skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s always interesting to see which tremendous amount of talent, knowledge and passion is wasted for a hack like this. I can understand that the constant adrenaline and intrinsic satisfaction plus elevated self esteem and confidence must be addictive. It’s depressing that we can’t establish that in a healthy way in a „normal“ job environment.

I think money is not the main driver for those people.
It's for running their commercial products, which are stateful and long-lived developer environments.
Today economists use things like GDP to understand the economy and you still hear about it and still guides decisions with big impact.

Things like the Gini coefficient is over 100 years old and it showed that the economy could be doing great based on averages, despite it only being true for a few, yet there's still no push away from metrics that misrepresent how most people are doing.

Well, maybe they are also ignored scientists that we all know have ideas on how to improve things, but are powerless too.

Things obviously going downhill for 40+ years, but maybe working as intended,
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality
> Java is the most backwards compatible language and it is not even a close competition.

In competitions consisting of Java, PHP and Python, I presume?
But then the label "for attempting to destroy ..." is misleading, because a priori all they’ve really proven is he is susceptible to being convinced to attempt to destroy it.

It seems to me your argument can be extended to justify any form of entrapment: "if an undercover police officer can convince you to buy a gun with the intent to rob someone at gunpoint, who says someone else couldn’t?"
I found that, I recently worked on a project where there was a Python library using pymc3, scikit-learn and pytensor that is used for time sensitive calculations. The performance wasn't very good and someone was pushing for us to spend a lot of time moving it to GPU, but as I had to point out, that means almost a total rewrite, not simply switching to the GPU enabled version(s) of those libraries, where they even exist.
He does have a point tho, at least partly

Germany is using the "we are all Europeans" agenda in their own interest.

Normal folks just don't care that much about politics tho and embrace their own culture.
> there's no accepted corporate method of demoting an employee (in the US)

Legally or culturally?

Where I live (Europe), seems it's legally prohibited, sort of, to lower someone's salary, if the employee doesn't agree (which maybe is obvious, there's a job contract agreement after all). The company would need to fire and rehire the person at a lower salary, but firing people isn't easy.
>dryers weren’t common

I am in the UK and dryers are getting more common. Now I have one in the house but rarely use it. I have moved on to using dehumidifier. Do the laundry in the evening and hang it with dehumidifier at 50% humidity auto. But morning most clothes are well dried without them going through the heating cycle of a dryer. Clothes last longer and retain their natural colours better.
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"Right before left" is totally a thing in Brazil as well, and IMO quite sensible if you treat it as conflict resolution method: if you are crossing or merging onto a "faster" road you yield, if you are on the faster road you have priority, and "right before left" is just a tie-breaker in case you are on a road or street of the same class.

Things I am a bit surprised which were not talked about: "right turn on red" is a totally American thing that used to trip my (US resident, car loving) mom, and the amount of cars parked on the curb.
> - Sunday shopping: Totally a thing here in the Netherlands.

I guess it varies significantly by city then, because until a year ago or so the main shopping street here in Leiden was 90% shut on Sundays. More recently I have seen more and more shops stay open on Sunday too, not sure why they changed, but I am glad they did :)
And every other human social bias: attractiveness, confidence, loyalty, etc.

You can’t point to gender and say that’s the clear and overwhelming bias.
Entrapment is specifically inducing a person to commit a crime they wouldn't normally commit, e.g. by coercing them to do it.

Without knowing any details about this case, this could be true, however it sounds like he was quite willing to go ahead with the purchase of the C4 to destroy the infrastructure.
Not to forget farmers. Which technically are often right-wing as land owners, but with different goals that industrialist.
I absolutely can and I don't think it is at all contrived to think that the recent consolidation in the industry is linked to a recent decrease in the building rate. Especially when NIMBY attitudes haven't really spiked and arguably are declining.

This doesn't mean that land use regulations (and permiting processes and the other NIMBY tools) don't have an impact, but it does mean that we cant look at that impact to expain the increase.

Believing there is only one cause is simplistic and naive and believing in multiple causes is not "contrived".

As I said elsewhere, I think NIMBY land use restrictions are an obvious tool to use by any would be oligopolist or monopolist who wanted to restrict the growth of our housing supply.

The actual article linked in the tweet does a pretty good job of layong out an argument for the importance of the consolidation among homebuilders (and notably spends no time arguing that land use regulations have no impact.) Instead of engaging with any of those argument you've opted for a shallow dismissal based on trying to tie them to a position that you are only assuming they hold. That is not how you have a good faith discussion.
> why did you use comma instead of other characters for grouping?

