skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least from my experience, the biggest issue is finding a decent place to live. With this I mean:

- if you don't speak German, then chances are you want to live in the big cities (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne,...) where some fraction of the population speak English... but in those cities there's a huge demand for flats and the offer is not up to it. Also, just by not speaking German you cut probably 50% of the flat offers already because they are offered by people who don't speak English

- if you just moved to Germany and you're applying to a flat, chances are they will ask you your last 3 payslips (this is not a law, but if they ask and you don't provide, well goodbye!)
Anecdotally my experience dealing with German companies being in the UK is that they can be highly detail-oriented and process driven, to the point where they can be hard to work with if you are outside Germany.

It seems that progressing fast with high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity isn't common, while other western companies seem happier to proceed faster with a looser brief and to solve problems flexibly as they come along.

Of course this won't be a universal truth and it might just be my personal experience, and it might also be a benefit in many situations, but I've always felt Germany has a different work culture compared to other European and Western countries.
Great Schnitzel though
Your case is a classic example of sunk cost fallacy
Plasma is not a waste product: https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/news/article/be...
The EU has a framework, CEFR, that describes language levels of proficiency, starting at A1, and ending in C2. A1 requires you to be able to understand simple phrases about everyday, concrete topics. For example, suggest activities based on the weather forecast. C2 is essentially fluency.

This outdated overview (2009) shows that most European countries only require A1/A2 for residency, and for citizenship B1 or B2 at most. https://rm.coe.int/16802fc1d9
3 Die in NY and Connecticut from Infections Spread Through Seawater and Oysters
Yes, with lazy evaluation, there is no guarantee that x will be evaluated before y (rather the opposite).
> business license takes 120 days to acquire.

That's bullshit. A Gewerbeanmeldung for a one-person startup or a GbR (same, just with more than one person) takes one DIN A4 sheet of paper per person, and about half an hour of waiting at the city authority.

An LLC (UG, GmbH, AG) takes more effort to form, yes (including raising 12.500€ of capital for the GmbH/AG), but you can easily transition from an existing Einzelunternehmen/GbR to a LLC.
Mostly marketing technobabble I'd say.

If CATL had a roomtemperature superconducting electrolyte you'd know ;)

Probably exacerbated by internal/non-common terminology and maybe questionable translation.
It's an Agenda 2030 propaganda piece.
Not quite. It's simply an argument that the money will end up back in healthcare, just maybe further down the line, and maybe that's okay. Just remember that as everything else gets cheaper, the percentage that is spent on healthcare must increase.
What all the set lists have in common is that Lars plays them badly.
There is that kind flexibility, drivers can drive past the limit in order to find a safe spot, but if they do that on a regular basis they’ll get pinged which is fair.
The problem again is the real world: there are instances where truck stops are full and they would have to drive many miles until they find a spot. Not to mention sometimes they are stopped and are ordered to move the truck, which breaks their rest time. Now you see trucks driving at 2mph on the parking lots or side streets in order to not trip the gps.
But also given the structure and culture of the industry ( which drivers are only a piece ) there’s only a hard limit, which is the one that gets you in trouble, everything else is just a footnote.
As a foreigner living in Germany for the best part of a decade, I tend to agree with the article that the situation is not dire but, at the same time, it does need work.

The train situation is a good starting point: an industry that used to be great and has been in slow decline for years without anyone doing anything other than shrugging and saying "well, that's how it is" or "yeah, but we are still better than X". I cannot speak for major macroeconomic trends but, as an individual, I can say that getting a doctor's appointment, an apartment, internet (not just the speed, but also getting the actual connection), a mandatory appointment at the "Bürgeramt" (and don't get me started on my citizenship application!) and (of course) traveling by train have been getting slightly more frustrating every year.

I know some of it is part of wider, world-wide tendencies (thanks, AirBnB), but it's also fair to recognize that the German government is getting asleep at the wheel. I actually appreciate that the government tends to err on the side of caution, but I also have to recognize that there's a line between "caution" and "paralyzed". I don't need to pay my taxes with Venmo, but I do need an apartment that I can actually afford to rent.
Well these are more affordable places in sf, not everyone is techie millionaire, you know.

and Nebraska has nice places too, especially if you have a family.

Try to raise a family with 5 kids in sf, and compare to Omaha. I would pick Omaha 10 out of 10 times, if I was not a millionaire
> Otherwise, you are mostly just coming for economic reasons, and countries don't need that.

