skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one explanation that focuses on the differences between European an American markets.

But also, the Zoe is is in the affordable range for people looking for an electric car in non-massively-subsidized markets (Norway, Denmark), while VWs and Teslas are rather in the luxury range.

The amount of car (utility & status & luxury) I get for Tesla or VW money in e.g. Germany, makes most prospective customers buy either an ICE (looking for a family car), or BMW or Audi SUVs (looking for luxury & status) - unless they are idealists or in search of image polish (business cars bring larger tax benefits for electric cars).

Then there are simply not much electric cars on the market that aren't in the Zoe-class in the first place (although several alternatives are bound to hit the market soon), besides very expensive SUVs and Teslas. And the regular e-Golf pricing is simply not competitive, for what you get.

So most people buying a Zoe is put very simply a "cheapest price will attract the masses"-phenomenon - given what people are looking for (an electric car, maybe as replacement for the smaller second commuter car).
Really depends how bad you want the job. I've seen lots of companies with multiple layers of filtering including rigorous take homes.
The postal service is one of the only ways for democracy to happen this year. Amazon and USPS has been strategically linked by groups that dislike both organizations.

First people are told that vote by mail leads to fraud and secondly that Amazon is deeply political and against the current power in Washington. Throw in ownership of the Washington Post, and you a suddenly have a good recipe for a fake news conspiracy to rile up the base with in an election year.

Benjamin Franklin knew the power of the post office in the 1700s.
They were smart enough back then to know that people spread out to different geographic areas needed a legitimate way to vote and communicate.

He also knew that this system should retain some form of government control because the amount of information moving around inside the post office could be used by private parties to influence government affairs.

Other than the political angle, the attacks you see against the USPS are simply about money. Over the years, in the rush to privatize, the USPS was set on the path to be a private company.

Their idea was you remove funding from USPS, make insane capital requirements for future commitments that no other company has to do, then wait until they have massive capital expenditures.

The old mail trucks we are are familiar with have supposedly been catching on fire because they are way past their service dates. As far as I know, the USPS does not have a plan for replacements for these outdated vehicles, and even if they did, where is the money going to come from?

Last point in my rant is that you could ask probably half the country or more if Amazon helped bankrupt USPS. I bet many would say yes because that is what they have heard or read in articles. Amazons contract likely provided needed capital to keep USPS going since 2013.

Instead, the people who have been actively trying to bankrupt the USPS for more than 30 years are now trying to blame the main private sector company that supports it.

It's all lies, as usual. The post office has some of the best main street real estate all across the country.
Any political crony knows that if they can get their hands on that after being privatized, the control over information in the mail system, and the value of the land all across the country, would turn that crony into quite an oligarch.

TLDR; Support your local post office if you care about democracy
Disclaimer: I'm entirely biased. I am the CEO of Qovery.

I created [Qovery](https://www.qovery.com) to address this problem of simplifying the Cloud. Allow streamlining the use of the Cloud for any developer. Today traditional players stack layers to simplify what they have created but without going out of their way of seeing things.

Qovery makes application deployment very pragmatic for developers because we put ourselves in their shoes. How does a developer think? He simply thinks about his code and wants to focus on his mission, which is to address business issues and not all the plumbing around it.
Just moving the problem around ...
Wait, Aseprite is open source?! I didn't know that, it's an awesome program.

Edit: Sources available, but not open source license as far as I understand the EULA. https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite
I mean, can we really call it an intelligence if it wants to work in marketing?
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While I completely agree with you, it's also a good indication that the executives running these businesses are in some sense immature. They should not care about ego and other personal things. They should care about effectiveness. If they rely on a personal rapport before acting, it seems to be that they are incapable of acting objectively.
From the perspective of someone who is not living in a large city I think you are primarily talking about the properties of large cities, not about assimilation in general. Large cities tend to form an excessive amount of enclaves because they allow hyper specialization. I always hear about people wanting to live in large cities because you can find a large group of people or go to businesses specializing in what you like no matter how niche your interest is. Cultures are not exactly niche. Millions of people can share the same culture.

