skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a more useful article would have mentioned different stand-up anti-patterns. Here's a short list off the top of my head.

1. Team members sharing about things that aren't sprint goals.

2. Team members getting into more detail than is needed

3. Team members checking their phone

4. Stand-ups scheduled in the middle of a chunk of time (Scheduling at the beginning of the day or before/after everyone goes to lunch anyway means the lost productivity is minimal).

5. Team members each have isolated, individual projects, and don't reprioritize what to work on based on what the team is trying to achieve.

6. Stories aren't sufficiently broken down, so that each day the "update" from someone on the team is "Yesterday I was working on X, today I'm going to keep working on X."

7. The amount of work remaining never gets re-estimated (e.g., it's a good thing if you say "We thought in sprint planning that this was going to take 3 days, but then I discovered this new task, so even after spending 1 day on it, it will take 5 more days").

8. Trying to solve everything in stand-up. It's better to treat stand-up as a sort of "triage" session for the team's daily issues, and then let people have conversations after to actually talk through solutions.

9. The Stand-up Is For the Manager. When the stand-up is just for the manager, it tends to feel update-y. When I've been on teams where the stand-up is for the team, team members use it as a way to ensure their own accountability with their peers, understand at a high level what their peers are doing and if they're struggling (in a broadcast manner, so every team member doesn't have to meet with every team member 1-1), and the team still finds it valuable to do even with the manager is on vacation or has a conflict.

10. The Stand-up doesn't address progress toward sprint goals, what things are at risk of not happening by sprints end, etc., because it is entirely focused on what tasks people are doing.

If your standup is doing things, then (1) I understand why you think they're a waste of time, and (2) stop doing these things. :-)
Well, there is a thing called colormark, But as far as I know, color marks apply to companies from the same industry. T-Mobile and Lemonade are not in the same industry therefore, Lemonade should be able to use Magenta.
You are assuming my political leanings. I'm more conservative than you think.

I'm only stating what I observe in regards to states like Kentucky and Mississippi. The people continue voting in representatives that say one thing, then work on doing the opposite.
Most people aren't affected by ocean acidification so that must mean the activities that cause it are okay? Sometimes the invisible hand is invisible because it's not there.
fwiw I thought this behind-the-scenes article was interesting from an IT perspective (even though the headline and subhed don't mention it):

> “When you find a problem in the source code, it’s very difficult to explain the consequences of that problem to a judge or jury,” he told me. “It’s written in a foreign language, and the effects are hard to trace. We’re rarely able to say, ‘Aha, here’s this person’s breath test and here’s the problem that caused it to be wrong.’”

> Mr. Workman’s mind worked a lot like the computer systems into which he delved: He had a mental index of more than 15 years of legal battles and civic investigations into problems with breath-testing programs, and he knew exactly where to find the incendiary bits. When I dug into flawed test results in Washington, D.C., for example, he sent me a video recording of a police officer turned whistle-blower testifying at an oversight hearing.

> With Mr. Workman’s help, I traversed my giant pile of records and filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests to fill in blanks. For research on Massachusetts — where more than 36,000 breath tests had been ruled legally inadmissible — Mr. Workman gave me a login to a database he had created containing nearly every one of those tests.

(In fact, the headline, while completely accurate, can be misleading because an unnamed/anonymous source very often refers to a whistleblower or insider, which Mr. Workman is not)
I am more amazed that they issued that patent in the first place.

edit - sorry, mistake, I meant trademark. I didn't know that wording mistakes were downvoted so harshly.

I am amazed they can even claim a trademark over magenta, is that better?
Pretty much,they can do a best-effort mitigation but I expect LEO to be effective enough to work with any tech company to police unlawful content. I want the right people responsible and capable of enforcement.
Sometimes dumping data to a pre tag is the simplest thing, especially on mobile. I did it just yesterday :)

Be careful about using JSON.stringify on objects as a debugging technique though, because you may not be able to see properties on the prototype chain ('inherited' properties), and some objects customize their serialization to JSON (supply a custom toJSON method) which in some cases can be misleading. Things like that have contributed to a number of my grey hairs. Yes, I'm talking about you, Geolocation Coordinates! :)

Chrome has really nice support for remote debugging on Android.

If you can't get physical access to the device to configure them for remote debugging, there are some other nice remote debugging tools. One example: https://jsconsole.com/remote-debugging.html
I'd honestly pick a site that gives me the correct figure at any time after potentially having to click through a German landing page (which I'm not getting to be honest and it's the first time I visit from this browser and machine) [0] than one I can understand fully but gives me an outdated (potentially wrong) number.

It's not out of the question that Tesla drops the price to 39.999E without the fancy AP hardware so people take full advantage of the subsidy.

