skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there something I am missing here?

Yes: the fact that many other automakers all over the world were caught as well, but you only remember VW. And my guess is that for the ones that weren't caught it was just that: they weren't caught.

Basically, European politicians had created every tighter fuel and emissions standards that really couldn't be met (the leaner you burn the more NOx and other nasties, if you want to burn cleaner, you need a richer mixture). So enforcement of those standards was "wink wink, nudge, nudge", and everyone was in on it.

Except the pesky Americans.

Buying gas from Russia is sensible, see "Ostpolitik".

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

Phasing out nuclear and increasing coal is just nuts. Nuclear should, if anything, be expanded, but it's the third rail of German politics. The populace has been so brainwashed on this topic that logic just doesn't apply. Kinda like guns in the US.

The financial class in most countries sees itself as above the law. Cumex was worse in many ways, but what the banks have been doing in the US, Japan or the UK is hardly better. In fact, the US legal system officially declined to pursue HSBC's brazen money laundering, because going after the bank might lead to financial instability. Carte Blanche. And don't get me started on Goldman Sachs.

Heck, the moneyed classes in the UK took the country out of the EU, never mind the enormous economic, social and political damage, in order to avoid EU transparency laws.
It actually says in the beginning that he was a P5, which I assume to be over 200k total comp, which is more or less the top few percent of software engineers nationwide. That is a great comp package even for management. So if you are indeed that valuable, any company would want to retain you, and you could ask for a lateral move to a new manager, or just bolt when things get hairy. Everybody wants to retain or hire the top talent.

Edit: that is not to justify the alleged treatment, only placing the situation in relative terms. He wasn't being paid 80k at the only shop in town, with no other possibilities available.
I would be very interested to know what company this is so that I can never buy anything from them.
Shredding him.

His business acumen was nil and his cost cutting nailed shut the coffin of every venture he started.

I don’t get the hero worship.
Note this is just murder, but murder is merely a small fraction of gun deaths.

The multiplier for all firearm-related deaths between the US and EU average for example is around 12X, more than an order of magnitude [1].

The elephant in the room however is that the main argument simply doesn't hold up. Owning a gun doesn't just make the owner slightly more likely to get shot, but also everyone around them [2]

Or, as they say: The only thing you need against a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with... nah, not going there. Too sad actually.

Statistic after statistic says clearly that a society with more guns is less safe for everyone (the Switzerland outlier is easily explained by banning of owning munition instead of guns in peace time).

I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like. Where children just go to school without security checks, amok drills and bulletproof safe rooms.

Seriously, that just rocks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
[2] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/do-guns-m...
i just upgraded my Windows 7 PC from a 2012 desktop to a modern 2021-level Windows 10 desktop with i7 CPU, 32 GB memory, etc.

I honestly can't tell the difference between the two systems. I don't play games which is probably the biggest thing driving upgrades, but for everything that I need to do, which is an advanced use, my 10 year old Windows 7 system was more than good enough.

The only reason why I did end up upgrading was because I bought a 10Gbe switch, and the motherboard in my Windows 7 PC didn't support the bus speed required for 10 GBe speeds.

I'm pretty sure that it's not worth $1000 just to change my compiles from 30 seconds to 5 seconds so I'm not sure what the compelling reason to upgrade is for the hundreds of millions of other users except a fake Windows 11 upgrade forcing a hardware upgrade.
Disclosure: I reviewed this blog post and provided technical support whilst Nathan built this out. Other than that it's an end-user write-up. Happy to answer questions folks may have here or on Twitter @alexellisuk.
1. Turn off Google location history.

2. Disable all Google apps' access to your location.

3. Disable Android's "high accuracy location" if possible in your Android version. This little snitch collects terrifyingly precise "anonymized" location information fused with device sensors.

Do not accept surveillance in the name of convenience. And don't let Google normalize even more intrusion into our lives. Don't use their services.
Yeah vaccines provide moderate protection generally. What provides the bulk of the protection is herd immunity. To get functional herd immunity you need to vaccinate children.
"Effect" implies a cause. Any guesses?
Everybody's time horizons expand when the market is going up.
Only if the guild allows nicknames to be set manually. Not all do. And your actual username when @ mentioned still is the same.
It is a loophole in labor laws that CA's legislature especially should close because it is against the spirit/intent of the laws that vacation time should be an asset owed to the employee as part of total compensation, not a whim to be managed (removed without recompense) by the employer.
Gun's per capita seems to be very high on that list?

