skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with your point but then we have an other side of the coin with endless arguments about blue/green bubble.
When I talked through the game theory of BlueSky with the founder, it seemed that it would tend more towards competition between a few large services with fairly nuanced and predictable moderation policies. It is very easy to move your account and your followers to a new server, so if a big server started operating in the way you describe a large exodus would happen fairly quickly. But you have to make sure you are on a server that isn't being blocked by the other large servers, e.g. Donald Trump's server, some spammer's server, or a server that is difficult to distinguish from a spammer (like your own small server) so there will be an incentive for popular accounts that value their reach to stay on big servers shared by many other popular accounts that are hard to block without users noticing.

So, the situation isn't so bleak as you describe, but also, yeah, controlling the website or app called "Bluesky" is still a moat (until it's not!)
Why not bring this up in the retrospectives? Why not make your process leaner in the retrospectives? That's what they are for, no?

Self-organizing teams is at the core of agile. So I hate to say it, but if you don't self-organize as a team, you're doing it wrong.

The fact that you have to go to your VP to present hours says it all, your team is not empowered.
I don’t know if there is, but the forgetting process follows the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

Ali Abdaal claimed in one video that memories are strengthened more when something is only just remembered than when it is easily remembered, so as late card prompt as you can get, before actually forgetting. I don’t remember his source for that.

And there’s simply limited time, a thing which repeats wrong answers more but not as much as you need is wasting your time and a thing which doesn’t reduce correct answers as quickly as possible is having you waste time reciting things you know.

So there seems to be room for ways to rank different algorithms.
Next you are probably going to tell me black forest cake is not made in the black forest any more.
Goldman Sachs: The Rise of 'Affluent India'
56 Million litres, about 2,5GWh: https://group.vattenfall.com/de/newsroom/pressemitteilungen/...
They also have survivorship bias. Wooden palisades are effective but tend not to survive time.
1. Licensing of data will be huge bottleneck
2. Uncensored results will be used against opensource models questions hovering in dark or grey area
3. Limited compute compared to big corp and model size gap 7B for opensource and closed source would be magnitude bigger
Unlike the VSCode example, Vim's multiple modes utilize the exact same content and UI:

With your cursor in the same place, and pressing the same keys on your keyboard, Vim's response will change based on whether you are in normal mode, insert mode, visual mode, or whatever mode.

That's what they mean by modal. In insert mode, you have a ~104 keys that insert new text. In normal mode, the same ~104 keys execute editing functions.

The magical efficiency is because of its modal nature: Without buying new hardware, by switching modes (at a keystroke) you have a magic input device that issues ~104 different editing commands each with one keystroke, and hundreds more with two-key combinations (shift+, ctrl+, etc.).
AI safety people are hypocrites. If they practiced what they preached, they'd be calling for all AI to be banned, ala Dune. There are AI harms that don't care about whether or not the weights are available, and are playing out today.

I'm talking about the ability of any AI system to obfuscate plagiarism[0] and spam the Internet with technically distinct rewords of the same text. This is currently the most lucrative use of AI, and none of the AI safety people are talking about stopping it.

[0] No, I don't mean the training sets - though AI systems seem to be suspiciously really good at remembering them, too.
Yeah totally. I find tests a useful design tool in what I do, but I definitely only test everything when I'm working on a complicated piece of legacy code that I don't understand.
Is this not a standard practice?
> Is Israel obliged to provide water to an enemy entity? In what world does a country attacked by an enemy have an obligation to provide water.

Using starvation, and denying water falls under that, as a means of warfare is a war crime EVEN if ONLY used against "the enemy".

And you are implying the often-heard "there are no civilians in Gaza", which is another atrocity on top of that.

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/634kfc....

> Israel spent 17 years trying to manage Hamas

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

> The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.

And Smotrich, more recently

"If we act strategically correctly, there will be immigration and we will live in the Gaza Strip." and "In the context of de-legitimization - Hamas is an asset and the Palestinian Authority is a liability"

One crime does not excuse the other. Blaming war crimes and crimes against humanity on Hamas because they're just so extremely evil and wiley, while people in Gaza get starved to death and Israeli soldiers make TikToks about blowing up whole villages with wired explosives, singing about how they'll move in, while journalists are targeted, refugee tents are bombed, while people repeat the same sophistry over and over, because a positive wall of politicians and hack fraud journalists repeating the most obvious of lies, gives them the idea they have license to.

"They chose war and war is what they got". Children screaming in agony as legs get amputated without anesthesia.

Unforgivable.

People who chose to justify atrocities with the flimsiest excuses got what they wanted, too. But you can't accept it, say I'm engaging with "actual" facts. You are wrong. The facts simply are very unflattering for what you are advocating is all.
I also think there is a certain comorbidity of an organization pushing scrum heavily and other dysfunctions.

