skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not surprising at all, and is not specific to Deutsche Bank or even banking in general. This is a property of large, bloated legacy companies in any field.

There is also a large cultural component. Having lived both in The Netherlands and Germany, dealing with banks or government institutions is a stark difference. The large Dutch banks (eg. ING) are efficient, you can arrange everything online and they have modern apps. With German banks for every small administrative change we had to go to a physical office and the apps/website looked as if they were literally from 1999 (and weird security practices like using a pin to log in). Similar with government institutions, in NL almost everything can be arranged online with a single authentication method (everything from requesting a parking permit to filing for taxes). In Germany it's a lot of literal paperwork, going to offices, waiting in line, and no integration between administration of different public institutions.

My wife (who is German) says that one factor is German history (nazis and the stasi), which makes people distrust any kind of central (digital) administration. So all databases are uncoupled from eachother, people prefer cash, etc. Another thing that is really stifling in Germany is the hierarchy, there is so much formalistic bullshit around company/government/... hierarchies. I experienced this a lot when working with the university administration (I was a researcher/lecturer at a German university). No one dares to make choices that can have some impact, afraid that higher-ups, the court, or whatever will punish them for making the wrong choice. So they hide behind rules and necessary decisions are not made/postponed. Almost no one stands up to their leadership, so even they have wrong ideas, there is rarely any counterbalance.
Yes, tons of them. Command line "hangman" games being one very old and common example of "language/word" game. There are also text based RPGs and space exploration games, and so on.

But this is about text "adventure" games.
This is so interesting. I've been wanting to do this, not to chat, but to generate coherent answers to real chats - like pre-baked answers to quickly reply. Looks pretty complicated, though. I have no idea where to start.
Wikipedia: Imminent Death of Wikipedia Predicted
>I think hiring more women has powerfully positive effects throughout an org. I agree hiring "races" is counter-productive. It creates more racism and division than it intends to solve. The idea that I am uniquely Black or you are uniquely Asian doesn't stand up to scrutiny. It's a broad spectrum we insist on reifying. How Black should I be to claim the Black experience?

All the points you raised against hiring based on race can also be used to be against based on gender. Why do you think one is "powerfully positive" and the other is "counter-productive"?
I was in New Mexico a while back, and being outside walking around in 35 C heat was completely comfortable because of how dry it was. Relative humidity less than 20%. It's so dry that the heat index (by the National Weather Service's formula) is actually less than the true temperature.

By comparison, life at 60% humidity in the Northeast at 30 C is considerably more miserable without air conditioning. Without a fan blowing in my face constantly to improve evaporation, my head starts to feel like mush after about an hour.

Conversions: 35 C = 95 F, 30 C = 86 F
It is not positive sum, in competitive market it is basically exchanging services, and each party has to agree on mutual value of services being exchanged otherwise no trade.

Accountant values his labor as 100/hr and plumber values his services as 100/hr and they simply exchanche services.

How is it positive sum?
>We are importing in Europe

Any time Europe does something it doesn't like I always read how it's an "imported" trend (usually from America). Europeans just can't ever accept they are responsible for their own behavior. They're just helpless and twisting in the wind at America's mercy when it comes to these things.

Of course, when it comes to things they're proud of then they're a strong independent people that don't need no America.
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It sounds like they tried to remove failure modes, when they should instead have figured out a way to forgive failure modes after they occur. That way, players could still fail but it wouldn't result in a death spiral that wrecks the last hour+ of citybuilding.
Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832758

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832468
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Fire 99% of MBAs and this problem will be solved
The sad thing is that food-delivery drivers in a number of EU cities are largely migrants employed by organized crime. They have to hand over all the money they make to their bosses, and get only a tiny amount back, so the customer gets the annoyance of being asked for a tip, and the delivery person doesn’t even get the tip.
Sistrum
100% agree. WebKit is incredible, and people underestimate all the great things you get out of the box for free. That means more time to experiment with creating something different around the web views.
I think the benefit of the 90-day shower is that participants will start giving you their shower-seconds far earlier than that.
Is there a way to get the toolbar to the top?

