skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managing on prem is definitely harder because you are benefiting from the economics of scale of all the management problems that you have to pay yourself, and if you don't have scale then you will be significantly overpaying to get the same type of quality, reliability, or responsiveness.

Most people are not paid to manage infra, they are paid to talk to customers, ship features, fix bugs, and other "core business" items; just like most businesses don't build roads, they pay taxes and utilize them because the cost of doing it themselves for their preferred traffic patterns would be much more than they could justify (for now.)
Yes, I have been in some nightmare scenario's with 'project managers' that did that. Nightmare.
i feel like we did the same scheme lol
These algorithms are still suboptimal because they do not account for the spacing effect at all. But doing something is still better than nothing when it comes to learning.
> and the old one is sorted and written to an sstable asynchronously

This doesn't happen.
I think there is a basic right to face your accuser. But I think it is a relatively good idea - if you want access to private information, you should have to give up something private in return.
Not really. The lack of fields in traits or a classical inheritance system is pretty strongly missed by some people coming from C++.
I ironically love this and think it's (un)intentially hilarious. It's basically everything people who think very seriously about infoviz warn about, crammed into a single terrible visualization on the subject of visualization. It's such an erudite accumulation of inexpert concepts it almost has to have been put together (paradoxically) by an expert in the field.

I looked it up, and indeed it was put together by a couple serious folks [1]. Even extensively cites Tufte.

I reminds me of the movie "Bad CGI Gator" from last year.

This is so wonderfully hard to parse as either parody or serious. Brilliant.

1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1712936.1712954
Section 174 and interest rate more to blame for layoffs than AI...
Iceland isn't a poor country. I'd be very surprised if the state doesn't have the means to take care properly of its citizens in an event like this, in particular because it's not that unexpected. If not, another pots and pans revolution is needed...
> 99.5% of people are on the same side of the threshold..

But those are merely "temporarily embarrassed capitalists", John Steinbeck

But Jacobin.com disagrees: https://jacobin.com/2018/05/americans-class-politics-piston
Our ability to prototype, build out ideas, and in general innovate is more complicated and less scalable.

It's also predicated on people that are intimately familiar with the underlying manufacturing. Lose the manufacturing, and in a generation you're left only with people who know the current designs but lack the knowledge and experience essential to continue innovating.

Exactly as you say: when you no longer have 30-minute access to experimental parts and in-depth advice, your ability to innovate suffers.
I'm not a developer mind you but devops. And while I reuse code regularly as well, when new projects come up, I'll ramp up with said boilerplate. Though thats typically in only required if it's something new.
Tailwind CSS v3.4 (2023)
I agree, I usually buy single bigger bag worth of stuff at one time. So self-checkout monitored by one person is most of time option that feels speediest. As there really isn't line. Not that when I walk past normal tills they are too many people there.

The other chain here does lot worse with both checkout and tills. Somehow always having lines...
With that being said, the base-model Macbook Air is absolutely designed to leave you unsatisfied. 256gb of storage is a decade-running joke, and 8gb base RAM in an age of unified memory might as well be planned obsolescence.

The upgraded models feel like a different beast entirely. Apple wants you to feel like you're justified paying for 16gb of memory and 1tb of storage because... you are. Those upgraded machines run smooth and stay running nice after multiple years of software updates. MacOS is a storage-hungry OS, 3 years of daily-driving a base-model Macbook Air will make you wish you spent $2k on your laptop.
UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA

If one is buying in a hurry, or just a handful of things, or maybe "sensitive" items at the pharmacy, self-checkout is a nice-to-have. Apart from that, it's been a PITA that I can only assume is even worse for people who don't spend their lives working with computers, debugging systems or finicky UIs/bad apps.
Career focused culture has destroyed a large amount of social cohesion. If machines do more work, humans can go back to community building. Type A personalities that demand social mobility can play politics to see who leads their respective tribe. The rest of us can spend the time learning about the world, developing engaging hobbies, reading philosophy and experiencing great works of art. Maybe just focus on a personal spirituality and/or self-actualization.

There is so much humans should be doing to make our brief existence a little more happy and fulfilling. Little of this has to do about contributing labor.
On battery life? Its hard to say.

On things like GPU and LLM performance, I'd say they already have, and often at significantly lower prices.
> the Scrum proponents will rush in and tell me that we were doing it wrong

The "no true scrumsman" fallacy at work.
Yeah, I think he was going for "Finally some people who weren't completely clueless" (i.e. willing to claim that hepatitis, pancreatitis, and bone rot could be caused by nausea/hysteria).
Here in Italy there are huge super markets that are scan and shop. My 80 year old family members go and do it without any issues. It’s actually kind of nice.
1971 (and/or 1973) is a year people often point to as when we “went off the gold standard”. Neither year is particularly great as a signal example of the collapse of what is loosely called the “Bretton Woods” monetary system, but either is a pretty good nickname for it.

