skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very true. Another thing is that it is not like EU is somehow very far behind the US in terms of services hosting or "the cloud". There is French OVH provider and there is German Hetzner. While the former has an opinion of being cheap but no so great (especially in terms of support), the Hetzner really shines.

Hetzner does not have all the AWS like "cloud" bells and whistles, however their VPS-es and especially dedicated servers are first class. In many, many situations it makes much more sense (both from costs perspective and ease of migration to other provider) to use dedicated servers and hire someone who will manage them, than throwing tons of money into Amazon pockets to get "X-large instances" that have power of old Celeron laptop (exaggerating a bit, but not that much).
The context is Finland in these comments.
Zoomcar says “customers data is secure” after 3.5M leak
> Muted chat, chat groups, draw on photos, stickers on photos,

Signal has all of these

> quiz / polls, dice rolls.

Not these, as far as I know.
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Goodbye, modeling industry!

This is extremely impressive. Extrapolating for possible applications, I could imagine that techniques like this could one day become invaluable tools, say, for asset creators in the game industry. The video speeds up the process, but of course in a couple of years, this will be actual real-time performance. Extended to more than just human portraits, this could be a fantastic design tool.
How to Build a Markdown Previewer with React.js
> I'd rather not identify the company in question, but I can say that it wasn't Microsoft – I have absolutely zero information on what Microsoft's data retention policies might be.

While earlier things may have been lost, Microsoft operates a Microsoft museum. Anything they have today is pretty likely to be intentionally preserved.
How does Scaleway compare to OVH?
I was able to place a new Crude Unit on the map on the archive.org version, using the button 3 buttons below the demolition button and finding a empty place on the map, the one shown in this wikipedia screenshot:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Simrefinery_s...

Unfortunately, clicking the new crude unit does not work, unlike existing crude units on the map.
I can't find 'Arthur' nor 'Clarke' on that page.
Even with the motivation of a big salary jump, not everyone is willing to relocate to the US though.
Nokia touts 30% base station energy savings with 5G cooling tech
Favorited; thanks for this useful, well-written post!
One thing this article seems to mention only briefly is how different bandwidth (egress) pricing is. I think it deserves more attention.

With $0.01/GB egress, DO arguably is way cheaper what any of the other Big 3. This is not even taking into account a hefty "free bandwidth" that comes with every droplet (couple TB/month).

Compare this to $0.11—$0.23 that Big 3 charges per GB. On larger, production-grade projects, egress could get way more expensive than compute.

Kudos to DO for not doing pricing like it's 1998.
Europe: Politicians want "something great", so there is a verdict that "something great" will be developed. A huge budget is provided, but it must be ensured that the usual suspects (public or semi-public research institutions) get most of the share. The whole project structure becomes fragmented beyond believe, nobody cares about commercial success. The project fails, but not in the eyes of the researchers, who claim that there was never the goal to create a commercial product. With the bazillion of research money they gained "valuable insight" into the whole problem and made "considerable progress".

US: Andy von Bechtolsheim meets with two bright guys, sees the huge potential of their algorithm, walks back to his Porsche, signs them a 100,000$ cheque, and a few years later we have a global tech giant called Google who the rest of the world either admires or is afraid of.
Open source 5G core network
SQLancer, a tool to automatically test DBMSs to find logic bugs
Hell, I just used loom last night on some pet projects. You can use it today if you dare.
Gallant spent his time in college studying and regurgitating what his professors told him. Graduated with a high GPA.

Goofus spent college practicing his social engineering skills to acquire access to free beer and attentions of young ladies.

After 10 years Gallant is a Sr developer with no reports and Gooffus is the VP of engineering.
That's a broadening of the term WMD in the US civilian and criminal legislation, basically defining any "destructive device" as WMD so that anyone setting off hand grenades or pipe bombs can be charged under their extremely severe terror legislation.

The US military, like every other organisation outside the US, doesn't include conventional explosives under WMD.
That’s interesting, thank you.

I wonder if it was simply time management to have both sides meet at the middle or politics/symbolism. The former?
The issue I’ve had with things like that is that I have to learn a whole new API for manipulating syntax: while there are definite advantages to this, representing code as everyday types that very generic functions can operate on has the advantage of making metaprogramming look like normal code. e.g. if I’m doing try...finally... stuff alot, I can right a macro that transforms:

(with-db [conn (connect ...)] ...)

To:

(let [db (connect ...)] (try ... (finally (close db)))

Just like:

(defmacro with-db [[sym expr] & body]
`(let [~sym ~expr]
(try ~@body
(finally (close ~sym)))))

The backtick/tilde notation isn’t macro-specific: it’s a generic way to template readable datastructures that I can use anywhere, so when I see it in a macro, it isn’t some strange API to learn, it’s just a handy way to build up the datatypes I use all the time.
Plus some gas station chains were proactive in having super charger's placed on their property. Sheetz in PA did this.
Nobody gave a shit about my status to contact me elswhwere. People just open the existing conversation and never see it anyway. And most don't care, or want to switch.

