skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Companies also aim for a service-type of business, where you basically take a cab - just without a driver (who again can get distracted, tired, etc.)

I'm not seeing this with the current situation, given that everybody is aiming to sell the same amount of cars, but just self driving. That's how Tesla get the evaluation that it gets (total addressable market) and I can't see a fleet of robo taxi in the horizon yet.

So said, I'd agree if this is what we're leaning towards but again, is not what it seems to be going to be. If that would be the case, it falls under the "mass transportation" that I was referring to before.

> and to which you said you have more or less the same opinion

Well, they do not exists yet (Tesla even suggest not to run their car autonomously). Will not exists to the extend that we think they'd exists.

I think there would be space in which self driving will be probably adopted (eg. For example last mile delivery, robo taxi etc) but I can't see this being something that everybody must have. We can optimize the amount of cars around the roads by just sharing them. Yet all the current automakers + new one are addressing the problem (once again) but giving each and everyone of us a new self driving car. We need way less car, less pollution (electric cars still pollute, way less, but differently) more mass transportation systems. I can't see how this world can work with 7 billion people owning a car. Luckily there are countries where you can live without a car and where mass transportation is a thing.

So said, I was not the one writing that comment and I would've have said something like that either.
Most (all?) European health care is not contingent on employment. With a few exceptions (notably the UK) it is contingent on being able to afford it, and one way to do that is following the rules to have the gov't pay for it. It's guaranteed, and highly regulated in price; it's not free.

The easiest way to afford it is to have a job. However, if you are willing to pay more (still much less than equivalent US health insurance, e.g. in Germany around 180€/mo) you can buy it directly. Or, you can participate in that country's social safety net which, yes, usually requires you to actively seek a job (often for some loose definition of "actively.")
As long as my grad school stipend keeps going. I just wouldn't be able to save anymore.
Ok, so are we in agreement? Your original response sounded like you were expressing disagreement.
Interesting because this idea touches on a few things:
1) Effective data visualization is extremely beneficial for the learning process;
2) Combining sensory experiences together enhance learning process;

For instance, on piano you can see AND hear the intervals on a scale.

Strangely though, outside of elementary school there’s less emphasis on tactile learning—and no football is not the same thing. Art teaches the mind how to think outside the box and in creative ways. It also taps into the subconscious and allows us to learn and communicate better.
Not my problem who else?
Wait, is putting fake jobs on your resume a common occurrence? I must say that that never even occurred to me.
How many medical bankruptcies occur in those European countries?
I honestly find it weird having all of these things suddenly want a copy of my passport in the cloud just sitting there waiting to be hacked in years to come when the security measures drop.

At this point there is giant databases containing everything people need to take complete control of your identity sitting there just waiting to be hacked.

I have no idea how to change it/fix it. But it seems weird to me.
Could you elaborate on your experience (as vaguely as necessary to protect your privacy)?
Love the idea, although it is indeed quite similar to liftvault without the routine names.

Might be worth considering having a centralized repository of exercises with curated links to videos which demonstrate how to perform that exercise with proper form. Then when creating the routine, you select from that list of exercises. This allows for a bit of consistency and quality control so people aren't throwing in random exercises.

Might also help to have an upvote feature so garbage routines aren't given too much weight.

Great job!
A classic web 1.0 website that is still humming along is ExRx that documents hundreds of different weight lifting techniques:

https://exrx.net/
Anrok raises $4.3M to solve sales tax for SaaS companies
Scotland is pursuing ocean energy technologies
I have insurance with Hastings Direct(because they were cheap) and their 3rd party liability maximum is 25 million pounds. When I was with Aviva last year theirs was 20 million.

I pay £300/year to insure my car.

And yeah, excess in US can be crazy I think. We have private health insurance from work and when I had to use it there was a £100 deductible for the year - I thought that was quite steep.
> We don't lecture lions on any sort of ethics, now do we?

Not yet, but we definitely should!
You do not need to be a trust fund kid to travel the world cheaply. I did when I was 23 (2004-ish) and realized I didn't like working. Took out a credit card with 5k credit limit, saved money for a month or two (I was making 40k so not exactly tons). Bought a ticket to Eastern Europe, kicked around hostels for a few months, when I finally almost ran out of money, bought a ticket back. I met other people who picked up side jobs in hostels or bars to help cover their costs too.

What you can't do is continue to have an expensive quality of life if you're no longer producing income.
High inflation is actually good for homes and other assets. The market will be dampened, but home values will rise with inflation.

Holding assets is a good hedge against inflation.

That and your mortgage is locked so your payment gets super cheap in high inflation situations.
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> But since his fanbase has a lot of LGBT, they felt betrayed because he did so

The LGBT community was [1] and still are violently attacked for the mere act of existing. The idea that people's political beliefs, what, don't affect other people who live in that country? Is insane.

