skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, only even the absolute best case for utilizing hydrogen takes more energy than for a battery powered system. I am talking physics here (I am discounting creating hydrogen from biomass or oil here for obvious reasons).

And even if you solve that -somehow - a hydrogen car will always be more complex to build than an EV. Simply because you need the plumbing and storage at the very least.
> Perhaps fishing gear is more inclined to float to the top where the trawls were taken

Virtually everything non-living either floats or sinks in water. There isn't a major accumulation of debris with exactly the same density as ocean water that follows this garbage patch 100 metres lower.
Like the collector in the supermarket who scans the products and takes my cash? Surely it must be impossible to automate such a complex task.

Industry/Economy lacks behind state-of-the-art technology by decades.
Those numbers are all available. Germany's population is very stable and 2001-2003 changed by 0.2% based on world bank figures.

> If it the trend was to increase by 30% but dropped afterwards to 20% then again it has worked in some way.

Only of you have some real reason to expect the number to increase by 30%. Just looking at a trend is not enough.
Shout out to Philippe Rivière for the awesome work on d3-geo-polygon[1] (mentioned in the release notes), which enables tons of new map projections like these[2].

Philippe, if you're reading this, thank you. I'm really excited about d3-geo-polygon and I know a lot of others in the community are too.

[1]: https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-polygon

[2]: https://beta.observablehq.com/@fil/polyhedral-projections-wi...
If your citation is intended to suggest your usage of "retarded" is reasonable, you may wish to read further down the page:

> The Arc called the portrayal [of a man with an intellectual disability] "offensive" and also objected to the use of the words "retard", "moron", and "imbecile" throughout the movie. [...] the Arc continued to criticize the film as containing hate speech, promoting offensive stereotypes of people with intellectual disabilities, and being offensive to people with disabilities and their families.
I lived in US for 6 years and always paid %40 for tax. Add that very high living expenses, expensive insurance policies where you pay lots of money and still get poor health service.

Besides, US immigration system is not based on your skills. As an engineer you sign a slavery visa (h1b) and can not quit your employer until getting greencard. They give greencard to random people with lottery, not a joke. Your wife can not work, too.

In Europe tho, you get blue card right away. This is why I left US and choose Berlin as my next city. I'll make less but more valuable income here.
> If you were a top developer, would you like to make 80k€ at a German software company, paying 33% income tax, or 160k$ at a US company paying 9.3%.

Well, that depends. If I have to put more than half of that 160k$ (which is obviously a Silicon Valley example) into the measly place that I live in because rents and house prices are through the roof (like in...Silicon Valley!), the seemingly high salary can easily become very misleading.

> Of course things are changing, but German developers will have to learn to ask for more.

That is true, but I can also see this happening right now due to the relative shortage of personnel. It just takes a while, because the management people can't easily justify sudden salary raises in the upper double-digit percentage area. People need time to build a higher general level of salaries in the area, but it is definitely something that's going on right now.
https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes tells me it is 34% tax in SF, CA for single at 160k USD.

Why do you think it is 9.3%?
Time to go Riot! https://riot.im

Solid E2E crypto (Megolm)[1], open source, federated, clients for most platforms, Android client on F-Droid.

[1] https://matrix.org/docs/guides/e2e_implementation.html
Approximately: No.
I said two things. Which am I wrong about?
Welp, this is the (big) straw that breaks the camels back. While I've been somewhat slowly easing out of having my hosting services in the US, I don't think I want to even have business with anyone HQ'd in the US anymore.

What if someone phone's them up and says I host sex trafficking? Or I do something else illegal in the US that is fine in the EU or elsewhere?

I simply don't want the risk of the US gov'd or law interfering with me or my business.
Most users are dreaming of 50Mbit/s. In small villages 2Mbit/s are the norm. For me the bad internet in rural areas is one reason that I wouldn't move my business back to Germany.
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My take, if you are a stranger and run into me and either of my (completely different) disabled sons:

- Don't look at my disabled son unless you also look at me. Don't stare, just look at us like you're trying to understand what we are, not how we feel.

- Keep emotional reactions hidden. Whatever you are feeling right now, I feel every minute of every day of my life. You don't hide yours because you don't care, you hide yours because you care not to make me deal with them along with my own.

- Do not do anything about it without asking politely. Whatever I tell you, it is instant law. Do not even make the gesture to touch anything or anyone, unless given explicit permission or asked to please do so.

- I know what I need to do and how I need to do it, I've been doing it every day for years; you have no idea, and if you think you do you become a potential danger or aggressor, and you will be treated as such.

That's the baseline. With further contact, awareness and familiarity things will change.
Some people here seems not to realize that German salaries come with 30 days paid vacation, a year of parental leaves, first grade medical coverage in a relatively cheap country to live in.

