skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany is losing that control. It seems peak German influence was during Greek crisis a few years back. Even though IMF and World Bank (sorry, but basically US based and influenced organizations) and the Obama Administration insisted on the Germany taking easier course on Greece crisis -- cutting the debt owned by Greeks -- Germany did it its own way, in opposition to the US demands -- and made a deal where Greece is and will be responsible for repaying all of the 100% debt it owes. Basically they did with the Greece as they pleased in sharp contrast to US open demands and criticism. There was US Secretary of Tresury Mr. Lew travelling to Berlin to speak to their senses, but was ignored. Soo...

Now, of course, we can argue if it makes economical sense or not. The point though is that -- and forgive me, but I like playing in my mind, and this is my private little conspiracy theory I have never shared -- Germany seemed to be getting too much power in the EU. By the US standards that is. The US long term policy for EU and Europe is to make sure there is no single one power governing or having influence over the whole continent. So Germany seemed to be braking that rule.

And, what happened next? Again, conspiracy theorist here, but good food for thought, just think about it:
* Lufthansa airplane is suddenly dropping from the sky
* German automanufacturer (VW) turns out to be braking federal laws, with its bosses in the US in prison because of the diesel-gate (VW was picked as one just to make an example. The same issues are with BMWs and Mercedes, but hey we just want to teach a lesson here, not destroy them completely, right?)
* Migration crisis. German Chancellor is in no position now, even domestically speaking, to talk about issues with this or that -- fix that big mess with migrants first! That's what Ms Merkel hears from her voters. What EU power? Gone!

Just a conspiracy theory. But it kind of fits. Ans looks very American too, i.e. soft power. You know if we want, your cars won't be sold here. If we want you will need to pay up too 2% GDP on military (and your voters hate it), if we want your airlines my look not that safe anymore. If we want we might even destabilize you a bit with huge influx of migrants.

So, want to show Greece or some other European countries where they place in the hierarchy is? Well, make sure you discuss is with your overlord first.

Again, conspiracy theory. My own private crazy thing.

But to answer the question seriously -- German politics is blocked from entering EU stage with serious decisions regarding other countries by the migrant crisis. They are still the biggest and strongest player. But nothing compared to peak power during Greek Debt crisis. They started to feel to powerful and independent, seems all back to "normal".
That's effectively how ad-blockers function and they seem to work pretty well.

Buying a new domain to bypass the list is pretty easy but adding one line in the blocklist is even easier (and easily crowdsourced).
I miss terminals too. For me it was dec vt100s.
Think of it this way, if this thing is real (and I doubt it is) then smart companies will make themselves the exception and buy hard into the 30+ market, and have much better employees as a result.

30+ women/men are the staple of science, and if they are not the staple of software engineering then you’re making a big mistake.
The melting part is important. It's not just a complex crystal structure. If's a crystal structure with slots that are filled with the same material. The interesting part is that the filling and the main crystal structure have a different fusion temperature.

"At high pressures, potassium adopts a mix of crystalline and liquid structure"???
Philosophical writing should read like a letter written to oneself
Streaming HTTP and gRPC support is on our roadmap, but it's still a ways out :(

On the comment about how the control plane APIs support gRPC: the serving infrastructure for the data plane is pretty different from the control plane, so it's unfortunately not a direct map to supporting gRPC on the data plane.

Another possible solution is to run an API gateway that does gRPC to JSON conversion and have that invoke your service.
This is a nice piece of art. I can't really comment _much_ on how functional it is but I can say people's complaints are usually overblown and many appreciate the refreshed look. This one in particular seems to retain a lot of original geography while looking a lot softer/warmer.

I'm personally inclined, as I think others are as well these days (given that I see them in shops), to put these various transit maps up as art in my home, although usually an even more artistic rendition. I grew to love these kinds when living in Seoul, whose subway system is comparable in size to that of Tokyo these days. Funny enough, it seems like the older Berlin maps were headed in a similar direction, portraying the main "ring" line very literally with branches off of it.

See: https://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/tokyo-...

or: https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.co... for Seoul
It's not now?
Hardly generalizable though. Went through a data science / engineering fellowship for phds and the first people to get placed were the ones who did a PhD decades ago and were doing something else for a longtime and now wanted to get back into tech. There are definitely places in the US that value experience and wisdom and others that don't.
A little bit like the US: http://anewdomain.net/dont-hire-anyone-30-ageism-silicon-val...

You can also look at HN. Ageism topic posts usually have comments that a proper HR person could sense from across the building, fast enough to slam the emergency power cutoff button, mid-sentence.