Voting is a political act which affects others. If someone votes for a politician who gives cover and support to a group which - as an example - believes atheists are unfit to have the right to vote - then they are voting to strip the right to vote from me and I do not and will not support them or their personal enterprises.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
"They dont talk about or even cover the same things" - this is the number one fake news tactic in play. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's a 2x2 matrix -

If a group is left-leaning, they'll report on everything good about the left and everything bad about the right, If a group is right-leaning, they'll report on everything good about the right and everything bad about the left. For example, you'll almost never see CNN write an article critical about Democrats, and you'll almost never see Fox News write an article critical about Republicans. So you end up without much overlap between the two.

They'll only report on the same things when those common things are important enough / loud enough to where they can't ignore it, or when they're able to put their own political interpretation on it when telling the viewer what to think.
Thanks for the article and code.

Also check out https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline

I wish something like this was integrated into a modern and free archive format. RAR has it. RAR also got volume recovery: when creating split multi-volume archives you can also create recovery volumes - each recovery volume can replace any other one missing volume. It was a life-saver in floppy-disk times.
Many other countries in Europe can do it as well.

The electronic identity cards of Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain all have a digital signature application which, upon activation, enables the bearer to authenticate the card using their confidential PIN. Consequently they can, at least theoretically, authenticate documents to satisfy any third party that the document's not been altered after being digitally signed. This application uses a registered certificate in conjunction with public/private key pairs so these enhanced cards do not necessarily have to participate in online transactions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...
The parent seems to be suggesting that he doesn't want the emphasis to be on diversity, but rather on quality of characters. This doesn't imply that the characters have to be homogeneous.
I am on several discords and get 4-5 messages a day from crypto pumps and other spam.

This doesn't seem like it works.
> If they didn’t, they’d be little more interesting than PayPal transactions.

I'd be a lot more excited about Bitcoin if it were that boring. If the speculators got out, it could be a viable payment method for everyday purchases. I bailed on Bitcoin in 2017 and didn't look back.
Now I want a side by side tandem. Not that I could ride it anywhere near where I live...
That just means little more than "who bought or used the spec at some point." It has little bearing on contemporary real-world commercialization of the thread protocol.
Windows 10 end of support date announced as 10/14/2025
Even worse: Unless you pay private insurance yourself, the quality of the free insurance (at your nearest vårdcentralen) is absolutely laughable.

My family of 4 pays about 1800 SEK/month for private insurance to actually have a chance to see a competent doctor.
Learning philosophy and then logic and then computer programming taught me math. Or at least taught me how to understand math in a way I’d never been able to in all my many years of education. It makes me wonder how many kids are missing out because we’re focused on teaching math one specific way even though it’s quite clear the way we’re teaching it just doesn’t “click” for a lot of students.
Off-topic bug report: Montoya is the last name, not the first name. (Also, in the book / movie the spelling is Inigo not Iñigo nor Íñigo, but people use all the variants)
> You might be a little biased if you think Google is trying to tamper with your USB devices.

That is not what I said. I said they are trying to let websites tamper with your USB devices. Aka, they introduced WebUSB, yet another mostly-useless browser feature that exposes a large attack area to the web which I need to block by policy, that was probably solely introduced so they could release https://flash.android.com/ which very few people need or use, and could just as well be a desktop app.
What I want is an app that screams at me like a drill sergeant: "Let's go, you got 10 more to go! Keep up!"
Ask HN: Opportunities in Embedded, without IoT hype?
For context, I have been learning embedded-related concepts here and there, assembly language, operating systems etc..

I am interested in the premises eg efficiency, and frugality. However the field seems to be full of two kinds of jobs / opportunities - either the orthodox embedded companies that are not very good with technology choices and, or new age IoT all internet cloud connected dustbins bullshit.

I would like to know whether there are any promising sub fields or topics which I can have a look at, where I would be able to work on software optimization and interesting challenges.

Thanks
In Germany, there is obligatory health insurance (when you're employed in a normal job up to certain income, or receiving welfare), and voluntary insurance (otherwise), but having health insurance is compulsory. In other words, if you're not obliged to have obligatory health insurance, you must take out voluntary insurance.

With some historical context it can be made to make some sense, but when dealing with it the first time it is prima facie absurd.
Can you say more about using LN2 to clean dusty floors? Asking for a friend.
I agree; business tactics and chess tactics are different worlds.