If your life goes wrong, due to illnesses, unforeseen circumstances or unemployment, or if you plan to have a family, you're better off in Germany than in silicon valley with 160k.
As someone working in Germany, yes, this is a serious problem. I don't think German managers don't understand economics, but instead they pay journalists to write about skills shortages to get cheaper immigrants here.

The drive to cheap instead of good is what's holding a lot of us back though. Engineers are still seen as a cost instead of something which can (and does) earn money. But bad (and cheap) engineers cost money.
Do you know it _was_ detected? Seems at least possible there was a false negative.
My thoughts exactly. As if 1GBit everywhere would suddenly produces more "digital natives".
I'd agree the former may carry more weight, but the latter remains consequential.
There is no market for fathers and uncles. Nobody wants a roboter as father. Mentor of friend sounds more interesting though.
While I understand the issues, it's still much better in the sense that it doesn't kill anyone while failing to learn how to drive. The fact that we fail to develop something without exposing people to risk doesn't create a right to expose people to risk. It should be seen as either an impassible obstacles, or motivation to solve the problem of learning safely.

Some argume that it is okay, because it will decrease risks in traffic in the long run. This is not a valid argument to allow on road bug-testing, as there is a lot of medical research that we as a society don't allow because of ethical concerns, even some research where the risk of death is essentially zero. Applying research ethics to the Uber situation, Ubers vehicles would under no circumstances be allowed on the road until it could be proven that they were at least as safe as all vehicles already operating on the road.

So while the technique suggested might not work well to solve the problem of safe autonomous cars, the more dangerous alternatives should absolutely not be allowed.
He has a point though. I guess you are even more productive if your connection does not allow you to stream netflix all day ;)
>managers not fearing missing out on The Next Big Thing and trusting in their capital

From an inside perspective I can assure you they're shitting their pants. But they also don't know why they want digital innovation. It's pure buzzword bingo.
This makes no sense.

If I see a kid running towards the road, I'm going to slow or stop my car. I'm not going to think "oh it's just a kid being a jerk, they'll definitely stop before the road" because I don't want to run the risk of squashing a kid.

Therefore, I behave exactly the same as a cautious AI would be expected to behave.

So, why aren't kids running to the edge of the sidewalk when I'm driving?
Too early to tell, but probably worth the time and effort.
just googling `w4m` now brings up a ton of prostitution trash >< I don't even want to know what it stands for.
“The DNS Camel”, or, the rise in DNS complexity
That is correct. This is one of the benefits that come with choosing the server-client architecture.
Backend is decoupled from the frontend (e.g. UI).
> if Telegram is not banned in Russia in about a week from now they will have complied with the FSB's directives.

Sort of a canary by proxy. Maybe they could get (per-country, ideally) warrant canary pages on their web server.
And an awful name for general purpose chat app...
That's certainly one approach.

The other approach is that, unless explicit consent is given, people are supposed to be safe.

Nightly is often required because a lot of functionality for developers is only available there, e.g. custom xpi legacy addons even in FF61.

It's nightly or nothing for this, and as a reminder, stable also was affected by CliqZ.
why jlr use blackberry software now
Makes sense. The more cells in your body, the bigger the chance
True, they even often pay more than that for missed opportunities and recruiters. I think your estimates are on the low end.

And the consulting companies business is huge here. They're paying more even than for internal employees.
So you're volunteering to be an unpredictable pedestrian or cyclist around large numbers of early-stage driverless cars? Put your ethics into practice!

The rationale response for individual cities is to say: "Do your risky testing elsewhere, thank you very much. You may come back here once you are as safe as our average driver."
> If your life goes wrong, due to illnesses, unforeseen circumstances or unemployment, or if you plan to have a family, you're better off in Germany than in silicon valley with 160k.

Am I going to benefit from these as a foreigner not fluent in German language and having trouble navigating the bureaucratic maze of public healthcare and social support? My impression is that even the natives can get confused (see number of homeless and mental people on the streets or occupying the transport infrastructure).
(Had to open this in Chrome, because Fx Nightly says Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_ADDITIONAL_POLICY_CONSTRAINT_FAILED)

I have to disagree with all points.

1) Maybe true - but lots of exceptions exist as far as I'm aware (based on friends/social circle). Yes, there's some overhead, but not staggeringly so.

2) Oh my god.. Sure.. That would _certainly_ increase productivity. Give me Mail over Something-Like-IRC-But-Worse any day. Yammer seems popular around here right now and is shit, plain and simple. Slack has no value for me. If these tools are missing I'd say that's something Germany does right?

3) Fiber optics are uncommon unless you're lucky (say, Cologne has decent options). But broadband is very common. Falling at innovation seems a tad exaggerated.