Top 3 (all per 100 persons)

1. Switzerland 26.3

2. Norway 28.8

3. Finland 32.4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
Took the words out of my mouth. I'd prefer a UI element designed for Windows 2K over most anything designed later (with some, but few, exceptions).

I'm not sure I would characterize newer UI as more hostile. Some better adjective might be infantilizing, dumbed-down - for the most part; or there's a dichotomy between the UI for dummies part and arcane, not-well-documented, difficult-to-locate parts. This dichotomy was somewhat less pronounced in the past.
Are you saying that voluntarily joined e-lists that reflect posts from each member to all members, as a means of discussion, are spam?
This seems incredibly out of touch with reality.
Knights use their first names - he’s Sir Clive, or Sir Clive Sinclair - never Sir Sinclair.
That's a good way to avoid the situation where employees need to take vacations as unpaid time in january but they still end up hitting the same issue in June (or whenever the cap kicks in). So if you accrued up to the max at one of these places would the additional time you would accrue just get immediately paid out? Or was no vacation time earned?
Physical need, we can't take the labs home and networked access isn't the same as physical access (or isn't the same for all tasks). So some people are in full-time (or near), most are back a few days a week, and people working in other areas (that have less obvious need for physical presence) are back on rare occasions (specific meetings) unless they're in sales or sociable. Sales people seem to like the social aspect of the office (maybe not all, but certainly here).
I was answering the question about whether any were armed or not, of which, the answer is yes: some absolutely were.

Getting a permit to carry in DC is extremely difficult to the point where there's no chance any of the protestors had one. That makes possession illegal. Also, a lack of proper licensing is mentioned several times in the article.
The courts are an independent body of government, the legislature has (and should always have) zero impact on the way that the courts make decisions. That's by design. This decision was rooted in common law. The onus is on the courts to reassert authority to review these cases, not on anyone else. There are no elections or legislation that will impact this.
I skimmed it ;) But I did looked how much they raised on CrunchBase, seemed to be about equal of the sales price.
I cant speak to the economics on your side, but from a consumer point of view, the main issue I'm having is: how do I know this thing will even work? I don't want to shell out $10 and wait for processing time only to find out it doesn't even work

Maybe one way is to let users upload it for free, interactively search the first 10s for free, and then require payment to look through the rest of the video. If I felt confident that it was going to work, and I had a real reason to search through the video, I would probably pay between $1 and $5, depending on the length of the video. Much more than that and I'd rather just scrub through it myself. I guess the length of the video is roughly proportional to how much I'm willing to pay to not have to scrub through it myself.

The other thing is that it's much easier to scrub through and find an image, rather than voice. If I want to find a bike, I can just scrub through at 10x and look for bikes, a bike isn't going to just appear in a single frame and disappear in the blink of an eye. If it also searched voice, it would be worth even more.
If that would happen to my VPN service, I would disconnect in a heartbeat.
The Guardian article claims "Sinclair invented the pocket calculator", but other calculators were on the market before his:

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/history_of_electronic...

[edit] More details on his calculators, which were quite cool, especially his trick to decrease power consumption and the super-slim Sinclair Sovereign:

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/sinclair_-_the_pocket...
Email is such a steaming pile of shit these days. I can’t wait till everyone moves off of it.
I mean, his wife has cancer, and he's being fucked with. It's easy to say from a distance that one should deal with everything in a calm, rational manner.
Murder rate isn't the whole story. Check out the suicide rate, how gun ownership affects a successful attempt and who is killing themselves in the US.
I love mullvad too. I don't use it for two reasons:
1- I can't watch Netflix when I'm connected.
2- Does not work reliably in China.
Express VPN does work for me, although it is probably not very secure. If they fix those issues, I will switch without a doubt.
I am on the same spot of running a future Discord community but planning of hosting a Discourse instance for archive and history of conversations. Discourse has extra batteries included and an active community of people developing for Discourse.

One key advantage is both can link together: https://blog.discourse.org/2021/05/discord-and-discourse-bet...
For me, the lack of a "Never combine" option for the taskbar has made win11 unusable for me. I have already reverted back to 10 and will not be updating again till this option is made available again. Its a huge productivity hit for people who are used to multitaking between dozens of open windows
Why not collab with the pine64.org peeps?

They have a great amount of hardware already available and lots of knowledge to accelerate and cheapen your roadmap.... If you are willing to share the design of course.
>When I was young I slept in a HAMMOCK while working at the office. I now have a family. And yes, it is harder to get promoted, simply because I have less interest in working 90 hour work weeks!