Never liked it down blow.
Anyone who signs a contract without an exit process for which they've budgeted deserves the financial hit they're going to take.
The price of electricity has been falling in Germany since the beginning of the year, the share of renewable energies in the electricity supply has risen > 65%. The level of gas storage is 20% higher than in recent years, even though there is no more gas flowing from Russia. Nevertheless, the price of gas and heating oil is falling in Germany. It seems to me that the catastrophic news regarding energy blackout etc. in Germany of the last year were slightly exaggerated.

But some people like the author of that article haven’t noticed that, yet.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-deutschland-ga...
Similar thing here. The more candidates we reject the more scrutiny we get and management starts hinting we should take what we can get. The latest few hires we’ve been told to just ask basic questions and not do any coding stuff.
I've had this experience with Ally bank. Their SMS-only 2FA, lack of international wire transfers, and compete failure to work with Plaid drive me insane, but I'm still using them because I get a kind, helpful human every time I call.
It's a brutally fair competence test. They were all cowboys and I left within the year.
MeshCODE: A unified theory of storing binary data in the brain
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Working in a call center is the worst. Pure torture. But that's common knowledge.

It's strange to think that somebody would fight to keep that job.

It illustrates the depths of the ubiquitous mindfuck under which we operate.

I mean, what if the torture was replaced with a more obvious torture? What if you spent 8 hours a day getting your fingernails pulled out? At a good hourly rate and with nice benefits of course.

Would we squeak?
>So it is favorable for the worker to receive a higher base salary without tips

In theory that sounds right but in practice it seems to be quite different.

https://www.businessinsider.com/south-park-creators-eliminat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/dining/danny-meyer-no-tip...
How do you think intergenerational wealth is created? Most people don’t work hard to make the economy perform better, most people work hard to provide for themselves, their family and (through charity) their communities.
Would you like to answer a bit more explicitly about what exactly you mean? Or am I supposed to guess the meaning?
I don't like that tips are a trick to make you think things are less expensive than they are. However, I see it as my duty since I'm lucky to be paid a lot for my job to share that prosperity with the people in my community.

I would prefer that prices reflected their true cost, but in the meantime I'm not going to stop tipping because that is only hurting the workers and isn't fixing the core issue.
because people on HN think they are far more important than they really are
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One of my brother's classmates was morbidly obese for a kid 6 years of age. His daily lunch would be more than what I can manage to eat even today in one meal, not to mention calorically heavy on sugars. He passed away soon enough from a heart attack, a few weeks after his 7th birthday if I remember correctly.

Letting people eat what they want is not the answer.
It does feel kinda overwhelming. You really need to run to stay in place, and it is more and more about setting up a brittle chain of config files than having deep knowledge of a single languages best practices.
Starbucks’ Dirty War Against Organized Labor
> So what? They didn't invent HTML either.

Exactly. They fucked up something that someone else had thought up.

> when you say, "the browser was not created to be an application runtime", really, I don't even know what that means. Which browser?

Pretty much none of them, except maybe IE (WebKit and Blink are not browsers, they are rendering engines, btw). Some were thought for read-write capabilities in pages (Amaya and to a degree the original Netscape suite with their built-in editor), but that's basically it. Netscape pivoted this and that way, as scrappy startups are wont to do, following random partnerships or shipping their own suite, until they were acquired by AOL. Whatever they say, they really had no big design; they just threw the kitchen sink at something they thought would be cool. It just so happened that eventually Apple and Google figured that the JS/HTML coupling made for their best bet to break Microsoft's dominance in the application space, and started throwing engineers at it. Without that move, JS would still be the rollover trick-pony that it was in the early '00s, with the wonky inconsistent syntax and horrendous performance.

The one browser that was really thought of as a runtime was basically IE, with ActiveX and its deep embedding into Windows. That was a bad idea and it rightly ended like it did.
I have mixed feelings, as someone who grew up in that utopia.

On one hand, looking at the mass internet culture, the prevailing utopian culture was only possible in the way that jumping into the air is flying: true for a moment, but ultimately gravity (or in the internet's case, the Powers That Be) inevitably exerted itself as mass culture came to embrace the internet.

Tangentially, I suspect the fate of cryptocurrency is similar: to be embraced by the old guard only to have much of what made it special (especially, easy transfer of value across borders) undone, because it turns out banks and governments take KYC/AML law seriously.

