skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> only charity shops, Tesco minimarts and tattoo/nail bars remain

And gambling shops. I noticed a large increase in those.
> No, with the January 6 riots? we see a minority no longer interested in the democratic process now that they don’t feel they are winning anymore.

That minority is now in jail, and according to the laws in the US, those people have also lost their ability to vote. The people who active participated in the riot is no longer even an minority vote, but outside the voting process altogether.
He didn't say he was single. One can be a man in his 30s without kids and still not be single, not everyone want to have kids.
Federal government literally spends over $1T on healthcare for the elderly.

The healthcare issues in the country have never been about the old.
> Food is cheap and plentiful.

Compared to some of Europe yes, compared to Germany absolutely not.
You should do it.

Princeton NJ is a beautiful part of the state, and close to the university.

Not sure where you will live, but Nassau Street has a quaint charm. There's plenty to do, and you are a 90 minute train ride to Manhattan.

Don't let the comments discourage you. People are just blowing off steam from the roe v wade ruling.
I’m surprised I haven’t read any articles about how low income people with bad credit who can’t get a post paid cell phone are banned from gmail. Or maybe this is just incorrect.
Seconding this, I got sensory overload lol. The screenshots are interesting but I'm lost if I should start clicking or if I should continue scrolling haha.
> Now if all the secret [stuff] in Finder could be replaced by obvious and discoverable actions

'secret' knowledge about the plethora of keyboard shortcuts that are not listed in menu entries works almost like a conspiracy theory: they don't want you to know this but I'll let you in, stranger. Knowledge is power. Do your research. Be a proud fanboy.
This is an interesting lawsuit as it is a *company* seeking damages due to DMCA abuse by a third party, and my understanding is that this is very widespread (no source sorry). Is anyone aware of any studies done on the total cost¹ (vs benefit¹) of the DMCA due to malicious actors?

¹ defining what is a cost vs benefit (and how much) is probably the hardest part, maybe after acquiring the necessary data.
>Okay. Why you do you feel the need to tell everyone that?

I hate delusions.

>women are people

I thereby propose that all nouns be cancelled, since everything in the universe is a Lump Of Atoms, we don't need any more nouns to express ourselves.

A Lump Of Atoms sat on a Lump Of Atoms to eat a Lump Of Atoms with a Lump Of Atoms on the side.

Just kidding, I know how language works. It works by assigning names to patterns. If several names are assigned to the same pattern, the most specific and distinct one is used. Women is the most distinguishing name for the pattern "people who spawn people", and refusal to use the name is associated with a lower critical thinking and higher conformity to ideological fashions.
I agree with your point.

But I wanted to add that with the exception of empty offices due to COVID all other problems didn't change that rapidly, IMO.

These have been slowly building up since Gideon's austerity and in almost all deprived areas in the UK, you could play the Charity/Fried Chicken/Bookies/Boarded shop drinking game for at least a decade.
Oh that’s good to hear, I got the impression it was only good as a veteran.
> anti American comments in this thread

It's weird that describing things accurately is considered "anti-American." The question was answered multiple times though: If he does get a higher salary, much is going to be wasted on making up for deficiencies of the US that may be invisible to a German (especially wrt. health, food quality, security, social services, etc.)
Per the other thread, the interpuncts mark accepted end-of-line hyphenation positions, not syllables. Merriam-Webster does also indicate syllable breaks with hyphens in its pronunciations, which I assume are (some variant of?) Americanist notation:

\ tī-ˈpä-grə-fē \

In IPA syllable breaks are full stops,

/taɪˈpɑː.ɡrə.fi/

but interestingly, the syllabification for BrE (from Cambridge Dictionary) matches the break positions:

/taɪˈpɒɡ.rə.fi/

Possible causation?
I think you mistook German for Germanic. German means citizenship in Germany, Germanics were peoples living in central Europe and Scandinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
I think parent's point is pertinent. The ranking is reductive, but purports to be objective and all-encompassing.

Personally I also find very well organized, well functioning Western European cities quite boring. I would take Athens over Frankfurt any day - but of course the 'objective' index says I would be wrong to do so.
Yes, because there are no alcohol or drug issues in Berlin!

