skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to get all mythical about it most Honda and Toyota cars are heavily overbuild for what they are. Stock CR-V engines (K20/K24) reliably deliver 400HP with simple $500 ebay turbo kit without modifying anything inside. Thats 100% safety margin on all engine internals. Stock engine is almost unkillable in normal operation. Take care of consumables (oil, fluids, filters, sparkplugs, clutch, brakes, tires, ignition wiring, rubber hoses, suspension bushes, shocks, battery) and rust and you can drive same car for 40 years.

In contrast German cars wear out mechanically or kill you slowly with electrical system deterioration. Parts are meticulously calculated to need replacement at a set point of vehicle life. One example: Audi (VW group) 2.0 TDI BLB Engine is made to fail at ~200K no matter what you do, from oil pump to head micro fractures. Crankshaft sprocket at 200K

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VW answer: this part is non serviceable, whole crankshaft needs to be replaced :D Why is it made out of putty while smaller sprocket (the one taking more force) is still ok? Why is it designed not to be replaceable? Good 'old timer/not by the book' mechanic is still able to replace it (heat whole crankshaft, use big hammer). In good heavily driven cars 200K is usually first crankshaft turn/grind, engine block itself should be good for >500K easily. Not here. Smells like planned obsolescence, if not on purpose then as a byproduct of cutting part safety margins to the bone to save cents on the dollar.
GitHub code search has been terrible since forever. They keep braying about preview stuff, AI search, etc. but when will this make it into their mainstream (let alone their on-prem) Enterprise product? (This has been in preview since December last year, but https://github.blog/2018-09-18-towards-natural-language-sema... was posted back in 2018 yet is still to be released.)
I don't think the action of meditation is anything special. It's the practice - the intentional repetitions over time - which accumulates positive effects. Taking a little time out to just breathe and think every day. De-stressing. Similar to cigarettes, but without the tar and smoke.
When we started dating my wife used jarred minced garlic because it was easier.

It's ok I guess?

It has a kind of acrid quality, slightly too sharp for my tastes compared to ideal.

Having said that, I've had "fresh" garlic that is worse — usually older — so I can't say its my least favorite option. There's people I know who use dried garlic when I think jarred garlic would be much better.

The only time I think I'd be a little wary of it is with pesto or something like that. Maybe even then it would be good.

Everything has its place.
It’s an eye opening experience making the jump from one to the other; you realise that often the technical nitty-gritty is a small fraction of the overall business, and that the obviously technically correct decision can simultaneously be a terrible business decision.
He's just straw manning the argument.

And this is ignoring the time lost watching WebKit process the same thousands of one-liner dependencies over and over.

Instead of the almost instantaneous tools written in go.
> It’s an education article

Then it should use the actual units that the students will use for engineering and scientific calculations. Saying "it's education" is not an excuse to not teach.
Reads like you know more than I. They use (more) than the state of the art security of Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Steam, Paypal and so on. Is the impact bigger than the impact that can happen on this platforms? And if yes, what is it?

Which impact can happen on Amazon, eBay, Steam?
An attacker can steal your account and some hundreds of dollar of your money.
Average salary in Italy is 35k gross (large consulting companies, local companies)

I’ve seen good companies pay senior engineers up to 60-70k (Gucci, Satispay, BendingSpoon, …)

I think it perfectly matches the article!
Is that proposition based on experience or conjecture?

I can offer the following data point. I work for one of those American companies (Google) based in Europe (Zürich) and I've never had better work-life balance in my 25-year career. If anything, I now have much more control of where I'm located, how frequently and for how long I come into the office, which hours I do and don't work etc than I've ever had. I basically have full flexibility in how I arrange my work around my life.

My only slight grumble is that I only get 25 days' annual leave instead of the 30 days I got at a previous location (same company). For reference, the legal requirement in Switzerland is 20.

> layoff hundreds of people whenever there's a chance

It may come as a surprise, but all those companies are still subject to labour laws of the countries in which they operate.
My policy is to "spend it on the plot". A fancy car does not affect the plot. In fact it limits your options because you're now saddled to those monthly payments.

I chuckle when I see people throw 6-9 months of post-tax income at an adventure motorcycle, only to ride it around town on the weekends. With that sort of money you could take a few months off and go on a proper adventure.

I know someone who just threw a five digit amount at a newer camping van. Now she can't take time off because she's paying for it. That could have financed a nice road trip.

And those are still arguably functional purchases. Throwing 700$/month at a regular car for regular driving is absurd.
I don’t agree… my mother was/is a career woman and is a great mother (she is 72 and just retired whilst I am 36). And I grew up with great mental health and high self esteem! I did well in school and university and have a job that pays well and leaves me with plenty of free time! I am also merrier with my high school sweetheart (20yo relationship) with our fist kid on the way… can’t really say my parents (both career people) did a poor job!
What I find problematic with MyGovId is how easy is to steal someone's identify. All you need are two documents like your Medicare card and driver licence.

