skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Network level ad-blocking like Privoxy and pi-hole have so many downsides like they can't handle inline adverts. My pi4 pi-hole is unplugged right now because it just didn't work well. After hours wasted trying to make it work with all the services, I've thrown in the towel. The time involved is just not worth it for a home network.

What works are browser based ad-blockers and app patchers like ReVanced. As my savings have gone up, I've relied more and more on just paying for ad-free services like YouTube Premium, Hulu, Netfix, and Max for the cases those 2 can't handle.
hello,

in my experience, agile/scrum is great - in theory.

in "the wild"/in practices its mostly implemented in a way, which "pleases lower & upper mgmt" but doesn't take into account the features necessary for the team(s) to be able to work smoothly.

so: not agile/scrum need to be revisited, but the implementation of agile processes / scrum in companies/projects etc...

cheers,
t.

ps.: and lots of companies want to do "scrum" with far to few people / small projects - mostly situations, where imho. kanban with a backlog would be sufficient and especially more effective.
It seems altogether surprising that with an empty list or tuple a, a[1] results in index error, yet a[1:] quietly returns an empty list or tuple.
You can use a separate Google account with a separate email address for that. Using Apple Pay or similar, your payment also remains anonymous. And if you don’t care about history etc., you can switch to a new account every year or so.
(Shrug) Insane, whatever. All I know is, when I call the IRS, I can get a human on the phone who actively wants to help.

Try that with Google, PayPal, Amazon, Apple, or any number of other companies when an error they've made but refuse to even explain, much less fix, threatens to wreck your livelihood.

To redress grievances with my government, I don't need to make the front page of HN or go viral on Twitter. We don't go a week around here without another front-page lamentation to appeal for noblesse oblige from one of these intentionally-faceless megacorps. That's not how you should have to deal with a company you're doing business with... but it is how you deal with a dictator who leaves you no other choice.
> If you don't want ads on youtube, just pay the $10 premium fee.

YT premium doesn't actually block the ads that creators put in their videos, SponsorBlock+AdBlock does. Give me the same functionality for 10$ in YT Premium and I will pay.
Yeah, but cutting down 250 trees and making them into firewood, without chainsaws or other modern tools seems like a lot of work (actually an insane amount of work bordering on unbelievable) just for maintenance. Even with a chainsaw, doing it to one tree is very labor intensive. That is time they are not planting/harvesting/hunting. Instead they would be burning massive amounts of calories over a very extended period of time. Though, I suppose I’m making assumption about how big the trees were. I’m assuming these are old growth forests with tall and wide trees.
> I took the approach of better safe than sorry and prioritized this task even though it would add no business value — it was only required to be completed because Google said so.

Lol, maintaining the app provides "no business value." More like "If it doesn't come from above, it doesn't exist."
Now that Ubuntu is treating 32-bit like a second class citizen (by having an explicit allow-list of 32 bit packages that are required by Steam), can the BSD’s just take the same narrow target and provide good Steam support, or have they already?

There are only a few things keeping me on Linux: Steam, Slack and Zoom. I haven’t checked for BSD support for any of that recently, but Slack used to(?) run better in the browser than in their app.

Edit: Also native docker, does that still have to live in a vm, windows/mac style?
We have the Internet Archive though, so you’re really just paying for search engine discoverability and… domain name squatting as a dead person.

I’d bet that the Internet Archive will last longer than Wordpress as an organization.
I think the exams are different? Why would a practicing doctor stop earning to do the mcap and work in the states?
Things are not nearly as predictable 100 years out as they are 1 or 10.

A 100-year plan is for WordPress.com's benefit, not yours. They get a predictable accounting revenue stream for 100 years if they continue to exist; if not, no problem for them, they still got the money, while you get nothing (or whatever a bankruptcy court says). You get... hosting for 100 years. Maybe. What are the odds, and are you factoring that into the price you pay?

It reminds me of file locker sites' "lifetime subscriptions", which amount to however long they continue to operate before the owners lose interest in the hassle or get sued and have to shut down.
No, don’t bother. Go into medicine or mechanics or something similarly high paying but without threat of outsourcing or AI replacement.
To be clear, in your mind when someone talks about wanting to fund certain types of software, it is someone's duty to talk about lithium batteries using lots of water?
That's why I deliberately said "planets" vs "small rocks," for which this does not apply.
AFAIK, C64 software cannot detect the difference between normal and warp mode in normal circumstances. Warp mode speeds up the emulation, but all of the internal timings are still accurate to the C64 in a relative sense.
Okay, I genuinely did not know that User32.dll made syscalls directly. Interesting, and kind of bizarre.
I worked this way for many years, having 8 workspaces in a 2x4 grid for a long time where each workspace was "dedicated" to something. However, I have grown to really like gnome shell's dynamic workspaces.