From what I've heard before my time, a lot of traditional organizations had a non-flat hierarchy and a set of 'bosses' - people in charge of personnel, planning, requirements, and technical decisions.

In 'modern' orgs this has been replaced by a 'matrix' structure with each team having a dedicated product owner, scrum master, line manager, requirements engineer, architect etc.

While the traditional org structure had some shortcomings, mainly having to do with the fact that if said boss didn't perform, then the team had no chance, and that so much institutional knowledge was locked up in said boss, that they were nigh-impossible to replace.

Modern management techniques are about replacing potential excellence with guaranteed mediocrity.
It's horrifying. The man destroyed one of the most profitable and productive companies in the world to make himself look good, and make huge quantities of money for himself. From a business standpoint, he has no good qualities, as long as you are assessing over a longer period than ten years. He's really quite terrible at running a business, but great at making it appear that the business is doing better than ever while it rots away. Frankly, it's close enough to fraud that it should be a criminal offense.
two pieces of advice:

First, you don’t need anyone’s permission here. If you want to build American made toasters, go do it!

Second, before you dive into this I’d recommend a little more due diligence. Around requirements sure (there was a good post in comments on different certs youd need). But more around validating demand: why doesn’t this exist already? As someone mentioned, are there enough consumers that would pay a premium for American made appliance? Or like the article you linked mentioned: no one is going to buy a $300 toaster. So how would you get the costs down?
> Modern editors are declarative - you say "I want to move this file" or "I want to rename this variable" or "I'll drag this split here" and they do the rest.

Those are imperative actions rephrased to make an artificial distinction (and I rename variables in Vim with gR). How high-level the available actions are and being a modal or non-modal editor are orthogonal.
Instagram is like youtube now. Most of my close friends don't post and those that do post are not people I am close with, so I pruned as much as I can but there are a lot of good content creators now so I follow them. It ends up becoming like another reddit rather than a platform I use to connect with friends.
When too many OOOOLOOO brand toasters start fires, they just close their Amazon profile and create a new one selling FOLGARP brand toasters.

You can't have quite that level of untouchability as a US manufacturer, so you have to do it right.
You can also rebind combos to not hurt
Thank you for this. My sense is that shapeup requires more trust than what a large org is used to. Eliminates the micromanagement and limits the risk to n weeks.
I am sure telegraph spam was low during that era.
Thank you for the information, I appreciate it. But for me your vernacular is a bit offputting. I had to force myself to finish reading your comment. "So like," in a written context takes away from the information. Or I could be wrong and people with similar speech will synchronize with you. I'm not attacking you, so I hope you don't feel that way, but it is something to consider.
This was University of West of England.
I think i am too distant from US politics to really understand it.

How can Vivek Ramaswamy come a distant fourth after Nikki Haley who only ever seemed to talk about Israel and Iran as if she was running for the Knesset. Who are the people who vote for her? What motivates them?
I interpreted it as "the default apt server is the official Chinese mirror"

https://www.debian.org/mirror/list

http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/
The Rise of Generative A.I
It's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish the pictures produced by the generative A.I.from real photographs
The GPL is what forced initially hardware companies to publish drivers source code, helping Linux to run on a huge number of architectures and platforms. Its viral nature, although may have some drawbacks in some contexts, to me has been crucial in helping Linux to jump from a hobby project to the critical mass of users that later forced businesses to take a serious look at it.

I still hear the words of a (quite incompetent and unpleasant) PM at a place I worked at in 2000-2001; we were having some problems (glitches on network traffic triggered by a GFX card interrupt) with Tru64 on Alpha machines and since we had a lot of hardware at hand we installed Linux (RedHat if memory serves) for comparison tests and the problem disappeared, so we jokingly told "well, then just ask the client to install Linux, they'll also save a lot in licenses since it's free". His reply: "Linux? Nah, that's an hobby project, the customer uses professional software". Two years later the PM had been sacked and the customer was starting to migrate everything to Linux. Too bad I already left the year before, but that's how life goes.
> You can't expect Apple to integrate every music service on the HomePod

Technically, they can provide a standard interface and registration for music apps to comply with.

Legally, if EU believes iPhone via Airplay is being used by Apple to give Music unfair advantage over competition, they can require this or ask Music to be split in a different company.
Modes are the core concept on which Vim's design is structured. They organize both the interface and the user's mental model of the text editing process. I did a quick case-insensitive search over Vim's help files, and they matched 'mode' 4470 times.

