skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VW and all major car makers have platforms, which basically mean you get the same car, with a different skin, and a range of different accessories.

VW basically sells the same car through 4-5 different brands.
I am aware of this. I’m saying it because it’s one of the few things where I believe the US can learn from Europe, just like Europe can learn from the Us.

This is not a win for the customer, btw, because the credit card fees get baked into the prices.
In 100 years when you can do even better scans, how will you make them without an original? You'll be stuck with whatever we were capable of in the moment when we decided to not give a shit about the original anymore.

It's not trivial to "preserve 100%" of a physical item at all. You can't hold a digitized copy or take samples. You can't get at anything that's beyond the resolution and nature of your scan.

The notion that digital copies simply contain all relevant information is on its face naive because it's inherently lossy to create a scan of a physical item.
Your comment was a very uncharitable reading of humanity.
I don't understand in what apps it's acceptable for the client to be able to write to the database directly. Or how you can get away without any backend logic.

I have the same questions about Supabase and Firestore so it seems like I'm missing something.
As an example, AOSC OS project owners feel offended and made a public post about it on Telegram: https://t.me/aosc_os/523.

It could disrupt the community because for issues and pull requests created on GitCode, the original maintainers are likely not going to receive any notifications and they will just be ignored.

GitCode also did not make it clear that those repos are mirrored from GitHub in an obvious way, especially on the organization or user pages, e.g. https://archive.is/su9h5. IANAL, but this looks like impersonation to me.

A sibling comment also mentioned that CSDN is publishing machine-generated blog posts about cloned projects with a link to GitCode. I believe this is even more unethical.
Does it work like paint stripper?
[There are three types of fun (I, II, III) described in https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/fun-scale ]

That's odd, I'd think even for people who barely exercise there'd be plenty of Type I fun, available much more cheaply than USD 8K/yr. Distance is what matters; people who actually like jogging get their distance in much more quickly than the rest of us, but long slow distances can also be covered much more pleasantly.

(Type II fun is probably indistinguishable from type III fun at the start, but should you ever get more involved in sport you'll discover that there are many, many things that are type II but not type III)

> We condition the masses to hate the country, but simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports. At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus. So that they consume manufactured articles as well as transport. —DHC for Central London
The problem is: vendors are not allowed to set lower price for payments in cash. So you pay 3.5% even if you dont use cards at all.
Desktop Toys!

I remember playing with this on Windows 95, but it turns out it was made for Windows 3.1 initially.

YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sesM1fygKDs

Internet archive:
https://archive.org/details/desktoptoys_201911
> VW has never tried to compete at the absolute low end.

VW Golf?
I understand where you're coming from. I agree that the EU needs a lot of work. I'd just prefer if we were in it getting stuck in and spear-heading that transformation.

However, what I'm really wondering is whether (and when) there will be a gradual political shift in the UK towards rejoining.
> If you fall asleep or don't respond it's fine, you're just stuck.

"Just" being stuck on a highway doesn't sound too safe. If you have multiple supervisors watching the fleet it's less of a problem than when it's one fallible supervisor.
I've not had phantom braking for a year or so, I used to have one per week. I'm happy with the speed control. I like the display of current speed limit and use the scroll wheel to control the delta against the current speed limit.

I have FSD, but don't use it, so I don't let the car dry to automatically overtake anyone.
There can not be a “natural price” without competition.
If you want slimmer people, invest in hunger-stopping pills. Have a lettuce satiate you like two ham and cheese baguettes, and the obesity problem will disappear overnight.
Yeah "long term investment" is called wealth management. It's a world apart from algorithm based or retail stock trading.
Idk man the news I consume is really dry. I'm really selective about what sources I use. It's usually just statistics about things.

But yeah go ahead and assume I'm a thoughtless sheep, very condescending of you. Of course your intellect is so superior
Perhaps it's because there are lots of old Googlers on HN who remember "the good old days where we weren't evil" and blame the changes on new management, while MS has been evil since its founding and the last few years under Nadella have actually been the least evil... though that's not a high bar, and looks to be changing currently.
RESTful API for executing Ansible playbooks remotely
The justified in "justified exceptions" is important. Whenever I review CSP additions I ask the following questions

- do we have a trust relationship with the vendor
- is it strictly required
- what are the alternatives
- blast radius

Adding script-src has a pretty high blast-radius. There is no relationship with an unpaid CDN. Alternatives can be vendoring a static polyfill script, or just fixing a few functions manually, depending on desired level of browser support.

So it would not have passed.

Adding an exception for 3rd-party images would have to clear a much lower bar for example but even there GDPR or information leakage could be a concern.