I find that I have to multi-task on a lot of different things throughout the day, and often am getting interrupted before completing tasks. Each task gets its own workspace, and everything tied to that task (terminal, emacs, browser window with task specific tabs) is isolated there. When I complete the task, all windows are closed and that workspace goes away.

If I realize I need to work on another task, I create a new workspace, and drag the email message or a terminal with a short description of what I need to do. I go back and finish my other task first, but now there is a whole workspace set up for my next task. I find this can be a useful reminder of what tasks I am currently working on and what I still need to do.

Currently on my personal laptop, I have a workspace open with an email that I need to respond to. Another open with a browser window to the Google Play store since I need to update my personal apps before the targetSdk deadline on the 31st. Another open with emacs + a few browser tabs with documentation for a personal project. Another with a browser window for the county business license website, since I need to renew that this weekend.

I usually end up with 4-12 workspaces at any given time.
Wait, was that last part a joke? Is this like a meta joke? You chastise someone else for making a joke and then make one yourself?
Usually the solutions range from a culture of “just don’t” to tests/mypy that have become increasingly stricter over the years, every time we’ve come a step further up the ladder. But I admit, it has taken quite some bridging to get there.

Moving to static Python in most places has dramatically improved the code and language.
Well sounds like you're gonna be disappointed.
Sorry. You don't need to pay for embeddings. What did not work for you? If the desktop app is where you ran into trouble, you can start with the editor extension (see https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody#readme) and just sign in via Sourcegraph.com instead of your local desktop app.
Because everything about these arguments lacks a grounded foundation in how the world works. Everyone wants to jump in with zero understanding of economics, behavior, energy, industry, incentives etc.

China is the worlds factory, so fun couple facts here:
-As the worlds reserve currency with no commodity backing, we sabatoge domestic manufacturing to give other countries like China something to sell us, if we didn't then the world wouldn't have the dollar and we would lose our hegemony as they look for a different trading currency. The world was in balance under the gold standard, because the supply of gold was not limited to any single country.
-American industry, like in any wealthy country, would self regulate emmisions (all pollutants actually, not just carbon), provide a better standard of living, and make better use of byproducts (see how advanced hydrocarbon refining actually is, where every possible output is extracted rather than wasting them by burning crude). No one wants to live in a toxic waste dump and historically industries clean themselves up even without government regulation.
I'd say C is actually a pretty good choice for an educational project like this. Having to write out all of your data structures by hand and manage your memory manually is a good learning experience, and since you're not writing serious production code, you don't have to worry too much about making mistakes.
It's mainly going to be anti-cheat and DRM trying to be tricky and mitigate hooks and obfuscate their behavior.
I don't understand if this is a joke or a desperate attempt to collect money ...

Tomorrow morning (like any other company of course) Wordpress could go bankrupt and they promise to guarantee the status quo for the next 100 years ...

As someone who has just spent a week trying to integrate the Wordpress API into an external software, I really hoped that they would make an announcement that they have decided to fix all this incredible mess of many years old APIs, incredibly survived all the technological improvements and make a professional and exhaustive developer documentation ...
Innkeeping is not exactly new.

Their innovations so far seem to be mostly around liability reduction and zoning law evasion. They're like a tobacco company at this stage, let's admit it.
Same. But the social life took a nose dive as a result. Still trying to figure that one out.
That would be awful, if true.

I have an Apple Pro Display XDR that I love to use with my iPad. I was thinking of getting a new iPhone 15 just for the USB-C port, hoping it would drive large monitors.

I would like to see some clarity on large monitor support before I upgrade my iPhone 11, because I love my slim iPhone 11. Any information on this will be appreciated!
Many companies would dream of a revenue with that many digits.
In my experience, syncing my iphone over wifi doesn’t really work. It will start fine, then lose the connection before it’s finished. Perhaps my old (2010) airport extreme is not up to the task? But in any case, I just use the cable instead, no problem.
Customer lock in? Who owns the domain, the customer or wordpress?

IMO never tie your domain registration to your hosting or any other service you run through that domain. You'll regret it as soon as you need to move something.
This is bullshit. I'm a full time youtuber, and creators get 55% of that money, and we really appreciate that income stream.

Youtube is actually one of the good companies out there when it comes to paying creators a fair share. No other company that I know of pay creators this well, and it is probably a big reason for their continued success.
Among the more amusing ones is Slate’s recent “See? It’s eight months later and there’s no mass unemployment yet”:

https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/chat-gpt-artificial-int...
I find it funny that when arguing there's no impact on planet, you focus on its biosphere, which is a tiny negligible percentage of total mass. Your loose definition of "planet" excludes huge core and mantle, but you are for some reason angry that most people's definition of planet is "life as we know it". It's a petty attempt to derail the discussion.

