skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On bottom it says this is originally a Wired story [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/amsterdam-dark-stores/
But if the team has the impetus to change the processes, they can get rid of the SCRUM rituals that don't work for them. Given that it comes with quite a few, bottom up SCRUM will inevitably change into an actual agile system suited to the team.

I've never worked in a team (or run a team) where SCRUM was kept wholesale by the team or anything other than SCRUM sprints were chosen by management.
the normal supermarket (or any non-gig-business) here in Germany has to provide:

- parking (bikes/cars/none if only pedestrians are there)

- some rest/change area for employees

These things cost quite a bit of money.

Now, as with most gig-economy "startups" (or should you call them moneybaths?), the "dark stores" require these things too, but at least with the locations I saw, they don't really do that. Essentially their fronts look like a branded homeless-camp. No thanks.

Also: can someone explain to me, how this concept will (like that of any other gig-economy company) be realized in any semi-equal society (aka no slavers state). Essentially you'd probably need 2/100 people working for that, nonstop. These people will basically do something which nowadays everyone but the richest people have heavily optimized already, just that it's not supposed to be optimized, because I don't think the idea is a soviet-style "hey, I bring you your allocated food, once a week".

The explicit promise is that whoever can afford this, can just call these services on a whim, meaning this is super-inefficient from a societal view (how do you optimize 10min delivery time?). Then, just letting the price decide and having all of services structured that way, you'll essentially get the slavers state, neolib. edition™. Because a lot of people working in these sectors will then be forced to choose the soviet-style solution outlined above (and you already see this!), just without being allowed a say in that matter, because that's how the system is supposed to be, no?

What a brave new world!
Yes, microcode vulnerabilities is a problem indeed. Hopefully Qubes Air (next version 5.0) will compartmentalize even that by using separate devices as qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/.
I will agree the glass bottle versions taste better, from my observations/experience, it seems to be down to how the co2 reacts in the container and I find the plastic bottle the co2 is somewhat smaller and light in the taste, the cans - somewhat better and medium and yet the glass bottle. Ah yes the glass bottles just seem to have large bubble into the mix and in the taste, that just is a factor that stands out.

Though an easy one to test for yourself, get cola form same area - plastic bottle, can and glass bottle and blind taste for yourself and see if you can notice the difference. It is one I could do, though not done for a while and yet was so standout.

I will add that the diet version of the drinks do somewhat not lend themselves to such taste differences and talking fall fat sugar variations of cola here.

I will concur from my observations, the sugar as well as the water used for production, do seem to be the dicerning factors in varaition.
Oh man, this brings back nightmares of upgrading jQuery, and third party components that were copy/pasted into the codebase and modified/customized. Large frontend codebases are indeed miles ahead of where they used to be.
Just because the equipment can do it, doesn't mean it's ready. I was trying to get my home network setup for IPv6, but the DSL modem would reboot if a fragmented packet was sent, so that's not really ready. The replacement modem didn't reboot, but had severe induced latency, so I went in a different direction and still don't have IPv6.
Just choose one that pleases you / make sense for you.

I mean, email is federated, let's use it this nice feature wisely and stop trying to get everybody on the same service.

To answer your question I'd vote for Tutanota or Protonmail.
It's a lot in the eye of the beholder.

Small phone ? Iphone SE 2020: 4.7" screen. Niiiice !
Large Phone ? Asus Zenphone 8, 5.9" screen. Too huuuuge :-(

except... with bezels, Iphone's body is 5.45" (138.4mm), Zenfone is 5.83" (148mm). a very small difference in height (less than 0.5"/1cm), for a screen that's... 38% bigger.
I saw restaurants like these in Seattle! There was a food truck parked by China Harbor that would serve for several restaurants on Uber Eats. I’m pretty sure Uber labels these as virtual restaurants or something.
What's this got to do with the US?
My cynical take is this is exactly why CTV, which was clearly and strongly biased against the protest when it was happening, decided to publish this particular story right now. Normalization aka boiling the frog. You start with a case in the gray area that generally seems okay, allow people to process it, then move to cases on the other side of the gray area, then move outside of (old) gray area entirely. This happened with so many things recently. Social media is making this process a hundred times more powerful.
I agree. I'm in the process of moving all my services to my own domain so if the worst happens I don't lose access to my primary email address. Anything I upload to GDrive is backup only. I would love if Rumble were to take off because YouTube's censorship over the last couple of years is becoming concerning.
Honestly it seems like spam account creation/SEO blackhatting has not changed in 20 years.

Surprised, actually.

I used to create and sell similar "linkwheels" as we called them back in the day.

