accurate.
1. Make HTTP requests with variety of software, but not graphical web browser, including shell scripts, TCP clients and custom UNIX-like programs, i.e., small, easy-to-use in pipes. 2. Use text-only browser to read HTML. I make heavy use of HTTP/1,1 pipelining so I'm not "browsing" as much as I am doing bulk HTML or JSON retrieval from a single host. This cannot be done with graphical web browser nor with curl, wget or even aria2.^1 Often I get downvoted by HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 fans on HN when I discuss this because it is not contemplated in their vision for the web, i.e., interactive websites, graphical advertising and imperceptible data collection and tracking. (For example, they will say something like, "No one else does that". Who cares.^2 I'm doing it. The way the majority of people use the web has nothing to do with how they want to use it. They made no choice between one option or another that is significantly different. They are only using the web in the way dictated to them by so-called "tech" companies and legions of hivemind web developers, all praying to the same God of Advertising. The web was not created nor designed for mandatory delivery and receipt of advertising, it was created for whatever people want it to use it for; it's quite versatile.)

Sometimes I play around with nghttp2 and it just feels totally inflexible. Bad ergonomics for how I use the web.

Using a browser from an advertising company shapes the way people think of the web. It limits thinking and especially thinking outside the box. Look for the replies that seek to discredit those who aberrate from use of the web as mechanism for delivery and receipt of advertising.

If I preferred what was "common", then I would not be using NetBSD. And if it was as popular I suspect it would be less good. Quite confident other NetBSD users have had that thought before. Some software developers stuggle to understand why others might not care about popularity because they live their lives desperately hoping/trying to get others to use the software they write. But I'm not a software developer and I like stuff that is not popular, especially non-popular software.

1. To be truthful, with aria2 it's technically possible but not designed for use in UNIX pipes.

2. Answer: Advertisers, but certainly not me.
a non-zero part of me wants to keep it closed to 2028
The sealed lead time capsule measuring about one square foot was discovered in the Thaddeus Kosciuszko monument's base during recent renovations. Academy officials determined the capsule was placed in the base of the Kosciuszko monument 26 years after the academy’s founding by cadets in 1828.

This sentence seems to imply that the capsule is from 1854, 26 years after 1828.
Its current market cap is about $2.7 billion USD, so maybe the author confused that for the amount lost?
Just a nitpick. It has no reserved words but has reserved symbols.

It's great that there're more experiments on new languages.
How Ankur built a course platform, sold it for $250 million and is working on democratizing tax info to help founders save millions.
> This problem exists at big tech and startup,

Big tech or startup status are not correlated with top talent. I've seen the whole spectrum of low to high talent from both places.

> in companies that spend fractional multipliers of the average salary on engineers as well as those who pay poorly

Pay and top skill are only slightly correlated, unfortunately.

> Top talent does not exist.

It does exist. I've seen it, but most managers don't know how to find it, identify it, and retain it.
As person who was born with Russian passport and US Citizen, I am in the similar situation. Two of my relatives were questioned about my position about the war in Ukraine, because of my statements on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

It did not go as bad, as my relatives got detained. But unfortunately everything you say online, the government can read and use against you or your family.
That's silly, and a bit like saying "See, you didn't need to budget to get rid of your credit card debt. You just needed someone to give you a million dollars."

I'm relatively fit and tried semaglutide for reasons other than weight loss. The "full" feeling you feel when on it is nothing like I've ever experienced in my life. It's a cheat. I'm not saying people shouldn't take it, but I'll forever fight the idea some people have that it's just making you feel like skinny people. Most of us need to work for it too: deliberately stop eating before we're stuffed, not have terrible snack food in the house, limit sugary drinks, etc.
GPT won't only writes code, but also documentation and unit tests. It can also read code for you and explain what is going on. Furthermore, even as an academic researcher, most of the code I write is simple boilerplate code that GPT excels at. This means I get to spend more time on the actual code that is hard and novel and that GPT cannot really help with.

Back when GitHub Copilot was first released I though very much like you and was somewhat underwhelmed by my experience with it, however since then the state of the art has improved dramatically.
I think, the problem ist far beyond basic semiological implications. It's really about the pragmatics of the interpretation, especially, if the basic message is understood.

E.g., compare curses on rune stones or Egyptian tombs. Is our message guaranteed to be read according to its intention and at face value? (While I do not have a citation, I remember the story of a rune stone emphasiszing that this was never to be moved or lifted, because something tremendously evil was trapped by it. Consequently, some years ago, it was lifted to see what might be below.) Even in those cases, where the reading still aligns, it may provide incentives contrary to our intention. E.g., I personally have few doubts that, if we were to encounter such a site and understood the meaning of any markers, we'd eagerly mine this in order to weaponize its deadly payload.