You sure about that? For example, there's nothing better for a country like Germany to have an inmigrant who has:

- got a bacherlo/masters degree in a different country other than Germany

- has a job in a German company and earns well above the average German citizen

- pays tons of taxes

- is relatively young (between 20 and 50 years old), so doesn't get to use the health care as much as others

Besides, European countries are getting old (the 'population pyramid' is getting inverted) so they definitely need young people that work (and it doesn't even really matter if they are skilled people or not; what's needed is people in the age of working and who can spend some of their earnings in the country)
Yeah, agreed that it was a bit sour. I'm actually optimistic by nature ;)

I meant that in academia sometimes some theories are taken for granted and land in a blind spot for improvement. But yeah, that's definitely not limited to academia. Technical debt is every where.
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.
WOW. Great to simply see this being brought up and discussed at all. I spent a year reading through this site and working through examples. One of best F# resources.

Just the 'concepts' discussed on this site has helped me with 'functional' thinking in all languages.

If this is getting attention now (because this is old site).
Does this mean F# is gaining traction?

And to the subject, do programmers in other languages use 'railway' style error handling. Like Rust?
Definitely this. I'm super happy for anyone finding some new level of productivity with vim, emacs, kakoune, etc. but I don't want to join an editor cult, not even a CUA one. I just want to edit text from the command line using a familiar set of keystrokes and move on with my life and micro fits the bill.
Some of what I view as core problem with approaching this issue is simply how easy it is to do the maths and say "but this is only a small impact in the greater problem".

- Air travel could be banned and we're still hosed

- All the cars could go electric and we're still hosed

- Kill all the cattle and we're still hosed

etc etc. It really is freerider/tragedy of the commons situation, lot of finger pointing and a lot of rational self interest. In the end I can only view this as unfettered good news, assuming we can scale it out
It's not as elaborate as what Metallica does but the Red Hot Chili Peppers change their setlist every show, Anthony Kiedis handwrites them before the show.
I was dreading the anmeldung bureacratic process in Berlin and found them to be nice and accommodating and even flexible to me being slightly late and needing to go acquire further documents. My personal experience has been good.
It was great in 2012 and comfortable for SWEs (am one). Now it is honestly too expensive, £8 a pint in pub near work, it makes going out less fun.
This is a fun game. Do I get to place it anywhere?
Degrade is an interesting word. I am comfortable changing for others to make them comfortable because the behavior is not about me and I simply know myself a enough to not mind.
Which country is falling apart? Or did you mean to write 'communist company' instead?
When a product is great but a company turn bad usually most of the good DEV flee. I think it is quite frequent that former developers start a new company or join a company that has the same of developing that product or a fork of it.
There is a big clue as to the magazine's primary focus in its name.
That's kind of late ... Wasn't anyone there keeping an eye on the birthrate?
thanks.. i really know nothing apart from that i enjoy doing it with hearing aid batteries myself.. there is something really satisfying watching the no-bounce battery. as for the reason, i always presumed it was because they take in oxygen. i can't find anything on the weight of discharged vs charged zinc air batteries... but they have always felt a teeny tiny bit lighter when used (i have no evidence!) and i am not sure about your water supposition... i know they -can- swell with water if it is too humid for example, but generally, don't they expel water as they discharge...? "Zn–air battery uses oxygen from the air, and hence, air holes in it are kept open for cell operation. Therefore, loss of water by evaporation through the holes is inevitable. When the water is depleted, the battery ceases to operate. There are two water consumption routes in Zn-air batteries, namely, active path (electrolysis) and passive path (evaporation and corrosion)." source: https://www.jecst.org/journal/view.php?number=300

regardless.. here is a nice video of the effect in hearing aid batteries.. https://www.facebook.com/BMHearing/videos/2037506353043179/ sorry the only link i can find worth sharing is on FB.
> The only upgrade is in cleaner air to breathe and safety from crime

Those are two things which are pretty far up the list of things I need to be fair.
Looks like that the consequences of the ECJ decisions would be so moronic - every single European entity that did anything internet-related in the last 20 years is to be sanctioned - that non enforcement is the only possible approach.
I actually argue JS was a better language before all of the changes made, starting with const/let. The only thing I'd say makes sense are classes but the fact they aren't syntax sugar over prototypes was a mistake.

People wanted a different language, they should have gotten more scripting languages in the browser. Not changing JavaScript so much that it's no longer JavaScript.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies.
The gulf between the western world and North Korea is _vast_.

As an example, the USA has roughly double the fossil fuel consumption per capita as Germany and triple that of France, yet the standard of living in the USA is not significantly higher (and the median may in fact be lower, depending on your standards).

Fossil fuel usage is higher in Russia than any western European country, yet the Russian standard of living is lower.

There's a lot of low hanging fruit we can go after in the short term, we could potentially halve our fossil fuel usage in ten years and if we actually put the effort in do it while maintaining a high standard of living.
I mean, I don’t have those problems. Without any workarounds being required. What do you want me to do, make up problems and fight against them?
not just a shell script. Any code.

