skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people who could rub two lines of visual basic (for applications) were getting jobs

If one can put two sensible lines of VBA that solves a particular problem (e.g. in Excel or whatever context), I believe such person has enough knowledge to not to be unemployable, even today. We are not talking about mid/high six figures - there are plenty of jobs in-between.
This seems like dangerous glorification of intellectualism. The intellectual communities of the world are not inherently moral because of their intellect. That even intelligent people can commit heignous acts is one of the oldest tropes of the 1940s (with good reason). I might just be misunderstanding your points, in which case I apologise, but what you've discussed don't seem to actually relate to whether or not Trotsky was a part of the intellectual communities of his time.
One thing people don't take into account when opening a company is the process and costs involved. I payed to close mine around 800 euros only to dissolve during the course of the following months. Besides paying the corresponding taxes. Another issue with a company abroad is you have to blindly trust your accountant. If I were to do it again I could have incorporated locally.
The first time I saw anything on a computer related to pizza ordering was the Sun NeWS pizzatool:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems...
Hope I can help musicians out there by sharing a tool I created.

As a musician a problem I had was that not everyone would pay me on time (or at all?) and it was difficult to keep track of all of the gigs I played. That's why I created Adagio.

Adagio is the CRM for the working musician. You can keep track of gigs, venues, bands and payments.

Here are some features:

️Easily add gigs manually or import them from Bandsintown®.

️Check how many gigs are still to be paid, just by looking at your dashboard.

️ Useful email reminders to remind you of unpaid and upcoming gigs.

A lot of musicians are non-technical. At best, they use a spreadsheet to keep track of their shows, so I really hope this product can help them like it helps me.
We remember Emmett Till, but only because there’s been a big effort to remember.
Cannot confirm this claim.

I've always got full 1Gbps out of Hetzner, even across the ocean, and for periods of multiple days of transfers.

(Like on all machines, you need to set the right TCP settings for windows sizes to make it physically possible.)
> but does that cost you the opportunity to make even more than that, given you're probably moving slower or at least less efficiently than you otherwise could?

The potential opportunity of fast-moving cloud features needs to be weighed against the opportunity costs of slow-moving cloud features. Where bespoke solutions can immediately provide tailored performance and maximize technical capabilities, a missing feature in any of your cloud providers services can be a showstopper or unmitigatable roadblock. And while lots of the technology is past the bounds of reasonable economical replacement, some of the technologies being shared through the cloud are nigh unfathomable to recreate.

Which is to say that the black ju-ju behind Windows update probably takes making a new MS to build up to present maturity, and unless you're a certified "big boy" letting small teams somewhere else fully dictate what you can and can't do at service boundaries probably impacts you in the long run.

Based on that, and IMO/IME: the answer isn't a binary choice but a constantly shifting point on a spectrum between the two, where on-premise/local-cloud and remote-cloud services are aware of one another and maximize capabilities while minimizing costs. Hybrid installations are just stronger, and are easier to reshape according to costs.
Seems like FedNow was created to ease some of these pain points. https://multichannelmerchant.com/blog/fednow-service-will-of...
Less blog-spam propaganda, please.
Not even a record for China. Seems to be a record just for that train, or that train on that track, or something. Hard to say...
The Internet makes it too easy to scale up a business and become a monopolist.

The US has a regulatory culture of permitting monopolies as long as they are lawfully gained. I don't think this is right. I also think a sequence of monopolies, each living 5 or 10 years, before being overtaken, is also wrong; just because a monopoly is eventually overtaken doesn't mean consumers must tolerate monopolies at their height.

"Being the change" means limiting maximum size and forcing competition through regulation. That's political. I don't think there's any choice at this point if we want to preserve democracy.
The IQBuds from https://www.nuheara.com/ have been a godsend for my daughter who has hyperacusis. The newer Boost model seems to be advancing further with diagnostics to help figure out the required sound profile of the listener.
It is already working out. When the goal is not to have sporty sporting events, but to fight a political fight, then we have the necessary process already in place.

Decades ago, the fight was about women and their right to have competitive sports. Their politics moved on and their rights are not on the agenda and so not very relevant. The feminists can bitch and scream, but their time has passed. They're like the segregationists hoping to return to the past. The society's direction setters have moved on. There's no going back.
This is great! The clanking in the "restaurant" is so soothing for me.
The US Supreme Court can now decided whether you are fired for being LGBT+
Funny. I have the opposite problem. I have a German IP, my OS/region/locale is set to American English, and sites regularly give me the German version even if I don't want/need it and even if I've previously been to the site and set it to English. MDN is the biggest offender for me right now because I use it nearly every day, and every single time I go to the damn site it's in German and I don't want it in German.
One big rotor with one rotor on the tip of each blade? Or, what about 4 interlocking rotors, each facing a different direction—panoptirotor!?
As a ULEZ resident, very good, onward and upwards. I hope city centre traffic will go all electric one day.