But back to the internet, that utopia still exists. It's just not the prevailing internet culture any more. It's pushed into the corners under labels like "small tech" and "tildeverse". I sometimes use the term "Digital Amish" because the emphasis this community shares with the Amish is to understand the side effects of the technology you use and choose what to use and avoid in order to avoid undesirable side effects (e.g. feeding your life to an algorithm). In practice most of them are not quite that hardcore, but I use it more aspirationally since I think it'd be cool to get completely to that point.
Devs on Hacker News. You'll find many outside of this bubble that either don't care, don't know about it or are happy with their tools.
It does, however, create a pipelining problem: there's very little reason for someone who wants to become a professor to stick through literal decades of adjunct hell to maybe get a tenure-track position when somebody decides they're finally ready to let go of theirs (and the paycheck that comes with it, which is not large but certainly incentivizes staying a long time).

Tenure is a great and necessary phenomenon, but it is one of the best examples of the folks who get it needing to be more broad-minded than themselves.
Not really, even as a local, you can avoid the place and will probably never see them again. They won't remember you anyway if you did randomly cross paths at Wal-mart or whatever.

And now they aren't getting paid enough, which gives incentive to the employees to demand actual wages instead of the bull shit system we have now.
Tipping needs to be made illegal. It is out of control . Plenty of countries don't have tips by default!
Not yet, but this will come when I add iPad support.
I'd love to know why you prefer it at the top. Can you please elaborate, here or by email?
Why do articles like this never confront the paradox at play here: these sorts of jobs are notoriously awful and dehumanizing. Their existence is often looked at as a failure of our system, even in the very same publications that are now publishing these sorts of articles.

I don't mean to minimize the problems that this (pardon the term) disruption causes, or the much more concrete and immediate fact of losing one's job. But if we're going to have that discourse don't we need to confront that central question? Should these impossibly rote and dehumanizing kinds of jobs exist, or shouldn't they?
Being completely sedentary and driving everywhere isn’t good for you? Who knew?

Admittedly, being able to better understand quantitatively has some value. There was a study not long ago showing that ‘active’ commuting (biking or walking) had a real benefit, because people did it every day, whether they felt like it or not.
Can you understand bird? Test your recognition of calls and songs
Side note: The use of the term “body count” here is a bit cringey. It’s either insensitive to human suffering or bro click bait.

Do others agree or am I being hyperbolic?
The world will never stop, not even for humans. On the other hand, if you have built a career around commercial office real-estate, the world might just have stopped for you.

Still, live goes on.
Why are malls simpler to transform? All the malls I'm familiar with have relatively few bathrooms per floor, and huge interiors (low wall:floor ratio) that would seem hard to slice up into apartments.
You can follow on Twitter and Mastodon! Would it work for you? Do you prefer newsletters maybe?
Because you need something to begin. Either a learning advantage (build better stuff as cheap as others can build crappy one because of less trial and error involved), or a cost advantage (but crappy stuff but cheaply due to lower costs and thus win market share). Not having either, they will have to compete head-on, and simple comparison of valuations and thus WACCs of Tesla vs Toyota clearly shows that if they try to compete, they will be drained and bankrupt very quickly.

I think they will eventually not try. They see the writing on the wall and know they will be bankrupt and dissolved in some years. Thus spreading FUD about EVs plus promising much better EV of their own to simply slow down this process to make some final bucks before going bust. That is the smartest thing they can do at this point.
Pretty basic. Three one hour sessions with a manager, engineers, and final round with a director or VP. Sometimes we will do an extra session for more senior roles to follow up on stuff.
When I am reading a book, the chapter and title are at the top of the page.
The Arx Project: a multidisciplinary non-profit studying ancient Mesoamerica
Regarding tech conferences:

- A good conference will pay you to speak

- An okay conference will wave entry fee

- A bad conference will ask you to still pay entry

- A scam will charge you to speak
Do we also bemoan the loss of backbreaking agricultural jobs or tedious and dangerous industrial work that have been automated away?
Passively Generating Power Day and Night Takes the Right Parts
Another year of not being a sociopath I suppose.
> I live in a suburb of 50 000 people, we have about twenty charging stations in total.

