skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some counterpoints:

The goal would be to be more customer-focused in those cases.

"No one prospers without rendering benefit to others." — Tadao Yoshida, founder of YKK zippers, https://ykkamericas.com/our-philosophy/

With MrBeast, the "best YOUTUBE video" would be one that causes engagement with the viewer throughout the video:

> The creative process for every video they produce starts with the title and thumbnail. These set the expectations for the viewer, and everything that follows needs to be defined with those in mind. If a viewer feels their expectations are not being matched, they’ll click away - driving down the crucial Average View Duration that informs how much the video is promoted by YouTube’s all-important mystical algorithms.

You have to both entice the viewer with the thumbnail/title, and meet the expectations of the viewer so they continue watching.

Your counterexamples are a bunch of instances where the company did not meet customer expectations.
Merchants of course would have loved it since they were the few people living in a reality that would actually become capitalism.

I disagree with your initial statement since there were obviously alternatives throughout history and countries that never fully bought into full trappings of capitalism. It is only our opinion that capitalism, heavily influenced by our education that lends us to believe that capitalism is the only way things can be.
It's super buggy. It starts with a diagnostic terminal I have to move off to another workspace, the status bar immediately breaks and stops updating on sleep (known issue that's on the GitHub repo), basically the Rust rewrite has thus far made it a much worse experience.
Nice job! I dig it.
I feel like this post has some nuance or clever wordplay that I'm missing. So if that's the case, apologies for adding noise.

But in the real world, the waterfall model was absolutely not a "strawman", but instead was literally how almost all software was built, up to even the turn of the century and beyond. Software projects were smaller in general, compiling was a major undertaken, you collaborated on projects by sending files around or, best case, working on a shared network directory. The pace of change of tooling and "libraries" was much slower and more predictable.

As we got source control, intellisense, massive knowledge bases, and then the rapid iteration of code sharing in the form of libraries and so on, things started changing because the model was too slow. But it was absolutely real and the norm.
it's also the name of egypt's authoritarian leader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi
Yeah this is strange how every agile coach has a sales script that begins with extolling the evils of waterfall.

It's far more likely that the customer/boss adds features and requirements way late in the process. As an anecdote, I was working on a small mobile app, and two days before release date, my boss came in and demanded that I make the app work on ancient iPhone's with tiny screens, which involved having to redesign large parts of the UI to reflow in ways I hadn't thought of. He justified this by being 'agile' and 'forward thinking'
Those affected by this post might appreciate this book: "The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self" (https://www.amazon.ca/Drama-Gifted-Child-Search-Third/dp/046...)
>- His shows are scripted to varying degrees - I think this should be obvious to >anyone old enough to not think santa's real.

Anyone who watches 99% of media should not find scripting to be a surprise. And many posting here on HN, who have given technical talks and presentations definitely do some level of preparation/script in advance. You can tell which people on YouTube/TikTok/etc actually prepare and have a script - against those who just ramble on with absolutely no plan outside of "this is a cool thing I like, that I want to talk about for far too long". (I watch alot of DIY/maker style videos)

Because - even if it is "unscripted" - there are soooo many hours of footage required to cut together even a short news interview segment. Many many years ago, I was interviewed for a short (5m) segment on "wardriving". The camera crew and interviewer took more than 8 hours to get all of their footage/angles and my various sound-bites for 5 minutes of aired footage. (And who knows how long in the edit room) It was eye-opening for me.
Because Ars Magica is a really good game.
> that it is the natural state of affairs and everything leading up to it was a proto-captialist society (see the myth of a barter society, which never existed).

Wasn't that one of Marx's ideas? Certainly the part about everything leading to capitalism (including the proto-capitalist part). We're stuck at this stage for longer than he might have expected but I don't see how that invalidates his core ideas...

> capitalism is an immortal and immovable default state of human being.

Depends on how you define "capitalism" but in many ways it (at least many aspects of/proto-capitalism as you said) just seems like the default equilibria state human societies converge to without someone using excessive force/violence to mould it into something else.

At the end of the day humans need/want food/stuff to survive. Them giving it away them altruistically wouldn't be the best from the evolutionary perspective (i.e. their descendants if they kept doing the same would soon be outcompeted by more selfish individuals). Mutually beneficial (on the individual level) exchange of goods services seems seems to lead to extremely high productivity and no other system/approach can really compete with it.
This guy was so much more respectable when he stuck to futuristic cars and spaceships...

The Twitter sale really broke him, didn't it?
Decades later, string theory continues its march toward Einstein's dream
How'd that work out for the Sears Catalog?
> No sense of accomplishment, no letup, working hard just gets you more work. It's like laying bricks one at a time on a wall with unlimited length.

