skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or just buy a safety razor (mine is a simple one made of plastic and some metal weight in the handle) and a bunch of double edge blades and call it a day.

If some people want to turn it into a hobby where they obsess over badger hair brushes and so on, that's also fine. Nobody is ever forced to buy that sort of stuff.

All marketing tries to mislead people to spend money on "unnecessary" stuff. That's what people mostly spend their disposable income on. And Americans have tons and tons of disposable income, so they are good targets for marketing. I don't see the same thing in Germany for example as people are generally more careful with their money and don't have ginormous amounts of it like Americans (look up the disposable incomes). For example, you're (assuming you're American) also getting screwed by the mattress industry.
Being good with technology is just table stakes. The keys to success are: Marketing, Sales, Distribution, Support ... and ... FINANCE.
TLDR

Agile was a response to management practices that didn't respect the profession of software development.

Management didn't get the joke when the Waterfall model was used to show exactly what was wrong with those management practices.

Agile was a response to the increasing unrealistic expectations of management, and the widespread (and highly predictable) failure of the Waterfall model.

Somewhere along the line, women were pushed out of the mainstream of programming, and became a minority.

The men who started the Agile movement were a bit creepy, and those in charge now have acknowledged past sins, at least somewhat.

Consultants and Trade shows have commodified the dissent that was Agile programming, slowly turning it insane by forcing it to be a Waterfall again.

As always, people who make powerful tools share some responsibility of how they are used.
I think they rather mean "corporatocracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
The downvotes are because sive.rs is not a URL shortner. It's the blog this post (both the one you're quoting, and the link within) is written on. It's advocating for shorter permalinks.
tl;dr the author hates the fact that the left has largely reached consensus
Salon nowadays is such a joke. This piece could not be more formulaic if it tried.
Obligatory addendum every time foone is posted here: foone goes by they/them pronouns and foone hates HN and all it stands for so please don't bother them with twitter replies just because you saw this thread on here. If you think about following them on twitter because of a cool tech thread, please be aware that they're not a tech novelty account and don't complain when they tweet about politics.
That's because US trucks (the goods carrying type, not the status symbol) still look they time-traveled from circa 1950, just even bigger now. Here is a random one from Wikipedia:

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

It must be some kind of anti-competitive tariff situation for this to still be the prevailing design.
I think that on "bare" Win 11 you press Win+Z, and you see a selection of a few possible layouts that you can click and choose
Exactly. Unless your blog is incredibly broad, you're probably writing about the same subject more than once. What is the author going to do when they write about short urls next time? /su2?
> That sounds absolutely terrifying to me.

+1
Sounds like some rather scary dissociative experiences I've had (without drugs, or meditation)
Its like with accidental pregnancies or software complexity. People love the nice things "at the front" and prefer to ignore the tail of liabilities coming with it.
>” How much extra cost does a hard on/off switch add to the bill of materials?”

BoM cost is not the whole story; a physical switch can greatly complicate an assembly, and may require hand-soldered wires. In addition to those cost-related factors, external switches are usually quite ugly, and getting them right can be very challenging, so it’s much easier to just omit them.
Yes, a high functioning government would essentially wipe out 2/3 or more of consumer lending. As an example, Singapore literally forces some of your income into a savings fund that's just for housing, retirement, and healthcare. It's not something optional -- the nanny state literally taxes you into being a fucking adult. And it works.
Could you check the voltage on those cells next time you swap?

I've found that seemingly similar devices have very different notions of what constitutes a discharged battery.

I have a remote controlled humidifier and RGB LED - controllers for which use one and two infrared LEDs respectively. Both are powered by CR2025 button cells, which when new have an open circuit voltage of 3.3V and 2.7V once depleted.

The two-LED device considers a 3V cell "dead", while the one-LED will happily work at this voltage.
I've never used this myself, but you're describing what a coworker used to recommend when that topic came up many years ago. See the bottom of this page about byobu.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Byobu

I'm sure there are newer/better? tools someone might recommend here too.
the inflation target was barely met (and according to arguments about service degradation) it was undershot, so no, the interest rate was not too low. (there's no non-artificial rate in a central bank managed economy)
Well, that's a big dispute – are "ethics" and "morals" synonyms, or do they differ in meaning?

