skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a native English speaker who studied German, Russian, and Polish, German was much easier to learn than the Slavic languages. The case system is smaller than Russian or Polish, and there are far more cognates which makes learning vocabulary much easier. Also, articles (e.g., "a" and "the") are notoriously difficult for non-native speakers of English, but German is similar enough.

Learning cases is a little hard, and the silly capitalization rules are a hindrance, but probably the most difficult thing in German for most English speakers is waiting for the damn verb to make its appearance. It's harder to guess what it will be than it is for native German speakers.

I would guess that learning German would be easier than English for a native speaker of a Slavic language, though, precisely because syntax plays such a critical role in English, which has only the barest vestiges of a case system remaining. My Russian friends in particular make some amusing errors with word order sometimes, but I think it's charming.

Edit: and for the example given, "Man bites dog" and "Dog bites man," what is required is a verb change, perhaps a couple of articles, and correct capitalization (unless it's a news headline, in which case it's fine). So, "Dog bites Man" can be written as "The man was bitten by a dog" with the same meaning. English verbs are also hard for non-native speakers, though.
70-80K € seems attainable just judging by the recruiters' numbers, but most offers of that kind come with strings attached - like moving to one of the most expensive cities (thus being equal to a 50K job in a smaller city) or being a traveling consultant.
"The tests can be run independently at any later date, helping to ensure that admins haven't messed with important files"

We all run puppet / ansible multiple times a day on our infra right? Checking for config drift.

I'm used to a banking sector where we have extremely stringent demands. And still I see no added value for something like infratest/goss.

Seriously: running ansible on your infra checking for config drift.. is that not exactly the same as running goss? Plus: Ansible returns changes to what they should be at the same time?
Wouldn't the average teenager just stay up even longer? It's not like they are hardcoded to wake up at a certain clock time.

I think it would make much more sense to change the content of school during those years to reflect the interests of students better. Let them take a break, do something practical, do projects, etc. instead of trying to cram facts into their heads. A lot of stuff I headed to learn when I was 13 I learned easily 5 years later, and vice versa.
Each to their own. I thought their relationship was sweet.
An obvious counterexample is students.
School's purpose is to introduce kids to things they otherwise wouldn't have a chance to learn.

Coming from a poor, working class family, an apprenticeship-driven society like those of centuries ago would've resulted in me being trapped doing back-breaking labor and having no chance to escape.

But I got a chance to study tech and other languages, got interested in things my family could never understand, and moved to another country to pursue what made me happy.

I think offering a choice of apprenticeships would be good, but discouraging schooling in any way in favor of them would lead back to cycles of poverty and and end to the upward movement we've seen in the past century with the introduction of widespread public education.
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Film making is one I heard of and also aspiring to do.
I think search engines and social media happened. Basically, unless your work is distributed for free, your audience won't find it, since Google doesn't rank content well if it's got a mandatory paywall and people won't share stuff on social media if there's a good chance most others won't be able to read/consume it.

It's also possibly because the internet and content is in the midst of an endless race to the bottom. People are giving away their work for free, so people have come to expect that as the norm and are less incentivised to pay for anything further down the line (because if they do, their free competitors will eat their lunch). It's a lot like what's happening in the smartphone app market, where due to all the ad supported/free/99 cent apps available, anyone trying to sell an app for more than a few dollars is going to lose most of their audience.
"That sounds a lot like "if my code is bad, I'll find out when it breaks in production, so why test?""

Oh no defintely not, no I mean you test and build your ansible and cluster stuff in Development / Acceptance. We create our monitoring checks there as well. And when all that is done and "green": we go to production.

BTW. Testing your cluster is something you do in dev/acc before you go to prod. And Ansible / monitoring already shows you problems in those pre-production stages.

What added benefit is there for Goss in that scenario?
OK here is an example from me.

I have hypercortisolemia since 25 years at least. I have been to various endocrinologists to investigate this.

It has caused numerous serious problems including blinding me in my left eye (from a cortisol related condition), osteoporosis, weakened immune system and other problems.

Every time they test me for a tumour, find no tumour and in every case I was told, "there is no problem".

Even though the high cortisol is screwing up my health. They do not know the cause so there is no problem.

Once the recipe book is exhausted they are just totally lost.

My brother had a problem that was eventually found to be due to salycilate intolerance. But in the meantime, until this was found, he was told he was neurotic, imagining it etc etc.

My mother was prescribed anti-anxiety medications when she actually had hypothyroidism due to a tumour, with classic symptoms.

