skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see any mention of cold showers / ice baths. That seems trendy now and people suggest sleep improvements. I notice my restless leg has a lot to do with sleep quality.
Yep - a quite famous UK author was complaining on Twitter the other day about losing his seat as the plane was oversold. https://x.com/beathhigh/status/1694689915718512942
> And by law your parents have to pay. You are not required to even work.

That may be true in theory. In practice, many parents are in an income range which makes the child not eligible for educational support (Bafög), but which also does not allow supporting the child with 1000 EUR/month. The thought of telling my parents "you are required by law to send me more money, do it!" never occurred to me. They had a house to pay off. Both my mother and father worked more hours per week then I did for university (around 4-5 hours per day, at most, and only during the semester - I did nothing for university for around 4 months during the semester vacations). When my father was the same age as I when I started university, he had already worked for 7 years and paid rent and food money to his parents. So I think paying at least the rent, tuition, and food myself was the least I could do.
Unions are cartels for workers. They are anticompetitive in the same way that cartels are.
Yes, but my employer can fire me (in some cases) if I am sick for more than 30 days in a year.

https://www.wirtschaftsforum.de/tipps/welche-anzahl-an-krank...
IDF Patrol Discovers 3D-Printed Weapons in West Bank
But you can do all of those things very well on a laptop.

Especially if you're trying to travel light, and you know you need a laptop, I don't understand why you'd pack the iPad as well.
Tech salaries in Europe are a joke. The median IT salary in Germany is less than what I'm paid in India. That's in absolute dollar terms. Factor in the difference in cost of living and the disparity becomes comical.
Why count devices, In a few decades this number could be x10
Thank you for the info!

DMARC roll-out in itself could also attract the marketing department because it improves deliverability under the hood. I also think implementing SPF, DKIM and DMARC can be done without compromising availability by planning and monitoring well.
Nowhere it mentions "profit"

Disregarded
The most difficult and time consuming activity of software engineering is not the production of source code as a textual artifact, but building a mental model of the software system - why it was built a certain way, how it may be extended, how it may not be extended, how to answer questions about the system, an understanding of the abstractions within it and how to use them. In particular, this understanding exists outside of the source code itself.

It's for this reason that I am skeptical of ChatGPT, which automates the most trivial part of software engineering - writing the code. GPT will not give you understanding, only the textual artifact (and whether or not this artifact is actually the product of some AI "understanding" is unclear).
Do you think rocket scientists are just… immune to war?
When you buy shares in a company you are investing in it and providing the company with capital.
The comment I replied to did not mention tuition costs. The claim was that incomes can be low because there is not cost for letting students study. And the costs are absolutely there.

The fact that some of the best US universities have outrageous tuition is neither new nor surprising nor does it invalidate my claim. I drew no comparison to the US, you are drawing that comparison.
Regardless of what you think, in the best path is being an eu citizen, work in us(some high paying job like IT) for 5-10 years, return in eu with huge cash, buy a home, work some more chill years for minimal pension and happily retire. Eu is nice to retire if you are eu citizen and have enough cash(by either working some years in us or remotely for us conpanies but a bit less pay)
It’s not about “you can do everything on a laptop”, but more of a convenience thing. My iPad is basically a dedicated TV/Movie screen. On the day of the travel, I go on apps, download a ton of stuff for online viewing and go through it on my flight or train rides. Sure I can do the same on my laptop, but then I have to hassle with the keyboard, battery, bulkiness and etc.

Sounds pretty stupid, but I bought it 5 years ago thinking it was a useless purchase. But it significantly improved my travels.
We not only have a better life expectancy (6years for men?), we also have a better 'good health' expectancy.

Economic growth is stagnant because energy production and energy import are stagnant. This has little to do with policy. It's 2011 all over again, when we heard all sort of 'southern Europeans are lazy/corrupt' and other shit. I even bought it like a good child. No. Southern Europeans economies used to depend a lot on north sea and Sahara oil and gas, and the reserves (and production) started declining in 2008 and 2010 respectively. Only oil producers, Russian clients and 'nuclear-based' economies managed to avoid crisis.

