skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1971, M. Bryce and Associates marketed PRIDE, the first commercial software methodology for general business use. It was originally an entirely manual process using paper forms, but it was already far more comprehensive than anything called a "methodology" we use today. For example, in PRIDE, every artifact of the systems design and implementation process -- each high-level requirement, each software module, each database table and column, and more -- is assigned a tracking number and extensively documented as to its purpose in a unified knowledge repository. This was decades before Git or JIRA, and at first it was all done by hand, but not for long.

In the 80s, they marketed PRIDE/ASDM, which combines PRIDE with Automated Systems Design Methodology, a suite of system design tools written in COBOL for mainframes. Far from being mere diagramming tools, they assisted in all aspects of an information systems design from initial requirements down through coding and database management. A key component of ASDM was the Information Resource Manager (IRM), a searchable central database of all of the information artifacts described above along with their documentation. Another component was Automated Instructional Materials (AIM), the online documentation facility, which not only provided instructions on how to use the system, it also provided step-by-step directions (called "playscripts" in PRIDE-speak) for each member of the development team to follow, in order to see a business system through from abstract design down to software implementation and deployment. Provided the directions were followed, it was next to impossible to screw up a system or subsystem implemented through PRIDE/ASDM.

This level of comprehensiveness and clarity is the gold standard for business IS development. And it seems to be nearly lost to time.
Or just lose Agile altogether
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Polygraphs are b.s. pseudoscience, unreliable, and subjective.

Polygraph "examiners" are like drug dogs who always fail to find drugs because, since they do not find the drugs, they receive no praise and they do not receive their "toy."
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you don't need to decode a message to decide it's a mass repost.

See https://faq.whatsapp.com/1053543185312573 for example.

Social media 'amplifies' trends, or even "makes" trend.

"The algorithm" is optimized for 'engagement'. The questions are a) can you detect via metadata something is happening and 'cool down' the amplification b) can you de-amplify anger? c) what is the responsibility of "the algorithm" makers ?
Can you please clarify which art? The mockup was done by myself. The mock images in the mockup are from Unsplash.
> My initial reaction would be to use a different rare element. However, a rare element might draw more scrutiny to the casual observer. Then again, the potential for confusion is incredibly high. Interesting spycraft

Worth noting (unless someone else already did) that the UK program that technically started before the Manhattan Project was called 'Tube Alloys'.
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Not sure I agree that this is a trivial question.

Very few things in life are as important as burritos in my view.
Reinertsen's books are very, very good. The most recent and most up-to-date is Principles of Product Development Flow, which that chart came from. The previous one, Managing the Design Factory, is pretty similar and I think it's a better read.

Another great takeaway from it is to prioritize things by cost of delay, or even better, what he calls Weighted Shortest Job First, where you divide the cost of delay by the expected length of the task. The only problem is that the same people that want to get oddly formal and inappropriately rigorous with things like story points will want to turn cost-of-delay into an accounting exercise - or object that it's impossible because they don't have the accounting system for it - which misses the point entirely.
If memory serves water vapor in the mesosphere is broken down by UV fairly readily and migrates into the thermosphere. I think the stratosphere would be in dire shape by the time the mesosphere had any real effect and would be the least of our worries. But I am going off of old memories from school days and am far from an expert.
I understand what you're saying - of course in some sense they're convertable. But the point is to not think about time when estimating, because if you estimate time you don't factor in things like other tasks, or holiday, or anything else. Or if you do you have to spend ages trying to account perfectly for time.

Instead, if you estimate complexity (e.g. I think this task is a 3, just as a starting point, then this task is roughly the same, so it's also a 3, then this one is similar but will take almost as much testing due to its difficulty, so we'll call it a 5, then this one is very simple, not even half as difficult as the first one, so it's a 1, etc), then try and keep that up for a few sprints, then figure out how many points fit into a sprint, you automatically factor in other factors (like "I have to log into Okta ten times a day", or "people keep getting pulled into meetings") through practical observation of what got done, and you get better at predicting what you'll be able to achieve in a sprint.