Just about everyone you speak to has a story of delayed or misdiagnosis, problems being dismissed or denied because they didn't fit someone's cookbook.

The sooner we have AIs doing diagnosis the better as far as I am concerned.
I've found that leaning into the "I do not care for marketing myself or negotiating, but I'm expensive by default" approach can work, but it requires a degree of being overtly and brazenly 'idiosyncratic'/odd that I find uncomfortable because it still feels like marketing myself. But it's often better than the alternative.

People like stereotypes, basically, and I'm trying to (sparingly) lean into the 'autist programmer' stereotype even if it sometimes feels like 'hamming it up'.

EDIT: specifically, it means I dress down to a fault with some clients, let my inner geek out at 'social events', get too technical if I know there's someone present who can translate and 'explain me', etc. Whether this behavior is just another form of manipulation and self-marketing, or just undoing years of trying to mask my 'true nature' is something I often contemplate.
In practice, apprenticeship/traineeship starts too late. As you said, there should be something like it during / instead of high school, not after high school.

We had an apprentice at work (in Germany) who was going to a Waldorf school I think. They do a half-year apprenticeship as opposed to three weeks as the others do.
Prosecution against Google in the EU is political as well?
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Meanwhile in Ameriburger, the kids tear each other to shreds. It sounds like the educational opportunities you got were what I spent years fantasizing about, wondering if there was anything better than going from mostly-dead teacher to mostly-dead teacher and forced to memorize pointless geographical facts in exchange for ... nothing at all, as far as I could tell.
Yes absolutely, e.g. Italy and Germany have exactly the same demographic situation (post-WWII boom, their children, and the third wave not happening), their social and pension systems face the same challenges. Now compare number of capable, production age, employed Italians living long-term in Germany and vice versa. The same problems will mature in Poland within 5-10 years.
> Wouldn't the average teenager just stay up even longer? It's not like they are hardcoded to wake up at a certain clock time.

They literally are. And that time is later than adults. That's what circadean rhythms are.
> An apprenticeship wouldn't work for something like the sciences where you need to understand the theory before you can work under someone more senior.

Do you have any evidence for that or is it an assertion? I feel very confident that the top decile of those who complete an apprenticeship as a Chenistry lab tech or as a Computer Programmer could go straight into a UK doctoral programme. If the proportion of academically inclined entrants increased so would the proportion capable. I’m sure they’d have massive gaps in their knowledge compared to those who went through a theory focused Bachelor’s but you learn plenty of theory with one to two days a week of class and you can apply it immediately so you’re going to remember it.

On a more Anglophone note lambda school seem to be doing great at training web programmers and data scientists in six months of full time project based work. It’s not an apprenticeship but it looks a lot more like it than any university.
> You weren't forced to.

Actually you are. Doctors have a carefully protected monopoly on ordering diagnostic tests and on prescribing treatments. At least where I live, if you want diagnostic tests or drug treatments you need a prescription from a member of the cartel.
Actually the “close the phone to close the call” is the most dangerous feature in history...
It didn’t actually close the call in the worst possible moments.
Would that still be the case in the middle of winter, when it gets dark at 5:00 PM?
One of the many fascinating facts I learnt from Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" is that the biorhythms of teenagers are shifted to later hours compared to those of adults in all human cultures of the globe, even in those rare societies hardly affected by technology. In evolution this was likely beneficial to make it easier for teenagers to socialize among themselves without adult disturbance, which was necessary to drive their tribe out of its ruts, to pioneer innovation and adaptation to changed conditions. In modern society we are stupid to undermine this by depriving the upcoming generation of their sleep.
Problem is style transfer as a paradigm adds very little to art as an original augmentation of our experience: it is seen as a mere pick & mix without an original act behind, therefore it is very difficult to sell... or is this the latest instalment of the old elites with money vs the angry and penniless young? I don't know, really. That's why as an art dealer I just took the plunge at http://www.artyde.com in order to make the physical act on very basic media fashionable again, that is hand-made A3 A4 A5 drawing or paintings with pastels and water colours. Pauperism forces thought and imagination and we literally need rehabilitation to create new styles imho.
More examples of teenage engineering discipline. OpenPOWER is the one you want.
The full set of prepared speeches can be found here:

https://m.xkcd.com/1484/
Even if that were the dichotomy (and it may not be, for reasons pointed out in other comments), I'm not convinced that getting up at 7AM to go to high school is a more enriching experience than playing (certain) video games until 2AM.
The marketplace of ideas idealism is interesting. It seems to crop up every now and then as the aspirational model for how ideas should propagate especially with technological mediation. But I'm not sure how valid it is, given that the reasoning is by definition circular (that the best idea is the most popular and the most popular idea is the best).