The traditional answer: they are synonyms. English (and many other European languages too) often has pairs of words with interchangeable meanings, one of which comes from Greek ("ethics"), the other from Latin ("morals"). The traditional identification of the two terms comes from the fact that when Cicero sought to explain the ancient Greek philosophical tradition on ethikos (ἠθικός) in Latin, he coined the Latin word moralis to translate that Greek term – hence, the Western philosophical tradition (and the Western intellectual tradition more broadly) begins by treating the two terms as essentially synonymous – the idea that there is some difference between them did not arise until over a millennium later

Most popular contemporary answer: they are two different things. However, while many (maybe even most) people agree they are two different things, there is much less agreement on what exactly is the difference between them – some say one is religious and the other secular; some say one is personal and the other public (confusingly, some say morality is the personal one and ethics is the public one, others say the opposite); some say one is about detailed rules and the other is about principles; etc. (I'd also note you can find innumerable web pages claiming to explain the distinction – but if you read them carefully, they often contradict each other in various ways, and rarely do they cite any kind of authoritative source in support of their claims.)

I think a large part of what has happened here, is "morality" has picked up a lot of connotations of (Judaeo-Christian) religious and social conservatism, of which "ethics" remains relatively free. Since for many people (especially secular/progressive people), "ethics" has positive connotations, "morality" rather less positive ones, people assume there must be some difference in denotation as well. But, while that assumption is widespread, there is far less agreement on what exactly that difference in denotation is. Indeed, I think attempts to give them different definitions are somewhat of a retcon.

Personally, I just stick to the traditional answer. My impression, is that among professional philosophers (especially of the analytic tradition), the traditional answer is the more popular one [0]. "Moral philosophy" and "ethics" (in the sense of the philosophical discipline) are two different names for the same thing, albeit the former name sounds a little old-fashioned, the later a bit more contemporary.

[0] To quote the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – "The term ‘morality’ as used in this entry will not be distinguished from ‘ethics.’" – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-morality/ – the same entry also notes, that while some philosophers have attempted to distinguish the two terms, including even such illustrious figures as Kant and Hegel, there is a lack of consensus among philosophers who believe them to be distinct as to what the distinction actually is.
> I think your presumption that others should think like you is bizarre.

What I actually wrote was "bizarre to me", not just "bizarre" (as in your quote), so I don't think it's fair to say that my comment conveyed such presumption
Copy and paste in JS is very hard. It is like 2004 style writing code for each browser.

The good thing about scripting it is handling images on the clipboard. But Reddit: please invest in making it work and not regressing!

If you just need plain text then native HTML works fine. Never had issues when the JS is not interfering.
Which god? There are thousands of known ones.
In the Netherlands we have a class of vehicles intended for people with a disability that would prevents them from being allowed to drive a 'real' car. These are very small 2-seater cars, limited to 45km/h.

Ironically, one of the most popular models of these small 45km/h cars is the "Mega" build by Aixam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aixam
I had a colleague who was a DBA who used to be very loud. In a discussion he'd just be louder than you to shut you up. Really nice guy otherwise, btw, and I learned a lot from him. He was just extremely loud.

We used to joke that he was reading/writing so much all-caps SQL code that his brain altered to scream more :)
In the past, you didn't need returns when saving for your down payment. Proverbial dollars in your mattress was plenty good enough to ensure your savings were growing faster than the required down payment
> Is that why they're saying it doesn't work? Or is it a different reason? Because I see people citing all sorts of possible reasons and intuition can only go so far in knowing which ones are important.

The Spotify data about like/dislike is rather accurate (like 80-100%), as long as someone doesn't click under substance influence.

Third party data (according to article) has accuracy around 4%-44%.
Bathroom scales, kitchen scales and calipers all have versions that work without electricity and aren't much less convenient (if not more convenient since no waiting for electronics to boot up slower than they should or clunky menus)
…And, one should be able to turn of every led even when powered on… At Ikea I almost bought a nice brushed steel extractor hood, except it had this obnoxiously bright blue led on the front. Why? I know when that thing is on without it drawing my attention constantly.

Same with my Lenovo X13 gen 2, there is a bright white led next to the power button… just why…???
He's protected from civil lawsuits by something else: If you want to sue someone, you more or less have to show up in court and identify yourself. At least if the party you are suing wants you to show up in court.

Do you think that, for example, the CEOs of those three companies would want to travel to a jurisdiction where they have many victims and tell Mark a precise time and place where they might be arrested?
They definitely didn't start out being regarded as chattel.
Yeah, it's pretty much the same effect. Hobbies can cost as much as most hobbyists are willing to pay. Then you get elitism, you get sneers that some beginners are using "too good" equipment that they haven't earned yet (e.g. complaints that beginner photo hobbyists using "too good" cameras) etc. It's just human behavior. As a beginner or casual hobbyist, you need to find a beginner-friendly and mature (ie non-childish) community that understands different levels of involvement, understands there is life outside the hobby as well, understands budgets etc.
If a young person is learning to manage debt with them, that necessarily implies that they don't yet comprehend what taking debt means and cannot reasonably be expected to fully understand the consequences - which may make the contract invalid.
Yes, one wonders what impedes this good naming choice.