Also feeling bad every 2 weeks because planning was really bad and now you need to say you're sorry the task has to roll over the next sprint and your manager has to explain to their manager, etc, etc.
Hmm I think 95% of the conversation in this thread can be summarized as:

Person 1: Scrum sucks at my job because X, Y, Z.

Person 2: That's not the ideal spherical cow! Sorry, it's not "real scrum".
For the same purpouse I ofter use this https://github.com/calmm-js/partial.lenses
Incredibly cool, like detecting motion in a house with wifi. Very sharp. Stealth appears dead with Starlink type constellations acting as baseline radiation emitters (assuming passive ground radar capabilities). Perhaps this speeds development of the SR-72 ("Son of Blackbird").
> Prompt: Which is larger, .9 or .11?

> Result: .9 is larger than .11

we've broken the semver barrier!
While I agree with your general sentiment, that doesn't seem like a particularly insightful quote, but rather a nebulous negative definition. Does the guide mean that "best" is balanced blend of all of those? Based on what sibling comments are saying, the goal is to make the most popular videos, in which case, the guide should say that.
I don't think anything in Scrum dictates iterations must be one week long.

https://www.scrum.org/learning-series/what-is-scrum/
I'm not really sure what you mean. Complex biological molecules are emergent from the laws of physics and an environment containing the right precursors.
Maybe we could improve it more by combining it with embeddings?

It’s a way to convert a text or response into an array of numbers, that can be used for similarity lookups.

I made a way to query large datasets of text strings:
https://github.com/punnerud/search-embeddings-llama3.1

Can be used to let it explore a graph of knowledge as long as the graph is related to the original question, and can explore different solutions at the same time without repeating itself (then it’s get linked back to similar answers and stopped)
ACE 4, AuDHD - not very satisfied with life until very recently at 49. Diagnosed autistic at 42, and with adhd at 47.
What model truck do you have?
If you scroll down that article, you’ll find multiple definitions.
Why "personalized to" doesn't work is because that line is referencing the text, not the author. If he would have preferred to have used "personalized to" he could have done so, as long as the subject in that line was changed to the author. Your interpretation of the universal social purpose line is creative and more intelligible than the referenced comment, but whatever the intended meaning may have been, it was not immediately clear.

As to your second to last comment, I wouldn't have even mentioned it had the other commenter not mentioned how they found the prose jarring. To your question in your final line, I didn't say that I felt I was being talked down to, I said that the author seemed like he thought he was talking down to an audience below him, such as with his line where he mentions his startup friends whom he shared his text with, but wouldn't share the same with HN.
> Money set aside for repatriation may be better spent on integrating refugees and other migrants, through programs like language lessons, job assistance and training, which could help newcomers build a future in Sweden, she said.

So just to be clear, a Neo-Nazi political group rebranded, and has successfully passed a law to use significant amounts of taxes to deport immigrants instead of using the same amount of money to integrate them?
Question I would pose is, why should engineer have the decision on a new CRM?

They can provide input regarding e.g. maintainability, but majority of input would come from other stakeholders - users and business unit owning the customers whose relationship we want managed, ideally primarily. And it is somebodys job to take these inputs into collective whole.

It was a mind blowing exercise to me 15 years ago when I was telling my boss how horrible our current installation of some ERP software was, and be asked me what's the user perspective. They log in every day, run financial reports they need, and log out. The system was great from their perspective! They had even less concern for my perspective of poor architecture and suboptimal implementation, than I (at that point) had of their perspective and goals. Thank krishna I didn't make the decisions on the CRM :-)
Developers are still constrained by process, and it's their fault.

In every single company I have worked, the process always took priority. It's made even worse where you have ISO 9001 compliance where every god damn thing in the company is locked into a "process." Process over people, period. Coporo-managers can't get it out of their head.

When all you have ever done is "the process" it looks perfectly sane. To teams that can produce a POC and basically get to market on their own domain knowledge, it looks ridiculous. Making developers wait for requirements instead of inventing them on the fly is incredibly slow and smothers nearly all innovation.

Why risk making your product look like your convoluted communication and political structures? The entire point of agile was lost on the influx of bodies to the industry.

Form a "skunk works" team and shield them. Make a big show of how their success came despite having zero fucking process. Jira is for maintenance.
Plenty of people have written books that confirm/deny the efficacy of the Waterfall model.

But in the meantime, there are far, far many more folks - by significant orders of magnitude - who have written software with the Waterfall model.

Far, far more.

