skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the US has no official language

Does it mean that I could address an official body in any language and they are obligated to respond me in it? This sounds like an open door to a lot of abuse.

> A court could find that the law specifies the phrase in English and only applies to signs with the English phrase.

That's a good point.

My main concern was about the mere probability that the case stands in court. (In France for instance, if we had such a law (not gonna happen, hopefully, but who knows), the sign would have to be in French.)

So in the case of the Arabic one in Texas, it was either a sure win (if all languages are compulsory to be accepted), or a sure loss (if there is no such a provision).

If I understand your comment correctly, there is yet a third case: any language must be accepted, but in this case the letter of the law could be made specific to English (I am just rephrasing what your wrote to make sure I understand correctly).

In any case the idea that each and every language is acce^table to deal with official bodies sounds crazy.
Yes exactly!
Our behemoth of a web app was taking 25s initial load time (much faster when cached so it just wasn’t a priority to fix performance). Average test run time for a workflow test is 2 minutes.
That means when authoring them and I’m trying to get selectors and crap right it takes me 5 tries for the next line of the test, waiting for 60-90s between each try.
The result is it takes 3-4 hours to author a single medium complexity test. And my brain is mush for the rest of the day.
I hated that and would subconsciously avoid writing tests.

What I’ve developed allows me immediate feedback every step of the way. It makes it _fun_ again so I can keep my head in the game and finish a test in 15-20 minutes and feel accomplished instead of burnt out.
I’ve also taken an approach where the tooling (especially the recorder, and soon the page object model support) brings you 80-90% off the way there, but _always_ plays well with user created code - it has some loose basic expectations of the interface, but it doesn’t need to own the generated code - that’s just a starting point for you to improve it.

Super excited. My company already has a precedent for open sourcing projects so I’m hoping this won’t take more than a week or two to get it there.
I’m on vacation for a week but plan to finish the page object model story when I get back.
Fair, and I'm not sure about anything they've made themselves, but some stuff they've published is ok, perhaps they can get a qualified professional to do it
You're going to need very long light pipes to use natural lighting for your digital signage at night. Are you really sure that's a better option?
There are already phones with 108MP cameras [1], and my current ~200 EUR phone has a 64MP camera.

[1]: https://www.smartprix.com/bytes/best-108mp-camera-phones/
Yes — why not achieve the most pressure from as many angles as possible, while telling the truth, just in a civilian-approachable way (as is customary in hacktivist circles).
I've noticed this recent trend of calling articles and posts "weird." I'm glad to see that internet commenting has evolved from childish personal attacks into more highschool-ish tactics: pointing out how someone's different in a vague way.
Yeah, but...like...that's not nearly as annoying as...like, you know...those Americans who...like...umm...do that thing with "like"...uhh...like practically between every clause. And I should know, because...like...I'm American too, and it gets...like...totally grating sometimes.
Am I missing something, or do you not have any vacation?
Getting to “Know”
Game Dev: Allocating memory was forbidden
> super interesting area in general

deterred by the size of the profits for the winners, and the losses for those who do not compete in global markets.. yet I suggest there are few things more interesting than a personal, general purpose computer
The ads angle, in my opinion, is the least important piece of this news.

What shocks me really is how Germany, one of the (if not THE) most advanced societies on Earth, came to a point where it can not produce enough energy to sustain it's needs.

Western civilization has a masochistic saviour complex, and will freeze to death in winter in the name of "saving the world". I, living in a 3rd world country, can only look and fear whats coming in the future.

If the germanies of the world decide to voluntarily fall, who will become the superpowers in the next decades/centuries? It's a bizarre stupidity contest.
I’ve always heard that the prevalence and normalization of slavery eliminated incentives for technology creation and adoption.
Just like you rent a phone number.
> There is no such thing as honest advertising. The conflict of interest is inherent.

This is obviously untrue. Not only can a merchant engage in only honest advertising, there are those who do.

