skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about this stuff, but could anyone explain why willpower isn't enough? Like - isn't this something that is in our control?

Also - if you don't have the willpower to lose weight, wouldn't taking weight loss drugs put you at risk of relying on meds for everything? (Including stuff you might have the willpower for - now that you've tried meds, why would you ever do stuff the hard way?)
something like this almost happened where I worked - an atlantis/terraform apply started tearing down our cassandra cluster, which was not backed up.

Caught it in time before it got the volumes
Like any hobby, the point is to have fun learning something that might lead to benefits. There is a reason recreation feels good.

For example surfing is “pointless” and leads to a lot of plastic waste but… it leads to health benefits, better swimming skills and a chance to socialise.
Do you buy gravel by the cubic mile then?

Weird real-life unit conversions come up all the time, often when you need to calculate a net weight or price, and you have some big surface area (eg. a road, with width in yards + feet, thickness in inches, and length in miles), and your gravel supplier prices by ton, and you look up the density in a conversion table and see something like lbs/ft^3, and now you have a whole bunch of opportunities to make a mistake.
Canadian here. These are awesome and I 100% miss them when I'm not in the part of Canada where they are common
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> As a user, I don't want browser messing with the application design. There is no way to turn off these "enhancements".

Then use a browser which doesn't do that? If other people for some reason think it looks cool--and, despite designers claiming the opposite any chance they get, most normal people actually seem to enjoy unique spins that lead to inconsistent results--then let them? If I think it looks cooler to kind of hack every website into rendering with tints of red and you think it looks ugly... to bad?
Same here - using mobile chromium on android.
His licensing model is somewhat confusing to me to be honest.
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IDEs Can Hide Problems

Not only problems but understanding; as someone who once taught beginning programmers, and assisted someone else before that wherein the students were given step-by-step instructions with an IDE and as a result many had little idea what to do if something didn't work, I started with the "text editor and command line" approach and those little problems mostly disappeared. Another side-effect I noticed is students being more confident in their work, which is likely because they felt like they understood what was happening at a deeper level of detail.
> Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

Agile and Scrum are for managers who don't know what they want, but they'll "know it when they see it". (Or more likely, they'll declare that they wanted is what they've got when the money runs out.)

Just stay away from it, if at all possible.
> Personally, I’d rather protect the employees at the risk of the shareholders.

Sorry, but thats not how capitalism operates. Modern corporations are created for the benefit of share holders and they operate for only one reason and one reason only i.e. "to maximize" shareholder value [1].

Honestly, you seem to be living in some alternative "la la la la" land where you perceive reality in a very different way or at least want reality to be what you want it to be than what currently it is. I am not quite sure how to argue with people who hold beliefs similar to yours. Please note, we are not arguing here as to what is fair or not (read my response carefully) as per some definition of fairness.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
#2 is basically it. #1 and #4 should be rolled into #2.

Portion control isn't such a strict thing either. Eat slowly and gauge your remaining appetite as you go. You'll naturally eat less when you don't care about "cleaning your plate". You don't have to eat 3 meals a day either. Self awareness is the key to controlling your consumption and this is beyond just food. Hit your macros otherwise and you're good.
> The modern economy is much better served by people living in comfortable locations that are walkable

Why? Walkability ties you down to your neighborhood by rote, it limits your economic prospects, and in general makes your life more miserable (you'll _waste_ a lot more time on chores).

At the same time, remote work and service-based economy allows people to avoid having to attend the office every day.

> (American-style) suburbs will never be the engine of anything

LOL. Sour grapes?

The US suburbs are _already_ the powerhouse of the country. People living there produce something like 85% of the wealth (using individual tax returns as a proxy).
The short film is probably a better version of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbp0DugfCA
If you're in a situation where someone is suggesting applying an off-the-shelf process like Scrum or SAFe, you've already lost.

> 3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

This continues to be one of the most aggravating parts of capital A Agile software development. Forcing people to be uncomfortable to make them talk less is something a child would come up with.
You can't choose "simpler" overall. The choice is normally between "simpler for one-off things" and "simpler in aggregate". If you choose the first option too often, you'll learn that doing the simplest thing every time paints you into a corner and you have to deal with all the tech debt one day. Doing things in a designed/automated/generated simpler way means you sometimes end up dealing with complex system failures. You can't avoid the complexity - just decide how you organise it.
Loose lips save sunken ships
> It doesn't take a week to get through 1L.

For us it does, though, it was always a problem for me when I lived in Canada. Here in the EU my UHT milk can stay open in my fridge for several weeks and still be good.

