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Swedes of HN: is it true that Sweden is entrepreneurially successful?
I am German and I am kinda pissed off at how bad Germany is at being innovative and especially at being entrepreneurial. Our culture is extremely risk averse; just the opposite mentality of what is needed. I have been hearing about Sweden since forever, but I often dismissed it because both Germans and Americans tend to fetishise the place as this Aryan land of heavenly perfection. However, I have recently read some statistics and it does seem that Sweden is indeed over performing when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship.

And now my question is, why is this? I am fairly convinced it has to do with attitude and culture, more than the financial, economic or educational landscape, which is not that different from that of the rest of Europe. But what kind of attitude and what kind of cultural traits give rise to a successful entrepreneurial society? Another factor might be the Anglo/Americanisation of Swedish society; the willingness to use English and adopt American culture, maybe.

I would really love to hear some opinions from the Swedes of HN.
The professor did gloss over briefly the difficulty in making the system work for a large number of vehicles, before arriving at a viable "signature" idea, as the article describes. Sounds like an area with a lot of false starts (heh) and time consumption, and dead ends.
Death Knell for “Chat with Data” Apps
I'm no die hard apple fan, but you would think I was if you heard me talking about my 16" m1 pro. It's an absolute beast, battery for days, and I've never heard the fan spin up once. It would take a lot for me to even give another machine a chance.
or maybe all the continents were once one because it was just the full surface of an expanding planet
Great, so a Konami Code for cars. SMH.
> Are there counter examples to this where the exception might apply?

The "legitimate interest" basis for processing data is meant for things like security, fraud prevention, etc.

So more concretely, credit card buyers can't to opt out of data processing for fraud prevention, because that's what every fraudster would do. Or as another example, sites need to be able to log data like IP addresses for a reasonable time to figure out if they're under a Dos attack, or a password stuffing attack, etc, and to block abusive IPs. These can't require consent, because an attacker will not give consent. (And you can't just block everyone that withholds consent either.)

Legitimate interest is definitel not supposed to be used as "it's our legitimate interest to make as much money as possible", and it's kind of crazy how many companies have tried that. There's just no ambiguity to that.

But there is various interesting and ambiguous middle ground. Is a site allowed to claim legitimate interest in order to use Recaptcha to protect their login form? It is necessary to protect that login page one way or another. But there could be other ways to protect it with a smaller data footprint. Those ways might not be as effective, or they might not be more expensive, but obviously the law doesn't specify any kind of crisp criteria for just what tradeoffs are acceptable.
There was a doozy record heatwave in 1936 in North America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave

That year, North Dakota hit a record high of 121 five months after its record low of -60.
Right? Now imagine you're a solo developer, or a group of teenagers, trying to start a business from the proverbial garage in the EU. Still "meh"?

> Even if abandoning it to work on a new shiny project may be more fun.

What do you imply? Business needs cannot change because the law states so? Drive the company to the ground because some bureaucrat with no idea how open source software works decided so? Archiving GitHub projects prohibited by law?
Congratulations on successfully distinguishing rainbow capitalism from social justice. I don't think you're making the point you think you're making.
Comments like this make me appreciate living in a city that has a pretty comprehensive public transport coverage, and where bicycling is at least tolerable. The city you describe seems to be only usable by car.
Circular trackpad my goodness! I’ll also never go back to metal/plastic handrests on a trackpad after using whatever material is on a pixelbook and the crazy fabric-esque option on a ms surface - huge game changer.
Are you sure you're responsible for your doubt of societal drinking standards? There's been a shadow of teetotaling trying to creep into the historic human comfort habit, ever since the failure of prohibitionism. Abstention is just an insidious branch of social overreach, where my homemade beer is equated with the old soak waiting for the liquor store to open every day, and for whose benefit?

I present this not just to mock your position. I find your argument myopic, that you take drinkers for sheep ignorant of the world around them. For all the people that may be true of, none of them will be enlightened by you here - and this leaves your argument a holier-than-thou sermon preached to the choir.

We know we aren't immune to propaganda, but if you want to argue that alcoholism is a socially-mediated disease, you must not bury the lede.
Brings back memories of CS101 back in 1992.

They called this "modular programming" where "classes" were represented by opaque pointers and actions could only be performed on those pointers using the functions defined in the module.
Pal, I've seen wallet parking across several countries in the world. Latin American, Western, and Eastern Europe, I just got curious about where you live to never have seen it.

And to answer your question: No, valet parking is usually useful because the parking place is far from where you're going (usually a hotel or restaurant). Having the valet saves you the walk from the lot to the place where you're going. It is even more useful when it's raining and you're having a formal dinner.

