skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michelin Star restaurants, in my 6 or 7 different experiences, are as much about the title as the food. Indeed the service is more formal, to the point of being a bit ridiculous in some cases. But the food itself was not so much more special than a really good unknown restaurant.

It's really a bit silly, a status symbol that allows pomp and circumstance to satisfy people who need something "special" to talk about.

I have had food from street vendors and family restaurants that blew my mind - unique flavors and textures that I had never experienced before, and which were so magnificently balanced that they surpassed any expensive meal I ever had. And I've had expensive meals which were truly excellent. But my few MS experiences were not markedly better than my best other experiences.

It reminds me of the studies of wines and wine tasting. People just like to believe they're getting something special. And if you give it a special award, charge more, and have 4 servers per table, the guests love it.
"In terms of statistics right now AP is 4x safer than average human per mile travelled."

My father has driven through a switchback mountain path without markings, during hailstorm, and wasn't always sober. On a car that has hasn't seen a mechanic in years.

Autopilot doesn't even work in those conditions, it gets all it's miles on a straight highway in good weather.

You play the game on easy mode, you get a better score.
Don't forget Onavo, the spyware VPN that Facebook acquired to monitor users and competitors before it was kicked out of the App Store:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

One of the people who co-founded this spyware company, Guy Rosen, is quoted in the article as "Facebook's vice president of integrity".
Singaporean here. I don't know how Michelin shortlisted the eateries here when the guide first launched here in Singapore, but the selection was oddly similar to TripAdvisor's top food places — and missed out quite a few gems.

Not that I blame them — I wouldn't want some of my favourite street food haunts to be overwhelmed by long tourist queues.
As a non-American, I found The Cheesecake Factory baffling. Far more baffling than any other restaurant I've been to in the USA.

The restaurants appear to be trying to look fancy, with their extravagant yet tastelessly cheesy interior design. I wasn't sure if it was some kind of ironic inside joke that everyone from the USA is in on?

Despite the OTT design, the food was unremarkable. Not too surprising given that the menu has so many items, and it comes in such giant portions - but hard to reconcile with the decor and reputation.

And indeed, despite the name, the cheesecakes were easily the worst part of the meal.
Get your work recognized: write a brag document (2019)
SoftBank leads $680M venture round in NFT startup
I wasn't aware of that, I'd love a link to learn more about it. But anyway, the architecture supports a totally decentralized network; Manyverse supports p2p gossip, I think across a LAN, and maybe bluetooth as well?
Wow. I'd just rather never eat at Cheesecake Factory. Please let me take you to some good restaurants :).
This just seems like someone sharing their own subjective take on food?

I mean there is no right answer, it’s personal preference?

It reminds me of audiophiles who can hear the difference in oxygen free speaker cables or prefer the “warmth” of vinyl.

I’m like “ok? seems like that works for you so keep doing it?”
> an enemy that has vowed repeatedly to eliminate it from the planet.

Ah, just like how Israel is doing that to the Palestinians.
Yeah, that works cause goats like blackberry (the whole plant). I didn't think they liked scotch broom (mine won't eat it), but the rent a goat services carefully size the fencing so the goats don't have so much available that they can be really picky.
Hey HN this is a chrome extension that lets you annotate screenshots and submit them directly to your favorite issue trackers (Jira/Github/Trello).
> But my few MS experiences were not markedly better than my best other experiences.

This is just as you would expect, given sufficient samples, from any classification process that really doesn't want false positives but isn't too concerned about false negatives.
Over the years I've learned simply doing something is not a great way to get good at it, and neither is taking lessons from someone else that is good at it.

Now I'm a snowboard instructor I can teach someone in a week what took me months and months to learn on my own, and I can teach them the right way from the beginning.

Same story for mountain biking, lifting at the gym and even writing books. Of course the story is the same for programming, technical writing and everything else.