By “printing press” I mean the set of mechanisms in which fractional reserve deficit spending creates the money supply to notionally value future growth, and by “furnace” I mean the set of mechanisms by which we prevent arbitrary inflation as a result. You can measure the money supply in plenty of ways, but for someone who needs a glossary on my original comment, TLDR you want a number called “M2”.

A “gold bug” is someone who either does or advocates the strategy of holding “precious” metals as a uniquely good asset class (no one turns down a free pile of gold, many of us think the market is pricing gold as well as we are), in particular an asset class uniquely resistant to inflation and/or the “government”. I can assure you from painful experience that “the government” gives no fucks if you have gold in your back yard when they make a clerical error.

50 years is roughly the period of time it took for at least two separate inventions of “the transistor” by a bunch of Bell Labs people, but overwhelmingly associated to a guy called Shockley, to culminate in a useful computer that a middle class person could afford to have in their living room. I learned to code on an IBM PC my distinctly middle-class grandfather owned, and it is a substantially better computer than no computer, a harder claim to make about the Apple I for example.
Exactly. It is important to remember that the rural somewhat-backwater state that both Linus and I live in, Oregon, is slightly larger than United Kingdom. Population of about 4.3 million (compared to 67 million in the same area in the UK).

The reality of the power distribution network is a continuous threat from trees, of which there are a lot. Oregon has about 10 billion trees (compared to 3 billion in the UK).

As kardianos mentioned - The trees are tall and the power lines are in the fall zone - which is a recipe for problems in ice/winds storms that don't happen often. Just keeping the trees trimmed near the power lines themselves is a huge undertaking of continuous work.

The grid could be much more resilient - But not for $0.12/kwh.
but my 500 MB partition is listed as 100% free by disk management

is it that not accurate? how do i find out how much actually free space i have?
A good reliable system pretty much has error handling every step of the way, down to crash-first programming at the very end.

It’s more possible to recover from errors higher in the system but you can’t predict every problem so you need layers of error handling at increasingly lower levels with different recovery expectations.
Maybe I'm risk averse, but if a fault line caused a huge earthquake where I live, not just once, but twice, I would leave.

Actually I wouldn't, because I would have left THE FIRST TIME THE FAULT LINE SEEMED THREATENING!

History is ripe with government officials pretending "all is good" until the EARTHQUAKE kills everyone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake and more recently

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake

Or should we talk about tsunamis? or hurricanes and sea-level rise in Florida? Maybe wildfires?
Recently it indeed seemed like there are more layoffs than usual. But then I went to layoffs.fyi (no affiliation) and at least according to their data, which seems reliable, if anything we see a decline in layoffs. Jan and Feb 2023 were pretty bad so we'll need to see in a month how this year compares.
... in the "International business" section.
Scrum is just one offshoot of Agile. It has become laden with jargon, Scrum-specific job titles, and rapidly trained Scrum Masters.

This obscures the fact that a competent team can start with traditional jobs and roles and use The Manifesto for Agile Software Development as their guide, with some modifications for a remote, Slack/Zoom world.

Don't be afraid to dump Scrum.
They are not "Yemen," but they are the closest thing to "Yemen" that anyone can identify
Almost my sentiment. Quite often pre-packaged items that need to weight a certain amount are slightly more or slightly less resulting in the terminal err-ing out.

The self checkouts over here are regularly supervised by employees and regularly they need to intervene especially for alcohol.
I didn't understand what it was meant to do. I think you should have a clear explanation of how to use it on the front page. For example, what job description should I be searching for? And when I do, what will it tell me?

I tried searching for "Data scientist". I got what looked like snippets from existing job adverts, also a salary range. I'm not sure what I would do with this information to update my CV, though.
I started learning to code this year, and I keep thinking that I would have thrown in the towel if not for ChatGPT. For better or for worse.

The big difference for me is being able to struggle right up until I'm ready to give up, and then ask ChatGPT for insight. Usually my issue is a syntax one, and I have the concepts down (i.e. I was right to solve it using nested if statements, but I forgot I need to put a variable outside a function, for example). This way I get that dopamine hit of being mostly right, and quick feedback on what I need to improve. If not for ChatGPT, I'd be left feeling like I just failed entirely and I'm not getting it at all, which I don't think is the case.

