skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first prize goes to the French, though.

They call their country France, named after the Germanic tribe of the Franks. Only in Asterix they remember that their country should be called Gaul.
> A similar subscription plan is offered for a heated steering wheel and it costs $10 per month, $92 annually, and $161 for three years. You can also buy it outright for $222.

isnt this what in the old days was what they (adam smith et al) meant when they talked about economic rents and (rent) free markets...?
Similar to how the switch from non-renewable to renewable sources of energy can't be done in a jiffy, the switch to organic from non-organic cant be done in a matter of years. The yields are too low with organic farming. This lead them to importing food, for which they obviously they need foreign reserves and so on the cycle.
>the kill switch should be disengaged so they have full access.

Only when you’re legally obligated to do so, which is probably often not the case.
Moreover they have their owner, microsoft... which can do wonders in scaming the entire world.
> The Belgian proposal for targeting areas where there’s lots of crime sets the bar so low that it covers the whole country. Denmark isn’t much better, its crime level threshold means that close to 70 percent of the country’s population will be covered by its framework.

That's just disgusting. It's totally contrary to the spirit of the ruling.
Thanks! Yeah, marketing is definitely a weak point, in large part because it's just something that goes very much against my character. I've tried posting to reddit before, but most communities' strict posting rules about promotions make that a pain, or simply not worth bothering with due to low conversion rates.
While obviously a big pain in the butt, aftermarket EV computers are coming onto the market which could help solve the long tail of used EV software related nuisances.

Lots of learning from the EV conversion market will go directly into that ecosystem too I feel. But that said, I'm pretty sure that it's already illegal in many countries to tamper with the ECU. It's currently because you can change the emissions profile of the car, but I'm sure they'll just swap to saying it's about safety instead for EVs.
> Was there any serious group claiming otherwise? The powerful are usually fairly obviously moving to keep wages low, and the poor are usually complaining that the powerful are moving to keep their wages low.

The poor aren't complaining that the powerful are keeping their wages low; the poor are complaining that the rich pay too much in taxes and the "undeserving" (some ethnic outgroup or other) get handouts from the government.

> “For decades, Americans have experienced a populist uprising that only benefits the people it is supposed to be targeting.... The angry workers, mighty in their numbers, are marching irresistibly against the arrogant. They are shaking their fists at the sons of privilege. They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Leawoof toffs. They are massing at the gates of Mission Hills, hoisting the black flag, and while the millionaires tremble in their mansions, they are bellowing out their terrifying demands. 'We are here,' they scream, 'to cut your taxes.”

― Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

> “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson
I can see it for some exterior feature of the car such as gold plated trim or fancy rims, but you would really have to be "in the know" about this brand, to know that someone has paid an extra $18/mo for this feature. Unless you ride with them.

Still, if this becomes a way that I can get a cheaper car by declining all of the add-ons, or if it lowers the price of used cars, I'll be happy.
By the way the Kiwis tried to brand the Chinese gooseberry the “kiwi” so people would think of NZ produce, but made two fatal errors: 1 - they forgot to trademark it and 2 - they forgot that people outside AUS and NZ don’t think of New Zealand at all.
You’re right somewhere in here. I’m certainly wrong about the 50’s. Columbia was a bastion of antisemitism until the 70’s, it had the world’s best Physics Dept. for a long time, but frittered it away. Meanwhile, Cornell built a world-class research university, partly on Columbia’s leavings.
So I'm going to jump on you here because this line is wrong, in this case.

> Renting stuff is economically efficient as long as you don't let the actual owners abuse the relationship to their benefit.

Renting is economically efficient when there is a limited supply of the item, and renting allows the item to be used more often & efficiently then it would with if it were owned.

A simple example: It is much more efficient to have a single lawn-mower that you and your neighbors can rent, rather than having every lawn owner buy a mower that sits unused 99% of the time. It is cheaper to rent than buy so the folks save money on mower expense, less waste is produced because there are fewer mowers, and the item sits idle far less. The downside is the coordination required to use the rented item - it may not always be available, or available when any given person would like it to be.

NONE OF THAT FUCKING MATTERS WHEN THE ITEM IN QUESTION IS HEATED SEATS!!!!

No one is able to use those "rented" heated seats when you're not using them. They will never be taken out of the car. There is literally no way to more efficiently allocate this item when rented rather than bought, unless the entire car is rented (in which case... moot point).

So this case cannot be anything other than abuse by owners. There are no efficiency savings to be had. The item won't be allocated more efficiently, it will just provide additional revenue.

Essentially - the argument that renting is more efficient UTTERLY fails when the item being rented is essentially the on/off switch to a thing built into an item you own. It's ALWAYS going to stay part of the item you own, and there is no way to re-allocate it when you are not renting it.

