skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opening paragraph from NYT: „CSAKVAR, Hungary — Under Communism, farmers labored in the fields that stretch for miles around this town west of Budapest, reaping wheat and corn for a government that had stolen their land.”
1. The Csákvár State Farm was originally the estate of Esterházy family (the biggest landowners in Hungary).
2. There was an agricultural cooperative in Csákvár, owned by the farmers. It was a rather successful venture. The state had not owned the land of the cooperatives in Hungary. They worked for themselves.
Is this a supposedly factual piece of quality journalism, or a cheap propaganda?
Craig Breedlove's Quest for the Land Speed Record
That's not always possible in an easy way. It leads to more problems than it solves as soon as there are >1 developers. Your code is dependant on a current state of the database and you should factor that in with your deployments.

My deployment have a optional Target on the migration for rollbacks and I have never had any problems.

Depends on the tech you use ofc. But for. Net the entity framework make it easy.

Your comment is only used as a excuse for imperfect deployments and creates too much additional problems.

You should really do it like this, so the code decides how the connected database should.

Otherwhise the human overhead to execute the correct scripts will have a problem sooner or later ( eg. If a separate team/person handjes deployments).
It's also vague to know if someone else has configured everything correct ( at my current job, they put all the scripts in a separate branch. One application connects to another DB and ofc the DB deployments where not configured yet).

Urgh
This whole thing is sadly “typically Berlin”. No hard, scientific proof for that but it is extremely unsurprising when you have some experience with Berlin bureaucracy.
Oh please. You never released a bug to production that couldn't be fixed in five minutes? No way. That's such bullshit if you've ever worked in this industry. Legacy systems or not. Even as a fantasy/lie your claim is not believable.
SpaceX's Mark 3 parachutes for Crew Dragon
What it does is make people realize that nearly everyone who drives, drives a little impaired sometimes. That stops us from thinking this is about "other" people who can be punished to an arbitrarily high degree. Instead, now we have to acknowledge that it will be our sons, daughters, spouses, uncles, and cousins. It's just a matter of whether they got pulled over after a restless night or trying to finish a school assignment or working too late thr night before.

So, go ahead and punish people for impaired driving. But punish them like you'd want your daughter, cousin, or yourself punished. Not like a criminal who has crossed a major moral line.
https://tlsnotary.org/ might do what you want.
Russian oligarchs tend to be former senior officers in the KGB who obtained state assets at substantial discounts by mysterious means when the USSR broke up.

Sure lots of Western billionaires are corrupt but there is nothing directly comparable. There’s no conspiracy of renaming going on.
France/EU is not the United States. There are structural reasons that make a wealth tax virtually impossible to implement in the EU, but aren't present in the US.
Raising taxes while eliminating healthcare premiums.

Replacing a system designed to extract as much as possible from people needing medical help in order to enrich corporations with a system optimized for cost and efficiency.

Insurance is already based on paying for other people’s expenses except that it’s optimized for the profit of the ones running the scheme.

So how do we pay for Medicare for all?

We take 80% of the money, return it to the payers, and pay with the rest, in the form of taxes.

I wouldn’t mind a slight increase in taxes in exchange of knowing that I and nobody else has to ever be afraid to go to the doctor because they can’t afford it.

Ambulance rides don’t need to cost $3000, or a night at the hospital $1000.

Once we have one huge entity to negotiate pricing for everyone (about the only thing insurance companies have going on for them), we won’t have to be paying 10x to 100x what the services cost to provide.

Or should we continue sacrificing human lives and health to the altar of quarterly profits for a handful of people?

Healthcare is a solved problem in all first world countries. Trying to spin it into something else is insulting.

People are not stupid and propaganda has its limits.
Anybody actually interested in Russian history, social organization and politics should follow Dima Vorobiev on Quora. He worked for Soviet propaganda under Yeltsin and Gorbachev, I cannot recommend them highly enough.

