skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consonant v is pronounced as w in modern English. Vowel v is pronounced as “oo” as in book. So “virus” in Latin would be pronounced “wiroos”.

It’s really a pet peeve of mine when I hear people pronounce Latin words starting with v and using the modern English v. It’s pronounced as w.
Wordpress historically didn't need a cache and just used page visits and/or a cron job to kick off automated processes, backed by MySQL. Is it fast? Yes. Is it nearly as fast as Redis? No. Do you need it to be? Not for Wordpress lol
Wages in tech are laughably bad anywhere in the world, when compared to US. Tech landscape in Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea or Taiwan looks much more like Europe than like US. US is the outlier here, not Europe
In the same list as "estate" and "contrast" and "status" we have country names like "Afghanistan"... it is the place where the Afghans are (stand).

Also the Spanish/Portuguese "estar" (to be).
You are exaggerating as you say yourself, but these things are mostly not issues at all. You just hire people (and that does not cost much: made a company including employees a few weeks ago for 1000E first year including accounting and payroll, no work from me; if 1000E is an issue, maybe do something else) to handle them, and, you put some provisions in for the stuff you mention, like in the US, to use your ranting language, you do for the over the top insane crazy bonkers legal crap you have there and find normal. At least paying some poor sod I have to fire a few months more does not keep me up at night as I know this upfront. Legal shit does but that's not relevant in the EU (sue me, see where that goes). You are used to the one, I am to the other.

The real EU problem is on the one hand conservative nature: almost no way to get significant investment here without actually proving you already (before you started!) can pay it back 10x. And then what you rightly say: this is not a union (yet): most countries just don't mesh and the language and culture barriers are somewhat crippling. Not how you say because those barriers do not exist anymore for decades already. Not like the current US yet but things take time: think you had some civil war and such. We are still recovering from border altering world wars and some idiots cutting up this continent like it was a cake after. Let's give half to an idiot Russian dictator and let's not bother to remove Franco. This takes time. Unless you install an actual dictator for the entire thing, this takes time in any place.

Not sure if these will be solved ever but not in my lifetime.

And another cultural thing: I like free time: that you do not probably means something you might want to discuss with someone, but working all hours of the day is something I do not miss and do not wish on anyone.

And as last point: what company do you run or what is your yearly turnover? Because, besides all your ranting, there is the real meat. How is the great US of A working out for your personally with all its blessings? Because I am afraid it will be slightly disappointing after all this. I mean with my 8 weeks a month vacation I have time to write tripe like this, but you...
That's changing. A search engine index requires titanic amounts of capital. Likewise so does building a web services platform that can compete.

Meanwhile, if you don't have a platform like that to build off you are severely constrained in many other markets. Look at elastic - this is the kind of business that will dry up in the next 5-7 years. It's structurally unable to compete without being part of a major web services platform.

It used to be that building a car company didn't require a huge amount of capital, either. Detroit had hundreds of small automotive businesses before consolidation under the big 3 took place. We are witnessing the same process take place in tech.
Deleting large amount of data on Postgresql is expensive. First you need an index on a column to select the expired data, then you actually need to delete the rows which creates a lot of garbage, is heavy and slow.

Creating and deleting a lot of data on PG is a pain because of MVCC and vacuum. One useful trick is to partition data into tables and to truncate/drop entire tables, drop/truncate is instant and reclaims space immediately.
Most of the times Redis's distributed lock works fine, however one should know that its not fail proof and you might run into really weird bugs

references:

0 - https://aphyr.com/posts/283-jepsen-redis

1 - https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distribute...
This is a great article because it outlines an alternative to using Redis for any given use cases. If we don't constantly re-evaluate our toolsets and their capabilities, it can lead to poor decision making.

That being said, I've found Redis largely a pleasure to work with for these use cases and don't really see a real incentive to changing my current approach.
Yeah but doesn't Apple rely on European companies like Bosch for sensors and stuff? So, no iPhone without those crappy uninnovative European companies.

Oh and Linux and the WWW were developed in Europe, if I remember correctly?
Nokia? Lack of scale?

Nokia couldn't compete because they made a string of incredibly poor investment and management decisions, such as the N-Gage, until their mobile division was eventually bought out by Microsoft. Even with Microsoft's scale they couldn't turn things around.

The reality is that there were a number of mobile phone manufacturers making lots of really bad decisions whilst trying unsuccessfully to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung. They aren't gone from the market because they lacked scale: they're gone because they were stupid.
I think you make an interesting point, but your analysis suggest that what is most important for you is the wow factor of innovation, not innovation itself.

> Leading product centres are

I disagree, leading product centres measure marketing capabilities. Why do you think EU continue growing at this pace? Because we're also producing the innovation that goes into the iPhone and are making money of the composants that goes in. How many parts do you think Siemens built for the Falcon 9?

