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datenhorst··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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datenhorst··on HMD Key – A lightweight, affordable smartphone
HMD is Nokia's successor-in-spirit
datenhorst··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
Can I ask what specific pain points you have with Gitlab CI? I've been using it extensively the last couple of years and all in all it's been a pretty smooth experience!
datenhorst··on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Is Office365 really down that often? I'm fortunate enough to not have to use it but I don't hear any complaints from my colleagues that do.
datenhorst··on California and Florida now lead the country in climate change risks
NYC is the first city I think of when reading the word "overpopulation"
datenhorst··on Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
Holy ** - this explains a lot of the counterfeits I've received over the years.
datenhorst··on Ask HN: How can I find a German family by their crest?
He could just ride the federal eagle to Bavaria
datenhorst··on The first rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t tell anyone you’re good at it
One of the most infamous excel errors even helped shaping global economic policy: https://www.uschamberfoundation.org/blog/post/did-excel-erro...
datenhorst··on Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
Isn't the answer to Nakamoto's quote _more_ regulation instead of no regulation?
datenhorst··on Ask HN: How do I get over constant failure?
How many employees were there a year ago? If the answer isn't ~1000, it doesn't meet the definition of stable
datenhorst··on Ask HN: What is your favorite piece of entertainment of the last three years?
> although as usual the US version stunk

I haven't watched the US version but I am reminded of Stephen Fry's explanation of the differences between US and UK comedians[0]. Taskmaster needs contestants willing to embarrass themselves.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao

datenhorst··on DocuSign Shares Plunge 42%
That's just a meme phrase on wsb
datenhorst··on Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529
I believe the theory is that since this variant has so many mutations, it evolved over quite some time within a single host with a lowered immune response. Makes sense that this would happen in an area with high HIV prevalence.
datenhorst··on 2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
They never managed to cultivate it, and apparently it refused to grow anywhere else but that region in modern-day Tunisia.
datenhorst··on The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
What's the story of you becoming a $2M account yourself?
datenhorst··on It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
Why would you want to use the toilet brush to clean the *outside* of your toilet? I struggle to make sense of this product
datenhorst··on GPT-J-6B: 6B JAX-Based Transformer
That makes a lot of sense. I played around with it in German and Italian and the results often times read like they were google translated from English. So there must be lots of auto-translated content from spam sites in the corpus, I guess.
datenhorst··on Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
Funnily enough, this passage is generally considered a later addition to the Gospel of John: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_woman_taken_in_a...
datenhorst··on Does Amazon make more from ads than AWS?
That is a sadly apt metaphor
datenhorst··on AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't prevent B1351 Covid in early trial
That's a bold claim. Any sources to back it up?
datenhorst··on Facebook's GDPR consent bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court
That's patently false. The Austrian judiciary is divided into general courts and courts of public law. The "Oberster Gerichtshof" is not "below" the supreme court, it's the highest court of a different branch.
datenhorst··on I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now
From a tracking perspective, I'd assume a Fire TV stick is even worse than any TV OS. It's Amazon after all!
datenhorst··on Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast
AI is simultaneously over-hyped and a game-changer. To paraphrase a famous Marketing quip, the problem is that you need to be a domain expert as well as an ML expert in order to judge which are the over-hyped parts.

As a consultant specializing in building Data Science teams, I've been shouting this idea that you can only build AI products on top of a robust data pipeline and, more importantly, culture, from the roof-tops for years. Monica Rogati's formulization of it, the "AI hierarchy of needs"[0] helps a lot to instill a mental image in managers.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/the-ai-hierarchy-of-needs-18f111fcc00...

datenhorst··on 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization: Did I learn anything from D3.js?
Last time I looked into this, React and D3 didn't really work together, since D3 manipulates the DOM and React has its own Shadow DOM. Has this changed?
datenhorst··on Ask HN: Any startups solving for software engineering hiring?
You could pay someone else to take the tests for you. Now I wonder how widespread that is.
datenhorst··on The Viking Invasion of Leicestershire (2012)
My immediate thought was some sort of Viking LARP that went wrong
datenhorst··on Show HN: Shopify's Top 90 Most Successful Startups in 2021
Fashionnova spend over 10% of their _revenue_ on Facebook Ads according to this. Is that even realistic?
datenhorst··on Block Facebook Servers
Not necessarily true, since regulations are EU law that is immediately enforceable in member states, and are not generally transposed into state law.
datenhorst··on Block Facebook Servers
GDPR directly doesn't apply to the UK anymore (except for organisations that handle data of EU citizen, of course) but the UK chose to enact the GDPR into UK law via the Data Protection Law of 2018, which is aptly dubbed "UK GDPR".
datenhorst··on Using computer vision to help win $1M in Mountain Dew's Super Bowl contest
You won't win if you pick the median since by definition someone else has already picked that number.
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