skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is kinda shaky, because everyone and his brother suddenly realized Stalin was not angel in WWII due to Russian latest invasion.

But generally, among other things, it would be hard to impossible to find enough completely clean Germans after war. That country was thoroughly ideologized and engaged in very violent systematic opposition suppression for over a decade. For starts, and the myth of clean Wehrmacht is exactly that - myth. It was not as elite as SS, but ethnical cleansing was part of their mandate. (That includes both Holocaust with camps and all and campaigns against non-Jewish ethicities.)

Russians were originally blaming everyone who did not took arms against Nazi as cooperators. Initially, if you was not partisan you was enemy. Germany had no partisans. They also distrusted own captured people cause those were supposedly under German influence or allowed themselves to be captured. Any German man over 14 was supposed to be member of some fighting unit by law by the end of the war. (Badly armed and incapable of fight, but still)
agile is fine.

The problem is the brand has been captured by consultants selling something that doesn't jive with the original ethos.

You were supposed to talk to the customers. Now you have dedicated POs that determine what the team will work on, but they're also too junior to talk to the customers. It's okay though, you have dedicated PMs that'll talk to the customers, right? Only they're typically to busy pushing a personal agenda to climb the corporate ladder to actually care.

It's cool though, we're agile so we can just change the process? Nah, there's now there's extremely prescriptive processes. Heaven forbid you don't find the hour long retrospectives, that you can't action anything from, useful.

So basically it boils down to the daily status report which ensures you a) show up on time and b) report on your commitments, and generally being forced to overcommit by committe on really short deadlines, so you can be pressured to work free overtime because apparently its your commitment?

Of course, not everyone abuses agile like this. But they don't typically advertise, sell, or even really talk about agile all that much.
The backend is written in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgresQL, GraphQL and hosted on Heroku.

The frontend is React.js, TypeScript and Airtable's Blocks SDK.
If Apple is playing 4D chess with China, we don't know what moves are possible at this time. This may have been the only acceptable move at this time.
From the article:

"Modelling of dragonfly flight, energy reserves and wind speeds in the Indian Ocean have suggested that Pantala flavescens performs the longest known non-stop migration compared to body size in the animal kingdom. Specifically the theorised migratory route from Male, Maldives to Kap Hafun, Somalia, is >2500 km long and constitutes travelling 50.7 million body lengths of the dragonfly without any possibility of stopping to rest."

Amazing.
I second Vivaldi. The people I know who tried it never went back.
Can't wait for people pairing their ipods to a friend phone ...

If the police can't be bothered to track a device even when possible I doubt an automatic reporting would encourage them.
>> In the American-dominated West, as in the Soviet-dominated East, the intelligence services recruited experienced and well-informed ex-Nazi operatives. The US authorities even spirited Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon”, to South America, where he lived as a businessman until his extradition to France in 1987 to face trial for war crimes. In relation to Germany’s Nazi past the Cold War between the communist East and the capitalist West changed everything. Forgetting, for political purposes, became the order of the day.

Yep, this is pretty much true. In the West, ex-Nazis could claim that they have fought the right enemy in the East and that all the ware crimes have been conducted by the SS (myth of the clean Wehrmacht). That narrative was at least accepted if not supported by the Western Allies. The Barbie affaire was a travesty.

The funny thing about this, so, is that the BND, Germany's secret service, started as Organisation Gehlen. Gehlen used to work for Fremde Heere Ost at the Abwehr (Nazi germany's military intelligence's department specialized at the USSR). That organization had more plunders and intel fuck ups at the eastern front than the CIA in the war on terror and Vietnam combined (including the retreat from Afghanistan). Just why anyone would trust someone with this track record with doing the same job again is beyond me. In that light, using GESTAPO experienced operatives to kick-start the Stasi was actually a pretty smart move.

The biggest mistake after WW2, and yes that was mostly due to the looming cold war, was the botched de-nazfication. All the records were there, so it was quite easy to identify those ordering, enabling and conducting the Holocaust of Bullets and in the extermination camps. The SS kept detailed records for there slave labor services, so easy to figure out who and which companies profited from that. None of those records were used, instead everyone waited until the responsible people died of old age. Then a renewed drive to prosecute the camp guards and secretaries started, once those people were in their late 80s. Before that ex Nazi-judges hanging deserters in the last days of the war became, e.g. Prime Ministers (Fillbinger) and are respected people in the CDU / CSU and conservative circles to this very day.

As a side note, neither the Wehrmacht nor the NVA are part of the official lineage of the current German armed forces. For me, that is a missed opportunity. Having a history in enabling a war of extermination and two oppressive regimes is such a strong basis to build a truly democratic and human rights supporting organisation. Instead, the German army has constant issues with people supporting, of all things, the SS. And yes, some officers have more problems with Anti-fascists then they have with proto-nazis. Another effect from the cold war I guess.
>Needed for many other things. CPAP machines is one.

