skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a useless article that only looks at wealth of households, not at income. Germans own traditionally less real estate than the average Italian. But average income is a lot higher, easily €500K over a lifetime.
What the article fails to mention:

> The median wealth of a household in eastern Germany stood at €43,400 in 2021, compared to €127,900 in western Germany.

Even almost 25 years after the reunification, there are large differences between East and West, even though large sums of money were transferred into East Germany. For many charts (income, stocks, ...) one can clear see the difference between East and West Germany. That's one of the unsolved problems...
This also reflects on family relationships. It's fairly rare for Europeans to 'move to where the work is' whereas in the USA it is very normal. As a result social cohesion differs considerably. Though institutions such as churches compensate for this to some extent in the USA.
This seems to be true of all human development. Running, lifting weights, learning. It's all about progressive overload.
"Way of work should be defined at a team level by its people, not by the company." - This is basically the origin of scrum.

Essentially every problem ascribed to scrum is its departure from this origin story.

Scrum is about making each team work better, but somehow it turned into the same weird top-down imposed structure that it was supposed to replace. 2 week sprints are mandatory for all teams? They all have to start and stop on the same day? And you can use any story point system you want as long as they neatly summarize into these t-shirt sizes?

There is little resemblance between the agile manifesto and what people are pretending to do today.
> 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 to be forced to pay for people live in these flood zones.

+1
I'm not sure that is true: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...

Social mobility is perceived as greater in the USA than some EU countries, but in reality the opposite is true.
Nope. US doesn't have very good social mobility, though there are a couple European countries that aren't better.
Did a 2-year, there's people that graduated there that to this day can't answer FizzBuzz, in that same group, there was a marine biologist that was looking for a change, I'm saddened that the former will probably be what people think when they see our diploma
This article is nominally "Bloomberg Opinion".
I haven't switched from Android to iPhone solely due to lack of ublock origin in Firefox.
DW the German national brodcaster has an amazing free high-quality docs channel on youtube. I watch every new one when it comes out (occasionally they're German-centric). They've done a lot on wealth and inequality and I found them to be extremely interesting:

General topic: https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary/search?query=wealth

Rich and poor - The growing wealth gap in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZfrYcaG4k

New York City rich and poor - The inequality crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXbzbJQHuw

Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXaVLXSZdEw

Money, happiness and eternal life (3 part, long but great): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PudZNM276CY
Regarding Fibonacci, the recursive formula is much more efficient anyway! Oh, not _that_ recursive formula. That one: [1], from [2]. Basically, it allows you to implement in O(log n) arithmetic operations.

[1] https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/64b9...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence#Matrix_form
Haha after 5 years our scrumlord finally relented that 1 point was 8 hours for our team because even he was apparently getting tired of the cognitive dissonance.
Ask HN: What is the root cause of negative social media experience?
When I look back at the early days of using social media (Facebook, Orkut, even Instagram), it was a very positive experience: seeing recent photos of friends, planning social activities, and staying in touch with interesting people.

Now anytime I check, it is anything but positive. It's either content creators desperately trying to get your attention, or self-promoting people (whether in your circle or not) trying hard to present a different self. Even the photos from friends often appear to be a highly exaggerated version of reality, to win some sort of popularity contest.

I get part of my early social media experience these days in private chat channels in Telegram and WApp. But almost any time I spend on social media, I regret it.

And the research also suggests the negative impact of these sites is quite common. So it's not just me.

My question is, to what extent you think the current situation of social media is the result of their monetization policies, and to what extent is it the fault of human behaviour?
Just by switching from Scrum to Kanban one can improve progress a lot. For being two very similar pull based systems the difference in effectiveness is just incredible.
Mobile DevOps for Enterprise That Just Works
And in fact (if you read to the end) that is exactly what the author is claiming. Which is why the title is clickbait.
You tell people who honestly want to get into professional programming that you have done this your whole life with the implication that this is the way? That anything less is “bootcamp” delusion? No wonder they get deflated. Of course they can’t go back in freaking time to when they were kids and get subliminal Programming Pearls from their wet nurse.

And it’s also just wrong. People get into professional programming with... less experience than that. You might have never met anyone in your particular bubble but they do exist.
Ultra high net worth individuals don't matter at all when it comes to statistics, they're an anomaly. The interesting part is the lower 50% and how they are doing. If those people are ok then a country is doing fine, if the lower 50% are at or near the poverty line then you have serious problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index Not according to this study
Are you sure that's the case? My intuition would tell me that that's the 'myth' that keeps the American dream alive, but you might actually have a much harder time in the US getting out of poverty because of the lack of social safety nets. I don't have data to back that intuition up either, though.
Then don't. Noone is forcing you. Just like noone is forcing you to watch Hulu or BBC.
> before a reasonable limit

Which is another way of saying you buy a lump sum of bandwidth included with your VM.

