skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak about other European countries, but in France, an employment contract gives you an insane amount of security. If you're made redundant, you get paid 60-70% of your salary for up to 2 years, you get loads of paid maternity leave. You get a nice state-funded pension. You get free healthcare (including dental and glasses). You get 100% sick-leave coverage. You get mandatory training. You get access to job promotions inside companies. It's much easier to get a mortgage or just to rent. And you don't have to also work on finding the contracts. So, you need to more than double your salary to get the equivalent billable rate, and that's assuming you never have issues finding work to do.
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That's assuming that job openings are aplenty. The reality in most cases is that if the company doesn't like me, they can just wait for the next candidate. But if I don't like the company, it doesn't really matter because I need to pay the bills next month.

(inb4 "What happened to your fuck-you money?" As if it's always the employee saying "fuck you".)
But if you're dropping 50% of the lanes and only getting a 20% speed drop, then it looks like you're not using those 16 lanes to capacity. Logically you'd expect closer to a 50% performance drop.
Europe is on the brink of another renaissance, with technology at its heart
You are doing it wrong. You should check if there is an error (not the other way around) and return early.

How about you study the language a bit more in depth (including estabilished idioms) before pontificating about it?
https://play.golang.org/p/rfq52ZmLPS
You must work at a really uptight place now.
Looks like AMD is going to hell.
So no one cares if I let my parents rot to death once they cannot take care of themselves anymore. Got it.
I think we are talking cross purposes here. I get what you are saying. A cap that junks your services would certainly not be suitable for everyone, I get that.

But this thread was initially about a dev running some experiments and getting a $200 unexpected bill. They would have been very happy with a $30 cap that just deleted everything. That functionality would be easy to build if they wanted to. But they don't. For other reasons, not because it's hard.

The thing I dont buy is Amazon claiming its too hard to build a cap. A cap that suits some people would be easy. What they really mean is... A simple hard cap is only useful to customers we dont care about because they dont pay us enough. An advanced cap with all the kinds of failover options and thresholds that a medium sized business might want is complex and the people who actually pay the big money (those we care about) don't actually want caps anyway.
read here if paywalled http://archive.is/LUAA8
> a) my desk faces the wall, for fewer visual distractions

Might as well sit in a box then. :)
418 can be reused as "i'm an IoT device without web interface"
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I agree my quick post was not a rebuttal, but I didn't claim it was.

Edit: to say that in the light of Aloha's response, I guess my post was a rebuttal. But not a refutation... Sorry, I'm just quibbling now.
This is an amazing development for enterprise as it removes the major risk of being cheated after the fact. This is largely why it's so difficult to establish trust between enterprises and had lead to this situation where the best trust is authoritarian centralization.

If we can lose this barrier to establish trust from a human one to a code audit that would be and outstanding achievement for our civilization.
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The above, plus i did not know about 'rem'. And now i do, thanks for that.
> What about nurses or child care givers, who are predominantly female?

maybe Nursing is female dominated because historically women essentially weren't allowed to be doctors?
+1 for colemak.

I've used all of Qwerty, Dvorak, Programer Dvorak, and Colemak. I think Colemak is the clear winner in terms of comfort. I also don't care much about speed, I just want to not have my hands ache by the end of the day.
Another analogy. Nuke power is like drinking hot tea. Global warming is like putting on thermals and a jacket.
Not being pulled out is not being booted. It's just a warning.
Totally agree - but in my opinion, and in the knowledge that this will receive a lot of downvotes, such statements don't require refuting, only rebutting. In my opinion, again, only statements which bear at least a nugget of rationality require the expenditure of one's own rationality in the effort to refute them.
Fantastic, thank you very much for replying. It is true that Berlin is much better than London at that salary range. The average London tech job really doesn't pay enough to have as nice a life in London as you can have in Berlin for the same money.

I would be very interested to hear your view on how the contracting market is in Berlin.
This sums it up perfectly: "framework for designing brutalist experiences that your design peers will love".

This style is made for other designers, not users. I often hit the back button because besides Bloomberg—after they tweaked it to be less extreme—brutalist websites are absolutely unusable and a nightmare to use. Also, they just seem broken and that reflect bad on the company.

Designers should design for users, not themselves.
>That is odd, you should try to use for longer periods of time. I personally use it with hundreds of tabs open and I haven't found anything else that can compare.

I'm using fork when eating pasta. Still, my chinese friends tell me that nothing beats sticks and I should just try to use them for longer periods of time.

See what I did here?

Your assumtion is baseless. You don't know for how logh I've been using it, nor do you know about the results (aside from the fact that I don't use it anymore).