Because English is the global lingua franca

> I like to hear why then

Unlike Unicode xᴇɴᴏɴ must be defined in one grammar. Having special names, like $type, and hoping no language uses them is fragile.
We've had Unix for what, close to 55 years now? Nobody standardized and got widespread adoption for those standards, which BTW, especially when you look at corporate interests regarding the web, are easily sabotaged.

So I'd rather have the epoxy open source standard than no standard.
I wonder if there's some sort of acid tests for eBook readers.

There should be some sort of acid test as well for email readers, of course.

But, IMO, all of them should be limited to avoid JS use (think of how well some sites are capable of rendering without JS [0])

[0]: https://git-send-email.io/
Germans are just anti-technology in general. If Eeastern Europeans had the chance to flourish and were not getting abused by both Germany and Russia for most of their history they would be in an entirely different tiers of countries.

As EE is getting richer they embrace technology at must faster rates than DACH. Dryers, ACs, payment tech is much more common and widespread here.
Increased transparency is certainly beneficial, but salary is only a single data point. Additional potential data points:

* how long the position has been opened to the public

* other compensation

* number of applicants applied to the position

* position minimal requirements (as opposed to desired qualities). For example you need a law license to work as a lawyer, no exceptions, so everyone else need not apply (no exceptions).

The biggest problem with developer hiring is that most organizations don’t know what they want, despite what they say. People and organizations generally have no idea just how biased they are. That results in tremendous bias. The only way to defeat bias is:

* set minimum undeliverable requirements and publish those requirements

* apply automated screening criteria to determine minimum acceptable technical competence only after a candidate exceeds the minimum required administrative requirements

* publish demographic information of candidates versus selected: age, sex, nationality, minimum education level, years of experience, and grades of automated screening criteria
haha I did worse in some comments!
Canada Arrests Man Suspected of Hacks of Snowflake Customers
This is cool. I hate that frotnend development is such a shitshow these days this sort of tooling is necessary. I miss the days of view-source and single style.css.
> Not being a first-past-the-post two-party

It depends on the country though. France is effectively first-past-the-post. Technically (rarely in practice) you can even get 3-4 candidates in the second round if the turnout is very high.

Two-round is not fundamentally a huge improvement and de facto is what US has with party primaries (of course unlike in France third parties can't really survive in such a system).

Arguably of course having a three way stalemate might be occasionally preferable than 1 party having near absolute control because of controlling 50%+1 seats.

Thankfully US has all sorts of checks and balances and it might take a while for a single party to get control of the House, Senate, White House and the Supreme court (for instance in the UK where there are basically no checks an balances and the parliament has absolute power if a pseudo-Fascist party somehow managed to win they could more or less do anything they wanted and they'd only need 30-40% of all votes for that).

IMHO electoral systems matter but extreme polarization is the real problem. Back in the 70s even a Republican president like Nixon could somewhat effectively work with the Democrat controlled congress. Yet now a split congress can't even pass legislation that technically both parties support (e.g. the border billy)
A nail polish to detect drugs? (2017)
> Germany is the only country in europe where patriotism is considered right-wing and not seen well

Nah, not exactly. Source: Am Austrian.
I think the best analogy to American-European identity is: there exists a certain class of well-off, well-traveled people that indeed thinks of themselves as being more European than [nationality], and they tend to be centered in the Netherlands, Belgium, etc. and radiating outward from there. However is is a very small group and probably about the same size as the group of people that live in both New York and Florida/California and think of themselves as not really a “local” (in the negative sense, from their perspective) of either place.

The average person in Europe absolutely doesn’t think of themselves as being a member of Europe first and [country] second, and I think people would be surprised how actual little interaction and cross-language discussion there is between say, France and Poland, even though both are in the EU. There is much more of a French cultural universe, German cultural universe, Polish cultural universe, etc.

The current structure of the EU pretty much caters entirely to that first group identifying as European first (at least in an identity-forming sense - I don’t mean economically) and so the prospect of a bloc-wide identity like “American” is in America seems extremely unlikely to me. In fact I think they are closer to being Americanized culturally than Europeanized.
The whole idea of "late stage capitalism" is leftist end times nonsense.

> where businesses grow too big (too close to monopolies) and go unchecked

By this reasoning, the Gilded Age was already "late stage capitalism", and yet somehow regulations were implemented and capitalism continued on, in a less shitty form.

We've done it before, we can do it again.
There is only one reason why insurance straight up isn't available somewhere, and the reason is regulation.

