skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Front-end build scripts make sense for projects that are constantly developed by a team that is actively ready to incrementally fix any problems that come up

today i had a conversation with another programmer who is doing mainly backend work, and shudders in despair looking at anything more complex with frontend javascript (and that's not even considering build tools or frameworks). i thought, perfect, that's exactly what i can help with, and then i realized that, sure i can use frameworks and build the most complex interface, but if it takes anything more than a script tag to load up the code then they will never be able to maintain it.

"i need to do WHAT to deploy this?"

i love building SPAs, i am not a stickler for minimizing the need for javascript. if it helps to solve a problem then i'll use it. but deployment has to be so easy that someone who has never touched the project can do it. "here is a website. it works. go make a copy of it. add your changes and send it back."
OK so you're making my point for me. "Non-technical" is just an IT trope that we should stop using if we're not talking about employees. And indeed, nobody specified that we were talking about employees, much less FAANG employees.

The bit about the abacus just underscores what I mean. It's derisive. Consider not using the word "non-technical" until you've grasped this.
> Von Braun was a Nazi spy

He came to the US after the war in Europe was over. Pretty difficult to spy on behalf of a political regime that no longer exists.

If he was spying for anyone - which I don’t think has ever been seriously alleged, let alone proven - it would’ve been the USSR.
We Should Dig Tunnels for Streets, Not Roads
Really? I never thought that could possibly be interpreted as cost per year. I can clarify that.

My point is that the statement that salaries can be low because university has no cost is wrong. The cost is significant even without tuition and therefore salaries absolutely matter.

And without even a shred of doubt, a US tech salary of supposedly around 150k compared to perhaps 80k in Germany more than balances the extra costs for university over a time of 20 years that the kids grow up.
one of our kid’s friend had a peanut allergy and at twice had to travel by helicopter to a suitable hospital. Always had an epipen at birthday parties. Very diligent family leaving the kid home alone with a friend for the first time and as part of the spread the mother inexplicably purchased choco-tacos.

The kid ate them thought they were good and asked the mom to get them again.

The mom realized that they had peanuts and through new tests it turns out he is no longer allergic.

The first thought was choco tacos contain no peanuts. They contain peanuts.
>Nobody wins.

You just described regulations.
Agreed. It's a good strategy to benefit from the "free" education for both you and your kids.
>The European laws are not some random thing we made up because we are lazy. It is to ensure workers are well rested and ready for a new working year.

If that was true Europe would have the highest productivity of the world, but it doesn't.
I liked that your could turn off the brightness entirely :( (Though in Kubuntu it doesn't)

Not clear how you can even do that now. You can "sleep" the display but it'll turn back on when you hit any key
For unlimited PTO, I always like to ask “what are the median number of days taken?”

If they don’t know, that’s a red flag. Id expect it to be about 20-25 if it also includes sick leave. 30-40 means people really take the policy seriously.
The pinch-hitter syndrome: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2005/01/26/the_pinchh...
Important to note though that the minimum in Germany is "only" 20 days annually for 5 working day weeks.
Ask HN: For those who read self-help, Reading the book vs. Reading summaries
How do you decide if you are going to read the book versus reading summaries on the internet?

I used to dislike the self-help genre, thinking every singe book was just a BS scheme like "how to become rich", when the real answer is by writing a book about it, but these two posts[0][1] along with reading a few self-help books that helped with some difficulties in my life made me change my attitude towards the genre.

Of course i still believe the majority of the genre is deceiving crap, quick get-rich schemes. Endless articles riffing on the same points, courses, mailing-lists, few good ideas buried in 200-250 pages of fluff because the author and publisher needs it to become a book instead of a blog series, false promises, etc. But i believe there are good books out there even if they are the minority.

[0] https://blog.tjcx.me/p/how-to-read-self-help

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQB3viVFhPA Note: I'm aware the creator of this video has written a successfully sold self-help book, but i haven't read it.
That’s great until you get laid off. The added stress of job hunting while also hoping nothing happens to your health until you’re fully employed again can’t be easy.
I find it amusing how people can equate sending people to prison for their choice of drug to regulating product packaging.
Considering how often ripgrep annoys me by interpreting everything as regex by default that makes it interesting already.

But does that also include behaviour? Because `grep file -e "{"` works while ugrep complains about an empty expression.
Good for you but why do all mainstream languages, including Clojure, have them?
Hate to tell you it has always been this way. If you are a person of color, you knew in US there is a two tier Justice system and there is a reason why your parents would tell you to never talk to the police. It is good that only after all these years its now dawning on to others especially people from the right (who would have thought right ).

But the bigger point is - selective prosecution, pushing the whole weight of mighty US Justice System to individuals just to overwhelm them knowing fully well this is not typically necessary, special treatment for individuals with axis of connections and credentials - these have been the typical hallmarks of US Justice System.

