skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understand, it's a relatively global operation. Swedish gangs essentially franchise the business model from the Mexican cartels.

Swedish immigrants are susceptible to this because Sweden did a spectacularly poor job at integrating these people. The idea was to liberally accept immigrants to solve the demographic crisis and the pension system, but along the way most of the immigrants who moved to the country were let down and given fairly shitty life prospects.

Turns out these people aren't filled with grateful joy over having undignified dead end jobs and living in dinky apartments in segregated communities in derelict apartment buildings from the '70s. Quelle surprise.
So if it's "racist" you are implying that you identified a certain "race" while the comment was mentioning immigrants, which could well be white but apparently you have other non-white immigrants in mind and therefore came yourself to a "racist" conclusion ?
We were talking about the title "Swedish cities hit by four residential explosions"
I'd argue that if you have an IN() with more than a dozen values, you're doing it wrong. Especially so if that's something that your app does often and it needs to be fast (as opposed to one-of analytic queries where you don't care about performance).
Tech workers to protest Project Nimbus at Google Cloud conference
Recently untangled this WTF. So stupid.
If I'd had to take a guess they're outsourced. I've worked at consultancies that provided for manufacturing, retail, etc. They may or may not have a thin internal presence and then the rest are contractors from the outsourcing company like Accenture. B2B / wholesale manufacturers wouldn't need a digital presence or anything like that.

I was at a Supermarket once, looked at the cash register (that had a screen) and the back of it had a Netsuite logo - so clearly outsourced.
>> Flatpak wants to download 3D drivers, patented video codecs, themes, locales, Qt 5, KDE 5, GTK 3, ICU, LLVM, ffmpeg, Python, and everything else in org.kde.Platform, all to run a calculator.

> Flatpak installs these runtimes to ensure that you and other users are running the exact same binaries and libraries

So this calculator's use /runs/ these 3D drivers, patented video codecs, ffmpeg etc.? Sounds very unlikely.
As others have said, there's a lot to be said for having a single name field and not trying to second-guess how people expect this to be presented. There's huge variation here, and some cultures don't even have a concept of a single last/family name.
Best Authentication Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) for a Web-Serverless Stack?
Hello,

for a web app that I'm developing I would like to integrate a login using the usual auth methods (Google, Apple, Github, email).
Which services can you recommend that allow for a fast integration. I was recommended clerk, but later noticed that it's quite expensive. Also I don't mind implementing my own form. Do you know any alternatives?
You are being protected through lower prices driven by competition. If you read the article, it mentions that MS is selling O365 without Teams at a lower price, so you’re not really paying extra (or marginally so based on the standalone Teams pricing). If Teams is bundled with O365 for free, as a business, why would I use Slack or Zoom if I am cost conscious? Fast forward 5 years, Teams is the only video/messaging software left in the market, and MS can price as they wish because you don’t have another option.
Oh...so it does get worse.
Appreciate the transparency. Fwiw, I don't understand from the FAQ what's your opposition to jetbrains model, which has been universally praised for its friendly compromise of user vs developer needs. As the other commenter mentioned, a) subscriptions get too many and b) subscription model means I have to keep paying forever. It makes it crystal clear I am not buying and I am not owning my tool.

(that being said, I always appreciate and recognize the freedom of producer to charge whatever model they choose to, there's no moral qualms here:)
> I am suspicious of it because it was touted to me as "made by Russians" but since I'm one it had the opposite effect.

You're suspicious but it had the opposite effect? Sounds like you're trying to deliver a talking point and got confused half way thru.
You are proposing a mechanism for determining the price but not the quantity. And, since the quantity can be arbitrary, then, thought bidding, so can the price (within limits).

Furthermore, if the H1B is causing a cost/loss to someone, then the money should go to these people. You can argue that the H1B is harming local workers, but it cannot possibly be harming future/potential workers to which you propose to give the scholarship.
TL;DR the quantity is killing the quality. There are so many small cubesat-style missions that we're actually losing communications time with James Webb to keep track of them all. And Artemis is going to swamp everything with downlink data rates.

I worked at JPL, sometimes with the folks mentioned in this article. I suspect this is a money problem, not a technology problem. IIRC, everyone knows optical (laser) comms are going to carry a lot more load, and the DSN build-out plan already specs more ground-stations with smaller radii (better for closer tracking) vs larger dishes (better for voyager / juno style missions). There's also been commercial support (e.g., Amazon[1])

These folks know how to do it effectively and efficiently (and cheaply) just need the resources and permission.

1. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amazon-launches-a...
For a little over a century, the left wing Swedish Social Democratic Party dominated Swedish politics. For decades, they and their voters have argued that enforcing migrant dispersal, as they do in Denmark, is racist and an abuse of human rights. They argue that migrants should be free to live anywhere they please. I can understand the sentiment at face value, but the deleterious social effects are undeniable. It is an example of compassion taken to an illogical extreme; ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
I don't know what you imagine I'm unfamiliar with (and you're probably wrong, but never mind that), but familiar or not, it's quite easy to handle the unexceptional cases, almost by definition.
what you describe is not the definition of social media which I see commonly used, especially in a legal context

technical details like weather it uses threads in the end IMHO doesn't matter for weather is social medi

social media is internet media used is used for socializing

which means that while classical forums are most times not social media but they can be

discord is not a form, it gained forum functionality somewhat recently, but the most common use case people have for discord is to socialize, hangout and chat in small communities. Does't mean it doesn't also get used as a forum, still it's more used for social interactions then anything else.

Reddit on the other hand is in between a classical forum and social media, though increasingly more social media in recent years and saying it's not social media just IMHO isn't right.
Thank you for letting me know! It's weird because I have 10K+ downloads on Android and it's the first time I'm hearing this issue. Will investigate!
> Also please stop using mongodb

But it's the ONLY webscale database [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
My sister quickly dropped out of getting an English degree. She just had no realistic idea or plans for what to do after HS, and college was pushed as the thing to do.

When I was in HS, councilors looked at me like I was an idiot when I said I didn’t want to go to college after HS (admittedly I regret it, but didn’t affect my “success”)
Manager doesn't have to be in the meetings to become aware of problems you pose for the Scrum process. Multiple sets of eyes are watching.
Reactions when checking out the homepage:

* Huh, that is quite a bit cheaper and I don't love wise

* Is it available for US customers? I can't quite tell

* Eugh, I don't want to download an app. I'm working on my laptop right now, not my phone. I do 99% of my Wise payments on my laptop

Then reactions reading the HN comments:

* People noting that 50% cheaper is good but 99% cheaper a concern that it won't last. And the transfer fees I pay to wise are nothing compared to the headache if there was a payment issue. I agree with both of those, I'm convinced to stick with wise until I'm sure that this would be both cheaper and equally credible and low-risk / low-hassle
If those people don't want to get killed then they should not invade other countries.
Sorting. Though I don't think there's a culture-agnostic way to do this, either.
Because no matter how much time you give it, there are social problems that need to be solved first; and said social problems are not the kind that are amenable to mere technical solutions.

Literally the case of: If the technically perfect implementation existed tomorrow, we still would not be ready to flip the switch because of how drastic the reorg of societal norms would be. It'd be a complete refactor.
Unmasking Trickbot, One of the World’s Top Cybercrime Gangs
He's from the house of Windsor so wouldn't he use that as his last name where it's needed?
> Should I too turn every other weekend project into a startup?

They even have a term of it now apparently - Micro startups.
I've been working on just such a tool [1] to help me digest podcasts and senate hearings.

[1] https://github.com/the-crypt-keeper/tldw
Signs of Necromancy Rituals in Jerusalem Cave
I've always wondered if it's possible to develop similar tech for Parkinson's patients. I don't think we're able to determine the dopamine level of an individual today. But say we can, wouldn't we be able to infuse the right amount of levodopa into a patient's body, and thus reducing their off time?
The most annoying to me is that the elapsed time element doesn't have a fixed size. It constantly changes size and pushes all other elements from left to right. It is very distracting. I can thing of so many easy fixes for this yet it is there since at least 3 years. This comes across as very amateurish for a product of a multi billion company.
No. It's not his last name. It's not even in his name anywhere.

Edit: Technically, his family name is Mountbatten-Windsor. Still not a last name, though.
I've been using Atlantic in a personal capacity for about a year now and I have nothing but good things to say about them. The iOS app is super slick!

One time, however, my bank blocked a payment claiming it was cryptocurrency, and I had a rather interesting chat with their customer support, with the agent(s) getting quite visibly frustrated about the situation. Apparently it happens a lot.

For the curious: In the UK, Atlantic use the British branch of Estonian bank LHV Pank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHV_Pank), and you get a dedicated account number and sort code to send the money to (i.e. no need to fiddle with reference numbers)
The size of the buttons also don't change. The main reason why i don't decide for a thinkpad as my working machine.
This is something I tried doing 10-15 years ago, and while talent, and drive, and a good message is all absolutely necessary, there's also some kinda catalyst to get the idea in front of an audience I was never able to crack. So yeah, small teams bring a greater possibility of a good product, but there's a little bit of lottery ticket to the exercise, too.
There are varying degrees of adhd, and indeed some require medication. My comment is more against having medication as a default solution. Obviously poorly phrased as it may have offended someone, and i apologise for that. Also thank you for your comment, it does help me better understand the topic.
Thank you for your feedback, will be considered! Web app is in the making, so we are happy to welcome you soon on board.

