skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agility is implemented as a way to increase productivity. It does it with more detailed scrutiny of what workers do.

Management understood very well that it's taylorism applied to our profession. Taylorism started with measuring every movement of the workers and have their expertise removed from themselves. Daily stand-ups and points kind-of do that, even if there is no magical 4x productivity gain to ever be found, unlike was what won in manufacturing (cf. Braverman). It's a game played against workers, if they self-organized there would be no Agile.
Yea, failing fast and cheaply can be enormously valuable. In fact, of the projects that "didn't fail" one can wonder how many of them are still in a death march.
Isn't Apple's trademark for Macintosh?

What if I called my laptop Macaroni, and referred to it as Mac?
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If the cops want an app to spy on people, they should build their own app.
Yes, general statements never (almost never? :p) deal with all edge cases.

Did you know they don’t need a patent on the crop? They can file patents on variations of the genes in question, meaning even other variations can be protected under patent laws.

I guess it would be more honest to say I think there are other, more pressing matters in agriculture than GMOs, and that I have serious problems with patents on basic needs like medicine and food sources.

But the topic was about GMOs, so I phrased my response in this context. Do with it as you like.
Yeah, Preview has always worked great for me. Maybe I am just not using fancy-enough PDFs to notice that it doesn't support some things.
Google is where Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright coined "Hyrum's Law". Loosely paraphrased: given enough users, people start depending on the "implicit interface" rather than the defined one.

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
Every agile coach always tells me that agile is whatever works for the team.

Conveniently, if something isn’t working they dismiss it as not true agile.

Of course, all of the processes and meetings they push on to the team don’t actually work out, but they’re long gone by then.
My vote as well. Proximity and "stickiness" to the mother. Likely not a thing if the father moves on to the next region/town after sireing a child. I think back to the isolated humans encountered by the British when working on their rocket programs. Basically groups of women that men moved between, impregnating. Move into a group, kill a child or two and/or fight other males, impregnate someone and move on. I overlay this behavior whenever I try to figure people out.
Fort Sumter. You want to let Texas have nukes?
Isn't this just saying what we already knew, that tokenization has these fundamental flaws? Did we need a paper for it?
I'm so glad that GitHub finally offers this.

They're just more efficient for certain kinds of workflows - both cheaper and faster.

If you're building for arm64 targets or android, this is a no brainer because it sidesteps the emulation requirements.

We've been offering arm64 runners for a few months now (up to 32 vcpu) with WarpBuild and our users love it.

In general, there are lots of inefficiencies in CI starting from the lack of visibility, debugging ease, performance, runner config customization, persistence, etc. We're out to solve it and make the world's fastest CI cloud ecosystem on top of existing CI providers with WarpBuild.
Nixing the chewy, slimy, limp, cooked pickle slices would be an improvement but I guess RealMickyD's never dogfooded their own slop.
Got curious about their 'Mighty Mac':

https://api.supermacs.ie//uploads/628d16681e300/medium-628d1...

Two 'Irish Beef' patties with 'Burger Sauce'. Plus you can get curry fries, nice.
All I know is that Agile means a lot more meetings and a lot more meetings means I'm a lot less productive.
The article does not state that the removed comments were removed for legal reasons.

The ad industry tends to be a lot more sensitive to certain content than governments are. (For example simple insults can easily get a Youtube video demonitized.)

There's a good chance that the removal of comments regarding killing and war is caused purely by ad regulations.

Without further information, these numbers tell nothing about the actual effects of censorship laws.
Coming to America was an interesting treatise on American corporate culture.

It was also a movie I think.
If the model was trained over (say) a week during there was no full moon, how would the model know what this unexpected message means? It would probably just ignore it and continue playing as normal. Nethack is full of messages that can be safely ignored, so just another one would not be unusual.

I don't agree that the creators would be watching the game play either. Usually during such training phases you'd run as many copies of the game as the available hardware can manage. I wouldn't be surprised if they had at least hundreds of runs going in parallel and the researcher is definitely not going to be watching them all. If anything, they are going to bed and train the model overnight as much as possible.
They can also list in their proxy statement why they don’t have a diverse board
Ergh. Thanks for the heads-up. Bartender's been super handy for years, but has sufficient access to do some damage. Suggested alternatives?
Headline is misleading. Does it matter if single commute distance increases if it's only being done once a week instead of 5 times?
Probably the originally intended Agile [1]

