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Not to any detailed extent. Oh sure, you might be able to tell if the developer is literally doing nothing due to incompetence or laziness ala Paula Bean:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean

But when there's a semblance of competence, then telling how productive a developer is isn't all too practical. Lines of code? A good developer will be just as likely to remove unnecessary lines that already exist as they will add new ones. Git commits? A look at any major open source event offering t-shirts for contributions can show you how that can be gamed. Tasks done on time? Nope, planning is often flawed at best.

It's not like a production line.
I'm surprised that no one has said anything about the fact that this is put out by a VPN company!

I also could not find their name on the map. It doesn't mean that it's not there, I just couldn't find them. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The only thing I find a VPN useful for is torrenting w/o your ISP knowing. In my case, I use Surfshark for torrenting so that Comcast can't send me any of those pesky letters.
Mine usually works great, controlling whatever program or video I'm watching, but 10% of the time it just decides to go control a completely different AV program in the background, for no discernible reason.

I don't have that issue with play buttons on Windows. Never tried media keys on linux.
Depending on how much of their usage is driven by the free public ChatGPT version, I wouldn't be surprised if they could close the loss gap if they switched to paid only. I believe enough people are hooked on it that any one of them would be willing to fork out a few bucks a month.
If you control the development of both A and B apps, then not so many. But generally you are not expected to load symbols from another application, you are expected to either use various IPC mechanisms or load symbols from a shared library instead of touching another application at all.
We sent the top ANC headphones to a lab to test their noise-canceling abilities
The good thing about Scrum is that there are hundreds of little dials that can be modified if you're not getting any value from it.

Due to this level of flexibility, it's always the right approach.
And I would hope that Dairy Queen, a company founded in 1940 to sell soft-serve ice cream (original formula 1938), is better at selling soft-serve ice cream than McDonald's.

Also, they're a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 1998.
I'm the author of the map and I'll get those updates on there now, the Mozilla node was actually hidden (as I need to update the corp info) and there's other corrections I'm making now.

If you have any other suggestions I'm more than happy to look into them and start getting them updated. This has been a passion project of my own for the past few years so I'm really grateful for any other feedback.
The only thing they left out in the article is what the effect of pollutants like BPA have on the birthrate. Currently, BPA, an artificial estrogen, is nearly everywhere from food, receipts, and now even clothing. PFAS, BPS, and a host of other pollutants are almost as widespread in many countries that experienced any decent amount of industrialization
In that case though the data collection is presumably required (to some extent) for the app to function. If you're tracking a users periods then you presumably need to store data about their period.

It's probably a case for why we should have anonymous users accounts for those kind of services. I don't know how practical that is.
Yup, I'm building a library that runs LLM's in browser with tagged template literals: https://github.com/gsuuon/ad-llama

I think it has fundamental DX benefits over python for complex prompt chaining (or I wouldn't be building it!) Even still -- if their focus is purely on AI, python is still the better choice starting from scratch. The python AI ecosystem has many more libraries, stack overflow answers, tutorials, etc available.
I also oppose this position. It's uninformed, even naive.
It's a huge problem. On the plus side though: there is an absolute mountain of information about this disease and there is substantial funding poured into getting it further under control. The holy grail (and artificial pancreas like a pace maker) is still a long way off. But substantial improvements have been made in the last decade and a half and I expect that trend to continue for a while.

What I love about this story is that the DIY community managed to break the log-jam of the manufacturers and the regulatory authorities by simply providing them with proof that it can work and can work reliably enough to be allowed on the market. That shortcut probably shaved at least a decade (possibly more) off the progress charts. Manufacturers were (to some degree rightly so) antsy about closed loop systems because it would require them to assume much more liability than they are normally used to, the symptom->diagnosis->action loop that you can engage in by close monitoring and patching together available systems cuts the human out of the loop: the system will function autonomously and a software error or hardware glitch has the potential to kill someone.

So the manufacturers were effectively all waiting on each other to show that this can be done safely and that holding pattern had already lasted for multiple years. In the meantime, the larger manufacturers had some time to gain the upper hand over reliability and teething problems of the newer generation of pumps and those came together just in time with continuous monitoring to enable a big step forward in a very hacked (but fully functional) way. No single manufacturer would have taken that risk at this point in time without that push. But now that it is done they can't be left behind either or they'll lose market share rapidly.

It's a pity that there are not more diseases (at least, not that I'm aware of) that would benefit from this approach, diabetes is unique in that respect.

Best of luck there. By the way: if you want to stay current with the developments in this field the best spot to look for is the announcement of trials, and sometimes the calls for volunteers for such trials.
I've seen BLOBs in an Oracle DB used to store Oracle install ISOs, which I think is ironic on some level.

