skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignorance is bliss… live your life happy that any pasta will do for you. I can tell the difference but I choose not to really care as the time sink isn’t worth it to me. I envy you though. Not being able to tell a difference isn’t a weakness, sometimes it’s a strength.
The realistic timeline to have a business that generates more income for you that than being a decently paid employee is probably around 5-10 years. So one heuristic could be, do you have the opportunity and patience to wait that long for the results?
Less capability in most respects but it does have twice the range.
How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014)
The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order
I don't think this is the right way to think about the problem. Recalls could probably be improved by classification based on risk, but not on "inconvenience to the consumer."
I was a regular listener until the Spotify deal. Mostly because I hate the Spotify app. I'm glad it's going back to Youtube again. I think it will bring in more listeners.
Sorry, but I have to agree with him as a German. The discussion climate about such topics is really rough here due to the country’s history.
> The solution for many recalls these days is quite often a software update.

That other manufacturers force owners to bring their car to the dealer for.
I'm sorry but I respectfully disagree. Maybe I spent too much time in Ohio. You should read up on the maps there and the supreme court fight. Think about human motivations and desires more, and less about a math proof or abstract papers which literally has gone out the window now. People won't follow what a state supreme court jugde tells them, you think a proof will convince them or solve a very deep psychological problem? I don't, I used to, but Ohio cured me of that.
People assume the absolute worst when they see the word "recall".

There's a huge gulf between people that keep up with tech news and people that don't. Millions of people are likely unaware that Tesla cars get software updates at all, let alone over the air.

So when they see an article with a headline of "Latest recall at Elon Musk’s Tesla affecting 2.2M vehicles", they assume Tesla owners all over the country are having to take their cars to a service center to get fixed. Many will probably assume the cars are fundamentally broken or unsafe until the car gets taken in.
I confirm that it's happening in France too. I have been a generalist for 20 years, but I will need to find a new job soon due to the standard layoffs of January. The multi-billion dollars company I worked for obviously needs more money.

I worked on every technology ever, from C++70s to C++23, all languages (from assembly to Rust ant TypeScript), all operating systems, all topics from web sites to embedded programming, but my new resume will be different this time. I MUST say that I'm the best programmer for backends and compiled languages (C++/C#/Java/etc.), and that I also can do everything else if needed. I don't expect HR or recruiters to read the details of my resume anymore, I must describe myself as a 100x developer on the "compiled/backend" topic in the summary, or I may lose jobs.
Crunchy Bridge: Announcing Postgres Insights in Your CLI
I figured folks that use HN deserved a heads up. At the very least, turn up the damn temperature so that the responses are varied.
No, parental controls don’t drive revenue so they get abandoned. No manager type is getting promoted for creating an amazing parental control product.
Oh c'mon, you know damn well that most people only read headlines and not the article.

Even people on HN are guilty of this.
I don't find these kind of responses useful. You could apply this response almost blindly in many context to dismiss constructive criticism.
The standard says the font must be 3.2 millimeters. Out of curiosity, how big is the font now?
Abstractions obscure connections between hidden information.
This one hits close to home the last months.

I'm coaching someone in a different time zone ( 7 hours difference).

I tend to be effective and I also don't want them to feel without work.

There are some things that I consider weird with him, concerning his experience level. But after a talk internally, it was mentioned to ignore that until the onboarding is done ( different backgrounds).

Now, it's possible that my priorities related to him came across as rude.

So yeah, having a first "get to know" each other chat after 2 months ( 1 feature is down, but there should be improvements for the next feature socially wise).

Anyone came across to a similar situations or books regarding these things that they found valuable?
Founded by twins, Planet A Foods gobbles 15.4M to save the world with chocolates
DARPA's ground-effect X-plane will haul 100 tons of cargo
1. When you feel you have enough knowledge and competitive edge to stand out above the current market participants.

2. When the failure of the business will not ruin your life (and, very importantly, your family/dependents lives)

3. When you feel there are enough advantageous circumstances (like first-mover advantage, or you are lucky enough to be part of a skilled group that is like-minded, or you simply are extremely motivated not to work for an employer anymore)

These are just my honest observations, ymmv.

