skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A lot of those "western European" products are actually manufactured in Eastern Europe by cheap Eastern European labor.

No. If you go to any supermarket in the east you'll find mostly German or French made products on the food shelves. A lot of the local made products became "illegal" after joining the EU. Now it's better and we have more local products but the trade deficit is still huge.

>political headaches

Funny how poor eastern countries not wanting to be abused by rich western ones and their corporations and using their legal voting rights in the EU, are considered "political headaches".

Ohh, poor rich western companies. How dares the est stand up for themselves and not bend over to their rich overlords?

The west should have realized that you can't have a balanced democratic union when some countries are constantly being milked and treated as second class citizens in a theoretically equalitarian union ruled by the rich for the rich.
Is it really a problem? Journalism costs money, and directly funding it rather than tying it to advertisers avoids some potential conflicts of interest and misalignment of incentives.
Elephants have gratitude, can sense human death, and can mourn their human protector and friend.

That is spiritual in a way. Or more spiritual than many humans.

Sources:
1: https://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/saying-goodbye-elephants-hol...
2: https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/elephant-pays-...
> Win 11 doesn't have third-party ads of any kind,

This is flatly untrue.

It preinstalls Spotify, Disney+, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, and a tonne of other tools.

A list with screenshots:

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/windows-10-bloatware/

If you want to argue that preinstalled links to 3rd party websites, prominently displayed in the Start menu, do not count as "ads", then you are acting in bad faith and your arguments can be dismissed.

A bundled link to external properties is an advertisement.
> They care about lots and lots of money.

What better lesson could the colleges teach them to prepare them for the business world?
I guess the main purpose of the submission has been lost, as HN resolved the redirect ahead of time. https://seven.zip redirects to 7-zip.org .
Important context for those reacting to the headline:

> The DPC, which oversees the EU operations of most Silicon Valley firms...

Ireland has found itself the de facto privacy regulator for these companies in the EU...
Yes. It lists one single product. It tries to wrap some semblance of legality by referring to 15 CFR 7.4 (a list of foreign "adversaries"). If they really cared about such legality, they'd have banned every app from every country in that list (most of which would be illegal in the US anyway).

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-7/subp...
Some rando's Wikipedia edit is not relevant.
> How long can it do, say, 250km/h for?

Presumably well under an hour, with air resistance increasing quadratically.

> because the battery pack had to be small

Its 120kWh battery is quite large by industry standards, even exceeding that of the Lucid Air.
I should say that it is very easy for a runner to sustain heat injuries. This can be the moderately fit guy at the end of a 10K, or Alberto Salazar in danger of his life after winning a race on Cape Cod.
I assume this post was to show a new URL - seven.zip - with the new gTLD .zip being popular news the past week?

Sadly it seems the address was 'corrected' and instead was posted as 7-zip.org

If you go to https://seven.zip it does indeed redirect to 7-zip.org :)
It is hard but so worth it. It is hard to overstate how good it is. The pedagogy,
the charisma/style, the fact he cofounded openai and worked for Elon but is a
modest as say a math tutor popping into your house to teach you some math!

There is a great discord community attached too which makes a big difference.

What is missing from this and another course I did and is very hard to find is multivariate calculus on linear algebra. I feel motivated to create a resource on it because its pretty hard. For example
how to differentiate matrix operations where broadcasting has been involved. Not just the how but really grokking it into working memory.
Did HN resolve the redirect? The domain https://seven.zip redirects here.

I was wondering why this submission with this name, when the page title is 7-zip and the download is a .exe and not called seven.zip or so, but then remembered the recently (stupidly) approved TLD that is .zip

Edit: well https://i.snipboard.io/uAo7BG.jpg
Loved the placeholder that you have to delete, that's a classic

The form field didn't reset to default values when submitting something that doesn't pass validation, that's probably a little too convenient.
I would recommend installing opnsense on any old desktop PCs you have lying around. Get an intel LAN card with two ports (or more) and you'll be golden.

