skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Panda: Performance debugging for databases using LLM agents
Those who got their gas giants on a ride are maybe escaping their sun exploding?
Doesn't matter where it's sent from, GDPR still applies.

A legal business targeting people in the EU must still comply with GDPR, hence still have to tell you where they got your data and consent from.

Personally since GDPR got introduced it reduced number of cold calls and emails I receive.

No longer can companies randomly add my email address to their Mailchimp accounts.

And no longer companies can easily sell my data from one to another.

Is it perfect? No. Can it be better? Yes. Did it bring benefits? Yes
https://archive.is/NGA9H
Ah yes, DirectStream Digital. I think the math behind that was solid but there wasn't really any point because PCM was totally sufficient. The company I was working for made AD and DA converters for recording studios and film so we were adjacent to all the insane HiFi stuff but didn't really interact with it. We did get bug reports that were real but effectively not visible, I learned a lot about debugging from watching my boss work on those.
I’d be interested to hear a creator’s (more than 100K subs) perspective. Folks keep whining about ads but don’t pay, there’s always an excuse it seems. You literally don’t have to watch ads, if you don’t watch the videos to begin with.

YouTube premium is bad because it supports Google. It’s bad because it includes other things. Fundamentally anll YouTube music is, is a visual wrapper around YouTube. All of the “music” is literally just YouTube videos. Ads put in by the creator themselves are bad too because reasons.

It’s very simple. Do not watch. Done. Folks on here got the message with Facebook, but not yet with YouTube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highways_in_the_United...

Also, from boots on the ground in North Texas, parts of NTTA-proposed systems were won by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte in the early 2000s. Parts have been built, but it didn't complete by its 2015 target date. https://journalrecord.com/2004/12/spanish-firm-to-build-6-bi...

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cintra_Infraestructuras
Note that they both made it to 80. Presumably because they were continuously active until that age at least.

That reminds me of my father (currently 76) who got a large dog. Now he walks it (or the dog walks him) for miles twice per day and his doc is extatic because that got rid of quite a few of his old age problems.
As a counterpoint: back in the day (around 2010) at JetBrains we had a daily all-hands stand-up for several teams, about 15 people in total.

It was literally a stand-up, that is, everyone stood in a circle. Everyone was expected to utter exactly two sentences: what has been done yesterday, and what are the plans for today. It usually took 10-30 seconds per person, so the entire meeting was under 10 minutes.

It was pretty efficient: you almost instantly knew who are you going to talk to later in the day, if need be, or what changes to look at.
There should be a saying, to the effect of: no enterprise idea can survive intact if it doesn't include a space for consultants.

Agile probably would have ended a lot better if it had been as designed... plus a requirement that you had to hire an agile specialist to sit in a closet.

The agile specialist doesn't do anything but sit in the closet.

... but on the plus side, the agile specialist doesn't do anything but sit in the closet.
It might not even be human error in QA. This might be a code error in the error code code error finding code.
Because Developers are not the only stakeholders. Management and marketing needs to know when the next release will be. In a complex project it doesn't matter if you are ready to go with your part if someone else just merged in a new feature that is crash prone in situations they didn't think to test. In a complex project you may also depend on hardware being delivered at the same time. In a complex project there may be people planning when they can safely role this out to their system.

Agile works great for a small project where a few developers is all you need. However few in the agile manifesto seem to have thought about how to scale it to larger projects. That isn't to the manifesto is wrong - it very much fixes some real issues with previous project management. However some of those real issues were an intelligent response (not to be confused with good!) to even more complex issues that you cannot ignore just because they are causing issues.

Scrum is one of the few that thought about the large project problem, and so it appears at first you can scale it to larger projects. However now that we have tried it for a while I can safely conclude it isn't a great fix. I'm not even convinced Scrum is better than waterfall (waterfall has iterations - version 1.0, 2.0...), though scrum and waterfall get different things wrong with project management.

