skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So sweatshops basically?

Not sure it's a great analogy though since software is still basically the design part - the duplication part is trivial.
You seem to be imagining that I support the undermining of sex-ed. I am merely pointing to the dots. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education_in_the_United_...
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Bonus points for starting and ending sprints with meetings instead of work :)
"Software engineer" is a special category in that people think you can train someone for 3 months on React and Node and shove them into this line of work and they should be fungible and just a green version of the real thing.

The high demand, high pay and low general understanding of computer architecture all fuel this race to the bottom and we all pay for it in low quality, overtly complicated and vulnerable software and all ancillary industries that spring around it. Coding "bootcamps", "Cybersecurity", Agile/SCRUM, Wordpress and clones, AWS and clones etc etc.
This process has been in place for literal years and every professional Android developer part of such commissioning would know about it. Just like every iOS developer would know that apps need to be maintained for new iOS releases.

This is just incompetent planning.
Also, this is needed now and needs to be repeatable.
This argument is not really valid anymore, especially in a paper that talks about LLMs.
Even with huge confounding factors, tracking and controlling ci, correlates almost directly to co after such adjustments. Arguments that cico isnt absolute are technically correct but pedantic and unhelpful. None of this addresses the problems of willpower and differince in stimulus humans experince, nor the psychology of overeating as a coping mechanism, both of which seem to underpin the epidemic rather than math.
It was from a study of how to mark a nuclear waste disposal site so that it would be understandable in 10k years. That was one of the sentiments they were trying to express - through symbols, earthworks, multiple languages.
That sounds unlike my experience with AWS RDS, and I don't think there would be many users of it if it were generally true. When was this and was it AWS?
Rubbish. Good engineers will think laterally about what they can do to make the product work better for the customer, and this is especially true they're in a tight technical spot. Everyone can get railroaded by their thought process and be blinded to the easy, simple solutions, but a good engineer is supposed to be aware of that.

More likely, the lift engineer (or team) is only allowed to "make this lift 20% faster" and is told to stay in their lane when they suggest non-lift-based ideas.

In all likelihood, the engineer is employed by a company in order to sell expensive lift upgrades, not mirrors or interior design services. And his boss has a target.
Not only I'm not blasting you but also I'm right there with you.

I've always said that Scrum doesn't fix problems, but it makes them more evident so you can fix them.

Teams that don't realize this are going to be unhappy about Scrum, but in my opinion they wouldn't be happy without.

Often the problems are one of these:

- Focusing on estimates. In scrum, a team doesn't really need any estimates beyond planning what they will do in the next two weeks. Planning poker, story points, estimations are just a means to that end. If you don't like them, don't use them.

- Focusing on ceremonies without understanding how to use them (or when to drop them!). I haven't done stand ups in years. I use online tools like geek bot. Retrospectives are just as useful as the number of problems you actually solve after they are pointed out. Planning is only useful if it produces teamwork, if the engineers all work in 1-person silos, it becomes a joke.

- Not understanding that Agile > Scrum. If you think you can be more agile without some parts of scrum, drop the parts you don't need. Being able to change the rules of the game in-flight is part of agile (and of scrum).
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That’s what it’s called! Horrible typeface. I hate the flat decenders on the “g” and the “y”.
That is 100% psudeoscience.
Similarly, in order to fit stories into a sprint and not spillover, there is the constant fixation on making stories "as small as possible". So now people make a story for adding a button, then another story for the click handler of the button, then another story for saving data into DB when button is clicked, then another story for adding the tests, and so on. Then the sheer amount of time talking about how to split that up and adding all those into JIRA...
Respectfully, I think there are important cultural differentiators where - to my mind at least - I can’t think of a single American commercial pilot who committed suicide and deliberately took the passengers with him. Whereas half a dozen Incidents of that immediately spring to mind from countries with markedly different aviation cultures.

How many pilots have marital difficulties or temporary chemical depression, but can’t seek help for these incredibly ordinary conditions without putting their livelihoods at risk? There’s a big spread between some troubles at home or feeling down in the dumps, and being prepared to off yourself and take a couple hundred innocents with you on your way to hell.

The medical evaluation regime should recognize this rather than applying such a blunt instrument to a nuanced, complex issue.
The term "opensource software" was coined by the OSI founders explicitly to have the meaning they laid out in the Open Source Definition. The term didn't exist before that.
>I personally find it a joy to read Nabokov despite his wordiness, and I do not think my reading enjoyment is related to being wordy.

> [original:] Could Nabokov have "made his point" in fewer words? Almost certainly, but I wouldn't have enjoyed them any more.

