skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an avid reader of tech magazines, LTT has replaced them for me. Partly because those magazines' budgets have kept on being reduced year after year, and the quality has dipped, but also because of the quality of those "nuggets" that you mention.

In French we say "veille technologique" which seems to coincide with "technology intelligence" in English, but it's a lot less intense: I just like knowing what's out there, keep informed, and LTT's format is just that: highly digestible updates on storage technology, network infrastructure, hardware and everything tech.
> I've always assumed it is because all of the big tech companies are from the UK

Except of course that that isn't true at all.
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Using generics in this way in C# is asking for a headache. And C# being JIT compiled, the compiler can, theoretically, optimize by inlining. I do not know if it does.

In any case, for the vast majority if code bases, maintainability is more important than 10% better performance.
Pointing out the growth of some countries while excluding others (Germany? Ireland? Finland? Sweden?) is debatable, because intra-EU GDP "exchange" might be a thing

> What the heck happened? It could happen here too. Maybe it already has, just not as bad.

Yes, it is possible. Add Japan to the graph, see what happens.

I think the bigger part of the answer is China. Some of it is PPP. Some of it is that Italy has internal problems to solve. Some of it is what I'd call "paper GDP"
Norway seems to fair well on both metrics.
> The average European is about a third or more worse off than the average American, and it's getting worse.

No. GDP does not equal well-being. I mean, the numbers presented in the article _are_ interesting, but their interpretation seems simplistic.
The bankers take on the risk of selling the shares. In the traditional IPO process, the company negotiates the share price with institutions (big banks, hedge funds) in advance of the offering date. On the offering date, the company has a guarantee that it will be able to sell all its shares at the agreed upon price, and therefore be guaranteed to raise a specific amount of money. Those institutional investors will flip those shares to the public, hopefully at a price higher than the negotiated price for a profit. The risk is that this profit isn't a guarantee. Just because everyone's heard of your company doesn't mean they also believe in the company as much as the stakeholders do.

With the market being this hot (IMO it's a bubble, but only time will tell), enough public investors are clamoring over IPOs that companies could likely get away with a direct listing like this. Given an extended market downturn though (say, if 2008 happens again), companies will likely find those same public investors to be a lot less eager to snatch up new share offerings.
I've found it helpful to memorize songs and poetry in the other language.
Non trivial queries are answered from Bing index. So it is not really "much more than" it.
Thanks for trying it out!

I'll be the first to admin that the performance is currently not quite as good as a plain HTML/JS/CSS webapp, however as a small team being able to compile one codebase to every platform is game changing.

The performance issues of Flutter Web are more apparent on mobile however users can install our native mobile app which performs much betters.
Maybe not the study, but the article's title is pretty strongly hinting that most people are clueless idiots who ramble without any regard to their surroundings ("don't know when to shut up").

Whereas it's possible you or the other person know exactly when to shut up, but are just trying to politely engage or wind things down.

For example, I don't like most small talk and wish it never existed and people got straight to the point with a shorter conversation. But it's a fact of life and I accept that some time will be wasted since it's a "polite thing to do".
Having we been giving much printed money to people who need more food?

Most people in the western world aren't likely to buy more food, just because they have more money.

Not saying, we won't see inflation, who knows, but I doubt we'll see it in household items.
The best part about Apple Maps is it gives you directions before its too late. Google Maps would tell me to cross 4 lanes to turn within the next 20m.
That's a pretty badly supported article.
It would be helpful if the title was more specific as the blog post discusses GDP specifically.

More to the point, GDP isn't everything. There are many factors at play. It is possible to cherry pick a multitude of attributes to compare Europe with the US and have either appear to be failing in a graph.

Think about how the graph would look if the following were considered: education levels, clean air/water, broadband connectivity, health care, inner city and suburban public transport.

Also when comparing Europe it would be fair to include Europe in the data rather than a select few countries, otherwise the title (and the argument) becomes more misleading.
Because we use a different metric to define what progress is. And we are wondering why is the USA falling behind?
I optimize the way I put dishes in the dishwasher, I design my own closets so I'll have the best design for what I do every day (i.e. clothes I use regularly are close by) — eg. I hang my t-shirts because it's faster than folding them — etc.

There are things that can be optimized in serving coffee too!

And when you had enough, you can just start serving terrible coffee :D
In the UK at least, it's very much due to new-found export (and import) restrictions. The price of food has slightly increased since brexshit, whereas its availability has plummeted: the number of varieties of vegetables stocked by my local Tesco, for example, has plummeted, and the stock sells out almost immediately after delivery.
As a European, my personal opinion is that it is because of an overfocus on regulation and underfocus on innovation.