4) We have good CS programs. Schools tend to be worse (sometimes far so) as far as I experienced and heard, but universities are quite okay. Otherwise .. this is basically the general "big market, not enough people" problem that HN confirms for more or less any country as soon as the "Working in $country" comes up.

Seems .. not just an opinion piece, it seems wildly inaccurate to me. Or to put it more politely: The author's and my ideas of digital innovation or failure thereof don't quiiiite align.
> they are going to drive like a cross between my grandmother and a startled squirrel.

That genuinely might not be a bad thing, at least in the initial phases. They should be ruled by an abundance of caution until we're sure they can actually make more aggressive decisions.

Uber seems to be defaulting to maximum aggression from the outset, which is hardly surprising from them, but seems extremely over-confident (in fairness, like most new drivers are ;)
I think it's to do with the collection of statistics as well.

They record the rape at the initial reporting to the police, no matter what any later investigation shows, and multiple rapes are counted individually (many countries do not).

This is not saying which approach is correct for recording the numbers, but that you cant simply compare the numbers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19592372
And I’m sick and tired of governments doing nothing to restrict the freedoms of companies and individuals to screw over people in order to profit. I guess it’s just different viewpoints.

Some would say that state provided healthcare restricts freedom and choice, I would say that not having to worry about paying for healthcare gives a person a huge amount of freedom.

People have different views of what constitutes freedom, and I certainly don’t see it as a universally good thing in every circumstance. I would say countries like the US are very “free”, and countries like those in Scandinavia, Germany perhaps, possibly less so along many lines, and yet the latter have a much higher quality of life, lower poverty, better education, etc.
Customized X16 Drone: the perfect mashup of toy and hobby grade components
I think that it's a religious problem, originating within the protestant/prussian work ethic, and the holiness of work.

Full employment is the ideal for the politicians in Germany, and they get there also with the help of the church and the social system, "prettifying" unemployment statistics by funneling unemployed people into often nonsensical bureaucratic jobs.

But technology and innovation really means less work for humans, and the fight against technology and innovation then becomes just the natural outcome prioritizing full employment and work, it's the natural enemy of a system like that.
Yep, I see these ads every day on stackoverflow and LinkedIn. They want to pay 50K€ (roughly entry level salary for many engineers) for a PhD in ML.
"To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption, Telegram uses a distributed infrastructure. Cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the globe that are controlled by different legal entities spread across different jurisdictions. The relevant decryption keys are split into parts and are never kept in the same place as the data they protect. As a result, several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data.

Thanks to this structure, we can ensure that no single government or block of like-minded countries can intrude on people's privacy and freedom of expression. Telegram can be forced to give up data only if an issue is grave and universal enough to pass the scrutiny of several different legal systems around the world.

To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments."

https://telegram.org/faq
Then shut down Google too.
Going from ICE to Hybrid is not "next to no engineering at all". Not even close. To be a hybrid you take an existing car, put in everything you would in an electric car, except smaller and you have to place alongside the ICE. The gearbox is none trivial to make to incorporate both efficiently.

It's simpler to make a fully electric car, than a hybrid, 48v ICE or not.
You are right about that. And yet, the alternative seems to be "I want to exercise my constitutional rights, but I want a private company to make it easy, fight for me when legal problems arise, and foot the bill".
The video was released. Turns out it was a woman walking her bike.

Sad event, but it's likely a human driver would have killed her as well. She was on the road at night without lights, jaywalking without attention to the on-coming traffic.

One could argue the car was driving faster than it's headlight distance safely allowed. If so, humans are going to be quite frustrated with how slow autonomous cars drive at night.
Yes I agree. Bad engineering led them to not accepting the reality that technical debt is unavoidable. In a misguided attempt to avoid it, they overengineered ironically leading to more debt than might otherwise have accrued.
With all the taxes in Germany together you're also paying around 42.5% of your 80K salary on taxes. Income tax is not the only tax we have.
Nothing bad, just "woman (looking) for man". I used to see ads in the local free paper with people looking for relationships.

Naturally, m4m, w4w, mw4m etc are also understood.
> see number of homeless and mental people on the streets

There aren't that many in Germany, comparatively speaking.
The problem isn't that 50Mbit/s might be enough. The problem is, that 50Mbit/s isn't everywhere.
Germany is a country which spoutes aloud, that it wants to be one of the leading countries in IT, but in reality, Germany is a developing country in that regard.
Most of the time, only city centers have access to higher bandwidth, the outskirts, smaller cities and most of the country side have very low or no bandwidth at all. The last decades Telekom hat the monopoly with providing connectivity to homes and everyone else was a reseller. But Telekom didn't see the need to modernize their old DSL infrastructure and were happy to let you pay 50 euros per month to provide you 16Mbit/s.
The TV companies could provide higher bandwidth with their newer infrastructure with up to 100Mbit/s, but the country is split between them. So when you were in a bad area, you might have Primacom as a provider and they did stop at 25Mbit/s for a long time.
Now the situation is, that Telekom with all their money is asking the Government to pay for the renovation and they got away with it until the beginning of the year, when they finally said, that DSL will not be supported anymore. Only the fiber will now be supported. But this comes years after some villages got couple 100k Euro together to get at least 50Mbit/s and they still pay a monthly fee of 50Euros.

