skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was being generous by including A Roads in 'highways'. Britain has the same length of highways as the Netherlands if you only consider M classification, which is to say, deplorably little. Over 5x less than Germany and France.

But if you insist, sure, the few miles of British motorway don't include roundabouts. They do tend to start or end with them though ;)
I guess scrabble is really popular there:)
Linkedin when you actually ONLY could get introduced to a 2nd degree connection by a mutual contact introducing you both.

Before MS bought them, it was great. Now it's just a stupid Facebook clone with pathetic spam posts of people that are dying inside because they haven't found a job but oh my how much that have make them growth.

And now apparently it also has those vertical 10 second tiktoks like video "stories" or whatever they are called
? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home.

All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish.

If you have a problem you need to solve, but don't know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the problem every day.
Bluesky / ATProto is a federated protocol
One place I worked at the success was a golf clap. The fail was crowd going 'awwww' as if someone had just missed a putt. Nice and simple. Since the build took 3-4 hours you did not hear it much.

Before everyone went 'open office' it was semi fun to have sounds on different build actions. Now not so much :(
I don't know which process you follow, but while sprints are created in collaboration, in mid/large organizations everything is supposed to be in-sync across departments (so you can align interdisciplinary tasks).

In most cases I've seen, Agile basically introduces an additional company-internal clock with tick-tocks for days and weeks.

To me the article correctly describes how agile is assumed to be somewhat abstracted from "real-world" time, but in reality it's just two other hands on the same clock with pressure and tasks still increasing close to "real-world" clock-events (launch-dates, exhibitions, customer-events,...)
More peripheral aspects of the product & business.

Our motivation: Using a mouse is the de facto device for the web, but it requires fine motor skills that feels incongruent for RSS readers. Why? RSS is primarily text-driven media, and the human-computer interface should be text-driven too. There's something about using a keyboard that feels more efficient and, consequently, more pleasurable!

Our biz model: After the beta, we'll be releasing a Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the app so that people can self-host CoreText. Our "cloud managed" version will be closed sourced but have bleeding edge features slightly upstream from the LTS release. The cloud managed version will be ~$3USD/month. We want to be as FOSSy as possible, but also want to bootstrap the business so that CoreText can have at least 1 full-time employee. I think this is a good plan, but willing to be persuaded otherwise.

Loose thoughts: CoreText will be staunchly anti-algorithm so articles will always be chronologically-sorted by latest/oldest articles. "Suggested articles for you" is one of the lamest things to happen to RSS readers. We also have a healthy disdain for advertising & government so we won't be doing anything weird with user data. We also have a FISA Warrant Canary in case we're forced to comply to any warrants (https://coretext.io/warrant-canary). Lastly, there will never be any kind of platform lock-in so exiting CoreText will always be frictionless whether you're a free/paid customer. We want to honor Aaron Swartz's original vision of RSS as the most popular decentralized & portable layer of the web.
That's up to the bosses to figure out. If your business can't find employees to do the work at the compensation rate you're offering, then your business has failed. It may even be that your line of business is unviable in the current economy. That's not the employees' fault, that's just business.
I think the Osgiliath battle lasted for many years? Not exactly trenches, but it was the only suitable river crossing in that area
There isn’t anything in the agile manifesto on how to do anything. It’s a statement of preferences and values.

Business demands process for people in functions to follow. Scrum outlines meetings for programmers to attend, and specific process outputs like user stories to produce and close. Scrum is agile in business because business cannot do agile.
> They are just milking the aging demographic

It can't just be an aging demographic.

Young people today use Windows.

Mac has an eerie vibe to it.

Linux sounds too difficult.

And you want to play games.
Amazon seems to be solving this problem. I've noticed a lot of things I've ordered recently are non-returnable
There is another excellent write-up exploring the theory / use-cases for such libraries https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/ (and a corresponding library at https://github.com/inkandswitch/cambria-project)
Depends on the historian. The overly theatrical way some historians react to the term "dark age" is a bit revisionistic (and perpetual revisionism seems extremely popular among academic historians).

