skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two important side-effect of this:

First is that it drives people to head home earlier, and then they often stop at a second place in their local neighborhood. I honestly think part of why there are still bars in the smaller neighborhoods outside of Tokyo is because of this. You can feel a bar empty out around midnight, and the people who stay behind are all locals. In NYC, those people (the ones from NJ who had to catch the PATH at least) would be derided as "bridge and tunnel" folk, but here it's most people.

Secondly, it gives the subway a full 5 hours or so to do maintenance and repairs. In NYC, they were constantly re-routing trains during late night hours to do this kind of work. It is pretty disruptive for passengers and they come up with crazy workarounds like taking a bus between stations which really don't even make sense.
I look at the typical SAFe framework and laugh. https://scaledagileframework.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/...

SAFe is the next buzz word laden cancer to infect the enterprise. It will bring Business Agility(tm) to areas of the business beyond software development.

Consultants love it!
Do you have an example in mind? A problem that you may encounter, how do you calculate now, and how could you calculate with a GPS system that is just kilometers?
I like to think their choice of language definitely helped, but I'm also pretty biased :)

In particular, I've found that having an expressive type system makes it easier to develop and communicate this kind of mental model, as well as to maintain a close mapping between the concepts you use to understand the system and the code itself. I'm convinced that this is a powerful approach that can be incredibly effective and is hard to reproduce in "normal" languages, but it's hard to state this too confidently since it is entirely based on my own qualitative experience with programming.
OK well then 2+2 is 5. I figured out the answer myself, good for me, good for the humanity.
African elephants and Indian elephants apparently share 95% (https://archive.ph/hElph), so it seems useful. Also makes it strange that they intend to use an African elephant as surrogate mother.
It's already natural when using metric, so I'll stick to it.
As of last year, due to a mix of Google Play policies and Android updates, if you're distributing an app on the Play Store, the only way to rollback is an uninstall + wipe user data.

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* You cannot downgrade to a lower `versionCode` & `versionCode` is defined by the developer

* Android 11 prohibits writing to 'permanent' storage of the phone, with the exception of media, or using the `DocumentFile` API, which treats a local folder as cloud storage. `DocumentFile` is unusable for many use cases

* A developer can set `hasFragileUserData`, which should ask a user if they want to wipe their data on uninstall. There are Google/Android bugs which mean this dialog may not be shown

* If an app is uninstalled and the user doesn't delete data, Android blocks a downgrade to a lower `versionCode`

* You can use a regular java.io.File if you request `MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STRORAGE`

* Google Play only grants `MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STRORAGE` in exceptional circumstances
Off-topic, but this website has some pretty crazy dark-patterns!

I went to the user's profile and right-clicked their photo. The contextmenu action is intercepted and replaced with a custom menu mimicking the browser's context menu. This fake context menu has the option "Open in Window". I click it. The website doubles-down on the charade and opens a "popup" inside itself - maximize/minimize icons in the action bar and everything.

It's the sort of thing you're taught phishing websites do to lure you into inputting your credentials into the wrong website.

https://i.imgur.com/lMiH3uH.png
It's so ridiculously Orwellian (or should I say Atwoodian?) that I can't imagine anyone except in the most deranged countries is going to roll back access to birth control.

The obvious long-term solution is that we do nothing and the fact that a desire for children is partially genetic solves the problem on its own.
Well, caveat emptor but you can't exactly dunk on capital inflows consequence free.
I lasted less than a week on semaglutide (Rybelsus). The hit to my general energy levels were too dramatic for it to be worth it for me. Especially considering that research shows that stopping semaglutide usually results in gaining around half the weight you lost back.
Please share more!
Granary: Convert data between social networks
So what is an alternative process?
Unexpected in the sense that at the time of commissioning the project years ago, they did not anticipate this event down the line.
Depends what you're doing. If you tend to hop between languages, software stacks, platforms etc. then you probably (as I do) spend a lot of time looking up what the options are to achieve any given task, finding and interpreting API calls, etc. Having an LLM spit out code that's in the right direction would be a huge time saver.
The harsh consequences can be justified if you consider one of the leading theories on why MH370 was lost (239 people) is suicide? We shouldn't only consider the careers of pilots but also their potential victims. The current rule seems reasonable to me. It just needs to be better enforced.

Erring on being too "safe" may lead to some pilots losing their jobs who might not need to, being too lenient can lead to many lives lost in the air and on the ground.

