skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

To my knowledge for at least last few decades all countries from Poland down to Bulgaria have been happily corrupted and pillaging their own populace and pushing out their working age populace into emigration. Now with their demographics there no one left to even emigrate anymore.
> There is no right to firearms in the way there is in the US. You don’t really have school shootings out here, and society seems to be ok? Nobody seems to want to band together to make a militia. Nobody in Germany is like, “we need more guns to prevent government overreach.”

There are people that want to make a militia for exactly this reason. Just very few of them.

In general, the country feels like a modernized fragment of Holy Roman Empire. The feudal system was painted and polished, but the divide between nobility and serfs is still visible under a proper angle.
ZLUDA exists. I hasn't received any legal challenges from nvidia, even when it was sponsored by AMD.
I'm sad to say that usb-drives are now officially shit.

They are so unreliable and there is no brand that you can trust.

Which truly sucks for the rare cases when you actually do need some form of physical media.
I have probably 8 or so Amazon ereaders over the years, of different models. I also use the Apple ipad, and the pdf readers on many other devices. I've bought a couple ereaders from other companies, but they didn't "take" with me. My current favorite ereader is the retina ipad, though its battery life is short.

Modern paper books have much more precise printing than books printed 20, 40, 60 years ago. I find the irregularity of the older ones rather charming, the new ones are also sterile - being too perfect.

I suppose it is like my indifference to autotuned singers. Too perfect. Doesn't sound human.

P.S. have you ever visited a medieval village in Europe? I find them wonderful, as there are no straight lines anywhere. It's all pleasingly crooked. I considered building my house slightly crooked, but that turned out to be far too expensive as everything would have to be custom made.
I lived in Hamburg for a few years. The single most jarring thing was always healthcare - expertise & availability. My personal opinion was that physicians seemed to be overly dependent on tech/equipment so their clinical diagnoses skills really suffered (that or just being scared of making a mistake maybe).
Depends on on how you define what the middle class is. Historically "middle class" never meant e.g. the middle 50% but rather the somewhat comfortable, well-off people who have assets but still have to work for a living (everyone ranging from small/medium business owners to doctors, lawyers, (sometimes) civil servants, high skilled professionals etc.

The average/median person was always dirt-poor and struggling to survive. Of course in the developed countries that has changed quite a bit in the last 60+ years. Still, since it feels like we are slowly reverting to the pre WW2 status quo, I'm not sure we shouldn't entirely base it on population percentiles (instead of using some more "arbitrary" wealth/income cut-off that's adjusted by inequality)
I would suggest that the UK is also similar.

It's just that we don't do it because of housing shortages, or the ever popular terraced housing, and people live in some of the worst states.
Not sure about the majority of EU homes, but many have 3-phase 480V, 240V is single-phase.

Car chargers, electric stoves and sauna heaters work off 480V when possible.
Addressing the bar kind of scene you're talking about: I just don't think it'd work for those that are of the legal age to drink (speaking from the US perspective). People go to bars/clubs for the intense environment of people getting drunk, dancing, etc. For the people that want something more chill, they just go to a more mellow dive bar.

But most of all, there's not much of a plan when going out for a lot of people. Friends will get together and say, "let's go to the bar" and the night goes from there. With your idea, there's a requirement of finding a location, scheduling a location, renting out that location. Oops, double booked? Night ruined.

I think overall this idea gets really dicey when there's a service other than renting out the space to a customer. And if all you're doing is renting the space, why wouldn't I just use airbnb?
Oh yeah, no problem at all with supermarkets, I can go at any time I want!
Left and right are political concepts that have broadly held since they were created in the French Revolution (with the names originating to where the people were sitting in Parliament) and still shape politics today.

In France, the main change occurred during the 19th century that started with the right being more Monarchist and the left staunchly Republican and ended with basically everyone being Republican.

But overall, right and left do mean something and that is still the case throughout Europe and the world and the difference are mainly relative to the centre.
Teachers make a fair salary. It’s a degreed position with ~100 days PTO annually, so when you account for that the benefits actually outweigh most degreed positions. One could argue the ceiling is closer, particularly for primary education, but that’s a problem of govt funding more than anything.
But zooming scales the fonts only. For pixel images you have the pixels that are in it and that's it. Scaling those either up or down does not produce good text.

Now I'm just waiting for the inevitable "AI image scaler" that handles text inside images.
So this in your opinion is a more rational explanation than: the man believes in white supremacy which has movements advocating accelerationism?
>Kubernetes seems like the obvious choice for building out remote, standardized and automated development environments

- Is it really Obvious Choice™ though Fred?