I also prefer the taste compared to pasteurizer milk, since that point will inevitably be brought up by people who always find the milk they are used to to be the only good milk that exists. I prefer UHT because it tastes closer to raw milk.
Just speculating about orange juice: vitamin C degrades easily when exposed to light, so that orange juice in clear containers lose more vitamin C than orange juice in opaque containers. That could be one reason against (clear) milk bags, but there are certainly clear bottles of orange juice sold, and I suppose you could use opaque juice bags, though those would be less user friendly than clear juice bags.

Edit: capri sun juice pouches!
> Ko Toot said he created characters based on real people fighting the military, including doctors, Muslims and members of the LGBT community.

Funny how one of these social groups is actively hostile against another.
xkcd: automate, from auto meaning self, and mate meaning...
At least they have to keep paying politicians to do it now. In the early-mid 20th century it was a free for all.
This is awesome, but they need to go one step further.

Spray paint these cars, some message that shows people they’re being used as Guinea pigs in the name of motor safety.
> On top of that, the car requirement is in effect a gigantic tax: every person has to pay tens of thousands of dollars just to own a car, and many thousands to tens of thousands every year to operate and insure and maintain it. And that's a direct tax on every person.

Wait until you hear how much public transit infrastructure costs. You'll faint from shock!

> Finally, this doesn't even consider the climate consequences of everyone driving around in a 6000-pound SUV

What if you drive a small EV instead?

And here's the CO2 footprint data for transit: https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

> But good luck getting any Americans like the OP to understand any of this.

I guess you never even tried to question your assumptions.
This is a No True Scotsman argument. The guy enumerated a list of ways scrum failed in his experience; it's always interesting to hear honestly about failure modes from people who have actually used something a lot in their work.
The U.S. Military Academy will open and unveil the contents of a nearly 200-year-old time capsule during a ceremony on August 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Robinson Auditorium at Thayer Hall.
Simpler to use, simpler to learn, simpler to design, and simpler to create are all different properties. Sometimes they are unrelated, sometimes complementary, sometimes in tension.
Call it out as BS when it comes up in discussions. Spread the word. Stop going along to get along.
Cool project for a proof of concept. That said, the kernel has so many unsafe features that making real world modules that are safe requires a lot of boilerplate to get around those features. Sometimes it's impossible. Rust is only barely useable now after tons of work to make it viable.
> If the user doesn’t like it they’ll tell the browser vender.

Let's be realistic: Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla aren't listening. They'll cram all sorts of ugly annoying stuff in your face and laugh at your pitiful forum threads begging for a setting to turn it all off.
There is no best approach, but this article highlights some common aspects from a survey of 100+ tech companies’ approaches to project management:

“How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum”

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/project-management-at-big...
Are you a scrum master and feel personally slighted that the popularity is slipping?
Is 8-Bit Minecraft Possible? [video]
Indian lander observes high temperature variation on lunar surface
I want to feel bad for them, and I do, but really I’m not sure what you expect. They never tested their backup. They tested their ability to manually back up, but I’m not sure why they would ever think to conflate that with automatic processes. If they had automatic backups, why were they relying on manual ones for testing?
>But walking away voluntarily is different from having to walk away because your employer gives you an ultimatum.

Is there a real difference between walking away due to an ultimatum and walking away due to the prospect of better pay or work conditions? Especially in the case where you started pre-pandemic and technically WFH was never indefinitely promised?

Either way, you are voluntarily choosing to seek a better job with better work conditions. The only difference is that you may not be able to be as covert in the ultimatum situation.
Why isn’t it down 100%? According to the article, they’re in bankruptcy with way more liabilities than assets. Presumably the shareholders are getting wiped out.
The US has Capri sun juice pouches.
The US didn't have anything to do with evergrande afaik, and paying for property before it's built is a bad idea. But China can still try to deal with this by blaming the US for all ills and pushing for war with Taiwan to distract everyone - that works almost every time!
Our solution for this is to have nebulous time sucks that need to be done, but don't have a ticket with an estimate. Like "increase test coverage" or "experiment with new things for a git hook to do" or "eliminate warnings". There's no deadline, and everything else is higher priority- but when you finish your sprint early, now you know what you can work on. And it's useful, not just scutwork.
The ISM bands are much, much more limited in other countries(eg duty cycle). I agree that really interesting stuff is happening in ISM space however reallocating ham allocations doesn't seem like the right path forward.

FWIW I think repealing the symbol rate restrictions and opening up bands a bit more would go a long way towards the spirit that ham was started with. The hobby seems pretty ossified these days and it would be great to see more advancements in digital modes and stuff closer to the state of the art.
"What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us... Wow they must have hid the really good stuff here!"
The more layers of automation we add, the more invisible points of failure.

