skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I know of several companies that have said they will sell the business to a local entity, but keep the options open to come back when the situation changes.

Probably whatever oligarch buys it will buy it for cheap and will cash in big time when McDonald's buys it back, so a big cash flow to supporters of the regime...
This approach involves a high degree of risk, i.e. your bus factor is 1:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
I just summarized what I read elsewhere. I have never seen one in real life.

It does look good in the comparison you linked. It is being backlit though, while the E-ink is not. Maybe the mentioned blandness is more of a problem when used fully passively.

It seemed to have been a good competitor regardless, and it's sad that it got mothballed.
Carton design, or not, I don't buy orange juice anymore because I don't know what "Made from Real Oranges*" means anymore. Over time, I came to learn that straightforward claims like these are engineered to deceive. Tropicana could use 100% real oranges, and I still wouldn't believe them.

I could inspect the ingredients, and even then, it's dubious- companies have found ways to circumvent the rules there too. Instead of all this mental gymnastics I have to do at the grocery store, I just decided to abandon the product completely.
I have one of the other top comments where I argue that PoW is fundamentally unsustainable, and I assure you I did read the article.

What the article is saying is that standard accounting practices might obfuscate miners true profitability over the lifetime of depreciable hardware. My argument is basically that, as I believe PoW is guaranteed to be unsustainable in the long run, all of the miners who are eventually left "holding the bag" when the music stops (and by holding the bag I mean have invested millions in mining equipment that is suddenly worthless) will be unprofitable at that point.

To argue it somewhat differently: systems like Ethereum have essentially come to the same conclusion I have, and will be phasing mining out altogether for PoS. The reason Bitcoin isn't doing that is because miners have considerable more power over the direction of the protocol. Which might be fine if PoW we're long-term sustainable, but it's not.
I love this so much. I’m going to try it.
I'm disappointed that Search My Site isn't seeing many legitimate viewers.

Just wanted you to know that I'm a fan. I love reading peoples personal websites, and Search My Site has been great for discoverability. I visit the Newest Pages and Browse Sites pages once or twice a week to check out the new sites being indexed.

I don't know what the answer is to the spam bots, but you do have some real visitors out there. :)
I think this is a little of column A and a little of column B. Just as there are good and bad developers, there are people who are good and bad at running projects and organizations. The author feels that something is wrong. He knows he is not working anywhere near his full capacity and that the organization created this environment. He also highlights a lack of growth opportunities at some companies. What he doesn't do is highlight solutions or recognize why certain behaviors are key in certain environments.

Toward that end, I would recommend three old and poorly written books with timeless and wonderful ideas: The Goal, Critical Chain, and Managing Corporate Lifecycles.

While these books are all about management and running a company, I think they lend perspective to developers on why certain things happen the way they do. They can also help someone recognize and pick a healthy organization to work in. Just like books on software development, these books augment experience, they don't replace the need for it.
Yepstat a status line for your terminal
This isn't indexing by search engine spiders, which are usually fairly benign and easy to identify with user agent etc. This is searches for "scraping footprints" executed en mass by "SEO proxy farms", which are designed to be very difficult to detect (e.g. originating from globally distributed residential IPs, quite possibly ordinary home user's machines which have been compromised). The main giveaway that something is a "scraping footprint" is the long search query which includes text that would appear on a template, e.g. ""This website is proudly using the open source classifieds software OSClass" rega turntables", for someone looking for OSClass-powered pages they could "search engine optimise" for the query "rega turntables".
I know there was a Russian restaurant franchise that had started buying, or least committed to buy, a bunch of locations of different Western chains.
I agree 100%, though I am interested in chains which are doing "Proof of useful work". I haven't looked into it too much, but I believe Banano participants run folding@home (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40home) to secure their network.

This seems like it could be an alternative to classical proof of work that at the very least, isn't actively harmful to society. But I'm unsure if it offers the same security guarantees.
I don't think smartphone manufacturers are incentivized to put better, cooler sensors into them; unless those sensors can be used to better spy on you, which I don't think a spectrometer can be.
Most of the data you can collect with Plausible could just be collected server side instead, it's nothing like Google Analytics.
That's entirely the point. A NOR gate is functionally complete: you can build any logic gate out of just NOR gates.
As an historical analysis this seems about right. History is not what will determine who controls a multi-party system, however. Those miners need the full nodes, and the full nodes need the miners. BC users (buyer, sellers, transactors) need both, and both miners and full nodes are worthless without a strong user base. Since there is no centralized, legally or regulatorily established governance mechanism for the whole, who controls BC will be determined by game theory applied to the real circumstances of the various stakeholder groups, and how they behave as groups. I don't know how that turns out, but it is not hard to imagine a scenario where, with mining concentrated in a small number of powerful players' hands, they can have enough authority to change the rules of the game.

