skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keyless ignitions or push button starts are just that, you need the key to start the car and not necessarily to drive it. Even with a keyed car the key allows you to turn the lock cylinder to start the car. Normally the lock cylinder also has a mechanism to hold the key in the cylinder when it's not in the off position but that mechanism has been known to break and wear out allowing the key to be removed while the car is running. Yes the car will continue to run without the key in the ignition it's all about the position of the lock cylinder.

I think it would be unsafe to spontaneously power down the car when the remote is not detected there could be all kinds of valid reasons that a running car may not detect the remote. That being said I would think if the car was running and it missed pinging the remote periodically a message on the dash would be a wise idea.
Europeans are infuriated by their governments' treatment of wealthy autocrats and oligarchs. They don't turn a blind eye any more than anyone else.
Resumes are like sales brochures, but for applications you should follow the instructions, see https://www.thebalancemoney.com/do-you-have-to-include-all-j....

There are many tech jobs out there that just ask you to send in a resume and cover letter and answer some questions. Saying it's technically possible to get an interview from sending out an unfocused 5-10 minute application to a big corporation using something like Taleo is not a strong argument in itself to do that.
People who complain about CRUD should also describe what they think they want. It seems to either cash out into zero boilerplate (no code) or something else that we seem to already have but just isn’t so compelling that it becomes ubiquitous.

CRUD is easier than ever and frankly not the pain point of software. Banishing boilerplate also isn’t a goal without trade offs, so it’s not a good litmus test to how good our tools are.
I would love more concentrated neighborhoods like I’ve seen in many places across Europe

many other places across Europe dont have this or most people arent conveniently located

but my point is that this doesn't seem to be an option at all in the US, unless you are in a nice development within one or two cities. not an option in the suburbs anywhere to my knowledge.
The quote you used says “food based on plants was the default.” Seems pretty deliberately worded to not claim that most humans never ate meat.
Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?
What was the best software (applications, services, frameworks, compilers, whatever) that you used during 2022?

For me, the following tools made my Windows development environment substantially better:

- Windows Terminal (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal)

- Windows Sandbox

- Visual Studio Code Remote extension

- Sublime Merge

- ImHex (https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex)
You just described the last 30 years of the US phone network.
The act of removing the DRM is illegal in a lot of places, and most definitely against the TOS of the store you bought your book on.

the OPs point was that you could've just downloaded it as well.
Both is illegal and downloading from one of the zlibrary mirrors is just easier and quicker at the end of the day.
Can Calibre deal with the newer Amazon DRM? I was under the impression that it could not at some point. Admittedly I haven't looked at either in years though so maybe that changed?
Why AI Turns Evil
It's wild how few have stepped up to making wifi, even now, while Espressif made it easy & cheap back in 2014. Nordic is just getting around to it, for example, with then nRF7002 chip announced this summer, but it's notably just a companion chip, has no microconyroller available for your application, & modules as compared to espessif are pretty pricey. It is at least wifi-6 ehich Espressif announced ~18 months ago but afaik still isnt sampling. There's a Realtek part but lacks the documentation/support to be hobbyist usablrle.

As for power consumption, yeah, Nordic is pretty good. I feel like Silicon Labs is often the primary pick for low power.
Honestly Ukraine is still largely fighting with 1970s tech and requesting the Abrams (first developed in the 1980s) and F16 (first developed in the 1970s) does not sound unreasonable. The fact that the 90s tech (javelin, himars, and patriot) basically can't be countered at all by Russian forces should demonstrate that the US and European allies would get more mileage by supplying the more advanced stuff.

On top of that, once Ukraine gets these offensive weapons, they can't use it to cross the Russian border to say, outflank the extremely Russian supply lines across the border.

The real unstated reason the US is not supplying these weapons is not fear of escalation with Russia. The US could supply stealth drones and newer tech with impunity and have a reasonable chance of getting that equipment back at the end of the war.

The real reason is to prevent China from supplying Russia with arms. The Soviets were able to beat Germany in the 1940s with Lend-lease and devoting 90 percent of GDP to conflict. If China gave Russia a blank check, the meat grinder would drag on for much longer and cost much more lives.
The problem is workplaces wanting all day presence like a prison and letting families including elder parents go to the dogs. Workplaces should be flexible.
No commuters? What city are you referring to? In SF, Muni is packed along my commute to the city. Probably there’s not as much commuting, but there’s certainly quite a bit.

Also, more dense housing actually usually means less commuting. That’s one of the reasons I generally support it. People living closer to work means less commute time resulting in less carbon as well.
>renters are home owners.

No, they are lease buyers. The lease (like the e-book purchase) is a right to use for a period of time. It's not equivalent to ownership.

(That's not to say I don't think the practice by Amazon is bad)
Discusses the ways that one's identity affects the art one creates and how the marginalized might be closer to the conditions needed to do such work.

