skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, that should be enough for home user. But even in my part of the woods (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) which is quite rural with smaller villages lacking even these type of connections. There was a story in the local newspaper of a stonemasonry in a smaller village which was having problems perform work for clients in Berlin and Hamburg since the upload speed to the companies machines was to slow. So it's not only "innovate" companies suffering from the lack of infrastructure.
The number of homeless and mentally ill in the streets is much smaller in any German city than in San Francisco or New York.
Just fast metabolism. Consult your doctor and adjust it.
I came 4 years ago to Germany to do my PhD at a University and even here I can feel the rigidity in the integration of new technologies. You might expect that at least in universities they would be more flexible about which tools you use, but it took me 3 years to get Linux installed in my computer! Who could tell how many hours I lost because I had to use windows?! (an OS I just cannot work as efficiently as in Linux.) They love to give excuses about security concerns, but they don't even try!
Where have you been? "Russian hackers" has been an internet trope before memes were a thing.
I am 5’8, and if you are familiar with studies of someone similar doing the same thing, I would love to see them. :)
Absolutely spot-on. Companies here usually hire the best people for their budget, not for their bottom-line.
The positive side of this comes to my mind too however, which is also a very German trait. There ARE a lot of very successful digital companies in their niches (even global players) - just right now Adjust, Remerge, Sociomantic and others come to my mind. However, German companies often times for a lot of cultural reasons stop growing at some point and lacking the ambition for total world domination, explaining the lack of showing up at the very top of the list, as measured by the OP. I do observe a lot of the tradition of the German Mittelstand continuing in the mindset of current start-ups. Through the usually frugal, social and grounded approach that Germans are taking, you rather get a lot of successful medium sized companies, rather than a few A players. What you need for those is usually a single, ultra-ambitioned founder investing decades of their life. The American make-or-break mentality and winner-takes-it-all attitude is much better at producing those - but also at the cost of leaving lots of smaller companies and lesser skilled people behind.
I can tell you that I have seen people working in software for automotive companies, who earn that much for very little work that I still wonder how this is possible.
Or, save 60k from your 160k as a backup. Also insure everything.
> That said, I really wish that I could come forward with a solution to the online sex trafficking problem.

Start by legalizing prostitution and removing the black market. That won't end all trafficking, but will end a lot and will make it much easier to go after the remaining illegal black market as it's now been separated from the legal market. Comment about how people who don't learn are doomed to repeat history here. How many black markets for harmless everyday goods and services do we need to ban before the idiots in charge start to understand these simple principles? They're constantly talking about markets, but clearly no one in government understands the first thing about them. Or, more likely, doesn't want to.
I like working. I like making people happy. My job provides both opportunities and gives me money to boot. It's not really so bad.
what is the problem solved by this solution ? i can't understand the use case of this...
How are the Internet speeds in the rural US?
This sounds like you experienced some nasty stuff. Is this true or are you just cautious? From personal experience I’ve seen people not knowing what to do but never acting aggressive or offensive towards a disabled person, so I’m a bit surprised.
Are walking robots required for package delivery and/or working around humans? Seems like a difficult solution to the easier part of a problem thats difficult for other reasons like SLAM, etc
In the wakes of Edward Snowden's revelations (where Merkel's phone was tapped, they lied to the public that it was not and the next day it was confirmed that it was indeed being tapped) it was shown, that the BKA and other parts of German government gladly sent over all the data they have collected to our "friends" over the pond.
Whilst I and many truly appreciate the data protection, there are other laws, that force you to save data over a certain period of time, see the
"Voratsdatenspeicherung" debate.
There are so many beyond retarded laws, that make an internet based startup in Germany a very bad gamble.
One of those retarded laws was "Störerhaft", which up until the end of 2017 made offering free WiFi basically illegal. Now you are required to identify and collect every real name within a Network. Now offering WiFi isn't straight up a guarantee for trouble, but you are forced to use a login page, which saves the name of the user.
From the comments here, Germany looks like Italy way more than I thought. Weirdly enough, I had to emigrate to Poland to find more "flexibility" in salary negotiations and meritocracy
> The Immigration Act of 1990 limits to 65,000 the number of foreign nationals who may be issued a visa or otherwise provided H-1B status each fiscal year (FY). An additional 20,000 H-1Bs are available to foreign nationals holding a master's or higher degree from U.S. universities.

> Those who have the U.S. master's exemption have two chances to be selected in the lottery: first, a lottery is held to award the 20,000 visas available to master's degree holders, and those not selected are then entered in the regular lottery for the other 65,000 visas. Those without a U.S. master's are entered only in the second, regular, lottery.