And that still leaves out the possibility that regulators get involved and exert their authority to change the rules - which may be the most likely outcome of all.
One interesting option to look for is https://volument.com — which focuses on insights
Conky Alternative
Purely anecdotally, but it seemed like the majority of the students in my college classes, American or not, were probably more interested in the money than passionate
Why We Depend on Rails for Many Projects
FAA revokes Pilot Certificates for Red Bull plane swap stunt
How to build a wormhole in just 3 (nearly impossible) steps
But we are already down timing 30% of the time, doing nothing useful!
A penniless immigrant built an empire and toppled governments
Germany's upside down railway: The Wuppertal Schwebebahn
And you can count all the Apollo (and other 3rd party clients) users out lol, myself included
That's true, the points are not invalid. Some of them aren't even coherent.
I am old sysadmin and understand your motivation. Technical people want to control their environment by having full control of their stack (which the cloud doesn't give you). Those paying the bills see you as the big cost and want to avoid over reliance on an individual/s.

If you aren't paying the bills use Azure. I do pay the bills for my product and use Hetzner.
In most companies those 10 managers are not a team, unfortunately. It's more like there's a "top" manager who has 10 separate sub managers of 10 teams. But those sub managers are mostly independent. At least that's how it is in most places, communication between middle managers goes up and down, not sideways.

What I'm talking about is different, it's not just 10 managers that "have to talk", it's 10 managers in the same team with the same goal. They just happen to each coordinate another 10 person team. I haven't really seen that done anywhere, but I've seen some chair shuffling that approximated it. Would love to see it taken to the logical conclusion.
Why are you developing on cloud vms? Those should be on local dev boxes rather than in the cloud.

Also, you can use vms from other vendors. You don't have to go full dedicated.

You have two small prod servers. Yes, other cloud services would be cheaper but it's probably not worth the migration time. Stepping on dollars to pick up pennies.
They don't design PCB's completely themselves. Usually these designs are created with the actual manufacturer, which don't allow open sourcing of their designs.

Framework is not perfect, but they come way closer than other companies. Not even companies like System76, which are open source focused, are able to go that far (they use Clevos with Intel ME largely disabled).
In the context of the Twitter transaction, the purchase agreement was already made.
Thank you. Took a lot of inspiration from both the Tailwind and Laravel docs.
To me it looks like some popular spamming software (like thebestspinner, etc) just integrated you and now everyone who is the software is now hitting your site.

The good news in this case is that's it'll be easy to spot the pattern and block it, the bad news is you're entering a never-ending cat and mouse game.
This matches my findings 100%. The WWW is active and bubbling, but virtually all the cool websites I've found in the last 10 years or so came through friends, small IRC channels, or more recently through marginalia.nu :-). Google and friends are facilitators for the SEO and tracking industries, so of course they have zero interest to prioritize these things over content spam -- their whole business runs on content spam. But the WWW is as alive as it gets.
I'm not sure who downvoted you. It is a good question. McDonald's and other consumer goods type companies are not sanctioned, so the company can sell its assets. For that matter they could continue to operate as normal in Russia if they choose.
when I grow up, I want to be a dev like you lol
And the cycle will reboot itself again.

The silos we have nowadays were there before the Internet took off, on BBS, Compuserve, Geocities, ....

Apparently the majority of regular humans likes to have centralized providers they can reach out to, instead of the freadom of decentralized content.
Of course not. I trust core Wordpress and a small set of vetted plugins far more than a very new CMS.

The trick is to restrict yourself when it comes to plugins.
At least it's only one hour and not a "3 hour take home tests with REST APIs, microservices, containers, NoSQL database, documentation and unit tests", that actually takes a full weekend to a whole week to complete to spec.
Never heard of it.

Edit: I did hear some McD locations got 're-branded'. I'm not sure whether those were the franchised restaurants that turned or someone actually expropriated McDonalds' assets.
Like Starlink?
Going through similar, and waking up to the 15 seconds of blissful ignorance followed by devastating clarity is the worst part in many ways.
Ask HN: Recommended Shell and Extensions?
I'm interested to know what shells and extensions people are using.

I am currently using ZSH + oh-my-zsh + powerlevel10k + random oh-my-zsh extensio. It is a pretty great combination but I am curious as to what other options are out there.
> To make matters worse, in the pursuit of "green" policies, the government mandated better insulation for new build houses. Which is fine for most of the year. Except the "summer" now starts at the end of May and finishes in early October, and then insides of these new houses and flats can be over 30C, even at night.

The insulation used here in Scandinavia helps keep the indoor temperature lower in the summer as well, what are you doing differently in the UK?
Private messages (like email) or chat messages?

