skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"POINTS AREN'T TIME! THEY'RE EFFORT AND/OR COMPLEXITY!" I've been routinely told. Yet... low complexity stuff was expected to take less time, even if it was high effort. All 'in my experience' of course.

Changing 95 files because someone didn't want to centralize some value in a method call last year (YAGNI!) is now high effort, even if low complexity.

Then... "that's too many files in a PR! break it up! no one can review that many files!" It's the same two line change in each file - this shouldn't take that long to 'review'.

I've often spent more time arguing about points/effort/estimates than doing the low effort work. But if we don't record it properly, you won't get 'credit' for the work!

Slow-paced insanity when taken anywhere near close to its logical conclusions.
NFTs were the new music and art, once you cared to look past your given Bored Apes. I also don't think that it's a coincidence that XR and AI hit their strides during that period. There are more examples.

And, note that the momentum-killer in all these cases was not organic, but institutions clawing back their riches - by hook, and certainly by crook, in many cases (I'm glad you mentioned GME). Return-to-office had every rational reason not to happen, and they forced it anyway.
You think hours worked is equivalent between professions…?
Thanks for the link.

It's interesting to me that the income inequality statistics don't seem that bad. It's my US bias showing I suppose. The chart about Ultra High Net worth shows 109 UHNW per million Germans, compared to 374 UHNW per million Americans.
Holy shit people - scrum does not work without a fundamental understanding of the theory of constraints.

If you're burndown chart isn't burning down, something is blocking your team. A manager finds out what is blocking the team and works on it.

If your team has a bunch of tickets in process- then your WIP is high - that's bad. Someone taking on more tickets to just get to work should be pulling the equivalent of an Andon cord.

Tasks should not have estimates - tasks should roughly have the same time to complete - a task that takes 10 days is not a single task.

A sprint meeting should only assign new tickets based off the previous rate of completion. Adding more WIP only fucks things up more than they are.

Management sees the rate of completion of features - and then calculates the time to project completion in sprints.

IF YOU HAVE A DEADLINE and you're missing it...

- cut back on features
- or find out what's blocking your team.

Developers need to be told to emphasize and raise up items that are blocking them.

In any value stream - there is only one current constraint. The rest of the production process needs to be subordinated to the constraint.
Is it pull request reviews? Is it the QA process? Is it ambiguous tickets? Are questions not getting answered?
You’re right. It is impossible to put US in a box and say this is how it is. It is the land of the extremes. I tried to portray a picture from my personal experience (and hoped that it would extrapolate to the average experience of a student). NYC and Boston (both places I love are more exceptions than the norm. American society for the large part is oriented towards car ownership. Sure, one can bubble themselves the confines of downtown Boston or Manhattan area, but, if you want the “true experience” of American life, with some trips to the beautiful nature the country has to offer, bbq parties at a colleague’s place in the suburbs etc - you’re going to need a car.

Yes, I will NOT generalize to say all Americans are obese. I merely went by the stats that says more and more are.

I’ve had the American college town experience (college town South Carolina) and I cherish those times. I rode through a scholarship and had a worry free time to actually learn, and have fun while at it. But, I know many of my peers who had to pay USD tuition from their home country cash, and it was incredibly hard for them. Again, it depends…
In education theory this is known as the “zone of proximal development”.
Is it realkly dishonesty? The fearmongering around AI and capitalism is also not irrational so it would require some sort of goal to qualify as lying. What we are seeing is a complete lack of understang the technology and to be honest, it is extremly difficult to dissect and even harder to know whats behind the tech layoffs.
> hurricane prone zones, flooding prone zones and so on?

They should also leave, flooding is only going to get worse over the next 50 years . There is no good reason for American tax payers being forced to pay for people to live in these flood zones.

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/08/08/hidden-subs...
Yeah that's almost certainly the issue.