Here is an older answer where he talks about Russian 'tributary taxation': https://www.quora.com/Will-Russia-abandon-the-tributary-taxa...
I am going to disagree on this. I for one am very grateful that garbage like notifications are not supported on Safari and that developers are forced to create native apps and go through review instead of just making a slow as hell PWA and calling it a day.
Do they have those funny shaped noses by the chance?
What was needed was to be human even if just for a moment. Employees acting on behalf of companies tend to do the very worst things that they would never condone if it happened to them or someone they love. In this case the obvious thing would be to give the person as much time off as needed to recover, not to ask her to come back in because there wasn't any maternity leave to be taken. This whole adherence to 'the letter' rather than 'the spirit' is highly annoying.
You don't need allowcache. You can do this already by serving script from domain under your control. The only potential problem is if attacker will also link same resource to your domain.
Economic History of Argentina
Like the underpaid, overworked campaign staff of Sanders [1] and Warren?

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/7...
>I mean I can't think of many things that would hurt team morale and hiring reputation more than treating a young female employee like shit just because she got pregnant

Anecdote time based on my experience in SV and tech, and second-hand anecdotes from friends in NYC finance:

Curiousgal's viewpoint isn't uncommon. The harshest judgment in these situations comes from other women. Men are generally more sympathetic, and if they're not, they're too scared to say anything.

Women in competitive & high-paying fields like tech and finance can be brutal, especially if they feel like holding off on having children was a sacrifice that they had to make in order to establish themselves in their career.

I would not be surprised if this decision came all the way down from a female manager, with men lower on the chain voicing opposition and being overruled.
Except that way there's basically zero semantic continuity between the commits of the old program and rewrite.

It's preferable to work in branches and rewrite and refactor incrementally whenever possible, merging the new code in as things progress at convenient milestones.

Then the history documents which functionalities in the old implementation became what files and lines in the new implementation.

That information can be very helpful when the rewrite breaks previously working functionality and customers are upset, especially if the rewrite authors aren't even around anymore.
I'm not saying it is a good idea. And I set my cynicism aside to not make a cynical speculation that Canon was pursuing the idea in order to make new versions of the same old optical formulas by adding features and increasing complexity. Part of that was that o-rings for weather sealing cost less than a buck and Pentax weather seals it's cheapest kit lenses and DSLR bodies (and those cheap bodies have "IBS"). But I wasn't making that comment.

As far as I've read, the LX100's zoom mechanism is the likely culprit. Air movement might mitigate that kind of problem. Instead of trying to keep all the dust out, manage it, and send it where it doesn't matter.

On the other hand, the LX100's dust problems might also be from manufacture process. That would correlate with the seeming inevitability of sensor dust no matter how it is used (just so long as it is used). I remember reading something about a Canon or Nikon body that had that had manufacturing dust (Maybe on LensRentals?).

Where the feature might make particular sense is a competitor to the Sony RX1R : Full frame fixed lens premium price.
The unique condition of Argentina, as a country which had achieved advanced development in the early 20th century but experienced a reversal, has inspired a wealth of literature and analyses on the causes of this progressive decline.[1] The Nobel prize-winning economist Simon Kuznets is said to have remarked that there were four types of countries: the developed, the underdeveloped, Japan and Argentina.

...

The ultimate cause of Argentina's historical backwardness appears to be its institutional framework.[182] In macroeconomic terms, Argentina was one of the most stable and conservative countries until the Great Depression, after which it turned into one of the most unstable.
Japan suffers from a cultural problem, mainly that you're judged by how much you work. It's like the Puritan work ethic, where idleness and not working was seen as sin.

The penalization or reward curve seems to be highly asymmetric. If you work hard, you're barely getting rewarded - it's what is expected. But if you slack even a bit, you'll get penalized harshly. This leads to fear-driven management, where employees will put up with all kinds of bullshit, as well as just looking like they're working, in fear of getting sacked or limiting their career opportunities.
Behind every great fortune is a great crime.
Hope someone can force something to happen for you.

I used to be jaded and say "well that's what you get for trusting xyz!" But really this isn't an adult response-- if some entity wants to pretend that it is an real business that can hold onto your valuables, then it needs to be held responsible for when it makes an oopsie.

If Coinbase lost your car, or USD, or security deposit, or whatever else you sent to them, then a court of law (with all regrettable fees) needs to get involved. Check which jurisdiction you need to pay money to just to serve them legal papers and then maybe their ass will get into gear and suddenly your money will be found.

Good luck!
I don’t see how we can address resource consumption and pollution more broadly without population controls. We need a two child, replacement rate rule. Otherwise we will continually play whack a mole with patching symptoms and bickering politics. And yet no one wants to own up to this reality.
Wait, hold the phone, are you saying that the relationship between an employer and their employees is actually, by nature, antagonistic? Such that what is good for one is actually bad for the other?

