skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ”AI" needed for "autonomous" drones is basically just PID controllers. Autonomous flying vehicles already existed in the 70s, although not so much the hovering sort. For instance Tomahawk missiles with TERCOM navigation are originally from the 70s.

Around that time they also developed various missiles and torpedoes that could be fired in a general direction, which would then enter search patterns and look for targets on their own using radar or sonar.
I feel like SCRUM and anything like it is an attempt to formula and process-ify a thing that dies when you do exactly that. At my company we waste a ton of time on this stuff but we also have a ton of people with jobs that really only tie in to it so they will always defend it. Bureaucracy serves itself etc.
Not sure about the numbers in the article, but in general the comparisons of household wealth between countries are a bit tricky. One item that is often not counted for Germany is the pension, which is mandatory for regular employees.

Another issue is using household here instead of a per person value, this will be distorted by differences in typical household sizes across countries.
Agreed. This is more or less what we did in the 90s, deliver quickly and incrementally with right-sized processes.

Scrum adds so much complexity, heavy processes and endless meetings it is truly incredible.
This is not true for Germany. The farmer protests in Germany were started by the government announcing that they want to increase taxes / drop tax brakes on diesel fuel ("Agrardiesel") and remove subsidies.

You're thinking about Poland, AFAIK.
Yup so you got it exactly right that Bemi is higher level than Debezium. We actually do use Debezium under the hood, but we also enhance this lower-level data with context via lightweight application libraries. So we're integrating at both the database and application layers on the write side.
from the article posted above:

> The biggest factor is heat. “Higher speeds tends to produce higher temperatures and temperature is the biggest killer,” says Rita Horner, senior product marketing manager for 3D-IC at Synopsys. “Temperature exacerbates electron migration. The expected life can exponentially change from a tiny delta in temperature.”

basically smaller nm builds are more susceptible to tiny variations in heat/cold, physical impacts, electrostatic shock, etc.
The only real benefit to Amazon for me has been cheap Chinese stuff I’m willing to pay 2-10x to be delivered within a couple of days instead of a couple of weeks.

Otherwise other retailers tend to price regular items much better and you’re unlikely to get used stuff sold as new.
Sometimes I wounder if Scrum is part of the Russian equivalent of CIA's "The Simple Sabotage Field Manual".
37signals / Shape Up?

For anyone who's read 37signals development methodology (in Shape Up), how does it compare to other common dev methods?

https://basecamp.com/shapeup
Use the API and a 3rd party client like lobe. The API is way less restrictive.
Theres clouds built with KVM, you dont know your stuff.
As a student here in Germany, I was talking to my German flatmate, who practically never experienced anyone else besides Merkel as chancellor. He mentioned something that struck me as rather interesting - the "Traffic Light" coalition, as a new entity in power of the federal government is increasingly scapegoated for the damage caused by decades of policy crafted by the CDU.

The blame is being put on the new government which has the monumental job of fixing several years of policy which caused rising inequality. IMO, with populist journalism from Axel Springer's subsidiaries and Spiegel, people are blaming the current government for things which it has nothing do with and some are even calling for the return of CDU.

Strange times
With cloud and SaaS services you are paying to reduce person risk profile.

Your forming a larger dependency on a team lead against a custom system that now is a liability as new people come to the organization don't want to adopt an abandoned poorly understood project.
Here is my setup: https://github.com/mark-watson/emacs_setup

You can 100% find better setups than mine. Once I get things working, I don’t change until something new is much better.
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL4O_Do2PuQ
What an absolute shitshow. These are customers who have paid major $$$ for something they now can't redeem.

The sad thing is... this is nothing compared to what they've done to their cloud providers (formerly known as VCPP partners)... All resellers and cloud partners got a letter in december ending the program, with the 'good news' that some of them would be invited back somewhere early in 2024. The rest will have to turn off their workloads by end of March.

So these 4500+ cloud providers now (including the likes of OVH, Rackspace, IBM, ...) are now in limbo. Some will know next week or early feb if they can still legally host their customer's workloads. Else they will have 6 weeks (!) to migrate away to one of the partners that made the cut. Ignoring that many of these cloud partners have multi-year contracts with their end customers (which include banks, hospitals, public sector, ... especially the niche kind of environments that often have boutique requirements that make them unsuitable for an easy public cloud migration) they can now no longer fulfill.

Oh, and the license aggregator partners that used to run the admin side of this business and help those partners? They're being reduced to 10 worldwide too, and they're also in the dark.