Last year I had to debug a Windows issue that caused the following: we get back a struct from the Windows API that contains an HRESULT style error code, and also a string error message in case of error. Printing the string revealed that it started with the error code in hex, so we just logged the string. As part of a workaround for another Windows bug we had to check the error code for a specific value and do something different.

Eventually we got a report from a Windows machine in the wild where the code seemed to be doing something impossible: the log indicated the error code we looked for was being returned, yet, the code didn't take the conditional path that checked for it. After a lot of head scratching we realised there was only one possibility: the error code printed in the error message and the error code returned in the structure didn't actually match. Sure enough that turned out to be the case. Somehow Microsoft had generated the textual version of the error successfully, and then the machine readable error code had been replaced with something else before it was returned. The fix was to compare against both the HRESULT and the stringified form.

Naturally, this error only occurred on some Windows installs and not others for no obvious reason. The core OS seems to have tech debt issues so severe that it's basically impossible to verify even for app developers - you can do everything right, test it all carefully, and your code will still blow up in the wild in an undocumented fashion because no two Windows installs are quite alike, even (perplexingly) for fresh out-of-the-box installs that appear to be the same version. At this point even Linux is more consistent than Windows 10 is. I can't imagine how painful it must be to work on Windows deployments at Microsoft. The install base has become so inconsistent that they're pretty much guaranteed to trash people's systems with every change they make by now.
> What do you have to say about earthquake prone zones, hurricane prone zones, flooding prone zones and so on?

There's no way I'd be living there, so I'd say the exact same thing!
> Scrum is broken

That section describes various scenarios how scrum can be misapplied — starting from a team that doesn't find value in it ("Does your team still attend the stand-up meeting [without PO and SM in the office]? I doubt it."), and ending with various organizational dysfunctions (bosses, hierarchy, confusion, estimation, someone writing useless tickets, people not collaborating, and so on).

Why are those organizational dysfunctions Scrum's fault? Why is the title of the article "Scrum sucks"? Not clueless bosses suck, or orgs that are too firmly set in their ways suck?
Improving working conditions and wages clearly prove that Marx was wrong. It is ironic that, in some cases, Marxist arguments led to changes that disproved Marx's teachings.
Yeah, a lot of this article is just gratuitous sniping at the German economy for not being as nutso gung-ho as the US:

> Much of Germany’s wealth is held by private, family-owned small and medium-sized companies known as the Mittelstand. These are an engine of job creation, but their thrift underpins the current account surpluses Germany is often criticized for

Seriously, what does that even mean. Bloomberg would presumably prefer fewer Mittelstand companies, more venture capitalists and the occasional swashbuckling Adam Neumann?

> An aging population is also straining Germany’s generous social insurance system

Your social insurance system can't go bust if you don't have a social insurance system tapsheadmeme.gif
Amazing how this aged so well. Perhaps the best validation of the quality of the advice.
Ten years ago a bartender told he was studying economics and asked me what field I was in. I said I study math and computer science. He says “all that stuff is going to be automated” and I replied “I wonder what that will do to our economy”. All the blood drained out of the poor guy lol
Thanks, this is very helpful and motivating!

In this situation, I sit directly in front of the speakers with only a single listener. And the full-range cones are quite small (100mm?), we're not talking 4" here (it all has to fit on my desk with my monitor).
I agree it sucks, but if we are being honest here, technology was never for people on very little income. Everything has been free for so long because of ads, but then people started using ad blockers, so the services responded by adding more ads, leading more people to use more ad blockers.

I don't think most people who use ad blockers understand that the ads are literally the price you pay for the service. If you think your time is worth more than the ad length, work for an hour and pay the subscription. I know it sounds crazy when I put it this way, but there's no such thing as free internet video.
Not a single hit for Ukraine

The EU lets in goods, especially food, from Ukraine unregulated ('we must help them!') and Germany, and no one else in the EU, can do the same. It destroys the market > hence the farmers protesting.
The amount of time lost to doing Scrum things was so out of control that some people had fewer than 3-4 hours per day to actually work.

