skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This review is written from a solidly Jewish-American perspective, and your experience of Sebald's work may differ.
Just get a copy of Austerlitz and start reading. It won't make sense for a while. Don't get bogged down, skim if you have to. Peer at the photos, as if from a distance of fifty years. The narrator is in a kind of fog, as if the only way he can express his emotions is through some metaphor about European history. I don't know any other book like it - in film, it reminded me of Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Whatabout Whataboutism?
I’m dying to have that feature again.

I just want to downvote/remove W3Cschools and upvote MDN.
Depends on the industry. Chemistry lab equipment like spectrometers more frequently used RS232. But someone does make an inexpensive USB-to-GPIB adapter that basically enumerates as a COM port, making programming pretty easy.
We have a Microsoft "Access app" build by a ex employee. it was used by a lot of people and now in process to be rewritten into a web app. i guess that's a success story(?).

>I am sure that there are a lot of types of smaller needs that can be addressed with these sorts of tools, but the big tasks of integrating multiple unique/legacy business systems together into a single logical process with its own internal state is not ever feasible with these tools. You can always get close, but its like a siren song in my experience.

i'm fine with that. when they hit a problem that no Microsoft "connector" can solve. you charge them 10x to implement a real solution.
You can best figure out how you want your next vacation to go during you dayjob.

Go to the beach for a couple of days to get a groundbreaking work related idea.
Don’t assume that because I don’t like it, I don’t understand it. I do understand the venal emotions of mankind. That doesn’t mean I respect the people who stoke and exploit those emotions for profit. A lot of consumerism is ecologically destructive but only a small amount of it depends on actively harming your customer’s mental well-being. Fashion, Facebook, sensationalist media, etc. are all industries that depend on making people feel worse.
I believe general AI will emerge naturally. This does not bode well :(
All everywhere not just turkey.
Elliott Management Holds Big Dropbox Stake
Does SQL qualify as Low-Code? A lot of technical non-programmers are very successful using SQL.
It so strongly defeats the business goals that maybe the source of the reporting (the super high quality publication, Business Insider) might be full of it.
I completely agree. I've had quite a few people ask me "how do I turn that on in Google Meet," to which I then have to explain, "it's waaaaay more complicated than you'd expect."

I'm surprised "simple overlays" aren't a thing in any of the video conference software yet.
I doubt it. I'm in the top 0.07% with 300k+. Even such an account is worth nothing. Almost never did a recruiter pay attention to this. My low-rate GitHub account has a much bigger impact.
It's kind of a counterpoint still. We tried and managed to replace coal for home heating and transport with something else, because coal kind of sucks for those things. The fact that coal continued to be used in new ways is a consequence of coal dropping in price and there being no real external pressure to eliminate coal usage. It's not clear what happens once there's strong pressure to eliminate these fuels from our economy, because we've never really tried it before.
I agree with this sentiment as a technical person but no matter how we put it, stack overflow's primary market will be technical people no matter the various *.stackexchange.com sites. That leads to a limit in reach / monetization / RoI which leads to lower price (IMO)
I always had the same issue with Microsoft Exchange which was frequently abbreviated as MS Exchange, which translates to msexchange if you want to use it in DNS.

Anyway after years of dealing with that I went ahead and got the sex change and everything is good now. ;)
> I was able to make the switch over cold turkey after ~11 years of ArchLinux.

Encouraging to know that it's possible.

I'll explore your links.
An app I was working on was translated into 5 or 6 languages, and I never saw differing variants in any of those languages.
That's a great point. I haven't really noticed it but over the last few years, the first place is rarely Stack Overflow unless it's basic things (like how to use a git or tar feature). Checking Github issues or even just reading the code. Maybe the Google algorithm or Github SEO was improved to bring it up in the results but it has helped so I'm not complaining.
I can tell from the headlines about this that there was nothing juicy in these and that Fauci is a boring medical professional. Unreal that the guy is 80
Interesting to note that they started US manufacturing with the Librem Key[1] in 2019 which I imagine has a much lower total labor component than a full phone. Paying double the price for an under specced product is a lot easier to justify at $59 than $2000, especially for something so security essential. I would be happy to pay the premium just for the cool factor and to support supply chain diversity. I just wish they would release a USB-C NFC version of it.