OpenWRT is fine but I've found that if you're shopping around for devices it's hard to find ones that will do 1gbps with traffic shaping enabled for an affordable price.
Then I was probably remembering the server side statistics.
You are right, I shouldn't have made it sound as if I am blaming china. The issue lies entirely with those ordering and selling low quality products made there. But that doesn't imply china is only making low quality products or indeed that it's them pushing their products to europe.
A perfect use case for git branches (one for each developer) and cherry picking features into the main branch. Git makes it almost impossible to make a negative contribution, except maybe for security stuff.
I think there's some distinctions that need to be made. IMHO, Literate programming can be an umbrella for a bunch of different things.

Is it "notebook" style programming, like Mathematica, matlab, Jupyter, and markdown-based stuff like R/python + Quarto? In this mode, I think the focus is more on creating a document or communicating stuff typically with data analysis. And actually, "literate" is a very apt adjective for something that's ultimately intended to be a document of some kind.

Or is it more general intended for writing arbitrary software applications and having everything in the source code? In other words, to understand the source, you just read the source and there are no other documents.

The latter mode, I think, is still very much not around as far as I know (academic proof-of-concepts for papers don't count :-) ). Will it ever really exist?
Usually some standard like WLPT (or NEDC before it came around) is used.

Though Rimac does mention on their site that proper WLPT testing has not been done yet so the "final" range will be updated later.

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

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

Also I highly doubt the battery can even discharge fast enough to fully run it out in 3 minutes.
OP: Why are you reading advertisements as admonishments? Ignore the adverts, problem solved.
Think of Chinese as one script but multiple languages. The spoken languages have about as much diversity as European languages, but they all share a mapping to characters which are meaning based, not pronunciation based.

So you can use Mandarin pinyin, (though there are a lot of homophones) to serialize to a pronunciation, it wouldn't be understandable by a Cantonese speaker.
AI is coming to Google search through Search Generative Experience
Yes, I know. And I appreciate that Xamarin Forms probably contributed to Maui, which is part of .NET. But I was specifically asking about Mono.
Yes, about the new TLD. Seems like HN resolved domain redirect and changed link to 7-zip.org

I was actually hoping for 7.zip :)
USDC's Circle Moves $8.7B to Repo Agreements to Protect Reserves from US Default
When I was in high school I could ace most of it without studying at all. I thought it was great at the time, but the shitty part - only apparent later - was that I failed to develop good study habits.

When I started at university in a technical major, it was a real kick in the teeth. The material was substantially more difficult, but the hardest part for me - and the biggest piece of learning - was the realization that I had to study consistently and be purposeful about managing my time in a way I never really had to before I got there.

My grades freshman year were abysmal. But they also helped me internalize that I needed to buckle down and put in the work. I'm glad that that happened in a relatively forgiving environment like school, instead of in the workplace.
Love this! There used to be a similar site on HN some time ago, something in a sense "How I see internet these days" and endless pop-ups kept on annoying you. Anyone remembers that?
I would say the average ultra runner is probably less hard on their body overall compared to someone training for / regularly running fast marathons (~3 hour and below). Both are probably running a lot of base milage at an easy pace. Marathoner is probably putting in more speed workouts, running on pavement / asphalt / concrete. Ultra runner is probably spending more time on soft surfaces and running with less repetitive motion on trails and is more likely to be doing some supplemental strength training and hiking hills.

