skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a Dutchman. The news that was reported here was accurate. My reply on another comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21124780:

1. I should have said "impossible" rather than illegal (although the consequence is still that it would be, well, illegal under EU law). That's the implication of what was reported in the Netherlands. For those who read Dutch, see e.g. https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/brandweer-dreigt-vrijwilligers-.... and https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/vrijwilligers-b....

2. I was mainly talking about about (the effect of) overregulation in general, I did not say there is a specific regulation re volunteer firefighters. But if the implied problems become reality, it would be because of interpretation of laws and regulations.

Yes, there was a lawsuit in Belgium. And no, that's not the main issue that was reported here. Lawyers conducted a study of the practice of Dutch firefighting on behalve of the Ministry of Justice and Security, and concluded that the way our system is set up contradicts EU law. The main issue is that volunteer firefighters do almost exactly the same work as paid firefighers.

3. That's point 1.

4. This is exactly my more general concern about the EU: unintended consequences are inevitable when you are centralizing laws and regulations to the most detailed levels for over two dozen countries with very different contexts. There are plenty of EU laws and regulations for which I think the intent is very sensible, but where implementation can be problematic, or problematic for specific subsets of the regulation, or specific countries/regions.

5. I never said they happened, I said "will". Perhaps I should have said "may" since the problem might still be addressed somehow. But even if it is adressed, in the case of the Netherlands a massive change would be necessary. According to lawyers and law professors who have studied the problem in the Dutch context.

So no, not misinformation. I just worded it somewhat imprecise.
Warranty is another word for insurance. I'm not sure what you mean by cause and effect. If you are claiming that a product being expensive is what causes a manufacturer to offer longer warranties, I guess that's true, but I would say it is because the product is of higher quality.
When I commuted I was lucky to keep it within about 30-40 minutes, even after I bought a house, for most of my time. I did have a year where I commuted 1.5+ hours each way 3-4 days a week.

I could take the train some days but still a huge chunk out of my day. I couldn't have dealt with that long term.
> Humans are social, but I socialize outside of work.

I see this sentiment a lot and I don't get it. You are spending more time with your coworkers than anyone else. I'm not saying you should find your best friend in the office, but enjoying your time with coworkers seems like a good thing. Maybe the definitions of socializing are different. I'm not talking about after hours drinks or philosophically debating for hours. I'm thinking chit chat, jokes, having shared strife reaching a common goal, feeling better for having worked with them, and generally enjoying the 1/3 of a day you spend with them. Professional and friendly. It also so happens that the majority of people I work with I would likely make time to see outside of work from time to time. Non-work socializing is different and more fulfilling, but you have much less time to squeeze that in outside of weekends, which are also squeezed for time when you have a family.
In principle: yes. That is, as long as the agreement is not in violation of other rules/laws. Considering the role a service has in society and its market position, such a rule could e.g. violate anti trust law. But that's a different matter, and up to a court to decide.
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> One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief.

Perfectly describes our friend John.

The rest of the quote is quite interesting too:

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
Vim has plugins that seem to address most of what you note.

Nerdtree gives you see semblance of a graphical UI. I rarely use it since installing fzf and getting better at using buffers. It's much, much easier to press a shortcut and type a partial name. I use Nerdtree when I need to browse the hierarchy. I also previously had ranger integrated into vim which is really nice

Vim has tons of user extensions. Yeah, the package managers aren't great UI but I use vim awesome website to browse and a plug-in install is a simple copy paste of 1 line.

Using tabnine with vim has been really great for autocomplete. It's probably not as good as vs code but it's good enough for me.

Peek at implementation is available via ctags. Configuration can admittedly be a bear but I have a shortcut to jump to the method definition under the cursor that works pretty well.

I'm using neovim which is usually fast and responsive. Some things like folding and syntax highlighting aren't great in certain conditions but you can write scripts to disable those things in those conditions (file name, and probably size even)

I've tried to switch away from vim but the extensibility is better than any other editor I've looked at. Neovim + tmux makes me feel pretty productive
"Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
This is an interesting point. I know nothing about climate science but do know a little about human behavior. I often had to figure out whether I thought a CEO was good at running a company or full of shit. So, the difficult part for me is figuring out what is true.

One thing I often try to figure out who/what is
incentivizing/motivating people to hold their viewpoint. While it's easy for people to see the oil/gas money, isn't the other side, and obviously, correct me if I’m wrong, also being incentivized/motivated by grants for academic studying and clean energy companies?