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/made-in-usa-librem-key/
'do your job' being excessively nebulous. Finish up all those tickets we gave you at the beginning of sprint? I've never once had a boss that told me to go home, they just dig into the backlog and throw some new tickets at you.
Pretty good observations. I'm someone who knows very little about UX/UI and what you said makes a lot of sense. Having the active tab "depressed" is more typical.

While I think the redesign looks good, I don't really have strong feelings on it. I mostly just want a supported interface, so I finally gave up on compact mode. It's just ok. I guess they wanted to differentiate themselves from Chromium browsers in a more significant way?

While most complaints, including from my spouse, are that the tabs are no longer delineated, that part hasn't bothered me much. I consider the delineation the icon on the left, and x on the right.

Part of me likes the freshening up. I won't quit using Firefox over these changes, I've been using it for 20 years now and won't be changing until I'm forced. There's still no other browser with a built-in search bar that also works correctly with a keyboard shortcut other than Firefox and Vivaldi. Vivaldi has everything I need in a desktop browser, it just isn't supported at all on iOS which is equally important for me these days. And honestly, Firefox is probably the only browser that isn't from Apple or Microsoft that I'd use. Otherwise I prefer something as important as a browser backed by a truly large organization. Microsoft Edge is really hard to beat in my view once you consider all the intrinsic qualities to it like support. I'll put it this way, no one is making a mistake using Safari or Edge.

I like most everything about Firefox, the browser hasn't ever been ruined, but you got to wonder if there's truly even a place for 3rd party browsers in this era. If I weren't a legacy user, I'd just use Edge and be happy not knowing what I'm missing out on with alternatives.
Yeah it’s 2021 and Chinese manufactured are more reliable and higher quality than anything American made. As an anecdote I build PCBs for a hobby and I’ve purchased PCBs and chips from both cheap Chinese fabs and suppliers as well as Americans ones. The only issues I’ve ever had were with American ones (which were many times more expensive) and I’ve stopped using them completely.

I would be curious if librem will ever release data regarding failure rates of their American made phones versus non-American made ones. But considering how they’re branding this and the kind of person who will spend the premium to buy it, I doubt they will ever say anything.

Also after the Snowden revelations, I laugh at the idea that American made products are somehow more “secure”. Sure we (as in US intelligence community) think China puts back doors in things but from the Snowden revelations we KNOW that American companies like Cisco puts backdoor into things.
But they know that the clickbait they wrote will generate clicks, views, and discussions, so they've done their job, that's all they care about. There's not even any facts in the article, they're just supposedly summarizing what someone else wrote in another article, which I can't view because of a paywall. The text I do have access to, the linked article, doesn't contain a single verifiable fact.
I had a friend in college who was a writer. He intentionally spent a summer lettuce farming for this specific reason. He was pretty happy with the results creativity-wise.
My immediate thought was a morbid clock that used a live insect to measure they time. Once the creature dies you know that a certain amount of time has passed.
>Seems like this is priced for military & contractors.

You would normally expect to see the magic words "Berry Compliant" if the target market includes that. Not super-clear how mobile phones would fall into that particular regulatory tranche.

EDIT: no, my bad, that only applies to (broadly defined) fabric products.
The Gödel programming language from Patricia Hill and John W. Lloyd is, to me, a good example of what a Prology language would look like, if designed from the ground-up for relational programming.

