skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little known fact (maybe): Emergency services in Germany is largely handled by volunteers.

Police is always paid, no volunteers there.

Paramedics are often paid ("Regelrettungsdienst"), but there are lots of units working on voluntary basis which take care of festivals, larger events and more and are somewhat on stand-by in case the Regelrettungsdienst gets overwhelmed with work.

Firefighters are the most and they are almost always volunteers, the so called "Freiwillige Feuerwehr". As a member of the Freiwillige Feuerwehr you'll have some kind of pager or app to alarm you and people will then leave work and rush to the fire department and man the trucks. Only large cities (> 100k residents, I think) need to have paid firefighters.

Firefighters and Paramedics are also among the jobs with the highest trust/respect with the people in Germany. (Sadly, attacks on those groups from bystanders are steadily climbing...)

These days thousands of people have left their work (your city will pay your employer for the time you had to leave, although most employers don't bill that time) to help take care of the aftermath of the floods, either as Paramedics or Firefighters.

Usually there's no compensation for this work, next to getting something to eat and drink and the equipment.

This is probably quite unique compared to other countries.

Update: Seems like it's not unique to Germany. I appreciate that, thanks for letting me know.
I don't see why you compare to movie theaters. The decline in movie theaters was, afaict, driven by a drop in demand, which in turn was driven by affordable home theater setups, increased availability of movies to watch at home, ...

In contrast, your argument for why eat-in restaurants are about to disappear in large numbers is entirely based on a decrease in supply of cheap labor. You don't argue at all for why there would be a decline in demand. Perhaps customers changed their habits after the COVID lockdowns, but at least on the short term, I feel like I'm noticing the opposite effect: people really want to do stuff outside of their house.

I understand that some of the more struggling restaurants would be driven over the edge by higher wages, but it seems spurious to assume that this will cause a large shift in the market all by itself.

And it's even more spurious to just assume that this will drive large swathes of former wait staff into unemployment. Similar arguments are made carelessly in the minimum wage debate, where people mistakenly believe that there is consensus among economists that it drives up unemployment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Surveys_of_econom...).
Legal due diligence?

When I bought a house, all sorts of legal checks were required before I was allowed a mortgage. That seems like it would be standard practice.
"These swarms aren't going to affect the average amateur astronomer very much."

Not true. Most of amateur astronomers are also astrophotographers that is affected by Starlink's light pollution. Just look up any astrophotography group, I see posts of ruined shots by satellites every day.
I would assume that the bank checks these things as part of a checklist before granting a loan?
I think you’re being a bit uncharitable.

They specifically hide the details of the yearly subscription when you signup, and it’s the default option. The renewal, regardless of purchase date, is jan 1, the least likely time for people to be paying attention, and the renewal notice only lists them monthly charge. When you cancel, regardless of the amount of time remaining (that you still pay for), your subscription is terminated at the end of that month.

Yeah yeah, whinge whinge… but does it really make you feel better about yourself to mock others who have been basically scammed out of money by not reading the fine print?

Does it really matter which company does this kind of thing?

That seems quite mean to me… and that uncaring corporate profit at the cost of everything else is “the Adobe way”.

The other posts about Adobe wanting to create a paid marketplace to “monetise” blender seems to be the reason they’re doing this.

Surprise, surprise.
What's exceedingly common is an focus on what they think is efficiency (or really, what they see as "waste") which they think makes them a shrewd, smart, savvy business owner.

Distrust in their employees coupled with excessive monitoring on consumables and the like, I think is the most common.

I've patronized, worked at, or know people who worked at places where the employees are doing everything they can to keep a business running despite the owner....often doing what they can to keep said owner from getting their hands too deep into daily operations or in contact with customers.
While I agree that Leiningen is easier to get going with, many of the questions you asked also apply to Leiningen's project file.

I use Leiningen as it's convenient, but I check back on the tools.* ecosystem occasionally to see the progress being made. My suspicion is that tools.* will eventually supersede Leiningen and Boot, but that it will take two to three years at least.

Currently it's easier to use "lein new", but I can imagine a Babashka wrapper around tools.deps and tools.build eventually supplanting this. Being able to write, for example:

bbb new foobar; cd foobar; bbb add clojure.java.time

to automatically generate and update a deps.edn would be convenient, and potentially with far lower latency than Lein.
Finding a description of what the language is actually about on the home page was hard, so here it is: https://crystal-lang.org/api/1.1.0/
There are plenty of smaller changes that are just way easier with a single commit. A small API call with just two or three consumers, a documentation change, etc. The multistage approach is certainly good for big changes.
Do you have sources to back up this claim?
It's just that this is a very public reminder that we've all paid for this (as Bezos said), and people don't like being reminded of that.
Obviously, different countries participated in the Holocaust to varying degrees, ranging from turning a blind eye, to deportations, to active participation. That's even true amongst some of the allies (the UK, for instance, turned back many Jews attempting to flee).