What an over the top comment. The US regardless of these issues is an enormously successful country, with some of the friendlist people when you visit (I'm from the UK originally but travel a lot).
Love this. What I like about system design is being aware of things like the 12-factor app but at the same time being aware of how much you can scale vertically before you need to scale horizontally, and avoiding any form of bikeshedding, premature scaling, and premature optimization.
Then how would you rank the articles, measure their quality, and choose what to put on the front page?
This is hilariously inaccurate and essentially a stereotype perceived from the Reddit front page. Europe is experiencing legions of issues including runaway inflation, a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable, a migrant crisis that is causing their own racial issues that they pretend don’t exist but are causing huge polarization and the rise of right-wing parties, a business climate that has produced essentially zero large companies in decades, and on and on.
So you can get a bunch of American nationalists who have never been to Europe answering? You're dismissing people who have actually lived in both places.
I could find lots of things wrong with both US and Germany. Everywhere has its problems and nowhere is perfect. I’ve spent time in just about everywhere and lived in a multitude of environments and cultures. I’m happiest living in Rochester, NY than I was anywhere else. It’s all personal preference, but the “issues” mentioned in other comments were not constructive nor related to the OPs questions.
What are you talking about, health care for the elderly is terrible! I guess you've never had to take care of an old person in the US? And never been exposed to northern European healthcare?
advisors who provide intros should be invested, not compensated. the social capital gain of making a great intro is enough. compensate advisors for their time spent coaching you
> Would I rather be disabled or unemployed in France? Probably, but that's not exactly the HN audience.

But it's also about knowing that your friends, your family, the people who make your coffee, the people you meet in the park etc. will have a safety net to fall back on.

I do think that I'm not the only person who finds that reassuring.

re. the "I make more money", I realise as a person without kids, I have a skewed perspective but I don't find myself lacking a lot in life. I don't understand the obsession with wanting to get as rich as possible, and if society provides for a lot of things (including kids' college tuition) you may not need to save as much.
This presumes there is a good tablet experience.
Concrete data point: My neighbor (a German) moved to the East Coast a year ago (for wife’s job) and has zero intention of moving back (they have bought a house).

Obviously lots of details; they are in academia, have an 8yo, were most recently in the UK, etc. But they have their skin in the game and made choose USA.
Medicare still has costs to the policyholder and it also requires supplemental insurance for coverage of things like eyes, teeth, hearing aids, long term care, etc.
NZ is not cheap indeed and Auckland is insanely expensive (managed to buy despite the crazy housing market), but nice beaches and awesome for sailing !
As the spouse of L1 you get an L2 which lets you work for any employer including yourself as long as the L1 is active. With the L2 you get an EAD on arrival and do not have to wait for months to get it.
I would closely research the health care situation. When you're young, white, male and invincible the US may well be a good choice, but later in life when a bad health care bill is typically just around the corner you will want to be very careful about such decisions.

In Germany not a whole lot can happen, in the United States you may well be on the receiving end of the stick.

And that's before we get into the speed with which the whole of the world as we knew it seems to be unraveling, including the USA, but I can see some arguments for being safer there than in Berlin.
That was absolutely spectacular. The writing is truly inspiring.
So you literally say "can you model a car and a car factory?" because that's a pretty meaningless question so I'm not surprised they think "what is he talking about? ohhh he's referring to the classic car inherits vehicle thing and wants to see if I understand inheritance. ok I'll show him some inheritance!"
I wonder if it is actually already possible to write Linux device drivers in Zig without any "publicity fanfare", because of how easy Zig integrates with C projects and Zig's explicit approach to memory management.
This isn't really a great example of the point, however. This wasn't a story about a large company that cut corners for the sake of speed and efficiency just because there was context could have justified it.
It’s a romanization, not specifically an English one. Romanizations, or transliterations in general, don’t translate from one language into another, but from one writing system into another. You’d have more of a point if the word was substantially changed for English, for example like the English Munich is quite different from the original German München.
Postgres is great, but frankly this is where Amazon RDS shines for us. Outsourcing the pain of maintenance, upgrades, mirroring ...
True. But not by very much. Anyone that googled “quantitative easing” in 2021 would have been able to figure out that the boom was likely to come to an end soon.
Hey Alina,

thank you for doing the work that some others are seemingly afraid to touch! There are many fair-weather scientists, but researchers who consider all credible leads and data, no matter the popularity or political implications of the results, are much rarer.

I have two questions:

1. There were genome sequences removed from the 'Sequence Read Archive', at the request of Chinese scientists.¹ It was later portrayed by US authorities as something that commonly happens. As a layperson I'm curious if that's true and it's a regular occurrence that researchers in another country ask for data to be deleted from the archive. That seems odd.

2. In case you read Chinese, do you know about that Wuhan Institute of Virology job ad where they were looking for a researcher to study coronaviruses in bats, which was posted on their website a few weeks before the outbreak became known? I saw this myself in the very early days of the pandemic, possibly before people in the West were even aware that there was a serious outbreak in Wuhan. At the time I didn't think much of it, but then 2 or 3 days later they first deleted that ad, then the whole board and when I visited today I found their entire website has been completely reworked. Have you seen this and do you know if it was saved anywhere? Not that the job opening itself seemed suspicious and it's well known this sort of research was done there, but I just found it odd they would try to hide it.