The wait for getting the car back is also pretty short because someone radios a driver already in the parking lot to bring your car in most circumstances.
Copying someone who exercises is not cargo culting. There's a causitive relationship between excercise and health.
And a viable way to get to safety, including a full tank of gas, spare tire, and more water than you'd think.
Most federal grant I've worked with don't have internal milestones gating funding. That is taken care of by separate grants at each phase.

You might need to lay out your whole road map for the first grant, but but that entire grant only covers 6mo or whatever.
A technical look at ZeroNet
Half is taken by the university? How does that work?
Sometimes it's a lazy rich person tax, but sometimes it's required because there's limited parking, and the valets can jam the cars in double-parked (or more), since they can shuffle them around as needed.
> obscure paragraph you can look to see what was really said, possibly with the help of a dictionary

I pretty much guarantee that unless the translation is completely atrocious, what you will gain from this will be even worst. Languages just don't work like that. Trying to fugure out nuance or meaning from word for word dictionary analysis just don't work.
What's the value of the underlying implementation here? Is it just the ability to retrofit?

From a user perspective, this is "you need to physically be in the car and scan your thumbprint or type on a keypad to start it"; it seems like there are lots of simpler ways that such functionality be built into a car by the manufacturer that are just as secure, it's just that there's no demand for it.
At least here in the Nordics no one uses easily pickable locks for house or apartment doors. Those kinds of locks are mostly found in cheap padlocks and maybe bike locks. Doors usually have Abloy locks or similar.
Yes, you can absolutely (and we will have to) mitigate hot temperatures with building design, but only up to the point where you have wet bulb temperatures >35C over several days. There are heavily populated areas that are in real danger of having something like that happening, and this is what that would look like: https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-t...
Startups are competition. You're fighting with others to put up the best product in market. It's a race against time as well.
It’s about the trend of using censorship/silencing as a solution for everything, of hiding from opposing viewpoints rather than countering bad ideas with reasoned debate (and simply not feeding the trolls)

While a block button can have positive uses, you shouldn’t need one to deal with legitimate harassment in a corporate environment (you’ve got HR and disciplinary policies).

And a collaboration tool will cease to serve its purpose if team members start arbitrarily blocking each other over petty disagreements.

In non-corporate cases, well, there’s other collaboration tools you could use.

And why is this a significant issue for Mozilla?
I'm in a similar boat.

12 years experience as a dev, was previously making pretty darned good money for Canada. Laid off on early May. Starting a job on Wednesday that pays 60% of my old TC.

It's tough times out there.

That said, I had about 25 applications, and did interviews with only 7 companies.
> Lechmere

Nope. I was talking about Sullivan. davisr got it right.
I am in your camp but to my surprise I met a lot of people who love them so I can understand why editors include minimaps these days.

After the spaces vs tabs war calmed down let's see what will be the aftermath of the minimap invasion
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Do you remember how Firefox got over this?

By replicating IE's bugs and beating them at their own game. Now Firefox, for some reason, doesn't want to do this.
> On the other hand, at least for those of us with unreliable memories, lists are essential.

Wouldn’t an array be more appropriate if you are memory limited?
Car OEM are far as example of efficient work…
At those numbers, something is wrong with their process. Poor resume formatting/content, bad social skills during interview process. That's barely 2% call-back rate after an application.
Yes. As a multi-decade Firefox user who does donate to FOSS projects, I don't bother with Mozilla since they seem determined to spend it on everything except actually writing a browser. And if I wanted to donate to an organisation that actually advocates for digital rights (rather than being more interested in clutching pearls about how random communities moderate themselves), I'd go with the EFF or ORG
There's no moat in AI startups
The gzip approach is much slower at inference time because you need to compute the gzip representation of the concatenated strings (query + target). Intuitively, this should be significantly more than a dot product of two embedding vectors.
This just doesnt seem all that bad?
> I am fully in favor of walkable neighborhoods and reducing the need to drive. But lack of parking is just not a stressor that most Americans worry about.

Tell that to my local Facebook & Nextdoor groups.
How better sleep can improve productivity
Neovim isn't exactly downstream. It's a hard fork from ten years ago. They've gone their separate ways for a long time
Out of curiosity when last did you go through this? I've heard from a few friends that even dev is brutal right now with many places leaving listings open, but not filling them, hoping for a FAANG dev to come along.
Boomers who made bad investments instead of just saving for retirement. I sure would feel bad if those were raided to help alleviate the suffering of sick or bereaved people here, now. /s
New Glut City: New York mega-office landlords are panicking, pivoting & shedding
The Russians aren't risking their planes because they have very few pilots, who are under trained and their planes are very vulnerable to air defense without having as good of an ability to counter air defense radars.