What is funny now that everybody speak about how Germany economy is in crisis. Well yeah. Same causes, same consequences.

I really don't see how it seems no one gets it. I understand politics wanting to grandstand and explain how growth is caused their policies, but I mean, the data is available. And we have panda. Look at oil import data from Italy then look at growth, from 2010 to 2012,its obvious one of the two is driving the other. Check the other 'PIGS', it's the same.
So to extrapolate, slapping a centrist across the cheek is fine, an kicking conservatives in the knees is walking the line too, while looking at a common liberal nastily should be prosecuted? What is this this clownhouse logic
Yeah, these from Iran, North Korea, China and Russia should get hired first.
Socialism will never be correct. It is and has always been logically incoherent.

You are simply wrong.
Experiments with higher-kinded types and object algebras in C# (2020)
They could give a "partial refund" for "not missing" your connection or, in plain language, make people pay an amount up front any time they have to make a connection and keep it as forfeit if they skiplag. That's obvious enough the airlines would be doing it if this skiplag stuff really bothered them.
A lot have happened for these 15-20 years:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972903

... and that can give You another reason 'why':

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/

... but if you are happy where You are - then stay where You are.

I moved to FreeBSD because I was not happy on Linux.

Regards,
vermaden
Seems all we need now is one law officer with enough backbone to dump smartphone contents of Supreme Court judge in 100 air mile range of the border, or as federal gov would say "at the border" https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
The question is would you keep the job and as consequence the insurance if you get seriously ill?
>If you burn out your employees

Burn out in Europe is still omnipresent and rising these days. This includes Germany, the 'chosen child' every proponent points at in these discussions. A few weeks off barely makes a dent in this and vacation days / time off hasn't been that noticeably different since the 70s/80s.

>Japan

That's just a law that pushes them to use it and keeps companies from going 'ah yeah difficult'. It's barely anything when work culture chains employees down to the whims of employers, or risking to be seen as dysfunctional for trying to get out of that 'I belong to my company' trap.

Surprise, that's the same culture that exists in most EU-countries. Just less hardcore.
Von Braun was a Nazi spy
Agreed. The first week you're winding down, the last week you're winding up. So with three weeks you get one week of quality restorative vacation.
I don’t agree that it was eccentric, I used these as my first machine and they felt pretty natural. I would also suggest that these interactions weren’t completely standardised at that point.
You're right, but "war" is so much better clickbait.
hello,

no.

at least not in the next 5 y ;)

why?

imho. (!)

development != writing code.

writing code is the minor task of a (software-)developer.

and this is the only part where current "AI" is of any help - eg. pre-trained neuronal networks.

for me this is somehow ... "instead of searching the internet" for help - and find it on stackoverflow, reddit or some other q&a platform - i ask the language-model to help me - nice, but again: in the end nothing really new!

the main task of development is to understand an existing problem of my customer and solve it in a decent way.

to do this, a developer has to communicate with all stakeholders - technical and non-technical - of the project etc...

writing code is just the expression of this understanding.

sure ... at some point in time in the future, we'll have "hard AI" which will be lets call it "human-like" ... but until then, (software-)development will just be "augmented"*) by existing "AI" solutions but not overtaken :))

*) again: imho. very similar like we moved from "reading books about programming" to "searching the internet for solutions" to solve smaller sub-problems ...

cheers
t.
More importantly, can it aggressively fingerprint them and supply adtech companies with an approximation of their identity?
Well. I‘m just telling you what is required by law. In some sense the fact that you feel like they could not easily pay the costs just supports what I was saying. Namely that it is a cost not be neglected by saying „oh it‘s free here“.
I use Free Pascal/Lazarus to target anything, ESP32 included. As for IDE where it runs, in a nice VM with plenty of processing power and memory on my PC so I can fast iterate code to production.
What are your personal challenges in dealing with low GDP growth? I myself have found no need to deal with low GDP growth when it is happening.

