skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I initially wanted to say that this is entirely wrong, but when I went to do a quick check, I found this: https://www.che.de/2023/haelfte-der-bundeslaender-hat-promot...
So my knowledge was not entirely up to date.

In short, bachelors and masters are indeed legally identical to the ones acquired at universities, but most do not have the right to promotion. This mostly depends on the state they're in.
And they are not allowed to call themselves "Universität" (though some have rebranded to "Hochschule").

All FHs that I know do have an option for getting a Phd through them, but they themselves can't grant them. Instead, an FH can cooperate with an Universität through a sort of loophole. The Phd students spend their time at the FH, but they have two supervisors and get their Phd from the "Universität".

But it seems like it is only a matter of time until difference, too, is no more.
> And isn't that hypothesis extremely likely, given what we now know about the costs of _interplanetary_ travel and its relative ease compared to interstellar travel?

Costs are a function of manufacturing productivity. What is the upper bound on manufacturing productivity? With automation and AI, I don't see any hard upper bound.

The raw resources are certainly available to build starships. I mean, your share of per capita energy consumption over your life would be enough to accelerate your body to maybe 700 km/s, and that's with us just using a small fraction of the energy available on a planet; energy in space would be many orders of magnitude more abundant.
You know, its probably more cost effective and, well, effective at that point to just post an offficer across the street? A crossing guard would do fine.

Wouldn't that street be definitionally the highest crime hotspot in the area anyhow?
A physical post-it note on your monitor that you don't take off until you've used it three times.

Or some other similar reminder -- perhaps just a list of things you're going to install when you need them, so you don't install them until you have a use.

(I have this problem too)
There have been other instances in which exit fees, which is what this amounts to, were considered anticompetitive, e.g. [1] (although this was settled so there is no ruling).
Google itself has started to waive egress costs for GCP customers leaving the platform last month, which, according to some sources, is simply a direct consequence of new EU legislation (Data Act) [2], but according to others is in anticipation of wider-reaching EU antitrust investigations [3].

[1]: https://www.agriculturedive.com/news/koch-foods-antitrust-ch...

[2]: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366566360/Googles-data-e...

[3]: https://blog.min.io/googles-new-egress-policy/
Niagara Launcher dev here - that's a valid concern, especially since launcher apps have access to a lot of personal data.
We have created a document that outlines why we collect the data we do: https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/109-privacy-policy-....
In short, we only collect data to power our features, verify if the user owns our premium version, improve our app, and for public research and statistics.
If you have questions about specific pieces of data or anything else, please feel free to ask.
Who knows what they've been grabbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5qYH-Y3tQ4
We mostly have a hard time reconciling that with the idea of a developed nation.
But we are not "so early" in the history of the universe. Something like 95% of all the stars that will ever be formed have already been formed. It's actually rather late in the day.
Played through it twice. Once judging whether the actions violated the letter of the rule, and once whether they violated the spirit of the rule. The first time every decision was hard and I felt like some contradicted my earlier decisions. The second time was considerably easier and I got a higher agreement score.

I would have expected it to be easier to strictly apply a simple rule, but it turned out that interpreting the intent of the rule was less contentious and easier to apply. Ambulances in the park are not a violation, not on the grounds that some other rule overrides the no-vehicles rule, but that they don't violate the spirit of the rule.
What an awfully misleading name. This doesn't run locally, it runs on the cloud. What the fuck was that guy thinking?
> Now (thankfully) the government has banned the installation of new gas heating

I'm sorry, but how does that make any sense, when 47% of the electricity production in Australia comes from coal?? They are banning a system that is actually pretty efficient at making heat, to instead use a low efficiency coal power plant, to produce electricity, to then use in heat pumps to produce heat. Simply, wow.

https://www.energy.gov.au/energy-data/australian-energy-stat...
That’s like looking only in the drawer, and saying, there is no evidence here that a cat lives in this house. When in fact the cat is just upstairs.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=51+percenter&ia=web

Someone "whose skills are divided 51-49 between emotional hospitality and technical excellence" [1]. Seems quite bizarre to me to define it so precisely. Even if skills were measurable in such a way, how many people will be exactly 51% emotional hospitality, and why is 52% or 50% not suitable?

[1] https://www.nrn.com/corporate/meyer-51-percenters-have-five-...
The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
That's what's offered here in the UK, but there have still been a lot of problems with the transition.

Typically the battery backup only lasts for 1 hour.
> If you despise that thinking, then we need to regulate the housing market to discourage seeing housing as an investment as we see it today

Quite the opposite, regulation of the housing market rarely ends well. There's quite a few countries that can speak to the horrible deadlocks that occur when regulation suffocates the housing market.

