skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depended on your phone. You could do that 'selective' thing via a simple LC-display and cursor/menu-keys and give that 'special' number an always busy.

Could be embarassing though, when the other party supressed CLIP and gotcha! :-)

But is that any different today, regardless of 'line-tech'? You can either do that whitelist thing, and deny any other calls, or do blacklisting only in combination with supressing unidentified callers.

Another thing was that most people didn't even know that these options existed at all, and/or their phones didn't have the capability.

Some former national telcos were also slow in offering, and/or charged more money for that. While the upstarts just did it.

IIRC handsets from Panasonic did it all and were most affordable (at the times).
Don't forget that it wastes team's energy before, during and after. We would have 3~4 hour estimations & planning and it would just completely wipe everybody out. On top of that we had to track time to the minute and were thrown into debt because we owed "extra hours". On top of this our estimation would always be off due to people being burnt out and it would mean more hours were owed. This was a salaried position in Canada btw a long time ago and I don't know why there is so many of these small nanny startups that think they own people because they pay them a salary.
Users flagged the submission. Moderators didn't touch it or didn't see it.

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against, because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for. We've already had to ask you to stop this once. If you keep it up, we're going to end up banning your account, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Boo. That is just a soft form of enforced compliance.

Edit: how the heck is the first reply flagged/dead? Doesn’t that exactly prove their point?
Apple (name also on thr ipod) does somewhat similar tactics with ram and storage pricing and storage compatibility. Maybe even more similar are iphone repair parts and the printer ink-DRM like restrictions on them.
Did you mean to reply to my comment? It’s not clear what this has to do with what I said. I never mentioned the US at all, let alone census-designated ethnicities in the US.
In my city it’s very easy to sell stuff on marketplace
Along with some of the other things mentioned, mostly including the extremely low power hardware, the app is also extremely early in development. The art will certainly undergo many reworks, so they probably dont want to invest heavily in it yet. Plus the whole vision is extremely technically complicated, with significant challenges to it, while the art is something that can be focused on later.

Imo the biggest thing is that the current stage of the platform is barely even a beta, but is being pitched very officially.

Unrelated to the above, I think their whole vision is incredibly bland and boring, which is, above all else, what will be the biggest downfall.
It feels like a central problem with these "total sandbox" games/virtual platforms is that there's no underlying aesthetic or- as OP mentions, art direction- to anchor it. So it stands for nothing. I suppose Second Life and Roblox are major exceptions to that, and have been wildly successful, but do we really need another version of those platforms but far more limited and in VR?

It reminds me of IMVU, which is surprisingly still alive and well.
agile will not fix the problems of incompetency in engineering (or stakeholders for that matter).

But agile is often sold as a tool to fix such incompetencies i reckon!
I mean you can literally run HL: Alyx on the quest 2 so this doesnt really hold up?
+1 for Children of Time. And the audiobook narration is amazing.
I have found a simple rule useful: if you know what the end product will look like and how it should behave, you're not "doing Agile", and there's no point in pretending that you are. If your PM or client can look at a piece of software and say "this doesn't behave like we expect it to" or starts asking "when can you have that done?" (and they're referring to any unit of time smaller than a quarter-decade), batten down the hatches and start writing requirements.

The last job I worked at still had defined features, test cases, and release dates for its projects, but since they were "Agile" they stored all of their "user stories" (read: free-form requirements that needed to be built according to a literal separate design document) in Jira tickets. I worked there until the urge to play in traffic became too strong.
If only coal and gas were held to the same standard
You forgot Reddit
Great contribution! Thank you!

That website is arcane but the data is fantastic.
Ask HN: What to do with 20 year old technical books?
I have a basement full of HTML4, Macromedia Flash, PHP 4 and other deprecated languages. A lot of them are O'Reilly. Is there anything I can do with these other than throw them out? How to check if any of them are worth reselling? How best to dispose of 1000 lbs of books (putting them in trash bin will take months to haul away)? Advice appreciated.
This is a low value comment and I deserve any downvotes I get: but I Fucking Love (TM) when people just slam out working shit like this without any red tape. Well played.
Genuinely, I have no idea. Never seen that in practice and I am reading about it first time. That is based on first quick glance at the link you sent.
I still remember (well, have screenshotted) this amazing error I encountered in my first exposure to C++. I was writing code for an assignment implementing my own vector container from scratch, and got "no suitable user-defined conversion from "CSXXX::vector::r_iterator" to "CSXXX::vector::r_iterator" exists".

Thank you GCC for telling me that I'm missing a copy/move constructor (can't remember which it was). Clear as mud as always. At least with the several pages of template instantiation errors you can scroll to the top where useful information can sometimes be found.
All I meant to say is that it is not an either/or situation. I acknowledge the United States engages in plenty of realpolitik that is hypocritical and runs counter to its supposed ideals. I think we should acknowledge that it is a topic whose breadth and complexity cannot be captured by a couple of forum posts.