Whatsapp is THE messaging standard in my country. Hell, even our politicans use it for communication. "Apping" is even used by news outlets to describe communication by Whatsapp.

We used to have SMS and MSN. Now it's either Whatsapp or Messenger. Depending only on the fact if you have the others phone number or not.
cf Barber, "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years"

Part of her thesis is that weaving and textiles have been stereotypical occupations for the distaff gender because they can be done in a single location and are interruptible, making them very suitable for child-rearing.
Such words are the nightmares of people who translate fiction. Because if in the original you have "toska", you can't really translate it as "dull ache of the soul stemming from longing or pining" as that would surely break the flow of the text.

So they might be untranslatable in certain contexts, for sure, and you have to scramble for alternatives which inevitably lose subtle shades of meaning.
Tabulator should support pretty much all those things, it really is a fantastic library.
At building great software. While America struggles to build one mile of subway, Europe struggles to write one line of code.

There are exceptions (I'm partial to Jetbrains) but it's true overall.
I agree with you in the sense that these things “done proper” would be robust. It is meant as a pointer to what is specifically one strength of Clojure in comparison.

From my experience marshaling/deserialization and bubbling up errors as an introspectable useful message are things that are more involved in statically typed languages than in Clojure.

Typically statically typed languages are very good at internal consistency. But require more ceremony and maintenance regarding outside sources. This is a viable tradeoff in some cases but not so in others.
I'd like to see his partner's figures too!
>When it comes to mental health, our society approaches it like we did with physical health 50 years ago. We only think about it when something is wrong.

I'm not sure about the broader society, but I think this mentality is still prevalent in both physical and mental health these day.

My mother was a very health conscious person (to the level of insanity) but one attitude she showed that I think lead to long term mental/physical health improvement is what your attitude towards medicine is. She saw medicine never as a solution but a temporary band-aid and if you use one medication more than once, it is a indication that something in your life is terribly wrong. I don't share that absolutist attitude, some situations are only solvable with medical interference. But where you draw this line seems to have an profound effect.

I've observed that people that consider medicine (both for physical & mental health) as a part of the solution to a problem they have in life never achieve to get out of their trouble. If you're living a unhealthy lifestyle, any health complications are amplified and taking medicine might suppress it for now, but unless you change the underlying life-style, it will slowly make things worse. Same goes for mental health; If your mental life style is unhealthy (bad social interaction, information consumption that most lead to negative emotions etc), any amount of anti-depressant won't get you out of trouble. You're only delaying it.
Adequate test coverage is hard without rebuilding from scratch. Hard to expect in a big, old company. Except when a huge codebase have to be rebuild because python2 have to be replaced (one of our software provider is in this case).
> But, people now expect to see more obviously [..]

I don't. I mean, yay for improvements, but it's already working great for my usecases.
The problem is not retaining talent. People doesn't just migrate in mass to the USA. The problem is how easy is to create a company, raise funds and get the needed licenses.
These don't sound unreasonable. I've been in a similar situation before. In my experience, if the culture in the org is generally positive, it is worth taking the effort to champion good practices. You can become the go-to guy for setting these standards. Future developers will thank you for having done so.

However, if you think the culture is not conducive to positive, large scale change, it might end up being a waste of your time and energy. Having to constantly say no, and ask for everyone else to fix stuff in PRs can be exhausting. There is also a real risk of others perceiving you as someone who always finds faults with everyone else. That is a hard tag to shake off. Balancing that is the real challenge.
Another way to express the latter is that if something becomes too popular, upper socioeconomic classes will want to adopt something else, so that they can preserve a class distinction of "higher register" speech. Meanwhile, lower ones will try to adopt the style of the higher register, since it's perceived better. That's an endless cycle.

Same thing for euphemisms, insults, etc. And uniformity was far less common before mass media and centralized schooling…

Linguists have a much more descriptivist way of looking at language use and change.

Nuance is not a feature of education; focus is. E.g. AAVE (AKA Ebonics) is currently considered a lower class register, but it has grammatical distinctions that standard English doesn't (like whether an action is part of a pattern, vs a one off).