Everybody that I know that has an idea or a business that might be worth something, is moving or trying to move to the US.

The mix of too much regulation, high taxes and difficult access to capital is just too much for most new businesses to handle. So, they are moving somewhere else.

I think, despite the talk about higher quality of life, etc., that is going to make us losers in the long run and actually erode our quality of live. Because we need a productive and innovative economy to keep our living standards.
And still, we have more than BASIC for a reason.
It's the combination of being a Nordic social democratic + having large oil reserves.
> private healthcare is fine in the US.

It's obviously fine for those who have it or can afford it. The argument is not about whether or not Silicon Valley software engineers can live with private healthcare. The argument that we here in Europe tend to make is that every inhabitant of a country is entitled to that excellent healthcare, nomatter who they are.
> I would rather see the dom0 running NixOS than ancient Fedora.

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1919

> The only thing I have never got to work, at all, is clipboard operations between VMs. It announces it's doing something with various clipboards, but nothing apparent ever happens.

This sounds very strange, has been working flawlessly for me since forever. Perhaps you could fill a bug or ask at Qubes forums: https://qubes-os.discourse.group.
The keynote is a great read! Here's a link for anyone else who is interested: https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html
It's also an average, someone like Bezos technically raises the average by a lot. It just doesn't make the people working in a warehouse any richer.

For the vast majority of people, living in a wealthy country, where that wealth is more equally distributed, will be much more attractive than living in country with just a high GDP.
Indeed. One could look at the GDP per hour worked.

France and Germany GDP per hour worked is only about 6% less than the US (while it was mostly the same until 2008) [1] [2].

Seems like most of the difference can be explained by stronger work-life balance policies chosen by European (sick days, holidays, earlier retirement and parental leave).

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zuZ4pYz.png
[2] https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm
If your boss is the sort of person who would serve coffee to the team you're probably fine cowtowing in this way. Otherwise, I think you risk being tainted in their eyes. They might see the others at the meeting as superior, wrt the role of programmer (etc.); and unconsciously associate you with less technical work.

I think you risk "why are we paying $$$$$, isn't that the guy who serves the coffee" even if it's subconscious.
Might try this: https://university.webflow.com/lesson/webflow-pages-wordpres...
You can't honestly believe that, can you?

Germany - senior software engineer - 45k eur.

US - senior software engineer - 240k usd.

Do you or the average engineer, over the course of their lifetime, save or spend around 190k usd a year on healthcare?
GDP per capita in Germany is $48k and in the US $63k. Growth is 1.2% and 2.29% respectively:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
> [...] but your job is more valuable!

Well, not if I spend my free time on open source projects :-D
Looks like Rust isn't a programming language but a set of DSLs, some of which are Turing complete.
Silicon valley has the benefit of long term investment and also being a single centre for all of the US market. EU single market is not nearly as well integrated as the US in practical terms e.g. basic language barriers.

Decades of "infrastructure and community" is not easily copied else where and is a real advantage for the US. Europe had lot's of "Facebooks" but non grew out of the local market to be able to gain a global advantage.

Silicon valley is not easily reproduced elsewhere in the US either.
As a fellow European working in research, I agree with every point. I am not having a good feeling about the future here.
Nope. No mention of microwave in there.

To save you the hassle of reading the piece ... Orwell advocates heating your dry porcelain over a naked flame before pouring actual rolling boiling water in. I haven’t actually tried this because I’m very risk averse.

I think this piece takes on a slightly different tone if you imagine a George Orwell’s tongue firmly in his cheek. I read it as a wry take on the sophistry of the English class system ...
I quoted a specific line of yours that purported the rest of the Bay's homeless situation was improving, to the detriment of SF. Linking videos of increasing homeless in SF tells us nothing about the rest of the Bay's situation.

I don't need to "search" youtube videos of the rest of the Bay to get a more accurate picture. I guess I can't speak for that tiny population-slice of the peninsula you did mention, but for the rest I'm all over the rest of the Bay's towns constantly and saying homeless populations "have disappeared from their sidewalks" is quite the overstatement.

You also probably shouldn't scatter your replies across many different nested comments elsewhere?
“but would for small games like […] Nine Men's Morris”

http://library.msri.org/books/Book29/files/gasser.pdf:

“We describe the combination of two search methods used to solve Nine Men’s Morris. An improved retrograde analysis algorithm computed endgame databases comprising about 10¹⁰ states. An 18-ply alpha-beta search then used these databases to prove that the value of the initial position is a draw”

So they built a database containing all all 7,673,759,269 possible positions in the endgame phase (i.e. after all stones are on the board), and then did a full-depth search for the “place stones” phase.