There's nothing particularly wrong with investment per se, now if you make the market so regulated such that there's no competition, you're destroying any kind of forces that push the price down, or if you make the investment so costly the prices go up to compensante.

Heck, there's even countries where the regulation was so insane it was far better to hold an empty home than to actually rent it out.
I get that runes are in some sense a reduction of magic, I just don’t see the point. Svelte 4 feet, to me, incredibly natural to write, because the choice of idioms matched so closely with the behaviour I’d expect from JavaScript. Going into Svelte 5, I hoped to see fixes for the things that bit me - missing transitive reactivity in $:, for example. But not wholesale changes to the way you declare and use the framework.

Anyway I certainly agree that the vibe is subjective, but I for one am bitterly disappointed by Svelte 5. It’s yet another framework that can’t make up its mind, and stick to it.
Sweden was a real pioneer with progressive social change and looking out for the little guy, but as with most of these things, the institutions set up to drive this change ossified, and are today more like a ceremonial roleplay of a process that concluded half a century ago.

These are the checks and balances that are in place, and unfortunately looking up from the faded old daguerreotypes of Ådalen 1931 and addressing issues from this century does not seem to be at all a priority.

You can get some action if you manage to dress the problem up as as a J.P. Morgan type industrialist opressing the workers (as happened with the Tesla blockade), but if it doesn't fit that narrative you're generally SOL.
PeaZip: Cross-platform, Open Source file compression and encryption software
Volkshochschulen...
The article carefully analyzed the way in which people on HN oversimplified or misunderstood the challenge of "vehicle in the park". Whilst you can disagree with their counter arguments - at least engage with the counter arguments. This reads more like a response to the original post rather than a response to the this actual essay.
Learning to Fly in Seconds [video]
What I find strange is that the original person who was threatened with swatting who gave the 'fake' address was convicted of wire fraud.

I do understand why he was convicted:

> Viner threatened to swat Gaskill over the loss. Gaskill intentionally gave Viner the wrong address, a location in Wichita where he previously resided with his family, and where he said he would "be waiting". Gaskill's family had been evicted from the address in 2016

So there is probable cause to believe that he intended harm to come to the new residents of that address.

But how on earth does that lead to wire fraud?
...And this author doesn't realize that enjoyable activities regenerate dopamine. RIP.
They don't require software as everything happens physically. And they go for around 20€ on Amazon, I'd say less expensive than having a custom one made.
It is people and culture: https://medium.com/@trendguardian/why-we-are-dispensable-7a5...
There’s nothing here for startups is there?

Also Silicon Valley startups have the least trustworthy reputation.
I recognize the feeling of shouting into the void trying to get people to care about something.

You’ll be telling, showing, raw stats, massaged stats, appeals to authority, what have you, but if the only thing the directors care about is features, it’s all for nothing.

After 3 years it finally became a problem because they noticed that releases kept failing, but I don’t think it had anything to do with me so much as someone typing ‘how to stop my releases failing’ into Google.

I don’t know how to solve that, as I’m going through the same thing again now (with a different subject).
Making the turbines smaller is a bad idea, since smaller turbines don't justify large masts, so they aren't as far above the ground, so they experience lower winds. And the power in wind goes as the cube of its speed, so that really hurts.
Until your employee walks out the door with a clone of your company private repository on their hardware. Good luck untangling the legal mess.
> So, either QED is wrong (extremely unlikely) or GR is wrong (unlikely)

Not my area, but I thought both were known to be incomplete? Q because it presumes a flat spacetime; R because it predicts the formation of singularities that the maths used to develop it assume don't exist?
The US economy is booming? What?
Hylo, a programming language that tries to be safe and fast
The root is mostly stress on things that you have no control over.
So if this comment and its parent are accurate, then the tweet was not a joke, and it was not the sole motive for the attacks. Making the headline inaccurate in at least two respects.
If that means you also get US level working conditions and job security that can be a net negative.
Correction, you can apply to exit Google cloud without paying egress costs, subject to their approval.
I have a friend who used to do that and dominate the rest of us, but he also had to insist that we play with the "local authorities" disabled -- you know the people who get tired of you flattening a neighbourhood to fit in a high-profit oil line and prevent you from going on.

Are you saying this strategy is viable also with local authorities enabled?
Mission criticality, insane parallelism, and a few others.

With modern mainframes, you can configure two processors (or more!) to run in perfect lockstep. If one of them disagrees, the system can immediately see why and how. Run three processors in lockstep and you have quorum: One disagrees? Kill it, clone one of the others, keep going. Or, isolate it, snapshot the disagreement, hold it hostage (but alive!) and bring in a clone of the others.

One of the guarantees of IBM Z/System is "Every read is perfect, every write works." You don't have 2-3 bits of ECC, you have nearly fully redundant RAM. Oh now it has to be encrypted in transit, at rest, and in process? Not a problem, it can do that without changes in code.

