skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen teams actually do the Scrum-according-to-the-textbook, but those are rare. Most companies are just doing whatever their managers think is a good idea, and they call it "Scrum".

Ironically, the last time my team was doing Scrum-according-to-the-textbook, it was a decision of the developers... and then the higher management told us to stop, because the entire company decided to switch to "Scrum" (as in: endless meetings with managers present, no retrospective, but we call it "Scrum" because it sounds like we know what we are doing), so basically we had to abandon Scrum in the name of "Scrum".

My conclusion from this experience is that Scrum-according-to-the-textbook never happens as a top-down decision. The managers have strong ideas about how things are supposed to work, and they are unwilling to change their ideas, although they may agree to rename them to "Scrum".

I actually get the real-communism-has-never-been-tried vibe from people who say "scrum sucks, agile is the good idea". Scrum is simply what happens when Agile meets corporate reality. Make "agile" a popular buzzword among the managers... and soon you will see people complaining that agile in practice means endless meetings etc.
You’re asking the right questions, IMO! Chomsky has spent his life trying to answer this question in different forms, and has ultimately arrived to the conclusion that we live in a “Pre-Gallilean” era of cognitive science, where the only answers available to us are developed through the use of intuitive interpretation (like they used to do with ‘the heavens’/space) instead of empirical contradiction (aka science).

He does have some answers, such as “human creativity is the ability to create an infinite range of outputs from a finite range of inputs that nonetheless pertain to our motivations/context in some useful way”, but that’s obviously not a very satisfying answer. It tells us a little — I think Tao is gesturing to exactly this when he complains that GPTo1 can only apply and combine mathematical approaches within a sort of closed domain rather than propose radically new ones - but it’s not helpful for an everyday understanding of creativity. IMO :)

In his words, from Language and Mind:

"Roughly, where we deal with cognitive structures, either in a mature state of knowledge and belief or in the initial state, we face problems, but not mysteries. When we ask how humans make use of these cognitive structures, how and why they make choices and behave as they do, although there is much that we can say as human beings with intuition and insight, there is little, I believe, that we can say as scientists…
What I have called elsewhere 'the creative aspect of language use' remains as much a mystery to us as it was to the Cartesians who discussed it, in part, in the context of the problem of 'other minds."

If this sounds intriguing to you/anyone, I highly recommend his (in)famous debate with Foucault, which is available for free on YouTube. It’s a bit wandering, but about halfway through they discuss creativity in depth, contrasting Foucault’s vaguely postmodern view-that human creativity is mostly constrained by societal circumstances-with Chomsky’s view, that human creativity is mostly constrained by the natural structures of our cognitive system(s).

https://youtu.be/3wfNl2L0Gf8?si=WA3DpnaFEvd3QqCt
> Not everyone lives near an Apple Store

Sure but how many people:

1) don't live near an Apple Store
2) don't live near any AASP (like Best Buy)
3) don't live near any one of the many 3rd party repair shops that do these replacement daily
4) don't have the mechanical and technical skills do do the replacement themselves by ordering the parts (and possibly renting tools) from Apple
5) and also have $1k+ to be spending on a new iPhone every time the battery degrades too much
It'd be peak hackernews (in a good way) if someone saw that AI headline and thought, "Hey, I think I'll actually write that!"
I don't really care how they look (although anything made in Japan probably looks far better than anything else), but I wish the author, erm, focused on important things, like - what's the field of vision in these? Are they blocking peripheral vision, i.e. can someone drive with those?
I did swap an iPhone 8 battery not so long ago, really just to see how bad it was and whether I'd risk it on a newer device (which I didn't do in the end, after reading about 'non genuine battery' warnings on newer devices)

And while that replacement was a success, it was a ridiculous amount of effort for a battery change, involving special tools, heat, an unreasonable amount of disassembly, scraping adhesive off, the 'stretch to release' battery adhesive being utterly useless, so having to risk applying force to a potentially fiery battery, and so on.

Yes, iFixit are doing great work, and it's certainly possibly for a hobbyist-level 'tinkerer' to successfully change the battery. But it shouldn't be close to that difficult. I remember it being a fairly trivial job in the iPhone 5 era.
Because it is an update on his previous post that got discussed here.
Ok, so who the heck is willing to re-use someone else's phone and would do so if they could replace it with a $30 part from Amazon, but because they need to take it to Apple or some other retailer and pay up to $120 to have it replaced for them, would rather drop $1k on a new phone?
"If he sees people posing on Instagram with yachts, say, or cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, while also trying to raise money, he says, bells immediately go off.“ ... It’s rare, Overum says, that you’ll go long without hearing from a target that turns out to be running a scam. “They always need money,” he says. “They’re always running short on cash.”

