skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These folks definitely deserve a pretty big penalty levied on them - but if the policy of giving out these sorts of amnesties isn't reformed we can expect a repeat. I'm concerned that the government is going to force all of the blame onto these contractors for political reasons and won't end up enacting any reforms of inspectors since it'd make Erdogan look bad.
I've recently been talking to a friend working at a large multinational for the last 10 years. They called him into office and presented him with a wooden plank with the number 10 inscribed on it. It almost pushed him to the edge to quit. Almost. Meanwhile, I've spent the last 10 years out in the world, helping companies grow, running my own stuff, learning, traveling, exposing myself to new technologies. I love it. I also make a lot more money than he does. I understand where you're coming from, but the ability to pivot doesn't end with a downturn, and after all is said and done, it depends on the individual. I'd grow bored out of my mind working for 10 years on the same thing, regardless of compensation.
If you’re going to do the second job thing I highly recommend founding a software consultancy so you can be upfront about the fact that you have multiple clients. If you’re good and you attract clients and other good people to work with you, you can make a lot of money.
I think the grandparent was really referring to extremities at the tips of the two wings - the cargo culting 'democratic socialist' movement the DNC pays lip service to, and the extremes of nationalist'USA first' 'patriots' the RNC pays lip service to and the DNC's coastal media corp friends love to endlessly frightened their viewers about.
> There's basically zero carbon on the moon.

I can see the end of certain rituals on account of that little fact.
The "Thought Emporium" channel on YouTube has been exploring this kind of DIY gene editing, up to engineering a yeast with CRISPR technology, and inoculating it himself to cure his lactose intolerance. Very interesting channel in general with a hacking approach to bioengineering.
I may be wrong about the regulation of this, but in effect that's the case. Maybe it's what realtors consider bedrooms, but that's how our house was listed when we bought it and three different unrelated realtors told us the same.
If my example doesn't count, how about from the first link you provided: "A bedroom must be accessible from at least one common point in the house such as a hallway or living room. In most cases, a room cannot be considered a bedroom if it is only accessible through another bedroom in the home." This doesn't seem like a safety regulation, but a matter of what is considered appropriate these days - people shouldn't be walking through a bedroom on the way somewhere else.
Lookup Marvis app. It's an Apple Music replacement UI meant for heavy album listeners, really improved my everyday music listening experience
>"So we are shifting to focus on tightening our spend and becoming more efficient."

Ah yes the pivot to "efficiency"! This has practically become a meme at this point. It's like the rallying cry of CEOs presiding over money furnaces everywhere.
Not according to republicans
You could look at it a different way: a more accurate nuke means a nuke that's targeted at military facilities and not sized 10x larger and aimed at "everything around that city over there".

If it was ever used, that work saves lives.
You should check out Culdesac[1].

[1] https://culdesac.com/
Can’t get audio to work on iPad (could be human error).

Beautiful and simple interface, dark mode would be cool.
Appreciate you making this and sharing, thanks.
That was the weird part about our city: they simply did not offer it.

Literally every family was expected to have a car, and get their child to school in a car... or somehow have them walk, but apparently not too far, since temperatures would routinely dip to single digits Fahrenheit throughout the winter months.
> and never failed to mention it in social gatherings as if it's something to be proud of.

No, you did. You shouldn't be proud of sticking around at a company you have no plans of being a leader at or having meaningful equity. It makes you sound like an idiot. Who can't multiply 2% inflation by the number of years someone has been at a company and do a little math?

For as insufferable as this person sounds, they should be proud of not letting businesses screw them over.

Don't tell me I'm thinking "too small about financial compensation" when people literally cannot afford homes.

This boomer stuff has to go. You think these gen Z kids care? They're even smarter than millennials. They learned "FYPM" from the get go.
If 95% of the Google searches I made were great, I wouldn't have stopped using Google. My experience is more like 10% of the Google searches result in something close to what I'm looking for before the third or fourth page.
I'm honestly surprised that Apple didn't choose Vietnam

There are some Apple products already being made in Vietnam. I believe that some iPhone work is going there soon, as well.
There were quite a lot of videos from survivors of collapsed buildings now with testimony about blatant violations. For example stores opening in bottom floors who simply remove columned and load bearing walls to open up the store space.
When the violations aren’t merely corner cutting or negligence during construction but that clear, then testimony, photos (from said store) should be pretty easy to find. The investigation obviously still needs to find who was responsible, but at least it’s just a legal investigation and not a technical one.
Post-production QA is an industry problem in general - the difference between systems is who does the QA.

In the dealership model - after transit, they do a once over and post-production/transit repairs before the car appears on the lot. So much so that most states wrote legislation to limit repairs allowed while still being called "new". (often ~5% of the retail value of the car). Note that dealers also pay wholesale rates on the cost estimate for that, so this can be quite large repairs.