CSP changes are just a great point to stop and think about how the frontend interacts with the rest of the world.
If you just rubber-stamp everything then of course it wouldn't have any effect.
The truth however is that to choose the pill is to choose uncertainty. There is no certainty that the drug you choose for your symptoms will work, less certainty that it will work for years into the future, and no certainty that it won't cause you further issues that will be remedied by a different pill, and on it goes.

Some things can't be fixed by exercise, so take the pills. Some things can, it's probably best to take the exercise. If it doesn't work, the pills are still waiting for you.

I guess what I'm saying is: exercise is misery, but not preventing damage is delayed misery of uncertain magnitude.
> why we don't get any decent credit cards in europe - there's no money to pay for it

What are Visa and Mastercard's net take rates in the U.S.? (As in, out of that 3.5%, how much do they keep on average and for premium cards?)
Down in Belgium too: returns an empty page.
Paythos.co: My Journey to Better Payments with Smart Contracts
Hi HN,

I've been observing some frustrating issues in traditional payment systems—things like unexpected account closures, seized funds, lack of transparency, and poor support. It got me thinking, there has to be a better way!

As a blockchain enthusiast, I decided to take matters into my own hands and created Paythos.co. My goal is to use smart contracts to decentralize payment processing, making it more accessible and fair for everyone. With smart contracts, we get transparency and security, which helps reduce fraud and errors. Plus, by following regulations like KYC and AML (we're based in Switzerland and comply with local laws), we ensure everything is legit.

But I don't want to stop at just payments. My vision is to use smart contracts to validate the access or ownership of bought goods on-chain using different tokens. This could even extend to decentralized source control and access control, giving true ownership of digital goods.

I know this idea is ambitious and will need long-term effort and changes in how people think about payments. But I believe in this vision and am ready to put my name and reputation on the line to make it happen.

We've launched a site with a waitlist while we continue to build out the product. I’d love to hear your thoughts, answer any questions, and get feedback from this amazing community!

Best,
aiceg
Civitai, Invoke, ComfyOrg, & Laion Launch the Open Model Initiative
> Australia also has a consumer protection bureau

Australia does have relatively strong consumer protection laws. There is both a federal agency that does consumer protection and competition law (the ACCC, roughly equivalent to the US FTC) and also each state has an agency (my state’s is called Fair Trading NSW)

> There are so many posts from Ozzies

Random aside, I’d never thought about it before but it’s true - as someone pointed out on the Assange post, we Australians generally don’t call ourselves “Ozzies”, nowadays the standard spelling is “Aussies”
LINE is very popular in Thailand for unclear reasons, I've heard the theory that their cute sticker packs set them apart in the early days. In the rest of SEA Whatsapp is the most popular.
I'm contemplating a switch from the minimalist shoes I adopted not long after Born to Run was released.

Although I don't run as regularly or consistently as I used to, I suspect there are gains to be had from wearing a squishy carbon-plate 8-10mm drop shoe.

I'm on a stint of running at the moment, and wonder whether it's better to persist with my minimalist shoes until I (once again) reach a plateauing of gains, or do I switch now and benefit immediately?
I know it as "stressr.exe" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NKouWa_o0
There is no context, just wishful thinking.
There are a number of sites with lava tubes, eg: https://parks.desi.qld.gov.au/parks/undara-volcanic/about/cu... in Qld, Australia.

Where there is thick limestone formations there are often long underground tunnels carved out by rivers, eg: https://exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/park/dimalurru-tunnel-cr...
Now let's see China accomplish the same with all-analog circuitry
Vite Drops Support for CommonJS
I believe your point was "it's ok for OP to have fun with this project even if it's unsafe", but no one's saying that OP shouldn't have done this, since it's not what they've done that's unsafe. But if that wasn't your point, then OK, yeah.
Treating long term is a lot more profitable than curing too.

One of the worst things that ever happened to pharmaceutical industry profits was the the discovery that most ulcers can be cheaply cured with antibiotics (which won the discovers a well deserved Nobel prize).

Even after this ulcer drugs were hugely profitable. I cannot remember the numbers from when I was an analyst covering them (more than 20 years ago!), but at one point a very big proportion (maybe even most) of Astrazeneca's profits came from their blockbuster ulcer treatment. Imagine how much more profitable that would be without a cheap cure around!

Gyms are not the solution, nor are health food stores. Far more people join gyms than make use of them. You can keep fit going for walks or running or a multitude of cheap things. IMO the problems are lack of time for exercise and money for a healthy diet.

Poor people have a far worse diet than rich people because they have to fill up with cheap junk. Junk food takes less time to prepare. I have ready meals sometimes because I am tired. Some people have to do it all the time, and they do not have the money to be fussy about how healthy the meals are.
So is email, yet email is free
Ask HN: What's your life advice to a 30yo software engineer
What's your age and what's your life advice to a younger software engineer?

