skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this has been posted before.

Yes, there have previously been extensive discussions.

But this is worth reading again.

And again.

"... of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.

"Drowning does not look like drowning."

Content warning: Horrendous personal experiences related in this Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/14188964281774448...
I have never heard of german self-deprecation. Do you have any examples of it?
Yeah, right?

Don't get me wrong, I've found a lot of Holub's content to be great. I'm something of a fan in some senses, as it's given me a perspective to question some of the utter guff prevalent in the agile space (particularly wrt. things like Scrum and Story points). I don't buy some of it - things like cost of delay - but I'm always interested to hear more and I'm prepared to change my mind on it.

But.

Much like Dawkins, he ought to stay off twitter, as he comes out with crazy-town absolutist statements (like: if your organisation doesn't do X, then it's fundamentally beyond all redemption and you should just leave).

A recurring theme is there in that list, particularly (20), which is - to paraphrase - "give all your money to the agile team, then go away and you have no right to question what they're doing in any way, shape, or form - you just trust them to 'do the right thing' as they're the experts". No line management, no project management, nothing. Go away and leave me alone.

Now put that in context of a self started project that took nearly $15K, listed no significant risks "hey I already have most of this content anyway", has no external dependencies to blame and... completely failed to deliver. How can I take any of it seriously when the supposed expert can so utterly fail to practice what they are preaching?
Mhm, BorgBase looks a bit fishy.

It is based in Malta, but why? For "tax efficiency"? They share the office address with [1] and the CEO of the parent company PeakFord[2] seems to be a CEO-for-hire[3].

Their GDPR page[4] mentions that they are not based in the EU and want to use the German privacy regulator. Malta is very much part of the EU.

[1]: https://opes.com.mt/corporate-services/
[2]: https://www.peakford.com/about/
[3]: https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/56060344
[4]: https://www.borgbase.com/gdpr
I have not, and I'm now trying to imagine what that would look like.

I'm kind of an introvert and haven't really gotten to know my neighbors that well, and most of my friends are too distant for that to be any kind of regular thing.

I have a couple neighbors I could probably ask, though. It's far enough out of my comfort zone that I don't think I'll do it, but thanks for the suggestion!
43 years speaking Spanish, not in Spain, but certainly aware of different accents from Spain (both from speaking to other people and watching Spanish movies), and TIL that the name for that sound is “ voiceless-dental-fricative”.

¡Gracias!
RE: ... with whom our own species had repeated sexual encounters producing mixed-race children who were accepted by their tribes as another member of the family.

This sentence doesn't read right. Race and species are not interchangeable.

RE: ... Today we know that because of this intermingling every modern human beyond the African continent carries 3% Neanderthal DNA

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/neandertal-dna/chen-neandertal-dna-africa-2020.html
Lofty talk from the home of VW AG.
I'm running it on a x230 and it works great. I actually don't remember it not working on any of my old pcs.
With images: https://ericweinhoffer.com/blog/2017/7/30/the-whitworth-thre...
Rookie Bankers Sour on Wall Street’s Pitch of Big Pay and Long Hours
Preferably the author doesn't copy and paste: preferably there's a documentation build step where everything gets run, relevant outputs get inserted into the docs, and any errors get caught.

This is how my docs for Zapatos[1] work, for instance. :)

[1] https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
On a touch interface you drag sideways to scroll.

That being said it's very annoying to read anything that needs to be scrolled sideways. So if I come across it I zoom out and if it's too small to read then I navigate away from the site.
That sounds like a much better idea than giving army equipment to untrained civilians...

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I'm not in favor of replacing the police with the army, just pointing out that it would be a less stupid idea than giving untrained civilians army weaponry they lack the expertise to handle.
Nvidia support? Something like the old nv driver for X under Unix?
Austrian transplant here.

Yea, we're top earners, but salaries in generally not high. We get the majority of our compensation in vacation, social insurance, pension, etc.