Of course the next question you should be asking is how do you manage a large project. I do not have an answer. I haven't even seen evidence that anyone has found a good answer despite many smart people facing the problem and thus thinking about it.
I wonder if there is plan for this to land in Mnemosyne[1]. I prefer Mnemosyne over Anki because I can self-host the web-sync server.

1: https://mnemosyne-proj.org/
What's your Hetzner setup look like? 98% cost savings makes me curious...
Ah, this is really cool - i've been thinking about implementing a SR algorithm for one of my music related side projects.
Costco is so annoying about this, it's not even that it complains about unexpected items, it requires you to put every scanned item on the scale, and if you're shopping at Costco, you probably have some pretty bulky, heavy items that you'd really rather just put back in the cart instead of building the Leaning Tower of Palettes of Toilet Paper and Tuna.

I get why they do it that way, but they already check your receipt before you exit, you're supposed to have a membership that they supposedly check at the door before you shop there (I know they don't really) which they could presumably revoke if you got caught trying to steal, and self-checkout receipts already have the turquoise bars to prompt them to check closer, so it feels a bit absurd.
> How is it dishonest to present where major companies are cost-cutting and where they are investing, then highlighting the obvious connection across these companies?

The article doesn't really try to argue "the obvious connection across these companies" aside from a couple of sentences. Most of the article is spent discussing off layoffs and AI investments without attempting to link the two.
This illustrates the incompetence of the Australians vs the Americans.

The Americans almost wiped out the bison and the wolf which are much scarier creatures than Emus.
This. People love dunking on Scrum because they have colleagues and managers that wield it as a weapon (often in conjunction with JIRA, which, although not an especially simple or well-running piece of software, is really only as bad as you choose to make it). It's actually a very simple process that was designed as the _antithesis_ to a lot of the atrocities committed in its name (based on a reading of this thread).

If you have managers/PMs/TMs/HMs/BDFLs that can't see the forest from the trees and a corporate mandate to use Scrum (or Agile generally) then of course they'll pervert it to suit their own ends. Slow-moving organizations with complex incentive structures like the government and Fortune 500s are especially good at this. If you want to be upset with somebody then blame them. I've worked on teams where stand-ups were less than ten minutes long, we delivered every two weeks, and we had properly-specified Scrum Master and Product Manager roles and it worked swimmingly because we _actually did Scrum_, not "Scrum, but...".

Scrum is a prescribed process. It is not the performative act of dragging work items into Sprints in JIRA then using various Scrum terms for 5-hour-long weekly meetings.
Rethinking Tabular Data Understanding with Large Language Models
The trick is managing the context (number of tokens). It’s tempting to have a long conversation about tweaking some code, but a shorter context (last X messages), or ‘forking’ the conversation regularly can both improve performance and drastically lowers cost.
And agile methodologies are not agile by the definition. Agile is a set of relative values, not a methodology. The first being to value people and interactions over processes and tools. No process is agile, no process can be.
Prompt Sucks: How to Use Roles and Personas
yeah but look at freaking chromium, 3.2GB compressed archive. That is absolutely insane, and cannot be defended in ANY WAY.

look at what they started with with webkit? chromium is an abomination the likes of which definitively proves there is no god, or that god HATES humanity, as god would have 100% for sure schmited us all down for the atrocity that is chromium.
>That's their regular selling tactic. But their excuse when they're called for selling snakeoil and bullshit health regimens. Then it's: "it works for some", "doesn't hurt to try", "better that not taking anything", "at least it gives people hope".

I seem to recall listening to a podcast where he cited a study that wasn't very conclusive and he said that it wasn't very conclusive.

So no. No it is not.

>In this case he doesn't sell snakeoil directly

If I had a dollar for every person who told me that he's selling snake oil without giving a clear example I'd be able to set up my own version of herbalife.

