skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think that a collective concerned with such an award would take the care to ensure their own "small" website works well on mobile, both in terms of performance and presentation. As already noted, the site is quite bloated and, on my phone at least, the end of most lines of text is cut off due to insufficient spacing.
Sure, we should do both in the same sense that we should floss twice a day and we should stop kicking children. One of them is more urgent and makes a bigger difference, so efforts should be focused on that one.
That would be an own goal. International trade and communications for business reasons is in English, like it or not.

What's next, voice overs in German instead of English subtitles? /s

German is a hard language to learn, especially for migrants who learn it as their second language. This is not going to be solved by scrapping English lessons, it is solved by improving the way German is taught.
Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills
On an unrelated note, I am waiting for the horror game where you walk around your house in high res AR and random creepy stuff starts hallucinating out of nowhere.
> indication of any ill-intent

I don’t think ill-intent is the accusation, I think the argument is that the lab has poor safety protocols and made errors. I haven’t studied the “lab leak theory” extensively, but everything I read seems to be about lab failures resulting in a leak, not anything purposeful or ill-intentioned.
Perhaps it's time to start talking about open source maintainers paying compensation to users?

I never wanted your Nodejs and SPAs. You hyped it up and then it was forced on me by the industry.
People seem to have been killed by this CIA mistake. If it wasn't actually a mistake, but purposefully putting people in danger to protect others, I don't know who would ever agree to be a mole for them in the future
Sorry but what have you unpacked? I don't understand what point you're making here.
Right. Do something new by playing follow the leader.

In my opinion, if you really want to do a startup then find the common sense things that big companies do not and cannot do. Large companies cannot think new thoughts well, nor can they change direction easily. Think of them as huge behemoths with enormous momentum. Apple will continue to think it is a cool technology company even when it is not.

They - Apple - got where they are because they thought out of the box. The Mac was not in the box. The iPod was not in the box, nor was the iPhone. Want to do a startup? Look outside the box. Certainly be aware of what is going on in the world, but "secure your startup's future"? No.
There doesn't have to be all black and white solutions. If he had some good points on industrialization, that doesn't mean people are saying we should go back and live in caves. Maybe recycle some, or get an EV, or something. You can make small differences to improve without abolishing all industry.

Just as you say the only response is 180 degrees and abolish industry. Then what is your current 0 degrees heading, dumping waste right in the rivers, abolish the EPA to let industry profit more? Cut all safeguards on industry?
$TSLA speaking?
I guess this is one way to take in criticism.
The fact remains that this page delivers around ~3kB of actual data out of 1.9MB (~682kB compressed).

This is 0.001% (0.004%) of meaningful data, surrounded by bells, whistles and tracking cookies.

"No, it's the children who are wrong."
AFAIK these are also weird orgs of the cooperative type. Each having over 2 million members probably helps keep the prices sane.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_(Switzerland)
From my experience, it doesn't. All of my kids are fluent in English, Dutch and at least one more language. And I credit early exposure and the schools spending a lot of time on this from age 6 and up.
There doesn't seem to be accurate data available, but surveys show it's around 39%. [1]

I wouldn't be surprised if the German government doesn't collect reliable data on purpose.

Original text:

> Wie viele Schüler in Deutschland einen "Migrationshintergrund" haben, ist nicht ohne Weiteres zu beantworten. Denn die Datenlage ist lückenhaft und die Ergebnisse sind häufig nicht miteinander vergleichbar.

> Laut Mikrozensus hatte 2021 über ein Drittel (rund 39 Prozent) der Schüler*innen an allgemeinbildenden und beruflichen Schulen in Deutschland einen Migrationshintergrund. Die Daten des Mikrozensus basieren jedoch nicht auf der amtlichen Schulstatistik, sondern auf einer repräsentativen Befragung von rund 810.000 Personen. Die Ergebnisse werden hochgerechnet.

English translation through Google:

> How many schoolchildren in Germany have a "migrant background" cannot be answered without further ado. The data situation is incomplete and the results are often not comparable with one another.

> According to the 2021 microcensus, more than a third (around 39 percent) of students at general and vocational schools in Germany had a migration background. However, the microcensus data is not based on the official school statistics, but on a representative survey of around 810,000 people. The results are extrapolated.

[1] https://mediendienst-integration.de/integration/schule.html
>not dinosaurs like Oracle

I doubt Mark Reinhold, Brian Goetz or John Rose are undervalued at Oracle because of them not being managers.
Matt is a developer of Caddy webserver - which is infinitely useful in so many settings ranging from hobby websites to corporate networks.

My rule of thumb - if I really like a project and use it on everyday basis, I always pay back either by buying a license or by subscribing to monthly donations. This simple rule keeps authors afloat.

