skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is why I like Kanban: it gives me the next thing to work on and then I get to go home knowing I worked on something important. Scrum puts in those arbitrary sprint deadlines, but work never lines up to be finished in 2 weeks so either I'm scrambling to get work done anyway, or I'm out of work that can be done before the end (the process never really accounts for work crossing boundaries even though it always does)
There exist systems where, instead of selecting a floor when you enter an elevator, you select a floor in the hall and then are told which elevator to take. I wonder how much this advance knowledge about who is going where helps with scheduling. Intuitively I feel like it should help substantially, but in practice people get confused by these systems and end up on wrong floors.
There is plenty of middle ground between capeshit and a stage play.
They do have a really compelling conccurent processing story though, which is what most people mean when they say it's better at IO.
So if the main factor were external, then I guess switching to a new job was the right decision! For the internal, I think most of us want to do a good job. In the end, you do not owe them more than the hours you signed in your contract :)
I don't think you quite appreciate how fucking bad HIV/AIDS was, and is to this day.
ChimeraOS (https://chimeraos.org/) should if SteamOS won't.

ChimeraOS works with some caveats on the Asus ROG Ally which is similar hardware to the Legion Go:

https://chimeraos.org/hardware/
>>>once you ban straws the next thing you know you might actually deal with the main cause of climate change and we wouldn't want that now would we.

How are you going to deal with solar radiation, earth's position and orientation, the jet stream, and water vapor?
probably fairly easy to deal with.

[citation needed]
> Any reason the fuse couldn't go in the socket instead?

Because changing the fuse in a socket just because you're unplugging a lamp and plugging in a kettle would be very stupid. With the fuse in the plug, you have the correct fuse in every plug.
Do you mean the .Net Foundation brouhaha a year or two ago around code ownership? Or Visual Studio, the product? Or simply that some people will never forgive Microsoft for embrace-extend-extinguish and as a result won't ever give any tech a chance of it originated from Microsoft?
> is this really claiming that plastic starts to fall apart from the get-go

Yes.

Microplastics are everywhere. Everywhere on the planet we look, we find microplastics. Just ... everywhere.

Beekeepers are using plastic worker brood foundations, for example. Honey is often stored in plastic buckets and bottles, somewhere in the production process/transport.

And it's not just the honey.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/08/micropla...

Microplastics detected in meat, milk and blood of farm animals

https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/single-view/ark...

Arctic ice algae heavily contaminated with microplastics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/micropla...

Microplastics found in human blood for first time

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...

Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-plastic-bags-bottles-microplas...

Opening plastic bags and bottles may generate microplastics

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...

Microplastics are raining down from the sky

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plastics-remote-places-m...

Plastics are showing up in the world’s most remote places, including Mount Everest
Please get the opinion of medical professionals in your real life on this. Not on the internet.
That's true - Elixir is simpler to learn than, say, Haskell. All I'm saying is that it's not a trivial jump from Elixir to Ruby, despite the superficially similar syntax.
Nuclear apocalypse risk is not a linear function of warheads. There is still more than enough warheads to cause near total annihilation and politically, we are closer to it than at any point in the 80s.
It's also somewhat of a boogeyman. I mean they are real problems, widespread even, but the "everywhere-ness" of them is the boogeyman. You dont necessarily have to be as afraid of it as it may seem.

Sure its a real problem and we shouldn't be complacent. But is your faucet suddenly killing you or not? Maybe it's actually not. And maybe you should confirm that it is before being afraid of it after reading articles online.
I should mention the answers won’t influence my decision either way, since I have been taking cold showers for months due to my financial situation and I have gotten used to them. At worst I'm curious about the gravity of long-term negative effects on my health. On the other hand, I would be relieved if there weren’t any. At best, the potential health benefits are just a bonus for me, but not necessary, to be honest.
Scrum might not be the right fit for every situation. It depends on stuff like project size, complexity, how your organization rolls, flexibility needs, team size and distribution, and whether your project is stable or unpredictable. If your project is huge, has lots of moving parts, or your organization isn't keen on change, scrum definitely is not the right one.
And what's wrong with the first part of the comment?
Read: Amazon CEO lays off its remote staff without severance
Makes me so happy to know EFF and ethical hackers like this exist. I know they can’t test every app and every situation, but that there are hobbyists like this is such a testimony to humanity.
There are entire github repos dealing with it.

Frankly the Elixir ecosystem, which is not without merit, is more interested in perpetuating the myth of magic scalability by virtue of the beam.
I wish I could ask a doctor but I'm waiting for the authorities to confirm my residency before I can register for a doctor and it's been a month already. Can't afford a private one either as of now.

Like I said in another comment

> I have been taking cold showers for months due to my financial situation and I have gotten used to them. At worst I'm curious about the gravity of long-term negative effects on my health. On the other hand, I would be relieved if there weren’t any. At best, the potential health benefits are just a bonus for me, but not necessary, to be honest.
I know a company that built its core systems using elixir.