"Art is fundamentally an alchemical process. It consists of a person transforming the pain, disorder, and struggle of his or her life into something beautiful. Not everyone can affect such a transformation, and thus we respect it even more so when it is done well."
I'd be cool to type something like `// spin up a lamp stack docker image`, and have below it the ghosted auto-completed command powered by chat gpt or something.

I'd go so far as to say all command line apps should have an -explain suffix, that doesn't actually run the command it just parses it and outputs how it understands it in plain text. Combined with the above to help avoid AI mistakes.
For much of pre-history it seems our diet may have been largely carnivorous.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24247
There are as many (or more) studies indicating that human coprolites contained more plant than animal matter. It seems it would depend largely on the season, climate, location, and other factors. Some human populations had little to no reason to hunt. Others more recently would have needed to hunt due to relentless cold conditions from long winters. We are opportunistic and diverse feeders. It doesn’t seem like there’s a clear advantage to eating animals outside of calorie density and availability when plants are absent.

It seems more helpful to view meat eating simply as diversification. Our plant based diets would have supported large brains, and they still do. There’s no clear reason to believe that eating other animals enlarged our brains.
https://dailynexus.com/2022-10-06/munger-hall-design-change-...

“As for the decision to move from 11 floors to nine floors, the campus has already constructed 1,500 beds so it allows us to both meet that [LRDP] goal and respond to input from our community about size and density. It also helps us to avoid any potential issues related to airport traffic,” Reyes told the Nexus in a statement.
Thanks for your reply, really. Please check my reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34174433

That is, if you so wish. I replied only today because only today I had it more clear what I wanted to say. Thanks anyway!
>Everyone sleeps better.

This is an absolute that is not true. Many people, even you, may - great! Others may not.
It seems a bit cynical to imply that people who care about mentoring juniors prefer to work in an office and selfish people prefer to work remote. Having mentored dozens of engineers, remotely and onsite, my evidence suggests neither approach is entirely superior for everyone, it depends on mentor and mentee.

It's just that, your preference - it doesn't have to be sinister or heroic, more or less effective. Some people prefer an office and some don't. That's valid enough on its own, isn't it?
Used Teslas will be eligible for a 4500 tax credit in 2023, I assume many are waiting.
You could. Lots of people do things like that. You could also live near public transportation that might change the definition of "near" for some workers. I personally have never gotten a new job in the same city as my last.
But also, it may not be you. It may be that you're working on stuff that, while it pays, is still stupid stuff. Maybe you need to find another job, not that pays better, not that is less annoying, but that does something that matters.

Take my world - embedded systems. I could work on telephones for the hard of hearing, that give (mostly older) people their social lives back. I could work on medical equipment that saves lives. I could work on airplane avionics, that also saves lives.

Or, I could work on the latest fad electronic toy for five-year-olds, trying to have it ready in time for Christmas buying.

One of these is not like the others. One means little besides money.

Then there's product life-cycle. Am I creating the medical instrument, say? Or am I adding the 42nd functional mode, that can be used in 0.2% of cases? Those 0.2% of cases really matter to the people who are those cases. There aren't many of them, though. Or am I on maintenance? That matters too, so that we can keep building the device for more customers. For me, my personality is that I like being earlier in the life-cycle - from prototype to initial release, maybe the first couple of major enhancements. After that I get bored. The work is still useful, meaningful work, but it's not as meaningful to me.

So it may not be programming. It may be that you're building something that you consider to be a waste, or that you find little joy in the part of the life-cycle you're stuck in.

I can't answer that for you. All I can do is recommend that you think about it.
You seem to imply that technological advances have made new forms of contractual agreements about property possible that are not covered well by existing concepts such as "buy" and "lease" and that therefore to extend the meaning of "buy" to cover app store or kindle purchases is reasonable rather than fraudulent.

What an app store or kindle "purchase" provides you with is exactly a lease. You gain a temporary right to utilize a resource (such as a particular physical or digital copy of a work) subject to various restrictions.

By contrast property rights always imply the ability to transfer (via sale, inheritance or gift or voluntary abandonment) as well as to in fact not transfer. Both of which are fundamentally lost here. You can't sell your kindle ebooks, pass them on to your children or even keep them if Amazon decides otherwise (as in the case of 1984).

And there is absolutely no technical or economic reason you can't inherit or sell a DRM protected work.
This is very interesting. I'm from Iowa, and several extended family members are traditional crop farmers (soybeans/corn). It seems that Acorn is geared towards small-scale organic/sustainable farms, but if there's a way to apply lightweight, capital-efficient robots to large-scale crop farming, you know, farmers are pragmatic, and they'd adopt readily. There are three big problems:

1. Weeds. My uncle's old cultivator sits rusting in his machine shed because he just sprays herbicides these days and running a mechanical cultivator is slow, weather-dependent, and hard to scale to hundreds/thousands of acres across several fields with different locations. Mounting a mechanical cultivator between the wheels on either side or devising some other system of weeding would greatly reduce the amount of spraying, and of course who cares if Acorn is slow? Set it and forget it, have it go faster when no weeds are detected, focus on where the weeds and wet patches are. Farmers don't like spraying herbicides, but they do it because it's legal and it's the only way to scale to current acreage.