[0] https://imgur.com/g8fXoin
My biggest anti-Google is Zoho. They provide me Email, Drive, Docs/Sheets/Presentations, a full CRM, etc.

As far as browser, on Windows I suggest Pale Moon, and on *Nix I suggest GNU IceWeasel-UXP.

Maps, I'd go for OSM (Open Street Map).

YouTube: PeerTube

OS: I do not know.

Search: Exalead or DuckDuckGo.
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It's telling that we are so desensitized to how cars destroy our experience as a pedestrian that we barely notice it in comparison to someone leaving their scooter on the sidewalk.
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Yup, the local markets often only cater to the entry-level, casual users. That's where their profit margins are. If you need something niche/higher-end your only options are to go online. Otherwise you get the usual response: "We don't have that in stock but can order it online for you. It should be here in 2 - 4 weeks."
For me it is because when I am home I don't want to have to use my phone. I want to spend time with my family.

Every time I pull out my phone there is the temptation to check my email, message friends, etc.

But with my echo dot (or google home mini, I currently have both while I decide which to keep) I can control my lights by voice without missing a beat, I can play music for my kids to dance to without fumbling through an app, I can check the weather forecast while I'm digging through the coat closet, all without being distracted from what I'm doing and without any extra fluff.

I do not have any locks or security systems connected to them as I do not trust them that far, but for informational and recreational use they have made things considerably more convenient.
Can you explain a little what exactly is it doing?
For some background, the reason these laws exist is to protect consumers from counterfeiters. If someone produces jewelry in a clean baby blue box, customers will start to expect that same level of quality, etc. They will be ripped off if someone else uses the same packaging but a low quality product.

However many things have to be considered from the consumers perspective. Is there likely confusion? Is one of the main things courts are supposed to consider.
I suggest to read the blog of the owner of the dog:

https://social-blog.wix.com/post/stella-s-new-skills

https://social-blog.wix.com/post/a-day-in-the-life-of-stella

https://social-blog.wix.com/post/stella-s-new-words-videos-i...
An act regarding the use of offensive words
Basically, scams. The ability to block a planned payment or ask your bank to chargeback is one of the keys to trust in online economy.

If our banking system had used something like bitcoin to implement online transactions, odds are that e-business would have had much less successs and much higher barrier to entry.
I keep a close eye on quarkus.io. I love what they're doing for the Java ecosystem. It's interesting to see other frameworks follow suit (Micronaut, etc)
Agree, title should be more like "Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems"
Didn't telegraphs use paper tape in the beginning?

Not just in the beginning. Almost until the end. The paper tape with the actual messages was cut into strips and pasted onto a telegram form before being put into an envelope and delivered.
It will be interesting to see whether the DOJ indicts NSO Group executives in the same way that they went after the Chinese.

If I were an NSO Group employee, I would think twice before entering the United States, let alone venturing outside of Israel.
Looks like VW is actually more owned by Qatar than any part of the German state:

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/InvestorRelations/shares/sha...

Edit: Saxony does get more voting rights than Qatar.
And in that case you could argue that they’re in the same industry
Perhaps I am in the minority but my home is an apartment complex so I park in the parking lot. There are no chargers in the parking lot.

Either way (I could be wrong) I don't think you can just plug it into a 120V outlet to get a charge.
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This is no joke. This is the official Massachusetts legislature website.

> (c) A person who uses the word “bitch” directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person in violation of this section, and shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsections (a) and (b). A violation of this subsection may be reported by the person to whom the offensive language was directed at or by any witness to such incident.
If you think Austin or Dallas isn't going to go through that same reality then you would be ignorant of how things are playing out.

I live in Texas. Dallas and Austin are no different and home prices are already soaring off the backs of tech companies moving down here and the local government being unable to build infrastructure or support a growing population. This has nothing to do with 'liberalism' and everything to do with cities in America built on top of bad city design, terrible infrastructure, gentrification and unsustainable growth.
I'm not sure that it's a bad thing that regulation has made it hard to compete at surveillance capitalism. Arguably, a few accountable, regulated companies is better than many judgement-proof, unregulated ones, with zero being better than that.

The GDPR applies to all companies, and it makes it hard for a startup to do what Google does, but it doesn't make it hard to do what DuckDuckGo does.
while twitter & FB have a strong network effect, i am not friends with anyone on youtube, and even the subcriptions are not too many
There’s some funny circular logic in this article and thread that businesses shouldn’t have regulation because businesses corrupt regulation therefore regulation is bad.

Reminds of me Zuckerberg’s argument that only Facebook is big enough to tackle the problems that Facebook has created by being so big.
George W Bush pushed through Medicare Part D, which was essentially an entirely new social program, fist proposed by Bill Clinton.

