skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just from the top of my head, you could probably earn well at: Zalando, HERE, Mozilla, EyeEm, Blacklane, MongoDB, Zeitgold, Talon.one, Infarm (just raised a juicy funding round) + a boatload of blockchain startups

On top of that, a lot of the bigger SV startups have satellite offices in Berlin.
When I was working in academia, early on I decided I would finally buckle down and learn proper devops and scripting (e.g. how to do things at the command-line) and had the luxury of having all the time I wanted to bikeshed on automating the collation process (never did master Make syntax though!).

The csvkit toolset – particularly `in2csv` [0] and `csvsql`, which, respectively, can be used to extract CSV from Excel sheets and import/insert directly into sqlite – make frequent appearances in my daily work these days.

Though admittedly, I don't know what options there are to distangle spreadsheets that aren't just data (e.g. intertwined formulas).

[0] https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/scripts/in2csv.html

[1] https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/scripts/csvsql.html
Yeah. I'm no fan of Barr, but "we should think about this stuff before a big event stirs public outrage" is very reasonable.

"Don't do anything until we have a big problem" is how we got the TSA, Homeland Security, and the Patriot Act.
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Whoops, that was pretty silly of me to miss the Czech.

However I stand by my criticism that it is not possible to know if you are violating the license or not. I don’t want to have to learn and follow Czech law to use a git client. Why does this agreement cover how I use third party services and who defines what qualifies as interfering? How far does my obligation to not allow others to reverse engineer the application go? What rights might third parties have under Czech law that I have to worry about while using the software?

Compare Microsoft Windows’s license:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/U...

It also says you can’t reverse engineer, but it does not obligate you to stop others. It’s section about online service is a little bit more explicit about what is not allowed. There are no other requirements to follow every law of a particular jurisdiction while using the software.
On new cars if a component is faulty they fail quickly. I had a tire blow out on a brand new car I was driving home from the dealers in the UK once. Tires and hoses are easy, it's the opaque systems that are a nightmare to troubleshoot, given lack of documentation and manufacturer rules forbidding removing plastic engine covers etc
I hate it when the kidnappers are thick.
I am not good at sales. Should I learn selling or hire someone who is excellent at selling things?
Even if the state is completely trustworthy, has zero potential criminals in its ranks and always acts with good intentions, it's not enough. There is repeated proof, ad nauseum, that governments are incapable of consistently protecting their data from hackers. So if a state has access to backdoors it's a matter of when, not if, that access will be captured by criminals and enemy states.

I work in a small company where I honestly believe everyone is trustworthy. Still it is a good thing that our users' passwords are hashed and none of our staff can decode them. It's a tragic example of motivated reasoning that the head of the Department of Justice doesn't get that.
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The main goal of the settlement is to limit future egregious acts by the organizational changes and not by specific prohibitions. The FTC knows that specific prohibitions will never cover all past and possible future acts.

The only reasons these specific prohibitions are spelled out is because Facebook is known to have specifically performed these acts in the past.
I love it when I don't have to think about things, and Gusto combined with Stripe (Atlas and card processing) have made it possible for me to not ever think about a whole lot of things.

Now if only there was a company as good as Stripe/Gusto that did accounting+taxes, I'd really be set! I mean, "I give you access to my accounts, (almost) never think about you, and I have a proper set of books and my taxes are fully done every year."
Congrats to Joshua and team. Awesome product, awesome team!
At the end of the day, I'm surprised cities have embraced these scooters with open arms.
"Stem Cell" at 1:55 in the video
I really like the idea of this as a scaffold for collecting lipids for the first cell membranes. It seems likely to me that there would need to be some relatively simple compound responsible. The fact this is present in meteorites gives me some confidence that it must be a compound that forms fairly easily. Once again, the "improbability of life" just got a little more probable.
Linux as a library is unlikely since GPL enforces a boundary between Linux and its users. Otherwise it'd've become just another statically-linkable asset copied into a bunch of corporate codebases long ago. glibc uses the same strategy too w/ LGPL. Folks wanting to overcome the latencies and bloat these barriers create, should consider the problem might be more about politics than engineering.
For the life of me I can’t remember the syntax for a particular thing I do in the JavaScript console at work. Someone showed me the trick in an email about seven years ago and about once a month I need to do this thing so I search my inbox for the email so I can remember the syntax.
Care to share your experience?
Nitpick: the number of vacation days in Germany does vary a bit, though by much less than in the US.

Agreed, I'd love it if all Americans were entitled to 5 or 6 weeks of vacation, plus the various other benefits that are standard in most of western Europe. Unfortunately, the GOP exists, so that's not happening anytime soon.
Who lost the war.
I think the rise of plant based meat has shown that ethical sourcing is a huge factor for many people.
Remember 10 years ago when people were predicting/building technology to let our phones run multiple "virtual" phone instances on a hypervisor, solving the work phone/play phone single device dilemma?