The big difference between chess and the real world is that in chess you lack resource production: the pieces you have are the pieces you will always have, and no more. This makes the hypermodern strategies viable: let your opponent occupy the middle while you prepare to attack from the flanks. While I am sure there is a business metaphor there waiting to be realized, a game with resource management like Settlers of Catan probably has metaphors that don't break down as easily under scrutiny.
The end of support dates appeared this weekend. Identical dates announced for Home and Pro edition.
On the subject of the fifth amendment, there was a (possibly) non-serious theory that having one's password be the admission of guilt to a crime would serve as protection as revealing the password would actual be self-incriminating. Like most legal theories on the internet, it (probably) isn't true.
That last one smells a bit, since landing and take-off are great times to ambush an aircraft regardless, so if you can do it (that is, the enemy is very bad at deploying AA to protect their airfields and aren't otherwise maintaining air superiority near their airfields) then you already would be, no matter how they deploy their landing gear.
Retirement is what you do when you can't work anymore.

I wouldn't get hung up on the name. The main part is the FI, so you can pick and choose what you want to work on or if you want to work on anything. Arguing over whether it's a real retirement or not is missing the point.
Pretty sure there was recent research which says the opposite: people always have more appetite for money, just that the amount of money required is nonlinear with respect to wealth.

Rich people still get happy when they make money, and sad when they lose it.

It's kind of crazy to think otherwise.
Just chiming in that I absolutely detest this way of thinking. This isn’t a dig at you personally, but against the idea of living or presenting your life as some series of neatly explainable resume bullet points. I have been susceptible to it myself to a greater or lesser degree throughout my career.
I wonder if it is possible to take a subset of GUI apps including websites and turn them into CLI tools in a similar way?
It doesn't have to be driven by the engineer. I have been in this position, The CEO would join me for lunch every couple of weeks for a chat about future directions and current sales leads.
It sounds to me that the warrants are scoped by location, not by purpose.
> such a law does nothing against proper criminals.

Doesn't sound right to me; The intersection between criminals and people with good information opsec is tiny(mostly because the latter category is tiny anyway).

I agree the law is problematic, but not for that reason.
Used to work at an office where they got rid of free drinks. The morning it happened, Top Engineer 1 sent a mail to all Boston staff announcing he was thirsty and asked if anyone else was similarly thirsty and wanted to join him on a grocery trip to buy soda. Three cars full of engineers went to the grocery store, taking a little over an hour. Free drinks returned later that same week.
Was this structure different in the past? Or does it not apply to the selected desktop/shell for popular distributions?

I'm specifically curious how with such a structure a thing like Gnome Unity could have happened? Was this the case with 'a developer' (Canonical) didn't follow the guidance of the Gnome Foundation/Design team, or something else?

Similarly, how about the Gnome 2 -> 3 transition? That's not one that individual developers can mix-n-match. How is the future mainline decided in these sorts of cases?
Stripe already did though…
That's fine. A lot of BTC advocates don't understand how money works.
>What is the deal with the governments of the British Isles being so intrusive and privacy hostile?

I don't consider Ireland to be a "British Isle" -- 26 counties out of 32 on the island are Irish.

How and ever -- we see the US in the same light. You're so hostile to privacy laws like GDPR and we aren't etc.
Get a list of the names of medium-to-large town newspapers (from, say, 1980, before many of them closed). Look at the names. Note how many papers have "Democrat" or "Republic" in the name. Many of those papers were founded to deliberately support one political party.

So "it was objective" may be a bit much. UPI, AP, and the national news were pretty close to unbiased. Local papers often had their slant, which would include editorials, local news, and maybe even which national stories were covered.

It was far better than today, I'll grant you.
I have worked with lizf (well, we worked in similar roles, but in different teams, for the same company). My sum total of university accolades are "2 terms of evening courses in electronics", "two terms of philosophy", and "just short of a third of a Master in computer science & engineering".

I dropped getting a full degree, instead deciding to go back to the industry and working (I'd spent 3 years in the industry working before I went to Uni, and having money again sounded like an excellent idea).

Now, that was me working myself up, as it were, through a variety of jobs (more on the "run things" than "write things" side, but theres a lot of "write things" involved in running things in a scalable fashion), with a few actual dev jobs along the line.

Would I be able to get my CV in front of someone at Stripe? Honestly, don't know. If all they look at is schools, I suspect my chances are vastly lower than yours. If they look at previous job history? Probably, yes.

At this point, it seems to me that the main blocker for you is depression, it MAY be worth consulting a professional about that.
That's the paradox of Bitcoin. Boosters talk about how you can disintermediate the entire financial system, which admittedly sounds pretty cool. Except if you want to live on Bitcoin, you end up working with institutions that look an awful lot like traditional financial corporations. So what's the day-to-day advantage?
Are we using the same Gmail ?

