skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll reply with what I said last time:

Read the Agile Manifesto, it's been written by people far smarter and wiser than me, and likely most of us.

https://agilemanifesto.org/

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

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IMHO: Agile is great. It can even happen without calling it... agile!

Alas: Most SCRUM is not Agile.

My opinion on SCRUM: As implemented in most places, it is WORSE than waterfall. It lacks the planning of waterfall, and the psychological tricks of timeboxing.

That said, I bet you could take all the same "practices" and move them into a better culture, and they'd work.

Culture will always trump process.
Although subsidies at a country level are... complicated.

In general, I suspect that if most of us went back in time 25-30 years we'd be pretty shocked about just how much friction there was to everything. It's not a linear or absolute improvement--and some of the downsides are significant. (Cities you often wouldn't have wanted to live in back then are really expensive today.) But you also spent a lot of time and effort doing things that are essentially effortless today.
I think it's Scrum that's a cult, agile works fine in the rare place that does it.

But to me it just means trusting the devs, close cooperation within the team and with the customer, iterative development, continuously refining the bits of process you have to fit the needs of the devs at the moment.

Not something you have conferences about.
In the UK a forty ton artic pays about a 1000 GBP per year for Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) plus Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) Levy. Cars pay different amounts based on emissions generally between one tenth and half what the biggest HGV pays. So the HGV is not paying anything like enough to compensate for the extra road wear.

A typical medium sized car weighs about 1 600 kg and has two axles, so an axle weight of 800 kg. The artic has six axles and weighs 41 000 kg, 6 833 kg per axle. The artic has over 5 000 times the effect on the road.
There are a lot of non "shitty crossovers" EVs on the market right now. Just maybe not one that ticks all your boxes. With that said if you are trying to get people to buy EVs doesn't it make sense to after what consumers want? The f150 has been the best selling vehicle in america for 40 years - why would you ignore trying to electrify that? Not only for demand reasons but electrifying the larger vehicles is the best target for reducing emissions. I understand and agree with the smaller vehicle argument but if we only electrify smaller vehicles americans are not going to suddenly start buying them instead of huge vehicles as they have the last 40 years.
Author here - I'm not eliminating anything, I'm using keyboard shortcuts :)

t -> the

st -> something

iirc -> if I remember correctly

etc. I autogenerated 200 abbreviations from analyzing 6 months of my writing on slack
Triangulating Python Performance Issues with Scalene [pdf]
A lot of work and regulation
Do you have any links to those forum posts?
This is a somewhat-artificial case, though. In most cases I've seen in practice, even when you're using the value of the string, you're also filtering by some non-text columns, where the compactness of the TOASTed table allows you to do the filtering step on the left side of the implicit TOAST-join much faster (and keep more of the left table hot in memory); so that even despite needing to implicitly join in the TOAST records, you're only joining them in for the filtered rowset — usually a win overall.
no, but that is about when Larry and Sergey checked out (wasn't an overnight thing, took a few years).
I like that they directly tried to answer this question, but I still think the "so what" case is stronger, for me anyway.

I don't use an ad blocker and there are certain sites that are annoying, but I think the biggest influence on me is that I avoid those websites. I don't notice the actual ads very often (other than as an annoyance) and I don't buy very much. What I buy seems more influenced by other things like Wirecutter reviews. Should I stop reading Wirecutter because they influence what I buy?

We buy quite a bit through Amazon. Their problems with dodgy vendors and counterfeits are well known, but we're skeptical. My wife returns things for minor flaws fairly often. It's possible we're subtly harmed by something we bought, but I see ads playing a very minor role in this, compared to product listings.

Another example of influence is restaurant reviews. My wife and I both look up nearby restaurants in Google Maps and this is nearly all the information we use to decide which restaurant to go to. (Sometimes she uses Yelp.) How are we harmed by this? Maybe there's some restaurant we missed, but I think we eat pretty well anyway. I don't think we are harmed by using Google for that.

Most privacy arguments seem to be theoretical and/or ideological, not practical. I'm sure you can think of some, and I can easily anticipate them. It's a common trope. But if it's not a practical argument, it's not going to be very convincing to me.
ThirdAI Uses Ray for Parallel Training of Billion-Parameter NN on Commodity CPUs
A response from Kent Becket al.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-develop...
The idea of corporations being legal people is questionable in the first place, but now you’re going to argue that they’re not only people but citizens?!
Of course. Because they don't produce outputs directly, reputation is all a manager has to prove their worth to the company. If you take that away by publicly demonstrating how their actions caused bad results, their boss might well fire them since they are apparently being a net negative. Managers face a much more difficult labor market than most engineers too.