Also consider, if other countries or the European union has these same rules, the FAA relaxing them may prevent American pilots from flying there. These flying rights are subject to negotiated treaties that may prevent rule changes.
I empathize and can second this as well. For a few years I’ve been visualizing a spaceship I travel in. By now there’s a lot of detail, so it doesn’t always work; but if the day got me in a sour mood, at least I know my ‘special’ space is waiting for me at bedtime.
> As 2010 was drawing to a close, I found myself on more flights than coffee breaks, constantly testing technical solutions, in search of stability and reliability

Don’t we all search for stability and reliability
Agreed, diving into the "depends" is critical.

Sometimes a lot can be understood from the team and it's current process in terms of where it did, or didn't come from.

Having a team lead that is technical as a product manager can be very helpful as you are outlining. Being able to speak the language of and maintain the respect of both is so valuable in terms of "getting it".

Clearing the way for devs to learn and do with customers and each other is the other key thing I think about a lot.

Startups likely have less politics (hopefully) but the longer they operate as startups politics likely increase, or hides itself better.

When I see startups leaping to hire VP engineering, etc, I can't help but think of my own experiences where having the founders at those seats translating what is being learned from customers directly into the product was so critical.

For existing or larger organizations, I think what you're saying is very true.
They would foresee an immediate economic benefit to them. Many of these technologies are already close to breakeven. The numbers above are a simplified arbitrary example. Try this one.

Bob needs a new furnace. Heat pumps are more efficient and save on energy costs, but also cost more up front than a new furnace. That basically evens out, so maybe right now the heat pumps still cost $5/month more than the furnace, at least in the short term. Until the cost of operating the furnace goes up $50/month because of the carbon tax, in which case he wants to immediately save $45/month.

And Bob is average. Alice is a heavy user. She has a big old house that she likes to keep at 90 degrees all winter, so the carbon tax would increase her heating bill by $500/month, which she can save by switching to heat pumps and installing solar panels on her roof. So she's going to do that right away.
> and that's how Rust enums work

It shows that I haven't written Rust in a few months, that's not how Rust enums work, that's how the derive macro for PartialEq/Eq works. D'oh!
Actually our competitor was reverse engineering our LOB app and we used this to protect trade secrets.
>I never had less than 20 days (4 weeks) PTO, not counting holidays and Christmas lockdown and since I did not bother to negotiate any special PTO, I believe thousands upon thousands of my coworkers had the same luck.

I guess it's simply a problem of my industry if that's the case (you can probably guess it at this point). Or you found some extraordinary workforce, perhaps ones not based in the US.

>If PTO is so important to you just make it a condition of your employment,

I'd love for a $400k salary to be a condition too, but life is full of compromises. I simply haven't seen such deals in my industry, except for ones not based in the US, of course. I still have growth/networking plans for long term goals, so I'd rather not leave my industry just yet.

however, my industry also has horrible work conditions in general, so even if I do have a long term exit plan, I'd love for others to not go through my cruddy benefits. So I'm still all for a union.
While I too despise Scrum, the causation could be runming the other way: the Bosses that have a better team could be more likely to let them run without major pressure.
I hope people read this person's full post. he says, "I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile."

Yeah, agile and scrum aren't the same. In my humble opinion, agile process is pretty fantastic and a lot better than waterfall (although waterfall has some elements that should be carried over to agile) or even Rational Unified Process. Yeah, Agile is taking over the engineering world (not just software) for a reason, because iterative development using small teams works.
This was moving and eye-opening. Thank you.
Disclaimer: Author to a competitive k8s backup solution.

I personally don't think Velero is a solution for production workloads or anything serious. Only an established backup company/devs will have expertise to implement and handle all cases and take care of all data loss scenarios. Ideally k8s authors should have stopped at providing a tool (they have snapshots like any db/fs) rather than writing their own backup piece. Unfortunately many of the industry solutions are wrapped over Velero except a few (two?), one I implemented from scratch for Commvault.
> People had other things to worry about during the Revolutionary War

Well, the metric system was devised in France mostly during the Revolution, with the size of Earth surveyed while at war with most of Europe in order to get a good basis for the length of the meter.

> Cooking uses teaspoons, tablespoons and cups

Or millilitres and grams, which are basically equivalent for liquids, so you only need a kitchen scale to do most cooking as long as it's not an American recipe, and it's extremely easy to scale recipes.
Beer is bad for weight loss but it's nothing close to 7 slices of bread. Maybe 2 slices. https://www.reddit.com/r/nutrition/comments/5qudfs/is_it_tru...
If the last time HN looked at phrack was 2021, you are welcome for me bringing this gem back for anyone who hasn't seen it, and hey maybe we will get some papers for the next issue
To anyone with practical issues with the SDK update: you can request an extension to November 31 from the Google Play Dashboard.
There are some American companies working on this for counter uas(drone) like blue halo: https://bluehalo.com/product/locust-laser-weapon-system-lws/

They talk about it a lot at trade shows, and I know it’s a big focus for them. Others like Raytheon as well.