Anecdotally for me, running ultramarathons has been a net positive. The 50+ mile races themselves are probably not good for you (potentially loss of sleep, operating into and past exhaustion, running high calorie deficits while cramming mostly junk food in just to get enough sugar and electrolytes to keep moving, risk of hyponatremia or dehydration, etc.), but the training leading up to it is. Regular checkups and a visit with a cardiologist for an unrelated (genetic) condition point to me being quite healthy despite not going to a lot of effort in other areas of my life. Heart is in especially good shape.
> python3 is almost universally available on distros that are not minified deliberately (containers)

Writing control scripts for use inside containers is currently my biggest application of BASH scripts. What makes BASH (or other shells) handy is the lack of supporting files that are needed - just copy in the script and you're ready to go.
Additionally, there are many hedge funds purchasing houses to rent. This has priced so many young people out of the market that the media has finally noticed the younger generation is skipping children because they can't afford kids.
Exceptions for languages where rapidity of speech really varies according to context, such as in Spanish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&pp=ygUceW91IGFyZ...
It's not exactly main stream but there are groups like Graphic Audio doing great work that will probably lead down this road.

They do a full cast audiobook with sound effects, music, etc. and they tend to be altered slightly to work in the medeium - would not be surprised if the differences continue to grow.
First part of a blog post on data augmentation using SIMBAR.
Have a friend that ran this. He said it was a blast - watching the sunrise, the time up in the mountains, and coming down out of them especially.
Right now, I just use the ISP modem/router combo. DOCSIS. Plug as much into ethernet as I can, mobiles and tablets on wifi. Laptop even using a dock for work, much more stable than wifi as I am in an apartment.
Yeah not sure, growing up we had a swampy area of our property covered in it, was really fun to run through as little kids and cut them down with stick swords. Our parents finally realised they needed to sell the property and eliminated them all over two years, not sure what the big issue is.
I think it's an entirely acceptable solution for non-technical users who don't know how or cannot be bothered to improve the scenario. Personally I would never run Asus/Netgear/Zyxel/etc's all-in-one router firmware on the network's edge. Probably not even on the inside of the network.
I agree with this sentiment quite a lot. Solaris and IRIX have very special places in my heart (Solaris especially). Yet, Linux has two things that no other *nix system has had: unbelievable momentum and availability. It doesn’t quite have the elegance, the polish, or the charm of Solaris or IRIX or even … AIX, but it’s something I can use on almost anything, and it’s super easy easy to get my hands on.
At least nine dead and 20k homeless in Italy’s worst flooding in 100 years
These essence of this is loose intangible promises years in the future. It's incredibly easy to write down "we plan to be better in the future once I've retired". Doesn't mean much.

> Mr Jansen said BT would become "a leaner business with a brighter future", with the firm planning to get rid of between 40,000 and 55,000 jobs by 2030.

> The cuts break down as:

> More than 15,000 cuts as BT completes building fibre networks in the UK

> More than 10,000 as new UK networks require less maintenance

> More than 10,000 from using new tech including AI

> About 5,000 from restructuring
Excited to see how it will progress.
Of course it doesn't get looked down upon, that's absurd. The most socially unacceptable thing for a woman to do is not have kids.

Something like 85% of people over 40 have children - it's literally what the vast majority of people do.
Is there any information on why this started happening in the last 2 days? Without any change to the firmware? Considering flashing asuswrt-merlin to avoid this in the future.
> The hardest part about being a new college student, Malak said, "is not the coursework. It's learning how to be an adult."

Maybe there should be courses in "adulting." Then again, this is about non-tech schools, isn't it? Probably too practical.
> you are suggesting running is bad for you? Analogous to drugs and alcohol?

No, not in the slightest.

> I dont think that is typically why people run

Nor do i, i think some people have this as a reason to run, and this, i believe, increases as the type of running becomes more extreme
How Meltwater Uses AI
I’m just as ignorant if not more so! :)

could Chinese be written phonetically?

A bit of Wikipedia research suggests possibly yes, this is basically what pinyin is.

Although others in this thread are saying you would potentially lose meaning that way. Surely that would only be the case for written text that’s ambiguous when spoken aloud? Which I can’t think of a situation where that would be a serious problem except for intentional puns.
They should really tune down the tax breaks too though. They're basically screwing the rest of Europe by allowing these companies to avoid taxes in the whole EU. Just for a few measly jobs (even Apple only has a few thousand employees in return for literally billions of revenue going through the country). https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/25/european-...