However, what you seem to fail to grasp is that what you are seeing isn't actually the native culture of these people. It's actually an "americanized" (or localized) version of Bangladesh culture. If you forced them to go back to Bangladesh they would be considered too "americanized" and treated almost like outsiders there.
I've heard this before but I don't trust it. Is it just a statistical measure? If so I think it's way more likely they're retiring because they're ill.
Adding Apple Sign in to Spring Boot App (Java) Back End Part
They're building some good experience in the field. Renault made quite a revolution years ago when they introduced the Twizy, which to me was the perfect small car for commuting. Unfortunately it was ahead of its time, mainly due to the high costs of the car itself and the batteries, sold either as a product or as a service, so despite its minimalist appearance it was out of reach for normal office workers who would also need a bigger traditional car for their families.
As a 100% motorcycle rider, if I had to buy a car today, I would choose the smallest possible one anyway; over here in the EU most modern cities are built on, or around, historical ancient ones where roads were made just for horses and carriages, and when a road is surrounded by buildings of historical importance, which is almost always the case in city centers, no way they're demolished to make a bigger road, so small cars are a must.
This phenomenon was also described by Foucault, and is now usually called Foucault's Boomerang[0]:

"It should never be forgotten", Foucault said, "that while colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on the apparatuses, institutions, and techniques of power. A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West, and the result was that the West could practice something resembling colonization, or an internal colonialism, on itself”

On a practical note there isn't anything mystical or karmic about this. If you have a bunch of people with experience acting in a certain way in an overseas setting, and then those same people come back to positions of power in a domestic setting, they're going to act according to their past experience. If you have a surplus of weapons, armor, and vehicles developed for overseas engagements being given out to domestic police forces, they will be used according to their design.

Sometimes the link is even direct and explicit: Israel trains American police forces in tactics they've developed in Palestine[1].

[0] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opensecurity/foucaults-boom...

[1] https://progressive.org/dispatches/us-police-trained-by-isra...
Sovereign ( https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign ) takes away most of the work of setting up an email server. The project needs volunteers!
>"The zero-energy universe hypothesis proposes that the total amount of energy in the universe is exactly zero: its amount of positive energy in the form of matter is exactly canceled out by its negative energy in the form of gravity.[1][2]"

[...]

>"During WWII, Pascual Jordan first suggested that since the positive energy of a star's mass and the negative energy of its gravitational field together may have zero total energy, conservation of energy would not prevent a star being created by a quantum transition of the vacuum. George Gamow recounted putting this idea to Albert Einstein: "Einstein stopped in his tracks and, since we were crossing a street, several cars had to stop to avoid running us down".[4] Elaboration of the concept was slow, with the first notable calculation being performed by Richard Feynman in 1962.[5] The first known publication on the topic was in 1973, when Edward Tryon proposed in the journal Nature that the universe emerged from a large-scale quantum fluctuation of vacuum energy, resulting in its positive mass-energy being exactly balanced by its negative gravitational potential energy.[6]"
That sounds incredible. You should just randomly blog about your travels. Take majestic pictures and bring your subject into focus with the beautiful bokeh blur. And put ads on it, just to see how much traffic it will generate. And try to sell the rights to your photographs.
It’s not cannibalisation if you’re eating someone else’s products.
New Japan-UK trade deal set to protect business encryption keys
It seems to not be true anymore. I checked last week to rent a car in France for the holidays, and all the cheapest options for small urban cars were EV (mostly Zoe).

Note that I only checked for big renting companies (Sixt, Enterprise, ...). I was very surprised!
> But no one outside Graphcore has used them so who knows.

This part really confuses me. I'd love to try out their hardware, but the only cloud offering they had last time I checked made you rent a whole month's worth (for many thousands of dollars).

It seems like getting it in the hands of devs should be a top priority.
System of overhead cables and adapted lorries
Sounds like a GAN with more steps
WTF are you talking about? That's not how careers work. If this whole profession of mine doesn't work out, it's not like I can just pivot to something else. There is no plan B, C, or D other than start begging for any job I can get.
sort by date doesn't work. Neither does on google, but if you're trying to get me to bookmark, what's your distinct advantage over the easy to remember site:reddit.com?
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Building our own version of Stripe Atlas w/ better pricing and 2x faster, provides bank acct w/ debit cards, supports LLCs and supports 50 states.
I've driven the Zoe on a daily commute that's 160 km (100 mi). It's a fantastic car.

I've also driven it from The Netherlands to France, 1000 km (621 mi). Then you get into a problem that the charging time from 10-80% takes a full hour, and it's necessary about 5 times for that distance. I personally still thought it was a fun trip.
The real problem is, people are deploying dozens of different coding languages, any technology that whimsically passes by, and replacing simple, streamlined monolith technology with 100 micro services.

All of this is endlessly pushed by AWS, Google, Docker, and anyone else with a foot in the "Snag as much cash from DEVs" crowd.

Other old timers will explain how they ran thousands of hits/second on 6 or 7 bare metal servers, 15 years ago, without CDNs, using LAMP, ajax/js frontends, and more. The key was code optimization, SQL queries without inane and poorly written MVC SQL logic, and the list goes on.