This sentence is a great example of how the main semantics of the sentence are actually the same but their subtext are entirely different. In both cases, the main point is that GP concludes that 'reading enjoyment is not correlated to wordiness'.

But in the first case, Nabokov is enjoyable despite the wordiness, whereas in the original it sounds more like it's an important part of the charm; reducing it would not improve enjoyment, and probably reduce it. It is almost opposite.

As an aside I think it's quite a dumb rule. If wordiness is bad, you'd get maximum enjoyment from a summary. Wordiness should be correlated in a more complex way to what is being told, the impression it should make, and the place within the narrative flow.

Another aside, the ChatGPT version (much more respectful of semantics, but barely more concise):
Those who emphasize this often refer to writers like Hemingway and others such as Carver. While these writers are more skilled than me, I still favor reading Nabokov. Could Nabokov have expressed his idea more succinctly? Likely, but I wouldn't have found it more enjoyable.
That review was a lot of words saying nothing much.

On the topic of Iliad, I always found it puzzling that the (supposed) war started at the wedding of Achilles' parents, i.e. before Achilles was born. Yet Achilles apparently participated in the war as an already grown and famous man?

And then later on in the story, the son of Achilles (Neoptolemus aka Pyrrhus) hides inside the wooden horse and helps sack the city. How old was Achilles, really? What's the timeline here?

Of course, a part of the answer is fiction being fictitious. But some classical authors assume more nuance to the chronology, with there being two Greek expeditions – first floundered – so the whole enterprise took 20 years rather than the popular 10; Achilles fathering Neoptolemus at the age of 13; etc:
https://www.reddit.com/r/classics/comments/kza1ji/achilles_a...
Show HN: Qramaank: Reuse and Reorganise internet content
TLDR; It is a platform for you to create course like content by reusing existing content from Youtube, Github, Google Drive etc.

I tried to create this for my personal use to make all the urls, document to be shown in an orderly fashion like a normal course do.
But then tried to expand this to make it community driven and have functionality like cloning as well.

I am still working on this, any suggestion would be good.
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> The BSL license is not an Open Source license because it restricts users' freedom to run the program however they wish.

I’m no expert, but how is this any different than AGPL restrictions/requirements to redistribute source code if you are running a modification on a server? Obviously, AGPL offers greater “benefit” with its requirement, but this seems to still be a restriction on how you can run the software.
Do it anyway, file the ticket and pull it into the next sprint.
That's going to be very rough on small business. I think it all sounds fantastic don't get me wrong, but most mom and pop shops can't float employees for 12 months while paying in full for their child care and other services.
It's an observation, not an argument, but note that this is a paper about LLM mistakes. But if the language bothers you and you view LLMs as the solution, you're certainly free to feed it into an LLM yourself.

To be frank, I find it a little off-putting to suggest being a non-native English speaker is "no longer valid."
As someone who does not fear death anymore I would ask you to find out what exactly it is you fear? If you have regrets or something you have not done you want to do you should either go do that or be at peace that you did not do it. Sometimes you also need to realize that what you are regretting you should not be. For example sometimes not taking advantage of an opportunity which you may be regretting actually led to something else much greater.

If you fear for the people around you having to deal with your death you can take precautions and make their life easier.

If you fear debilitating illness you always have the option of going when you decide[1] and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[1] https://www.exit.ch/en/
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You speak is like from one's of that sysadmins breed may speak. It's a heresy nowdays not to use kubernetes/not write yaml.

The only even more heresy thing could be - run web applications on baremetal servers!
Now that's a name I have not heard in a long time! I saw the Transputer at a trade show (Comdex, perhaps) circa 1986. I was very intrigued by it and the Occam language. It disappeared from the public eye but I always wondered what happened to it.
It's interesting. I saw this post after reading today's post about about Jake Seliger, and his brave and philosophical approach to death from squamous cell carcinoma.

The title felt oddly hollow.
I met Stroustroup in about 1997 at a convention and got to spend maybe 30-60 minutes chatting with him and a small group. I've always felt he was mistreated by many who slandered C++. Came across as remarkably humble, glad to share his time and thoughts with a bunch of know-nothing undergrads, and as someone who simply tried to do the best he could to contribute to his field. A real mensch.
It kind of is. Well, the public dinging probably isn't. But at a few companies I've seen, teams are tracked on how many tickets span multiple sprints. If it exceeds some threshold, then theoretically it means that either:
1. The team is not breaking down tasks granularly enough, or
2. They're not estimating tasks correctly