As a long time CPAP user, I'm fine with prescription requirements for the machines themselves.

What really annoys me is that accessories (like masks) also require a prescription.

Which is ridiculous on its face.
The reality is that as soon as one of your customers has a date as a deadline, everything crystalises behind that into a series of deadlines and hence into waterfall.

No real engineering team exists in a vacuum, so more often than not, all Agile processes degrade into waterfall.

If you're lucky and you live in a pure software world with no 3rd parties imposing deadline dates on you, great.
In my experience, those worlds are few and far between.
I have brought up talking, like picking up the phone and saying hi, at every workplace I have ever been. The response has always been hilarious, after they also think it is “such a great idea.”

- we have sales for that

- we should see if we can get a special team for this

- let’s just email everyone a survey

From my personal Azure account, Microsoft has called me a handful of times, with a product manager and engineer on the call, just to ask about some random feature I’ve used recently. (Who I stole the idea from, btw)

Every single time, I’ve learned something that I didn’t know to look for, and they learned what my usecase was, my hardships, etc. It was a good experience for both parties. It may take awhile, but seeing some of the issues you had be resolved is also satisfying as a customer.

I’ve built small products, worked for startups etc. I get the feeling that most devs are terrified to actually talk to the customers they build for. I’m not, because of my background, but most devs don’t have that background.
In Denmark it's not unusual for company credit cards to be charged extra, and foreign credit cards to be charged even more.

(Before 2018, it could also apply to personal credit cards. It seems a step backwards to exempt them, as the national sysetem, Dankort, has much (much!) lower merchant fees, but now there's no incentive for people to prefer it to Visa/MasterCard.)

Legoland example: https://servicecenter.legoland.dk/hc/en-us/articles/20258981...
> Not sure if it is the default, but my Firefox bookmark bar is always visible

you can set it to show/hide, but also to "Only show on new tab" which I use. That way I don't lose screen space, but and CMD+T (Ctrl+T on non-mac) will show my most important bookmarks in the bar right away.
For the next on we need something that uses the terms "back-propagation" (blah ... self-correcting planning ... blah) and "blockchain" (blah ... ensures to meet estimates ... blah).
Link to product or website?
A dynamically typed Lisp has virtually nothing in common with Rust. A cached heap can benefit literally any language which is why it's an optimization found in some programs written in C or C++ as well.

Also, Rust binaries have been of comparable size in the past. Check out this question where someone asks why Hello World is 3mb even in release mode:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29008127/why-are-rust-ex...

This 3mb doesn't have any cached heap, doesn't have any garbage collector, doesn't have support for high quality exceptions and doesn't have much in the way of a cross platform abstraction, whereas the Clojure-as-native binary has all of those and more.

There's a giant pile of things you can do here to try and reduce Rust's binary size:

https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

... but as you can see, it's a lot of work.

Rust gets great press and HN is flooded with "let's do it in Rust" type comments. But I think sometimes we need a reality check. Rust is an extremely different language to most others, even C. The combination of the borrow checker+everything async is not obviously better than everything else, not even in the low level domains even though Rust is deservedly picking up loyal users there. The moment you care about development speed i.e. for the sort of apps Clojure was designed for, you're going to be better off with a GC and a strong runtime that abstracts the platform well.
Governments should not just fund drug and vaccine research. They should employ most of the researchers and own most of the labs. Problem solved. Give a hundred billion to vaccine research and then release it to the public with a mandated price - job complete.
It's one theory among many. The flip side is that autoimmune diseases are often triggered by pathogens (MS from EBV, diabetes from HEV, and more). Air travel and urbanization help pathogens spread. My understanding is that it's not yet clear which are beneficial and which are harmful, but there's ongoing research.
> My hearing is fine but I have some brain thing that make it hard to understand voices in a crowd. My hearing is tested to be plenty sensitive.

You may have ADP/KKS:

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

Learning about this helped me immensely deal with my own struggles of hearing voices with background noise.
I had a large project for a new client a while ago; they had 50 devs and I was managing work of 20. They kept saying I did not understand what agile is; this way they have no control! They said. So they started more and more micromanaging this already waterfall project which they didn’t understand; daily ‘standups’ that took a lot of time and which were used to embarrass individuals who missed their estimates they put yesterday, pull tasks apart into minute subtasks and estimate them and hand out fines for people who missed their targets. Needless to say everyone was really stressed, they hated these ‘managers’ who were supposed to be on equal footing with me but were not. No one was project managing anything; the dude meant to be the PM went in such detail about useless product things that he didn’t have time to manage anything. All along this was hailed as a perfect agile project. Of course the project was fixed price, fixed deadline and fixed feature set (but no one told me that; I was hired as a freelance tech lead to make sure things were implemented properly as I worked in that field for ages).