The issue is not paying for bandwidth, the issue is the insane pricing.
I haven’t lived in Europe but my impression has always been that it’s a trade off. Less mobility, but less chance of being completely fucked by poverty.

In your experience, is this the case?
The term scrum comes from rugby, and it has nothing to do with organization. It's literally when something goes wrong, pack everyone together and get the ball moving again. Symbolically, obviously, ball=project.

The problem, like everything these days, is corporatism. Things have been added to the old development model to create positions for knowledgeless managers to do nothing and make money. Agile means fast without preparation. That name no longer reflects the model.

These days, businesses have become so ritualistic to maintain power structure that they're inefficient, and morale is low. It gets to an unsustainable point and fails, meaning mass layoffs and restructuring, or the organization itself going down.
That’s great to hear. I said “realistically” because most people don’t program for 12 hours a day. I love programming, but I love other hobbies too. Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day :)
Evaluate what workloads you have and what is the best way to deliver them instead of searching to replace VMware with the exact same thing. Virtual Machines are nothing more than a means to an end, and nobody on the business side actually cares about them.

You might find that some workloads are best fit for a modern orchestrator running containers such as Kubernetes or Nomad, or a SaaS, or a PaaS/IaaS, or a different hypervisor such as Proxmox or full infrastructure management platform such as OpenStack.
It's interesting to speculate on why, if Scrum is so bad, everyone uses it?

Is it because everyone is an idiot (e.g. management)? Or for some nefarious reason? Or maybe it isn't actually that bad?

On one project I was on, there was a contractor company billing millions per year to create a React admin tool frontend. Many developers involved, Scrum master full-time, and so on. Tickets were created for small parts of features, of course not considering anything more than 2 weeks ahead due to agility, then later other tickets would be created for the next phase of the feature so everything that had been done so far had to be thrown away as it was wrong (great for billable hours), etc.

The person on the customer's side managing this didn't really know what they wanted, so was happy to be told that, due to agility, they wouldn't have to specify anything more than two weeks ahead. A big decision can't be wrong if you aren't allowed to make big decisions! Can't get fired for decisions being wrong if you aren't allowed to make them.

So everyone won out of this situation really.

I don't know if there would have been a better way to manage this project. But I can see what everyone got out of it.
Yeah I can’t imagine LLMs are replacing human labor. Not to mention the obvious legal and ethical issues.
Youtube started to break even in 2010. It means it was burning cash for the prior 5 years. That's the biggest obstacle, when it comes to a new kid on the block: the entry price. You need a wallet that can't be emptied, at least for 5 years. Most probably for more, as you have to compete with an existing de-facto default service.

And sure, Amazon may have a bottomless wallet... but would you want to burn its content for a project, that very well could fail spectacularly, with a very high chance?
Any recommendation for copilot integration with Emacs?
The innovation that gets an Alzheimer's drug through the blood-brain barrier
It is absolutely true that some devs have the AWS product set as the tech toolkit they know best.

Whatever their fundamental skills are, the most important way they add value is by optimizing things like lambda startup time or EC2 CPU utilization. Does this allow them to mask deep problems with fundamentals? I guess it could, but that sounds a bit gatekeep-y to me.
Ah, more grist for this study: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...

(It appears that Americans are over-optimistic about social mobility, Europeans over-pessimistic. Americans are very unlikely to go from poor to rich (bottom quintile to top in this case), but think it's easy. Europeans are rather more likely to, but think it's impossible.)

This is actually kind of what you'd expect (in particular because of how expensive university education is in the US), but it doesn't really gel with how people _think_ the world works.
You're correct, I'm not a sales person, which is maybe why I'm finding it hard to be sympathetic to her firing.

"She closed zero sales 4.5 months into a 3 month ramp."

She had 1 month, after 3 months of ramp, to close something. Based on that, alone... I'd still stick by my comments above. If she has even a single peer closing even a single tiny deal in that 1 month, then she's already at the bottom of the list.
It is essentially that now isn't it? Germany has failed to see past their own atrocities and now fail to call out Apartheid Israel in their genocide in Palestine.

25 000+ people have been killed in Gaza, the majority women and children. That is 1% of the population, or in American terms 3 million people killed in 3 months.

