skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German products arent as high quality ad they used to be and most if them are pretty stale in terms of innovation. Sure they change the shape of cars and add new leds and interior eye candy but that is not progress. Imo german cars are low quality and lack diversity, and same goes for most machinery made in that country. US, Japanese, South Korean or other EU made products can be of similar or higher quality. Germany has such an economic power because the EU is heavily biased towards its needs. Just have a walk around east Europe and you will see how it has become junkyard for german cars. Suddenly the environment doesnt matter. Furthermore Germany is pretty socialist, both corporate and personal and has plenty of ways to subsidise industries and prevent too much innovation from rocking the boat.
Are there any colonies like this for programmers?
I don't think it matters at all unless you're an SF admin.. you and I are going to do fuckall to impact the situation anyways. I personally only care insofar as the situation is interesting. This is my onlooking entertainment.

In terms of degradation, I suppose it depends on which side you're on. The admins imo are the ones pushing the rule-heavy and quick-to-close question methodology that stack overflow gets a lot of grief for -- the company seems to be trying to move to the more free-form moderation found on forums, where mods are gods (until ejected by the Supreme Leader aka CEO). Where it really makes sense to blame one mod vs another.

IMO stack overflow benefits mainly from it's strict enforcement, and it's preference on serving answerers rather than questioners (the burden is on asking good questions, less on writing good answers.. rather, it's more assumed good answers will be written for good questions, whereas other systems like quora emphasize the opposite). So the loss of the mod community will cripple stack overflow in the long term, imo.
Close, but not quite the same

WordPad is a rich text editor; Notepad++ is a text file editor.

WordPad lets you do stuff like boldface/italicize/change the font size of the text you're looking at, and it does the WYSIWYG thing of actually showing you the nicely formatted document.
It's enforced so often that people who aren't even trying to circumvent the law get nailed:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/04/05/91-of-irs...
>Similarly they make some very dense HVAC filters if standard ones aren't catching the level of particles you need, so I'm not sure what the purpose of these filter-fan things are for most people.

These are a scam, especially all those 3M filtrete ones. Air handlers in homes and most other HVAC applications are not made to also serve as tiny particulate filters, so it will make the whole HVAC system slow or even stop since it won't be able to get the air flow it needs to function.
The problem here is that even if that is the case at the moment, the same organisation still has possession of the data and those partition walls can probably be moved later if the leadership of the organisation decide to do so.

Regardless of your personal good intentions and honesty, or anyone else's working there right now, a lot of people are never going to trust an organisation with the track record and potential conflicts of interest that Google has to process sensitive personal data responsibly. Its leaders and the investors backing them made their bed by helping to create the culture of pervasive involuntary surveillance that we all now suffer, and they will forever have to lie in that bed as a result.

It's unfortunate, because clearly there is considerable potential for improving patient outcomes through better use of big data and automation in medicine, and no doubt many of the people working on these kinds of projects have nothing but good intentions. However, until the culture of the technologists operates on the same kind of ethical and legal level as the culture of the clinicians, I don't see how the trust is ever going to be there now. The individuals doing the work need to be personally responsible for behaving ethically, even if they are directed to do otherwise by their superiors, like doctors and real engineers. Organisations that fail to meet the required standards need to face penalties that are an existential threat, so their investors stand to lose everything and their leaders can end their own careers if anyone breaks the rules deliberately or through gross negligence. Without those kinds of obvious, strong incentives, with the way so many players in the tech industry have exploited people's data in recent years, I think the barrier may simply be too high to clear.
Insurance status helps explain disparities in cancer diagnosis
The other thing that’s a bit of a problem as I discovered is it doesn’t seem as if there’s any documented way (and I’m wary of undocumented workarounds) to have this backup anywhere but your boot drive. Especially with several OS X devices this can be a bit of a problem if you have an older undersized SSD. I was getting critically low on space and it turned out a huge amount was these backups.
Just look on FlightAware or similar. They've all got the historical record for a given route (though of course it's possible an airline might substitute after you've bought the ticket, it's unlikely; most flights fit a specific profile and most airlines have only a couple of models to fit that profile).

