skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see US answers to this but in the US your quality of life is fantastic if you are rich and then it degrades fast: in NL it is good to great for all. So I can pick bleeding hard work in a lottery to maybe be someone or I can do whatever I like and have most of those same perks. Where is the choice here?
I think it's worth understanding that there are two categories of employee.

The first is a tiny sliver of people who make good money doing interesting, possibly even fulfiling work. Like say running their own business, or building great new tech.

The larger slice though don't have this. They work long ours doing meaningless boring tasks for long hours and low wages. Think amazon warehouse, and any service level job.

There's a middle ground for qualified trades - like say plumbers - but that's getting eroded.

So when comparing things like leave, ability to fire, heath insurance etc, it's worth understanding that your view in those things is relative to your job.

For the lucky few millionaires, the US is great - it's a very easy place to live if you are rich. But for the rest Europe with lots of vacation time, shorter working hours, free health and education is a lot more appealing.
... Just Eat Takaway. Booking.com are from the Netherlands too.

Spotify is Swedish. As is Klarna and Mojang. SoundCloud is German. Mixcloud British.

Several of the covid vaccines were develeoped in europe (albeit under the umbrella of US companies such as J&J).

Volkwagen and Volvo are beating Tesla in sales numbers and in getting self driving to market hands down.

There is lots of high tech in Europe.

Just Because there are no redicoulous overvalued tech corps, does not mean we aren't creating solid, profitable tech here.
I remember this. It looked neat but was $$. The various extensions didn't help much.

DAT was more practical for recording but also $$.

The completely different ADAT can utilize consumer S-VHS tapes.
> It's way saner that the Nix custom language.

Strongly disagree. The Nix custom language is just basically JSON + lambda functions. Way easier to deal with and understand then the mess of the Scheme ecosystem(s).
In addition to the lesser known srcset and sizes <img> attributes, there's also the loading="lazy" attribute, which adds native lazy loading of images. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...
SwampUP: DevOps Needs Guardrails, Not Gates, for Security
What really killed this format is the draconian copy protection that crippled the software for getting the tracks on device (for NET MD players). Other method(s) of getting sound on MD was essentially dubbing, like you would with MC. Other players removed the artificial barriers of getting your music on device, and it turned out that antipiracy measures are not a feature... which is a shame, because the feel and sound of MD players is pretty damn great, and the wired remote with minimal backlit display is god tier UX compared to anything that was/is on the market. I bought my first secondhand MD player in 2015, and it was the best thing. It even had AA battery adapter(!!!)
But in this case they're transforming a concern about covid into a concern about the covid vaccine. Doesn't even make sense in the name of public health.
Yep - it's this mindset that allows the US to be far more productive with arguably maybe a "lower" quality of life if you're benchmarking it against things like vacation time.

It's all about trade-offs at the end of the day and what you choose to value.

What folks in the US value are clearly different and therefore result in different priorities.
When low mental health: Survival Thriving
Most millionaires aren't from/based in the US? I feel like European red tape mediates the concentration of wealth somewhat compared to the US
They say history is written by the winners, but when it comes to technology, history is written by Americans.

MiniDisc was a huge success for Sony, and was the winner of the tape-replacement format war in virtually every country - except the USA.

It was so successful that Sony is still making blank MiniDiscs today. (Though they are not sold there, Americans can type MDW80T into eBay if they'd like some brand-new MiniDiscs.)

I grew up in the UK and for nearly a decade portable MD players were virtually ubiquitous on the Tube. Only the iPod began to end that era, and it certainly wasn't instant.
OTOH megacorps rarely "innovate" from within, they're too bureaucratic and management stakes are too high for fast risk-taking. What they usually do is to buy out smaller entities that have somewhat proven the concept and pretend they're geniuses for having found a truffle.
Icecat tracks The latest ESR and is up to date.
Wouldn’t a simple scheduled batch job be enough to go through periodically and drop records older than N days?