No idea if any of them work though.
Here are a few sites one (IMHO) would expect to support TLS1.3 but do not

www.digitalocean.com
arstechnica.com (Amazon)
git.kernel.org
cdn.netbsd.org (Fastly)
Same, and in fact it was Sinan as a consultant because of his smashing the stack article. I was not disappointed with the results.
I have used both systems too, and while the NYC transit system is a shithole, I greatly appreciate the 24 hour service. There are also usually alternatives available for when things get shutdown.
Amazon Ending Honeycode
Buy an extra computer that is blank and periodically restore your back ups into the extra computer.
The law should make that dell situation illegal once it goes into effect for laptops.
Yeah. Kudos to being open about it but this is an amateur mistake. I ran cloud infrastructure for large companies, small companies, and small companies with large data. Disaster Recovery, Disaster Response, Data Backups, Time to restore, etc are all table stakes to running anything in “production”.

They tested their ability to do a backup, but never went through with actually backing it up - automating it - let alone making it a process to do before you make changes in “production”. Amateur. I will give this credit though. It’s hard. Not everyone can do it. Running production that is. Anyone can build for production but actually keeping it live, running, and working nominally with proper SLA and DR? It’s hard. I’m curious what the volumes were even for? I tend to not use storage outside of blob, databases, queues.
Garmin (Japanese model) watches have it too
I’ve managed teams that have been excellent without scrum. Then there’s one or two teams that just cannot get things done and are all over the place. Had to introduce scrum to get more structure and accountability to getting things done. Once the team started having a good cadence, slowly weaned off scrum.

Tldr; scrum is another tool in your toolbelt you can reach for. Some teams work better with scrum, some dont. Experiment and see which one works - ultimately the goal is the same which is a productive, well oiled machine, regardless of the ‘how’
>Why not? How did you find out things about basic terminology or concepts you're not familiar about before GPT?

Because if it tells me something that could just be found on google, I could have found it there first and not have to do as much fact checking. And if it tells me something I can't easily find, I can't tell if it's got some deep insight on harder to locate info, or if it's just made up.
I regret to inform you these are exactly the same thing.
Sp they were manually doing a backup and then testing that backup, rather than testing their automated backups? If thats what they were doing that just makes me wonder... why?
They don't. I worked for kink for 4 years. Before I was hired, they had a guy who wrote terrible PHP code and the site was a mess. We spend a bunch of time rewriting everything from scratch and rebuilding everything in the IT department. We also had a really hard time hiring good people.

After I left, they made a bunch of new hires that completely destroyed all the good work we did, because they didn't understand it.

For example, kink used a lot of top level domains and wanted to have a single login for their customers across all domains. We built a whole SSO implementation, that while complicated, solved the problem amazingly well. Log into any site and you're magically logged into all of them, without needing a server side tracking solution. Well, the new team didn't understand it at all (despite it being well documented), and broke all of it.
During their tests, they were creating new backups and testing a restore with them. They're weren't actually testing their real backups.
That's what I'm standing up for in this comment, but you've characterized it as opposition. I don't understand, perhaps you'd like to clarify.
For sure, and still is in many cases. I'm used to it tbh, but the HN community has plenty of folks who don't understand and have no need to tolerate or adapt to that kind of stimulus.
> Outside of the fun aspect, the only actual use for ham radios I can think of is providing emergency communications, particularly during extreme weather events that affect the functioning of cell towers and such

Aside from the useful thing they provide, what useful thing do they provide?

We are only nine meals from anarchy. More modernly, we are only 4 technologies away from the Internet. Wired, wifi, cellular, satellite. If those get overwhelmed, which they easily do when stressed, we need to have fallbacks in place for communication. You're right that things are evolving add technology improves, but the hobby has also evolved. Morse code is no longer a requirement, for example.
Occasionally the equity holders get some value during the restructuring process.
Or #c
I should clarify: we had one of the early Scrum guys (Ken Schwaber) come in and train devs, QA, UX, and management - so there was little room for people to hide behind random interpretations of "agile" and it really helped us to start out correctly.
At the same time, there are so many things that people 2000 years ago understood quite well, and didn’t have much worse of a grasp on than we do today. I could be wrong, but it seems that specialized technologies and the knowledge they yield are the vast majority of improved understandings. There’s a lot otherwise that maybe we haven’t made much progress on.
I can't figure out what your question is. Could you explain in a bit more detail? What is a skills basis?
Most people don’t know some history. During 1990s, a group of people made a fortune out of consulting gigs where they will be called in by their CTO friends in traditional enterprises to save the late and over budget projects. One of these people was Kent Beck. Kent will use his license to kill to turn things around and eventually generalize his rescue formula and sell it to make 100X more. His crowning glory during those days was XP or eXtreme Programming.

