skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny when someone measuring temperature in feet and distance in football fields starts to "explain" meters, liters, and Celsius degrees. When I hear "leftist" I immediately imagine oakley sunglasses, baseball hat, new balance running shoes, and cargo shorts. It's disgusting that the American political vocabulary was adopted in may EU countries. Then yes, customer service in Germany is rude, useless, and expensive - there is no plot twist or inside joke, it is what it is.
But then you don't get daylight up until 10am (which also sucks)
Also from EU, additional tidbit: Not being a first-past-the-post two-party system allows for political parties to be more nuanced than a simplified left-right spectrum.
Although you probably agree: If someone wants to describe politics with a one-dimensional scale, left-right is not so bad. And that's why and how it developed.
What’s a “runner”?
Big fan of Astro.

If you want to move fast, have clients/team members give Versoly a try (founder here).

The visual editor is based on editable HTML/Vue code. Low learning curve for developers and no vendor lock-in (main selling point is I can't increase prices, change license etc)

Open source is great but if the project dies or changes license it is useless, whereas open standards will live on. Which can be seen from tools using Redis APIs to create whole new backends on top of it.
You can, though it's much harder than in C or C++ or unsafe Rust for this to be exploitable. A data race on an interface value can give you a corrupted interface value, overwriting the vtable with struct contents. This can happen to lead to arbitrary code execution if you're unlucky enough, though in most cases it would be a SIGSEGV. It's also very hard for an attacker to craft a payload that can be guaranteed to reach this, though with a microservixe architecture with automatic restarts of failed services, they might get a lot of tries.
I think I got help from studding the experience of the 'anatomy of fear' in 'The Emperor Jones', a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill. It helped me understand how irrational fear would gradually get into me. I was stranded in desert area known for hyenas. Walking with a heavy backpack for 7 hours in complete darkness to reach the camp, I started 'seeing' things in the dark. I started singing first, then praying, couldn't find stones to throw at dark spot I though were water ponds formed during the heavy rain, I had a break down. Then I saw the lights of the camp that showed me how I deviated from the path to it by a far margin. But something pleasant happened afterwards, I felt I conquered fear and my tolerance for unpleasant things got a big boost.
Canceling copyright is a remedy that should be used a lot more often. Has it ever been done?
I just found one similar tool https://icraft.gantcloud.com/editor. It looks promising and UI-based. I would prefer much on UI, not codes XD
It’s more of an American concept which has unfortunately spread. Which is sort of silly considering that virtually every European country has several political parties, some is which sometimes form government coalitions across “the middle”.

In Denmark we currently have a government formed of what has been the two major political parties in Denmark for the past few decades + a third. During the election one would be leading the “blue side”, the other leading the “red side”. So it was sort of hilarious when they joined to form a government and the media graphics didn’t work. Of course after a couple or days they just kept the “red” vs “blue” thing and started talking about when it would fall apart and how they were still “enemies” despite being in a joint government.

That being said, it is sort of true to say that most European countries are much more “left” leaning than the US. In Denmark the US Democratic Party would be to the far right of 94% of the votes for political parties cast here.
It's because people saying stuff like "NAT good, IPv6 bad" makes many people afraid of v6. It's part of the problem. Any decent gear will come with a firewall with sane defaults and most people won't know about it, just like with NAT today. If you asked someone to configure a router from scratch (ie. one that came with insane defaults) then NAT would be more difficult to set up.
Standard time is considered the best option for health and well-being because it aligns most closely with our natural circadian rhythms, which are regulated by exposure to morning light. Research shows that standard time improves sleep quality, reduces stress, and decreases the risk of various health issues like cardiovascular disease, mood disorders, and even certain cancers. By maintaining standard time year-round, we support our bodies' internal clocks, which helps promote better mental and physical health. Leading sleep and health organizations advocate for standard time to minimize disruptions caused by the biannual clock changes and reduce the health risks associated with daylight saving time.
Ask HN: I built a popular salary transparency tool – how else can I help?
As per title - I built a popular salary transparency tool (~6000 daily users) for my countries main job site.

I made this because I was pissed off one day with employers who underpay and negotiate down employees salaries.

What else can I build to push-back against the enshittification of the world, and help the common woman/man?

I hate the way employers treat employees.

I also hate the corruption of the government and government workers, and hate politics.

I hate the media and social media, regarding surveillance and manipulation.

I hate mortgages.

So, any ideas for things we can build to help the common man/woman?
We feared the same, but since the family income reduced so did the tax burden and in addition we received tax benefits for having kids.

In the end we had about the same disposable income.

Also: It’s free money?

You are legally entitled to childcare for kids 1-3 and can sue for loss of income.

Also consider a “Tagesmutter”,
finding the right one can be difficult but for high income people it’s usually not too much of a problem.