I know great people, far better than myself, that have dedicated themselves to these ideals. I feel that it is a disservice to them and those ideals to write them off or discount their existence because of instances of hypocrisy in US policy. That is all I wished to communicate.
Folks most likely realize that linking to the solar powered one directly would likely hug it to death very quickly.
A quick look on Wikipedia[0] shows that 14 GP/s is bad, but really not that bad. It's not like games from 10 years ago when that kind of fill rate was common all looked this bad. Consider that even the humble Xbox 360 had plenty of better looking games than this and only had a <1 GP/s pixel peak fill rate.

I don't think this is a particularly good argument in Meta's favour.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...
There are plenty of games and apps on Quest 2 that look far better and run with good performance though... Horizons is weird because it's an ugly outlier relative to other Quest 2 titles. It feels like some kinda misstep imo.
Exactly! Why should the IRS care about taxpayers? Intuit's corporate profits are much more important to the IRS and the decision-makers in Congress that the taxpayers keep re-electing.
Little a agile was supposed to be an iterative system that the team could adopt and adapt to their needs. These forms were intended to make developers more effective.

The manifesto was so small and stark because those were the few things that all of the manifesto signatories could agree on. They were trying to find consensus on principles that made products successful.

Big A Agile is much more rigid and top-down, marketed to management. Success there means selling training and certifications. Nothing more.
Woe betide other Vitaliks!
a16z is crypto central now and they're funding Adam Neumann, everything's even more of a facade- or farce- than it has been in past years. Is that what happens right before a bubble bursts?
Agile is also for projects where the customer doesn't know what they want exactly, but they do have an idea what problem they want solved. With an agile project they can pull the plug if stuff doesn't work and they can pivot (within reason) to new features that are discovered during the process.

I have friend in a defence sector waterfall project. It was meticulously planned years ago, the design was locked. Production was started. Everyone knows it'll get scrapped for being out of date when it's finished on schedule in 2024. But they need to finish it anyway, because the deal is hard-locked and there is a big penalty for not delivering or delivering late.
I had a manager that gave me shit for not being verbose enough. And our stand-ups were already in that 20+ minute territory. Why do we have a Jira board if no one wants to read it? It's all right there! No blockers. Next.
If you read the release there's a Backup Reserve setting:

> • If you prefer to reserve more energy for use during a grid outage, or if your area is more prone to outages, you can set a higher reserve percentage.

So you could easily reserve 50% for yourself to run the fridge/lights or whatever and sell up to half.
Not to be too glib, but "a bunch of things that should have never been allowed in production, compounded by non-existent monitoring, and poor understanding of how <thing> works" is the cause of most outages.
A monoculture is a sign of maturity. In the past, most programming languages were awful in one way or another. Whether it was C, Fortran, APL, Prolog, COBOL, Basic, etc -- all uniquely terrible. But now every programming language is pretty decent.
Yes, yes, yes quite so but you're talking about ethics, morality, standards of behavior.

Insider trading is _law_ and Pelosi is not in breach of the _law_. Apparently the test is that the market moving info to which you are privy has been /stolen/ from the company if you tell your bartender and they trade. Pelosi changes the legal and regulatory environment in the future in ways the company doesn't even know about! So nothing is stolen from the company and her husband /can/ and /does/ take massive positions in short dated out of the money options based on whether a law will pass or not to the financial advantage of the company and so has made a huge fortune for the Pelosis and can then laugh in your face because it is perfectly legal to do so. Pretty sure Pelosi is doing that laughing too but that part is merely like, my opinion man.

Whether it /should/ be legal, whether it /should/ be classified insider trading, whether Pelosi or anyone behaving like that making tens of millions from trading on ifnfo gained in confidence performing "public service" belongs in jail is an entirely different discussion. Around here when someone points out "may be legal but definitely not ok" there are usually a string of responses to the contrary that if it's legal you can't blame a person so that discussion probably isn't worth having, nobody will change their views on it.

Trump is awful and horrendous and it should be crystal clear from the above how that affects my thinking on the vile-ness of Pelosi and her ilk. How about you? Does the existence of Trump make rampant corruption elsewhere ok because it is
"not Trump" in your opinion? It does seem to be the zeitgeist in many quarters.
Thanks! I've been looking for numi alternative for my Windows desktop.
To give you the comparable situation - in the UK we have two numbers associated with every bank account (historically one identified the branch of the bank the account was held with, and the other identified the account, but nowadays there’s no real link between a branch anymore). For me to send money to another person or company’s bank account, I just those two numbers, and I can send up to £25k and it will be in their bank account almost instantly. In the last couple of years they introduced a system where it goes to the other person’s bank account to check whether the name you have given for them matches the name on the account, so it warns you if there is a mismatch that there might be fraud.