This would also give you audit logs, etc. As well as flexibility to adjust business logic without updating the TTL on all records.
I can echo this.

I fear a backlash coming for WFH based on data-points like these once politicians can safely backpedal on their social distancing stance. Had to work hard in the past to get from 1d WFH/week to 4d/w. Then, Covid turned this upside down and post-pandemic I might be back to square one

I think the core issue lies with alignment. Pre-Pandemic I structured my WFH in a way that non WFH-members aren't blocked/annoyed/disturbed/... by it. I knew I was the outlier and had to work extra to make it work for others.

This extra-work looks completely different when a whole corporation goes 100%-WFH and I assume most/no-one was prepared. It takes more than a headset and Zoom.

Whole-team productivity is laughable, but except management no one is even noticing it, because all other departments are equally slower.
For me, the progression has been: software engineer, software engineer, railroad engineer, railroad engineer, farmer. I will be very interested to see what my son picks and I very much plan to allow him to pursue his own interests.
People get really annoyed that they cannot find answers to previous questions, and if you have q&a website to get around that, your just moving the chat goalposts around. Not to mention its a higher friction process, so people go ask questions anyway on the company slack.

Also screenshots are a thing and easy to do in secret impulsively, recording stuff when your talking in person has a much higher threshold, and far less people are typically listening.

Also once you get to a certain size, there are legislative retention requirements and legal holds.
If you are a backend developer, never trust client-side. Never.
There are many ways of doing this for Python... pyinstaller, py2exe, Nuitka to name a few
If you're White maybe. I'm Asian and the incessant, non-stop casual racism in Europe is just next level.
How does one "break-up" individual universities?

What metrics should be allowable for admissions? (I suggest making legacy admissions and favoring race-/gender-/etc. attributes illegal.)

Why not get bright minority and poor students, and girls for STEM, supported with mentoring, admissions coaching, resources/funding, and other assistance that makes a massive impact? This way, admissions standards can, and should, be minimized to merit, rather furthering victimhood or privilege.

It's like: If we throw away the SATs, ACTs, and other rank-able tests, what's left to compare students? Essays?
This is the core: enough smart folk, enough ideas etc but people here sit on their money. EU investors invest in sure things and sure things are just not FAANGS when they start out. The appetite for risk is close to 0. You can see this when getting into EU incubators who try to mimic HN: they are absolutely waiting for that thing to happen where they are sure they will have ROI at which moment you can just walk to a bank or to a much better investor. This slows things down but mostly kills them entirely.
> The mRNA vaccines don't have any impact worse than a sore arm.

This is just logically untrue. The absolute most you can claim is that "these vaccines don't have any impact worse than a sore arm, that we know of, within the 18 month period that they've been available". Neither you nor anyone else can speak to long-term effects until we wait it out and see, nevermind true "unknown unknowns".
Not trying to put you down, but isn't it weird to feel pride for something you contributed nothing to?

Maybe you are very old, and built the infrastructure those successful companies now used, in which case I'm wrong and some pride is warranted.

I also cannot understand nationalism for the same reason. Other than a marketing scam or massive delusion, that is.
Hello from Phoenix, AZ! Could you describe some of these surreal experiences?
How we get more traffic for our website?
What would you suggest we do to get more traffic for our website that has been live since Jan 14?

Our website: producter.co

Total traffic: 1750 for 115 days.
Lead: 131
Lead / Traffic: %7.5
Average Interaction Time: 31 sec

Except for a few social media posts, we generated more simple interactions. We haven't implemented a marketing strategy yet.

What can you suggest strategies to get more?
I wish news outlets would stop describing it as the imprisonment (oppression, etc) of Muslims.

