skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It turns out that unrestrained capitalism leads to the end result that a very few hold almost all the resources. That's because the more money you have, the options you have and can make, and thus every transaction rich do make more money.

The rest of us don't have those choices, so our money ends up going TO the rich.

Housing is going up because the last 20 years, housing was the big thing to capitalize (aka: price all but the rich out of the market). And then, housing doesnt make money by itself, so they then rent out to the humans whom they deprived access to begin with.

But in this housing endgame, rich people have options to remove options from the average people, in which the result is "Rich people profit on the backs of the normal people".

And also, this is not a "Germany-only" phenomenon. We're seeing this happen across all the "Western Nations", wherever unrestrained capitalism has reared its ugly head. Even Adam Smith wrote the last 80% of his book about how unrestrained capitalism would do this.. but no economist ever appears to read or heed his words.

Also, this isn't some "socialism and/or communism" is the answer post. Neither of them can handle the fact that most of what we create isn't physical matter, but instead knowledge and content. No economic system as of yet can handle the fact that something costs $x million to create, but $0 to copy. But whatever we do *must* be able to handle that respectably to all participants. And alongside that, maximums of what people can own - extreme income inequality is massive scourge to any government and people.
And I have gotten rid of people who were very clearly just being pedantic during every meeting and then would have a million questions (or just not build things to spec) when it came to time to actually work.
India is blocking TikTok's owner from offering music streaming service
nope. as indicated by a sibling comment, Microsoft used to have parallel SDE and SDE/T tracks and orgs.

They killed the test org completely around 10 years ago because of course developers can just do TDD and ship an operating system with 30 years of legacy applications/hardware ecosystems around it. Or "telemetry will just tell us what to fix"

Of all the mountains of dumb shit this company has done in the past 10 years, this is actually what killed Windows for the people (like myself) who actually used to like Windows.

Edit: To add sources, I worked at Microsoft years ago and still have friends in those orgs.
High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98
This is classic Cecil Adams snark. Having read a bunch of his pieces, I am totally certain he meant “finally, some people who weren’t idiots.”
As you note, the Fed lending policies do act as a money source (when increasing supply) and also as a money sink (when decreasing supply). That doesn't invalidate the parent point that taxes have nothing in common with a money sink, since that mechanism (unlike Fed) doesn't affect money supply but rather simply moves it to specific purchases/institutions.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super GPU Confirmed to Feature Full 48 MB L2 Cache
Yes exactly! All my mods are mirrored on both keyboards (except left pinkie shift).

You lose the number row with the Kyria, but I have all my numbers and symbols available with a simple thumb press. A fair trade.
Only under the word-RAM model of computation though. The phrase "arithmetic operation" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. On a real computer, the output size of Fib is O(2^n), requiring O(n) bits of space, and O(n) assembly instructions (at a minimum, and for other reasons that minimum can be attained). The exponential nature of the problem additionally means you hit that Big-O curve for extraordinarily small inputs (as opposed to, e.g., a hash table where technically access isn't O(1) but nobody cares).

Separately though, that's a fun trick :)
https://sites.rutgers.edu/fingerprinting/fingerprinting-and-...
It's not just advertisements, though -- individual creators run sponsors, Patreons, and their own midroll ads. A pretty crazy percentage of YouTube is ads, even with uBlock Origin.
I've heard multiple reports that you can hard-lock a M1/2 Mac simply by using OpenGL in harsh ways, so I wouldn't be surprised that an LLM + OBS can crash it.

I suspect OBS can crash it all by itself.
No one uses Nebula because no one is on Nebula. If 99% of the content creators I follow post on YT, then I am forced to use YT.
I have long abandoned scrum for Kanban. I don't care about sprints, and getting things done by the end. Just give me (or since I'm the team leader now often I'm the one giving) the next thing to work on and when it is done I'll start the next. Nobody cares about what you got done this sprint, they care about what what got into the next release. Next release includes a lot of manual testing as despite a very great automated test program we constantly discover a lot of serious bugs in manual test that are difficult to automate.

we gave up on points. All anyone cares about is days. Thus it is better to retro on the days estimate vs days to deliver and make adjustments on our end. Nobody cares about days for an individual story anyway - they want the days for the complete feature (or at least enough of the feature that we can ship it)
Do most people find purpose in paid work? I know some young adults about 25 years old who want to retire early (seems to be a movement). I personally would value being a provider and career but work is just a means to that goal and not the end-goal itself.
I used to hit this on an M1 with low RAM while absolutely assaulting it with a project that used docker compose to run far too many resources.

