skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany needs the EU to offset their aging population and to import younger, skilled workers from neighbouring countries who share similar values. Without this, they'd be already like Japan, South Korea, etc. that is facing an even worse demographic time bomb.
>Even though the ruling occurred in a U.S. federal court, Judge Tse said he made the ruling based on New Zealand law, as Zuru intends to sue in that jurisdiction. Therefore, the court's ruling was decided based on New Zealand law's definition of defamation, and not the U.S. legal definition.

If Glassdoor and the anonymous review doesn't violate US law, then shouldn't the US judge butt out of it? Wouldn't a NZ judge order Glassdoor to turn over the data? Who mediates claims between parties from different countries?
> Maybe germans have some fucking great plan because in 10 years they won't sell many cars here.

They are trying to build cars there. Germany's trade surplus also leads to German companies investing more money abroad than at home.

Also, what is Germany supposed to do? What are they doing wrong? EZB is not controlled by Germany, Germany in fact always complained about the low interest rates.
WDYT about Zulip as a forum?

I really like Z and contrib code to it, but genuinely curious if it can provide "forum" functionality, and if not, what the feature/etc gaps are.
That hit in commission can be very efficient, since you save a lot of time you can bill at a high rate.
Glassdoor stored the information, so that was obviously their desired result.
I think a replacement acronym for FAANG may be in order if Netflix continues its downward trajectory because simply removing it from the current one won't work.
Amazon Wants 100k Electric Vans. Can Rivian Deliver?
Compactness of notation is important, and verbosity of code (which I think became widespread since the advent of Java) only serves to hurt understanding. Given the right context, mathematical notation is easy to understand (and it often “computes itself”). Mathematical texts use the “literate” style which unfortunately has not found its adoption in software industry, even despite the fact that prof. D. Knuth has been advocating it since the 1960s…
How much rep do I need to downvote submissions again?

Enough that people think you're @dang. All you can do is flag a submission, which is what I did. I rarely flag stuff that makes it to the front page, but this is such egregious bait-and-switch clickbait I made an exception.
Interesting post, many thanks. What's your view on w3m, as compared to the others you mention? (Side note: I'm a daily w3m user.)
I just had a short interview the other day with 2 folks. Screensharing, we went through the first 'problem'. They gave me some SQL tables with dummy data, and asked for some data/queries.

"How would you get X?" "How would you get all X who are not retired?" etc

After 3 questions, the guy stopped and said "no one has ever gotten this far this quickly before - I don't have any other prepared questions right now. Let's try one more..."

That one took another 10 minutes - I sort of 'knew' it but... doing 'live' pairing being on display adds a bit of nerves, and... I just need to hammer through multiple trials. Felt awkward, but got there after a bit of time.

Then... person 2. "Leetcode" exercise... I reviewed it again a bit later, and one of the things that tripped me up is that the description and the expected 'sample in/out' answers were in conflict. At best, the description was ambiguous, but to my reading was in contradiction to one of the expected answers.

I struggled 20 minutes in front of them... and we were out of time. The question was (to my reading) relatively abstract and doesn't map to any of the sorts of problems I've tackled over the past 20 years in development.

They thanked me and closed the interview. I wrestled with the leetcode for another 30 min or so later that evening and 'got it', but... annoying.

I reply with this partially to say "you may never get better at the leetcode stuff" but don't let that get you too down. :)
No one is interested in building new refineries

But they are interested in expanding existing refineries and have been blocked by the White House.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-refinery-pollution/bi...
The timing of HN can be spooky sometimes. Earlier this week I was just wondering it I could switch the ctrl-c interrupt to a single key for easier keyboard smashing to stop an errant poorly thought out script. My choice would have been the spacebar as that is second nature muscle memory from all of my days in an edit bay where the spacebar acted as the All Stop and was engraved with the phrase Awww Shit! as that was the typical utterance from the editor just before using the key
This has been my experience too.

After a move across the country, I requested CVS to take over my prescription. I can't remember the specifics, but they botched it in the most incompetent way possible. My doctor recommended asking for a few pills to tide me over while they figured it out, and the very same people who botched it treated me like a drug seeker (for drugs with no recreational use, no less).

Amazon were able to find and transfer my prescription in less than 10 minutes. The prescription was on my doorstep a day later. For this very specific scenario, I wouldn't agree that Amazon is winning because they are big vs. small. It is more competent vs. incompetent.

> their uninsured price is actually cheaper

Yep, I don't use insurance to pay for my prescription.
Generification is a thing
The nominal exchange rate is almost immaterial here. It's the 'real' exchange rate that matters for net trade.

And that's almost completely a function of the rate of saving.

But, do compare https://marketmonetarist.com/2015/07/14/the-euro-a-monetary-...
> How could you be sure that, after rapidly making 50 keystrokes, every keystroke was received by the other end, in that order?