I could have a rails console running below in a pane and send rails code directly from the file above.

Works with anything
Riding as passenger in a French long haul truck should be almost impossible. Although most trucks accross France aren't immatriculated in France, so it might still be possible.
All true. But they don't need people showing up just to gripe and complain.
As a German with an expat partner, I'd say this depends very much. If you're working for consumer facing startups - sure. There's tons of those in Berlin and plenty in the other big cities (Germany is quite decentral). But if you want to settle a bit on the outskirts of even the big cities, it is a lot easier to understand at least some. I'd say 50% of the people we randomly interact with can hold a conversation in English.

And then there's work: There's a lot of good paying and rewarding tech jobs here that would seem foreign to SV types, in very specific domains or more traditional B2B. Getting a job at those places without speaking German is surely possible for a programmer, just a minor handicap maybe. But for other professions, it can be downright impossible.
That or they’re omitting the positives. But it’d be a substantially less fun rant if they didn’t, so worth the perceived fallacy IMO.
The taglines basically write themselves. 'A 10x editor for 10x engineers.'
Whether it was a leaked preprint or not, they clearly claimed to have synthesized a SC[1].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008
https://www.google.com/search?q=n%2B1+problem&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT...
Maintainability is of course subjective.

Personally, I think this code looks like utter shit, and I definitely would not wish to maintain this.

<a href="#" class="-mx-3 block rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-base font-semibold leading-7 text-gray-900 hover:bg-gray-50">Product</a>
<a href="#" class="-mx-3 block rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-base font-semibold leading-7 text-gray-900 hover:bg-gray-50">Features</a>
<a href="#" class="-mx-3 block rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-base font-semibold leading-7 text-gray-900 hover:bg-gray-50">Marketplace</a>
<a href="#" class="-mx-3 block rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-base font-semibold leading-7 text-gray-900 hover:bg-gray-50">Company</a>

This isn't a pathological example constructed to undermine Tailwind either — this code is copied and pasted from their website.
Anmeldung is one very small, very simple thing. Have you been to your Ausländerbehörde yet?
Mm yes, renovating your house again? No problem!
> The Chinese housing market was fueled by the familial need to own a house.

And as a store of value I believe since they have nowhere else to invest their savings.
You're writing this tongue in cheek or really not knowing?

That's exactly what Indonesian is , a simplified standardized language to allow hundreds of different ethnicities with their own languages to easily communicate.

There are tons more but I guess Indonesian is the world's best example because it is the language of one the most populated island on earth and one of the most populus nations

And there's no need for three tenses, neither Chinese nor Indonesian have tenses.
This is an excellent idea, and goes beyond my own speculations in this area. I like it a lot.
This isn't necessarily super bad in its own right even though it is a very large company and it signals that some of China's big developers are under water. The question is whether it is a harbinger or the whole of it. If the former there will be a domino effect just like what happened in 2008, but hopefully more limited to China. I imagine that 'heads will roll' is more than just a figurative expression here, Xi & co will do everything they can to lay the blame with others even though this clearly happened on their watch and is a failure of oversight as much as incompetence at Evergrande.

China real estate is a subject you could write several books on (and it probably has been done) it is a series of houses of cards that are all precariously balanced against each other and that is why the fall-out from this could be substantial.

It will be an interesting number of weeks, the larger questions that will determine some of the outcome are:

Who holds the debt?

Which other companies are overextended in the same way?

What will Xi & co do to deflect blame?

Are the assets valued fairly or are the worth much less in a sale than their book value?
(the bigger the discrepancy the larger the effect will be, for a giant of this size to fall over would have to result in a significant effect on the market)

This could be everything between 'meh' and 'there goes the house' and I have no idea how you'd get to reliable information from inside China to get those questions answered.
>k...

Your arguments are what make this conversation fun, give you some credits.

>ok? what about the inventor Tesla?

Do you think someone is jealous because they are not Telsa? Ahah who?
> IMHO typescript could just cut loose from its javascript compatibility. Why not compile it to wasm instead of transpiling it to javascript

In browsers the Wasm runtime doesn't have access to the DOM APIs. So that's wishful thinking ATM.
I love micro and use it every day. Now that I've tried Helix, however, I want micro plus baked-in treesitter, LSP, and contextual help. Helix really nails it with that feature set but I'm just too happy with my "single-mode + commands" ctrl-c/ctrl-v muscle memory to switch.
>if a trans woman is talking about how a cute guy she was talking to at a bar stalked her and tried to beat her after she mentioned that she is trans, and someone chooses that moment to say that it's not okay to hate cis white men, it just comes across as intentionally uncaring

With all due respect, there is a growing trend of loneliness among this generation of young men[0] and these topics are constantly dismissed and blamed on the men. I understand your intent, but empahty over the dating scene is probaly one of the worst examples to give to a male audience. It's expecting empathy from a subject they never give empathy from so what would you expect?