These days its been devolved into micromanagement musical chairs of pain. The kind that promotes what it professes to prevent and provide.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
+1 here... a few weeks ago, it wouldn't have been nearly the concern for me, where today it definitely is.
yeah, no reason these days to use proprietary solutions for small problems. I'll check out Ice, it seems much more modern (and maintained) than Dozer: https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

I just wish somebody would create an open source alternative to Rouge Amoeba's Loopback!
I've found that using a simple unique integer id as the key usually works well. Integers are easy to explain and are simpler to enter than uuids. There are always ttade-offs, but if there are no other compelling issues, simplicity is best.
All I can say is the big waterfall projects I was on pre-agile had excellent planning for the wrong things, and took up most of the time allocated for the project. So we were out of time, the quality and people suffered. Another project was cancelled because we took so long planning, the company lost interest.
Yep, and the big companies basically use Agile as an excuse for not thoroughly planning and vetting ideas. Just build it and figure it out as you go. Then rebuild everything in 2 years since you're left with outdated and unmanageable spaghetti code and you burnt out all your SMEs so they took the knowledge with them.
To some extent I agree, but in both situations the breach already happened, who knows for how long.
Dozer does the same and is free.
The Canadian Venture Exchange was absolute anarchy, and that was compared to the already lax Toronto exchange that had been chock full of sketchy mining stocks, the poster child of which was Bre-X.

Which of course was from Calgary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bre-X
Indeed. The only quibble I might
entertain is that other mechanisms of law enforcement involve an open in public process of trial and some kind of check against absolute authority. Generally, such checks do not exist within the fiefdoms of individual social media outfits and their terms of service.

I recognize it as a wart but I'm really not sure how to address it in an international context where there is no one frame of law that can be applied, nor should there be.
Do you sleep, get sick, require more than compute hardware/storage/networking/electricity?
I can't say I know the law in every state so I typically don't say absolutes like that. If that's true, thanks for clarifying/correcting.

Also, it looks like you're right for at least the states I normally deal with. Looking back the first job I had started when I was still 15, I must have just blended those shift schedule restrictions during the rest of my time working as 16-17 as well. So yeah, I guess that's probably true.
I think that works for "Supermac", but it seems to me like "Mighty Mac" is a clear attempt to piggyback on the Big Mac name. I don't think that the argument you gave is very persuasive in that case. So yeah "Mac" might be a common thing in the culture, but there's also some shenanigans going on here too.
I tried asking Claude variants where N was something other than a nonnegative integer, and he properly pointed out the absurdity, but was willing to play along once I brought up theoretical physics:

[...] So, in our quantum mechanics interpretation, how many sisters does Alice's brother have? It's a superposition of states:

1. In one state, he has Alice as his sister (+1) and the "antisister" (-1), totaling 0 sisters. If they met, they'd annihilate, leaving him sisterless!

2. In another state, he has Alice (+1) and owes a future sister to the quantum family field (-1). Currently, that's 0 sisters, but he's in "sister debt."

3. In a third state, he has Alice (+1), but his family's entanglement means another family's loss of a sister affects him too (-1). Bizarrely, he experiences both having and not having a sister simultaneously.

This interpretation is, of course, a playful and highly metaphorical application of quantum concepts to something they don't actually apply to—family relationships. In reality, quantum effects like superposition and entanglement are incredibly delicate. They typically only persist in highly controlled conditions, like ultra-cold atoms or isolated photons. The constant interactions in a family would "decohere" any such quantum states almost instantly.
Clear requirements without an artifact to test against is impossible. That is my main focus when thinking of agile.

I think Shape Up is one of the most reasonable modern interpretations of the agile manifesto.
"Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?"

Gemini nailed it with no extra prompting.

https://g.co/gemini/share/6946d20c0a4d

When I gave it numbers, Gemini got confused.

Alice has 4 brothers and she also has 3 sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?

https://g.co/gemini/share/14d34dcdc5df

But then when I suggested that it might be a trick question, it nailed it again:

https://g.co/gemini/share/e1f1ce8f32a8

note: I didn't try 60/212 siblings - I consider this an unfair question because it's a reasonable assumption that Alice is a type of creature (human?) that cannot have hundreds of siblings, and thus I don't expect a respondent to give a "correct" answer.
well, I couldn't stay eleven forever
If the trademark is weakened, this opens the door to having it removed. It should not be trademarkable. It is like trademarking "X" (where X is some common work or term) then going after anyone that uses the word "X" in their name or marketing, despite it being a regularly used word or phrase in that specific region or culture.
https://pkgsrc.org/ from netbsd runs on many systems
https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...
Looks like their web server committed suicide first.
Which also the same sense that a form using % is not divisionless. When bittwiddlers speak of divisionless they mean not using the exceptionally slow div and divmod instructions.