I'd still freaking love this feature ten years later. I don't want app level segregation of work and play, I want them in entirely different "instances" of my phone.

> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/09/samsu...

> https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2009/01/01/the-nex...

> https://gizmodo.com/vmware-for-mobile-devices-lets-you-run-w...
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Deep learning as an approach has the specific issue that already overconfident people can make shockingly fast progress and get to an 85% solution quickly by investing a lot in low-difficulty labor like data set curation. This lends a crazy amount of misplaced confidence to the people involved as they start trying to get to the last few %.

Most software people have instincts that are all wrong on this because it’s the opposite of the usual experience.
If you can overlook his immodesty, or choose to ignore it, I think you might enjoy reading NKS. It's very interesting, even if you don't agree that he deserves all of the accolades he claims he's owed.
I don't think the majority of European lawmakers have ever claimed to favor a small-government approach to regulation, so whether it's a good idea or not, there's no hypocrisy there.

RE: burdensomeness of the regulation, another commenter already pointed out the historical usage of the language we're talking about banning. Imagine you spent the last twenty years building your brand around the term "veggie burger." I suspect you would find it burdensome if you suddenly had to change that.
I think the joke in the parent was in making an overly enthusiastic comparison to Champagne.
One involved mishandling of user data, the other involved misuse of user data.
We have Slack at work but only devs use it. Non devs prefer sticking to email and Whatsapp.
It takes a prohibitively long time to knock on 2^256 bricks. The real risks aren't from the crypto; they're from the humans who have access to the back door. Can they be trusted? Can they be compromised?

That's not to mention the business damage this would cause. The US is trying to block Huawei products due to back doors. Other countries will block US products if the US government starts requiring back doors.
Sounds to me like he's trying to kick off a conversation about how to go about making it difficult for the bad guys to hide behind encryption and other security products. It's really not an easy solution as there's very few bad guys we need to expose but many good people we need to protect, for reasons currently known and, more importantly, unknown. This one is a hard dichotomy that will be interesting to solve: (1) give no hiding place to the bad guys (2) make the good guys undiscoverable. It'd be sad to see a solution by decree (9/11-style) but I fear that's where we're headed so long as private companies are unwilling to find a workable solution. Peacetime is a delusion.
Why didn't OpenAI release GPT2? [video]
> Is your implication that only garbage products sold to the "masses" advertise?

That's not the logical corollary to the parent's statement; it's that some of the sellers of non-garbage products are interested in having "the masses" buying their stuff too.
Please add generics at least on Yaegi! :P
Often "approved" by people who have very little idea about what they actually need in a hire. And even they're measured on how well they can keep things staffed and they're often requesting requirements for roles that are unreasonable or downright ridiculous at the pay rates they expect. So they end up with people who are good at formally ticking the right boxes, but have no Godly idea about how to enable the mission or be aware of the broader purpose behind the tasks set out for them.

It depends heavily on your COR and government leads, but the good ones are few enough that they don't get to send the norm. There are enough people who are sufficiently checked out that contracting/staffing firms can get away with murder. Indeed, it might just be impossible for them to do a good job based on what sorts of requirements they're expected to adhere to.
Yes! If you're comfortable with a terminal but would rather have a TUI than an CLI, I
recommend `tig`[0] or `lazygit`[1]. If you want to launch a separate GUI program in its
own window to use git, git-cola[2] isn't too bad. It looks much better than the
screenshots make it out to be if you have a good Qt 5 theme (e.g., breeze-dark).

I personally prefer separate wrappers for different git commands for two reasons:

1. I like how the modular nature of git encourages me to think.
2. I'd rather not leave my shell just to use git.

For that reason, I use `forgit`[3] as a git client on {ba,z}sh. I cannot recommend
`forgit` highly enough if you like fuzzy-finders like FZF[4]; my productivity has never
been higher. It's the perfect blend of the modularity and composability offered by UNIX
philosophy and the benefits of a simple user interface.

As a plus, `forgit` integrates well with `diff-so-fancy`[5] (amazing-looking diffs),
`bat`, and `emoji-cli`.

[0]: https://github.com/jonas/tig

[1]: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

[2]: https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola

[3]: https://github.com/wfxr/forgit

[4]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

[5]: https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
I'm not a cyclist, but I want to be. I don't bike because doing so is way too dangerous with the number of drivers who are paying extremely close attention to their phones and not to driving. And yeah, some drivers are rude too.