And say no more about the Wise comparison: https://atlantic.money/wise
I looked at the study (https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795) and you're right. As far as I can tell the data source asks people to recall the food they ate on a previous day. The authors are aware of this limitation - they write that "One limitation of this work is that it was based on 1-day diet recalls, so our results do not represent usual intake." But on the other hand the abstract ends "Efforts to address climate change through diet modification could benefit from targeting campaigns to the highest consumers of beef, as their consumption accounts for half of all beef consumed" which implies that they're thinking of this as being a consistent group. What they've shown is that there are 12% of person-days that represent half of all the beef-eating (subject to that their data is based on people remembering what they ate) - but that doesn't mean that those 12% of person-days are concentrated among 12% of people. I'm sure that 50% of the beef is eaten by less than 50% of the people, but it's probably more like 30% than 12%.
THIS. The HN Title:

> 12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef

Vs. the article's full title:

> How a mere 12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef, creating significant health and environmental impacts

Vs. the first para:

> A new study has found that 12% of Americans are responsible for eating half of all beef consumed on a given day, a finding that may help consumer groups and government agencies craft educational messaging around the negative health and environmental impacts of beef consumption.

The quality and quantity of actual facts heads downhill fast from there. Even ignoring the article's dreary left-wing political agenda...if a mentally-competent grown-up actually wanted beneficial (for the climate & environment) changes in American eating habits (vs. yet more performative activism, and sermons to the choir), then he might take into consideration the huge number of Americans who identify as being on the opposing side of that sensitive culture war issue, and plan accordingly.

I have yet to see any sign, anywhere, of that last bit.
There is a great deep dive podcast on the Latchford story how he became successful through being used by others to further their own careers in academia and at the Met by his most famous fellow traveler semi accomplice.

https://dynamitedoug.com/
He also did a nice post about a machine he built to test Blackberry pagers' radio reception: https://woodgears.ca/misc/rotating_machine.html
We already have 40+ year old apple machines that the vintage community are preserving / keeping in operation / archiving software.
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Nissan is reusing batteries from old Leaf EVs to make portable power sources
This doesn't imply that the forest remains untouched, unlogged, or unmanaged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37336122
Possibly. I took it as he was so caught up in his own things that he was mismanaging everything else he needed to be paying attention to at a critical moment. Arrogance.

The classic Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burned.
Nobody capable of finding exploitable issues is going to be deterred by being an app rather than a website.

If their thought process on this is actually “security through obscurity”, then I would not go anywhere near this as it tells me immediately that they don’t give a single solitary fuck about proper security guidelines.
Yes, I'm saying over a couple years I can think of a few times where I had notable trouble. It's not great, but it's not on my top 10 list of troubles. It's also not terribly different from my historical experiences with webex and other similar software. Multi-person video chat tends to find the weak points (slow vpn, using during os updates, etc).

>lol, okay. so it's basically flawless.

I never understand what this kind of snark is meant to do. I didn't say anything like that at all.
They _sometimes_ did, I think. Here's one (non-Julian) example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Caecilius_Metellus_Num...
The fact that your friends all drive SUVs kind of proves my point. Assuming you're in the US, the vast majority of the population is, to put it kindly, portly. If you've lived there all your life, it's something you may not be aware of. Travel to, say, France, or Morocco, and you'll see the difference.
It's not okay just because somewhere else is worse. Gun crime is decreasing across Europe, except Sweden. Something is structurally wrong.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-peaceful-sweden-became-euro...
Orbstack now does kubernetes
It’s Hashicorp’s license changes that are causing fragmentation, OpenTF is the effect not the cause.
Instagram's Customer Service Is Better for Taylor Swift
Not sure I want a tool I use all day to evolve very quickly and change much, I don't really feel like there's some big missing features that would change things dramatically. No business is going to use Discord in a corporate environment.
https://archive.ph/JLhlV
You are relativating great crimes. You are embracing and supporting euphemistic language. At the level of this crime it's nuances of 'killings'.
I was mostly thinking about how much light goes through the lens. These old lenses are often f8 or f5.6 while a modern prime is easily f1.4
> if this is a violation you'd see it in courts but it's not because there's no case

Not everyone can sue; only people who have standing. Traditionally this would be people who own the copyright -- but on the whole, the core Linux developers have been very resistant to the idea of ever suing. I know Greg KH has come out firmly against it, and a quote above has Linus saying something similar. (I think their attitude is as foolish as saying that you should never ever ever use violence to prevent crime or defend your country.)
Whisk App Discontinued in Some Countries and Regions
At what point? 2005 when it wasnt a problem?
Ah, thank you for more context.

I arrived a few months after that, so someone tried to explain to me but either my memory is wrong or the explanation was flawed.
As a general case, you can ask for the full name in the printed order as the user wishes and ask for a preferred calling name, in this case "Frau Dr. Musterfrau", then problems solved!
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Even sorting alphabetically sorted lists by last name differ in western cultures, in the case of particles in the last names.