The major users from North American airlines are Southwest (34 planes), Air Canada (24), American (24), United (14), and Aeromexico (6), so it's not super common here at least.
As in run an OSX vm so you can run a backup? You're only allowed to virtualize OSX on Apple hardware.
Google Ends Rich Results for Data-Vocabulary.org Structured Data
CloudFlare API Down for over an Hour
"Our military needs to be able to understand and work with both legitimate and illegitimate sources of power in urban areas. Just understanding host-nation political and military capabilities will not suffice."
AFAIK these apps are not actually preinstalled, they’re simply shortcuts to the Microsoft Store. But I never got any of those “preinstalled” apps even on Windows 10 Home.
It did not. I was a secular humanist before and after, and drew no relation between that event and my beliefs.
That sounds like me. No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to get the time from wearing normal clothes to running to having showered and wearing normal clothes again, down to less than 2 hours if it just includes 25 minutes of running. Trying to do the "just one minute" approach when you don't feel like running, still becomes a "just 1h36" problem. Or indeed sometimes, quite randomly, worse.
Nice! The results look much better without favicons, I'm going to install this too.
> Rust is without a doubt a (much) "better C++" but I'm not sure a better C++ is necessarily what systems programming needs most.

As an embedded consultant, a better C++ is what systems programming needs most not for technical reasons, but social. So many embedded shops are embracing C++ and it's causing all the sorts of problems you might imagine. While it's possible that these shops will tack back towards a lower-level language, my prediction is that would be a much harder sell than something like rust.
Due to Pharo/Smalltalk being not just a language, but a language/libraries/IDE, I think it's important to distinguish between API instability (which IHMO is better called evolution) vs. bugginess. API evolution is a core part of Pharo's mission. I've personally upgraded projects from Pharo 1.x all the way to Pharo 7 and have been very willing to trade a small amount of effort porting for big increases in productivity.
Is there something wrong with open source? I think it would be pretty cool to take this idea and turn it into a foss tool.
Okay, as a paramedic, who has lived in Australia and the UK as well as the US.

End of life quality of life is its own issue, regardless of who is or isn't paying.

Let me paint you a couple of examples and have you tell me about your desire to face any one of them rather than finding peace:

1) the lady with metastasized bone cancer who (thankfully) we were taking home so she could die there, as her family had set up a bed in a family owned home so she could watch the sunrise. She was a morphine drip for her pain. To be clear, most patients with cancer can be controlled by oral morphine at 200mg/day. She was receiving 120mg per HOUR. And still we had to drive the ambulance painfully (hah) slowly because every little bump in the road (not pothole, but bump) caused screams of pain from the back. Despite her being 45kg or so, we used six people to move her into the home (normally two would have done it) to make it as smooth a process as possible, and she was still incontinent from pain as a result). I do take some mild comfort in knowing she got to see two more sunrises out of hospital. But even as someone who has had multiple kidney stones (and large ones at that), I could not imagine enduring what she was.

You call it "living", it's not, I chose "enduring" for a reason.

2) A man who had Alzheimers with some lucidity. Maybe 10 minutes an hour. The other times he spent in terror, because he had a constant playback loop of about four separate WW2 scenarios where he was an infantryman in Europe. During those times he was entirely reliving the most terrifying experiences of his life, his eyes would be wide, his pulse would be 160+, he'd be shaking and unapproachable (because he _would_ attack you), pinned down by German troops in a French village. Or breaking his leg as he cut his parachute when he was stuck in a tree. Or when he was temporarily deafened by mortar and artillery fire landing near him, spraying him with mud and bricks and glass.

You're entitled to your own opinion as we all are. But it's certainly not a coincidence that _many_ people who have spent a good amount of time around end of life events want nothing less than to see it happen to them (or for their own loved ones to have to see it happen).

And all of the above, again, has nearly zero to do with "who is paying the bill".

And a seemingly subtle but very important distinction: it is not _ending_ someone's life to _not prolong_ it beyond nature. And trying to twist the parents remarks about "do not resuscitate" into "ending peoples lives" is a blatant reductionism that is neither merited nor fair. Apropos of anything else, a DNR is the written expression of the _patients_ wishes. Just as you want your own freedom.

We spend more in the last year (be it NHS, Medicare in Australia, or health insurance) of people's lives than we do in the last decade of their lives, and more in the last decade than we do on the rest of their life.
When I bought Sonos speakers for much of my house in 2012-2014 it was selling itself as an alternative to hifi equipment that lasts decades. In retrospect my expectation that Sonos would be longer lived than that was short sighted, I should have known better.

This is planned obsolescence at its finest and I guess I won’t be buying Sonos/other smart speakers again.

There’s no reason to replace perfectly good speakers every 5-10 years because the microcontroller inside isn’t profitable enough to continue to support. Good sounding/looking powered speakers with a small compartment inside for a modular brain would be a pretty good trade off, basically like driving the same TV panel with a different set top box every few years.
A banner "advertising" a more feature rich version of the same application is a different kettle of fish to the actual paid advertisements that they are currently injecting onto lock screens and start menus. Granted, I wouldn't want annoying pop ups on any of the products I use, but I think at this stage "Microsoft are going to do anti-consumer things because nobody is going to stop them" is expected behaviour and if you don't like it your only real recourse is to buy a Mac or install Linux.