So to exaggerate a little bit, not accepting "I told you so" from their reports is directly required to keep paying their mortgage and feeding their children. It's not weird that they get upset when you endanger their livelihood. OP has got the right idea and is just being zen about it IMO.
The server burn will have likely scaled significantly as traffic scaled. There's not much in the way of economies of scale here, you just need to rent/buy all the hardware.
> The other thing I don't understand is the idea that Search is somehow becoming less accurate over time.

The search is probably fine, but it's relegated to the bottom half of the page. It could also get worse if Google isn't able to keep up with the SEO and scammers. Personally I feel like Google has lost interest in providing a good search experience, they still have, what, 90% of the market. There's zero incentive to ensure it's a good experience and they can keep milking the advertisers.

Meanwhile the competitors have been forced to do better and especially Bing has. Any search engine that rely on Bing has become really good in the past five years. That might also be part of it, those of us who went to Bing, DuckDuckGo or other search engines for other reasons have learned to use those and when we then go back to Google it's worse, because we haven't used it for ten years.

But you're probably right, the search bit is fine, it finds the same results as Bing, so it's down to presentation and Google used to be the best and now they are the worst.
The wagon was replaced by the minivan and the minivan is dying.

https://diono.com/diono-journal/the-original-and-the-best-3-... solves the three car seat problem even in a smallish sedan.
i hate wrapper articles like this that dont add any value apart from picking the most bombastic headline. original The Information source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-bill...
> Her bill imposed age verification requirements on sites like Pornhub, and as a result, traffic to that site is down by 80 percent in her state.

The author says this as though they don't realize that the demand didn't decrease but was just redirected to sites that don't care about the ID check.
> https://replica.health

Oh my gosh, this is the startup I considered starting last year when this issue became personal to me and I wrapped my brain around the complexity of insulin dosing.

There are a lot of challenges here but we absolutely need an external "brain" to correlate many data points, some trends, and reasonably estimate current insulin sensitivity.
I see you've never worked with microcontrollers.
For those with the knowledge, are solid state batteries faring better than the current standard with temperature variations?

I live up North and the winter obliterate the range, so it would be nice if that was another improvement.
The main problem with rail is that the last-mile infrastructure is really not suitable for single-car quantities.

How would you detach a single railroad car from the center of a train and move it to the town's sideline?
Bo Xilai literally was on the Politburo and laundered massive amounts of casino money from Macau internationally.
Michael Mann is the most conflicted person you could possibly find on this issue. He's one of the climatologists the 1,609 signatories are publicly disagreeing with.

He's also the "expert" whose famous hockey stick paper got very publicly and embarrassingly debunked by internet randos, who he then sued specifically to engage in nothing more than legal harassment. After years of dragging out the cases by refusing to file paperwork they all got dropped because the defendents mounted a truth defense, and Mann couldn't/wouldn't actually follow through his dispute with them. IPCC meanwhile quietly shelved his claims.

It's telling that Mann resorts immediately to partisan ideological warfare (anyone who disagrees with me is a republican!) That shit obviously works in climatology, but it isn't science.
Surely "capitalism" and "socialism" aren't binary choices. You can have well-regulated capitalism where excess profits are channeled to help those who would otherwise be left to fend for themselves due to "not winning at capitalism"
Deadnaming is typically done to be a cunt, which is a whole lot different than published works not having your new name on it.

Yours is not a remotely apt comparison of the situations.
It was painful, but I managed to collect all my data onto a single 2TB NVMe drive in my laptop,

folder structure is kinda messy, but under Windows "Everything" gives me instantaneous search, so sorting everything perfectly is not worth the time
I run a duplicate finder periodically to avoid wasting too much space

monthly backup via duplicati onto a USB HDD and continuous Backblaze backup
1. the copyright holder used a license that specifically exempts system provided libraries such as libc. User space applications therefore have zero licensing requirements imposed on them by using, for example, libc.

2. Yes, a kernel module will have to discover the address of kernel symbols in the kernel. And a user space application will have to discover the address of symbols in the libraries it dynamically links against. But neither the kernel module nor the application cross the OS/user-space boundary. The kernel module is derived from the kernel, and the user space application is derived from the libraries that it uses. But the user space application is not derived from the kernel.

3. Yes, users can do whatever they want. So sure, an enterprising coder could write their own NVidia driver module, have it use GPL symbols from the kernel, and nobody could stop them. What they cannot do is distribute that, and that is what NVidia does.
Commerce is not the right to arbitrarily deny people services you have freely offered either, but here we are.

You people built an edifice at law, called it 'public accommodations', went to great lengths to stretch it as far as possible into a concept of commercial neutrality, and now here it is being applied against you. No one will care whether or not your idiosyncratic definition of 'public accommodations' applies here either. The proletariat's sense of justice has been offended. You did this to yourselves. Choke on it.
It's not protectionism. Most of that manufacturing is not moving back to the U.S., it's moving to U.S. allies like Vietnam or Mexico, that would also be called third world countries.