Exactly. I implemented a client that emulated a VT100 early in my career, and this is a real problem. There are various strategies you can use but by far the simplest and safest seemed to just be the echo and for the client to always display exactly what it receives[1].

There's nothing worse than typing out a command that you realize is wrong and potentially destructive, only to Ctrl+U it and have the client kill the line but the server didn't get the instruction, so when you press enter it runs the evil command. If the command doesn't echo anything you may not even know! I once accidented a space in the path I was deleting when (recklessly with -rf) trying to remove my ~/bin directory, like this:

rm -rf ~ /bin

Good Lord that was a bad day. Thankfully I still had the installation disc to restore /bin, and a relatively recent backup of my home directory to restore that. I lost a few days of uncommitted code, but that felt like a trifle compared to what it could have been :-)

[1]: I love how mosh[2] handles this to get the best of both worlds. It will smartly show you what you typed, but sill underline it until it actually receives the echo from the server, so you can type and feel like there's no delay between bytes, but still be confident that client state matches the server state.

[2]: https://mosh.org/
Yesterday, I posted this 1974 interview with Iverson and the group who developed APL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32173840

I started down the APL/J path last week after watching this APL study group with Jeremy Howard of fast.ai:

https://youtu.be/CGpR2ILao5M

https://forums.fast.ai/t/apl-array-programming/97188
You can't fix systemic issues with individual choices.

That requires regulation and a system that can carry out those regulations.
> It seems the underlying assumption is that every second belongs to the company while you’re “on the clock”

this assumption is correct for vast majority of employed people

you would have to refer to your specific employment contract. for me personally it always stated the amount of hours I'm expected to be working per day or month.

spoken gentle-human's agreement is one thing, what is written in the contract is another and always legally binding...

I would like to hear someone tell their boss they spend 1 or more hours every day working on a personal project on company's time, if its not dishonest it should not be a problem and will be met with praise and compliments I'm sure...
The submitted title isn’t doing justice the “What everyone else thinks” part of the article…
What does the command-line tool do? It could be the reason.
Eliminating intergenerational wealth transfer among the middle class is an excellent way for the rentier class to maintain a more pliant populace.
How did Joseph Stalin get in there? (It's amazing what can hide in a hairball)
The main CPU's a beefy 486/25 since 2000ish - all that power!
Lower CAC with affordable B2B sales reps
Inteliom is matchmaking platform for companies and great sales reps anywhere in the world.
Could it have been possible for you to provide your opinion regarding this matter without having gratuitously insulted millions of people for the countries you mention?

I could also refer to you as a complete idiot in this discussion but that would not be civil of me would it?
Sounds like there is a market for Glassdoor competitors that leverage self-sovereign identity and zero-knowledge proofs.

Such reviews are probably THE killer app for ZKP.
Six months??? What does "comply" mean? Ship a version of the OS that supports all these new features? Or begin implementation of them?

Six months is barely enough time for companies to digest and understand the new requirements, and certainly not enough time to develop and ship such dramatic changes.
Can you repost the pypi.org link here?
Microsoft Teams settings leave govt officials open to cyberattacks
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but this advice comes from a period of 100 years of more or less constant global economic growth.

This advice only holds if you maintain that such growth can be maintained in perpetuity.

As we start to see more and more constraints on energy and resources globally, and realize that we're living in a world funded by debt we might not be able to pay, it's a fairly reasonable position that infinite growth is in fact not possible on a finite planet.

The assumption that everything will always eventually go up is a pretty bold one and worth taking with a grain of salt.
Pre-compiled Linux Unreal Engine 5 installation
> Curious, have you tried doing a annual opt-in?

Haven't done that.

I've simply tried to make unsubcribing be easier than hitting the spam button.

Front and centre, top of the email, single click, untracked (so will 100% work no matter how aggressive your Pi-Hole config).
ECB unveils new TPI anti-fragmentation instrument
Can you point us to a source for the accepted real physiological effects of ADs that you shared above?
For what it's worth, I think your new logo is great.
Probably would be even better if members of Congress were limited to investing in index funds while in office.
Oh, they certainly can, some better than others. Though personally I'd most certainly want to avoid such situations.

First, to retain an air of "vaguely knows what they're doing" about me, even though everyone makes mistakes and that should be treated as something that's okay - especially if you can limit the impact of mistakes, like with automated spending limits.

Secondly, because I wouldn't want to risk doing something like that in a personal project, given that my wallet is likely to be much thinner than those of organizations.
In the past, that was true. But German's current trade balance is actually negative. It's importing more than it's exporting. That might change again of course, but as of now there is no "massive trade imbalance" anymore.
That's partially the goal of https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Campfire and https://www.arraycast.com/
I don't like the genetics or that weird scanner side of Forward.