Honestly, that sounds awful. As an European I am always amazed at this American mentality. I would never ever work more than 40 hours a week as an employee. Even that I consider too much for a healthy life and I aim at ~30 hours a week. I would never agreed to be called in the middle of the night, because there is a production outage in a company I don't own. I would never lose a good night sleep over such company. I will put in my hours for the salary we have agreed on and that's it, I don't care. Americans have been collectively brainwashed into thinking that the corporations give a shit about them and that the success of the corporation is also the success of its employees. Especially in our field, given the shortage of qualified engineers, why should I care? You don't want me, you won't promote me? Fine, I will talk to the next recruiter in the long line that is pilling up in my inbox.
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I've found that self-hosting the docker version is really straightforward. If you're on digital ocean, they even have a prefab droplet.

It does run better on droplets that are one up from the smallest $5/mo flavor. Some version upgrades will require a couple minutes of downtime if your system is memory constrained: but all the upgrades are done via the web UI or a single terminal command on the droplet.
I haven't done it for a while but I've certainly taken off 3 weeks at a time previously. And if you count a combination of work travel and PTO, I did it last about a month before the pandemic hit.

And as others have noted, taking multiple weeks off is quite normal in Europe.
I switched to ExpressVPN when PIA was transfered to an owner I was skeptical of. Whom can one recommend now?
Reserving your firepower for negotiation is the opposite of folding your hand.
> What were you doing while it turned into your enemy?

You seem to be assuming that someone could have done something and been successful, which I think is assuming too much.

But like I said before: the key point is defense in depth. It's stupid to put all your eggs in one basket for something so important. Conventional democratic process and personal firearms are both baskets in the analogy.
More than $80m in profit from throwing ads on the rot.
Ive been using win 11 on my laptop for a couple months now.

I like the new UI, it feels simpler and less gaudy. The drop down menu expansion thing is fine. I also prefer the redesign of the settings app. I find casting my screen and bluetooth works better. Windows has been missing something decent window snapping features forever and although it's a bit clunky I appreciate that it's there.

The only thing that has annoys me is the taskbar not disappearing when its supposed to, leading to it covering the bottom of maximized applications. Most of the time its not there but sometimes it'll just stick after coming up.

I didn't know about the android apps feature but I might give it a shot when I go home. Widgets I just haven't used at all despite being aware of them.

I still have win10 on my desktop. I don't remember the switch being painful when I went to the rolling release windows insider on my laptop. Frankly win10 is fine too, so unless there's an android app I want to play around with I wouldn't bother switching.
Such “devs” are primarily familiar with computers as communications devices for serving advertising over the web. Fortran is not popular in this area.
I'm sorry, what? Why wouldn't you want a Lock Screen? That's a basic security measure, without a lock screen Windows would be a non-starter for any secure enterprise.
It's all pretty impressive until I start to imagine myself renting an apartment or house like this or being a guest in house like this. Then it fills me with dread and starts to send shivers down my spine. Every damn single activity monitored, human being like NPC in Sims game - wth,bed occupancy sensors?
Maybe it's associated with a particular type of tree/wood as well.
PS: I am strong supporter of Gun rights and proud gun owner.

I fully agree with anti-gun crowd that having vast majority of guns in hands of citizens (legally or illegally) leads to more deaths. USA's comparison with Angola is actually more serious than the numbers tell you because you need to realize that USA has far better medical response and doctors trained to handle gunshot wounds. So to truly compare Angola and USA you might have to increase USA's number with those who are shot instead of dead.

Having said that I am totally for guns in the hands of citizens. Mostly because I think it acts as a bulwark against further restrictions. After 2nd ammendment you will be seeing "commons sense rules for free speech" like we have seen in UK, Canada and Australia.

Every constitutional right has its price. Anyone who fails to see this is not honest. Give police the power to search you without warrant and we almost certainly will solve more crimes. Force individual to testify against themselves and we will most certainly keep more child rapists in jail. But then as a society we need to figure out the trade-off and in my personal case I would rather keep my guns and face a 5/1000 chance of dying of gunshot wound than surrender my guns.

> Blatant corruption, lobbying, outright incompetent representatives, abuses of power, erosion of human rights, blatant disregard for human rights. If Americans didn't fight against the Patriot act, wars, torture, what will they fight for/against? Mask mandates?

In my experience USA lot less corrupt than most other countries. Lobbying overall is a net good thing for a democratic society. Representatives are incompetent everywhere. American abuse of power is nowhere close to what EU or AU does to its citizens. I am not sure wha erosion of human rights you are talking in USA.
I loved forums and mailing lists, so I don't have to be on 24/7 to join a conversation.

