skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the Australian Industry Group, an employer group, says ambiguity about how the rule applies will create confusion for bosses and workers. Jobs will become less flexible and in doing so slow the economy, it added.

Whenever I encounter someone professionally who can't deal with a little ambiguity about when it's appropriate to interrupt someone; I feel like I'm working with a child trapped in an adult's body.

"Children," who don't have the maturity to understand this ambiguity, shouldn't be managers.

I also find that rules like this come into play because some people (cough, children stuck in adult bodies, cough) just refuse to self-regulate. It takes maturity to think through if an out-of-hours contact is appropriate; these kinds of rules only come about because of widespread immaturity in management roles.
lol. Given the last few products I bought from Apple were trash, I expect the same for their AI.
Go bootstraps itself (Go is compiled by Go) but Gofmt does not format itself (an even simpler job).
If most money transactions became insecure, would any amount of money matter?
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One example:

https://www.motor1.com/news/710232/2025-honda-crv-efcev-deta...

17.7kwh battery. A base tesla model3 rwd has a 60kwh and range of 500-600km from that.
The Mystics of Progress (2023)
If you want to experience Strandbeest yourself, Theo will be giving demos on september 14 in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

https://instagram.com/p/C_Fr24Zg2pl/
It's kind of like an ambulance-chasing lawyer. Yeah the driver at fault did real harm and owes money to the victim. But the lawyer is not a selfless justice crusader - he's looking for a payday. That's how I see the EU in these cases.
Which is suspiciously close to the speed of DDR4.
> The US definitely needs stronger laws here.

Can someone clarify for me why the physical location where data is stored is a big deal? Why does the US need stronger laws here?

This is probably just my inner naive technologist speaking, but I really enjoyed the moment of time during which the internet was a global network of computers that created a virtual space where physical borders were largely irrelevant. So it's a bit jarring for me to see people take for granted the idea that borders matter on the internet after all.

Edit: 0x62 has a good explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357888

I hadn't considered the recursive nature of suppliers.
Or at least stopping US tax money from subsidizing the EU in areas like defense.
> a non-US-citizen wouldn’t even have standing to sue wrt their personal data

Sure they would, I think? They would just have to foot the bill to travel and file in a US court. And whatever user agreements they 'agreed' to might come in to play without legislation to supersede it. But they would have standing, I'm pretty sure.
Ask HN: Why are Gmail filters so bad?
So I got a phishing email from AWS billing where the sender's email was
"support@moyuchet.kz".

It landed right in my primary inbox.

Recently a lot of high profile accounts have been hacked (Linus tech tips, Jim browning, etc) like this.

It makes you wonder with all the technology, SPF, DKIM, A.I., etc - big companies like gmail still can't catch such obvious scams.

On the other hand a lot of legitimate email from my Bank has often get sent to spam.

I'm no email expert but is it really that hard to catch such obvious scams by the email client where they know if the sender really isn't Twitter, AWS, etc? Why is email so broken?
The rich are above the law as long as they don’t mess with another rich person
> Without that deal, there wouldn’t be a Firefox. If/when it’s gone, there’s no one capable/willing to fund Mozilla to that amount.

There's some irony when I read that while my laptop is running Linux Mint, which in my perception is much superior in many ways to the competition.

I agree that Free software needs sponsorship, especially when it is such a fundamental part of interacting with a computer (which a web browser certainly is).

I am not certain that this sponsorship coming from a company that wants to undermine it is a good thing.
France has picked that method with Telegram.
This obviously isn't 100% "de-Googled' but I use GrapheneOS with the sand-boxed Google Play Services and Aurora Store for the few proprietary apps that I use. I don't do online banking using my phone so I'm not sure how well that works (GrapheneOS' documentation has some words of warning about banking apps), but for ride sharing and other stuff that I occasionally need it has worked pretty well.

The one thing that didn't work well was Location services when my wife and I travelled to Walt Disney World. The My Disney Experience app worked great for the most part, but occasionally I would get errors related Location claiming that I was outside of the country. Uber worked fine though. Fortunately we were travelling together and had her phone to fall back on when we needed it.
You haven't shown how it does.
"What about the users' freedom to live without being spied upon?" Pretty simple, don't use Uber.
Hell no.... I am human!
The local (HN) standard is to use the article's actual headline, unless {conditions not met here}.
I would want to hack Emacs Lisp, not Common Lisp.
The fines seem to be low enough to be a Cost of Business while not high enough to actually force behavior for the largest companies.