I really find it weird how many people despise him for really vague reasons. Like, why? He's pushing scientific studies. There is nuance. Not everything is expected to work. Not every study that shows something interesting has a high p value. He says all this. Quacks dont.
Titan Panel I think was the name? It was the one that kinda "unified" a lot of UI elements into one bar (total gold, repair percentage, stuff like that).
Is there any indication that the copilot version of gpt4 will be less restrictive than the chatgpt version of gpt4? (non-rhetorical)
When I've used Story Points as the team manager, one of the things I made sure of was to completely avoid looking at any given team member's velocity, ever. I only cared about the team velocity, and only for the purpose of estimating risk to the timeline.

At the round-table people would report their retired points, and I'd add them to a running tally I kept on a piece of paper next to me. "2+1+0+5+2+2+8+0+1." Then I'd record the velocity for the week for the whole team, and we'd move on.
I use the zero clause licence for my all my work because it just removes all the overhead of using my code.

I think (please correct my understanding) zero clause BSD can be embedded in a GPL project too, it just becomes one-way included, subsumed into the GPL project and then under the GPL licence. (Relicenced)

Could the author of HTMX explain their reasoning for changing the licence? I am curious?
As I get older, I become ever more sure that I do not want children. In younger days, I would have said it was more of a feeling, but the more I think about it, the more I can articulate reasons, many of them worldly/material, for that feeling. But ultimately I think it's because I've never been able to believe in a religion; there's just ultimately an end to me and any children that would follow. Interestingly, religiosity seems to be biggest correlate with fertility, but I wonder if demographers have any better ideas as to what is going on.
It's a slippery slope. I pay $80/mo for Hulu Live TV and you still get 4 minutes of ads (every 10~ minutes) from the Hulu backend.

At this point I may as well go back to regular cable and... Tivo. Yes I said it, Tivo.
In a company a worked for many years ago I was in charge of delivering a weekly report to the board with What went wrong this week, Why it went wrong, How we fixed it, How we are making sure that it doesn't break again.

I'd really like to know which checks the USPS added to prevent for something else to cost them $500 M again. OK, there is the usual read the report check which worked on Saturday that time, but it didn't happened on time. So, maybe no automation of actually doing the payment at midnight on Friday?
This is basically the logic of people who say the cloud is too expensive, you have to ignore so many things to make being on premise logical. Basically you are lying to yourself if you think you can run a datacenter cheaper and better than Amazon or Microsoft can, because if you can you are just making huge sacrifices somewhere (usually time, which is why reddit sysadmins complain about how much work they have while defending being on-premise because they couldn't possibly be wrong).
My response to estimating is that if you want anything accurate I’ll need time to estimate - roughly 1/4 of the estimated work should be spent estimating.

As a rule of thumb, if the work is estimated to be a day then is should take me 1/4 day to estimate. If two days then half a day to estimate. If 4 weeks then 1 week to estimate.

We normally continue with guesses that are meaningless.
And at scale, AWS does not pay the HE price. So add another factor 3 to 10 there.
I wonder how this with affect all the new-ish distributed SQLite systems like Litestream
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, December 2023
Rust and C Filesystem APIs
Start right before you get eaten by the bear: How to avoid backstory scope creep
> brilliant sysadmin was on holiday

> entire SaaS business

> [ Unmentioned - Single Point of Failure Service dependent on a single admin ]

If you are fully accounting for vacation, training, sleep etc then you need a minimum of 5 admins for mission critical services. Now, you can engineer around this to reduce your staffing requirement but I wouldn't recommend going under 2 ever because accidents happen.

