skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome! Enjoy! I especially recommend asking for the signature local dishes in these kind of places; a lot of pleasant surprises!
But only one phone, yeah...
> dashboard on top of production DB

A lot of what users need can be done this way in my experience. Also giving their people access to customise reports/exports can go even further. I'd advise against direct access to “real” production though: have the dashboard and custom reports run against a (probably readonly) replica of some sort¹ so runaway reports don't impact live app performance.

[1] via replication, log shipping, etc... — all major databases should support at least one method that can achieve this with minimal latency in updating the replica under normal conditions
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Let's not kid ourselves. Apple earns money from Lightning royalties.
Yes

> and again, this lawsuit isn't about politics but instead antitrust, governance and SEC-related failures. A reminder to the antitrust matters: one core allegation is Facebook accelerated its shift to mobile leveraging data reciprocity deals. It's very much in here, too. /13
Definitely agree, it's just not a good look.
My god - if we can't even see that we have been engineered to give up all sense of privacy - that perhaps that was a massive factor in the drive to ensure we adopt technology - we really are in trouble!

We didn't realise what we were heading into, but it is becoming clearer. We are moving into a fascistic (corporate owned) technocratic governance system - everything we do will be monitored in the minutiae. Privacy is certainly under attack - in fact it is very close to the point that you will not be able interact with 'society' unless you agree to concede all your information. We have medical 'passports' on the way in order to enter shops, ffs.

Its a dystopian future that we have coded ourselves into. The death of privacy, sure, and also the death of individuality.
It does seem a bit self contradictory when a few paragraphs back the author has said how the term has been scrubbed of all meaning and things like self organising teams have been abandoned in favour of selling new wrapping on old ideas.
There are also virtually equally exciting opportunities, I think. Deepmind has never moved from london, and google essentially just built their HQ around them in kings cross.
> Having taste makes you require more dollars to get the same level of satisfaction from a meal or a drink.

I don't know. It's not really the same level of satisfaction. Eating well is very enjoyable.

I think food is one of the product categories in which spending just a bit more raise the quality drastically. Buying fresh vegetables from the market and butcher meats from time to time rather than everything from a grocery store was transformative for me and it's not actually that much more expensive. I guess I could sustain myself on canned peas and frozen chicken but it wouldn't bring me much joy.
> In my experience, like I said, someone needs to take a serious look at N.H.S and it's workings and shake it down.

Sounds to me like you've fallen for Tory propaganda about the NHS. The reason the service it provides is worse than in other countries is simply that it has less funding. Annual per capita spending on healthcare, in PPP pounds sterling:

UK £2989 = 1x

France £3737 = 1.3x

Germany £4432 = 1.5x

United States £7736 = 2.6x

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
The receptacle housing generally prevents you from bending the connector tongue, and even if you manage to do it somehow, AFAIK it's almost never FR4 in the receptacle (although USB-C receptacles printed directly on 0.8mm PCBs work great!). It'll generally be some sort of injection molded thermoplastic that's fairly flexible, so even if you manage to bend it, it'll spring back.

As for pins vs pads, you can make pads almost arbitrarily more durable by increasing the gold plating thickness, whereas it's really hard to make pins not bend.
Apple hates you, the person that buys their stuff. It hates you so much they will go to any lengths to force you to buy more.
I am not saying it's bad given what go runtime can do
My mom always told me I had no talent for math, and that I shouldn't invest energy into things that don't come effortlessly the first time I try them.

It might sound silly, but it took me until my late 20s to realize that I can actually learn hard things by just practicing them a lot.

One of the things that encouraged me to start relearning math was hearing about the growth mindset and reading some books about it.
Title is click bait, if McKinsey killed it then so did every other org that misuses “agile”.

And here's the revelation in the article:

Agile’s underlying principles and values are now table stakes for any organisation.

I leave it to everyone else to make up their own opinion about that.
I’d rather play the game I enjoy than win. I’m not that interested in winning, people don’t really like it if you’re beating them all the time. It’s more important to have friends than dominate at a hobby, having better relationships will lead to greater happiness, is that not the real game? I’m more interested in the aesthetics and flow of movements in games and the satisfaction that brings, I’ll never be the best, and I think endeavouring to always be better would just leave me with a sense of inadequacy. A focus on beauty and the ethics of a game will bring more joy to the world. Aligning with things where you enjoy the process will output success as a by-product as you’ll be practicing more than others as it won’t feel like work. I’m not really sure what the point of being the best is, to satisfy feelings of insecurity maybe.
That's not how it works. People build ML solutions not because they went through rigorous analysis and figured out their problem needs ML solution.

