skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like to say that people just have 'bullshit jobs' nowdays and I somewhat agree but this made me feel like there's actually a lot of work being done and progress being made.
> Unfortunately these are the exact people that Germany wants moving into their country

Germany is already open for work for ALL of the EU member states and associated countries. The EU has a "freedom to move for goods, persons, services and capital" as one of the four principles. That means EVERYONE of the EU, who can afford the life in Germany, could move here.

Additionally we have people coming from other countries, incl. India on visas: students, workers, ... plus Germany currently hosts around 1 million persons from the Ukraine, because of the war.

> because they're the one's who pay the high taxes.

Germany needs workers in many professions: construction workers, in agriculture, nurses, software developers, ...

They come from the EU and from outside the EU. For EU citizens its relatively easy to move to other countries. The EU also made it easy for people from the Ukraine, to help the war refugees.
When all you have is a hammer.

(and a hype cycle)
My direct experience is a few years old now, because I moved on to slightly more bourgeois means of travel (but I remain active in travel communities where the younger, less bourgeois members hitchhike), but I don't remember seeing many French trucks whenever I was jumping from one motorway service station to another. The trucking industry in Europe very quickly moved eastward, and already Polish drivers were the stereotypical long-distance lift across Western Europe, with Hungarians and (after 2006) Romanians also being common.
Discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37164243
We use micro because we could develop a custom plugin without too much effort and it is very easy to deploy (copy) to systems that have no good terminal editor available.

Prefer vim usually, but it's too much effort to deploy a sane configuration to our target systems.
https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/08/six-months-with-pi-hole...
I recently set up my own self-hosted email solution again and made sure to do all of these things:

* Proper A and MX record set up in DNS per SMTP standards
* Proper SPF record in DNS
* Proper DMARC record in DNS
* Proper DKIM record in DNS
* SMTP server (postfix) is not configured as an open relay
* SMTP server is configured with a DKIM milter to sign outgoing messages

I used basic guides for the DMARC/DKIM stuff since that was new to me and tested with a Gmail account. The first few messages were marked as spam but I was able to unmark them. Once I was able to verify a correct SMTP setup, after two or three unmarkings, all messages were just delivered normally and no longer marked as spam. Google will even email you a report to help debug issues if your DMARC record is set up for it.

As far as I know this is about the best you can do. Everything else is pretty much getting your mail server IP addresses removed from various blacklists which can be easy to impossible depending on the service. The other option would be to forward to another service that allows relaying and has IP addresses with better spam scores but I personally prefer to avoid that.
Japanese demographics were also much more stable (even if low in general). China will have a much more dramatic demographic shift. The fertility rate was ~6 in 1970, ~2.8 in 1980 ... 1.09 in 2022. These strong generations will continue retiring, but there will be few young workers to replace them.
Someone in my family had both parents killed and was very severely and permanently physically and mentally disabled when a truck driver smashed their car after falling asleep while driving over his time (and was convicted). Truckers as a population couldn't be trusted to self-regulate, and even try to defeat actual regulations, so they get tighter and tighter. Blame those guys for the loss of fun.
It's not until the tide goes out that you see who was swimming naked.
There's a lot of use cases outside traditional tablet functionality, such as running a webserver or turning those excellent Apple screens into a secondary monitor.
Most of the new towers you see in the pictures are flats. For instance, around Wembley Stadium the vast majority are flats. Lots of (fancy) flats on the Isle of Dogs as well.

It's mostly offices only in the City and Canary Wharf.
You have to file those as an employee just because your employer has to do the same beauraucracy. Sounds in the end you stopped doing business :P

There is tons of examples where a solo-enterpreneur is drowned in these regulations (corporate car or even e-bike (!), calculation of privateley used square meter space in the homeoffice, separation of heating cost for your home office etc.). Don't even get me started about the beaurocracy hell if I had employees, there are so many regulations and rules.
Most PC motherboards and laptops won't give you longer BIOS updates than 3-5 years. It's unfortunately the norm for FW support lifecyle.
language-centric: the language you are compiling is flexible (you are also the language designer), you want to build the best possible language

implementation-centric: the language you are compiling is mostly fixed and/or defined by an external entity. You want to build the fastest compiler for this language, which emits the fastest code.
Nobody can predict the future, not even you.
What you see or do not see doesn't really matter all that much, what matters is that almost all of the top players in chess (and in any sports, really) come from supportive environments besides having won the genetic lottery in one way or another.

And if you think that the sexism is less in the chess community than in women's football I'm going to have to part with saying that I wished that I had evidence that that is the case but unfortunately it isn't. The chess world is - alas - no better than any other sport in this respect and that alone makes a good case for having a women's league, when you're doing something at the top of your abilities the last thing you need is to have that sort of thing on your mind to keep you off your best game.