I think the same experience would be achieved with a good teacher, but then I'd need my schedule to overlap, and the feedback on problems would still be often be delayed instead of instant.
> it’s almost as if S3 doesn’t charge you anything for transient storage? This is very unlike AWS, and I’m not sure how to explain this. I suspected that maybe the S3 free tier was hiding away costs, but - again, shockingly - my S3 storage free tier was totally unaffected by the experiment, none of it was consumed (as opposed to the requests free tier, which was 100% consumed).

It’s also possible their billing system can’t detect transient storage usage. Request billing would work differently from how billed storage is tracked. It depends on how billing is implemented but would be my guess. That may change in the future.
While some of the points in this post are valid most of this is just copy-paste non-sense stated in multiple articles. Of course "Scrum" cannot fix your problems if you have bad engineers who are happy to just "close" tickets or you have an organization where you do not know where to ask "who is knowledable about this business requirement". Scrum is a software delivery methodology which is ok in itself, it is not a silver bullet which will enable you to write great software which meets specification and runs for years without bugs, those things are completely tangential and require a specific set of skills.
I’m pretty sure my CEO had chatgpt write her layoff script that she read the company. It might as well layoff a good number of CEOs.

And then you might consider if that would actually make your company more human.
Being Absent-Minded Has a Big Advantage, According to Neuroscience
You think so? What if the ad industry is stuck in a bubble and has no idea what works and what doesn't? All they need to do is keep their customers (not us) convinced that ads do something for them, and push to maintain the status quo (anti ad blocker solutions).

There was this article on HN in the past few days [1] about a company that gave up on the use of cookies on their site. Go look how full of jargon and dubious inferences it is. Even if they're trying to do a good thing, they still seem isolated in their own marketer's bubble.

There was also an article about some new Google anti email spam protections (lol, Google protecting us from marketing). I'm not going to try and link to that one. Edit: surprising but i found it [2]. If you look at the comments here on HN you'll see some people either honestly believing or pretending to believe that their email newsletters are something that people want. Again, bubble.

[1] https://blog.sentry.io/we-removed-advertising-cookies-heres-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935048
> But perhaps you did cancer research for 20 years and found a cure for cancer while I spent my money on vacations and partying.

LOL nice straw man.

> The world now has a cure for cancer.

Except it doesn't.

> We can't now say that you should have the same wealth/power as me because power/wealth is bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker" when the vaccine's success was first made public in April 1955, and chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution.
Nobody says you do. In fact, I agree that a lot of the paths people who have never mentored a programmer their entire life think you have to take are bullshit. (Teaching is not mentoring. Mentoring is mentoring).

However, that doesn't mean that it doesn't take a lot to become a decent programmer. It does. And not just in terms of time, but perhaps most importantly in terms of intellectual maturity.
Interesting, I guess this may have resurfaced here because a German translation was posted today, https://www.golem.de/news/arbeit-scrum-nervt-2401-180930.htm... ?
I wonder if Regenerative AI would be a more suitable name.
Sure but they released PowerShell in 2006, a few years after he stepped down as CEO.
I think it's an amusing display of a bunch of different visualization methods.

It's fun to browse. No need to take it more seriously than it takes itself.

From their white paper conclusion:

---
Our efforts in structuring the vast domain of visualization
methods cannot be seen as a close adaptation of the periodic table of chemical elements. It is rather a functional,
metaphoric homage to it. The choice of methods included
as well as the order criteria cannot be considered exhaustive. Nevertheless, it does provide an overview over more
than hundred useful visualization methods of great variety
and by organizing them assists researchers and practitioners alike in choosing adequate visualization methods for
their needs. On demand the user is provided with further
useful information through signs. We encourage the
reader to playfully explore the different properties of the
visualization methods presented. So he may consider
more than one method for his next visualization requirement and to use them in a combined, complementary
manner. This may not turn lead into gold, but turn complex issues into accessible explanations.
---

I do accept that a not insignificant segment of HN users would much prefer a man-page-like display, all-text, no graphics, no css, no javascript-- even for a page about visualizations!

"Concept" and "Information" should have more distinguishable colors though.
The dilemma of tagging library releases
I believe that the most valuable aspect of Scrum is the retrospectives. These are recurring meetings where we assess what has been effective and what hasn’t. If the retrospectives consistently focus on the same issues, such as ongoing complaints about test environments, this also indicates a fundamental flaw in the overall architecture.
How to kill any Twitter clone:

1. Twitter posts something infringing and waits for it to sync to the clone.

2. Twitter removes the infringing post.

3. Copyright owner DMCAs the clone. Some little bird tells it about the infringing post.

4. After the clone does nothing, copyright owner DMCAs its infrastructure providers (ISP, DNS), who promptly kill the clone.

Given sufficiently big copyright owner (Warner Bros, etc.), providers will probably ban clone’s billing account permanently for good measure.