It really is what it says on the tin. It's a risk for the U.S. to be economically dependent on a state whose government does not share American values, and that is threatening its neighbors with invasion.
I'd love to see a copy of this, I think I could learn from it too.
Why do we talk about a "carbon tax" when it ought to be a fossil fuels tax? The carbon cycle was fine until we started digging oil and gas out of the ground and burning them
Just be aware that the 4th power law is a rule of thumb that would also need the same same total contact surface and equal distribution to be useful. Eg, if you have 4 narrow tires vs 4 wide tires, vs 18 tires. I suspect that there is also some floor to the minimum weight required to do any measurable damage depending on the material and also on the natural timeliness for repair due to environmental factors like freeze thaw.

Yes, semis would have much higher taxes under that scheme. We also have to acknowledge that would be a largely regressive tax given that's they way most basic goods are transported and the cost would be passed on to consumers equally, most of which are less than wealthy.

Edit: why disagree?
I work as a researcher (ML for robotics) inside a product company so I can speak to this a little. The research I work on generally takes a year between conception and publication (three months of tinkering, six months of refinement and benchmarking, three months to write and submit a paper). Now, I work on more than one of these projects at a time but they all have a similar cadence (conference deadlines do that for you), and can be "measured" by management the same way a year-long engineering project is. The questions I'm asked (or ask myself) and the same as when I was a pure engineer. Are you making headway? Are you on schedule? Do you need help? Should this project be abandoned or rescoped if it's not succeeding? Etc.
How’s that worse than continuous fossil fuel extraction, refining, and combustion over the lifetime of the vehicle?
when the machines are properly maintained they work. source - worked at a mom and pop franchise of mcd way back. Corporate franchisees cut corners a lot and cause the machines to error out. onus is on them to pay for repairs and suffer down time and lost sales. customers like ice cream and MCD corporate are partners with the company making the machines so they gain and it's technically not their own issue.
SSH authentication bypass in VMware Aria Operations
Why Did Apple Endorse California’s Right-to-Repair Bill?
Longer than LFP, 6000 cycles or so, maybe 20 years. For longevity they are really good.
Higher-than-expected revenue does not imply positive cashflow.

The economics at this scale are complicated.
They optimized the wrong thing – getting the fairings before they fell into the ocean where they could be damaged by salt water – and determined that it was way easier to make the fairings more robust and able to tolerate a water landing and a bit of salt spray.
Or they did their job by implementing scrum?
Connected cars (all modern ones) could submit it as frequently as desired. Monthly works for almost all budgets.
It sure seems strange to want to fight for your right to be deliberately rude to someone. If someone says they want to be Stephen instead of Stephanie, choosing to continue calling them Stephanie is just being a dick for no reason. It's one thing if you've known them for years and so breaking the habit of calling them Stephanie is hard, but when that happens, you apologize and call them Stephen.

While I agree that making it a crime is a bit over the top, it's just not a good look to complain about it.
What's interesting to me is that in my experience most car enthusiasts feel the same way.

Even though I don't have a lot of interest in car culture, I'm a big fan of the Smoking Tire Podcast, and the host -- who has his own Porches, Lamborghinis, etc. -- has said multiple times that he thinks most people who drive trucks would be better off in a station wagon, and most people who drive SUVs would be better off in a sedan (edit: he actually said minivan, not sedan). (His daily driver around LA is a scooter.)

Obviously there are exceptions, but it makes sense to commute in a commuter car.
Shown in graded bands on the sign, or in Joules?
You should give Floorp a try. It’s like Vivaldi but with Firefox under the hood instead of Chrome.
A VPN is not an ISP, at least as Canadian law (currently) is concerned. ISPs are required to store IP assignment logs, VPNs are not. Additionally, VPNs (in Canada) cannot be compelled to log users.

Source: Our law firm (I'm from Windscribe), and first hand experience with RCMP.
CVE-2023-34039

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34039 (9.8 CRITICAL)
> Jesus, no! Not all of my teachers were great,

this!

AI isn't as good as a great teacher but its better than a bad teacher and there aren't enough good teachers to go around.
That’s exactly right! I’ve had that same exact thought. Had they been making any kind of effort to “manage” that would’ve been dealt with much sooner. We didn’t necessarily need daily stand ups, but they ended up being the mechanism management used to figure out who was not performing. I have often wondered if a simple cursory check in would’ve accomplished the same thing. All the meeting and processional hand waving might’ve been unnecessary.
Hacker News as The Information has a banned domain due to its paywall: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theinformation.com

Submitting from a secondary source is a workaround to the issue.
The Audi A6 Allroad is definitely a wagon. BMW had a 5-series wagon but stopped selling it in the US a little over a decade ago.
> It is very well optimized and efficient, but you're not going to order something with standard UPS or Fedex style shipping and see it delivered by rail.

