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You forgot adding lengthy descriptions and constant updates to each ticket. The person who pushes the most tickets and with most words per ticket gets promoted. You're better off spending time optimizing JIRA than doing actual work.
So the human brain adds detail. Literaly stereotyping...
And that is not a bad thing... Efficiency gains is why we have the standard of living we now have.

We are very far away from singularity. So anyone who can make systems more efficient or keep things running will have job for good while.
Wasn't there but I'd guess it's also a nod to "Fridays for Future" which is pretty big in Germany as well.
My example was weak, but the greater point is that SIs coherence is oversold because it still requires many unnecessary (non-one) constant factors in equations; SI merely brushes the issue under the rug by labeling those as "fundamental" as if they are not almost completely arbitrary.
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Realistically, it depends how much you enjoy programming. If you program a lot, you can easily hit 3k hours a year..

Most days I program 12 hours a day, most weeks 6 or 7 days a week. On a day I'm feeling very motivated I'll program for 18 hours. I've been doing this for close to 10 years. Occasionally I'll take a month 'off' and gear down to 3-4 days a week, still long days. By my conservative estimates, I hit about 3500h/year.

I work this much because I fucking love programming, and there's nothing I'd rather do ( other than my daily surf in the mornings, of course :)
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I was not aware that PMs aren't supposed to lead scrum. I've only ever seen it done that way.
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I don't have any love for 'scrum' but, I tend to agree with this.

It's reductive to say we should just use tools the right way, but also, we don't say a hammer sucks when we use it to try drive screws into wood.
There are many basic social needs that aren't being met for a majority of the population because so much time and energy has to go towards merely surviving. I think people who have a vested interest in this paradigm overestimate how much the average person "needs" work for "social mobility and purpose", versus, say, companionship, community, education, curiosity, housing stability, etc. Maybe they're afraid that people will realize that the rat race and daily grind don't fill the hole, but stuff that doesn't cost money or that is difficult to profit from do.
Isn't this what WebAssembly or Rust is used for? IIRC Figma's web app uses WebAssembly and I prefer that way more than the native app.
I identified with that guy having made something similar that would only work where it was made.

I am not sure many of us find ourselves having done that.
The last org I was in realized how much time their engineers were spending in agile-caused meetings, much like what you describe, at least half of the working hours in a week - so they made a company-wide rule that no one could spend more than 4 hours a week in meetings.

What happened instead were impromptu "ghost" meetings and a ton of stuff done sloppily over chat instead, where I think the hope was that people would try to become "more efficient" with their meeting time.
This works with any device viewing the gif via an HDMI cable? Or only if user is browsing via Raspberry Pi?
Lately I've been realising just how many sites will not even show the main content without JavaScript enabled.

You mean to tell me you need JavaScript to show me a blog post that's 90% text?

Medium does surprisingly good without JavaScript, I can read comfortably without the nonsense.
Didn't want to pollute my effortpost, but: thanks for clarifying, and I agree that the Schindler outlier isn't a point.
Sneaky idea! I love it!
Entire podcast episode on this here: https://sqpn.com/2021/05/the-medical-mystery-of-the-toxic-wo...
it kind of cant. the last ai winter was based on the fact that you needed expensive experts and got really marginal results. now that you can do something useful with even commodity machines its just not going to go away.

training workloads that cost tens of millions of dollars might
I have a slightly different opinion. I agree that we humans have a creative spark that drives research, true art, etc. However, I am 90% seeing AI tools as a means to let me create more, and faster. I have co-pilot integrated with my Emacs and VSCode setups, and it is hard to imagine turning back time and not having co-pilot available. Yesterday I wanted a snappy title for a new open source project (inspired by last Friday’s All-In podcast) so I wrote up a three paragraph description and asked mixtral-8-7B (running locally on my Mac) as well as Anthropic’s Claude 2 and ChatGPT for project name suggestions. Lots of good ideas, I chose my favorite.

Last February I was writing a book on ‘safe AI’ and after I wrote each chapter, I had ChatGPT read it and asked for additional topics I may have neglected. It was also good for generating end of chapter summaries that I re-worded to fit my style.

For the last ten years I have tried to be on a ‘digital diet’ - limiting time on digital devices except for high productivity sprints. This includes limiting time on HN and X. It feels good to use AI tools to get more done quickly so I have more time to cook elaborate meals for my family, hike and hang out with my friends, and read.
> Germany’s grossly unequal distribution of wealth is an underappreciated cause of this malaise: The top 10% of households have at least €725,000 ($793,000) of net assets and control more than half of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 40% of households have at most €44,000 of net assets, according to a Bundesbank survey in 2021.1

I'm sure the USA can beat these numbers.
No, i just remember a comment from some former MS dev who knew something about the testing process in MS. I think it might have even been a comment in here actually.
If you know you're going to use Linux before buying a machine, you can generally save yourself all the trouble by simply avoiding broadcom and nvidia. Those two have been the source of the most trouble for years.