GMail is TRASH for me. It's the slowest, most ressoruce intensive site/app I've ever had the "pleasure" of using. I'm using Fastmail now and it's mindblowing how slow Gmail is in comparison.
What will the EU say about this?

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/european-court-...
I have an open source app that uses a language called Traindown to record exercises. It might be of interest for folks who prefer text or more "free form" recording of workouts: https://traindown.com/transponder/.
Interesting, indeed the inline data option is not enabled even by the latest e2fsprogs even though the feay has been there a long time.

Re inodes, this is a good point too. These definitely reduce the size of db that fs works nicely for.
Wouldn’t the idea be that the company would continue to create value after going public?
That’s fine by me.
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Since inflation and deflation are just monetary things, things like wages and asset values should move in lockstep with it, and this has historically been true. Wages go up over time, as do things like gold prices and stock indices, in dollar terms.

So why do governments prefer slight inflation? A slight amount of inflation first allows governments to print a bit more money than they're collecting, which allows them to spend a bit more. Comparatively, in a deflationary world, they would need to collect more taxes than they spend, which would be tough both politically and tough for balanced budgets, since government spending is useful.

Deflation would mean that you basically get a net worth bump just from holding on to cash. You would have a real, tangible benefit of not spending money but rather keeping it in a bank account. Money in a bank account does not contribute to productivity. Money spent, or invested in companies doing productive work, is preferable. To counter inflation you at the very least need to invest in something like a CD, which the bank can then use to loan out mortgages and the like, keeping the money flowing.
Quick plug, but l made some attempts at this: https://github.com/wrkout/exercises.json
Interesting. Do people use it like a savings account? If the money is needed, how likely is a person to liquidate part of their stash?
> Recruiters are charging 22-25% for placements, and having difficulties filling them.

This has been the same as well, to my knowledge, since 2010
> I am honestly very bitter about Americans glorifying the European system while happily taking home 2/3rds of their 100k+ developer salaries and enjoying much lower prices of everything.

I agree, although I think the ignorance extends to Europeans as well. Europeans are often surprised to hear that American software professional salaries are ~60% higher than European salaries even after adjusting for taxes, healthcare, vacation, etc. Some will argue that the US cost of living is more expensive, but they're almost always comparing some major US metropolis with some European village or perhaps an Eastern European city. I've seen other arguments that the cost of housing in the US is comparable or more expensive, but they're typically comparing some relatively tiny European apartment with a much larger American home. Europeans seem to fixate on medical bankruptcies, as though these are commonplace for upper-middleclass Americans.

This was all a surprise to me, an American, who has tried earnestly to live in Western Europe for a few years, but found that I can either live in Europe or I can travel in Europe but trying to do both would likely be economically infeasible (even if I can find gainful work as a software professional, it would specifically be difficult for my wife who isn't in a hot field). Fortunately, now that remote work is catching on, it seems likely that my wife and I will be able to do more frequent 1-3 month stints in Europe while remaining employed by our American companies.

To be clear, I think the United States healthcare system should be reformed, because it doesn't serve the poorest Americans very well. However, the US healthcare system works pretty well for the upper middle class (if not the whole of the middle class) and above, contrary to perceptions I frequently hear from some Americans and Europeans.
> For example I don't no anyone who will go in a restaurant alone for dinner, it's weird.

I do this, it's not weird. I go to different restaurants for the food, not necessarily to hang out with friends (although I do that as well of course). If I go to some high end Michelin star restaurant, I probably couldn't get a friend to go with me if not for a specific occasion. But if I want to eat their presumably world-class food, I'd have to go by myself.
I maintain an updated fork: https://github.com/oakmac/parinfer
>Is bot spam rampant on discord or something?

It definitely is. If you don't turn off DMs from all the public servers you're in you'll inevitably be hit with the crypto spam bots.

There's also the issue of bots silently sitting on servers and logging all chats, user statuses, etc.
I have many rock climbing friends who live on less than 15k a year. They often do it for years, working seasonally 3-5 months a year. the trick is to go somewhere with a very cheap lifestyle. It can be accomplished by living in your car in the mountains, or traveling to SE Asia, etc. The climbing provides something to do and a sense of community.

There are other cultures like this. I’ve seen kids from Europe doing a gap year staying in hostels for very little (they sometimes do some light work for the hostel to get a free place to stay)
Firefox cannot meaningfully stand up to Chrome's dominance with ~5% market share and dev layoffs. The iDevices and their locked in Webkit engine is all that forces Google to at least propose web standard drafts and keep up even the appearance of interoperability.
One difference from liftvault is that users can't submit their own routines to liftvault (as far as I know).

Good suggestions. Thanks for the feedback!
> proper criminals

Lol now gatekeeping criminality!