ETA: also, an influx of non-native speakers tends to result in borrowing of both words and grammar from their native languages. Not just in the development of creoles. What's "correct" is purely defined by consensus; if there are lots of new speakers, that's of course going to shift towards their preferences.
Some people hate the US president so much they don't care if people die because of their reporting.
But they would fight in or near China or Russia — I don't see any chinese or russian bases in Canada or Mexico.
Who knew? You can vote on the names these two TBMs will be given. https://www.hs2.org.uk/tbmvoting/
Impact of EV Vehcile-to-Grid Charging During UK Lockdown [pdf]
I'm mainly annoyed about the rollout of HS2 because of the government's insistence of all projects starting/ending in London. A new trans-pennine rail tunnel from Liverpool-Manchester-Sheffield under the peaks, and Manc-Leeds-Hull would add vastly more value than a faster connection between already well connected cities. This is planned for 'HS3', but that could be 40+ years off at this rate.

The large-scale projects need to srart every 10 years or so... the UK is in desperate need of non-car infrastructure if it wants to be carbon zero by 2050.
I don't think your standards are unreasonable but maybe they are a little too high.

Tests, CI that runs the tests and does not allow release to production if any of the tests is broken, and automated deployment are probably a must.

Code reviews are probably not.

Not sure about infrastructure managed in code.
Why not? It just means that the main expenses of the project are labour, materials, energy, etc.

I don’t imagine the paint for the Sistine Chapel ceiling cost much compared with the cost of painting it.
Right, that was pathetic. IIRC they burnt 400 million € without producing any tangible results.
If it's not causing pollution from leaks or whatever and it's effectively worn out then you could view it as being as good a place as any to store something that someone could later salvage for its scrap value. I remember someone saying similar about plastics (I think). That if we just stored those plastics we can't effectively recycle until such time as it is possible, it would be a greener solution than e.g. incineration
A TBM cutter head that was used to tunnel under the Thames now forms the station art at Cutty Sark DLR station.
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Meaningless question because you won't have a garage in your life.
It may not be clear that those things can completely prevent mental issues, but I think it's fairly clear that poor diet, sleep, stress management and exercise can contribute to an increase in the frequency of mental health issues.
I'm very skeptical that these plants can significantly change the indoor environment, unless you turn your house into a greenhouse. Does anyone have a source pointing to the contrary?
Types of On-Demand Delivery Apps and Their Role in Economy
Picture of it here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TBM_Cutter_Head_at_C...
The book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael C Feathers is an excellent book in which he talks about, amongst other things, a process of selling the concept of proper unit testing to teams. And how he's managed it in the past.
Well, it's by far the quickest way to dig the tunnel.
No, i would say that your standards are quite reasonable. I would also say that there are many companies that do not meet those standards. Usually they have no excuse for doing so, just that no one there knows or most likely just don't care.

There are also many companies that go overboard with their code review and tests, get none of the intended gains, produce more slowly than they can, because of an attempt to cater to the lowest denominator. But I suppose if you're going to pick one of two extremes, that would still tend to be the lesser of two evils.
Oh my. Run away.

If that is their current culture, there will be a lot of pushback if you want to initiate changes. Especially among the senior (responsible for the mess) ones who get defensive real fast.

Maybe ask more about how their engineering culture is next time around during interviews.
HS2 only connects together the largest city, the second largest city, the third largest city, the fourth largest city, the fifth largest city, the seventh largest city and the ninth largest city in the UK together on a single branched train line which will allow travel between them within an hour and a half. Who cares about such economic frivolity!
World record tennis serve is 144 miles an hour and a human can't really move across a court and return a ball moving at this speed. If they're lucky they can reach it and react in time to hit it. I'm a bit confused by an article that claims tennis players can react to and return serves up to 160 miles an hour. I think evidence suggests that returning balls anywhere near this fast is dependent on analysing factors before the ball starts moving, the other players body position, racket position etc. Players have an intuition about where the ball is going to go without having to look at and analyse the flight of the ball.

Just did some very basic checking.
Tennis court 23m
260mph = 72m/s
Ball takes approx. 0.3ms to travel length of court.
human reaction time to visual simulous 0.25ms
So the idea is they move and hit the ball in the remaining 0.05ms?
Hmmmmm.
Hi everyone. I'm one of the creators of Snap Blocks. It's a in-development VR game for the Oculus Quest where you can build stuff by snapping blocks together. It's kind of like a mix between Lego and Minecraft.

In this video, I built the Diamond sword that many of you know from Minecraft. It's a simple thing to build, but super fun (I might be biased though, haha).

You can get it for free from SideQuest: https://sidequestvr.com/app/938
The massive viaducts at Cullen in Scotland were apparently required to route the railway away from Cullen House:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullen,_Moray
See discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16895124
By chat groups I mean chat folders. You can put some chats into a folder to organise them. Clearly every chat app has group chats.
I agree it's not as easy as drinking a cup of coffee, but does it have to be easy or does it have to be effective ? Mental health is too important to leave it up to quick fixes.