Bullshit. Doing things by hand is more error prone.

Without automation this situation would've played out like: well we got used to running things with e.g. --force or --yes or just hitting yes manually at every prompt. Unfortunately we just nuked our data store.

Alternatively they would've looked at the dashboards, seen perhaps low CPU or memory utilization for the data store namespace and manually nuked it to save some money..

While this smells like a process issue it's mostly an architectural one. It's good that things were namespaced, however, for persistent data the infra should be more or less air gapped from a tooling POV. Updating the persistent data store should be a whole separate CI job, ideally with more intervention required to effect change.
Great technical explanation of the limitations of "true" 8-bit games, while also going to some pretty crazy efforts to actually replicate Minecraft (as close as feasibly possible) on a real 8-bit processor.
Dog who served on both sides of the American Revolution
"Should"? Or else what, they don't get the gold star you hand out every month to devs you consider "worthy"?

A dev can go an entire career never having needed to set up a CI/CD pipeline on their own.
Yeah, it should not delete everything in that situation, it should require a tombstone file.
They’re outraged that their city is being used as a testing ground for driver safety.
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Why did they change the definition from the length of the pendulum to the circumference of the Earth?
No, investors cannot just write it off as a total loss.

Hard as it may be, it will be better to just burn an entire generation rather than draw the final curtain on the People’s Republic of China and possibly the world economy as we know it.
the market sees a 13% chance of a favorable outcome
Not the worst parallel to draw, I reckon, especially in the wake of Copilot, GPT-3, etc.

And I'm sure that circuit designers who'd invested the majority of their career in that async paradigm, only to see it facing obsolescence due to 'inexorable' tooling (digital EDA being that era's Copilot/GPT) advances, would've also downvoted an analogous comment :D
An excellent catchup on the state of LLMs today with an eye on usability. Thanks, Simon.

I'm surprised you think base Llama2 is good, I would wait for the variants (e.g., phind-codellama actually is good, but base Llama2 is... mediocre at most tasks).
Do you sign long term lease agreements for colo space, power and bandwidth for the hardware or are you still paying that annually/monthly?

There are no free lunches. I do not disagree buying hardware is cheaper but operational overhead and opportunity cost are real.
pango2 is another one I see mentioned occasionally.

https://github.com/flosch/pongo2
Yes, I have slipped on the title before. Oops.

Being highly self referential comes with some degree of parody, IMHO. I always took the tune that way.
There would have been some students at West Point in 1828 whose families owned slaves. Slavery was only abolished in New York State one year prior to this. "Incessantly racist" is probably underselling it.
We do a very loose agile process and everyone seems to like it. Basically, we have a standup every morning. Each team member has up to 1 minute to list (in very brief form) what they did yesterday and what they plan to do today.

It identifies if anyone will be stepping on anyone else's toes, or if anyone knows of something similar and can point you to it, and it lets the project manager know if anyone is working on something that can be traded for a higher priority task that just came up.

Most of the time, you work on what you say you're going to work on. Sometimes, the project manager will call you after standup to get more detail and/or adjust your priority to a different task.

This standup is the only formal meeting the developers go to, other than the odd department/company wide meeting. The project manager goes to all of the other meetings.

We are the most productive team in the company. I think the autonomy and the lack of formal meetings are the real magic. We're fully remote and talk to each other plenty throughout the day in an adhoc way, sometimes for fun and sometimes for technical discussions, problem solving, brainstorming, sanity checks (technical and personal), etc.
You might be right. I remember a domain handover, but maybe it was firefox.com rather than getfirefox.com … I vaguely recall the opposite though, that somebody ended up redirecting to the Mozilla site pre-acquisition as a way of promoting Firefox. I vaguely recall knowing that the ownsership transfer took place because suddenly the URL that the domain redirected you to had some extra tracking query parameters added to it.

The earliest version of getfirefox.com redirects to Mozilla’s Firefox homepage which while it sells the browser does not have a clear Download link. I remember one of the earliest fan-made Firefox sites having a prominent download link as a way of helping people install the browser and switch to Firefox before there was a switch campaign site. https://web.archive.org/web/20040619171818/http://mozilla.or...

At the time the download page looked something like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20040619111818/http://www.mozill... and it was easier to download the old Communicator suite still.

The Firefox.com site obviously gained in popularity in 2004 as Firefox started gaining traction, based on how often The Wayback Machine was crawling it… https://web.archive.org/web/20040601000000*/Firefox.com

The site was transferred by mid-September of 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040914022408/http://www.firefo... and later that month a note was added about a different Firefox company: https://web.archive.org/web/20040922075506/http://www.firefo...