Still, it's just a fact that the holocaust was a German policy, organized and largely staffed by Germans. I think that while much of eastern europe was and still is profoundly antisemetic, the Germans would have absolutely carried out the holocaust even if the opposite was the case. That many people took part in the process is obviously shameful in every instance, but the OP comment makes it out as if it was like some plebiscite of eastern europe - which it obviously was not.
A key part of various such tamper-resistant devices is an embedded secret that's very difficult/expensive to extract. However, the manufacturer (i.e. "the company selling the soution) may know the embedded secret without extracting it. Because of that, trust in the solution provider is essential even if it's just simple math.

For a practical illustration, see the 2011 attack on RSA (the company) that allowed attackers access to secret values used in generating RSA's SecurID tokens (essentially, cheap devices that do mathematics) allowing them to potentially clone previously issued tokens. Here's one article about the case - https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-r...
My first reaction to this was that all would need mobile phones with physical off switches for camera/microphone and internet but even such swtiches do not protect against such advanced spy operations. I think such software should be treated like weapons of war for which there are international regulations and obervations
There's a registry setting you can change that completely disables web results. Aside from hiding results your didn't want in the first place, it speeds up start menu search a bit. I'd need to Google it so I'll leave that for you to do yourself if you're interested.

Obviously that's not very helpful to the vast majority of users, who are mostly not techy enough to touch their registry.
I just disabled iMessages and FaceTime ... I don't actively use them anyway and I have a feeling Apple applies more scrutiny to 3rds party apps than theirs (Whatsapp , signal ...)

I don't know if disabling iMessages is enough though in this case.
Aren't there already many folks looking at their smartphone screen for significant amounts of time every day?
I’ve been playing with Crystal a lot (every night) for the last few months.

It’s really fun language, and I don’t have even have any Ruby background!

The main pain points from where I’m sitting are things like debugging and incremental compiling. You can throw lack of tooling in there too I suppose.

The dev team knows and is working on these, but they are a small community based team so don’t expect they same resources as in Go or Swift.

FWIW I’ve been having good experiences with Sublime.
Is the police not at least in-part responsible for the death? From my POV, it’s the inappropriate charging of the police force that caused the death of the man. And clearly the police can handle the case differently. Of course, the kids must face consequences as well but I believe the police can not be acquitted. I don’t think such incidents can happen anywhere else in the world.
What's holding back Japan? The bullies
Your comment made me laugh because I thought of those ads for the new GardenHoze 2000 when they switch to b/w and show some pretend moron who pretends to not know how garden hoses work and has all kinds of trouble with them. Morons obviously need the GardenHoze 2000 to solve their garden hose problems! You're the pretend moron who pretends to not know how taxes work.
That explains what I've been seeing lately. I thought this was a bug or some other extension messing with the theming.

The old way was better. It created separation. Everything shares the same background now.
The arguments seem exceedingly weak here. Having a monorepo does not prevent a workflow like (1) add new function signature; (2) let all calls use the new function signature; (3) remove old function signature. However, in some cases a multirepo makes sure you could only do it this way. If a function is called all over the place the three-step program is the only somewhat safe way to do it but if a function is called not exceedingly many times one can do the atomic refactor, which is an easier process. That one sometimes needs the three-step process and sometimes can do an atomic refactor is in no way contradictory as this article seems to claim. It depends on the size of the change and the risk involve what you would do in a particular case.

Also, a monorepo forcing trunk-based development is great. Long-living feature branches are hell. I would even say to avoid feature branches entirely and use feature switches instead whenever one can get away with it. Every branch always runs the risk of making refactoring more difficult.
Is this open source? Can I self-host it?
> Although it's probably a valid business model

Is it really? Maybe at a small scale, but I can't imagine there are that many people ready to pay more than a few thousands for 2 minutes of free fall at high altitude.
The list sums up most of the reasons I don't like Perl. It's not a bad language, I just find the syntax annoying and unnecessarily confusing.

That is a personal preference. I dislike the experience of working in Perl and will not work with it again if possible.
On my ribbon:
Alt, H, W. They're consecutive but it seems you can do them quite quickly.
100% this.

I live near a school and witnessing the quality of social interactions from Mums* , encapsulated by their SUV-tanks as if controlling a Gundam, is a sight to behold.

