skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably meant install Firefox. I'm not sure why anyone here would voluntarily participate in building Google's empire other than work-related requirements.
This seemed very much to me, so I immediately jumped to the conclusion that you might have mistaken kW and kWh, and were talking about energy for a whole day... but no, you're right. A quick google search gives 50 W/m^2 even for a rainy day, 150 W/m^2 for heavily clouded. So 1-2 kW might be a bit high, but not off by an order of magnitude. (Confirmed by looking up multiple sources to make sure they didn't confuse kW and kWh)
Sure (and me as well) but, design bug? Maybe just different expectations of the user.

On that point, some heavy machinery took years before adding safety guards (some even required legislation before improving safety)
I wonder why people can't write nowadays. I see this spelling more often than years ago
For anyone reading this who has never been to Germany:
Apartments can also be present in villages. Some rural ones only consist of single family homes, but there are also multiple-family apartment buildings in some villages (no high-rises or big complexes of course).

So "if you live in an apartment, you're in a city" is an incorrect statement.
Funny enough I am also planning to convert this cafe into a bookstore/board game shop. The best way to find these numbers is to work in a similar shop or be friends with the owner. Naturally, during business brokerage, you will also get these numbers after signing an NDA.
Writing about Scrum, regardless if it's praise, complaints, references, howtos or just plain descriptions without referencing the agile manifesto is kinda... missing the point? The content of the article is good, but perhaps quoting the founding principles of agile would make it even better? Implementing Scrum (including org-specific adaptations) without understanding the idea behind 'agile' is what a PHB does.

https://agilemanifesto.org/
Happily interested in this, I discover that they have broken the scrolling on the homepage about this for reasons. This tells me that since they have never tried their own homepage, they don't really care about usability so their product is probably not going to be very good.
US isn't in Middle East to protect their oil sources in case of war. US is in Middle East to control oil prices, do policing, help Israel and threat Iran and other regional actors.

I believe Russia and China signed agreements for building gas and oil pipes.
The thing that makes technical analysis work is that other people are also using it. If a bunch of people/machines that make trade decisions see that a stock has some resistance at 115, because it's bounced off it several times before, they are more likely to anticipate that happening again and act accordingly. Since everyone does that, the predicted action happens. Then eventually there are other things that happen that drive it past that point, and people move on to the next set of signals.

If enough people believe it's true, it becomes true.

I don't use it currently, but I dabbled with it when I was younger (not as the only thing I looked at).
When I hear and read about Scrum, I'm always reminded about the Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the CIA.

How can we be sure that Scrum isn't yet another tool by a foreign adversary to sabotage Western companies?
I think if you were travelling the speed limit on a road with a sidewalk and someone comes flying out onto the road on a pushbike and you hit them. You would not be at fault.
Yep, apparently The Netherlands have the most negative hours:

https://x.com/BM_Visser/status/1793536590821617769

160h with negative energy this year only (last year 71h on this date), Germany and Spain have around 140. Those water electrolyzers can't come soon enough

It can even happen on cloudy windy weekend days because of the massive wind farms
Not explicitly, no. They just heavily implied it.

Typical sleazy open AI / Sam Altman behaviour, AFAICS.
Not your target market because I am a cheapskate and only buy second hand stuff, but I will buy it when it becomes available on my local exchange marketplace. Good luck!
Not currently.

For performance profiling I find that `perf`-like sampling profiling works well enough to find the hot spots, and then Valgrind's Callgrind is great for micro-optimizing the hot spots code on the assembly level.

Of course, it would be cool to have a unified memory + performance analysis tool like this, but I don't think I can justify the time investment to write one in my spare time.

Yeah, I'm really happy that Gimli exists, considering the absolute insanity/complexity pit of DWARF.
U.S. simply participated in WWI for too short a time, only 1.5 years. It didn't produce much stuff in WWII by spring 1943 either - everything was in desperately short supply then. If it wasn't, why didn't Normandy invasion happen a year earlier?

And lack of preparedness in the previous years before WWI was deliberate, because public was too much against the idea of interfering into European affairs and politicians made every efforts to make it as physically difficult as possible. Zimmermann Telegram changed that.
Wait, you guys basically have similar problems?
I thought it was only our politicians who were incompetent.
Well...I'm sure they are more incompetent than yours for sure, but at least we're in the same boat there!
>the USA is VERY competent at deploying to and fighting wars.

But not at wining. Last war US won was WW2.

Newertheless, US discovered that wars are good for making money.
Apple was for a looong time known to not honor Norwegian consumer protection laws. They've gotten better, but they've been worst in class here for a decade. Edit: two decades. Found this article from 2006 about how they refused to repair ipods after a year, even shops selling Apple stuff used to have problems because they had to fix things at a loss themselves https://www.vg.no/forbruker/teknologi/i/8300w/apple-og-forbr...