130K would put you in the 50% tax bracket here. So you'd get 14 (no, seriously) paychecks of 4642. Not bad to be sure, but not exactly space tourist money either.
Dial down your tone - it is unwarranted.

Rules and red tape was exactly my point. Why would TSMC choose to run that gauntlet willingly and potentially fall foul of the same hurdles that Tesla has encountered? One of the big problems Tesla had was around water supply. Do you have any idea how much water a chip fab uses?

My point around export restrictions was in reference to the EU blocking vaccine exports this year because it suited them. There would be heavy incentives for them to do the same for semiconductors in a future supply crisis like there is right now.
So, are the precipitation levels are going up over the years after all?
Then why hasn't this been an issue for any of the existing fabs? Semiconductor manufacturing has been a large welcome prestige thing pretty much anywhere.
Hm, Ambroos is a tricky one. The best I could think of would be "arm" (assuming they're not with a rhotic-r accent, though I could imagine people then making it sound like aam) + "close" (as in dichtbij, not sluiten.)
>real liberty, real autonomy, real independence

How many people have ever existed with real liberty, autonomy and independence?

Maybe the concepts simply aren't achievable for your regular human
A little addendum (for posterity as this is now an old article post)

• RosettaFold came out in academic paper form as well as open-source github repo slightly prior to AlphaFold. Was AlphaFold's decision to open up motivated by RosettaFold's publishing / opening-up activity? So I feel that the extent of AF's altruism in this (while high) deserves some scrutiny, as perhaps it falls short of the extent that several of us commenting interpreted a couple days ago.

• While RosettaFold allows online execution to the best of their spec, they currently have a backlog queue of ~3000 jobs going back to mid-July. This is telling about the processing power required for folding. AlphaFold has access to a lot of processing power (even if it could ultimately & reasonably end up being on a charge-per-job basis).
Had there been more money to invest in vaping, it is likely more people would have stopped smoking earlier.

So I am not sure I get your point.
Yes, if you get 400k gross, your employer has to pay 413k, but you only get 221k net after deduction of taxes and obligatory insurances (according to that very same calculator).
I am surprised there apparently is no dead man’s switch in these locomotives.
Meh..

For me the most important thing developing a webapp is scaffolding and generators. I have found that generating boilerplate content(components, controllers) is annoying and takes up a lot of time.

Until you add scaffolding/generators the syntax update doesn't give that much value, in my opinion.
There was a recent incident in Germany in 2019 [1]. A runaway train loaded with timber travelled some 94 km through Germany. Operators were able to clear all tracks on the way so miraculously no injuries whatsoever.

[1] (German) https://www.merkur.de/bayern/zug-in-bayern-ausser-kontrolle-...
I have a Haiku installation here and it is having trouble upgrading to Beta 3. Anyone having trouble as well?

What I'm seeing are some package resolution errors. Things like haikuwebkit higher version wanting beta 3 (which is not yet installed), and giving me options to keep my old version or ignore it.
>>> For some reason I don't know, the Japanese entertainment industry is quite against globalization.

Alternative explanation: Most companies aren't global because it's too difficult to be.

That requires to translate/dub the product to other languages. To support multiple currency and payment systems. To have local stock for physical products. To adjust to each country's taxes, regulations and export controls. To market locally to the target audience.

It's very remarkable with tech companies. They try to corner the US market and get billions in funding, before they try to expend to the rest of the world.
Haiku has pretty good native audio, video and image editors.
But my point is their intention is to exploit the weakness of the democracy they enforce on the target country. And that is assuming this is a situation where they are exporting democracy.
There are also the opposite situations where they declare democratic outcomes invalid because they don't bow down to US interests. They happily support dictators in that case.
> As a portion of GDP, manufacturing is a bigger part of Germany's economy than nearly any other developed country. It is even higher as a portion of GDP than _China_.