This isn't actually true, huge amounts of small parcel ground shipping goes by rail. You're correct that it's slower, but not by a huge amount.

Costs grow enormously to shrink delivery times from around a week cross-country to only a few days, by far the best option is moving the fulfillment point closer to the destination. Amazon, Target, Walmart, Uline are some companies that do 1-2 day shipping cheaply almost anywhere by ground.
This is negligible fraction of percent over total parking spaces. Most EV owners charge at home.
It's not at all hard to find EDID bugs that affect Windows and macOS, especially where variable refresh rate or HDR or 10-bit color or DSC are involved. And in those situations, working around the monitor bug tends to be just as hard (Windows) or impossible (Mac).
It depends what you want. The chart doesn't really say which are the best, just which are undisputedly shady.

#1 undisputed champion for security, privacy, and anonymity is almost certainly Mullvad. Note however that Mullvad servers tend to get flagged and blocked by services pretty quickly.

Mozilla VPN (which you can turn on easily in Firefox) is just a thin shell around Mullvad. The ease of use could make it worth it for some people but you'll generally be better off just using Mullvad directly.

Windscribe (the publishers of this list) have their own VPN. I can't speak to how good it is but they of course don't list anything bad about themselves.

ProtonVPN is pretty decent (I can get 150mbps up/down on most servers) especially if you already use their email service. This chart links over to a discussion of some allegations made against Proton by a rival VPN company. The TLDR of that discussion was that those allegations don't really hold any water (which is further influenced by the fact all those allegations now run to dead links).

So my personal experience would lead me to say to use Mullvad if you need to be truly and certainly private & anonymous but to use ProtonVPN if you want to be "safe enough" but also still get access to streaming sites, etc
> What is your reference for what is usual in this context?

Probably a wishy washy statement, I apologize.

I was sort of partly making an analogy to evolution where everything is generally tried out in a random fashion and then what works tends to stick around. It is really hard to predict what will work ahead of time because context matters and it is always changing. What may work for a while may not work in the future because of changing context.

I also do not mean all possible futures that one can ever think. I mostly mean speculative futures that are often talked about in sci fi books.

My experience in my life is that technological inventions talked about regularly in sci fi tend to be achieved over the long run, although it is hard to predict exactly when.
>and then have strong enforcement of penalties for false advertising.

The legality of puffery is ridiculous.
That's right. Blockchains are actually hugely impractical.
The impact of your high-end or large laptop on other people's lives is nil. Nobody cares, even the energy grid. The impact of your large SUV on other people's live is significant – be that when they find themselves anywhere near you, or when they just live in the same city and don't enjoy infrastructure for cars getting ever larger at the expense of humans.
I guess they left out the part about it costing $4 billion dollars to achieve it:) (FYI: I made up that number for dramatic effect)
Do you have any demo or github with your prototype? Ive checked your blog but no recent posts.

I was also thinking about deeper notebook and LLM integration for linear scripts.
I was triggered by the off-center "Police Department" sign, but then realized that it is off center so you can put the town name in front of it. Like "$TOWNNAME Police Department"
It's because companies are far more obsessed with power structures than with actual output. This is especially true for public companies where the grift is to get into positions of power, propose "initiatives", find scapegoats for failures, then hop on to another company - leaving a trail of damage behind.

In my experience, the only time a company does well with structures is when there are fewer levels in the org chart and when the C-Suite penalizes management before ICs.

Doesn't happen very often though.
You look at Windows Notifications? I don't because they're worthless. I disabled widgets. I don't use Edge. Marketing and other BS is hardly on my radar anymore and my Windows 11 experience is a good one.
> * the front and rear bumpers of SUVs and trucks clear the hoods of smaller cars, effectively putting the bumper at eye level*

I expected that to be illegal, but it seems that it is not in the US. A quick look suggests that for typical unmodified SUVs the issue affects repair costs more than occupant injuries. Homebuilt monster trucks are, of course another issue.
It's standard procedure at most outfits to get weighed immediately after taking on a load. You have an overall weight limit on the full vehicle, but you also have individual axle weight limits, and after taking on a load under the legal limit, you may still need to "slide your tandems" to re-balance your weight.

So.. you're almost always going to stop at a "CAT scale" and get a "weight ticket." You're going to hold onto that ticket because if you do get stopped at a state checkpoint, and they show your weight differently than the scale ticket, the scale company will cover the cost of your ticket if their scale was in error.

Most companies will either make this a policy or will _very_ strongly encourage their drivers to always get a scale ticket.
Huh, hadn’t thought of that. Thank you.