If you want to get good at something, take courses from a professional instructor of that thing (NOT just someone who is good at it!)
Joe Borne works at GitHub only because it was acquired by Microsoft. He's been in the industry for more than a decade but his GitHub account was created only in 2016, and this is his sole public repo:

https://github.com/thejoebourneidentity/vm-stats

I know multiple people who left GitHub after it was acquired by Microsoft because of unsatisfying experiences they previously had with Microsofties. It seems that they made the right call.
I mean OLED is basically shining a LED flashlight at your eyeballs, so, yeah. Of course, pretty much every other form of backlit display has the same problem. The only thing I can think of that might be better would be possibly a laptop LCD with the backlight taken out and replaced with a front surface mirror, and then that depends on the surrounding lighting, too.
I haven't used Kotlin on Android, but on the server side, it does make some of the boring stuff easier if you're stuck on an old JDK - e.g., Jackson supports serialising/deserialising straight into Kotlin data classes, you don't need this if you can use Java 14+'s records, but if you're still on Java 8, it's far nicer than all the boilerplate POJOs.

As for the DB layer, I quite like JDBI which integrates well with Kotlin also: https://jdbi.org/#_kotlin

I'm not familiar with RxAndroidBLE, but they have some Kotlin examples on GH:
https://github.com/Polidea/RxAndroidBle/blob/master/sample-k...
There was an 80's book called Nuclear War Survival Skills covered here a week or two ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28481782
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Tokyo

Looks like $1200 even without rent
That was mine until the battery decided to suddenly swell up like a pillow the other day.
I definitely support this but the 400x300 4.2" screen is not something I'd want to read on for extended periods. The generation of e-paper displays on commercial readers right now is really very good. Hopefully the FeatherWing 2 bumps that particular spec!

As much as I like the color-adjustable frontlight, though, that seems like a stretch. I'm okay with losing that though.
Oh, even Americans find it completely bizarre

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mashable.com/article/cheesecake...
I don’t think he really talks about the durability, as much as the repairability.

For example, he notes that he hasn’t road tested it yet:

> However! Most of my use of this computer was from my sofa, while I was recovering from hip-replacement surgery. I haven't road-tested it at all.

> But I'll note here that if it turned out that a component failed due to my usual rough handling, I could replace it with a standard part in a matter of minutes, myself, in whatever hotel room I happened to be perching in, using a single screwdriver.

That reads to me as a pretty specific disclaimer and that he hasn’t stressed the durability, but more that he has a plan if it isn’t as durable.

(Though it’s a long article, and maybe he said something about durability that I missed)
Once I got cussed out by a business owner. Showed it to my wife and she told me to quit my job. Said we’d figure it out, but that she didn’t want me working for somebody like that.

I knew it needed to happen but I’d been stressing about how to tell her for nearly a month. The amount of relief that came from her approval and endorsement was incredible. I was less nervous about quitting than I was nervous about telling her.

Props to you man. Well done.
Yes and I like inheritance being removed in Rust too.

I too think thight coupling is a core problem of many programs, not only introduced by inheritance, but also multiple mutual references, for example in global state based C architectures (most I have seen, the Linux Kernel is better in this regard, CIs used very responsible there).

Dependency Inversion (by interface reference or generics or any other technique) is the one pattern that is missing in the Gang of 4 Book and should be the most remembered, not Singleton (the tightest coupling one can introduce in his OOP system is by introducing Singletons).

With loose coupling you can run the very same application with a few switched out dependencies on your bare metal embedded device with SPI driven display, on PC with minifb, as a websevice and with mocks in unit tests.

I think it's preferable to always aim for loose coupling to enable testing, easier developing and later change.

In that respective "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" is a much better old school programming book than "Design Patterns" imao (given the latter one is a decade older and the Gang could not have known)

Languages that make thight coupling harder definitely teach a good lesson to learners, even if they have then go back to their day job in another language. Thanks for pointing that out.
Note: Check is the OLED uses lower PWM frequency for lower brightness if you sensitive for flicker. It's significant on darker situation.

https://www.dxomark.com/flicker-the-display-affliction/
Good to see you.