Ah. That's a good method of target selection.
Nice write up, very targeted at websites with a focus on typography. A more aggressive reset still seems appropriate if you’re building more in web app territory.
I think whatever you call itim curious about the distribution of financial outcomes.
amdgpu on my 6.10 kernel has been crashing constantly too. It makes me want to go back to Intel. My workaround has been to let the ryzen 7700 iGPU run at its max clockspeed of 2200 Mhz …
All current IOLs are non-accommodating: the multifocal IOLs work by having multiple rings beam two or three different focal lengths into your retina simultaneously.

The way a natural accommodating lens works is that your optical musculature physically flexes the lens to focus on the point you're looking at. The current non-accommodating multifocal lenses are stiff and fixed; the implantee handles the transition between focal points entirely in the mind's eye. While accommodating IOLs are being developed, they are currently not on the commercial market.

I have a multifocal IOL that I honestly love, and has allowed me to abandon wearing any glasses; I have crisp and natural vision except in certain edge-cases. Other people, however, never adapt, or dislike the artifacts of the multifocal rings (mostly halos around bright lights such as headlights).
Then just an ever increasing number like most browser do these days would make more sense.
If anyone comes across comments from professionals on the same level at Terrance Tao, I'd love for them to share it.
Does rooting your phone invalidate its warranty? (2012)
We started Mathstodon, an instance of Mastodon-the-Platform, on April 12, 2017.

So we've been up for over 7 years, and have just over 19K accounts.
Others mentioned Geordie, but even going back (and obviously the "visor" was in the zeitgeist since at least the 70s with the android type bots drawn by futurists), my first thought was the Six Flags Great America type sunglasses that were cool as hell when my older sister came home with them.

This is the closest I could find in search without trying too hard.

But yeah, why can't these companies just design regular old glasses styles so people don't feel like a dolt and maybe would want to buy them. Instead everyone has to be made to look like a glasshole and all the entitlement that connotes in the mass mind.

https://di2ponv0v5otw.cloudfront.net/posts/2018/03/20/5ab0dc...
Shared Dictionary Compression for HTTP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDCH
The latter (except that it doesn't always have to be long; the length of time per bit follows a gaussian distribution). If it were the former then randomness would be predictable in some sense. It's similar to the halting problem.
Sure. As if they couldn't reroute through any other country. They're already cut off by their leadership, except for the state sponsored cybercriminal groups which don't need a NK IP.
Because that gives me independence with a decentralized service.
Go Tests "Go Test"
They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests.

Edit: "My eyesight was sharper than usual for both far and close distances (down to two inches)" blimey! I might be sold. I need read glasses for soldering and close work like that and it's a bit of a pain.
No, the prevailing view is estimating in hours is bad, hence the push for estimating in t-shirt sizes or other stand-ins for task complexity.

The survival terminology is really off-putting. And what’s the obsession with golf? This doesn’t sound like any scrum team I’ve worked with or would want to be a part of.
Never understood the human obsession with minutely controlling the shape of plants. There is enough we control already (with bad effect).

Natural forms are just fine. Morphogenesis is one of the deepest unsolved mysteries, best enjoyed without poor derivative attempts at imposing additional symmetry etc.
> there's no chance to stay safe when you put that kind of target on your back.

Vitalik Buterin seems to be a counter example here, his net worth peaked around $1.46 billion. He has some interesting writing on how he stays secure. At one point the SHIBA token sent a huge amount of funds to his cold wallet and he details what he did to securely access those funds:

https://decrypt.co/91000/ethereum-founder-vitalik-buterin-du...

> The funds, he said, were initially in a cold wallet in the form of two numbers written on separate pieces of paper. Buterin said he had to combine the two numbers to get the private key. "One of those numbers was with me; the other number was with my family in Canada," he said. "So I had to call up my family in Canada and tell them to read their number to me."

> Buterin said that he entered the numbers into the computer he purchased from Target after putting the two numbers together. "I sent my ETH out by generating a transaction and then on a computer that I bought from Tarjay [Target] for about $300 bucks for just this purpose."

> Before disconnecting the laptop from the internet entirely, Buterin said he downloaded a program to generate QR codes. After generating the Ethereum transaction, he scanned the QR code with his phone, copied it to the laptop, and then put it into etherscan.io/push Tx. Finally, Buterin said he began sending out the tokens.
When will be the year of GNU/Linux for smartphones? Android is not it. I wish we could install distros in a smartphone as easy as it is in desktop
Mathstodon is one of the most active Mastodon instances. I have no idea how it reached its current level of activity.
The link I posted above explains the connection: https://blog.bulloak.io/post/20200917-the-impossibility-of-e...