While the personal accountability would be nice but is political infeasible, I wonder if the EU could revoke business licenses to remove US companies access to the EU market.
I agree. This comes down to parents letting their kids use this stuff.

The problem is that some people (and/or companies, organizations, etc) seem to think that they can apply their values on the rest of us with privacy-destroying legislation.
Except there already alternatives to Uber
Constance Garnett the OG though. Her translations read so much better to me, so much more poetic.
Paring down a rust compiler in rust to only use a subset of rust features might not be a big lift. Then you only need to build a rust compiler (in C) that implements the features used by the pared-down rust compiler rather than the full language.

Pypy, for instance, implements RPython, which is a valid subset of Python. The compiler is written in RPython. The compiler code is limited on features, but it only needs to implement what RPython includes.
> Europe had taxis, private for hire limousines, taxi apps and delivery services long before Uber arrived.

All the "Uber" rip-offs in Norway are worse than Uber was last time I used it. Not that anyone can afford to use a taxi here anyway unless the government covers the bill, which they do and which is the only thing that keeps taxis employed, I think.
The scientific method generally involves experiments, as opposed to claiming something won't work because of the "logic" that if it worked, someone would have done it already. This particular hypothesis is obviously a testable one: someone could simply follow the proposed steps from the hypothesis (e.g. finetune a model on their incident response data), and see if it works. This is in fact how essentially all machine learning research is done: coming up with a proposal and trying it out. If it works, great! You've probably contributed something new to machine learning research. If not, oh well, try and figure out why your experiment failed, and if you have a good alternative approach try that instead.

Your variant of the "scientific method" would've meant we never discovered electricity, or invented airplanes, or really anything else, because why bother trying? If it worked someone else would've done it.
They are cognates as they directly descend from the same parent word in Proto-Germanic. See https://www.etymonline.com/word/will .

They have different meanings, but that doesn't make them false cognates. The example at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate is: "Cognates need not have the same meaning, as they may have undergone semantic change as the languages developed independently. For example English starve and Dutch sterven 'to die' or German sterben 'to die' all descend from the same Proto-Germanic verb, *sterbaną 'to die'."
> the population has no interest in

I definitely have an interest, but there's always something wrong with the existing headsets, so I never adopt. The Oculus is close, but the mandatory Meta integration is a no-go for me.
The solution is to just pay the machine I think. Why go online at all? In Santa Monica, the meters on the street all let you pay by card or tap, and the beach controlled lots you just enter your space and pay the machine.
SMART tire company
> The Emacs data model sucks

It's just one damned anachronism after another.

The language used to manipulate the data model is almost irrelevant. It's probable that the initiates within the priesthood know it all, but the hoi-polloi certainly don't; and we probably don't have the time to find and read all the docs just to use an editor with a simple customization. It's exclusionary and there's an immense barrier to entry, whether it's elisp or bananas-lang.
No idea why you're being down voted. I've had the very same experience once. Employee just sucked, after some nudges that went either ignored or just unnoticed I gave a very clear speech on where they're standing. Three months later I got him fired. He went to HR and claimed I was racist, and threatened with a lawyer. This really stressed me out for a good while, this was dragging along for weeks, with ugly mails and calls.
> But the people here are holding Masters Degrees and student debt

I wonder how long before we finally admit that said student debt is the very source of money that has pushed home prices so high?

Not backed by anything real and non-dischargeable makes it a dream for the benefactors.
At least here in non-EU Switzerland, Uber often provides superior service over regular taxis. They‘re cheaper and you can’t get ripped off by a driver choosing a more circuitous route.
Corporations should make the laws.
This is 100% the case. All of the honest-to-god Rust experts I know work on the compiler in some way. Same goes for Lean, which bootstraps from C as well.
31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to the web
> where's the error?

“…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize” [1].

Happy to unflag once fixed. (EDIT: unflagged.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(Read this really quickly and bookmarked for a deeper read later.)

This part really caught my attention:

> That's an improvement of 100x for write and ingestion speed, and 35x for memory overhead!

Where'd you guys get the idea for this approach? Did you know you could get this kind of improvement?
There have been courts that decided downloading is copying, is infringement. But even if I used incorrect wording, I specifically mentioned distribution being the issue in my original comment.
Strandbeest is just one legged vehicle. But I was just going on a tangent about an important aspect of legged vehicles in general.
Powershell recommendations, for instance, are that you keep aliases and short-form for yourself, and long-form for scripts and tutorials.