I actually believe that's why Apple adoption was fairly slow compared to the hype I was reading about in other countries. No official Apple stores, and most electronic chains didn't want to touch them.
Either it gets stuck with the update or won’t install at all.
Yes, this is really only viable in a major city. I wouldn’t consider doing this without at least 200k population in a major metro area. The area I’m in is 600k people with a heavy Laptop & Lattes ESRI tapestry segment. Basically it’s filled with software engineers.
> I'm unsure how other Android ROMs stack up

I'm _almost_ certain that comes with any Android ROM from 9.0 up as a standard accessibility setting. All my Samsung devices have had it for a few years.
Bring back something like Bretton Woods. When it ended in the 70s and the dollar was no longer tethered to anything physical, is when the financial system started eating up more and more of the economy. Using the financial system as the middleman for money creation (as opposed to e.g. directly depositing helicopter money into people's accounts, or having a non-inflationary currency) necessarily entailed a continuous transfer of wealth from main street to wall street.
My wife's new laptop (some Acer...) with preinstalled Win11 won't sleep and won't hibernate. My old Tinkpad X60 with WinXP Tablet can do both. So... not a valid argument.
Which is so sad given that practically everybody I know wants nothing to do with either, but with two party system everybody needs to classify themselves or let others choose for them.
I've been using Windows 10 LTSC (1809) on my x230 for several years now and never looked back.

I also love OpenBSD as a desktop, unfortunately I need battery life and Windows is better optimized in that respect.
The Tesla Shanghai factory is afaik teslas largest and also most efficient. If Tesla cannot send those cars to Europe and other western countries they will be in trouble.

Tesla is competing well in China so I don’t think they fear Chinese competition that much. Also they have a brand advantage.

My guess is that all this is about giving legacy auto makers an advantage over Tesla.
If one is lucky enough to be able to afford living in the city center and not in the suburbs.
Isn’t it that they expect it increases the likelihood people would choose to use Porter in the first place? The problem being that the biggest clients are probably the most valuable and having this makes them more likely to churn.
Why would a fake bank phishing scam site have a brick wall UI? Surely they’d want to make it as easy to enter your bank details as possible.
I found it extra funny when Satya said (after their "let's add AI into every corner of Office" release)

"I want people to know that we made them dance"

Every day that Google continues to pursue this crap in order to please Wall St, the more it resembles a dancing bear.
That depends. Back in the day, in my research institute, it was common practice to print out the papers that should be read thoroughly - after skimming them on a Laptop screen.
I've been using Murena /e/OS for a few months now, and I couldn't be more impressed. As someone deeply concerned about privacy and digital sovereignty, this operating system is a breath of fresh air. The developers have done a fantastic job creating a seamless, privacy-respecting experience without sacrificing functionality or usability.

First off, the user interface is clean and intuitive. It feels just as polished as any mainstream OS, if not more so. The pre-installed apps cover all the essentials, and they respect your privacy by design, which is a massive plus. The App Lounge is surprisingly robust, offering a good selection of apps, including many popular ones that people often worry about missing out on when they switch from Android or iOS.

Performance-wise, /e/OS runs smoothly on my phone, with no noticeable lag or crashes. Battery life is also excellent, which is something I didn't expect but greatly appreciate. The system updates are regular and ensure that the OS stays secure and up-to-date with the latest features.

One of the standout features is the integration of the cloud services. The Murena cloud offers a privacy-focused alternative to Google, and it works seamlessly with the OS. It's reassuring to know that my data is stored securely and not being mined for ad targeting.

Overall, Murena /e/OS is a game-changer for anyone who values their privacy but still wants a fully functional and user-friendly smartphone experience. Kudos to the team for creating such an impressive product! Highly recommended.
Kind of like asking an artist what the source for their painting is. The source is a lifetime of viewing and practicing art, it’s not clear which pieces contributed which details to the final result.
Ruby is fine for small projects by a single developer, anything that you could reasonably do a total rewrite in a day or two. Because the main way of refactoring is via rewrites.

As a language it is completely unsuitable for large projects, the dynamic features that are helpful at a small scale become liabilities at a large scale.

Ruby’s main flaw is the excessive exuberance of its fans, you wouldn’t develop a large website in bash, you probably shouldn’t do it in Ruby either, but each of the languages still has its own charm and is useful for the things it was designed for.
Where are the EV chargers that do a full tank in 5 minutes?
> The USA will remove that single factory within the first weeks of any conflict.

I don't think it's clear that a war would necessarily escalate to attacking industrial targets because there is a kind of MAD at play.