Finding people is a nightmare.

Really I can’t think of anything that would justify using a niche language over javascript/Python/C++/Golang/C#/Java.

Surely one of these will get the job done.
Amazon has Hollywood’s worst shows but its best business model
Nice to have - cleans porcelain more often than a person might.

But it didn't clean the mirror, counter. Didn't change any paper. Barged into a stall without knocking or waiting. Didn't set up a 'floor slippery' sign. Didn't replenish soap.

Not gonna replace humans soon.
Logically, this is correct.

However, your point is irrelevant as you have insufficient data to prove it. Stating that the average US citizen consumes twice as much is quite a daring that needs to be proven.
Japan incinerates trash for energy, and yet they typically require residents to separate plastics from "burnables". Maybe it'd be better (and easier) for everyone if we just started putting everything into the burnable pile.
btw, Python has had pattern matching for almost two years now: https://peps.python.org/pep-0622/

If you support Python 3.10+ you can do this far more cleanly.
> That's the bottom line. They failed to prevent it (forgot to lock their door) but in no way did they actively "give their stuff away"

A better analogy is that the bank forgot to lock their frontdoor, failed to install a security system, and failed to secure their vault.

That our laws have zero accountability for these “banks”, even for good faith tap on the shoulder, is the ongoing failure of information security and our legal system.
Start researching FIRE. You make a lot of money, put it to good use.
This seems like a quick and easy way for me to have an interim version of my desktop app. I have a few questions:

1) What are the "plugins" a pro subscription gives me. I could only see info on filesystem access in the docs.
2) Likewise, what is the "restricted API" that pro subscription brings.
3) Do I have any control over the "updates". For example, when I release a native app, I would want it to "update" to that.
4) I am curious of the choice of electron over using the native browser libraries, given that the applications it targets are always web-first. Is there any reason you decided to go that route?
5) What happens in the event I cancel the subscription? Will the apps cease to work? How is this presented to the end user?

The pricing feels a bit off to me. Its just below the "ill just wrap it in electron" cost for a one-off, but I am not sure if i would be happy to pay it as an ongoing fee given the lack of apparent value-add at the basic tier.
HIV/AIDS does not just affect gay people, stop spreading this myth.
I tried D on a few projects a few years ago, its good. Very flexible in what you can achieve with meta-programming.

I think one reason it doesn’t get more attention is because some people get scared when they read GC, its a no-go for some.

I’d say for being a GC language, it’s still worth looking in to.
YOLO is a model architecture in computer vision (You Only Look Once).

https://blog.roboflow.com/whats-new-in-yolov8/

In one example, dictionary dispatch decides what model to use: YOLOv5, v8, SAM, and others.
pretty sure yolo is an object recognition ML model
My suggestion, which isn't rocket science:

Ban plastic food containers for any type of long-term storage or anything that gets heated up (and different plastics have different microplastic shedding profiles, so ban the worst first) and also ban PFAS in anything that gets close to food. It will increase costs, but the alternative is we poison ourselves, so it is sort of needed. Phase it in so that industries have time to adapt.
Scrum is fine. The problem is making it too formal and having the wrong people involved in it. It is a way for engineers to get things done. That is all.
According to unconfirmed reports, a French airline entered a flight plan incorrectly, resulting in some form of data corruption. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-one-badly-filed-fligh...

NATs has reported that the system is now back up and running. It is possible that the secondary system took over with data syncing having to take place before the switchover?

My original post was about my interest in the technical aspects of redundancy and failover mechanisms in something as mission-critical as air traffic control.

I come from a background in broadcasting, where failover is critical, and redundancy is built into any broadcast chain. e have multiple backups and jumping-off points to deal with any issues that arise. It's pretty rare we could ever go to “black”.
As far as I can tell, you’re basing this off a single thread from a prior techempower round. The result being cleaned up in a subsequent round, but are ignoring that.
i don’t think evolution works that fast; the only thing that fast would be something like selective breeding for dogs, but thats intentional; the type of evolution you’re talking about is more on the order of 10^6 years
You can download the xpi file directly from the versions page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...) and extract it:

$ file grasshopper_urls-746.xpi
grasshopper_urls-746.xpi: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=deflate
The current behavior is akin to an HTTP server shutting down whenever it receives an invalid HTTP request. Or, for an even better analogy, it is like an HTTP server that, upon receiving a malformed HTTP request, drops all current and future traffic from that IP. A malicious user can then issue a malformed HTTP request through an open proxy, and deny all other connections to that server throgh that proxy for all other users who were sending proper requests.
I work in cybersecurity as a programmer -- every day I get to work on a product that helps keep people safe. That feels good.
I see "scrum master" as similar to "president" in the sense that anyone who wants the position should be kept as far away as possible.