They just want to do ML and are looking for a problem that can be solved with it. Then they will likely ignore you when you say this problem has also neat traditional solution.

This is further exacerbated by corporate actions like competitions for best AI (or Blockchain, etc.) project. Which you typically can't participate in if you have traditional solution even if it is way better.
Not only it's not actionable, it also implies that people are not trying hard enough, which can be quite insulting to people trying their very best.
Let’s not overlook why there is an increase in deaths: people are depressed due to the disruptions in their lives.

Attacking this from the perspective of increasing drug enforcement will get us nowhere. I’d argue that enforcement needs to be relaxed, remove stigma from mental health treatment, and let all consumers walk free without even an arrest. The last thing someone needs in a spiral is a court case. The court isn’t there to help you.
I mentioned in another comment, the Macbook Air is the same price, has the similar enough performance for all practical purposes (better than an i5 by miles), no touch bar, and a more user-friendly battery replacement procedure
Not sure what people on cruise ships get paid, but my old room mate from college got his Master's degree in nautical/maritime engineering, and went to work on huge cargo ship (the course of becoming a captain). Apparently the pay was almost unlivable, for the first 2-3 of years - under minimum wage, by western standards. And 90% of the crew were from Philippines etc. Should be mentioned that my friend was not a deckhand, but worked with the officers on the bridge.

Where I'm from (Norway), and probably most seafaring nations in the west, this has been an issue for years - social dumping by using Asian labor.
No, it isn’t. This is not the US government suing Facebook for anti-trust.

It’s a group of investors suing Facebook.
This is called carbon footprint laundering.
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How are people working within Red Hat? Are kernel patches and systemd features developed using agile concepts such as user stories, story points, retrospectives and sprint planning? Or is it more a group of hackers scratching itches?
Amazon-distributed ebooks can be stripped from DRM with utilities floating around. (And so do ADE-wrapped PDFs but I can't recall any provider using that thing anymore)
Maybe read the article?
Give them the drugs they need through the established channels, free of charge. Fentanyl is an extremely cheap drug when you cut the red tape. A large share - perhaps the majority - of these overdosing drug users were turned onto opioids by the medical establishment, which got away scot-free with malpractice.
Yes, of course you're right about that.
I have started KDE color transfer of Soundtrack Pro. It is low contrast and takes some time to adjust but I find it useful for long hours of work. I prefer most of the contrast to stay in active working area/canvas etc.
It is WIP and needs some polish but is a start.
May be I will do more neutral version, Soundtrack is more towards blue/violet gamma.
https://we.tl/t-v5SjRKTjRM
Combine this with Inter or SF Display and you will have clean and professional interface.
I don't agree with a lot of your politics, but I 100% agree with this. Sweden is used as a banner or a prop by outsiders for their own purposes. Overblown "no-go-districts" reporting; claims that there were no COVID restrictions, when there definitely were, even if they were not as onerous as in other countries.

Also the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_Kyeyune

> While sometimes being labeled by media as a conservative due to his participation in Oikos, Kyeyune primarily describes himself as a marxist

He sounds like one of those people like Spiked/Living Marxism; their primary interest is in being controversial. Using "horseshoe theory" for clickbait.
It’s only illegal if you get caught.
> We have medical 'passports' on the way in order to enter shops, ffs.

To be fair, this is specifically to counter the threat that antivaxxers (or more broadly irrationally harming folks) pose to the rest of society. The fact that they exist and are allowed to exist is a travesty and is the thing that should be addressed. Because such a thing would surely not be popular, we get something more mild.

I fully agree with your other points.
For me it was music. Till this day I cannot stand MP3 audio, and can detect when it's played on the radio, because of one bored afternoon in 2002 experimenting with MP3 and CD audio quality.

Sure, you _could_ rip an MP3 with near-undetectable quality loss for most types of music (The Wall, yes. The Downward Spiral, no). But nobody does that, as apparently it was not the default on anything back then and today Youtube and Spotify and all others still use those horrible quality settings as people have gotten used to them.
You are of course right but... vpns?? How does "taste" in vpns work?
Is there anything 220+ PPI at 8"-ish?
I look forward to the day when there is a political debate about walkway neutrality because the local walkway monopoly started setting up their own real estate company and only grants access to the shortest routes to people who rent from their real estate company while forcing longer routes on competing real estate.
The Signal app never did the "primary device serves message contents to companion devices" like WhatsApp did.

Ever since Signal introduced the desktop client, its multidevice functionality has involved fully fledged signal-protocol sessions between each device.

It sounds like WhatsApp is now adding something like this to their client, though it sounds like some of the details of the scheme differ.