Also the same sense in that code that uses division by a compile time constant is divisionless-- any competent compiler will turn that into a multiply.
Second best documentary ever made, after Idiocracy.
But then you need to click on control center to see those icons...I just want to know if I am muted with a quick glance.
Unfortunately pithy response (in abstract, not specific to this case) boils down to: Because they fired the people who how the system worked.
Why is saving the entire world your only idea of usefulness?
Tech Bros just yesterday yelled at their lungs that AI overtake is just around the corner just like Tesla FSD and Fusion. And Quantum computing.

All in for scientific progress, experimentation and failure but there's clear case of hype train and jacking up valuations is also riding along, very confidently and shamelessly.

An average tech outsider investor would be having a FOMO with that kind of crazy tall promises and tall claims that are being made, constantly and must be called out as such because they undermine the confidence of the general public in serious and grounded science in the long run which would lead to science deniers and nay sayers in the long run.

Pursuit of science is noblest of all pursuits. A hasty and greedy purely capitalist commercialisation pursuit, I am not so sure.
teenage pregnancy and abstinence only education
With a drop of blood, this new device will test for TBIs in 15 minutes
Based Texan.
It might be the case that, in general, people can never consider the downsides without leaving the rules in place forever. Maybe they do need to be mindlessly trashed every once in awhile, and maybe the price paid for those downsides is worth it on a very long time scale where the alternative would be for rules to only ever accrete but never shake loose. And they have to sometimes unless you believe that all regulations ever, no matter how poorly formulated are perfect.
I really liked that paper, easy to understand and explain every terminology they used, even the variance computation is explained! I don't expect that much detail from every paper, but it's a bliss to read.
This is obvious... but some human knowledge outside the question is needed. (Alice is female, sister is female, brother is male, relation of sisters and brothers). In a school math "word problem" you don't need this kind of info.
Kids are literally dying in Tyson affiliated chicken plants down south and nobody is going to prison.

Why WOULDN'T youtube use child labor if it's cheaper?
The free Itsycal[0] can display whichever date pattern you prefer. It’s what I’ve been using for several years now.

[0]: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
Show HN: Procedural art using vector fields
GitHub project: https://github.com/Soham-Saha/VectorFieldSimulator

This is one of my first GitHub projects. Please comment how I can improve it.
Yea, like when people say they are Christians but are against helping the poor. Pretty clearly not Christians in any reasonable definition...
I don't see a significant improvement in GPT-5 versus GPT-4. Hence why OpenAI is going the product route. They're trying to hit value-add via external features such as Voice Mode and Data Analysis.
I’ve been using it for years! It’s a wonderful app.
In many ways, this is very obvious and routine to people who use these systems with a critical understanding of how they work. It's dispiriting how we require a arxiv.org pdf in order to point out the absence of the emperor's clothing. There are few people who use LLMs who could not, right now, demonstrate this point to themselves if they so wish.

Such is the strength of corporate tech propaganda that a whole mass of people will instead insist that we have never worn clothes either.
Your app is my favourite Mac app.
Will on device timeline have export?
Security/privacy concerns aside, Recall doesn't particularly feel like an "AI" feature to me. It's on-device OCR plus a SQLite database that you can then search, right?

Even by today's loose definition of "AI" I'm having trouble making that connection. I guess the OCR is based on machine learning?

Is there an LLM component to Recall that I've missed? If so, can I build websites with prompt injection attacks on them that will target Recall users directly, by getting my rogue instructions indexed into their SQLite database and later fed into the LLM?
I'm still waiting for people to combine LLMs with logic engines (prolog) or proof assistants. LLMs are afaik not designed to reason. But they can probably be used to construct formal statements that can be processed by logic engines.
According to the article, most removed comments were about current events. You can access the report here[1][2] and see if you think the comments they highlight comport with European speech laws or not.

If you check their methodology, their coding guidelines were developed by legal experts who are native speakers in each of the target countries, so to answer "Says who?", lawyers.

[1] https://futurefreespeech.org/preventing-torrents-of-hate-or-...

[2]https://futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Prev...
Yep, this is what I did once I saw this. I hate to admit it, but I'd lose my mind if I didn't have Bartender.
>The U.S. and other countries maintain a strong lead in original innovation, with Silicon Valley and other tech hubs producing groundbreaking technologies and startups.