Practically, it means nothing of course.
A good pinch front western hat is fun to wear. I get compliments about my Stetson Drifter
Not important! But saw this a lot at coffee shops in Barcelona on a recent trip and it surprised me. Also thought it was funny that everyone kept their milk bags inside a plastic open-topped pitcher for easy pouring...
And how demanding will any FCC analysis of receiver interference be? These guys are trying to tune in distant signals from around the world. So yeah if they're getting blasted by super-high-power "clean" signals, their receivers might "work" for less-demanding conditions but will they be deprived of a large portion of the edge cases that they could once resolve enough to communicate?
The data on the US is a lot less clean than for Europe, so this is the best I could find:

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

"Between 1979 and 2018, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered between 0.5 and 2 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years (see Figure 1). Overall, a total of more than 11,000 Americans have died from heat-related causes since 1979, according to death certificates."

(same site, different page) https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

"Between 1979 and 2016, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to cold (underlying cause of death) generally ranged from 1 to 2.5 deaths per million people, with year-to-year fluctuations (see Figure 1). Overall, a total of more than 19,000 Americans have died from cold-related causes since 1979, according to death certificates."

A lot smaller difference than Europe, and there's the 1995 heatwave thing in Chicago which throws it all out of whack, but there's still more people dying from cold than heat, even in the USA.
Same for me - I think this is a profound contradiction between the unique ability of humans to think about the future (which enables them to know that they will one day die) and the basic self-preservation instinct which all living beings have.
You mean torpedoes? Or are those Kamikaze boat drones?
All you said is true. But the number of talented programmers is very limited and concentrated. And they are quite expensive. Most companies and teams have to go the structured approach with whatever local mediocrity they can hire.
> Um lol what do you think the error is here? This is widely accepted syntax for a stub.

No it isn't.
The accepted stub syntax is an ellipses (...).

A competent type checker like pyright will error on this code.

Function with declared return type "int" must return value on all code paths
Type "None" cannot be assigned to type "int"

And if you need more proof that pycharm is useless as a type checker:

def foo(b) -> int:
if b:
return 1

A classic error where you forget to return a value from all paths and pycharm is silent.
> There’s nothing stopping anyone from going back and using all of that old software exclusively.

You need to search for it on old ftp sites.

> For some reason everyone prefers the newer software, though. Perhaps there’s more to it than binary size?

The compilers have "evolved". Compiling old code is challenging, to say the least.
I do compile old programs when the new seem to explode: xpdf, xsnow.

Compiling old compilers is impossible because they rely on ancient kernel headers.
I would also like to know if there are like, any semi-reasonable options to be able to read this
The share menu is used for everything on ios, I had to get used to it at my first apple device’s case.

One notably stupid usage of the Share option was (I believe it is no longer how it’s done) adding an image to a hidden folder — that’s something you definitely don’t want to share, yet quite easy to accidentally send to someone during this process.
Surely you mean minutes, not seconds. And it's off by 10 hours.
Note that the meter is also basically 3 Paris feet, which comes out to about 0.97m (compared to 3 English feet, which is only around 0.91m). They weren't working in a vacuum to derive the most principled or cosmically beautiful unit length, just trying to find a way to define the unit they already used that wasn't "the length of this stick we have over here".
So once again we see something owned by the public co-opted by big business and potentially ruined for one-time greed. Once this spectrum gets trounced and every trading firm is on board, the playing field is once again level and there has been no net gain.

Depressing and outrageous.
> bad management and bad engineers without any agency.

bad management destroys agency
Those confidence intervals though..

lower sperm concentration (−8%, 95% CI: −16%, −1%)

total sperm count (−10%, 95% CI: −17%, −2%)

higher proportion of nonprogressive and immotile sperm (5%; 95% CI: 1%, 8%)

Basically all the 95% confidence intervals almost overlap with "no effect".
1.) "The demand side is mostly people buying second and third units as investments." that is incorrect. Most purchases are first purchases from couples that want to get married, and a home purchase is a required dowry from men that they need in order to get approved for marriage from the parents.

There are famous online videos from newlyweds that purchased a condo from a few years ago, and have been documenting their journey, and they still haven't received the unit. Meanwhile their kid was born already.

2.) Yes, just google "empty kindegardens in China". Also, marriages dropped to the lowest since records began in 1986. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/marriages-in-c...

3.) Nope. China’s government land sales revenue declined for the 19th consecutive month in July. Land sales fell 10.1% from a year earlier in July, after declining 24.3% the previous month https://www.reuters.com/article/china-economy-landsales/chin...

The Chinese local governments' bonds alone total at about $2 trillion, and any defaults would rock the Asian nation's $60 trillion financial system, according to Bloomberg. https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/chinas-10-t...
Would it be worthwhile to create the insights?

