skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people will say you spend less than 5 minutes at the gas station, but that's about as accurate as the "30 minutes to assemble" instructions that accompany flat pack furniture. It also doesn't take into account how you adjust your route or schedule to accommodate the frequent stops.

With at home EV charging you just plug it in when you get home and unplug the next day.

I "raced" a couple neighbors home one night from an outing and arrived home first. I joked with them that it was on top of "stopping for gas" and sent them a text of my car plugged in.
I think, fundamentally, delight and whimsy don't scale.

They are based on some element of surprise. Once the surprise is gone because you've seen it a few times, the joy evaporates and then it's just annoying.
I like, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide but cannot speak to its career importance.

I bought it (a used older copy) because it was about $5 and 1000 pages...and though that's reason enough to like it, it isn't the reason I am bothering to write about it...phone books used to be free and longer to digress.

What I like about it is it makes and is organized around a simple conceptual (and practical) distinction that you won't see in discussions of and tutorials on Javascript.

Javascript is a language and a set of API's (originally into the DOM, expanded with Node). It is the Javascript language -- ok ECMAscript -- that has the atypical object model and a not suitable for financial calculation numeric stack.

That's important, at least to me. I can hum along with javascript when I need to because I can read and write Javascript when I need to and then StackOverflow in the API details.

Details like collections in the DOM API. Which are important, but not part of the Javascript language (at least I don't think they are).

Anyway, find an old copy for a few bucks and you will at least have a place to start. Good luck.
Let's take my library account. Sequentially issued card numbers, 4-digit PINs. :(
Hard to see it going any other way given the massive real estate investments they have made.
Hard to get excited for this with WTI Crude at $110 and nothing to stop oil prices and inflation besides demand destruction from a recession.

A .5 hike is already off the table for the March Fed meeting.

To me it feels like we are racing towards a miserable stagflation environment with our stimulus tools never reloaded.

Massively lagging data points look good though so we must be on the right path!

I think it was Stanley Druckenmiller that said he made most of his money by betting that the Fed is always wrong. The older I get the more brilliant this strategy seems.
Show HN: Interactive 3D Visualization of the Shared Mobility Traffic in Berlin
Hello HN!

Over the last year, I crawled and stored the position of all available bicycles of a large shared mobility provider in Berlin, Germany once a minute (~2.1 billion data points). Subsequently, I calculated 713,562 trip routes as they were likely taken by customers of the provider. The web app linked above provides more background information and visualizes some patterns I find interesting.

All 3D map layers are implemented with deck.gl (https://deck.gl) and projected on a MapLibre base map (https://maplibre.org). The base map uses self-hosted OpenMapTiles vector tiles (https://openmaptiles.org). I store all data inside a Timescale/PostgreSQL database (https://www.timescale.com) and perform most transformations via standard SQL. All of this is self-hosted on my bare-metal server at Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com).

The source code and a short demo video is available on GitHub: https://github.com/laurids-reichardt/berlin-shared-mobility-...

I’d love to receive feedback and answer your questions!

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I'm currently completing my master’s degree at HTW Berlin and would like to collaborate with an innovative company on an exciting problem or business case for my master thesis. I’m open to both remote work or on-site in Berlin.

If you could imagine providing an exciting opportunity in the fields of data engineering or data analytics, or have a tip who might, I'd love to get in touch with you via any of the contacts listed below.

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I wanted to chime in. A possible use for a 32 bit x86 machine is to install FreeDOS to be able to run old games or applications.

But that's for you to decide.
Not very well.... even when you pay for their recruiter packages.
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Yes, and you get to suffer/struggle/strive together with peers, hopefully making friends in the process.
Blue Oak Council rates Unlicense as a permissive license, but in its bronze tier: https://blueoakcouncil.org/list#Unlicense

It's an interesting phenomenon, socially. But legal-technically, it's far off the state of the art.
Propaganda war has eclipsed cyberwar in Ukraine
I left Apple after years of lack of any flexibility on the remote work process. They wouldn't allow transferring to any alternative office for most teams. From what I understood, VPs could protect a small minority of some of their employees if a senior leader made a case to them.

