skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm not careful, I work too much. An extra hour and a half every day quickly adds up.

I wrote a tiny Python script that adds an entry to an SQLite database, with aliases 'in' and 'out', which tells me how many hours I've worked each week.

It will make it easier to remember to leave at 15:30 today.
Hi, this has been already reported, many thanks for the headsup. The reason of that os.Exit(0) is to let the user not to care about quitting the tool after the transfer has been completed. There might be pending pull requests that fix this problem, I'm going to review later today.

Users response to this tool is really overwhelming, lots of interesting ideas and solutions have been already provided in the last 24 hours!
Pretty sure I have to pay for health insurance with my actual salary in Germany, the employer does however cover half the cost of it. It does not come included (e.g. 100% payed by the employer) like with the national insurance system in Sweden. Also, I might be mistaken but only 20 vacation days are required by law and I have 24 days currently.

I do agree with the first grade medical card and the general cheapness of the country.
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Her death was in vain. These kind of fundamental scenarios can be practised with dolls or stunt men on closed test tracks not on public roads ...

If Uber needs data they could have driven manually. Obvously their obstacle tracking is bad.
> Once we change this one thing, where does it lead to?

I can definitely confirm this! Being a foreigner in Germany, a country I've come to love very much, has been eye-opening in this regard.

Never in my adult life have I observed such an obvious, visceral, inexplicable, omnipresent fear to change. It's awe-inducing, really.

Alas, it is perhaps the only thing keeping one of the things I love about Germany: it's café culture.

However, I can also understand those who are highly skeptical of "innovation" and "change" in general. Some of us just plain suck at explaining our ideas and creating the kind of logical, reality-based enthusiasm that gets Germans on-board.
Everyone in EU gets at least 21 paid days off a year + unlimited paid sick leave, no matter if you're a surgeon or a cleaner. But yes, for bigger companies it's usually closer to 30 paid days off than 20.
In all seriousness though. In California at $500,000 for 2017 the combined effective tax rate is 40.64%.
Definitely. The oft derided phrase "How's the weather?" certainly came into the popular consciousness for a reason. The commonplace can be a source of great camaraderie; not the banality we usually dismiss it as.

This is one of the more humbling and meaningful submissions I've had the good fortune to read on HN.
I can absolutely agree having seen this happening much too often. It’s like someone took the bad stories from Clayton Christensen‘s „Innovators Dilemma“ and implemented them down to the word. Protecting revenue pools and managing innovation by line managers are stereotypical examples here. However while not being brilliant at true innovation many larger corporates are doung a decent job in managing strategies to protect their business longer than you would expect. This may not be as fancy as the startup world but nevertheless pays their bills.
I think that TV has a big role in this. German TV dubs everything into German, Dutch TV just adds subtitles to foreign programmes.
That is not bad! I might consider renaming it.
I find this post a bit wordy but interesting. It notably points out well how the two approaches to deal with the state of a system, using versions or overwriting it, are in competition since a long time and in various domain of computer sciences.

Alan also cites a paper about [Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects](http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011001_final_worlds.pdf). A hot topic in the functional programming world. That paper makes me remember that ideas from FP and OO can mutually improve (an idea well developed in this short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmkqocn0oQ.
Ah, you are absolutely right
Less international? I live in north germany. A few kilometers away we have Airbus (which makes it the third largest aircraft manufacturing plant in the world), one of the largest ports in the world, ... there are even weekly cargo trains going to China. Just recently a 1 billion research laser has begun operation - only possible to build with international cooperation.

If you look at the German Mittelstand, you can find 1000+ small and medium enterprises who have world wide business from rural areas.
Please, remember that the original technology of the so-called Autopilot was bought from MobilEye. Please remember, that MobilEye is a long-time player in this area and have deployed their technology first with BMW and later with Volvo way before it was used in Tesla. Tesla only activated features that were not ready for primetime. That was the reason why MobilEye backed off from the partnership with Tesla.

Btw. all this of collecting sensor data and improving on this, is an original idea of MobilEye that they presented at conferences before the so-called Autopilot was available from Tesla.
And until recently it could abort() either, but Chrome/FF/Edge all have it now (yay!) and there is a polyfill for Safari/MSIE and old browsers: https://www.npmjs.com/package/abortcontroller-polyfill
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As a comparison - a "senior test automation engineer" in Poland has usually 3-5 years experience in automation in the rob ad. I've never really seen anything more than 5.

In Germany, I recently got "junior test automation engineer" job offer, that required at least 3 years of automation experience. Upon my joking remark to the recruited, he just smirked and said "that's how the customer sees it".
I had a same experience... decided at the start of January to cut out almost all sugar (and the nutritionally empty foods that delivered it).

