skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indian living in Berlin. Can confirm. Finding a new apartment is almost impossible and the rents on unregulated apartments is now through the roof. An apartment that would cost ~800 EUR for rent is now atleast 1100-1200 (even for a good developer salary, this is insane).

Berlin is the SF of Europe at the moment. Unless you want to spend 6 months at a minimum hunting apartments I would avoid this city.

Once I get comfortable with German, I am thinking of moving to cheaper, smaller cities , probably in the south and working full time remote.
Five locations being considered according to WSJ [1]: Phoenix, AZ (2 sites); Austin, TX (another 2); and Genesee County, Western NY. Austin seems to be the front-runner.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-eyes-up-to-17-billion-u...
> It does look dated

Personally I don't mind the Windows 98 look, it strikes me as clean and no-nonsense. Everything is clear and high-contrast. Unlike with many 'flat' themes, it's generally clear what's clickable. I realise not everyone likes the Windows 98 look though.

If someone is serious about developing fast GUI apps, trading off on themeability is the kind of thing they should consider. As you say, FOX really is fast. I presume this is because of its uncompromising hard-coded native-code-only approach - it's just a C++ codebase. All the drawing operations are implemented directly in C++. Unlike Qt, there's no JavaScript. Unlike JavaFX, there's no CSS. It's all just C++.

Perhaps a GUI toolkit could add themeability without any performance impact by implementing it as a compile-time abstraction.

> depends on the target market for your application I suppose - if your target won't be happy unless they have html/CSS or similar animations, then using something with low latency isn't going to make them happy

Right, but mattgreenrocks said fast, focused, and respect the user's time and computing resources, presumably in contrast to current norms.
Are Google serious? Simultaneously pushing websites to be highly efficient (Core Web Vitals), at the same time as introducing the methods that can make them less efficient.

Also, about these icons, they mention "please don’t try to sell them", immediately followed by "Apache license 2.0". Well, Google, which is it? Do they actually mean to say "you have permission to sell them, but please don't?"
I'm not a chemist, but I'm sure there are many here on HN.

AFAIK hydrogen mixed with oxygen ranges from 'highly flammable' to 'highly explosive'. Wouldn't hydrogen cars (or any hydrogen power for that matter) be much more dangerous compared to fossil fuels or electricity?

Sure, a lithium battery burning in an underground parking garage is dangerous. But having a car leaking hydrogen into an underground parking sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Can anyone with chemistry experience shed some light on the dangers if say 10% of cars in an urban environment were to be equiped with high pressure hydrogen tanks?
>I have an almost certainity that the maybe dozen of aristocratic/oligarch Swedish families owning the economy of the country made a private grange from the entire country.

Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenberg_family
> in the US every year which is about 150 per person.

Is the average person in the US really eating 3 hamburgers per week?
Apple has added strings in case they need to. Title is misleading.
Neither party right now is a centrist party. They both realized that the median voter was disengaged, so they began to appeal to extremes as a way to motivate constituents to donate and vote.
AFAIK it hasn't "added support". We've used material icons for a year or two now from Google Fonts. Good to see this getting adoption but it's been available for some time
We definitely need a heavy carbon tax on any energy production that has negative externalities. I don't care if its cryptocurrency, video gaming, datacenters or dryers, if it consumes a lot of electricity we need to incentivise people to use less of it or use energy from sources that have smaller carbon footprints. Same should be done for cars.
I don't fully get what you mean, can you clarify?
And which would additionally, I assume, replace the use of bitmaps.

I'm surprised this question was even raised because vector graphics is the most size efficient way to do simple graphics on the web.
Direct link to a Twitter thread from him: https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1364950213790740481
Using public numbers (references below):

The average YouTube user (>18yo) spends 41 minutes per day on YouTube. Let's guess that an average view duration is 10 minutes (~80% of an average video of 11.7 minutes). That gives us 4 video views per day.

The average per view is $0.18, so $0.72 per day. Multiply by 30 to get a month, and you end up with $21.60.

