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And Germany is stopping the EU from further integration?

If we do this fiscal union, are all countries willing to adopt German fiscal discipline? Are all countries ok with levelling out retirement age? Social benefits?

Also, why are you not mentioning that Germany already agreed to the EU taking on common debt during the corona crisis? That the new government is very much pro further integration?

I hear a lot about what Germany is doing wrong. What are the others doing wrong? Germany was desolat themselves after the reunification, they were called the sick man of Europe. They then did harsh and brutal labour market reforms, and a bunch of luck probably as well. Now they are an economic powerhouse. With 0 natural resources, they are all imported.

It's not the Germans fault that Italy has loads of debt. It's not the Germans fault that Spain built useless ghosttowns in the middle of nowhere. They can only export what others are willing to import. And they are not exactly exporting cheap cars at dumping prices, are they?

Sure, Germany is far from perfect and they do lots of things in their own self interest. But maybe the other countries can also try to do better? How long did the Italians keep Berlusconi in power? Draghi threw the towel today, again, because the parties in parliament are unwilling to cooperate to better Italy.

Maybe try to copy what Germany is doing well, instead of feeling like a victim of German evilness.
Generally the easement can't be removed except by the trust that owns those rights, and that's not something they will want to give up. So yes, these organizations will eventually hold the rights to vast amounts of land, with limited oversight (compared to a municipality or other democratic org), while the "owner" paying the taxes and upkeep on the land can be individuals (not the org). And yes, the value of that land tends to go down slightly. But it constrains supply which causes all the other land to increase.
$46k for those changes holy fucking shit. I’ve charged less than this to design a whole 200m² house. I built a detailed 3d model, secured all the permissions and technical approvals, produced 30 A1 drawings, written a 200 page spec, coordinated engineering, tendered to contractors negotiated the tender, visited the site every two weeks for two years to check they were building it correctly and signed off on thier invoices to the client. This is a normal amount of work for that fee in my industry, am I an idiot?
Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns
In relatively densely populated areas (I'm in the UK) I suspect that the "environmental cost" of fast deliveries is minimal to zero because the whole logistics chain is busy anyway.

Impact starts to build up when vans/trucks have to be dispatched when load is not full yet in order to meet deadlines (assuming ICE vehicles).
For what it's worth, my "dumpster fire" comment encompassed far more than just window management (and admittedly extended to Apple hardware and Apple the company). See my comments elsewhere in the thread if you're curious!

Re window management specifically: your "it's not the same" comment are my exact sentiments!

Even if you can hack together some other MacOS-specific window management solution, what I'm finding game-changing is my laptop and my desktop behaving in the exact same way (same OS, same dotfiles, same programs/bins/utils).

Not only "behaving" in the same way, but also configured in the same way (meaning I don't have to maintain two separate configurations for two entirely different managers).

I don't know, I realize my perspective isn't shared by everyone (and even the HN audience specifically), but I'll probably never go back to using a laptop without Linux on it. For a long time, I avoided going down that path because I knew how big of a PITA getting laptop device/drivers to work was (whereas it's generally far simpler on desktop), but that's become less and less the case over the years, to the point that I spend less time configuring Linux than I do overriding all of MacOS's default settings/configuration.
The fact that these people are douchebags shouldn't be used to vilify general aviation on the whole.

Electric planes now exist that could have taken any of the cited flights, had only the perpetrators given enough of a rat's ass. And if we allow developers and the local hack politicians they own to continue destroying our nation's aviation infrastructure (AKA small airports), innovations that reduce pollution and noise will become non-viable.

Stick up for your local airport. Not for douchebags.
What is it like to be a cricket bat?
Democratizing Metrics at Airbnb
It's foolish for the founders' part as well. They were wasting their programmers' time and effort as well. When I'm interviewing candidates, it's time that I'm losing. Why waste it on candidates who won't work for the salary?
I have a question on which manufacturer sponsored this study.
I never understood this line. It seems antithetical to everything the site wants to be/claims to be/is .
It wasn't that long ago that a driver instructor illustrated in a video how often they needed to correct the self-driving car in order to drive legal. It was multiple corrections per minute in a busy city.

In term of statistics, the error rates of human drivers are still lower than current self-driving technology. This is why the only certified fully self-driving mode is limited in Germany to operate at speed of less than 30 km/h, only on highways with congestion, and then outside any construction zones.
Frankly, I think you either didn't do a rigorous experiment, were fooled by randomness, or (most likely) aren't hiring top talent.

Interview loops are an enormous investment of time these days. I'm not going to take one unless I'm confident the offer will come out in an acceptable range.

Maybe you can fool some people with less experience or market power by not giving them the comp info upfront. But not the best.