If you have lots of space an au-pair might be sensible, the costs can again be tax reduced to some extend.
The part he clearly didn’t understand
Think of it more as a feature that provides accessibility to people that either don't have the ability, the time, or that simply can't be bothered to work it out themselves.
Would these poor people buy these goods and services via some sort of network of interconnected computers that talk to each other? Or the stores they buy them from also use this network of connected computers to buy goods and services to stock the store with and run credit card (read EDT) machines? It would have to be some sort of crazy network of interconnected computers.

What should we call such a thing though? This interconnected network of computers. How about the Inter-Conn-Net-of-Computers. Maybe someone could help me shorten that name.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to notice an improper keming and he would curse you for the eternity.
Yeah, kinda. I remember running into a lot of read errors with the 5¼ disks (I think being floppy also contributed to their unreliability)

But yes there was a point in the 90s where quality went down even for the 3½ ones (and that elementary pre-IDE floppy interface certainly didn't help)
Idk. If an undercover FBI agent can convince you to order C4 with intent to blow up infrastructure, who says someone else couldnt. Id rather it be an agent locking him up, than real seller, while an agent dont notice.
I used lots of 1.44MB floppies in the early 90s and generally had few, if any problems, as I recall. But later in the decade, I had more and more trouble, and by the late 90s or early 2000s they could absolutely not be relied upon at all.

I wonder if you went through all your HD 3.5" floppies, and sorted them by manufacturing date, if you'd find a trend showing the early ones being more reliable than the later ones.
This can be solved By Nix - stay on an old version if you need it but the rest of the world can move forward
> Promoting Nazism is banned. It’s not a slippery slope, and the country hasn’t devolved into authoritarian groupthink.

But it is and it has. E.g. Germany is cracking down on the Palestinian solidarity movement. Banning slogans, symbols, events wholesale. Currently trying to sign IHRA Antisemitism definition into law and shut out groups critical of Israel from cultural funds every body else has access too (including right-wing extremist Israel solidarity groups).
It sucks less, I’d say.
Despite output, Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world
> Gas prices are double or even triple what they are in the US. It’s ok, the economy isn’t collapsing.

The Economist about Germany's economy: "a national business model build in part on cheap energy from one autocracy and abundant demand from another (China) faces a severe test". Combine the cutting off from Russian gas with shutting down all nuclear power plants, and you do have something like a collapse of the economy, at least a significant decline in its industrial output.
Perhaps an intermediate position be: "You can use a loose dict/map where a different subset of keys/values are in-use for different situations, but there should be a single specific discriminator key-value which is always set, one that unambiguously tells people which form is being used."

That's in contrast to logic like:

if result.data is not None:
# Look for successful results
elif result.error is not None:
# Log or handle error
elif result.background_processing:
# Oops, optional asynchrony
else:
# Must be in-progress, right?
Most of Europe is varying degrees of Social Democracy. We pretend we have conservatives, socialists, “climatists”? communists, neoliberals, populists and so on, but for the most parts it’s all just Social Democratic parties with a flavour.
The “no QWERTY rule” that standardized testing boards have is _absurd_. TI has a calculator with a dedicated alphabet keyboard cluster and a return key (the Nspire Touchpad)… except the keys have to be arranged in alphabetical order, because otherwise the College Board says no.
Final Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast: 50.015% Harris
American Elections Are Unfair
> Readability.

Okay, I see you demand a very explicit question: why did you use comma instead of other characters for grouping?

> [separate standards documents] do you think that's also a no-go? Yes.

I like to hear why then, given this approach seems to be very successful for Unicode and many others.

> Data model here:

Thank you for the grammar. The document will massively benefit from such explicit description, I completely missed an unnamed scalar for example (because it has no syntax at all). The grammer doesn't have to be reproduced at all, for example the following is my attempt to rephrase it in prose:

There are three kinds of entities in Xenon: objects, arrays and scalars. All entities may optionally have a name, a type, an ID or any combination of them. Objects can contain named entities or fields, where field names should be distinct within the same object. Arrays can contain either named or unnamed entities. Scalars can contain zero or more characters. Names and types are non-empty free-form strings and no meanings are assigned for them, but this document gives a guideline for common types to ensure the interoperability. IDs should be distinct within the same document, but otherwise they are only used to encode a graph structure and have no other meaning. Objects and arrays can contain a reference which can stand in for any entity with given ID; references in an object needs its own name which can differ from the referent.

Please consider a similar clarification early in the document.
But ordinary go code is not memory safe. Data racing can trivially happen just by using the language's primitives. It requires no special keyword like unsafe, or native FFI like in other, actually memory safe languages (rust, or of the GCd kind, java, c#, Js)
They can. More impressively they can draw/paint, and some of them do it in a perspective correct way, too!
China is no longer afraid that the US will back Taiwan. Last year Biden threatened Iran with "don't", and Iran "did", and the US did absolutely nothing. Biden has demonstrated that US security promises to allies mean nothing, not do even direct US threats, extremely expensive Navy not withstanding.