...Sorry!
Expenses are interesting and add up rapidly (as any business owner knows)... 500k over two years for 20 people is only $1000/person/month and that has to account for all living expenses plus whatever else is required (flight training, cover identities, bribes, pay-for-play etc.)
Wow. I thought one of the cool things living in a European city was how many local stores within walking distance of most housing in urban centers.
People relying on reliable backups building their own storage servers from scratch. Clearly this is universal sage advice that will certainly not end badly for the vast majority of people -_-.

I'm on my second Synology, the first was a cheapish 4-bay; now I'm using a much pricier 8-bay. This is for personal use, but the time and effort saved by using this over hand building has saved me factors more money. I do recommend NFS over SMB for the cheaper models as smbd is a lot more CPU heavy and transfers actually became CPU bound pretty quickly. I've never had data corruption issues in my 10ish years of use, but one subjective data point is pretty crap.

I don't imagine that there are many personal users who need/want ISCSI or other more raw block I/O protocols. As for businesses, off the shelf solutions in your requirements range are often available, and unless you're looking for very specific optimized workloads, there's probably a bit excessively expensive vendor solution that can meet those requirements.
Thanks for sharing! What is Penpot business model?
There are parallels between this event and the takedown of the British National Party. Around 2009 an insider leaked their member list, in a similar fashion. The same year antifa was activated to protest the BNP. From my recollection, antifa where always considerate enough to inform the police when they planned to protest a protest, or clash with a political group like this. The clashes with police help the story spread. It is the physical manifestation of an ideological conflict. At the time, I was generally supportive of antifa (remember, they where brand new then, although technically founded earlier, they had been dormant for a long time). However, despite the BNP declining into irrelevance after this, they where replaced by UKIP, and the far right, in Britain, has probably never been bigger than it is today. The publicized clashes between antifa and the right, ended up beeing useful recruitment propaganda to both sides. To the people on the right, it was proof that the far left was dangerous and intent on suppressing opposing political views. And vice versa.
Yeah, it grows on you.
Oh my gosh, google, get your paws off of our files! You don’t get to read them, you see?!
Yes. It the reversal of this scene here from Morgan Freeman in Batman: https://youtu.be/1z6o1GIEsQE?t=50
Doesn’t this system make the assumption that the latency between the server and the client is symmetric? What happens if the packet takes 100ms to go but 50ms to return?
Regarding chocolate quality discussions: when Hersey started up, they couldn't get any European chocolatiers to share their process, so they had to invent one. They used lipolysis, which creates butyric acid, the chemical that gives vomit its distinctive smell and aftertaste.

You can definitely taste it if you pay attention, like "yep, that's it, it's that vomit aftertaste."

https://www.google.com/search?q=hershey+vomit
I use fastmail and have been really happy with it.
Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018)
Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30364337.
As a big small-phone advocate (I switched from Android to an iPhone 8 specifically for its size), I am interested in that question and - especially how everybody else is dealing with their large phones. I am in the top 1% of body height (6'4) and totally puzzled how everybody is carrying their phones. I mean I get woman who mostly carry a purse and can fit a large phone. But I myself often leave the house without any bags and use just my pant-pockets to store my wallet, keys and phone. At my height, any Phone larger than 5" is defintely uncomfortable when taking the stairs, let alone cycling etc. How do you all solve this?
Packaging is still a nightmare if you want to ship closed source binaries on Linux.

Too many options (flatpak, apt, rpm, appimage, snap). No simple "please turn this directory tree in to a package" options. Dependency hell due to lack of binary compatibility (and no simple way of putting DLLs in the app directory like on Windows or in the dpkg like on macOS).
In USA when the two big political organizations have their State(s) and then national convention, they have a protest / free speech zone. It's usually near where convention delegates can walk and is enclosed by a separation fence.
It has been used repeatedly, and it's not just provinces either, the federal government can also use it. It's not really rare, it crops up every few years.
Yes. Any law that breaks the highest law of the land is invalid and should be disobeyed. However, as long as there is a tyrannical government willing to enforce invalid laws there are still consequences for breaking them.
I have kind of a similar situation - lots of free time during the work day. You should consider it a blessing more than anything that you have such a stable job. And if the pace is boring you, then you could use some of your free time to prep for coding interviews for more rigorous jobs.
The niche for such a language would be extremely narrow compared to existing better-than-shell-script alternatives. Wasn't that perl's selling point? Compiling to bash doesn't seem like that much of a better option than shipping (or just requiring implicitly) a $BETTER_LANGUAGE runtime, and writing in that language. (I imagine someone might respond with some carefully constructed scenario where you can only use a shell script, but I'd expect that sort of scenario to be rare.)

