skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The former "Diplom" and "Diplom (FH)" were not identical. When those still existed the distinction of "Universität" and "Fachhochschule" was meaningful. The rebranding is a consequence of the old kind of degrees having been replaced by new ones, not just a marketing trick.
Question: That part of the brain he likes to call the cockroach brain - what's the standard name for that part of the brain?
Tucker talks the minute he leaves Putin interview [video]
> Justin Yu, Class of 2025

No idea what the 2025 is doing there, or the '25 appended to his name.
His Wikipedia entry [1] mentions neither. It does explain how he inspired Blue Scuti to (be the first to) crash the game:

> After the 2023 CTWC, Yu announced his intentions to try to "beat the game" by reaching its "killscreen," a point late in the game when the code glitches, resulting in a game crash due to hardware limitations within the NES.

> Fellow competitive Tetris player and YouTuber Willis Gibson (known online as "Blue Scuti") became inspired by the goal, and would beat Yu to the achievement on December 21, 2023. Yu celebrated the achievement with Gibson, exclaiming "He did it, he did it!" on his livestream.

> On another livestream on January 3, 2024, Yu beat the game, becoming the second person to do so after Gibson and first person to achieve the earliest possible game crash on level 155, two levels quicker than on Gibson's run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Yu
> The agency defined AI as "a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments," and warns insurers against using an "algorithm that determines coverage based on a larger data set, instead of the individual patient's medical history, the physician’s recommendations, or clinical notes."

this seems reasonable. my initial thought was that insurers already use statistical models to determine profitability, so this ban on "AI" (aka large statistical model) could potentially undermine the fundamental groundwork of an insurance company, but it sounds like we're just disallowing the use of a recommendation system.
I feel that this is a reasonable thing to do across domains, at least for now, since I believe that most humans don't understand how "AI" works, and might forget to use their own (better) judgment for a decision.
> if you like systemd, it just means you're sheltered and too green.

Says the green name.

People can like whatever, but most of the time people like sysvinit less than systemd init.
Hey, its us, whats that make, 45 times? Oh, 46, really? Well go ahead and stop what you are doing, put your hands up and watch a bunch of armed strangers violate your private space. Dont be mad, its highly irregular for us to get these calls, we have no idea how to better respond, like just giving you a call and checking in on you.
Yes, AWS-style cloud is just software-defined infrastructure.

It's like virtual lego - the bricks fit the same way as physical lego but the difference is you can rent as many virtual bricks as you like, almost instantly with little up-front cost.

You still need to know how to build the lego pirate ship either way.
By that logic, the only one who wins is the company. I would like to believe that most of us, employees, want what’s best for us, employees.

If company X was paying N for a SF engineer, and suddenly it finds out that it can pay N/2 for an engineer that’s as good as the SF one (but lives, let’s say, in Mexico)… well, jackpot for company X.
New York never has a critical shortage of barbers, chefs or cleaners even though for many decades it’s been possible to earn 100x as a Wall Street bond trader or quant.

A healthy growth economy can tolerate income differences. But the balance is certainly precarious, as the example of New York or London shows. It’s constantly on the edge of driving out the remaining barbers and chefs because they can’t afford rents.
Yeah wow huh. I had my wife’s food blog (wordpress) hosted at a Dutch provider called Neostrada. I think it was something like 50 euros per year at the start. They got bought, sent around emails with sleazy wording like “we’re upgrading your plan to fit our new pricing scheme” and then within ~2 years I ended up owing them 450 euros a year. I’ve never cancelled anything this quickly before.

A 9x price hike in just a few years has got to be the least scrupulous PE move I’ve ever witnessed in NL. I agree with your prediction that it’s just a matter of time before they tack on exorbitant egress fees.
This year I'm trying https://www.freetaxusa.com/. Literally free if you don't have to pay state income tax, and $15 per state otherwise, even if you have a small business.

It would be great if the government provided their own website/software for tax calculation, but even then I wouldn't mind paying $15 for polished, professionally designed software (vs $100+ for TurboTax in the case of small business+state)
Most likely some AR stuff what needs optimization :D
>Economic inactivity rates are sky-high across Western Europe WHILST companies say there is a labour shortage. Who believes this?