For me Forward has primarily been an anxiety thing. I have really bad anxiety largely around health issues. (Real or not) and I have found that since being with Forward that at least the idea that I can talk to someone at any point helps with that anxiety. I do recognize that a lot of that is placebo, but being able to help with anxiety without medication is preferred to me.

That being said, they are only just now opening up in Boston so it will remain to be seen how they actually perform in person and not virtual. But their competition here is... its a low bar to be better.
I'm in the same position, and I am once again asking for "talent management" to become a thing. I am a software engineer, I am willing to pay a recruiter/manager some percent of my revenue to keep sending work my way and find new quality clients.

Yes, I would pay a recruiter to keep around so that I do not have to spend time sending resumes and searching job boards whenever a contract dries up.

Right now I am looking for work. If you're a recruiter (or another engineer for that matter) interested in such an arrangement, email is in my profile.
The Russians also used a nuke to cap a well that was burning out of control

edit: linkage https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/09/how-soviets-put-out-oi...
Can you name a couple?
There's plenty of part-time work out there: launch your own LLC and multiplex between clients.

Source: I launched my own software consulting business back in July 2022 and I work with a handful of customers "part-time" (e.g. project based work, 10 hours a week).
This probably isn't meant to compete with Macbooks. This is probably meant to steal market share from other PC laptop manufacturers (like Lenovo). If that's the case, then there's absolutely no reason to spend a lot of R&D money making a keyboard that can compete with Apple's offerings.
RCA 1802
did you do anything other than redesign the website that could explain the influx of more sales?

Like any campaigns, newsletters, ad buys etc?

How do you know the new design is the the correlated cause of the revenue influx?
> make the Lockdown mode browser look to external websites like it isn't in Lockdown mode.

This will be instantly defeated by benchmarking the js performance. But disabling JIT is a VERY important step to harden your browser. This is one of these things where you have to actually choose between privacy and security
In the same vein as companies "not wanting to be a company's biggest client" there's a reason for not being a company's smallest client as well, as this shows well.
This was definitely not on my Bingo card.

I've been a customer of One Medical for a while. I really like the convenience and simplicity of booking in person appointments using an app on relatively short notice, and their video visits are often all you need for peace of mind or a simple prescription.

I've also been a customer of Amazon for [checks order history, gulp] 24 years.

I have a love/hate relationship with Amazon. I was also a customer of Whole Foods for many many years. When Amazon bought Whole Foods, it kinda stayed the same, but there are enough subtle differences that it's a bit like a Truman Show version of itself. We stopped shopping there.

I hope I don't have to stop using One Medical. I'm not normally super paranoid about data privacy, but this doesn't feel good to me.
> The index will come back

How do you know?
For #1 an additional stumbling block for the labor movement is that it's rather difficult to create a limited-liability labor cooperative in the US. For-profit LLCs have legal advantages over other non-profit corporate forms. I suspect if someone tried to make something equivalent to Mondragon in the US, they'd have problems just maintaining the corporate veil and their workers would get crushed under the maddening hellscape that is consumer product liability.

#3 doesn't pass the sniff test to me: Europe has it's Christian Wahhabists, too. Hungary and Poland broke the backs of their democracies even faster than the US is, in the name of banning gay people, and they've cooperated to break the EU sanctions mechanism that was supposed to keep them from doing this.

Also #5 is wrong - or, at least, not properly root-caused. "Money-equals-speech" is itself a result of free-speech extremism. If we say the government can't regulate speech, then a way around that is to regulate money spent to speak. Let's say Ron DeSantis wants to ban gay advocacy - but the 1st Amendment says "hell no". Instead he gets a bill passed that bans spending money to purchase pride flags, buying paper to print books with gay characters in them, buying billboards with pro-LGBT messaging, or TV ad spots with the same. It's very difficult to not read this as a speech-restricting bill.

The argument in Citizens' United - the money-equals-speech case - was that even a content-neutral funding cap was an infringement of free speech. The government can't mandate that all politicians whisper, after all. Except now we have a fundraising war because every politician needs to shout as loudly as possible. And to do that you need lots of money. The US Supreme Court didn't invent "money-equals-speech", it's just a fact of how political speech works.

Europe does not have this problem because Europe is willing to entertain restrictions on political speech that the US considers unconscionable. Several EU member states have constitutional bans on fascism and hate speech[0], for example. You could never get away with that in the US for any reason. Freedom of speech is not entirely unprotected in the EU, of course - the protections are just more reasoned and considered than the blunt instrument of "Congress shall make no law".

I'm not sure about #6 either. Did America not get involved in WWII? I mean, we did try to cover up the Holocaust[1] early on and we got involved later than Europe, but it's just as culturally engrained here as it presumably is over there.