Once I decided that, it was surprisingly easy to say 'no danish mid-morning, KitKat after lunch, or candy mid-afternoon'. When the hunger pangs came, I'd go for a 5 minute walk or head up to the work gym for a quick 30 minute session. Then in the evenings, I found I was still much less hungry. Dinner was 2/3 the size as before, and no desire for dessert afterwards.

I was surprised how my body felt this new routine was perfectly fine!

I lost a steady 2 lbs a week through January and February, and am now back to the weight I had 25 years ago.

Whether or not this qualifies as a "reduced-calorie diet", it feels great!
No they can't. I think they have order of magnitude of 10bn of their own money in their good strategies (Medallion et al), and another 10bn-ish of external money in their bad/stale strategies (which are still among the better hedge funds and can charge 1%+10).

But reputedly they neither allow external money into Medallion nor do they let employees compound their existing stake in the fund but pay out ginormous 20%-40% annual dividends exactly because the strategy is not scalable.
Go ahead and #DeleteFacebook. But here’s the change we really need
It's more often 5-6 weeks. As a Swede I always feel alien to the hours Americans seem to put in.

I'm a consultant and work roughly 35h/w in Sweden. I often find this a bit too much, given that the work I do is disconnected from anything "real". Sure, my clients are always happy and I do fun things, but my family and friends is what's real.

I truly believe we should automate everything and let humans decide by themselves if they feel like working. If not, something like UBI should exist.
IIRC the big problem with calorie restriction is that it brings along a greater susceptibility to infectious disease. After all if it were a cost-free win, a gradient-descending (is that the right term?) optimization process like evolution would have implemented it already.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jul/14/ageing-...

Regarding suggestions made in another comment that calorie restriction represents the preindustrial norm, I don't think this is something modern nutritional science would have missed, considering the amount of research performed into the diets of extant nomadic and otherwise primitive cultures.
I have no doubt about that. I'm merely pointing out in response to the parent, that you're going to pay a fair bit on a $160,000 style income in the US, not 10% style rates.
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I agree SpaCy's doc's are great, though I still managed to miss the point about the small models missing real word vectors, which http://mlreference.com/word-vectors-spacy notes at the very top. I wasted some time getting confused on why nlp("cat").vector gave a nice-looking vector while len(nlp.vocab.vectors)==0 etc., I'm guessing I wasn't the only one :-)
Well said.

Often people forget the mental stress modern work places on us. I remember my Dad working hours but he was tired from physical exhaustion and not mental. He didn't have email or messaging that would distract him from a weekend of relaxation.

I was addicted to checking my email every once in a while and found my mind switching to thinking about work instead of enjoying the moment. Thankfully I broke that habit.

Today, I try and impress this upon other people who do this.
This is actually somewhat encouraging.

Plastic pollution clearly is an emergency now, but that this much of it comes from abandoned fishing gear means cutting the pollution at it's source should be a lot less complicated than trying to completely change the whole world's view on plastic production.

Obviously we still need to curb plastic production globally, but it's so commonplace that this will be almost impossible to realistically achieve with the world the way it is. I'd hope that over time we could introduce legislation to move to biodegradeable plastics, but really, we need to change our cultural view of consumption and waste entirely.

It's a task that makes solving climate change look trivial, so I'm struggling to hold out hope - although the one ray of light here is that it seems that the scale of the problem is bi-partisan acknowledged, for example, on the left:

Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/12/micropla...

CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/world/midway-plas...

On the right:

Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5491469/Micro...

Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/03/16/93-percent-bott...

So at least some cause for optimism if the WHO can pressure the UN to take multilateral action, but it'll take pressure on the ground from people the world over.
I actually already have this setting enabled. But it will still give you an ipv6 address and even though I do have a local ipv4 address on this interface, the application will pick up the ipv6.

The problem seems to come from the fact that the port is just appended to the address, but with an ipv6 you have to surround it with brackets

[1::c0de:f0r::f00d]:1337
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When you first run Firefox, it shows the following page describing the types of telemetry data Firefox shares and a button to configure your telemetry options if you'd like to change them:

https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/firefox/
I stopped using it because my messages were not arriving and notifications were several hours to days late.
In Germany, when an accident is avoidable, you are 100% at fault (as it should be) criminally and civilly. Isn't that the case in the US? I'd be astonished if that were the case.