If we can't control the pragmatics, as well, or see few chance to do so, it may be better to be not understood

(So, yes, radical inaccessibility is probably the better option, hoping that any civilization, which has the technology to access it, will also have a technological understanding of what it may find.)

Having said that, conveying such a message across the millennia and the disruptions that may and will come is still an interesting thought experiment.
They sold more than they have created. Ie they need money to finish the ones they have sold.

And they have excess debts that their assets no longer cover because the housing market crashed.

Additionally, they just took on obscene debts. The banks did not do the appropriate due diligence (hypothesis is the local governments interfered).

But I know only what rando YouTube videos have told me.
Worth noting that if you have a US-issued visa card, you cannot use it to pay for IC via Apple pay.
You'd be surprised at how many places this is.

At a place I worked the management decided that a "story" should always be completed within a sprint. So what did we do? We started using stories instead of tasks and epics instead of stories[0]. And voila, now magically stories complete within a sprint!

[0] Just writing that sentence makes my eye twitch
I would also advice to have some backups available outside of your favourite cloud provider. Your cloud provider may fuckup, it has happen many times. You may encounter issues such as your account deleted or temporarily unavailable. Or the whole datacenter and many zones are on fire.
The same thing works the other way. People see and experience shit Scrum and then they No True Scotsman it to mean that all Scrum must be shit.

It seems to me that most American software companies use Cargo Cult Scrum. They basically take the terms and maybe read a blog about the processes and just wing it from there.

The only way an Agile/Scrum process works if you bring in a consulting company that's expensive enough to make even the top brass buy into it. You can theoretically try to bring it in from the ground up, but it's really hard to do Agile when the rest of the company is either waterfall or flying by the seat of their pants.
I think we're seeing a re-iteration of the last generation's "greybeards vs young hipsters" wars. Last time it was "those hipsters are just copy pasting stuff they find on Google and call it a day". This time the young hipsters turned greybeards undercutting the good parts of gpt or copilot.

That said, I'm really underwhelmed by the output of both those tools in the context of the ongoing hype. They're far away from taking anyone's job. They're producing misleading and even manipulative output in such fine-granular deceiving manners, it's like reading a whole contract in fine-print. Given that our job is already mostly reading and understanding vast amounts of code, I don't really see a productivity boost in reading generated erroneous code. And if it boosts productivity because of boilerplate, we already have plenty of old tools to deal with that. Heck, every CRUD Framework from mid-2000s is better at generating boilerplate code, with 100% correctness.

So there's no "big disruptive innovation" going on but new nice-to-have tools. Just know, when not to use it.
To be fair I personally believe this is not a case of “rich/educated people have fewer children”, more the case that the way society is structured in those rich/educated places, having children is a bad deal.

It used to be if you had some kids, it was a huuge investment, but you got a lot out of the deal after about 13 years.

But right now, children are still a huge investment, but the parents hardly get any economic incentive for it, the country has “captured” that for its own end.

If governments took this into account and “repaid” this back to the parents, I’m sure people will have way more children.

If societies were structured in such a way that children made economic sense to their parents, I’m sure shrinking population would not be a thing.

Now if something like this has moral problems in and off itself is a different question. I just want to point out that “developed countries are have fewer children” shouldn’t be taken as an absolute truth. It just developed countries as currently structured do not incentivize parents enough. Just look at Israel for example.
The sentence is ambiguous, however, West Point was founded in 1802.
In Canada families have a pitcher that's the right shape and size for the milk bags that are sold, and is reused. You just snip the corner off the bag. That said, the milk is double bagged (several smaller bags of milk in a larger bag, 1L each maybe?), so there is still a fair bit of plastic involved. The time I was visiting my friend in Canada one of the bags that he brought home busted. Not exactly fun
I'd be interested too. Until it's too hot to handle.
htmx and flask/django
The one and only reason I switched to web dev is the google they suspended my 4 years old play console account with 3 apps total download around 1.5 million they say I was Associated with an another account and they didn't provide any details about the other account I worked as a freelancer for almost 20+ app products it's hard to left android development and get In to web dev but I did I don't want someone to destroy all my 4 years Of work one email without any reason
That is mentioned in the article under 'Skeleton loader screen'. It can be nice on some slower/flakey connections, or on pages where different elements may load in at different times. Quite often the skeleton is static, and is then 'hydrated' with JS.

I agree it seems to be used unnecessarily more and more now though.
The guy in the Twitter pretty much mentions every red flag implementing scrum.

What did you expect the parent commenter to say? "you've done well and have shown that scrum doesn't work"?
>PRC rates are basically steady and has been for past 10 years

Of course it has because economic growth has been steady. Not to mentioned the fixed exchange rate and capital controls. But a "steady" interest rate is hardly the mark of a vibrant economy or that the economy is doing fine.

