skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have refused to give Amazon any business of my own for several years because their directly-operated logistics business is morally disgusting to me. Realistically they run many businesses, that’s one of them. Their retail business is little more than branding. Their real business is private infrastructure.

The retail business overall is a scam. Example: I’ve been trying to find a comforter for a while, and I haven’t been happy with some of the options I found because a lot of other ecommerce sites have not great search experiences. I thought, well I can search Amazon for my preferences and buy it elsewhere. Nope, not even a single filter I applied was true for any search results I looked at. Amazon didn’t even try to serve me cotton comforters, much less any other refinements they offered.

They’re in the business of selling business. Whether that’s their logistics connecting suppliers and shipping with sales, or it’s their tech services connecting startups with time shares on a server.

I wouldn’t buy a USB drive or a blanket from IBM either. It’s the same thing.
So that the customer support rep can start working on the request before it’s been officially submitted. It’s better use of everyone’s time, while at the same time being massively surprising to the customer who finds out.
There was (is?) lot of drama between Zed Shaw and Rails. I don't even know if I could do it justice. Ruby had some... problems early on, and Zed can be... abrasive, especially in his persona he used to write his "Rails is a Ghetto" rants. This talk is best read as an artifact of that time, and nothing more than that.
> I'm probably doing standups wrong, but I find it useful for devs to (briefly) talk about what they're working on.

I agree, regular communication within a team is healthy, but the way stand ups tend to manifest themselves is a meeting every single day where people feel compelled to share a status update. It would be rare for an individual to be blocked every single day, and thus this becomes a wasteful ceremony of going through the motions of giving status updates.

If team communication is healthy, there really isn't a need of daily stand ups. Individual team members will know when to escalate being blocked, and loop in the right people at the right time. If you are inheriting a dysfunctional team, daily stand ups can be a way to get the team back on track. For new members of the team, having a mentor to do frequent, even twice daily check ins, can be helpful on getting them up to speed.

But for high performance teams who have been operating together for years, daily stand ups are often a waste of time, and a needless addition to the calendar.
While also affiliate, I prefer https://usb.userbenchmark.com, where you can also see ratings for performance and durability and a VALUE (price/quality)

I hate having a cheap, big usb drive that is slow as hell and breaks after 6 months.

Unfortunately, even the good rated ones are not always the same product. Recently I bought 2 Sandisk Ultra Flair USB3 (best price point / quality by far) and they both broke after 3 days of use - after looking it up it was revision 3.2 or something. Older revisions in my pocket still work very fast and reliable.

I would pay for a service that does HONEST reviews without affiliation :-)
Let's pretend for a minute that there were enough people following FSF recommendations to affect the market (that's one objective, right?):

A hardware vendor can just move their blobs from the driver download to flash on the hardware, and they went from "not respecting your freedom" to "respecting your freedom" it's a silly place to draw the line.

Then on top of it, an OS that ships updated blobs is anti-Free, but an OS that just runs the out-of-date blob gets the stamp of approval.
Unfortunately, these tools only provide basic record listings with form views.

Except for being able to render images, they don't do much more that database browsing tools.
TreeMaker – program for the design of origami bases (2015)
This! I am from germany and had chosen latin class in school. It is a useless dead language noone speaks.
Fastest godwin’s ever?
Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k (2019)
My experience is that most GA pilots are far from well off, but structure their entire lives around freeing up the resources to fly, plan every flight around reducing fuel burn and reasonably minimizing maintenance costs, and would laugh at the idea of being stereotyped as "well-resourced".

The parking lot at meetings more closely resembles the teachers' lot at the local high school than it does the parking lot of any major tech company.
Yes, but good authors are routinely removed from Wikipedia by a mob of less than great editors. Happens all the time. Happened to me.

For a sample of my work, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Baker
PCPartPicker also uses affiliate links and it's probably the single most useful site I use.
Early 2010s iMacs are extremely underpriced, given their high quality screens and generally good hardware - you can get 27" models for $300ish and ones with retina screens for maybe $400. I stumbled across a jealousy-inducing low price on a late model with very minor cosmetic issues recently and am still pinching myself. But with these machines so cheap, I have contemplated picking up a second lower powered one just to mess around with, install different Linux distros etc.

I presume this is because so many Mac users are moving to the M-series CPUs and away from Intel, though I haven't done a detailed comparison with Macbook and older pro models. Mac minis still seem overpriced (to me, but after building computers for 30 years I feel entitled to be opinionated).

Any it won't last forever so if you have ever wanted the nice Apple hardware but were put off by the steep prices now is your opportunity. I went for an iMac because I wanted a machine that looked nice and was nearly silent, though to my surprise I am enjoying MacOS much more than I expected.
>I see no reason to have Prime.