Their guided weapons have also been shown to not be as accurate as expected, considering that despite all those cruise missiles, drone and satellite surveillance, they haven't really hit many critical targets, instead mostly just terrorizing civilians. For example, a year into the war, Russia had never hit the trains carrying weapons deliveries in from Poland despite them being a pretty obvious target for a guided missile.

A $10k drone taking out a $2M tank is a good trade, but that is also within the price range of JDAMs, which bolsters my point that this conflict has mostly proven western planning on what kinds of tech they need to conduct a modern war to be right.
As Joseph Weizenbaum pointed out, it's like saying there are a lot of rapes in Berlin, so why not be a rapist.
Being without targeted ads doesn't mean you can't do ads.

There was a time, not all that long ago, that targeted ads were simply impossible to do. And yet, ad-supported media existed nonetheless.

And there was a time when the vast majority of what you saw on the web wasn't ad-supported or behind a paywall. So clearly that model also works.
Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app
RIP Dan Kaminsky
At my work at the time (pre-pandemic) we used to have an EV valet - attendant would take your car, park it and then move it to an EV spot when one opened up, then put it back into normal parking - you would get a text with the location on each move.

It was quite nice and let me focus on work instead of worrying about charging and only initial paperwork (we had QR stickers on the car and keychain QR).

That's about the only time I've used a valet regularly.
If the enemy gets physical access to the vehicle that you're going to use to escape, you're already toasted.

And on the other hand, if you are ambushed, you don't want you and your unit to die because the soldier who had the keys just got fragged by the enemy and now you can't escape.
Lead tends to stabilize in-situ in most installations over time to be fairly safe and non-reactive.

Messing with it or changing the environmental equilibrium is often what what increases risk / makes it a non-negligible risk.

See also:

EPA's embarrassing DC screw-up where replacing chlorine with a "safer" alternative caused lead chemical pathways to reverse and lead levels to spike: years of deposits into non-lead infrastructure -from (previously removed) lead pipes- suddenly became unstable and began leaching back into water due to the chemistry change. The leadfree water system suddenly had a lead problem, because some one at the EPA decided that the chlorine system was a bigger problem than it really was.

Especially when it comes to these types of (potential) remediation projects, never assume that the unknown unknowns will be harmless, or even less risky than the no-build alternative.
Not to mention all of the mockingbirds that have learned the song of the car alarm. It's the most complex birdsong out there, so many mockingbirds picked it up while it was regularly sung, and now it's passed down from each generation to the next.
Wow, what a list. Eye-opening really.

The American Conservative (yellow) ==> The American Conservative is published by the American Ideas Institute, an advocacy organisation. It is a self-identified opinionated source whose factual accuracy was questioned and many editors say that The American Conservative should not be used as a source for facts.

The New Republic (green) ==> There is consensus that The New Republic is generally reliable. Most editors consider The New Republic biased or opinionated. Opinions in the magazine should be attributed.

This seems like a somewhat arbitrary double standard to be applying. As a reader of both news sources they are both biased, opinionated sources, and I don't think you can trust one more than the other. But one is green with "be careful this might be biased" and the other is yellow for pretty much the same reason.
It takes a lot less energy to cool down a dwelling than it does to heat it, due to the delta between the inside/outside being a lot lower when it's too hot vs when it's too cold (Which can easily go into the negatives).

Sure, it takes no technology to start a fire in an emergency, but that can't be done at a mass scale for non-emergency habitability without making the problem worse in the long run. AC can run from the very same energy that's heating up a dwelling, and power grids will need to be adjusted to incorporate more clean power sources.
how would you build an index over the gzip encoded data? seems quite different from building indices over vector embeddings.
Databricks vs. Snowflake: The Battle to Power Enterprise AI
It will if its more profitable, which it is.
It's totally possible, but not as a step change.

Heavy car traffic is a stable system that's actively unfriendly to pedestrian and bicycle uses. You need to slowly claw away space for bicycles and increase ridership; and then work to densify and intermix commercial and residential for things to work well.

It takes decades, and the initial steps make things worse even if the new equilibrium is better.
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Right, but we're talking about being extremely close to the point where these will fail due to unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures
Let me see if I understand this. By loading source / internal values, do you mean that the Rebol command substitution works with the AST directly?
Nobody wants anything average.
There are nice utilities for capping your CPU frequency on Linux. So, IMO it would be better to have the fan, set your cap low enough to not need to use it most of the time. Then if you do need it, you have the ability.
Sounds like https://deadmanssnitch.com with a bigger free plan, or is there a fundamental difference?
It's possible, I was able to use the method listed under (2) at [1] but it was a few hours of fiddling/restoring backups and even a "102% completed" message before I got it to work. I don't have my notes from the but I believe it involved a second profile at one point so probably pretty similar to method (3) in the end.