¹ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01731-3
>Although it is open, the amount of effort required to design and make SoCs that effective compete with ARM licensed designs could cost more than simply paying ARM licensing fees and royalties.

With ARM, only ARM can license designs to others. They'll license the ISA to you, but you'll still be unable to license your ARM implementations to others.

With RISC-V, everybody gets a free license to the ISA and anybody can license their own designs to others. As a result, there's a lively market of cores, which has been growing geometrically for the last ~3 years.

>Ultimately if a lot of experienced ARM designers defect to RISC-V firms, then the balance could tilt to RISC-V.

SiFive is, on high performance, about 2 years behind ARM's fastest designs right now. On power efficiency and area, they're already very competitive.

Tenstorrent has a team led by Jim Keller working on a high performance implementation.

Rivos, full of ex-Apple, ex-P.A.Semi engineers, is working on another.

And these are just some examples. Several other parties have huge RISC-V efforts ongoing.

RISC-V having competitive high performance implementations is something I fully expect to happen within 2 years, rather than just a possibility.
Yes, at this point, it resembles a trolley problem. Balancing what's more important, the new life itself, or the quality of the already established lives.
Thats not easy for an german
They will just send you home to die when you become a burden to them. Happens all the time, old folks just get told to pound sand and die and no one does shit about it.
In theory states could write a new law that forbid carrying any explosive on public road as a matter of road safety. Ammunition would be non-road-legal, making concealed and non-concealed carry impossible on public roads.
From their website:

"Everything secure:
All Paste data is stored in your own iCloud Drive using industry-standard security technologies and encryption."

Maybe it's me, but reading "everything secure" I was expecting the next paragraph to be something along the lines of "nothing leaves your computer" rather than "we store your sh*t on the cloud"...
If you don't want kids.

If you do, it's always a factor. Do you want your kids to grow up in a stable culture, or in a declining one? Surrounded by polarization, extremes of all kinds, instability? I consider moving to the US for a couple of years for the money, but the second that kids are on the horizon, I would book a plane ticket to Europe.
For that purpose 'having money' is not the kind of money that a typical immigrant from Europe will bring with them, especially not if they still have to work for a living.
> including runaway inflation

The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic.

> a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable

Completely false. Do you even read our budgets? Your debt-to-GDB was literally 3x ours last year. European countries aren't even allowed to deficit spend more than a few percent (which is what got Greece in trouble, for example.)

> they pretend don’t exist

I'm guessing you don't speak any European languages or you'd know this isn't true.

> business climate that has produced essentially zero large companies in decades, and on and on.

Ummm, right... like ARM, Skype, Spotify, Klarna, all the telecom suppliers, not to mention some of the biggest multinationals on the planet (whom you probably think are American)
And on the next iteration, change the column width a little.
In a lot of ways they’re not. You mentioned one. Another is class of shares.
They do not. I know from first hand experience. More fundamental question: How can you distiguish a "burner" phone (no registered user name at mobile phone company)? As I understand, a SaaS (like Google et al) cannot distinguish.
> they are in academia,

Makes me wonder if they draw a lucky ticket like tenure. Because for most cases, the opposite would make more sense.
Did you use the WSL graphics support in Windows 11? If so then that is pretty disappointing that it performs poorly.
Haven't been to Seattle so can't comment in earnest, but from that I've seen on pictures and Street View, the downtown is just your typical American large city downtown (once you've seen Manhattan, you've seen them all, they were mostly built in the same culture, architecture era and following the same urban patterns). It's essentially efficiency-driven and business-driven uglyness (or nondescriptness) that permiated XX century urbanism, at least in capitalist countries [1].

[1] In the Soviets, the cities were built on different premises, so they look very different - although the countries were so poor that, even though urban planning was excellent (ubiquitous parks, public spaces, houses built far away from busy roads etc.), the buildings themselves are drab due to resource constraints.
How does one get an invite to join though? The suggestion seems to be to scroll through a list of hundreds of online handles to see if you know someone by their pseudonym, and assumes you can reach them out of band, which is obviously not going to work for the vast majority of people.
NB: /has taken queues/s/queus/cues/
If you "can't" have any downtime at all then no matter if it's Postgres of MariaDB, it's going to require a replicated setup. You can't ry on a single instance.

It's not very fair to say "upgrades on Postgres are hard" if that's practically always true in your use-case, that's all.
My go-to for memorizing numbers is Goroawase (0 = ma, 1 = i/hi, 2 = ni/fu/tsu etc.). It is less flexible in comparison (you can't choose the vowels freely) but uses less phonemes, so I think it's more intuitive for an English speaker to learn (e. g. you don't have to know the difference between ka and kha).
Neither quality nor truth are popularity contests.
You do you, but a lot of the horror stories about the US relate to disadvantaged people (financially and otherwise). If “Any amount of money” is >$5M I guarantee you could buy a house in a quiet but close-to-a-city neighborhood, and have plenty left over for healthcare. You will read the same headlines about outrageous injustice that you currently are, but be in a better position to help fix them.
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And if that's 'at will' employment you may well end up finding out what it is like to be without a safety net if the spouse should get fired.
Not long after Australia pointed the finger at China, it emerged that Australian Government Labs had been doing gain of function research on bats ...