Unfortunately, this just seemed to lead to the most politically connected folks going remote and directors friends and favorite hires getting the perk.

At three trillion market cap, I guess they just realized it doesn't really matter if attrition shoots up and they'll always have enough people to fill the trenches. Lots and lots of people left around the same time.

Having left, I forgot what it was like to be able to focus on something other than Apple. Incredibly toxic atmosphere on the inside. I work at a fast-paced startup and still work on average 10/hours a week less than at Apple.
Even to push against something as mundane as open offices, which are almost universally disliked by engineers, but these days favored by management.
I can confirm everything you said about state of IT industry, it matches my experience.

Our team is in process movingto Bulgaria thanks to BESCO (write letter to them right now if Bulgaria is an option for you). We are getting some help acquiring visas fast, but getting tickets out of Russia is harder with every minute (literally). We are leaving all our lives behind and fleeing in shock, hoping one day to be able to return, to help those who couldn't leave.

Stay strong.
I had no idea about this, really handy!

Quick question, is there a reason the -k (--insecure) flag is included? I imagine that https://domains.google.com would use a cert trusted by curl so it seems unnecessary and adds a risk that your traffic could be MitM.
I dug a little deeper for those interested. In Germany there are currently reactor being demolished. None is done, so the numbers are still estimates.

For a 1.3MW reactor block the amount of highly contaminated material will probably be in the range of 3000 to 5000 metric tons.

For the US with around 96 active reactors (2020) this would imply something (back of a napkin calculation) 280,000 to 470,000 metric tons of additional waste on top of burned nuclear fuel. Depending on the peculiarities of the reactors and so on. I know there are error margins.

Highly contaminated material that needs to be secured for thousands of years.

This is a multi generational cost factor for our generations convenience. For the ability to burn electricity like there is no tomorrow.

Today the lower half (poorer half) of US population is living a live that would enable the US to reach Paris Climate goals. The same applies roughly to most western/northern countries.

People like me in the upper income half are the culprits so to speak (statistically speaking).
Both password rotation and special char requirements (which often interferes with strong password generations because other systems don't support same character sets) are very much alive and well in govt contracting / vendor requirement land. Ie, they are still very very common.

In a business when the password reset request rate gets high, it usually gets easier and easier to reset passwords. I worked with a govt system as a contractor supporting a subcontractor. They had such annoying password rotations and a DOUBLE password system (users didn't understand, but one was for a VPN sort of thing and the next was for the app) that coupled with frequent rotations of both passwords and very slow account provisioning meant reset requests were crazy high.

But the good part? You could literally call the number, provide a username, and then they'd read you the temporary password right then. They'd actually outsourced password reset because the volume was so high they couldn't support it with their staff!

A) Hi, I need a password reset.
B) Sure, what's the username
C) It's XXXX
D) Do you need password1 or password2 reset?
E) I'm not sure?
F) No problem. Use AAAA for the first password and BBBB for the second.

It was basically the system routing around damage so folks could get their jobs done.
Actually no. No company wants to deal with 100's of different agencies with different terms, and it's unlikely that someone out there is doing 'revisions etc' i.e. actual work and making $1M, there's some pricing misinformation or someone is selling some kind of service. Certainly it's not a template.

Companies offering SaaS where there's very low friction - yes. But agencies like that, unlikely.

I'm already in this boat the last thing we want is every single person to be on different terms.
Not having encountered this particular essay before, I had to check whether it was actually Twain's (and not a GPT-generated "Essay by Mark Twain on conformity").
> The Steam Deck is an enthusiasts device

I think this is the key point here. It might seem like I'm hating on the Steam Deck but I'm really not. I'll probably get one eventually, but IMO it's in no way a threat to the Switch.
2017 wasn't a real bear market? It dropped like 95% and stayed at 50% to 80% below peak for a couple of years..
We’re only .12ish per kWh in Florida but they have an time based plan where I can get .08 off peak hours which would be ideal for an electric.

(I may have the math wrong it’s kind of confusing … https://www.fpl.com/content/dam/fpl/us/en/rates/pdf/res-jan-...)
Ask HN: Will the situation in Russia create a storm of cybercriminality soon?
They're one of the country with the most hackers on earth, and a lot of them are very competent.