Specifically,

do you actually feel you are helping people by writing software?
what makes you happy the most looking back?
what's your biggest regret looking back?

And anything else is welcomed, you may accidentally comfort a weary soul.

---

Turned 30 in these 2 years and found myself kept wondering about the meaning of work and life. I've worked for startups, interesting journey but highly consuming & risky. And I've worked for the big names, totally disaster. Maybe I just can't stand not knowing what kind of benefit I can actually bring to the world by aligning stake holders and reinventing the wheels.

Now I'm trying my own product and the lack of feedback sometimes make me a little depressed. I sometimes don't know where life will bring me and what should I expect. Advice from the elders are the true things I need right now.
Reminds me of something similar I read.

> Large companies will tell you that you need to eat different. Never to eat less.
Why is this so ridiculous? Cleaning can be meditative. Just zone out
> is there some sort of contract that stops vendors from adding a "credit card processing fee"?

In EU it is not allowed to charge the customer any kind of extra fee for using a card. Though obviously it only works well together with the 0.3% cap on the actual fees the vendor pays.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/finance-funding/making...

> You're not allowed to charge your customers extra for using a credit or debit card. This applies to all card purchases (in shops and online) made throughout the EU.
> "billion dollar mistake" is what Tony Hoare [...] called it (later on, of course)

would be damning but also fun if it ever turned out they planted this as a practical joke, fully knowing what they were doing
The article referenced is about how the US system works and I was referring to that. And also, in the US it is very important for your wellbeing to have a good credit score and the only way to build that is to use credit cards.

From a technical perspective you are right - it is a transaction, but from a dispute perspective it matters a whole lot, so it is actually more convenient for Americans to use a credit card with no second factor authentication than go through the hassle of being asked for a code or whatever second factor the bank decides to use.
Looks like the average connection is somewhere between 10 and 30 Mbps?

Seems enough for browsing the internet, online banking, emails, some social media, and watching videos in standard definition.

That sounds like enough for the average person. :)
Enjoying nature doesn't mean you don't need a good internet connection.

It's 2024, internet is not used only for Netflix, but is a must have in our daily lives
I don't expect a winner personally, rather that there will be dozens of alternatives always. Like build systems, deployments are quite bespoke to organizations and legacy has a way of sticking around for a long time

Having used CUE, mainly outside of Kubernetes, I cannot see myself switching to KCL. I really like having a configuration language that isn't so tied to a specific system and which I can use with the Go SDK
Musk is Jobs circa 1980. At least Jobs had the excuse of being 25 years old back then, I think Musk is 50...
US credit can be indispensable for those taking career risks and those operating small businesses.

In any case, I don't pay transaction fees the merchant does. They're often not allowed to give cash or particular types of cash-in-kind store discounts. This actually just raises the prices for everyone.

The payoff for the merchant is it reduces some of the risk of taking cash money and stabilizes some of their transaction flows through their account. It's all probably worth slightly more than what the EU caps it at, but the solution to improve this discovery is to increase the number of transaction networks, not arbitrarily cut them off at the knees and ensure the market never grows to this point.

It's at least one reason to love bitcoin and other crypto. You don't need permission to conduct a transaction. Which, given the extreme costs of transactions there, was clearly sorely lacking in the current artificially scarce market.
When I finally got to Lyon at a random Airbnb my iCloud backups started catching up with gusto.

It reminded me of all the restaurant toilets in Athens that instructed you to throw your used toilet paper in the trash and not down the antiquated drainpipes. No blame no shame. It is what it is in one of the oldest cities.

Tokyo used to be like this too in 2014.

Starlink must be making a killing in places like this.
Yes. When a task doesn't require concentrated mental effort, it can be quite relaxing. The hands take on a life of their own and the mind can relax. Pressing clothes, shining shoes etc. An old school hobby that I think served the same purpose was whittling. I do something like that from time to time and it has a very calming effect.
How a small change could double the size of the U.S. electricity grid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYJz2FTFIWU&ab_channel=TheEl...
The article says that the litigation began in 2005 or so, so hasn't reached a settlement after nine years, but this rejected settlement would have limited their behaviour for only five years. That doesn't seem equitable.