- Hmm, let's consult the graphs.

>Kubernetes is a container orchestration system for automating software deployment.

- It's about automating deployment Carl, not development environments!

>Kubernetes is not the right choice for building development environments, as we’ve found.
I watched all the videos, read all the tutorials (including the "super easy" ones). I understand the Nix language, but the actual infrastructure is just so damn convoluted and fragile, the error feedback mechanisms are worse than useless, and the documentation assumes that you already know everything inside and out. It reminds me of the bad old days of the neckbeard gatekeepers.

I'll take a look at guix, though...
> because it limits the sovereignty of each nation

Why are you pushing such a bs populist agenda? Those read like the weak and pointlessly stupid arguments I've heard around brexit and each country deciding per se, etc, etc.

As an Italian I'm stoked that my country has given up sovereignty on money printing, it would've been a disaster otherwise as it has been for decades before.

The Eurozone and common fiscal policy is the only thing that keeps our populist governments in check.

And don't you think that this wasn't known when the eurozone and common currency was decided among the members?

The pros *far* outweight the cons. It's not even an argument.

Opinions about the euro have always been positive and no country would go back.

The european commission regularly polls europeans for their stance towards the euro:

> Nearly eight out of ten respondents in the euro area think that having the euro is a good thing for the EU and nearly seven out of ten respondents think that having the euro is a good thing for their country.

Of all the things in the EU, the Euro is by far the most positive, without it the last 20 years would've been an absolute disaster for many countries in Europe.
[+++ But as a general rule—which you are free to steal—I don’t like to align with any group described as “purist!” +++]

A really terrible redditor heuristic.
Connecting to a messaging queue or database count as a dependency?

Why not break a microservice into a series of microservices, its microservices all the way down.
> you can share your drawings, and export them as SVG files -- yay! I can version them again

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of a drawing tool -- like Excalidraw, Lucid or Draw.io -- that has the option of exporting diagrams to code, i.e. something like PlantUML or Mermaid?
So it's not possible to design ducting for HVAC/engine exhaust that either closes automatically at a certain angle, or has some mechanism that lets out gases without letting in water? I assume people have thought about this, but from the outside it doesn't seem like too hard of a problem.
I remember reading this and preceding 'In the Kingdom of Mao Bell' https://www.wired.com/1994/02/mao-bell/ and imagining making those articles went down like in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' book/movie :-)
It kinda is if you're thinking about the manual-coffee-grinder-french-press hipster who eschews automatic coffee makers. Rob Pike doesn't believe in syntax highlighting and to date the Go website / interactive editor doesn't have any. "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things."

Anyway, that's fine, I like Go and I like grinding coffee manually on occasion.
>There will always be a good offering who doesn't water mark.

I wouldn't bet on that! I can see legislation to require this for many reasons ... related to intellectual property, cheating, detecting the root of hate-speech or harassment, "stealing" from employers by not performing work or putting them at legal risk, "stealing" from artists by duplicating their style, political speech that can not be traced (it could be from a bad actor!), tracking down generated revenge porn (or much worse!), tracking down people using LLMs to grift the elderly, and on and on. Why, if you are not using a watermarked LLM, it could be an op by Russia, China, or Iran! In fact, part of the legislation could be a requirement of social media or office tools or government tools or political tools or educational tools to check for a watermark and not work if an approved one is not found. Ideally this list will be private, because you want companies to be able to automate away workers, and do the least possible for customers, you just want to make sure you're doing it above-board, you see.

>And there is no good reason for a provider to watermark - they aren't helping the customer.

No one cares about customers, they care about money. And you know what helps make a lot of money? A legally defined moat for yourself and a couple of others that blocks anyone else.

>They'd be helping some other party who isn't paying them.

Yes! That party is themselves!
Will this improve my ping in Counter Strike if I am playing with friends on the East Coast and I live in South East Asia?
It sometimes happens, but I'd say it's for the best. Often the greatest value (sometimes the only value) a submitted link has is as a discussion prompt.
> What crawls on four legs and causes women to drop out of the labour force?

"Women earn less due to sexist discrimination" and "women earn less due to bearing the brunt of raising children" are two distinct claims. The first one is contentious and widely disputed (disproved?).
I think independent Taiwan greatly reduce Chinese sea ownership and access, which is annoying for both economic and military reasons
> AI can realise

wait did AGI happen? which AI is this?

stop anthropomorphizing them

No they can't. They can generate text that indicates they hallucinated, you can tell them to stop, and they won't.