I should add, I think the tracking codes I’m remembering were part of https://wiki.mozilla.org/Spreadfirefox_affiliates
> Yep, apartments in Tokyo are getting bigger

It's somewhat true. The average apartment in Tokyo is 66 square meters (with 40 square meters of living space). That's slightly up from 48 square meters total in 1990.

However, 1.5 million homes in Tokyo have living space smaller than 20 square meters. And that number is growing, because of new "microapartments" being built all the time.
It's not too bad. There are two approaches to this one in AWS: 1. You can mark specific resources like db and volumes to be retained on stack deletion. 2. You can't delete some resources easily without deleting the content. Wanna delete a bucket? Explicitly delete all the objects first.

It works ok in practice.
I’m a solo consultant and have had many good client relationships based on agreeing on deliverables. To summarize according to the old “pick two” adage of delivered-fast, works-to-spec and cheap: I’m fast, reliable, and expensive. I deliver high value and I’m always available to answer questions.

Interestingly, me consulting solo at an hourly rate doesn’t scale. To solve this, about 5 years ago I started a side business of building an electron app for designing and printing labels. I feel like scaling up allows my customers to pick all 3. The app is immediately available, it works, and it’s inexpensive.

So there’s another way to avoid agile and scrum: solo entrepreneurship.

Good luck!
In places those homes don't exist(https://www.reuters.com/world/china/unfinished-evergrande-ap...), or are of shoddy construction. Some have been torn down (https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/investing/evergrande-stock-ga...).

For many of those owners the house is not intended to be lived in but rather an investment vehicle. Somewhere i read that a majority of home owning families (sometimes extended families) in China have more than one home -- don't know if that's true.
Oh please, ham radio is not nearly in the same category as making bombs or committing arson. You could make your argument about pretty much any hobby (what service does growing your own vegetables provide to society? We should ban it to let commercial farming get ahead). And for what it's worth, ham radio has probably got plenty of hackers into fields like electrical engineering, so if you value what those engineers provide...
No, you're totally right though - culture is everything, and the experience of being a part of a team how it works is everything.

I heard an interesting explanation the other day, hard skills are easy to measure, and soft skills are hard to measure, but developing soft skills can be are more important than hard skills.
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> It's not that these Republicans are "anti-Ukraine," or "pro-Russia" or even "not anti-Russia." It's that they don't want to send hundreds of billions of unaudited dollars to weapons manufacturers and highly corrupt foreign governments, especially given the glaring contrast with the lack of spending on problems much closer to home.

The vast majority of aid to Ukraine is in weapons that are either going to be scrapped or only a handful are purchased, it’s a bit hard to feed children on surplus DCPIM munitions.

> the position is simple: war is bad, we are prolonging the war in Ukraine by funding it, therefore funding it is bad.

Not funding Ukraine won’t stop the war it will only allow Russia to move the war in the direction that it wants.

If you’re anti war then you should want Ukraine to have all the weapons they need to end the war, so they can win the war as soon as possible and put an end to it.

If your for ending Ukrainian aid you’re not for ending the war or anti war you are for feeding Ukrainians into the wood chipper and giving Russia exactly what it wants.
Think bigger. Start a quality IT consulting business and possibly be rich. There’s a small fraction of industry who will pay for it. Likely plenty for many ‘lifestyle businesses’ per region.
Putting Agile and Scrum in the same bucket is right only if you know only waterfall in your comfy corporate/government job
It's interesting to hear about failure modes, and anyone whose job it is to teach stuff like this is interested in hearing about failure modes. It's the taking of one person's experience and extending it to encompass everything that's wrong.

Obviously the people charged with implementing this in OP's company are doing it wrong. That doesn't mean it's OK to insinuate that everyone who ever tries to implement Scrum or Agile is doing it wrong. For every clueless toxic manager who doesn't understand how to use Agile correctly, there's an egotistical or lazy dev who also wants to throw what the Brits would call a spanner in the works for purely personal reasons.

But to call it a No True Scotsman argument is a lazy rebuttal which won't engage with the argument. There are plenty of shitty Agile practitioners, and no one is trying to dispute this.
This sounds like a good explanation. As an outsider may be complexity seems unnecessary but it's needed for scale (an analogy is what is needed in a kitchen for a spaghetti meal to what is needed in a resturaunt to what is needed in a canned spaghetti factory), but problems can arise when you try to shoehorn methodologies and tools for scaled production to smaller systems I guess.
West Canada? Place is different.
Our team is the only one not doing “scrum” or estimates or shit. Our team is the only one far ahead because we don’t waste our lead engineers’ time and allow them to move at their own pace (that means very fast). I just have 15 minute dailies with the other senior and the manager to stay in sync.