Now that their economy is even more destroyed than before and that the future for citizens looks really grim.

Do you think we'll see a huge number of new cyber-criminality?

Not just from old timers who are doubling down, but from regular engineers who lost their jobs/income, or desperate non-technical folks who starts learning from their local friends?

With sanctions it seems to me that it's soon going to be one of the only viable way for a lot of Russians to make money.

Do you think we need to prepare for that? How?
> One of the market leaders in mycelium pack-tech is Ecovate Design, based in New York, which closed a $60 million round of funding last year. One of the company’s products is Mushroom® Packaging, which is made with just hemp hurd, a byproduct of the fiber hemp industry, and mycelium to form a solid composite form that is light, strong, fire, and water-resistant.

This is all well and good, but how do they manage to have a trademark on the word “mushroom”?
I remember reading a report a while back that said the LEAST frequently used characters are brackets { [ ] } < >
Honest question: if you are nvidia, why not publish the interface specification for your device? If there are silicon bugs, publish the errata and the workaround. I've seen SOC manufacturers do similar. What's different about GPUs?
I saw this tweet yesterday and used it to benchmark a new hire. It's a nice resource to give you some additional data about compensation.
What’s your job board?
I've been ignoring Dropbox Paper at my company but will now try using it on my next doc. What major features would you say Paper has that GDocs lacks?
I can't read the article right now-- are they seriously talking about restoring, as in repairing it? I'd think it would be a total loss and not possible to 'restore'.
Yes there’s a crew compartment, pretty large one really. It’s also for ground crew as there’s load-mastering, a lot of specific knowledge, plus probably the ability to do some maintenance even far from home base.

The 124 also has a passenger cabin which can hold 80 but I don’t think they’d kept that in the 225.
"We just have to get rid of autocrats and authoritarianism"

Is that all? We can get that done with a new app I think.
There were games exploring in this direction in the 80s, but they were never sufficiently commercially successful, with the Ultima series being the most successful (and even with that, when Origin released Wing Commander they saw how much more profitable an actually popular game could be).

Perhaps give Trust and Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot a try. Arguably NLP has reached the point where that game could be remade without the reverse-parser?
'phantom braking' slows down the vehicle, it does not stop it and can be overridden, at any time, by a driver by pressing accelerator. None of the incidents reported to NHTSA resulted in an accident, but braking is unexpected and unwelcome - likely reason why drivers reported it.

Given that earlier reports suspected loss of power - stopping could not have been abrupt. We don't even know if the car was on Autopilot, but we do know that driver was 74 years old, with higher chance for medical emergency.
This is off-topic but are people actively trying to falsify Betteridge's law?
I don't live in Russia.

Even if I disagree with my government (and believe me, I do) I don't really have an option of starting a civil war.
If I do and I'm successful my livelihood will be at risk, my society will be a mess, my house and the currency in which I earn money will devalue. Unless I am poor and destitute, a civil war will never be an option that makes sense.

Voting a different candidate is unlikely to effect any change. Politicians change tune once they are in power (eg. Biden and his promises to forget student loans) and a lot of views are not represented in candidates.

I still don't see any reasons to be blamed for what my government does.

And I don't blame the Russians for what Putin is doing, I'm sickened by the amount of hate Russians are getting (especially the ones living abroad): a lot of them have been trying to escape Russia for decades and only the richest and most skilled are able to do so.
So how bad is 30 minutes at max charge vs say 24 hours?
I wonder if this will have an effect on the illumos project.
I don't work for Apple, but it seems they've managed to get this far without any leaks so I guess whatever they did regarding their WFH policy worked out for them?

I had to go into the office a few times over the pandemic to use some testing equipment, but that was 7 or 8 days in the last 2 years?
If it were easy to avoid "the bad parts" of C, there would be a lot fewer exploits based on memory corruption. Many of the bad parts are unfortunately integral to the language. Only the strictest coding standards have a chance to avoid all the bad parts, but it's not generally possible to automatically check for compliance with all rules of, e.g. MISRA, so you still have fallible humans in the loop.
I certainly expect the HR heads of the big tech companies know each other and talk now and then. Even if they're not colluding in some illegal way, I'd actually be a bit surprised if they weren't discussing COVID-related matters.
I dislike Web3. Mostly because people talk about Web3 are no different to crypto, in that they cant explain it like I am five. The constant rambling of ideology and invention of new terminology makes JS front end development looks childish in comparison.