Blaming China and "enforcing changes" on other countries is misguided. China's emissions are mostly caused by West's demand for consumer goods. Let's do some action and improve around ourselves before demanding others to do the same.
Wouldn't you have saved time by starting with point 5?
“Save the planet” is not the literal “save the giant space ball”. It is short hand for “save the environmental components that are conducive to life on land and in the seas”. It is a common statement used by environmentalists since at least the 60s.

Though I suspect you know this and are just acting daft on the internet to straw man the modern environmentalist movement as a bunch of idiots. It’s not a good look and you would be well advised to consider the underlying points being made rather than arguing pedantic wordplay.
There are a lot of forces that would love to see the IA disappear. I wouldn't bet on them any more than I would on any other copy. If you really think something is worth preserving print it out on acid free paper or archival quality microfiche.
Those are the cool ones, the "do no evil" stuff.
The government could also just pile it up in the town squares of France, as freebies from the EU for everyone. Would be gone in a day. Seems strange to “destroy it” when the public will do it for free and it’s been subsidised and paid for. Unlikely I realise, but it’s not like wine goes off. Maybe they need the space for the next load of wine they’re going to cellar and then destroy…

Plus the article says the alcohol from the destroyed wine can be reused - seems like a bit of an effort to go through given the alcohol content of around 12%.
India Beat Russia to the South Pole. Now What?
How much do people transfe me data via cable now? Power transfer needs to be high for charging but data transfers continuously over the air. Everything on my iPhone syncs via Wi-Fi and cellular all the time. It’s been years since I wanted to plug it in.

I just don’t see this impacting many people.

And, as for the mentioned key pro features:

> Those will include a titanium chassis, thinner bezels, and all-new 3nm silicon as exclusive features.

I know no one who’s going to upgrade just to get a phone with a chip using a 3nm process. That’s not a feature most people look for. It might express itself as lower power so better batter life, or more features on die that will get used or similar, but by itself it’s just not a thing.

Similarly I don’t think the majority care about titanium or bezel thickness per se. They’ll buy them because they’re markers for the “Pro”.

The typical distinguishing features are actually better screens, cameras, processing power for actual features (I’d bet some AI stuff in there), etc.
Can one truly even solve once and for all? I don't think so.
Yes, but the fact that individual decision were intentional doesn't add up to that the overall goal was to wreck it.
Also adding an absolute classic (at least in my mind):

https://www.hackthissite.org/
I’ve never actually slept. I lay still in bed, until I find myself waking up. Time has passed, but I have no idea what happened during the time in between laying down and waking up. I only feel the effects of having slept. Similarly there is a version of me that has only ever slept, and knows nothing of the awakened life. Yet still I wonder, if there is even a third version unknown to both of us?
> I'm not sure what it means to "merge two functions into one", can you elaborate?

I'm not OP, but I see this pattern often enough:

def foo(**kwargs):
pass

der bar(**kwargs):
pass

def wrapper(**kwargs):
foo(**kwargs)
bar(**kwargs)
Outside of the books I mention the Foveon information online is bad and deteriorating. I mean they don’t seem to mention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Mahowald

From what I recall there are analog feedback stages between adjacent cells, and that was a ongoing theme throughout the work of the teams around Mead. His neuromorphic book is almost entirely about doing that to sound and images.

As an aside the Foveon cameras are worth experiencing. They are amazingly slow, the colours go wrong in less than perfect lighting (the stacked filter) but the edges on objects in resulting images have a definition that you only realize bayer filters completely destroy when they are gone.
I think it means a majority of players never build rail.
Fast? You seem to be serious, but I definitely wouldn’t say jira is fast.

Is the UX really that great? My company has rules about what needs to be filled out before a ticket will appear in our board, but there are so many different things that it is easy to skip one. But there is no indication in the ui of what is required versus what isn’t. It happens often enough that I’d say my user experience with jira is just short of rage inducing.
You’re paying because you want the product, but there’s incidentally a free ad-supported tier.

The way you phrase it makes it seem like you think they slapped ads on something that would have otherwise been a free gift.
Commuting when it isn't necessary is economically inefficient. Employees are required to pay the entirety of the cost. The only way this is likely to equalize out in favor of increased time on site is if employers start paying employees extra in some way for those days that they are required to be in the office.
>or that airline from 80's that took back through technicalities the "lifetime" ticket, no

As far as I'm aware American Airlines only revoked two lifetime AAirpasses of the 60+ sold; both were accused of using their companion pass fraudulently. From what I remember one was accused of approaching people at the airport and attempting to sell his companion seat, the other was accused of using his companion pass to book a seat next to his for a nonexistent person so he wouldn't have to sit next to anyone.
50 years ago this week a bizarre six-day bank heist spawned ‘Stockholm syndrome'
Many distros are made up of hundreds of individual developers, not a single trustworthy source.
"configuring a Linux base image for a specific server role" doesn't have a single desired outcome. There are a million ways to accomplish it. No two sysadmins would produce the same result.

