skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This surveillance is mostly targeted at residential users. I’m sure they mention this in some opendns legalese, but they definitely don’t openly advertise this.
> But if you put a straw in a landfill it's not going to end up in a turtle's nose.

That depends on what happens with your trash. If it stays inland in a landfill, then no. If it's sold for sorting and transported long distance on a barge, then that's possible.
I'll double check if there was anything interesting about how we did documentation lying around. One thing I did want to point out if you like the application notes, is you definitely owe it to yourself to check out the companies tech journal Analog Dialogue

Yes they will try to point out interesting parts they make, but it's like the next level beyond the application notes and a great way to see some practical designs and applications of analog circuit theory in the real world.

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue

The "rarely asked questions" archive usually has some fun ideas in it, like a white noise generator based on johnson noise from a resistor (https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-154...), or a signal chain for doing analog measurements on a single GPIO pin on an FPGA, complete with verilog code (https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-169...)
The Problem with Beef [Is Steak]
Reddit has a problem with the power-mods who mod a lot of subreddits and think they own Reddit. Lot's of behind the scenes chatter and conspiring to stay in power and take-over up-and-coming subreddits. This has been a problem for years and Reddit doesn't care because where else will they find people as motivated as the current power-mods? It's basically all they have in life I feel like.
Very Interesting. Never heard this before.

Can you give some examples of what would constitute declarative business logic vs imperative business logic?
Also their OpenGL performance is abysmal. On windows isn’t not the biggest deal since everything is DX but on Linux?
that's anecdotal evidence. how may of the straws used in your city end up in a front yard?
So we would never build a computer because back in 1950 we didn't know how to make compilers, only raw bytes of machine code (we couldn't even "compile" assembly language). Life somethings require that you create a prototype of something that you think will work to see if it really does in the real world.
> You don't? You like people not giving a shit and parking in disabled spots/ramps, double-parking everywhere, civil services closing at noon because they have "work to do", employers paying employees starvation wages because it saves them a euro, everyone evading taxes because their pocket is more important than schools and hospitals, contractors padding their invoices by 200% to pocket the money from EU investments, etc etc?

So basically just like everywhere else in the world. You ever been to a Walmart parking lot? Or a DMV?

Sounds like maybe you are the one who has never lived anywhere else. This is called fallen human nature, and it is everywhere.
Intro to Lean UX Canvas – Defining a Software Solution
"asked nowadays to have their own limited responsibility company"

Freelancers (in the UK at least) are required to pass their pay through a limited company, and subject it to payroll tax. It's not to help them set up a later online enterprise; it's to make it trivially easy for the tax authorities to extract their pound of flesh.

(Before this was introduced, many freelancers didn't bother to pay tax on their income. When they flitted, the bill fell either on their employer or on the government)
I wonder how hard it would be to use this with Unity? Getting a REPL into a running game is the biggest reason I'm interested in Lisp in games, but engine options are limited (the one I've tried is LOVE with Fennel, but Fennel is a bit odd as a Lisp and doesn't actually give you a REPL into a live program without extra work, and LOVE gives a lot less engine-stuff than Unity).
As regular visitor, I thought Thessaloniki was already getting some startup pockets around.

Also maybe some bigger islands could be advertised on this way, although having to go through Athens for business trips might be a negative selling point (longer trips).
NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World
Not with syntax highlighting.
Instagram makes its 'Restrict' anti-bullying tool available to everyone
Headline edited to de-clickbait it.

“There’s no profit to be made in ground beef,” [Sarah Taber, a crop scientist and food system specialist] said. “That all comes either from leftover parts once cattle have been slaughtered for more expensive cuts, or from dairy cattle that have outlived their usefulness. If everyone gave up hamburgers tomorrow, the same number of cows would still be raised and need to be fed.”

In other words, to improve the environment by reducing the number of cows slaughtered, we’d need to find a way to replace the many other cuts of beef Americans enjoy. No lab, and no company, is close to that.
it's because Europe is a continent of 20+ different large languages and cultures. In Sweden everybody speaks Swedish and nobody uses cash. In Germany, nobody speaks Swedish and everyone uses cash. There is no homogenous market like in the US or China where you can blow up some product to 300+ million people.

That's the reason why there are fewer startups in Europe. Europe has plenty of large technology companies if one stops equating technology with "user facing smartphone application". They just happen to be export oriented, or pharmaceutical or manufacturing and transport companies.