I can assure you that no matter how high the risk of fire, insurers will be willing to provide insurance on that so long as they are legally allowed to charge the appropriate premiums.
The first Web3 voting platform focused on the U.S. presidential election has been launched. The platform states that the U.S. presidential election not only impacts the American political landscape but also has far-reaching implications for the future of the global cryptocurrency industry. Open to users worldwide, the platform allows users to vote in support of either Trump or Harris. Currently, 510,000 users have participated, with the voting ratio proving astonishing—revealing who cryptocurrency users are hoping to see elected!
A Döner costs betwen 5 and 10. If you tip between 1 or 2 euros, you are paying about 20% more. So 10%~15% increase seems about expected at least mathematically.

But still, do not promote tiping culture. It sucks.
Exactly. A few years ago everyone outside of tech was excited about a study from Google showing that “soft skills” were more important for career advancement for engineers within Google.

And it’s almost tautological: people who are good at playing organizational games succeed in the organization. Actually measuring engineering productivity isn’t solved at all.
https://archive.is/PNUEw
Mine works fine after replacing the battery, except that this little 3 armed rotating brush thingie keeps falling off. It has a screw, but I can't figure out how to correctly screw it back on in such as way that it doesn't fall off again...
I thoroughly enjoy the silent Sundays. I don't know why so many people require Sunday to be open, especially if so many of them allegedly suffer from stress and a too "fast" lifestyle. Going out on Sundays here is awesome.

Yes, of course that requires people working too. Perhaps not fair for the many that need to work, but there are a few advantages.
Open_graph_fetcher: Fetch Open Graph metadata in a safer way
I've been interested in learning more about Rust, but so far haven't had a project that seemed like it'd be worth learning a whole new language structure.

So, I was responding to my _understanding_ of what you had written, which apparently didn't adequately explain what you sought to those who haven't seen the thing you were trying to reference.

I do occasionally use a helper function in golang like 'nilOrPanic()' which if it's given an Error type that isn't nil causes a panic(); which isn't so useful outside of development or toy exercises.
> The whole world ran on 1.44mb as a hard limit on how large files could be.

Not the whole world. In the late 80's through early 90's the publishing industry used 44mb SyQuest disks to transport files.
Pretty sure Luke was aimed at a gentile audience as well. Matthew is the one who tells the nativity story explicitly as a fulfilment of prophecy.
I don’t think it’s really weirdness or some unique cultural flaw, it’s merely that America is huge and you functionally don’t need to care about the rest of the world if you live there as an average person. The same is largely true in say, China or India. Australia is a small country far away from most places so it’s natural that it is forced to integrate more.
Yeah it's a 2d geometry, of course some of the cables will cross.

The other reason that overlapping would be an issue is if they need to pull up a section to repair it and it's directly under another cable.

But the ocean is really damn big and there are only O(100s) of submarine cables. In both the burying in shallow water case, and the deep water maintenance case, I'm guessing the chances of two cables being in the same place is very very small.
I have a lifetime subscription plan and as I was going to check my account today, I do not see anything in their library. It is just blank screen with company footer. I have tried forgetting password but it says "The user doesn't belong to Nebula". Has anyone experienced this?
100 cms is a meter, so, if meters equal yards, 1 cm is 1/100 of a yard.
Need a Python Library
I need to read an excel file with python in my backend codebase whose contents will then be inserted in MSSQL database, which only allows strings enclosed by single quotes, but the content in file can contain any characters, is there any library which would parse the string content according to MSSQL syntax?
Hunyuan-Large pre-trained model achieves the best overall performance
just look at the germans

At least OP seems like a good fit for Berlin. Happy for them.
I picked up Django as my web server of choice this year and found the same delightful to work with. Given I generate content outside of the django app I had to roll my own data seeder.

It’s actually quite straightforward using CSVs and models to load each row in.

Can see it getting complex once I need to seed a large dataset or with loads of relationships. Look forward to seeing an official 3rd party app that takes away the complexity from my code base for seeding.
It's handy to have the same currency, but it's a terrible choice economically because it limits the sovereignty of each nation.

"But there is much more to it all. It needs to be emphasised at the start that the establishment of a single currency in the EC would indeed bring to an end the sovereignty of its component nations and their power to take independent action on major issues. As Mr Tim Congdon has argued very cogently, the power to issue its own money, to make drafts on its own central bank, is the main thing which defines national independence. If a country gives up or loses this power, it acquires the status of a local authority or colony. Local authorities and regions obviously cannot devalue. But they also lose the power to finance deficits through money creation while other methods of raising finance are subject to central regulation. Nor can they change interest rates. As local authorities possess none of the instruments of macro-economic policy, their political choice is confined to relatively minor matters of emphasis – a bit more education here, a bit less infrastructure there. I think that when Jacques Delors lays new emphasis on the principle of ‘subsidiarity’, he is really only telling us we will be allowed to make decisions about a larger number of relatively unimportant matters than we might previously have supposed. Perhaps he will let us have curly cucumbers after all. Big deal!"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastri...
> the striking union is the one that contains all the data analysts

You seem to believe a union in a negotiation would care about carefully drawing conclusions from data analysis.