It's not perfect; it just removes the need for certain entire jobs devoted to accounting for time, which you can spend on another developer instead, while also being a reasonable measure of what you'll get done, and only takes about an hour every two weeks.
I understand the challenge. Taim addresses this by allowing you to categorize your activities and sessions manually, in addition to automatic tracking. You can relate your time spent in apps like Notepad++ and Mobaxterm to specific projects or clients. This way, you get a clear, billable number that’s tied to the actual work you did. Thanks for your feedback, and I hope Taim can solve this problem for you.
Precisely why I said it'd be good if the article had answered that question. The value of X isn't happenstance in this case, the article just doesn't mention that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

>A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: "We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable". So, they sought it out, and when they found it they groped about it. The first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said, "This being is like a thick snake". For another one whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, the elephant is a pillar like a tree-trunk. The blind man who placed his hand upon its side said the elephant, "is a wall". Another who felt its tail, described it as a rope. The last felt its tusk, stating the elephant is that which is hard, smooth and like a spear.
Yeah, it seems like it's fairly common for people/teams to follow the idea that any story that is 8 or more points should be broken down to tasks of 5 or less. This simply doesn't make sense to me. If the most simple task is 1 point, is your most complex task allowed really only 5 times as complex? Story points usually follow an exponential increase for a reason, enforcing staying in the mostly linear portion is just pretending the complexity and uncertainty has been decreased.
This is also why I don't like eating out much anymore. Every restaurant just leans so hard on heavily salting fats to make their food taste good.

I'd rather cook myself now where I can actually taste flavors and feel good, rather than just having the primal "mmm good food" button bashed in my lizard brain and feeling like garbage afterwards.
> Move to Texas follows new California law aimed at preventing gay and transgender students from being outed to their families; ‘this is the final straw,’ Musk says

Musk's estranged trans daughter [1] likely factored into this decision.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61880709
Those same people will say "I wish school taught me <X> (things like how to fill out a check book etc"

It did. You didn't pay attention. You want school to teach media literacy? It did, but you complained the whole time "when are we going to use this?". My school taught us how to interpret a "source", how to write well defended arguments (even if I don't always rise to that level), how to calculate mortgage interest rates and payments etc etc etc.

But people will swear up and down "school doesn't teach anything important"

because they didn't pay attention to what was taught!

The primary problem with education in america today is that a huge proportion of parents do not give a fuck about education, see school as just a thing you have to do instead of a constant opportunity. When a kid sees their parent complaining about education being "Liberal brain washing" every other day, why would they pay attention in class?

Education requires emotional and ideological buy in from parents and students for best results.
Thank you! Very helpful as a newbie coming in.
But what if you need a 1 Amp FET in your PMIC?

You use lots of very small FETs in parallel (and derate the living bejesus out of the SOA curves, because there's no chance that they'll all run at the same temperature.)
This is misguided, naive, and likely to end in multiple potential failure outcomes that may be unacceptable, both from a profit standpoint; as well as a societal standpoint.

Education is a part of what gets adopted into each and every student's self concept (identity). There is an uncanny valley in communication where any inconsistent distortion of reflected appraisal can lead students down a path of irrational madness, in a way that they themselves cannot perceive. This is well known in certain circles.

AI always has the biases which are programmed into it by the creators of the AI, whether this is explicit or implicit, the fact remains, there are biases.

AI in education will be proven to be harmful because there is no possible way that AI can remain consistent in its interactions at all times. We already know this from hallucinations where experts went and fact checked it and found it had lied, where lawyers were disbarred or censured.

Put plainly, this is a safety critical system involving our children.

Given the level of care to date that's occurred with AI in industry, there is no room for discussion or adoption of these tools, unless the actual unspoken intention is to drive your children crazy; where they self eliminate later as a result.

Rationally, good people don't create a world of intolerable suffering and then magically expect that somehow, someone, will figure out a way to fix everything you've broken but were too blind to see; at the time when knowing would save lives.

For those who enjoy cinema, a perfect analogy of this might be the Day After Tomorrow, where the main scientist turns out to be correct, but was ultimately ignored until devastating losses and risks were nearly insurmountable.

Leadership didn't want to hear the facts when knowing would have saved lives, and so they had to take a triage on the battlefield approach (abandoning half the country). While it is a fictional story, it sufficiently demonstrates what lack of scientific or rational foresight can lead to for those that can't imagine it themselves (people who are blinded like that should never be in positions of influence or power).
Generation Kill is an excellent (short) series. Recommended.
Glaze techniques might be specific to a model but the techniques to defeat it are not.