Hate discord since you can't jump in a conversation that happened 30 min. before, as it would get mixed with the current conversations. Now they have the threads, and the `in reply to`, but I feel that they way they did the threads don't help for separating the conversations and keeping them on long-term
Sadness. I got started in the 80s on a Sinclair ZX81. It changed my life.
This post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551183 - suggests it's a simple set of hueristics, looking for things like javascript, link/SEO spam, language, amount of text content, etc, filtering out unwanted results and only indexing wanted ones.
The promo process there is a mess for sure. They were trying to fix the issue of having different offices all around the world, and that people's standards in different markets were - well - different. But the effort to create globally a standardized promotion process meant it became very hard to get promoted, and as a manager it sucked when you had people on your team who absolutely deserved it but got stuck in the process and had to wait 1-2 years more than they should have, or leave in order to get a vertical move.
I just grabbed my partner's iPhone (ios 14), turned on airplane mode. Trigger Siri and it says not available without an internet connection. Try it for yourself, prior to iOS 15 Siri simply does not work without a network connection.
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> So it turns out people were taking much more time off now than when PTO was unlimited.

Is that surprising? I've had 'unlimited' (there must be a better way of saying that: obviously it has 'fair usage') for a couple of years, not counting but I'm pretty sure I've taken less than statutory.

Previous place was seven days over statutory and up to five would roll; fewer than statutory requirement taken would be paid in lieu (by law), obviously I took enough to use it all or roll some over - why let a couple of days go to waste? But when there's just no numbers on anything... if I don't have something to do I don't take it. (That's probably unrelatable for anyone with children, or a spouse who is taking holiday, that makes sense and I'm not knocking it!)
Bojack run a skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eG0y_nb5IA

But I doubt it. Women with guns are actually a sexy cliche.
Are you just expressing cynicism or are you actually interested? If the latter, you can just talk to insiders.

I had a somewhat curious personal experience at Uber. I went to interview there circa 2016/2017 and got an offer but had to wait for a visa to come out. In the meantime, the Susan Fowler scandal exploded. The hiring manager reached out to me out of his own accord to express his own outrage and how he'd absolutely not tolerate toxic behavior within his area of reach, and that many others within the company shared that feeling.

Turns out he was right: the team I eventually joined was fantastic and indeed there was a very large part of the company that was deeply troubled (and often quite vocal!) about the growing accounts of harassment and injustices. Driven by pressure to get the house in order, this eventually culminated in hundreds of separate investigations, and various degrees of corrective actions (including firing several perpetrators)

Since then, I've heard my share of complaints about higher ups as well (being in a role that involves quite a bit of cross-department communication), so it's not like it's all rainbows and roses, but my main point is that if you ask the average joe in a company, they're often happy to be straightforward with you.
> I can see a future where there's a "Go classic" forked from 1.17 (or possibly 1.18) that never moves forward, while the main Go gets ever more complex and Java-fied.

What I think will actually happen is that Go will continue increasing in size, generics will bring a new kind of fragmentation with people using libraries everywhere to replace the base constructs of the language, and in 10 years a new "minimalist" language to replace Go will appear, and the cycle will continue.

You see that happening with pretty much everything. At first the new thing is easy to learn, and then it slowly becomes as large and hard to learn as the thing it replaced, because accidental complexity wasn't such a big part of the original thing.
If you have an issue starting discord then it would feel wrong if the only way to contact support would be via discord.
I don't understand unlimited PTO. I mean, why not just take every Friday off, then? There is almost never a point at where where there's no work to be done; it's never going to be a case of "as long as you get your work done, you can take time off"... because there's no such thing as "done", just "prioritized".
Hayek’s “cosmos” and “taxis” dichotomy captures this well.
Proton[1] is the reason my next machine will be Linux.

[1]: https://www.protondb.com/
I love programming (that’s why I’m on hacker news) but when I get into the zone it makes me feel… “wired” is the best way to describe it is or “switched on”. After I find it difficult to socialise, make conversation and switch off - and it contributes to a feeling of loneliness.

I know others get this feeling but for me it’s much longer lasting and stronger. The half-life is around days not hours and so it also impacts my weekends.

I then find it difficult to feel connected with my friends and partner and I hate myself for it.

In contract on holidays, I feel bubbly, the conversation flows and overall I am a much more sociable person.

The feeling of being wired is specifically linked to deep thinking when programming or doing maths. I don’t get it when I “work hard” for example writing. It impacts my thoughts, mind, mood and composition.

Does anyone else feel like this?
Well, I'll keep quiet because who knows how far libel law goes.

Having said that, "we've got deadlines" doesn't resonate well with https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-1330

smh