IBM's mainframes take SIMD a step further. Let's say you're parsing JSONL. With a little work, you turn a traditional serial process into a parallel one, and what would be a massive map-reduce problem is just a matter of openMP coordination. Or better yet, since it's just lines, you can make the system pretend it's a tape full of records that happens to be interleaved by, magically, a bunch of local cores! Amazing.

Oh, and now the boss says you need to have physical redundancy. Why stop there? Run your application, in lockstep, across multiple systems separated by miles. Don't need it in lockstep? That's fine, your application still thinks it's running inside one head when it's running inside many independent heads. Oh you need to take down us-west-2b? Hold on let me move that entire workload to us-west-1a.

There's also Kubernetes... Here's a good talk on such things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-NC6ntYAy4
Alternatively, jsonl/ndjson. The largest parts of jsons are usually arrays, not dictionaries. So you can e.g.:

{<a header about foos and bars>}
{<foo 1>}
...
{<foo N>}
{<bar 1>}
...
{<bar N>}

It is compatible with streaming, database json columns, code editors.
Honestly, the company will never care as much about my machine as I do. It’s always an uphill battle to get anything more than whatever they think the default spec should be, so I’d consider it a feature if I could use my own machine.
While true, a poor choice of name doesn't invalidate the logic.

I'd call them "lineages" for this reason, but I don't really expect the name to catch on.
Gitlab.com is a marketing instrument and if you 'remove the product entirely' then the enterprise edition will sell only a small fraction of what it sells today.
Would you consider making a macOS port?
This may be helpful: https://www.studera.nu/startpage/higher-education/universiti...

> To put it very simply, the difference between universities (universitet) and university colleges (högskolor) is that universities can award degrees at the doctoral (third cycle) level because they have general permission to do so.
Cool, it's not quite JGR auto separation, but it is an improvement. Now if we just get day length and all the fancy train grouping/naming features (or even better, lines as a first class concept), then that would be great for my experience when I don't want to walk friends through installing JGR
They're not eliminating data transfer fees, they've added a process through which you can apply to have your egress fees eliminated, subject to their approval. That's an important distinction when it comes to big tech.
It’s worse than not adding any value to the org. These people actively undermine value in the org by depleting their direct reports’ morale. OTOH, any organisation that tolerates and turns a blind eye towards such subterfuge, perhaps deserves it.
I have a few 10-15 year old repositories backed up somewhere, but surprise surprise, nobody (including myself) cares.

It’s theoretically possible for someone to do something bad with them, but it’s just not realistic for 99.999% of the population. I guess it becomes an issue when you have 100k employees.
That sounds like basically matrix management which has many well documented issues. The biggest one in my experience is that the people managers need to be themselves judged on some rubric. If that rubric is success of projects then it tangentially aligns with business goals. If it's something else or they don't have power over projects then they are encouraged to play constant politics.
dag - can I request a temporary pass on accusing people of not reading the article? I jest of course - but this comment thread seems to contain a lot of posts that appear to have missed the point (especially the "vehicles in the park" responses where few acknowledge the sections that call out HN specifically)

I wonder if there's something about the points raised in this article that the typical HN denizen is constitutionally predisposed to "not getting". The overall conclusion is along the lines of "stuff is complicated and throwing rationalityh at it won't help" and "the solution (if there is one) would be a messy, partial, human solution".
Playing Snake on Ubiquiti Etherlighting Switch
I got that, but anticompetitive means something.

Cloud wasn't predatory in this... the price has always been there. If you lease a car and they mandate you get your oil changed with them for a price, and the price sucks, that's YOUR fault.

No one got locked into the cloud and THEN the egress prices went up... everyone went in knowing this.

The industry needs to man up and own shitty decisions rather than double down on them forever.
It's important to know what 'your all' is for the company. I learned early on that working more than 40 hours a week writing code results in my introducing bugs into the code base. So doing more is counter productive.

Choosing to not care is much harder as we have all had years of education conditioning us that we need to achieve more and to be the best.
This has brought BunnyCDN to my attention as a possible replacement for Cloudflare on a download-heavy site.

Can anyone with experience/knowledge comment on the finer details of Bunny in terms of what can be cached (not worried about default rules more about hard limits) eg Cloudflare has size limits we regularly exceed, meaning the largest downloads all end up hitting the origin anyway.