If you enforce your right of way and kill somebody, that's manslaughter in my book.
Exactly. Thanks SPD for passing another well-intentioned-but-stupid law that hampers our competitiveness.
The most surprising fact for me in this article is that there are hedge funds which don't access any SEC filings in any given month.
it's still limiting if you define it to broadly. if i defined a law that said every owner of a home will be punished if somebody in that home smoked weed or did drugs.

and airbnb is gone, and so on.
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FWIW there's been another reform in Germany. Brothels and prostitution are legal, provided prostitutes register with the police. The police registration is a bit of paperwork and an interview every 6/12 months, the goal of the interview is to uncover trafficking.

Skipping that interview is a crime for the brothel owner, not just the prostitute.

Two weeks after the reform, about 90% of prostitutes in Munich had been interviewed (mostly before it was formally required): http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/prostitutionsschutzgeset...
You seem to baselessly project negative emotions and motivations on to your interlocutors in lieu of coherent points that actually refute their arguments.

chinhodado, the GP, framed his feature request as one of the major reasons he is forced to continue using github. Gitlab's motivation for the very feature this thread is regarding, is to poach github customers, or at the very least, increase their customer base by giving people a smoother onramp to transition from github. More power to them.

The feature he describes does, in fact, have obvious utility, which is why it was so strange to me, someone who only uses gitlab for its most basic features, to see the exchange with the gitlab engineer. Surely a company with the venture capital that gitlab has raised would perform the basic ongoing market research that any company in nearly any competitive market performs.

It honestly made me wonder if gitlab on one hand, realizes that they need to inform themselves of useful features, but for whatever reason, doesn't avail themselves of github's features.
Your link says nothing about Google Public DNS.
You are using Nightly "wrong" because of attachment to old extensions that will perish in June when all legacy stuff will be blocked. Nightly is only for testing out new features and it's not intended to be production ready browser... but everyone has an own use case. Yet do not beat them for wanting to change something for the better after using testing technology.
Stairs come to mind.
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> If you've ever felt frustrated at an IVR system for routine tasks such as banking, restaurant reservations [...] hundreds, of innocent victims who have been raped, exploited, and brutalized.

How can you compare being the victim of misdesigned automated system, who has no conscience and follows blind rules, to being the victim of a trafficker who has full understanding and responsibility for what he's doing and exploiting a mindless computer system designed for an entirely different purpose?

Now I agree we as a society should recognize that some tools, in the hands of the criminal, sociopath or insane can do a lot of harm, and it's fair to move and restrict them. High explosives, nuclear material, anonymous banking are all examples of technologies that, while useful, can and should be restricted.

But at no point it is a fault of the technology, and at no point should we examine the technology divorced from it's nefarious users who ultimately bear responsibility. Restricting useful technology is an extreme measure reserved for the most dangerous situations, otherwise ANY technology can be used for harming others. This particular case seems completely out of balance and likely to have NO impact.
Correct, also the fact that "companies don't use Slack because of this" is laughable

Companies do use Slack and other similar services
Investors lose hopes for Electric motor and Tesla is unable to fund their project!

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

They are obviously going to say this to keep investors from betting their money on Tesla.

BMW surely has money from their other class of vehicles to continue funding their electric motor expedition.
Take a look at this list, as one small example:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?i...

Commercialization hand-offs have been extremely successful. It doesn't have to be for starting one specific company, it can be for sparking large broad technology adoption such as the Internet or technology in the aerospace industry. SpaceX exists overwhelmingly due to NASA. Tesla solely exists because of the US Government. Self-driving technology has been dramatically pushed forward by numerous government initiatives over decades. The iPhone exists because of numerous technologies invented by or funded by the US military. GPS exists because of the US Government. Silicon Valley owes a ton of its success to the US Government funding progress on microchips. The entire computer industry owes an epic thank you to the US Government supporting it.

Maybe it works very differently in Germany. In the US, the federal government has handed off vast technology to the private sector.
> Online ads are probably the #1 spot for sex slaves to be found and returned home.

I'd never heard of this. I'm not trying to call you out or anything, but do you have any sources or further reading? I'd be interested in seeing how this works.
For some reasons the Xilinx link is not opening.
How relevant is the factor of German companies systematically being spied upon and suppressed by American Monopolies and government?
If only the Express could take a break from bashing immigrants to run a front page shouting, "The Sun Causes Cancer"
Meh. When you're in a country where most things "just work" (eg. France, Germany etc.), and you see so many broken systems around you, of course you want to focus on keeping your existing special advantages. When most of the solutions you have work quite well, randomly picking new stuff from the space of possible solutions results on average in worse things than what you already have. "Undirected innovation" doesn't make things better for you, and "directed innovation" is something nobody has figure out how to do yet (and I'd be that nobody ever will!).

So most innovation will tend to come from somewhat-broken economies and somewhat-broken societies! For them sampling even randomly from the space of new solutions makes sense.