And many get similarly spun up about the term "feudalism" as well.
The request body is just an example, this does not specify the query language, just the http method.
> I mean, this is all very well known information to monero users and I can't believe anyone would be doing important transactions without using their own node and/or I2P/Tor etc

And I wonder what an estimate is of % of transactions (by volume and value) that are sent from a full node vs public remote node and public web vs tor/i2p.

Obviously won’t be able to get an accurate answer, but one of the remote nodes in that pool might be able to provide some absolute numbers and a rough estimate of their share of connections in that pool.

Should be easy for them to differentiate clearnet vs tor exit node (and dunno how detectable i2p is).

Even the geo-dns mentioned in the article would be interesting data to see geo-source of transactions.
it works the same if you apply it to other disciplines. The saying, "a plan is useless, but planning is invaluable". Agile just skips the second part by trying to throw out the first part.

I think a real criticism of Agile would be that it works great assuming a) domain expertise and b) good understanding of how accurate / precise a solution has to be to work.

Agile seems to work best when the domain itself is technology, rather than, say, when the domain is HVAC control or real-time ECMs.
Similarly for Bluesky and ATProto

https://atproto.com/
>- Ford didn't fix Pinto's fuel tank, prioritizing cost minimization over "best possible car in its class".

This is a nit-pick, but for the record, The Pinto didn't explode at higher rates than other similar automobiles, also there wasn't an internal Ford Memo, it was an attachment to a letter to the NHTSA --but all people remember is the this so called "memo" Anyhow a myth was born and it seemingly refuses to die. By the numbers:

In 1975-76, the Pinto averaged 310 fatalities a year. But the similar-size Toyota Corolla averaged 313, the VW Beetle 374 and the Datsun 1200/210 came in at 405.

Additional info: https://newmarksdoor.typepad.com/mainblog/2005/07/the_pinto_...
No dictation on length, but the length is supposed to be consistent. If you want to take a three week sprint or something instead because the feature makes sense, you mess up a whole lot of things, especially the metrics. And, let's be honest, the metrics are the biggest reason why management imposes Scrum. They want to be able to quantify everyones contribution down to hard numbers that they can then use to know how everyone is performing. If you screw up the metrics, it won't take long for someone to step in and "get your team back on track."
> with milestones where each step of the waterfall would be delivered and checked by the customer

I think this is one of the things that don't explicitly follow the waterfall diagram as presented and criticized though. You're delivering smaller units of work here and I presume incorporating their feed back at least to the extent of if it is functionally meeting the specified requirements which is kind of agile-y.

The main difference between the two at that point seems to come down mostly to the willingness to revisit the requirements which even when my employer was more waterfall we would try to incorporate changes if the customer came back and said what we were doing wasn't going to work at all or they needed changes.
This actually sounds like fun.

A lot less "Las Vegas video slots parlor" because of the randomness.
I would love to bring some scrum masters down to the local high school track and have them run back to back sprints until the message sinks in.
You should treat this as a symptom rather than an identity
The purpose of the company is to produce youtube videos not professionally written internal memos. In fact one might say that this is the core message of the document.
> education that lends us to believe that capitalism is the only way things can be.

It seems to be the only stable system that has allowed relatively stable and continuous growth to occur long-term.

> capitalism is the only way things can be.

Of course it depends on how you personally define "capitalism" (because it's really not clear at all) and obviously humanity has attempted to implement various different systems, they never really worked out.