If the aggregate of the sprint planning, backlog refinement, retro and dailies is more than 10% of the total time (eg 1 full day out of a 10 day sprint) for most of the team then something bizarre is going on. If the everyone is losing 50% of their time to agile things then your process is impressively broken.
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> There is no real open source comparable option to VMware if are running your own hypervisors

Well the first question is, do you actually need hypervisors? In a lot of cases, the answer is no, or not for many of the workloads. In others it's 100% yes.

Then, after you've decided you actually do need a hypervisor, there's actually tons of choice - Proxmox (very good and advanced KVM wrapper), Nutanix's AHV, oVirt (future kind of up in the air), OpenStack, KubeVirt, XCP-ng.

Problem is, many VMware users are set in their ways and want an exact and 1:1 replacement, without even considering they were only doings things that way because that was the only tool they knew and had at their disposal, not because it's actually a good way of doing things. Virtual Machines are just a means to an end, and a clunky one at that. VMware are actively pushing you away, time to start paying attention and considering what the organisation's actual needs are, and how are they best served. (And unless you're doing VDI, or almost exclusively using third party appliances delivered as VM images, that's not virtual machines).
I have two M1 machines and haven't seen a single lag spike on both.
It seems like scrum is the very antithesis of "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools."
Most people in Europe are money-bound, not energy-bound, when choosing what car to buy.
Thank you for letting me know, this outside feedback is actually helpful.

The main idea of BDDB is to get an overview of job requirements all in one place. Snippets you found, are there to help you:
a. highlight relevents skills in your resume and/or,
b. evaluate what training you should plan for career advancement.

really fair point about making the homepage more informative, my view was to keep it aesthetically clean.

the search function is mainly good for terms as they would occur in a job title.
If you're talking large M&A transactions where you have bankers and investors and advisors and a well built out team supporting the entire transaction process, absolutely.

But the volume of deals that happen in the $3-50 million range is very high (especially if you include non-tech companies, like PE's buying up a veterinary clinics or dentist offices) -- this segment of companies generally are not "sophisticated" re: M&A by any means.

To be fair this article is talking about a $100m+ transaction, so maybe that's the segment your head is in. I'm coming at it from the perspective of a < $50m transaction.
Mind you, Brave will then fill your notifications with text ads for sketchy crypto products.

Still better than YouTube ads, I guess, but I hope we can do better.
>You could no longer reliably write to your install folder.

I think that came in with Windows XP and it was a good thing. Letting user programs write into a folder full of executables is terrible for security.
TL;DR

1. Clickbait heading

2. Lots of strawman arguments

3. Punchline: Don't be stupid (implicitly assumed you are). Do it my way instead!

4. Success!
I agree that growing equality is a problem but the farmers are far from poor. In fact they had rising profits for the last decade or so.

There is some interesting data here - by the way data from 8025 yearly reports by farmers, so I think we can assume this is accurate:
https://www.situationsbericht.de/5/52-buchfuehrungsergebniss...

See this graphic especially:
https://magazin.diemayrei.de/storage/media/situ/46722.jpeg

The only ones who had sinking profits are the winegrowers.
Wheat producers increased 27%, cattle too, all the while help by the state fell by 10%.

So I’m pretty much over the poor farmers protesting in Germany -
of course the growing inequality __overall__ is a huge problem.

The problem is more corrupt politicians, a more and more unhinged “free market” and just the dystopian hellscape that capitalism is becoming.
Of course cutting social services and benefits for 30 years+ straight will have some effect on the general population.
Thank Schröder and the SPD for starting this and Merkel and the CDU for decades of inaction until it was too late and there was no more room for action.
Now we will have a far right government next election cycle and the best plan they can come up with is to peddle the same lies that the AFD is spouting: that immigration is to blame for growing problems - when in reality immigration is the one thing that props up this failing system.
Income inequality stats are never as bad as wealth inequality stats. Wealth inequality stats are the ones that really matter though.