* Sorry, it mainly is Mums in this situation. And I'm fully cognizant of ejut Dads/Men driving madly in other situations.
It looks like more effective change control is a major concern of the author.

We use a monorepo for our organization and have found that feature flags are the best way to manage the problem of exposing new functionality in ways that won't piss off our customers. We can let them tell us when they are ready and we flip the switch.

Once a flag goes true for every customer, make a note to drop it. This is important because these things will accumulate if you embrace this ideology.
> we've had to ask you repeatedly about this in the past. Would you please do a better job of sticking to the site guidelines?

Sure OK, I will do better at sticking to the site guidelines.

But what is also clear in the comments of the post and especially the top comment that most users were replying to, after reading the site guidelines they have completely violated this guideline in [0]:

> In comments:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

You may disagree with this, but I see that as a known repeated symptom of creating 'flamewars' for other posts. I will be part of the 'good critical comment' club and do better at following the guidelines, rather than being the one posting shallow dismissals and flamebait at other people's work because they are a fan of someone else.

And as always, making my comment substantive. Not less.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We have this in The Netherlands in a lot of cities, where people have made wooden boxes, phone boots, and other places outside, filled with 2nd-hand books. You can freely take them, but the unwritten rule is you put another book back in return.

There are sites where you can become member, and see locations on a map: https://minibieb.nl/minibieb/buiten-boekenkast/
Meaning:

* the people who fund reelection campaigns get to opt out of public education.

* politicians before and after their political careers can opt out.

* a quick change to the law is all that would be required for politicians to opt out while theyre in office.

It would be enough to make them care a bit more, but only an outright prohibition would make them truly committed to public education.
I doubt there are many people who don't want to pay taxes at all. But I think there are many people (like me) who don't understand why it should be necessary to pay taxes just for owning a specific asset like gold, cash, bitcoin etc..
Also, if you do all changes at once, you can also run the whole testsuite and find problems quicker. Sure, you could still later split the work up into many commits.

But even when problems come up that you didn't see in the tests, it is easier to revert the work if it indeed is a single commit.

The real reason why I still sometimes prefer many small commits is to reduce the chance of merge conflicts.
Try the "Refined HackerNews" extension. It might help.

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
i can however go somewhere with a bucket load of $100 bills and pay in person
linked from this:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> The homeowner went outside with a gun in hand and they de-escalated the situation without “storming” or firing any shots.

I wonder what color his skin was
"If they can't give a decent wage [1] then they were not a viable business to begin with"

Yep. 1000%. If your workers need to be on any form of government assistance, you're being subsidized.

Mr. Factory Owner does all sorts of bullshit like paying unlivable wages, not having any employees working over the number of hours at which they'd have to pay benefits, and so on.

But guess who's always got enough money to donate to republican and libertarian campaigns, and has very strong opinions about 'pulling yourself up by your bootstraps' and how wasteful government assistance is?
> Only large cities (> 100k residents, I think) need to have paid firefighters.

And even those cities often have volunteer firefighter departments. Berlin has multiple, roughly one per district.
Also in Germany police will never show up with a gun already in hand. I don't know the exact code of conduct they have but there are probably a few steps of deescalation before a gun is even drawn.
If they employ enough people, the slippery slope is that every employee who wants to live in NL has a claim on help to do so, and so the company is no longer geo-neutral but ends up, like so many other companies, having the “talent” in a rich country and all the “fungibles” elsewhere.

But as others have pointed out, in real life NL would probably be happy to have up to 100% of their actual employees immigrate so it may be just well-intentioned virtue signaling.

Which is also a valid recruiting strategy!
From a statistics perspective 2021 is an extremely noisy year. Even if you think that economists have the perfect answer given sufficient data they still would have to wait for the data to clear up. If the noise is gone it is entirely possible that we still have inflation but we just happen to hit exactly 2% inflation in 2022. If inflation were to undershoot the 2% target then you would have to do the unconventional monetary policy racket again. If inflation is too high, congratulations we can have normal interest rates again!

Bonus episode:

Money is created through debt. Money can be taken hostage, by taking it out of circulation aka saving it. However, that money is needed to pay the debt back. There is a due date for debt repayments and this is where the problems start: There is no due date for deposits to be spent and thus returned to the borrower...

From a purely logical perspective default is inevitable given the above conditions and it requires the destruction of the deposits and thus the confiscation of the deposits. How does this happen in practice? Inflation, negative interest rates, wealth taxes or bank bankruptcy resulting in the loss of deposits. Maybe expiring CBDC offer a fifth option by forcing spending directly. You are of course allowed to spend your money on gold or stocks.
Shell. You can approach Perl viewing it as an alternative to Python / Ruby / JavaScript, but that’s not the only way to look at it. Another is to look at it as a sh / sed / awk upgrade, and it absolutely excels in that. It’s easy to ‘shell out’, Perl adds more convenient data structures and keeps affordances to play well with other tools. It’s also very backwards-compatible, so if you want a small script for personal use that will not need you to do maintenance busywork — base Perl is the way to go.
Yes (and they still are). They wrote a blog post on using Crystal a year ago as well.