These days I can't seem to hit my M2 Max hard enough. Nothing slows it down. Just about anything will have lag spikes if you crank too much stuff through it, so I assume that (like me) you're experiencing this with devices running MacOS with around 8-16GB RAM, M1 processor at best?
Macs have Cocoa which is a good UI framework. There's your single good UI framework for them.

iOS has UIKit, which is a good UI framework. There's your single good UI framework for them.

Linux has GTK and Qt, though I'm not sure which one is in vogue these days, but both of which seemed fine when I used them in the past.

etc

But it sounds like what you're actually saying is "I only want one OS to exist".

Every OS has its own UI API, because every perform has different UI design language, UI interaction, and UI behavior. You cannot make one UI that is good on every platform because every platform is different and those differences are what make people prefer one over the others, but a single UI is (as Java and Chrome wrappers demonstrate) going to produce a bunch of exceedingly mediocre apps that fail numerous basic UI tools on their respective platforms.

If you want a cross platform apps you have cross platform core logic, and per platform UI.

If you want a single UI framework across platforms, it cannot be good, and it will inherently at best produce the kind of mediocrity we get with chrome apps, or you only have a single platform and have the same UI toolkit across all of them: desktop, phone, tablet, etc. I'm going to guess that's going to produce a fairly terrible UX on at least one of the options if it's good on others, or maybe it will just be mediocre across the board.
Colorado is pretty big too.

And I don't think there is anywhere in California that isn't like a 3-4 hour drive from not California (downtown during rush hour not withstanding).

That said, if you do want to stay in California you can drive 15 hours in one direction and still be here.
Here is a typical scrum meeting:

7-10 people gather in a circle every day, they all say “no blockers” or some talkative person diggs up some detail that sounds like it’s for another discussion, then they repeat “continuing to what I did yesterday” because we all already know, the scrum master tries to say something new but it sounds like BS, meeting over and we are all shaking our heads thinking “another waste of 10 minutes”
And I agree on most of these points. I did a poor job but what I was getting at in my original post was

1)We need education or something similar to help the poor from getting poorer.

2)I am not opposed to the idea of transferring wealth but I believe it is easier said than done. I don’t believe it’s something that would happen anytime soon in America and I get the feeling it’s the same in the UK. Because of that, I like to explore other solutions.
I find it very funny that everybody bemoans the ad supported ecosystem of the internet, then Google gives an ad free alternative with a monthly cost, and everybody complains that the cost is too high.

I pay for YouTube premium, I see no ads and the content creators are supported. I’m glad Google is going to war with ad blockers in this context where there is a paid alternative.
To be in that same boat as your story makes me wonder if it's a systemic bug. But also, holy hell, how is routing a truck to a street address not a solved problem in 2024?

I would also have accepted if they'd leave the EXIF data in their "delivery proof" images, so I can do my own GPS navigation, because the picture of some piece of grass with my box sitting on it, shockingly, is not a good way to track down lost parcels

If I could snap my fingers and end FedEx as a company I would do it without any hesitation. Hell, in a more constructive vein: if I could pay to ensure that no one ever used FedEx to ship something to me, I'd do that, too (even as I write that I'm cognizant that's perverse incentives for FedEx improving, but it would be a more likely fix than just praying for FedEx to go out of business anytime soon; it'd be like shipping insurance but in the other direction)
People won't stop buying and/or using these products/services, because exactly what you said:

> They became rich because they built something valuable that a lot of people give them $$$ for. We the population made them rich.

There isn't many EV cars <$40k that can have >250mi range. There aren't many other powerful social networks as Facebook that can let people connect with their friends and families.

An average Joe doesn't care about Elon nor Zuckerberg. Sure, they probably heard about Elon and his recent shenanigans, but it isn't much of a factor when purchasing a good/service.

As a result, we can't rely on just society regulating wealth.
I never heard of these, thanks for the links!
That kind of inflation corrects for itself. Because you're supposed to look at the previous sprints to judge how many points you'll get through this sprint.
I wish there was an executive scrum that the rest of the company could see what their work load was for the week and how it was co-ordinated.

My feeling on scrum was it was always a way to daylight what people were doing for upper levels (and co-ordinating that work). It would be nice to see what higher echelons were actually working on.
Boy, is this right on point!

> I really believe there is one, but I have never seen a single engineer happy about their company Scrum implementation.

Yeah, I think that's an example of good idea but too easy to badly implement. With cargo cult and all that, people try to take it ready-made and don't event try to understand why things are done a certain way. Result is unavoidable garbage. I've never seen a good implementation as well

> One is on sick leave and the other has a well-deserved PTO or holiday.
Does your team still attend the stand-up meeting?

In my manager years, I've been using this as a metric. If I'm not there and meetings don't happen, it's probably a sign that the meeting isn't useful.

> Sidenote: I always disliked this religious term used to define these kind of meetings, but ok.