No, I suspect that we have all the information that we will get.

He earned a bronze star, silver star, and a couple of purple hearts, during WWII (I only found one, but he was wounded at least twice -maybe they just award one).

It earned my parents a place in Arlington, with the whole caisson/21-gun salute thing, but we have no idea why he got them.

There was a big fire, in St. Louis, in the 1950s (I think), that destroyed a lot of records.

Forget hearing anything he did with The Company. He was one of the first field agents. I think he may have been recruited in the first year or so of the agency. We think at least one of his brothers may also have been a "company man," but we'll never know. He took that secret to the grave.
> in the outside space between D and F halls (the location seems ironic in retrospect).

Was there an E hall?
> What's wrong with a job just being a job, for most jobs, is that it's 1/3 of your life being spent there. What excuse is there to do stupid, monotonous, or worse - counterproductive stuff for 1/3 of your life? I suppose if you're Hodor that's just fine. It's not fine for people who see potential and opportunities in every scenario.

The excuse is the alternative is not that common. Amazing jobs are a luxury. We can tune our perspective to one of a job being "just a job", while both capitalizing on the work and leisure time as best we can, or we can think ourselves failures for having them. Seeing potential doesn't easily translate to job security. I think privileged positions render technocrats out-of-touch with the majority.
Well that depends doesn't it? I mean, if you're actively working to harm the world for the sake of lining your own pockets, then there's a pretty compelling argument to be made that you're not innocent.

But, as I said, I'm not condoning the killing of anyone.
Whole Italy should be written in Rust. And the world is next.
Nim is on the way up in HN posts...
> So, how does that 1-10 scale map to your preferences?

Why does your analysis assume fixed utility for sites? I expect it is strongly conditioned on recent days, at minimum?
Bratislava

2-bd start at around 500 EUR/month utilities included, but can go higher if you choose a good location and bigger apartment. For 600 EUR you should be able to find a solid one, with luxurious ones in good location starting at 750 EUR/month.

Good internet speed, friendly people, european culture, quick flight or train ride to anywhere in Europe, pretty girls.
Alphabet R going to stand for Real Estate?
2012 MacBook Pro (running Linux). Super easy to repair. I have several. When they all die I'll go for something like a Framework.
First, you really need to enjoy that type of experience.

A 3-star restaurant is going to have attentive, almost (but not quite) intrusive service. The servers come across more as dining consultants or even storytellers. One lunch at The French Laundry, our server spent quite a few minutes explaining the history of the butter served with the 'hot buttered rolls' course. The cow that provided the milk had been given to Thomas Keller as a gift, and now lived in upstate New York, eating plenty of clover (I don't recall the bovine's name). The butter was churned there, and then flown refrigerated to the restaurant in Yountville. Then, I commented about the case of aged whiskeys in the case behind our table, and in particular, a 1942 Scotch. A taste could be had for $1,200 per shot.

The courses are small servings, but seem to keep coming. There were almost as many dessert courses as main meal courses, and to be honest, when we were done, I was quite uncomfortable from the amount of food I ate.

The presentation is art, the flavors typically subtle and complex, and the quality of ingredients is clearly the best to be found. I ate dishes I'd never had before, not always sure what was in them, but could get the full back story by asking.

Lunch for four, $1,800, including wine.
Which hurts low-value labor (including those without job experience or who are high risk or have negative history), by making them unemployable.

This notion that a "living wage" raises the floor for everyone is BS. The floor stays at zero and the height to the first step becomes unreachable for some.
Obviously they could be wrong, but this prediction feels very reasonable to me.

I am extremely skeptical of cryptocurrencies in general, so you may take all of my claims with a grain of salt, but coinmarketcap.com tracks something like 6800 different cryptocurrencies. I very much doubt all but a tiny, tiny fraction of them have any use case at all.