What's happening there is because the Uyghurs are an ethnic minority.
Mushrooms are fascinating. Can't blame this guy for digging them. Did you know that mushrooms (fungi to be precise) are not a plant and are not an animal? They are so special that they have their own biological kingdom. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus)
Hyperbole much? I earn around 100k€ in Munich. You‘re saying the local google or apple would pay me a million per year? Wow.
Also the measure of market cap could be debated. One could question if it is the right measurement and if market cap is a good approximate of economical prosperity. Or of a fair share of this prosperity being distributed to society.

There are many ways to measure and argue what the author is trying to convey. They choose one that fit their argument.

As a counter point one could look at the writings of authors like Varoufakis for example and see a different world view.

Because imho the article is based on the authors world view. With cherry picked metrics and stats to support.

It isn't empirical but using data to appear as such.

There is much to critique in Europe. But the article sadly fails to tackle the interesting things.

It just opens up the field for an argumentative pissing match EU vs. US (pardon my French).

ps: I also started a company. It was as easy as filling out a form. Even taxes are doable on my own. So nothing too much of a hurdle there.
It would, and you'd also get nice features like proper transactions and referential integrity.

BUT that comes at a cost. Doing that in Redis is just so easy, and the vast majority of the time no-one is going to notice a few concurrency errors, YOLO!

;-)

To be serious: it's a nice tool to have in the box and is amazing for inexperience/start developers because you can do a lot with very little time investment or knowledge.
Since we are piling up anecdotal evidence. I am in the NL and starting a company took, I don’t know, 30 minutes of my time? Filling in a form on a website and a 10 minute appointment at the Chamber of Commerce.

Filing taxes is really straightforward. E.g., for VAT , the administration program that we use spits out quarterly numbers, a submit them through the tax office’s website.

Having started a business twice, both times I was surprised how easy and straightforward it is.

I have to add that the overhead of starting a company probably varies a lot between countries. We once considered opening a company in Germany and it seemed like a lot of paperwork. The problem was not the language barrier — my wife is a native speaker.
Functions, if you are referring to monads and dyads, can be defined using "3 : '...'" or "3 : 0\n...\n)" using "3" for monads and "4" for dyads.

As for rank information, functions do carry that rank. I believe you are not defining any rank, it which case it becomes infinite rank and depending on usage, it will be applied incorrectly.

For tacit recursion, there is the "$:" operator, which allows a tacit function to call itself anonymously. You may also need the agenda operator "@." to define your base case with a gerund "`".

The "foreigns" table, while useful, seems like a cludgy way to introduce functions that don't or are difficult to introduce cohesively into J's notation.
A Photon’s Million-Year Journey from the Center of the Sun
If the benefits of companies touted elsewhere in the thread is providing employment, why don't you hire two people to work 8 hour days and get more done?

If the answer is that you'd need to pay twice as much, then that's the equivalent of saying the person working 16 hours is getting half the going rate as well as not having any life outside work.
But smart watches are NOT cheap. Not a price point I like, personally.
purescript can compile to go: https://github.com/andyarvanitis/purescript-native
*hagiazo, btw, a d slipped in there by accident.
Which is countered by the fact he did not subsidize, but moved away, rather than sharing.

I think it's either sarcasm or bullsh#t
On my blog, I usually create and include 6 files for the same image:

- 1x vs. 2x dpi for high-density monitors

- png/jpg + webp + avif

I don't create additional screen-optimized image versions, as the work would require 6 additional files per screen resolution.

It's already quite some work, but I think it is worth it. Especially AVIF is often significantly smaller than other formats. I recently wrote a short guide on this topic [1].

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/avif-images/
What "freedoms"? That term is used everywhere and rarely defined well. The freedom to "do what you want with your own property"? That doesn't exist - anywhere! You need to follow the rules and the only way to make sure someone is doing things properly (or at least know how to) is either to have them be certified in what they do or have someone who is certified check their work.