That is definitely a non-negligible advantage.
IANA scientist, but the article claims new evidence that a reduced calorie diet can slow metabolism, which would impact the “surplus” side of that equation.
You'd have to make an incredible salary to pay 40%.

You nearly have to make $750,000 per year in Boston to pay 40% between Federal + State + FICA.

Per a new study by the Journal of the American Medical Association comparing 11 developed nations on cost vs results, the US doesn't have poor health service. It's a lot closer to a lower-median rating among top developed nations than a grade of poor. The US scores very poorly on accessibility (10% of the population doesn't have coverage), and it scores very poorly on cost.

"One of the more notable findings in this report is that, at least in some areas, the quality of health care in the U.S. fared comparably to other countries. Long wait times for treatment, for example, are not as much of an issue for Americans as they are elsewhere. In treating heart attacks and strokes, the U.S. actually had the best record of any country. So, contrary to past findings, the quality of care may not be much worse in the U.S. than elsewhere. But the nation's was still shown to be the least accessible health care system."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/22/the-real-reason-medical-care...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26746...
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Like other common chromosomal defects, T18 can be detected with a routine noninvasive first trimester ultrasound screening with 95% recall.[0]

Assuming someone received common prenatal care, this would have been detected, at which point termination would have been discussed. If you have the facts, you make the choice of whether or not to have severely disabled child. And make no bones about it, refusing to choose, is a choice.

While we're discussing this, it's important to mention that prenatal screening can only occur late in the first trimester, or more typically early in the second trimester. It's impossible know if physical abnormalities will develop, until they actually start to develop, and that just takes time.

If a screening test indicates a defect, you need to come back for a more detailed diagnostic test. Assuming you can schedule the tests and get the results back quickly, you're hitting up against 20 weeks.[1] 20 weeks -- not coincidentally -- is time that anti-abortion activists target banning abortions.

[0] https://christianacare.org/services/baby/maternalfetalmedici...

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
This is another lame behavior from big blue lately. The other one was the dimwit CMO that ended work-from-home and sent the media into a tizzy about remote work in general. They need to get some better executives that know how the F to build a business long term.
Thanks krylon, that`s exactly what i thought too!
That's too simple.
What you are describing, may be a symptom, but not the cause of issues withing germany's IT-industry.
As the article states, 'hierarchical' structures are still a common thing in german companies. On the other hand, lots of those companies are much older than Google for example.
They've been successful with their model for decades.
Also germany is a big enough market for itself; the need to compete internationally is not strong (yet).

And: conservatism isn't bad per se. For many people it means a kind of safety and familarity.
Maybe for most folks, it's more important to have a good dayjob that supports their families, than to follow the "arrogant academic" into unkown waters...
Yes I was very surprised there is no mention of unions in the article. The writer has supposed to have thought deeply about this issue, but doesn't come to the (to me) obvious conclusion?
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Probably a good idea to speak German if you want to live and work in Germany.

Basically nobody here will be able to avoid the healthcare system.
I am certainly no supporter of the CLOUD act but the examples given on OP are not convincing to me. What would prevent Slack from notifying all parties of the request (the Londoner and her friends)? As well I'd expect that there are barriers in UK which would require a warrant to get the data.
All these work, does it mean Netflix is abandoning BSD?
If I remember it correctly, sustainable fuel was a big thing a few decades before these oil businesses started springing up, I believe it was Toyota and BMW who had an electric version back then.

But later, these oil mafias systematically destroyed that to the extent that many people in US believe that climate change is fiction.

My point being, sustainable sources of fuel are being either systematically undermined or for the lack of interest.

if we did not have $$$ from the oil interests against these alternate fuel then just imagine how much R &D would have happened till now!!

Even Nicholas Tesla had an electric car's design back in the 1800s, if that tech had been evolved to say Hydrogen fuel or ethanol or anything that doesn't shoot down our atmosphere then things would have been remarkably different now.

So, yes, there is a path dependent approach to science and technology, but for alternate fuel, the path was made ugly by $$$ from the oil interests
Yup, I'm working on something like this.

I plan to use ActivityPub so it can integrate with mastodon and peertube more easily but also have an option to pull over from reddit so people can use their own instance as a frontend to reddit. Makes migration easier IMO.
This is not true.

Here in the UK (EU, for now) single-use plastic bags are still depressingly common.

A levy of 5p per bag was introduced a couple of years back, but nothing that even remotely resembles a proper ban.
> I don't exactly trust Google any further, but I at least feel they are more upfront about their intention and don't push seemingly arbitrary experiments out to users

How do you know what experiments Google is running on unsuspecting Chrome users right now? This conversation arose precisely because Mozilla announced it on a public mailing before the experiment started. You can see any current or past Firefox experiments that you've been in on Firefox's about:studies page.