But I dont hate Web3 or Blockchain the tech itself. In fact I sort of wish someone could explain it in a simple, easy to understand and practical manner. And conference are perfect for these sort of things because I expect those slides to be well prepared. Instead the whole community just treat Web3 as scam. Didn't even give them one chance. And it is just one track out of many. Why cancel it?

And then I remember this https://web.archive.org/web/20130617203033/http://rubydrama....
Completely disingenuous. This is about the US intelligence apparatus being used against domestic dissidents.

Saying "well yeah but there are also domestic dissidents" misses the point entirely
Fast Flood No.3
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⌛ → 42 seconds
▶ → 17 moves
→ 1 try

I enjoy this game very!
Show HN: Berkeley Mono Typeface
Victimhood is equated with morality, furthermore victims are entitled to compensation. There's incentive to be seen as a victim, because it screams both "I am moral, and I am entitled to compensation" It happens at both the individual level and at group levels. Its sort of a key to understanding modernity.
Lawyers do not (necessarily) care about that: it just increases risk, they advice against it, and that’s that.

Taking this advice, and weighting this against other factors (goodwill with customers, for example) is what a good CEO is able to navigate.
I don't think this is a problem outside of corporate scenarios. If you just explain your position in plain human language, like you just did, then reasonable humans without a legal department will be able to comprehend it and act accordingly.
I've been frustrated that there exists no lawyer-verified, internationally-viable way to permanently waive all claims and rights to things (software or otherwise) I publish, and to assert that those rights will not be later reclaimed (whether by me, parties representing me, or heirs or successors who might claim to have inherited my rights).

CC0's biggest issues for me are that, one, it explicitly does not waive rights to patentable ideas contained in the work:

> No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.

...and two, that it only specifically says that I will not revoke the license or undertake "any other legal or equitable action to disrupt the quiet enjoyment of the Work by the public". I don't just want to enable "quiet enjoyment", I want to permit every legally permissible use of my work (anything I could grant a license for). "Vocal profiteering" is arguably not "quiet enjoyment", but I want to ensure that neither me, my representatives, nor my heirs or successors, could make that argument to revoke the license I grant.

The Blue Oak license nicely disburses patent rights:

> Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe any patent claims they can license or become able to license.

...but expressly retains copyright (preventing someone else from redistributing the work under different terms), and requires that the work always be distributed with a notice that the work is licensed https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0

I wish to completely unburden anyone who finds my work desirable from the burden of attribution. This is why Public Domain is the end goal, and why licenses that do not expressly attempt to un-copyright my work are insufficient. MIT0 merely grants permission "to deal in the Software [to say nothing about non-software work, or aspects of a work] without restriction", and 0BSD is even weaker, granting only "permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee" [nevermind any activities that aren't expressly listed in the license, but which might be restricted by a country's system of copy-, artists', or moral rights, or any other restrictions I may impose besides fees].
Not HR, but their finance teams got together and decided what needed to be done to protect their real estate investments.
Both an extra monitor and an ultrawide add more space for windows, but the naturally partitioned nature of a second display combined with virtual desktops also provides low effort organization.

So in my typical usage, secondary/tertiary/etc windows go into purposed virtual desktops on the second monitor — e.g. one virtual desktop for documentation, another for chat, etc. This allows me to swap out the sets of less important windows independent of the main display’s workspace, with practically zero management overhead (just assign apps to virtual desktops during initial setup).

The extent of third party window management I use is Moom, which I use to snap maybe 3-5 windows across my entire workspace into specific locations/sizes. Something that emulates a Linux tiling WM like Amethyst would drive me insane.
If "real estate" were the real reason, that'd just be an example of throwing good money after bad.
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We design, build, launch, and land the fundamentals that make it possible to include video game streaming in first- and third-party applications.

We're looking for folks for a variety of roles, such as:

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