This business seemed one below that, without the engineering, and I would point to the mgmt, not the brilliant admin as the problem.
background:

- over the weekend I started making the @htmx_org twitter account increasingly corporate looking

- started talking a lot about MSFT, implying they were interested in htmx

- someone asked if MSFT was going to buy htmx: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746656784088228204

- i then put up a post about changing the htmx license, implying i was going to restrict it due to MSFT interest: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746736273728094323

- I then made is 0BSD instead of 2BSD: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746880860723544211

- I then posted the "offer" i got from MSFT (some credit card thing) https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746895016256328079

- And explained how there were no lies involved in the ruse: https://fxtwitter.com/htmx_org/status/1746924827641102719

the reason i did all this is for the lols
What I dislike about the current discourse in the American politics is the constant chatter about "reducing expenses". We have $1.7T deficit in 2023, so we would have to find cuts to account for that even if we just wanted to break even. It's nearly impossible.

What about substantially expanding taxation to increase the federal income and fund more socially-responsible programs such as maternal care or child care. So the question is, who is going to pay a bit more? Random Joe who makes $100k/year or someone who sits on >$50B wealth?
You'll also struggle with solid JS skills - even the best FE devs I know, working for top tech companies, are able to produce React spaghetti.
I prefer my skin impermeable, but there are worse things to self-prescribe.
Here's Lustig's argument, lightly paraphrased:

The intestine is made of intestinal epithelial cells, bound together by proteins to form a barrier. That class of proteins is called tight-junction proteins (eg zonulin). Fructose nitrates those proteins, causing them to be transiently permeable, allowing some of the sewage in your intestine to enter your bloodstream, leading to leaky gut. Leaky gut leads to inflammation of the liver, which leads to systemic inflammation. A biomarker of that inflammatory immune response is creactive protein (CRP). Lustic says 93% of Americans have leaky gut.

Transcript for reference:
https://www.happyscribe.com/public/huberman-lab/dr-82a32683-...
Cloud clearly makes sense for:

- small business with at least some reliability expectation, and little to none IT expertise

- huge workload requirement volatility

- having someone else to blame

- solution is already working in cloud, with teams being very comfortable there, and perceiving on-prem as “enemy” (analogy: forcing devs to rewrite stuff from haskell to java)

- that extra cost is small budget line for you

On the other hand, it does not make sense to go cloud, if you are sufficiently big and already have on prem solution and expertise in house.
(Extreme case: google, does not use aws for its main load; this upper threshold I wager is couple of orders of magnitude smaller)
if you are suggesting you have employees who are unable to be using an irc client, perhaps you should suggest to management that a round of layoffs are in order?

how hard can it be? spend 5 minutes and anyone thats worth keeping can figure it out.
The notion that toxins accumulate in greater concentrations the farther up you go in the food chain, eventually ending up in apex predators like cats, eagles, and so on; seems to have not been well understood at the time.
Wait, is it parody? I would agree if it was, but I assumed it was serious, and kinda bad. Their “knowledge maps” page on the site looks similar - the examples are ugly & awful. https://www.visual-literacy.org/maps/ This all looks like it’s intended to be serious, considered good by the authors, especially considering the associated academic publication, and not some kind of intentionally funny commentary on bad visualizations. If that’s the case, it doesn’t seem particularly brilliant.

Aside from the nonsensical analogy to the periodic table (which they admit in the paper), the thing that bugs me about it is that it’s nowhere near complete, it does not cover all basic elements of visualization (also which they are aware of and discuss in the paper), so just completely misses the fundamental idea. It amounts to a hundred random examples of info-viz, most of which look mediocre to bad.
I know Cyprus Malta Luxembourg are tax havens.

Are Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands also tax havens? Or have they become wealthy organically?
Meetings are long enough without people spending extra effort doing it right :)
More casualties of the war on drugs. Anyone who takes a schedule ii medication has the potential for botched care due to some diversion scheme.
Same could be said about logging in. Now that all my local shops manage a facebook page instead of a website, facebook nags me to hell and back to log in, and not even shows everything.
Conversely, "X can really suck if you do it wrong" is true of pretty much everything.
Interesting, I have a very similar story from last year. Existing CTO and head of product acted as if they were writing complex, mission critical software (they weren’t) and instituted processes to match. It went from overly ad hoc to over-the-top scrum. As a result, features took months to develop and everyone was terrified of releases. Teams bloated to massive size.