If the bar for proof of guilt is "swift and furious reactions" then by the playground court rules; "whoever smelt it, dealt it" and "whoever said the rhyme did the crime"
> the black people there seem so positively surprised and very kind when you ask them something as a white dude

Where were you? I live and grew up in the south east, and have always chatted with my black neighbors / clerks / coworkers / etc when out and about. It’s so normal that I can’t imagine a response of surprise.
What does "love for liberty" mean to you?
Yeah exactly, I didn't even need to take time into account, I was looking for the upper bound presuming it's always on with a simple Wattage comparison.

But that was mostly because that workstation, albeit lovely, had a very long boot process.

The ThinkCentre boots in under a minute, so I actually end up only booting it when needed.

(Some of my work can be done offline, and I jump at every opportunity to `halt -p` and be in the quiet offline space/state.)
Depends what you mean by "have money". Plenty of small business owners with a few million dollars in savings and assets have had to liquidate them to pay for healthcare for themselves or their family members. It can cost over $1 million to survive a heart attack in the US, and the disability of oneself or family members can easily cost millions of dollars in healthcare expenses over a lifetime.
This article is … ehhh

We have been hearing the story of how valuable Arm is for some time. On paper and in theory this story is great but it seems like something has gone quite wrong along the way.

If Arm is so desirable, why has it failed to locate an acquirer? Why so many botched deals such as the China IP deal? Why has it had to spin off its software division? Why has it decided to try to IPO in the middle of a terrible global recession?

The most recent round of layoffs have been of an different nature than what has come previously. And this layoff was preceded by others before it.

Something about this round of cuts feels desperate, last minute, unplanned and quite deep in nature.

This is a company which seems to be having an identity and leadership crisis.

The timing is also incredibly bad. They have decided to try to IPO in a bear market : recession. And to make this “bear market IPO” work, they have sawn off a leg and thrown it overboard.

If everyone wants Arm, I don’t think it would be choosing THIS MOMENT to IPO.

In the Mergers and Acquisitions world, a failed aquisition is “the kiss of death.” Having failed in a desperate gamble to sell the company to NVIDIA - we are now seeing the outcome: A highly undesirable and poorly timed tail spin into a poorly planned and badly formed recession IPO.

Won’t be buying the shares of this one.

The company is a single speed bump away from catastrophe in my opinion. These graphs which have been going up and to the right only need a single disruption to change trajectory.

Personal opinion is Arm is on the cusp of disruption, having failed to exit, it is hard to imagine the luck lasting forever.
It is not weird. It is normal. Billions of dollars spent for propaganda of American dream. And it is global. This is the power of an utopian idea. People need belief in the success. Critical thinking was never popular, but nowadays is the exception of the rule.
What's the point of running a database in a container?

There are well tested distro packages for databases which get security updates automatically and none of the weirdness of container environments.

Some people need to realize using the buzzword of the moment isn't necessary where it isn't.
That doesn't make the criticism invalid - even if the deaths are weighted by population, choosing the median is far more likely to give a non-zero value for larger countries.
I've been using Surface Book 2 as a work laptop and at this point I won't buy a single Microsoft's hardware beyond an Xbox. It was utterly bad. Lack of thunderbolt so USB-C docks won't fully work, lack of HDMI ports, insane thermal throttling, had issues handling 1000hz polling rate mouses(seriously), quite often laptop would just not turn on until specific reset combination of keys was pressed, general performance issues with time. Whole thing was also very fragile and scratched very easily. And the worst part - power button sticks out so much it was randomly turning on in my laptop bag or backpack, quite often heating really badly and discharging to death. I would come to work almost every day without power. Never again.
It's related but not all standards allow for this sort of decentralization. IRC is an open standard and it still adds friction to be a member of multiple networks.
I think you really underestimate the amount of dependencies (documented and otherwise) that exist in even medium sized company.

I once caused a production outage in a retail company that caused all cash registers to stop working. The team that worked on that had pushed in a last minute change and didn't test if it handed going offline gracefully.

Right now I'm on call for an identity provider used by people in various timezones, including logistics workers in places that operate 24/7. Even when we do weekend upgrades, we still cause quite a bit of collateral damage. 10 minutes of time, multiply by the number of employees affected. It adds up fast.
Do you actually have such an uptime requirement or do you think you have such an uptime requirement? How are you conducting it with other databases?
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