I work at Mozilla, but not on these experiments.
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Why? Sun is a proper noun. The newspaper would be "The Sun" (capital T).
How will this work? If neither party can prove consent, they both rapped each other by negligence? Or does this only apply to Johns?
Depends. If an instance scales up by 100x overnight it'll probably go offline.

But the nice thing is that no single instance has to scale 100x to scale the network by 100x.

100 instances can scale 2x or 1000 instances can scale 1.2x or 10000 instances can scale 1.02x... You get the point.

Mastodon is designed to have people sign up into communities and then spread out into the fediverse from there.
Setting up the VPN at the router level doesn't allow mistakes like that. Browser doesn't matter anymore - all the traffic goes out only via that VPN.
What is the mechanism to correlate an incidence of cancer with being over weight versus another risk factor?
So much for Value Of Privacy

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-g...

[2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/gchq-and-nsa-tar...
Percentages are no good without NNTs. It does not mention that some cases are much harder to treat than others.

(NNT = number or treatments needed to treat or prevent one case of cancer)
Please do not get me started with the argument over "it is open source, so there are many eyes who have seen the code".

The problem with that is, nobody audits code, if it is working just for fun. And even if it is buggy, then most people look for bugs in their own software and then they work around, so that the original piece is not modified.

We have this seen in many open source projects. Remember all the obvious, mostly security related, bugs that weren't uncovered for years. They weren't uncovered because everybody thought: "huh, that is hard. I assume that other more experienced than I will have reviewed it, so I will trust it."

The thing with certification is, that it is required that it is really reviewed. That there is a guarantee that it is reviewed. That there were people with a different mind set, with different background have reviewed it and as such have brought in their own view.

Certification does not guarantee that something bug free. It guarantees only, it is reviewed. Open source has no guarantee that it is reviewed. There is only hope, that someone has reviewed it.
Thank you kind stranger!

Done.
Women particularly spent almost all spare time making clothing - because a pair of pants could take a month to make. Sure it wasn't backbreaking work in the fields, but it wasn't spare leisure time either.
I think Germany's problem is that it is a lot more bureaucratic and it offers little to no incentive.

a) It has not offered any tax advantage unlike the Netherlands, where many foreigners own IP, holding companies etc...

b) Low-cost labor like Poland, so you'll have a hard time setting up an offshore office.

d) I felt people are bit rigid there. Neither, you can push them around like in many outsourcing hubs, nor you can use the money to drain talent away from competitors. The employees are not particularly noob, unlike many other other outsourcing hubs. If you are planning to do something unethical, most you can expect from your employees is <inaction>. They won't leave, they won't help.
Silicon Valley is not even close to that expensive.

A 2 bedroom apartment in Pacific Heights, San Francisco's most expensive neighborhood, can be had for 6k in rent per month, which is $72k per year, which is still less than 80k.
The American government workers I meet tend be software developers, or developers who've moved into management. They work at least as hard as private sector workers, usually for less pay, and they really believe in their work (science/biology).

The American meme of the dysfunctional DMV seems almost self-reinforcing. The equivalent offices I use in Denmark or the UK are efficient, they have targets to meet and a good working culture.
Oh, that looks interesting and definitely related! Starred, will have a look soon.
What would you guess explains the difference between the world domination pursuit in eg the luxury auto market, versus technology companies? Or with a company like Bayer (which just ate Monsanto) and other industrial giants like Siemens?
I recommend everyone reading this to atleast check out Mastodon and other software that understand ActivityPub like Pleroma (which works with Mastodon or it's own server as backend).

It's a nice change from twitter and you can pick out and join a community you like. But you can still talk to everyone who's on a compatible server all around the world.
As a freelancer in Germany, I can add to that: it's not only that companies are stingy with employees. From what I had observed, a growing number of software engineers found out how tax calculations work, and decide to go freelance by the numbers. In my current team of less than 10 software developers, 2 has just recently decided to take the plunge.

This comes however with increased risk, as the contracts are usually limited to 6 months, and because of "Scheinselbstständigkeit" (appearing to be employed, even though you are contracted out to your own company, or DBA) companies are prohibitted from prolonging those contracts, unless they want to pay horrendous penalties.

All is good and great, I understand why those laws were put into place (mostly to protect unskilled workers, like drivers or manufacturing line workers from being forced to sign more beneficial - to the company - contracts instead of work agreements), but the software engineers, with the employment gap will in most cases easily find a replacement job somewhere near, yet the companies necessarily undergo a brain drain, and the know how gets leaked out.