It seems like there's often also an upvoted comment by a claimed middle-aged person, saying how they're so dumb now (which we who make a living with our brains should find alarming).
StackOverflow? ducks
Well, a free tier loss leader for paid services is much different than what people are generally referring to.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance made me feel this way. The Steam rating does it no justice, it’s a 9/10 game.
I'd describe it as a kind of "constructive nihilism", which some authors argue is near-identical with Existentialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism

Nietzsche was kind of a nut, but he had some useful ideas

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/books/review/friedrich-ni...

In my teens/20s, I was miserable in the face of all the suffering and destruction in the world. Now that I'm 40, it doesn't hurt anymore.
This, and the other thing is that we've gotten so used to doing online research before buying something, especially for bigger expenses.

Doing research in a retail store is no less work, and in fact, it's more work because you have to look for specific things on multiple boxes, lookup reviews, etc.
I agree with you. Google needs to learn the good parts from Oracle.

Enterprise adoption != developer adoption.

That's why Google desperately needs a strong sales team.
I was wracking my brain trying to think of early '80s job-simulator games, mostly because there aren't many at all. I'm not sure that I'd class Trashman, Paperboy or Tapper (fond of all 3 btw) as job-simulators. Other than driving and flightsims, I can't think of any from the early '80s :) Late '80s perhaps.
So experience doesn't matter anymore? Why even bother?
Marissa described possibly the most thorough and analytical job search process I've heard from anyone, when she was talking about how she joined Google. I really liked her reflection on this in hindsight on how being overly analytical is dangerous and it's something I try to remind myself of when I'm in danger of overthinking a decision:

"I think this is a common thing that very analytical people trip themselves up with. They look at things as if there’s a right answer and a wrong answer when, the truth is, there’s often just good choices, and maybe a great choice in there."
Netlify does the whole static thing better, by being extremely focused on all things static, which makes setting up a static site on netlify way less stressful than on github and amazon, there is also the market knowledge factor, I mean github is known for hosting code repos and S3 is known for hosting files(videos and pictures), netlify meanwhile is known for static pages.
It's so weird that in three years, this article has never been updated to point to course materials. Given the publication, it's reasonable to conclude that a high percentage of the readers would at least consider taking the course - or recommending it to someone they care about.

What an unfortunate missed opportunity.
No question there are places that value that kind of thing.

I really don't know what any of the places I interviewed at are REALLY thinking too. Just suspicions.
yeah, not sure what happened with that link on their site. SF Gov seems to have moved the report. Here's a breakdown by St. Anthony's: https://www.stanthonysf.org/san-franciscos-2015-homeless-cou...

(to be clear this is from 2015, so nearing 4 years out of date)
My experience so far, the younger crowd are more likely to take a moral position. But, whoa, are they woefully unprepared for any kind of organized protest.
> Removing this element alone is a really bad decision. By looking at the original map a couple of times it is very easy to use the ring as visual aid and go from there. It is essential for navigation.

I'm not sure I understand your point. Ring is very much the central element in this new map, isn't it?
I've spend a lot of time in Berlin, and I find it hard to read. Mostly in that sometimes it's relatively annoying to determine what lines will get me from Station A to Station B.

For example, let's say you're a tourist and you arrive at Hauptbahnhof, and you need to get to get to Alexanderplatz - what lines will get you there?

There's a whole bunch, and it's very hard to figure that out quickly. Or you might see that the S9 does what you need and you'll just wait for that, so you'll go there and wait, while the S3,S5,S7 pass you by.
“Just Switch to Linux” Is the Loser’s Game
Both of those services you listed are generic tools.

Netlify is for one use case - front end developers deploying websites.

That means things like automatic asset compression and minification, feature support for things you’d normally need to setup a backend server for (login, form capture, etc), automatic SSL certs, CMS, etc.

Yes, most of their features can be replicated with other tools, but the point of Netlify is that you don’t need to with them, because they understand your perspective (hosting a static website as a front end developer) and they handle things for you.
Social issues definitely seem like part of it now, but Kotaku was disliked in hardcore communities well before Gamergate or any of that other nonsense. My recollections of late-2000s Kotaku are similar to how I feel today about a lot of tech publications where personal expertise in their subject area makes it painfully obvious that they don't really know what they're talking about.

When you spend hundreds to thousands of hours mastering a game and immersing yourself in the culture surrounding it, an article on "your" game, unless it's written by someone as keyed-in to the meta as you are, is likely to come off as a series of poorly informed hot takes. In other words, generalist journalists frequently have a hard time developing the level of experience in a particular area necessary to write about it in such a way that's not laughable to the "experts". This effect is particularly bad in video games, where the amount of rabbit holes you can pour yourself into is practically uncountable. Everyone's an expert on something, and it only takes one crappy article on your pet game to destroy your confidence in anything that outlet produces, even if you lack the experience to see the lie in each and every piece.
Can you point anything specific in which it is better, instead of vague things like them being more “focused”?
Sometimes things are negotiable, and if you list a price, it could be a turnoff for a potential (usually large) customer.