From America's point of view, the problem with escalating the war to industrial targets (which I am sure US military planners realize) is that the US has an Achilles' heel in it's reliance on petrol. Almost all US petrol comes from only 130 domestic plants. If those are disabled, most US supply chains will crumble, including food. No need to disable all the factories when there's no way to transport stuff and workers aren't fed. That weakness might be enough to deter the US from striking Chinese industry.

EVs might be one of the bigger bulwarks the US could pursue toward greater national security.
They want the option to have kids, at some yet-to-be-determined later time. It's St. Augustine: "please, God, make me good, but not just yet". I want kids, but not now.

They have also been sold the idea that having children by this method has a high success rate, when in reality it's of the order of one-third.
In many ways, on release is even worse for shaky hands. Imagine trying to use the vote icon next to this comment with your hand shaking. You need to both click and release without leaving the icon, which is extremely small.

With on click, it only requires lining it up once before executing. There's less follow-through required. And as a best practice, there is an undo button.
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The assumption is that Scrum is suited for exactly zero things, so if you apply it to anything and fail, it's your fault: you should not be applying it to anything! Even though we the Scrum Masters tell you that you should... excuse us for a second while we're retreating to the motte to continue the argument.
I’ve been wanting to move off Cloudflare for a while for some self hosted things (I bought the domain on CF and had to wait a few months for it to be allowed to transfer). What registrar do people recommend? (other than porkbun which refuses to let me sign up with a VPN)
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Can you ship to Singapore ?
This feels like a rant that does not make any substantive points and ends up looking like an example of what it sets out to criticise.

> Sprints seem to put people on the wrong foot as if we should rush to complete everything in the Sprint...

This is arguing about semantics. If you don't like the term, use another one or explain it better to your team. The important thing is to understand the point, which is to have short development cycles with working software at the end.

In context, the term "sprint" does not refer to any sense of rushing but rather of uninterrupted focus. Of course you plan and reflect before and after, but once you've started you go the distance (which is short!) until the end.

> Lots of talk about how to do better Scrum, while Scrum should be in the background.

That's not inherent to Scrum. On the other hand, continuous improvements have to require an amount of discussion on what works and what doesn't in order to adapt and improve. You need to find the right balance.

> The Sprint Review is mainly misunderstood, as the label is confusingly similar to Sprint Retrospective, and people mistakenly believe it's a Sprint Demo...

This is again arguing semantics and also saying that the team does not understand what they are doing. Hardly a problem that can be attributed to Scrum.

> The Product Owner rarely owns anything and mostly accepts requests from the Product Manager or other stakeholders.

Perhaps the product manager is the right person to fill the role of "Product Owner", then? The role does not have to be a dedicated person...

I don't want to give the impression that Scrum has a "get out of jail free card" here. Most criticisms of Scrum are very superficial and do not actually criticise the essence of Scrum so of course the response is indeed often simply that "you're doing it wrong"...

Scrum is not a panacea, on the other hand one should always try to understand the essence of any framework, the point, instead of being hung up on details and semantics. A good starting point is to read the Agile Manifesto and to think about the point.
OpenAI's week of chaos has reopened a festering wound at the $80B startup
Scrum serves two primary purposes:

1. To force a check in so that everyone keeps the manager up to date. This is annoying for people who already do that as a matter of course, but not everyone is that disciplined.

2. To demonstrate velocity to the higher ups. We can't get away from the fact that upper management needs reassurance that we're not just fucking around. With these bullshit numbers we can make them feel better, and that's just all around a good thing that helps preserve harmony.

The moment you try to explain scrum as an efficiency tool, you're on shaky ground. It's a tool to counterbalance human nature.
Thanks for the recommendation! I don't have a big mindless phone usage problem but I'll give it a shot anyway and see what happens.
Not only convicted under the highly controversial shaken baby syndrome theory (not straightforward to prove; hence erronous) and ignoring medical evidence but his undiagnosed autism led to unfair judgments of his behavior... irreversible errors in the US justice system.

Maybe it's high time to overthink the death penalty?
Where is this manufactured?
I wish I could up-vote you 10x.
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It does launch an instance and take a snapshot but what's happening is the sysprep and OOBE stuff that can take 10 mins or so (you can find it in the console and startup logs). That's a lot more overheard than just hydrating an EBS volume.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/win-a...
I am sure Merkel accepted the Arab Spring refugees out of the goodness of her heart.
>it's not like I need freeing from a hypnotic spell.

Well, that's exactly what many social media addicts do need.
Yes, Cloudflare controls your DNS and they advertise setting up HTTPS for you. If they'd wait until you added a DNS record that's routed through them, which they are by default, then that'd be poor user experience.