Now what I wouldn't like to deal with is with lack of paid holidays, having to deal with masses of insurance paperwork and co-payments in case I need healthcare assistance, or deal with running out of sick days over the course of a year if I'm unlucky.

I suppose with enough wealth I wouldn't need to worry about the problems above, but I believe very few Americans have succeeded in that regard under their system. So, I prefer to stick to the generally European approach of protecting the basic rights and wellbeing of all our citizens, and will strike to defend it if necessary.
I'm thrilled to see that OpenTF appears to be aiming to win on positives, not negatives.

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." -- Peter Drucker
I wonder if it has to do with i-mode. A lot of consumer brands were pushing out flip phones that were 10 years ahead in hardware and same amount behind in software, clearly burning cash and talent during 2000s. Then the moat started filling with iPhone and they came walking over the ashes.
What's the VAT rate in Louisiana? /s
The Acorn was a marvel of its day (to me at least)
In California you can get a somehow walkable city, live there for 5-10 years and save enough to retire in eu with own home and pension. How many years an eu citizen (me) should work in avg dev salary to buy a home/3 bdroom apt?
“Some Things I Believe” by Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman
Ah, but then your first comment is highly misleading, because when you talk number, readers assume cost per year.

You are basically saying that living in Europe in a university city cost anything between 6000 and 20000 euros each year.

Maybe a bit high, but I think I can agree.

But living is a cost all around the world, and universities in Europe add a very low overhead on top of it, while universities in US can easily triple your cost of living, so I still don't see your point
I'm not even sure how many hours I have in the game, but I've never bothered with trains, I just didn't enjoy their gameplay for some reason.

Fortunately this is totally fine, you can get by without them.
I'm trying to achieve this for bookmarks, saved too many at this point to even consider organizing them manually.
This is what I don't get about the US system. You can get paid a lot of money, but it is unthinkable for someone with a good job in America to not send their kids to college, which costs a heck of a lot of money. 2.5 kids is going to cost many years of earnings to put through college, and you don't even know what amount that is since the price is flying away.

In Norway you can have 10 kids and all they have to do is be diligent about doing their homework, and they will get into university.
A strongly-related topic would be Curry–Howard correspondence, that is to say that programs and mathematical proofs have a lot in common. Proving an assertion is chaining transformations, without managing some underlying state / side-effects.

Big difference is that concepts in Mathematics are very immutable -- it's unlikely for us to redefine what Euclidean Space is and if we find some other framework to be more useful, we'd rather give it a new name. I am inclined to say it's a difference in discipline and conventions and in the scope and span. Programmers will create more when Mathematicians will try to cram their discovery into an already packed library, rather than open a new one -- the latter happens by accident in the world of Maths.

The workplace of a programmer differs in such a way that a lot more mutation (codebase, not just variables) is going on, the work isn't purely novel, e.g. will contain mundane parts [2]. Also, contractual obligation is different from formalism and it does appear that programmers work in strictly formal environment to achieve goals while mathematicians have goals and vibe but have to become correct machinelike interpreters and conjure up a formally valid extension on the basis of accepted assumptions. Furthermore, there is a disconnect and reconsiliation between code and processes, because code resides on layers of abstraction. Mathematicians work more cleanly with abstraction because immutability allows you to do so.

Programming does toy with pragmatism because the assumption is that problems can only be discovered once a prototype is made -- an earlier version of code is the instrument that enables deeper insight and understanding of the underlying project.
Math has a weird "human brain fetish" that's a bit difficult for me to articulate.

Those would be my 2cc to this discussion. I think the overall picture has become more clear about what programming and 'theory building' is, comapred to the 80s. As computation "broke off" from Math and had to reconsile with physics a bit, it's starting to enrich the parent discipline a lot more by providing avenues and interesting fields of research.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...