Quite a lot of the problems come from property speculation. Older property owning folk have enough rent and the like to not bother working. Meanwhile younger people have to work long hours and can't afford to buy a house. A lot of incomes for the lawyers and the like come from people flipping property rather than actually making stuff.
No, but it means that an apparent eyewitness to a hostage situation who isn't at the location they claim to be shouldn't be believed.
Taxes do not pay for anything but debt servicing. It is inaccurate to say "spend all of it", it is spent down to the penny as immediately as it is collected. Police budgets, or any government budget for that matter, are only limited by political measures in any meaningful context.
what does ddc stand for?
That’s why I stopped using it at work (on my company’s laptop I don’t want to log in to github using my personal credentials)
Socialists upvoting the socialist article
Wishful thinking. Cryptocurrencies have failed to gain traction even in countries experiencing hyperinflation. People don't trust a fiat "currency" that is issued by anonymous entities and is backed by nothing. Especially when it's been known to depreciate dramatically in the blink of an eye. People trust fiat currencies that are issued by reputable institutions that give credible assurances about the purchasing power of said currencies. This is why such currencies as the US dollar and the euro are used all over the world for international trade, and cryptocurrencies are not.
Feels like

Stop the madness. It does not matter how things feel. It matters how things are measured, which includes employee retention and delivery and product quality. Most of the comments here loudly scream none of these people have been in management.

The one big difference between a leader and a contributor is ownership. Everyone here has danced around the idea of ownership without addressing it. Unless you have owned liability in a managerial capacity it doesn’t matter how things feel, because your perspective is too narrowly construed.

Disagreement, when voiced, is a form of confrontation. It is healthy. Healthy teams are brutally honest. Most of software absolutely abhors confrontation.
I'd recommend Javalin (https://javalin.io/) instead. Same idea, only executed better and it is actively maintained.
I do not believe even 1% of the US population believes that.
God, I hope this technology never catches on. It's scary to even think how the world (or, at least, the industrialized world) will be changed to become (even more) socially inept, and as a side effect, people becoming more and more depressed and anxious when they leave their little toy to go and interact with the real world (assuming people will ever leave their little headset.)

Eyesight will also get much worse. I won't be surprised, if this catches on, that all babies born at a certain point in the future will have to wear glasses. We will become so fragile, not just at the societal level, but even at the individual level. Terrifying.
in italy ambulances are mostly run by ngo-like red cross organization: the building is leased for free by the township, the ambulances are donated by local car dealers or by local fundraising, 80% of the workforce are volunteers. they are free to end users. Still there are private ambulances for specific services but are reasonable priced
Maybe future generations will not have to worry as much about accumulating wealth when countries work harder to ensure a high quality of life in the middle class. I doubt that will happen for the west until they figure out how to relieve all the pressure the housing market is putting on their citizens.
I think a huge factor you don't account for here is that some of these technological improvements might imply a great-filter that we really haven't passed yet as humans, and the negative effects would affect most similarly expansionist and competitive races alike us since it might be questionable if there would be enough pressure on a non-competitive race to expand rather than just conserve local resources.

Just with state-controlled nuclear weapons we've been on the brink of extinction a couple of times already, the energy levels required for star-travel implies this kind of destructive power being in the hands of even more people (and by necessity more or less out of control of the nation states). A commercial airliner took down WTC, a starship would be an WMD capable of taking out a city (or more).

One implication of this is that there's a chance that we've already invented practical fusion power, but if it's trivial to miniaturize AND weaponize then people in control of it have decided to withhold it to avoid every weird terrorist group creating one.
Yes, you're right, the causal link is this.
>Why 4 SWATs and not anymore in that day?

Well, in the flesh things take time to happen, the setup for the call, the deployment, the investigation, the debrief, a cooling off period to observe the results, thats probably a couple hours minimum. This isnt something you can parallelize or task more cores too, the swatter probably got bored, tired, or hungry.
CUDA runs on essentially all NVIDIA consumer gpus. ROCm is supported on a single 5 year old model and two 2 year old models.

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/docs-...
The article is predicated on this fact. It doesn't even question it.
All popular operating systems support multiple users. There is no worklife balance benefit whatsoever for the user to require a separate machine. It is only inconvienient.
Having a freelancer registered in another country paid is not as complicated as people make it to be (pay an employee for services). As contractors.

The complication is the company prefers to work in one/a few jurisdictions only and have "proper" employees. It simplifies a lot for the company.
Why do people allow bribery to be concealed by the term, lobbying?
Semi-related, I would recommend to anyone who is a Linux native to try to find some kind of "minimum viable setup" that is really really easy for you to run out of VirtualBox or Parallels or something for this reason. No matter where you go, you know you can have a suite of tools which work just as you want them to there. Being able to tear it down and rebuild it quickly is also a great way to deal with debugging certain kinds of problems of the "it runs/doesn't run on my machine" category.