More specifically, I don’t see any reason to believe that I cannot learn a function from A to B where A is the distribution of watermarked files and B is the distribution of non-watermarked files. It’s a trivial exploit.
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Yeah, I remember using bearlibterminal library to make a simple roguelike, which contains a set of graphical font.
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> I personally have never been able to translate story points into a reliable indicator

You haven't discovered the secret formula: make your estimate and then mindlessly triple it.
Efficiently Computing Static Single Assignment Form and the Control Graph [pdf]
For ideas, personally I manage my contacts in two separate entities because I still have to find a way to merge two different worlds:

- on desktop my contacts are org-mode notes, in contacts terms I use them just for email completion in notmuch (my mail client) but the contacts notes contains much more, clickable links to some relevant conversations, TODOs digested also by org-agenda etc etc etc a simple pure text feature-rich CRM;

- on mobile https://github.com/tchapi/davis on my home server and DavX⁵ on Android, I have no integrations and well, I still do not need it much except to add new contacts or delete them in a single place for both.

The above description to state a thing: the BIG issue with all modern software and in part unix classic one is integration. In Emacs anything is integrated so there are not much boundaries between functionalities as we have not much boundaries between things in our mind, while on modern systems at maximum we can copypaste or drag&drop and in Unix we can combine but every time we need to mangle text since there is no common language for anything, what we use is the shell, not "the system" witch is written in a separate compiled language. We can't circumvent this limit with all modern systems. That's is.

So despite the idea of simply storing contacts with a tool that allow easy export in various format might be effective in some cases we will anyway hit an integration wall sooner or later, let's say another app who need another kind of export and so on and the simple language became more complex while still remain unable to add anything else on top/related to contacts details do to "app separation" bound to the system design. It's a nice effort, and I thank the author for sharing the code, it might be helpful for some only we need a different software architecture to really manage our digital life, one we abandoned decades ago, the concept of an OS as a single application/framework where anything is runtime editable code, user-programmable, a single language, so we can just access functionalities via common data structure and functions instead of the integration hell we know very well.
Is this somehow related to the Google weather prediction model using AI [1]?

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/graphcast-ai-model-for...
If the problem is "we're not accounting for holidays in our time estimates", I can't see how the solution could possibly be "time is obviously a flawed measure, so we'll use this other measure which has this hazy relationship with time, but we all agree that it's definitely not time, although we have trouble saying what it is"
Their goal isn't only to have OSS Google/Microsoft suite alternatives, but more broadly proprietary SaaS/software.

For instance they have Framadate which is pretty cool, and way more usable than the hell Doodle has become.

And even if most of their software isn't unique, it's beneficial to have a bunch of it from the same open source collective with the same guarantees (you can be pretty sure they won't switch to a BSL or similarly restrictive license).
> It just seems like firefox has reached a point where it's not going to get any better.

I wish. To me it seems like Firefox is certain to only get worse and worse. For a while now it felt like every major update came with something new I had to disable, often for privacy reasons, but now that Mozilla is an ad tech company, Firefox users are their product and they're just getting started selling us to advertisers.
Other companies I have used applied the cash at the date renewed and changed the annual expiry date to the payment date.
Or this version to compare the raw recording v. after a bit of denoising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dbyIDTmHSM

EDIT: or (allegedly) the whole collection of everything he recorded (or at least what survived to today): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbIJc05QTA

EDIT 2: or some recordings as part of a writeup by the researchers: https://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php
Completely disagree. ChatGPT has taught me more than I could ever learn from any lecture and I have a doctorate. A moderately motivated student will do wonders with AI.

For instance, I’ve had trouble understanding exactly how heat pumps worked. Sure I knew the basic concepts of condensation and evaporation but not the nuances of pressures and boiling points at various stages. I asked chatGPT to explain it to me from the perspective of the refrigerant. It started with “I am R-134a, a refrigerant just leaving the evaporator…”, and proceeded to give me the most thorough understanding of heat pumps I could imagine, complete with working pressures, boiling points, pressure differentials at the escape valve etc. Follow up questions led me down interesting paths where it came up with a brilliant comparison to quantify the greenhouse potential of the refrigerant R22 ie 1 pound of R22 has the same greenhouse potential as a human being breathing for 787 days in a row.
Another similar novel which I liked is Austin Grossman's You (bad title, I know), also about a fictional game studio in the 1980s and 1990s.
I continue to treat story points as a measure of time, despite being told repeatedly they're definitely not time. I will continue doing this until someone can explain to me, in a way I can understand, what they actually are that is not time.
All data is stored in the EU. As mentioned in another comment, Backblaze is the object storage provider.
I'm glad I got my degrees before people starting trying to integrate bullshit generators into my education. I've been really frustrated with the conversation about the potential applications for this technology. These chatbots have no relationship with the truth or with knowledge, and are designed to agree with users and act accommodating regardless of how wrong someone is. We're talking about putting this tech between patients and doctors, students and teachers and meanwhile McDonald's is rolling back deployments because it can't even take a fast food order accurately.
And what is that exactly? Is it just Jen from the IT crowd?
Your website looks awesome. Congratulations on the launch!
That's OK, he balances it out by opposing laws that decrease teen suicide rates.
So C isn't about being designed close to the hardware after all.
Invalid SMILES beneficial rather than detrimental to chemical language models
Supabase Workflows?
This comment from supabase CEO mentioned they suspended supabase workflows:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513252

Do you know an MIT/Apache 2.0 project doing this? Tightly connected to postgres?