2. Fertilizer. So much fertilizer is wasted and turns to runoff. Applying fertilizer precisely would be a huge boon to the Mississippi and the Gulf.

3. Irrigation. Some farmers in Wisconsin irrigate, but most in Iowa don't. Some parts of a field are wet, some are dry, but the air is usually humid. Using condensate to irrigate crop roots directly in dry areas of a field could prevent a ton of loss for farmers.

The solar panel and supercapacitor architecture is interesting, but it'd be great to see what could be done with some batteries (an array of ebike batteries?) that could be charged by the panels. With the assembly, allowing adjustment in the width would be useful to accommodate different row sizes, height clearance to accommodate different crops, and then mountpoints between the wheels on either side for different equipment/attachments. I'd think some triangle braces from the wheels to the side centers may be necessary.

It'd be great to see how well Acorn could deal with different grades and mud. There's increasing evidence that heavy tractors have a long-term detriment to fields due to soil compaction, so having lightweight robots would be very useful.
Is there evidence of actual active Roman "eradication" of Dacian history? It is not the Romans' fault that no history was preserved if nothing existed to preserve to begin with. We know a great deal about the Greeks before the Roman conquest because they already had a written historical tradition to be preserved.

Even if there were native written histories, without careful tending, history destroys itself through entropy over the centuries. For this reason, the vast majority of what the Romans knew about themselves is also entirely lost to us. e.g., only about a quarter of the books from the magnum opus of Rome's history of itself, Livy's "Ab urbe condita", are preserved today.
Why is it confusing to use “Ludwig” as a filter? Nobody is going to get confused what site they are on based on the name of a filter. In fact, it’s less confusing than having to rename filters for each product.
I think the picture is pretty clear at this point and further discussion is pretty pointless as it just results in the same points keep being brought up:

Junior/single/ADHD/work-is-social-circle: REMOTE BAD

Senior/married (esp with kids)/prefers-non-work-social-circle: REMOTE GOOD
Honorable mention: Not a gear, however 4(!) DoF with a locking mechanism (the spherical bushing expands both inward and outward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qnYgE-qNHU
Interesting. Apparently they had to do it or they wouldn't get FDA approval. Probably a necessary step for wide adoption. I'd still consider them vegan.

1. https://www.greenmatters.com/p/does-impossible-foods-test-on...
High-fat diet made Inuits healthier but shorter thanks to gene mutations, study finds

https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/high-fat-diet-made-inuits-heal...

There are other reasons, but Inuits also don't live long compare to others. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-inuit/inuit-lifespan-stag...
This is the first time I’ve ever seen the plane-boarding hunger games of sit-where-you-like referred to as a customer-friendly thing.
python package management
Wrong. Americans are consuming more fat than ever, with the excess primarily coming from vegetable oils (soybean oil being #1):

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/2/2/14485226/ame...

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/81355/December16_Fin...

Many Americans actually get between 10-20% of their daily calories from soybean oil alone.
One thing to recognize is that people who moved to SV for work, pretty much by definition, put career ahead of friends, community, and likely family. So it shouldn't be surprising that many of them will not like remote work if the whole reason they moved is nullified.

I feel lucky to have been born and raised in SV. I can have my cake and eat it too - remote work, in person work, whatever - and I can still go out and have lunch with friends I've had for 30+ years.
> and for Apple to not make product claims that it can't fulfill.

What claim did they make? AFAIK, their page on the oximeter always had a disclaimer (the current one says “Blood Oxygen app measurements are not intended for medical use, including self-diagnosis or consultation with a doctor, and are only designed for general fitness and wellness purposes”)
I wonder how the operational burden for a side project is.

One of my key worries is that if I sell my side project to real users, I have to patch it, I have to monitor it, I have to answer support messages and fix it if it breaks for whatever reason.
> Keeping and curating a list of sundown towns (or choosing some 3rd party who's list they like) is exactly the kind of issue big tech shouldn't be wading into.

I don't see why -- but if that's the case, they could simply offer a way to let users exclude[0] towns the user chooses. As a bonus, this would work for more than sundown towns. Let's say you don't want to go through a town where your ex lives, or whatever.

0: I really mean "increase the cost of travel through these regions" so the app will try to avoid them rather than never send the user through them.
You can do gpt-j

https://gist.github.com/navjack/32197772df1c0a8dbb8628676bc4...