Incidentally I got a proposal to vote on the other day proposing changing Park Lane southbound into park land with cafes which I think would be nice. (https://www.westminster.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mayfair_n... p32)
Life saving regulation. As a denizen of that zone - my office is on the Euston Road which is awful for pollution - I appreciate this a lot.
>There is a law against asking people who interact with the state for data that it already has.

I find that very interesting. Could you provide a link?
How to Select a Technology Stack for Web App Development in 2019
Don't worry I won't break them ever again.
Replied to you at above link.

cheers
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Never said it isn't. Big and small. The amount of shit I've experienced myself, or had reported to me by friends and acquaintances is so large that I have a very low starting opinion on small businesses on things not strongly enforced by law. I've shared some more egregious examples on HN a few times, like a practice in grocery stores to wash stale meat with dish cleaner to be able to sell it as fresh. Yes, fraud is very much rampant across business.
I don't envy the guy with the job of getting this right.

The last train wreck in China is still being talked about. Not because of the tragedy of the accident, but because of how it became emblematic of corruption and cover-ups and realities that are "unpatriotic" to say out loud. I guarantee any problems with this train line and you are sure to see someone bought up on "corruption charges".
Hmm, that sounds like discrimination of fields of endeavour => not open source :'(
I've recently recreated my personal site and blogs[0] using a custom-tailored static site generator[1]. It felt good, like in the era of the Internet of creation.

[0]: http://danieljanus.pl
[1]: https://github.com/nathell/nhp
The problem was never with banks failing, it was with some of them being "too big to fail". This news therefore doesn't mean attempts to prevent another 2008-like crisis have been unsuccessful.

Also, let's the remember the last bailout was a somewhat underrated success: " TARP recovered funds totalling $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit or an annualized rate of return of 0.6% and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation.".

Apart from that, public debt is up considerably in the US (mostly due to tax cuts) but rather flat in the EU. Nothing would preclude another bailout of the same magnitude as the last one.

But that's a somewhat silly question. Because if there's one thing we can be sure of, it's that the next crisis will be different than the last one.

Italy going bankrupt is a far more imminent danger than private banks, and one that would be too big to contain, for example.
A website design company can help your business
Ah right, of course. So what caused space time expansion to accelerate and then the opposite?
Ordering pizza might be one of the few things that is better to do over the phone than online. It's far quicker to say "Pickup, a large pizza, half pepperoni, well done", than to fight through the combobox salad of seemingly every pizzeria online ordering system.
Others already mentioned some keys.

But a couple key things change (many more do too these are two I look for), yes capital is harder to come by, or at least requires better fundamentals and connections but the overall market is in a selling mood (e.g. good buying market). So enterprises and healthy businesses are looking for things to buy on the cheap (which is relative to the high of the market), and how to expand cost effectively. There is of course a cool down period that you have to get through before this starts happening.

Enterprises after they snap up their initial FTE roles they need to fill start looking for a lot more consultants to fill project roles versus bringing on more FTE's. This opens up more consulting gigs at pretty favorable pricing usually. You can now hire people to expand a consulting practice because people are less expensive so you can grow when things are "down" for others.

When the air pops out of the system people also get discouraged from the market and run away. A lot of the speculators will back out and so it becomes a more sane environment for a few years. If you are a developer and just work through it as things recover you change jobs a couple of times and you can really jump your salary during the recovery because there is a time when demand becomes super high but supply again is low. This also is again where it is awesome to be a consultant, I kept increasing the rates for my company all through the downturn and people would pay.

Outside of tech a downturn is usually time to capitalize on real estate, rentals and a host of other things. But you have to set yourself up to do this usually a little before things take a full slide into that first year. But if you are relatively debt free and can take some debt on during the down point of the market on real estate you can make a lot of money on the upswing. To be clear, real estate may not crash at the same time or rate, or may not at all. But the demands for rentals vs buying changes as does the buying power of people, so you can leverage those both.
Congress Continues to Ignore the Dangerous Flaws of the CASE Act
I would expect/hope setting intl.accept_languages to include "da,sv,en" to be enough to make it stop translating those (in about:config or through the GUI)
I know of Craig Murray through local politics. He is a conspiracy theorist and a mentalist. Can't believe I'm seeing his blog on HN
We can do better at smart home
Within the EU Rail team network, missed connections are largely covered:

http://www.railteam.eu/en/for-your-journey/network-map/

Unfortunately the network seems to be mostly Belgium, France German, the Netherlands, with egress into Italy, Spain and the UK.
Dude, you are obviously biased and try to portray the "pure play" companies in a positive light. Stop it, you are not fooling anyone. Stop defending them, those companies are the literal cancer of the software engineering world from the most literal point of view and the people in this thread talking bad things about them are doing that because they have very good reasons to.
This is awesome! I love the photography style.

