skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read a medical research paper about the resurgence of some nasty parasitic disease in Israel with the breakdown by religious community[1]. Turns what? The stricter the dietary laws for the community were - the less infections occurred.

And we're talking about sheep here, which is similar in size to pig. There are might be a confounding variables here though, i.e. some communities are mostly urban, others are more rural ones. Or maybe sheep meat is less popular among less infected. Or maybe the animals were smuggled from the "West Bank" which is endemic, and veterinary control services are not strict there if existing at all.

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[1] they used 4 different religions there, but I won't name them in order to not offend anyone.
Yeah though those aren't true debit cards, at least not in the original sense. They're credit cards that work like debit cards that I mentioned now exist.

Actual debit cards are issued by banks and only have the much longer account number on them.
I'm an Australian immigrant living in Norway for the last 12 years.

The post is partially true. The parts about social cohesion are the partially true bit.

Norwegians are not that great at meeting new people outside of their established groups.. that's it.

Everything else in the post is not true in the slightest.
Tell that to my bank lol.
maybe that's true and we need to question whether development no matter what is in line with our values
> I don't think disgust is "innate".

Oh it is and what til you hear about couple more fears we didn't have to learn through experience:

> Examples of innate fear include fears that are triggered by
predators, pain, heights, rapidly approaching objects, and ancestral threats such as snakes and spiders. Animals and humans detect and respond more rapidly to threatening stimuli than to nonthreatening stimuli in the natural world.

Some adaptations are so worthwhile they get wired into our biology!

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32852735
this is sweet... thanks for the suggestion
Maybe we should differentiate the essence of programming from the essence of software development:

Software development, in my understanding, is about designing and implementing tools to solve particular (classes of) problems. Exactly what is being described in the article.

I think Programming in general is about writing instructions that (maybe not only) a computer can execute to produce (the desired) effects. These instructions may or may not involve input data and may produce side-effects along the way and may not even produce output data (although one could say that “nothing” itself is data similar to how we use 0 as a number).

I don’t think that we need a purpose for writing programs. We can program just about any nonsense and we don’t even have to ever execute it. I think “problem solving” is already too specific.

Even though it makes a lot of sense to think about programs as mathematical functions that transform data, underneath our abstractions are building instructions for the computer to execute and they tend to produce the desired output if we are doing it right and there are no interfering environmental circumstances.

A simple substitution of input data with output data would be the most primitive example, although it would be trivial. To produce non-trivial outputs, we need to replace the substitution with a (more complex) algorithm. Algorithms are tools that solve particular (classes of) problems. So here we are, doing software development, because we actually need a tool.
Except that might not be the reason why it's forbidden :
https://youtu.be/pI0ZUhBvIx4
I have yet to see the winter last 9 months. Typically starts in November and ends in March.

And nothing to do during the winter? Cozy up by the fireplace, pop a bottle of wine with a loved one. Read books. Make delicious food. Prepare for xmas, visit the various xmas markets, then there is new year which is a blast. And let's not forget the julebord-season during late November and first half of December!

January and February are dreary. I'll admit that.

Then there is winter vacation. You don't need to be a sportsman to enjoy pulling on a pair of cross county skis, head out with friends and family and create a nice campfire somewhere to grill hot dogs over. Don't forget the oranges and kvikklunch! Rent an airbnb somewhere with good access to either downhill slopes or cross-county trips. Spend the evening playing board games with friends, drinking and having it cozy by the fireplace again.

Late march / early April is springtime, and everyone is hungry for the sun. Easter arrives at some point. Again an excellent opportunity to go to some cottage and enjoy some time off.

But yeah, January and February are dreary.
I'm all in favor of accommodating trans people to live a happy and fulfilled life, but everything has limits.