BTW, I make monthly donations to Caddy webserver because parts of our business are reliant on it.

"One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered."
I think it is growth or at least growth opportunity.

Acquiring incremental engineering skills is great and we should all do it. But let's admit that it's just that - incremental. You go from being a good engineer to slightly better engineer- something you already are.

When you pivot to management or something else that's more different to you - you are taking on a bigger challenge and there's no guarantee of success. In order to succeed you need to hone a whole different set of skills - and if you manage to do that, you will certainly have grown in a real way.

I totally get the sentiment that going into management isn't the only way to advance a career and I agree. I am just saying that those who take that path indeed open themselves up to a challenge and evolution.
Seems like Holland manages this just fine?

Imo dropping the only language that is common across the continent is a bad idea. When cultures lose intercultural comprehension, they become more isolated, and that's entirely a bad thing.

Germany is the defacto leading culture on the continent, and having a population that is able to be integrated in international information streams is critical to it playing that role well.

Just look to other countries who speak less English. You don't want to end up like the french do you?
Maybe important to point out that schools with 70-90% migrant children is the exception, not the norm and limited to very specific contexts in a handful of major cities. Those major cities, especially Berlin and some in the mid-west also tend to be quite broke exacerbating the issue.

The bigger problem for the German public education system (and there is no private education worth speaking of in Germany) is that the federal states (which are responsible for schools) have systematically underinvested in teacher recruitment for the past two decades. The pipeline is empty, a large share of teachers will go into retirement in the next 15 years and politicians (of all parties) have so far ignored realistic projections concerning the number of teachers required.

So yes, reducing English lessons to improve German reading comprehension makes sense in a way. But what would make even more sense would be to drastically increase funding for teaching positions to ensure that kids don't loose two-three weeks worth of school per year, because too many teachers are sick and neither German nor English lessons are taking place.
We will have to get used to the idea that we need less. Less cars. Less everything. Not 'different', or 'better'.
Well, the idea behind would be to move to a clean ipv6/tcp protocol stack at the same pace than ipv6 deployment.

The best compromise would have been a dual stack: the clean pure p2p ipv6/tcp, and the brain f*cked ipv4/nat/upnp/turn/stun/etc. To have a clean and brutal split between the 2.

In my country, people would mostly run the clean ipv6/tcp protocol stack. And I am thinking REALLY simple: no transcode in the protocol (only the node will decide if it needs to transcode), one stream, buffered (it's not a video call). Yeah... excrutiatingly simple, then with many alternative implementations, aka sane.

But, it is kind of a dream, I know CDNs and streaming services won't let that happen in any way, I would not be surprised to see some DDOS-ing "from" them to keep people slaves of their big tech "centralized" services.
True, but without trying to move goalposts, the JIT still lacks the numerics support for machine learning.
There are lots of countries with easy access to guns and virtually no public access to healthcare. The US is just the only rich country that meets that description. But the US is the only country, rich or not, that regularly experiences school mass shootings. So there must be some other factors at play (no I don’t think it’s MKULTRA).
That was a better analogy to reality than the drivel I've read in the last 30 years.
> my memory from the pre 0.19 days of Elm tells me that this made for a worse experience overall

My memory tells me that 0.19 literally killed the language.
> refusal to make a distinction between different pupil populations. One could e.g. teach additional remedial German lessons

There's no such refusal and your suggestion is the status quo.

https://www.bamf.de/EN/Themen/Integration/ZugewanderteTeilne...
It's downshifting from Engineer to manager.
A very interesting take that is entirely new to me and which I'm going to need some time to think about.

For context, the specific part of the comment (that is now hidden and inaccessible) that I responded to with my Golden Rule edit boiled down to: If other websites don't hold themselves to the Asahi code of conduct, why shouldn't the Asahi website be allowed to break them too?
Idiotic. I can't say I learned much in school, but learning witten and spoken english has been something which has consistently been valuable almost anywhere.
I don't get this comment. I guess because I think we are not aligned on what a manager is or maybe our engineering styles are very different. For me a manager is someone who leads through influence, in engineering managers lead towards an engineering solution. To me it just feels like a different way to solve the same class of problems, just bigger. I absolutely feel like I am doing engineer, the difference being solving bigger problems and a lot fewer problems are being directly solved by me. How do you see a management position?
I am unsure how this relates to what I posted?
We absolutely do not have anything close to perfect automatic translators. Machine translation is still largely shit, and very definitely shit if you try to use it in a real time situation.
There also needs to be a cultural shift in Germany regarding how non-native German speakers are treated. If you're not absolutely fluent, you are fucked. Living in Germany as a non-native is being stuck between two worlds. Germans only speak English to you, whilst insisting that you absolutely must learn German, and rejecting completely you if you're not fluent. So in the end, you cannot really win.
I suppose it matters whether YouTube content is hosted in these USA or outside of it, for purposes of international copyright.