But either way, maybe the world would be better if content wasn't free, if it wasn't trivial and inexpensive to artificially inflate access to attention. As it stands our "marketplace of ideas" is at best a market for lemons.

When did we go from the shiny, utopian visions to this advert-overloaded cyberpunk future of attention hackers [1] and panoptic sousveillance?

[1] https://points.datasociety.net/hacking-the-attention-economy...
>1. You pay to see a doctor. You weren't forced to. You chose to.

Yes, that they couldn't help me is not the problem. The problem is that they behaved unprofessionally and mocked me.

>2. You tell them you read about your condition on the internet. Even though the majority of the health information on the internet is utter garbage.

>3. You then get offended when they tell you to not trust what is on the internet. Although again they are 100% spot on here.

- I am 100% OK with a doctor disagreeing with me. A few of the doctors I've met I respect immensely - even though I disagree with them - simply because they were respectful in their disagreement of what I had to say and had an adult answer for me that didn't involve mockery.

- They did not tell me not to trust what is on the Internet. They mocked me and gave up trying to treat me. They became aggressive. And they still wanted to get paid even after deciding I wasn't worthy enough for them to try!

I am an expert in my field, yet I don't dare imagine what would happen if I mocked a client who asked a "stupid" question! And even if there were no consequence, I'd never do it. Why is this somehow OK in medicine?

>4. You are confused why they are dismissive of you. When you chose to see them, paid money for their expert advice and then wanted to dismiss it in favour of your expert advice. Except that your expert advice = 5 mins of Google and theirs = 20 years of schooling.

I did not dismiss their advice. I took it, for decades. You underestimate the hubris of some of these people - they mocked me even if I took their advice, simply for reporting what happened to me.

>I really do feel really sorry for GPs to have to go through this 100x a day.

Oh those poor snowflakes, having to speak to non-expert clients without mocking them!

There exists no other industry where the expert can be so ineffective, yet at the same time aggressively mock the client outright, even deciding not to do the work because the client is not to his/her liking, while still getting paid.
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The converse of this is analysis paralysis. More than once I've agonized over what could go wrong in production, and trying to prevent these scenarios, only to realize in hindsight that even the entire system going down for a day would've not been noticed by or problematic for the particular client.
Passport photos as well. Unless they're digitally encoded such that they can be extracted, they're usually quite bad due to watermark.
I never used Gameboys, but is there C64 emulator online?

That would be fun.

Playing those old games like Uridium, Cauldron, Impossible Mission, Summer Games and Way of the exploding fist once again :)
False comparison. Intel is doing a lot more than AMD, those employees are across many different products and business units.
These are good questions, and I only have an answer about which I'm confident to one of these:

> Do citizens have a right to be forgotten in such a database?

No. The idea of a "right to be forgotten" is an effort to manipulate the memories of other people, and that's not a right at all. I have a right to remember you. I have right to tell other people what I remember of you.

This is essential for collective social and political action.
I went to a school in America at a school where fights happened at least weekly.

I still took advantage of what I was offered.
> An apprenticeship wouldn't work for something like the sciences where you need to understand the theory before you can work under someone more senior.

At the university, we actually had a very successful internship program for high school students (in particle physics). It turns out there is a lot you can learn by "learning by doing".

Also the actual day-to-day work of a master or PhD student is not too different from an apprentice in crafts - but very different from a school or univerity student. You learn by being embedded in a working group and performing actual work, instead of only sitting in class and learning from books.
This is interesting. I'm UK native and my feeling was that the UK is struggling to develop more engys/scienstists. But other countries are evidently struggling even more. I also thought that Germany's contribution would be way more than the UK's, but that's not the case.
Ok. But in your text you seemed to say you cannot find the illustrations:

Reminds me of classic mechanical chess-playing
turk illustrations. I was about to link it here,
but all the search engines could come up using
plain text search were links to Amazon's
crowdsourcing thing
Same here. I've had some projects with aforementioned negative experience, but usually it's been as you describe.
This sounds very much like printing press reform, where clerics frowned upon spread information. No, you cannot censor science. Every censor will be worked around.
Degree in Aerospace Engineering. After 6 years of job jumping became a fire fighter / paramedic. Still a FF/PM full time but got a master's in computer science and now work part-time remote as a programmer.
No it didn't. It passed a law requiring regulatory agencies to use a single standard for the rate of change.