Trying to copy the US or China in producing rapidly growing startup companies is in my opinion foolish and we shouldn't buy into the constant hype of just trying to emulate America, but rather aim to increase where European companies advantages lie, in integrating high technology into existing economic sectors that integrate with industrial production.

Not only is this much better suited to the economic and social European environment that simply isn't accepting of the "break the rules, worry about the problems later" mentality of internet statups, it's also arguably much more equitable and reaches a larger section of the labour market.
They seem to have also been right up against the FCC limit for radio energy exposure at 1.6 W/kg.
If you could get a TCP/IP stack working, it could be used for a simple IoT device.
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Bulgaria also has amazing food and beaches in my opinion.
Not slow but it is cuurently using 23MB with default caching serving a single computer, i can see why the parent would consider it bloated.
BFS vs. DFS: Understanding Breadth First Search and Depth First Search
Dropdowns in Vue: The Right Way
Co-op arrangements are only feasible for low-capital-intensity enterprises - of the sort that's sometimes ridiculed as a "lifestyle business". The moment your startup takes any external equity funding, you've basically gone beyond the "stuff that's feasible in a co-op" territory. Yes, you could self-fund organically, and maybe being a co-op opens up some more opportunities there, but it's still quite hard. No one takes external funding because they like giving up control.
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The programming joke goes something like this:

#define SIX 1+5
#define NINE 8+1
return SIX*NINE;
I think you need a visual model that works for you to approach it since they're entirely different beasts. You'll hit a wall very soon if you approach learning SQL in terms of C++/C#.

CSS is a similar phenomenon, you can't approach it as code. The box model is a nice way to get the basics and manipulate the DOM.

Similarly, I think in terms of tables (rows and columns) to visualize SQL operations that I need to do. Every operation is like a matrix operation, so you need to stop thinking in terms of for/loops iterators and think of matrix/table wide operators. Once you've got the basics, then you can look at stuff like window functions to do more advanced operations.

Takes a bit of working with to get used to. That's just how I think about it - you'll need to find a metaphor that works for you!
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[Off topic]

I'm unable to access the site because of a cookie blocker that has a take-it-or-leave-it attitude - there is no option to opt-out of unnecessary cookies. These are the numbers of cookies that the site wants to set:

Necessary (18)
Preferences (0)
Statistics (10)
Marketing (54)
Unclassified (22)

18 Necessary vs 86 Other, and no way to opt-out of any of them!

My impression was that this was illegal under GDPR and that the site should work with only "necessary" cookies enabled, allowing users to opt-out of tracking where possible. Am I wrong?
That is because hell has frozen over multiple times, and we are figure skating in it, illuminated by the cold glow of all sorts of heavenly promises, constantly beamed at us over all channels from all directions.

(edit: now playing "Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies")
Mjbots quad A0: October 2019 Roadmap (open source quadruped robot platform)
It's a system of perpetual indentured servitude based largely on factors you had no control of by your birth and have virtually no control of after.

As long as most peoples' basic needs are met and there's a carrot in front of them promising someday they'll have it better/easier, people will keep on running towards that carrot and maintain the status quo.
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The hardcover is around 50$, the ebook is free
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What were your initial challenges when creating REST API with Node.js?
And assuming the EU's freedom of movement holds eventually people and business will realize this and move there. Then they'll do what everyone else does shoot themselves in the foot by making everything expensive. Eventually the new growth will happen elsewhere and the cycle will repeat.
>Why the degree constraint?

There are some professions (among which Engineers and Architects) that have a separate (let's call them "guilds") pension and assistance fund, that is of a "private" nature and - generally speaking - better managed than public ones.