If you define "real" as in: only a real man and a real woman can reproduce, then I guess there is your limit. That's not transphobic, that's reality.
Bootstrapple Builds
I used to many years ago bootstrap Kermit onto various assorted machines to get a working kermit and then import/export binary files via a serial cable. This takes the game to a whole new (and worthwhile) level and looks so much fun.
At least several types of locusts as I recall. It's been widely speculated that the dietary restrictions were really about parasites and other food safety concerns, but what's also famous is that they were quite legalistic about it. So if it was only permissible as desperation food, they would have said so... at length.

Either way, Jews and other middle eastern groups with picky dietary rules, do have a long tradition for eating it in non-desperate times too.

It's icky for us not used to it, but there's no reason to think parasites is a bigger issue with insects than with animals far more similar to us, which we do eat.

Remember this article is about pet food insects, often fed to pets raw (if not alive), and it notes some extremely unsanitary practices in pet shops that farm them, such as feeding them on the excrement of the type of creature they're fed to. It's not particularly relevant for insects considered for human consumption.
Like Hotel California
If you are a business and want to contribute to stabilising the grid (but don't have a Tesla power wall specifically, any device works!): I work at Leap (https://leap.energy) and we have virtual power plants in CA, TX, and NY.
If you are worried about that, then raise your own meat and stop complaining about "elites".

Too many people take the current consumption society for granted. It is not a human right.
A lot of why we have containers is to stop dependency hell, but having a stable platform to built on is another way to achieve that without containers at all.

Of course it seems like the other reason we use them is to bundle multiple services together, but I'm not exactly a microservice fan to begin with.

In any case, I don't see why we couldn't have an OS that makes debian packages into containers, sharing things that are needed by multiple containers as appropriate while allowing overrides.

Android apps have a pretty nice model. If Android were a bit more open and had a few modifications to better support that use case, it seems like Dart/Android would make a pretty nice backend, assuming the ecosystem was there.

Android proved the benefits of an extremely opinionated inside the box kind of system, making APKs run on Linux and Windows seems like it would have a ton of uses.
To be fair, a lot of software development is for inhouse, sometimes specialized, things. The tech side being the visionary there is potentially quite difficult without specialized knowledge (e.g., via some hybrid roles as seen in some industries).
I found Scrum’s iterative approach very beneficial. In every other project without it or some other bastardisation of “scrum” there was always a major fuck around with wrong priorities, and constant reacting to every manager. Theres no point taking on Scrum if you only think it means story points and standups. In any case, I ask what frameworks (that i can read about) have worked for all of you?
Impossible, caps lock should be mapped to ESC
> > edible insects may be the most important parasite vector for domestic insectivorous animals

> Bummer.

You quote this as a bummer, but even if we change the 'may be' to 'definately is' I don't see how this is unexpected?

'Domestic animals' avoid a lot of parasite vectors that wild animals face, and if you have a pet reptile that eats insects, then there's not that many other places for it to get parasites from.
Rus-Ukr war isnt a Proxy war between USA and Russia. Proxy war requires both parties to support XY forces from behind while here one of the "sides you mention" is active participant showing its own incompetence and destroying prospects of its most vibrant industries and second is Ukraine. Support of NATO for Ukraine is really really tiny in unbiased view.

Right now it is more of a economic war by EU with Russia. But triggered and forced by Russia. It is beyond real how badly Russia prepped this war, Russia doesnt even know what is the end goal. |

Go back to 20 of Feb 4 days before invasion and tell me WHAT IS THE REAL GOAL on Russian side ? IT feels like pre WW1 e-peen lets make a war because of "reasons" without any real goal.... but even at that time they had more realistic casus belli and any goal.
1) Because I don't want to, and 2) because my enemies want me to.
I've had Atlassian's bitbucket team reach out to me after I expressed frustration in a survey.

It was a manager and a developer on the call. They listened intently. I think the call lasted at least 30 minutes.