My go-to is either Python or Ruby when shell scripts start to get unwieldy - lately it's been Ruby but I'm mentioning Python because I have experience with the type-checking options for Python, and you mentioned that as a benefit. I'm sure someone will point out that type-checking exists for Ruby too (Sorbet, others?); I've just never tried it.
Growing the replacement body and getting general acceptance is probably channeling itself, but seems easy compared to connecting the “plumbing and wiring” from the head to the body. How close are we to doing this?
Yep. But I’m firmly of the belief that those who strongly disliked the mini were not the target audience. Though I suppose that could be said about anything.

Phone reviewers keep going wild for large phones.

My “phablet” (oneplus one) looks very normal (edging toward small) these days.
phones are ranked by screen diagonal size not body size, which isn't super helpful because bezels.
> two 576MP cameras

my model must be defective :(
Hopefully playing games on every platform that supports a browser[0].

0: https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
The most interesting biography I've read is "Lords of Finance" by Liaquat Ahamed, a biography of the four men who headed the New York Fed and the English, French and German central banks in the period between WWI and WWII. While you could argue it is a little light on biographical content, it gives a really excellent insight into the economic history of Europe between the wars, and how the economic fallout of WWI and the adherence to the gold standard ultimately contributed to the Great Depression.

In a similar vein, "The Man Who Knew" is a biography of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. This book goes a bit more into the private life of the central banker but also examines how his monetary policies contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. It's a good read, though perhaps a little less critical of Greenspan than it could be.
Being a cynic I would say you don't sell it (except maybe with the Russian situation) but just do it. Who should stop the US government from going forward with this?

I know, I am a cynic. But I once was (young and naive) a member of the German social democrat party. I visited the state convention for their youth members. It was a perfect politics simulacrum. With decisions being made, backroom deals (because we don't like the other people - even if their proposal was factually good). And so on.

The perfect training ground for young party "soldiers" streamlined to not show any sigh of a consciousness towards real problems. Just play the power game. Show how scrupulous you are without being obvious.

I left this rotten club behind (politics) and never looked back. Nowadays 20 years later the people back thrn being good at this game and aiming for the top posts in this youth org of the SPD sit at the center of power in Berlin in relevant positions.
I've been calling into the Javascript runtime from C# in Blazor. (C# compiles to WASM.)

Blazor's built-in framework appears to send HTML (as a string) to the DOM. It also automatically sets up callbacks from DOM events into C#.

For code that I've written, I've mostly done simple stuff, like calling window.alert. I suspect I could call window.getelementbyid using the same techniques, but I haven't done that yet.

I did try manipulating the DOM from Rust (via WASM) in the summer of 2020. That was an exercise in frustration, but I point my finger equally at the language and the runtime. Granted, a lot can change since then!
No. I use merriam-webster.com (!mw on duckduckgo) and I'm content.
Could it be an excuse to go through our data thoroughly?
If you're a country with your own satellites, most ASAT weapons are a problem because they create debris that hinders your own operations. Countries like the US also have their own satellites that can immediately detect terrestrial missile launches, so you don't have much in the way of plausible deniability. While the launch of your space-tug would still be tracked, it's a little bit more obfuscated since you can launch months or years before you maneuver into position.

Once you're close enough to interact with a satellite, you can also visually inspect or even retrieve it, which might yield useful information.
I loved the Xperia Mini Pro. Gorgeous form factor.
https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-rec...
Title is OK.

> Try this on for size: “Why is <insert-your-country-name> such an economic failure?”

Which one? Poland, Romania or Turkey aren't failure.
The observation that sperm count is dropping and your claim that obesity reduces sperm count is not an explanation. You have made a positive claim that the observation in broad drop in sperm count is due to obesity.

Now present your evidence.
Agreed, and the upside to to having a monolithic backend is that if/when your app gets serious you don't have to port it or redo it. Sure there are definitely large apps that use Firebase et al, but much more often than not for reasons of cost or compliance or customization, the backend ends up getting written later anyway and APIs usually need to change.
Rounded corners and gradients on the web. When I started both required background images, now they are just a css property.
Which blogging platform should I use?
I am planning to start blogging but I'm still confused with choosing a blogging platform/CMS. A no code one or one which requires coding knowledge would be OK. What are you guys' suggestions. Need a hand with that.
What about WordPress, Weebly, Webflow, Ghost, Medium? Is there anything other than that which you found cool?
When I said "other types of harm" I basically meant violence which is why I said that that constitutes terrorism.

Regarding economic harm, I agree that this isn't terrorism. But there is clearly a limit beyond which the protestors need to be arrested. They cannot be allowed to block trade between two countries, for example.

We should make a distinction. Is the point to cause economic harm (e.g blocking a trade route)? Or is the point to get exposure (e.g protesting in the middle of the city) which has a side effect of some economic harm?
I don't think we can join nerves well enough at the moment. Seems like a problem we'd need to solve first.
I think browser security has made a lot of stuff harder. E.g. CORS has made loading JSON off a remote server harder, chrome now won't load mic/webcam feeds off non-HTTPS.