And since you like the wow factor, don't forget where neural nets where invented, big pharma (even Pfizer Covid vaccine was invented in Germany) and Spotify for instance.
Yes, the device has been tested as a medical device and we will soon post certificates on the website.
That is true, but the SPDIF playback/record is essentially dubbing :(
Separate wagons with typically 3 seats per row instead of 4, which are also a bit more comfortable. Less crowded, almost no kids and generally more quiet.
> They couldn’t compete due to structural restrictions on scale.

Mhm. Cause a working marked with healthy competition never did anything good.

Just one question, how did European car makers then become what they are? Even though its impossible?
double life without parole. makes no sense. even if he murdered people for money personally he not would get that I bet.

he was sentenced for facilitating mass sale of drugs right? the people responsible for the opioid epidemic should get the same sentence.
What would surprise a person more in today's context in US: hearing that child's parent is divorced/single parent (which by your stats is 60% for young parents, so pretty common) OR hearing about a successful woman with a husband who has chosen to be unemployed? You can keep twisting things but we are talking about what is "typical".
50k thousand monthly visitors: web traffic from this new but engaging source
The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine was AFAIK developed entirely in Germany by BioNTech. Pfizer helped with regulatory affairs, logistics and mass production.

It is also interesting that three key people at BioNTech (founders and an original developer of mRNA medicine) are immigrants. That is an interesting similarity to SV.
Soundcloud was also started by two Swedes in Berlin. That one is probably entirely due to the cultural capital of Berlin - from what I hear, Sweden is a good place for software businesses.
The average college graduate in the US has $35,000 in debt. There are plenty of excellent, cheap public universities. If you don’t want to work in journalism, academia, management consulting or one of the other bastions of privilege and pedigree there’s little reason to pay the premium necessary to go to a top tier private university. And every single person who pays sticker price to go to a no name private college is wasting their money.
Volvo's R&D is in Sweden.
During the brief period of my youth that I was in a band, we recorded on MiniDisc. Being able to do 4-track digital recordings was pretty cool, in a way I didn't really appreciate back then beyond rewinding being less of a hassle.
Those women had significantly less ability to not have one more kid. First , there was no child control, only way to not have sex at all. Second, husband was head of familly with huge power and there was no way to escale if he decided the celibacy is not a way to go.
That is all on the table. The SEC can convict federal government employees of securities fraud for trading on this type of insider info
I can't say if my code is still in use, but it had an impact on a lot of people for awhile
On January 8, 2007, the day before Jobs announced the iPhone, Apple had a market cap of $73.76B (source: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/market-... ) That's not exactly tiny (except if you compare to their $2T today) but it's also not exceptional. There are hundreds of companies of comparable size, including in Europe. And they gained experience producing mobile devices with the iPod released in 2001. I can't say what size company they were back then (my source only goes as far back as $33B in 2005) but certainly they were smaller.

So I think it's wrong to say that "A small business will never be capable of producing anything like the iPhone for example." since a small business can become a bigger company releasing innovative products like the iPhone.
Which backup solution are you using now?
What's your point? That letting tech giants taking over just for a little faster innovation is worth it? Maybe the European approach is a little slower, but leads to better results?

But then ... what technology was really advanced by companies like Facebook? Except the ad-surveillance-machine and stuff you only need if you run a multi-billion-people "social" network ... the only thing they innovate in is business models that hurt society.
> But then it quickly mention, without any further analysis, that both their GDP actually grew at a similar pace. So the entire EU economy grew at the same speed than the US one but not its 500 bigger companies. So all else being equals it means that the smaller US companies grew more slowly and that this article is simply mesuring increasing corporate inequalities (if there is such a thing).

No. About half of the European economy is the state. So having similar GDP growth while the big US companies grew faster could also just mean that the economic growth in Europe was driven by state activities (education, health care, etc.). You cannot conclude anything regarding the growth of small companies.
Wow, kark is crab in sanskrit.
> how did European car makers then become what they are?

Cars have for a long time been tightly linked to the military. Every major Western car maker up to the last decade at some point built tanks.
It seems very cool
Let's just say...that the data doesn't exactly support the thesis that the lack of venture funding is a drag on Europe's productivity

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-ho...
There are tech startups and then there are "burn cash by subsidizing the 10% using VC money" startups. Uber is the latter and imo the role of the investor is to be able to distinguish which one is which.