Income inequality is cited in almost every attempt to downplay inequality in a political context. Income inequality is what is used to say "look! compared to the rest of the planet you have it great! STFU already!"
Average USA household has $100k+ of consumer debt (both "good" and "bad" debt; e.g. mortgage vs doomspending, respectively?).

This includes medical debt (#1 reason for bankruptcy) and student loands, which are considered consumer PRODUCTs (somehow?).

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"What are you, a COMMUNISS?!" [1]

"¡¡¡juSt WoRK harDeR!¡¡" [2]

"It just sounds like whining to everybody else!" [3]

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All "thoughtful" quotes from my Silent Generation (pre-WWII) nana.

[1]: Nana, in response to discussing Single Payer Healthcare

[2]: Nana, after rennovating one of her properties at 50+ billed hours/week

[3]: Nana, responding to only 16% of homes being affordable to median income

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>Most "Americans think of themselves as temporarily-impoverished millionaires"

—John Steinbeck (?)
The median German household wealth may be comparatively low but they have 6th highest “Median equivalised disposable income” in 2022:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...
If you want peace & quiet, then don't live in a city. A country needs money, it is what it is. It is not unique to Portugal in any way; people move to cities in droves; Amsterdam, Berlin, Melbourne (I lived in all 3) and then start complaining that they don't want noise but peace & quiet. Why, in the good lords name would you live in a city in that case? And in Germany and Portugal (ah and Sweden by the way) you can live nice and cheap in nature and have all the rest you want, why do you need to make it worse for people who don't enjoy that and live in a city for the excitement?
Yes, during the pandemic staffing levels surged so even these 15% cuts aren’t even getting close to pre-pandemic numbers. People also forget that even though a company may be classified as Tech, they hire a lot of people in different professions than software to keep the business going - sales, accounting, HR, marketing, etc. Tech is also only like 2% of jobs in the US so layoffs in the tech sector, especially advertising tech (meta, google), aren’t indicative of cross-industry layoffs.

I could see after some time that custom AI apps/prompts could supplant traditional search that has been around for 25 years. SEO will become irrelevant when custom AI tools exist that narrow the focus and allow follow-up questions and context.
> everyone meeting

This is one of the things I've added to me repertoire when I interview with teams: I always ask how often they meet and how they structure their meetings. Big red flag is there is a daily all hands (yes, I've seen this in a 16 person startup)

I think it's emblematic of a few things about the founder/cofounder/lead: 1) they are an egomaniac and just needs to see everyone reporting in, 2) they don't trust their teams because they need to have daily all-hands status updates, 3) they're not connected to their teams' work; there is no visibility into what's getting shipped, 4) there's a strong correlation with micromanagement.

Learned this through a few mistakes joining teams where the founder/lead insisted on frequent all-hands standups (sometimes lasting 45-60 minutes to get through all of the teams reporting in).
There is no reason I can think of why a Wasm interpreter would have higher overhead for arguments in and out. Maybe I'm missing something?

Wasm was designed to have very fast calls, both internally and externally. That's why the basic types correspond directly to machine types. The goal is to have 0 overhead, except for sandboxing.

Regarding sandboxing, there is the stack overflow check that happens in Wasm on each call. But you can disable that check if you don't want it.

Btw, you can see that Wasm has no extra overhead on calls in a simple way: compile Wasm using wasm2c and inspect the C output. That C is what a Wasm VM would run. Some details:

https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2020/07/27/wasmboxc.html

Note the section there about LTO: The Wasm can even be inlined into the code calling into it, which means there is zero call overhead. (But even without LTO, it's just another C function to call.)
Until you're on 4 teams
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> You get too caught up in the meaning of "hard work", as if your only purpose it to use its pedantic definition as a gotcha.

No, I personally don't use the phrase myself in normal conversation and would be glad if it simply disappeared entirely. I'm only responding to the people who use the phrase to justify massive inequality of wealth, so I'd like to hear what you think it means, and how it justifies that inequality.