You can also schedule in advance “standing orders” which pay money to an account on a certain day. This is how pretty much everyone pays rent. We have direct debits where you can pay companies on a regular basis and almost everyone uses this for bills like for local government taxes, energy, water. With this, the company asks for permission to withdraw money for your account on a recurring basis with your details and you have to approve it. Guarantees are built into this system though, so if the company takes more money than they are supposed to, you can call your bank and they are able to pull back the funds.

Both of these have been around since the 60s so when online banking came along it was just implemented in that. It got faster at some point I don’t remember - it used to take about a day for UK transfers but it’s usually seconds now.

You can also send money abroad but it has slightly different limits and takes a bit longer. You just need the IBAN of the account though and can still all be done online in a few clicks.
Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
so much of my time is spent in chrome tabs / windows / and searches. someone's average chrome tab count is a badge of honor / horror. Chrome now hides the bookmark bar by default. you can create tab groups for a session, or pin them so that they consume all your bandwidth and memory next time you open your session.

But that's not what i want.

i want rich bookmark behavior.

i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs.

or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites.

or pick up where i left off on a research rabbit hole.

and i want it to be intuitive, efficient, and a prominent UX feature set.

i'm not alone right?
Fraud detection is difficult when there's no uniformity in experience.

PayPal's "redirect the user through our services" flows provide more uniformity than some random site with a hosted-- or even baked-into-the-shopping-cart-- credit card form-- but I wouldn't say it's uniform enough that people would be able to reliably identify something outside the norm.

Just think of currency-- could you spot a decent quality counterfeit? Particularly if you're dealing with a more edge-case design that you don't encounter every day (say, a Series 1934 $50 note)?
And just how many people have to wear these headsets for how many hours to justify the billions being poured into this Big Next Thing..? Married couples can sit in front of a tv together and play console games… are they going to sit next to each other with face masks on for hours upon hours..?

Earnest question: I’m not a gamer nor would ever consider buying a VR thing.
Horizon worlds is boring. That's the bigger problem.
In that timeframe a lot of his blog posts related to the experience of moving to Google - eg comparisons with Amazon etc.

It's now apparent that Google is both very a different place in recent years, AND that all the "Good Agile" stuff from 15 yrs ago kinda screwed most of their products and reputation long term.
A Storm on the Horizon
I feel like the parent wasn't trying to argue that injecting people with live vaccines (er, live virus?) would be better?

Rather the idea seemed to be to stop making more vaccines for COVID - kind of like how we deal with colds now.
> So school busses aren't a thing in USA?

Not sure how this relates to my comment? In my suburb area most kids seem walk or bike to school based on the middle school I see from my office window. Hundreds leave walking, some dozens on bikes and only a few dozen cars lined up to pick up kids.

As to school buses, I don't know how it works. It's probably a school-by-school thing. I see some occasionally but not very often.
Scrum is waterfall in disguise and it always has been. I have never seen scrum be anything but a catastrophe, or a token gesture to appease those who would replace accountability with process.
> No. If the solution is to price in the externalities...

I mean I'd love pricing in the externalities, but then it'd be moot because there'd be a building rather than a parking lot, no walmart, and a train or bicycle rather than a car. There'd also be plenty of roof area for solar panels in any place with a density lower than tokyo metropolis so you wouldn't even need to build supports.
To be clear, I'm very much a layperson with absolutely no special knowledge or insight. I really don't know enough about Iraq to have an opinion.

But what I do notice is that Germany, Japan, Korea and Vietnam were all able to break free from feelings of anger and grievance against past enemies. Iraq (and Afghanistan) are populations rife with religion-fuelled and religion-adjacent grievances, pointing internally and externally. Sadly I don't have optimism for change.
They were explicitly saying their concern was with non-live vaccines though?
It does not run on the Quest 2; people stream it from gaming PCs.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. Second Life was an early adopter, but games have been selling virtual goods for a long time.

Not to mention NFTs.
Now Reddit has a new developer portal for third-party apps
No, you can use a quest 2 to play HL: Alyx on your PC via Oculus Link or Air Link. In that case, all the rendering is happening on your PC, and the quest is just a display. The Quest 2 can't run HL: Alyx itself.
Hire a licensed electrician, most seasoned pros will know how to fight this misapplication of regulation, especially if your just doing a like for like swap.
That's more related to the tip and restaurants covering their butts.

Credit card processor doesn't require a signature.
Quite simply this comes down to business users not wanting to know how the sausage is made after all. They want their food cooked fast, but don't really care how.