Intel for graphics and wifi is generally the safest choice. I pick laptops with those and have great success.
Ten+ books a month. Humbled. I need to read more ..
What prompt engineering do people use in real programming situations?
It's something with the argument "X can work if you do it right" that feels really off.

If it's hard to do it right, maybe it wasn't that good of an idea from the beginning?

You don't hear that argument about things that actually works.
You know when some tools have a section When to use X and When not to use X ? (e.g.
https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/). Management frameworks like Scrum should have the same, and should not be followed blindly. There are specific historical contexts and reasons why they were invented and those should not be ignored.

So, when is Scrum a good fit, and when is it not?
Ask HN: What's the Next Vagrant?
Howdy. I've been a happy user of Vagrant since I first saw it demo'd at DevOpsDays in 2011. Now, with the BSL license fork, I don't have a good replacement. Do you? I know I can work with a VM without it (which is my primary use case - Vagrant supports a lot more than that), but the elegance and codeability of Vagrant is what I seek.

Or, is there a OpenTofu/OpenBao-like project going on for Vagrant today? Thanks in advance, HN! :)
Yes, Nebula is exactly that. But HNers here prefer to continue supporting Google instead of the service that explicitly wants to cater to their supposed wishes.
Funny you mention that. I was wondering how effective cats are at controlling rats. I would have suggested a rat terrier drop.
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In a high-level sense, yes! But it kind of depends on which part of the design pattern you mean by "double buffering for databases".

With double-buffering (2d/3d graphics) you are literally writing the final pixel-level data to the back buffer.[1]

In a database WAL scenario, to further analogize, it's more like you are writing the 2d/3d graphics commands to the buffer and executing them later. Because that is part of the point of the WAL -- it results in reduced disk writes because only the log file needs to be flushed to disk to guarantee a transaction is committed, rather than every data file/byte(/pixel) changed by the transaction.[2][3] (The WAL content is loosely a bit more like 3D (or 2D) vertex buffer objects/display lists [4] if you are familiar with those.)

Swapping the two WAL files though and alternating writing to each is yes like double buffering.

A third similar design pattern (to WALs) is used in operating systems' journaling filesystems[5] and actually was a contribution from OSes adopting database WAL techniques back in the 1990s.

Apologies if you know all this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Double_buff...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/wal-intro.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead_logging

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_list

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system
Is that feeling based on anything besides wanting to be seen as a tough guy?
This is not an issue for anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL4O_Do2PuQ
The less humans there are to create content, the less AI will be able to steal from them. This is so fucking stupid.
Ask HN: Could Twitch pivot into a YouTube competitor?
Twitch seems like it's not doing well based on stats and layoffs but, it seems like one of the few platforms that's already setup to serve long form video. So, with a few relatively small tweaks, could they pivot and try to compete with YouTube?

If you were running Twitch would you consider trying to become more like YouTube? Why/Why Not?
I saw this on my last job!

I was already adding time to my work like an extra point or two here and there

But then in the grooming session the whole team would guesstimate even more story points! I was dumbfounded! This was beyond all of my levels of tolerance and rationality but it kept happening every sprint until something that was a 0.5 for me was a 5 point and I would have two 5 point tickets for the whole sprint that I would submit to QA one day before the sprint ended, 9-10 business days later

and actually doing that made me a star performer, what the hell!?
Confirming

I've been using it extensively in the past and now, for same kind of chats, I hit limits much easily (never before), since most of messages contain "// here you put the actual implementation" and I'm going back and forth to force it to implement it.

GPT4 has been a much better code writer and idea explorator than the copilot. Not good
I remember one bit of customer code where I needed to pass a BSTR string into a function. I constructed it using CComBSTR without considering that the destructor calls SetLastError. I could see the call failing but the only information I got back was ERROR_SUCCESS.
What are you talking about, how am I biased? I use Amazon weekly to purchase things. The quality of products has gone extremely down hill and shipping is not as efficient as it once was. This is my own personal experience I'm relaying. Why would I even bother to say it if I didn't find it true for myself?
Tech journalists mostly just suck. They barely understand what they are writing about. I think their industry resents us taking away revenue from them, so they write these ridiculous articles to stoke FUD against tech.

