skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dictatorship means total authority over a domain. EU is so very far from that. If anything it’s the opposite of dictatorship. The federal EU institutions are mostly toothless with respect to the nation states.
With a gas tank, if it's on fire and you are close enough to drain it, I'd advise you to run like hell. That's how people die in ice fires: they are not quick enough moving away from the exploding gallons of fuel. Quite often the problem is that the car is engulfed in flames before the people inside even have a chance to leave the vehicle.

EV fires are more of a slow burn. Annoying if it happens to your car but you are very likely to have lots of opportunity to walk away from it. Just material damage. And again, the incidence rate of this happening is comparatively low to lethal ice car fires. Like by at least an order of magnitude; probably several.

The number of car fires in the US per year is in the hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of people killed. Loads of property destroyed. They catch fire while driving, when parked, when involved in accidents, etc. Occasionally they are set on fire intentionally (which is pretty easy and a popular action movie plot point). Making a petrol car go boom is stupidly easy. Happens all the time.

I would be very surprised to see tow companies decline what will soon be the majority of their business as ice vehicles become like the fossilized dinosaurs they burn: extinct. Towing electrical cars will be the only business they have long term. Of course, it's a free country and somebody else will happily take their business if some tow truck driver gets a bit irrational and anxious. Of course the tow trucks themselves will become electric as well at some point.
Have a look at "Battery Showcase" PDF at https://www.quantumscape.com/resources/ page 20. It clearly says 1C.
Interesting - so basically you'd like to be able to search for companies using Rust that are NOT in crypto. I can see how that could be useful, just need to figure out how to support it without making filters too complicated.
I had lighting strike a telephone pole about 30 feet from me when I was a kid in Missouri. It was like someone sticking a camera flash close to my eyes and pressing the button. I didn't really feel anything else, just temporary blindness. And honestly, I wasn't really scared; it all happened so fast.
Some rental companies have free programs where you just pickup the keys at a kiosk.
More risk as they might not reinvest in the startup, which is not a good signal for other potential investors. Normally you want to get another ticket from the main investor for the next round.

Having said that it's not like the firms are doomed, they might still get other money or even make money themselves.
JFYI there have been experiments for that (and the driver actually worked experimentally but then at the time nobody was interested):

http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=7681

and multi-commander has a plugin for this (though this is more like representing the registry as a filesystem):

http://multicommander.com/docs/browse-registry

As I see it the Registry format has many common points/similarities to NTFS, it is somehow a cross between a filesystem and a database or can be "seen" as either.

Previous post/discussion with some more links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27940874
Engineering projects often already encompass this whole philosophy by building estimates that roll up to a P10 and a P90 outcome.

P10 = 10% chance of occuring, P90 = 90% chance of occuring.

How it's typically done is standard scheduling packages, like Prima Vera, allow you to specify a band or range of duration/effort for individual tasks/activities.

This, when combined with task dependency information (which you must give it in the form of a Pert chart or similar, it takes a few different formats of data) means it can calculate the critical path across the whole range of activities for an overall outcome and yield the project P10/P90.

Then, you can run sensitivity analysis and identify key pivot points, look at assigning more resources to certain efforts etc etc and optimise the schedule, plus track actual progress as you go and make forecasts.

But this is all based on the premise of doing the kind of engineering where you have some reasonable idea of what your actual goals and methods are before you start, so if you are running under agile you are probably screwed because even if you tried this planning, your planner/s could probably never keep up with actual.

To understand the difference between an engineered project and an agile one see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31299834#31301616
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Data_Store
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

That world you pine for has never existed, except when others took up the burden that you did not realize you needed to bear, or chose to ignore.
I worked on genetic programming for my MSc in econometrics, used it to build human-readable risk models for time series data. It worked really well. The article seems to call these methods genetic algorithms, though Koza himself (the "godfather" of genetic algorithms & genetic programming) was pretty keen on distinguishing the two. The main difference is that genetic algorithms represent solutions as linear strings / vectors whereas genetic programming works on tree structures. Maybe just splitting hairs here though.
I think this is an excellent idea! However, we didn't like the aesthetic of the version that included the domain- I'll admit it's not great reasoning.
You should look into a remote job with a California tech company where entry level is 120k. [1]

[1] Filter by "Location independent pay" https://himalayas.app/companies
5.25 joint salary, though, so that could be as high as 11.5 times one person's salary for one house if you're buying together (they may have a slightly different calculation when combining salary).