There's a conflict of interest every time a married man has a drink with an interested woman. That doesn't mean he cheats.
People run AC, that’s worse :-)
You make it sound like it's just the greens. In reality, it was a conservative Christian Democrat lead government that decided to get rid of nuclear power. Together with SPD, the socialists. Both are moderate parties and quite representative of the German attitude towards nuclear. There hasn't been a government without either SPD or CDU leading it. No other party has ever supplied a chancellor in post war Germany. And you'd be wrong to assume FDP is very pro-nuclear.

The current government features SPD (labour), the Greens, and the FDP (conservative). They have their work cut out but it's not an impossible job.

Nuclear might get a temporary and short extension of life in Germany but that 8GW is not going to matter a whole lot relative to the tens of GW of gas that are used for electricity and the many GW more that are being used for heating. The numbers just don't add up. Short term it helps as a stop gap solution but long term there's a need for many tens of GW of additional capacity. Most of that inevitably is going to be wind and solar. Gas is a complete non starter at this point. And coal is quite expensive and coal supplies also are a bit tricky as most of that actually also came from Russia.

The Ukrainian crisis is basically succeeding in making the Germans go cold turkey on gas and coal in a hurry. It's going to be disruptive and expensive but they are going to get it done much earlier than they were originally planning even a year ago. The disruption will be mainly to industry which will suffer most of the consequences of high prices and limited availability of gas. However, that will cause industry to respond by investing in reducing their dependency on those energy sources. Once that takes effect, the transition is permanent. Probably, ten years from now, most coal production in Germany will be gone; most gas heating and electricity will be gone and what little remains will be powered using expensive imports. Some of which might still come from Russia.
What's up with the Poll? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606904 Won't load for me.
This doesn't seem to be matter of religion, but language? Is it amy different to be asking for the exit signs to be in Arabic?
You don't provide any evidence to refute OP, and you use vitriol in your reply.

EV cars use more rare elements that require more mining is true. So one would assume that the initial CO2 generated in the productions to be higher.

The grid isn't 100% renewable so there is plenty of co2 produced in running an EV.

EV batteries wear out around 100000 miles, requiring a costly(both $$ and CO2 production) replacement. Meanwhile ICE cars today can regularly approach 200000 miles before replacement.

With those three things considered, I highly doubt that CO2 production is impacted all that strongly by switching to an EV.
Mark was on Joe Rogan's podcast the other day. So expect a ton of low effort news stories about stuff he said during the podcast.

I would highly recommend the JRE podcast as well as his previous appearances on Lex Friedman's podcast. Very interesting to hear his own takes on things, rather than reading articles about it.
why do you think the UK is worse than the US to live in?
Lmao show the numbers then. Is the cost of printing 75% of the newspaper- probably not.
I'm still pissed "Squaw Peak" in Phoenix, AZ was renamed for some Native American woman, even though she was still alive/ had not yet been dead for the amount of time required for such honorific namings.

That mountain will be "Squaw Peak" until the day I die.
I wonder if anyone can provide an example where collective guilt was meaningful or productive in any way.
Started at $40/hour, met someone who told me I was hugely undercharging for my services and devaluing my work, so increased to $100/hour (which improved my relationship with my clients and had the nice side effect of being taken seriously), then $125, $150 and eventually had a couple of clients I wasn't that keen on that I decided to charge $300 per hour to see if they'd balk or not. They didn't.

It does mean that now the majority of my work is the work for those exhausting clients that pay very well. Not great for my work/life balance, great for my bank account.
Two confounding factors:

1. billed hours in the trades don't include travel to or from the worksite; if the plumber is 30 minutes from you and the job takes an hour, they're already down to $75/hr.

2. software contracting can be done from anywhere. You can live in rural Kentucky and charge a high rate. But plumbers and electricians in rural Kentucky probably aren't charging $150/hr for house calls.
I am interested in alternative GUI tech. If you find this interesting you might find my declarative frontend idea interesting called additive-guis

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/additive-guis

The idea is you define how the GUI should appear by describing it. The GUI changes in real time based on what you describe.