Particularly:

> The sender cannot know if a message was delivered since transport is unreliable; thus, one or more acknowledgement messages are required. Moreover, the sender cannot distinguish between message delivery errors, acknowledgement delivery errors, or delays (either in processing or because or network unreliability).

> The recipient is forced to send the acknowledgement only after the message is either processed (or persisted for processing) because an acknowledgement before processing would not work: if the recipient exhibits a fault before processing that would cause the loss of the message.

> In the case that that acknowledgement is lost, the sender can’t know (due to lack of insight in the recipient’s state) whether the recipient failed before scheduling the message for processing (in essence losing the message) or if the recipient is just running a bit slow, or if the acknowledgement message was lost. Now, if the sender decides to re-deliver, then the recipient may end up receiving the message twice if the acknowledgement was dropped (for example). On the other hand, if the sender decides to not re-deliver, then the recipient may end up not processing the message at all if the issue was that the message wasn’t scheduled for processing.
Not all that glitters is gold. I had a horrible experience with Hollow Knight on the Switch and can't understand how anyone would enjoy that game on that console. I did a video recording and the lag playing on the console screen was easily in the 100ms (iirc; can't find it).

From what I read on Reddit, there are some people who don't notice any lag (even in the aforementioned HK), others notice it in most games. For me, even the Zelda titles have some lag (though these I play on the TV, so it's a bit unfair).

For my part, I'll stick to PC; even if it means crying a little bit on each upgrade. And that's coming from the guy who used to often game at 25fps as a kid; and still enjoys playing the odd couch game (with friends) via wired Steam inhome streaming.

If you (or others) are happy with their experience, that's fine of course ;)
Don't forget:

6) and are also unwilling to send their phone to Apple for repair
Aah yes
Excellent!

I shall follow and help where I can.
It's obviously false. If you know that the bias is 0.5, you can just pass the input stream through unmodified. You can also construct better codes for other biases.
Also in schizophrenia you see/hear things that are not seen by others in material world.

Spirituality does not contradict with what others experience in material world.

You just start identifying more with consciousness and less with the body. That's the shift.

And if you also think about it scientifically it makes sense.

You are consciousness experiencing the world.

Not the body experiencing consciousness.

You are consciousness

Not the body.

The body ages. The cells changes. You remains. The consciousness sees the body.
Awesome work! I love what the server has grown into.
Youtube.com is literally the #2 most popular website in the US. After google.com which is #1.

So yes, YouTube must absolutely be included. And it should be included as the second most-tested site.
So, the game is written in bash much like AI stuff is written in Python.

The heavy lifting is done by a native-code library, while the bash code provides the glue and the overall control logic. (Much like having heavy lifting done by PyTorch with Python code providing general guidance.)

And this is completely fine, to my mind. Bash is intended to be a glue language orchestrating execution of native code. Usually it starts processes, but here it interacts with a native-code library.

See:

https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib
I'm saying it's shameful to the degree it impacts your life.

If you're in endless pain, go for it.

If you're still functional while getting high, all the power to you.

If you can drink nightly and still operate, that's great.

But it's not a virtue, and that substance will be what you reach for in your darkest moments. Maybe that's a good thing, if it doesn't impact your life in worse ways than the alternative.
Wow thanks for that link. I've had my machine crashing a couple of times as well the last couple of weeks, was absolutely stable before. I hope it's this and not hardware failure.
Yes, an LLM can be periodically retrained, which is what is being done today, but a human level AGI needs to be able to learn continuously.

If we're trying something new and make a mistake, then we need to seamlessly learn from the mistake and continue - explore the problem and learn from successes and failures. It wouldn't be much use if your "AGI" intern stopped at it's first mistake and said "I'll be back in 6 months after I've been retrained not to make THAT mistake".
Benelli has a new m4 anti drone model for you.

I personally think the m4 is way overrated. Compared to its two cousins the 1301 and 300 patrol it’s just larger and heavier and more powerful expensive.

But… I do think it’s funny that basically in a year shotguns have been made relevant again.

I’ve considered buying a couple of the $5 Alibaba drones to “test”.

If I could hook the cheapo alivaba drones up to my better DJI equipment, I think that might make for a fun 3gun course this year.
Well, first of all, they wouldn't be able to build a single functioning cell if all they had was DNA (and even if they had mitochondrial DNA too). Most organelles divide independently of the nucleus, and there is no reason to think that DNA encodes anything about their fundamental structure. Even if some changes in genes can effect some changes in the organelles, that doesn't mean that the genes specify every detail of the organelle.