After more than ten years, I still don't see a use case for Bitcoin (perhaps El Salvador will surprise me, but I doubt it!). There is nothing I'm aware of that I need to do financially which I can do with Bitcoin (or the like) which I'm not better able to do with the regular banking system. (I don't have much need for contracts in my life, smart or otherwise, but I would vastly prefer to deal with a real lawyer and the actual legal system, expense included, than rely on a smart contract.)

It could be that that amazing use for cryptocurrencies is right around the corner, but after a decade I don't expect to ever see one. Certainly it's not NFTs!
This is pretty similar to my POV. The front light is huge for reading in bed (or anywhere dark, like a plane). Also, you carry essentially every book in print with you, everywhere. But the biggest reason I find myself reading on my Kindle despite preferring real books is that on a Kindle, I can start reading that new book now.
I misread, based on replies. Thanks for pointing out another interpretation, all. Apologies.
Fraudsters Cheat by Tricking the Reporting to Look Awesome
Yeah I'd probably use something bigger. Waveshare has a good selection of larger displays e.g.

https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper-hat.htm
Sure, I was not trying to make the claim that constriction or dilation was a bad thing.
Oh I liked the article too... didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

My one Japanese company experience was in my early career, and it was discouraging. It has been so long, I can name NEC.

The colleagues were great, but on the occasions that executives from Japan were visiting, we were specifically told to look busy. And looking busy actually meant printing things out, walking around with papers, etc. Even in those dark, pre-eco times, I found it absurd. On the plus side, I got proper introduction to sushi and fell in love with that.

I can only imagine what a good situation one must have to spend 27 years there.

Cheers to your future endeavors.
>BI shouldn’t handle data ingestion and storage

I've been working in the BI industry for almost 20 years and I don't know why the author believes that the "Original BI" includes ETL/storage. He mentions BusinessObjects and Microstrategy as an example of traditional BI tools popular 20 years ago, but neither of them had ETL/storage capabilities. Both were basically visual SQL generators. (Although, BusinessObjects later acquired an ETL company). Qlik has a bit of everything - ETL, columnar storage, and dataviz. But that's more of an exception than a rule.

Nevertheless, the author has a point - BI seems to not have a clear path forward. There are experiments with natural language queries (won't work), automatic text summary generation (useless), AI-assisted automatic insights (might be a nice feature, but barely a "product"), and a few more. The self-service story of BI never really took off (I believe self-service ETL is a more interesting story [1]). Neither did story-telling. Dashboards are oversold and are mainly used to impress CxOs to close big deals. Geospatial dataviz is useful, but has limited application.

I would envision two possible directions to advance for the BI industry:

1) Analytical notebooks, something like Jupiter Notebooks but no-code and for BI might be a good idea to explore, but I haven't seen anything like that.

2) No-code/lo-code analytical app building. Reporting and dashboarding tools are just highly specialized app builders. Why not make a step further and generalize it a bit?

[1] https://easymorph.com (Disclaimer: it's my company)
I guess PCMCIA was kind of like this. Of course dongles were bigger back then.
You might want to reconsider. I've found a separate UPS to be invaluable because, as you'll find, just getting power to the box is not sufficient. Other devices need power as well, especially network switches and displays.
>this is the site which used to let you figure out who sent you anonymous questions because you could block anonymous users, and that user would then appear in their uncensored name in your blocklist.

>They fixed this by completely changing how anonymous blocking worked, so that it worked by IP address instead of by username, but for a while that information was exposed to the user

>which meant if someone sent you an anonymous question you could block them and then find out their IP address

lmao! What a dumpster fire. I'm glad I never used it for anything remotely serious and exclusively consumed content second-site by people who actually went to tumblr.com.
If it's $2k rent, you can definitely live on that without issues in Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing. I've lived in each of these places and you'll be fine. You may even be able to get by on $2k including food and transportation, depends on the exact type of housing you choose.
> already a Mac user [...] and has nicer software

Without starting flames... let's agree this is subjective.