Let's attach what we're using to the ticket. All of it. Why is the ticketing DB huge? Well, you attached all of it.
Presumably they actually can't, because the forked kernel would still be GPL.
It's that vs the annoyance of using Linux. Which is worse? I've been there, diagnosing bluetooth and wifi issues, dealing with free vs non-free drivers, finding out Netflix won't run in 1080p/4K, going down the Flash rabbit hole back then, dealing with sleep issues, having sound not work, jumping ship to whatever DE is best supported, messing with WINE for the plethora of non-Linux-supported apps, it never ends. A "how to do X in Linux" article exists for so many things that you'd never search for on Mac (or even Windows), but Linux users tend to make it sound like everything works out of the box.
Although different items can come together to form a product, it is McDonald's who brought them together as a WHOLE. This is strictly their property, and they have the right to keep their trade secrets, regardless of how bad they are.

If customers have problems with the machines, they should not buy them or use them. They have the freedom to choose. Additionally, if McDonald's has defrauded them in any way, they should sue McDonald's. There is a free choice.

iFixit may be great engineers who can perform magic, but they are literally asking Congress for an exemption to violate copyright law. This will not end with McDonald's; others will follow suit.

As for Ayn Rand's argument, because it provides the right expression in one line.
Because your ISP is probably selling your browsing history to the highest bidder, and there are a legion of data brokers out there collating every scrap of information they can get their hands on to build profiles about you.

To everyone who shrugs, and says they have nothing to hide, Would you feel comfortable wearing a T shirt in public that went into grim detail about everything you'd rather keep private, are insecure about, or might open you up to discrimination? Would you be willing to wear that to a job interview? To your bank when getting a loan?
Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
Hey guys, what VPN service are you using these days in non-work context? I used to use one VPN till some years back, mostly for US Netflix content and am thinking of going for something again.

Are VPNs still good for circumventing region blocks implemented by streaming services?

What VPN would you suggest wrt good mix of privacy, cost and platform support(desktop + browser + iPhone)?
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I understand the need but it bother me so much to recognise a studio when watching a tv show (or cheap movie). It's like the Wilhelm scream, it immediately reminds me I'm watching a something.

Especially the paramount studio https://www.paramountstudios.com/new-york-backlot.html
I've seen it, but I'm worried I won't get 5 years' use from it, if the screen cracks along the join.
Disclaimer, this is only half serious:

It is a tale as old as, well, at least as software management.

We used to make software. Sometimes it went alright, sometimes not. Then someone wrote down a rough idea of different approaches to software projects and gave a simple example of a naive process on the first page. The managers went with that, because iterative stuff looked complicated.

Then, after years of pain, some people wrote the agile manifesto, because it was clear that we were not on the right path. Then some marketing/sales/manager types saw it and figured 'how can we make money of this, without understanding it? Oh, and how can we get those pesky developers out of the room, they are always correcting me when I lying, eh, selling to the customer!'.. And thus we got scrum, it's process and tools over EVERYTHING, but in the color of agile.

Not much different then the blackboard paradox I think. Can find it, but it goes like: A uni uses blackboard. Users rebel, adminstration caves and buys the new, user friendly blackboard alternative. Users settle down, the software get developed further, the company that makes it grows and starts to implement checkmark features for the admins that decide on purchasing. And thus the software becomes blackboard too.
And what has that got to do with server load?
> Google said you could "save up to $294 over two years" compared to buying everything individually
Take this with a grain of salt, because I've only experienced aspects of scrum, and I didn't hate it.

I think it's a mistake to think in black-and-white terms about management approaches. It's a mistake to adopt scrum rigidly, and it's a mistake to reject it in full.

Instead, we should look at what works and what doesn't, and consider their merits on a per-project basis.

So at the risk of being a contrarian, here are the ideas that I personally think are valuable from scrum:

(1) Break down bigger projects into smaller ones. I'm not sure it's beneficial to rigidly define a spring as 2 weeks. But the opposite of this is endless scope creep, where there's no clearly defined finishing line. By my definition, some springs might take a day. Others, several months. It really depends on what we're trying to accomplish. The smaller the period of the sprint can be, the less risk there is of losing focus. To paraphrase Einstein: Sprints should be as short as possible, but no shorter.

(2) Sprint planning may have too narrow of a focus, since it's entirely focused on the upcoming sprint, rather than the big picture. But I prefer it to going into detailed monolithic plans (i.e. waterfalls). No plan survives contact with reality, and the further out you plan, the more fictional your plans become.

(3) While I don't like fixed meetings that repeat with a specific rhythm (i.e. what scrum calls "ceremonies"), there is value in at least considering them on a per-sprint basis. Not every sprint justifies a daily stand-up, iteration review, or retrospective. But they do have merit. I just think they should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis rather than applied across the board.