Who could possibly have predicted this?
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I need people for:
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It’s not gonna be a full-time job.
Every time I need to start a new project, I’ll send an email to a few of you, asking for how much time do you think it can take to finish the project (anyway, I’ll try to not work with fixed prices, but it will help to get a cost estimation).
If I choose you, I’ll send you a full detail of the pages/features that need to be created, and I’ll trust in your creativity and your UX experience, in order to create them. So, you are going to be responsible for defining the UX (more fun for you) with some input from my side.

So, if you can do some of those task mentioned above, send me an email to brodanoel@gmail.com
Please, the email should contain:
* Your portfolio or any kind of work that you already worked on (please, don’t bother you sending a PERFECT portfolio. Just send something)
* How much time have you taken creating each of your portfolio projects? (Will be helpful to get some cost estimations)
* Your rate (USD per hour) (consider that I’m not a company. It’s just a couple of side projects)

Important: I’m not in a hurry with none of the coming project. I WILL NOT request things to be done “yesterday”. We’ll have time. The job is going to be chill out.

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Please no for telemetry of such kind. How would you distribute such a list?
Except it’s the science that shows neonicotinoids to be harmful, like the thread you’re commenting on, and the publicly registered lobbyists working for Bayer and previously Monsanto who have successfully politically lobbied for laws that benefit their product, often citing their own paid-for ghost written research, which lobbied public policy makers can often be influenced into accepting as valid.

So yeah, if only the politicians would actually listen to the scientists instead of the lobbyists then neonicotinoids, like Roundup, would be banned, but unfortunately companies like Bayer, and formerly Monsanto, have staged an incredibly effective and successful lobbying / PR campaign.
Short recap for non German speakers.

- Berlin (city/state) court was running on Win 95.

- Trojan infected their whole network. Now they disconnected all PC’s from the internet. They run on phones and faxes now.

- Various consultancies (Accenture e.a.) warned them the situation was critical in 2017.
Yes.
Latest language standard is Ada 2012.

Spark, a subset of Ada 2012 supports formal proofs of program properties ranging from absence of run-time errors to functional correctness (compliance of the code with formally specified requirements).

If you're curious, you can learn more at https://learn.adacore.com/courses/courses.html
> The wealthy aren’t a magically endless source of loot.

True. But that's how they've been treating folks with less advantage since time immemorial. Which tends to work until the exploitation becomes too egregious and lower classes implement a head tax on the wealthy.
NYT also created a similar experience using video where video.currentTime was tied to scroll location: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/30/world/middlee...

I think there are some restrictions on video encoding parameters in order to make scrolling feel smooth which will increase the video size.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
If you think that the Dookhan case is unique, here is another one: https://www.dothaneagle.com/news/crime_court/lab-owner-accus...

This time it's made-up paternity tests and made-up drug tests in custody cases. The lack of cross-checks in the judicial system is concerning, it absolutely invites corruption.
Semantic errors?

I don't think a unit test will be able to distinguish 16 from 16.
Why not inline such a critical resource directly in html?
For css and js it would work just fine. And for fonts, I don't think they leak any private information.
Another article mentioning the use of faxes now that the court is disconnected from network:
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/anhoerung-zu-trojaner-ang...

Summary: Berlins Court of Appeals (Kammergericht) kept using Windows 95, even though the maintenance of this OS ended in 2001.

Elsewhere, it is mentioned, that the court was hit by Emotet malware.

Some judges have stored all their documents in the official system and have now lost them, and they have literally no access to their past work except on paper printouts, if they have any. Some other judges did not obey rules and stored their documents also on USB sticks; they now do have some back-ups.

(Google Translate works reasonably well for German-English.)
I don't really get what I got out of this article...

tl;dr; US news outlets use the term 'oligarch' more when talking about Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern Block countries.
more on this topic here https://docs.subzero.cloud/iterative-development-workflow/
Adobe Photoshop on iPad
The problem is that preciseness seems to be something that all US people know (is it taught in high school?) and nobody else. Systems where the government is voted for by the people are democratic regardless of the details.
I’ve been interested in shell scripting lately and I have to admit that I posted this not because of Joe’s high-level observations on minimalism of architecture, but because of his discussion of a tiny, shell-based system his team used for ticket management, which reminded me of this shell-based notepad posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21416338
"Ideal candidate: - Mother". Sounds illegal.
A place I worked at had a symlink pointing to the app directory, and a new version went to a new dir. This allowed us to do atomic deployments: code wasn't replaced while it's being run. A rollback, consequently, meant pointing that symlink to the older version.