Having made the switch to Linux myself I feel like I can look at these things a bit more objectively. I can say "recommending Word isn't that bad" not out of Stockholm syndrome, but instead as a tertiary observer, watching the house burn down from the outside.
What does this have to do with religion?
Productivity can be measured for example by GDP per hours worked, and Germany's productivy is very clearly above Spain's.

These are facts, which do not demean Spanish engineers, so no need to be defensive here. You are just taking one incident and using it to brush over economic facts.
Oh no, millions foreign cells is actually much easier on the body than tweaking a million little ratios that affect everything or outright rebuilding parts to manufacture those in-house.
Let me save you a click, & the authors future banal efforts: utilitarian work is a global effort of freelancers. Some just have different obligations as part of their freelance work than others.

Shock. Awe.
You can trust an organization to do some mix of pursuing its goals and filling someone's pockets. So while you can trust some non-profits, you can never trust a for-profit about anything you care about as a customer.
If you need to travel on short notice, isn't it faster to book online rather than lining up at the airport?

In her situation, no. The phone would ring at 5am, she'd get dressed and grab her "go" bag and walk down to the subway, then buys her ticket (usually one-way) at the airport counter.

In theory she could try to book tickets on her phone on the train, but connectivity can be iffy on the train, and buying an expensive airline ticket is not the sort of thing you want to take unnecessary chances with. (Think double-purchases, false purchases, etc...)
Another vote for self-hosted Shaarli.

I currently have 4319 links, collected over 13 years and 8 days (started with Delicious, then Pinboard).

Link rot and relevance is an issue, and I rarely go back to links that are more than a year old.

I don't delete broken links though, I like to think my Shaarli is a fair representation of my interests over the years.

I recently developed a Shaarli extension for Ulauncher. [0]

[0] https://ext.ulauncher.io/-/github-sebw-ulauncher-shaarli
I totally missed that Lyrebird was acquired : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21006405
Cool perspective! FYI there are also REST add-ons now (as well as other more minimal frameworks) for when REST is desired.
For anyone interested in wolves, or who enjoyed the History Today article, there's a talk on youtube by Nick Jans about a wolf in Alaska. Jans wrote a book called "A Wolf Named Romeo". Romeo was a large, black, lone wolf that for some reason started (limited) socializing with people and their dogs, mostly during winters in Juneau at Mendenhal Glacier, where area people went for recreation. Nick Jans' talk touches on many of the issues described in the History Today article. Romeo the wolf was eventually killed by hunters, and the town erected a statue of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szhc2wEKEJE

Some scenes of Romeo are here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H98D23Eb9Ow
I don't know about anyone else but personally, I would never fly a 737 max. Yes it could be fixed and yes it may be the same as other models going forward but the amount of coverage it has received and the fear it has created, I would always check if I am flying a 737 max or not. Yes that doesn't necessarily mean anything but it is now tainted. Boeing is smart to just discontinue the name even if it repackages it again with a new name.
Even between Aldi Sued you have massive differences. Hofer (Aldi Sued) in Austria for instance is nothing like the German version.
I notified senior leadership that engineering was misreporting it's uptime statistics. In effect breaching contracts with pretty much every major customer, including state governments.

Leadership fixed the glitch.
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki hosted mostly old retired people and children, and women in a smaller percentage. It hosted no military equipment of any significance, nor strategic locations, nor any significant factory.

Wikipedia may well be wrong, but it does list some significant military items:

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At the time of its bombing, Hiroshima was a city of industrial and military significance. A number of military units were located nearby, the most important of which was the headquarters of Field Marshal Shunroku Hata's Second General Army, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan, and was located in Hiroshima Castle. ... Also present in Hiroshima were the headquarters of the 59th Army, the 5th Division and the 224th Division, a recently formed mobile unit. ... In total, an estimated 40,000 Japanese military personnel were stationed in the city.

Some 70,000–80,000 people, around 30% of the population of Hiroshima at the time, were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm, and another 70,000 were injured. It is estimated that as many as 20,000 Japanese military personnel were killed

The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest seaports in southern Japan, and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials. The four largest companies in the city were Mitsubishi Shipyards, Electrical Shipyards, Arms Plant, and Steel and Arms Works, which employed about 90% of the city's labor force, and accounted for 90% of the city's industry."

Of 7,500 Japanese employees who worked inside the Mitsubishi Munitions plant, including "mobilized" students and regular workers, 6,200 were killed. Some 17,000–22,000 others who worked in other war plants and factories in the city died as well. Casualty estimates for immediate deaths vary widely, ranging from 22,000 to 75,000. At least 35,000–40,000 people were killed and 60,000 others injured. In the days and months following the explosion, more people died from their injuries. Because of the presence of undocumented foreign workers, and a number of military personnel in transit, there are great discrepancies in the estimates of total deaths by the end of 1945; a range of 39,000 to 80,000 can be found in various studies.