[1]: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202207100700_thunderbird-mbox-to-m...
This is definitely my bet on where things are going. And not just this particular example - i believe we will identify many recurring submodules and patterns in neural networks that can be extracted into conventional code, leaving a lightweight neural glue layer orchestrating them. This should be more efficient, faster to train, more interpretable, and more reliable, so better for users. But less mysterious, so worse for VCs.
Universities typically take 50%
And since it is positioned and looks like the Sublime Text minimap, I instinctively tried to click on it to scroll to part of the page, and was saddened that this does not work. That would be the most logical extension, that feature is really cool in general.
Most places that I have used a valet they had a number you could dial and they'd bring your car up for you then callback when it was ready.
Not if the air that you need to breathe has a wet bulb temperature >35C
Also this does nothing to hinder armed carjacking where the car is already running. These are way up since 2020.
Although I think everyone I know who lives in Boston/Cambridge owns a car because they either commute/visit to friends out to the suburbs or do regular weekend activities like hiking or canoeing out in the suburbs/mountains--which can also involve specialized transportation for car-camping etc. You can work around a lot of this but a lot of people don't want to if they can afford it.

I don't live in the city but I'd definitely own a car if I did.
Many things. Here's a list off the top of my head:

MySQL RDS acts like it's just regular MySQL minus SUPER privilege. So it will not accept various important inputs. For example, GTID state will be rejected. Even just pre-GTID log sequence numbers are barely supported. Various SQL SECURITY things are rejected. The suggestions for importing data using any of these features vary from scary nonsense (just ignore GTID numbers!) to absurd hacks (run sed on your mysqldump output to remove SQL SECURITY!).

The docs basically don't acknowledge that GTID matters in a RDS-to-or-from-non-RDS setup. The suggestions don't seem like they deserve to work. (Azure at least has some documentation for GTID, but it involves using fancy barely-documented APIs just to import your data.)

Replication will just break if you accidentally use a feature that RDS can't handle.

For something that could easily cost hundreds to thousands of dollars per month, I expected to be able to run an unmodified mysqldump and have RDS accept the output, process it correctly, and take my money. Nope, didn't happen.
Just to be clear, the only limitation imposed by the license is preventing someone from reselling a cloud hosted copy of the tool. The code is otherwise totally free to use fork / modify / etc...
Training, acclimatization, and adaptation. Probably not much different from any other endurance-oriented athletic pursuit.
Why can't we just let people in based on testing? Why do we have to punish Asians for other groups failure to prepare?

This is all insanity. Society is short on plumbers and electricians anyway, we should be focusing on those careers, not more Stanford-grad Product Managers.
Don't call me Shirley!
Ah, yeah it's not gout. I also avoid sugar and eat pretty healthy 90% of the time. I limit my fun food intake to one day a week :P

The pain is more like the usual soreness from the injury, just worse.
Similar here, 20+ year career. I think it's because I've never targeted the FAANG tier. Started in the low hump of the trimodal dev comp distribution before I'd ever heard of it, noticed there was a middle hump and moved into that before long, expect never to make it to the top one. I don't think I could handle an entire day of their interviews, as being in high-pressure meetings like that for hours on end wipes me out and turns my brain to mush in short order—and that's if I put in a ton of prep time first and were prepared-enough for the material to pass.
There is a sequel coming out in the next few months and the developers say that parking is modeled more realistically than in the first Cities: Skylines. In the first game, citizens did not park cars at all - cars appeared out of thin air, were driven to their destination, and then vanished again. Folks often called these "pocket cars" because citizens could put them into and take them out of their pants pockets.

Apparently in the sequel buildings actually have parking, and the cars sit in the parking lot. Some citizens such as older ones prefer to drive.
We have an abundance of parking and a shortage of housing, it's too bad we don't have a way to quickly setup housing (even temporary) in parking areas. Most parking is already located near other utilities so they would already be close by. To start with, we could require every parking lot over a certain size provide basic amenities like public restrooms with showers and water fountains.
Maybe one difference is I didn’t really see our team as ICs so much as they were experienced postsale consultants. They might be alone at a client site making five to ten strategy decisions a day and I didn’t want them constantly bound up seeking permission to act from some dumb guy who had fewer details and a couple more years of experience. If they did something wrong that we needed to undo, that was often less challenging than if they had to chill out for an afternoon waiting for me to get up to speed.
That's how you get astronomically high housing prices
Job apps, especially if done on LinkedIn or on a company portal are essentially a black hole for your resume.

The signal-to-noise ratio on applications that come in through that channel is so poor that unless you're a tiny company that gets only a handful of resumes, recruiters usually ignore them.