Some countries file “de Rohan”, “von Ruhr”, “van Rotterdam” and similar under “R”, others just under the first character of the string.
"Visual Studio-ification": Any technology that requires Visual Studio to be productive. The classic example would be TypeScript, but you can clearly see nushell's overtures to VS in the linked article.

A de facto requirement on VS to make a webpage is bad enough, a de facto requirement on VS to write a shell script is even worse.
Zoom got popular by being technically superior (better call quality) during a pandemic when the entire world suddenly needed video conferencing.
Honestly, most apps don't need a full name. Just a preferred name is enough.

If you really need a full name, it'll be because you need it for a specific institution, like government or bank. In that case, you probably need the ability to provide a separate full name for each institution.
Ex-NASA surveillance van with retractable roof cameras goes on sale
> Low concurrency meant that one host consistently had 2 connections and another consistently had 3. That's 50% more load on one host.

This seems like a non-problem. What would you wish an idealized load balancer to do in this case and how would that improve any relevant metric?
The EU has elections and MPs, but doesn't have democracy. Same as a lot of non-democratic societies throughout history.

MEPs are pretty much powerless, which is why the EP fills up with joke candidates who think the EU should be abolished or who don't even bother turning up at all.

Turning the EU into a country would require a massive treaty change

Why? Since Lisbon was rejected the EU treaties have been "self amending" (i.e. worthless). The EU routinely goes beyond its treaty-granted powers without pushback. It just gave itself powers to censor things globally, a power that appears in no treaty.

Also the EU already has: borders, taxes, a civil service, an army, a spy agency, a diplomatic corps, law making powers that override all others, a flag, a national anthem, a president, a cabinet, a central bank, a currency and dozens of other country-like things I'm forgetting. It's already more than half way there.

if you think the EU is "totalitarian" you don't know what those words mean.

The EU is a totalitarian system; the freedoms you have today that didn't exist in the DDR are because the EU has not yet been able to completely subsume the post-war countries and institutions put in place by the allies.

Nonetheless the fact remains that the EU is not a real democracy. In a real democracy, elections mean things. Elections to the EU Parliament don't because the MEPs aren't empowered to change anything. This reality was made brutally apparent when the self-proclaimed Parliament was entirely cut out of the process of choosing the leader of the government. Instead you got vDL, someone with no history as an MEP and who didn't campaign. Why did she get the job? Nobody knows! The tiny number of people who theoretically made that decision point-blank refuse to tell anyone how it was made. That's way closer to DDR style leadership than democracy.
The only thing that I would consider as interesting for attention now is a service that will value me as a customer and not have AI flag transactions I do monthly and then ask me for submission of endless paperwork for aml/Kyc reasons. It’s becoming too much of a burden even though there is 0 cause beyond them trying to cover their asses ‘just in case’.
I've been using matrix and have even been extending it to build my own little platform to help me manage my consulting business. I've been using Element as a client and despite some occasional hiccups it works great and I can host it in my closet.
Enabling Reader mode in Safari works for me, FWIW.

In fact I set the preference in Safari to always enable Reader mode for that domain.
Super Tokens, Ory, FusionAuth and Google Cloud Identity (ex Firebase Auth) come to mind.
I think it matters a great deal too, and not just for typing code but for reading it too, and this goes beyond simply typing fast but also writing short concise code, especially for parts of the code that are closer to defining program architect than implementing the details: it's better to have everything fit in one page of code rather than being dispersed throughout multiple files.

The reason for that is that a codebase will condition the complexity and thus time it takes to add features to it, in a way that is similar to algorithmic complexity and big o notation, except we as human can't even afford polynomial complexity and constant factors matter a lot.

Imagine you're developing an API, both server and client. You can cut your time in half by automatically deriving the client code from the server side specs. Of course you may have to develop that tool yourself and it takes time. The point is that the time invested developing it will be repaid each time you implement a new endpoint in your API, cutting development time in half:

n * (t(s) + t(c)) versus n * (t(s))
Europe hits roadblocks in the race to switch to electric cars
Given their history of legal troubles I was pretty surprised at how brazen Microsoft was with bundling Teams into Office for free, a move that looks a whole lot like dumping. Remember, these are the guys who destroyed the market for paid web browsers (and almost killed the open web along with it) when they bundled IE into Windows back in the day.

Notably Brad Smith was their chief counsel back then and he still is now - he's gotten a promotion to President in fact.
A couple billion solar panels operating at ~1% efficiency sounds like the best plan ever.
The Halton sequence[1] is also a very nicely even distribution, and really quick to compute!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_sequence
And if you have a world class military strategists at your disposable and they offer actionable advice go with that.