This is a scummy, scummy move. It should be illegal.
I haven't looked at it in awhile but I think the military is around 20% of the federal budget. The big items are Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security. Maybe interest on the debt.

20% (assuming that's what it is) is still no small amount but I'm personally doubtful there would be some sort of sea change in what's possible if it were cut in half or even eliminated.
I have very fond memories of Quake C. It was a bit more like pascal in some ways than C but the compiler came with quake (the first one with the NIN soundtrack). It had the source for the existing bits of the game that were written in it, which was all the behaviours, and you could change it and recompile to a new dll. It was easy to use and quite performant.
This reminds me a lot of Time Cube

https://timecube.2enp.com/
Analysis paralysis is not an indication of smart.
People who pay a subscription to use an item they bought for are part of the problem.
Sorry, you are of course right.
> it's not a criminal offence for an employer to ignore those rules if they're happy to take their chances in an employment tribunal

I'm not an employment lawyer, but to the best of my knowledge this is incorrect - mass redundancies of 20+ people need to be notified to the government in advance, and failure to do so carries criminal penalties.

P&O seems to have escaped this requirement (at least for now) owing to maritime employment being a special case and jurisdictional issues

https://www.rsmuk.com/ideas-and-insights/legal/mass-redundan...
I suspect they could make a business that would get enough sympathetic riders in a left-leaning city to be viable. It wouldn’t be outrageously highly valued, but at the end of the day, it’s driving people around in cars and there’s only so much willingness to pay there.
> If someone can charge you for using things you already bought and 'own', then average man has no property rights.

it seems a natural progression once you've saturated the market and new avenues are closed to further growth; you find a way to add subscriptions and "value adds"...
We already have better. Labour rights are hard fought for rights that exist because employers used to be so abusive. Uber are just trying to wind back the clock, claiming that technology means that traditional labour rights are outdated.
Which isn't what GP suggested at all.

> Well, vacuum cleaners are a thing and could probably be exported to the moon to take care of any dust getting inside.

Specifically that last part.
There you go. No different to pumping and dumping SPAC stocks and FOMOing in after the pump and losing on the dump.
Because they were never held accountable for it, it seems.

People tend to bring up unresolved issues like that when the opportunity calls for it. I'd say for good reasons.
I find that hard to believe unless it’s an antique or a sports car. It’s certainly a plus when you sell something.

2 Jeep dealers couldn’t tell me what needs to be done on my 35k checkup. It’s right in the manual. They only tried to upsell fluid flushes. The multipoint inspection didn’t even cover the cv joint checks that were mentioned in the manual!
Netherlands poised to make work-from-home a legal right, says report
The Menzel guy kind of address that at the end, though I wish he went into more detail.

My guess is his attitude is why use less tested technology when the capacity of the Ka band link does the job dependably.

As more probes go up and antenna time grows shorter, increasing link capacity will become more necessary. Until then, why experiment on a 10 billion dollar project?
> The sound isn't everyone.

I became mildly obsessed with Hurdy Gurdy videos for a while. This was my gateway drug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmML7bu-iM

and something a bit less purist but still fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0DrXyzlHM8
I’ll drive it until the wheels fall off.

It absolutely doesn’t affect the value of the car to use 3rd party service.
well, terrible is a relative term, maybe they make so much they don't care.

Everyone buying iPhone knows it's not a financially optimal decision
First reference to any uber kill switches is from 2018 (https://www.ft.com/content/1489e9c4-f6f6-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1...)

> Ripley operated like a “kill switch” that would lock down all the computers in an office, preventing staff from immediately providing any data to police even if they had a warrant.

I guess what's new is everything around it as well as the scope of the usage of Ripley (or the newer tool "uLocker").
Actually charge for them, the current cost to use the road is much smaller than the actual cost.

Tax everything the amount it costs to clean up the pollution it causes
also see https://protonstatus.com
don't forget hamburgers
Birds. They show birds flying in the cylinder...
Because this "kill switch" might as well be something your iPhone has.

You can lock it remotely at a moments notice as well and it'll remain encrypted against law enforcement attempts to unlock it.

Should you be held accountable for owning such a device?

MDM managed Windows, macOS laptops are such devices as well.

See how easy is it to reframe a feature in a nefarious way?
Also though... the actual content, why? Why does GDS need to operate with a "growth mindset"?
It has gone down again today.

Their statement yesterday:

Yesterday we unfortunately experienced technical difficulties which meant that Proton services were offline intermittently throughout the late afternoon and evening European time. During this period, incoming email, outgoing email, and push notifications were also temporarily delayed. As of 2:45AM Geneva time, all emails and notifications are caught up, but we are continuing to monitor the situation in case of further faults.