Note that there are other sports where the risks to female participants and sexism are off the scale compared to both chess and women's football (properly: women's soccer in English but never mind that) such as gymnastics.
> I don't want to downplay any of this and I mostly agree with your points, but as a German the only "related" things I have to do is renew my ID and passport every 10 years and I've never had to wait such a long time (I think we're due to a change in our driving licenses, but that's one time, and I've not touched mine since I got it over 20 years ago).

Exactly. This is precisely my point. Germans don't realize that there are such big problems for immigrants because they don't go through any of it. And immigrants can't vote, and those who can vote don't face the problem so then problem never gets fixed.
history is over!
local and provicial governments really dont matter. they do their best to support and bid projects for national champions and siting direct foreign investments where competitive. the areas which outperform (do least bad) have their executive talent siphoned to the central government. as FDI has dried up in the global slowdown restructuring and local reforms are due. one idea is to heavily lean on consumption which is palatable to some. i dont see that the chinese (or the japanese) feel that is a tenable path however
Firstly donate unused PC's to a worthy cause - there are several folks in need of them than hoarding it - some people want things to work out of the box and OS upgrades to be seamless and don't want to tinker.

A Mac Mini is hardly breaking the bank.
> Perhaps, perhaps not. I'll get an EU passport next year. Oops scratch that the wait for naturalization is now upto two years. So I'll get an EU passport in 3 years, and then the right to be able to move to any of 27 countries at my discretion will more than make up for this time and energy I've spent here.

Hope, you will come back and report here and guide Indians/expats... If it is better/worse elsewhere.

(As some Indian living in EU for about 30 years - it won't be better. What you are expecting is Ambani level treatment. Then become one )

> And this is where the fallacy is. Indian salaries are currently actually higher than German ones for my role. And that's without even accounting for PPP.

I often meet people like this in many Indian restaurants - everyone brags but even after 20 years they never go out of Germany.

If this level of greatness is true then why are you here? I can even tell you that even at this level of richness you won't

- get the clean/non-flickering electricity in India that one gets in Germany

- Even Abdulkalam got stuck in traffic.
> Separately, if just going for concurrency for i/o, async/await is pretty amazing:

That's not async or concurrent. You're running a synchronous function in an asynchronous
task which cancels out.
I would not say this is not idiomatic - it depends on the situation.

On production code or scripts where I want to be sure (which is the case mostly), I would indeed use something like:

%{status: 200, body: json} = Req.get!(".....")

And then later restructure as needed.

Sometimes it would be:

meta = json |> Map.fetch!("meta") |> Map.fetch!("description")

Or pattern matching as you did!
Quit python 5 years ago, never looked back. If you want to write some glue code to put pieces together, golang is like 100x times better.
Make the fine 1 krone, but double it every day.
I have similar feeling about the LLoyds of London building, which is within the same few blocks. In the late '80s/early '90s it was iconic as a newly different building. Now it is practically lost between other huge (and IMO completely soulless) buildings.

I've enjoyed looking at these photos, but it also kinda makes me sad that there is such a massive drive to increase density in the city. I think I may be at a time of my life where I'm over being in or close to the capital.
Came here to read discussions on EN 50128. Was awfully disappointed.
Those people don’t know what they’re talking about
> thread with genuine complaints will be drowned in responses from native Germans who foolishly believe that Germany is a great country to live in because t

This is disrespect.

Complaining the system is OK but not attacking people.

Assume some one just says "All native Indian men are involved in harassing women/girls (incl. r-a-p.e)"
Thanks for detailing while I was asleep :-)

Indeed, that + pattern matching does error checking just right.

I must admit that the automatic JSON decoding initially turned me off a bit!
I am completely fine with ignoring the way people live, if it is terrible. And cars were a horrible idea from the start. Time for them to go.
That's the one kind of inflation which didn't bother me too much. I still go out just as much I just drink less. That's healthier.

The property situation makes me far more angry. The UK construction and property industry completely lacks market discipline and quality regulations have been reduced (see: Grenfell where that literally killed people, but also the shocking build quality of most properties).

Then there was the restriction of homebuilding - deliberately engineered by successive governments in order to jack up property prices and parasitically extract a greater % of Londoner incomes via rents.

When the Tories talked about being Singapore-on-Thames I wished they meant build thousands of nice HDB apartment blocks and get tough on corruption but alas it seems what they actually meant was Moscow-on-Thames - make London an even bigger haven for oligarchs and dial up the corruption with more no bid government contracts to their mates.
It's not all bad - at least they can still Tell Computers And Humans Apart!
That’s exactly right

When I say “difficult people” I define it as you’ve put in energy over time and it hasn’t been reciprocated. The other side hasn’t owned their part. Can’t admit mistakes after you have.