After Biden's responses to both Russian and Iranian aggression, do you think that China has any concerns anymore?
Drugs change brain neurochemistry, which means they change the very apparatus of conscious experience. There are probably just as many differences as similarities, between sober and intoxicated mysticism.

Also there is nothing perennial about platonism. It has been and continues to be challenged. An overlap in a handful of psychological measurements doesn’t justify conflating intoxicated platonism with all possible varieties of mystical experiences.
Institutional investors should have little if any impact on prices. As long as they rent them out, which they will, this will have not affect housing supply. If anything, people who can’t afford to buy will have more rental options.

The underlying problem is that city councils ban the construction of most new homes. This has led to a supply shortage. The wealthier among us are thus forced to bid up the price of cheaper, older homes. Landlords can charge more for existing properties too. We need to change the laws so that we build lots more homes.

I do. agree strongly with your point about the loss of a social contract. If you’re interested in helping fix this problem, join the YIMBY movement.
No one's day is aligned with the sun. At noon plus 8 hours, there's a lot of stuff happening. Noon minus 8 hours? Everybody's still asleep.
> People like to see themselves as edgy. It's edgy to be in the rich world and decry imperialism of America's system of allies.

I suspect that's just your rationalization to make it easy to dismiss people who have a real problem with the status quo.

I don't know a single adult who likes to see themselves as edgy just for the sake of it, but I do know many adults who hold deep disagreements with the status quo and who're not afraid to express it.
No. Let owners exercise owner's responsibility (e.g. insurance, and if insurance is too expensive -- well, the risk is too high).

PS: I heard the thing California does, however, is putting a cap on insurance premiums, so insurers just avoid some regions, and owners cannot find insurance to buy. It's kinda the same thing -- owner's responsibility.
For development, I made the switch to nix/flox and it’s been a game-changer.
If you notice I spoke about my place of work. Not on the national or global norm. I’m sure times are changing, but it’s not what our internal metrics currently show at our company.

I personally hope it changes.
I'd like us to take a little nuance when it comes to "middle class".

tech workers rarely are "middle class". not even "upper middle class".

We tend to have a contorted idea of real income percentiles.

https://www.arm-und-reich.de/alle-rechner/
You can't, at least on Amazon. Amazon is the largest ebook market; no pdf's allowed.
You could use Gumroad or sell from your own site, but these are not attractive alternatives.
The user you are responding to seems to make a habit of being aggressive, especially in cases where he has been factually wrong but is unwilling to even consider the possibility.
Yeah, and C is memory safe in absence of memory safety bugs..
It's really no difference. Even Chang Kai Chek era Taiwan with the little freedoms its people enjoyed was an enviable place next to sparrow hunt era mainland.
I put the death of Zip more on CD-Rs getting popular. Even if you didn’t have a writer you could read them. And then UsB thumb drives came in to clean house.
Nothing makes you feel European like spending several months in the US.
Coca-Cola didn’t circumvent ban. They had to come up with a new product.
But... That's not part of the definition of Ramsey numbers. Often it's defined in terms of a complete graph where the egdmmdges are coloured either red or blue. But there's nothing about the blue subgraph or red subgraph needing to be connected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%27s_theorem
Are you two partnered up doing consulting? Or do you all have a product?
Equations should render on A5 paper, you don't need A4/letter. And many here advocate for paper, 6x9 or 5x8 should handle equations easily.
Aren't US houses the same effectively? - Not necessarily in that they aren't built to last, but that they'll be rebuilt regardless in a couple decades.
The situation is not fine under the premise of neverending growth economies.

Under other points of view, yes, Germany and Europe isn't turning in third world economy.
For americans minimally well versed in their history a much better analogy to understand the EU is not the UN but the pre-constitution US in terms of politics and the pre-civil war US in terms of institutional setup. And somewhere in between when it comes to actual powers
I stand by the part where I said we all "knew" it at the time; his picture was included in a mural and everything! But, thanks, TIL! Your reference doesn't support the negative claim, but I found a really cool deep dive here: https://iexaminer.org/uncovering-bruce-lees-public-school-ye...
It doesn’t add any details which are actually substantiated
>A modern inexpensive attack drone goes for <$10,000.

This is a popular meme on HN, but in reality this amount won't even buy you the disposable drones militaries use for target practice. If you want anything that carries a payload, you'll need more than $30k.
Smalltalk: Conceptual Integrity in Action
Not from Berlin, but I imagine it is similar: It is usually the case that the more shady your "kebab pusher" is, the more delicious the kebab is.