However there is a case when you need money to actually do things, e.g.: pay employees, run clinical trials, rent or build up production capacity. If you don't have initial funds then you will be bogged down by doing contract work to hopefully fund your idea one day. It will slow you down and also quite possibly tangle you in support contracts in products you don't actually want to maintain.
Also they have no reason to innovate if they got a monopoly. Sometimes they buy that small innovative company and then that nice idea somehow just dies ... maybe cause it'd hurt their business model?
My bad. I asked two questions. Thanks for answering the second one. Raises already some confidence.
But could you answer the first (and more important one)? The website is silent on this topic.
Would be cool. Wish you all the best for your product launch.
The state of mind is changing though, especially with Facebook - Europeans are aware what happened to the US in the last few years and are scared of a new wave of fascism powered by High-Tech social networks and fake news, more so than US citizens.
This won't lead to a European competitor for Facebook though, just to regular people shunning everything that's made in the US.
So in the long term only China will profit from the US's tendency to create (too) big corporations.
The bigger is better mindset is ultimately not compatible with European values.
Ghost (https://ghost.org/) does this automatically. They used to do it for featured images till v3, v4 takes this up a notch and automatically creates different sized images for every image in your blog post. It's extremely nifty and convenient.
I did love my MD players/recorders, it was a game changer after several Discmans. Still have a Sharp MD-MS701 here.
OpenCL certainly has the potential to be a universal API but support for it is surprisingly spotty given its age.

For proprietary implementations, Intel appears to have the broadest and most consistent support. Nvidia skipped OpenCL 2.x for some technical reason (IIUC). AMD is a complete mess, for some reason not bothering (!!!) to roll out ROCm support for their two most recent generations of consumer GPUs.

In open source "Linux only" land, Mesa mostly supports OpenCL 1.2 (https://mesamatrix.net/#OpenCL) at this point. So if you're targeting Linux specifically then that's something at least.

Good luck shipping an actual product using OpenCL that will "just work" across a wide variety of hardware and driver versions. POCL and CLVK are both experimental but might manage this "some day". In the mean time, resign yourself to writing Vulkan compute shaders. (Then realize that even those will only run on Apple devices via MoltenVK, and despair at the state of GPGPU standardization efforts.)
> Maybe that's why they traditionally had berries depicted on slot machines.

Or else they use things like gold nuggets or diamonds, which have the same intermittent reward mechanism.
Yet again, people start companies all the time and succeed - just not megacorps like in the US.
Maybe you just hadn't what it takes?
You raise a very important point and one that is difficult to discuss.

I'm Asian and I grew up with parents who hewed rather closely to Asian culture. There are two values they championed essentially above all others, well known to most: devotion to family and the intense pursuit of academic achievement. I do feel like I've been a direct beneficiary of that cultural impulse. Much like yourself, I did my best to leverage educational opportunities and had the stability of a supportive family.

When we talk about culture and the Black community, many people become understandably wary. It's a fine line between invoking culture and being seen to blame Black people for their own problems. Not to mention that, in doing so, it can be easy to lose sight of the richness of Black culture and its extensive contributions to so many aspects of the American experience e.g. in music, sports, entertainment, art, literature, and cuisine.

Perhaps a better way to frame it is that when a particular community has suffered so much injustice and attendant compounded stagnation, it's very hard to find an expedient solution to bring that community to parity that doesn't involve constructing fresh and even revolutionary internal narratives around achievement (and not just academic). Without that sort of effort, it might take many more generations for a combination of government intervention and the natural course of progress to fully remedy the imbalance.

And there's also the problem of exacerbating racial animus in the course of addressing that imbalance.

While I understand the need for it intellectually, I have substantial misgivings about preferential treatment being extended specifically to Black (or Hispanic or Native American) people along racial lines. There is something that feels deeply wrong about attempting to cure racial injustice by inflicting new racial injustices on people whose only fault was being born a particular race at the wrong moment in history, especially when we are purporting to be an enlightened society that has learned its lesson in this regard.

The position is unpopular with many here, but it is my opinion that we should not be devising a society that argues that a boy from an underprivileged neighborhood in Philadelphia is more deserving of opportunity than a girl from a disenfranchised part of the Rust Belt because he's Black and she's White. Rather, we should be saying that they are nearly equally in need of help from society because they are both disadvantaged. While this is not perfectly fair insofar as it does not factor in race, I believe it is a policy position that on balance would help the Black people who are most in need of it without leaving anyone of another race feeling as if (s)he's experiencing undue discrimination.

Unfortunately I believe that quandary is even more fraught than the issue of police killings and therefore at present resistant to the possibility of honest discourse.
Kind of a goofy comment IMO.

My parents are not intellectual in the least. The career advice I received from them growing up was all bad. Lucky for me I ignored them.

Now take one kid getting bad career advice and another kid getting good career advice from mom and dad.

After thousands of iterations the asymmetry is going to be huge.