The law includes this language:

The provisions in this act shall not prohibit other State agencies, boards, commissions, other public entities or institutions, including academic institutions within The University of North Carolina, or any county, municipality, or other local public body from engaging in studies and dissemination of studies of sea-level research for nonregulatory purposes. Collaboration between academic institutions, including those within The University of North Carolina, the Division of Coastal Management, the Coastal Resources Commission, and other State agencies, boards, commissions, or other public entities or counties, municipalities, or other local public bodies regarding generally accepted, peer-reviewed scientific and statistically significant sea-level research is encouraged.
Well, then I have to vehemently disagree with you. The bulk of interesting papers I read are not from MIT or Harvard, but from a quite diverse group of interesting universities and non-university research institutions, from Canada to France to Switzerland. There are a lot of places where real and important research is done.

I would even say the opposite. I think a lot of papers from the top-institutions are quite boring and, i think, heavily profit from the name of the institution.

There are quite a few countries with many strong universities, for example, the UK, where I regularly enouncter universities (I think) I have never heard of before. Right now, I have a paper open from the University of Strathclyde, I can't prononounce the name and it's definitly not MIT, but it's definitly research that matters.
From citus blog: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/09/11/postgresql-11-just...
Medical doctors ARE scientists. They are just forced from the system (insurance companies, health ministries, etc) to classify symptoms/diseases and act appropriately.

It is a very regulated work and if you act out of the prescribed guidelines you risk your license. Sorry, no physician I know who studies for 10+ years will ever risk that to please a patient. Unfortunately or not, I leave it to others.
Wise move. Better to sell if off, to avoid "all eggs in one basket" and have the basket fall.

20% earned in a probability friendly way, is much better than 100% in a low probability way (as very high chances would have been of it nearing 0%)
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Not even remotely true. America is ahead of some countries in some aspects and behind in several others.
Note the following passage:

"It's clear to me that a certain proportion of application developers are allergic to putting business logic in the database system, despite the fact that batch processing logic is often a great deal faster when implemented that way. Perhaps the fact that clients are now able to cede full control of transaction scope to procedural code running on the database server (code that can be written in a familiar scripting language) will help application developers to get over the understandable aversion. Hope springs eternal."
what equity % did you get ?
"The RAZR was the first phone to recognize that cellphones [...] were on the tipping point to becoming fashion accessories"

Meanwhile, Siemens bet (and lost) a whole sub-brand of absurd design experiments on the idea of phones becoming fashion accessories. Xelibri had all the boldness and cluelessness of a teenager getting killed climbing up a power line pole to impress the girls. Xelibri were truly "phones that should not have existed", a monument to organizational bad judgement. (The 5 and 7 models were kind of cool though, but those were absolute outliers in the lineup)
i could sense a correlation within my own body at a period in my life where i was eating just sugar and processed food, that habit manifested a deep depression which was only cured by water fasting for 23 days. After that experience, there was no doubt in my mind that the gut and mind are connected.
I can tell you my story: I tried for years to stay in Italy and work there (it's my home country). As a software engineer I had to work 70 hours per week with no way to get a decent job for a salary between 20-30k euros (gross). When I severely burned out, I found the strength to leave the country and found a completely different work culture in Germany.

This to say: I'm not sure Italians will ever turn it around, still I sometimes think it would be nice to come back and try to change things, but it is incredibly hard given that most of the young people there either leave, they accept shitty jobs or have the same mentality of their parents.
You're not the only one, but you are one in a thousand.

When I work with Python, Java, C++, bash, SQL, or Javascript in a team I feel mediocre at best. I can get around, but I know that I'm easily outclassed. Contrast with PHP, where I'm almost always the best dev in the room. True that I have much more experience with PHP than in the other technologies that I've mentioned, but PHP has the dual curse of having a very low bar to entry, and seems-to-work enough that most "PHP coders" never feel the need to progress beyond the most basic of understanding.

When I meet new devs I deliberately try to postpone mention of PHP as long as I can, to avoid attaching myself to the tainted stigma that PHP has acquired.
> It is effective at showing how little we know, but so are the lectures we have everyday that have unknowns in them.

I really appreciate this being taught, and from what little you wrote, I appreciate the humility shown. Please don't ever become a "big shot" that's too good to talk openly to people who are afraid about their health.
What % of the current company (startup) did you own when you were made the offer originally ?