If chat, mind sharing a little on the use scenario? XD

Edit: must be chat messages as Apollo supports PM (Apollo gang myself)
> requiring a large budget to constantly clean them

It's not unfathomable that a cheap, automated method of doing this could be developed.
I think this is a tad reductive, but I will say that we sure let a lot of big companies convince a huge portion of the population to create all of their content on platforms that they have no real control over.

The problem is, many of them didn’t realize this was a problem until recently.

That said, plenty of exciting stuff is happening outside of the walled garden, as long as you know how to find it.
Nah, actually probably perfectly obedient communist supercitizens, casually outcompeting the primitive individualistic westerner too concerned with ethics.
What makes telegram security focused?
Bad Times Are Coming for Startups
The big siloed websites are just indexes of fresh content though.

With a generic way to place comments on it.
It is unfortunate we have lost the concept of a "learned" person.

I notice this reading about Voltaire and how often he is referred to as a
"learned" person.

Instead it seems like we just so accept the brain is literally a type of computer that we just haven't figured out the architecture for yet. The storage part is completely trivial like a hard drive so the idea of a "learned" person is equally trivial.
I don't think McDonalds & Co are such a big health-negative in other countries as it is in the US. I've never met someone who's obese from eating Maccas in Sweden, they're obese because they eat more calories than they burn.

Calling a food unhealty is quite silly to me, anything is unhealty if you consume it in unhealty amounts.

The above statements obviously exclude things like cyanide and other things designed to kill humans, I'd call them lethal.
At least in the US as long as every transaction is a taxable event what's the point.
> the United States has begun to survey supply relationships.

China has ordered a 'stress-test' on its economy[1] in case of Russia type sanctions, Which I assume would also uncover similar data about weak links in finance and supply chains.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/beijing-orders...
Agreed, I’ve also done the take-home multi-hour, take a weekend ones. Worse from a time consumption perspective.

However - Something about the panopticon recorded timed test thing feels a little big brother to me.
The refresh rate is improved on screens like the box Mira and dasung notereader, but is definitely still slower than an lcd and will have ghosting/other effects.
This is a surprisingly well-written, engaging corporate statement. Most statements are pretty bland and purely to the point but after reading this I thought I was reading news coverage of their exit not their own statement.
> You people need to get some self-respect and stop working for free.

"You people" need to unionize. That's the only way you get some negotiating power. Alas, that won't happen until tech workers (and white collar workers in general) realize they're workers and not capital owners. We're closer to really well paid plumbers than to Bezos & co.
Sorry im new to design and not familiar with the acronyms. What does IA mean in this context?
If the internet is dead, is there anything left that's "alive"? The mobile app stores are also filled with crap[0] and it seems that the ratio of spam content vs real content is getting close to infinity.

[0]: https://youtu.be/E8Lhqri8tZk - 1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
Regarding dedicated dev VMs: You might be able to save a few dollars if the developers can run their VMs locally on their dev machine, e.g. with docker or docker-compose. Downside: Maybe not equivalent to production environment; creating the setup costs time (salary).

Regarding production VMs: How much do you expect to save by moving to self-managing everything? I’d expect a few dollars saved for the hardware, but a huge amount of time spent setting everything up and documenting it properly. Net loss.

Let me tell you, I host a B2B app on Hetzner because I cannot use typical cloud providers due to GDPR, and I hate it. So much fiddling around to get everything working and I still don’t have high availability because I don’t have the expertise in that area. It’s a huge time sink and takes significant time away from actual development.

Conclusion: Use your time and money wisely. Do what speeds up adding value to the business. Saving a few pennies but missing out on growth and recurring revenue is a bad deal.
> Obviously they'd want to keep the trademark, otherwise they have no way to prevent those sold restaurants from "re-Arching" after the "de-Arching" :)

If a country has gone sufficiently rogue to invade a neighbour, respect for property[0][1] - and by extension trademarks - appears to matter very little, at least for now?

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/16/business/russia-aircraft-...
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/61357256
These are really not designed for ergonomics. They are obviously much worse than a phone on your neck and back.

Cyberdecks are craft objects, made for show, like many mechanical keyboards.
> Russia is a large economy that any global company would want to be a part of

When companies jump the ship this soon, makes you wonder how big of an economy Russia actually is.
Main failure is, it converted a well known brand and box image to a generic one. There are at least 10 of them at a given time at the supermarket. Brand recognition is a time saver for the consumer to minimize the search time.
This post felt like a deja vu, because I had read this earlier back in Nov 2017 :). The HN mods should add the 2017 year to the title. That said, for people who haven't read this post earlier, this post shares some great tips! I like the one about deferring packages using `use-package`.