Also, even if we accepted that DNA fully specifies how a cell can create an identical copy of the cell that contains it, that doesn't mean that it specifies how to create a cell from scratch. The "instructions" in DNA could very well depend critically on details of the current cell. For example, the DNA could specify se thing like "take 1% of the substance secreted in organelle A and mix it with 90% water and 9% the substance secreted by organelle B". This instruction is perfectly good for specifying a copy of the current cell, and perfectly useless if you don't have the original cell for which it is meant.

This sort of thing could very well apply at the level of the whole fetus. Details of the uterus and other parts of the mother organism may well be critical parts of the "program" described by the DNA. For example, it's easy to imagine that the early fetus follows instructions like "let this much fluid pass through the umbilical chord", or "grow horizontally until you find this much pH difference between the extremeties" or whatever other instructions that are only useful in the context of an existing functioning mother organism.

And even beyond the individual, you would have a big problem recreating the species to allow for a second generation to exist at all. In particular, even if you had a whole living healthy female mammal, you would have no information at all for how to create a male of the species, so no way to create sperm cells, so no way to perpetuate the species. So the DNA of a female mammal doesn't contain information for how to make more of the species. And if all you had was a male organism, you would lack the information probably encoded in the living female that I was discussing earlier.

As a side note, this problem would not exist for birds, where the female bird does have both male and female DNA.
Functionality is crippled when using without a smartphone, and when you use it with a smartphone app, it acts as a proxy that provides network access. Collecting data on the smartphone and uploading it during firmware update or other network actions is trivial.
I don't have a garden, I have a yard that has only volunteers growing on it. I'm aiming to reduce the fire hazard. The human-aestheic-ifying is a side effect. I'm happy that removing an old limb not only reduces the fire danger but also makes it less pleasant for rodents, insects and rattle snakes to live near my house. They have caused many thousands of dollars in damage already.

High wildfire risk here. When not if it arrives, it will destroy a lot more animal than human habitat.
The market distortion is the price of the combustion vehicle not including the costs of what comes out of the tailpipe.
How can a question of stellar physics be addressed outside of a star?

The thing is, one needs (or so I suppose) a perceiving system to address questions of any sort, and why would minds be different? I am merely doubting that introspection is sufficient. I strongly suspect that most of what goes on in our brains is inaccessible to our conscious minds.
> "If you brake more aggressively, you will be involved in more accidents"

Is that statement based on evidence?

While that seems plausible, it also seems counter-intuitive to me. I suspect that many crashes happen because someone was afraid to apply maximum brakes, either out of fear that someone might hit them from behind, or simply due to being unfamiliar with braking hard.
This is nice but it's not what I would call a "reset". It does make arbitrary choices for the value of some properties. It may be very good as "saner defaults", but for examples it doesn't even reset headers' font-size, or the margin above headers for example while it does reset the margin under headers (why?).

It's probably inefficient due to the use of the joker selector, but in modern CSS, I believe an actual reset would be as simple as:

* { all: unset; }
head, style, script { display: none; }
That's a good question. You cannot get a non-statistical guarantee of an output rate from the Von Neumann biased coin toss, because you can potentially get a long run of the same toss result, which stalls output bit generation. That might be a generic limitation of all similar de-biasing approaches. Has that been proven or disproven?
Pretty vague question, suspend to ram has always worked for me on multiple random laptops
It frustrates me as well, especially when people brag about how “green” their devices are, despite the fact that they’ve went through 3 phones in almost as many years. If we wanted truly green devices we would create standardized parts that can easily be swapped out like we did for computers. The Fairphone is an excellent example of this, actually.
Not only release notes, he's still actively contributing! From said release notes:

> Linus Torvalds (2):

> mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case

> Linux 6.11
Any recommendations for a more aggressive reset? What if you are already using a library such as bootstrap or tailwind?
I think it’s strange to believe as evolved animals like them we somehow evolved awareness of ourselves when nothing else did and every other animals is basically a reactionary meat machine operating on preprogrammed instinct. This feels like something more likely intensely fundamental to most animals but our lack of experience with them in our life makes us doubt. But pet owners know for a fact their pets are aware and think and feel in some approximate way to how we do. I think life, death, and consciousness are all hallmarks of most animals experience. In fact I think it’s fundamental to adaptability to complex and new experiences in the wild and survival and is why complex animals are more complex on their behavior than say single celled animals.