Needless to say things didn’t go as planned and I was let go for not being a team player. The project is still not live years later and all people we worked with were fired and replaced several times as well except the ‘managers’.
Firstly it’s not coping. Secondly it’s only odd if you have a profound mis-understanding of the situation.

When I read removing fundamental woman's rights I thought you were talking about the Roe vs. Wade overturn.

Maybe them catching up to the 21st century should start with .. let’s stop malicious foreign intervention, so they have a chance.
Pedantry: the only exception I could think of is a timer (delay, alarm clock), where the output is when, not what. sleep 10

Yes, information technology is for processing information.

Any transformation can be decomposed into lossy and lossless components (aka bijectve and non-bijective; reversible and non-reversible). The nice thing is that the lossless component can be automatically checked for that property.
I can heartily recommend anyone who thinks they dislike cycling to watch Not Just Bikes on youtube[0]. Most of the problem is the city you live in, not the concept of cycling.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0
You're almost right!

You're not alone. I am with you.

To add to your little annoyances, I'd add one as well – categorizing the bookmarks.

Even if I end up bookmarking a site, I find it hard to organize it nicely in a place that I can go to later on.

I'd love to put some hashtags on bookmarks to search for later.

Just me?
Thank you, but that's not what I meant. I don't want to open all bookmarks. I want to list them in HTML, like the front page of this very site.

Actually that was how Firefox used to export bookmarks, as one HTML page with clickable links.

Edit: I've just checked and Firefox still can export the whole bookmarks collection. What I would love is the option to export just a folder, not the entire database.

Edit2: Now, if I just want to export a folder, I must export the whole thing, open the result in a text editor and paste the html in some of my "launcher pages".
It is not wrong to consider it, but it's really important to make sure expectations are set well. "Friends and family" investment is not the same as professional investment. That means they'll actually care about the money and the business and you may burn relationships on a failed business you took money for. Professional investors don't really care, and if your business dies, they move on easily enough as long as you didn't cheat them.
I’m sorry but I can’t state this any more plainly without this turning into a lecture. It is basic evolutionary biology, in as much as gravity keeps your feet attached to the ground. It is not an appeal to authority, it is simply a statement of fact and an underlying premise of a complex field. You seem like the sort of person who likes doing your own research - I’ve given you the key to the door now you just have to walk through it
> And if the user is wanting to visit something like Ford.com, Google can charge Ford millions over time to be the first result, pitting them in a bidding war against Chevy for the top result (with tiny ad disclaimer) for a search for "Ford".

That’s not how it works. If you own the website Ford.com, Google won’t charge you millions to bid on the keyword "Ford". They _will_ do it if you are Chevy and are bidding on Ford.
> You have to buy- and install third party applications from developers that you do not know or trust, and that is just to fix some of the most basic issues.

That's one of the biggest jokes on the Mac, indeed.

On Windows it's not much different besides one detail: You also need a shitload of tools and gadgets only to make basic things usable. But at least those tools are mostly free (like in beer) or even OpenSource. On the Mac instead you have to pay ridiculous amounts of money only to get some basic options (like for example, I think it was ~30 bucks, only to be able to configure the acceleration of the mouse cursor).

The usability on the Mac is very broken, but people knowing how to "milk" other people created a whole market for laughable expensive apps out of it only to fix the most annoying things. That's just sooo ridiculous! I personally have no clue why people are buying this kind of stuff. It's like they want to be treated like -peep-. Imho the "jokes" about Stockholm syndrome victims are no jokes any more. That's bitter reality.

BTW:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religio...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276887293_iReligion...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233647272_The_Cult_...

https://www.itproportal.com/2015/08/13/the-religion-of-apple...

By now it's a quite irrefutable scientific fact that hardcore Apple users are brainwashed sect members.

Should be obvious anyway. Just look how they behave and what they keep saying when confronted with critique…
A tool for viewing and automatically grading Flexible Image Transport System
If anything, it shows that Rec Room has always had really good art direction and whoever did the UX is a genius.