Every item arriving 1 day early is worth $140/yr for most people. I've paid a lot more for a lot less (looks at Digi-Key order history)

Also Amazon Fresh (free 6 hour shipping in my location) is extremely convenient. A lot of sites charge $60 per order for the same service (overnight delivery)
What are you getting for $15/mo? That's surprisingly inexpensive for scientific compute.
Lots of unixes have real time scheduling classes (Linux too), comes with the POSIX RT APIs. Is there information somewhere about the real-timeness performance of Plan 9 that could be compared with current general purpose operating systems?
> When the firmware runs out of real space to play with, it needs to start dropping data, and that is very visible.

Only if you are actively verifying the data. Im pretty sure most people would just look at a file listing and consider it stored.
A computer program must produce correct outputs 100% of the time. Most AI assisted things I know are buggy black boxes. I wouldn't rely my bussines on that
I don't know why this is being downvoted. This is happening in lots of ways, small and large.

To be successful on Wikipedia, you need to know how to game the system.
Reality I think is much more bad: big name players buying cheap stuff from a catalog rebranded while sacking or not replacing good engineers at home.
The Jewish are not the only one. In fact the Indian calendars also called panchanga, have a very elaborate system tied to the luni-solar movement and get very detailed into calculation. My guru once jokingly said when he was nominated to lead his specific religious institution, I’ll only agree to head the mission if I Don’t have to deal with the calendar calculation. As there are many parameters which tend to invite debate. Here is one I use almost daily for the Vaishnavite sect I follow. (1) you’ll notice you have to select your time zone and city as some of the holy fast days (also tied to luni-solar movement called ekAdaShi) depend on the sunrise time.

Actually this month that we are entering, also known as Kartik, named after the constellation Krttika, where the moon is full, is a very holy month in the Indian calendar and contains the special Diwali festival on the amavasya or new moon night.

(1) https://www.purebhakti.com/resources/vaisnava-calendar
Thanks, TIL.

I guess I'll continue to ignore that law :)
Is it possibly because the font should be monospaced and the reader might then mistake the distance before and after the "I" for a space?
Where can I get a job as an overpaid high school teacher?
"Regardless" implies that I will not follow such a silly law even if it turns out to be real.
Emitting pollution is not equivalent to punching you in the face.
I wonder how many articles, blogs, conferences, certifications, books, talks, soliloquies, consultants, etc. it will take to tell us we're all doing it wrong to make "Agile" and "Scrum" actually work.
Same, but Chrome still didn't want to show the page and said the date was invalid...

Safari is doing the same: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rupu0y3wswxs2l2/validbutinvalid.pn...
There is also the internet. Maybe everybody agrees and there is no objection to a correction?

It could be as easy as creating a Mastodon instance to find out.
> don't support owner override

Asus talks about how to disable it:

https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1047459/

As do many other manufacturers, its a thing.
> There is no reason the FAA shouldn’t have moved decades ago.

Did we have evidence that unleaded avgas was safe in existing engines decades ago?
A bit off topic, but I love “learning to fly” by Pink Floyd…
“Young tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit”.
That's a completely unreasonable idea. Are you also suggesting that Google should also have a prominent disclaimer that appears before they give results that their search results may not be accurate, or might be misleading?
It absolutely implies some amount of endorsement. It’s the same as seeing the endcap of a supermarket aisle. They decide to co-market the product and they decide to promote each other in the process. If anything, it’s advertisers on Amazon who have little choice in the arrangement because there are so few alternatives to market themselves in.
Walk it off, you're fine.
I didn't read the article yet but the headline is pretty tactful here on that point: "Slowdown".
You misunderstand what owner override is. It's not the ability to disable the TPM from functioning. It's having a way to tell the TPM to attest "yes, this system is totally running Microsoft/Hollywood-approved software" when it really isn't, if that's what the owner wants it to do.
Except that Lufthansa simply replied by citing a ICAO regulation - no more, no less. They have not "banned AirTags", they simply stated an existing regulation that applies to any aircraft.

Whether they actually enforce that regulation in any way remains to be seen, but they couldn't have given any other answer (or else risk being investigated by civil aviation authorities for not properly observing existing flight safety rules).

If you want to convince anyone that they should allow lithium batteries with some particular characteristics to be used in devices that are not turned on, you don't have to convince Lufthansa or any other airline, you have to convince the ICAO and/or national civil aviation bodies, since it's their rule that Lufthansa was citing.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical is covering this pretty well.

Russians are claiming it was a truck bomb and this is backed up by recently posted footage of the truck disappearing into a ball of doom.

Videos of the explosion(trigger warning: people are dying in these videos):

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/157863228417313177...

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/157863322104184422...