I'm not really sure how it all works internationally, but I know that on a site such as Wikimedia Commons, which is 100% hosted in these USA, they are still mindful that every work they host is 100% free in all involved countries. So if a more generous Italian copyright, say, or an Australian FOP law, gets in the way of hosting an image, they will always respect that, rather than relying on the technicality that the image is only hosted in these USA and they don't strictly need to observe other nations' laws in that regard.

YouTube may have distributed content hosting in other nations, and so I don't know how they get along with international copyright, where as you say, fair use is less fair than in USA. Perhaps they do rely on hosting location as a definitive test for which laws they're going to obey.
Rituals are bigger than religion, they help in any number of interactions that are easier if everyone knows what they're doing and what to expect.

(You could argue that TCP/IP's "handshake" is a ritual; each part has meaning)

And some rituals are societal; like washing hands before a meal. Those can last even beyond it being as necessary as it once was.
Definitely, 10 minute mail is great for this, or if you actually want to keep the login you can use “masked email” through fastmail and 1password which I recommend.

That being said, most people don’t use the internet this way, and websites like OP have been used maliciously as lures to collect targeted data, such as an email list of people interested in H1Bs..
This hits so close to home it hurts. But thank you for posting it anyway.
One of the "answers" is vertical farming, which as the article notes, eats a shittone of electricity.

Its a bit disappointing that the article doesn't mention landscape management, mixed use arable or general tree coverage for water retention
Is this some kind of joke?

This "tiny" web page loads content from 8 other sites. The html of the page is 122k big.

Add to that more than a megabyte of useless javascript frameworks.
A good example of why security practices matter in game development.
cow

noun

1. a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef. "a dairy cow"

(definition from Oxford Language)

But you're right, in practice people often use the word cow to mean calf.
I, on the other hand, consider the story to be too simplistic. It reads like an abstract concept hammered out by a smart person far from any actual life-threatening situation, which is what it actually is.

The captain and his mates don't necessarily need killing, even though a revolt might be desirable. Even in plenty of actual ship mutinies, the rebels didn't outright kill the overthrown officers, only imprisoned or marooned them. And that was in the context of the death penalty hanging over them if they failed.

Violent revolutions in general have the small problem of bringing other violent psychopaths to power. Kaczynski might not mind, but I do. It was a well-known problem in actual pirate crews as well, and pirates actually had some interesting rules (including a fairly modern division of powers on board) to prevent the most violent psychos from taking over their ships and introduce some measure of consensus into their internal politics.

His caricature of "weaklings abhorring violence" does not address the succession problem at all, and even if the original officer crew was bad, another officer crew self-selected of willing murderers could conceivably be worse by being both professionally incompetent and ready to torture their opponents etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish_tablet is apparently the oldest, and not deciphered.

It's probably a complaint about the quality of the wheat.
We will know, eventually, hopefully. I think it really matters. To better prevent future pandemics and to establish frameworks for restitution. And it definitely matters for future economic reparations.

If negligence is the cause of a multi-million death, multi-trillion dollar response it needs to be corrected to prevent future similar errors.
Agreed.

In fact, I’m always a little bemused at the level of shock from folks, especially here, when a company does what companies will inevitably do.

Reddit, doesn’t exist for the good of its users, outside of retaining significant numbers for the purposes of generating profit from selling their data and selling ad space.

Like every other social platform, the primary motive is profit, full stop.

It absolutely feels sleazy that billions of people freely contribute their time and talent to generate content and then get pushed aside when the companies business model changes. But everyone should absolutely expect that from day one.

Social platforms are a fun, but one sided relationship that will eventually turn sour.
That seems like a good example because I can't see how resources are being kept away from "stop child kicking" in order to promote flossing. Doing both is entirely reasonable.
I thought most ordinary joke-tellers preferred this too.

So more human that given credit for in this case.
Ted Kaczynski would have been appalled that someone who thought we should “recycle some, or get an EV, or something” felt inspired by his writing. He really did think humanity should revert to primitive agriculturalism, and was an extremist who was not willing to compromise on this point.

Also, environmentalism is at most a distant secondary theme in the manifesto. The primary reasons he gives for being anti-industrialization have nothing to do with preserving the environment.
I agree with this, and now electric is fine for urban areas.

Right now, if you live in rural areas and need to travel a lot, electric is not yet good. I have heard in some places in the US, people need to travel close to 200 miles one-way to get to a hospital.