The goal is to construct a political wedge which makes their employer look bad for not giving into their demands. The only mindset about data is “how can we use this to argue for what we want”.
Yeah at first, the rules like closed shops on Sunday seem annoying, but as time goes on I now enjoy the forced quietness. If only because it adds some flavor to the week, making Sunday not just another day indistinguishable from every other.
While the factors you mention may (or may not) cause Germany to dip into a recession in the near future, calling it a "collapse of the economy" is of course gross hyperbole. Boom and bust cycles are an expected and well studied feature of developed economies.
Even people very convinced of the EU don't really think of themselves as European first. Try to ask them where they come from when the EU is not a topic and you get the real answer.

There is no overreaching European media that could form stronger bonds. Cultures and languages are too diverse and that is probably the main difference to the US.
Do you know by chance how well the support is? I understand components should look native on macOS, but I couldn't find a lot of info about Gnome on Mac
Doesn't work well with theming.
You are not rating the renderer but ux decisions made by the Kobo reader devs.
The majority of US homes use a split phase setup. So 240V is readily available and in fact the only way you can run central AC. Nominal voltage of a single phase is 120V. Technology Connections has an entire video about it.
xlsxwriter and an module for connecting to mssql are not enough?
They should give me a discount for being well behaved in their restaurant.

Tipping culture is horrible.
I have not once seen a formulae-as-images solution that I would consider acceptable, aesthetically. Common problems are:

- It almost impossible to align the baseline of the formula to the baseline of the surrounding text.

- Often, images are only used for "complex" formulae, while simple ones are implemented using normal typesetting. This resolves the baseline issue for simple formulae, but now the fonts between simple and complex formulae don't match. (This requires extra concentration for the reader, as in other contexts, different font styles are frequently used meaningfully.)

- The images often have sub-par resolution.
> It is shocking that no hardware manufactures are jumping in the space of not running their own services.

We've been wondering for a long time why the vendors (especially Roborock) invested so much effort in locking us out.

We still don't know, but just a few days ago I saw this post on Reddit, where Roborock unilaterally altered the deal, hinting at the possibility of perhaps upcoming subscription-based features in the future?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Roborock/comments/1ghlgjb/anyone_ge...

With the market being as saturated as it is and with Roborock being a publicly traded company required to bring in the revenue, I suppose such a move would make sense. It would at least be following the same playbook, all the other players in all the other markets are following.

Anyway, my point being that I don't think that there is still much money to find in hardware alone. There still is, but it's not the money maker it once was.
You can see it by robot vacuums becoming a commodity but also by one of the largest players doing something that could be read as preparing to shift from just hardware to services.

And, since the vast majority of investment is only done on the promise of providing hypergrowth and 100x to 1000000000x (add some more 0s to that) ROI, I'm not sure if some entity just selling decent robots without cloud tethers would receive any funding at all.
You can definitely make such a business profitable, but you can't make it the absurd amounts of profitable, investors with deep enough pockets to fund hw development upfront are seeking.
Because it's an absolute crap. In Germany the workaround is gas stations that were converted into grocery stores.

Even in my country where shopping is only closed on pub holidays the gas stations now serve as grocery stores and bake fresh bread on those days. It's just populism.
Yeah. It’s difficult for true hackers to get a job because they tend to be wildly more
competent than their peers and their superiors, they implicitly have a low tolerance for performative bullshit meetings and jira tickets, and they often lack the expected educational and professional credentials that hiring folks look at.

If someone wants to hire them, offer actual worthwhile bug bounties ($100k to $1M) on hard problems. And then try and hire those people after you pay the bounty.
>From 2014 to 2018, for example, Santa Monica issued permits to build just 12 multifamily units. [1]

1. https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2022/11/santa-monicas-b...
> My initial comment was about people caring about THEIR work, not the company or anything else.

For me, when I say I care about my work, it implies caring about the company at least to some degree. The mix of caring for other things easily emerges. If I review a peer's code, I care about them, about the code quality, about customer satisfaction, and hence about the reputation of the company I work for. This can be selfish in a way as well, since that mix has some reflection towards how I am perceived and how I am judged as a person.
Exactly! "The customer didn't smear shit on the wall - 10% discount"
And German salaries are better than Swedish salaries ;(
New York State to get new $825M semiconductor R&D facility
He reasonably updated towards frequentism.