If the sign says one price, the cashier says a second, and the cash register says a third? You've found the best kebab in town.
Oooh ... I had totally forgotten about that! Thanks for the reminder - now I can hear it in my head.
PDF's are size agnostic, by the way. We think of them as being restricted to A4 or letter paper, but you can generate a pdf of almost any size.
Yes, I have generally tried to do that. But sometimes there are third party libraries that depend on GDAL and then there's no way around it.
"May", not "should", so some data don't have a graph structure. It really boils down to the ratio between non-graph data and graph data. I have some reason to believe that the former far outnumbers the latter, but maybe you have some concrete evidences against?
I upvoted you for the hyperbole but absolutely don't agree.

People who don't want to learn a new special purpose language are basically saying that 'I've got a hammer and everything is a nail' is fine, which is (to your point) absurd. Languages are tools, use tools to solve problems the tools were designed to solve.

Where I do agree is what you haven't said clearly: it isn't obvious what problems 'diagrams as code' solve. The idea is cool and I've used plantuml with some success, but in the end the diagram is supposed to be consumed visually (including changes - to preserve spatial relationships between versions).
It's perfectly safe to eat rare pork in the United States. Trichinellosis hasn't been an issue in commercial pork for some time. Wild pigs and backyard pigs should be assumed to be infected.
As far as I can tell, In the not so distant past, you were either in favour of rule by the monarch and the aristocracy or you were a Liberal. Pretty much every party in a modern democracy is a flavour of Liberal. Its only because liberalism comprehensively won that we find it useful to separate out the different strands.
> The linked GitHub issue is one of the most aggravating exchanges

Hyperbolic much?

Because if you actually read the whole issue, here we have one maintainer acting out of line of refusing to process the issue until another one (Yu Watanabe) interjects, says there is an issue and actually commit a patchset adding the option asked for.
Given some Kubernetes workloads, even writing everything in Assembly might not help.
I mean, a very serious security vulnerability is/was row hammering, where an attacker was waiting on flipping a bit they have no access to by continuously flipping neighboring ones. Compared to that a race condition is "trivial" to exploit.
I'd actually say the US is moving in the direction of Europe -- historically "left" in the US was social-democratic, whereas "right" was classical liberalism (again, these labels get wonky across cultures -- what Americans call libertarianism). That US picture does at least point to two different ends of something that's basically the same spectrum.

In Europe "left" mostly means socialist, and "right" mostly means nationalist. But socialism and nationalism aren't opposites, and can often go together, so you see things like the author of this article pointing out that the "right" doesn't want to completely dismantle the social safety net.

The US is, however, in the process of realigning to the European style.
The washing section blew me away. I did not know washing machines in NA were not electric. Like what?

Really comprehensive post, great material for exploring cultural differences.

One thing I missed maybe was calendars, that here in Europe the week starts on Monday instead of Sunday.
I flagged this because the tweet is an extremely editorialized take.

There are no corroborated details suggesting that nvidia did this to exceed market expectations nor any corroborated details that suggests that nvidia has been intentionally and explicitly complicit.
Honestly that sounds like not the whole picture. I think your perception might be because your clientele comes from the top whatever% of US society, where people make a ton of money.

Accoring to stats, the top 15% of households in the US has an income in excess of $200k - saving half of it and living like a king on the rest should be easy enough, while the median around $75k - even living frugally won't allow you to save a significant chunk of income.
As someone from the Netherlands this was interesting to read. My one nitpick is that the author seems to switch between Berlin/Germany and the EU as a whole a few times making the reader think that some things might apply to the entire EU. Which isn't the case, this article is mostly about Germany and really specific to Berlin as well.

Some examples:

- Sunday shopping: Totally a thing here in the Netherlands.

- Smoking: A lot of people smoke here, but it certainly does feel like a lot less people than in Germany, and it certainly is allowed in fewer places.

- Alcohol: Yes, in the Netherlands you can also drink on the street. In Germany and Berlin specifically, it is also part of the drinking culture, it seems. Certainly Germany has a different drinking culture where there is much more strong liquor available in supermarkets where in the Netherlands you need to go to liquor stores or a special closed section of the supermarket.

Again, mostly nitpicks but worth enough to point out imho.
Wouldn’t this mean that promiscuity was increasing?

Do you have an evidence that it is?
Not at all. Java or C# can end up in a logical bug from that, but they will never corrupt their runtime. So in java you can just try-catch whatever bad stuff happens there, and go on afterwards.

Go programs can literally segfault from a data race. That's no memory safety.
Indeed, I worked at Apple in Spain where the offices and stores are part of general unions. In my office, there were 2 unions present.
where do you have that 3pm from?

on the shortest days of the year, sun sets 1552 and it's still good daylight until 1630

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/germany/berlin?month=12

also if there is no DST, sunrise will be _really_ late.