The first thing you must learn (to use Vim) is that it is modal. And this detail really tends to stand out when first meeting Vim. I think "modal" is a nice word to concisely describe and differentiate Vim.
Given that people are pointing out that heat recovery from washers doesn’t really work because they alternate between filling and draining (so there is no counterflow except incidental from other house activities), I’m not so sure that would be true.

Particularly if you use heat pumps instead of basic plumbing to achieve the transfer. Dump heat into a glycol line with a reservoir.
Berkshire Hathway is also a conglomerate, but it does perform fairly well.
A while ago I wrote a Makefile for compiling Snowdrop on Linux: https://github.com/petabyt/snowdrop-os
The breaking point for me was when someone linked me to his podcast where it's clear that he either hasn't done much diligence or is obviously ignoring information to tell a better story. It's painful and made me really question anything he puts into his books.
X has shown that Elon can't build anything and the number of sycophants willing to work for him is running low
just use gedit then?
I much rather buy something American generally, and certainly from the perspective of a higher quality product designed to last.
...so we will learn that "rich"="evil" and we have a war between classes. Classic indoctrination.

Conflicts of interest are in all areas, including journalism. They could have just stated the facts and shown different angles of view.
This is a little bit off topic, but Openrss page information about how to obtain RSS link is poor.

"To find the RSS Feed for a website, just navigate to the website and the RSS feed for it is usually located at the domain of the website followed by /rss.xml, /rss or /atom.xml".

Recently on HN there were infos that pages provide meta links to atom. This is cleaner solution than guessing.

There was also Firefox extension 'want my rss', etc etc.

This should be better explained on RSS site.
86-DOS Revisited
Most of FAANG as well.
I believe you, but arent you suspicious of the Big Toasta superconglomerate.
> Other than making HR look like total fools, why was the offer rescinded?

The answer is in the question :-)

How would a fool react when their foolishness is thrown publicly in their face?
Android is fragmented and open source. There’s no large entitý to squeeze money out of.
He already said “crazy shit”. His whole platform was being right of Trump.
I don't think this covers the main reason I only use vim occasionally: it is the only reasonable editor available over ssh by default on all VMs deployed in your typical org. Over there it usually has default settings, and it's not trivial to change configs or install other editors.

Worthy attempt, looks cool, but I'm still stuck with having to learn the basics of moving a cursor around reasonably :(
standard capitalist play to set up a moat by instilling fear
Yes, and that's why I conclude that Google must have terrible targeting and wastes advertisers money.
Yep. Or it could be official Debian + some specific packages, a bit like Mobian.
That is great to hear, actually! Thank you.
The advantage that open AI (not the company) has is that if using copyrighted content as training data without licensing it is found to be illegal, they can just keep doing it. There's plenty of FOSS software basically designed to violate copyright law (comic readers, home media center servers/clients, torrent clients) that big tech cannot compete with lest they face legal consequences. Basically what I'm saying is that the open source community will continue to use books3 and scraped images to train while facebook and the like get stuck in legal quagmire.

Of course, this ignores the fact that popular "open" models of today were actually trained with facebook or other companies' computational resources, so unless some cheaper way to train models were developed we would actually be stuck with proprietary models trained with lots of compute but unable to use unlicensed training data, and open models that can use whatever data they like but must operate in the shadows without access to much compute for training.
If you think like I do — that Trump and his acolytes are threats to Democracy in the US — please vote Biden or at least for anyone but Trump in 2024.

Edit: if you are thinking of finding my email and sending me hate don’t. Don’t be that person that escalates something to a level it doesn’t need to be. I’ve already gotten some and if it gets worse it’s harassment. Disagree. That’s fine. Don’t email me.
Read the book first, in 2010 a UK man built one from scratch as best he could

http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568989970/
The fake-but-also-real product placement for GE appliances was pretty funny. As was the promo for other NBC shows (like the ill-fated Smash...)
Yeah but it’s a small island.

If you learn Vim you’ll have access to Vi and Vi-like interfaces in lots of other software including terminals, database clients and everything that uses readline.
This is a new summary of the real-life case that inspired me to go do PhD studies in information systems. I wanted to understand why IT incompetence still could exist to this degree in this day and age after all the knowledge the world had developed about good IT and software practices over decades of experience. Of course, I quickly found out that IS research had already figured most of this out, and that perhaps, people were just people and crappy organizations were just crappy organizations, and perhaps that's something that will never change because bell curve distributions exist for almost everything.

If all people could be selfless, humble, intelligent, competent at everything they ever try to do, AND be people of integrity, I'm sure many of the world's problems would disappear, in addition to just IT problems. People suck, organizations suck, societies suck, and we all suck in our own way. I think organizational research like I'm trying to do still tries to point us towards a better path nevertheless, but sometimes it's a throw your hands in the air thing. Some people will never care.