To avoid this scenario, all the clone needs to do is be a good citizen and respect DMCA takedown notices.
They have budgeted for lawsuits and don’t care. It’s a feature not a bug to get rid of clients who won’t be milked to the bone.
Tor can also be used and does not cost anything.
I messed around with Go early on but haven’t touched it since (I mostly do numerical work these days) but this tracks with what I expected from the language. It felt reactionary to the C++ monster. It felt like the early goal was to make the language as simple as possible, like C, and add quality of life improvements that don’t increase complexity, especially for parallelization with the go routines.
The M&S tills are funny. I've identified what the issue with them at my store is: the scanner doesn't beep when it sees an item, it beeps when it can no longer see an item. I'm pretty sure someone configured the scanners wrong so that it's set to trailing edge rather than leading edge.
Self checkout doesn’t work if you’re afraid people will steal.
(Unsuccessfully) Fine-tuning GPT to play "Connections"
Followed closely by a dog drop in 1963: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swal...
But why bother to change UI at all
Here you can find a wide range of printable cute coloring pages for kids!
Take the retrospective seriously, as a moment to reflect with a clear mind, over what turned out to be a good strategy, how to iterate on that and praise the team for the job done.

I suspect you can probably predict how effective a scrum style team is based on how effective the retrospective is.
In terms of complete house power - Batteries are fantastic for a small size use case, but economically difficult in large size. I have 42kwh of battery storage (Enphase), plus 20kw of Solar generation, but that combined is not enough to cover a complete power outage longer than 24-36 hours in stormy weather. The cost of that system is well more than 10 times the cost to get a generator that can do the entire house (22kw Generac for example).
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The Congress budget gap bill is slated to restore the R&D tax treatment

A bigger factor in tech hiring trends
Bullshit clickbait is bullshit clickbait.

Scrum doesn't inherently suck. Scrum can work if you do it right. It won't if you don't.

Just leaving it up to the individual team leads to the same result. If the team sucks at managing their work, the team will suck at managing their work. It doesn't matter what you follow if you suck at it.

This isn't as catchy and feel-good as the bullshit clickbait that reinforces what you want to believe (that the process is the problem, not you or your team). But it's accurate.
> Edit: apparently not, the author is just really good at coming up with ai adverse puzzles.

aka new unique problems that aren't in its training set
I’m guessing either you don’t have much data or your infra is already so absurd that, yeah, the transfer costs are irrelevant by comparison.
Hedera Council Adds Hitachi America, Ltd. As Newest Member
My concern is can you make it worth my time? Do people hire staff/architect level devs on a freelance basis? I don't want to compete with developers in developing countries.
I kind of wonder if it's similar to how I never learn how to get somewhere if I use Google maps. If I put away Google maps and use my brain then I can learn the route after doing it once.
I don't think TFA mentioned the regular failing of launches.

What propaganda are you combating here?
I would say this is archaic, luddite and unambitious thinking. Did the need for labor decrease after the lightbulb, electricity, or the telegraph? Or did Quality of life go up while projects expanded in scope and we accomplished greater things with more efficiency?
Hedera partners with Algorand to develop a 'decentralized recovery' protocol
I'm not the target audience but have the following doubt

App icons are a high-stakes one-off expenses for application developers, there are fewer* use cases for needing to continously create new icons. Hence, a plan-based payment seems a worse offer for both you and the clients.

* can't think of any actually
Based on the feedback community I don't think that's a particularly accurate take of Insiders as a whole.

That said it's been ~10 years now since they dumped the traditional QA department (which involved more than just leveraging external user validation) and I honestly can't say Windows is blowing up any more than it was the previous 10 years to that. I'd really like to see some actual measured statistics of e.g. patch issue outages at a health system over the last 20 years though.
And then you go to some East Asian countries and even the US-level politeness comes across as rude.
Your mission as a productive developer is to avoid middle management purgatory and talk to other devs as needed.
The things I've taken from scrum and use at every team:

- plan in 2 week chunks

- estimate in points (relative size to something you've already done), emphasis on consistent estimates for each dev.

- make sure you define what 'done' means, and make sure it relates to what exactly you are trying to measure (Eg just coding effort, work till feature can ship?, etc). This is probably the most tricky bit.

- capture total velocity every 2 weeks and eventually use the avg for future planning

- review the entire process and modify things that take a lot of time for devs.
About a year ago I had a bug assigned that ultimately turned out to be caused by an exception in the logging code that only occurred in the specific case of logging an exception being thrown by the exception handling code. This was internal tooling so I made sure to have some fun with the changeling entry—making it as confusing to parse as possible.
Factories invest in automation and robots, and laying off workers.