You're right that they do want to undermine these programs (they certainly talk about it), but they've proven consistently happy to toss aside their beliefs and values to win elections.
> Society's use of oil and gas is a totally political question of how much pain we experience in the near term vs the long term and who pays for any trade-offs that get made. It is not kosher for employees of a company to use their corporate position to push what are private political goals.

lol, yes, when it comes to oil and gas, it's widely expected that companies not push for political goals. Oil and gas companies companies steer well clear of those politics. Yep.
While I, as a Googler, don't approve of every decision the company makes, I don't think any of them are going to cause a mass extinction event, so climate change is a higher priority for me.
Seems like an extension app rather than a built-in product which I think made alot sense since existing pure-play vendors like Klaviyo have a far superior product. Also, it gives merchants the options to evaluate email marketing tool on a more-even ground since releasing as an app means that it will be reviewed just like others.
Even trade marks are like that thus Toyota Lexus and Lexis Nexus can coexist, though a court case had to settle that dispute.
I buy from REI when the item I want is there and sales make the prices competitive, and I have the time to go out to the store.
Trump administration aims to roll back rule on coal ash disposal
> In-browser treatment of HTTP auth is just shockingly bad.

My biggest annoyance is that since the login modal blocks the rest of the UI, I can't use my password manager!

(At least, I can't use Bitwarden, but I can't imagine how any other browser-plugin-based password manager would get around this.)
If the US supported cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin, instead of considering regulation, we could keep up with innovation at least, instead of having other countries leave us in the dust in terms of developing the technology.
Or he decided to move to a country that is not caving to China. Germany bows over backwards to China (still haven't banned Huawei or done anything meaningful regarding the Muslim Gulags), not to mention the "nazi emergency" that Dresden recently declared or how Germany allows China to gobble up companies left and right.

Meanwhile, UK is certainly not going to hand him over to China, and the US under Trump is going openly offensive against China as well. I despise both Trump and BoJo, but the only way left to deal with China is massive international sanctions, blockades or outright war.
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Yea, but that's a significant chunk of your customers boycotting, not a noisy 1% of your work force throwing a fit

If blizzard knew the hit they would take to US sales for kowtowing to china would only be 1%, they wouldn't flinch
> Of course a giant company like Volkswagen won't turn around on a dime, it will be a slow transition; and probably never a complete one.

Yes, there is a long tail of applications where EVs are not a reasonable proposition. Emergency services (police, medical, fire fighting) come to mind immediately. There is pretty much no way you can built an all-electric fire truck with batteries that isn't much worse than ICE fire trucks today: Battery weight means you can carry less water, which directly reduces operational capability; limited battery charge means the truck's pumps don't last as long, and a battery is much harder to refuel in the field than a tank of diesel. Similar reasons apply to ambulances. Some L.E. vehicles can reasonably be made to work as EVs (patrol cars), others not so much. Whenever you need to maximize off-grid operational time or you continuously need a lot of power, EVs are just not a sane option.

Additionally the small number of these vehicles make their emissions rather irrelevant.
Let me do it!

I have great experience in public speaking.
A portfolio of products and Saas Products.
And I am:

1. White.

2. Tall.

3. Confident

<STOP>

If you ever considered it. think:

1. Why you did consider it for a stranger and not for you?

2. Why you are more critical with you than a stranger?

3. Can you be nicer to you?

4. Really can you hug yourself?

Be bold
I think that has more to do with Projekt Opal by the Bundespost (see https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-Glasfaser-in-ihrem-Lauf... from 2001): An early fiber network project that tanked and cut off entire villages from any newer technology than 33.6kbps modems for a decade or so.
Understanding UMAP
What static site generator do you use?
There needs to be some kind of association for shared defense against bullies. Increase the cost of patent/IP trolling while reducing the risk of defending.

NATO for small-businesses and startups.
A most interesting statement. If security is reported broken or compromised, it's very actionable, surely?
Trademarks are not patents.
Stripe CLI
Oh for sure, but stores focused on bringing high margin cheap imported goods and base minimum wage jobs into communities that formerly bought locally produced goods does not exactly help this problem. Dollar General's expansion would burn if the minimum wage were raised.
I guess this is subjective, but I don't see the behaviors as "wildly" different.

In all cases, the Apple TV app is where you go to access the Apple TV+ service and as much other available content and video services as can possibly be presented to you on the given platform. The fact that this is different depending on your device and subscriptions is a little bit weird, but it doesn't change that much, at least for me.
They're not even using the same pink! So this isn't just a usual "trademarks just work this way" thing, it's also a question of how much of the colorspace a trademark can own.