In other words, I see what you did there, and I greatly respect you for it.
What about trading and wash sales? Would not that make the average very high?
I have no numbers so I can't say more, but 140 transactions per month per user doesn't sound that high considering the above.
I was taught that you should estimate a 4% rate of return, which means Harvard's endowment can cover around 40% of their budget. Much of the remainder will come through research grants, and a rather small percentage will be tuition and fees.
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It's not necessarily that easy; the city refused to give me anything as I wasn't "properly homeless". I wasn't allowed to use a forwarding address ("briefadres"). But I also didn't have a fixed address or bank account and people were unwilling to rent to me because of that. It took me a long time to get things sorted; everyone basically just shrugged.

Things were actually easier when I moved to the UK a few years ago. If you don't have a registration in The Netherlands you really can't do anything, and if the municipality doesn't want to give you one you're screwed. In the UK at least things are ways around things (which are strictly speaking not necessarily legal, such as forging a utility bill, but needs must...)
Both at the former working place and the actual working place we use SQL as the major part of our data storage strategy for microservice based apps. We also use NoSQL but will never give up on SQL.
Cutest problem I've ever seen. If anyone still doesn't understand, it basically comes down to removing "unique" products and sum from the possibility space.

Here is some python code that might be more revealing
https://www.online-python.com/c5nAfLoIqr

A code review would be greatly appreciated!
Fx 24.0.0
Hi

I’m the author of https://github.com/antonmedv/fx (terminal JSON viewer)

Recently I decided to rewrite the entire program to Go. And usually, on second rewrite things end-up better. Main reason for this, I believe, is clear end-result, the target.

I think new version of fx is much more superior:) I recommend, to check it out ;) Would like to have some feedback and ideas for improvement.

One of new cool features is reducer languages: not only JS, but also now it’s possible to write reducers in Python and Ruby.

I’d like to hear some feedback from people with more background in Python and Ruby. For example, should Python reducers come with builtin DotMap or not?

Thanks)
I already am spending it on things e.g. art, donations, and peer-to-peer international payments. The number of services accepting crypto can continue to grow without transfers reaching the 2-5% processor fees I mentioned earlier.
I don't understand the benefit of this at all. I've been dropping the ".html" from URls for ages now, not by modifying the filename, but using Apache's MultiViews. Apart from anything else, some tools still benefit from a filename's extension advertising that file's type, even if they shouldn't.
Coming from the UN, we already know what the answer will be.

More governance, more/better management of risk by the UN that is then delegated to its administrative regions (the US, EU, etc). This is because as long as we are talking about risk, this plays into the hands of a global governance structure. All risks should be planned for and managed - I mean the covid response was fantastic, right? What was wrong was not enough governance, of course.

But what about the risk of a corrupt global governance structure? If you think "democracy" was bad (where you vote once every 4/5 years, for someone else to represent you for that time), how much worse will it be if global policies are rolled out to everyone with no vote at all? Where if you disagree on what stakeholders (corporations, government and NGOs) have in mind for you, you're on your own. Which is where we are already..

No to a global tyrannical system - thanks. Next.

I think the best way to manage risks is to roll back the mega governance structures, ignore or undo government diktats. Put power in hands of local people, and no I don't mean implementing the UN cookie-cut 'local sustainable development plan' templates that we are all getting. Can we discuss that? Of course not - imagine a government arguing for less government!!

I want less government in every way - let local people decide for themselves what they want to do. In fact, we could have that today, if people stopped listening to these ridiculous self-authorising "authorities".
I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
You can pass -g0 to gcc to do so [0]

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html
I read somewhere that the death ratio of meat vs vegan diet is about 1 cow vs 30 mice, not sure if it was a reliable figure.
spillover from the super hot areas

also the US population is growing, urbanization is happening, and ...

... there are not enough houses being built.

plus the monthly mortgage payment is about the same (because the lower interest rate allows for lending more money for the same monthly cashflow)
People should show respect on not link to foone here.
I got a letter threatening me with a fine if I didn't register to vote, and I needed a NI number to register.
I am not in favor of lane blocking, blocking an entire lane leading to pile up of vehicles 100x heavier than them so a biker can go on a joy ride in the middle of the road which is actually illegal in most countries, including Singapore.
How does backups work? And what about updates? Or is this more like a 'try' / testing app hosting?
If you prefer eink:

I am making an e-paper display that works in a similar way -
you can configure it with a mobile app to pull an image from any url you want.

https://www.invisible-computers.com/programmable-e-paper-scr...

This means you’re completely free in designing your layout.