YouTube Premium is $11.99/month. So yes, there's a huge prize difference - the advertising revenue would be ~$10 more than the YouTube Premium price.

https://blog.hootsuite.com/youtube-stats-marketers/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1026923/youtube-video-ca...

https://influencermarketinghub.com/how-much-do-youtubers-mak...
After trying both Beyond Meat and Impossible Meat, without the stuff being drenched in sauce and other burger ingredients, just the plain "meat", I must say that I don't like it one bit. It smells like canned cat food and taste nothing like real meat to me.

I will switch to fake meat when I'm unable to sense any difference between something like a Greater Omaha ribeye and a fake substitute, not a day before :)
The “LitterCam” that's watching you
The first thing I'd do is moving Satoshi's coins with a very suspect transaction.
A spectrum is a numerical label. It has very little descriptive capacity except at two or maybe three points.
It may happen. A company will not write code unless they think it's gonna be needed.
The high resolution, 360 panoramic view, of the landing site is also stunning:

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8873/nasas-perseverance-rover-giv...
It costs me about $3-7 for a single cheaper cut of steak at my local store, which according to a cursory search, probably yields 30-70g of protein. 1 potato, while very cheap, is only going to contain 2g of protein, and at most I could probably eat 3 in one go. Certainly, I'd get other vitamins and minerals from both, which is why I'd have both in the same meal. How much are you spending on meat? An occasional indulgence in that area for me would maybe be a $20 steak, or a big burger.
every social system has the concept of people that are not the right sort, and that are just not allowed to be part of the prestigious organizations because of some issue.

The problem with China's social credit system is that it is a codification and automation of the prejudices of the system designed to maintain power.

This example here is just the old fashioned display of the prejudices of the organization.
Ireland is only considered a low tax rate for companies. Personal taxes are quite high actually.

> 40% over €34,550 for single, €42,800 for married taxpayers.

>Plus USC(Universal Social Charge)4.5% on income up to €50,170 and 8% on balance.

>Social insurance 4%

Not to mention out VAT is higher than Germany's also..
Especially ufc, I thought the only reason ppv could be so expensive was because people were having parties to cover it. I can't believe so many people paid so much during the pandemic.
I don't work with Lambda regularly, but I think, yes - basically.

That's even more evident for simple stuff that doesn't need debugging on the logic, but benefits from the Lambda features in terms of scaling etc.

Not mentioned is that your unit tests should be getting you most of the way...
The “Noam Chomsky succession problem”
“If I pull this trigger—” ... let’s not play a semantic game. The simple truth is that a portion (likely a very small portion) of the market for these devices will view this as too much additional risk. In addition to the numerous other than normal first generation new hardware risks, Apple’s ongoing public issues with software quality, concerns about longer term control over their hardware/computing devices... and many other risks both perceived and actual... these potential customers have decided that for their individual concerns the math didn’t add up. This is a concern, albeit a minor one at present because as you correctly said it’s just the strings... but for some that’s enough.
Ask HN: What do you do to keep yourself updated?
I am particularly interested in DevOps, Infrastructure and best practices, but the question is directed to everyone in and outside tech. And even in tech, it does not have to be related to tech. Soft skills also need maintenance.

What do you do to stimulate yourself to learn and keep yourself both motivated and updated in subjects inside and, specially, outside work. It helps a lot to have an intellectually demanding job, that requires you to learn and read a lot. But if you are stuck in a particular position that exploits your current skills more than present opportunities to learn, how can you motivate yourself to learn outside that vicious circle of self exploitation?

I am also interested in knowing what do you do to manage burnout. It is fine to keep pushing yourself, but we are not always productive and we need some downtime. How to balance free time allocation between learning and relaxing?
Only if you have no memory of IP litigation in recent times. I maintain it's a non negligible chance of it actually happening.

Edit: Here's a related example just from a few days ago for you:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/intel-hit-with-2...
> They basically admitted that they don’t like me. They’ve banned me for nothing else than my political views. This is typical discrimination. Considering I have no one to appeal to except them, it’s concerning, since they control the actual fucking center of the internet.