[0] Which, BTW, should be considered as censorious in and of themselves. Any political ideology which calls for the killing of specific groups of people is engaging in censorship.

[1] Specifically: FDR knew about it early on; and the New York Times buried it many pages deep because they were shy about being a "Jewish newspaper".
Honesty and good analysis. That's why Krugman is worth reading on economics.
The part I really don't understand the purpose of the threat "Further policy violations may lead to an automatic suspension of your account".

Why do that? Just refusing to run my query is sufficient. Who is harmed if I continue to bang my head against that wall?
This reminds me of when I worked for a B2C company in the healthcare space. We hired a freelance designer to redesign our checkout flow and we wanted it done in time for Black Friday, which was by far our biggest day of the year.

Of course the project ran long and we crunched so that we could ship the redesign exactly on Black Friday. I think we shipped the Tuesday before (because Thanksgiving) and everything seemed normal. Black Friday rolls around and we go into the office and they have our internal dashboard monitors set up with our Black Friday unit sales counts. Spoiler alert: it did not go well. We were something like 25% off of our goal and 10-15% off of our previous year's sales. Exec team is freaking out and they order us to revert the design change ASAP in the early afternoon. We do and sure enough, we see our sales start to increase.

Nobody considered that rearranging the layout and colors of the checkout buttons would have such an impact but they did.
The way the parent phrased it, I assumed it's the other way around - $1/hr job offers are being sent out to potential job applicants.

Despite the confusion, though, I think I can see now that there is a place for $1/hr jobs, too, since people are actually looking for these offers.
Germany is even worse off in that regard than Japan and South Korea. However, the EU isn't really needed for that, it just makes it a bit easier.
There's one cause that is really hard to detect (unless you're informed about it) and that I suspect is behind a lot of people with depression. In fact it took me decades, and only by chance did I realise what it was:

Emotional abuse / neglect, especially the one that occurs in childhood.

* You feel something in life is lacking but dont know what, or blame yourself for it, or look for it in in thrill seeking activities, or through buying stuff to fulffill this emptiness, or you escape from this ever present painful feeling with addiction (hint of what that thing is: being really loved, not romantically loved, but actual unconditional love, the one that only healthy parents can give and which you feel in some way when you have a community behind you. Partial love given by a lot of people ends up almost feeling like parental unconditional love.)

* Can't seem to make friends, or make friends but don't seem to connect at a deep level and end up feeling lonely anyway.

* Also the cause of social anxiety.

* Burnouts due to lack of boundaries (which also come from abuse). Feeling like you put others first all the time, and end up feeling somewhat fake.

* (...)

All of these can lead to depression. And they all have the same root-cause. And barely anybody talks about this (unless you go really looking for these communities, but unfortunately they're not really mainstream).
I was just going to post the same thing. The new logo looks fantastic.
>>To be fair this is what they do with software engineers and their ever-lowering hiring bar aside, they're still managing to get people.

True, but most people don't care who writes their software, as long as it works, whereas most/many people really prefer to have a relationship with their provider, not see a different person every time they come in. Maybe thats more of an older generation problem, and perhaps younger people will just need to have a different mindset and won't care as much.
Carbon footprints are a scam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9LOqiXdpE

Carbon offsets are a scam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIezuL_doYw

Hearing people talk about these give me the same vibes as techbros talking about stocks and crypto.
> Who mediates claims between parties from different countries?

That's a completely question in general with different answers depending on context. For example, it matters whether it's a criminal case or a civil case.

If there's a contractual relationship between the affected parties, the contract often specifies this.

For defamation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation might be a good start.
I liked your original design. Simpler, to the point, and lower contrast so my eyes don't bleed.

Also I am utterly floored at how long programming a web page takes even for these "professionals". Yet another profession that pays way better for way less work than mine (scientist).
I was assuming electrical transformers.
Mental Poker in the Age of SNARKs
So Scotland pays about £3000 per person per year for all health care?

That's slightly more than my deductible in Germany, and about half what I pay for private insurance for one person.

Seems like Prime Health Care could be a good business, and "dogfooding" it on their own employees for a few years would be the obvious way to streamline it.

Then again, I can't imagine doctors would be happy with the AWS Management Console experience...
I just want you to know: You're not alone. I worked at a company that had a similar experience with a highly regarded web design firm. Only difference is we did our own implementation from their designs. Working with them as an IC was even worse because they knew I wasn't the one signing their checks.

Some anecdotes:

* their new designs actually made our metrics WORSE.

* Some of their design work didn't cleanly translate to responsive web code very well, so I wanted time with one of their designers and try and come up with some quick solutions to try an adapt it to something you can actually implement. Web design firm didn't like this and we were forced to play a game of telephone between a project manager... which as you can imagine racked up a bunch of billable hours.