Another thing I often look at is the track record of people, especially if they are making predictions about the future. I’ve found that it’s a good indicator of how they will act in the future.
I'm just amazed that developers have the confidence to lambaste former employers in such a public, toxic and hostile manner.

If I was hiring for a developer position and Google'd Marko Tupper's name, I wouldn't even agree to meet with him based on this article alone. Why would I want someone so ego and drama-driven on my team?

I won't even leave negative reviews on Yelp or Google Maps out of fear of reprisal or future employers finding them.
Yes it's due to laws and regulations. It's all part of EU labour law. See my other comment.
> there should be exceptions for pet animals

OK, so what's the problem? After all, this won't come into effect until about a year and a half from now and it seems that there is agreement that there should be exceptions.

Given that, what makes you certain that there won't be exceptions?

> is currently trying to arrange for exceptions

You seem to be certain that this will not succeed. Why?

> It is not fake news.

Hmm...it's not in effect, there seems to be some agreement that there should be exceptions and exceptions are being worked on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its also useful for communicating to people on the internet. You seem to grasp the concept so its a success.
For context, this dude went on to create software that is used for electronic data capture all over the world, and build one of the most inclusive, diverse, and friendly communities around it I've had the pleasure of participating in. The drive behind his PhD, and what came out of it, made my life and that of many researchers and volunteers in our neck of the woods easier.

This webcast sheds some light on his motivation and perspective: https://www.geekwire.com/2013/geekwire-podcast-windows-8-ash...
For sure, serial data is a factor. I need to dig into the support of GPIO and other serial interfaces (e.g. USB) - but that's a great point. The image distro model is really cool, and need to evaluate that further as well.
> If you really are working in such a sweatshop where saving a couple of seconds a day is something you need to think about, then you have my pitty and condolences! At least for me, not every single waking second of my work day is spent hammering out code - I am probably only actively typing in new code perhaps 20-25% of the time max with the rest going on reading existing code, stepping through a debugger, dealing with tickets/bugs, running tests, doing emails, meetings etc etc.

The reason to not having to move your fingers/arms much is not about time. You just stay in the zone longer, you have less possibilities of distractions... It is about comfort and not disturbing the flow.

It's the same with music (wether is jazz or blues at least). Good intrumentists just don't move their hands much, lest their instrument goes in the way of their improvisation.
60% of the time, our job is quite boring, so make sure you really enjoy the 40% that's left.
> If your assistant also takes a look at your office (given to you as a favor by a respected educational institution) and tells you that "Knight of Hot Ladies" is not appropriate, then you take it down

The top-posted article/parent says this is exactly what happened to the Hot Ladies remark though! Someone else wrote it on his door, took a picture, and it was taken down!

Yet here you are referencing it as if it was something RMS actually did. How many other lies are being spread and believed due to the game of twitter telephone being played here?
The lead of UX at my company likes to say that everyone becomes disabled temporarily once in a while. You ever want to watch a video in public but forgot your headphones? Ever lose your glasses and have to go a few days before your replacements come in? Ever try to open a door while also pulling a cart with heavy items?

Accessible design ends up helping anyone who isn't at optimal ability at that very moment.
> Simple: if people would want devices they could repair, they would prefer the products of companies offering such devices over the products of companies not offering such devices.

Except when no one provides such products, or the only ones fitting that goal require very large sacrifices elsewhere.

Look at mobile phones and tablets before the EU rules. Finding one that charged off a standard USB socket was near impossible.

Again with mobile phones, since there is no right to actually own and control your device, finding a phone that allows you to root it constrains your choices in just about every other way, including ways that have nothing to do with being able to root the phone, such as being a second class citizen from your carriers point of view (e.g. Verizon refused to enable international calling for my phone because it wasn't an "approved", aka Verizon branded, phone.)

So, right to repair regulations mean that I wouldn't have to decide between being environmentally conscious (if that open is even available) and having a product that works.

> wages are the real issue, not cost of spare parts.

I can and do perform many repairs myself when the device allows a repair to be done (even sometimes when it doesn't).
I realize that a student will occasionally get a particular question right by a method that she cannot write down, and also that, even more rarely, whatever way she got to that answer is actually a sound method rather than luck, but I question whether it is frequent enough to invalidate the advice you quote. In my experience, most of the time when someone does not know how to solve a problem, he cannot solve it in his head.