For many people the options for the Framework are preferable.
agree i want real ecc ram
I'm semi-concerned about RSI from having to do the "swipe" gesture on my Kindle over and over. Maybe those fears are unfolded but I can see the desire even for abled people to flip pages more easily on devices that don't have built in buttons.
The $2k figure was all-in, rent plus other expenses, more or less.
You don't need a smaller monitor to display without scaling. You can simply view the video in a 1920x1080 window.
Doesn't JetBlue lose here? People that are picking frequent flyer programs want one where they can make domestic and international trips, and the legacy carriers have a large international network that JetBlue doesn't. So for the type of person that cares, they will just ignore JetBlue domestically, because it's not a major hardship to fly one of the legacy carriers domestically. i.e. American will do fine here.
I recall the menu being gigantic and also having ads in it.

Massive portions of trucked in microwaveable meals.

It's the fanciest restaurant in your local strip mall and its fans look just as you'd expect.
Of course, that’s all a variation of the long-running Encabulator joke https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
I like to keep hardware systems with their contemporary software. If my compiler and libs become so old as to become annoyingly restrictive I eventually assemble a new computer with new software and add it to the mouse/keyboard sharing span. But that doesn't mean I want to get rid of the system I've built up. You can say, "Use a VM for old software" but a well broken in box makes things a lot simpler. A new computer every 5-10 years isn't that demanding. I have physical machines for the gtk1, gtk2, gtk3, and now gtk4 eras that I still use every day.

There are also cases where modern versions of software are not better. Text to speech software is really important to me and Festival TTS modern versions (1.9 vs 2.0) just don't have good sounding voices. Luckily I still have my Ubuntu 10.04 box around to do that task.

Canonical keeping the base system stable and secure so I can build my source compiled userspace sand castles on top without constant (ie, every couple years) breakage is great.
Yeah at home my work laptop is always plugged into ethernet. I use WiFi for my phone and my old “tv watching” laptop.
Why should anyone waste the precious space in a ultrportable laptop on the newfangled and time unproven technology which Ethernet is? I want my Token Ring port back to connect to my ring in a box with a Boy George connector – to celebrate the diversity of the computing I have filled up the basement and the attic of my house with.
Ah yes, my confusion at your meaning. I don't drink coolaid often. But I hate spending my mental and creative energy on dead end roads.

If I were the boss, I would probably direct my staff toward a lot of dead ends as well. It's just the nature of not being omniscient. But I would hope that I would be open to the pushback from a worker who says, "Hey, I think we really should be doing Y, and here's why."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland

September 1: Germany invaded Poland

September 17: USSR invades Poland.
I love the documentation silkscreened right onto the PCB! Very fun!
Too bad reality disagrees. It's entirely about planned obsolescence because Apple knows the rubes will buy anything they are told.
Attackers use old Windows ColdFusion server to spread Cring ransomware
How much do people think folks who work for FAANGs are paying for health care? My out of pocket max for a year is $3000. And I pay $25 a month. If I had a family it'd be something like $60 a month and an out of packet max of $7500. And that's the expensive plan, out of pocket max wise (for a lower monthly payment). I haven't come across anyone who was out of network my entire time here. Granted that's more than 0, but if you're making $200k a year, it's trivial.

Healthcare in the US is a real problem for folks on the margins or low wage jobs. But for people working white collar jobs, it's usually pretty good. There's a reason why when Obamacare passed, people freaked out! The status quo bias comes from the fact that most people are happy.
Liking the food != the food is good.

Good taste is not so subjective as you think it is. Your personal preferences, yeah, I don't care about them. But every professional taster keep their personal preferences out of the game and look for more objective criterias, like complexity, balance, off-flavors, aftertaste, typicity, presentation etc. For example if I order chicken and it does not taste like chicken, it's flawed, regardless if I like it or not.

It's the same with wine and whisky. It's not about your or their individual taste, it's about quality. It's okay that you like very sour, oxidized red wine. It's just not good wine.