What are these groundbreaking technologies? Social apps? Marketing automation tools? Ride sharing apps?
Citation 40 is the longest list of authors I have ever seen. That is one way to help all your friends get tenure.
""Legal online speech made up most of the removed content from posts on Facebook and YouTube in France, Germany, and Sweden,""

This whole article is idiotic. It can be re-phased as: "Meta and Alphabet don't want to hire large compliance teams, so they simply accept every request as valid." The companies have the option to push back, but they prefer not to, because they don't want to be bothered. And if a take-down request is not challenged, then we don't actually know if the courts would have found the speech illegal or not. If the courts frequently upheld the speech, then the regulations would naturally shrink in scope. But if the courts instead agreed that the speech violated the law, then the speech actually was illegal. But establishing the exact boundary between legal and illegal is something that can only be done if the companies, or some free-speech CSA, are willing to take some of these cases to court.

The criticism here is similar to the one made against content hosting companies who take down any content flagged by a DMCA request, even when the entity making the DMCA request is not the copyright holder. When the content hosting companies demonstrate cowardice regarding DMCA, then the DMCA can become a tool of abuse, but some of the criticism regarding the situation around the DMCA should be aimed at the cowardice of the companies.

It's worth repeating, too, Meta and Alphabet always have the option to leave the EU market if they find the regulations in the EU market to be overly burdensome. But if they stay in the EU market, then they'll have to abide by EU regulations.
> To turn your second part back around: why a natural key? What is the function of minting a natural key if humans are meant to use something else?

Because non-natural keys are unnecessary in the presence of a natural key, and unnecessary things bring in complexity.

> "Customer ID ### is having an issue with such-and-such."

Then you need access to the customer's ID, but the devil here is in the detail you didn't add, the such-and-such.

> communicating about a customer in insecure channels

Use secure channels…
https://web.archive.org/web/20240605120547/https://www.antip...
Arm Launches Next-Gen Big-Core: Cortex-A725
Just going to uninstall it. Wtf. - Are there alternatives?
Boeing legal strategy is to maintain litigation for as long as humanly possible to block, wear down, bankrupt and otherwise break upstart competition. In this case it seems they outright stole as well.
Uncensor Any LLM with Abliteration
Honestly, 99% of the time people are doing it wrong. People are either too strict with it or too "loosey goosey" with it.

*EDIT* It doesn't have to be correct, it just has to work for the people on the team. If it works, then use it, if it doesn't then change it. That's agile.
Asana's new 'AI teammate' can tell people what to do at work
I don't actively monitor it every day, but I feel it!

Intel MacBook from 2021.

My laptop gets so hot when running Firefox -- almost instantly (certainly after 3-4 minutes). But I can do a call for an hour on Chrome and it doesn't get nearly as warm. And the battery just drops accordingly as the fans struggle to keep up.

I like to use Firefox, but I end up doing all my calls when I'm not plugged in on Chrome as a result of the power use / heating issues.
It's an election for the parliament, which holds a fraction of the power in the EU. The executive branch of the EU has basically zero accountability to its citizens.
Web Archive version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240605120547/https://www.antip...
It probably has RAG.
> Fewer sellers means buyers compete for a smaller pool of available homes, driving up prices

Uh? This is just moving the tokens around. Those sellers are still going to live somewhere, so they're either going to buy again or enter the rental market. So the "pool of available homes" is not improved by this maneuver, like, at all. At best the buyer and seller for a given transaction end up just trading places and renting-vs-owning availability wobbles transiently by a minor amount.

There is another tried and true method for increasing the pool of available homes though. It's called building more homes.
> I must confess, when I tried to answer the question I got it wrong...! (I feel silly).

In programming there are two difficult problems - naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one error.
I mean.. "science" is what works too. If something turns out to be false, we throw it out and say it's not science. This is good. I don't see a problem with this at all.

But pushing useless stuff that doesn't work and then leaving, yea that's not agile :P
Yes, but it was sold to an acquirer by the original author.

Making it open source would have interfered with the author’s profit goal. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to make profit from your work and protect the source.

Likewise, you’re free to avoid software that isn’t open source. However, it’s useless to make these demands that someone should have open sourced their work when that clearly wasn’t in the best interests of their goals.
That certainly applies to Scrum but agile is more of a religion than a system. It's a bunch of extremely vague "principles" whose meaning is often anyone's guess.

What constitutes agile is basically a matter of opinion.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add a note after that section to make sure it's referenced appropriately.

And especially thanks for taking the time to share your experiences and observations with me. That's how I improve as a writer.
It is probably a bit naughty, but Mighty Mac is no different than Big Mac really. Mac is an element of their name. I think they probably did it to see what McD's would do?