As you say in your last paragraph, "If they're not writing down the steps, it's more often that they are demonstrating that they don't have a good enough level of understanding to do this", but that is not the situation addressed by the advice you object to. If they are answering the questions in their heads without understanding how to solve them, the questions would not seem to be a good match to the topic. If they do understand how to solve the problem but don't know how to put it in words, again that is a different problem, possibly in how it has been explained to them.
Well, yeah. Don't eradicate it. How will the CIA find new and interesting ways of torture without buddies like this?
Salty eh? Okay.

I explicitly noted I wasn't being repressed, but thanks for thinking about me. The way volunteers have been treated is not good, and the rules the company is making are going alienate lots of people. Not the ones they care about apparently, but lots of people none the less.

There is a difference been limited speech (which SE has always been a limited zone, not a free zone) and forced speech. You might not care about this issue, but someday when somebody wants to force you to do something you don't believe in, you'll understand the difference. I sincerely hope its for something minor for you and you get enough early warning that it doesn't get out of hand.

By the way I'd be surprised to learn _anybody_ at SE thought I did a bad job for the site they appointed me to help with.
There is an app for you :)

StreetComplete will suggest things around you that needs to be completed. Perfect for getting started.
> 7384. Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.

Some are oddly specific
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Can't see how Ungar could have acted any differently here given the betting by Matloubi?
This is what happens when you sell out to advertising. A carefully managed image becomes a key asset.

The software development world is going through the growing pains of our largest and most influential organizations making that deal with the devil.
They are however most often answered by someone within the field. These folks are saying they have an answer, not a question.
You might know this already but the app (Android only I believe) StreetComplete (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete) can be used as a low-effort way to fulfill minor improvement quests in your area.
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minor typo: "your" vs "our" coworkers.

I guess it would be handy to have some way of hiding everything except maybe the face. Would be annoying to have to dress up
How many US cities can you name?
Fair enough, I do read every license for any code I use at work.

However, I would certainly think that "we wanted to give a good impression without actually making any changes" is probably closer to the truth. I doubt Berkeley as an institution really cares about accessibility; it sounded like a good thing and policies were enacted without a lot of thought given to the ramifications. If multiple professors signed off that their courses were accessible, then it certainly strikes me that this was a low priority that was largely ignored.
Anecdotal but I find I retain a audiobooks I've listened to far more than actual physical books I've read.
I believe all the programs do only clientside computations, so I wouldn't expect the TTFB to be long because of them.
Apple has something similar to this now as well.
I was downloading MP3s to my MP3 player with a 16MB san over ISDN circa 2000. For most people in the US it hasn’t taken hours to download an MP3 for over a decade maybe 2.
After a year I never figured out how to print. You should be able to print from their app.
I'm wrong? Then what optimizations did you do? Please, enlighten me. I have a list of methods in the links above, if you don't recall offhand.
> it’s literally the same as reading text on an ebook or even paperback

Not literally. On an ebook I can add inline notes and then jump to them later (I occasionally do this when a passage sparks an idea). And search text.
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It would be ironic if he shut is laptop to kill the video stream and that ended up causing the system to freeze on that last frame of video.
> it's like wondering why so many US Army officers come form West Point - well, that's because West Point is there to produce US Army officers

US service academies and War Colleges are actually degree-granting institutions, though.
I don't think economy or society will benefit in the long run from receding coastlines. The Greenland glacier is melting. From the bottom.
Timescales I'm considering are on the order of decades rather than billions or trillions of years.

You seem fixated on the status quo. Let go.
I hope it is preserved. MRR was key to DIY music scenes across the US and other countries. The internet dispatched the need for it. At the time (I'm referencing the mid-late 80's), the crappy newsprint that came off on my fingers was the only way to find out what bands or cities were doing in really independent music. It's pretty difficult to put it in context in a world post-blogs, twitter, and bandcamp etc.
I agree with you, but it's unlikely to convince the other camp. How about purely selfish reasons though? There is a finite limit on what a single developer can accomplish. By definition a high performing team requires excellent communication , and you don't just shrug and say that's managements problem. Team output will dwarf anything a single rockstar could ever hope to produce. Developers should Read mythical man month about the requirements of scaling up; the challenges are not technical, they're all about communication and visibility.
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There's plenty of generalizations and simplifications of issues, and in a few newspapers the tone is generally more critical of the EU. But most mainstream newspapers are actually quite pro-EU in general.
Thanks for clarifying, I see where you're coming from now.

Between blackface and gangsta rap, there is a difference in kind: Black face is emblematic of society itself continuing the practice of dehumanizing a group of people that historically were dehumanized and stripped of all freedom. Gangsta rap represents something that is not nearly as systemic.