These are documents that most people carry around in their wallet. Just gaining access for a few seconds to someone's wallet and take a couple photos to these documents, is all you need to impersonate this person through myGovId.

There are even night clubs where they make a copy of your driver licence as a requirement for entry.

In addition, as usual with any software system related to the Australian Governement, MyGovId simply does not work very well. For example, mine stopped receiving the 4-digit verification codes after an Android upgrade. After countless hours of resetting the application, re-entering the identity data, etc. I had to end up using my wife's phone.
Thanks for that. I agree that pre-commit hooks enforce one way of working that just wastes a bunch of my time.
>Since then, the curve has flattened.

I’d question this part.
For the most part, those cost differences are due to US trucking being expensive and international shipping relatively cheap rather than anything specific to the modular construction. The same material (actually more due to waste) has to be transported to the site if you use different methods of construction. The need to fit on the back of a truck imposes an upper limit on the smallest dimension of a room if they're shipped as full rooms and not flat packed wall units, of course, but that's unlikely to be an issue for student apartments in Cali.
Ask HN: How to balance one's personal interest while wanting to be relevant?
There are several paths/projects I'm interested in pursuing or are already pursuing that seem kinda niche, but a big part of me also really wants these things to be relevant to others, instead of just being a "me-thing".

What's your experience in navigating this tension between personal interest and relevance?

The advice I've seen so far have been pretty simplistic and I'm wondering if anyone has more substantial takes on it?

For example, how do you "soldier on" if/when feedback is bleak, or if you're met with blank faces? How do you maintain integrity without becoming completely irrelevant?
But all measurements of weight, length, position/speed have errors multiple orders larger. Errors by second and third approximations will dominate. Let alone unpredictable (unknown) physics playing a role.
Basically just saying you can use async/await to fetch the data, I think
The same applies to online betting and most of the mobile-game industry of today (which is basically also betting). Outside of FAANG-like companies there’s where lots of money is when it comes to being a programmer/IT person, I would personally not touch that industry for almost anything in the world, but there are many amongst us (programmers/IT people) who don’t have those scruples.
The app „Tiny Weather Forecast Germany“ (https://codeberg.org/Starfish/TinyWeatherForecastGermany) seems to exactly make use of that. There are probably others, but it is the only one I found on F-Droid.
Unprecedented? Generation of random, but linguistically correct text was there for decades.
It’s legit but not complete, it’s not the official form (amtliche Fassung) and only the current laws, not the historic view. In Austria for instance RIS is much more complete: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/

Edit: not directly related but a fun fact: in Switzerland you can get a copy of the constitutional laws for free at any bookstore and it’s supposed to be understandable for normal citizens and not only for lawyers.
> In Europe, it's much difficult to start a company and people aren't of typical mindset to jump start a company into global dominance.

This is such a tired meme. It’s _orders of magnitude_ easier to start at company in a lot of European countries compared to the US.

Creation process is in a lot of cases filling in a web form, paying €100 and waiting a week or two (yes, yes, in know it not like that everywhere).

Furthermore, your health care is not tied to your employer which makes starting a company a lot less risky.

Is it easier to start a company poised for world dominance? No idea, but I do know it’s easier to start a small, sustainable business.
Right, it's boring and routine maths, but there's no evidence that sort of mathematics will somehow bypass the rest of mathematics and physics. It's like suggesting that long division might solve quantum non-locality.
I think Tailscale have the right approach by knowing their customer — someone who is happy to have a trusted 3rd party administer parts of their VPN in return for time and cost saving. There are a few here who can't have that, so they instead invest their time into a custom setup with WireGuard which is fine, but for those of us who don't require that level of assurance (there are bigger attack vectors to worry about), Tailscale is fantastic. Quick, easy, and mostly works out of the box.
Types is at least one thing that immediately comes to mind
"We're living in Orwellian times."

lol talk about hyperbole. Please actually read 1984 and get back to me
The same frequency does not imply every subsequence appears. Consider the modification which rewrites every sequence of 123 to 132. All digits will have the same frequency but 123 will never appear.
How neurons work is being elucidated
Red Bull is not a sponsor but the owner of the team
I mean yeah but it just costs money to hire talent, only difference with DALLE is that its subsidized to be free
> Out of morbid curiosity…what is the alternative to letting people wander around?

Citing them for disorderly conduct, ticketing them if they blow a stop sign or something, or otherwise making them feel unwelcome if someone reports they're literally wandering around trying doorknobs under the pretense they're selling something
Maybe it’s for neither. Their marketing blurb is all about being global and very successful - not actually old money and certainly not for plebeians.
Russia induced the conflict by invading Ukraine. There is no “self-righteousness” here; this conflict is unusually simple: there is an invading side, trying to destroy a nation, and there is a defending side.