Traditionally the Engineers contributions (coming mainly from civil and mechanical engineers) were:

1)relatively high (since they had relatively high income) even if the percentage on income is lower (currently it is - I believe - 14.5%)

2)going on for a very long time, an engineer or architect used to work since the degree until well into their 70's or over

3) they had the (unfortunate but good for the fund) habit of dying shortly after retirement (or before retirement)

In recent years things changed:

1) the work (and thus the income and the contribution to the fund) has been more intermittent than before

2) many people are not (unlike before) entirely or mainly freelance, and when you are employed by a firm you pay a minimal annual fee to the guild, but the large part of pension/retirement funds go to the mentioned "Gestione Separata"

3) generally speaking contributions start later and people retir earlier (and live longer), and overall there was a flattening (to the bottom) in either rates of pay or amount of work, so income overall has lowered whilst expenditures have increased

The net effect is that until a few years ago the (medical) assistance was if not excellent very, very good and the retirement/pension monthly wage was relatively high, whilst in recent years everything has toned down a lot.
Apparently DA didn't think anything of the value of the number and just determined "42 will do"...
I think you might be blinded by prior experiences (yes, that sounds illogical). The choice you have with AMD now is not bad for users, they get a working good and free driver with their distro out of the box. And people like you, who work in gaming under Linux and might use a more custom distro, can figure out which one is the best driver in your specific situation (it's AMDGPU always anyway).

I'd never buy a Nvidia card for Linux now. I wouldn't have done so three years ago, but now? That'd be a huge step backwards.
Sort-of-a-unique thing in Bulgaria (compared to rest of EU) is not only close ties with Russia in economics but actual nostalgia of the "old-times". While Polish or Hungarian people would never want to return to comunistic times, we sometimes do. I'm not sure I can exactly pin it down why, maybe it's the close language, culture and shared alphabet or it could be that we are particularly nostalgic nation. In any case it creates a constant feeling of being the "Trojan horse" of Russia, being used by their economical and political interests with a nation that swigns back and forth electing the old-comunist party (that not changed at all other than their name s/comunist/socialist/) and the "Right/central-right" pro-EU (on paper at least).

For many in my generation (90s), the dream of leaving the country has been propagandized by parents who were never able to leave themselves due to the Iron Curtain. Many would attest getting the Serbian radio close to the border in a desperate attempt to hear something "western". As much as the nation longs for the old-times, it longs for the West. And the split is maybe about 50/50. However few would leave for the East and many, many would flood the gates once we entered EU 12 years ago.

12 years ago is when late 80s and 90s children were graduating. We didn't have much idea exactly what is bad with the country, as no teenager knows too much. But we all saw the opportunity and we've all heard the stories of the successful uncle who managed to "fix their life" abroad. So we flocked. Cheap flights accelerated the process, free education in some countries like Scotland and the Netherlands. So the "brain-drain" was accelerated. If people could leave before with hard-obtained visas or illegaly, now it was easy and free for all.

Yet, 12 years later we are still the poorest country in EU with the poorest overall north-western region which was once one of the most prosperous regions back when aggriculture was the main sector. Turism and services instead is now the main sector and sure, there are some companies that are succesful, the low salaries compared to what you can make abroad is worth a bit of home-sickness endurance. It's hard to get out of it with the open borders - it's a feedback loop as more "brain drain" happens, less innovation and money can come towards the country and corruption proliferates.
Never tried, but it's available in .NET Standard 2.0 + .NET v4.5 builds which has run everywhere I've tried that supports either of those target frameworks, e.g. have also been able to add scripting to an Xamarin.Android App.
See Figure 1 in https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/2018-December-...

Checks are down to a third of what they were in 2000. The fastest growing type of non-cash payment is debit card, and a lot of these are chip and PIN.
Do they believe they are also getting a new treatment that is going to work (we all want to believe, cute snake oil sales) or are they just depressed about their decline, but in company? Placebos ain't placebos.
My company has opened an office in Bucharest, mainly hiring tech workers. Windows and Unix admins, DBAs, app support but I'm sure other areas as well. I'll be hiring my first employees over there soon. From what I understand, salaries over there in these areas are comparable to elsewhere in Europe as various tech companies have opened offices there as well, but I'm just beginning to learn more about the economy as a whole. Any insights welcome.
Seconding this.

I was recently for 2 weeks in Santorini, which is considered pretty expensive compared to the rest of Greece, and everything was actually very affordable (esp. if you learn to keep your distance from the more tourist-infested areas).