The T* direct-model should put the SC in that same spot. Bug is they're not doing the work - probably the emphasis on throughput incentivizes the wrong behavior. All too often the the SC tries to palm-off problems and/or the consumer has to do drive QA. Fixing it means the customer is on point - obviously YMMV.

IMHO this is a huge gap and flaw. Unfortunately OEM dealership behavior is so predatorily atrocious that even this flaw isn't enough to overcome the otherwise positive T* sales experience. I now know how few signatures are needed to buy a car in my state. I have zero intention of participating in the "sit outside of a finance office for an hour, no I don't need Scotchgard, interest rate manipulation" routine ever again.

Dealerships often talk about "relationships" - this BS sales talk - we're just prey to them.
It seems under acknowledged by the “share the road” signs, or bike lanes that are in between car lanes.
Pocket Casts is what I use, lots of useful features like silence trimming, voice amplification, organizational tools, chapters, and programmable skipping of intro ads. Recently open-sourced as well.
I got 0 hours notice -that's fairly common, in the US. Usually, you aren't even allowed to go to your desk, and collect your stuff. You have to schedule an appointment to come back, after work hours, and be escorted there by a security guard.

I (and my team) already knew it was coming. The writing was on the wall, and we had our affairs in order. My Japanese manager appreciated it. I think the American HR manager was a bit disappointed that there wasn't much of an opportunity for the casual bullying and shaming that they do, in these circumstances. The last HR manager was OK. I had zero respect for his predecessor.

HR had the highest turnover of any department in the company. I tended to have a somewhat adversarial relationship with most of the HR managers, but the one that I respected most was fired in an explosion, more than twenty years ago, and now manages a much more prestigious organization. I sincerely wish her well, and she has my respect; little as I'm sure that means to her.

In Marketing and Sales organizations, it's common for people to be walked out the door, immediately after handing in their resignation.
So the 254nm referenced by the linked product could actually reduce the amount ozone in the air? Assuming of course it wasn't also emitting lower frequencies.
Yikes! Thank goodness you got through it, and hopefully they've started offering buses or there are bike lanes in your city.
I see Russia as aggressive middle power with nukes which tries to be a regional hegemon. (sorry for the Mearsheimer jargon)

You can't fight it down completely, because of nukes. You can't destroy Russia's military industry.

I would treat it as a smaller and lighter version of the Soviet Union. NATO did not interfere in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland back then. These countries are free now which is great.

Countries like Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan should try not to poke the bear and should not gamble that NATO will bail them out.

This is bad. Maybe it will get better with smart politics but it sure get's worse with bad politics.
> I make money from the secondary effects.

Are you even reading my comments? Because yes, you do, that's the whole point. I said as much in my last one. That's exactly what makes your opinion in this matter essentially worthless.

If you read on, you'll see that I also anticipated your slur against novelists as being "afraid", or whatever---inferior to you, in any case. It honesty astounds me how willing some people in the tech world are to make pronouncements like this, mistaking their ignorance for insight. I am willing to be convinced that somebody who's not a working artist has meaningful insight here, but you're convincing me of the opposite.

> Does it? It's really hard to make a living writing novels.

Why don't you go ahead and tell me that there is nobody who depends on selling their novels for a substantial portion of their income?
This is one of those cool ideas that is much easier to grasp with some animated visuals. I haven't found one for this specific application, but adjacent work in using sound to move small objects is seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpNbyfxxkWE , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXVSdXZzpc , and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWP-NL3Lck

Controlling the motion involves a lot of prediction and wave modeling, which should be a perfect application for high-performance computing.
You blame an app not built to run on Proton to be the issue? EA desktop / origin works just fine on Windows, I use it since 2013 without any issues.
Some of the complexity is, unfortunately, introduced by grugs, because complexity smarter than grug and sometimes pretend is simple.

Couple months back, I read an article that made a bold claim: that the old wisdom saying most software is IO-bound stopped being true some time ago; instead, most software nowadays is CPU-bound, typically on parsing JSON.

JSON is something that may seem simple to grug, particularly a webdev grug. So simple that they'll use it for structuring and exchanging data everywhere. But while on the API side it seems simple, actual JSON parsers and serializers are quite complex, and the format itself expensive to parse and wasteful[0]. All that complexity gets silently embedded into everything, and the overhead at runtime is paid at nearly every step and nearly every level of software stacks, even though most of it isn't even needed.

That's the failure mode of grug understanding of simplicity. Sometimes a little more effort up front yields much lower total complexity.

(Also, eliminating complexity is good. Shifting complexity from developers to users is criminal.)

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[0] - It's better than XML in most scenarios, especially scenarios in which neither of them should be used in the first place.
SD cards are flaky in general.
I'll echo others that saying that adding this all together doesn't amount to much. They would still travel a lot (probably first class) so making them use airliners would amount to some savings, but not necessarily as much.