How you do this is of course up to you. At one end of the spectrum is just relying on your memory. At the other end is using NixOS https://nixos.org/ to get fully reproducible builds anywhere you go. Between these are a vast field of options. I know a guy who maintains an Ansible file set to `host: localhost` which installs everything he wants from that file. For me, I just stick with the latest Ubuntu version and maintain a few shell scripts [1] that install 80% of what I like to have on a new install.

If you like the scientific approach, you can install something like https://atuin.sh/ and do some statistics on what programs you actually run most frequently based on your long term shell history.

[1]: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu
The arsonist firefighter that loves the glory a bit too much.
Think about a time-based one-time passcode (OTP). Every 30 seconds you get a fresh code and the attacker tries to guess that code. There's usually a validity window of one or more OTP, so the attacker needs to guess one of several possible currently valid OTP.

This is a popular trick in CTF exercises and it's pretty quick if you can make 1000 guesses per second. Takes a couple minutes until you're in.
Combining AI and AM: Improving approximate matching through transformer networks [pdf]
Yes, the thought has occurred to me.
This one seems particularly egregious, since it often results in going from a reasonable quantities of decent quality light to noxious quantities of noxious quality light.
wouldn't any compiler optimize this anyway?
I am not excusing it at all. I meant to say that "culture ruin" means different things to different generations (and somtimes different people in the same generation as well). And I don't see how your question has anything to do with the discussion at hand, but I have been in a fight.
Very cool! I will definitely try this out, thank you for making it.
Display data channel
How is a poem not documentation? How is a photograph not art?

Rhymes are how epic poems were memorized before the advent of a form of writing capable of recording something of length.

Put your experiences to light verse and musical accompaniment and you’ve got something even more memorable!

Do you remember your photographs when you’re not looking at them? I remember my songs! I remember where I was when I wrote them and who I was around.

I remember writing a song about the man who brought a shotgun to the roof of a hospital in SF and was killed by a SWAT team.

I remember the song I wrote about the Google barge and the security guard I talked to there one night.

I remember the song I wrote on a beach in Hawaii, the song I wrote about my hometown and the lackluster reunion ski trip that reminded me why I left my hometown.

I don’t take many pictures and I don’t have the best memory, but I have vivid memories of the sights and sounds of the places I was when I was looking up and around and writing. Where I was decidedly not looking down at a device and rather living untethered and soaking in the world around me.

I haven’t had a data plan on my phone for about 8 years and the primary reason is so that I can observe and experience!
The spring boot dread: which of the defaults are a terrible idea to replace, and which of the defaults are a terrible idea to keep?

I do wonder, when looking at the examples, if it might be nice to have a spark/javalin-like that depends on okhttp and reuses everything that appears on both sides of the connection. okhttpd if you like, even if perhaps still best built on top of jetty, like spark/javalin. Might have some skill reuse benefits, but might also cause some unintended shortcut accidents when the type system can't tell upstream from downstream objects.
Display Data Channel... it's the signal that your video card uses to communicate with yours monitors to do things like adjust brightness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel
SkyLift – Adam Harvey Studio
Ok yes, point taken, I just meant it as a general expression. I don't mean to imply that it's exclusive to Linux, although I do specifically prefer the GNU flavor of most of the tools (awk an exception where there are multiple interesting implementations), which do tend to be more closely associated with Linux than macos or BSD. A standard installation of any Linux distro will have them all available, whereas in Mac and Windows you have to specifically install them as they aren't part of the standard command line.
Data Pools – Teleporting you to Bezos's backyard
Yes, it’s a mistake to design your company’s output in a way that results in shipping a defective product.
Its a convenient myth right?
Not currently, but it would be relatively easy to add.

You might want to open an issue on the repo.
Shell script for bookmarking directories and direct CD-ing
Simple shell script I made that can bookmark directories and allow users to directly go to them. Easy to setup.

A 2min demo can be found here: https://www.loom.com/share/7f7b28c1c139461c86092804a1f8eb3a?...
There have been cases of politicians and other high profile people being swatted. After it happens, the police are forced to figure out a way to make sure it doesn't happen again while still being vigilant against legitimate threats. So it is possible to do both if the will is there.
Archive.org is full of them https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
For each class, buy a separate notebook from the one you
take your notes in. I recommend a "composition" or spiral
notebook, not a looseleaf notebook, for your "permanent"
(i.e., re-written) notes.

Would somebody please explain to me the difference between these two types of notebooks?
I understand that 'spiral notebook' means a notebook whose spline contains a plastic-springlike-thingy, and therefore is able to open flat-180-degrees.