I've been working on something parallel to this myself - interviews with open source maintainers to celebrate their work and aggregate advice for others[1]. It's great to see another example of open source work being highlighted.

Some of the images load a little slowly for me - the images in the modals could be compressed as I notice that the file is often significantly larger than the size it is displayed at on the page.

[1] - https://sourcesort.com
Not enough. We are dying here.
The Internet of creation is still out there. There are plenty of places on the internet where people make cool stuff. Even YouTube is still a hotbed of creation, despite the platform growing more hostile to it.

It's just that next to the internet of creation, there's also a big corporate internet now, and it's pulling in a lot of people and trying to stake claims in parts of the internet of creation. But creation is still thriving.
Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Docker is too simple and limited to make a living off it
There probably will be a problem, though, and if it's unmaintained no one will be around to change the status, so it's more honest to leave it red for all time.
Building a related post engine using MongoDB Aggregation
"Open Source is just a catchy marketing phrase for "free software" "

Nope. Even RMS even insist it is not. Main difference is, free software usually enforces "copyleft".

And open source not.
My early years were in a big outsourcing firm & man everything was delayed & over budget. 3 months of development became 9 months. Projects promised in 6 months took 1 year of development.
Projects with older technologies like VB - which worked quite well, code was clean were rewritten for no benefit whatsoever. These rewrites were sold by marketing people. People were overbilled everywhere.

Glad I left the Indian corporate scene & started working remotely. Now I run a small remote QA team for an international firm at 30-40% less cost & delivering at least 2x times these corporate giants.
I did mention the mobile format. Which is responsible largely for the dumbed-dowb, featureless, memoryless internet I experience
Because it's very much site dependent what language I want. I don't expect the browser to transmit ANY kind of language information to the site.

For instance I never want the Danish version of Wikipedia, but I do want the Danish version of a Danish news site, or the Swedish version of a Swedish website. There's no real way to indicate those preferences to the browser, so it would be best if it never try to deal with language.
DeepL really shines when not translating to or from english. I find their FR<->DE fantastic, miles ahead of Google's.
I thought you could buy tickets from Germany to e.g. Barcelona with Deutsche Bahn? The "only" problems are that one needs to visit a physical office of theirs as online booking is not possible and you may pay a lot more than buying individual cheap tickets with the operators.
Impossible! There is insane competition in Lithuania between cities. The ex-Soviets are not able to cooperate being afraid having KGB spy as partner. KGB spies are gone decades ago, but people didn’t learn to work together. Cooperation on state level is impossible. Lithuanians are jealous of Estonian success story and higher wages: https://www.baltictimes.com/estonia_has_highest_gross_wage_i...
>the CEO looks to be walking away with ~$900M total from the endeavor

How much of the previous $700M did he actually walk away with though? Everything I've read suggests that he only sold a small portion of the $700M in stock, and the majority he kept and borrowed against to buy the buildings he leases back to WeWork. In one of the negotiations post IPO collapse, he agreed to give any profit he makes off those leases back to WeWork. Also, at what valuation level for WeWork is $700M for his equity even based on?
One fascinating difference between Estonia and Norway is that Norway doesn't have a digital ID card - we instead use a government single sign-on platform for vetted private login provider companies.

The vast majority of people use BankID, a login system run by a consortium of most banks.

It used to require a cumbersome 2FA device, but for the last 5 years it has also been available as a Sim Toolkit App, so most use that now.

The way it works is pretty cool, you just type your SSN in a login form and immediately a popup window with a word based 2FA appears on your phone.

Seems like less of a hassle to just use your phone than the Estonian system with a physical card reader.
Ancient Greek ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria
Great piece of legislation. London’s air is famously bad and this is great start but there is still a long way to go as the air is still awful
It doesn't make much sense to hook up Europe the same way because the population density in most parts of the map is no where close to China.

Compare it with India and you will see the same number of stations/trains/bus routes all subsidized and dirt cheap (compared to Europe), but far below in any other standard (naturally because they are poorer).
Indeed, while I found Witness difficulty very uneven, with lack of episodic structure like many other games. It lacks guidance so you stumble around until you find things - but it's not actually truly open world as there are many knowledge gates. Which you will regularly bounce off.