Like with all self-help formulas, Kent will label his solution as magic bullet for all software development problems. He will advertise it as secret medicine that cures all ills. He will be at every conference, write articles after articles, publish books.

Also, like all magic self-help formulas, it wouldn’t quite work. So, Kent will invent something new. His next prescription was TDD and when I first saw it, I thought it was a joke. But people around me started drinking cool aid and if you didn’t join them then you weren’t one of them. Again, Kent and friends will go out on massive marketing spree advertising it as secret talisman. Like all overweight desperate people in need to lose weight, people will enthusiastically start new Kent Beck diet, lose few pounds and endorse the formula. But they will soon find that they had simply traded one problem for another more uglier one.

This went on for long time. For more than two decades, these group of people kept inventing these processes, selling it as magic pill and made millions upon millions in consulting gigs, books, training, certifications and so on. They came up with Agile and 17 people in that group created “agile manifesto”. Their most aggressively marketed prescription was scrum. Like their all previous prescription, world is finally coming off of night of drinking cool aid and feeling severe headache.

I think most of these people have now sort of retired after amassing massive fortunes and hopefully we will not see more of these magic processes pushed to dumb CTOs with promises of curing all ills.

The truth is Scrum was never a magic bullet and it is downright harmful for many projects. It is useful for highly predictable projects where research component is negligible, for example, CRUD websites AND where you are stuck with unmotivated tier-3 talent who failed to get job at insurance company. For everything else, it should never have been used. It is especially going to hurt creativity, originality and novelty if you are in business of making a differentiating unique novel product. It also is very very bad choice if you already had tier-1 highly motivated team.

So exercise caution!
+1

I'm instantly transported to my childhood at the mere mention of shoco!
And they will give you a little more liquidity.
As a first language Afrikaans speaker, both sentences are perhaps somewhat difficult to parse, but also very readable to my eyes.
Because it already crashed before the trading halt. It's down over 98% from peak.
We have lots of opportunities. But a lot of them, we either can't take advantage of, or we don't notice.

I like this quote. My father often told me to be ready for the opportunities that I want.
No love for Scrum but this is the more likely explanation.

A good team that runs itself? Ofc it doesn't need Ten Scrum Masters to deliver value.

Now, the real question is why leadership tries to salvage failing teams with Scrum? Save the wasted money, use it to hire top talent instead... easy.
Some android malware also checks TracerPid in /proc/*/status
https://github.com/Cloudef/android2gnulinux/blob/master/src/...
How far behind Nvidia is AMD?
You clearly don't have aphantasia
That’s the climate crisis, right? Nobody who is serious about the topic thinks it can be turned back at this point, now it’s all about mitigation.
I think this is sort of how creatures keep evolving towards crabhood but for lisp.
A truly developing nation can't, the economic powerhouse of the 21st century has a lot more latitude in this respect. As long as not every single investment in it goes tits up, there won't be any shortage of dumb FOMO money chasing growth.

(Look at the mountains of money piled into straight-up obvious crypto scams, at least China is full of real companies that are doing real business[1], even if sometimes that business goes to shit.)

[1] Like making all the things the world uses. And serving half a billion people living middle-class lifestyles.
Point of order:

I have never heard of a 2nd Amendment protest (where most protesters show up armed) being kettled.

Make of that what you will.
Great time to tackle some tech debt
An example of this is an air collection, which operates in Tasmania. They fill diving canisters with air samples, and mark them by date and climate/conditions.

They also collect community sourced air, dive schools and dive charter boats ring them up and say "we've got a cylinder which sat out back from 1972 do you want it" and they get an albiet dirtier, less certain view of the air, at that place and time.

Future science is going to have a field day.

A couple of well established air samples from when scientific glass blowing first happened have also been found I believe. Obviously collection techniques impart different qualities, but it's still amazing what you can do, with a reasonably well authenticated pocket of air of known provenance.
Am I tripping or are you comparing ham radio to watching child porn on HN?
What are some examples of things people 2000 years ago understood almost as well as us?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/limitorder.asp
German Company Develops Faster Beer-Pouring Technology
Yes, I don't know how one can be able to cite sources yet be so ill-informed. This article probably doesn't mean anything to anyone. Open source means you get the source, that's it. OSI is a good reference, but it's not the boss of definitions.
This is pretty cool. The function notation is rather intersting with how it looks like blocks.
I've never met anyone who drinks 250 mL glasses of milk, though. I put maybe about 10 mL in my coffee once a day, and need 500 mL or 750 mL when baking crêpes. Sometimes in cereals but that's not very often.