I am relentlessly gobsmacked at how people are spending quite literally 100 to 1000 times the cash to host on AWS, using microservices. And often amused how new devs just can't get it through their head, that yes, this is 100% factually true.

Docker replaced something that was already done ; identical PROD and DEV environments. All DEVs I had working with me, were issued VMs with 100% replicated PROD. VMs auto-build using debootstrap + SVN checkout.

Rollbacks in prod? Handled by SVN rollbacks.

When I look at the insane complexity being displayed by containers on top of VMs on top of baremetal, the MASSIVE loss in performance (yup, it's there.. especially for IO)... I just don't get it.

Many DEVs have all been sold a pack of complete and total lies.

I get called in again, and again by clients to reduce cost, optimize resource usage. I literally bring 1000x performance boosts to the SQL layer with minimal improvements.

Anyhow. Yes, this was a rant. Sorry it's a reply to you specifically.
My first guess on the baseball is soak it in liquid nitrogen to shrink it a bit, put it in the jar and then let it come up to room temp.
I like everything that you've said, but of particular interest is this:

Change of state is equivalent mathematically to movement in a "dimension."

I'd love to discover more information about that idea!

URLs and/or book recommendations about that topic would be most appreciated!
Unless you're making a legally binding agreement (or for example, advertising) that the bottle has not been cut, it's not fraud.
> People aren't the problem. The problem is people who have negative value. A person can grow more food, build more homes ...

Resources on this Earth are limited. Things like space/real estate/ agricultural land etc. There's already a lot of pressure on them with the current level of population. I don't know about you, but if the average world citizen would consume like the average American, the planet would run out of things like some rare earth minerals fairly quickly. Pollution would also be a far bigger issue.

> The problem is people who have negative value.
This is just introducing an us vs them mentality. There are no bad people, everyone is just trying to survive and get their needs met, through whatever means they have at their disposal. The people you say have negative value (for you) are exactly the people that were born in less privileged circumstances.

> A hack might be only letting people who want children and want to take care of children have kids ...
There are so many ethical problems with this paragraph, that I won't even go into that.

And besides, the current political and economical system is simply not suited for such the current level of population we have. Wealth is getting concentrated more and more at the top of the pyramid, and the fat bottom of the pyramid is just becoming worse and worse a place to live in.
When I was younger, I was wondering what it would feel like to to feel 'left behind' by technology. I remember helping so many adults to navigate a world they didn't understand. They'd ask "left click or right click?" every time I asked them to use their mouse. They just couldn't grasp some of the context.

This is not quite the same thing, but I'm starting to feel that perhaps I am starting to witness that same disconnect. Having read the title alone, I wondered "how are the headphones collecting data?" Oh, there's an app. Why would you need an app for headphones? It simply never occurred to me.
why the hell are you trying so hard to create content for social media?

In theory, there are people for whom it is completely organic. Their life is charmed and they have a natural eye for photography. So with a few lazy snaps for grins, they create a compelling feed. They aren't trying hard!

That's what everyone else is trying to ape. The effortless cool.
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It's funny you should mention that; first of all, Chomebooks also run Rust code, at a really low layer. (Also, it appears the Chrome team is experimenting with putting Rust in Chrome too; no clue how serious or how likely though). The hypervisor stuff is in it. Secondly, ARM is on its way to Tier 1, supported by the company itself.

(I use Chrome these days...)
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You could have probably gotten some similar/greater gains investing in some of the dotcom "stars" (even "real" companies like Qualcomm/Broadcom/Sun/etc rather than Pets.com) & exiting before the bubble burst!

Easier to say in hindsight of course. I remember my brother convinced my parents to buy stocks (something like a few thousand $s) in a company making broadband internet modems in the mid 90s (this was high-tech future-like stuff at the time when most people were on dial-up internet - ISDN was considered fast) and they ended up going out of business shortly thereafter.