>Now this isn't to say that these communities don't take it too far on their own. There are some which engage in doxxing, death threats, and all sorts of terrible behavior, but those communities are not the whole majority, just as the racist, transphobic, misogynistic and homophobic groups aren't the whole of cis white men. In both cases, those groups simply are the loudest.

but you also just said that minority threats are more legitmate, so even you seem to have some semblance of believing the loud groups that oppress them.

[0]: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...
Yes, multiple times. The first time was long and annoying because I didn't know about the visa extension laws.

The other times were easy, despite being nerveracking.
What other batteries are in mass manufacture that charge this fast?
Many have gotten rich of the Chinese boom - from Singapore to Australia - from Apple to Tesla.
I've recently switched from Proxmox to bhyve while upgrading my dedicated box lease. I use it for prod mail&web and various lab work. Should have done it earlier, as I don't really need the things bhyve lacks (suspend, HA/clustering) for my use-cases.

# vm list
NAME DATASTORE LOADER CPU MEMORY VNC AUTO STATE
access default bhyveload 2 8G - No Stopped
cicd default bhyveload 2 6G - No Running (33065)
feeds default grub 2 4G - No Running (35227)
gate default bhyveload 2 4G - Yes [1] Running (21012)
k8s-master0 default grub 2 4G - Yes [4] Running (1543)
k8s-node0 default grub 6 64G - Yes [5] Running (9988)
mail default bhyveload 3 8G - Yes [3] Running (87082)
ml default grub 4 24G - No Running (64236)
registry default bhyveload 2 2G - No Running (47712)
repos default bhyveload 2 2G - No Running (14767)
web default bhyveload 2 4G - Yes [2] Running (92365)

Other than that, I use bhyve on my laptop daily since around 2015-2016. It was somewhat painful at first. I had to bake a CD key into Windows ISO for headless install but now VNC support exists and it's easy to output any graphical installer via VNC.

bhyve doesn't offer API and has not the most user-friendly interface (vm-bhyve[1] for the rescue!) but overall, I couldn't be happier with its - typical for FreeBSD - set-and-forget stability.

[1] https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve
Don’t worry, they’re unfriendly if you speak German too.
I don't know Germany very well, so I bow to your expertise. That's the issue with anecdata, missing context (and why I like being corrected).
Adyen shares hit more than three-year low after 'apocalypse' selling
I guess these become pidgins when they arise organically. Not a native language for anyone but a bridge language.
As a German ... I find it interesting that the Economist starts using 'sick man of Europe' the very same day a high-ranking conservative politician begins using that language [1], which has been absent since the early 2000s.

Coincidence, or a coordinated effort to bring in a new narrative?

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-sind-der-kranke-mann...
Where will you move afterwards?
The best way to remove the GIL completely is switching language to Go, unfortunately this is not always possible.
Isn't it also an anti-oxidant capable of lowering the chance of an error at any given step? I would intuitively expect lower DNA corruption rate in an individual exposed to UV (or any other kind of) radiation if they have abundance of retinol and other anti-oxidants (including tocopherol and beta-carotene) in their body.
Ah, I didn't know that it's possible to apply the suggestions automatically. Need to give it another try.
> If I paid the same amount in insurance in India, I'd have a helicopter flown out every time I stubbed my toe.

You are free to go private if you earn more than 60k a year and you get all the helicopters and 3-d printed tooth fillings. The only problem is that you can get back to public only if you get fired.

> Germans who foolishly believe that Germany is a great country to live

It's not Germans who foolishly believe these things, but all the immigrants who come to Germany over and over each year. If there were not so much immigration then the services for exams would be 1 week instead of 5 months.

> So long as the omas and opas get their pension, Germany will stay as it is for ever - there is no need to change in their view.

I strongly advise anyone who moves to Germany to start private pension scheme immediately because in 30 years there will be no pension in Germany, most likely.
Linking to things like this increases their scores in search engines (not limited to Google) and so makes them easier to find and link to, further increasing their scores and bringing them further into the mainstream, increasing their apparent legitimacy.

Do you believe this doesn't/won't happen?
Yes.

Think a lot of people think this is just using <Option>'s.

But really in Fsharp, you can build your own 'Monad's called Computation Expressions, and for error handling can pass along different information about the errors.

It doesn't have to be "Only" an <Option>, it can be <MySpecialOption>.