I think the most dangerous time to be a cyclist or pedestrian is right now. Smartphones are ubiquitous, distracted-driving enforcement is very weak (non-existent in my area), and self-driving is alpha quality.
Imagine the worst case ("worst" from this PoV): end-to-end encryption is widely adopted and effective. How hard is a cop's legitimate job, compared to before telephone wiretaps? They can get to ubiquitous (and always increasing) surveillance footage and cell-phone tracking, just for a start. It seems really phony to frame this scenario as "going dark".
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I guess you just need a GNU/Linux phone for that. Librem 5 is the hope.
Yes, absolutely. Some diseases are due to pathogens and such. But those should not be "modern", in the sense that said pathogens might not be exactly new. Maybe you could say anthropogenic diseases such as lung cancer from smoking or esophagus cancer from drinking are modern, though.

What I meant by "modern diseases" in my comment is a group of non-communicable diseases or so-called "diseases of civilization".

"Diet-related" is rather ambiguous, so different lines might be drawn there. As an example, would you say Alzheimer's is a diet-related disease? What about melanoma and/or sunburn?
But that's the point of US, no? It's the best country for the best people. So, the best people go to the US... (well, many at least... I'm still holding out... for now, I value European way of life but I envy US political & legal systems, in particular their freedom of speech).
Since Tesla has never released the data for that claim, taking it at face value seems pretty iffy given other claims by the company.
> Maybe you don’t need request signing? A bearer token header is fine

If you're going to insist on symmetric key signatures, yeah. Otherwise a symmetric signature would be the same as using symmetric encryption to store user passwords, wouldn't it? You have to have the secret key to verify the user's signature.
This is really well done. And +1 for the suggestion of placeholder spaces for notes. Great work, thank you for sharing this.
Those other EVs are halo loss-leader cars intended to assuage investors that the company is trying to stay abreast of the very chaotic changes that will be coming to the industry.

Tesla makes EVs at profit. Margins have been confirmed, and they are at scale production.

Name me another scale production EV that has been confirmed to be profitable for the company. AFAIK the Bolt and iPace and even the Taycan are/will be toe-dipping projects.

Tesla is ... mostly ... profitable, with the necessary startup investments and vertical scaling complete.

It's really the only profitable EV company, and probably still has 8-10 years of structural advantage over the ICE incumbents.

A good metal/solid state lithium battery tech will help the incumbents close the gap (I think Toyota in particular is gambling on this), and VW seems to be actually walking the walk (to avoid Dieselgate fines) for EV investment.

But it looks to me all the other CEOs are just treading water with investors and analysts to keep their jobs as long as possible, because none of them are of the kind to do the restructuring necessary to make an established brand go all-in on EV.
In the US, the towing industry is a racket on its own. I'm not sure if it's good that one public nuisance is trying to get the upper-hand on another public nuisance.
All credit agreements I have read contain sections specifically allowing reporting of information to credit agencies, so you have in fact explicitly allowed collection of your information.
Seems to be true in the UK, too. I've heard bad things about e.g. Jaguar Land Rover. As another comment says, this is probably an issue with the embedded industry as a whole. There are great tech companies you can work for, which usually have a very high standard (ARM seems to be great).

Stuttgart/Baden-Württemberg is quite conservative. The real mystery for me was why their engineering pride of doing things correctly doesn't translate to the tech industry. I don't have experience in Berlin/Hamburg/Munich, but it'd be interesting to compare.
If you download a BBC podcast from an American IP it will probably contain ads. If you download from a British up it won’t.
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Why? It reads "Assume good faith."
You are doing the opposite.
Yaeji is going to be very happy that an interpreter was named after her! https://soundcloud.com/kraejiyaeji
Thank you both for your input. I don't want to leave Germany on a permanent basis. I'm looking forward to the German job market in 5-7 years, maybe more, maybe less, depending on how much I like it.

As for well-known vs not well known: usually bigger companies have more employee protections, more career possibilities, pay better, etc. In small companies you have more power and control, and to some this makes them more interesting. I think larger companies are better but maybe I'll be annoyed by the bureocracy and switch to a smaller company, idk :).
You're certainly more notable than homonculus2!
Cool slippery slope bro!

Margarine =/= butter. These are words with very specific meanings that everyone has agreed on.

Burger =/= beef. "Burger" is, generally, a style of sandwich. "Turkey Burger" is fine. "Pork burger" is fine. The assumption is that, unmodified, it means that it contains beef. However, everyone in the US understand that a "black bean burger" doesn't contain beef and instead contains black beans.

Both sides of this fight are just "corporate interests randomly assigning words to foods". The beef industry wants "purity" and the veggie industry wants "common sense". Let's not pretend this is actually about the consumer being protected, because isn't. It's about how to market products.
I think you have way too much faith in self-driving cars. We’re very far off, and anyone telling you otherwise is leaving out important holes.
> His startup Earn.com was a pivot of an earlier startup 21.co which was transparently stupid. Earn.com was also bad and didn't deserve an exit.