It's a position very similar to "engineering architect" where you're given a huge amount of leeway to impose rules and process, but you have almost zero accountability.

The absolute worst are the "certified scrum masters" who are utterly bought in on whatever bogus "one true scrum process!" bullshit they've paid money to be certified in from a scummy for-profit company. I avoid these people like the plague - they kill companies.

In general - you can do quite a bit of "scrum" without any scrum master at all. Share early and often, adjust based on what else you're seeing shared and customer feedback, treat the people around you with respect, be accountable for the respect others are giving you. No scrum master needed.
C is so important.
There's a link to the github in the store.
You need to add obesity to that.
China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence operation
Most likely - just like shims popped up to share PuTTY's ssh-agent with WSL1.

These days I'm just running a full blown Linux DE in a VirtualBox VM since its graphic console isn't objectively terrible like Hyper-V. If for some reason I need to copy/sync files with the Windows host - well that's just an rsync away thanks to Cywgin.
Modular secures $100M to build tools to optimize and create AI models
how do you determine the difference between a "narrative" that is a true reflection of reality and a "narrative" that is to "milk money from middle class Americans"?
It’s still a massive pain in the ass to deal with.

Last time one of my cards was compromised it was hours in the phone getting the fraud case opened then the better part of a day going through and updating everything I could identify that was relying on that card. That handled the monthly stuff but I still occasionally find out what yearly charge has failed when the account/service gets shut down.

The compromised card was cancelled immediately but it took weeks for the new card to get here, which means either I had to transfer everything to a different card which was _supposed_ to be a “never use this” backup card. So now I either go back and spend a day transferring everything back to the original card (but still with the risk that some merchant will have now leaked my backup card…) or, I don’t know, go sign up for another card.

Oh, and I very nearly didn’t actually get the charges reversed because apparently that institution only accepts fraud disputes up to something like “date statement was issued + 14 days”.

“Yeah I don’t try and avoid car accidents, insurance will cover it!”

It’s nice that that’s there as a fallback, but it’s certainly something I’ll try and avoid where I can. Using a more trustworthy intermediary when I’m ordering from random tiny merchants is a really easy and low impact way to reduce my risk and hassle here.
The core idea here is that when I'm commenting out a block of code for testing, I don't really want to think about what is inside of it. So while I think this might help, I'd rather just have /* with one asterisk nest.

What I'm not sure of is whether there's an edge case I haven't thought of which would make this problematic.
Why would you look inside a burger? And how do you know it was "plastic"?
Cloudflare’s tenant platform in action: Meter deploys DNS filtering at scale
I completely agree with you, but there is a kernel of truth to what they say. I would be apprehensive about using this API for anything serious.
I think Eugenism started with this kind of argument.
> Except in very minor cases, duplication is virtually always worth fixing.

I disagree with the severity of this, and would posit that there are duplications that can't be "fixed" by an abstraction.

There are many instances I've encountered where two pieces of code coincided to look similar at a certain point in time. As the codebase evolved, so did the two pieces of code, their usage and their dependencies, until the similarity was almost gone. An early abstraction that would've grouped those coincidentally similar pieces of code would then have to stretch to cover both evolutions.

A "wrong abstraction" in that case isn't an ill-fitting abstraction where a better one was available, it's any (even the best possible) abstraction in a situation that has no fitting generalization, at all.
The brain connections between our hands and tongues
> Not every piece of code is an abstraction of course. To me, an abstraction is a piece of code that’s expressed in high-level language so that the distracting details are abstracted away. If I were to see a confusing piece of code littered with conditional logic, I wouldn’t see it and think “oh, there’s an incorrect abstraction”, I would just think, “oh, there’s a piece of crappy code”. It’s neither an abstraction nor wrong, it’s just bad code.

The wrong abstraction isn't crappy code itself. It is a reasonable looking piece of code that will force the next person into writing crappy code to accommodate it.

Edit: I think the entire project of TensorFlow is a good example of this. They built the library around a "graph" entity, and anything you did had to be shoehorned to fit that. That worked OK for some straightforward neural networks and situations for a while. As the area evolved though, it proved very burdensome. They tried to evolve it into TensorFlow 2.0 which was more forgiving, but by that point it was too late, the ecosystem became a mess. PyTorch stole the thunder because they didn't make the wrong abstraction (though I'm not sure if "duplicating" is what helped them do that)
The truth of the matter is that most organizations are fundamentally incompatible with agile.

Organizations obsess over details. They want detailed plans and cost estimates months ahead. They have a low or zero tolerance for failure. They think in hard promises/contracts and punishment for those that don't deliver. All of this is entirely opposite to the core of agile, which "discovers" reality as it progresses.
You already kind of know that it would be better if our bodies weren't infiltrated with microplastics though don't you?
In Scrum, I have to argue during a meeting why something in the backlog is important, and if I can successfully convince others, I then have to apply an abstract, unitless measure of complexity to that task, keeping in mind that not everyone has the same skillset. Worse, if the team completes all of their tasks ahead of time, we have to revisit Step 0 to decide what to pull into the sprint, and then discuss during the retro why we underestimated the length.