Some people are more risk-averse, so they will want more pre-conditions, some people are okay with just 1 of the above, etc.
After such a war you get nuclear winter, global warming is solved but now its so cold no plants can grow.
Morning Brew gets good sponsorships because of their modern content. Modern content is making video, appealing to a target demographic (Gen Z for them), and being active on social media. Many newspapers don't care enough about social media to realize if they make social media oriented content, they would get sponsorships on those platforms.

I used to work at a large regional newspaper, and they could not understand how social content works. They never made short form content, they refused to make a TikTok or post on Instagram reels or YouTube.

Newspapers have always been supplemented in some way by advertising, but the old people in charge seem to think you can throw some banner ads on your website and call it a day. Sponsorships are a lot different than banner ads.

Thus, you get a bunch of old people reading articles on websites, while the younger people are all on social media. Newspapers also don't understand you can use social content as a way to promote your full newspaper subscription.

The place I worked at was a bunch of people who worked there for 30 years doing the exact same thing as they did on day 1. No desire to appeal to younger people, no desire to compete on social media. Probably because of their arrogance in thinking video or social media is below them and not "real" journalism.
> At this point I swear publishing stories on Tesla "recalls" are hit pieces

Normally I would agree, but this is the NYPost which is pretty friendly to conservatives(1). Maybe they attack Tesla because it's "green" tech but defend Elon in the context of Tesla/SpaceX? Just a guess as I'm not a regular reader.

1: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
> In my life, I have tried to start a business or frequently had the urge to start one. But, retrospectively, when I look at them, I see many reasons why I shouldn't have done it.

What were the reasons (that you see), why you should not have started those businesses?
So, if it's so bad, the more productive companies will take over - like Costco.
want to see an explanation that perfectly aligns? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
The second one is both sensationalist clickbait[1] and politics. It was rightly removed:

>Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not as if the internet is lacking in places where this can be discussed freely.

[1]: As in you have to click the link to see what it is about, and to decide if it is interesting or relevant to read.
By what method did you learn what IPv4 is and how it works?
The Scarborough RT Derailment Technical Reports
My understanding is that in a lot of countries, the perspective is backwards from what we have in the US. We have, "prove it's harmful." They have "prove it's safe".

You can still progress technologically without being reckless.
Can you point to a specific article of the law from a country that states that you cannot work on your business registered in your home country, while visiting that particular country?
Why does seeing moot quoted suddenly make me feel old.
But why must they be dreadful? Genuine question, I am not being obtuse. We should be able as a community to discuss conterversial subjects somehow.

I also think this sort of thing invites flag brigades. Or better yet, a small batch of bad actor can easily start brigading and forcefully associate such flamewar expectations with any subject they don't like to drive it off HN.

Maybe worth reconsidering how you flag? You might be getting played. Or not, I really don't know. No obvious answers.
I'd be pretty miserable doing that, but one of these years I'd like to condense the past explanations into something a bit more definitive and put them up as sort of glosses on the site guidelines. I imagine most of those HN Search links I'm constantly posting could be replaced by a link to some sort of canonical paragraph on the topic.
Normally I'd agree about 20s being too long.

But I'm specifically talking about users on slow links. They often know they don't have a first class connection out, and have established a different set of expectations.

If your site is actually good enough to be one the users return to (and who here wants to build a site where that's not the case?), they all appreciate the site loading very fast the next time.
It does help that tilt rotars are totally rotary craft...

In any case, V-280 being primarily transport is for sure helpful. While the range might raise some eyebrows, it also means that V-280 can potentially more meaningfully self-deploy. That means less USAF strategic lift assets to spend on the army - USAF is pondering how it can keep forward bases supplied in the Indo-Pacific - strategic lift certainly has a role to play here.

I think the reality is that USAF realizes that trying to stonewall the V-280 will NOT meaningfully give it more budget, and that the V-280's capabilities means USAF gets more effective budget.
As the saying goes, the best time to start is 10 years ago. The second best time is? Now.
For me, starting a business is not a specific point in time. I constantly trying out different thing, asking for feedbacks. When I find a solution that solves the pain points for a lot of people, that's when it's time to start a business.
You could also have a periodic forgiveness of de minimus amounts.

The Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system charges 10¢ per page. Every month, balances under $10.00 (edit: apparently it's $30.00 per quarter) are forgiven. It strikes me that a similar model could be employed. Are there people who send more than 100 unsolicited texts per month? More than 200?
They're _excellent_ for wiring devices into junction boxes in construction; particularly when connecting the higher gauge luminaire wires of an overhead light to romex.
For some reason they're polarizing among electricians in the US (they carry all necessary listings for use in the US...). By contrast, they're widely accepted and used elsewhere.
> God forbid your car gets an update that takes 15 minutes OTA

I've had updates take damn near 2 hours. >.<

I make sure to only update at home and when I don't expect to be driving the rest of the day. If something came up, I could always take my wife's car.
Ask HN: What's with this ridiculous experience requirements these days?
I know experienced folks are easy to work with but nearly everyone wants experienced candidates. How about giving a fresher a chance?

How long will it take for the Job Market to bounce back?

(probably just frustrated;)
Limiting the expected use of a device is inexcusable.

Those in power have obvious incentives to implement limitation to harm their opponents. Flagging political emails as spam is a well know example.

Once some limits are tolerated, tyranny becomes inevitable.
I can not understand the motives of a 911 operator.

I am speaking from experience. I have tested this, and always got the same answer.
That's super common in the US and not just for hedge funds, it's practically everywhere.
> It is the equivalent of seeing somebody use right-click to copy-paste

What would you prefer, instead? CTRL-C, CTRL-V? SHIFT-INS, CTRL-INS? some vim incantation?

As a select-to-copy/middle-click-to-paste guy, seeing people use these inferior alternatives looks extremely annoying to me.
Comcast has supported IPv6 for approximately a decade.
There should be a vehicle weight tax per mile driven for the damage they cause and the infrastructure upgrades needed to accommodate them. Buying a larger vehicle is a choice and should not be subsidized by everyone else.
This is pretty fascinating to an external observer, simply because this summary of reports describe a major failure mode in a very niche mode of propulsion (linear induction motor).
Teflon (PTFE) is not toxic. It is approved by the FDA for use in implantable medical devices. At normal working temperatures, it is one of the most chemically and biologically inert materials known to exist. PTFE has a number of unique properties that make it an irreplaceable material in a wide variety of applications.

Some of the feedstock chemicals used to produce PTFE are likely toxic. The most concerning of these is perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA); this is one of the chemicals that the EPA proposal applies to. Most manufacturers of PTFE have already voluntarily phased out the use of PFOA. There is some debate about whether the replacement feedstock chemicals are meaningfully less toxic. These feedstock chemicals can - and should - be prevented from ever entering the environment, which would largely nullify concerns about their toxicity.
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It would be preferable, but a litigation nightmare. If 100 houses fall down due to a natural earthquake, no one gets sued. If 2 houses fall down in a "prescribed burn" earthquake, now the entity that caused the earthquake can be sued.
Except when it's not. If you don't think groups within organizations all message each other to quickly flag posts that are negative towards them, then you may be looking through this with an idealistic lens that hasn't been shattered yet.

I'm not denying your premise that yes sometimes independent people with no coordination, all flag an article. That is how the system should work. But there are also articles that will quickly get flagged through coordination of interested parties.

Hacker News has a lot more power than many think in terms of tastemaking in the tech industry. So there is a lot of motivation and benefit for people to manipulate its functionality to either boost or protect their business.
Don't think such fine grained control exists. There is read only mode[1], which (I assume) limits the reader to only comment.

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-a-document-r...
And it's made the world such a better place! Please do more of it!
Entrepreneurs are meant to solve real problems, not self-inflicted bureaucratic ones.
The single biggest way to mitigate this is to switch from "push" to "pull" architecture where possible. Let the central servers reach out to the "clients" at their own honest pace. Not every process can be modeled this way, but a surprising amount can, particularly internal processes where you control all of the agents.
If it had been submitted with that title, it would simply have been harder to pretend there's wasn't plenty of reason for the submission to be flagged.
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/update-on-eu-softwa...

This appears to be the article intended. At the very least it contains the quoted sentence
Regardless of what recall means today, in the past it meant a physical visit to the dealership. I believe there are many people (for example my mother) who would see the headline, not actually read the article, arrive at a mistaken conclusion that Tesla's must spend most of their time in the shop, and then spread that misinformation. So I agree, there should be a distinction between "Tesla owners required to visit a dealership" and "Tesla owners' cars receive updates while parked in their garage".
No, the company should be civilly liable, the individuals have criminal liabilities.

Alternatively, who is going to jail if a company is found guilty of a crime that requires jail time, if not the executives and board of directors? Again by the specific claims used to justify executive compensation, they're responsible.