I've always read that as sarcasm though, precisely because ceremonies and masses happen religiously without questioning whether they should exist
I love hearing "points aren't time but you can think of them like days"
The main problem for Italy is its public debt [1][2]. The debt is so big that Italy can barely pay interests to stay within the boundaries defined by EU. This means there is no remaining money to fund growth.

[1] In Italian: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storia_del_debito_pubblico_ita...
[2] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2022/12/05/why-is-i...
Attract new customers and wow your existing ones with unforgettable experiences
I had some coworkers who would spend 6hours in scrum related meeting every Tuesday....In addition to their daily 2h scrum meetings ( multiple teams and role meeting coordination).
If you have so much as worn down paint on keycaps Apple will give you 0$ for it, they want almost exactly new machines.
> estimate in points (relative size to something you've already done), emphasis on consistent estimates for each dev.

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

This aspect of scrum has never made sense to me. Planning with average velocity turns points into an obfuscated time estimate - why use points at all?
People seem to have taken "Apple made a very performant laptop" and factored it down to "the M1/2 series of chips beats everything every time" - which is obviously not the case.

For the particular use case of "a laptop on battery that doesn't die in ten minutes" Apple is decently far ahead. But everything else you can easily beat it if you make different trade-offs.
... but isn't that good?
Another case
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1746547187234775304
I would only do it if the .com is not being used for something.

I think .io is pretty acceptable for a tech product and .ai is pretty acceptable for an AI product. Just plan to pay for the .com eventually if you're successful.

Example: Intercom used to be intercom.io and is now intercom.com.
I have done the same thing. “I am seeing the following behavior, but I expected <X>. What am I missing?” That line has often quickly solved some bugs that would have otherwise taken some time to debug. Very handy!
How much did the private school cost?
Carpe verpa
KVM does work great, but that doesn't invalidate the rest of the comment.

Do you think major cloud providers haven't engineered the whole "You’ll spend months just finding and configuring a disjointed hodgepodge of tools to get what you could have setup in a day." step?
I don't get your problem. What were you talking about on those meetings. Wasn't it about the project? Is discussion about the project, the features, planning lost time?
Honestly I do waffle between these two views of it. That they do work and so we should avoid them or they don't work and the entire internet is a bubble built on top of a fake idea and so we should avoid them.

I don't see how both can be true and I find both equally compelling, with comparable explanatory power of different things I see. But for the specific purpose of deciphering the actions and motivations of ad companies I think assuming they work is a more useful view. Presumably ad companies are acting as if ads work, and are assuming they work equally well on people running ad blockers, if they can get them past the ad blockers.

I find them corrosive to my soul and culture either way, and ad companies are acting towards me as if they work. So in this context I think it makes sense to also act as if they do.
Trust me, no food in Germany goes anywhere for human consumption unregulated
Scrum teams are self-managing, and point values are used for gauging your own team-workload.

When you point a "0.5" and your team points a "5", stop and discuss the discrepancy until an alignment can me found. Keep doing that, every task, until you a collective meaning of "a point" is found.

Personally:

* Less than 1 - These are a smell and should not exist. These misalign incentives and encourage "bike shedding".

* 1 point tasks - no task that requires 2 people (dev and qa) is a 1-pointer, so this is something that needn't be QA'd. 1 point tasks should be rare items that can't be a subtask of a "real" task.

* 3 point tasks - These can be done in a day (depending on the team's opinion, this might be multiple people and still be 3 points). Virtually every task should be a 3.

* 5 point tasks - These are tasks that cannot be broken down to be done in a reasonable amount of time. These are generally things that have minor external dependencies. ("not hard but I'll have to get a server spun up by the unix admins.")

* 8 point tasks - These are rough tasks that haven't been fully dissected by the team and are the scrum version of a "code smell". The team should break these down and dissect them.

* 13 point tasks - "There be dragons here" tasks. Large unknowns and these tasks should not be added to a sprint until they're broken down further.
>Just to point out, this particular article does make the claim these are connected.

yeah, only for one paragraph:

> Last year, companies including Chegg, IBM and Dropbox cited the onset of AI as a reason to rethink staffing. More recently, Duolingo and even Google have suggested the same as they seek to mobilize resources to capitalize on the AI boom.

And everything before and after that is either fluff or does not make the claim that they're connected. For instance layoffs at Amazon was brought up early in the article, but it's unclear how that has to do with AI. Google is brought up as well, but if you click through the source, the layoffs has less to do with "AI replacing workers" (as the article suggests) and more "google is laying off in the hardware part of the business because they want to focus on the AI part".
> Should your coworkers care or not? Or are you allowed to have any political views as long as you don't participate in the democratical process? :)

If think your political views involve taking the rights away from your coworkers or even causing them to feel unsafe I think they have the right to care? If I'm your coworker and I want to take away your rights, I think you'd want to care about that right? You're not just going to sit on you ass like a chump and do nothing.