Needless to say, I'm no longer focused on researching this topic, as it seems really well-researched already. But it's still interesting to see that this particular example still pops up in a news report now and then. There are still plenty of other big examples that pop up every year, but this one seems to have staying power to stay in the news media.
I saw some social media posts encouraging Democrat voters to register as Republican in order to caucus for Haley. No idea how big a role that played, though Haley supporters' second choice for prez is roughly evenly divided between Biden and Trump.
That’s true, unless the issue becomes “personal”. Now HR department reputation is on the line. They won’t just smile and apologize.
That argument only works in one direction: if castles had been ineffective, they wouldn't have been built so much. Yet every castle surviving is a castle that has been built. There are no castle at present that have never been built.
Very true, but workers’ rights are still generally held in higher regard than in a lot of other countries… more due to begrudging compliance with EU directives than anything else, but it could be worse.

Maternity leave is very good, paternity leave recently improved, laws on overtime are relatively strict (although somewhat loosened since the “slave law”) shift allowances are decent, rules around notice periods, probation periods and termination are all relatively fair.

It’s also true in the (admittedly-no-longer-EU) UK that unions are fairly weak nowadays except in very specific industries, such as the railways, public sector, etc.
Oh, the Genius of Jack Welch is simple. Lie to investors while dismantling the company you're in charge of. Use the profits from selling off the dismantled bits to cook the books so it looks like you're becoming more profitable, this will get you lots of bonuses and you'll become super rich, then just walk away before anyone figures out your bullshit. Sure you've destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs, and ruined one of the most profitable companies in the world, but you're rich now, so fuck it. Pure genius.
he claims it's 99% by him and paid contributors. to verify you'd have to ask any major contributors if they have been paid.
My Grandfather had an android.

When I helped him out, he had 3 different SMS apps installed.

You are essentially assuming everyone has the same level of survival skills to survive the technological wilderness as yourself.

Most of humanity would just end up as prey.

The walled garden keeps predatory behavior out.
This is a naïve article. They could have avoided writing it if they'd understood the simple principle that before a money can become a medium of exchange, it needs to prove itself as a store of value. Not just that but a stable (read mature) store of value.

Otherwise what value are you exchanging? And if an asset is going up in value over time, why would you spend it while you can spend some of your assets that are devaluing instead?

It's quite shocking how poor most people's understanding is, of what money really is.
I always wonder if they have retrospectives in those situations. And if so, what they actually do there.

In my opinion, retrospectives give the power to the team to improve their own process. Without self-organizing teams, you have no agile. So without retrospectives, you have no agile. So I always wonder if and what they do during these retrospectives.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/15/fujitsu-que...
I agree that try_async_map is whatever, but currently if you want to call several fallible functions from different libraries and propagate the errors you get into a bit of a mess.
> I wish we could go back to a time when everyone takes their own risks and has to do their own research.

Your risks can impact other people. If your toaster catches fire, it could kill people in the apartment next to yours. If the brakes on your car fail, you could kill anyone who is in your path. These other people didn't choose to take on these risks.
I worked at Samsung for seven years. The culture at Samsung (mobile software division) was exactly as bad as GE. They had thousands of "engineers" fixing the same bugs over and over while the R&D was busy pushing absolute horseshit Powerpoints. I've owned Samsung ACs, TVs, phones, washers and dishwashers and most of them went kaput a year or two after installation.
The absolute best toasting toaster I've ever used is basically a couple of resistors in a sheet metal case with a spring timer: Dualit Classic.

It's comically overpriced but it does one thing and does it well.
>well, there is the 'scrum guide' so its not surprise imo [0]

It sure has a book (in fact, many books), but that doesn't mean it should be treated as the <enter favorite holy book, if any>.

Before ITIL4, ITIL v3 (a famous IT service management framework) didn't mention Agile. Changes must be requested (including the actual configuration items you want to change), someone else evaluates them, if the risk is too high you need approval for a specific board, and so on.

Companies were following ITIL practices to the T, and some people said "don't you realize this whole thing is ridiculous in most cases?".

Cue to Agile. Sure, Agile itself promotes adapting to the environment, people not process,... But then Scrum with its rigid practices is treated as a sort of religion, leading some people to say "don't you realize this whole thing is ridiculous in many cases?". Pretty ironic.

> think the fundamental issue of scrum/agile is thinking one can estimate accurately in the small/short-term and do it continuously.

I agree. Doing stuff and estimating stuff are clearly different skills. And it is well known that many programmers estimate time by doubling, or even multiplying by 10, the time they expect to require for a task. So you have some people who vastly overestimate, others who underestimate,...