Back when I was active in it (many years ago) I remember seeing them eager to drop the typical UI approaches for stuff that just makes more sense:

- Buttons in menus are actual buttons that you physically press down, instead of touch-sensitive rounded boxes

- You literally pick stuff out from your flat inventory

- You can interact with people with gestures (handshake to add friend, fist bump to join party)

I feel other games (Meta, but also VRChat and Neos and Chillout etc!) are too "stuck" on what the computer world feels like to understand what VR allows them to do… or maybe they're just lazy.
But this wasn't a PDF, it was a program that users were opening (maybe a program disguised to look like a PDF), so that wouldn't have helped here.
If you’re profitable at a small scale there’s always room for you. If you have rich friends you can get seed money that way. But VCs are looking for the big bucks.
The point about OpenAI stealing content created by others is even more apparent if you use their GPT-3 text models - with the right prompts, it will sometimes spit out the exact source text verbatim.
Oh I see :D
Vertical space is still at a premium because most laptops use the obnoxious 16:9 aspect ratio. That’s why I keep my tabs on the right in Vivaldi.
Outside of your job I would agree.

But if you find it during your hours then there is probably a procedure defined by your employer so it's not just up to you.
> A person so deeply involved in CS and not having a computer???

I looked for a reference just now and couldn't find one. This mentions it:

> Dijkstra was famous for his general rejection of personal computers. Instead of typing papers out using a word processor, he printed everything in longhand.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49520/retrobituaries-eds...

> That's like saying being an expert cook but not wanting to taste food.

Oh ho! Don't let him hear you say that, eh? You'd get a scolding. He's the one who said, "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" and "Calling it computer science is like calling surgery knife science."

The analogy would be more like "an expert chef who refused to eat frozen dinners" maybe? :)
Too bad I really can't stand the UI / behavior
Something that most westerners may not know is that TikTok is apparently used a lot in Asia for shopping.

Basically you have a livestream of an "influencer" paid by the company that wants to sell some item and they are presenting it. You can ask questions, and ask them to demonstrate something specific that you want to know about.

Like the old infomercial TV programs but where the watcher can interact.

I assume this is the goal, not weird dances and cringe lip syncs.
It's not the first time the user making similar claims regarding Ukraine, such as [1] falsely claiming the country support nazi groups.

The claim of about 30% is inaccurate in the roots and Jonas Ohman words taken out of context [2]. Anyway, the investigation should be done but the commenter misleading everyone by trying to convert the theoretical 30% into $$$.

Additionally, the links that you provided in other comment misleading even more:
1. Providing a link from 2010 when Ukraine had a president Yanukovych and resulted in the maidan.
2. Survey with 25 responders.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30834924

[2] https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/08/09/taken-out-of-context-...
This seems like incomplete thinking to me. So they intend to raise total tax revenue by 1% by getting people to drink more. But won't all that drinking cause healthcare costs of an equal or larger amount?
Ye crowded useless meetings you don't pull are a breeze if you are WFH.
Introduction to NixOS Specialisations
Sure. I grew up extremely poor. I get it.

I just mean that even then, I knew some people who knew some people that had some money.
I use a 150 % scaling factor, so I guess 1440p?
>because you added a non-substantial comment when a click on the "upvote" button would have been sufficient.

I did click on the upvote button. But, since no-one else, apart from the original commenter, can see how many upvotes his/her comment gets, how does that help back up someone's suggestion?

I wouldn't normally post a simple "me too" or "+1" but, in this case, the original poster was asking for a recommendation. So I think, in these circumstances, it's justified [and less messy] to give a 'me too' to a suggestion you agree with, rather than [as many others have done] post a separate reply, recommending the same site.

>...it makes for boring discussion and just adds noise.

Yeah, we definitely don't want any noise here.

Scrolls though dozens of repeat submissions of the same story every day, hundreds of submissions of tweets as news stories, endless spammy posts for 'keto gummies' and the regular moronic opinions of Evon-fucking-Latrail [whoever the fuck he is!]
I don’t think “friends and family” means get your parents to bet their 401k on the startup. It means get your rich friends/uncle to give you money they’re willing to gamble.
> Viasat orbits at 22,000 miles, Starlink is in LEO. Precisely for this reason Starlink is naturally more resistant to jamming, and is used in Ukraine because of this.

Orbit height is incredibly and completely irrelevant to the ease of breaking into systems...
Singing might be good for yourself, but is very nasty for those who live around you and don't want to listen...

Please make sure to sing/play instruments from within an insulated location!
Sure. But it’s not obviously one or the other.
Meme Stonks, Doge Coins, and Elon Musk Joke Investments Are Mooning Again
LOL, nothing matters!
> Firefox has several extensions that do exactly this and don't sell your data.

Pocket is owned by Mozilla.
Ask HN: Dashboard for Redshift that can auto update every n seconds
We are currently using Tableau for visualization, where dashboards to need to manually be refreshed.

Our data is in Redshift/Postgres.

What visualization / dashboard are catering better to near-realtime updates?
Oooo SUBSTANCES. THERE MIGHT BE SUBSTANCESSSSSSS....

please stop with the weasel scare words.