Other more "natural" (i.e. not imposed by the use of violence) systems of course have existed (e.g. various hunter gather societies) but they seem to have a very low cap on productivity and therefore can't sustain any long-term economic growth and therefore were outcompeted by "capitalism".
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I don't like using the body. GET's are easily shareable, bookmarkeable, etc, (even editable by humans). etc. thans to query strings. I rather have a GET with better (shorter) serialization for parameters and a standarized max-length of 16k or something like that.
Heh, I say the same thing nearly every time a meta-discussion on Scrum/sprints is had. As a former sprint-runner, it irritates me to no end that nobody sees a problem with sprinting all the time...
Amazon's secret weapon is Amazon's own use of chips, if your idea of "secret" is that you wear a blindfold and anything you can't see is therefore "secret".

More like "Amazon's Blindlingly Obvious Weapon In Chip Design Is AWS".
> I've lived the first 14 years of my life under the Romanian communist dictatorship so no.

That doesn't make any sense. Communism's defining feature is that there is no longer a state. How can you recognize Romania, and especially a Romanian dictatorship, without there being a state?

Perhaps you're confusing communism with rule by the Communist Party?

- Communism is a work of science fiction that imagines what life is like in a post-scarcity world – indeed, science fiction that some people would like to see become reality. Star Trek is a more modern adaptation on the same basic idea, which you may be more familiar with.

- The Communist Party is a political group that, at least on paper, is focused on achieving post-scarcity through capturing the means of production. It was once theorized in a certain Manifesto about Communism that post-scarcity would not be achievable through capitalism as the capitalists would set up barriers to seeing it through, and that the way to protect against that was the bring the means of production into social hands. Hence why the Communist Party is so-named.

But that would be like saying that democracy doesn't work because you don't like what the political party known as the Democrats are doing in the USA. Or that workers don't work because you don't like what the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) did.

> There is no post scarcity. The goalposts for scarcity just move up.

Perhaps. But it remains that communism cannot exist without having achieved post-scarcity. How could it?
Thanks. Looks really useful.
It sounds like you've had bad management (like we all have). Good EMs will unblock you, deal with conflicting priorities from stakeholders, provide you with air cover to have focus time, and help manage your career growth (among other things). If your EM isn't doing that, find another one.
Yes, best is always wrt some metric, which here is clearly monetary gain.
That is from 2017 and focuses on 3 European countries only.
Especially in agile.
The push for diesel was also... Weird. It was a way of dealing with a supply chain issues, whereby a demand of heavier oil was needed for production to stay economical.

driving 4 answers also has a decently informative video on this particular topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8r2xnITnqA
When I read that Finnish was a major seventh I was hoping that English would be a minor seventh or something even more subtly different. A minor 7th vs a minor 7 flat 5 etc.

Would be funny to create an elaborate system of notification tones that are only discernible by a trained musician
It is pretty honest guide on how to succeed at Mr. Beast productions. They have their own metrics of success which may or may not align with your morals or ideals. It is a collection of all their learnings in making the videos.
Gamifying stillness.

- Share you highest score with friends.

- Set a reminder

- a “don’t break the chain” calendar in the background
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It sounds a lot like “auditory icons” as used in Emacspeak [0] and some other environments to improve accessibility for people with vision impairments.

Bill Buxton [1] seems to have a good treatment of the subject but i don’t know what’s autoritative

[0] https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Auditory-Icons.ht...

[1] https://www.billbuxton.com/AudioUI06icons.pdf
I agree, that would be nice. It could be like RTS games, where a narrator says something like "Your code is under attack" and there's a ping on the minimap pointing at the exact line.
You can repost after a year or so (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html under reposts) but you just had a big Show HN about a month ago which is probably too recent. Feature updates by themselves are not typically enough for an early repost, that's mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
On the surface, it looks like they're prioritizing what the customer (or market) wants - lower usage/expense - over company profits.