Because this is an old post, references like Spacemacs are now quite dated. Folks prefer Doom Emacs nowadays (though I don't use either of them).
Here's something I learned.

Yes working in big tech or a big company can have its fair share of red tape.

You can either accept this and work as a cog in the system, or you can start to poke the sleeping bear.

When you're overburdened with more meetings than time to do the work you talk about in those meetings, that's really on you, not the group of humans we call a company.

If your boss starts to attach your performance towards meetings, then maybe its time for you to have that conversation about how nothing is getting done and that by not accepting meetings is how you do get stuff done. It's all about balance at the end of the day. Most people are reasonable and will listen.

So while big companies may never change in practice, you can change how you work in a big company and see tremendous results by just saying "No" every so often. Most of the time nobody notices or cares, and when they do they respect you for protecting your time to do meaningful work.
Consent Mode and Google Analytics 4
I guess the Cantrill talk you are referring to must be 'Software as a reflection of values' from 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZ1pCpJUIM&t=128s
I would be suspicious of any orange juice where the company feels the need to stipulate "real orange juice". What the heck else would it be made of?

Reminds me of "ice cream" which, in a lot of cases, is not. Mixed in the ice cream section next to identical looking cartons of different flavors Breuer's is a big culprit) are things that say "whipped dairy dessert" in the place that others say "ice cream".
Oh yeah the original direct messages work fine in the Apollo app, specifically I got not notice from this part (the middle chat speech bubble icon)

https://img.imgy.org/DvdX.png

My use case scenario was visiting desktop reddit and going "the hell is this?" and seeing a bunch of spam and two messages that I could probably do with responding to, haha
At many big companies there is plenty of room for those types of people. They just need to be put in a role where their customer is another developer. They can see things from the developer perspective and can be plenty successful working on things that are not public facing.
+1 to this.

If you're concerned about operational and cost efficiency, keep a thought in the back of your mind that one day your scale would need you to host things yourself. Your design choices should work with you at that point rather than lock you in some proprietary platform. But, the key is to get to the point where that becomes a problem. That day is not today. Azure VMs, AWS something whatever, get to your product features and get yourself to a spot where you need to worry about scaling and the savings it would bring.
https://penpot.app/about.html is an open source competitor to figma. I'm not a designer so I cannot speak to how good it is.

It was built to scratch the itch of the company Kaleidos.
IndieAuth – OAuth for the Open Web
"Consensus about any topic is impossible because political speech has become more polarized"
>Often there's also some IQ test and other nonsense stages

I actually support IQ tests and the likes, but it's the way that all these companies are doing this which sticks out. All of them somehow have their own flavor and keep the information to themselves (or to the company which they outsource their shenanigans to). It would be so much more efficient if we had an employee-centric approach where employees could provide access to this information, with verification, and it was up to the employee to give employers information on their current status and growth. You want the data? There you go, verified, now move on to stage 5 and no dawdling.

If you're going to toss out CVs, portfolios, certificates, diplomas, that's one thing (why again are we doing this?). If you're also going to give us all different kinds of "here's this whacky syntax no one uses" questions along with the umpteenth "IQ test" because god forbid we shorten the process, you're not suffering from a labor shortage. You're suffering from being a pretty princess too afraid to take a risk.
But as long as it’s a percentage it shouldn’t matter if it’s a micro or macro transaction

Edit: my mistake was assuming any taxes are simple, see here for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31389210
Or the tern "chattel slavery".
That's true, but abandoning them will be a guarantee they won't be respected. At least there is some leverage and the ability to wage a lawsuit. But I agree there is little chance it will succeed.
We can consume more. We just have to get energy from things other than fossil carbon.

IMHO a big problem with this debate is the austerity framing. Austerity is a political loser. Always has been, always will be. Frame something as requiring austerity and it's guaranteed to fail. It's not necessary either. Nuclear and renewable energy can power modern society and then some.
Very interesting viewpoint.
I really wish more of these PaaS solutions would offer UK regions - it's a big issue for us compliance-wise and means we can't use a lot of them. Render.com seems to be one solution - and we're currently using Cloud66 with our own AWS instances as a solution, although I would prefer something lower-effort, like Heroku has historically been.
Meetup is alive, but it is more or less as you say, the groups has cost (normally the people from a group paid together).

There is a free software alternatives (but I don't know if there are good servers with a lot of people and groups running): https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives
Immediately thought of Powder Game, and it turns out that it's one of the main inspirations indeed (according to the info box)!

https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/

I spent so many hours in that game. It also had ways to publish your creations, and people created anything from multiplayer coop games to entire ALUs in it. Good times, and thanks for linking the remake!
Is this private class fields with a different syntax?
Apologies, just scrolled down and read some other comments. Means Information Architecture