Sorry that doesn't line up with the institutional victim mentality.
Why so? It has persistence and I'm not aware of any reported data loss happening with it.

It's also got loads of complex and useful instructions.
If you feel like throwing "newbie" accusations around, it'd be prudent to back your list of grievances up with more than a single link to crypto.cpp. Chances are you misread the code, didn't grok what the op was doing, etc.

As it stands your comment reads like a common variety abrasive and dismissive gatekeeping... rant, basically, which is unfortunately so popular in crypto circles.

Edit - the project does dearly need a crypto spec. "Uses state-of-the-art cryptography algorithm" claim begs to be described to be valid.
But what has Whatsapp to do with innovation? There's nothing innovative about a messenger app. They only thing they did is degrade privacy even further.
I've always wondered if there was an editor like QEDIT on MSDOS, but remade for linux. qedit was miles better than nano.
Not a great success in Germany either. I had one friend who was into it, everyone else stuck to tapes for a long time.
The case for national digital currencies, not Bitcoin
Europeans buy new cars - Americans buy 15 year old 5th hand German cars that their previous owners mistreated harshly and expect them to be as reliable as brand new cars from the factory that are serviced at the recommended intervals.
Mercedes is expensive, though - that's why rich people like them.
If the boundaries between neurodevelopmental disorders lack validity – certainly they lack biological validity, and it has been argued [0] that they lack construct validity as well – maybe we should respond by merging them? Merge ADHD, ASD, etc, into one single overarching disorder? That is one way of interpreting Christopher Gillberg's ESSENCE proposal. It is also, at least somewhat, the recommendation of Lynn Waterhouse's book Rethinking Autism: Variation and Complexity, which ends with the proposal to replace ASD with the much broader concept of "phenotypes of neurodevelopmental social impairment"

[0] See https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1832 in particular the authors' claim that "our review of research has led us to conclude that using the ASD diagnosis in basic
and translational research cannot provide valid conclusions because the diagnosis lacks both biological and construct validity" and also "The ASD diagnosis lacks boundary construct validity..."
I don't think you know how economics works.

If no one would spend money, the related countries would go bust within a year.
I am not sure the US has a better economy than the whole EU.
I am also not sure that staff is less ambiguous in the US, I have worked in US companies and hybrid companies.
I am sure however, that the song cats in the cradle was made in the US.
Do not underestimate the european economy, average education, in Europe people simply chose to work to live instead of the other way around.
One system cannot be simply given the attribute "better", there are too many factors to consider.

Speak to people who have lived and worked in both. Best speak to people not from the EU nor US and make your mind up.
It tries to dis-engage when it detects the phone moving faster than walking speed. But it is not perfect.
By what measure though: it is highly subjective and when there is a vote, the US never gets very high. Unlike Canada, Norway, Netherlands.

On this site most people are wealthy, but I think (not sure but I have nothing else than my visits and documentaries), you are really bad off if you are poor in the US. Here that is not really an issue.
Ah, so they did indeed use the same letter for two distinct sounds. Makes sense, thanks!
> Paying by bank account doesn't mean handing over bank account info.

It's nice that it works that way for you, but it does in Germany. You don't need to hand over your login information or anything, but wiring money in any form means that they have your account number. The account number is sufficient to debit the account at a later point. Obviously they're not allowed to do that without your explicit consent, but a malicious actor could.
The problem with the Apple product is that it can't be repaired (try to swap in a new battery for an AirPod). The Mercedes can very much be repaired by any automotive shop. (And as a Mercedes owner, I can't understand what Americans are complaining about repair costs with Mercedes-Benz.)
Their magic recipe is putting a bunch of smart, mostly rich, people in one place and then telling them they are part of an exclusive community. Then they give them access to the older successful members of the community and constantly remind them that once they are the older successful members they need to help out the recent grads.
> There are tech startups and then there are "burn cash by subsidizing the 10% using VC money"

My feeling is that the absolute vast majority of tech startups in the US are of the second kind.

> However there is a case when you need money to actually do things, e.g.: pay employees, run clinical trials, rent or build up production capacity. If you don't have initial funds

This has always been the case. Until unlimited US money perverted the incentives to become "waste billions to corner the market by barely legal means" or "wasted billions until someone buys you".
> I can afford to pay the mortgage on a 130 square meter house with 500+ square meters of garden and relax by growing my own food as a hobby with 40 hours per week

How is that possible? When I look at typical wages in Germany (50k - 80k Euros) vs cost of houses that size in Germany's four biggest cities (800k to over 1 Million Euros), something does not add up. Either your pay is way above market rates or you got your property way below market rate.

Either way, to me at least, your situation is extremely fortunate but you're an outlier and no developer moving to Germany could replicate it in the current market conditions.