skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany's Harz Railway still has steam trains once used by Soviet spies
As a German
Permits, the government is V slow. And labor is expensive. Also sounds expensive to use all the water they need, since they would need to clean it up very good and align the temperature with the rest of the attached rivers or what they use. And other climate relevant regulations.
Can you share what the gap was?
I've read many articles explaining Rust async and I think the best one is the async chapter of Programming Rust (2nd edition). It's not too daunting for someone new to async concepts, and yet comprehensive enough for someone curious about how Rust async works (future, waker, pinning).

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492052590

Direct link to the chapter (if you subscribe to O'Reilly/Safari): https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-rust-2...
I recall using this on a SunOS 3.x system (BSD 4.2-based) to build a message passing system. Over the years I expected it to be used more often for machine-internal communication. I think it was overshadowed by its sibling the network socket because that could be used for local as well as network communication.
What happened to the solar companies in Germany?
Lol, first time I'm seeing this. But the very top recommendation from yt was 'Jeż kurwa - czeska parodia!'. I love how memes travel. I think the last very popular Czech meme in Poland was Jožin z bažin
> Obviously as a white male I experience incredible privilege overall.

I would recommend to scrap that noble suffering story because it just isn't really true. No company will give you anything.

You aren't privileged, you are discriminated against.
There are repos for debian/ubuntu so its just matter of adding the repo and doing apt install. You have to make config for synapse but you have to do it everywhere. You can use sqlite instead of postgres. It will go surprisingly far and you don't have to install postgres :).
That's not completely true. Over its evolution, PHP has removed some functions completely to provide better and more secure functionality, such as mysql_* in PHP 7.
> Not even close to true in Scandinavia, Belgium, Germany or even poor ass Portugal.

It’s absolutely true in Belgium (and france), of which I have first-hand experience.

Despite the overall populations density, the public transport network outside of cities is patchy at best and tends towards low frequency: outside of school transport hours buses might only run every 2 or 3 hours, or not at all. Some lines don’t even run outside of school days.

The general assumption is that adults have a car and don’t rely — let alone depend — on public transports.

> I'm not sure how you got to these conclusions.

By having lived them? They’re not conclusions, they’re observations or having lived for years without a car (by choice).

> Maybe you're underestimating just how bad the US as a European is or maybe you've never lived in Europe.

Or maybe you’re way over-estimating how good Europe is? Just because the US is bottom barrel garbage-tier does not mean rural europe is any good.
No, I am taking them on their word.
If you don't want to verify your ID use FreeTube (desktop) or NewPipe (Android).

https://freetubeapp.io

https://newpipe.net/
> my current employer and my immediately former employer; the former is able to pay dramatically more

This sentence was a little bit hard to parse because of conflicting meanings of the "former" (in sentence vs in your employment history). You meant that your new employer have you 150% salary and equity, and the previous one couldn't compete, right?
Telemetry does not matter in this case. If a bug occures often, then either the issue ticker will get this bug often, or there might even be a "known bugs" section.
But your public transport is not great, really.
It is pretty expensive, to the point that renting a car is cheaper than taking the train if you are 2 people.
And trains are painfully slow too.
Public transport inside cities is better (but still expensive), but less needed because biking infrastructure is really really good.
These number are pretty crazy. Interesting to see people in India being paid so much while people in Pakistan aren't paid that highly, I think the highest I have heard of are around 300,000 - 350,000 PKR per month ( which is like 20$ K p.a)
I personally think it's entirely fine to switch between accents to try to match the locals, but I get the argument that it's offensive. I think it's unfortunate that this is the perception because I really really really really like phonetics. I'm a singer, this is our bread and butter.

It's frustrating that doing my best to sing with an Australian accent is surely entirely unacceptable in 2021, even if it's an Australian composer and the rhyming scheme makes no sense in an American accent.

At least for some reason it's perfectly fine to use a British accent at all times, even if it's a horrible accent. We almost always sing with a "British accent" by default because of particular ways it improves the understandability of the words when sung. We tend to only use an "American accent" (and even then, which one right?) when singing Gospel music.

The rules are a little strange and clearly asymmetric in the sense that adopting accents that have historically been over-emphasized or glorified or straight up were the accents of conquering empires is fine while the reverse is not. This is a reasonable guideline, but I admit it feels hollow as someone who simply wants to sing as best I can.
I'd like to see you transport your mattress or ikea shelf via public transport.

Cars are a luxury that people have gotten used to, and to remove it is to remove quality of life.
Freenom doesn't sell the domain at the nominal fee, they put it up for auction.
They also hide this fact from their victims until it's too late.
From Doug McIlroy's explanation of a shell pipe line tr stands for transliterate.