Paper is from 1996, so one might think current hardware could do a full search, but they show (page 10/110) a position with “White to move and win. Mill closure in 187 plies.”

So, I don’t think this game is small enough to search the full tree. They made it small by first creating an endgame database with 7,673,759,269 endgames, but that database requires over a gigabyte of data (“The hash function we decided to use maps the 7,673,759,269 states into a range of 9,074,932,579 indices.”)
Also: how many gamers are there compared to how many crypto traders? It's not a meaningful comparison.

You should compare Bitcoin to some aspect of finance that is similar sized, e.g. a single bank with similar transaction volumes, or something like the Bank Of England CHAPS network, which has about half the number of transactions, but 30 times the total transaction value.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/payment-and-settlement/chaps
Doesn't sound like a problem that's worth trying to resolve at compile time through the type system to me. You complicate the common case for a relatively minor benefit.

In Zig I think you can get 99% of the benefit by setting up a framework where you allocate a resource (pin, ppi channel, etc) through a function call. We use this for a testing framework which gives you run-time errors. But with Zig you could probably write this in a way that gives you compile-time errors for statically allocated resources. That should give you a system that works in both compile and run time.

Yeah, you can't totally guarantee that a pin isn't allocated, since a programmer can use the pin without calling the resource allocation function. But I feel like that takes you from 99.99% safe to 99.9999% .. worth in in a few obscure applications, but not in most.

It's not like I've ever seen any issues from allocating a pin twice in embedded programming. On nRF I guess PPI channels is a more relevant use-case. But then you could very quickly find that you need a more dynamic system that can only detect errors at run-time anyway.
It'd be interesting to see more countries added, and not just UK, France, Italy, and Greece. The UK is different in that it is no longer in the EU and never was in the Eurozone. Italy and Greece suffered badly from the Eurocrisis. What about Germany, Poland, the Nordic countries? Or just an EU average?

Also, are these figures adjusted for PPP? (And can you therefore make a blanket statement such as "The average European is about a third or more worse off than the average American"?) I'm going to guess not: [1] and [2] compare the GDP per capita without and with adjustment for PPP between the US and France. The first (no PPP adjustment) shows how France plateaued after 2008, while the US kept increasing. The second shows that both kept increasing at the same rate (albeit with France's figures consistently 20% lower than the US).

By the way as a European I don't disagree that the EU's (average) economy has fared worse in the last 10 years than the American economy. But these numbers are too simplistic to find out what the underlying causes are.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...

[3] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

[4] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...

[3] and [4] are those same graphs for the countries in the article + Germany + EU average.
agreed, and The Boys has had success exactly because it stands out against the current normal action film/tv
> btw, GPL is considered a "free" license

Yes.

> not a "open source" one

It is also an open source license.
> that's no longer the case.

US still haven't established formal diplomatic relation with Taiwan, like all UNSC countries, your argument is simply invalid.
Yea, I really like that quote because it perfectly expresses how I feel about "best practices": Use them when you're unsure, but ditch them if you know something else will work better.
Dude, you're just re-translating what Russian propaganda says on every channel they control 24/7 for years.

But you can't overcome the truth no matter how loud you scream.

It's the Russia who ruin everything around them to gain power and control.

This broken superpower still can't accept its loss and apologize for all evil it has done. It disrespects the world and the truth.
> Floatplane supports live streaming

I guess for youtube content, this is sometimes needed, but again feels like a lot of effort for limited return. The cloud is one thing, but engineering costs, support etc must eat into profits.

I think from a support point of view, this is where merch sales are actually great, everyone gets something, even if it means that people charge $70 + shipping for a hoodie with a print.
I have no problem with a girl acting that she likes me in order to get my money. If she truly is that good of an actor then props to her. I only have a problem if she is forced into this profession by someone and my personal belief is that one can not be a perfect actor while being forced and abused by someone.

> Can’t you see how in this situation it would be in the sex worker’s interest to give signs she enjoys your thing? If she does not, she looses a customer.

You are speaking from theory and books. I speak from experience, I have been to a lot of girls that will tell you right quick that you are going too hard, won't like any position you want and are generally openly obnoxious to you so that you will leave as fast as possible. Usually you will find these after 23pm with low prices. I could write a small book on all types of sex workers I've encountered and very few of them are actually pleasant to be around. Now is that because they select their own customers just as the customers select them or because they're acting we will never know.

> It just might be the only realistic option for someone.