The infrastructure will get built in time as there is a greater need for it. Within my city of 40,00 there are probably over 100 charging stations. Though we are next to a larger metropolitan area. Most all have been added in last 4 years.
Or you could just use ISO 9001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000.
Adblock? I've been hoping for an iOS browser with adblock that isn't bloated.
People focused on him enough to know who he is, track his career, and follow him?
It's like watching one of those "hold my beer" videos in slow motion. It's terrible, but you can't take your eyes off.
The inhabitants of North Africa may have been familiar to some degree and had some contact with subsaharan Africa.
Thanks! I have to review whether they can be easily converted to WebKit's JSON-based content blocker format. But I suppose DuckDuckGo blockers can also be used as-is.
No, I was just positing a motivation.
From the chronological perspective of a few months! Not even a year.

FreeBSD has certainly received a lot more development hours compared to NetBSD.

It would be interesting to read a write-up one day where all the BSDs say what they grew since their initial releases.
> The sad thing is that food-delivery drivers in a number of EU cities are largely migrants employed by organized crime

This is the first time I hear this stated as a fact rather than a theory, where has this been confirmed to be happening exactly?
Why? Does no one like floor to ceiling windows anymore? I’m sorry if I sound sarcastic, it’s a real question. I kind of love the way some offices look on the outside.
People like the money they make more than the hassle of doing the job; it's a great thing for people that work in the computers/tech field love what they are doing, but not every job is like that.
You are right. But also northern cities have water. You can rebuild a house to be more energy efficient. You can’t create a river (to a first degree of approximation).
> Unexpectedly, no trouble at all

Thanks for the feedback!

I haven't held an X1, but according to specs online, it looks like the top edge of the screen would be about 9-10" tall when open. Does that match yours?

I measured my desk setup, and the bottom edge of my monitors is 10" from the desktop. My work laptop overlaps the monitors by about 1" when open and placed in front.

I do like ThinkPad keyboards, and I use a trackpoint on my UHK. However, the open laptop screen would block things stored around my keyboard. I also hate the up-the-nose shot on video meetings from such a low webcam.
"If you are using bash on Windows that just tells me that the software you build probably won't be integrated all that well with Windows ;)"

Microsoft (you may have heard of them) seems to disagree: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/azure-cli-learn-...
Naturally it only works, because I assume it doesn't take advantage of Aix features.
I'm not sure if this observation is as novel as you make it sound: every product that's successful is so because of what it does, not because of the technology it's built on. Your SaaS/webshop/etc can be powered by scribbles on the back of a napkin, as long as it does what the customers need they don't care.
We're getting there. Temporally stable video generation is not trivial and is only now slowly solved. Upscaling of single images in a generative fashion (as in, actually adding in details) works really well, you can create images with an incredible amount of detail. Doing the same for video is around the corner.
What about SIMD support? Most software (like ffmpeg) clearly aren't having nor is going to use the current SIMD specification for rv64
In some cases the companies are the landlords.
"Don't assume a hidden agenda"

"When thinking about a new proposal, it's often safe to assume that Occam's razor is applicable and the reason it is being proposed is that the team proposing it is trying to tackle the use cases the proposal handles."

"While the full set of organizational motivations behind supporting certain use cases may not always public (e.g. a new device type not yet announced, legal obligations, etc), the use cases themselves should give a clear enough picture of what is being solved."

The use cases for the WEI proposal are pretty clear from the explainer (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...):

Google "will be able to request a token that attests key facts about the environment their client code is running in."

Google "will ultimately decide if they trust the verdict returned from the attester."

"Allow" Google "to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device."

I have replaced "web sites" and "web servers" in the original explainer text with "Google" for clarity of intent.

Why would Google want these capabilities in web browsers?

What does Google plan to do with them?

What follow-on actions is Google planning?

Google marketing exec: "We need to lock down web browsers so we can make more money by showing ads."

"Ad blockers need to be prevented. The new WEI APIs will ensure that ad blockers aren't running, that our ads are being seen, and that no DRM is being compromised."

"We also want to prevent ad fraud. With WEI we can ensure that ad clicks are legit and that people are watching the ads we show. If we can't control the operating system like we can on Chromebooks and Android phones, then we need to control the web browser with cryptographic certainty."

Getting browsers to adopt and implement Web Environment Integrity is Step 1.

Step 2 is where all Google web sites start requiring Web Environment Integrity to be used or they lock you out of the site.

Step 3 is where all websites serving Google ads require Web Environment Integrity to be used.

Step 4 Profit!

Web Environment Integrity is the beginning of the further DRM-ification and enshittification of the Web.