And just like before 1939, trying to negotiate at this point would be a mistake. Letting Russia survive 1990 in its current shape was already a mistake.
Tangential but before I get to validating YAML I’d really appreciate recommendations on a decent JavaScript YAML parser/serializer.
Why not both? If privacy is another thing that sells, then it’s a win-win for them. Especially since no-one else seems to care about it.
Next logical step is for everybody to just ssh into common server and work there. But then you wouldn't dare to save your files before they are reasonably bug free.

Feature branches let you save intermediate work outside of your computer.

If you have trunk based development and your machine smokes, all unpushed work is lost.

People are looking for some philosophical advantages of one over the other. But in practice, it's just a trade-off of how much you save and where.
This is such a good example of an ad-hoc technology - that most people dont even understand to exit.

People usually believe that state agencies or powerful institutions and individuals will use the same technology that they are used to. But when a specific goal is in mind, it means new ideas, new stuff, new ad-hoc technologies.
How do you select the first guess? e.g. the clue is "popular yellow cartoon bear", and the answer is "pooh". You can satisfy the crossword using random words and a dictionary somewhat easily, but that's not really the task at hand.
This. When you get the call saying you need new tyres and they list 2 brands you’ve never heard of and Pirelli there’s a greater chance you’ll pay the premium over an unknown.

I had a similar reaction when redoing our kitchen. The chap listed some meaningless flooring brands to me. Except one of them was Quick-Step…

“Like the pro cycling team?!” says I like a big kid.

Guess what we walk on in our kitchen now?

Plus I get to tell all my cycling buddies whenever they come round for the first time.

Same goes for silicone window sealant. The brands mean nothing to an amateur like me but when I see Soudal brand at the store I think of the cycling team and so that’s the brand I buy.
That says more about your biases.
Seems like a win/win when the customers and businesses interests align.

No one is pretending Apple is a charity. Of course they do all this for obscene amounts of profit. But if we get stronger privacy as a side effect, I think that’s a generally okay situation.
I see that you too are interested in philosophy ;)

Everyone has their reason to be interested in meditation.

The original Buddha was simply "not satisfied" and wanted to know why. So he discovered the causes and effects and removers of dissatisfaction in itself.

Part of his discovery that dissatisfaction comes from within, from all of the thoughts that poke us, especially when we let them to affect us.

Mindfulness meditation is only part of the puzzle of Buddhism.
This reminds me of using Pi = 3. I remember a YouTuber using it in a calculation to antagonize the audience a little bit. The thing is, any number you can come up with to represent Pi, isn’t Pi. You have approximations which are accurate enough or not for the application in front of you. If you get correct conclusions with only one digit of Pi, then 3 is a sufficiently accurate approximation for what you’re up to. But someone else might need fifteen digits…
probably an analytics plug-in trying to fingerprint you, I remember i've had a lot of trouble with websites interrupting audio on my phone when there's not anything playing

I'm curious what kind of camera you have that makes a sound when accessed
Odd that this coincided with the second industrial revolution, but there you go...
Depends who the intended audience is. I wouldn't inflict curly braces on anyone other than software developers and certainly not where you expect people to do a lot of manual data entry.

Even I tend to write "pseudo-YAML" and then add the JSON line noise programmatically if I'm entering a lot of data.
I'm not convinced a well known standard would be any better against what basically comes down to "users might get phished". OAuth phishing against Microsoft accounts is a massive thing, I'm seeing it just as much as password phishing these days. It's regularly successful.
The last two years in Miri
I have a tangential question:

> "The process is 100% selective—meaning there is no undesirable by-product—comparable with methane monooxygenase, which is the enzyme in nature for this process."

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get any given enzyme mass-produced. What is the reason we're not just growing a bunch of methane monooxygenase and using it to convert methane?
“import .. from './foo.js'”

TypeScript doesn't rewrite (that part of) your code (it downcompiles ES features if necessary, but won't rewrite import specifiers). Write import specifiers as you would in regular JS code intended for the browser (ie. relative or absolute paths, including file extension, no directory imports, …).

> […] but the bundler I was using […]

Trying to write code that's understood by both bundlers AND produces working output when processed directly by TypeScript is a bit too much to ask at this time. Maybe we'll get there, eventually, but unless it's plain ES2022 code (intended directly for browsers, not targeting bundlers or TS or test runners etc) you have to write the code with a specific intent.
As if we didn’t have weird physics already. You’re basically saying that the problem with magic is that it works weirdly. But isn’t that the whole point of it?