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/
Do you have any books to recommended to someone that wants to focus on improving their sleep?
Sure! I can be reached at hn@arunj.net
> With RoseTTAFold, a protein structure can be computed in as little as ten minutes on a single gaming computer.

I guess its a little less accurate but the quick compute time makes as much difference too. E.g. research students can have multiple less costly mistakes before achieving what they want with the software.
Scaleway's claim that customers were immediately informed («prévenu la clientèle potentiellement impactée») appears to be false. Affected customers were not notified until June 2021. [1]

Scaleway did not publish their blog post until after the 3 part video series by Micode, despite being aware of the incident since May 2021. [2]

[1] https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/172819/scaleway-ssd-wi...

[2] https://twitter.com/Micode/status/1395640486715662336
I believe it's an unsolvable problem, too many variables, too many incompatibles interests/goals. Humans aren't made to solve world wide / very long term issues. The covid pandemic showed we're not able to handle any kind of global stress collectively.

We're apes trying to live like ants, but we lack the organisation and selflessness. We'll do what we do best, wait until we have our backs against the wall and find some half assed solution, it's going to be a free for all until some kind of reset event happens.

It feels like we're at the beginning of one of these Hollywood "end of the world" movies in which you can see TVs in the background of early scenes showing crazy reports about climatic/social/war events while the heroes are focused on their meaningless daily struggles.
Yep, the French vlogger Micode [0] asked their Twitter followers to identify the data on an SSD they purchased on the local classified ads website leboncoin.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210531091659/https://twitter.c...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8PyQ2PGxI

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBVZUL1iBA

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf_cKTlOYLo
I don't know Bret Weinstein, why would this video be inappropriate for younger people?
Having to drive 2 hours to work from middle of nowhere does not sound like good base for functioning, SUSTAINABLE society. You want to live in the middle of nowhere, you have to factor in the costs of your choice.
Thank you very much for this summary! I have a lot of polish colleagues in my work, and I always feel bad for not knowing how to start pronouncing their names aside from memorization (which I will promptly forget). This will definitively help me.
They had a crazy vowel shift where vowels, which for example in Romanian are defined as sounds that "stand by themselves" [1] all became 2-sound things.

To make it obvious, I'll use the Romanian spelling for vowels, which is practically Latin (except for "ă" which is pronounced "uh").

A became ei.

E became i (ok, this one's the exception, but in practice it's still crazy, "Mercedes" manages to have 3 - three!!! - pronunciations for it).

I became ai.

O became ău.

U became iu.

So if you look at them, they're all 2 distinct sounds (ergo the 2 letters in the Romanian spelling, except for E, which is crazy enough anyway).

I'm not counting W, Y and such because I think they weren't used in Latin.

[1] I.e. they're need a single sound to be pronounced, don't need an additional supporting sound.
Somewhat related though, that Poland has the only memory module fab in EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilk_Elektronik

https://www.goodram.com/en/
Wouldn’t Dresden seem more likely? I think after AMD built the first fab there in the nineties a lot of suppliers settled there as well?
TSMC would go to Dresden if it decides to invest in Germany.

Bosch just opened a new chip fatory in Dresden.

https://www.bosch.com/stories/bosch-chip-factory-dresden/

Globafoundries and Infinion are there, too.

https://gfdresden.de

https://www.infineon.com/cms/dresden/en/

The Dresden/Saxony area is said to have in semiconductor manufacturing "2,300 companies with roughly 60,000 employees active in the industry in Saxony and generating revenues of some €16.5 billion last year."

Apple invests heavily in a Chip design center in Munich.

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2021/03/apple-to-invest-ov...

Customers for the TSMC chips would be in the automotive industry.

Tesla builds a new EV factory in Brandenburg near Berlin... Volkswagen has several factories working on current and future EVs, ... for example the ID.3 is being manufactured in Dresden, too.

https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/id3-st...
« Are you going to fetch the eggs out at the farm on foot? »
(France) We used to, when I was a kid. But more and more gigantic supermarkets put the little farms out of business and now we can’t anymore.

So, to answer your question: yes. (Maybe on a bike though, it’s faster and I enjoy it more than walking)
I wouldn't be as harsh, but indeed that decision is a bit weird. They cannot really count on cheap labour, or "friendly" economic incentives. And seeing the case of Tesla factory, it's not so easy and fast.

One great thing about Germany is the central location within EU with good logistics overall. Not sure it matters for semiconductor manufacturing.
You don't have to get rid of ALL cars. computer cars would be 99% enough. People somehow manage to get by without car in countries like Netherlands, and till have they furniture moved around when they move.
Your pictures confirm what the author says.

In a real butterfly resting, the trailing edge of the forewings is not perpendicular to the body’s axis.
Ultimately YouTube are required legally to do this in much of the EU, and Australia.