(Not saying these are bad things! Just annoyances I've run into during development.)
Happy Fastmail user here. I tried protonmail, but the lack of real full text search killed it for me.
Yes, of course the parent did not specify what they thought as “cheap”, I am only pointing out that it is apparently not as cheap as a couple of airplane tickets.

In other words, their point was that all you need is a desire to fly an airplane into a building, but my point is that you need that plus XXX kilodollars (spread over time or not). Reportedly, one of the 9/11 guys was wired $100k in one go[0]—these amounts could be noticed, but dealing with very profitable accounts one might just be too greedy for that.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Septe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_kitchen
That's never been the case for a member of government working against their own government (left or right or anything). You can't keep someone around who works against the very organization they purport to work for.
Yeah, I can't imagine this ever being worth the VC money where I'm from for this reason. But who knows.
Yes I own a dictionary because in my school we were asked to refer them. But right now I always ask Siri or google.
I liked this video from a lecture series by Martin Kleppmann (author of the "Data intensive applications" book) on clock synchronisation and NTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAyW-4LeXZo

I found especially the last part with some hints on how to correctly measure time passed when doing manual profiling helpful (by not using the wall clock, but the monotonic clock. Probably everybode else knows this, but I didn't :D).
> ask the business people, "how long can we spend on this without losing money on it?"

Presumably you'd want the developers "How much value can you create in time `t`", v(t), and the business people "how much money will we lose in time `t`", l(t).

And then you'll find the maximum of `v(t)-l(t)`.

The problem of course is how much communication it takes between the two groups to optimize this. And how well they can actually estimate.
> to assess every last file that you upload as if you were publishing it on a public website.

IMO, that's precisely what you should be doing.
Actually, you’re wrong. Laughably so. Your assertion a the end there about more energy always being used than you get back - if that were true, mining btc wouldn’t be profitable - the whole point is you make more BTC than the value of the electricity you used to generate it.

And to your former ‘points’: I think the issue we’re having here is that I’m talking about an abstraction. To you, the potential energy of a $100 bill is the ability to light it on fire to light your cigar, for example. For me, the potential energy is all the work you can do with it as an exchange of value.

Money is a way to exchange work. Work is analogous to energy. Therefore, money is analogous to energy.

I think where you’re getting bogged down is you Don’t see that to earn an income, you must burn energy in the form of food, money and time. With the Btc farm, you’re saving most of this energy by tapping into a renewable resource to generate the income which you can convert back into value.

In short, there is no other way to derive value from a geothermal plant in the middle of nowhere, within reason. Certainly not significant financial value, other than as a crypto mine.
I really like using Fastmail. For raw features, it's got a contact sync, calendar sync, custom domain suppport, a snappy webmail client, push notifs (which Gmail does not support outside the official app), a robust spam filtering language, integration with 1Password that lets you make per-site masked email addresses, and a lot more.

As for security: I only care about account security, not confidentiality. As a friend said to me recently "as far as I'm concerned, emails are digital postcards". For account security, Fastmail has 2FA and revocable per-client passwords.
Remove unused Python imports automatically
Uncompressed size matters for parse time. Although you are correct about network latency.
How much would be 500k lines of hospital pricing data be worth?
What would you buy it for? I was gonna use it for a project, but I found something more interesting to work on. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
Using TensorFlow.js AI hand recognition to control Three.js objects
Those big numbers do represent the potential things consumable if they were converted into new consumption. They’re not sitting as cash in the bank. But they are a great proxy for it. Cash gets borrowed nearly for free against it, for example. Absolutely not “imaginary”. Access to quality and luxury is not based on anything more imaginary than more money than someone else. Access to better land, to preferential treatment by politicians, police and health systems the same.

Wealth guards the opportunity to consume, as well. I really don’t understand what you mean by “not consuming enough.”
Which is the point - time until patched in the kernel source tree is a relatively useless metric unless it’s pretty close to when those fixes ship to Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Amazon Linux - whatever the majority of Linux is these days.

Otherwise a fix in Linus’ tree is about as useful as a committed fix to the Windows source repository.
Except that these app-rental bicycles, mopeds, and scooters don't actually replace cars. They reportedly replace use of public transport, privately owned bicycles, and just walking. They appear to be a net-negative to society in their current incarnation.

Cars are way too dominant, even here in bicycle-friendly Netherlands, but these app-rental things don't change anything on that front.
What you describe, right to act if not explicitly prohibited, is usually associated with a constitution. The constitution crystallizes the structure.

A democracy is the larger group voting to take whatever they want from the smaller group. Some democracies are constrained in what they can take by a constitution, and others not so much.