I understand that it would be TROUBLE at the mathematical and logical level, but that is exactly a box here we’d like to jump out of. Also, aren’t you bothered by the unexplainable fact that the universe somehow adheres to some rules and not the other. What has set them in the first place? Are they even “rules”, or we just accept them naturally, because our most primitive interactions were based on them for few ages?
Its weird. I am European, and I am in love with the aesthetic of Corvette (American). Never met any European who likes Corvette. Where do I know it from? Test Drive, some PC game in the very early 90s. I grew up with parents owning a sub-top brand sports car. Anyway, some brands are just unreachable. Ferrari, Lamborghini, and... Bugatti. As the saying goes: Porsche is for those who cannot afford these. I have people in my family who owned a Porsche, and who own a Tesla. They, like the sports cars my parents owned, are cool cars, each with their pros and cons.
Good luck to a non-engineer trying to set that up to hold structured conversations around parting people with their money
Why only one commit for a story? Sounds like they should be committing more often.

I often fire off a commit, get notified of a test failure, and fix it in the next commit. Why wait for tests to run locally when some other computer can do it for you?

(Yes, it would be nice if all tests ran in zero time, but back in the real world...)
This might be one of those 'we made it look weird so everyone knows what it is and you can feel smug about owning it' things like stupid looking car prototypes, early electric cars (i3), white in ear headphones, recyclables, patagonia vests etc.
I think the idea is most intelligences are along the lines of evolved computers (they mention silicon based beings), but that doesn't mean life like ours isn't common too. It just barely ever evolves sentience.
A stupid question.

What’s wrong with breaking causality?
You’re looking for “a better system than US politics”. The rest of the capitalist world doesn’t have these things.
Inquiry: does this apply to other well-paying unions, such as the actors guild and professional sport players? I’m genuinely asking, because as far as I know they are still in existence and regularly ensure better working conditions for their membership without limiting their mobility.
Off topic:

I read the headline and thought, “When did the Royal Navy join the neo-Nazis?”
Prepare a one-pager using the Lean Canvas (https://leanstack.com/lean-canvas) and you can find PDF templates with a google search. That will force you to think of all the questions your CEO (or any other stakeholder) might ask and put down honest answers.
The Cocktail Napkin Hall of Fame (2015)
On the Pinephone the rear camera homes the mobile into one end of the track when it's reset and makes a clicking sound.
This is one of my most used tools. Love using it!
The scenario was "With the EU Digital ID wallet, the bank can request the necessary credentials from the applicant. He or she selects them, and in seconds they are verified by the bank. The process even includes an eSignature that signals the applicant’s agreement."

Where in the process would the applicant fill in the information that the bank needs, but which isn't on the wallet? I guess it's a multi-step process, where one step presents credentials and another is the form-filling, and a third is the agreement.

Another way to ask my question is, what does "time-consuming and complicated" mean? Because there will still be time-consuming and complicated step even with this wallet.

As I understand it, before these Know Your Customer rules came into place, I could have walked into a bank and open an account with simply a signature card - how do you beat that simplicity?

> licensed profession X in Sweden

The document I linked to was "to work or study in Sweden", which is the "I hold this German degree" scenario you described.

The end of the document confirms that it's not concerning the "exercise licensed profession X in Sweden" - "Some professions are regulated in Sweden. This means that a special licence or authorisation is required to work in them. Contact the authority responsible for the regulated profession – for example, the Swedish National Agency for Education for teacher certification and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare for a licence to practice as a doctor or nurse."
Dream Fields
Unionization does not magically change poorly managed companies into well managed ones.
Compromise - there is really no perfect match out there - settle for < 100%.

Was not scared to marry a girl from a totally different cultural and racial background - as wise Yoda said once - "Try not, do. Or do not. there is no try"

A good prenup obviously but 22 years and 2 kids later we still together - it doesd help that I am far easier going than her and don't sweat the small stuff like she does.
Of course it's a student who has Vanessa Teague as an advisor. For reference, the Australian government leaned heavily on a major Australian university for her to be fired: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/08/melbo... as retribution for showing that 'deanonymised' data was absolutely not truly anonymised.

Thank god we don't have electronic voting.
> Travelling around the Universe would take forever even at the speed of light.

If we're talking about traveling within our galaxy; the distances and thus sub-light travel times involved are huge, however the time spans available are even huger.

On the timescale of planets, a million years is not "forever" but actually a quite trivial amount of time - if there was an almost perfect clone of Earth on the other side of Milky Way where the evolution of multicellular life happened 1% faster than it did here, then they would be tens of millions of years ahead of us, and that is not only enough to reach us at speeds much lower than c but also enough to colonize the whole galaxy while doing so, spending multiple millenia at each planet before moving on.
This would be useful for dairy farmers. Addition revenue for cow farts and greenhouse gas reduction.