And I also designed a GUI primitive I called GUI thunking, inspired by Haskell. The idea is you can chain together behaviour on a GUI by interacting with the future directly.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/gui-thunks
e-ink displays are electronically controlled passive displays that use zero power to retain an image. Refreshing them to blank every night and back to the price tag every morning would, in fact, be a waste of power. That's why these price tags are able to be powered by single coin cells.
Students typically don't cheat in online tests by looking at their notes. What they do is ask other students or have someone else do the exam for them.
> Reverse the role, open a map and look at the NATO expansion and US military bases that spread everywhere, full of long range missiles

NATO is a defensive compact, not a country that's expanding.

> full of long range missiles

These being long range means it really doesn't matter, right?

Russia's government could try not being such shitheads if they want to be left alone. Their current war is just expanding NATO more than anything in decades. Invading your neighbors has a way of driving people away, funny that.
In my country in Europe the guys who put bathroom tiles make more hourly than java developers.
No, you have to be trying to be cool.
Maybe, just maybe, you are already a 5x runner. I certainly can't run any appreciable distance (which I am assuming here as running for just a few seconds isn't interesting) at speeds anywhere close to that... I am the running equivalent of the 0.1x programmer who is super excited by their Excel spreadsheet ;P.
Another take may be found on Dr. Garrett Ryan’s excellent “Told in Stone” YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5uqPlOAH85o
120-160 depends on the client and project
There are at least some studios using Rust. Chucklefish did for a while though they ended up stopping. Ready at Dawn was using Rust at one point but not sure if they still are. Embark still is so far as I can tell.

It certainly isn't a language for every gamedev shop but some seem to be taking it seriously.
Millions of Monarch Butterflies overwinter in conifer groves
Implying it can be "properly" run seems mildly disingenuous in the context of your otherwise fair comment.
Many of us in this forum are people that have tried to influence those around us - family, friends, coworkers - to use better security practices such as password managers. Those personal experiences alongside the prevalence and adoption of cloud-sync enabled password managers (including browsers) creates a reasonable foundation from which to form a not-fully-ignorant opinion.
Wow! Thanks for the info.
Pretty amazing, thanks for the link.
These are the rates that the agencies certified by salesforce as “platinum” “gold” etc charge their customers. One idea is to start by working for one of those agencies, figure out how the system works, how salesforce refers them to their customers, etc and then when you feel like you have enough connections start your own agency to charge those rates.
I see what you did there.

When my fridge stopped working, I didn’t think it was cool.
Wow, that's crazy. Do we have something official that says as much?
> Also, were diesel cars only getting those high mpg due to cheating the emissions limits? I never saw them in the US.

I don't believe so. Diesel is more efficient partially because diesel engines have been around longer (so have more improvements).
So the source is a 'screenshot' posted by Tech Dirt about an undesirable Trump-related entity and it is immediately true and anything else such as (privacy, surveillance, free-software, big tech, etc) is speculative nonsense?

I thought Tech Dirt was a rumour mill and an 'unreputable' source here and in general. So now this time it is reputable?
I wouldn't say embarrassing - I'd just say limiting.

A plumber doesn't list the names of the industrial chemicals and tools. They say "we unblock your toilet quickly and safely" - because that's what the customer is buying.
Of course! It's bonkers how far phone cameras have come over the last few years.
Ban ads at night? Insulate our houses even more? Turn off the street lamps? All so we can run our civilization on literal windmills? When we have nuclear that is both safer and cleaner than this ancient technology? Incredible.