Also, curious do you agree that creating a postgres extension is the better way to do it, if you were to build it on top of posgres or supabase? This is what he mentions in his comment.
> As Andrej has a background in physics

This seems rather generous given that he was just a physics major. There's lots of physics majors who understand very little about physics and, crucially, nothing about physics education.
They are most likely trying to get permission to hire people from abroad (with the intention of moving them to the US). They may also be seeking permission to sponsor green cards for current employees. One of the first steps in this process is to get confirmation that they cannot find a specialist for this position in the US (for 30 days). To achieve this, companies use various tricks to discourage others from applying for these positions.
Thank you so much for your kind words and support!
https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1e2ewa2/...
The partnership between IBM and Motorola is something I find intriguing. And I'm not just talking about PowerPC. In the 80s -- long before Hercules -- IBM developed a "mainframe on a card" solution for use in IBM PCs. For a CPU, they commissioned Motorola to build a special 68000 CPU with different microcode that implemented a large subset of the System/370 instruction set. Any instructions that could not be implemented with this custom-schmustom architecture would trap, and be decoded and emulated by a regular 68000 that ran in tandem with the custom one. The resulting architecture was able to run mainframe operating systems and applications very well, providing mainframe developers a benchside testing solution that allowed them to run software still in development without tying up resources on the actual mainframe (which needed to have as much CPU time as possible committed to production workloads in order to be profitable to run).

Still probably cost an arm and a leg, though. The cards weren't sold on their own, but installed inside a PC under the names Personal Computer XT/370 or AT/370:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-based_IBM_mainframe-compati...
I don’t consider a belief in evolutionism a flaw any more than I consider belief in creationism a flaw. All I have said is that evolutionists match the GP’s description of being unwilling to consider what assumptions they are making, “hitting the wall”, so to speak. (as this thread has demonstrated, as I knew it would)
Sure, but I want to know how long do I have it for. Six months? A year? Five years?
> You won't achieve wok hei on your stove

Not true. Pull out that blowtorch.

> your oven will not be ablr to achieve the high temperatures required for the best versions of certain foods

Get a steel or aluminum plate for your oven. The conductivity can make up for a lot of the heat differential. Yeah, a true Neapolitan at 900F is out of reach, but almost everything else is just fine.

> restaurants in your area will get priority from suppliers over what you find in the grocery store

This might be true, but from what I have seen most of the restaurants are barely even reaching SysCo/USFoods level of quality ingredients. Your local grocery store is probably just fine until you are a very good cook. At that point, you might have to start looking at more niche grocery stores.

And, if you get better than that, well, you're likely sufficiently obsessive that you will find a way.

> You start getting into fine dining or a Michelin experience with teams of people preparing the food and it's an entirely different level of impossibility to make at home.

It's more sheer technique and attention to fussy detail than teams of people. A patissier is simply WAY better than you are at making desserts, for example. They know all the tricks; they will also have all the necessary equipment.

However, yeah, Michelin restaurants are definitely next level.
The figure till 2013 was just food for thought. Inflation adjusted returns for the S&P 500 for the last 50 years are around 7-8%. I'm certainly not suggesting anyone stay out of a S&P 500 index fund, as I wouldn't take that advice myself. However, the return from 2000 to 2024 is not a cherry pick for anyone old enough to have had their money invested back in 2000, as it shows that there has only been a 4.5% real return on the money then invested since the 2000 peak.
Musk, after years of illegal dumping and leniency from the state of CA finally gets fined and now wants to move to lawless texas where he can despoil the land without consequences...
> HTML forms are poorly reimplemented IBM terminals

In HTML forms you can SEE where the input fields are. You don't have to "PROTECT" the HTML document from warping. You don't have to hit a special key when an HTML document is larger than your screen.

And IBM manages to get credit for ALL the early computer technologies just because they're still around. Other block-oriented terminals certainly existed, and I'm glad they didn't catch-on...
> integration

The way this minilanguage works is that all contacts app can push/pull a `contacts.scroll` in a git repo. That's the database: a plain text file in a git repo.
No one with a shred of experience calls drive space memory.