I've looked at pricing for a bunch of other CDNs but they'd be hundreds to thousands of dollars per month for the amount of bandwidth we need (2-4TB/month), but it seems like Bunny might actually be cost effective, if they allow us to cache larger objects, even if it's for a shorter period.
That explains a lot, tbh
While this may change in the future, there's an aspect that many aren't really aware of - the good AI generated content takes time and skill. If you hang out in some stable diffusion communities, you'll see people iterating and tweaking elements for days to get things just right. There seems to be that impression that you can create art-level results easily. In practice, if someone has a specific idea, getting the right things in multiple steps out of current models is an art skill on its own.
The Ultimate Conditional Syntax [video]
I'm guessing avoiding non-work activities on their work machine.
I would care. 10-15 year old is probably no longer an issue but technically they're a liability and if they were much younger (which at some point they were) they would be a much larger liability as well as an issue if you ever went to work for a competitor and this came to light (like it just did...). It's not to your advantage to have copies of your former employer's IP and possibly even data laying around. Hostile audits are a thing too, again, on 10 to 15 year old code probably not because that code either has changed considerably or it may have been abandoned.
> normal people with no playbook

What happened to those Special Weapons And Tactics?
I find it fascinating, how some comments find this insightful and others are almost offended by this contribution.
Why bother staying silent when one can slide some sarcasm in, eh?
> Think about it: if a company pays a person less because of the color of their skin or their gender, the company would be in big trouble. But somehow it's OK to pay a person less based on their location?

I'd suggest the author thinks yet a bit more about this. "color of the skin", "gender", "location of living", I'm sure the author can figure out what differentiates the first two from the latter. For a start, one could think about which of these things one is able to change. Or you might ask the question: which of these things have actually something to do with my job? And yes, location matters: the company usually needs to create a subsidiary in the country of the employee, get familiar with their judicial and tax system, then there's also the issue of time zones, travel cost to company meetings, etc.

Don't get me wrong: one can surely discuss whether differentiating pay based on location is OK or not. However, comparing this to discrimination because of skin color or gender will not help this discussion at all, as in effect the author is comparing GitLab to a racist and sexist organization, which will end any discussion fairly quickly.
Remote doesn't necessarily mean "living in the middle of nowhere".

Case in point: I've moved to a city 40% the size of the one I grew up in so as to be able to afford housing at all and it's been great. A friend who stayed there recently purchased a 25% smaller apartment for 40% more in comparison to mine. It's not even funny at this point.

You have generally more time for all the things you mentioned when you don't commute 2h a day.

As for new homes: even now investment demand will gobble up any new housing that's built, as the former grows much faster than the latter. Induced demand for housing if you will.
We've already got examples of small creatures in suspended animation.

I only wish Alcubierre-type drives were as well-developed as that.
Rest assured, we don't sell your data. We're a small indie team solely financed by Niagara Pro, our in-app upgrade. I'm forever thankful to our community that it is enough to pay the bills and to develop the app further.
That seems to be a bit premature, no?
The author specifically calls out why just being sent notes doesn't help, when some teachers do exactly that.

The advice is to understand, and consider questions while making notes. He has a section on when to ask questions in class.

The very next line after the one you quoted explain why he errs towards the former, but it does not say you should not concentrate, you should not try to understand, and you should not ask questions.
This is the dystopian future that is likely already happening. Slowly but surely we will lose control over our own labor. As the name implies, we're just human resources.
I disagree, I think it means “my actions have demonstrated that I’m not trying to cover anything up”
It's saying there's a good chance we'll be one of the grabby civilisations.

Or at least, it doesn't rule it out. Non-grabby aliens aren't visible in this model; given the distances, "grabby" is the only way to change the environment enough for current human tech to even notice something unusual.
Each incident also likely boosts their numbers, justifying why they need budget for their SWAT program.

Or as Upton Sinclair put it, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Maybe with artificial intelligence, we don't need many smart kids any more. Tell me why do we need smart kids (if we don't have to compete with other countries, i.e. if it is not required for war).
Resumes are candidate controlled which inherently makes them useless once social rules on lying too much break down.
Is 2024 the worst time to start a CRM Software Product for SMEs?
Is it too late to start building a CRM Software? Companies have been building CRMs since decades now.

Target Market: Indian and Global SMEs

Some good use-cases that existing CRMs like Zoho/Hubspot/Salesforce aren't solving.
- Customer Interaction using a WhatsApp chatbot to add/manage leads/enquiries and other actions.

Looking forward to the feedback from you guys as I don't want to waste 3-6 months building it and adding to the pile of 0-revenue products that I had previously built.
The pattern sounds nice in theory, but very cumbersome since now you have to obsessively ensure you have NewX calls everywhere or some form of "validated bool". In the end, you're just validating in a roundabout way and calling it "parsing".

I personally find being robust to errors and having clear error messages is the best option.

Don't focus so hard on getting things right, but rather dealing with things when they go wrong.
Sweden's freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings
Seeing us on Hacker News made my day; thank you so much for the shoutout :D
> I announced to HR that my wife is expecting (Tue) and was fired on Friday

That's so low. Really, your former employer is despicable.