The timestamp difference is probably just Google backdating the certificate by an hour or 30 minutes to deal with clients whose clocks lag behind.
That's a direct quote I copy-pasted from the article.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Imo the fundamental failure of Scrum as a planning methodology stems from the fact that it gives user requirements ('user stories') to developers and expects them to translate them to a technical implementation almost as an afterthought that's barely acknowledged in the framework.

Most of us work on huge codebases with tons of baggage and hundreds or thousands of engineer-years invested into it.

Implementing a feature into such codebase requires a combination of architecting, reading the code and experimenting - making the change is usually easy compared to that.

Scrum has no proper way of handling these activities.

- Figuring out how to do the feature is usually part of the 'planning' and 'grooming' activities which are 'invisible work' with timeboxed team meeting slots allocated to it, even though a well-thought out implementation can save tons of time

- Just plunging in and doing it means that a large uncertainty exists as to how much effort said feature wil take. This can either lead to time overruns or padded estimates (or both)

Scrum just doesnt' offer anything valuable imo. Its just feelgood management consulting ceremonies devs would rather do without. And I haven't even touched on the tyrannical micromanagement dark patterns it enables.
Is there a reason they didn’t ask what kind of college degree it was? Seems like a missed opportunity to get data about which degrees are worth it.
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which mean we can produce close to 3000T of steel in a year with renewable. (1,888 millions tons were produced in a year).

The 5% is for all electric sources. I don't look at renewable only but any sources (and coil&gas makes a solid 60% of it).
Counterpoint: I was bought up before new math and completely bewildered by maths at school. As far as I could tell it was just a set of magical and arbitrary operations that I had to learn by heart, with no inkling as to what was going on. There was nothing there I could understand no framework my brain could hang things on and I completely failed.

New math sounds like it would have been idea for me.
It's not only US. Many justice systems depend on direct witness or experts and expert who can say anything. Witness can be prosecuted for lying, experts not because they only have opinions.
I disagree with this. We have a lot of people dissenting within India. They are not tied down except for counterattacks on social media by people who disagree with them - which to my mind is fair, as both sides are free to (verbally) attack each other - the essence of free speech.

US critics, when they attempt to influence Indian elections, definitely deserve to be slapped down. US (or any other Country) would do similarly. eg. Canada claimed so recently...
Ah, thanks. I've not seen the movies or read the books.
When it comes to C# REPLs I absolutely adore LinqPad, although recently it's felt like I've had to buy licenses for it increasingly often which I've found annoying.

If any other REPL can get to a point where it can rival LinqPad in functionality then it'll be an absolute winner.

The key features linqpad has that I'd need from any replacement:

* Securely store secrets

Util.GetPassword prompts the user for the password if it's not in it's store. Leverages the windows user credential store.

* Keeps the process running

This is absolutely key, it keeps alive the process even after the script has finished, so you can easily attach a debugger / profiler to it when the script isn't running, then start the script again. It also means you can use AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData to cache expensive setup if you're trying to profile something.

* Quickly switch between expression / statements / program mode

It'll intelligently work out if you've written a single expression vs multi-line statements, and you can switch to "program" and it'll wrap what you've done so far in a Main stub.

* Easily define default App.Config files, default namespaces, default nuget packages.

After finally getting a fiddly setup working, there's a "Use as default for new queries" button which is very convenient. Also the "clone query" functionality is similarly useful for copying not just the C# text but all the background namespace declarations, references, config, etc.

And that's about it. I barely use the database connection and exploration side, but I do use it daily for hooking into DLLs to quickly test changes to our internal projects.
"You're not doing it right" can be its own criticism though. If you're not doing X right then maybe that means it's too hard to use X in a way that adds value.

X can be useful for one person in one situation and not useful in another, neither of which shows that it's intrinsically useful or intrinsically flawed. It just depends. Our holy wars to prove the might of our favorite tools and techniques are never going to give any universal truths.

(Except that Vim is better than Emacs.)
Interesting. Many years ago when I was doing initial motorbike racing training, the instructors gave us salt tablets due to the amount of sweat each of us lost each day wearing leather race gear + drinking water all day to make up for it.
I do have blog posts about all of those things, but that's more my "shower thoughts" pile:

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2022/05/14-17.06.59.html

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2021/07/31-13.37.34.html

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2017/04/20-14.32.32.html

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/24-10.42.51.html
> It's a tool to counterbalance human nature

More specifically, it's a tool for pacing and measuring pace.

Like cattle, you kinda go faster when you prod them with sticks.
Yes, Ilya loves to brag about his modesty.
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Yes, but they do violate the part about being close to China (and hence easier to conquer in a hypothetical war).

If the only supplies of bauxite were across an ocean or a whole continent it would be much easier to deny them supplies of bauxite in a conflict.

Even if they could conquer the territory with it, they'd need to transport it back or move manufacturing to it.