And don't be surprised when any truly talented folks among your hires leave much earlier than you hoped. Karma.
Thank you for clarifying. I'll have to check out petalisp, I love discovreing new(to me) cl projects.
I think limiting the number of upvotes and downvotes a user has per day, with maybe a sliding scale for karma, would vastly improve HN. It would slow down the voting circles considerably and make fake accounts much less valuable to marketing types and political action groups.

Making the order of posts probabilistic instead of strictly ordering by upvotes would also improve the site, making the first post less significant and avoiding some of the rich-get-richer effect noted in the article.
Getting to year 2 and then replatforming what is working and killing what doesn't seems better than spending 2 years on deploying with the "perfect" architecture
Part of riding a motorbike (cycle here) is also driving defensively is it not? I don't assume people are going to stop at a given intersection, I take a look at their current speed and project it forward before determining if it's safe for me to go. If someone is going at a high rate of speed towards a stop sign or red light, I don't pull out just because I have the "right of way" I assume they are going to do something stupid.

Another example: On the highway I get myself into a position where I have plenty of stopping distance for the car in front of me, but also behind me in case I need to stop rapidly myself.
> There's a long-running, recurrent myth that HN is becoming like reddit.

Have you considered the possibility that the reason the myth is pervasive is because it's true, and over time HN is becoming more and more like reddit? It seems to me if the users continually complain about the same problem, maybe there's something there. "No, it's the users that are wrong!" requires a lot more than handwaving if you want me to take you seriously. As someone who's been using HN for years, I absolutely believe it becomes more like reddit over time.
Yes. Wholeheartedly agree on both your points
As an aside, I'm a long time backend developer writing my first mobile app with Dart/Flutter. I tried the popular backend recommendation in that ecosystem. After weeks wasted on it, I googled "{PopularBackend} alternatives" out of frustration and this thing called "Supabase" appeared in the results. What a breath of fresh air it's been. It uses Postgres as a backend (with postgREST), which means I can put all those skills to good use (you can go far with all the batteries Postgres comes equipped with: row-level security, triggers, functions, etc). It's open source and the free tier lets me do pretty much all I need for development (and probably for a production MVP). Which means I don't have to worry about "after questions" until after.

Supabase team keep doing what you're doing!
Eventually, after sufficient pain, it will become like the homepage of LinkedIn.
Where is the control when you get hit by a car as a pedestrian or cyclist or car driver?

This is an excellent example of biased thinking.
Oh my god. The Bazel website is "translated by Google" (into German in my case).

"Warum OBA?" - "Why OBA?": i have no idea what OBA might mean. It's not a common acronym.

But it gets better. "Fast, richtig". Yes, that means "almost correct". A great claim!
TIL a 501 Karma gets you a downvote [0]

[0] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...
Reminds me of an adage that has served me well:
"Write every email as if it will be one day read aloud in a deposition."
There probably hasn't been much "untouched" (by humans) wilderness anywhere since the Pleistocene. Basically all of North America was managed by fire and shaped into effectively a giant game park by indigenous peoples as the glaciers retreated. The Amazon basin was similarly intensively managed with burning, flood controls, and mound building. You'll find similar interventions in the land across the old world as well.
I like the idea. When you say "keep content on their own domain name," do you mean the physical bits are on my servers as the owner of the content, exposed by my custom domain, or do you mean the bits are hosted on PeerTube's servers and merely exposed using my domain? The distinction is important.
Outsized returns can be generated, just in due course.

Blowing $500M is great for building an Amazon or an Uber -- if you require a lot of hardware or logistics. It's useful in a 4-way rat race where it's first-past-the-goalpost.

I tend to prefer deep tech, where I build something hard (or relatively hard) that's never been built.

A company like Bose has $3.2B in annual revenues, 58 years after founding, and I believe they've never raised external capital. That's because they have a big pile of unique technology. Contrary to their image, they do a lot of work which is not speakers (and which you've likely never heard of), from architectural acoustics to government.

TinySeed looks to fund small, niche SaaS companies, mostly. Most of the stuff they fund, more or less anyone with SWE background could build.

For developing hard tech, I'd pick $10M and 10 years over $200M and 2 years, any day of the week.
Tell HN: Studied computer science but struggled with statistics, and algorithms
Hello guys,
In college, I put my classes in 3 categories.

The Naturals:

Topics I could do in my sleep: GUI classes, Programming Classes.

The conceptuals:

Topics I understood the concept of:

Database, Physics, Computer Graphics, Biology.

The Aliens:

Topics I couldn't grasp no matter how hard I read the books.

: Statistics, Probability, Algorithms, Calculus 2.

These topics are what make me afraid to apply for a job. I can code, but I do poorly in interviews.