That does not make it worse than other puzzle games, just annoying in parts. Especially its huge reliance on perception as opposed to actually thinking and figuring things out, but then it's not quite a puzzle game. It's more of a big escape room game which does have puzzles in it. There are others on the market, few are well known.

(Even something like Antichamber is more of a puzzle game than Witness, yet it is still an escape room rather than a pure puzzle game.)

A relevant contrasting comparison would be to something like The Talos Principle which was heavily playtested including some puzzle redesigns, reordering, some having been dropped. Puzzles were also automatically checked to be doable in desired and a few atypical ways.

The other design principles apply though the same - minimalism, tutorial principles and difficulty scaling.

Antichamber has the guns and blocks and physics, Talos has the few tools and pseudophysics, Witness has varying puzzle mechanics but one input with tons of output.

The difference is the degree of things being hidden. Puzzles with hidden pieces tend to become adventure games. It does not matter if you have to carry the pieces or if they're already in place.
It's even possible that the Google ML experts left Google and went to work somewhere else.
Having lived and worked in China for several years recently, and continuing to regularly visit, I agree with almost everything you said except for the "huge efforts in creating a fair [...] system for everyone". I saw no evidence of any such effort to create a fair system. For example, China's rule of law is effectively driven by power and connections, not on evidence and fairness, and the effect of this extends throughout society, though I can understand that a traveler would probably not encounter this much, if at all.
All of the firms in Infosys's field are the running joke of the software engineering world. There is literally not one of them viewed in a positive or even neutral light. And yes, there is a hierarchy of brands in the offshore consulting firm space and the Indian consultancies are the bottom of the barrel.
DDG also has it's own crawler, but the bulk of the results are from Bing.
Around here there are storage units that are miles away from everything.

(A county with a population of ~40,000, there's no short term time frame where growth will reach the spots where they are built)
Yo - I'm not totally stupid - used circles and a table approach to show that there are only 6. Just took the time to write and draw in notebook.
This makes me want background ambience from the Concent of Saunt Edhar.
I have no way of judging the correctness of any given translation of a language I can't already read, so I would prefer that the browser doesn't do any automatic translation. Personally I would prefer to not be able to read the content of a site, compared to getting a translation that may be wrong, even if it's clearly indicated that it's an automated translation.
What about Black cabs? Most polluting cars have pref treatment
TGV tickets are sold there, but separately - without any liability for missed connections.
Ghost 3.0
Leaders Eat Last. A very good book by Simon Sinek but based on an old Marine Corps principal.

While other services have 'head of line privileges' - basically the more senior you are the more you can cut in line to get food at chow time. In the Marines, you always line up most junior to more senior.

It drives home the responsibility leaders have to take care of the people who follow them.
"docker-only expert" makes me LOL :)
Polite and silent is good, but it is awful if you end up in a smoking carriage, they are horrible. I think they will be going away soon though.
Perhaps they are less doctrinaire than RMS.
Nice idea! I think it would be great to add HTTPS to http://unmaintained.tech.
There he is! I just didn't recognize him. Thanks for pointing him out. I was feeling quite aggrieved on his behalf there!
Haskell must be getting popular, if so many projects are being started in it that the proportion of them that fail are "a growing number" :)

That said, anyone know of a writeup / "post-mortem" of such a failure?
The payments system in the US is really creaking at the seams, but overall tech adoption by people and small businesses isn't bad.

In the UK, the payments system works quite well, but what amazes me is how much physical letters are still a thing: for doctors' appointments with the state-run health system (the NHS), for schools communicating with parents, etc, taking personalized plates on and off a car, ...
Deliverable is funding/contract language. At month 3 any bigger project bringing different partners together is still in a very early coordination stage.
In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan
I have stopped reading Wired when they've decided to block new visitors that use ad blockers, essentially telling them to expose themselves to a proven malware distribution channel. They have relented since to a more sensible paywall with a handful of free articles every month, but they've likely lost a bunch of readers and mind share because of that initial decision.

https://www.wired.com/how-wired-is-going-to-handle-ad-blocki...
While we're at it:

- https://postgrest.org/

- https://www.shellcheck.net/

- https://xmonad.org/

- https://www.costarastrology.com/
Reminiscent of Avedon's "In the American West". Those were shot on 11x14 large-format film, and the detail on the slightly larger than life print has to be seen up close and personal to be believed.
Aren’t they going PHEV?
Maybe because most countries are run in an at least semi democratic fashion? Unlike tech companies which only answer to shareholders countries, at least theoretically are answerable to their citizens.

Countries for both good and bad reasons are typically less eager to jump on the bandwagon with new ideas and innovations also, because the stakes are far higher than in a tech company.