In Kanban, I get shit done, and when it's done, I get more shit done.
The IM1 Spherules from the Pacific Ocean Have Extrasolar Composition
I think you need a caveat... Right now.

There was a time where computers took up the space of whole rooms and had much much MUCH less processing power than the phone I am currently writing this comment on...

The same thing will happen with ai.
>Is this manager advanced enough to replicate Vivaldi's tab tiling and stacking functionality?

No, but it can do a bunch of stuff, which you can try.

>also not sure why the screenshots devote 80% of space to non-addon functionality like page with some distracting chip images and colored tables

Was easier to take screenshots like this. But maybe I'll try cropping next time. I guess the idea was to show how it looks as a sidebar, or as a popup.
It depends. If it's not some core area of the code, but more like a script, some code that lives at the periphery, it might be better to "duplicate" almost similar code that is hard to abstract.

I saw attempts to remove "duplication" that made the code so hairy and hard to read, as opposed to very readable. I put duplication in quotes, because code might be similar, but not 100%.

Some code is easy to deduplicate.

Some code might be hard, and if the overengineering is done to remove 2 occurrences at some code periphery, is not worth it.
What's so hard about understanding that easily accessible groups of documents is a useful concept in organizing your digital life?

And why do you think they don't? I'd love to have a consistently great tab management experience in all the apps that have tabs (and all the apps that don't). It's just they are more closed, so it's harder to do that with some extension

And it's a bigger issue for the browser since you'd usually have more pages opened there
I'm reminded of the whole story behind

* https://coconuts.co/bangkok/features/primitive-technology-an...

* https://coconuts.co/bangkok/features/primitive-technology-yo...

People just make content that get views and optimize what gets eyeballs. Take people out of the equation and add gradient descent and who knows what insanity will be unleashed.
Don't you just make someone else more poisoned then ? Seems shit...
Kyrgyzstan passed a law banning many single-use plastics from January 1st, 2027. I hope the ban sticks. It will be challenging to make the economics work.

https://24.kg/english/272281__Production_and_sale_of_plastic...

https://24.kg/english/272323__Kyrgyzstan_to_fine_for_sale_an...
> Improvement of health services reduces selection pressure on reproductive fitness of population

Yes this is true. With all the C-section babies we have now, if we ever loss access to low cost surgical delivery care, we are going to have a spike in childbirth related deaths. But the male infertility crisis is rising faster than evolution can adapt here. There is something external involved.
Don't you think the payment incentivises people to return their bottles for reuse versus leaving them lying at parks etc.?
Exposure, especially kids. Also food it I had to guess.

It seems that we are shielding ourselves ever more from exposure to nature. Which has tremendous benefits, but allergies seem to play into that.

As for food, I have now seen too many people cure themselves from hayfever and other allergies by ditching carbs, or other significant dietary changes. No accident if you ask me. And would line up somewhat with industrialization of food production post 1800 or so.
Not OP, but for me the higher level decisions stick, but not the bitty gritty detail. And I'm ok with that, I care less about the implementation detail and more about the higher level problem solving, and using these LLMs I feel make me better at that.
Yo dawg I hear you like apps, so we put an app in the browser in your app...
Chrome Sync privacy is still bad
Donating to organizations that are anti-nuclear power seems counter productive to me.
It's still strange to call a hole in a door a cat door.
Apparently it cannot be called a cat hole though [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathole
What?? Did I miss VR Hacker, NFT Hacker and Metaverse Hacker? ;)
It's available here: https://github.com/madprops/grasshopper. The link was in the left sidebar behind some tracking redirect.
I think we really need a big and aggressive government response to this issue, possibly more important than climate change.
...we should be just fine in the (English-speaking) west then: to a first approximation, no-one can afford the US health services outside dire emergencies, while over in the UK they're busy "starving the beast" so they can privatise huge swathes of it.
Well-written item.

I disagree with some of it. Scrum does a pretty good job keeping things flowing when it isn't hijacked for political reasons. Unfortunately, it is usually hijacked for political reasons.

I'd worked one contract project almost 3 years under Scrum and it went great as a B2B setup. But I've seen internal projects fail miserably because Scrum got hijacked.
TIL that creep can even happen at room temperature (albeit Caribbean room temperature) if the stresses are great enough and the time span long enough.

I always thought that it was more a thing for objects like jet engine turbine blades, that get very hot as well as having very great forces acting on them.
Ha! I thought it was just me! I'm so grateful I'm not the only one who feels the same way as you mate.