Like if you see that something costs $X, and you can only afford $Y, you might not even bother with it.

But if you talk with them they might be able to work within your budget.

But of course, when you do that, it's a clear sign you're targeting large clients/contracts, so your smaller customers won't want to bother with it.
I use Python extensively at work for one main reason: Tensorflow. We're an ML shop, and Python has the most well-developed tools for ML. Ruby doesn't have anything that even compares to numpy in quality, let alone all the things built on top of it like scipy and pandas. It will take a huge amount of effort for Python to catch up.

Personally as an infrastructure engineer, I'd be incredibly happy to drop Python, and almost everyone on my team agrees. When you're building complex data processing pipelines that have to support the hundreds of features that scientists ask for, having static types (especially ones that differentiate between different dimensions of tensors) is a huge win over having to write a unit test for all the possible combinations of things that can happen.

Unfortunately from a solid infrastructure perspective, Ruby is even messier than Python due to the rampant metaprogramming culture. This doesn't matter so much in web dev where the layers of complexity are not that thick, but in other types of development it becomes a real burden very quickly. That might be one reason why Python is preferred over Ruby.
Netlify for me:

- I get free & automatic build, deploy and hosting of my JS app just by pushing to git.
Several discussions about PeerTube in the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17386609

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18013705

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18220475

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347560
With Cloud Run you're only paying for resources used, and with Cloud Run on GKE you're paying for the underlying cluster [1]. This also gives you the flexibility to optimize costs by shifting workloads between the two if desired.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing
I guess a less violent form of it practised by every country, even the democratic ones is falsifying history text books from grade school.
Union City, New Jersey?
wtf is this crap? You're posting basically "any explanation at all" and saying that because it's an explanation, it's what you believe. Anyone could do that for anything
Airlines know before they take off their ETA to the other side pretty much down to the minute. Their planning builds in padding so that they are guaranteed to make it on time. Which means they expect to arrive early and end up in a holding pattern because the take off slot and landing slot are deliberately misaligned. This is exactly what the article is implying.

That's of course aside from the inevitable issues arising from operating at 99% capacity. Anyone familiar with queuing theory or logistics knows that this just means things pile up at the cost of delays and extra fuel being burnt. So, that too is poor planning. You never operate systems with queues at close to 100% capacity unless you are looking for severe cost overruns and bottlenecks.

This poor planning results from misaligned incentives. Airports can just park planes in holding patterns for however long they desire. It's not their fuel being burnt. So they over provision knowing full well they will have planes in holding patterns throughout the day, This maximizes their revenue. So they are actively incentivized to do this. Likewise, airlines buy fuel cheaply and only get penalized for being late. So they are incentivized to implement padding.

So, the fix is re-aligning the incentives for airports and airlines to minimize planes in holding patterns and fuel being burnt. There are several ways to do this but the bottom line would be making sure both airlines and airports aim to not have planes in holding patterns because that costs both of them something.
>Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out.

That's just not true.

Come to flyover country. There are many, many jobs that are 'stick metal piece in here remove stamped metal piece there' sorts of work.
> I just want to understand what its killer features are.

It's convenient. It understands a lot of static website generators, runs the build, makes a preview, manages domains, DNS, https via let's encrypt. All in a single package. Nothing in that package is impossible doing by yourself, but it's just well executed.
I was left-clicking. I found that it occurs on Chrome and Firefox but not Edge.
Experimenting with NoProductOwner at F-Secure
It makes sense that more developed countries would have lower optimism. If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better. Developing countries are more likely to have significant recent salient difficulties that the next generation will no longer have.
It's a bad question, but not an illegal one (in the US). You can be no-hired or fired legally because of your political views or support for a political candidate.

Religion is off-limits in the US.
>Why don't they use wide-body planes more

Off the top of my mind, there are some other non-fuel factors

1- A competitive schedule in a business market includes offering a high number of frequencies, so running several flights on a narrowbody is preferred over a widebody

2- Building off of the above, you can segment your customers better, charging more for business-friendly timing

3- You mention seeing the tiny Skywest regional jets at SFO. While I'm not too familiar with United's route structure, I'd guess that most of these routes may not support a narrowbody (either because of mainline costs or demand)

4- Delta apparently used to run tiny regional jets out of JFK when Jet Blue was starting up in order to squat on slots, but also disrupt operations, since Delta would be much less impacted than Jet Blue.
The lead ins are really hard to read: different font-size + capitals + not clear how they are chosen. I would just remove them.

h3 seems to similar to body text. Maybe because the top and bottom margin is almost identical

Maybe reduce/remove the paragraph gaps inside the block quotes and brighten up the citation.
As an advertiser, can I work with creators to play my ads before or during their videos?