Thanks.
I think Apple was the first to jump on this bandwagon. The others are following along.
If there was a way to run ads on your instance then it'd become massive.
Well based on their materials and methods, the antibiotics were all ordered from Sigma, which is not a pharma company, and I doubt they stand to gain much from the study.

What kind of manufacture do you think benefits from this outcome?
I think the root issue for PeerTube is that video monetization has not been figured out. Established YouTubers won't switch away from existing revenue streams unless there's parity. New YouTubers will focus on building a business and will go where the money is.

Rock and a hard place. That's where I would focus on platform improvements though.
All this time I thought it was a comedy, turns out it's a documentary.
Any slightly political thread on hackernews is a cesspool on reddit or twitter level.
Topics about january 6, the abortion ban, anything adjacent to the "cultur war"...

I suspect the only difference is that technical topics like shiny-rust-program or webframework3000 are less controversial
Because that question is practically impossible to answer. You can't extrapolate current circumstances and draw a conclusion from there. The best you can do is compare with other countries, disregard any non-related-yet-ultimately-significant and draw a fairly weak conclusion from there.

Most of those conclusions would not be in favor of cars, either. Especially not in light of environmental damage.
> Downvoting is not a sign that a comment is poor quality, but a sign of simple disagreement even if the person downvoting can't formulate (or does not bother to formulate) a response indicating why.

Because it requires no effort. But if downvoting required at least 140^W280 char comment describing the reason... or a micro-payment...

But jokes aside this is an unsolvable problem. Though I liked /. comment marking system, but it's not that better too.
Look like reviewing a bit of linear algebra would be helpful to you. The extrapolation problem is one of that. Assuming (x1,y1) and (x2,y2), the line you are looking for is (x,y) = a * (x1,y1) + (1-a) * (x2,y2) is a LA problem. There are many books on LA out there, i learned from Gilbert Strang, but not sure how deep you’d have to go.
This is partially what I meant to argue. ER Nurses as well are absolutely crazy sometimes about taking on overtime by choice, because they rake it in AND get some value out of the physical and emotional labour.

Doing furniture moving was easier to do every day than a salaried dev job tbh. It was grueling 10 hr days for shit pay, but you got to talk to clients, and they tipped pretty well, and there was an obvious value created. Also you physically get stronger.
They don’t. But the typical response when you point this out is something like “if it doesn’t, then we have much bigger problems to worry about”, and then the conversation stops there. Nobody has a plan for this, or even seems to consider it, just like the “fact” that real estate could never go down (proven wrong in the last recession).

That’s the point where joining a prepper group becomes the correct response, or at least a good hedge.
This is true.

But there are two cars in many fatal wrecks. A family friend was killed going to the supermarket by a car running a red light and hitting him in an intersection. A few weeks ago a semitruck slammed into stopped traffic at full speed on 95-S at the Georgia/Florida border. Nothing can be done by a safe driver to prevent that.
Here in the Bay Area in Marin County, we have the Marin Agricultural Land Trust [1].

[1] https://malt.org/
I completely agree that we put a lot of value into personal agency but I do think it's a bit unreasonable. Agency when driving is only perceived. You could have a heart attack and smash into pedestrians. Your car could fail mechanically. You could be rear ended by a large truck. You could be killed by a drunk or inattentive driver. Your agency can not entirely prevent that. Also you may be in the top percentile in driving but like everything, everyone thinks they are a great driver so you can't take how you feel and generalize it to the population.

I'm not arguing that self driving cars are solved but maybe they aren't quite as bad as people feel. We need proper statistics.
I guess balance of power would be a better term to use, but the point is the same - for a generation the voices of those saying "A" have been cancelled out by those saying "B" such that neither A nor B is implemented.
That's my understanding, yes. LISP would allow any ISP to perform tunnel encap/decap on their own routers, so traffic doesn't need to traverse a third-party network.
Are you really sure you're not just fooling yourselves with your randomized controlled trials? As Feynman famously said, the easiest person to fool is yourself. And in business even more than science, you might even like the results.

Have you ever put this data up against something similar to the peer review system in academia, where several experts from a competing deparment (or ideally competing company) try to pick your results apart, disprove your hypothesis?
I'd love to see studies that attempt to control for attributes related to "driver skill" or "driver responsibility" that you could objectively test yourself on, so that you could more accurately predict your own risk and compare it against the risk of alternatives like public transit. It's not really good enough to say "I don't drive drunk, and I'm pretty sure I'm a more skilled driver than average, therefore I can discard all studies on the risks of injury of driving versus public transit."
Story of Creating the Sensy Guitar
As a relatively new commer to HN, i can say overall I agree.

I signed up here because i was fedup with reddit,

I am just fed up with all the politics, Thr extreme US focus and the reddit culture. It began affecting my life, and I wasn't happy about it.