>Maybe, but I'm pretty sure I'm more productive than you. We should compare each other browsing reddit some day.

I'm sorry, but "browsing reddit" and "productive" are on opposite sides of scale for me.

You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how childish it may be.
I suppose it would be? But I'm not entirely sure I understand how your comment relates to mine though. Could you elaborate?
But spreading humour is.
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> how they're going to negotiate their way up to being in the global 0.5%

Reality check: Most of us are already in the top 0.5% of the global income distribution, even with a relatively meager salary like 30k or 40k. You can check for yourself at http://www.globalrichlist.com/
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There's still quite a lot of space for solar panels on land.

Among the benefits of offshoring wind turbines is generally higher and more consistent wind speeds offshore, less nuisance due to noise, and the ability to construct larger, more effective turbines than is possible on land.

For solar, there's not necessarily more or better sunshine offshore. There's no reason an offshore solar panel would be fundamentally different from an onshore one. And due to the much harsher environment, much of the difference between the two would relate to corrosion protection and reliability (adding to its cost).

For offshore solar you'd have the complexity and cost of offshore installation and maintenance, without the clear benefit of better sun offshore. That's a hard pill to swallow when there's so much potential to have solar panels on land.
Why Facebook should pay everyone a basic income
I've set up startpage on my desktop at home. I have also used it on mobile for some time but stopped doing so. I'm generally quite happy with it and I would use it on all devices, if it were better at one crucial thing (especially important for me on mobile): Searching for addresses

The map integration almost never works. I only see a map if I search for a city name but never when I enter any address. I sometimes try to add "maps" as a keyword, which results in google maps being the first result - but it almost always links to a wrong street! (usually in the center of the city, the street number is the one I entered though)
Yeah! Made sure my page has zero JS.
Don't add what you don't need :)
In Eastern Europe he'd be severely underpaid unless he is an intern or has less than a year of experience, I have 1.5 years of experience and just landed a job where my net pay is more than 1k EUR - and I'm a fairly average programmer
Where did you get the figure of 600 GBP to rent something decent (decent apartment + commute time) in London?

Had two friends living and working there, both left because they were spending 1000+ GBP to share houses or flats (both are married) with some other couples or people just so they could keep their commute under 30-40 minutes.

Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands also speak very good English and it's a quite nice experience to have the chance to learn a new language.
The heat map is interesting in that it shows clearly the reason I moved from Dvorak to Colemak after 5 years of the former: Dvorak has a distinct bias toward the right hand, and particularly the right pinky.
> pinnacle of human creation

That's wangernumb!
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I sure hope so, but given the epic fail of Ryzen, I'm going to wait for others to beta test it for me, and/or for some sort of explanation and fix from AMD.
I love the tongue in cheek site. Cracked me up.

Brutalism is peak Late Modernism in the sense that it is the complete exorcising of cultural symbology via ornamentation.

The timing of Brutalism isn't coincidental; it actively marched lock step with late industrialization. The need for an engine of commerce needs specialisation and parts that work with ultra efficiency in the machine. No need for the baggage of cultural nuance nor ecclectic individuality.

Not a surprise that the busted up ideological polemic of "form" vs. "function" takes its dark roots in this era.
That is an interesting idea. I haven't heard of anyone doing that in the tech world.
> people will just not understand why I quit "major search engine"

Don't know how you got this idea. No-one will care.
Couple of thoughts on the percentage of female math majors...

First - a significant percentage of math majors eventually go into teaching. I wasn't able to find the exact percentage, but 3 of the 5 most common jobs for math majors are in teaching. Second - the types of math courses that undergraduate CS majors take is different from the types of courses that math majors take - especially math majors who are planning to go into teaching. CS degrees tend to focus more on discrete math and algorithms, whereas as math degrees focus on... well... I don't actually know what math degrees require. This is pure anecdote (and probably bound to piss off a few math majors), but I remember taking a group theory course in my 4th year and all of the math majors in the course seemed to struggle far more than the CS majors in the course.

So if you consider that math major often means teacher, then no I don't think that data point about 40% of math majors being female does much to dispel traditional gender stereotypes.

https://datausa.io/story/06-16-2016_math-teachers/
Probably, because it's trying to be backwards compatible.

LZ is really elegant once it clicks, and Pieroxy's approach of growing token size with alphabet is a very neat solution to the problem of the unicode alphabet being huge
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Most brutalist architecture is explicitly not painted; the point is to leave the concrete "raw". "Brutalism" comes from "Beton Brut" or "raw concrete". If it's painted, it's just a concrete building, not a Brutalist building.