If you screw up your electrical wiring, your house can catch fire. If a house is on fire, the neighboring houses are rather likely to also catch fire. Once you have a handful of houses on fire, all bets are off - the entire neighbourhood might burn. Still think you should have that "freedom"?
As German engineers are known to say: "Why make things simple when complicated will do?"
When I commuted to the office my IP would change multiple times as I crossed from 4G to various WiFis. It would be really annoying to have to log in each time.
Sony did this to themselves multiple times. Because they always had done other division they wanted to not cannibalize, or some Not-Invemted-Here. E.g them too long using memory stick instead of sd cards.
For Kids to Learn Python
Add the Netherlands. Healthcare insurance is mandatory.
Despite the name, it's probably Reddit's best crypto-skeptic sub.
did you know water is wet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
If you stopped working, society wouldn’t care. If everyone did, there would be a problem; no more good food or vacation accommodations.

I’m frustrated in the lack of big picture thinking in this discussion generally. Imagine how much better off we’d all be if the people at Intel, Boeing, or Qualcomm took their jobs seriously. Imagine if there was (non-joke) US competition to DJI for drones. Imagine if there was an Android flagship CPU that wasn’t years behind last year’s the iPhone on day one. On the flip side, imagine if Google hadn’t gone out of their way to create street view, or the rest of the Maps system? The folks at Apple and Google aren’t Einstein or Newton, but they make a vigorous contribution to society nonetheless.

Everyone has to do their part, and when they don’t, we are all poorer for it. The European attitude towards work isn’t fully entrenched in the US but it seems to be growing to our detriment.
Even if the person in the video call doesn’t have an ID, the IT support person could:

- compare the person with an ID on file

- invite the manager or a colleague of the person into the call to confirm

- ask for PII (birthdays, address) that are on file

I assume someone assuming the identity is more reluctant to show themselves on video. Furthermore being asked PII they are likely not as prepared.
> Finnish and the Slavic languages are the only ones in Europe that have a native word for "elephant". (Everyone else uses variants of the Greek "elephas" or Arabic "fil".)

So the only languages in Europe except the other language in Europe? :)
> the government insanities, the insane taxes, the low work ethic, the 8 weeks of vacation every month (I exaggerate, slightly)

No country has 8 weeks of vacations. Not even counting statutory + public holidays

> Glory to the LLC. Glory to firing someone with less than six months notice

I don't think even Italy is 6 months. Germany isn't. But way to go generalizing it for the whole EU. (also pop quiz, what do the acronyms GmbH, SARL and OÜ mean?)

> with zero friction movement of labor (this is completely laughable now compared to the US)

Not my experience, but not surprising given the amount of fiction in your post.
"Strike runs Lightning Network"

https://www.coindesk.com/strike-launches-bitcoin-lightning-p...
Harvard study reveals how race affected ‘personal rating’ scores
Where is this notion of "you can do anything on your property" coming from? A similar one is also "it's my car, I'll do what I want with it", etc. But all modification to both your house anr your car have a big possibility of puttinf others in danger. If you mod your car in a dangerous way or screw up your house electrical wiring, other unrelated people may get hurt - you don't have the right to do that!
Because youth culture loves to exist in dichotomy. The stupid clickbait site and the proper news sight being part of the same thing is the appeal. Similar reasoning to how comedy/news has become a booming format. Doing something stupid and doing something serious at the same time is the zeitgeist.
Quite honestly I don't think SD was even a big thing yet. I remember clearly complaints about Sony not just using CompactFlash, in contrast.
I just chartered a whale watching tour out of Provincetown the day prior. Our Captain said there’s only been one humpback near by so far and we followed him/her around for a few hours. About half way through a few massive whale watching boats show up. I’ve been on a handful of tours like this before and know there are some rules in place but honestly it was shocking to me how aggressive those other boats were. The whale would surface and they would full throttle straight for it. Getting very close to hitting it in my view (although my perception is a little off around ocean things). Anyways, my family and the captain discussed it quite a bit. We even felt the whale was trying to “shake us” not long after those other boats began this behavior. Interesting that I’m back home in Texas today and seeing this article. I imagine the whale is just a bit tired of people everywhere he turns.
If you already have Postgres in your project and now you get the requirement for an additional cache store, I think it will be less complicated to reuse what you already have instead of adding another DB to your stack.