I absolutely can't wait to see these people automated out of a job. I have zero doubts GPT-4 would have produced a better article given the same source information.
This particular protest might be an internal German matter, but distribution of wealth is not. The message should reach as broad an audience as possible.
I think my own education followed the “traditional” way of learning computer science, albeit after years of tinkering with computers and programming as a kid. But I often felt that some concepts were much simpler when you made the connection with something concrete.

Of course, you would not use analogy for formal proofs, but it helped build a mental model incrementally instead of having to conjure various concepts out of thin air and draw connections between them.
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My guess: it refers to the 'Fridays for Future' movement. More or less arguing that caring about the climate does not matter if the farmers go bankrupt.
The problem is the thinking that either stopping or slowing is obtainable or even desirable. “Progress” isn’t a single path thing. The goal is to progress in directions that minimize externalities and maximize benefit to all. Instead of trying to retard or stop a trend entirely, instead how can we counterbalance negative outcomes and direct its growth in a positive way?

John Henry fought the steam digger and won, but it killed him. Fast forward to the present I don’t see tunnel projects unmanned - instead they’re covered in people working on various things. The difference is the people aren’t hired for their strong backs but for their strong mind and skill. Machines aren’t replacing people - they’re replacing the people doing the job now with new people doing an adjacent job. The churn in labor is definitely painful, but it’s disingenuous to say automation has eliminated work for humans. It’s just changing the nature of work.

Finally, what’s so awesome about working? I welcome a time when humans are freed from the chains of toil. And if robots fight each other, as long as they do it away from people, that’s one job I’m thrilled to see end.
It looks like a PowerShell script is available now, but I don't think it's changing the partition size. Has anyone tried this out? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5034957-updating...
and sometimes viewers
Tbf there are some (mostly rich) people that believe wealth inequality isn’t a problem as long as the standard of living keeps going up for everyone. But that falls apart once you consider monopolization generally leads to rent seeking and not better services
It could be redundant. My logic is AdBlock does this full-time time so it should be more up-to-date and generally better vs the Brave blocking stuff. I may very well, be wrong, but that's been the logic. :)
I have used this and other techniques for years and never gotten shut down. Passing through S3 is also generally more efficient for distributing data to multiple sources than running some sync process.
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Scrum/Agile is awesome! I always used the daily calls to ask as much dumb shit as possible to make the meetings as long as i could so i could keep charging my hourly rate without actually working.
A very relevant article by the FT from 2022 - "Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people"
https://archive.is/IHI6E
Wow... that percentile plot is terrible. Is that common practice in economics or what? I understand percentiles and cumulative curves and all that but reading and understanding this plot took a lot of brain bending.

IMHO:

* switch x & y axes

* make it a line plot with markers
YouTube may drive me there soon as well.
The strikes Thursday were unconstitutional and involve the US further in Israel's wars.

For those who would like a taste of the stuff you aren't being told, try this article from the great Consortium News: https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/14/bombing-yemen-as-briti...
until one realizes the same agendas at play in germany is at play in all of the western world (and probably more)
Why would the SEC care? Shareholders of VMWare were properly compensated, and shareholders of Broadcom should know by now that Broadcom management seeks to buy companies and ruin their products. Nothing securities fraud about that.

DOJ and FTC enforce anti-trust and are more likely to be gatekeepers fo acquisitions, but while Broadcom is big and VMWare is big... Broadcom is going to ruin the product and that's not going to increase their marketshare and market power, so what's the problem?

It's like complaining about PE buying a failing company and then it goes bankrupt 3-7 years later. PE just accelerates the path, Toys R Us was already dead.
I think you're confusing Bloomberg and WSJ. Bloomberg is a newswire service focused on business, it doesn't argue for inequality, at least anywhere that I've seen.
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I agree with the first part, but not sure about the second. I believe software is much more engineering than science. The challenge is in organizing the bits. Most of the things learn, debate and design in software are more less arbitrary structures created to facilitate our own cognition. The hard science behind computers is much more cleanly abstracted away, compared to, for example, chemical engineering. For that reason, I don't believe software advances in the same way that natural sciences do. It's much more social in the sense that groups rally around different ideas and implementations, and wherever that energy goes also shapes the new ideas to bloom on top.

Put another way: I think almost everything in software is arbitrary. Certainly some ideas are better than others, but on balance everything is a tradeoff, and I don't really expect for some powerful new discoveries or ideas to reshape the industry towards more structure and efficiency. I think it's more likely that AI replaces human programming entirely (although I dont think that's likely either).
I used to dislike Scrum, until my company introduced SAFe, which basically is Scrum to the power 1000...
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The average net worth in Germany is a couple hundred thousand while the average in the US is over a million. Just taking median it goes to around double for the US compared to Germany. There is real social mobility in the US that isn’t there in Germany.
Why is it more noticeable when the computer isn't sending a signal, but the monitor is on?
Houthis aren’t Yemen the same way the Taliban isn’t Afghanistan.
> Or should we talk about tsunamis? or hurricanes and sea-level rise in Florida? Maybe wildfires?