Could creators have a 'subscription' that allows consumers to bypass my advertisements?

Or maybe the 'subscription' allows early access, or extra content hidden to regular viewers?

Without some localized incentive (money) for creators, this won't work. I know there is the "Support" button, but that doesn't really do what a creator needs. Hoping for money isn't a business model (and major content creators run businesses, regardless of the image they project).
To me, it's that it packages up best-practices in a way that is useful for all developers from enterprise to hobbyist. By following Netlify's easy path you'll end up with a solution that would take much effort to duplicate. And Netlify's solution has enough of the same functionality with very little effort.
"bizzare" state lol

some day mainstream scientism will realize that it is impossible to extrapolate global reality from local perceptions...
It really did establish a strong sense of place. And it was a somewhat unique place, too - a "boring" and unremarkable suburb. Many (most?) of us grew up someplace similar, but few games are set in such places because of the lack of coolness.

Also: I can't look at a retail display of TVs without thinking of that game and hearing the department store jingle!
Do you think that this change will be a precursor to getting rid of the mortgage interest deduction altogether? By making it so that most people no longer benefit from it, there should be little opposition from throwing it out.
There's also an opportunity in having people work with one another. For instance, we were always instructed to try and get the client seated with one of our office reps. Whether it's to look at their current loan situation or sign them up for a new credit card.
I live in Utah but work remote for an SF company. Utah is getting a huge influx of outsiders moving to the state (as are other urban centers like Austin, TX).

Sure, SF has better weather than we do. But this year we had 6-7 ft of powder in mountains a 30-45 minute drive away. Homes with 5 bedrooms and a quarter acre are $350k. We have plentiful public parks, tons of museums, and great utility prices. Oh and my SF salary means I can fly/live elsewhere for the 2-3 hottest and coldest weeks of the year, whether or not I take that as PTO.

This SF company pays me more than local Utah companies would, but probably less than many of their SF-based employees. Win-win all around. They gave me a standing desk, 4k monitor, all the supplies. I get an office with a door and plenty of space for my plants. I don't even use headphones - I just have a receiver and some Onkyo speakers.

This is my second remote job and everywhere I look more and more companies are moving to a distributed working model. It just so much more financial sense than giving 1/3 of your own revenue to landlords, as well as the huge portion of employee salaries that go to landlords as well. Out here in Utah a company's budget can go to actually building the product. Pretty soon all the "San Francisco companies" will have to compete with others that can strongly undercut them on price due to not having "San Francisco overhead" but still have amazing talent.

My favorite thing about it: heads-down time. Folks interrupt me far less and I just get to hide away in my office and code for hours at a time. The only downside here is that I need to schedule time for explicitly socializing: I have 3 separate "lunch" groups that I attend at least once a week and I fly into SF quarterly and spend that week almost entirely socializing.
I don't mean to be rude here, but how else can one respond to such a statement?

What's the source of your claim?

If solar and wind were cheaper everybody would use it. It's not like there is a conspiracy of companies using a more expensive thing instead of a cheaper one to allegedly keep killing the planet.

The only way that it could be cheaper is if you include government subsidies to artificially make it "cheaper" by paying the remaining cost with our tax dollars. But, even if you include that, which is being done to help government friends, it is still not enough.
I'm currently using it for my website https://vidcap.co (its on beta). There are three things that I'm using it for, but I'm sure other features goes pretty deeply.

1. Pairs the domain with the file server - I can buy a domain on Godaddy and then have it pair to my Netlify fileserver. Its pretty easy to get started. In the past I used Godaddy for everything, but now I do not have to.

2. Deployment mangement. If you have Github, you can setup automatic deployments to the production server. So, when you save some code and push it to Github, it will then push that code to your live server. In the past I would have to manually copy those files over. Now, I'm not sure exactly how to push manually through Netlify (I really need to brush up on it), so I turn it off if I'm working on some items that shouldn't get pushed quite yet.

3. It comes with security certificate (https) without any additional cost. In fact what I'm using is the free tier. I'm able to deploy an entire site for free (well my Azure server is costing me money, but still).

Hope that helps!
Ouch. Sorry to hear that :/
It will probably take until the first day most of the population goes without easy access to food. Once the markets are empty or too expensive due to crop failures and shortages, change will be swift. The question is whether that will be when it is too late.
If you arrived within 15 minutes of the scheduled time, that sounds like a success? One way or another, the airline gave your flight almost exactly the right amount of padding.