We can confirm that no data and no emails were lost. Due to our redundant infrastructure, emails that were not immediately delivered were queued and automatically redelivered. We are still investigating the issue, but what we can share so far is that the technical difficulties were caused by a software update that was conducted over the weekend which adversely impacted the performance of certain systems. Unfortunately, this issue only appeared under under high loads which we were not able to fully simulate in testing. Furthermore, because this was a major software and operating system upgrade, there was no way to roll back the software update.

This result of this was an extended period of intermittent outages and performance issues while we tried to work around the issue. We have now put a number of safeguards in place, and will continue to improve the reliability of our infrastructure to guard against this type of issue in the future. We apologize deeply for this issue and thank you again for your understanding. Our engineering team is currently conducting a root cause analysis and for transparency, we will be sharing results on the Proton blog after our investigation is complete.
I find this hard to believe. From an engineering PoV, an FB stint is definitely an indication of above average technical competency. It may also indicate you're ethically challenged - though I don't believe that's true of the vast majority of FB employees - but I'm sure most hiring managers would overlook that.
We've all ready reached that for lots of other parts of the consumer spectrum.

e.g. you used to own your music and movie collection but now you rent access to it via Spotify, Amazon Music, Netflix etc

Even games: it used to be it was YOUR game but now you pay a subscription.
In the US, almost no one goes to their dealership for routine maintenance (i.e. tires, brakes, oil). Many/most will go in for bigger stuff like transmission service, steering, etc. but even then many still opt for their local mechanic's shop. To be honest, I would rather see a car going to reputable local shop than to a dealership, but it's really hard to know what "reputable local shop" means when you're buying a used car that could have been serviced four states away.

We have lots of garbage chains of auto shops (looking at you, JiffyLube...) that leave cars in worse shape than when they came in, which complicates matters immensely. I've had one car for example that has had the front engine cover come off twice because the knuckleheads at the shop didn't reattach it correctly, causing it to drag on the road for miles before we realized what was wrong.

(inb4 someone rolls in with how blockchain is going to "fix" this)
> And the actual name for Greece is Hellas.

That's many centuries out of date. You want Ellas. The aspiration was lost long ago.

(We might also note that the Greek wikipedia page is titled Ellaða, but the first thing it does is list Ellas as an alternate name.)
Very true, but it's not easy (or cheap) to find a good editor. There was a Launch HN recently on this very topic I believe.

But, one can learn to be their own editor. It's not easy, it's unnatural, and it's not as good as an external editor, but it's better than nothing. The trick is to change the point of view, walk in the shoes of the reader.
Secure boot is opressive when you don't have the keys. So is encryption.
Many see FB as an immoral company, so it starts with the question why did you work for such a company. IME a simple "I disagreed with X but I did Y" satisfies most. (No idea what % of people in hiring positions believe that.)
Whatever you can't buy with money, you can buy with more money.
I wonder if it's kind of like "Nigerian prince" scammers who intentionally use bad English in their emails. The idea is the class of people who are impervious to their scams are filtered out by these typos. By filtering people at the start of the scam "pipeline", it saves the scammer time.

Maybe the bad audio is here is serving as a sort of filter as well.
Effectively the only option they got. Nuclear is gone thanks to the Green party but also Merkel's CDU - who reversed the nuclear exit at first, thereby fucking up planning and investments into renewables, and then reversed that reversal after Fukushima.

The current government that has the Greens as a major coalition partner isn't really investing in new fossil fuel stuff, but replacements of existing fossil fuel stuff. E.g. the LNG terminals are meant to replace the capacity lost from ceased imports from Russia.

Building nuclear now isn't really an option anyway, at least not to deal with the current situation.

The operators of nuclear plants already signaled that running their plants longer is not an option. That would require a lot of investment, and more importantly a lot of time to renovate, modernize and re-certify these things. An effort I believe they said was in the range of 3 or more years.

Building entirely new plants, even with existing designs, would require at least 4 years even on a very expedited schedule.

So in the short term the only option is to keep using fossils - sourced from some place not-Russia. The Greens, while they certainly do not like that, understood this.

Would we Germans be better off if we had some nuclear plants left? Sure. But we'd also be better off if we instead had that energy mix that the Greens envisioned at the start of the century, that entailed renewables at the core, a bit of carbon (mostly from renewable sources, with tech to make it more or less carbon-neutral in totality) and storage, and investments (driven by government incentives) to use less energy in the first place.

If I had to blame anybody, it would be the 16 years of Merkel governments which managed to fuck up both nuclear and renewables, not the Green party.
I don't miss the gruff taxi phone operator who would hang up on me if they couldn't hear me properly, or sent the taxi to the wrong place, or gave me a totally wrong time estimate.
If the police comes knocking on your door with a warrant, aren't you legally obliged to do as they say? I thought that was the entire point of a warrant.
reading through reply tweets of pro-crypto ppl, it's amazing how some parts of the "crypto community" view shameless grifting and scams as a valid hustle for money
It's much easier to get there and fix JWST than it is to land on the moon though.