What are your sources? That doesn't seem to be true according to both [0] and [1]. Both put Germany at 18-19 and China at ~26.

[0] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/Share_of_manufactu...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.ZS?most_rec...
I just load my audiobooks collection onto nextcloud and when I want to listen to an audiobook I share the file with PocketCasts which has full m4b support with chapters and covers and has excellent audio support to speed up the playback and skip silence (can get through a 8 hour audiobook in about 5-6 hours
I assume they mean 400k net, if the employer pays 413k you only get 206k after tax. While the tax burden seems huge in this case, it's not that different in the US, though. For example you'd get around 225k in California (with no deductions).
Oh fucking hell, of course these have tracking embedded in them. Here I was complaining just about not having a physical menu, but why not just slap some tracking cookies in there?

I want out.
I'd check for native software first instead of Gimp, as Haiku had a lot of background on media production. My 2 cent tip.
The insane rent increase is a more “modern” thing in European cities. I put modern in quotes because it still goes back more than 20 years, but in many places rent hasn’t increased much for the people with old leases.

In some buildings the owners have found ways around the rules, like selling the building to investment funds with enough money to tear it down and build a new one. Or maybe made enough renovations to make larger rent increases legal, but some building owners seem content to just get the steady income without doing much about it.

The big rent increases mainly come from all the new or completely renovated buildings and those are mostly owned by large investment companies.

I personally hope we eventually get enough grip on our cities to tell those investors who are foreign to go fuck themselves and seize their buildings, but it’ll probably take some time until we get to that point. Or maybe it won’t, around 30% of the population supports it or something similar.

Yes, yes, I know this is communism and will bleh bleh bleh, but we can’t keep letting the wealthy herd the poor around like this and expect our society to remain positive about our democratic ideals.
I’ve been purchasing with namecheap for several years, and I swear it’s gone downhill recently. Things like you have mentioned, I’ve also recently had bugs during domain purchase that fail to secure the actual domain while charging my card (on multiple occasions) - then support not refunding the money back to the card and instead insisting namecheap credit is suffice. It also feels much more like godaddy (or similar) then they used to with all the up-selling they have in the checkout these days.
I still have nightmarish problem tracking Intel microcode in Linux Distro due to:

1. Overlapping but separate versioning numbering of firmware blobs, Intel package version, and distro-specific package version.

2. Tracking binary blobs and detailing their exact changes and what each change does.

If truth be told, this is sheet kabuki theater.
Large companies have to report demographics of employees, and SF is always mandating something "progressive."

An activist govt. official could use that report to initiate an investigation.

But what drives the "spearhead for change" is largely fear at this point. Case in point is corporate America donating to the self-admitted Marxist BLM organization.
They have a pandemic vaccine discussion here (the video is pre-covid, technically it came out the day of the first documented COVID-19 hospital admissions)

https://youtu.be/id6AqKIxd94?t=12000
They were a group, it's no excuse. A better rider won.
Thanks for the lovely words!

Right now you can connect Gitlab, but the dashboard cards are still in the works.

Connecting Gitlab (or any other integration that's not on the dashboard) means you'll be able to search across all your connected integrations from a single interface along with keeping an eye on any related activity for your peers.
as much as it pains to say me, but IMO its a wasted effort. we don't need new design languages. VHDL/Verilog "pain points" as RTL are tiny and don't require solving, we pretty much figured out design. Verification, on the other hand, is still an evolving (now stagnating) mess that needs inputs.

The biggest offender on that project list is FIRRTL. Cleary outgrew as someone's university work of "hey, lets do IR, but for RTL" without knowing anything of the industry, tools, etc. At best you can do the same with one reduced canonical simplified verilog source-to-source translation. at worst it does not do the primary function of "being" IR for RTL, because it should've been a graph, not another language with simplified syntax.
You're saying in SV, they're 600k$, but in Germany they're only 100k$, but it would be 2x expensive to hire them?