In principal the signal protocol works fine for a multidevice scenario.
> staff are often unpaid

No. Perhaps you have found an example of this (which I doubt strongly), but this is not something that happens "often".
I think a good rough guide is that if you consider it ML, if you're going to 'do ML', then.. it might be appropriate, but you're jumping to the solution and trying to make it fit (pun intended) the problem.

If on the other hand you start from having some statistics to do on the data you have, then you might at some point find yourself doing the sexy subset of it that we call 'ML', and fine.
> I currently have a 2018 Dell XPS13

So you're not a techie in the sense it's being used.

Techie can mean someone who's an expert on technology, but when it comes to talking about techies as consumers, it's about people who always chase the latest and greatest.

It's tautological, you're not a techie in this context if you don't consume new tech.
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> and it gets boring really quickly

Those who use that particular weapon might "need" a win more than those who don't.

Maybe they had a really bad day at work etc.

The will to have balanced games is only there when the players love the flavor of winning by the skin of their teeth and want to experience that feeling again and again
I had my hopes up that McKinsey had started to preach against agile. But this seems just like the agile micromanaging dystopia is about to defile other fields than programming.
> It's not an mlm scheme.

It absolutely is. Drug addicts finance their habit by selling to other addicts, and (crucially) recruiting new users.

> Your also making the assumption that drug use it self is a problem that needs to be solved.

I'm pretty sure addiction is a problem that needs to be solved by any metric.
Did you mean 'discontinuity'? Sharp and continuous are somewhat contradictory.
Years ago I got an email from a budding competitor. They wanted to create a similar product to mine but couldn't figure out how. Would I help them?
Most people have no idea the amount of data available about them. They may suspect in an abstract way, but this is entirely different to being confronted with the extent of your own data and understanding how it can be used against your own interests. They're also looking to how others are reacting, to see whether they should be concerned or not.

I think many Social Media Co.s have mistaken their customers' distraction and obliviousness for consent.

It reminds me of an acquaintance who made questionable tax claims one year, and didn't get audited so went a bit further each year, growing on the confidence and feeling of a forming 'norm' that came from getting away with more each year.
Tax office audits in my country are pretty random, but I will always remember his ashen face when the audit finally did come.

(I have a feeling this is a known psychological effect, but I can't remember the name of it.)

So too, I'm guessing social media businesses feel that with each passing year they are accruing more implicit consent by virtue of seeing no real kickback from their users.

I feel when kickback finally comes, it will be a tipping point and their business model will be difficult to continue with, in the regulatory landscape that follows.
No, it's not. Look at the actual complaint.
It was on my list but missed getting into the post by accident. It will be up shortly!
"Agile ... emphasizes customer collaboration over contract negotiation, individuals over processes, responsiveness to change over following a plan and results over documents."

I think someone needs to tell this to my company's agile consultant. That actually sounds useful.
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Good point! And I think that's true ... often the top comment is enough to get the gist (or a completely anecdotal aside :-) ).
Definitely. I mean calling anything that happened here a "struggle session" just ends all credibility for whoever this person is.
It doesn’t really fit the situation perfectly.
No one is doubting that databases are crash consistent. But if you read the other replies in this thread you can see there are still advantages to doing the backup in cooperation with the userspace programs, eg in time taken to restore instead of having to do full WAL replay. That's ignoring the non-database cases too.
> I’d add on: anything that’s difficult/time-consuming/etc. to make at home even if you could, but scale makes it a lot easier.

True of restaurant food in general and even street food; what makes these things great is often lots of little bits and pieces of topping or flavoring that would be too time-consuming and wasteful to make at home.

But it's not limited to high end. "Indian" food is cheap but benefits from the scaling of cooking a lot of different spices in a large pot for a decent amount of time. Your borscht is another example.

(What the UK calls Indian food is often cooked by Bangladeshis and Pakistanis, the name is kind of a historical accident)
In 90% of cases, no.
For me the catalyst for change was a period of personal transformation fueled by psychedelics. Another “addiction” I gave up during this time was meat. It’s been 20 years and I’ve been fortunate not to have any desire for either.

I want to acknowledge how incredibly difficult it can be to give up smoking and express my support to all of you who are trying. I hope you find your path.
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Welp, what if I told you a Sixth Form (Y12, age 16-17) in a UK school has a computing course that just started and is reportedly using VB6 ... I'm really not sure what to say?
What would you prefer to call it?
Thanks! It's a familiar read. These days I prefer the pragmatic approach.

- Test features, not units (the time spent vs time saved is meh). So when something breaks, you can take it from there. Start digging.