I also suspect lambdaProlog would make for a nice foundation for relational programming, if the search were improved.
"The group’s expansion into internet platforms began in the 1990s' spanning online consumer services, including:

E-commerce - including its subsidiary, OLX (100%)

Takealot.com (96%)
Fintech - including its subsidiary, PayU (98.8%)

Food delivery - including its subsidiary and associates, iFood (54.8%), Delivery Hero (22.3%) and Swiggy (38.8%)

Etail - including its subsidiary, eMag (80.1%)

Travel - including its associate, Ctrip (6%)

Mobility - Bykea

It is also the largest shareholder of social Internet platforms:

Tencent (28.9%)

Mail.ru Group (28% in 2019)"

Doesn't sound to good for me.
I think they use CC BY-SA 4.0. There was some criticism when they moved from CC BY-SA 3.0 even when it was considered an improvement since it wasn't clear if stackoverflow needed additional consent to change the license for already existing content.
I use Trim [1] for Chrome to add ratings in the netflix interface. It also dims recommendations that are below my specified stars. Works really well!

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-ratings-...
I mean the Establishment as of 2012-2016. The tribes of people who held major social power / status symbols: have higher average wealth, pride themselves on being educationally credentialed, overrepresented in high paying professional fields.

Boris is Establishment, but went against the Establishment's beliefs by backing Brexit. I'd also argue that Cameron was more Establishment than Boris.
There's just so much of this that is the author insisting that his preferences are right and anyone else is wrong.

"Modern music is like junk food." There's amazing modern music, and total crap. Labeling the millions of hours of modern music as all bad is at best lazy, and at worst has undertones of racism (the only good music is that produced by dead white guys).

"Let me tell you: regulating your emotions with an external tool is dangerous. You start depending on it. You crave it when you don’t have it. It is called addiction." - again, just insanely lazy generalization. I regulate my emotions with an external tool most days. It's called exercise. It is a very good thing, not an addiction (trust me, I'd love to stop, I really don't enjoy exercise at all).

The bit about photos? I visited my mom's house recently and looked at the photos of my deceased grandparents. According to this guy, that's going to keep me in a slump.

This piece is generally pretty lazy ("I bet that 95% of Millenials start their day by looking at the phone." - first of all, if you're going to criticize a whole generation, at least spell it right, and second of all, why don't you do some kind of research instead of making unsupported assumptions about the behavior of a group of millions of people?) and extremely arrogant.

I award OP no points and may god have mercy on his soul.
Kinda a Big Announcement
I mostly build apps and services, so SO (lol) continues to be very useful for me. For instance, there are a myriad of bugs and glitches that come up in mobile app dev, or when using any popular programming language or framework. SO continues to have relevant, up-to-date information for the types of questions I'm seeking to answer. For example, I recently found out an issue I was pulling my hair out over was happening only on a particular version of a simulator...

Personally, I have never heard anyone say SO is not that good anymore, and certainly not that it is dead/dying.
Stack overflow is probably responsible for increasing global developer productivity by maybe ~1000x the acquisition price. In a sense it’s a tragedy of the commons.
I was involved in some hiring decisions at Amazon many years ago. When I asked people, including my director, why we didn't do post mortems for when someone was fired for underperformance(and see where the interview process failed to pick up on that info, if it was available), all I got were strange looks.
Browser Cookie Manual Management
I recently clicked on a link from HN which took me to the web site Nature.

Due to all this privacy stuff, web sites are now automatically popping up these 'cookie manager' thingys. Nature's seemed to be the biggest and most complicated I've seen so far. I couldn't take it. I departed their site. Probably never to return.

Don't most reasonable people simply find the one selection which provides for minimal state tracking and nothing else? And of course, the web site operator will hide/obfuscate/make-it-difficult to find that one, as it is not the one they want selected.