At least their SaaS partners have a clear message: that business is dead. ("sunset")
I feel like I have to add insult to injury: the extra people who work full time to manage the scrum overhead earn more than the average dev - at least in the EU. Devs over here are criminally underpaid.
If a person is in 4 teams, and they're not a full-time 'product owner' where going to meetings is their whole job, I'd say something bizarre is going on.
Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri
BC police took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder
Think about them fried
App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report
Social mobility is why the saying goes that the USA is full of temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Including the ones sleeping on the streets. They're all one lucky break away from the big one. Of course you can't generalize like that across a whole population but if you take out the 'white, male, well educated, from a wealthy background' out of the stats then suddenly the social mobility in the USA looks totally different, exceptions notwithstanding. Your average includes Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Yes that is correct. You can't checkpoint data after the oldest snapshot. But to my knowledge there's no way to force a read snapshot to continue to exist.

So while you can make multiple back to back reads that use the same snapshot, I believe there's no guarantee that the snapshot will still exist when the next read is opened unless the previous read is also still open (in which case an error is returned).

That seems to set an upper bound on how long a reader can block a checkpoint (unless the reader is intentionally staging reads to block the checkpoint).

Theoretically you could implement checkpoints that flatten everything between snapshots into single commits but the complexity and overhead probably isn't worth it given that the only real blocker for wal2 is an edge case that is nigh impossible to encounter unless you intentionally try to trigger it.
I'm going to be controversial here, but:

ostree > NixOS

NixOS tries to tame the complexity of the Linux world by making the world declarative; a quixotic approach. Ostree is just git+Docker for your operating system image. Also known as "worse is better".
How much RAM do you have and do you know how much swap is in use during the lag spikes?
I was in Germany a couple months ago. My experiences are entirely anecdotal but I’ve never seen so much anger before. I kept seeing fights and hearing angry yelling everywhere I went in Berlin.
>This includes medical debt (#1 reason for bankruptcy), which is considered a consumer PRODUCT.

Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills <https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...>. A tipoff that [insert large percentage here] of bankruptcies aren't actually because of medical costs is that only 6% of bankruptcies by those without health insurance are because of that cause. The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect.
It's also possible that we have forgotten what anything else can look like.

For me, I'm a senior technical leader now and my entire professional career has been Agile and Scrum. I haven't been exposed to other techniques.

Better not upset the apple-cart, we all know how it works, and besides, it's the defacto for a reason... right? (this is tongue in cheek but to be fair, I make decisions like these subconsciously all the time; "why do CI/CD", "Why use GIT as SCM", "Why do peer review/MRs" --- because I always have and it seems good enough on the surface)
How to manage risk in software development
Makes you wonder if the writers followed the manifesto writers manifesto or if they also strayed from the origin.
You probably should have defined what you meant by strong experience. A directory of experienced developers implies some kind of selection and vetting process. Your vetting idea seems to come down to looking at LinkedIn. Don't you suppose that's what every recruiter already does?

I doubt you'll find many employers who think LinkedIn gives sufficient filters. Your whole directory idea assumes that LinkedIn doesn't have enough filtering or vetting, thus the need for a more selective directory.

I didn't write that "every experienced person has a strong network" or lands all of their jobs that way. I don't know how that breaks out percentage-wise and I hesitate to guess, but I'm not proposing yet another job or developer directory.

Good luck entering what seems a crowded field.
This is what puts me off paying the Danegeld for YouTube more than anything else, I already pay a fair amount of money for Tidal which I'm perfectly happy with. It's bad enough Apple insist on incessantly hawking Apple Music at me with a popup every time I open the music app on iOS for my offline music collection, I don't want a third music service trying to crowbar its way to my life whether I want it or not.

What Youtube does is pretty much the infamous U2 album but with an entire streaming service, forced bundling like that is never not obnoxious in my opinion.
>population goes to zero.

Maybe, but I doubt it.

>A possible solution to the fertility problem that has not been tried yet is paying families a real lot of money — a can’t-ignore-it amount of money — to have children. Millions of dollars!

If you do a search on this: "children food insecurity usa" you might find we seam to have a problem feeding the ones we have. This could be part of the problem. We might like to break off some $$ for the kids, and maybe for housing and job training too.
The root cause is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

Social media which don't pursue profit and are decentralized (Mastodon, Matrix) do not suffer from that.
I think WHO indiscriminately spraying DDT is bigger news. It's what killed the original cats in the first place, and how much damage did it do to humans? It was a different time...
So, one thing you have to be careful of here. Germany is one of the few countries where defined benefit pensions (that is, pensions where your pension is a fraction of final salary or similar) are still common; in most developed countries, including the US, peoples' pensions are far more likely to be some sort of tax-advantaged investment, which they probably have restricted access to pre-retirement, which their employer may contribute to or may be required to contribute to, and so on.