Sooner we rid of this whole “American exceptionalism” concept the better we are to face the reality which is US is no different than other empires that existed on the face of the planet where nation states and those who really rule it override the so called “we the people”. Yes you plebes have rights and what not and get to have some nice things like social services but you piss off the wrong people and do that enough - you will be behind the bar in no time. Protecting civil rights, protecting rule of law etc are just vessel slogans for this nation state to wave its might and protect its most powerful.
I only count 6. Switzerland and the UK are not part of the EU. (The article is about the EU, not Europe)
Setting a baseline 6 week bare minimum federally wouldn't prevent local governments from setting a higher minimum.
Setting up a blog on Cloudflare Pages – Hello world
hello,

idk, but imho. "programming" can be seen as (just) writing code

which is only one part of (software-)engineering ...

(software-)engineering is all about producing a solution / solving a problem.

as an engineer, you have to

* understand the problem

* architect a decent solution

* implement the solution ("programming" is a part of this implementation process)

just my 0.02€
Everyone starts to compare quality of live and salaries in America vs. Europe.

But you are missing the biggest point! Not everyone is working in IT. And a ton of people do not make $200k+/year.

We're in a group that is very well paid. But most are not. And for them European vacation policies or a social system that doesn't ruin you when you are ill are a big difference.

Everone working it IT is speaking from within an ivory tower.
You can always set brightness to zero via the command line using any monitor ddc control tool you can find.
That would be England and Wales. The countries of the UK have different education systems.
At this point, I'm not sure if it's Elon trying to turn everything into a conspiracy theory or journalist are playing dumb.

This is nothing burger - this is just basic enforcement of some laws, which happen all the time. Just look at the https://www.justice.gov/news/press-releases website and search "Justice Department Sues". They sue everybody and their mother - that's their job.
What a fantastic initiative, the before and after pictures, especially the one after five years show an incredible transformation, it is hard to believe it is the same spot! Congratulations on a job very well done. It's the most literal example that I have seen in a while of improving the world around you. This sort of thing scales very well. What surprises me about the whole effort is that the municipality allowed you to dig up their sidewalks and to limit their width.

Here in NL that would never ever happen with a permit. Lots of in-ground infrastructure and serious risk to that if you start digging around in that without the right maps and access to various IT systems to indicate where you can safely dig, where you absolutely can not and where the pavement and the water management interact. So there is a lot of miniature guerilla gardening happening here, with people flipping up a couple of tiles in the pavement and then planting all manner of stuff there. It works and has a nice effect on the surroundings as well but it stops short of such transformation.

Sample from Amsterdam, much more modest in scope:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3743925,4.8971164,3a,75y,183...
Sorry, that was a typo. I meant to write €300/m. Just looked up the numbers, and the exact amount is €360/m as a subsidy, and up to another €700/m in a low-interest loan (0.59%). This is in Sweden.
Commute Chelmsford to London (27 minutes), annual ticket is $6,000.

So cost of an iPad isn't a huge concerns at that point

https://www.thetrainline.com/season-tickets/chelmsford-to-lo...
Political weaponization of the courts is a pretty dangerous can of worms to open.
For art of the digital drawing/painting sort, the iPad absolutely dominates the scene now and has for a while, mostly thanks to the Procreate app in combination with the Apple Pencil.

A Mac with a touch screen would be worse than useless for this, because it still wouldn’t be a tablet form factor, and you need that for the right feel.

So while I too would like to have a touch screen on my MacBook, there’s no way I’d ever use it for drawing the way I use my iPad.
Most images are not shared though; just snapped. In the past you had photo albums no-one ever looked in. And that weren't that many pics; now , whenever, people (old and young) take 100s of pictures, on iPhones often by holding the button so it zaps 100s of them in a few seconds.
Humans are also extensively pretrained by billions of years of evolution, so by starting from scratch GPT is admittedly disadvantaged from the get-go.
While all the sentences you wrote are technically correct, your point is wrong.

> you'll be working right up until our government mandated retirement age

As will an american, unless they're going to go without healthcare? Unless you're doing some _wild_ saving, paying for health insurance as you age is going to necessitate working. Health insurance for a couple (assuming you can get it and it covers anything that you might have wrong) is about the same cost as my mortage here in the UK.

It's also not a government mandated retirement age, it's the age that the government will provide financial support to you. It's feasible for someone on a median income in the UK (where I live) to retire before they hit 66, as long as they prepare. Someone making a median income in the US is unlikely to be able to.

> which is increasing

Again, technically true but also misleading. It's not just steadily increasing, there's only so far it can go. The equivalent age in the US is already 70, fwiw.