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Of course none of that is grounds for jubilation: many, probably most, of those killed or maimed were victims to some degree. But that was also true of strategic bombing of all kinds by all sides throughout that war and those since. The uniqueness of the atomic bomb lay in the scale and ease of unleashing horrors, not in introducing horror to war.
I'm almost at the stage that I almost instantly scroll to the bottom and read up the results as I'm finding most of my clicks at at best near the middle and more often finding it's the second page onwards.
Indeed, I myself worked for one such niche high tech machinery German company. The problem is, due to the thin margins in these hardware gigs, the salaries are piss poor compared to the skills needed (M.Sc. and up) as even making iOS Apps paid better. Only the execs and the couple of grey beards who were with the company since its inception were well paid, everyone else not so much.

That's the reason youngsters aren't gravitating towards these gigs anymore and prefer to be web devs instead. The margins are higher and the entry bar lower.

I'm not saying they'll go bust tomorrow, not at all, I'm just saying they don't have an easy future ahead, due to low margins and unattractive career paths for youngsters, especially once their patents expire and China will be able to make the same stuff at half price. That's why the UK's decision to focus on services/consulting is a better long term bet IMHO.
If you're going to run an extension to fix the search results, I'd suggest an ad blocker.
The verbal voice in your head is rationalizing. Don’t think. Just do.

(If you want a good resource that synthesizes a bunch of modern psychology research relating to that suggestion into a single, entertaining non-fiction book, see “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior” by Leonard Mlodinow [0]).

[0]: https://psychcentralreviews.com/2016/subliminal-how-your-unc...
Here are some clever one-liners for awk [1] Please be sure to add your own.

[1] - https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/awk/YXdr/sor...
Wouldn't the real use-case here rather be battery powered devices?

While RAM on a modern laptop will only use a few watts at most, which is little compared to other components when under load, that still accounts for quite a big chunk of total power usage while most of the system is idle, such as during light usage and with display brightness on low.
It’s listed on several UIs for purchasing tickets, but usually it takes several clicks to identify the model of airplane.
Outbreak of new virus explodes in China; human-to-human spread confirmed
My team has been working on a big-bang rewrite for about 5 years now. It started out as the "strangle" approach. Early on, everyone was on board with killing the old thing. But of course, you can't stop developing new features; you still need to make some forward progress in the midst of developing the new app. At the beginning we were 80% rewrite / 20% new feature work. But as time goes on, that balance has pretty much completely flipped; we're now more like 95% new feature work / 5% rewrite. Once we reached a certain critical mass of compatibility, the appetite for finishing the work and completely killing the old thing has pretty much disappeared. And there's a large loud minority that hate change and complain about having to use the new tool vs. the old tool.

FWIW, we were rewriting a Visual Basic 6 application using web technologies. It's VERY hard for me to imagine saying "don't rewrite that VB6 application, just make it better". It's literally not even supported by Microsoft anymore, it was written by one person at the company who has since left, no one else here writes VB6, etc. etc. It was a critical business application, so it wasn't the kind of thing anyone wanted to just leave alone and keep on life support.

Even still, it's hard for me not to wonder if we did the right thing. Maybe we should have just hired a bunch of VB6 contractors to maintain the application and continue adding functionality to it. Maybe moving it to VB.net would have been better. Maybe there's some other migration path for VB6 applications...

Anyway, my biggest takeaway from all of this has been: think very very hard (and be honest with yourself) about how long a rewrite will take. Make sure "the business" and you are on the same page about how long that's going to take and making a serious commitment to focus on migrating to the new tool, and if you can, get it down in writing the conditions necessary to kill the old tool. If your users are anything like ours, they're going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the new tool, because we all hate change, so if you don't have clear conditions about when you're shutting the old stuff off etc. then it's going to be painful.
Fit to Eat? Algae, Insects, and Cultured Meat
Roam appears to remove the time and effort needed to organize notes. Just write. Links will happen. No need for silos, no need for hierarchies.

They are removing the friction and effort. This has huge implications and potential.

I am with you on not going and looking for notes (I don't often browse through my photo library either, which is a close analog).

This really feels like it's onto something special if you can let go of the evernote paradigm.
Symbolism is as subjective as it gets, an act can be interpreted as heroic by some people while others might think it's stupid. Meaningful moments don't exclude symbolic ones, they extend them by including banal moments like having an ice cream with your kid and enjoying it.