And indeed my house, but not the mortgage, was well over 10 times my salary when I bought it. The mortgage was around 8 times my (entry level UK) salary, but about half that if you counted both of us.

Which is one route to how people end up in serious trouble: get a mortgage as newlyweds with 8 times one person's salary, then one person stops working for The standard post-marriage activity: kids, and now you have a house you could never have passed the affordability checks for, as well as a very expensive baby. Then interest rates rise. Game over. Luckily for lots of people, interest rates have been miniscule for a while, but I get the feeling that there's a lot of people on the edge.
Why would said Congress folks care?
I also couldn't find anything new that rivals the iPod Nano 7th gen's form factor and focused features. I tried looking at Sony players, but they are usually bigger or have an interface that is not as friendly. Knowing it is (soon) obsolete I bought a second one. For many years, I have played Audible audiobooks in these devices in my commutes.
IIRC they quoted $43/book, and to me that sounds right in the ballpark of what I would expect it to cost for printing and shipping a low-quantity issue of a large book.
Electronic Arts to stop making FIFA
What do you plan to do?
Investors can't rescind their pledges that easily. Once committed if you do not honor a capital call there usually are pretty stiff penalty clauses for not fulfilling your obligations.
I'm on a Ubuntu 20.04 desktop (custom built) machine.

No TPM - it's a AMD Zen 3 CPU.

I can use YubiKey's WebAuthn demo[1] just fine with my YubiKeys.

[1] https://demo.yubico.com/webauthn-technical/registration
I very much hope it doesn't

EA has done a great job bringing attention and resources to causes that are clear wins - it's just obvious that global poverty interventions like Against Malaria and GiveDirectly are highly beneficial.

But effectiveness doesn't always doing the most obviously effective thing. It means doing the highest expected value thing. Sometimes that means trying things with low expectation of success, but a high potential payoff.

There's a trade off between exploring the space of potential interventions, and exploiting known good ones. EA needs to keep its healthy focus on exploration, or risk getting stuck in a local minimum. Suppose the X-risk people are right - if we get that wrong there won't be any more people left to help. Certainly EA was sounding the alarm about lack of pandemic preparedness ages ago, and while that wasn't existential, it was the right direction to be looking in. Imagine if we'd had a bit better foresight, been a bit better prepared, and been able to prevent 6 million people dying of COVID.

Something sounding "weird" isn't sufficient reason to discard it. There needs to be an actual convincing argument. And let me tell you, the weird ideas have survived some pretty rigorous debate.
SEC’s Gensler Says Crypto Exchanges Trading Against Clients
I honestly believe that a large part of the fervor for the lockdowns and other economically disastrous policies came not from a desire to protect public health, but from a desire to hurt Trump. Suddenly Biden gets elected and oh the lockdowns were a mistake, pandemic's over. It's just so stupidly obvious.
W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group
Thanks, yes I agree the ".split(_)[-1]" is ugly and there should be validation on the key prior to operations on it!

Making an issue :)
Definitely useful to have queries based on feature existence with overlays (also for pricing! Discount coupons, price overrides... all very useful). All the advice about feature flags and progressive enhancement for the web, totally applicable to billing checks.

One thing I like though: try to make your feature matrix as dirt simple as possible. If you can find the pricing that just aligns with value, you don't have to play "which plans get this feature" _every single time_ cuz you know the pricing is capturing the value.
This is a good point, and I think it also applies when chasing after product/market fit.

"Channel" is a concrete redefinition of the vague term "market" that describes an actual group of people plus the means of reaching them.
"Offer" is a redefinition of "product" that includes a strategy for communicating its value. These are pretty important distinctions, and I agree with the author that this framework holds a lot of value.

The question remains, how and when do you decide that your product just doesn't have enough value to anyone you might pitch it to? Obviously you start your venture believing that it has value, and at any point your next iteration might reveal the magic combination. Or it might never come. I think there is no good solution, and it is, as you say, an art.
Mind mentioning the competitors?
The fact that Paul Graham tweets were a factor in considering this company is worrisome, at least to me.
Your concerns just aren't based in facts.

There are roughly 1 to 2 credible allegations of in person voting fraud per year. [1] Meanwhile, over ten percent of the country doesn't have a photo id. To date, there has been zero credible evidence that voter ID laws prevent meaningful fraud, and zero credible evidence that the fraud you are describing occurs.