And in the case where you're re-following the same process but with newer dependencies, there are going to be multiple 'desirable' states you should end up in in the event that the latest dependencies available aren't compatible.

I just don't follow how this insight is meant to make it possible to evaluate how to get out of this mess?
Thanks, I saw this on SO too.

Just curious: would it ever happen in practice?
I’ve been a software engineer for around 8 years and have had 5 different employers. One (Allstate) allowed us to buy more than the 15 vacation days, and gave us a few sick days I believe. They upped you to 20 after the first year, which is somewhat common in my experience. But no other job I’ve had, including 2 startups, gave sick days.

Microsoft, motherfucking Microsoft, starts you off at 15 days of PTO per year. I’m not really sure why people are itching to work there.
It doesn’t help on TV/mobile though, right?

I do appreciate that a lot of creators have been putting the “progress bar” during the sponsored segment that make them easier to skip
Making Large Language Models work for you
Let me ask you: Do you think that Agile/Scrum is not being re-evaluated / revisited by anyone at present?
This, there are literally thousands of comments on HN saying so and so, similar to the parent, but I've never got the impression on the ground in real city suburbs that even half the voting population would desire such 'innovations'.

And that's across quite a lot of cities in the US and Canada.

Most families who can afford to are willing to pay a huge premium in order to not share walls with a neighbour, even if it's only a few feet of grass and adds a longer commute.

Whereas most of the opposing sentiments I can only find as talk by random accounts online... and not in actual behaviour.
Naive question from someone not in the field but is there any solution out there that does not use IR + dark pupil segmentation?

Seems like all the solutions out there are some flavour or variation of this.
Another day older and deeper in debt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1980WfKC0o
I agree in some ways. Still, you can’t escape the uncertainty and complexity by seeking ‘usefulness’, at least to the degree that the term is undefined and contingent. Usefulness of LLMs (and whatever we combine with them) depends on research, funding, investment, attention, and applications.

People who talk about usefulness or ethics or politics too often fail to specify key details, such as a time frame and/or discount rate. Not to mention risk preferences.
Employers like this should go to therapy instead of externalizing their pathology to other people. Just take the DMS-5 and go through the bullet points of Anxiety Disorders, Paranoid Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, it fits very well.
_someone_ has to learn to build runtimes
Require employers to pay wages by the hour door to door.

Then see how much they want workers in the office.

This is a classic case of Stated Preference vs. Revealed Preference
Sure. enough to know that it works.
This is exactly what staged rollouts are for. The author ignored that best practice. You can halt any release as long as it is in progress. Once you mark it complete (defined as rolled out to 100%), you can’t roll it back.

Each track in Google Play (alpha, beta, canary, prod) can hold up to one release at a time. It would get really confusing if it allowed more than one. And with the other rollout safeguards provided decelopers, it’s quite possible and very easy to do exactly what you’re asking for.
And what kinds of tools do you think will be used to the assemble data center racks where you wish to “upload” yourself? :-P
How the Strugatsky brothers’ science fiction went from utopian to dystopian
My company has roughly ~60 employees and leased a building with 60 offices and 5 conference rooms. They tried to get us to come in more often (than once a week), saying they couldn't justify giving everyone their own office if we continued at 20% capacity. Everyone basically said fine, whatever, we're cool with sharing. So we just moved to a new building with like 20 offices and 7 conference rooms, for $25k less per month rent; and it's actually way nicer. The day I go in is stacked with meetings and collabs, so I'm never in an office anyway. Mgmt is happy (for now) they are saving on overhead (100% indirect, so double-good); I think they've accepted there's no going back.
It’s crazy to think that the human race will not be around.
For those of you who use Android TV devices, SmartTube is a wonderful (side loaded) option which supports both hardcoded ad skipping as well as the standard YouTube ads.

Completely unaffiliated, just a happy user.
So you are vehemently anti-youtube, yet it still sounds like you get tons of content from it.

Why not get your content from ad-free platforms?
To be fair, Twitter was headed in a downward spiral towards the end of Dorsey's reign as well. The political scene was a dumpster-fire tier mess, the remaining communities were spread out everywhere and the whole thing struggled to turn a profit. It's no wonder the previous shareholders sold out when they got the chance; Twitter's failure was writing on the wall.

It's fun to dog on psudointelligent billionaires like Musk and Ellison every once in a while, but Twitter as a platform just doesn't seem to work. The funding isn't stable, the staffing is too expensive and the expectations from the community are too demanding.
Are you sure? Java's println is pretty well optimized especially with the recent string builder optimizations.