Next-level deplatforming. From a non-profit. That essential controls the internet. Yay.
And you can swap Zepto for jQuery which is like 10k and has pretty much all the functionality apart from some ancient browser support.
How often do you need to wash them for it to be effective?
Looking for developers to work on EU funded project
We are currently looking for a software architect, embedded software developer, front-end developer and fullstack developer to work on EU funded project.

The team will be responsible for implementing the software solution for a new type of maritime sensor (LADAR) and turning raw data from LADAR into a functional graphical user interface (GUI) which is going to be displayed on a computer positioned on the ship’s bridge (possibly with functional application modules running on the instrument itself).

The LADAR incorporates FPGA for high-speed signal processing in addition to a CPU running data processing and housekeeping functions thus, we are looking for candidates with experience in either or both of two competing implementation directions:

(1) The GUI to be implemented as a stand-alone application, running directly on a computer located on the bridge. A rudimentary implementation of such implemented in Python already exists. Raw data is provided by means of Ethernet or
(2) The GUI to be contained within a web browser running on the computer located on the bridge. The web server back-end will in turn run off the instrument’s CPU [ARM Cortex-A53,] itself running Linux. Typically implemented in the form of LAMP [Linux/Apache/MySql/PHP-Python-…] technologies.

Regardless of implementation direction, the team will also be responsible for the LADAR graphical user interface which will resemble a radar screen, with additional data fusion from auxiliary sensors like visual light cameras and external radar data. The software will also include functions such as robust object detection, target tracking functionalities and external interfaces.

Interested?
Please send us your CV to employment@offshoremonitoring.com
"The only person who is responsible for the health of your application is you"

That's right, kids. Pack away your tildes and your carets.
In addition to the demand side issues of low interest rates leading to bigger mortgages and ballooning real estate values in the nordics, what are the supply side constraints?

When visiting Helsinki, Finland, I was amazed to hear a house for a family of 4 can easily cost near 1M euros even when located in the suburbs outside the city.

This was even more surprising to me after hearing about average salaries and driving around the capitol area—-there was a ridiculous amount of unused land. 15-30 mins outside Helsinki and you’re basically in a forest. I assumed there must be some sort of strict restrictions on building.

Is this the case, or am I assuming too much based on my experience with SF?
Those savings would be distributed, and difficult to access, especially if they are primarily relying on deflation to increase their value.

Saying that the expected return would be higher is just the other side of saying it would be harder to find capital to start businesses.

> Lots of non-profitable companies today can keep surviving without doing any real good due to money being cheap.

This seems like a huge topic on its own. If there's an 'ideal' availability of money to ensure that companies are providing value, just switching to a supply limited currency is extremely unlikely to luck into selecting the right value. In fact, because it makes it harder to adjust things it makes it pretty much a certainty that at least at some point the wrong value will be selected.
All 133 (!) Honorific Titles in the Royal Opera ticket booking system dropdown
"I've just used the Royal Opera House ticket booking system for the first time [...] I was surprised not to find a WTF in there too:

Mr

Mrs

Ms

Miss

Advocate

Ambassador

Baron

Baroness

Brigadier

Canon

Captain

Chancellor

Chief

Col

Comdr

Commodore

Councillor

Count

Countess

Dame

Dr

Duke of

Earl

Earl of

Father

General

Group Captain

H R H the Duchess of

H R H the Duke of

H R H The Princess

HE Mr

HE Senora

HE The French Ambassador M

His Highness

His Hon

His Hon Judge

Hon

Hon Ambassador

Hon Dr

Hon Lady

Hon Mrs

HRH

HRH Sultan Shah

HRH The

HRH The Prince

HRH The Princess

HSH Princess

HSH The Prince

Judge

King

Lady

Lord

Lord and Lady

Lord Justice

Lt Cdr

Lt Col

Madam

Madame

Maj

Maj Gen

Major

Marchesa

Marchese

Marchioness

Marchioness of

Marquess

Marquess of

Marquis

Marquise

Master

Mr and Mrs

Mr and The Hon Mrs

President

Prince

Princess

Princessin

Prof

Prof Emeritus

Prof Dame

Professor

Queen

Rabbi

Representative

Rev Canon

Rev Dr

Rev Mgr

Rev Preb

Reverend

Reverend Father

Right Rev

Rt Hon

Rt Hon Baroness

Rt Hon Lord

Rt Hon Sir

Rt Hon The Earl

Rt Hon Viscount

Senator

Sir

Sister

Sultan

The Baroness

The Countess

The Countess of

The Dowager Marchioness of

The Duchess

The Duchess of

The Duke of

The Earl of

The Hon

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The Hon Mrs

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The Lady

The Lord

The Marchioness of

The Princess

The Reverend

The Rt Hon

The Rt Hon Lord

The Rt Hon Sir

The Rt Hon The Lord

The Rt Hon the Viscount

The Rt Hon Viscount

The Venerable

The Very Rev Dr

Very Reverend

Viscondessa

Viscount

Viscount and Viscountess

Viscountess

W Baron

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You'd prefer Google throw them under a proprietary license instead of asking nicely?
Except they are not (at this point). This is a message in a beta, that has appeared in december 2020 as well.

Rosetta 2 has to be removed at some point, just like Rosetta 1 was.
For a regular user, probably not. Contemporary dev work with spurious containerization on the other hand…

Maybe some companies should give their employees two systems. Your average way too expensive bragging rights laptop, and a smaller older one which is the only one you're allowed to do your code review/productive commits on.
Things really go haywire when you are developing C++ with clangd (the de-facto code analyzer for Visual Studio Code, CLion, etc...). It sometimes takes over 8 gigs of ram for just the editor. Also it takes a ridiculous amount of memory to just compile your code, especially if you're using Eigen.
Smile for the camera: the dark side of China's emotion-recognition tech
I suspect overhauling the syntax is the kind of change that the committee would see as rather dramatic and with limited payoff. Introducing an optional alternative syntax alongside the existing one, would likely be seen as opening the door to syntactic inconsistencies, more likely to harm readability than to enhance it. The Python community has a relevant saying: There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it. [0]

I don't think it's a serious problem that Ada uses and then rather than &&, and uses or else rather than ||. It's the kind of thing you can get used to with time.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
I use power-apps and Power-FX is a quite a mess.

It is not used by power automate (it uses another different think) and it is a nonsense because both power apps and power automate works in tandem.

It is not similar to Excel (but the use of functions that practically most languages support) and it is not VBA at all.

It is regional specific and it is dumb.

It is some sort of clone of Javascript.
What is Rosetta?
Are you joking?! That depends entirely on what you're doing! I could do my day to day work on 16 GB just fine. I could probably live fine with 8 GB if I actively closed web pages that I didn't actually need to keep open.
Regular reminder that icon fonts are bad for accessibility and are technically troublesome also in other ways: https://github.blog/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/
It's nice that they provide a git repo for this font with all the icons in SVG format
Roubini: Bitcoin & Robinhood will end badly for those who can least afford it
I really, really like closing my nose (with fingers) and mouth and trying to breath. It takes so little time, can be done anywhere and without anyone noticing and seems to work extremely easily in dreams for me. Lot of the other recommendations I've read are much harder. (As in flying or putting a hand through a wall were hard to do at first even when I knew I was dreaming. Looking at clock multiple times requires a clock. And all look weird if done in public)

So my technique is find some situation I'm in pretty often in both dreams and in real life, and do this check every time in that situation. After a while it's like a reflex and sometimes I even think I'm surely not dreaming and get surprised.
How to deal with the kitchen sink syndrome or scope creep
Whenever someone says that something is too expensive because it costs X, I can't help but think they have too static a view of the world. Solar was too expensive until it wasn't. Batteries in cars were too big and expensive until they weren't. The status quo of fossil fuels has more than a hundred years of research and infrastructure invested in it to drive prices down. New green tech doesn't. That makes the latter more expensive in many situations right now, sure, but it also means it has potentially many more low-hanging fruits to be picked, where the former has long since hit a plateau with diminishing returns, and is ripe for being overtaken. It doesn't mean all investments in green tech will pay off, but using the current prices as an argument against investing in reducing those prices is absurd.
https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualif...