You are victimizing them because you haven't met them. I have yet to find a girl that is actually grateful as you would expect someone to be when they earn in 30 min what others work a whole day for. They could find a corporate job that easily pays 600-700 euros, live with a roommate and cook their own food like most other girls in Bucharest or have sex for 2h per day and make 4 times that. 99% of them, even the ones I carefully select are arrogant and spend money like there's no tomorrow living an expensive lifestyle. Can't really blame them because I am basically doing the same thing but to suggest these are hidden victims is really showing your lack of inexperience.

I'm not saying there aren't victims of abuse, what I'm saying is that it is hard to hide such abuse.
Not sure what you are talking about. Any details? Qubes runs smoothly on my Librem 15 with 32 GB RAM.
One outlier mentioned here is Italy which has a high rate of youth unemployment/underemployment and huge brain drain flows to Northern EU so it makes sense that they are in a freefall but for others mentioned in the article like the UK I don't think it is a fair comparison as USA has a significant demographic advantage and a huge integrated market making it easy to scale for companies which in the EU only Germany has a comparable status not the UK or France.
While Allan McDonald was obviously right, for one case where it was justified, how many other instances there are where an engineer/scientist expressed concerns, was ignored, and everything went fine.

I'd say that as a rule, a good engineer will always be concerned. With his knowledge and experience, he will know everything that can go wrong. And asking him to make life-and-death decisions must be really hard when you know that your contraption can always be made safer, given enough time you don't have.

How many big milestones were made possible because some clueless executive decided to risk the life of people? How to make the difference, without the benefit of hindsight, between an overly cautious engineer and a savior?
> You don't know how liberating hearing a guy like that say that. In my company, no way someone says that, they'd rather do absolutely nothing than risk anything.

It's also worth understanding the difference in risks and incentives.

Do you work in an industry where someone failing to speak up about issues with the work will directly risk other coworkers lives?

Where I work, the worst that happens from bad decisions is reduced profits. Besides the personal glory of "being right", there's no upside to sticking ones neck out. Especially if your manager is vindictive, and takes your "being right" over him as a reason to punish you. Better to let bad things happen, and then help fix the inevitable clusterfuck.

At the end of the day, reduced profits aren't great, but they're not an existential threat for the biz where I work.
>I don't get how food consumption can increase in a pandemic.

depression spurs eating binges.

being inside what to do, oh lets make more advanced food. lets bake cakes with the kids instead of sending them out to play with friends. etc. etc.

so increased consumption in combination with other, probably more important, pandemic problems.
Exactly for that reason, I wish it was a median not average.
Hosting the videos is not the issue but discovery. Not being on youtube might work for big channels but even they probably get a large % of their views from searches/recommendations.
> Germany - senior software engineer - 45k eur.

That's utter nonsense.

45K € is the salary of a junior software dev right out of university.
I’m just telling you what I was told. I didn’t take the job in the end because some of the clauses in the contract - apparently normal by US standards - were simply astounding.
Not resource management. Resource efficiency.

If you have a monolith, you have less control over the service’s shape—the CPU, RAM, IO footprints. If you break it up into smaller microservices, the footprints are smaller and you have more options for how you schedule them.

There is a tradeoff here—services that are too small have high overhead. Services that are too large are inefficiently scheduled. Services that are way too large force you to spend money buying the massive machines needed to run them.
Actually I agree with you, and also forgot to mention that tests themselves because of being code should be cleaned up just like with regular code and tests simplified whenever possible.

I think the important question is what to be tested. I have written, even not that long ago, unit tests for a function that all passed in isolation and actually forgot to write a simple test with the context it would be called (which was very simple as well, but I just didn't), all isolated tests were good but the actual functionality was still broken.

I haven't been doing it extensively for a long time but for instance, if you have an user action that should update a record, write a job to be executed, then this should be tested. It's easy and does very small assumptions. You don't need to test how the record is updated or the job inserted, just that it happens. You might want to test that all failures provide correct error messages, but that is not as important as at least having the baseline of, if this action that is central happens both these things happen as well.
And how much public and private debt creation was needed behind these growth numbers?
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> This should be profoundly unsettling for economists. Everyone thinks free trade is a good thing. The European union, one big integrated market, was supposed to ignite growth. It did not. The grand failure of the world's biggest free trade zone really is a striking fact to gnaw on.

Why try to see the single market as a failure out of the blue just by comparing GDP growth?

The single market has been a great success and has undoubtedly boosted growth.

The issue is that it is not everything. For example, the business environments in France and Italy are far from being friendly and efficient. The UK's is much friendlier but IMHO the UK has chosen a path of making London an island of prosperity based on services (with a strong emphasis on finance) while letting the rest of the country fend for itself (the UK has both the richest and poorest areas in Northern Europe)...