It's interesting you should mention flexibility, because 1-3 Willow Road, Hampstead, UK is an interesting example of flexibility. The internal walls are almost all wooden and designed to be folded back, allowing for a very flexible day-to-day use of the space.

On the other hand, the B.A.T. Building in Woking, UK is a large Brutalist building and a friend who used to work there told me that it was indeed an absolute nightmare for running conduit. Wifi didn't work because all the walls were thick reinforced concrete, but it was also built (he said) without room for raised floors or suspended ceilings. They had to drill through those thick walls.

So it all comes down to how you use concrete and where.

Wood is hardly maintenance-free. It also needs painting/sealing and guarding against water. There have also been some spectacular problems where people have tried to do things with wood which should have been done with steel (the fiasco with timber Legoland Windsor Hotel and the emergency reinforcements to support its pool spring to mind).

You sound like you have some experience in construction?
You sound like some one who has ever made a lot of money. In a flash
The carbon tax especially works out for the political class & bankers who would be entrusted to manage the funds & transfer the wealth. It also benefits the wealthy Tesla buying consumers at the expense of the poorer gasoline buying public. In the meantime, Al Gore has multiple houses & uses 34x more electricity than the average US household...

http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/exclusive-al-gores-home-de...

Also, don't plants breathe carbon? Wouldn't this imply that there would be a biological feedback loop (more carbon means more plant growth)?
v6 with privacy addresses is not very much different to current v4 with NAT on the privacy front. You'll still be tracked with cookies and browser fingerprinting either way.

Out of curiosity... without cheating, what do you reckon v6 deployment is at for clients in the US -- that is, what percentage of clients do you think use v6 to connect to v6-enabled sites?
each Intel upgrade gives you 5-10% performance improvement. 20% is like 3 generations of Intel "innovation".
Scott Alexander has written an article on the whole issue http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger..., where he addresses the difference between math majors and computer science majors:

Here’s another fun thing you can do with this theory: understand why women are so well represented in college math classes. Women are around 20% of CS majors, physics majors, engineering majors, etc – but almost half of math majors! This should be shocking. Aren’t we constantly told that women are bombarded with stereotypes about math being for men? Isn’t the archetypal example of children learning gender roles that Barbie doll that said “Math is hard, let’s go shopping?” And yet women’s representation in undergraduate math classes is really quite good.

I was totally confused by this for a while until a commenter directed me to the data on what people actually do with math degrees. The answer is mostly: they become math teachers. They work in elementary schools and high schools, with people.

Then all those future math teachers leave for the schools after undergrad, and so math grad school ends up with pretty much the same male-tilted gender balance as CS, physics, and engineering grad school.
This is going to hurt firefox badly. Many extensions authors don't maintain their extensions or find the migration to webextensions too hard(with lack of some equivalent apis). Firefox remaining userbase depends on these extensions.
The questionable allocation of time and resources in recent years towards irrelevant (to wider userbase) side projects make it seem firefox will lose the "second place" in market share. With a marketshare below 3% sites will start ignoring it in favor of Chrome monoculture and subservience to Google.
There are always extraordinary claims like this in big threads about salaries, but they never seem to be backed up.

My guess is it is mostly unusual situations which can't be easily explained or replicated.
> "Only exact literal words count for meaning" is the only fair way of interpreting any given nonfictional writing.

We'll have to disagree on that - subtext is an important factor to consider, especially in political / charged contexts.
> every country I've visited in the last year (US, quite a few european and a couple of asian) IPV6 wasn't more than a small irrelevant thing

Well, yes. It works so long as you're connecting to someone else who has an IPv6 address, you don't really care about it unless it's broken.

> And that's a great thing, if you care about privacy (and I do).

It's really not. Your ISP can quickly deanonymize you, and there's regular "misconfigurations" which do. Facebook et al have no problem tracking you between sites pretty much no matter what you do - your browser cache can be used for that without even touching javascript.

Again, if you want to be anonymous on the internet, use Tor. It accomplishes what you're looking for in a NAT to a much better degree. If you want to keep other users' privacy, encourage the use of onion routing in new protocols, and encourage the use of Tor to access the legacy internet.

> And yet, peer to peer on these things works reasonably well using ICE, STUN, TURN and friends

Which require, of course, somebody running a centralised server and willing to pay for the bandwidth of TURN. This outright prevents proper peer-to-peer infrastructure from happening - the people running these services need to pay for them somehow. Even working around it via e.g. Skype's "supernodes" is expensive in terms of developer cost and the amount of expertise needed to create such a system.