Why don't you pay 600k$ gross then, they get 300k$ net, and thus 3x what they'd get otherwise in Germany, but don't have to move to the US? Seems like a feasible strategy to me.
>Extremely naive question, but I always wonder how you can "bootstrap" this kind of precision — intuitively for something to be this precise, the tools and equipment that "create" it should also have to be more or less equally precise.

You can build a machine like that and most machines are built like that because simply reproducing the precision that is already in the machine is cheaper than building a complex intelligent system that knows how to compensate for flaws in precision. Think about how many 3d printers do auto leveling in software rather than simply make the bed perpendicular to the print head by hand. Those old manual milling machines and lathes didn't have all that fancy software so they simply reproduced their own flaws.

Well, given a smart enough human he can compensate for the flaws in the tools and get to a higher degree of precision.
Both recordings of the "tell" word exhibit aspiration. I guess it is perhaps more noticeable to me because I'm quite well-versed in phonetics.

A common way of illustrating aspiration is: hold a sheet of paper in front of your mouth (or your hand), as you say the words. "tell" will give you a noticeable puff of air as it leaves the mouth, as opposed to "stellar", which won't.

Maybe these recordings are helpful to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirated_consonant#Allophonic
> Extremely naive question, but I always wonder how you can "bootstrap" this kind of precision

Scraping https://www.toyoda.com/news-events/rpd-blog-the-importance-o...
Pokemon Themes for Terminal
How Do I Extract All LinkedIn Connections’ Emails?
.NET WPF appears to be on life support, or in a low maintenance mode
Electric cars still generate a massive amount of pollution. Brake pads and tire wear in particular are large sources for every type of car.
Agnostic Microservice Architecture with Kafka
OTOH, environmental impact, regardless of its distance to humans, never stays isolated to the place where it's happening.

It always affects distant places, human population or not.
Just wait to see what happens to food this year after the current crop failures due to global warming hit the supply chain.
ReactOS support it's utter crap compared to Haiku. I could run Haiku in my Celeron pretty fast up to the point on being able to open 4K videos on Intel Mobile 4 series with some qt5 video player. As crazy as it sounds.
It is linked in the source....
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.long

Penetration of cloth masks = 97%

Penetration of N95 = 44%
I think keeping people like you out is part of the reason " that recently open sourced version" of Plan9 is covered in Nazi propaganda.
I think most countries only did something when the populace was affected because it is extremely hard to get buy-in from people when they don't see any negative effects of continuing as they are.

However I also see the role of the government as educating the population about the negative effects the population is not seeing yet so I don't use that to excuse the government.
I've been using reddit since the beginning and it's just getting more and more annoying to use. Can anyone suggest an alternative (beside SlashDot)?
This story was attacked last time and flagged -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946430
Paying somebody 300k/year doesn't make them "top talent".

The top talent is in the US, Taiwan, etc. designing the 3nm plants, operating the 5nm plants, doing research, etc.

Why would a 600k$/year engineer relocate from the US to Germany for a 300k$ salary pay cut ?

I've always made more money at my next job than the previous one.

If a company wants me to leave my life here behind and move 15000km, they better offer me more, like 700k$ or 800k$. In Germany, that would cost the company 1.6 million $ yearly.
CDNs by PoPs
I do a weekly roundup of tech stuff.[1] I flagged this story for inclusion, mostly because of the types of conversation I'm seeing on HN today.

This is not "New age bullshit", although I understand the sentiment. The most frustrating part about studying how teams self-manage for success is that management theory consists of a lot of words and emotions and very little concrete theory. That doesn't make any of it wrong; it just makes it very difficult to discuss in the same logical way we'd discuss, say a new theorem.

What's missing here is any sort of agreed-upon discernment function. Psychological safety is important. Ok. But how do we tell when we have that versus when we don't? Process exists in service of people. Ok, what does that mean? Should a process, for instance, inform people of things they don't like or want to hear? I would think that if a process wasn't ever uncomfortable, it's not much of a good process. But then again, we don't know.