> But it was pro and against same sex civic partnership if it makes any difference for you.

Why would someone be against same sex civic partnership? If you're not homosexual, it doesn't impact you at all.

> Especially with today's highly polarized political climate where „terrible ideas“ label is attached very easily.

And yet terrible ideas seem more common these days than ever.

> IMO it's closer to mob rule forcing employers or university administration act in one way or another.

What's the difference between a peaceful mob and a protest? People getting together to affect change is a "mob" if you don't like why they're saying and a "protest" if you do.

> refusing employment or forbidding on-campus speech for such opinions feels a wee authoritarian.

Sure, and you know what is also authoritarian? Authoritarians sharing authoritarian ideas, convincing others, and implementing. If you're tolerant of intolerance than you up with nothing but intolerance and you achieve authoritarianism that way. It's not like there's no historical precedent for this. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

> There's a very very fine line between employers/universities rights and society forcing dominant narrative and sanitising public discourse.

Yes there is a fine line. I'm accepting of that fine line but you want to just eliminate it. It's not that you for for free speech rights, it's just that you want one group to have them and another group to be restricted from having them. You accept that speech is important but you don't grasp why -- because it's meant to accomplish something. Speech is powerful, useful, and even dangerous.

> Would you like to be fired if some idea you hold would be seen as „terrible“ by your employer (or a mob forces them to act so)?

I'm willing to accept that. I believe my own political ideas are open and accepting enough that my coworkers and employers wouldn't care. And if they did care, then I wouldn't want to be employed by them.

> Given how what is acceptable changed in the past decade or two, who knows how it will change in next few decades.

The only constant in life is change.
The only part of scrum I like is daily standups, I get an overview and mostly sync up with what the team is doing.

The other ceremonies (like sprint planning/review and retro I find mostly a waste of time and don't go unless I am forced to).

JIRA tickets, I can create them if needed but I can pump out way more code if I don't need to waste time on those :D
There was plenty of news coverage of the Windows test team being eliminated at the time of Microsoft's 2014 layoffs:

"Under the new structure, a number of Windows engineers, primarily dedicated testers, will no longer be needed. (I don't know exactly how many testers will be laid off, but hearing it could be a "good chunk," from sources close to the company.) Instead, program managers and development engineers will be taking on new responsibilities, such as testing hypotheses..."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/beyond-12500-former-nokia-empl...

There were also a lot of insider comments from affected SDETs on the notorious (at the time) Mini-Microsoft blog as well: https://minimsft.blogspot.com/2014/07/18000-microsoft-jobs-g...

The burden of testing software was shifted over to developers after the layoffs. If you check Microsoft's job listings, there isn't even a category for software testing positions anymore.
I was writing mainly JavaScript all day. The main culprit was my wrist posture. They were squeezed together in front of me and at an awkward, flat angle while typing. Even with a sit/stand desk, multiple breaks, etc. the pain would build up over the day.
Hopefully this debunks the confused reporting recently that the 6502 was designed "to compete with the 4040 not the 6800". The goal was to sell it for the same price as the 4040, but the design was entirely to do with making something like the 6800 but cheaper.
I agree with everything you said, yet I still believe HN comments are regularly the most high quality on the internet. Do you know anywhere that has better comments than HN?
$10 lasting two weekends sounds about right for a $20/month product?
That's why I phrased it that way. But since you mentioned working modulo 2^64, I thought that would count :-).

It's useful to make it explicit anyway for people who might miss that, so thanks!
The real purpose of the scrum in rugby is to tie up half of the players (the forwards - the backs are not in the scrum) when restarting play.

Literally to remove the forwards from the play after a restart, by having them all bound together with their arms twisted around each other.

Then, when the ball pops out, the field of play is nice and empty for a few seconds and some running rugby can take place, while the forwards slowly untangle themselves from the scrum.

To translate to software engineering and agile, if scrum is taking half of the team's developers and tieing them up and preventing them from doing any work, then scrum is working exactly as intended.
I run this meeting often with teams.

It should be a literal standing meeting. You dont get to sit and drone on. There is one in every bunch and when they make their peers stand for 10 mins. The team will self correct the person into not being that way.

That meeting is a check point. What is every one up to, and everyone else gets to hear. It's a way to get a team to gel (and many aren't)... If someone surfaces a problem in there (and they should be) then there should be some other team member offering to help out - there should be dialog if some dependency is going to get bumped by others being distracted.

These meetings are effective up to about 10 people. They work well with cross functional teams, or teams where the members have varying levels of experience.