What's the thing I'm missing that makes this cynical?
The current vote percentages at your site, Harris/Trump/Stein 63/18/18, suggests that your sample so far is quite unrepresentative. Is there a reason to expect that to change?
one day we'll get smart about this and attach tiny nuclear reactors to data centers.
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I am working on adding something that allows to import files. I don't plan to enable connections to financial institutions because that would compromise some of the privacy.
Honestly I just took the present day number of houses in the UK (30 million or so) and divided by the number of pubs in the UK (46,800 or so) which gave 641 houses per pub, then I knocked that down to 300 lest people think I was over-estimating the number of houses.

Of course, that present day number is 30 million houses for 67 million population, i.e. 2.2 people per house - not the 20 people per house from your assumptions.
What is worse, once you get promoted enough, you learn that throughout your career when these things happened, senior management often had some juicy completion bonus or other perk tied to delivery. Yet when you are doing this you are expected to just comply because the company is in trouble.
I assume you're reading it as "sissy", but I read it as "seesee", which is fine in English.
Great description on what happens especially in scaled organizations, where sprints/iterations are supposed to be in-sync across departments (so you can align interdisciplinary tasks etc.).

In most cases I've seen, it basically introduces an additional company-internal clock with tick-tocks for a custom frame of days and weeks.

Everyone acts like this is more consistent and somewhat abstracted from "real-world" time, but in reality it's just two other hands on the same clock, with pressure and tasks still increasing close to "real-world" clock-events (launch-dates, exhibitions, customer-events,...)
Wagile brother. It's a mix between agile and waterfall.

Waterfall is great for high level governance (such as specifying high level milestones). Agile is great for executing on the deliverables.

It is jus my experience. You're miles may vary.
It might be the depression talking but my self happiness is way too low in a typical month / week to begin thinking of others
My ACE score is... Zero. I think it doesn't take into account other factors (e.g. being bullied at school, or being ridiculed by friends), as it focuses mostly on the family environment.

Anyway, it made me feel so lucky to go through the questions, and being able to always answer negatively. I felt so loved by my parents (more than what I already did).

I was gifted, for sure. I thought I had quite a hard childhood, but this puts things in perspective.
> How much do you think it was an artifact of the time?

I was a software engineer in the 90s at a small company (15 people) doing simulation development for the UK Ministry of Defence. We had two distinct software development processes, which were waterfall and a form of rapid development known as the Dynamic Software Development Method (DSDM). (I threw away the manuals years ago so can’t give more info).

The company directors came from an aerospace background so had a very strong software quality focus. Many of our contracts specified waterfall and our project artefacts reflected that – user requirements docs, system requirements, architectural design, detailed design, integration test plans, system tests, acceptance tests, etc etc. Coding happened somewhere in the middle. It did work, sort of, in situations where the customers knew what they wanted, and we mutually understood it. Which was quite often the case, for our regular customers on projects that were extending existing systems.

We trialled DSDM for projects where the customer said ‘prototype’ and I liked it. It lacked the onerous agile / scrum boilerplate and IIRC was based around loosely specified timeboxes and relied on having ‘intelligent customers’ who were prepared to be flexible in terms of what they got at the end.

The need for DSDM was motivated by a project that failed badly (not with the MOD) because the customers said ‘here are our requirements for this prototype system, don’t come back until you have finished and tested it’. Needless to say the result wasn’t what they expected, even though all of the requirements had been, on paper, met.

But for any development where specific technical outcomes were necessary (e.g. a maths module), waterfall would usually be used.
Yeah I do think some level of market is natural. But I do think on the whole humans would rather live in a society that leans socialist with market forces than a rugged individualist nuclear family hyper-capitalist society. Like, being a frontier cowboy is only fun for a short amount of time. After your adventure you just wanna return to the shire and share vegetables and chill with your friends.
The way you can tell you're in one of these dysfunctional companies in my experiences is at the moment you, as a software developer, have to attend TWO meetings in one day. Companies that have too many meetings tend to have middle managers with only one goal for all these meetings: "Covering their ass." They treat these meetings as a way to collect evidence to be used later to prove that they weren't at fault when the project fails to meet it's objectives.
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How big is your team? and company?