The latter is clearly wealth, and relatively easy to account for; the former is _much_ harder to account for, as it's an obligation by something to the pensionee, but not stuff actually owned by the pensionee.

(Not that people don't try; Ireland, for instance, has additional taxes on pensions worth over 2m, and actually does produce a notional valuation for DC pensions where they exist for this purpose)
Can you elaborate more? Are you recommending that non-programmers shouldn’t getting better at tech?
I believe having our tools available as open source is good for the society as a whole.
Do they though? Like, basically the Supreme Court is legislating morality now…

I’m not saying China is “better.” But, like shit is pretty bad here in a lot of ways. I think it’s folly to look at them with much of a sense of superiority.

Now, Russia? Russia is real messed up… but that wasn’t the topic of conversation here. I don’t see much practical difference between BORTAC tear gassing grandmas and Hong Kong protesters getting tear gassed.
To me, RACI charts are a missing component of meetings.

Required meeting attendees should consist of the Rs... and only the Rs. As and Cs can be optional, but meetings can conclude without them.

Everyone not in the meeting can be updated out of band.

"What action is this person taking in this meeting?" should be a brutally honest question. If the answer is only "listening", then it's a waste of their time.

And also, related point: what is the termination condition of this meeting? And has that been decided and communicated beforehand? I.e. What outcome are we seeking, that when done everyone agrees the meeting is over?

I can't stand agenda-less, "we're meeting to move something forward in some undefined way" meetings.
Scrum isn't the problem. It's your company's culture or whatever other dysfunction exists. Scrum is just how developers experience that. You could switch systems, but you'll just get beatings of a different flavor.
> His trial heard DNA on a cigarette butt discarded by Ali matched semen in the girl's body, which was found in Burnaby's Central Park in July 2017.

> But the jury was never told why B.C.'s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was monitoring Ali,and an application by his lawyers for full information about the operation has been sealed by the court.
Having spent a year or so in a scrum and "scaled agile framework" shop, this resonates.

The disease is KPIs and metrics, and I'm betting it has gotten worse since COVID and WFH.

As the article states, teams have to focus on capturing every iota of work in tickets and stories and make sure they log the closures correct ly and tie every task to a greater story.

Scrum tools and pointing and tickets should support the goal of writing functional software. But when middle management demands 15 different KPIs determined by various calculations of time, estimates of effort and # tickets closed, the tickets/stories/epics become the goal, and development is the sideshow.

Before my devops role in 2019/2020, I was on a security operations team. We did our version of Kanban. It was simply organizing all our bigger goals/projects (initiatives with a definable end state) into backlog, doing, blocked, done. Operational tasks were worked on without documentation (daily software patches, on call tasks, etc) and small tasks from external teams were documented with a ticketing system and a 3 day SLO. A breach of SLO was not measured in any reporting! It was a good-faith goal that we met most of the time, and if it were breached and the external team got angry they could escalate to our manager.

The point is, the tools we used were made for the team's benefit of productivity and organization, without manager-observed KPIs. We just got shit done.
> Of course, the Scrum proponents will rush in and tell me that we were doing it wrong

I don't think it's helpful in any discussion to try and pre-emptively dismiss people who might disagree. People have been doing that for the decade or so scrum has been mainstream and it just dumbs the discussion down to he-said she-said.

That being said, agile as it was originally described in the manifesto was not prescriptive, and scrum, while it was intended to follow in its footsteps, has been a victim of its own success. It's now firmly in the domain of other highly-prescriptive management frameworks thanks to the effort of consultants and managers who adhere strictly to the letter of scrum without paying thought to the essence of it.

Most people I know who were fans of scrum back in the day have distanced themselves from it because it's not agile any more. Certainly not with consultants selling SAFe as an agile methodology.
Hm no never heard that as part of the farmers protests. They say it's rather the amount of bureaucracy that skyrocketed in the past decades and the recent (rather naively) cut farmer subsidies made them protest.
It works with any device, as long as it's using TMDS over HDMI. I don't think it will work with DisplayPort as it uses data whitening.

I've been trying to dig up the code for it. It's somewhere on my system.