The entire list is mostly like that. It's not things you can disagree with, it all sounds pretty good, but as a reader you're left with an empty feeling. Just what the heck am I supposed to do with this?

There's an old saying that much of being a management consultant is pandering to a natural type of person who wants to burn it all down. The rest of it is just telling clients what they already want to hear. It doesn't give those folks a good reputation.

Once again, though, it doesn't mean any of it is wrong, it's just intractable. As much as mankind has tried over and over again, it remains barbarously difficult to translate feel-good things we all instinctively know that work into practical and actionable advice, at least when it comes to knowledge work. (For assembly-line production/manufacturing work the situation is different, thank goodness)

I believe there's a lot of overstatement on both sides of this discussion, a lot of posturing and demagogurely, even by people who mean well and don't realize what they're doing. It's not that there's nothing there, it's that there is a lot of work still remaining. This is too important for all of us to simply bounce around off-the-walls about. There's something of value there. Let's go find it.

1. If you're interested in my weekly roundup, shameless plug: https://danielbmarkham.com
great thanks! missed my eyes
There have existed multiple installer projects for PHP, Apache & MySQL on Windows for two decades.

Mysqli driver was released with PHP 5.0 in 2004, it has prepared statements.
Have a look at this paper, not only does it support BLAS, but is also capable of rearranging matrix operations to make better use of BLAS routines.

EDIT: the paper https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume10/king09a/king09a.p...
>use Java APIs from Android.

Considering termux is package mostly software written in c I'd love to hear how you expect them to do that.
> In the specific case, her last name would be pronounced "deekshit", with both "d" and "t" being soft like in Spanish. Both those consonant sounds do not exist in standard American/British English.

So he did get the fricative right after all? The sounds certainly exist, unfortunately there is no unambiguous way of denoting them without resorting to the now archaic "ð" and "þ".

Could you perhaps shed some light on what a seemingly silent "h" after a consonant really indicates? Take names like "Delhi" and "Bhopal".

> Example of #1: A friend of mine is named "Manohar". The syllable emphasis and spelling is: "Muh-NOH-huhr". But his name gets pronounced as "Man-oh-HAAR" in the US. And it's not because he's pronouncing it wrong. Imagine if he pronounced every "Michael" as "Mikhail". People would be pissed.

I agree that errors in emphasis are far more jarring than errors in sounds, but using the native cognate in the language being spoken of a foreign name in that category is actually very common and often encouraged by the bearer of the name. Perhaps because it has already been mangled so many times since its Hebrew origin through Koine to all the modern languages that use it.

On thing that has always puzzled me is despite of what a dumpster fire Devanagari transliteration to Latin is, it seems to still have a massive buy-in with native speakers online. In places like social media or the Indian channels on the company Slack, it seems more common than actual Devanagari. I see the same pattern with Malayalam being written in Latin rather than its own script. If there's no need to accommodate people who don't know the script, I fail to see the point. I've asked but people usually get very defensive about it. Are they ashamed of having different scripts from the globally dominant one, Latin? I would rather consider it a point of pride.
The body temporarily shuts down multiple processes like digestion during exercise to increase peak performance. However, it still needs food etc so those calories are still burned during downtime. Active people can consume 2-3x as many calories in a day as inactive people do. At the extreme end some elite athletes need 8,000+ calories per day diets simply to maintain weight.
My general impression is that Germany is not innovative, dynamic and backwards in technology among developed nations.

For example: http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/17307.jpeg

Also, they've made some seemingly stupid decisions such as closing nuclear power plants. And I'm not a fan of their climate change policy, they should push for a worldwide carbon tax instead of forcing EVs.
Ej, co kurwa? Jeszcze mi powiesz że wychodzi się na dwór a nie na pole ;)
What an obnoxious style of writing.