(4) I have mixed feelings about product backlogs. On the one hand, they spare you from trying to plan out how to implement every request under the sun. On the other hand, they encourage you to simply go to the backlog and pick things you feel like doing for the upcoming sprint, rather than being focused on the next most important things. Important things don't need backlogs to be remembered. Important things will keep coming up, over and over. You're not going to forget them.

(5) The term "scrum master" is icky for many reasons. But I do believe someone should be in charge. Search all the parks of the world and you won't find statues to committees. Leadership matters.
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IVPN are studs of the industry, no doubt. Very serious folk working hard on sticking to their privacy principles - rare today for sure!
> Temperatures between 0C and 100C

At that time in the early universe, there were no carbon, oxygen, or nitrogen atoms, and no planets with water. Life could only get started several million years after the first supernovas made heavy atoms.
Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam has four "metropolitan" (Berlin/Paris/New York/London) streets: https://www.studiobabelsberg.com/en/backlots/metropolitan-ba...
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This is only 2 years after it announced they're moving to a native macOS UI: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-20...
There were a few I recall (years ago, can't remember their name) that got raided by the FBI and it showed they had nothing to give the feds.
The OP barely has any experience in the field so... One bad gig is maybe 50% of his work experience.
“We are disguising this round of seed funding as a grant, accomplishing all of the below:

1) brand-washing for people who don’t do the math

2) avoiding angering our LPs and/or violating our fund theses and

3) getting in on the ground floor of things that might follow OpenAI through the non-profit-to-VC-darling door

Thanks for reading our press release, feel free to try to apply using your personal network (somehow) because we don’t care as we’ve already landed our positions.”
Even in the 1980s, local retail stores such as computers or cameras were on the ropes. A friend of my dad's was a salesman at a local small camera store, he would talk about spending hours with a customer showing him different cameras and lenses, only to have the guy leave and save $10 ordering from a 47th Street Photo ad in a photography magazine.
You know, waterfall only fails when you build things nobody wants.

If you, on the contrary, invest ridiculous amounts of time in user research and only build things that are validated then waterfall is fine.
I'll take anything over the cheese quesadilla, except they forgot the cheese, that I got at a new Chipotle location.
Inded Subaru is still AWD in all the ICE product line. However, Subaru only has the SUV EV ported over from Toyota (it reviews poorly). It's sole hybrid is in the Crosstrek which essentially only exists on paper. Subaru is losing the EV/hybrid/PHEV game. It's very sad to see (as a huge Subaru fan).
What killed me is that I had an ATI Graphics Solution that could do Plantronics modes[1]. Even came with a demo disk showing off the glorious 16 colors. Took 30+ years but someone finally wrote a Sierra driver for it[2]!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantronics_Colorplus

[2] https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=75877
Thank you! Personally I started to ignore any post from twitter on HN, which otherwise has fantastic quality on its content, since you just know that the content will shallow and "clickbaity".

My wish is for HN to ban all links from there. It would be better to HN anyways if the discussions got contained within the forum instead.

It would be nice if it became normal for HN users to flag and or at least refrain from upvoting twitter links, since my belief is that they are bound to influence HN negatively.

Failing that I suppose I'll have to mess around with an extension so that my browser removes them automatically instead.
The real news here is that a Google service lasted more than 12 months
The case with foreign govts are expressly part of why I'm unlikely to ever visit certain countries. Being critical of a foreign govt online can get you in trouble if you ever need/want to visit. Best case, you get turned back... but can only imagine how bad a worst case could get.

Or, having your own govt take you out with a drone strike while on foreign soil.
Speaking of: In the past few weeks it feels like GitHub's/OpenAI's/Microsoft's Copilot has gotten dramatically more powerful - like it's including a larger code context when doing the suggestions. Does this resonate with other people's experiences?

(Could be random based on what I've happened to work on lately though.)
So “Binder jetting” to create a shape of metal particles, sintering to melt and remove binding agent, then machining to clean up and make final shape.

To my very non expert opinion is this much different from cutting from solid block, CNC, then sending off waste to be melted back into blocks?
Its not so simple. Reinforcement, subbase, and other factors are used in the design of roads.

https://archive.org/details/TheHandbookOfHighwayEngineering/...
This guy is a grifter with uninformed, ranty opinions, and it's a shame he is getting so many of these HN eyeballs for his purposefully provocative nonsense.

Here's my more comprehensive post the last time this was raised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37289151#37290237

The TL;DR is that he's just making unsubstantiated angry ravings and being treated like he's saying something meaningful because there are people on this site who happen to agree with him.