The Hamas rhetoric is a lazy excuse for their atrocities. Hamas didn't make them bomb indiscriminately. In fact, they even mistakenly killed their own hostages. This shows they don't care for any life in Gaza. They just want to depopulate Gaza through genocide or ethnic cleansing. Hamas wouldn't exist same as uMkhonto we Sizwe doesn't exist since Apartheid in South Africa was abolished.
Vase: Object-Centric Appearance and Shape Manipulation of Real Videos
It's a sad thing, really. Italy could theoretically be doing better than Switzerland but in practice they are doing far worse due to the never ending corruption, tax evasion and organized crime all of which drag the country down tremendously. But it will take many generations to repair that.
Not even that will do it; big-enough businesses will just financially-engineer themselves out of trouble.
You had the middle school science teacher I wish I had but never did. This was one reason I decided to send my kid to private school. When choosing schools my wife had a bunch of criteria but the only thing I really cared about was interviewing the middle school science teacher and we picked one with a great science teacher. My kid had a had a terrific time in that class and I got to experience middle school science done right through homework projects and dinner time stories.

The incidental lesson learned is that a private school board, principal and administrators who do the hard work to build a system and culture able to attract, hire and nurture one really great teacher tend to attract more than one. About half my kid's middle school teachers were extraordinary. When selecting schools just remember culture starts at the top and administrative regimes can change by eras so look at the recent history of board, principal and key staff turnover. I found out later the great principal who hired the teachers we loved had left the year before we started. Fortunately, it usually takes a few years for things to change much and our kid graduated middle school last year. I feel kinda bad for students starting there now though because some of the best teachers are starting to leave.
From the Oral History [1] on the rationale for the move:

> [Bill] Lattin: And Jack Henneshen [senior Motorola manager], it is claimed that he wanted to move down there because he wanted a windmill on his property.

> [Tom] Bennett: I thought it was the Texas football games. <laughter>

[1] https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
This article raises a few good points but I think it falls short on answering the question posed in the headline. That is unsurprising, though, because the topic is so complex, it would probably take a book rather than a website article to really go to depth.
Ask HN: People who just kept failing upwards how's life?
While this is an interesting phenomenon the statement "your eye works pretty much like a camera" is so inaccurate as to be reasonably called false. As this statement also detracts from the video title I'm not sure why it was made.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human...
DevOps is definitely my favourite, since the history involved here is on the nose.

For those not in the know, "DevOps Days" was the conference that intended to deliver Agile to Systems Administration. The job title that was supposed to come from it was Agile Systems Administrator...

Alas, people got the conference conflated with the "10+ Deploys a day" talk from Flickr which merged ops and dev, and a mythology was born where everyone has their own interpretation of what devops means. :)
Why are you letting your AGI run wild? Let’s make the assumption that AGI is just a GPT combined with a new training algorithm that allows it to learn rapidly and generalize from small amounts of information. The moment you turn off the training algo your AGI reverts to what’s essentially a next token predictor. It retains everything it learns but is unable to form long term memories.

I think it would be very hard for anyone to be manipulated by an entity without long term memory.
I tried everything for running small models locally, and finally settled on ollama.ai - good command line and REST API functionality. If you like Lisp, recent updates to my Racket and Common Lisp books have examples using the Ollama REST APIs (Can be read online).
Appeal-to-etymology is an especially weak form of argument - the origin from rugby doesn't matter.
Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss
Yes, exactly! In my career I am usually the first ops/DevOps person on the team. These are usually startups who have been run by developers. Nothing wrong with that, I've spent most of my career as a developer. But there is typically a huge blind spot with developers when it comes to ops. That could be a whole blog post and will someday, but relevant here is that they often do not understand when I try to explain how poorly scrum fits with ops. It can be remarkably frustrating for both parties to discuss how to plan ops work. Even breaking the work down can be a battle. Traditional software developers like to push for little chunks of work broken down into tiny pieces. However, when you are talking about a task that is completely and utterly unknown, and could take weeks to result in a one or two line config change, it cannot be broken down without visiting the future, finding out everything we don't know yet, and returning and planning it meticulously. Unfortunately, we don't have that time machine yet
hnfong explained it better than I did
I really like Dave Thomas’ talk Agile is dead long live agile. Dave’s name is listed as one of the creators of the agile manifesto.

Basically, agile is an adjective. Anyone using it as a noun is selling snake oil. Yes, it is that bad - a whole industry built from the ground up to monetize a simple concept by enshittifying it into its very opposite.

https://youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M?si=tCvDcHYv7F77XbZ9

I also like Basecamp’s shape up process which seems to follow the spirit of the manifesto.
Aside from the Straight Dope column itself, their forum is also typically pretty good: https://boards.straightdope.com/

It's the only place aside from HN where I've found reasonably interesting, intelligent, and civil discussion.