So even if you have good insight & bet on the right trajectory of technology it's not that easy to get it right without the benefit of a time machine or crystal ball.
CaitSith – a new type of rule based in-kernel access control (2012) [pdf]
So everyone at the top is a robot? The reality is that we are human and it is important to communicate effectively...part of this is building relationship with others. I've met billionaires and 100's of millions in financial services and they are all great with people. This isn't because they are great guys....some are narcissists...its because it works!
Very skeptical of this. The reality is that most professions shut people out unless they have very specific backgrounds, otherwise you'd see service workers routinely jump to something higher paying. A degree may be enough to get more of a foot in door somewhere, but it's very tough. Chances are you wind up doing something highly undesirable, unless you manage to go the self-employed "entrepreneur" route.
Original link is now access denied, ACCC have posted a correction that fixes an example they used: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/correction-accc-allege...
This is also the case in Italy as far as I know. I was a mailman for the Italian mail service for some months in the summer of 2019. We were encouraged to give priority to paid work (advertisement, other deliveries). Mail doesn’t make any money, it’s just a public service. Which is why the postal service also does banking and has its own mobile carrier. These things pay for the public mail service to work. Anyway this is the case in Italy so maybe it’s not relevant.
Academia is not unique in this regard. Superficial metrics have been introduced into many fields with similar results. Warnings about the danger of metrics have been ignored.

Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." (1979)
That's the point. Taking what you earn a and live with in Norway, and comparing it with other countries, due to massive subsidies (luxury-tax excemptions that usually apply to cars), a Tesla is an affordable option for an Norwegian looking for a nice car, while this is simply not the case for most other European countries.

The same applies to Denmark and Netherlands to some degree, btw. They just have other subsidizing programs.

E.g. VWs built in Germany are cheaper to import back from Netherlands to Germany, because Netherlands adds more tax to cars in general, VW thus reduces the price for this market, and you I individually don't pay the tax if you export.
Possibly softened it through steam, look for "Impossible nail through wooden block" in this thread.
Chemists Make Tough Plastics Recyclable
So that's why I have to accept cookies all the time.
Show HN: Blogmail – Simple, private, beautiful email newsletters for your blog
Hello HN,

I created blogmail to scratch my own personal itch: I wanted a simple way to create email newsletters on my Netlify hosted static blog, but I didn't want it to be spammy. My blog already has RSS (it's a Hugo-based site) so I decided to use the RSS feed to power the newsletter. There is TONS of good content out there, and I would love get an email when there's an update from great bloggers, but I don't want them to get my personal contact details.

This gives people an alternative to receiving newsletters that doesn't require them to sign up for anything, and when they click the "Unsubscribe" button they are actually being unsubscribed instead of just having a flag toggled in the database. I'm serious about privacy.

Whenever I see the "give me your email" box in a blog, I know in most cases I'll end up receiving spam from them for the rest of my life because they're probably using it for marketing purposes.

Enter blogmail: my hope with blogmail is to build some brand awareness between readers and bloggers, and people will recognize the blogmail name and feel more trusting entering their email address because it's never shared with the host.

The implementation is similar to Stripe: there's a tiny secure iframe you embed in your site with a newsletter ID (that you must create), and voila, you're ready to run your newsletter.

Anyway, if you run your own blog and were thinking of starting a newsletter, feel free to give blogmail a shot and send me your feedback!

Here's the site: https://blogmail.co/
What rank-and-file boots-on-the-ground employee of a mega-corp who works at a local office doesn’t think the clueless paper-pushing bozos at the head office are the ones cramming through bad decisions?
This. Commute cars are Aygos and Ups, not two ton sedans. The (original) Tesla is one of the largest vehicles you'll see around here, only beaten by the hughest SUVs. And the commute market is where people buy electric, so that doesn't match at all. Anecdatally the only people I know with Teslas are rich enough they have it as one of their cars, as an extra to see what it is all about. Very few buy it instead of their commute box.

Here is NL.
AGI may initially reduce the incidents of SEO spam, but I very much doubt that it can eliminate it. The same can be said for human vetting. The thing to keep in mind is that SEO is performed for different reasons and takes many forms, so developing a universal model will likely be impossible. When the current forms of SEO spam become less effective, more effective forms will be adopted. Any form of filtering also presents the problem of false positives. More aggressive filters would likely produce more false positives.

Blacklists are also problematic. I have an email account with a smaller provider that I never bother to use since there is a good chance that their servers are blacklisted at any given point in time. Getting their server removed from these lists is non-trivial in most cases. Once they are removed, they usually get relisted within a few months. The problem also runs in the opposite direction: I have corporate email accounts where every external email (including those from certain departments of their own organization) is labelled as such and as potentially suspicious simply because blacklists are not sufficient. The only reliable outcome of blacklisting is the reduced reliability of communications channels.

User reported abuse is even more problematic since it opens up avenues for abuse. While it may be relatively easy to filter out bad reports in situations where there is a minimal vested interest (e.g. finding something disagreeable), that won't be the case when there is a considerable vested interest (e.g. attacking the competition).
US is running out of aluminum cans
Russian hackers are apparently attempting to steal Covid-19 vaccine information