I think bitbucket improved a lot over the last few years. I like to think that practice of talking with users was a significant part of that.
I’m not a vet. I didn’t serve. But my perception as an ignorant plebian is that the fighting in Iraq was hard, but the fighting in Afghanistan was bitter. We pacified Iraq. Afghanistan hasn’t bowed to the will of the United Staes, the Soviet Union, or to anyone since or including Napoleon. Nobody wins a military victory in Afghanistan. The only hope is peace through economic compromise.
That seems to be one of the big reasons people move to Linux. It's definitely part of why I stay.

Debian based stuff is very good at not breaking.
Submitted to HN ~10 times in the past 6 1/2 years. Some of the older submissions have a fair amount of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mrsk.me
Where? this wouldn't work here in Sweden for example, but around the Mediterranean it is somewhat doable in some areas.
Abnormally large profit margins, as outlined in this article, mean that it's the lack of competition that is responsible for keeping fees high.
Isnt TSMC building fabs in USA ?

https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/tsmcs-new-us-fab-sparks-debate...
I use Signal's Note to Self for all my "diary" stuff, photos and links. It also works across all my devices.
There's a great scene in the book Shogun. Toranaga says "There is never any justification for a vassal to rebel against his master". Anjin San replies "There is my lord. If you win!"
Look into it. It's definitely not a black and white aggression war. It definitely has elements of a proxy war that conveniently weakens both Russia and Europe
But that’s what bumpers are for!
Call me old-fashioned, but I use Cmd-D to save bookmarks, and either the search bar or the bookmark library to organize/look through them. When I decide I want to blow away my operating system, I export my bookmarks and import them at the new incarnation.
Games are fine with simple controllers which provide 2 analog sticks and a few buttons. Why can’t cars do the same? They have even put touch displays on steering wheels!
if all oxygen in the air was suddenly (by magic) replaced by carbon dioxide it would put extraordinary selective pressure on humans to evolve something other than oxygen-depending lungs. the most likely outcome would be that we'd all die instantly though.
You can't sell something without exclusivity now?
That's actually quite chilling and a serious violation of the person. I'm sorry you had to deal with it.
There's AirGuard app on Android that will similarly check for AirTags.
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I feel like sometimes the US(the CIA or both?) is so clouded by their fear of USSR communism that they blindly ignored and funded extremely dangerous entities. Let's not forget that Gehlen got greenlit to feed Nazi groups in an effort to counter soviet influence. Similarly the strong support of China was done in order to counter the soviets. In the end the Soviet-Union collapsed and China ended up being a much stronger adversary than the Russian would ever be.
yeah, even in India, most online businesses support UPI (unified payment interface) wallets and apps like paytm which can also easily work with subscriptions, and can be connected to your bank account for instant payments. they payments infra in India is unbelievably awesome
I just started using this because my iPhone refuses to sync Chrome Bookmarks and decided I needed another solution.

It's not bad, but I haven't used it for long. I like that it finds dupes and has thumbnails like a news reader. I used yt-download to extract my YouTube favorites and playlists video urls into a .csv file and loaded those in as well, and it did the right thing. So we'll see.
The FDA publishes withdrawal notices in the Federal Register [1]. The withdrawal rate for reasons of effectiveness is something like ~1/yr.

[1]: https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/food-and-drug-admin...
Scrum and Kanban ways of working, work for different kinds of people/roles/goals.

Neither are silvet bullet solutions to a problem.

But scrum has a well-defined method, that works for everyone. It is managed top-down to deliver items for individuals to do.

Whereas kanban needs the individual to take on whatever the work throws at them, including total failure of the deliverable by issues outside of their control. In this situation, the individual has to be empowered and trust should have been settled between managers and members of the team.
How many of the people who are working on any given library actually are domain expert on the subject matter as you imagine?

This might have been true 20 years ago. But now the cultural shift affects even the people who work on the lower levels.

A sort of famous example is how slow Visual Studio has gotten compared to 20 years ago (when it was running on slower hardware even!) where it was nearly instant.