Mail in ballots, likewise, have no credible evidence of being used to commit fraud. They are widely used in North America and Europe, with forty countries allowing vote by mail. [2] It's perhaps slightly more likely batches of ballots could go missing, but the mail in systems allow you to validate that your ballot has been received.

And counting locations is perhaps the most absurd concern. Ballot counting takes time and space and dedicated staff. Should the voting shut down libraries, schools, and all the distributed places where people vote for potentially weeks? The ballots are locked and transported securely and there's tons of oversight on them.

Nothing about those is considered "bad practice" or unusual.

[1] https://pages.ucsd.edu/~zhajnal/page5/documents/voterIDhajna...

[2] https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi...
A friend of mine is fond of a saying - ‘Democracy is the theory that the people deserve to get the government they vote for, good and hard’.
this is a good example of why whimsy is not to be tolerated when creating foundational building blocks
Agreed. If you can land a job at a FAANG (not desirable for me), things are different though, even in Europe.
Thanks for the link - am I getting it right that this is a Feature Flag system akin https://www.growthbook.io/ and PostHog Flags (also OSS)? At least I got this impression from their landing page.
I think it's like doctors arguing about what skin cream to use to treat smallpox. The requirement is to prevent market participants from being able to act like this, and the way to do that is to make the people who trade with them face nasty penalties like sudden liquidation of their businesses. That mechanism would make counterparties very careful about other people's business models.
On our (shameless plug) job boards, we structured the sites around countries and you also have mandatory salary brackets (provided by the companies)

We also require them to provide full tech stacks, benefits and info how mature they are in Software Engineering (what kind of tests they write, what methodologies they use, etc.)

Feel free to take a look:

- UK: https://devitjobs.uk

- US: https://devitjobs.us

- Switzerland: https://swissdevjobs.ch

- Germany: https://germantechjobs.de
Noise cancellation for devs (click-bait burndown and exp. impact on innovation)
Building VR and AR experiences using HTML
Coinbase CEO Says No Risk of Bankruptcy Amid ‘Black Swan’ Event
Yes, it requires production of mining hardware, but just for adding new hashing capacity to the network. Major part of the mining cost comes from energy, and I believe that in the long run even more so. Energy efficiency of mining hardware has pretty much plateaued, and modern hardware should be good for 10 years of mining, which means that less hardware has to be replaced.

The competition has shifted into finding cheaper energy sources, rather than developing more energy efficient ASICs. There's a clear trend in this direction.
would be funny if someone wrote a comedy winfsp driver that exposed the registry as a gigantic win.ini file.
The SF DA refuses to prosecute pretty much any crime. Seriously.
IRR doesn't mean a thing though, money returned over the run-time of a fund is a much better metric to figure out if LPs are going to be happy or not. A high IRR can still result in very little money returned because it all depends on whether or not the valuation metrics used to compute the IRR were accurate and whether the value created according to the IRR can be captured or not.
Working in tech is not exactly easy, even if you love computers. You have to move to some awfully expensive part of the country and interact with some extremely thin skinned people all day, and spend hours upon hours examining minute details of systems supporting systems supporting systems that you never even knew existed.
I fondly remember my visit to the videoclub.

Never been a social guy, but I found enjoyable a short talk with the guy at the counter.

He gave me his opinion on the tape I was about to checkout and made suggestions about the new acquisitions. I guess after some weeks he knew my tastes and give a human-curated list, hehehe. They mostly tend to by nerdy, so we made a good fit, but they curated the list to old ladies, families and so...

A miss here and there, but I always found something enjoyable in all tapes. Even in the low budget, low quality ones.

Looks like ages ago...
No it isn't; the hive metaphor entirely fits the Windows Registry, which is a kind of hornet's nest where configuration goes to disappear.

The person who came up with that was developing it seriously, and the naming almost certainly had to have "buy in" from other "stakeholders" in the project.
To be clear, I do quite a bit better than that... I'm not complaining. But using 120k as an example...a person went from making 4x the typical full time salary to 2x the typical full time salary in a very short period.
Ask HN: What’s your primary work machine?
Neat idea structuring the boards around countries with mandatory salary brackets. I haven't seen a job board use a map like you have, reminds me of Airbnb etc - makes a lot of sense!
They would have an ideal work-life balance IF they enabled full remote work.