That money could really have been put to good use in the EU. The EU should present a more united front here IMO instead of allowing companies to cherry pick countries and make them compete against each other for the lowest tax rates.

Cory Doctorow had a good article about it a few days ago: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-o...
Voice synthesis AI has gotten pretty impressive: https://www.audiostory.ai/2065785/12139903-a-fragment-from-t...

I listen to a lot of audiobooks and have definitely sampled some with narrators I found harder to listen to than that.

That said, there’s a sort of droning evenness to the voice that makes me unsure I’d want to listen to an entire book’s worth, and the voice reading Gatsby is way better than the voice reading Alice in Wonderland, which I definitely couldn’t listen through.
'YouTube on connected (smart) televisions is adding 30-second "non-skips." These unskippable ads will appear on YouTube Select content, which is what the company deems to be the top videos. This longer format allows marketers to "use existing assets in front of the most-streamed content."'

'The second big announcement are ads that appear "when people pause a video." What you’re watching will shrink and an advertisement will appear next to that window. In the example provided, we see an "Ad" that’s labeled with some text and a QR code. There’s a "Dismiss" button at the bottom to presumably return to the normal fullscreen pause screen, or you can just hit play again to resume.'

We are quickly approaching the "drink verification can"-level of ad injection and user hostility: https://i.redd.it/t9hsu8y6cts11.png

Sony wants users to play an "ad game": https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

Google wants you to acknowledge an ad to unpause a video.
Most modern sports cars with proper brake fluid (higher boiling point) and some heat management have no problems with brake fade in steel discs. Many that track their GT3 / GT3 RS (Porsche 911) prefer steel discs due to the maintenance cost of carbon ceramic and properly designed steel discs perform just the same as carbon ceramics because the brake fade isn’t a big problem, even in a pretty extreme application like this.

Not sure if the Rimac really needs anything otherwise as well. Plus, it has regen braking and a crazy cooling system to help there. Parents math was off about the amount of energy also.

My car has carbon ceramic brakes (GT3). Two reasons: don’t need to be warmed up for full stopping power and way less brake dust. That is the only advantages in practice. On the track warming the brakes up is easy.
If you're worried about autopilot, The button should move around so that auto pilot clicks have no effect, not change meaning. Or, require text input to confirm an action.
Korean language dropped Kanji altogether postwar, and one of funny anecdote circulated on the bad parts of Internet in 2000s was that a cause of a minor train fire in South Korea was that a requirement of fireproof wood was misinterpreted as incendiary wood, because the language relied on Kanji for distinction between those. CJK languages could be used in phonetics only, sort of as in backup mode, but not really.
Programming in Find(1)
Yes! Me too! A quite inadvertent side-effect of audiobook listening on the go, you end up accidentally creating 'memory palaces'. On the other hand, if you tune out somewhat the story continues without you so sometimes you can end up missing a fair bit.
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I mean, yeah. You give up one thing and gain another. For instance, it would be much easier for people speaking those other "dialects" to learn to speak and understand putonghua, if they were seeing a phoenetic form of putonghua all around, rather than seeing characters which they read in their own words.

Alternately, we could all replace our spoken languages with Chinese characters. Then we could all read Chinese subtitles, and reach each others' languages to some extent.

But I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone not already using Chinese characters for their own language who would consider the benefits worth the cost. It seems to me (as an outsider who's been studying the language for a few years) a sort of linguistic "Stockholm syndrome".
And so because a Windows person was carless 40 years ago, we still have poor pattern today.
The one that people came up with in the 1990s. There are quite a number of implementations to choose from. The shame of this hitting ASUS in 2023 is that this is a long-known problem and a long-since solved one. I have vague memories of grumpy posts on Usenet about this. It's that old a problem; and it has been solved for nigh on a quarter of a century.