[2]: writing LaTeX and verifying would be mundane but it isn't doing maths per se as one could get away with handwritten text, unlike programmers having to ultimately compile their code into binary and making sure all env variables are set up correctly.
I had to read the OAuth 2.0 RFC (and OIDC specs) while implementing an auth service and found it to be pleasantly painless. By the end, I think I consumed the vast majority of the document itself, but during the planning and implementation phases of my task it was _mostly_ a matter of reading a few relevant chunks at a time (as opposed to reading the whole thing "cover to cover"). It was pretty intuitive to just look for relevant sections.
I hadn't heard this story, but I was impressed that the woman featured in the film actually flew in person to come to court to prove she was 19, not 13.
Good for you. I paid around 70 per month and it only covered the subway network between my apartment and the university. Or whole network for 85. That‘s not exactly cheap.
It doesnt make sense, but many americans have been conditioned to think helping anyone but yourself is socialist/communist, and they would rather die than potentially be labeled one.
Even better: the reinforcement learning required to make it refuse to follow your instructions and lecture you instead lowers its overall performance.

Defective by Detailing.

As far as what they're thinking-- they do put out an uncensored base model. The censored models protect them from being smeared in the press by lazy journalists that give the LLM rude instructions and then write "shocked" stories about computer doing what they told it to do.
> The problem here is our old friend the Bayesian Base Rate fallacy. The diseases you're looking to intercept and intervene against are, in the general population, pretty rare.

This is pseudoscience at best and quakery at worst.

Body is not a Kubernetes cluster that can be restarted or reprovisioned from scratch when it has become too late to fix an aling pod or a service on the spot.

Physiological processes taking place in the body are more akin to stochastic processes whose behaviour can be accurately projected only to a certain extent (the extent varies depending on what the actual process is) based on levels of our current (but evolving) understanding of the biochemistry and phsysiology. Therefore, our bodies require a set of anomaly detection monitoring alarms, of which preventive health scans (whatever that means, not just CT/MRT/etc) are one example. If one such stochastic process goes awry, it can trigger an irreversible cascading failure in the body with the only outcome: premature death.

Take inflammation as an example. Inflammation is a root cause of multiple severe as well as degenerative health problems that impair the healthy aging of the body. Inflammation is notoriously difficult to detect via conventional testing means such as blood tests, unless somebody is looking for a specific inflammation biomarker. Routine blood tests do not do that (other than checking the monocyte and eosinophils counts), and when the inflammation reveals itself, it is already loud (pain or impaired wellbeing) and severe (a heart attack) or it is already too late (late stage cancers).

Inflammation starts out small and incospicous, and it takes a long time to progress and develop into something more unpleasant. Alzeheimer's, Parkinson, cancers, heart disease, IBS and many, many other health conditions have all been implicated to be caused by chronic inflammation processes that went undetected and were allowed to unfold, with plenty of sufficient (although not always fully conclusive yet) evidence. The vast majority of people of this planet are thought to have inflammatory processes going on of varying degrees of severity – from benign (that the body eventually suppresses) to malignant.

If a routine preventive health scan can unravel an inflammatory process early on, it is a win – for the patient (improves the long term prognosis and the quality of life) and for the health care system (early treatments are usually simpler and are more cost efficient, therefore less or no expenditure later).

Even if a preventive health scan is a false positive, it is still a net positive, is a net win as it indicates the lack of a health problem, and it is long term investment that time, effort and money for everyone.
You forgot the e-reader!

Mine actually has Android on it and had allowed me to leave my iPad at home for some trips.
I think this is what John Steinbeck meant by a working class that sees itself as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
"just plain old kubernetes" is an oxymoron, at best.
Which country? I should have clarified that I‘m talking about Germany which is certainly part of Europe. And for sure nobody here gets 3000 per month.