But really if you’ve given it a go, and it just feels not great, unsafe, icky, whatever. Just trust your gut. Don’t overanalyze it.
You can remove the recovery info after registration.
Is the European Economy Falling Behind America? [video]
> > Online communication loses sooooo much in transit.

> This is so true. I have a good friend who is, in my opinion, really bad at this.

I don't think it's true at all. Most people, I can perfectly well talk to online and can occasionally have an easier time talking to than in person. The person I'd classify as my best friend, for example, I literally speak to 1-2 times a year, the rest is text conversations (at least once a week we have a longer chat I'd estimate).

But I also know some people that are or were close to me who are terrible at texting. I can't seem to help them improve, either. If I'd believe that not everything can be learned to some extent, I'd say this is apparently something innate. They don't come across rude at all, in my case, but just no conversation flow whatsoever. It's a bit comparable to doing one of those interviews where you have to coax every word out of the interviewee.

(There is also the category of people that only ever text on a phone (slow) or just can't type at a conversational speed in the first place (50wpm/250cpm maybe? Just a guess), or have dyslexia and find reading more than half a phone screen's worth of text a significant hurdle. That's different and not what I mean about being bad at texting.)

Maybe you and the author are not people who are good at texting, and that's why you feel it is 'so true' that a lot is lost in text messages? Or maybe most of my friends and I are the outliers, that honestly wouldn't surprise me either, but either way, this thing portrayed as universal truth is far from it
> little room left for other broad social discourses in Germany, at the moment

Now you can call me a pessimist, but if we look back at the last 2 decades, did any social discourse really bring out anything positive?

The right-wing politicians are gaining more platform and more supporters, even the so-called social democrats brought us things like Hartz IV, the populists are always at work to call in less taxation for rich people by lying to poorer und uneducated people "they want to increase taxes! You'd get 10€ less per month!" while failing to admit they would maybe get 1000€ or 10k€ less per month)
Centralized cloud security is now a must-have
Certain "inert" gases can asphyxiate people, and in one sense can be more "dangerous" than volatile gases because it's harder to detect them.
I think it's quite common pragmatic patterns have multiple names and parallel theoretical frameworks within to understand them.

"A monad" is just a name to the applied pattern. There is nothing called "monad" in C++ for example, but you can write expressions in C++ that are isomorphic with monads. That does not mean that "monad" is the only correct name for the pattern, given people are familiar with different names and theoretical frameworks for the given pattern.

The fact that the pattern is recognized as 'monad' is really usefull of course, since that implies all sorts of other things that may turn out to be usefull. But it does not mean IMO it's wrong to call it by some other popular name.

The analogue in mathematics is rotation in a plane of the unit vector. We can present it as pair (cos(alpha),sin(alpha), a 2x2 matrix (m00,m01,m10,11), or even a complex number e^i alpha.

"I'm rotating a vector" ... "no no, you are perfoming a matrix multiplication" ... "don't be silly, it's a complex number"...
Thank you! That makes sense, and it also explains why removing the GIL has a negative performance impact as discussed in other comments. Taking a lock every time a container is accessed is significant overhead, which is why languages like C++ don't make basic containers thread-safe.
Bash-Hackers.org Is Gone
This is the latest snapshot from 6th April 2023, 20:58:17.
Depends on the job and region you will live. If you speak English, you can work it out in big cities with little to know knowledge about German language. But overall, needing to learn the local language is generally true for every country which does not speak your native language. So It's not like Germany is a big exception here.
Many truckers are paid by the mile and have total discretion, but need to push the limits to make a decent wage.

More pay is the answer here, as usual.
Just fron reading the docs, https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control/ in general and `kitty @ launch` in particular seem relevant.
Check Indeed, junior SWE jobs in London are listed starting at ~£25k/yr. Yes, £8 is expensive for a pint of lager.
Yes, and for these people the 10 minute charger will be needed, the parent comment spoke specifically about installing this at home.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230818091958/https://blog.arch... as the real url seems overloaded
Seconded.

And even before then.

I have an M1 Macbook Air which will only output video over one of its 2 USB-C ports, not the other. There is nothing visible on the case or in the OS to indicate this.

I have had an Arm and an AMD Thinkpad which both have only dual USB-C, and both unpredictably switch between one or the other being bootable, with no discenable pattern.
I'm an immigrant in India. There is curry everywhere. Everybody eats it, everybody smells like it. I hate curry. The smell, the taste, I could vomit every time. But the worst part of all this is - the vast majority of Indians think this is all acceptable and okay. If I hadn't already invested so much time, money and energy into this god forsaken country, I'd be out of here in a heartbeat.
Your comments are a reflection of life in Tower Hamlets, where PanP etc. are. London otherwise in the N, NE and SW parts has clean air with plenty of green spaces for kids.
A bit of a tangent, but one thing that annoys me is I get at a minimum 3 spam emails a week in my inbox. That hasn't improved for the past 5 years that I had it.
> you are mostly just coming for economic reasons, and countries don't need that.