But if course, if you pay him, he'll say whatever you like, per his website.
Usually mindless implementation of some buzzword process in its entirety is doomed to failure. I worked for a manufacturing company a number of years ago. I was a developer, working on machine control software.

Management decided that the company needed to implement the 5S workspace management system company wide. In short, one focus of the system is to help you put tools and materials back in the right spot to keep the workspace organized for the next person that needs to use it.

This is helpful for organizing the manufacturing workspaces where different employees would be coming in on different shifts and using the same space.

They had engineering (software, mechanical, electrical) doing the same thing. They sent up rolls of different colors of tape so we could mark all the stuff on our desks and asked us to write documentation about our workspaces. We were all marking off with tape "Keyboard", "Mouse" and "Stapler". It was truly asinine. I left the company shortly after that.
I have no faith in any of Google’s endeavours lasting. When you sign up for any Google service, you’re essentially a human lab rat with the odds being the service will be unceremoniously cancelled. I’ve developed the “anything but Google” mentality with this in mind.
If no-log is a priority, you need Tor, not a VPN.
"if everyone is productive, don't hire a manager, promote." applies here.

If scrum isn't working for you and you're productive, do more of that.

If what you have isn't working, and scrum might help. Do that.

That's the point. Don't break something just because others are doing it.
And yet another Google service goes to the Google Graveyard.

The only practical advice you can follow now is "if it's a Google product and it's not Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail or Docs, don't bet on it being around in the long term"
Freedom of opinion and expression won't protect hate speech that is protected in the US
>Wider hardware choice

You're joking right? Sure, something built in 2002 will probably still work well in Linux, but that's often the case for Windows, and on a Windows system, the hardware AND the proprietary software it came with will probably still work.

Meanwhile, in Linux land, if you don't buy very very very specific hardware you can never hope to have functional sleep.
I wish the donors of superpacs had to be disclosed.
We work in source code security auditing with semi-automated tools using AI and other techniques.

Is this approach covered in the grants?
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Now do mushrooms
This "waterfall had all this effort go into a product only to get feedback at the end" was Winston Royce's own diagnosis of the problem with the waterfall model he formalized.

That's part of it. In more practical terms, assigning people to tasks tactically as a project progresses is probably 80% of the advantage of Agile.

You are also spot on that you can start an Agile project and find your architecture is a pile of poo 2/3rds of the way through, in part because you can start without the waterfall set of specs.

A lot of the dissatisfaction in the "Scrum is cancer" article is about estimation, and I agree: Trying to improve estimation is a fool's errand. Your highest risk tasks are generally what create the most value, solve the hardest problems, etc.

More emphasis on retrospectives, and accepting that estimation fails most of the time, is what a lot of Scrum-as-a-cargo-cult misses.
I checked and surprisingly this is true.
What do you think about this device? I bought an iPhone SE and dropped it onto the rug in my living room and it broke so bad it won't even come on. I'm never buying another all-glass phone again.

I checked out the specs on this phone - I'd love to hear what you think about it.
I'm not convinced that those factors would lead to a net increase. Every day I see cars parked at gas stations for 5 minute fillups. Then they go home or to work to normal parking spaces.

EVs eliminate that middle parking spot most of the time. And, tbh, even on road trips, gas cars spend a significant amount of time stopped. They just spend less of that stopped time getting fuel.
Agree -- I would have biased toward a two-line arrangement, with space for the town name on the upper line, centered independent of length, and "Police Department" on the lower.
Excellent. I've used something similar on some joke websites, nothing serious though.
Why would they only accept credit cards? Stripe can do IDEAL just fine. Getting a card just for this service is a waste of money.
> management and business stakeholders can have an understanding of how efforts are being allocated and give feedback on it

I agree that devs can often mistake this need for wasted time. That does _not_ mean that Scrum is the best way to not waste time. A good project manager can get that info without so many full team meetings.

I guess one way to put it is that scrum is a clear way to lead a project (which is what entices people) but its not a great way.
Your point about underlying data structures is spot on, in my view.

> Last quip to reflect on. "What's true of every bug found in the field? ... It passed the type checker. ... It passed all the tests. Okay. So now what do you do? Right? I think we're in this world I'd like to call guardrail programming. Right? It's really sad. We're like: I can make change because I have tests. Who does that? Who drives their car around banging against the guardrail saying, "Whoa! I'm glad I've got these guardrails because I'd never make it to the show on time."

I've been avoiding bringing up this point/example, but this is what prompted me to start thinking more deeply about types and their tradeoffs. Great talk, IMO.
Every single LCD display technology right now has serious flaws. I don't understand it.
I want to congratulate you based on your current grant recipients. They are all very impactful individuals/teams. It shows that you clearly did your research and put the money in the right places.