They can generate text that appears to admit they are incapable of doing a certain task, and you can ask them to do it again, and they will happily try and fail again.

Sorry but give us some examples of an AI "realizing" its own mistakes, learning, and then not making the mistake again.

Also, if this were even remotely possible (which it is not), then we should be able to just get AIs with all of the mistakes pre-made, so it learned and not do them again, right? So it has already "realized" and "learned" which tasks it's incapable of, so it will actually refuse or find a different way.

Or is there something special about the way that _you_ show the AI its mistakes, that is somehow more capable of making it "learn" from those mistakes than actually training it?
Is there an easy way to setup a blog that supports syntax highlighting, images, quotes, latex, but without going in depth? I'd love to host a blog, but I'd rather invest most of the time into the writing.
It depends on the internal infrastructure for electoral votes and real-time access of official data. If it’s been set up for a while and a few switches need flipped then it’s likely readers won’t notice. If however the system needs to be changed in any way there may just be some problems. Definitely gonna be fun to see if this causes any problems.
"You won't be buying in downtown Munich, but that's very far from average Germany, and you could definitely be buying within half an hour of decent public transport to downtown Munich." - Please show me an offer for a decent house in this region.
All these classical smoke stacks and ventilation tubes sticking out vertically wouldn't look great on a sleek superyacht :)
Go is a retro nostalgia language, taking programming languages back to basics, removing syntax highlighting and advanced concepts like exceptions and function shorthands because that's what it was like in the 70's.
That's a relict of Soviet occupation and mindset. pre-war Czechoslovakia was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.
Forgettable fodder, as so many of these recent allegedly groundbreaking talks are. I don't know if it's my increased exposure to them or something else.
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I guess it's partially a symptom of some sort of an inferiority complex. Europe has been almost entirely left behind economically (at least in any emerging sector) yet being able to keep pointing out how superior they are in certain aspects (often quite rightfully so) to Americans makes it easier to mentally ignore the fact that European economies are stagnant and keep falling behind.
pioneer.app in their group-weekly update mode was the closest thing to early indie hackers. Sadly they shut down that mechanism, I don't know why.

It was great for weekly reality checks but also UI and headline help.

That said, I had a FOMO of the "YC-access" and so I chose to spend B2B money with other companies at the startup stage (I know, foolish move). I spent a lot of money on Banana.dev, and helped their cofounders with feedback around concurrency/load for the API. Right as we gained some traction, they doubled prices, then changed the pricing model to make it unaffordable for us to run on their services. Felt a little nasty. And recently their pricing hit "you can only afford this if you already have VC level money"(probably to thin customers to a profitable subset).
To add to Go being memory safe, it automatically blanks/zeroes memory, unlike C.
The US has electric kettles and I think they’re becoming more popular, they’re just a lot less convenient than in the UK because boiling water with 110v is slower.
I think there is thinking of European as continent level. That is Europeans are not say Asian or African, or neither Americans. So at global scale, we are one group distinct from other continentals groups. If those continents even have any shared belonging in a group. But we certainly are not them.
> Is there a way to run this setup from a battery or would it need a power socket?

Well, I'm sure there is some way. The power draw would be low enough to run off a battery. But realistically it would be much easier to just plug in every time.

> Could you recommend any portable 4k screens?

No, sorry. I have a 16" 2k portable UPerfect screen which, while not the best screen I've ever used, is very decent for the price, since it was only about $120. But if you're willing to spend considerably more I'm sure you can get much better.
That would work, but I was thinking some kind of ballcock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballcock) built into the ducts.
It depends on what kind of book it is. Fiction EPUB all day. Technical books with figures, tables or code listings, PDF!
Seems like the site is getting hugged to death right now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241105075317/https://www.bgu.a...
Oh yes, and in a set of 14 disks, it was always the last one which was corrupt.
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It's more their absolute ubiquity in the UK. You can depend on every home having one, it's a fixture.
Or, more accurately, tech positions pay well and have good benefits so rarely benefit from unions.
Just to be clear incase the other replies haven’t made it so, you are definitely, definitely completely wrong about this and continuing to think this way will cause you to misunderstand the world you live in and make mistaken decisions. I have lived in several European countries and they all have a sect of loud delicate people pretending they are victims and persecuted for wanting to be patriots.
ADHD is a spectrum of traits. Which ones do you experience?

I’ve learned to think of everything as a feature—not an advantage or disadvantage, but simply a characteristic. Some features are beneficial in certain situations, while others may not be. Even a high IQ can be a disadvantage in certain scenarios.