> the vast majority of the ISPs in the US, for example, block incoming port 80 and outgoing port 25

And allow all other ports, hopefully? Peer-to-peer infrastructure is not going to run over HTTP and email. It's going to run over brand new protocols and ecosystems, many of which are sitting in a variety of research papers waiting to be implemented.

FTR, they block incoming port 80 because they want to maintain an artificial differential between "consumer" and "business", not any security rationale - most of the rest of the world doesn't do that, they just have a firewall blocking everything incoming on the ISP-provided router by default, and you can unfirewall port 80 if you want to. Blocking outgoing port 25, otoh, is done because SMTP is a terrible protocol that by default assumes every node on the internet is trustworthy, and ISPs were roped in to ensure nobody ever had to change it.
Salaries in the US seem really high compared to those in the Netherlands. I have 2 bachelor and 2 master degrees in STEM. I made €10/hour (about $12) giving private math and programming lessons, while I earn roughly €13/hour (about $15) at my entry level job (after tax deduction).

I would expect my salary to grow at my current job. I also feel that I would have been hired at my current job if I just had my bachelor degree.
And using a dozen of IPs most of the time (Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc.)
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> Did you read the github issues? There were hundreds of people against it.

Every time github issue goes viral it ends with hundreds of useless comments full of animated gifs. That is not an argument for anything.
Accomplished Diplomacy is the skill of choice. If you can manipulate all those political warriors and fanatics to support propelling you on - against there own interests, you may have a career still.

Think of it, less like a race of skilled people- and more, like rising through the ranks of a political party.
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I really liked ui-kit for my website https://www.itnry.com .It just took couple of days of work to get it going. Huge fan of bootstrap too. For backend engineer who hated CSS and front-end, Bootstrap really helped me build good looking ui's at work where instead of plain old Dev JSP
Going on only those credentials you should be able to get a better paid job, also in the Netherlands (I'm Dutch).
> The protection you want for hobbyists would destroy small businesses

Are you serious? This would mean Azure is not fit for business:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/billing/billing-spend...

When your usage results in charges that exhaust the monthly amounts included in your offer, the services that you deployed are disabled for the rest of that billing month. For example, Cloud Services that you deployed are removed from production and your Azure virtual machines are stopped and de-allocated. To prevent your services from being disabled, you can choose to remove your spending limit. When your services are disabled, the data in your storage accounts and databases are available in a read-only manner for administrators. At the beginning of the next billing month, if your offer includes credits over multiple months, your subscription will be re-enabled. Then you can redeploy your Cloud Services and have full access to your storage accounts and databases.

The decision not to implement this in AWS has nothing to do with technical issues - they can all be solved in this way or another.
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1. Diversity has some inherent strengths, it's not a bad thing unless it's forced. There are probably several other types of diversity that may help google, people from blue collar backgrounds for instance.

2. Google could theoretically double their employment pool and enjoy the side effects of that, like lower wages. That's good for Google if it doesn't backfire.

Edit - I love it when they go through your history and even down vote the posts they agree with.
After programming with a danish keyboard layout for a few years which require double modifier such as ctrl + alt + 8 to make { or [

I noticed on US keyboard layout you only have single key modifier and only have two characters per key instead of three, which I then bought a laptop with and it is an amazing difference after typing for 8 hours especially because you do less weird postures with your hand in order to make a single character.

Never gone back to the danish keyboard layout, I now only keyboards with the US keyboard layout and it is actually possible to use hotkeys in most software now as well yay!
Interesting connection for people interested in design patterns:

> At the University of Oregon campus, outrage and vocal distaste for Brutalism led, in part, to the hiring of Christopher Alexander and the initiation of The Oregon Experiment in the late 1970s. This led to the development of Alexander's A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building.
Wow that's a pretty good idea - I'll see if I can find a way to make this. I think I'd need some kind of map API that lets me plot coordinates and define mouse-over text for each pin.
Presumably that would require a population-representative sample of 282 though, not a self-selected (and therefore potentially biased) sample.

Otherwise you could run a poll "Who thinks [minority] should leave the USA?", get a high "yes" response, say "THE POPULACE AGREE!" but then discover only racists/whatever have replied because Breitbart/4chan dogpiled the poll - which would make it 100% invalid, no?
> Unless you are using multiple GPUs or another PCI device

You mean like having a GPU and one or more PCIE NVMe storage-devices?
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I don't mind using Google for search; I just don't use them for anything else.
Yes, that's just facts. We thus need to do both, only saving people will be pointless, if there's no livable planet for them.
The US spent hundreds of billions to attack a country on the false pretense it got weapons of mass destructions. I'd argue that having the resources is not the problem here.