The refterm saga has demonstrated that people employed by Microsoft and paid very high salaries to work on a terminal emulator have no idea how to make a half decent terminal renderer.

> handrolling is incredibly cost ineffective, yet another source of bugs and can be seen as a bad idea when it comes to security.

Without context this statement is blatantly false.

Many libraries are full of bugs and security problems.
> Cozy up by the fireplace, pop a bottle of wine with a loved one.

So your suggestion for his problem is... alcohol? :-)

> Prepare for xmas, visit the various xmas markets.

Where frequently the main activity is drinking mulled wine aka... alcohol? :-)

> Spend the evening playing board games with friends, drinking and having it cozy by the fireplace again.

More alcohol? :-)))
Who is it for then? Everyone on the planet I have ever interacted with uses proprietary software daily. What are these mythical workflows? Am I only supposed to use Guix when it's convenient for their philosophy?

nonguix is proof that adding proprietary software doesn't break diddly squat.

It's all just gatekeeping. They could still achieve all their goals without being zealous, whether you believe me or not.
Talking about Monkeypox? – Then you should be talking about Sex
No evidence for the claim on the article though. Where's the experimental data? This is an opinion.
It’s not a secret agenda. The elite intellectual class is coalescing around the idea that meat consumption is bad for the planet and needs to be phased out by dramatically raising the cost of meat.
> Remember: it’s your job to come up with the solution, not the customer’s. When you go back to ask them questions, ensure you’re not simply asking them to design the solution for you. If they could do that, they’d probably have done it already. If they could have done it but didn’t, it’s because the problem doesn’t matter much.

You talk to customers to better understand the problems they face and how valuable a solution might be.

Not for ideas or suggestions.

Once you've built a thing, you talk to customers to understand _how well_ your thing solves their problem.

None of this necessitates incremental solutions.
Ah. Indeed, I don't have an FPGA on hand to synthesize all this to real silicon, but it would totally be possible (Digital has support for FPGA synthesis)
you think gdp is on a receivables account somewhere or something?
At least UK and Germany also have virtual power plants for various purposes. It's a smart way to handle peak demand and it's great that Tesla allows regular people to participate (and profit) from this [edit]so easily[/edit].

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_power_plant

The German Wikipedia has some more details on the various kinds of VPP in Germany. For those interested in the topic I recommend using a translator like deepl or Google translate: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuelles_Kraftwerk
We've built a similar thing for playwright tests but on cheaper lambda functions if anyones interested! https://github.com/mentimeter/play-lambda
Sorry. Not meant to trick. I mean to say 'around Airtable' niche.
In anycase, its impressive.
Who funds development? You can’t sell a product that does not exist.
The link supports the statement "housing tracked inflation for 400 years". I think the confusion here is the word "investment" is overloaded and could refer to a number of different things regarding property:

- you buy the property that you personally will live in

- you buy some other property and let it out to tenants or businesses

- you are a pension fund, mutual fund, hedge fund, day trader, bank, HFT etc which trades in derivatives based on mortgages

The first two have been going on for centuries at some level. The third only really got going at the point house prices completely disconnected from inflation.
You're largely alone.

For news, people use RSS readers. For productivity - nobody's using more than a few tools, they keep them open. For rabbit holes - there's a save all tabs feature in chrome, you save into a folder.

It sounds like you're testing the waters to see if there's demand for this and, there isn't :)
Thankyou. Yeah, thats what is means.
OP here. Probably, my bad too - I meant 'around Airtable niche'
How to add the GGreg20_V3 ThingSpeak channel sensor to the Home Assistant server
Actually yes, free commercial transactions between individuals should be a human right.

But don't worry about it, they will also make life hard or impossible for small livestock owners. So you won't be able to raise your own or buy from your neighbour.
With the right conditioning, people can be made to accept all manner of madness.
Fantastic deep dive!
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IBM settles with widow of exec who killed himself after layoff
Why are bookmarks done the way they are currently done at all?