Focus on your strengths, ignore your weaknesses, or hire people to handle the tasks you find challenging.
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That still very much not the case. Young people tend to be naive, that's different, but even that is a bit cliche: For instance in France the proportion of young people who vote RN/Le Pen (so more eurosceptic and nationalist) is in line with the national average. So overall I'd say age does not matter, how people benefit matters more, at least on the surface.
YMMV but AirBnB explicitly doesn't want your business if you want to host a party/event type of gathering and will kick you (guest and/or host) off the platform for it.

https://news.airbnb.com/official-codification-of-party-ban/

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3345
Google claims Big Sleep 'first' AI to spot security bug that fuzzing missed
Reminds me of when SQL injection was the hot security problem, which was mainly caused by PHP, but not the language itself but reams and reams on low quality online tutorials trying to keep things simple by just concatenating GET parameters straight into an SQL query.
Literally a couple decades like 20 years? I just don't think that could be true, at least not where I live.

Looking at the listings in a broad radius around me, there is still a lot of housing built in the 1960s and 1970s being bought and sold quite regularly, and some stuff even older. A house built in 2004 ("a couple decades") would absolutely not be worth the cost to rebuild.
But US has Intels fabs, which will be around or at leading node (18A) in next 6-8months
Ha. It almost looks like either the fan boys or PR department is making up use-cases.

Yes what you're saying is correct, but why many words when few do trick:

This hypothetical IT department isn't able to host its own development environment, yet suddenly they do have the skills if they switched to gitpod.
Any language where errors are returned as values will allow you to ignore errors (if you don’t have proper linting set up, and unless it has something fancy like linear types). I’ve even seen a similar error in Haskell code, where someone called an isLoggedIn function inside a monad with the expectation that it would short-circuit evaluation, whereas in fact it just retuned a Bool.
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> Taiwan did the same for many years.

IIRC Officially the ROC still claim the entire mainland, Mongolia, and parts of Russia as their territory.
Statistically it's not that massively different though. e.g. ~12% of all Americans smoke cigarettes vs ~18% of EU citizens. Over 20% of all Americans still smoked as late as 2014, so IMHO it's mostly social/cultural and Europeans are just slightly behind on the curve (and have less socially acceptable alternatives like Marijuana)

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

vs

https://news.gallup.com/poll/509720/cigarette-smoking-rate-s...
Article title:

Python dethrones JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub

is much clearer
I'm still stuck in JS world - it's difficult to get a Go job if it's not already your day job - and I hate it.

Currently I'm adding a React Native component library to an NX monorepo where I want it to work with Storybook for which I need to add Expo but I can't just run the generator, I need to extract the relevant bits from a template project and cross my fingers it works.

I long to go back to the simplicity of my Go project where I'd start my day by running `make watch` and it would just work. (mind you, it took me a while to find a file watcher that worked properly)
Pretty impressive...
The Digital Antiquarian has a great series of articles on communication, starting with telegraph and finishing on first Web Browser. Reminded me of James Burke Connections.

A Web Around the World, Part 1: Signals Down a Wire January 7, 2022 https://www.filfre.net/2022/01/a-web-around-the-world-part-1...
Except 'enterprise' Java, the indirection there is insane if you're using e.g. Spring. I last worked with it five or so years ago and I had no idea what I was doing.
I cannot think of any exchange I've read that aggravated me more than this one.

I'm hedging my bets with "one of" because there might be something I've forgotten, but that specific series of events is like reading a transcript of The Trial if it happened in real life. It is seriously extremely annoying to me and I'm both intrigued and concerned that it doesn't even rank in your list.
Add to it the whole TUI fashion, as if we weren't doing them already 50 years ago.

We did, it is called GUI and language REPLs, like Smalltalk and Interlisp-D development enviroments, with graphical based terminals, not dependent on replicating virtual teletypes.

Still something that seems problematic to take off the way it should.
In my original comment I said it’s a very small specific group, so it by definition isn’t in line with general trends. I’m talking about a small group of well-off Europeans that grew up traveling and living all around Europe; not the average young person in France.
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Apparently the keel was noisy when down (creaking sounds I'm guessing?) and so they only put it down for sailing upwind.

Really there should be a 'stabilize' button in the cockpit that drops the keel and does the dozen other things that is probably in the runbook automatically so people don't have to think about what to do.
That sounds interesting, what kind of diagram are you generating from the email chain?
I'll admit I've only ever done one serious Go project but I've thankfully never felt a need to use generics, before generics there were the builtin list and map types that were themselves generics.