But, whats meant by 'composition notebook'?
and 'looseleaf notebook'?
It's not a theory it's literally why two projects I was on used snowflake in aws.
The "from another country" part is the important differentiator. I'd bet she opened the bank accounts in question outside the UK too?
That is not how being anti-competitive works.
But to be honest I do see the point of the author. Either stop "half-assing" GitLab.com or remove the product (GitLab.com) entirely (and focus only on self-hosting customers (GitLab Enterprise Edition)) might be a better decision in the long run.

But I am sure no one on management level wants to do this decision. So you half-ass a product.

This kind of situation can be frustrating for people working on the product itself (at least when they care). And each new developer that joins the product will probably suggest: "Oh we should care more about scalability." And each senior will be: "yeah yeah, i know..."
A lot of my friends did not want to move USA, but security is a major concern. 3x more likely to die on road, 10x violent crime, 20x from overdose. Most people will encounter accidents, crime and other problems in their lives. It is not an anomaly.
The black monolith comes to mind.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cHWs3c3YNs4
Militarization of the police is just symptom. Root cause is that police needs to expect that almost anyone in the US could be armed. This is not the case elsewhere.
>Now I’m making 2-3x more after taxes than my German friends. Yes, I’m self employed and yes I’ll need to take care of my own retirement but I’ll be better off after 1-2 years of putting $100k in ETFs than they could ever be with their state pensions.

It's just means you're in a way more privilege Position as a dev in Poland than devs in Germany, but how does that look at scale, is the average Pole also much better off than the average German?

>The taxes will kill the old Europe.

Sure, but taxes also pay for infrastructure, healthcare and education which a country needs to flourish. Those high German taxes also contributed to the EU budget out of which Poland has been the highest net beneficiary over the years.

How would Poland look today in those areas without the EU money from German taxpayers, and, if every Polish worker was a tax-evading ..err..sorry I mean tax-optimzing IT worker like yourself?

What you're advocating is basically "fuck you I got mine, time to kick the ladder down now" as in you enjoyed the benefits of someone else's high taxes to grow but now that you've made it big, are against high taxes, and that my friend doesn't scale, nor build a successful society long term unless you're some small tax heaven country or bracing for rampant wealth and income inequality which I assume is starting to happen in Poland.
I like the idea of OpenTTD, but some things just always bothered me with basically all games in the genre. No shunting - which would make dealing with small suppliers more efficient, if they'd exist in the first place -, and cities and industries basically just keep growing as long as you have the transport capacity. For some towns, more growth just makes no sense. Same goes for industries in certain locations.
No no, you dont understand, you just over*estimate their techno skills, having to remember that you already laid seige to some poor fuck at breakfast brunch and lunch is just too much, the appropriate response is coming to dinner too!
That's true for everyone, right?

Nobody sees a psychiatrist because they're happy all the time.
I really enjoyed this review.

I'm a little surprised that some aggressive VC doesn't promote crypto as being the answer to doing unsavory, or maybe even illegal, things. There is some value in being able to buy porn and not having anyone control it, or know about it. There is a debatable value in being able to buy marijuana in the US which still hasn't legalized that at the federal level. ZK transactions offer that obvious benefit.

I guess you don't want to be the first prominent person to advocate for that. And, if you are a VC, you probably have to lobby elderly US senators, and they have to pretend that they hate porn so they can continue to grab votes of other elderly people who want to pretend they never enjoyed porn when they were younger and full of testosterone.

If everyone would just be honest about their porn desires crypto would probably have a place in this world.

I'm only saying this because you can see Google trends to know that people on the Internet love porn. It's right in front of your face everybody!
To be clear: we don’t only hire in the US. We have employees in at least the US, Canada, and Europe at the moment.

We do want some overlap in working hours with the US, so it is true that we cannot realistically hire anywhere just yet, but not being in the US is not a dealbreaker.
Unfortunately I'm a corporate drone, so I don't have even nearly enough control over the process to make anyone sign anything.
There is an improvement in the options called cargo distribution (cargodest for short) which assigns them a destination among available ones on your network when they're spawned. This is a bit unlike simutrans where destinations are generated and then passengers only appear in your stations when it's reachable.

There were attempts to introduce more simutrans-esque behaviour in patches called cargodest, but it proved to be unacceptable performance wise for the map and network sizes that OpenTTD uses.
A prime minister usually has quite good offers after the political career. Rutte has been trying to get the leader role for NATO, for example, which is probably a step up in salary (?)
Yeah this amazes me as well - the AWS web interface does work, but it's pretty low quality.

You'd think a company with 1.5m employees could find half a dozen decent front end developers, but apparently not