Their hybrid you-have-to-come-to-the-office approach basically means that you still need to live in an area near to the office, which basically means no real benefits from remote setting.
TLDR: average pay is now >$100k but staff shortages mean longer hours and extra work.
If you don't mind - how long was the temporary blindness roughly? And I assume your eyesight went back to normal eventually, or did you have any lasting effects?
I started a web/touchtone/sms carpool app called mobileride.com in 2005. It was a pretty simple app, where people would call or sms and use a numbering system to set trip from/to and then wait for a double-ended call from the server with a match. The first problem I ran into was that it was illegal to set a price or facilitate a financial transaction for a ride. The next problem was liability. IVR call time was around $.05-.25/min so I was on a modest burn rate. There were some other possibilities like charge numbers or advertising, but this wasn’t an immediate solution. In the end I had enough calls to burn down my savings, but not enough to make many real-time connections. My guess is that real-time user density is the real issue, and someone will achieve it. I shut it down with dreams of relaunching more as a lifestyle app like couchsurfing than a practical travel solution.
It is a fun book but I'm really not sure what "science" it teaches.
You would normally break out the IRR per individual fund for performance analysis. Blending it will hide variance (which usually is tremendous and may cause a single well performing investment in fund 1 to optically lift up everything else when in fact it doesn't matter at all except to those LPs that invested in fund 1).
http://mapy.cz is based on OpenStreetMap and covers some of your use cases
Depends on how strong you are.
Yep you've got it! The consumer gets the full api key containing the prefix, short token and long token, e.g. "mycompany_BRTRKFsL_51FwqftsmMDHHbJAMEXXHCgG". The database stores the short token, and a hash of the long token.
I very much feel you. I have a pretty large mp3 collection that is a mix of pirated, bought or ripped from (library) CDs. I started using Spotify only a few years ago when maintaining a phone library started to get cumbersome. Geniunely hated their reccomendation algorithm.

I've discovered nts.live somewhere in 2021 and have been listening a lot to their shows. The selection of music is diverse and very obviuosly curated.

Where else would I find a podcast of lofi outsider pop that ventures from brittle shoegaze/ambient track into one of the greatest disoc/pop songs ever sung by a 10 year old girl: https://www.nts.live/shows/okonkole-y-trompa/episodes/okonko... (Around 1h40min)
In general it's a good idea to separate internal billing/invoicing/plan management from your payment provider. Not always easy though as providers often have slightly different abstractions.
Annual raises doesn't have anything to do with being over or underpaid, strictly speaking.

To clearly illustrate my point here, if fortune 500 CEO pay is up less than 11% on avg since 2020, I don't think that's an argument they're underpaid.
does this explosion impact the broader crypto marker particularly? I know some of these platforms are interconnected in weird ways but don't know much about it.

And is there any sensible world where it stabilizes at some value other than 0 or 1?
I'm afraid the staging undermined the message, alas. Lots of questions in the comments about why these are Norwegians, but the dialogue is all North Americans. Anyone know what happened there?
There are a finite number of channels and as a result a finite number of options. And yeah, the market is an abstract place.
Down to $0.57, after a runup to almost $0.90.

For a stablecoin, the only stable points are 1 and 0.
I wonder if To Dissect a Mockingbird inspired Urbit's Nock
> From what I gather the factories in China that make the real thing

The Hermes bags are made in France, by leather artisans.
Thanks!

Your site also works very well, particularly the very simple but slick design!
At around the turn of the millennium, I ported a COM object from Windows to Linux. I made everything required work, from cruft DllMain and DllCanUnloadNow to

CoCreateInstance and whatnot.
The COM object configured itself using the Registry, so I ported all the API functions. I wrote equivalents that worked with a text-based representation. It was great: the code thought it was using the real registry, but you could go in there with "grep -r" and your editor to muck around in it.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE mapped under /etc, HKEY_CURRENT_USER under $HOME/.whatever type of thing.
Get a remote job where they pay California rates no matter your location [1] [2] [3]. It's the new way for companies to stand out and attract global top talent.

[1] https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/benefits-pay-perks/pay-expe...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/28/airbnb-commits-to-fully-re...

[3] Filter by "Location independent pay" https://himalayas.app/companies
Well said. Working in tech is like writing a book with 50 people instead of 1.
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The only problem, at least here in Sweden, is the lack of fast chargers and the quality of those that exist. Most places have cheap to free 20KW chargers, 50KW are easy to find but 120KW and up requires you to travel a few kilometers or more and possibly stand in a queue.

Add to that the fact that those optimistic numbers are in perfect conditions, a preheated battery and the stars aligning perfectly in the sky that day- I rarely get even close to the advertised numbers.