The magic though is how to "stabilize" an economy or society in the "half-broken" state, how to prevent it from going downhill from here to actually-failed-state and actually-failed-economy and then even further to (civil-)war. Only the U.S.A. seems to have managed to nourish this "always half-broken society and economy" that truly accelerates innovation. Even the "Trump thing" seems like a good example of getting this right, fertilizing society with some fresh stinky yummy chaos, even if nobody puts it in words.

Europe could imho get the same "magic sauce" by keeping afloat and integrated, and occasionally half-fixing, its "peripheral" zones (think Greece, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria etc.) and allowing free migration of money and people. From the half-broken places innovation will come. Or instability will propagate to the more mature/efficient societies and make these more innovative too. The trick is just to not let them get fully-broken or let them drag the rest downhill. (Or not do other exceedingly stupid shit like Brexit, bad deals with Russia etc.) Outside the tech-bubble Germany seems to have had a good idea with the "take in all refugees to stir some blood and agitate people a bit" move... I'm sure it will grow their economy long-term, though not sure if it would be relevant to innovation in tech.
The title on their website's homepage is "Kapwing - The Online Video Editor".
Absolutely this. I've lived here 3 years now and I love the British, but the self-defined English, yikes. Narrow-minded, lazy, parochial, backwards-looking. They don't all look to Farage, but they may as well.

The worst thing about these people is the complete lack of self awareness they have of their own country (the UK, not England). They think England is the guiding light in an otherwise dark place, something which the rest of the world admires and aspires to, whereas the reality couldn't be more different in my experience speaking to other foreigners about the UK. The things that I and others admire are things like the BBC, this beacon of objectivity and quality, and bulwark against American dross (changing in the days of streaming, but still), the openness and energy of London, the innovation of British design and art, the energy of the creative scenes here, even the polish and efficiency of the professional and finance sectors. The self-defined English think this is the problem.

I hope brexit is a sluice for these people.
24 vacation (working) days, that can be taken in day increments

Edit: fixed no. of days
Goldenkey might be referring to the euphemism treadmill mentioned in the summary of that article; the never-ending cycle of replacing neutral words for a group of people when they have (inevitably) shifted in meaning to a pejorative (like 'imbecile' and 'retard').
For these rights people literally kill themselves to come to Germany.

Unfortunately with the decentralised IT industry, having the same benefits it's just a matter of negotiation. On top of that the amount of taxes that you pay for having "cheap" country to live in always averages those benefits.

Having a family here would be great as well, if they don't charge me a percentage of my income for kindergarten [1], a percentage of my income for health insurance, a percentage of my income for religion tax ( happily I'm an atheist ). Those all sound fair for low-skilled jobs, but not so much when you are heavily in demand IT-person ( the tax-bracket is too steep ).

1: https://www.expatica.com/de/education/Preschool-in-Germany_1...
This might be off-topic WRT the linked article, but I just wanted to take the time to say that I admire that you did this with your sons. If I become a parent I want to also instill the value of leaving behind a wake of improvement to our environment and communities, even if it's just picking up a piece of trash that would otherwise sit there until it decomposes.
Where in Germany do you get 50Mbit/s upstream?

How about, say, 20-30Mbit/s upstream and long-lasting IP addresses? A couple of people on WebRTC conferences can easily use >10Mbit/s and the conferences work best if noone's IP address changes in the middle.
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So you can't be bothered to vet 3rd party software for safety critical uses? That sounds like a no-brainer to me. You can't just slap some NPM libraries together for that use case.
Maybe common FP languages are missing a control structure somewhere that would encapsulate the progression from stable state to stable state (the transition of which is purely functional) while the glue between transitions is as free as procedural code? Let's take my field, HPC, as an example, the same would hold for game engines: There isn't really a reason why Kernels couldn't be functional and performant, in fact CUDA is in many ways a data oriented language, however outside the kernels there is often the need to swap pointers for example, so one can save unnecessary memory copies between timesteps. The data in question often tends towards tens or hundreds of gigabytes (the size of the cluster node memory), so you really don't want to allocate that fresh between kernels. I don't know enough of Haskell to decide whether Monads would be of any help, but these pure FP languages just don't seem to allow me to ask how something is going to perform and how to approach the maximum possible performance for a given algorithm, their syntax only seems to care about functional correctness.
American companies lead digital innovation, building on a lead that was established way back, with Fairfield Semiconductors...German industries build on their lead in many traditional industries, including the car industry.
I can only imagine how smug your smile was when you typed out "local data privacy officer" wondering how many chills you were about to send down Mozilla's spine.

Lots of HNers are going to be let down in about one month.
I was under impression that in SV 160k barely covers your expenses, including insanely expensive rent. is it really possible to save 60k out of such salary?