- Build features

- Fix bugs by first writing a test, and then getting green

- Never go over-fancy with inheritance and whatnot. Readable longer functions are preferred over smaller once that break up the logic. Keep the poor soul in mind that has to go through your code in 3 years time. That could be you yourself ;-)

- Comment the "why"

That's it really. For web applications. Seems to work perfectly well for a code base that's over 10 years old and has seen many a developer come and go. Yes there's a bunch of legacy, but not a single part of it that's hard to reverse engineer with some effort.
TLDR don't worry about things (in advance) unless you have reason to worry about
I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water. In my case, it was the plastic pipes of some toy my sister and I were using to pretend we were snorkeling, cut the roof of my mouth requiring stitches.
Thankfully they use plastic cups for beer in some regions.
> Hardcore drug trafficking is correlated to lax border enforcement

The problems the US has are because it is a fundamentally shit place to live and most people exist solely for someone else to step on. Living a life like that, who can blame anyone for only being able to deal with it by taking heroin.
> Maybe instead of complaining about "gender roles" complain about people picking shitty spouses

No need for the whataboutism: gender roles exists and are deeply entrenched in some societies.

A simple measure is how often divorces end with the ex-husband having to pay spousal support to the ex-wife and not the other way around.

This is a clear indication of how the legal system expects men to be "providers" and, therefore, woman careers and financial independence to be less important.
great stuff man!
It seems that SSD info can be recovered.

https://itigic.com/safely-erase-an-ssd-before-selling-or-thr...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-securely-erase-hard-dri...

This company claims is not possible unless you use their software, DBAN will not work.
https://www.blancco.com/

I am trying to recycle unused computers from companies, and install Linux in them and there is a bit of vacuum in terms of how to erase/comply... som services use Blancco, some companies remove the hardrives before disposing of the computers, making recycling more expensive, need to buy a new hardrive and fix them.
Jay Rayner is a delight (he comes across better in his writing, I think, than he does on TV). He had a comically bad time at "The Polo Lounge" at the Dorchester recently too: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/aug/15/the-polo-lounge...
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I come from a core engineering background. In my experience, ML especially DNN these days is a way for people to avoid doing critical thinking. The improvement even if it works is extremely marginal making the ROI useless. Further unlike social media, a failure of ML model will result in a loss of limb or life.

Unfortunately most decision making C-suites are not engineers who fall for the marketing hype and burn through time and capital without tangible outcomes.
You don't compete on just the product though. I've had companies with plenty of VC money outbid me on Adwords and employ lots of cheap labour on SEO. Often their product offering looks quite weak.

You are right though, if that's the environment you face you just need to move on.
I don't think it's something unique to Sweden at all, the UK has had very similar experiences.

I think the issue is that (much like with the National Front in the UK), Sweden previously had an issue with white supremacists (VAM for example), and that became the face of anti-immigrant sentiment. This then meant that legitimate concerns were forced to mix with that (and the extreme groups dominated the political opposition to mass immigration).

This has also meant that opposition to immigrants personally (e.g. for their religion, culture, race, or even just not speaking or being Swedish) has been mixed in with the strategic opposition (e.g. it makes no sense to accept another 5+ million immigrants when there are already 7-10 year long public housing queues, and rents and house prices are ballooning).

The latter is the biggest issue IMO, it's meant that no political party (aside from SD) dare really touch the issue. And instead they start supporting stupid things like tightening the bureaucracy on legal immigration (greatly affecting Swedes with foreign partners and foreign doctoral students). This is exactly what happened in the UK too (look up the "hostile environment" for legal immigration).
Referencing the Maoist cultural revolution is a deliberate attempt to conflate "someone disagreed with me noisily and at length" into "I and my family were broken down by torture as part of the brutal suppression of all political opposition".
you superimpose it onto the picture of the passport, because you know the number.

that's like saying an exploit is useless because the pentester still has to privilege escalate. wrong forum to hold that opinion.
I once had a multi-course lunch at a two-star restaurant in Munich (lucky me, I didn't have to pay). Food was good, for sure, that being said if you know where to eat in countries like Italy and France food is getting close, if not on par, in terms of taste and quality for a fraction of the price. Presentation so is different, I personally considered the two-star one over the top so.
Radar exists too.

The need might be for a sensor local to the platform as a back up to give warning for a train that's traveling too fast? In which case a sensor that mimics the old Cowboy film favourite of putting one's ear to the track seems like a reasonable thing to try.
Yes, this is obviously just considering utility at a higher level of the hierarchy of needs, not pure subsistence. Otherwise everyone should just be slurping Soylent all the time I guess.