The fact that it is still with us, and can still be used quite effectively sort of leads credence to the idea that those who can, do, while those who can't, teach (or write books about it).
Don’t your neighbors dunk off their roof?
In preemptive multitasking you are trying to get all the work done as quickly as possible, but with FAIR and similar systems you want to make sure that a single client/user/resource cannot steal an inordinate amount of capacity.

I do not think languages/runtimes typically implement that kind of prioritization/limiting mechanism.
Fair, it wasn’t clear to me that you meant “skipped writing about it” - I thought you were just some rando that was commenting on something that they skipped over reading in the article (which I now understand you wrote). Sorry for the misunderstanding!
> locking a dude in a room for days on end with no mental health evaluation beforehand to see if he can handle the psychological stress that might induce. Or having said dude run a marathon on a treadmill without any training. Or running illegal lotteries. Or fixing the outcomes of game shows.

I don't think any of these contestants would be doing it with a gun to their head. ergo, they had a choice on whether to do it. We don't know whether they were informed choices, but I assume they were (giving people the benefit of the doubt here).
Good to know how he jokes in person to his group.
>For example, locking a dude in a room for days on end with no mental health evaluation beforehand to see if he can handle the psychological stress that might induce.

Note this is MrBeast doing it to himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_CbgLpvH9E

I think that changes the ethics a bit. If he decides to potentially psychologically torment himself for his channel, I don't think it's a big deal that he didn't give himself a mental health evaluation beforehand.

(I'm aware he has a similar video with random contestants as well. But either way, I think this particular criticism is a little too hand-wringy. It's not being forced upon anyone and they can leave at any time.)

IMO the biggest issue is the allegation he rigs some of the game shows. That's definitely unethical.
That was tested too, according to the Wikipedia page about yawns. Still no.
ppl love dumb things doesn't mean those things aren't dumb. Lots of ppl liked NFT monkeys.
I fail to follow the logic from the author:

- there is this thing called "waterfall"

- author agrees that there are people that actually use it as a methodology for their software projects

- But because no one wrote a book about it, author assumes talking about "the waterfall model" a strawman.

To me, this sounds like moving the goalposts. One comment fits my experience :

> The Waterfall model IMHO comes from Taylorism. Is a serial assembly line that follows an strict division of labor, management that thinks and workers that execute, etc. Having worked with professionals beyond sw development, they don't call it "Waterfall" but it is everywhere.
> https://bsky.app/profile/duolingobrasil.com.br

Is that actually the real Duolingo? duolingo.com is managed by "Amazon Registrar, Inc." with masked owner, while "duolingobrasil.com.br" seems to be managed by CloudFlare and owned by "JOTACOM COMUNICACAO E PUBLICIDADE LTDA" which seems to be a marketing agency based on Brazil.

If that account was really official duolingo, I'd expect it to use the official duolingo.com domain for verification. Instead it's using a domain created in 2024-09-09 and people on Bluesky treats it as the official duolingo page?

What's the point of using domains as verification when people just ignore it outright?
I can't be the only person disturbed by the penetration of terms like "obsession" into nominally professional culture. You should not be asking your employees to qualify for DSM symptoms just to not get fired (with severance, lol, that is genuinely a step up from nothing even if it's clearly meant to soften the psychological shock of reading about A- B- and C- employees).
I think what you're trying to say is that there is no one development process that fits every situation because all situations are different and thus what you need to do to have a successful software project is adapt the process to the business and do what works.
I never played 1e, I started with ADnD 2e.
You mean he talks more like a normal person talking about a product rather than a Youtuber going over the top with everything? The fact that he is genuine is a big part of his appeal.
The OP is 30 years away from retirement yet is posting on how to do it right... That's bold.

For me, retirement is imminent (I'm 67), but I can't imagine how ugly those prospects would look now if I'd not prepared for decades. Leaving a career with no income stream other than $35k/year in Social Security means you must continue working in whatever diminished role is available to you at age 70+. If that sounds bad to you, well, you got it right.

In the US, that would probably be working on your feet in a minimum wage role ($25k/year), with inadequate health insurance (Medicare A with Medicaid, if your state offers the latter), living in a low end apartment or mobile home, with declining health. In short, without substantial preparation, life after retirement will _suck_. I wouldn't wish it on an enemy. But this is exactly where 30-40% of Americans will be after 65 since they were unable (or unwise) to prepare for the final 20 years of unemployment that inescapably come at the end of life (AKA retirement).

Until some sort of organized coordinated alternative to old-age-demotion comes along, old folks are on their own in America. I recommend that everyone take life post-career deadly seriously long before it happens and prepare for it, or your 'golden years' will eat you alive.
"Delivered in days", my experience is that most deliveries get a "we couldn't find you" notice in my letter box, get bounced to a collection point, and that the collection point is often further away than the physical shop selling the same item. And two days after scheduled delivery.