See https://jdebp.uk/FGA/do-not-use-logrotate.html for everything from Bryan Cantrill to comments in GNU source code. (-:
Self care is kind of a silly stupid term but “self” is definitely the most important part. Humans are very different so what everyone needs is going to be different as well. Lots of people need regimen and structure and goals, and for some people pushing those things drives sales and engagement metrics so those things are what gets pushed as self care.

Self care or just taking care of yourself. It can be whatever you want it to be and exactly what you describe. Sometimes it actually means being a little bit “selfish”.

Personally I’m intentional about it and it involves none of the things you describe. For me it’s blocking out part of my work week for unstructured thinking, or making time on the weekend without the usual family agenda. It sounds silly but learning to be intentional about doing nothing has helped me handle stress really well. No marketer is gonna to tell you to do that, but a therapist might.
It's normal to not encrypt it, in my experience.
The garage could be the coldest area in the building, or the hottest. Things happen, too...dust clogging ventilation, animals build a nest around it, router placed near refrigerator coils, etc.
> Yes, Apple is not only pro-accessibility but basically sets the standard for it. Nobody else even comes close.

That attitude summarizes the problem, thanks. Those who have actual accessibility issues and explain them are dismissed by Apple and their zealous fans as if their opinions, as actual end users struggling to use the product and asking for particular accessibility features, just don't matter.
Mirth is so useful for debugging, though.
This is what my nightmares are like. I have to do something simple like fill out a form or unlock a door, and everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong
If I'm typing in a doc then Ctrl-? and type the name/keyword for the feature I want is much easier then navigating through the zoo. The zoo is fine when I don't know what I'm looking for and I can browse the pictures for inspiration.
It's in a pull-out drawer display covered in glass. I'll ask the curator for more info.
> Pierluigi Randi, the president of Ampro, the association of weather experts, told La Repubblica it was the worst flood to affect Italy in a century. It followed flooding in Emilia-Romagna and parts of Marche in early May in which two people died. Six months’ worth of rain fell in two weeks.

> “We need to prepare ourselves, this is the climate crisis,” Randi said.

> Before the latest floods, Emilia-Romagna and other areas of northern Italy were blighted by a drought that dried out land, reducing its capacity to absorb water.
It's worse than this. EPIC will have its own conventions, but then each hospital system will have its as well. It is the least rigorous data environment I've ever worked in.
IT worker sues her boss believing 'xx' in email were kisses
I have tried a few blog posts with literate style code. Some in a notebook style, like https://taeric.github.io/cube-permutations-1.html. in general, that style seems easier nowadays.

There is Stanford GraphBase, and a really good MP3 book that are full programs. Not to mention TeX.
'Dog Strangling Vine' is a nasty invasive in north america.

https://www.invadingspecies.com/invaders/plants/dog-strangli...
I think they were just making the more general point that most language are very context-sensitive.

“Dear” and “deer” if you want an explicit English homophone.
I've been reading the book and I agree with you regarding the book being very specific to a type of company culture. I still find some of its ideas useful, not because I didn't think about them before, but sometimes it helps to organize your thoughts when someone else is talking about them out loud. Not a life changing book but useful still.
Most desktops I've come across tend to be louder and draw more power than consumer routers. That could be important for some.
I could not help but notice the conspicuous absence of notebooks.

That is an excellent resource. Thanks very much for posting [and thanks to everyone involved in the original compilation].
Prompt it to be information dense in its response then.
Congress Should Restore R&D Tax Deductions to Help US Compete
And I agree with Bester.
I know, it is amazing streak of abject failures of climate change predictions.

I pity all those who downvoted me (which is one, so far).
Palm 2 Technical Report
I won't say they never ran OpenWRT, but I've used several generations of Unifi AP's and every one used unifiOS which is based on Vyatta. If they did run OpenWRT, they haven't in well over a decade.