A bookmark is generally not highly private. It would be reasonable to sync it as one syncs their notes.

It is the kind of thing one may wish to annotate in various ways.

Instead of bookmarks what I really want is markdowns files that describe my relationship with that site. I want a split screen text editor on my phone that edits the notes field in that file. I want the option to save an offline copy and fulltext search it all. If not, the text file could default to an algorithmic summary.

And most importantly, this should be in a folder of my choosing that SyncThing can access.

I've been thinking about making an external bookmark manager that uses Android's share feature.
You also forgot the Speed Dial. Allowing you to populate (what essentially becomes your) New Tab Page with the bookmarks of your choice. Greatly helps reduce the time taken after a browser restart to get going
Waterfall projects with sprints. Releasing every 2 weeks is still way better than releasing less frequently. Yes its not ‘true agility’, but as long as you find your weakness and learn from them every 2 weeks you’re going to be in a stronger position than if you have to wait 6 months to realise you stuffed up 5 months ago
Either development is the tricky part, in which case it would be irrelevant if the formula is public, since another company won't be able to compete just by knowing the formula, they also have to fund development of their own; or the basic research is the problem, in which case development is a minor expense and should be covered by the sales.

Either way, making the results of research that has already been funded by charities, the state etc public should be mandatory, and would still leave these companies with plenty of profits.
I like diigo's web highlighting feature a lot.
Some people's firewalls. It prevents a lot of crypto scams and malware.

i.e. https://nextdns.io/ gives the option: Block domains registered less than 30 days ago. Those domains are known to be favored by threat actors to launch malicious campaigns

Equivalents exist on corp firewalls, etc. Something like 70% of malware and phishing points to domains registered in the last 30 days. So it is an easy way to mitigate the risk of the majority of attacks.
I don't see anything controversial with that statement. I think that you are mixing de jure and de facto.
Field workers who don't get bathroom breaks.
Arg that probably means the API I used to get backgrounds ran into it's quota. It's strange that that causes the page to noop, in my tests the promise reflects gracefully. I'll look into that.
You can use nicknames as tags, atleast that's what I do. Most of my actual bookmark management is actually done in Zotero though.
(Part of) my path out of depression was committing to something bigger than myself. Giving more than I received to a community. In the end, it not only helped me climb out of my black hole, it also rewarded me in ways I never expected.
This is precisely my confusion.
But most part of work that got funding is trivial. Frontend, backend, CRM, backoffice, data this, data that, ETL, audit, backup, devops, cache, mobile, blablabla.

Usually what's not trivial is how much to build and when (which is product design).

> it's some context which in common human fashion, has become overcomplicated to high heaven.

yes indeed :)

If business (and/or management) is too neurotic, that definitely will fuck things up and it doesn't matter what methodology you try to manage projects with.

I used to scoff at the first dictum of the agile manifesto (individuals and interactions over processes and tools), but it fits exactly these problems. Business has to plan and build on what Engineering already does, not try to force things down onto it. Management has to work with the people, not try to force the people into their own crazy world.

And if they don't, then out of self-preservation, leave.
It seems like they aren't worried about it now more after the war.

> Jürgen Stock says once the conflict ends, a wave of guns and heavy arms will flood the international market and he urged Interpol’s member states, especially those supplying weapons, to cooperate on arms tracing.

Seems a bit disingenuous to suggest that the NATO secretary general thinks weapons are being trafficked now when thats not at all what they said.
It's pretty absurd in the UK, too, and no-one really cares about it.

Where I grew up, Lord NotGoingToDoxxHim, Clan Chief of the MacDonalds, was the local TV repairman and satellite dish installer who drove an admittedly rather nice Volvo and had a house with a garden nearly as big as ours.
I say we go full tiktok and have the car just shove cupcakes in your face. If you swat it away, it tries other foods. If you accept it, more cupcakes.