While social anxiety seems to be definitely more prevalent these days, I am wondering if this might be something that actually increases due to the precise lack of sufficient positive community experiences.

Meeting new people has always been uncomfortable and a bit scary for most people, but being part of something low key like a community garden or a group of people playing sports for fun will in my opinion do more for one's mental health than drinking coffee or taking melatonin.

That said, of course not every experience counts as positive nor will every activity suit everyone, it might take some time to find what you enjoy - but it's worth it.

But let's also turn it around and follow the advice, you sleep well, eat healthy, do your round in the gym, meditate and drink your coffee every day. Well, you're still going to feel pretty sad and lonely if the rest of the time you're locked up in your room reading Reddit.
The advice given is not bad per se, it's just not complete.
At least it's from a set of sensible names this time, not open to witless joke names.
Missing word: załatwić from polish language.
I've been using Tiddlywiki, but the editor is nothing short of atrocious. I just wish there was some sort of Tiddlywiki integration for vim.
Your standards are very reasonable. You should keep pushing for higher standards. Preferably these also should be enforced technically. I.e., it should just not be possible to push something to development without code review. At first you can also just make sure you have good quality in the parts of the application that you are working on. It will at some point become quite noticeable that thing are going better there. I.e., the tests will catch something that would have otherwise failed in production. This can work as an eye-opener.
> How do they think Google became what it is, or most American companies like Amazon?

Because of us government funding which created silicon valley. Silicon Valley itself is pretty much a DoD project. The foundation of the internet and many of these companies were laid by government - direct spending, subsidies, tax breaks and in amazon's case, legal protection ( they didn't have to collect state taxes ) until fairly recently.

> A company like Airbus makes some sort of sense since the government heavily funds Boeing/Lockheed Martin via defense contracts.

This is silicon valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley#History_(pre-19...

> But Amazon/Google and VC-backed tech startups and companies?

Many of the VCs had indirect government ties. But that's besides the point. Amazon/Google doesn't exist without silicon valley which the government created, government subsidies and government protection.

And this isn't including the government's role in keeping international markets open to google/amazon/etc. Notice how there wasn't much pushback from most countries while google/amazon gobbled up entire countries? Now compare that to intense pushback china gets for any and everything.

> Not to mention that the pay for software developers and engineers in general in Europe is ridiculously low for a comparable position in the United States, or even Japan. How are they going to retain talent?

Considering american tech companies own the european market why wouldn't american developers get higher pay? If europeans protected their market and european tech companies take over the european market, tech pay would inevitably rise.
Breaking big rocks into smaller rocks and then carting them out of a tunnel is already very expensive. It is better that the cost of the machine isn't important.
The are currently non-immigrants who are skimming way more for him and his buddies.

If you don't you think "the wall" includes some bribes and being constructed at a premium, than you aren't paying attention
In my experience, even if you start by "building what they need".

When you present your V1 "they" come back and say something along the lines of "can't you make it look nicer/cooler? You know add some wow factor!"

What they mean is: "I just took a pile of money from the client for this and you didn't make it look expensive enough"
Those seem like reasonable policies to aim for. What isn't immediately clear is whether they are missing because of a lack of understanding or a lack of willingness to change.

If it's the former and you've come into the small company with more experience than most people there, you might get a long way and become quite popular with your colleagues if you share the benefit of that experience intelligently. For example, with the agreement of the senior people, you could show everyone how to set up a good CI system or automated deployments, if that's something you know how to do and they don't. These kinds of things tend to have obvious benefits once they're up and running, but setting them up in the first place can be a barrier depending on what else you're using, how everything you've already got fits together, and of course the level of knowledge and awareness of the people working on it.

On the other hand, if everyone is well aware that they should be doing something and they know how to but just can't be bothered, that's a cultural problem that you're unlikely to be able to change as the newbie. Probably no-one else is either, unless they're doing it from the top down and have hiring and firing privileges to force the issue by bringing in more people who expect it and, if necessary, letting go anyone who stubbornly refuses to engage. If this is the environment you're in, unfortunately putting up with it or getting out are probably your only certain options.
Here are some interesting business simulation games from MIT Sloan:
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/Pages/Over...

My personal favorite is: Platform Wars (https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/platform-w...)
> French X for any X

OCaml is the French SML ;)
This is quite an information rich PDF, so jump to page 12 if you want to see how vehicle-to-grid charging responds to demand on the electricity network.
Instead of “western” medicine, I prefer to call it “evidence based, tested with randomized controlled experiments, mechanism of action deduced” medicine. No data, no medicine.

Even then, medicine is super hard since there is so much complexity in the human body and variations across populations, and experiments are extremely costly.