I mean yeah after you set it up like this you still have to prompt engineer to get it to behave like a chat but I mean it's better than GPT - 2
I am waiting for the exact opposite. I love WFH, my team loves WFH. All of us will tell you how much more productive we are and Individually we might be. As a team…we are definitely not more productive and no one wants to say that uncomfortable part out loud.

Sooner or later that truth will trickle upwards and we will all be back to a commute and cubicles.
This reminds me of "The Books Will Stop Working" [0] (2019).

"Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next
week. The DRM'd books will stop working.

I cannot believe that sentence.

"The books will stop working."

I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time."

~ Rob Donoghue

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20297331
I like the idea of coupling sound to the page/slide. Would be even better if the audio was generated so that the transition was seamless.

To whom it may be of interest:

https://impress.js.org (visually similar to this project, with 3D)

http://2011.beercamp.com (depth? scrolling)

http://lissajousjs.com/ (A tool for programmatic audio performance in the browser using Javascript, demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBRqOp5ws58 )

edit: just thought they might spark ideas
Fun fact I found in an NYT article and LinkedIn: The current CEO Bob Jordan started at Southwest in 1988 as a computer programmer. From 2006-2008 he was EVP of Strategy and Technology
I'm in the same boat. But I was a pharmacist before retirement and I don't want to do that again. Also I live abroad now.

I want a remote job I can do for 20-30 hours a week. But so does everyone probably. I learned to code but not sure if there's any coding jobs that have such hours.
Curating Twitter is almost impossible. The most interesting accounts are also the ones that will occasionally tweet or retweet something that is likely to leave you angry, and after awhile you end up following enough of them that your feed will always have at least one person tweeting stuff that will just leave you feeling upset. My solution was to just walk away from the entire thing.
It takes time to learn, but I found it much healthier to have a social life primarily outside of work.

What happens if you change jobs? Get laid off? What happens if you make a big mistake and the social network you relied on is now angry at you? It can be way more of an emotional roller coaster.

Of course that’s not everyone! There’s still plenty of in-person jobs for people who want or need it but at least there’s more of a fair split now for folks who do not want that.
Indeed. Probably the only equally complex and old dynamic computing systems out there are railroad and federal economic ones.
Well, far on the "other side" are people who do coal running (black exhaust) and ICEing (blocking EV charging spots). So peer pressure (a very big thing at the extremes) has moved closer to the center, so that's one limiting factor.
Business. I cannot name them without exposing the vulnerability.
Posting here to plug jellyfin (and swiftfin in TestFlight) - it’s really nice to have a full FOSS option on the AppleTV/iPhone.

My issue with Plex is their unceasing dark patterns and attempts to monetize users. Forcing centralized accounts and constantly re-pinning their “value add” channels made me leave them. Also eroded my trust with them, I wouldn’t be shocked to learn that they log all the media I watch in their app…
The difference between that and sending your "modifications" back is that you have an explicit, intentional choice to make: accept the EULA or don't use the site.

I think that the walls of text do need to be reigned in in acceptance of the fact that it's absurd to hire a lawyer to review all of those contracts, but I also somewhat sympathize with courts' opinions of "So you think you could just use the product and the contract doesn't apply to you because you didn't want to... Read?"
Are books and video generally low probability as attack vectors then? Are PDFs harder to exploit?
> It's also feeling like you're a part of something that matters.

Maybe this assumption needs to change?

I do think you and the OP you replied to are correct about it being more difficult for junior engineers, but at the same time it selects for people who don’t need someone to tell them what to do, which would be a good thing for a company depending on the role and such.
Your tldr pretty well sums up that you are responding about your feelings and not the comment.

In his case there is an alternative. It will never be promoted.

You can limit stress and find many practices and supplements which reduce anxiety and cortisol.
Nobody is making this argument.
Yeah, but the non-rational parts of the brain aren’t good with negation. Reading “animal”, even when suffixed by “-free”, the brain feels it doesn’t want that thing with “animal” on it. Better give it something with “plant” on it.
It's interesting to consider how such a navigational instrument could have been more reliable than a compass in the far north where magnetic deviation becomes a serious concern, but where incredibly long summer days provide an opportunity for a trained sunstone navigator to shine (pun intended).
I'm not sure Bellevue or Moscow are that walkable. A walkable city is not just one where you can walk from A to B but where doing so is easy.

For instance, think about downtown Barcelona. You can go to a bakery one block away on foot, then to the supermarket on the way back, and have easy access to tram/bus/metro/bike in every other case. Sure, you often want to use the car, but for most cases it's not needed.

Within the US, maybe NY and parts of DC/Boston fit this... otherwise the lack of density makes it too inconvenient.
The challenge is finding enough people to go into the office. Companies got used to hiring anyone in their region, commute stopped being a consideration.

How many people are willing to pay an extra 1-2k per month to live closer to their job? How many of those people are the people you want to hire?