There is also a pre-configured calendar layout available that syncs with google calendar.
Wait, what? You are still at the same company as 6 years ago? I thought 2 years is the longest HN users stay with a company.
I don't want anybody between me and the website to be able to read/monitor the stuff I read.
I wish there were more two way sync tools so we could choose what ever tool worked at the time
And the original research article (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn2600) and comment (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo4627) on Science
You forgot, foone isn't going to change from streams of Twitter posts to long form blogging.
Prepending
Pedestrians and cyclists have right-of-way over cars in the US, too. It's not "climate hysteria," it's to prevent brains from getting spilled on pavement.

If you can kill someone by not stopping, you're ordered to yield for the person you might kill.
You can do your bit by bringing all the items to the checkout, ask the price of them all, swap half of the “too expensive” ones. Then repeat. Until finally you have purchased what you want while driving them crazy.
The bahn mi places along Larkin were good, I miss Brenda's, and I'd gotten to the point where the lady at the nearest laundromat remembered my name.

People shit-talk the Tenderloin a lot but it wasn't that bad to live in for a single male with no kids, even at night.
This topic inspired my co-founder and I to build dbsupervisor.com as a tool to monitor database health, and offer opinionated suggestions to improve product uptime and performance.

As others have pointed out, traditional DBA roles are fading away due to cloud offerings abstracting many of the problems DBA’s would otherwise be responsible for. Hardware is cheaper and more available which means that companies throw more RAM/CPU at their problems, whilst areas like index planning, performance tuning, query optimisation, and resource monitoring take a back seat. In our experience, this eventually catches up to you in the form of poor performance and unhappy customers.

We believe that tech can augment most of the insights offered by a traditional DBA and help avoid these pains early on, especially for smaller teams with limited database expertise. We’re currently in private beta, but will be opening up more broadly in the coming weeks. We’d love to get your feedback on our approach - sign up for the beta or AMA if you have any questions!
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Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31309729.

Managing databases has always been one of the most fun things for me, optimising queries, finding inefficiencies, figuring out how to squeeze more performance out of the DB servers.

But most of it has come from just trying whatever I can think of, and I'm sure I'm missing some fundamentals or more advanced techniques, so I figured I'd ask y'all for guidance.
I appreciate your point but it’s important we (being people working in technology) never accept or justify this behaviour. If a job is too stressful, quit. There’s no justification for talented, well-paid technologists to stay in a job that triggers them and harm those around them.
> IP addresses are only one minor tracking mechanism out of many which defeat obscuring originating IP by means of VPN altogether (canvas fingerprint, cookies, font/screen tracking, etc.)

I agree. This is why I said "useful starting point". A user looking for browsing privacy needs to do more than just use a VPN or Tor. Obscuring your IP address somehow is necessary but not sufficient. This is what I meant.

Category: [Misunderstanding]

> You're trying to say if I use a VPN, I get privacy because websites don't know my IP, but this isn't even remotely accurate.

No, I said it's a "useful starting point". I did not say it's sufficient. I could have been more clear, but I was in a hurry when I wrote it.

Category: [Misunderstanding]

> Do you explain this anywhere in your marketing materials?

We do! On our landing page you are met with this:

"... a ... VPN is a good first step toward reclaiming [your right to privacy]."

Right below is a button ("What is a VPN?"), which leads to a page containing a header ("How a VPN protects your privacy"), which explains further:

"Using a VPN is a great first step toward protecting your privacy, but it's not the ultimate solution (we wish it was!). However, it's easy to improve your privacy ninja skills."

The quote above links to a guide explaining what is necessary to protect your browsing privacy: https://mullvad.net/en/help/first-steps-towards-online-priva...

Category: [Question]

With this reply I believe I have shown you that we (Mullvad) do "reason about this in a transparent and objective way", both on your website, and with people giving us feedback.

As an aside I think IVPN's approach might be more to your liking, but nevertheless none of your stated concerns apply to us. As I've shown above they came down to two misunderstandings and a question.

If you have any other concerns I'd love to hear them. I appreciate your feedback. If we only spoke with people who gave us positive feedback we wouldn't improve as much.
I'm not suggesting a change in diet at all, I'll continue to be omnivore as will my kids. This will lead to catastrophe but that's life.
I wonder if the parent was being sarcastic. I could never remember where the dots went; I suspect I wasn't the only one, and that was probably why they end up changing to delicious.com.
You keep mentioning localized EU/UK bank transfer fees when my original post that triggered this discussion is referring to international payment processor APIs (Stripe, PayPal) and the web that builds on top of them (Ko-Fi, Etsy, Bandcamp, Kickstarter, Patreon, Shopify).