The privacy community bluntly completely got caught with it's pants down being angry about corporates and ignoring the huge lobbying from "child protection" groups in the last few years which is resulting in some horrendous legislation in much of the western world.
People have difficulties to accept change when innovations go from liberating to considered harmful in a decade. Cars, smartphones …

What feels weird is the « reaction »: as environmental concerns progress, cars (and smartphones) are still being manufactured and marketed as more powerful, faster, shinier, brighter, … production costs are still dwarfing the energy saved by new models efficiency, by a lot.

I like driving my roadster car. It has a rather humble 1.8l engine, I bought it second hand and I don’t commute with it.
That's not ironic at all. There are less inequalities in Europe than Asia, at least in this century.
I wont comment in terms of features, but in my experience Borg is slower than Restic. This might be worth considering for low-end servers, and for big amount of data. Restic used to have an extremely slow prune (purge unused old data) feature, but this has improved dramatically in one of the latest releases.
Yup. Take Bob; in English, especially American English it's pronounced like "Baawhb" (exaggerated, weirdly phonetic), but over here (Dutch) it would be pronounced as "Bop", with a very short / clipped O sound.

Of course there's also names that have transformed to nearly unrecognizable forms; George over here has evolved into Sjors (or the other way around?), John into Sjon, etc.
Prob a few reasons. This was written in a very conversational tone.

If he wrote it in a blog, it would read weird or he’d spend a lot more time on it. I’ve started blog posts before and just kinda gave up when it didn’t seem like it came together well.
Cosmopolitan aesthetics would be the root of the phenomena I imagine, if that word doesn't still apply.

I know it was a discussion for many decades about whether a piece of music should be in the original language or the translation. Everyone settled on the original, so we all sing with absolutely atrocious accents in foreign languages as best we can.

I feel like this whole area is a giant minefield for actors now, switching accents for roles is extremely normal. If that is suddenly interpreted as signaling a lack of respect for the real accent of the people they are portraying it makes an awful lot of everything harder.
IMHO all the parsers should update to address this. A space is still a space even if it's a non-breaking one.
I only learnt about the logging and tracing crates existed from this blog post and I've already started using them, so thank you!
For those who don't speak french, this Youtuber bought a second-handed SSD to do some forensics and raise awareness. He managed to recover the partition, inside he found qcow2 image of a company, he managed to mount it and recover the full data, including source code of their app, a ssh key and S3 credentials of the company
Vehicle speed compliance statistics for Great Britain in 2020
In the more distant past, i.e. up to 1990, all the Eastern European countries, including Poland, had semiconductor plants and many people, both engineers and workers, with good know-how.

However, after 1990, the plants have been closed and most of the skilled people have gone to USA, Canada or Western Europe.

So for the present time you might be right, it could be difficult to find enough experienced workforce, unlike many years ago.
I live in 2nd largest city, and 11 km drive from work. If I want to take public transport, I first have to take a bus going once per hour, switch to another bus going into opposite direction, and then take a third bus to work. Bus can be a bit late so am not making the connection, or sometimes a connecting bus not showing up. Then you stand another 20 minutes in the rain (it usually rains here) on the shoulder of a motorway.

I could also cycle in theory; however my home is 88 meters over sea level and my work in 100+ on another hill. Did I also mention it rains a lot? Some people like the challenge and do it anyway (but virtually none does that every day). I can't be arsed to sweat out on my way to the office though.

And yes that's before you get to having kids. Or living outside a city: then you have a bus on one route going maybe 2-4 times a day.
Moving in? Check in Measureland where. Interactive land ratings and reviews
It was an idea. Idea to compare two different places me and my girlfriend lived in. I suggested rating them by some criteria. 5 months later (last week) I launched it in Minsk, Belarus and got overwhelming results from LinkedIn. We definitely go world-wide!

Don't hesitate to rate your town experience, didn’t you always want to be the first? Here is your chance :)

Ok, now let's get serious. Problems services solves:
- finding the best place to move in or stay at (from local guys perspective) - everything is centralized, no need to search separate resources for every city now. More is coming.
- learning something new about your own city. Do you know it has neighborhoods with bad water or air conditions? Does it? Well, I don't know, share your experience!.
- drawing public attention to certain problems.