And the Telekom is not alone with wanting support money from everyone. The southern Rheinland saw multiple providers wanting to connect villages for huge prices, which leads to the weird situation, that southern Rhineland now gets support from a Swiss company. That company doesn't need any money and is still laying fiber through the woods to long forgotten villages.

Compare that with most other European countries, where you can get a fiber connection for the same money with synchronous 100Mbit/s or more. The northern countries with their hard rock grounds did get it working in a much better way than Germany.

And don't rely on LTE, as the LTE tarif were bound to lower GB/month traffic limits and huge costs, as the LTE frequencies were auctioned of between the providers. And the winners couldn't build where they wanted, they had to provide LTE at first where there was no mobile internet available at all, which means on the acres.

Germany is in a sad state in regards to connectivity. And this has nothing to do with people being afraid. If you let the monopolist do whatever it wants and not enforce the modernization, then this is what you can expect.
Its slowly starting to change, the Silicon Valley scare crow works to some extend. But the reason is always either

a) they are being out-competed by US companies and need to step up their game

b) their core business is eroding and they _have_ to change

Source: this is our daily business.
That’s not really an apples-to-apples comparison. In the case of the pharmaceutical company, people don’t really have any other choice other than to take experimental medicine for terminal stage diseases.

On the other hand, there are widely used, cheap, and efficient alternative to self-driving cars on the roads today: human drivers, public transport, carpools, etc.

If you want to make analogies, I think the self-driving car accident is more like if an elevator company accidentally crashed an experimental high-speed elevator in a shopping mall. I think it would be grossly negligent on the part of the company to test such an unproven device on the general public, especially if people’s lives are being put in a position of risk which they did not to worry about before.
The "supply and demand will equilibriate" position only works in an entirely elastic scenario. It rarely works out that cleanly. London is a good example; wages are already extremely high in tech - to the point that many companies cannot hire. But supply is still not there, for a bunch of different reasons - e.g. people unwilling to continue/make a new life in the UK due to Brexit. Wages would have to rise _even further_ to offset that, way beyond the point it makes economic sense for a company to do that.

You can have very high prices and still insufficient supply. The prices are supposed to attract supply; but e.g. when a country is not seen as being welcoming to immigrants (or, in fact, has legal restrictions in place) the only flex is in people training/retraining, which is a many-years response to an immediate problem.
Yes; from a predominantly English speaking individual who lived in Berlin and had to traverse said bureaucracy.
I have recently started doing something similar. One longer-term concern for me is non-macro nutrients (i.e vitamins/minerals). Have you had any thoughts about doing supplements?

I'm also somewhat worried about the bioavailability of supplements...
PornHub: The last bastion of a free and good internet. There is also some porn.

I think 10 years ago people would have laughed at the idea that a federal law pushed gun enthusiasts into pornographic websites.
A book on creating programming languages, for real
Netflix is an evil invention of privacy-violating Americans (an probably operating in copyright grayzone). There, am I doing it correctly?
Very interesting comment, just wanted to thank you for it.

I've been meaning to get into calisthenics and have had to push it due to other responsibilities.

One of the problems is that we are all very good at finding excuses. Exercising, hover, even if it's a bit here and there during the day must not take a big chunk of your time. When I managed to stick to my schedule in the past I actually started to enjoy the "grind" the challenge of lasting longer, improving form and so on.

I'll go back at it, thanks!
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Yeah, I just applied for a job in Germany where I tick 90% of the boxes. Yet the one box I didn't have they immediately excluded me on, even if it was skills I could learn easily given my previous experience.

That job has been open for almost a year now, I wonder why.
"Companies operating in Germany have to make sure that data  is anonymized and stored in accordance with the law. These data rules are a big reasons why German companies have to stick with their old tools."

Pardon my German, but that is utter and complete Büffelscheiße on multiple levels. Firstly, how does data protection and privacy law prevent you from using those tools? Secondly, the German law in these matters is not a hindrance to innovation, that is a lame excuse: If the only business model you can come up with is grabbing as much data as you can and then sell it to advertisers, that is not innovative at all.

I think the problem more has to do with a general resistance to change that is very common in German companies and public institutions. "Was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht", as we say in Germany ("What the farmer doesn't know, he won't eat"). Large institutions and bureaucracies develop a huge inertia as they grow. The three rules why things do not change: 1. We have always done it like this; 2. We have never done it like that; 3. Once we change this one thing, where does it lead to?