And if most reasonable people do that, why do have this vast selection of cookies? Are there actually people who selectively enable particular tracking and marketing cookies? What is happening behind the scenes to create the desire for web site operators to pop up these increasingly complicated selection boxes? I thought the single click GDPR boxes were burdensome, but things are now really getting out of hand.
It usually makes you have a quick rundown about what you are trying to run. If it's some software I got from the projects original GitHub page I make a note of that and proceed. If it's something that should surely not be "rarely used" (eg. A browser,video player,torrent client, etc) I think twice.
5G Radio Access Network Architecture: The Dark Side of 5G
I think this is an incorrect assessment. The value doesn't come from those that dedicate most of their time. The value comes from the sites ability to integrate the long tail both for answers and questions. Certainly it is valuable to have the super star posters with a million reputation. But the site was build by random people answering random questions.

I also don't believe in the value of "community management" at SO. Moderation is just senseless busywork which discourages people to participate. Closing questions as if there is any value in this instead of letting people play the game of asking and answering questions which matter to them and let Google do the filtering.
I think the real value is for the devices that can move, such as that Tile. You have practical way of ensuring they don't move into a dead spot, and for trackers no way to ensure they don't go beyond range.
They are selling the community, not the content. Similarly, when Instagram got bought by Facebook the users didn't get cash and stock
'Positive deviants': Why rebellious workers spark great ideas
If they fire the managers who weren't able to fire enough of their underlings, then at least they're firing people who weren't meeting their goals. ;/
I don't know if they're pursuing this, but Microsoft also has the opportunity to create low-code solutions that more gracefully transition into conventional solutions, because unlike a pure-low-code play, that doesn't have to mean they are losing a customer. They aren't incentivized to lock you in to low code as long as one way or another you pay Microsoft on the way out, too, via either being in the conventional Microsoft developer ecosystem or being on Azure.

Given that they seems to be acquiring they way into this market, I'm sure it's nowhere near this integrated yet, but could you imagine being able to take any individual component of the system, or the system as a whole, and getting a "Click Here to create a Visual Studio Project" that completely replicates the low-code solution into Visual Studio, ready and waiting for you to start modifying it? Probably with some sort of automatic "Click Here to Deploy Your Changes Into Azure"?
I also miss the status indicator and away messages from AIM days. I remember thinking that I wished FB had away messages, and then I realized that of course they never would because it runs counter to FB's desire for you to constantly be posting new updates for people to engage with. With AIM, you just rotated between 'available' and various custom/preset away messages. People would use FB much less if that's how it was.

To be fair, maybe Messenger has/will get these features at some point? I have no idea but I hate Messenger and how FB pushes it on us so I avoid it at all costs.
Holy cow. I did not see this coming. Hopefully the service stays free.
Is it though? Genuinely curious.

It has been show time and time again that users of free websites likes this won't pay and ads are only worth so much.
In case anyone is interested in the history of watchmaking, etc. there's a great book titled Longitude: https://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-...

An accurate marine chronometer was necessary for reliable navigation in order to calculate one's longitude. It turned out to be an incredibly difficult problem that was ultimately solved by John Harrison, who invented the Grasshopper escapement, which the Grasshopper Clock uses.

I think some of us will find Harrison to be very relatable -- more hacker than scientist and never satisfied with his work. He kept coming out with new and improved versions even after he won the Royal Society's prize, IIRC.
I don’t suppose there is any scenario in which you would give human observation credit. Regarding sufficient sample size, a person in that scenario would achieve it in weeks, or perhaps a year, assuming variance in types of visitors over the seasons.
But your answers clearly had value, otherwise they couldn't have sold the site as it would have nothing on it.
Ever heard of survivorship bias?
Business Travel Is Coming Back
No, the sign-on bonus is prorated monthly and you don’t pay back what you got.

However, you might need to pay back part of relocation money, if you leave before two years mark.
> either add rules to your ad blocker to remove the trends section

how?
That depends on how you use excel. Lots of formulas, et. al. would probably become easier to manage as part of a proper codebase at some point.
Yeah, for those of you who like the simplicity, get a french press and a grinder. Grind the beans while you boil the water. Put both in the french press and wait for 5 minutes and you are done. In summer, use filtered water and let it sit in a fridge overnight, and you get yourself the perfect cold brew.
Fair enough on the flight ceiling, I misread that, so it's a substantially higher spec drone.