CTO was fired, I came in and evaluated everything, slashed the consulting teams down to the ones clearly performing, and slashed the processes down to boot. Within a month the team velocity was way up and we were releasing to a nice cadence without fear.

And this was not because I’m a super man. I’m not. Any competent tech lead or manager could have done the same. The only difficult part was dragging the product folks along, they kicked and screamed the whole way, predicting doom, and were amazed when the sky didn’t fall.
Both on prem and cloud require people familiar with them and cloud-engineers are in no way cheaper.

I think the real story is a bit sordid: office politics. On-prem and cloud are different skillsets. Companies that have been around for a while can end up with both on-prem and cloud experts who end up competing with each other, often on separate teams. Throw in some slick consultants from Amazon who are able to bend the ear of the VP and you've got a real problem. From what I've seen it doesn't end well for the on-prem team!
I can verify this is true.
I personally strongly dislike a lot of aspects in SCRUM (individual commitments stick out especially, together with the entire role of Scrum Master), but am not sure I see an alternative for some form of agile (without the TM), that is adjusted to the individual team's needs, for the vast majority of teams. Whenever I read these criticisms, a lot of it rings true, but I fail to understand what the alternatives looks like besides Waterfall or chaos. Whoever does these write-ups always complains about some Agile™ thing, but takes the alternative for granted. What activities and meetings would be dropped or replaces and by what? It's not very meaningful to criticize something when comparing it to nothing.
Vagrant is primarily for two things:

1) Isolated dev environments (cross platform/stack) (and/or easier onboarding)
2) A way to run services apps depend on (databases, job runners, cache etc).

I am going to suggest one of the Nix based tools that do those things:

- https://devenv.sh/ (I use this at work)
- https://www.jetpack.io/devbox

There are one or two more as well.
Scrum is usually more flexible than most people realize.
IANAL, but yep, that sounds about right, the more restrictive license then applies. Of course, anyone can use the original, BSD copy of the code, without the restrictions.
Since people don’t like the above question here is another:

Should Canada pay for more of a publicly owned bridge than the US since the trade traversing the bridge represents more of that country’s total trade?
> unrestrained capitalism

Germany does not have "unrestrained capitalism". It has an extensive social safety systems: health ensurance, unemployment benefits, pensions, low-cost education system, job protection against dismissal, workers councils in many companies, low youth unemployment, ...
I'm not following. All other things equal, how would the national division of China affect the sum of emissions?
This may be a bit of a Berlin thing, though, and can't be generalised to Germany as a whole, IMO. :)
Scrum was my first real experience where I saw marketing people and consultants take something beautiful and just smash it into the ground and turn it into a parasitic money and time suck, a twisted parody of what it was meant to be. It made me more cynical but perhaps better prepared when things like that happened later in my career, like DevOps.
>> how big these states are compared to say, Colorado

And Colorado is tiny compared to Canadian provinces, most of which are at least triple its size. Want big, look at how long it takes to drive from Seattle to Anchorage.
> The user wants it to! That's a really great reason for the machine to obey.

No, the user wants to maintain a speed or slow slightly, that does not demand rolling in neutral.

Maybe it is because I have grown up with cars with manual transmissions or maybe it is because I live somewhere with hills and regen is extremely useful, but I don’t find it particularly hard to modulate a vehicle with regen, nor do I think there is an inherent reason for a car to coast other than “it is what I am used to.”
There will always exist (always have) bloated and non-bloated programs. I don’t think anyone here knows anything about Slack’s particular future, but I bet it will not be getting any better.
Most frameworks suck because most companies suck and inevitably draw the frameworks into a black hole of suckage
I’ve seen it to be very effective but it is rare - especially in enterprises where the old “project office” folk switched to being scrum masters.
Sounds like an agile application of scrum.