For example I knew more about the US than I should, and the constant negative "the world is ending" news from the US media were very negative.

I still use reddit, its a very good platform if used correctly(only for niches), subreddits like r/selfhosting, r/homelab and others are a goldmine of good discussions and valuable info.

But i stopped following trending or any general/humor subs, and decided to focus more on Tech, and replace US stations with world wide news , because generally all they do is doom and gloom, and us vs them.

I realize the bias of US focused news is obviously coming from the English language, but it helps to diversify, and when possible use sources in another language.

My experience mimcks OP, its a very rich and detailed platform about tech, and I think its like this because of the webiste design, and the things you have to care about to know HN.

The moderation on HN is mostly pretty good, and I think it certainly helps that the mods are also HN users.

I had my fair share of down votes, particularly about The Occupation in Palestine, but it was expected and I stand by my comments.

I signed up as an anon, because its easier to post things that truthfully represent you without being worried about how it might affect your job 10 years later, and what the new trends might be that far in the future.

I have a real name account, but its not as successful as this one, because I'm not really ready to comment on everything, also I really got lucky with that Proton post :).

Also one note, I really wouldn't be able to use HN without the Awesome app called Glider, its an open source HN client on Android, and its really really good, especially for someone coming from infinity for reddit.

Its has bugs, but in general its pretty good.
Amazon does a remarkably good job of predicting what I'll buy and I frequently add to my purchases.
Accelerated learning that puts robots on their feet in minutes
Like basically every biological category, the borders of biological sex are blurred. But the vast, vast majority of animals slot into one or the other category. So it’s pretty reasonable to accept the GP’s premise - that sexual dimorphism is real. The exceptions prove the rule.

> non-heterosexuals and transgender

The discussion here is about biological sex and its medical implications. People who change their gender, or exhibit traits of the opposite gender, aren’t relevant to this conversation.

Edit: commenters below me make some good points that I didn’t consider when writing this. I slightly regret this comment now, but can’t delete it at this point. e.g: the fact that transgender people are relevant to this debate because of HRT, which is true, I didn’t think of that.
A toy strace implementation in 70 lines of C (2010)
The answer here is that the convenience of being able to jump in a car, and get to your destination quickly is worth the risk of occasionally being injured or dying on the way to most people. You also have to compare against what came before the car: horses and walking, both of which may have been perilous in comparison with DC Beltway traffic on the way home from work. Ah... never mind - braving the elements and bears might be better than the DC Beltway at rush hour.
There was something like this in Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio, in the aughts.
In terms of writing and quality of research methodology, far higher in my experience
Another factor is that people are more afraid of scary things when they feel like they can’t control them. Driving makes people feel like they are in control, which makes drivers underestimate their chances of crashing. This is the same reason that airplane crashes and autonomous vehicle crashes are also huge news events: if people feel like crashes are being caused by something they can’t control, that scares them.
If you are willing to go to any lengths to remove the need to trust a manufacturer, you can’t even start with a dice roll as the dice could be weighted against you. But if for the sake of example you trust the dice and it’s uniform randomness to construct the private key, you should be able to construct a new signature for each new transaction using the dice as a source of uniform randomness, and write your own code on an always-offline computer. You can then generate the signature data needed for the transaction, write it on paper, and carry it to your online computer, where you plug it in and send it to the network.

At no point in this process, short of physical access to the offline computer, is the ECDSA nonce ‘k’ known publicly, so I am not sure what you mean by it cutting your security in half with each transaction. If there are 256 bits in a nonce you would need to generate a lot of signatures for this to be a concern, and if you want to mitigate against this you could cycle through new private keys after every Nth signature.

Much more likely attack has to do with how you generated the random value k.
For one, you can choose the routes you take. Accidents aren't evenly distributed across every mile of road. Some roads are are just statistically safer than others. Accidents also aren't evenly distributed across all times of day and weather conditions. By choosing not to drive at those times and in those conditions, you can lower your risk profile.

Moreover, the route you drive most is your commute to work, so you can choose where you live to minimize travel time and intersections. There's one intersection on my way to work, so I guess theoretically what you describe could happen. But the accident statistics for that particular intersection show that practically no accidents have occurred there. Therefore most of the time I spend driving is going to be quite safe compared to the aggregate stats, and that's by choice.

Delivery driver routes are usually optimized for right turns for this reason. My dad was a UPS driver for 30 years and went without an accident the entire time, not even one that wasn't his fault. You'd think statistically he would have gotten into one over the million miles or so he drove on and off the job, but I think that just goes to show that defensive driving and route planning actually works.

No form of travel is absolutely safe. The best you can do is control what you can and hope for the best.