It’s like you’re not really pro-climate, but trying to accomplish the secret objective of limiting the scope of human existence. I am reminded of the anti-human religious folk who see humanity as a sinful scourge.
Railway.app can be a good alternative.
They're one of 3-5 very popular malls in the only Town.
It varies but $100 is the bare minimum for any type of work that isn't volunteer.
Life is great anywhere in the world when you have a lot of money. Some better than the others. In particular, when talking about developed nations, I see much greater value in Europe than the US. Cities are well designed, people are nice, food is of great quality, and healthcare, which is a problem everywhere in the world, is at least "trying".
Correct, with an emphasis on “were”. Things are different now.
I don’t know if sanctions are the reason, but moving away from foreign-controlled IP is certainly a thing. Chinese companies make STM32 clones (even fixing the errata in the original):

https://hackaday.com/2020/10/22/stm32-clones-the-good-the-ba...
What do you mean? Master Chief is best known for taking off his helmet at any and every opportunity, and for sleeping with Covenant spies while Cortana watches.

Edit: I also didn't expect them to use the people who did voice acting for the game, but it's bizarre to me that they decided to get Jen Taylor to voice Cortana but didn't decide to cast her as Halsey. Would have made more sense to just have the lady who played Halsey voice Cortana as well, since Halsey modeling Cortana after herself tells you a lot about her character and her overinflated opinion of herself.
If you like the concept you might also be interested in bob[1]. Same idea for build isolation crafted into a build system/task runner. (I'm the author).

[1] https://github.com/benchkram/bob
Long time Espanso user and supporter of Federico's work. It is fantastic FOSS and it helps me get stuff done everyday. His project was the first one that I sponsored on GitHub which he recently discontinued using for donations. I have to figure out how to buy him a monthly coffee now.

Also, here is a gist of my non-work specific Espanso snippets. I share (overshare??) what I am listening to on Spotify many times a day with my friends and coworkers, so the Spotify specific one gets used a lot!

https://gist.github.com/jdoss/64c663e24cca2052842701e13db77d...
They also banned youth clay sporting leagues: https://thereload.com/california-youth-shooting-sports-leagu...

edit: spelling
> … [A] market pay rate/invoicing data product…sell it to the people who need it most -- freelancers and consultants.

> Selling to companies on the other side of this equation is also obvious…

So basically an invoicing product that provides hourly rate suggestions based on collected data? Surely this must exist already.
Edward Witten
I remain skeptical Tesla is anywhere near let-the-driver-sleep self driving (except perhaps in tunnels), but I’m very glad they’re trying to do it, and do it at scale for consumer cars, not just company-owned hyper-sensored vehicles that cost as much as a house.

Literally every company working on the problem a decade ago was over-optimistic, but many pursued a strategy that would keep the technology only for company-owned vehicles, which I find less satisfactory. The whole point of personal cars is independence. We already have buses and transit vans if we want mass transit. If you want self-driving to actually save all the lives it supposedly could, it has to be scalable to everyone.

Musk is terminally optimistic on AI generally, including paranoia about AGI. I don’t expect let-the-driver-sleep self driving for a good 10 years, but it’ll be never if no one tries. The technology does not advance by itself.
You could describe it as a Phone-shaped Pine. Which is pretty cool all on its own.

If I'd bought a PinePhone expecting a working phone, I'd be pissed. But as a hackable phone-shaped Linux platform, it's totally cool.
I’m not sure it’s reasonable to expect foreigners to understand the of inner workings of a country’s system of accolades. There are 195 countries each with its own system.

In the case of the UK, a baroness title is granted but also can be inherited (at least according to Wikipedia. I didn’t know how it worked.) doesn’t this increase the likelihood of confusion for foreigners. I, for one, have a vague sense of how these work in the Uk and France - because I’ve heard of actors/musicans winning accolades there, but otherwise I’m pretty ignorant and if I was going to invest in learning more about those countries, this isn’t an area that would be high on the list.
Rust will be nowhere in the next 10years for gamedev, not even sure it will be used at any point. The only one I know using it to some extend is Embark but they have a very good engineering culture ( ex DICE / SEED ).

For people not working there, it's kind of a blackbox in term of tooling / pipeline etc ... when you work in webservices you have a ton of opensource knowledge / tools available, videogame are kind of different they re-invent a lot of the stuff in-house.
My car gets over 50 mpg and that's from odometer and fuel volume, not from a spec sheet.