E.g. if there were a global registry of credit dependencies and ownership, at least for system relevant companies, we should know what is going to happen.

But what is the worst that could happen? If companies fold, ownership will be transferred. As long as the companies are profitable, their business will continue.
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-extinction

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So it seems the strategy is to search there and buy elsewhere
Does it? You can run the software with AGPL. You simply need to contribute it back to the main project.

That’s a marked difference.
My problem is not whether I “like” management’s tradeoffs they force me as a developer to make; my problem is that managements typically don’t take accountability for choosing to make them.

And then management (and their allies in the closely aligned “Software Craftsmanship” movement) blame the developers for the consequences of those tradeoffs and all the technical debt that typical entails.
I found intermittent fasting works well for my lifestyle.

Have no time in morning for gym. I replaced breakfast with coffee and almonds, have lunch with reasonable portions, dinner normal portions, and no food after 8 pm.

Been losing weight at about 1 pound per month.
AFAIK, body can detect poison or infection in the blood and then reduce reproduction rate, to reduce spread of infection or birth defect rate due to intoxication.
The difference being, those unemployed have state support, instead of being left to their own misfortunes.

Yes they definitely need education on European work laws, I have had the pleasure to explain multiple times how it goes over here, to clueless bosses trying to overdo their power outside work hours.

US international firms should also take care some day Europe might play a China move, and refocus on internal markets.

All the ongoing conflicts show how globalisation is slowly reaching its end.
You kind of explained it yourself. You need to run a number of components, keep track of all of them, be able to update them, scale them, make sure they're healthy and restarted when needed, etc. This is of course possible in a number of ways, but not trivial. You're basically describing an orchestrator such as Kubernetes or Nomad. Especially with an already existing Helm chart covering all the deployment logic (what needs to be deployed, how many instances, health checks, etc.): https://github.com/mastodon/chart it's quite an easy choice instead.
Writing is code too. Writing English well does matter if you want to have your work read.
I've noticed an upward trend in the quality of comments on Slashdot since the Great Reddit Moderator's Rebellion of '23. It's worth giving Slashdot a quick check every once in a while.
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It's nice, but surprising, that Sony allows this.
Similarly

```
def get_neanderthal ()
## Retrieves 2% of the your genome
```

Has been implemented hundreds of different times by hundreds of different developers. If you cat and uniq their Neanderthal implementations together:

```
def global_get_neanderthal():
## Retrieves 20% of a consensus genome
```
Personally, I've experienced scrum only as a tool used by middle managers to control developers. It sounds good in theory, but power structures are a thing, and it gives too much influence in the way of metrics to malicious managing types who want to be in control. Scrum and agile are now red flags for me.
Copied the email we got from Amazon verbatim:

____

Hello Marcus,

Hope you are keeping well and safe. Thank you for reaching back out to me.

I can completely understand that this is not the behavior you expected with regards to engine version upgrades with multi-AZ configuration.

By design, when performing any version upgrade on a multi-AZ instance, the engine version is upgraded on the primary and the secondary at the same time resulting in both the primary and standby being unavailable. Unfortunately, it is not possible for the instance to failover in this scenario since the database level changes needs to be applied at the same time.

As mentioned in my previously correspondence, you do have the ability to opt-out of auto minor version upgrades if this does not suit your requirements [1]. By doing this, minor version updates will no longer be applied automatically and will have to be manually maintained.

As additional information, note that multi-AZ deployment does reduce the downtime in certain activities, however database engine version upgrade does not come under this. Multi-AZ deployments helps RDS automatically perform a failover in the event of any of the following:

1. An Availability Zone outage
2. The primary DB instance fails
3. The DB instance's server type is changed
4. The operating system of the DB instance is undergoing software patching
5. A manual failover of the DB instance was initiated using Reboot with failover

For more information on High Availability (Multi-AZ) deployments, kindly refer the below document for your reference [2].

I sincerely hope I was able to address your concerns Marcus. Please don't hesitate to reach back out to me and I will be happy to assist further as best I can.

Thank you for your time. Wishing you a great weekend ahead, and stay safe.

References:

[1] Automatically upgrading the minor engine version
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...

[2] Failover Process for Amazon RDS
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concep...

We value your feedback. Please share your experience by rating this correspondence using the AWS Support Center link at the end of this correspondence. Each correspondence can also be rated by selecting the stars in top right corner of each correspondence within the AWS Support Center.
Last week chat-gpt spat out some Awk for me for a generic linux request. Was quite a pleasant surprise!