Because the landing part was the hardest and take more delta V than actually getting to JWST. Not to mention going back from moon surface.
Nikon did not confirm nor deny the report so it's basically a pure fluff piece.

> As well as the rise of mirrorless tech, SLR cameras have also been out-competed by smartphone technology, which has shrunk the camera market over decades.

The market has shrunk but it's nothing to do with smartphone cameras, it's like saying McDonalds have shrunk the market for three stars restaurants. Not the same audience at all, not the same use, you'll find that the DSLR market has been mostly stagnating innovation wise for a while, making it hard to justify buying a new model for just a few more megapixels every now and then. A 10 years old DSLR is still a formidable image-maker.
"But it's so convenient!" whinge the tech bros of HN as they continue to make the world a shittier place.
ProtonMail Is Down Again
absolutely agree, but I take it further

The language of appropiation implies a sort of 'property'-like dynamic for ideas.

If I learn, get to know, understand an idea from somebody else, I have not appropiated them in any way. I merely have adopted their idea.

This way of copying/adopting of other's ideas is what makes a cultural society thrive. On the other hand, a society where all idea transfers are in fact an exchange of something, is exactly what I consider the essence of a market.

The critical difference is that in a market, widgets are exchanged. And whenever somebody takes a widget from somebody else, only one widget remains.

However when somebody adopts another's idea, the idea is now it two places (and quite possibly, with a slight difference); that it, until "the idea" becomes a digital artifact, then it's the exact same "digital" copy which exists in more than the one original instance.

It's the dumbest action to try and enforce that digital artifacts (and later on, ideas themselves) behave like widgets in a market.
Dealer options have been around for a long time, but usually the equipment isn't already fitted to the car, the dealer has to add it. I think that's why this approach feels so inauthentic. Your car has the equipment, but you're not allowed to use it, even though it's there, and you own it...
I used to spend hours researching products, so that I buy the “best” one. Now I just use the Wirecutter, haven’t been let down yet.
Maybe the bird will be also called türkiye now.
I encourage you to not read much from the New Yorker then!
> The part of this that jumps out at me is how much difficulty the workers have in getting someone in to politics who is one of their own.

That's largely by design. Look at all the effort put into the blatant attempts at union busting by most of the major tech companies. Tired workers are always at a disadvantage in a war of attrition against wealthy companies. Doubly so when those companies are paying the people who represent us in government.
I was actually wondering if the driving factor is legal documents. ID cards show names in all-caps letters, which creates the dilemma that your ID might not show your actual name (notwithstanding international standards for travel documents that prescribe transliteration of non-latin characters; see ICAO Doc 9303 Part 3, section 6 [0] for examples)

[0]: https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons_en....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32061393
The Missile Defense Agency annual budget is about $10B. How much more should we spend on it?
What does euro-U.S. dollar parity mean for US imports, travelers, jobs?
I wish this were spread to other government IT things.

The NHS uses a patchwork of different systems. Why should every hospital have to sort out its own IT needs. Let the NHS do NHS things and have an IT branch providing standardised software for everyone.
If your place doesn't have a toponym in other languages it usually means that it hasn't been very important in history. The people who pushed for this change certainly feel quite the opposite about it, but to me it almost seems self-diminishing. "Our country is so insignificant it doesn't even have a name in languages that don't share our codepage"
> Tires are generally lasting 50k, 60k, even 85k miles.

Probably depends on road conditions. Where I'm at good tyres — my criteria being soft ride, good grip, low noise — last at most 40k km. But then the roads here aren't exactly the best.

Not just tyres, even things like oil, filters, engine mounts etc need to be changed more frequently where I'm at, compared to Western countries.
> Was there any serious group claiming otherwise? The powerful are usually fairly obviously moving to keep wages low, and the poor are usually complaining that the powerful are moving to keep their wages low.

Depends on the country. In the US, the powerful have become influential enough to make the poor fight against each other (under the guise of "The Right VS The Left") instead of realizing that both groups have a common enemy that is manipulating them very successfully.
They are carefully spun around using Carbon nanotubes
If a video with 668,024,599 views that someone claims to own copyright to, along with all the revenue for doesnt trigger a human review, then nothing will. They arent even trying at that point.

I expect that when the algo struck the content that revenue was moved from the account of Lofi Girl to the fradulant claimant.
I use https://runbox.com/ based in Norway
https://www.politico.eu/article/euro-fall-parity-against-dol...
Which distributed database systems would serve this function?
Is this illegal? Maybe if they destroyed evidence that would be.

It's like if I told you "I use Veracrypt" what for? Am I bring investigated?
There is a corollary, or a parallel, if you will.

If violence is not a solution, you're not using enough.