Just imagine, you need a couple of weeks to be able to actually productively add features to the product, then take a bit time off, some workshop, a ton of meetings, and basically your 6 months are off, and unless your client is willing to take the risk, your starting your offboarding - just mabye transferring all that you had learned in the meantime to somebody else.
I stand corrected, how to curb their usage is left to the member states They're banned here in Italy (and in France), I thought the ban was EU wide.

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/efe/themes/waste/breaking-b...
Which I think is the major point the author missed, the german IT industry itself is in denial for a long time now. Its not even the question why can't Germany create any major internet company like Facebook or Slack, its: "Slack has no value to me", I don't understand why people use Facebook/Whatsapp at all... These are the majority in the industry and block any real innovation at the earliest possible moment.
At the same time, you need mindshare at the lower end to drive demand for the high end. I previously developed for POWER by getting an Apple Mac Mini. Very affordable, and while not a full POWER instruction set was sufficient to test and validate my code. Today, there is no equivalent, and I'm about to dispose of the Mini. I couldn't justify use of POWER today even though we have a datacentre stuffed full of machines for HPC, and could likely make use of it. We have zero experience with it, and no easy way to get any experience. Being able to buy a cheap low-end system for experimentation is important. If I wanted to do this for ARM, I could buy half a dozen cheap boards online this morning and have them delivered by Monday. But POWER is out of reach.
Likely generalized inflammation.
It is also not unlikely that overweight people eat less nutritious diet in terms of phyto- and micronutrients some of which may prevent cancer.
Fat cell proliferation uses some of the same mechanisms as certain cancers too.
Relax. Exercise will do more for you than restricting you diet will. Eat healthy (whole grain, lots of fiber, and greens, and drink water) and don't skip exercise for a long period.
Not going to be fixed. The root cause is that there are a billion people in non-western countries ready to take increasingly sophisticated jobs for pennies on the dollar and are grateful for it.
In Britain, we ate bread.

Lots of bread.

Seriously loads of the stuff, along with other grains and grain products (oats, barley, porridge, beer).

We also ate other root vegetables native to Eurasia such as carrots, parsnips, swedes and turnips; and plenty of beans and legumes.

Obviously there was no going back once we figured out how to roast a potato though.
I wish I hired you as tax consultant!
While on the topic of censorship, https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filter...

"The EU is considering a copyright proposal that would require code-sharing platforms to monitor all content that users upload for potential copyright infringement (see the EU Commission’s proposed Article 13 of the Copyright Directive) … Upload filters (“censorship machines”) are one of the most controversial elements of the copyright proposal … EU policymakers have told us it would be very useful to hear directly from more developers. In particular, developers at European companies can make a significant impact."
> 20 years ago, there was an expectation that when you left the office, you were unreachable except in an emergency.

Maybe I am sort of fresh in the workforce (3 yrs) but I just don't allow this - if I am not in the office I don't work. I don't have slack on my phone or whatever and I have strict boundaries working 9-5. Does it become worse when I have more exp?
This is a persistent myth. I have found the original source of "15 hour work week" study and it turns out that the methodology is completely bunk.

The researcher only categorized "work" as "time spent outside of camp". They did not categorize any of food preparation, shelter maintenance/building and making/mending clothes as "work".

In reality hunter gatherers spend close to 40 hours a week just on food preparation.

Considering the metric, I myself only work a day a month. Because that is how much it takes for me to make money to purchase groceries.
I had a colleague that interrupted the honeymoon because of a vague "we are swamped with work" remark from an asshat manager.
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I guess, if you pick badly then it probably is. I've been working in video games for 4 years now(as a C++ engine programmer) and I'm still enjoying it a lot. We ship a project, millions of people enjoy it, it feels great. The last time I had to do overtime was 2 years ago I think, I'm usually home by 5pm and get to do other stuff I really enjoy. The pay could be a bit better, but seriously, the superb job satisfaction and good work-life balance is worth the slight reduction in pay compared to companies where you hate every second of being there.
This article hit me hard because I've always tended to look at away from anyone who is disabled. Partly because I feel I'm being rude, partly because I don't like to see people suffering (even though in most cases disabled people aren't necessarily suffering).

But I recently had my first child two weeks ago and leading up to his birth I was tormented by the thought of him being born with a disability. What would I do. How would I react to people feeling about him the way I felt about disabled people? So I subconsciously decided to "man-up" and stop cowering away from disabled people and embracing them as I would anyone else.

I completely understand where this father is coming from but I feel foolish that it's taken this long and this circumstance to get to that point.

My son turned out perfectly fine in the end, but I'm glad he taught me a little something.