Project is non-commercial, no ads or tracking, learn more here:
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Link to service: https://measureland.org/
> In 2020, under free-flowing traffic conditions, 56% of cars exceeded the speed limit on 30mph roads compared to 53% on motorways and 12% on national speed limit single carriageway roads.
I'm fine with bars banning smoking based on the owner's preference, but I think there is value in having places where people can congregate to smoke and drink, and I don't believe some people who don't like it have the right to ban other people from doing it everywhere. This is also in response to the other post above who said it had negative social and economic impacts. We pay extremely high taxes on tobacco to more than cover those costs. I personally don't smoke around children. But nothing is enough for some crusaders who want to prevent me from enjoying tobacco. It's the same impulse as people who want to ban alcohol or marijuana. Adults should have the right to do as they please so long as it isn't hurting others, and no, smelling diffused secondhand smoke outdoors is not giving you cancer any more than the exhaust from the cars or the fallout from Fukushima.
I'm worried this and other recent developments signal that there will be a major push to practically end anonymity on the Internet over the next couple of years. Services like Stripe Identity that make it trivial to implement, age gating in the name of "protecting children" from harmful content, real-name policies at account creation time for fighting misinformation and abuse, and more.

It's already here to some extent with the obligation to provide a phone number, but unlike a phone you can't just change your legal identity if you need to. Determined bad actors on the other hand will have no trouble farming ID docs from disadvantaged people to assume their identity online, through coercion or social engineering.

And soon everything you do and say online will have immediate, real-world ramifications.
German engineering gave us BER
My anecdotal story: I bought my Dad a 15" MBP which recently failed due to this. This is in the UK where there's strict consumer protection laws mandating free repairs within 6 years, as long as the consumer can show that the problem existed when the computer shipped.

He took it to the store and they wanted £600. I called and insisted they should fix it for free. I got hold of a supervisor who eventually gave in and agreed to do it, hooray! Not so fast. We got disconnected and I called back, getting another supervisor who said the first guy was mistaken and shouldn't have told me that. He explained that Apple's interpretation of UK consumer law is to deny any claim that falls outside of an approved repair program, unless you can somehow prove that the problem existed when the computer shipped, which he admitted is impossible due to the way these computers are built. He said that forum posts and YouTube videos are not considered evidence that it's a widespread issue.

It's especially painful in my case because I worked there as an engineer when I bought it for my Dad under Apple's employee purchase program. I was proud to do so at the time - he would never buy such an expensive computer for himself. I explained this to the AppleCare supervisor and he, of course, did not give a shit; probably didn't even believe me. So, if any Apple folks are reading, be warned that buying hardware for family members under EPP might seem like a good thing, but you may well be sticking them with an expensive repair bill in the not-too-distant future.

My Dad uses a Chromebook now and our family no longer buys Apple stuff, which sucks to say after working there for 8 years and shipping software that runs on that MBP.
There are two unofficial and incomplete hardware compatibility lists:

https://sites.google.com/view/haiku-computer-list-beta2

https://besly.de/index.php/en/hardware/unofficel-compatibili... (edit: newer list: https://besly.de/index.php/en/hardware/besly-system-analysis...)

Not really sure what exactly would be optimal, but Haiku's pretty performant on virtually any relatively modern hardware (less than 10 years old and not overly cheap) since it's so light.
Here's a good summary by Cochrane from 2020:

"There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks. The low‐moderate certainty of the evidence means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited, and that the true effect may be different from the observed estimate of the effect. The pooled results of randomised trials did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks during seasonal influenza. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection. Hand hygiene is likely to modestly reduce the burden of respiratory illness. Harms associated with physical interventions were under‐investigated."

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
Without counting all those circumstances where A is still /a/, u is /a/ or a similar vowel, and so on. Basically, there's nothing that's still pronounced as it should :)
It's what I do with a small language I'm working on, for instance

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=splash2
In your imagination this is true. In real life it is not. Sure, in theory it is possible to imagine a world where powered personal transportation doesn't exist. It might even be possible in a limited sense (for instance in densely populated, well funded cities it should be eminently possible. But not everyone lives in a well funded, densely populated city).

If you want to have adult conversations with people who feel you are taking the subject seriously, you must acknowledge reality and the non-trivial delta between it and what you suggest.

And I am serious about the "adult" part. By pretending you "know" your utopian view is possible, you expect other people to take you seriously despite not having made any effort to show your math. That's pretty disrespectful to other people. It also shows you learned nothing from past history where utopian political fantasies coupled with power ended up costing tens of millions of lives.
Show HN: The best way to learn Python (beginner-friendly)?
This could be the best way to ever learn Python. Python is a great coding language and allows you to do many things. From helping you out in real life, to a computer game, Python could reach both ends of the world. Now, the best way to learn it is finally on Github. Thanks to Eric Matthes for helping.
I don't think they pronounce it "Clean-tone", though. Knowing Italian, it's more likely to be Clean-tohn.
Smokers rarely consider how their choices force the rest of us to deal with them. My partner shouldn't have to carry an inhaler, but public smoking forces her to. There shouldn't have been epidemics of children with diseases caused by secondhand exposure, but smoking made sure it happened. I have no problem with smokers lighting up in private airtight boxes, but don't force the waste products into everyone else's lungs by smoking in public.