If it takes nine or ten years for alleged antitrust behaviour to get to a settlement, then the settlement should restrict future behaviour for at least twenty years. Otherwise this is just a means to allow such behaviour to continue immediately after the settlement agreement shortly expires.
someone who expresses 'i might be able to drive' as 'quizás podría manejar' isn't creatively breaking the rules of english. they're speaking spanish. similarly, someone who says 'i might could drive' is not creatively breaking the rules of your dialect of english. they're following the rules of their dialect. you're insisting on treating it as a poor approximation of your own dialect, whether due to creativity or to simple incompetence. that is unbelievably arrogant and thus extremely annoying

double modals have been permitted by the rules of many dialects of american english for decades if not centuries, possibly calqued from scots or german. double modal dialects of english are also common in scotland. there's nothing rule-breaking about 'might could'. 'might could' is probably the absolute most common double modal in american english, so saying 'might could' is no more creative than saying 'eat supper'

https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/multiple-modals and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_modal_auxiliary_verb... has more information. http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/multimo/ is a database of observed uses of the construction, and https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... is a recent paper advocating the unorthodox hypothesis that double modals originated independently in american english rather than being imported from scotland
There are some occasionally good opportunities in Thessaloniki and Athens in IT, however since covid, I think it would be great for the local economy if we could get more remote based work on the islands, besides the tourist based economy.

It isn't easy, though.
Well now the 10gb is 35, guess they are over the launch offer, but still convenient and every now and then they make some temporary offers (that’s how I got it) https://www.tim.it/fisso-e-mobile/fibra-e-adsl/fibra-wifi-ca...

When you have Tim at home you subscribe to https://www.tim.it/fisso-e-mobile/mobile/5g-famiglia and add the number to the landline family of numbers to get unlimited internet

And Tim is the main isp in Italy with best coverage and speed
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is the pinnacle, especially with the FAForever mod.

It puts emphasis on strategy and gives a lot of options on how to approach a match. Micro can make a difference, but it's not make or break like in pretty much every other RTS.
Does this means that compilers cannot in general reorder non-side-effects operations across side effects, even if those operations wouldn't be globally visible if not for UB? Alternatively, is UB ordered with side effects? What's the ordering of UB with regard to other thread operations? Does it guarantee sequential consistency? I guess happens-before is guaranteed only if something else would guarantee happens before, but it means further constraint on ordering of, for example, potentially faulting operations across atomic operations.

Ie:

int ub(int idx, _Atomic int* x)) {
char y[1000];
int r = *x; // 2
r+= y[idx]; // 1
return r;
}

Statements 1 and 2 can't be reordered as any UB in accessing y[idx] is sequenced-after any side effect that happens-before 2, even if y is a purely local, non-escaping variable. This puts constraints on register allocation for example.

This opens a big can of worms.

edit: from a few quick tests GCC seems quite good at preserving ordering of potentially faulting instructions across side effects, even when reordering would be profitable (for example hoisting operations out of loops). It might be a posix requirement in practice because signals make them "visible".

edit2:

ok, this "fails":

extern volatile int x;
int ub(int d, int c) {
int r;
for (int i = 0; i < 100; ++i) {
r+= x; // 1
r+= d /c; // 2
}
return r;
}

GCC -O3 will hoists out of the looop the potentially faulting (and expensive) division at [2] before the volatile load at [1] (which is a side effect). Would you consider this a valid transformation or is it time-traveling UB?

Potentially this could be fixed by unrolling out the first iteration of the loop and preserving the first volatile access above the division, which can then be cached. This would also help with the variant where the volatile access is replaced by a function call that currently gcc doesn't optimize.
It’s already changed a lot.
> Or like read the Mueller Report which paints him squarely as a villain

That's simply not true, Mueller investigated Assange, but declined to prosecute due to lack of evidence that he was complicit or culpable in any crimes. He also didn't totally clear wikileaks or Assange, but noted there were 'factual uncertainties'.

I find it nauseating that Assange is being valorized as some champion of free speech/journalism, but with respect to Mueller, Assange was far from being a 'villian'.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/new-muelle...
That seems to be the reason for a lot of services. Amazon/YouTube/Apple/etc. Music don't need to be better than Spotify, but just good enough that someone won't pay for a competitor. This limits the competitors potential revenue and helps keep them from growing into stronger competition.

Plus, you use your market incumbency to stifle competition in other ways (e.g., putting advertisements for Apple Music in settings).
As countless others have replied, those of us that enjoy exercise feel like something is off here :-).
I may be wrong, but my impression is that it is like driving a car with flat tires. Yes, that feels wrong, but once you inflate those tires, driving the car no longer feels wrong.

At times when I have been out of shape, it has felt taxing to start up. But as soon as my shape starts to tighten up, it no longer feels like misery at all, instead it feels like the privilege getting to drive around in a cool machine - your very own body.
It may be this is fundamentally different between types of people. For example, I have heard many women claim that running never felt good to them, even when they were in shape (this might there be related to how hips may be differently shaped for running).
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Greece is nice for tourists, but living here is quite different. Western living cost with Balkan salaries.

It has the highest number of work hours per week in any EU country. Many worker are only part time employees, but expected to work full time...
I do that too, but I have a domain to make it easier to remember haha. I should probably beef it up some more though, just in case