[0] https://manas.tech/blog/2020/02/11/nikola-motor-company/
I used to have a similar setup on my phone when my laptop started dying and I was in the middle of moving countries.

You can have Node running via termux, albeit with some limitations, e.g. no global modules.

Of course debugging isn't really possible, so you'll have rely on your engineering prowess.

I wanted to create a similar setup for Rust, but unfortunately compiling the compiler from source to work on Android was way above my skills (provided it was even possible to begin with).
On that page that you linked it literally says:

"The payment in cash between individuals (purchase of a car or a painting for example) is not limited. A writing is necessary beyond 1,500 € to prove the payments ."

In fact, even below it, where it mentions the 1000 euro limit for professional transactions:

"Note: this limit does not apply to people who have no other means of payment or no deposit account."
Ask HN: Add opt-in notifications for replies to comments/posts?
Because they are constantly bombarded with higher taxes for ICE cars, fake news about the ability to reverse climate changes, and showered with electric car subsidies.

What is the value of someone's "opinion" in this situation?

The article is junk.

Edit: just saw a laughable comment about the Norwegians finding EVs to be such a great buy.
Here you can find the details on how that plunder is funded by the Norwegian taxpayer: https://elbil.no/english/norwegian-ev-policy/
Covid-19: India excess deaths cross four million, says study
I think you hand wave away the responsibility born by the Governments who regulate, control, and subsidise the arms trade.

Of course it is the fault of the user of the weapons as well - but UK and USA (to just name a couple more egregious examples) governments quite literally give money to foreign governments in order for them to funnel it directly back into arms deals. These weapons can then be used to destroy hospitals and schools in Yemen. Our governments are financing this loss of life in order to further propel the revolving door.

I see this kind of cyber weaponry as a simple subset of the above complex.
Semantic Scholar exists, and does a decent job mostly, in my opinion.
Willingness to tolerate formal methods does not mean you always have to endure pain and suffering.

On the contrary, you may find that you are shipping software that is so good you begin to see the value.

For a lot of shops, the problem domain probably isn't complex enough to justify intense formality in the process (i.e. engineering). Once you are dealing with monsters like supply chain or factory automation, you can't play games anymore.
> That is not far-fetched at all, IMO.

The problem with your neat little model of the world is that it doesn't provide you with actionable predictions. Everything is a massive global conspiracy against you, nothing can be trusted, everybody is in on it, and so you can dismiss everything as just part of the charade, which feels good for a few moments, but still doesn't actually help you make any decisions at all.

> "Two-factor authentication" has already been abused by Facebook and Twitter where they were caught using the data for advertising

Right, I mean, if somebody really wanted to help provide working two factor authentication, they'd have to invent a device that offered phishing-proof authentication, didn't rely on sharing "secrets" that might be stolen by hackers, and all while not giving up any personal information and ensuring the user's identity can't be linked from one site to another. That device would look exactly like the FIDO Security Keys we're talking about... huh.

Actually no, if they weren't really part of a massive conspiracy against o8r3oFTZPE there would be one further thing, instead of only being from Google you could just buy these Security Keys from anybody and they'd work. Oh right.
"Many economists assumed this was the fault of the labor seller for not having skills attractive to buyers"

Given the massive redistribution of wealth in the US for the last half a century it's pretty clear that's not true, and that what's really been going on is businesses have been squeezing "labor sellers" to death.
From Epstein to Savile to Weinstein, sexual abuse and cover-up is clearly not a uniquely Catholic or religious problem. By blaming religion alone, you're ignoring the other mechanisms that allow this to happen.

With regard to this particular story, this guy, as far as we know, was just secretly gay and not technologically savvy.

The real story in my view is how and why he was outed. It's not just priests who have a lot to lose by being revealed to be gay.
Panel: Steve Barcia (SimTex), Sid Meier (Microprose) and Bruce Williams (QQP)
Any plan for non-Google sign-in solution?
That's likely true because like the majority of people, you don't make enough money, or wont see enough benefit from the effort involved. Anyone earning over £100k a year is required to file a self assessment, and if you've reached that point, you also likely have a bunch of tax deductible expenses, that even if the £-value is low, you're going to include in your filing since you're doing it anyway.
Quick stats:

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