In Germany students receive no grant (other than the regular Kindergeld for children) unless their parents together earn less than 40k before taxes.
> Well most people don't speak korean…

Start and learn Korean, and then emigrate. Tell us in 30 years time how it went.
Maybe a better idea of the future is to look at what LeCun is working on now as a future program. He wants to change quite a lot in order to move towards more animal-like cognitive abilities.

LeCun is not even really interested in supervised learning anymore, for example.

https://youtu.be/vyqXLJsmsrk?si=8n0ylC6qdLX06CmY

Note that the talk is not really primarily about ChatGPT even though that's in the title. The new ideas are a little bit in. The beginning of the talk is just him explaining how unimpressed he is with LLMs. Which I think is a misjudgement but that doesn't mean his plan doesn't have merit.
Austin company unveils humanoid robot
Accessing Private Functions, Methods, Types and Variables in Go
This is quite gorgeous! Surprised that there aren't more comments on HN, given the data science folks here.
Advanced Functional Programming in Haskell (video)
And they are wrong about that anyway, there are essential fats, and essential amino acids, but there are no essential carbohydrates. Your liver will create whatever carbohydrate is needed.
I had Professor Hutton for FUN over 20 years ago, and am enjoying this lecture series. I thought others might too. He's extremely good at explaining things which I wish I'd paid attention to back then (-:
I've lived in both USA and Germany. For highly skilled tech labor, US is so much better that there's no point comparing. Still, let me attempt to:

- Salary caps in the USA are orders of magnitude higher than in EU. You can easily find senior engineers that make 400K a year in total compensation and principals/staff engineers 700K+. These numbers are unheard of in EU.

- Income tax rates range from lower (even in high-tax states like California) to vastly lower (Texas, Washington state). Even if you find that unheard of European job paying 400K euro a year, you'll be donating 50% of that income to the tax man. In the US, you could be looking at 25% for the same income.

- Employer-funded health insurance is generally good across the board and can be absolutely top notch.

- Private pension schemes like 401K are partly funded by employers with generous rates and are 100% owned by you. There can be no "means testing" or "reduction of benefits" by the state in the future.

- In addition to private pension schemes partly funded by employers, there's social security which can be seen as a public pension that's funded by federal taxes. Current social security payouts given typical tech salaries exceed every European public pension scheme I'm aware of. Even if social security completely disappears in the coming decades, a good engineer in the US will be a multi-millionaire by retirement time.

- Early retirement in one's 40s or early 50s should be an option for a significant percentage of USA software engineers. This is unheard of in EU where one's expected to work until one reaches retirement age.

So there's really nothing that a well-off EU country can compete in vs USA, benefits-wise.
Okay. How does BitTorrent work outside of the app store on iPhone?
The EU has just clamped down on big tech. Britain, take note. (DSA)
Outside of work I use my iPad. I don’t work on holidays, I pack my iPad. I just prefer it. Why is a preference so hard to accept? Are we going to argue about favourite colours next?
> the Plasma debacle

I'm not familiar with it. Can you elaborate?

> ... but I don't remember it getting something this basic wrong

1. It's only "wrong" because windows has been doing the double click way. In terms of accessibility, I'd argue double click is actually kinda bad, consider how people with joint issue may have trouble double clicking quick enough to register it. (Yes, you can adjust the speed, but this setting wouldn't even be needed if it's single click in the first place.) Imagine how annoying it would be if mobile device and <button/> all require double click/double tap, or even double-enter just to open a file.

2. Most of the Linux distro configured it into double click, anyway. Probably the reason why you don't remember it being a thing.

3. Steam Deck, on the other hand, only need single tap if you use touch screen.
Back in the day all you needed was CGI and Bash (though Perl was often the better choice)
http://underpop.online.fr/c/cgi/docs/creating-cgi-programs-w...
Ancient Popcorn (2012)