Of course, at some point of scaling needs a dedicated cache store will make sense anyway.

(Just some justifications from a german engineer :) )
>If the great minds of the bay collectively moved to Europe

Why they don't move?
I wonder why they didn't just make two separate routines without any branch except for loop.
Then you would just make another safety offset to assume for the last loop iteration prediction.
OpenGL Compute Shaders are one option too.
The standard is almost always résidence, not work status. So if you move to that country from inside the EU and thus get recognized as a resident you get these benefits, sometimes after a period of time.
They just shift the same profit mechanism to a different token; citations.
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How does this compare to LanXchange?

https://github.com/tfg13/LanXchange
> I see large corporates run by Elon Musk genuinely trying to solve real-world problems like car electrification, self-driving, space-exploration, etc.

Fixed that for you. ;)
When I was first sorting this out, I realized that I shouldn’t be repeating things from the documentation, I should just be linking to it.

It’s a mixed blessing. In that case, the people who peppered us with questions slowly learned to find answers themselves. On the flip side when people ask you questions you get a better idea of what’s going on elsewhere in the project.

Later though, when it turned out we had a bad batch of hard disks on our dev boxes, the setup docs went from pretty okay to complete.
Thanks for the info that makes a lot of sense. It looks like this tech has emerged in the time since I last did much work with disk drives.

Seems it's increasingly a bad idea to presume the implementation of internals.
Huge companies concentrate power and distort the market. They can then extract rent from the economy by forcing others to play by their rules.

Talking about Apple specifically, they haven't released an innovative phone in years, but are still selling their phones for premium prices. They invest huge amounts of money in marketing to influence consumers to buy their products for prestige rather than any cost/benefit analysis. They extract rent in the form of their 30% cut of all iPhone transactions. They have colluded with other giants to keep programmer salaries lower. They are sitting on huge amounts of cash which are prevented from doing useful work in the economy. They can afford complex tax evasion schemes. They operate at a huge profit, which means their shareholders get a disproportionate amount of value compared to their buyers and workers. They have outsized influence on web standards and other commons (they have sometimes used this for good purposes, but there is no reason to allow such power in the hands of an autocratic power).

Note: Apple's competitors are just as bad or worse. My point is that huge corporations are a malady, not that Apple is worse than Google or MS or [...]
To be honest all this skin cancer detection stuff is kind of non-proven to be effective. Problem with this is that it leads to overtreatment and a non-measurable prolonging of life-time.
Same era, same experience here. I don't think it's fair to ascribe too much blame on women teachers, though.

The overwhelming majority of them genuinely care about their male students, acknowledge their different learning styles professionally and give them as good an opportunity as any competent male teacher would.

If you wanted to make a big difference, you wouldn't need to change gender ratios through social engineering. The small minority of female teachers that undermine boys' education are all known by the student body and other teachers.
Redis EXPIRE doesn't actually delete any data after it expires though. Active deletion happens at random, so you can easily still have expired values in memory months later:

> Redis keys are expired in two ways: a passive way, and an active way.

> A key is passively expired simply when some client tries to access it, and the key is found to be timed out.

> Of course this is not enough as there are expired keys that will never be accessed again. These keys should be expired anyway, so periodically Redis tests a few keys at random among keys with an expire set. All the keys that are already expired are deleted from the keyspace.

> Specifically this is what Redis does 10 times per second:

1. Test 20 random keys from the set of keys with an associated expire.
2. Delete all the keys found expired.
3. If more than 25% of keys were expired, start again from step 1.

So really it's not much better than doing `SELECT value from keys where key=? and expires > now()` with manual deletion. Though I agree that it can be more convenient.