I doubt that every individual connected to these organizations have a spot free reputation, so ICANN is really putting themselves in a weird position by singling out Sunde.
There's also https://imgz.org, that doesn't have annoying social stuff (I made it specifically for that!).
They are a private organization and have a right to choose who to do business with. /s
Nothing else ever had the PC. And IBM wasn't too happy that it happened to them, either.
I think the only reason this works is that it's a power law. A power law gives you a semi-principled way of talking about different scales: atomic, table, house, world, galaxy... The rate of the power increase corresponds to our "magnification factor"

Probably many sequences of powers works, and many bases: base^0.5, base^1, base^1.5, base^2, ...

eg., 4^0.5, 4^1, 4^1.5, 4^2, 4^2.5 = [2, 4, 8, 16, 32]

If the estimate is 3days, then the scope is: [3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96]

Now we have a "semi-principled" set of numbers to choose from, the estimator applies their domain knowledge to select the relevant scales: 3 to 24 say, based on "how big the project could be".

ie., is it both possibly a small change in one area (to a table), and possibly "reworking the foundations of the house" -- if so, you have the small-scale starter number, and you can dial up using this sequence to whatever magnification suits.

Probably with base pi, and sequence (0.5, 1, 2) we capture the three most relevant scales for most properly discrete software tasks. That's essentially conincidental, in that i'm sure a (2 to 4) base with several sequences would wokr.
I think the people who claim that 16 GB isn't enough are insane, but it should be said: at 4 GB it does become a bit problematic to both keep browsers with a bunch of tabs open and do other things smoothly. If we keep modern website hogs out of the picture, I completely agree with you.

I tally about 500-1000 MB doing my job – if I can close the browsers that I do admittedly need to read documentation.
Yes, but the only reason for this removal to be regionalised like the strings suggest is stupid crap like software patents.
Ask HN: Online tool to create Jeopardy-like voting session?
As a host I should see who was the first, second and etc. and be able to reset the voting
LoadData is not lazy loading. It is explicit loading.

Maybe you should have digged a little further. To lazy load related entities you would have to declare the navigational properties virtual.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/ef6/fundamentals/proxies

Note that the EF will not create proxies for types where there is nothing for the proxy to do.
This means that you can also avoid proxies by having types that are sealed and/or
have no virtual properties.</quote>

This is a common rookie mistake, unfortunately.

Entity Framework is an absolutely top-tier ORM (if you like ORMs). Because lazy loading is frowned upon by some purists (and DBAs), EF also support controlled/eager loading where nothing happens (lazily) behind the scene.

You can - for instance - in the query use <code>.Include(x => x.RelatedEntity)</code> to load a related entity eagerly without going back to the database server to load the related entity for each row (the so-called N+1 problem).
I don’t care since the icon font approach is technically inferior to SVG icons: it’s monochrome only, whereas SVG supports colors and transparency.

Icon fonts also suffer from a plethora of rendering issues across platforms because fonts are usually rendered with speedy display of long text in mind.

It’s strange Google would invest in a years-old kludge tech.
It's the emulation layer running on M1 equipped Macs and it allows the M1 chip architecture to run apps complied for the Intel chip architecture.

Removing it would render new M1 Macs unable to run older applications - and even brand new ones that are not specifically ported over to the M1 instruction set.
y...yes? they should use an appropriate license
They can ask nicely, but I expect it will have very little bearing on how people use these. Determining how things get used is what licenses are for.
Backtracks.fm Is Hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer
He denies that assumption in the Twitter thread
Saudi Arabia to Ship Gas to South Korea and Take Back the CO2
That's as useful as exporting your excel sheets into CSV or exporting your Google takeout backup. Yes you have your data, but can you do anything useful and continue working with it without a big deal of effort? I'd also like to continue working in the same learned workflow/method after I take my data.