Would you mind elaborating? Genuinely asking, I can't find much about this from Googling, most of the coverage is around the acquisition.
Very exciting to see more companies open up prod + engineering divisions in NYC - I feel as though typical bay area tech satellite NYC offices are go-to-market focused first before expanding out to prod/eng so interesting to see Gusto go the other way first!
"This was briefly confusing, as AG Barr is the soft drinks company which manufactures Irn Bru in Scotland, and I was surprised to see they had an opinion"

Me too. I would have thought they would have been in favour of very strong encryption.... Made from girders.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4PxuFQCDis
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I don't understand your analogy. Can you elaborate? I don't see the parallel between (a)symmetric signatures and encrypting passwords.
Cruise cars drive like a drunk grandma stopping short all over the place and regularly failing to take a protected turn at a green turn light because some pedestrian has a foot edging into a crosswalk.

The biggest safety issue associated with these cars is that everyone else honks and swerves aggressively to evade them when they stop short for dumb reasons like someone in the road waiting in front of their car for traffic to pass so they can get into their car —- these are actions I witness multiple times every day and if you look at every accident report associated with these cars you’ll see almost every case seems like a driver frustrated about being stuck behind it trying to swerve around it.

What isn’t recorded is all the accidents involving the cruise cars that don’t actually impact the cruise car. Like when someone swerving around a cruise car side swiped my neighbors car on Fulton. I almost saw a biker on 14th street by Valencia get hit in a similar manner when someone trying to evade the cruise car in the left lane swerved quickly into the right lane while the biker was avoiding a car in the right lane trying to turn right onto Valencia.

They almost certainly don’t collect statistics on accidents caused by other drivers who just want to get around these cars that clearly don’t need to be tested in a way that makes everyone’s commute just a little bit more obnoxious.
I'll dig out the archive when back at the office, next week. There is plenty of research into iterative/agile development, slightly less into quality, and surprisingly little on accountability.

The most valuable sources have been just 5 (yes, five) research papers / reports. Luckily they sport citations, but sadly I haven't poured over more than a fraction of them so far.
Amount of electronic waste and low percentage of recycling seems quite big issue, much bigger than problems in gaming.

How many phones, laptops, tvs, desktop pcs, consoles, music devices, cameras and other related devices have you stopped using lets say past 10 years? How many have you recycled?
Quick math lesson: 50% earn below the median. For salaries (in general, I've no idea what it's like for developers in particular) the right-hand tail (high performers with extremely high salaries) and the lack of left-hand tail (no salaries are negative) shifts the mean (arithmetic mean a.k.a. average) upwards so it's actually (usually) going to be more than 50% of population earning below the mean.
I only take predictions seriously if you have some stake in the outcome. Otherwise, it's easy to just casually predict something outrageous like "Trump will probably quit before his term is over", and turn around and say you were kidding if it's not right, but take all the credit if it comes true. Go put $10,000 on some prediction market contract, or make a side bet with someone.. anything.

One of my favorite quotes about predicting comes from Taleb: "Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio."
The word is medical Latin-Greek, which is actually neither of those.

(In many languages it is deoxyribonucleic acid with first part not translated.)
It's on the front page of the most acessed tech blogs in Brazil too, this is a shame!
>Frustrated at the lack of complex scientific terms in British Sign Language (BSL) during classes, Liam decided to take matters into his own hands.

::Trombone_sounds.mpg::
The bureaucrats and politicians who espouse the same opinions as Barr all live in a very old-school world. They believe that encryption is a product solely "built" by companies with Wall Street headquarters open 9-4 M-F. They think that stopping these companies from "building" their encryption is a matter of talking about it with a director of the company in question over 18 holes, or failing that, sending a strongly-worded letter to the legal department of the company in question. Barr&co. do not live in the real world.
Wise? You think encryption back doors are wise?
The GPS logs should show if this tow company has removed from public property.
If you don't mind me asking, was it primarily a pay rate issue, or the number of freelancing opportunities that were available?
Many (senior) developers I know in Berlin get 80000€/year gross income. That is in the top 6% of incomes in Germany. (Top 6% income bracket in the USA would be 150000$/year.)

I don't even get 80k€/year and have a very luxurious and high quality life in Berlin.

Resource: https://wid.world/simulator/
Agreed.

The government already has so many resources & advantages against individuals, groups and companies.

They don't get this one, too.
>This is a reference document, not an email, you twit.

Abot 25% of the emails I write, and 90% of the important ones, are reference material for the people that get them. Screenshots, hghlights, and links to external documentation all make my email communication better, faster, and more useful to the recipients.
As a pedestrian, I can't wait for self-driving bicycles ;-)
It's no accident. Olah is living a life and leading a movement dedicated to doing what you noticed.

https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/
looks very interesting. What other feature set are you targeting at?
Yes, many podcasts today do some type of dynamic ad insertion based on whatever data they can glean about you, such as your IP address.