> Our economic growth across the EU is stagnant

The horror. Personally, I'll take stagnant economic growth over statistics that get pumped by tech firms that are richer than entire countries in europe - Microsoft and Apple are individually worth more than Italy.

> These are not things to be celebrated.

US cost of living is skyrocketing (they're behind us at the moment, but their COL was already higher so the comparison is tough). Inequality levels in the US are still wildly higher than anywhere in europe (even the UK), the US has massive social problems that don't exist on the same scale here, etc.

These are not things to be celebrated either.
May I suggest a working group on stateless Terraform? [1] or at least some debate around the possibility of supporting it?

[1] https://www.bejarano.io/terraform-stateless/
It’s not on their dime. If they are housing sensitive material to keep away they got an extremely lucrative contract that is likely extremely bloated in their favor.
23 days isn’t good though. The fact that that’s being held up as a shining beacon says everything. 25 days + about 10 public holidays is the average here. I’m at a company that’s offering 30 days + 10 public holidays + 4 company wide days.i would much rather the days than a higher salary. At a certain point the extra disposable income isn’t worth it when you don’t have time to enjoy it.
Fair enough, would be nice if there were a system terminal that could install software like desktop. We'll be the first to admit that iOS's shortcomings are what triggered us to start building the apps we do.

It's true iOS software in general has a ways to match desktop capabilities, but desktops also have a bit of a head-start. We do believe iOS can get there, and hopefully exceed it in some ways.

(And in WebForge's case, we not selling just the Git CLI, but a UI and tool integrated into the rest of the IDE, so you're not /just/ paying for access to FOSS software on iPad. And yes, I know VSCode is free on desktops :) )
In Sweden you get a student loan and a grant to pay for housing, food, transport etc from CSN. [1] The grant is about 1/3 of the total sum.

I studied at university and my parents paid nothing. Even as an adult student could I go back and get the grant part. In Sweden the state pays for you to study.

[1] https://www.csn.se/languages/english/student-grants-and-loan...
Afaik: you have a contract where you promise to work X hours per year. Some companies include clauses for unpaid leave but if not, they are not obliged to grant it.
Or at least don't make me supply my own logos (provide some kind of default values for input parameters) for the remove logo filter. If I knew how to do things, I wouldn't be here trying to learn.

ffmpeg -i punch.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:v]removelogo[vid_out]" -map 0:a -map "[vid_out]" out.mp4
just to describe this a bit differently…

a woman became obsessed with another woman that had the same first name and some other similarities, to the point where she wrote a massive pice about it.

yes, there’s broader talk of conspiracy theory, politics, and more. this is the guardian, after all. but…

a bit weird, innit?
Yes, I’ve been using single click for years including on windows because of rsi issues.
I can’t tell if you are talking about Musk and his supporters or the DOJ.
... but then I don't have a shortcut to turn it back on.. lol

the convenience is that most laptops have dedicated brightness keys
> and charge only for the days when I work

The point of vacation days is that they are fully paid by the employer. Unpaid time off usually isn't a problem (depends on the type of work of course), as long as the employer can plan around it (e.g. I currently work 4 days a week at 20% pay cut at a German company).
>Salaries are so much lower than our American counterparts

But then again, you don't blow half your salary in health care, don't risk having to claim for bankruptcy every time you get in an ambulance, you have access to the highest quality of education for basically free, and many others. You are also in an incredibly privileged job. In the real world, the US has a higher poverty rate than Germany does.

>you'll be working right up until our government mandated retirement age

So will most americans. And many of them will keep working past that age, because their pensions does not afford them basic living conditions. Just because you work in an extremely privileged sector where some of us can retire at 40 and do cocaine all day long doesn't mean the rest of the world can. Have some empathy.

>Our economic growth across the EU is stagnant.

growth growth growth must growth growth good growth necessary. This is the behaviour of cancer, not of an organised society.

>These are not things to be celebrated.

If you are unable to see anywhere past 5 meters in front of you and half an hour in time, indeed. For anyone with an inkling of reason an empathy, Germany is, objectively, a better place to live in in average than the US. And this is coming from a neighbour that can find plenty of reasons to shit on Germany.
>Nujabes didn’t pioneer lo-fi.

What do you want? I guess you mean he only pioneered good lo-fi that wasn't Grandmaster Flash cringe. How did Niggaz Of Destruction pioneer lo-fi?

You completely skipped over my point about the internet but ok.
I'm long way out of tech community talks, but I have been highly interested in ARM powered Windows laptops. They thinner, lighter, last longer on one charge and can be really powerful. Overall, they can be more efficient than the Apple devices, since you only need one. But can someone explain what happened to ARM powered x86 development? Is there some conspiracy behind the scene like how Hydrogen powered vehicle got murdered?
Productivity, the thing that is so reliably easy to measure.
The even crazier part is maternity leave, or the lack of it.