Also, new cars are way to expensive for me. Until the price drops to around 15000 USD, I will be driving old used cars. My current vehicle is 17 years old. Plus I get the benefit of not having it repaired at the dealership and no telemetry.

For non-US people, getting a car repaired at a dealership can be as high as 4x the price at your local gas station.
A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever
0.04 x 0.59 x 0.43 inches - 1TB MicroSD (with 160/90 MB/s read/write speeds) for $110...
now THAT was a shock when I was buying a new phone after several years and I was looking at expanding its storage. It's so surreal to hold such a tiny thing that can store so much data.
It depends on the land they are farming.

A decent well managed meadow will be carbon negative. but turning forest into meadow isn't normally carbon negative.
The Icelandic Sagas are not really mythological though. They generally describe realistic historic events. The characters are probably all historical, although the events likely have been dramatized.
I think Mojo may win eventually when it’s complete, but you might want to check out: https://github.com/elixir-nx
Lol, nice illustration of GP's point, thanks.
There are entire fields dedicated to this question. Do violent revolutions ever work? But then, have any peaceful ones worked? History is full of violent revolutions that continued to be violent as you say, but even less peaceful revolutions that worked.

Of course, you can also argue that all government is a form of violence, the police are the only ones allowed by society to enact violence to protect property. If the state actions diverge from the population ideals enough, then to some extent the population is already at war with the state.
Game studios have no security processes and people who look at this stuff (i.e. game hacking) are more likely to just add exploits to their cheats (e.g. being able to crash other players is obviously a huge selling point for a hack) instead of reporting them.
> We might not like it, but being stingy when it comes to payments is normal professional business practice.

It's absolutely not. The entire economy would break down if every company was constantly "renegotiating", i.e., refusing to pay their bills.

People like Musk and Trump who make a habit of this behavior are not normal. Please let's not try to normalize it.
It needs civitai for music. People will find ways to extend it.
Personally I would love to see your vision succeed. Monocultures are intrinsically risky and limiting. Pretty soon we are all fish in a bowl, unable to see the water.

What will it take? I am just an armchair philosopher in this respect. Like they say languages are only in part about communicating with the computer, they are about communicating with other people.

So these three major tasks are really about winning over three different types of people and their peculiar brain wirings, motivations and aspirations. 1) and 2) are more introvert: mathematical types that want to express their inner abstract worlds in computer instructions in the least painful way. The famous data point is that pytorch became the tool of choice of academic ML publishing over the first mover tensorflow. Then you have the true computer nerds that love making the most of hardware and see in ML a major new stage of computing: HPC becoming mass market. 3) is more extrovert (keeping in mind the norms of the tech industry :-) developing and scaling delightful products and apps to be used by non-technical people.

Erlang/elixir clearly offers something special in terms of 3) and that is important because in the end its all down to serving useful software to people.
Sąd, but true. The sad part is that it can give "unfair" advantages to the party that is better at spying abroad and/or counterintelligence at home. After all every alliance has some points of conflict (see the Inflation Reduction Act vs Europe, as an example).
How does that rejection manifest itself?
Air pollution is not on the same order of magnitude for the average electric vs internal combustion vehicle, though.
beta means it's not yet ready for production, and the question is why this beta grade software is being used in production (on street with real people vs only in development environments) where it time and time again hurts and kills people. there is numerous people on hn saying that driving assistance almost killed them but they reacted in time. I don't see if/how those instances could be reported, but obviosly the failure rates could therefore be a lot higher.

high beam assistance should be an easy problem to solve compared to full self driving, yet I turn it off because it's not good enough/blinds oncoming traffic.

imho there should be estrictions to only specific areas/roads for testing, or fsd cars should only be allowed at much lower speed limits.
> purposefully putting people in danger to protect others

Doesn't this describe all armed forces, everywhere, ever?
Given how Swift for Tensorflow was managed, I am quite sceptical of Mojo.

That Elixir project is nice, but I already have enough on my plate with JVM, CLR, V8.

Noted for follow-up though.
I'll just save some quotes here since I really like them:

> Kaczynski likened science to a “surrogate activity” that is “directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward” or some sense of fulfillment.

> “Scientists work mainly for the fulfillment they get out of the work itself,” he wrote. “… Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research.”
Even in FAANG it's a promotion. If not immediately, the cap for ICs is much lower.

Principal engineer at FAANG (L8): likely one of the best engineers in the world.

Engineering director at FAANG (L8): manager who's been there for a while and is good at acquiring more reports.

As a ratio, there are far more eng directors to managers than principal engineers to engineers.

All that said, know what you want in your career. If you love building, build. If you want money, do management.