On the contrary, that is _precisely_ what Germany needs if you are to sustain the bloated bureaucracy and the pensions.

As another comment pointed out, the best kind of immigrant is the one who pays really high taxes and social contributions and doesn't use up any benefits. That means young people with no families in high paying jobs. They don't get sick, don't use the kitas/schools, don't need to get paid kindergeld (money that parents get per child), are not married so have much higher taxable income (on average, because of Ehegattensplitting), pay into the pension system from which they will almost certainly get back far less (if at all) than what they pay in, usually live in big cities so they don't drive and therefore have significantly less impact on marginal infrastructure costs and drive up demand and pay into the local services economy.

Also, if it is difficult for such immigrants to assimilate and naturalize, they will often just pack up and leave, having contributed to (but never using) the various social systems.
>simply use the send-keys command to execute the selected code (or line) instantly in pane 1.

Sorry, I don't get it. How can you only run selected code or lines individually without the full context of the program/project that code is part of?
This kind of has the sound of someone playing an acoustic guitar patch on a keyboard. It seems to lack the expressive dynamics you would expect with a guitar, almost like the velocity is clamped.
Antarctica World Passport
Yeah, less “my, how we’ve grown!” And more “meh, how’ve we grown?”
where do you see the onshore forex market moving?
merits investigation though
indeed

not sure there's much they can do about this, other than protecting all the built-in data structure operations with mutexes, like java's original data structures (Hashtable, Vector, etc)

(but then how do you get a non-synchronized [] if you want one?)
Now I'm curious how you think it is non-representative?

If we're going off waiting times for government stuff it seems to be 10x better than Berlin but 3x worse than any small town where I have friends.
Perhaps the model achieved a level of intelligence where it can understand that humans are happiest when giving to those who need, and decided that tourists ought to engage in helping people wherever they go in order to really achieve what they're looking for when going on vacation, which is not actually taking selfies in famous tourist attractions for Instagram as they'd imagined, but to feel actual happiness.
Wow.

I have never yet broken a USB-C cable. Not one.

When I used an iPhone for a couple of years, I went through approximately a Lightning cable per month, sometimes more. At one point I took a carrier bag of broken Lightning cables to the electronics recycling.

You must treat equipment exceptionally roughly.
" Henry VIII rebuilt the church in 1542 ... at this time it was literally "in the fields", occupying an isolated position between the cities of Westminster and London."

In the 1550s the country was unrecognisable compared to now. England's total population was about 3 million, now London's population is 9 million (and was 100k then)...

Edit: Apparently, wolves in England had just become extinct at the time...
Lipo chemistries used in hobby applications are often rated at 5C charging for example versus 4C here.

To get a good comparison in a car we need a manufacturer to actually do the development work and release a car that can be tested in real world conditions. There are the temperature limitations the press release already mentions and also limits to avoid range loss from fast charging over the life of the car.
It's not over but it certainly slowed down. If you think it hasn't can you point out any meaningful innovation? Other than leveraging llms to improve last century tactics and ideologies?
Let’s cut those “bullshit” jobs and see what happens to these people’s investments.
Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st cent
I've been doing it for years. The only con is more dust :)
Yes, but the fertility rate drop is just too fast in China. There will be way too many old people requiring care for too few people in the productive age.

Smaller rich countries can solve this problem by importing young workers from poor countries. But on China's scale of 1.5B people that's not really feasible. (China also isn't really that rich on average, isn't attractive for immigrants and isn't culturally welcoming to immigrants)
Thanks, I haven't considered printing as a usecase indeed, I could make that work at some point with some css tweaks I reckon. But until then, the raw html can be found here: https://github.com/chtenb/chtenb.github.io/tree/master/docs/...
They can probably be converted to pdf just fine, or you could just use the html
IIUC, U.S. patents were constructed to be an immigration policy tool. “Come to America, get paid for your knowledge!” This would encourage people who knew how to build and make things to immigrate to the U.S. Note that patents are an optional part of the constitution; not an inherent right of inventors.
The BMW joint venture was 50% owned by a Chinese auto company and the government when it was initially created
Does this actually happen? A bank that owns real estate and collects rental income on it?
Germany has more than enough alternatives for nuclear power. The situation would have been even better if not for some brain farts sabotaging the movement to alternatives for various reasons.

The big problem is that has Germany has big dependencies on coal, gas and gasoline, for industry, heating, and cars. Nuclear power can't replace this at all. Which is why Germany is shifting around usages and started investing big in hydrogen.
vim vs emacs is an age-old flamewar. I for one was never able to make use of emacs, it feels like a whole new hobby or job to configure it. Vim on the contrary is pretty convenient to use on default settings.
Outdated U.S. electric grid under scrutiny after Maui fire