> idiot employee at government contractor) or if they had an interest in doing this

I guess that's where my Hanlon's razor comes in. Idiot employee(s) just seems so much more reasonable to me.

China is testing a hardcore stealth drone over a military base, but chooses one in CONUS in a highly civilian accessible major metro area, and then leaves the running lights on? It strikes me as far less likely than domestic alternatives.
This multiplier (800x2.5) seems much lower than I'd expect.

For prototype quantities (<100), I have consistently seen a multiplier of 8 or so, for the exact same spec (and verified within-spec after receiving the parts).
I don’t think flesh colored paint is the obvious difference driving the comments for a NSFW tag or else HN would consider the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel “erotic” and equally deserving of the label. I think the obvious difference is the gender of the person whose nipples are depicted and the different standards to which women are held.
You do realize that lots of popular old music was written by all races?

Stop trying to see racism everywhere where where there is none, it'll do wonders for your blood pressure.
The vast majority of users never post an answer or a question, and most of those that post only once or twice never get upvoted (or get downvoted more than upvoted), so their reputation stays at 1.

I think they said a couple years ago that over 50 or 60% of registered users have 1 reputation.
It has nothing to do with social justice; Stack Overflow and Mozilla had a user base that scaled with network effects, but both in markets with low switching costs. They’re constantly vulnerable unless they can come up with products that are harder to dislodge. Thus the mission statements that are vague because they’re trying to find a way out of the corner they’ve painted themselves in.
Do you mean Digital Minimalism? Cal Newport is the author of both Deep Work and Digital Minimalism but the latter book is the one that deals with the topic of the article.
Seeking friends with a budget for nuclear submarines, and hypersonic missiles.

I personally got $5 on it.
I think this article misses the mark of the actual move Microsoft is making here, but I think MSFT also gets their own messaging wrong. Microsoft's "Low-Code" strategy is not RPA, nor is it enabling the development of enterprise applications with "Low Code" development tools. RPA is already a legacy solution in it's current form, and increasingly only useful with regards to mainframe emulators and applications that don't offer an API, which are rarer and rarer with the move to cloud everything. Enterprise applications should only exist as applications, not as components/products of another enterprise application.

Microsoft's Low-Code "strategy" is providing tools for business process applications, they're just really bad at messaging that. Enable original data to get into their ecosystem (Power Apps), transform, evaluate, and move it around (Power Automate), and then provide understanding and feedback (Power BI). If every part of their ecosystem -*including their productivity suite and OS*- has an API backing it up (which it does) then their real play here is not providing "Low-Code/No Code" tools for building *applications* but rather for API integration and orchestration. This is the "new" RPA.

Why would one need to build an RPA "bot" or enterprise application if one can just generate a form with Power Apps, use Power Automate to reach into your Outlook, Excel, SharePoint List, OneDrive, or Windows file system, and then crap out the desired product in the system of record or a Power BI dashboard?

Source: I've worked in the RPA space for over 5 years now as a SWE, Tech Lead, and Architect.
in that case I've jumped to conclusions, that's great
Here's the article de-paywalled:

https://archive.is/IYMAm

I'm guessing it's the whole shebang. They renamed Stack Exchange to Stack Overflow back in 2015:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/09/15/were-changing-our-name...

Stack Exchange appears now to just be a brand for the whole network of Q&A sites, but stackoverflow.com is the golden goose.
The West in general has been on a downward trend when it comes to manufacturing. Areas that were relatively wealthy decades ago now have high rates of unemployment, crime, drug abuse, shortened lifespans etc. If projects like this work out it could help reverse that trend.
I like the quantitative review for one reason -- people need to know if they're a 2 or not. Too many managers soft pedal concerns about perf and then people get fired 6 months later not ever knowing they were at risk.