There are different subforums, ranging from factual questions (which tend to have WAY higher quality discussions than SEO spam sites), great debates, entertainment stuff, etc.
Scrum sucks and much like HR it’s a made up field to get buddies employed for literally no ones benefit except their own department. Stand ups are never useful. Never. Not once in the history of the human race has an engineer ever though man I’m so glad I read out the state of a jira ticket to someone who doesn’t even know how to push a git commit.
All the economics papers do this. There's a column here or there about inequalities and vague ideas how to address it. When it comes to actual concrete policy, the wealth will trickle down.
Yeah, but once you get to El Paso, you're almost half way there!
Palo Alto is like this. Northern, wealthier, part of the city got all the power lines put underground and then the money for the program "ran out" before they could get around to doing it for the southern, slightly less affluent, areas. Never mind that the whole city paid in to the program. Oh well that just how it goes.

So now, in 2024,the power still flickers every time the wind blows and goes down at least an hour a year.

And yet, despite all the money pumped into the northern part of the grid, there is still only one connection to the national grid and it's right under the flight path of the airport where a plane already crashed into it once. Whole city, north and south, had no power for 12-ish hours.
Nice to see Data Brokers Watch at the top of HN, I'm one of the creators.

We are a nonprofit, and we are looking for volunteers to help us automate the opt out process, but in a different, more effective way than the companies doing it today. If you have expertise in ML (classification), react, UX/UI or aws and would like to help us make a dent in the data brokers and more generally online privacy spaces please get in touch at info@consciousdigital.org.
Managing on-prem hardware may not necessarily be hard, but it can be extremely time consuming. To me, the nice thing about dropping a bunch of hardware in a colo is you get to take a lot of shortcuts and take risks that you cannot buy from the public cloud providers.

I worked for a company and would do it again that did the colo route, and it gave immense cost savings compared to public cloud, taking on risks that you can't do elsewhere. Before they started investing in having folks take care of the infra as a raw startup, it was just some servers and some desktop unmanaged switches. But that gave the company breathing room to survive as the business model probably didn't work without it. But also had a reputation for unreliable service.

I've also built the five nines infra at telcos, and yes you can do it with average engineers, but it's going to be time consuming, slow, and expensive in costs and labor. To allow 26 seconds of unplanned outage a month, you're going to be testing every firmware update for every piece of equipment on an ongoing basis, and practicing every operation and change as best as possible. And you need the scale that you get that 26s by having most outages only impact a subset of your customer base, otherwise you're going to blow that outage budget fast.
One doesn’t even need to go as far as C++ or Rust… many best in class Mac apps were written in Objective-C (which is notably slower than either) and were plenty responsive on single core PowerPC G3s, G4s, and G5s.

I think a great deal of the issue comes down to bloated frameworks, bad application code, and a prevalent attitude of nonchalance towards optimization that compounds with dev machines being powerful enough to mask most performance problems.
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I understand! I do not think there is a magic formula for this. This only comes with a lot of practice.
Farmers go bankrupt because organized and technified farming displace them. I have seen all along in-develoopment countries, farmers trying to farm manually as they ancestors did, getting outmatched by Jhon Deere and complaining about the system, instead of modernizing
Billions of people around the world raise happy, well-adjusted kids whilst slaving away in dead-end or non-world changing jobs. And your kids might end up in a non-world changing job as well. I don't think what you do for a living is how your children decide if you are a good parent or not.
>my opinion is while AI may surpass the average human soon

But will AI be able to surpass me bootlicking my boss?
Works great for us. Things that usually indicate that you're not working with agility: spending more than 10% of your time on process/meetings, have professional project managers 100% dedicated to processes, team unaware of mid and long term direction, team talks about scrum stuff instead of what they're working on, ...

I've learned to avoid any shop that has professional project managers doing what they term "the agile processes" instead of the team itself, as those shops are generally buzzword compliant cargo cult ghettos.

I get the "no true scrum master" thing. It's real. However, I was trained by Ken Schwaber, and I'd say most shops who say they're doing scrum are not doing anything that actually resembles that training, other than the lingo.
One of the most reliable indicators I know of a dysfunctional team is on average how many times whether what being proposed is sufficiently agile is put to question per meeting. If this is greater than some epsilon much smaller than 1, then you have trouble.

Overall "is that really agile though?" is such a fantastic thought stopper. It's can be thrown out to derail any sort of proceeding. It moves all focus from what's practical and applicable and relevant to the situation at hand, and moves it to an endless discussion about philsophical alignment.