Update: Here it is: https://pastebin.com/rwtTvFRQ
I burn through my 10 USD limit in a weekend or two, if I'm using the API. Is that not an issue for you?
None of the things the author complains about are specified in Scrum. The Scrum guide states that the developers choose the work: "Through discussion with the Product Owner, the Developers select items from the Product Backlog to include in the current Sprint." I've also heard people complain about the meetings, but honestly people hate meetings generally--my current team doesn't do Scrum or any other agile system, and we still have several time-wasting meetings every week. In my experience, scrum reduces the meetings you need to have to a minimum, and each one is there for a reason. If you use each meeting for its reason, they are valuable, if not, then sure, they probably are a waste of time.

I know that scrum has often been weaponized by managers and tools, but scrum doesn't prescribe this. Scrum doesn't prescribe story points or velocity or burndown charts. Those things may suck at your company, but they're not Scrum's fault.

Personally I like Scrum. I like the focus of the sprint goal and I like being able to show what I did at the end of the sprint. My team, as I say, has no process, and I started implementing scrum just for myself and my projects, that I work on solo. It's not perfect or ideal but it's better than any other system I've seen.
It's all Mime fellatio video?
Well, the dollars are related? R&D spending increasing in one area but decreasing in another. Companies have finite dollars to spend on R&D so to some extent this is zero-sum.
A lot of it is sales-side, but so many good tools could literally be a single page with a form, not multi-minute flows. Everything is a sales pitch, not useful.
This is how I read almost anything except fiction.

Start at the end and work my way backwards until the conclusion makes sense.
In a way we could look at novels this way — highly compressed semantic data that allows the reader to extrapolate the writer’s vision without including every detail.
We love it at Anduril.
How did you move to Amsterdam? DAFT?
DMSO is a common ingredient in pain medication from Mexico. I have seen it in salves, among other things. The DMSO4 theory is likely correct.

You can also get DMSO from various sources in the US. Usually from "Health Food" or "Supplement" stores. You can just buy it off Amazon now. It's pretty good
(water diluted) for relief of nerve damage from a burn or peripheral neuropathy. caveat: I'm not a doctor, but I've both used it and know others who have.
The sad thing here is I doubt the beer company is intending this to occur. They just offer Google $X spending, and they are ensuring they get every one of those $s.

A similar thing happens in a lot of the streaming platforms. The same ads are shown relentlessly. Advertisers aren't stupid, and they are aware of ad fatigue. I can't imagine they are possibly happy about the situation. OR...I have no clue what I'm talking about and they are quite tickled about the situation and this is why it continues
Reliability differs, right?
>Lots of daily scrums in which people go around the circle saying what they did yesterday and what they are going to do today. No sense of a common sprint goal, and no indication of collaboration in reaching it.

I remember reading the scrum manual but I don't remember it saying anything about it being necessary to show esprit to corps and a "collaborative spirit" during standup.

It did say how to conduct a standup ceremony though...

>Lots of teams focusing on story points, velocity, and estimation

Well, they did make these things a part of scrum.
It's not a "no true Scotsman" (scrumsman :)) if the counterexample is in fact not a Scotsman.

Whether it is or isn't depends on your feelings on scrum, but it's not a fallacy to try to defend the initial definition before it was co-opted by anyone with an Agile cert.

"Hammers suck at driving nails."
"You're holding a rubber mallet."
"No true Scotsman!"
'Bingoc Game Studio' Insights
Hello,

After reading an article (link below) on Slavna Game Studio's involvement in online lottery and bingo, I'm curious about how 'Bingo Game Studio' stands in comparison, particularly in innovation, technology, and operation management in the online lottery and bingo field.

I'd like to know:

1. Does 'Bingo Game Studio' have similar experience and expertise in this area?
2. How do they approach user interface design and security?
3. Are there unique or notable features in their products compared to Slavna Game Studio?

I appreciate any feedback or thoughts on this.

https://www.slavnastudio.com/lottery-and-bingo-game-developm...
Gluten.

As in, I tremble with excitement just to rediscover that, after all, I'm still sensitive to gluten and in a few hours I'm going to need a bathroom. The best part of pizza is everything before that first bite and the crushing realization that I should've gone for a steak instead.
Automakers haven't cared about the people who actually drive their cars for a decade or more unless you're in the ultra-premium segment where they make the fattest margins. They keep shoving shit we don't want down our throats because it makes them more profit and they'll keep doing it as long as we keep buying their increasingly enshitified products. Automakers could sell millions upon millions of barebones, basic, user-repairable, high MPG cars for under $30K USD if they bothered to listen to what regular folks actually want, instead they almost exclusively now make and sell $60K+ cars full of touch screens, pointless features and subscription services because they, like almost every other company on earth has decided they'd rather make $25K in profit per car selling a heck of a lot fewer $100K cars than make $5K in profit per car selling a heck of a lot more $30K cars.