The whole time during my stay I kept thinking how nice it would be to work from there. Clear blue sky, beaches and fresh grilled fish. Wow.
I love cyanoacrylate adhesives. With paper/cardboard you get a composite that's almost fiberglass. With nylon (anything from stockings to ripstop) you get even closer. Or silk or kevlar. All of them react exothermically with cyanoacrylate, so they cure very quickly.
Offshore Wind Industry Will Need Installation Ships
I sometimes wonder if this "plastic straw" wasn't another of 4Chan's trolling attempts... Like, sure, reduce plastic straw usage, but most bars just replaced them with paper straws. That is obviously a stupidly wrong solution, the vast majority of the population can easily manage without straws entirely, so really it just shows that people don't actually care about the environment, it's all just virtue signalling...
However in Spain you get an engineer for half the before-taxes salary compared to the US. Even if you add 30% it's still a lot cheaper.

Cost isn't the reason.
Not "he". And, no, you aren't.
Some other eastern europe countries are betting similarly. Albania , Northern Macedonia, possibly Serbia and Montenegro will soon join the EU and apply basically the same recipe. They are already attractive destinations for digital nomads and others who want enjoy the benefits of country arbitrage.

But like others said, I m not sure where this leads ... Cheap countries are cheap for a reason.
Well, on yet another level, isn't the universe - at least, as far as it's limited to our own human condition - all about wrong answers?
It depends on when you visited, it's really been drained in the past few years :/ I organize the Python meetup in Thessaloniki and basically everyone emigrated. There's no point in even running it any more, every attendee now tells me "I heard there are jobs in computers and I came to check it out".
A typical EU startup:

- hey, we are startup, we can't pay you much, is that OK?

- well, we can't really compensate you with stock options, those are for founders

- oh no, your opinion doesn't matter, bosses are always right

- yes, you'll work crazy hours but we can only pay you for 40

In other words, EU startups have no mechanism in place to reward early employees that build the company from the scratch, it's all about making co-founders famous/wealthy. It's already bad in the US, imagine EU is 10x worse.
Sure, but have you seen US health insurance prices?

Edit: I don't know why this was downvoted, it's relevant to the claim of whether it's cheaper to setup startups in the US or Poland.
Others have adequately given the short form. Check out this book: https://nathanschneider.info/books/everything-for-everyone/
I wonder what a minimal version of this would look like for x64 UEFI machines. Does anyone know whether such a project exists?
Only if you need this much computing power. The typical webdev can probably get away with a quad core AMD/Intel cpu for <$200. Very few people actually need 12+ cores.
The Internet’s horrifying new method for installing Google apps on Huawei phones
What features are you missing? Are there no plugins for them?
Giveaway: Using the phrase "create wealth" instead of "get rich".
It seems like anti-aging science is making leaps and bounds lately. First the reversed biological clock study, and now this.
> and straws are part of the debris I have to routinely clean up

I assume this cleaning includes putting them in your trash and the city taking them to a landfill?

It's obviously not the best path, but cities[0] (by necessity) generally do a good job cleaning up the trash that gets scattered around.

Bigger issue is non-urbanized areas where there isn't the density/wealth to clean up litter.

[0] The collection of people and institutions, not just the government.
...you were saying? :) https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/google-to-grab-one-year-late...
Cybergangs using vendor email compromise to spy on communications
An important point here is that you probably can't get reasonable financing to buy said apartment.

Mortgages in a similar country start from 6%.
Perhaps we are realizing that both those use cases are not really solving anything real though.

The people that knew Ed well enough to care will find out. And the grandparents would probably prefer an extra visit a month than a never ending photo reel.

It appears convenient but adds nothing of substance to our lives.
What's the point in investing in a company, if you can't get rid of the senior management at any time? Note that employees have also invested in a company they work for.
I built a PC seven years ago (i7-3770K). It's lasted through multiple apartments and multiple jobs. I do all my dev work and gaming on it, and it's even able to run Slack. How much longer does something need to last before it's considered durable?
Hmm, possibly, I haven't visited extensively but the food in Bansko leaves something to be desired, I hear.
Exactly. It's pollution that we directly benefit from, it's not fair to think our countries are better at the protecting the environment when everything we buy is made there instead of having the dirty factories/industries in our own countries.
There's definitely a huge shift to reducing plastic packaging. Even large TVs now come packaged without polystyrene padding.
What failed about encouraging people to reuse shopping bags instead of having single use bags by charging for bags?
Yeah. I mean, if we want to get technical, governments and banks create wealth; startups just come along and hemorrhage VC money.
Agreed, it is time to stand up for our rights.
I use it to rate the meetings with my team. Helps to improve meeting efficiency. Top plugin. Fully recommended!