The result of companies being criminally liable, and individuals being civilly liable, is that no one is criminally liable, the executives running the company just have to pay fines, that the company will then cover, either directly due to contractual indemnification, or by golden parachutes and similar.

If a company's executives are running the company properly (1) should be caught before production starts, failing to do so is the result of executive decisions: if an executive chooses to not adequately fund safety and QA tests, that isn't the fault of the designers and engineers. If issues start coming in after the product is on the market, it is the decision of the company executives to halt production, to re-do the safety analysis, or - as in this case - withhold any information and pretend there's no problem.
Try out various masks. I bought one of each mask available and tried them all, ended up with the N20.

CPAP.com is great for decent prices and direct to consumer sales.

If the internal pressure is annoying, airtight earplugs help with keeping the sinus pressure even.
We should, but we don’t.
interesting idea + overblown expression = advertisement
When people are paying you.

People often have it backwards, thinking they'll start a business, THEN get customers. That is often wrong.
Perhaps it's time to fight over words. The definition of recall no longer works, and I believe it is constantly used specifically negatively against Tesla. It has an effect on most people, who aren't savvy, who don't read beyond the headline. (i've not participated in these alleged battles before)
Sure.

When was the last time that a software mistake for Windows or Mac OSX or their Phone made people think they had to take their computer to the computer shop for a session with a technician?
TFA is about how they did make those exceptions in the final text
>for the sake of "the environment," the solution is to go backwards?

Well, it's your environment, you would probably have to figure that out for yourself.

I don't think you would have to go fully retro to be more environmentally responsible.

When it comes to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, this is a proven hierarchy where lots of times it's like an order of magnitude better if you can reduce compared to merely reuse. And once again better to reuse as much as you can, before you finally recycle (which can require so much reprocessing beyond that needed for simple reuse) to extract any worthwhile components to be used in a circular way, that can preferebly displace the need for brand new raw materials or ingredients in freshly manufactured new products.

It's quite possible for freshly manufactured new products to be more environmentally friendly then ever and as high-technology as you would like, you just have to make the committment and step up to the plate.

Everybody's situation is different, but I do think there is a good reason why people say "think local" so much more, the deeper they do the math.

You shouldn't fail to figure, how much money does it cost just to work, and further how much of that is just to get to work?

How much pollution do you have to create just to earn the money to be able to work in the first place?

For everything you consume, or even worse waste, how much potentially environmentally damaging work did you (plus everyone else in the chain) have to do just to earn the money needed, and that's before the actual consumption could even be paid for? Whether consumption takes place before or after it ever gets paid for.

Then you can more accurately decide the degree of balance you are going to try and maintain, between consumption and conservation.

It's all so personal so you shouldn't let it bug you, just do the math for yourself and take action accordingly.

Most people can easily find some low-hanging room for improvement, sometimes really obvious stuff but it's nothing to get embarassed about.

Don't get me started on the way different currencies have different degrees of toxicity, and not only dependent on their current relative exchange rates.

But you can only imagine that for two workers doing identical work, each earning "equivalent value" but in different denominations, when there is any difference in their environmental impact it could only be due to the difference in impact between the currencies themselves. Naturally including bitcoin and things like that along with "regular" money.
I would love to see such tools have some accessibility DX built-in. The idea is to define the color palette in such a way that we know whether a color combination is accessible just by looking at the color name. For example, using the USWDS design system, I know that blue-30 on gray-80 is accessible (WCAG AA), because the difference between both values is 50+.

I once wrote a blog post about this (niche) concept: https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-color-palette/
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We are on the lookout for an exceptional Elixir engineer. Our application team builds what our end-users experience; a lightning fast and easy-to-use mapping tool that works in the browser. We are primarily using Elixir / Phoenix on the server side and have a spatially focused React on the frontend side. As an engineering manager, you'll be working with folks who are experts in their field [2], release more than 15+ a day [3], and aren't afraid to break new ground when necessary [4].

Our data team makes geospatial datasets a breeze to work with and we are currently building our next-generation of our data stack on AWS. The team you'll be joining is full of expert engineers, and well known people in the Elixir community. You might have used their work already.

We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]

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[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r...
[2] https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next...
[3] https://felt.com/blog/how-felt-deploys-15-times-a-day
[4] https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsetech-digest-fel...
[5] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie...
[6] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a
[7] https://felt.com/careers