No need to, because I absolutely agree with you: there's no way I'd live near an active fault line, or in a place with a risk of tsunamis/earthquakes and other types of natural catastrophes that are naturally occuring and can't be protected against.
This is not a direct decision of valve. There are lots of people working on games but the company is privately held, democratically vote driven where they don’t fire anyone. I’m pretty sure it’s relatively small staff compared to other modern gaming studios these days.

The gaming industry pc is the largest it’s ever been and growing. Look at subreddit growth for r/pcmasterrace and the popularity and growth of discord as a platform. Pro Pc Esports is also growing, has more watchers every week than the Super Bowl and dominates consoles.
I went from that type of world (cell carrier) to a FAANG type company and it was shocking. The baseline trust that engineers were given by default was refreshing and actually a bit scary.

I’m not sure my former coworkers would have done well in an environment with so few constraints. Many of them had grown accustomed to (and been rewarded and praised for) only taking actions that would survive bureaucratic process, or fly underneath it.
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Also, as a friend noticed when he bought a ver nice apartment next to the railroad is that they have to (at least in Sweden) maintain the tracks once a month. They do this by going very slowly with a special train that basically runs with the brakes on throwing sparks all over with all the noise you can imagine. And since it's going to slowly, they have to do it when there are the fewest number of other trains running, i.e. at three in the morning.
> not directly making the claim that they are connected

Just to point out, this particular article does make the claim these are connected.

E.g., "...tech firms have explicitly cited AI as a reason for rethinking head counts" (There are a few fuzzy details later as well.)
I think macOS is also just better at actually being idle when the user isn’t doing anything. Windows seemingly always has something shuffling around in the background.
That's a very good question.

I think the simplest approach to prove it would be to show that both computations yield the global minimum. Since there is only one global minimum, then they must be equal.
Instead in Italy we say that the government is poor but its citizens are rich [0]. A country of shopkeeper and small business owners never too keen to pay duties to government and always looking for some scheme to game welfare/subsidies.

Italian median / mean wealth by person: 107,315 / 221,370 euro

Germany median / mean wealth by person: 66,735 / 256,179 euro

Italy by capita has 48k euro of public debt vs 30k by capita of Germany

[]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

[0]: https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/indagine-famiglie/...
Maybe some of these extremely wealthy people could voluntarily surrender some of their wealth for the health of society.

Consider the measures we took for covid. Surely poverty is an equal if not greater threat.
I have a similar experience to yours. My organization even hired a scrum expert who is probably just deadweight, he’s on mute in all our meetings for the past 6-8 months. It’s also true about having little actual work time, in my org we spend so much time in meetings that in the end 3-4 hours of actual work are left on a daily basis. I objected to this but was told everyone should learn everything, end of story. We’re supposed to be repleaceable cogs in a machinery and that goal was reached by now.
Binaural recordings can also be made with small in-ear mics (be careful, they'll pick up clicks from your eardrum when you swallow), or a close approximation by clipping omnidirectional mics to your glasses.

Or, if you're made of money, there are purpose-built dummy heads like this: https://www.neumann.com/en-en/products/microphones/ku-100/
Do you not understand how ramp works? She would not be allowed to a sell during the first three months, or only with direct supervision. I'd be very surprised if you've ever worked in a sales first position, given this basic misunderstanding.
Stop accepting these BS "apps" that are just web pages being loaded in a full copy of chrome. It's mind blowing to me that so many people accept these "cross platform" apps that are just as bad today as java "cross platform" apps were a few decades ago (if not actually worse).

Just a plethora of enshittified apps developed to be cheap rather than good.
VSCode and Devcontainers work iff you want to use VSCode. Using Silverblue or Bluefin without toolbox or distrobox is setting yourself up for failure, because otherwise one will try to install everything through rpm-ostree and then complain that ostree is slow and stupid.

I don't see how one might struggle with learning how to use distrobox. Of course there's some learning curve, but if one wants a normal Linux they might as well use stock Fedora. All one needs is to create a terminal profile that launches `distrobox enter container`.

(I used to use bluefin until recently, when a regression on distrobox forced me back on Silverblue. I could not for the life of me force rpm-ostree to downgrade distrobox to 1.5.0 vs the 1.6.0 bluefin ships with; I reckon it's because bluefin is a container rather than an ostree commit, and downgrading packages is still unsupported)
Retros are useful. I don't think it's original to scrum though. I think it emerged out of one of those Japanese manufacturing process thingies.