Update: Looks like it might have been a boat

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/157863387784927232...
I did. I invented the [citation needed] template. I have written countless articles and done more maintenance work than most. I was recently banned indefinitely by a mob.
AirTags use normal button cell batteries, not lithium based
But you're also not allowed to transport lithium based batteries in checked luggage unless they are inside a powered-off device, I believe.
I wrote an article on a specific part of scrum/agile: estimation and why most organisations are ruining team morale.

https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/one-teams-eight-poi...
It wasn't the Romans who spread the calendar beyond Europe.
Well a few people realized what had happened. I was stationed on Ramstein AFB during Able Archer and saw the exercise while it was running. None of us had a clue that the Soviets had reacted as they did. I found out what happened about 20 years later.
The benefits of Scrum is not really Scrum itself, it's to have a standard by which to measure oneself. If you can say "this way is better than Scrum", great! But if you don't know any kind of methodology and are just winging it, you would be better off with Scrum 99% of the time, because it does, at the very least, enforce discipline through routine. Companies who don't have a measuring stick are likely to spend wayyy too much time on procedure tweaking. Speaking from experience.

Having this standard also allows you to tell stakeholders "actually, this is normal for this industry and I can prove it", which is invaluable when they're not very technically minded.
> That's how corporations operate in 2022. If you're a journalist from the Washington Post, you might get a three-line statement from a spokesperson. Everyone else gets a canned reply from a bot, or nothing at all.

This is not true, I write to AMD security team for spectre/meltdown/CPU flaws and get reasonable responses. Intel security team is also quite good. The usual wait time is 3-4 days.

Admittedly I do write from my work address.
Looks as though their software is missing something as basic as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanity_check
This is more common than it should be for accounts. So best to assume the least charitable and plan accordingly.

You lose access to your consumer Gmail, Drive, etc if your YouTube account gets banned for comments.

You lose access to your Epic Games dev account if you get banned from Fortnite (unless they decoupled this in last few years).

AWS used to be hard-linked to your Amazon shopping account back in the day (they can't separate them for you if you ask).
> A device with a nonprogrammable ROM could be be harmful, and that could be due to code. But it is not fixable by programming, just like a harmful toaster.

So why is it better to be harmful and unfixable than harmful and fixable?

I can think of one reason: when something can't be updated, whether that be a ROM or hardware itself, device manufacturers are more likely to keep that thing as simple and well-defined as possible, in order to limit risk. Complex functionality, opinionated functionality, potentially user-hostile functionality: that is left to updatable software.

But that is only a heuristic, not a fundamental moral value. It cannot justify behavior like [1], where an existing hardware component, designed with the idea that its firmware would be updatable, has a downstream hardware manufacturer put that firmware into something hard-to-update for the sole purpose of getting Respects Your Freedom certification. To be fair, the Librem 5 still does not have RYF cerification (who knows why), but I vaguely (perhaps wrongly) recall there being older examples of similar shenanigans.

There is also the example of Linux-libre removing warnings to update insecure microcode. It doesn't make the un-updated microcode any more free! At best it protects against a hypothetical attack where the manufacturer adds a backdoor in an update, but again that seems less like a fundamental moral value, more like a practical question of threat models and security tradeoffs.

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd...
Any Intel server comes with an ARM chip (at least one that I know of), the BMC.
"ok let's run this terminal snake game they are talking about...aaaannd

libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /usr/bin/snek)"
> pretty impressive

???

https://files.catbox.moe/4yykhw.webp

My grandmother can program better than that.
Because its hard and i'm tired !
I’m a bit skeptical, bullet trains swamp towers too, they just put more towers along the tracks.
10K hours rule is to master something, its not a rule that prevents you from getting into important things now.

Most things aren't exactly walking on a rope between skyscrapers level risky that you need absolute practice and perfection. You get lots of room to make mistakes and learn, and beyond all this doing things that matter is a matter of priority not practice.

Whatever it is, get started now.
The point of having sprints is to trade off some utilisation for predictable delivery.

I.e. everything should be easily deliverable within a given sprint, to the point that almost everyone is idle (or working on non-sprint activities) by the end of it.

In practice successful scrum teams might get 90% of their tasks done a sprint - if that's not happening you need to commit to less each sprint (fewer points or fewer estimated days) until it does.
How far did we come that a „why“ is offensive?!
Can you at least get from Control Center to the corresponding Settings page easily now (long press, hard press, etc), or is Apple dying on that hill?
Yes, that's something I thought too when reading the parent comment. While I agree with the general sentiment of everyone losing ten years to something, I think it's hard to prove that, in a non-solipsistic way.
Thanks, I have never heard of that!
Intel's Alder Lake BIOS Source Code Reportedly Leaked Online
I retracted my specific criticism about not comparing to a regular matmul, but I still keep my criticism about having weak baselines :)
If my IQ is 3 points lower because car owners exposed me to leaded petrol, that is worse than punching me in the face. If my home is consumed by a fire that wouldn't have otherwise happened without global warming, that's also worse. It's person A aggressing on person B without person B's permission. It's a more dilute and hard-to-attribute aggression than directly punching someone, but I don't think that should change how we look at it.
Don't forget floppy disks being enshrined as the Save icon - that has to be one of the shortest lives devices to give rise to such an anachronism.
I don’t get that either. Visually I should be sideways H. Z should be mirror of S.
That’s called fraud prevention
That article, while interesting, does not address button batteries. Maybe I missed it. I found it interesting that you can ship any amount of lithium batteries as cargo.
I want to see Russia driven out of Ukraine, for Putin to be removed out a window and for the Make Russia Great Again culture to collapse with the death of the strongman/myth. I'm just not blinding myself to the risks that are involved, I'm definitely not trying to convince myself that up is down.
No one is arguing the scam isn't insidious and inherently difficult to detect for possibly even most customers. The argument is that Amazon is complicit because they're banking off those sweet counterfeit thumb drive profits, and that there's little risk to Amazon.