In an alternate reality where private jet ownership was outlawed, they would just charter flights. Or, if only jets were forbidden, they would take (far more efficient) turboprops.

This kind of thing also shifts the conversation from where we should be looking at. Industry is where most emissions come from. That includes farming.

However, it's a bit hypocritical when some of those that are flying on private jets for trivial reasons ask normal citizens to change their thermostats and bike commute. Sure, some plane trips may be unavoidable, but other than that they they should be sharing public transportation with everyone else, at the very least.
Well yes, in theory, but I have not seen that demonstration for NAFTA.
Agreed, in part - and agreed with the other poster here that great products are both.

Google tends to suffer from the worst of both worlds: an over-abundance of 5-year plans that do not offer sufficient interim value to justify their continued work.

Part of this is bad projections - Google projects are often highly-ambitious multi-year affairs with some interim checkpoints like growth rate, but those numbers are usually poorly estimated, poorly sourced, wildly overly optimistic, and don't actually pan out. So when the team inevitably whiffs the checkpoints by a wide margin entire products get shut down. This is at least one of the larger causes of the leadership churn I described above.

But yes, if your idea is that you can have a 5-year budget to go do [insert big ambitious thing] and management won't cry about it, that's a fantasy.

That said, the opposite is also not a great way to pursue a product - which mostly rests on the theory that pursuing near-term improvements repeatedly naturally wins.

In reality you want a mixture of long-term strategy with short-term tactics. Product teams that are too heavily in one direction fail for it.
> ~300x an average American

Usage of average American on that page is 15.52. Not sure what the source is so I will use ourworldindata. It was 14.86 per capita in US in 2021. For example in UK it was 5.15 and in France 4.74 ...
And for good reason ... that's why they have bicycle lanes in west EU all over the place.
Thank you! I noticed on my iPhone that if it's on silent, the audio doesn't play — that could be it.
Most of this "gouging" is at the dealership level where prices are raised above the mfg prices. Hoping the company fails just seems asinine as a response.
> don't realize they do harder searches than what they used to do.

Perhaps, but that's still a good reason to stop using Google, because other search engines do better.
It seems pretty ridiculous for a government official to say "I am giving you permission to bypass these rules" and then arrest them for breaking those rules.

Sure, requesting an exemption may be an act of greed, but the role of responsible government is to say "No, those rules are there for a reason".

If developers legally bypassed regulations due to the government saying it's okay, the buck should absolutely stop with the government, and the question should be why they allowed those exemptions.
If you get a chance visit Amsterdam and rent a bike, fantastic city for biking.
It's interesting that a company that's at the top of the game is seen as less desirable than one that's a challenger. Objectively, a laughable challenger.

I understand it: we humans feel more excited by potential.

I suspect the feeling will fade in a few months, when things will have settled down.
I agree with you and just would like to note that me mentioning Ayn Rand came about because the original comment that I was replying to initially had her mentioned. The author must have edited it to remove her.
Not a HEMI, that’s for sure.
Why did you end up going with a Peruvian supplier instead of a Chinese one?
If only any of them made good EVs...

Or even better weren't trading one ecological disaster for another.
Agreed. It's also not the whole picture. Bill gates is pretty high on that list, for example, with 3,058.71 metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted. But he also buys DAC carbon capture to literally take those all of those (and all of his family's carbon footprint) emissions back out of the air. That's not even talking about the secondary effects of being one of the world's largest funders of green energy innovation.
My fear off cars has been going up recently, mostly because of extremely dangerous driving, aka people using their phones

I was rear-ended because the driver behind me was on their phone. When I am driving now, all I can see is the amount of people that are looking at their lap and completely ignoring the road. I have even seen people watching TV while driving.

This has made me, for better or worse, a really conservative and defensive driver.

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According to the windows sticker, the $19,045 price is after options and a delivery charge, both of which would have been added to the MSRP of any VW Beetle "back in the day".

According to this windows sticker a 1963 beetle cost $16,500 in today's dollars.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/931335.jpg

That's 1963. A 1973 optioned, delivered, Beetle (again, the cheapest car you could buy at the time) would have been closer to $18k, much higher than its MSRP of ~$12k. Not far off from the $19k of 2023 for an inexpensive automobile. But markups vary so much from state-to-state and dealer-to-dealer you can't compare and can only use MSRP as a "good enough" basis of comparison.

$16,500 -> $19,045 is a 15.4% increase and you get airbags, a backup camera, better gas mileage, and more reliability for your 15.4%.

Also, today MOST PEOPLE are paying 3-6% on a car loan. In "the good old days" it was 10-20%, depending on the year.