For the database, during a migration we didn't synchronize code with one version of the db. Database structure was modified to add new fields or tables, and the data was migrated, all while the site was online. The code expected to find either version of the db, usually signaled by a flag for the shard. If the changes were too difficult to do online, relatively small shards of the db were put on maintenance. Errors were normally caught after a migration of one shard, so switching it back wasn't too painful. Database operations for the migrations were a mix of automatic updates to the list of table fields, and data-moving queries written by hand in the migration scripts—the db structure didn't really look like your regular ORM anyway.

This approach served us quite well, for about five years that I was there—with a lot of visitors and data, dozens of servers and multiple deployments a day.
This is quoted a lot at the beginning of my favorite LessWrong article, “Truly Part if You”, in particular:

>As McDermott says, “The whole problem is getting the hearer to notice what it has been told. Not ‘understand,’ but ‘notice.’ ” Suppose that instead the physicist told you, “Light is made of little curvy things.” Would you notice any difference of anticipated experience?

>How can you realize that you shouldn’t trust your seeming knowledge that “light is waves”? One test you could apply is asking, “Could I regenerate this knowledge if it were somehow deleted from my mind?”

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fg9fXrHpeaDD6pEPL/truly-part...
Every Russian ground-to-air defense system since the S200 has the capability to shoot down every stealth fighter the US has made.

More info here: https://fighterjetsworld.com/air/f-35-vs-s-400/945/
HN policy is generally to use the literal title of the linked website, deficient as it may be.
The Revolutions Podcast - https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ - is in the middle of a Russian history unit currently. I find them pretty well researched.
More voters are farmers or are aligned with keeping farmers' costs low than are affected by the pollution or aligned with clean air standards.

It's not a local issue because the pollution emitting happens in a different state than where the concentration causes most of the problems, so it would need to be addressed at the national level.
> There are not much goods or services that you can store for more than a year.

That argument might have seemed less ridiculous before the invention of money. It's this amazing thing: a medium of exchange that can be stored indefinitely and then used to purchase almost any good or service. Quite a few people even tout money as the solution to every problem of incentives or matching supply to demand, though I think that's taking the idea a bit too far.
We still have gnu/linux for the time being. I went linux only many years ago and have loved every minute of it.
The market power that iOS gives Apple in the browser market is the only thing that keeps the web from being shaped by an ad company.
I personally have begun referring to astronomically wealthy US 'Businessmen' as oligarchs, too. It seems more fitting.
How do you pay for your VPNs in a non-trackable way?

If you pay via credit card, the VPN account has your name attached to it, no? So what good will chaining VPNs do when all the VPNs have your name attached to them?

Bitcoin is also supposedly not anonymous (or so I've heard.. I really don't know much about bitcoin, so please correct me if I'm wrong here), so paying with it sounds like it won't be any better.

Also, I have to ask: Who are you trying to prevent being tracked by? If it's by advertisers, I don't see how chaning VPNs would be any better than using a single VPN.
Good they do not use the term 'capitalist'. It has more pejorative meaning in those countries.
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Given it's the project website, and it's prominently visible, adding the tagline ("Serve a RESTful API from any Postgres database") would be fair to be part of the title.
Pretty normal in the United States.
How do you think of an idea for startup business?
Appreciate it! Agreed, they are ultimately a financial services company, so not being able to get hold of someone seems ridiculous.
Russia's oligarchs got their wealth by taking over previously state-owned companies using very shady tactics like bribes, extortion, violence, while the US businessmen generally created their own wealth by creating something new
related article (also German) on heise, a more technical publication than tagesspiegel: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Emotet-Das-Faxen-am-...
It's not controversial, it's the HR literal interpretation of their policy. I cannot stress enough that HR is NOT your friend. They only care about protecting the company's ass. Never confide anything to an HR person, it will go straight to management and they will use it against you.