I'm suggesting there is a significant risk, and anyone reasonable at Amazon would account for it. There's enough users (tech savvy, or heavy researchers as you point out, and ultimately some portion of casual customers) who will have a negative experience and potentially be skeptical of all purchases - major or minor. Amazon will certainly incur reputational and real return/handling costs.

It seems fairly implausible to me that Amazon would make the decision to say "Yeah, while tech savvy and discerning customers, and some portion of casual users will discover the scam, we just make so much money from fake thumb drives that it's worth it to destroy our reputation with that subset since a significant portion may not notice or ultimately associate Amazon with selling low quality products." All while we see the listings for these items get removed nearly as quickly as the pop up. Doesn't add up.
I also didn’t know that! Thanks for letting me know
Sure, the government should.

But we should also expect Google to give a small crap about the troubles it's putting some of its users through, especially when this is so important to some of its most vulnerable users, and adding an option to disable 2FA is such a small feature for a Mega corporation.
That is not what they said.
Can anyone tell me if there is a program to verify usb drive size on Mac? F3 requires linux or windows (has instructions for mac but those require running linux in virtualbox).

Edit: nvm, enough of it works natively on mac
The secret to lasting love for chess
I am not that person but Trent Telenko is a retired DoD logistics guy who is active on Twitter and gives exhaustively detailed analysis, so I expect he'll write about it at length in the next day or two. He's unabashedly pro NATO/Ukraine so you should keep that bias in mind, but I've found his posts consistently illuminating since the outset of the conflict.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1578501990513975296

My immediate impression of the aftermath was that the collapse of the road deck looked very much like the failure of the San Francisco Bay Bridge following the 1989 earthquake, which was fixed in a month (which seems like lightning speed by today's standards).

https://dot.ca.gov/programs/public-affairs/mile-marker/winte...
An ARM based design would make sense, except unlike Apple they'd have to buy a license. Apple has a perpetual license so they don't have to pay a thing and can do what they want with it. Like the M1 processor. But Intel does not have that. So, developing risc v in the background without committing to it, yet, makes a lot of sense. It might actually give them a path to come up with an answer to the M1 that isn't just a slightly more efficient x86 processor.

Apple just demonstrated that changing CPU architecture is not that big of a deal; so the value of x86 compatibility isn't what it used to be. You can just emulate it and it's fine. Even for games apparently. So Intel, backing an architecture that is already starting to compete with arm that is free makes a lot of sense.

AMD has the same challenge. And despite Nvidia failing to buy ARM, it's pretty clear that their long term strategy is not going to be letting other companies supply CPUs but to provide a complete solution.
Honestly I’m not sure management will ever acknowledge or admit they’ve totally distorted agile from what it was meant to be in the manifesto into Big Agile™ with its optional add-ons Scrum® and SAFe© especially with “Agile Delivery Consultants” and other nonsense titles. They’ve started replacing scrum masters with those now too.

At least until the next big thing comes along and they will declare agile to be just as bad as waterfall.
Maybe for ancient versions on out-of-support Windows OSes or the odd appliance but SMB has been encrypted by default since at least 2016.
It is war between Ukraine and Russia, regardless how Putin markets it. Ukraine hit an airfield inside Russia on the 25th of February. They are not going to use nukes
I've had really bad luck with the reliability of mobile HDDs in storage. Try to use them after 3-4 years and they just die. Maybe I've just been unlucky?
Making fascism jokes was much funnier 11 years ago
Why is it fine? Why should we not ask and expect that one of the largest corporations on the planet make a tiny effort to improve the lives of some of its users at very little cost to them?

Sure, homeless people and those who help them should pick an alternate free email service. And the government should either set up its own email or stop requiring email contact for this sort of thing. But for people who are already Google users, Google should also try to make their lives significantly easier with a tiny bit of effort (allow someone to explicitly disable 2FA for gmail - with all the warnings and cautions that they can).
That’s generally addressed with the democracy index.