The fact that youth unemployment is so high, exports are dropping as is foreign investment, are far more important signs that China has some serious economic challenges ahead.
I think this pattern is fine most of the time. I hate it for PVCs. At the least with cloud-like volumes it should leave a final snapshot that sticks around for a time.

I have all the sympathy for the author. I’m sure they don’t feel good right now, but I hope they continue contributing. They’ve learned a hard lesson, but putting it back into their practice is the only way to make it count.
Since we’re off down a rabbit hole anyway, my favourite meetings of rival generals are those between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal. Once before the battle of Zama, and again years later in Ephesus when their military careers were behind them. I think one account is in Polybius and the other Livy.
While the underlying silicon might share similarities I would love to get an idea from where you've seen the ability to arbritrarily run iOS apps on M1/M2.

I did consider an emulator in xcode, but that's not quite what I'm after.
The unrest in Minneapolis in recent past is also a factor in reduced food traffic to downtown businesses, I wouldn't just blame Target's wfh/rto policies
It is indeed literally a case of rich/educated people have fewer children. It’s called the demographic-economic paradox. [1]

There’s been a lot of research on this because the effect is so pronounced.

> In decreasing order of strength, fertility (TFR) correlates
negatively with education, [contraceptive prevalence], and GDP per capita, and positively with religiosity. [2]

If you’re educated, rich, non-religious and can bone with impunity you have somewhere between 1 and 2 kids on average, well below the replacement rate of 2.1

It is absolutely a fantastic deal to have kids in Finland where you get months and months of mat and pat leave, etc, and their birth rate is 1.37

Israel is only high because they’re a religious ethnostate and religiosity as the studies show is positively correlated with fertility.

Respectfully I do think the data shows we should take this for granted.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

[2] https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
Everything-in-html requires to program MVC actions. Those patterns are often ugly, full of gotchas, hard to learn for kiddos, and old school. Plus, when the user clicks somewhere, we gotta load the new data with REST anyway, so that makes two ways to load data and it’s prone to mistakes, twice longer to develop.

Rendering placeholders allows us to load everything via REST. The data takes the same path every time, so, fewer bugs, streamlined way of loading data, plus kiddos love the simplicity of writing REST resources in Java. Also, each visual component can be programmed in isolation, encapsulating its own concerns, rather than having to mix all data into the MVC action channel. And isolation/encapsulation is good for reliability and sharing the work across a team.

One solution is to hydrate the initial HTML with the result of REST calls, but it has drawbacks.

I know it won’t mop your sorrow. It may just help to know there is a reasonable reason for that. I also find it infuriating to look at a page that says: “3, 2, 1, Done! I’m loaded, that wasn’t so ling was it?— oh wait, gotta load my data… Theeeere you go I’m loaded! No wait, that thing as well…”
Assuming the scientific understanding of nature in which the main driver of evolution is successful reproduction, there doesn't seem to be much room for a mechanism to emerge from natural processes that makes dying easier.

That being said, I'm not much of a materialist these days and think there is something more to reality than purely mechanistic physical laws.
You should tell that to all the senior citizens living without A/C in tropical climates where temperatures routinely hit 40C.

You clearly can acclimatize.
Although the scope is smaller and therefore should be safer, it is still necessary to purge old logs and old backups, etc. in some places.

When I need to do this, I make sure there's a specific /logs or /backups folder where only certain filetypes of a certain modified dates are deleted.
It's not a problem in itself, but a sign of the destress the company is in. Evergrande has huge debts and is struggling to pay suppliers. It has started (or received payments for) hundreds of thousands of units that could be abandoned if the company goes bust (many already are), leaving many people with nothing but mortgages for property that doesn't exist.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/unfinished-evergrande-ap...
Orange juice is nearly always sold in a clear jug in the US, and that which I can remember in Canada. In fact I don't think I have ever encountered an opaque jug of juice, only paper cartons.

Also, Caprisun pouches have foil backing that cause them to somewhat maintain shape, and a design that gives them a base to stand upright. Canadian bagged milk, at least what kind I encountered when I was there, had neither of these traits.
in the end, who cares? It’s just a name on a unit. There is no law of nature that puts a limit on its value. There always have been many definitions for an ounce (one of the reason for going metric in the first place); this one is just a bit on the large side.
Small nit, Notion has been rewritten into a native app on Android and iOS in the last year or so and the performance is significantly better.

Haven’t had the logging out issue either on iOS.
There are still more than a few great turn by turn navigation libraries that run on ruggedized windows tablets. There were two that escape my mind.

Quite often they work completely offline, and also cover more information related to topography and driving routes that may not be traditional roads on existing maps. For example, the path to a location in a farmer's field, etc.