Diesel goes a bit further than petrol on a volume basis but not that much. Maybe it's just due to smaller US gallons and a cruisy commute.

A colleague of mine gets 65 mpg, fwiw, and it's not a hybrid.

Also the emissions thing wasn't about fuel economy, but about NOx emissions.
> Also, were diesel cars only getting those high mpg due to cheating the emissions limits? I never saw them in the US.

Because you guys like huge heavy cars full of unnecessary toys inside.
[Can't tell if serious.]

Remember the Slashdot equivalent of blockchaining everything? "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!"
That's very rational, actually. Not very nice, though.
It's an interesting thought, but I've always heard that the cotton gin was actually responsible for propping up slavery in the US south, as counter-intuitive as it that may seem?
If you're in profit, it's not the worst time to sell a portion.
A good rule of thumb is to take your annual salary and divide by 1000. That's your hourly rate.

If you make $100K, charge $100/hr - which if fully booked is like $200K if you did it full time. That accounts for your overhead, your pipeline not always being full, etc.
> nothing that would qualify me for such projects

In my experience on the client side of a contracting relationship, that doesn't seem to give the agencies pause at all...

(As a sometimes consultant, though, I'd never bid on a project I couldn't confidently do.)
True, Pijul only offers the safe diff/patch part.
You state in the top level comment that this claim stains the article: "Stating that git breaks Jupyter notebooks is quite a flex."

But you are saying here: "If you leave git diffs in your files, whether Jupyter notebooks or otherwise, and run/compile them... They will break."

Have you changed your mind in this thread? Or what's your objection?
Implementing Multiplication
Show HN: Learn React and Django by building SaaS for uptime monitoring
Written in Ruby though[0] and pretty badly at that (or so they claim themselves)

[0] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
Full time devs in Poland get 6k€ pre-tax? The best offer I got last time I searched was 4k€ pre-tax for full time where I live (~50k/year).
Most of these links appear to have rotted unfortunately...
Could they use the blurb of text at the top to give me like... a noun to describe what this is? It just says some vagueness about the future and investigating and exploring.

Is it a conference? A team? An initiative? How does it work?

Whatever this is supposed to be selling me on, they're doing a terrible job because I can't figure out what it is!
Many compsci students I know are now doing internships in their freshmen year. By the time their seniors they're often balancing school with some other sort of ongoing program

I'm sure that number is inflated, but there's still some truth to it
Student loans were forgivable through bankruptcy until the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. In 1976 there were some limitations put in place for the first 5 years, but student loans not ever being forgivable in bankruptcy is relatively recent.
> [0] In fairness, the reason we are in this mesz is that said CPU manufacturer has been releasing broken products in the name of speed themselves.

As bad as Intel's record there was, it's hard to really single it out either. It certainly seems as if the whole industry—CPU manufacturers, integrators, academics, kernel devs, the lot—simply agreed not to notice that this category of vulnerability existed until the moment it was fully impossible to ignore.
As he should; tiling is highly skilled labor -- closer to applied art than construction, really -- and destroys your body.
Great tip! Didn't even know this was a thing.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good comes to mind :)
Depending on how motivated you are, Element One/Element Home is a good solution for WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: https://element.io/element-one

You can bridge all of those to a Matrix account and use a Matrix client.
Leading an underfunded team is a challenge most managers will face over their careers. This blog post provides techniques and a framework for delivering impact under such conditions.
Nothing is more "proper" to me than working on an AGI :)

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/john-carmacks-agi-startup-raises-2...
Where do you find work as a contractor btw? I tried LinkedIn and Hacker news, but didn't get that much uptake.
Reacher maybe? But they somehow had the self-control to follow the book pretty closely for that one, which seems like a rarity for the sorts of people who get put in creative control of productions at Amazon, Netflix, etc.
Oh, to be able to charge by the hour would be such bliss as a lawyer. We charge by 0,1 hours: every 6 minutes need to be accounted for.