The techcrunch article is a bit more informative -- https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/lemonade-gets-a-nastygram-...
Not electric motorcycles? They are electric AND require less energy to move from point A to B.
Not so much "lost to time forever" as "locked away in physical media that makes them hard to access."

We talk a lot about the seemingly infinite storage capabilities we have today, but all it takes is one terrorist attack, or one major SV company to go out of business and suddenly there's a massive hole in our cultural memory that cannot be recovered because everything we have is stored magnetically.
What an interesting niche business. Amazing that they have reverse engineered so many different devices (6,000+), though I would bet there are only a few dozen basic categories that you can fit them all in. The founder of Hamrick would make for a very cool AMA type post here.
Imagine the implications once you consider there are people who are color blind (and you are all hereby on notice that I own the color CCCCCC.)
I cannot confirm this first hand, but I've heard water cooler stories about Tesla software nerfing the range of their model 3s in Canada. This lowers the base price of vehicle enough to be eligible for a federal subsidy. Once the subsidy is claimed, the owner can buy a software upgrade from the dealer to restore the model 3 to full capability. Pretty sly trick.
> It is a pivot from a company whose advertising business is so embroiled in scandal and corruption that it has no choice but to try to diversify into payments and credit scoring to survive.

It's amazing to me that nearly every single expert that weighs in on this topic completely misses the intention behind Libra. Facebook wants to make money off of it's massive user gains in the developing world (like hundreds of millions of users massive), but many of those people don't have digital money right now. Libra wants to be their digital money so Facebook can sell more expensive ads.

It's really as simple as that. Move on from the "why" and talk about the rest of it which is the actually problematic part.
The German auto industry is 5% of their economy, employing nearly a million people. Imagine the fire (no pun intended) Tesla is setting under them, as the premium (most profitable) sales plummet across the industry.

They decided to subsidize the industry to drive growth and help their big players quickly get to scale where they can make a profit. The alternative is they cease to exist and Germany suffers.

I'm all for public transit, but people there won't stop buying cars. Might as well buy local.
Also for the purpose of lawsuits against their customers.

"In September, the website went after David Ollila, a serial entrepreneur who in 2010 created a short ski for climbing snowy hills he called the Marquette Backcountry Ski...Backcountry.com argued that Ollila knew he was intentionally abusing the Backcountry.com mark because he had ordered products from the website in 2002 and 2010."
I went to a school in south-west Poland. My experiences were not too dissimilar to those described here, so I think this account is entirely plausible.
I'm running a website with a browser game which is monetized with AdSense. The site relies on user generated content for freshness and a significant effort went into white-hat SEO. It's a reasonable entertainment for visitors rather than something built around AdSense in the first place. Monthly revenue in high $100s range, but I'm currently experimenting with another provider to optimize revenue. Considering the numbers below the revenue seems quite small (in part due to popularity in countries with generally lower online ads cost), so I'm constantly looking for ways to improve it.

Monthly visitors >50k, pageviews ~800k, average session time ~30min, bounce rate <20%.

No problems with payments from Google at all.
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That still seems to be covered:

> For electric cars over €40,000, there will be an increase in the subsidy by 25%. Any car priced over €60,000 will not supported by the scheme.
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Congrats Martin and Rob on the launch. M3 is one of the best tools I used at Uber. Something which just works. I'm sure you guys will be successful as I first hand witnessed the value it brings to an organization.
> This is a good way to present the issue to anyone who identifies as a free-market capitalist. Free markets require a level playing field to work properly.

If people were ideologically consistent in their views, yes.

However, look at the reaction here on HN and elsewhere to where AOC opposed such a tax-break for Amazon's NY HQ, and blamed her for Amazon deciding to not build the 2nd HQ there.
My time, honestly. It takes a lot more time to stop by at a store and find what I'm looking for or pick up a package from customer service than to simply have it delivered to me with 2-day shipping.
Better to subsidize moving these folks to rural "cities" where the stores are if you're going to be spending the money, right? Unless you're also discouraging more people from moving out into the sticks unless they can afford/are OK with the costs (actual, unsubsidized costs—so, more than it costs now) & challenges of living there, so the delivery subsidy program naturally tapers off over time.

Otherwise you're committing to indefinitely subsidizing inefficient living (again, fine if people can and want to bear those costs themselves, but IDK why we'd subsidize it, especially more than we already do)
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What they really want is for them to have the right to certify what speech is acceptable - by "they", I refer to the cancel culture crowd. Objective standards would work again their baises, so while they turn up the rhetoric on "hate speech", sometimes, they'll be making arguments for it, if it suits their political narrative. It's the classic "rules for thee, not for me" case.

Blizzard/China is particularly confusing, as they hate the grassroots organic support that Hong Kong has for capitalism, but don't particularly like China despite it being a socialist Mecca