Unless I want to buy something weird, in which case there's also a good chance delivery fails entirely for some reason and the order gets cancelled on the other side.
Yes, the system beep, although that just makes the terminal flash on my setup :)
If you're playing video games you're literally not doing nothing. The point is to give yourself time to reflect and breathe. If you're stoned and that makes it easy to meditate for ages, you could probably count that as doing nothing. Although you should probably worry if you simply cannot sit still for any significant amount of time without being stoned. But yeah if you're getting stoned and like watching movies and stuffing your face then you're not doing nothing.
This is not a foxcon factory, this is the most famous and productive Youtube production company. People here work incredibly hard IN ORDER TO get this particular job, seeking it out specifically.

> Many people in entertainment feel lucky to be a paid employee at all

And this is BY CHOICE.

I fundamentally disagree with your positioning.
I think the obvious solution is to cost share. Provide stocks for the capital assets required for this power distribution, and make the data centers invested into backup plans if their own power utilizations decrease.
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A little while ago, I shared BudgetFlow with the HN community (previous post:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41180441), and received lots of feedback. Since then, I’ve been working on addressing many of the points and suggestions you all raised.

This update contains a lot of the community's ideas, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the progress. Whether you remember the original post or are seeing this for the first time, I’d appreciate any feedback. Thanks for helping make it better!
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Xnapper Studio aims to make it fast and easy to create eye-catching images and mockups, especially for people sharing images their product images on on social media and blogs.

Compared to our macOS app, we've doubled down on making the screenshots look better by adding device mockups (i.e. iPhone, Macbook, Safari, etc.), more social media dimensions, and image positioning.

Currently we're working on adding an option to share the image with a link (cloud storage and share).

Would love to get your feedback on our beta!
> that they will suddenly stop what they are doing after a certain age and let younger generations pay for their salary

This is the worst take I have seen in a while. First of all, in both Germany and Türkiye, we put aside a part of our monthly remuneration towards our pension. So when we retire, there is already a sizable sum that we have accumulated via our own work, nobody else is 'paying for our retirement'. It's our own money.

There is no some mythical younger generation working to pay our pensions, we have earned this money, it belongs to us, and we have all the reason to expect to not have to work in our old age.

The problem is only that in the current pension model, your money are not kept tight by the government or the pension fund, but instead spent or speculated with on the stock market. In this model, when you retire, it's not your money you are actually getting, but the pension contributions of the younger generation, because your money has been long spent. But that's a problem of the model, not some unsurmountable obstacle that the author of the article tries to make you believe.

Heck, if the pension fund or the government can't get it right, they can f-off and we can start saving for retirement on our own. But they say they can, so they either have to stand behind their promises, or reorganize to the new reality of people living longer and less young people entering the workforce. If that means that the government needs to guarantee a certain % of our pensions as a collateral, so be it. The world can benefit from less stock market speculation and more monetary resilience.

The myth that the younger generation is somehow paying the pensions of the old and that it's somehow a problem applies only if you don't ask: where did all the money we contributed towards our pension go. It's just a fault in the system that our own pension money is spent recklessly by the governments' bad calculations. The solution to that is emphatically not, as the author mentioned, 'expecting to never retire', but by demanding that our pension money is responsibly handled and not spent in the expectation that future schmucks will also join in this pyramid scheme.
If 100% of his watchers were YouTube Premium subscribers and none of them ever saw an ad, would you feel differently?
Because they are landed gentry. The Gamgees and other working class hobbits do the field work. Bilbo was wealthy even before his adventure. Pippin and Merry are also members of the aristocracy. Farmer Maggot was something more or less like a yeoman farmer.

The Shire is, in basically every respect, including its economics, an idealized version of the English countryside.
Good points. I mean this is how we get old or get bankrupt. First slowly and then suddenly.

One point that is not mentioned is that Amazon is making boatload of money by advertising. Their ad revenue is 50 billion dollars and rapidly rising. This make them look invincible and total shit at the same time.
The UK has Open Banking, a standardised API for accessing banking data:

https://www.openbanking.org.uk/
> Rewarding employees who make value for the business and think like founders/equity owners, not employees.

The best way to get employees to think like equity owners is to give them equity. But I guess the name of the game in our times is to somehow expect people with no equity to work even harder for the company than the equity holders do, right? Let me know how that works out.
> it probably also works in practice

I've lived the first 14 years of my life under the Romanian communist dictatorship so no.

Let's put it this way. If it's the property of the people it's not everyone's in practice, it's no one's. So you're free to slack, cheat and steal from your "property of the people", you're cheating "no one".

> post-scarcity is a necessary precondition

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