That's somewhat beside the point though. You touch on a relevant question: Even if many fewer people are offended, they are still offended. So the question is, should society not urge any action at all for offensive speech? Should no one feel any pressure to modify their behavior in some way? If you don't want to go to those extremes, then you have to draw the line somewhere. Currently society draws the line at racist content, specifically that aimed at traditionally downtrodden minority groups, and even more specifically, those minority groups that still experience significant bias.

Why does society draw the line where it does? My guess is because the scars there are not completely healed over, even if society has "recognized the error of its way". On other stereotypes we aren't as adamant. Irish, for example. We don't view the drunken Irishman stereotype with quite the same shock, probably in part because the institutionalized oppression (In the US) has been mostly dead and buried for a 100 years. In the UK & Australia however, the wounds are more fresh, and reference to derogatory Irish stereotypes are much more taboo.
This has never crossed my mind as a possibility. It's ingenious. I wonder if/when this has ever been done before.

On second thought in a broader way this idea, of masking truth by hiding it behind something similar, is quite old. For example the idea that Pagan holidays were turned into Christian ones in an effort to erase them.
I think in many areas it is just a race to the bottom, lowering prices at the expense of quality.
Extra $40 per month is not insane. But indeed it's higher than in Europe.

Partly that could be explained by lower population density.

Also services like Visible started to appear. They offer unlimited talk and data for $40.
For most companies, the alternative to CoL salaries isn't Bay Area salaries, it's the lowest salary they can get away with. In other words, people in the Bay will get less, people in the Midwest won't get more. Be careful what you wish for.
Well, for starters, you're probably violating the law because the residency you're claiming for tax purposes, etc. isn't your actual residency. I expect you're also in violation of your employment agreement. (And I very much doubt you're going to keep this a secret especially if you do any travel.)
Decentralized decision making is key to reducing coats of delays on getting things shipped. Teams should be part of the project management, have an understanding of business priorities, and be having discussions and making decisions. This is functioning project management.
Only inasmuch as it pertains to the data of the single EU citizen. The American entity can do whatever they want with their American consumer data.
HP used to do that, and probably still does, with their business laptops/computers. Had an Elitebook under warranty in Germany, the graphics card burned out, requested an RMA, they sent a box to pack it in via UPS, it was shipped to Poland, fixed and returned via UPS.
> those who believe he demonstrated that 75% of people would commit murder if in a real situation like the elaborate sequence in The Push.

There's also the fact that there was a screening process. They didn't pick people at random, they filtered for people with high suggestibility.

It was pretty amusing to watch that conformity test where they put an applicant in a room with actors pretending to be applicants, where actors would all stand up/sit down at regular intervals, with no explanation.
If it wasn't in rust, would it show on HN?
Everybody wants to live in expensive tech hubs. That's why it's so expensive: more demand than supply.
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People don't think this sort of thing can happen in the US. Just look at what the federal, state and local government does to people it doesn't like now.
I came to recommend "I Am AWAKE" by Fisher Samuels.

A PhD student is building an AI at his home lab, and is under scrutiny by staff, believes he's being tracked by a hacking group, and ends up having his work stolen. The rest is up to you to read. I've read the book a few times. For a single work (of its type) by an obscure author, it's a wonderful read.
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Perhaps not, but I don’t think that’s going to help people who, say, live along the Irish border or who will be impacted by drug shortages. This isn’t just some kind of game.
This would be a lot more useful with some documentation and a readme.
When was the last time an appliance manufacturer went bankrupt? I can't think of any. There are some that aren't around any more, but it's because they were purchased by or merged with competitors (hence, in America, Whirlpool, Roper, Maytag, Frigidaire, etc., are all the same company now).
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Sorry to loop in software/tech...but...

I remember once years ago explaining to a co-worker about how i felt that free and open source software (FOSS) in general - but linux (oh sorry, gnu linux) as a specific example - as being the punk equivalent but in tech. The person i explained it to was a techy at a large enterprise, and really understood it once i explained in those terms. My co-worker was your typical buttoned-up very nice guy, he had only been exposed to the conventional corporate ms windows platforms, etc...So, while he likely wouldn't go out and listen to punk nor go play with installing slackware or debian, etc...he really respected linux (and the rest of FOSS) BECAUSE of the context that i put them in as a comparison to punk. I haven't worked with him for years now...i wonder what he thinks now that linux and FOSS are everywhere - well everywhere but under blankets of corporations like google (android), and others, etc.? I wonder if he still thinks of linux as punk - as i had described to him long ago?