The US government requires that women who have been at their job for more than one year get 12 weeks of unpaid time off. But many people can't afford to not be paid, so they don't take the full amount.

Women who have been at their job for less than one year legally get 0 days off.

Less than 25% of US women have any type of paid maternity leave.
I'd rather make £75k in most parts of the UK than $200k in most parts of the US.
So you are choosing to capture personal data.
The text of the law seems to disagree with you?

§ 120.62 U.S. person.

U.S. person means a person who is a lawful permanent resident as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

And this seems to be interpreted by people[1] that employing lawful permanent residents does not need export authorisation.

1: https://exportcompliancesolutions.com/blog/2018/09/20/u-s-pe...
Yape is a C+4 emulator. Vice doesn't have good C+4 support.
“Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ‘vector’ is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.”

— William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin (better known as Lord Kelvin) Letter to G. F. FitzGerald (1896) as quoted in A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System (1994) by Michael J. Crowe, p. 120
You do realize that there is a plethora of words in the English language which have multiple distinct meanings?

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/english-w...

No one forced you to be bitter about evolving language. We live in a hyperconnected era where language is evolving faster than ever, so you'll need to calibrate if you don't want to spend every minute seething.
Fundamental worker rights should be covered in a national law. The EU is huge as well, and economically and culturally and order of magnitude more diverse than the US, and every worker in the EU is entitled to at least 4 weeks of paid time off. I don't see why this wouldn't be possible in the US.
More often than not, it’s a desire to cut costs.
> public strikes (see France)

You mean the ones that are getting ignored and violently repressed with police behavior that Iran considers overly violent ? Don't worry, we're getting to the American approach of a job market: work, or die.

> little ability to build wealth.

France is the third country in the world with the most millionaires.
I'm pretty sure they pay to be listed. Southwest doesn't want to pay, that is why they aren't listed
What is Bella a reference to?
> If that was true Europe would have the highest productivity of the world, but it doesn't.

Maybe productivity should not be the metric we should strive for?

I lived/worked in the US and Europe and my quality of life and overall happiness was way higher in Europe even if my salary was higher in the US.
We have an 87 year old who is a real fan of her iPad for staying in touch, reading and audio books.
I personally use 3 ipads - I hate to throw stuff away:
1) old 9.7 pro as main device
2) old Air 2 for Zwift (this will sadly retire when updates are no longer available
3) Even older Air for connecting to FlightSim for charts
I’d absolutely plant cab drivers to spy on my geopolitical adversaries. People who have a plausible explanation to be in and around hotels, airports, industrial areas, and a legitimate reason talk to lots of different people would seem like quite good candidates for spying. Maybe a bit too obvious.
The tuna evolved eventually into buffalo but it took a long time.
> if I want something I ask

what if you don’t know what you want?
I get 25, plus 8 bank holidays, plus an office closure for 10 days (which is technically 7 because there's 3 bank holidays during that time period) during the holiday period, and we closed for a week during Summer this year too.
Most people aren’t concerned with damage reduction, the monkey brained just see crime and punishment.
Of course you're probably on a great salary but imagine a single mother who would like to have time to spend with her children, I bet she'd like 4 weeks off a year to spend with them and have some time for herself to recover?
Yes, being able to turn it off might be confusing for some people but it’s useful if you’re aware of it so there should be a setting
Ok, I see. I'm just brainstroming.
Open Video Downloader works for me, manual installation of ffmpeg may be required though.
The rest of that difference can easily be explained by the difference in the class of hardware used. A desktop made today vs a laptop is roughly that factor 4. Not sure if back then there would have been laptops that you could have done this on for a more apples-to-apples comparison.

Modern laptops give great efficiency, when I went for solar power here the first thing to go was the desktop computer. I still have it, but it hasn't run in over a year and the elderly thinkpad that is now my daily driver uses far less power and still has enough compute to serve my modest needs. But if I would dive into something requiring much more compute I'd have to start the desktop again. Unfortunately power management is not such that computers can really throttle down to 'miser mode' when you don't need it, it's a good step but not as good as the jump between desktop and laptop.
Welcome to the year 2000.
I came close to purchasing a fold this year but I find the decision to have a camera bump absolutely bizarre. If they just added a few extra millimetres to the case it would then sit flat on the table rather than rocking about, which means you could then use the pen with it properly as a note taking device. I can understand having camera bumps on phones, but it seems really weird here given that this is meant to be a phone that can also replace your tablet.
I switched to freelance earlier this year and now make 6x compared to before. Granted, I was underpaid for the market because I was CTO in a small startup.

Contract work is for when you can take the risks. You also need to have a good network and be able to sell yourself so you have a steady stream of work. Finding new work takes considerable time which you should factor in.

I personally love the freedom right now, but I’m using this as an in-between period until I discover what I really want to focus on.