In 1972: "a bank charges roughly 10 percent annual interest to lend money on a new car bought over a three‐year period. A finance company, on the other hand, charges about 11.84 per cent over a similar period." https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/28/archives/personal-finance...

That's not, as the article puts it, "for the rich".
Mahindra is the #1 tractor manufacturer in the world.
Another thing I hated about podcasts when I used spotify: they still have ads. I find it pretty much intolerable to get ads on a paid service. But podcasts weren't near the top of the list of reasons I cut ties with spotify anyway. (Oh wait, actually their endorsement of Joe Rogan was very close to the top.)
Interesting, I didn't come across Tone.js until now. It looks like it handles a few more things than Howler. Most useful for the drum machine would be scheduling. I'm just using setInterval, which isn't guaranteed to be accurate, but seems good enough for my use case.

I want to build some other browser based audio/synth tools. I'll have dig into Tone.js more for one of those, thanks. I'm re-learning to code with these projects, but the goal is to build a multiplayer web-based modular synth.
According to chatGPT:

There is no evidence to support the claim that the British government ordered the filling in of ponds and lakes during World War II to prevent the German Luftwaffe from navigating by the reflection of the moon on the water.

While it is true that the full moon could provide some illumination for nighttime flights, especially with the use of specialized equipment like the Lichtenstein radar, the idea that the Luftwaffe relied solely on the reflection of water for navigation is a myth. The Luftwaffe had other means of navigation, such as radio beacons, compasses, and celestial navigation.

Additionally, there is no record of any official British government policy to fill in ponds and lakes for this purpose. It is possible that individual landowners or local authorities may have taken such action, but there is no evidence of a widespread or coordinated effort by the British government to do so.

Overall, this claim is false and lacks factual basis.
Depends on how many marketplaces and the performance of the entire rig, power is $0.139kwh where I am at.
We're not talking about a zero-sum game where there's X dollars for housing and either you house some people safely or house everyone. Turkey has been expanding it's military spending significantly since Erdogan came to power - it's not unrealistic to imagine some of that revenue could have been redirected to subsidized housing projects and the like.
There's one particular bike lane on my commute that I hate. There are cars parked all along the road and it's a single line placed 3-4ft away from the average car. Any above average sized vehicle or poorly parked vehicle takes up some or all of the "bike lane".

I refuse to cycle in it, but I can feel the judgement of every driver trying to pass me. I would much rather that cycle lane wasn't there.
No need to go way back ten years. A recall in the US a couple of weeks ago was because of eye drops made in India.

That said, India does produce massive amounts of pharma for export around the world. Just read the labels on the boxes in the drug stores.
Yep and I know this to be true because my family often vacations in places that have this as a core feature. It's easier in resort type areas for the reasons you mention. The freedom of biking and walking about is a great feeling.
“What would it hurt” is the wrong question. The question is “how would it profit them”?

If it wouldn’t, they have zero incentive to do it.
Ok, so what's your point here? Men are just too dangerous to ever be allowed near women? Women need to have their own bathrooms to feel safe, even though peopel raping or otherwise assaulting the same gender happens too?

This is all a flimsy as fuck excuse to hate on trans people.
Letter to a Young Biotech Founder
These are great. You're a good writer and have interesting experience on some tech that the general-public had exposure to.
> the same inflation-adjusted price

Unfortunately salaries have not been inflation adjusted for decades.
100% true for most people. I commuted by bicycle for decades and for me, I got used to it. But as time progressed and the number of autos, the size of these pickups and the road conditions, I can easily see why people are afraid. Also on the roads I commuted on, people started to drive much faster as time progressed. In 30mph (50kph) zones the ave speed now is around 50mph (80kph), back then people did not drive like that.

Another thing, when I was young, large trucks were not allowed to drive inside City Boundaries in my US State, plus they were not allowed on the roads on Sundays. But that ended when Regean forced my State to de-regulate their Trucking Regulations in the 80s.

So yes, I can see why people are afraid now.

But one positive, now-a-days I do not get bottles or cans thrown at me and dogs are much more friendly :)
>There is no concept of frequency in the color red

>>Red light has relatively long waves, around 700 nm long

Those 700 nm or ~428274 gigahertz is the frequency of red (as a human eye normally sees color) light waves.

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/visible-ligh...

>>Frequency is a measure of how often a given event repeats itself. In physics, it is commonly used to describe waves.

https://www.translatorscafe.com/unit-converter/en/frequency-...

>>Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency

You can scroll down and you will find "Light" and "Sound"

This is "our" visible spectrum, to the left increased frequency to the right increased wavelength:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency#/media/File:EM_spect...

>the concept of "waves" and come to the conclusion that these are waves you are looking at.

It's not a concept but:

>>a wave is a disturbance or variation which travels through a medium.

https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos/waves-intro/waves-int...

And stop with you wannabe philosophical BS, it sounds just uneducated even borderline clownish.