> The anti-Musk sentiment is now at cult-like levels and I'm afraid that rational conversation is not on the table anymore.

The submitted article is about the "Five richest men", of which Musk is one, so it's not like I'm bringing up his name out of context. He is the context here.

> yet still you'd argue that he doesn't work hard

I didn't argue that. I don't even know what "hard work" is supposed to mean here, which is why I'm asking you. You're the one who said, "I don't understand why people refuse to accept that some people are smarter, work harder..." Yet you seemingly refuse to say what you mean by that. If manual labor isn't hard work, then what is hard work, exactly?

> is basically just lucky

He is lucky. You don't think the following is a lucky set of circumstances to get a massive payoff?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#X.com_and_PayPal

"Even though Musk founded the company, investors regarded him as inexperienced and replaced him with Intuit CEO Bill Harris by the end of the year. In 2000, X.com merged with online bank Confinity to avoid competition, as the latter's money-transfer service PayPal was more popular than X.com's service. Musk then returned as CEO of the merged company. His preference for Microsoft over Unix-based software caused a rift among the company's employees, and eventually led Confinity co-founder Peter Thiel to resign. With the company suffering from compounding technological issues and the lack of a cohesive business model, the board ousted Musk and replaced him with Thiel in September 2000. Under Thiel, the company focused on the money-transfer service and was renamed PayPal in 2001. In 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk—PayPal's largest shareholder with 11.72% of shares—received $175.8 million."

Without that lucky jackpot, none of your "revolutionary companies" would exist.

> Whatever makes you feel better about yourself.

I don't really care. I'm not a "failed billionaire". I've never in my life even aspired to wealth. It's not among my priorities. What I do care about is the disproportionate political power exercised by the ultra-wealthy, and how it makes our whole society worse.

> If the guy who created SpaceX is not impressive to you, then I'm not sure who is.

A lot of people are impressive to me, but I don't give a damn about SpaceX. I don't believe in the Mars fairy tale that's been sold to space nerds, and I wouldn't bat an eyelash if SpaceX folded and stopped operating tomorrow. Furthermore, I think there are too many rocket launches polluting the atmosphere and too many satellites being put in orbit. I'm not a fan.
Yeah and then the router sends you property changes which you react to with useEffect().
I bought a Mac Mini specifically for experimenting with LLMs. On the rare times I want to try fine tuning, I use Colab Pro or rent a server on Lambda Labs. I just use the M2 for inferencing, so far. So, no heat problems.

EDIT: maybe the YouTube demo was using 2 bit quantization?
Yes, though Arm is probably a bit more robust at the lower end (think microcontrollers and very low-power industrial cores), and a little weaker at the high end (per-core performance on Neoverse still doesn't seem to match AMD/Intel).
>state where no actual productive work is done and instead companies become financial manipulation instruments. Eg Boeing outsourcing all plane manufacturing,

How is this any different than nvidia outsourcing semiconductor manufacturing to Samsung or TSMC? There's nothing inherently wrong with companies focusing on their core competency and getting out of low value parts of the value chain.

>airlines making most of their money from points schemes.

Is there more on this? I suspect this is just an accounting artifact. At the end of the day airlines are selling plane tickets. It's just that they're selling it for cash as well as points, which can be bought with cash. I don't see how selling points can be that much more profitable than selling tickets. Why would banks spend $2 worth of money to get points that consumers can spend to get $1 worth of flights?

>Then you end up in a state where a fair amount of the companies in the world are effectively controlled by the wishes of a few index fund managers. It seems there must be a better way for folks to ensure their ability to retire comfortably.

Passive index funds mangers have very little latitude to make decisions. They have to track the index, after all. Therefore I'm not sure what the issue is. Moreover if they decide to go rogue, thanks to "financialization" it's trivial to start another fund that acts in the interests of the shareholders.