We manage 2 different conversations at all times (agile and waterfall):

Internally, the Chefs in the kitchen agree on Mise en Place practices, prep time, and have strong confidence then can run 100% regression tests and deploy at anytime. The overhead of TDD, technical debt (sharpening the knives), and retrospectives are kept internal.

Externally, the customers don't care about the ingredients or process. We encourage business users to take the waterfall view, think through their requirements, discuss menu options, set delivery dates and formal acceptance testing criteria.

It's not that development teams aren't doing agile. But the Agile Manifesto's ideal that Developers and Product Owners would all sit down and speak the same language turned out to be less than practical.
Not claiming this is the "one" -just, as a signal of change, I think CLI began the rot. Really? I cord-cut when I woke up to how few non-spam incalls I got on the landy, which by then was VOIP anyway. Since moving house 7 years ago I was getting it over fibre, but presented as a true DTMF enabled wall-port: ran at the reliability of the volts into the building. Then, that provider stopped and said "we'd rather back this in the IP service we sell you, as VOIP" (hint: it was always VOIP, they just had ATX devices presenting it to me as non-voip) -But dropped the reliability guarantee.

Why bother? Nobody calling, useless in a power outage, Emergency call location, ok there's that, but I am dialling on my mobile if I fall anyway... Yea.. Nah. Over it.
Agile is pretty silly. Waterfall is ridiculous. Instead, start with a good vision of what needs to be built (if you don't have that, maybe don't even start). Then focus on the product, not the process.
Not necessarily a bad idea in itself, Bloomberg is a b2b only service which has some built-in social networking features that have made it quite sticky because it's an exclusive club with relatively little noise and high trust. But I'm guessing that company isn't Bloomberg :-D
If the fees encourage people to use cash instead of electronic money then at least it's good for privacy.
If you’ve worked in software for longer than a single project, you already know that software is impossible to precisely estimate and no two projects are alike. Anyone who claims that waterfall requires perfect estimates is using the term incorrectly.

_All_ software projects include an element of discovery as new details are discovered, technical challenges are encountered, etc. To think otherwise is naive.

Waterfall in software means there are fixed timelines and a fixed starting scope to work against. This helps align the efforts of multiple teams that have their own deliverables and timelines. As a project progresses, the timelines and scope are reassessed. This is true of any methodology.

Full agility is when you can pivot quickly to new opportunities. This flexibility requires a small scale. Most larger companies have too much going on to allow for something like this yet they also allow for agility. For instance, a security incident is not going to be neglected because of an ongoing project. Waterfall in software is not what the author makes it out to be.
Waterfall was a problem too for those who focused on it to the exclusion of "individuals and interactions". Planning is good, being attached to a plan is not.
> Images of demons first began to appear in the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1640 B.C.).

Thoughts needed (please omit jokes unless actually funny). I'm a brit. The date above is not stonehenge-era but isn't too far off. I've long been puzzled by the fact that sophisticated cultures were around then with complex social structures, that had writing and some pretty dazzling statuary and buildings.

Let's take that back further, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe ~10K years ago (no writing I'm aware of but look at the artefacts)

Over here in albion at the time? Sweet FA. No comparable culture that I'm aware of. Around 0 BC or a bit earlier you get these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broch but still, no writing, few (if any) significant decorative artefacts from that period. It is so odd. Any explanations? I mean other than "that's how it was". Perhaps there's just stuff I don't know of.
Directors can waive hiring requirements in most cases. Several high school dropouts with meaningful Linux kernel contributions have received job offers from FAANG without talking to a recruiter or answering a leetcode question.
Spacetech startup Asterra discovers underground lithium
> It's an enormous country and those people should feel free to hit the bricks (they can move, in other words). Or, hey, this is America. If you want to control what happens on a piece of private property, then buy it.

Those two sentences are contradictory.

If someone owns a plot of land with a single family home, they do get to control it by staying put living in the house they like. They don't have to "hit the bricks" just because you'd prefer to tear it down to build a highrise.
Regarding (2), what does it use under the hood? Rsync? Will the files be automatically synced to local on save?
If AF was smart, they'd partner with battery makers to value add instead of just shipping lithium out as-is. Better to build value. And, many dry inhospitable places are productive in the right terms, if you understand them. Look at the bone yards: Making good money, letting birds park there.
Thanks. That's exactly what I meant.
> I never do, because I want to keep my job. And nobody is ever punished for missing deadlines, anyway.

Pretty much, the general consensus amongst developers was to just go along with whatever the scrum master is saying, just so that we could at least get out of the meeting and start our work. Missing deadlines was pretty common, getting blamed was pretty common, but you won't get fired. Perhaps you'll get moved to a different team, where the same story repeats itself.