Remove-Item -Path X:\test\ -Recurse -Force

del X:\test -rec -for
I think that historical cycles have been a popular topic ever since at least the days of Socrates and his philosophical peers.

That said, have any of these predictions ever managed to stop the cycle? As far as I know, both Turchin and Ibn Khaldun (who Turchin calls out a lot in his books) felt that such cycles were inevitable. The more common response to these predictions seems to be some variant of "this is cherry-picked data, our society is different!"

Or are such predictions instead intended to speed the advent of the next cycle? Perhaps we should be like King Wen Zhou in pre-imperial China, watching the skies for a sign from heaven to bring about the new age.
Probably the US - it's scary over there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
By strict definition it is a startup. By practical definition, this is just a small business. Startups typically intend to scale.

In my mind, I think of it as the “farmers market test”

* small or hobby business - you personally make and sell your items at the local farmer market.

* startup - you might sell at the farmer market, but you also have a factory that distributes and ships.
> Most of them start with small electrical fires that propagate and after a looooong time finally get to the gas, nothing will explode

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdraft

You just need a fire in an enclosed space running for a bit of time.

> can't you tell the difference between a phone battery and a car battery ? really ?

I have seen the result of a house fire due to bad laptop battery.

Once a fire starts it's typically bad.

If you are worried about EVs catching fire, then any battery has the same risk percentage to start a fire. (defective samsung mobile phones is a good example of an issue and it being resolved)

Sure, it's much worse and much faster for an EV to catch fire. Still, a regular battery can kill you just as well.

I just leave my EV outside, I don't think it will catch fire, but if it does it won't kill me.

I also used to leave my gas car outside, I dont think that would catch fire either.

I havent seen too many regular consumer devices starting fires so that risk might be low.
Class suite actions as only moral option to protect consumers (which is not common in Germany), Citing Kissinger as a god like authority in intra - countries relationships, lack of knowledge in pro - market / competition regulation (very strong in Germany, EU [for different reasons]),

I regularly read German and Swiss newspapers. The arguments are very different (and in many cases more nuanced)
3 days ago | 296 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281
It's stupid to post irrelevant spam, particularly if it is perceived as spam.

If your product is a solution for problem X, however, it's fair to join conversations where X comes up if you do it with some sensitivity. If people are bitching about your product Y online it is good business to find out and reach out to the poster to resolve their problem if at all possible and I think tooling for that kind of "social CRM" can be a good thing.
Another +1 for Digital Ocean. Been using them for years for basic VPS services. $6 flat gets you a simple VM and $4 gets you one with half (I think) the specs, but it could be fine for really simple stuff.

Nice and simple UI.
How Reverse Engineering Saved Me ~87% Cost on Car Mods
It's a meaningless thing if it's 1 million resources divided into 1 million actors who have no ability to leverage a short term gain of 1 resource. It's short term because the number of computers that are 100% busy 100% of the time is zero. A pipe throughput improvement means nothing if the computer isn't waiting on pipes a lot.
I’m working on an iphone app to fight my screen time addiction. You pick the apps you want to block, set a timer for how long you want to stay focused for, and lastly you set a pledge.

A pledge is the price you’ll pay for breaking your pledge. It’s more than one second of reflection. You have to ask yourself “do i want to spend a $1 to use YouTube when i should be studying”?

I don’t have a website right now. I’m calling it FocusPledge. It’s near complete so if you’re curious you can shoot me a message or follow me on X at @harveenatwal_
Marvel's multiverse goes way further back -- in 1970, Avengers #85 introduced the alternate universe Squadron Supreme, for example. There's a ton of classic SF along these lines as well. H. Beam Piper's Paratime stories come to mind.
I'm still not convinced Ruby is a good choice (over jvm, go, rust, or BEAM).

The REPL point is interesting and I wouldn't mind more elaboration/exploration there.
It's true, the extensive surveillance capabilities the American government demands from American businesses is one of the reasons American companies cannot enter the European market.

I doubt this will change any time soon. The GDPR isn't going away, and the USA isn't known for loosening their data collection laws. Maybe in a few years the EU can find a legal ground to allow the USA to spy on EU citizens without acceptable legal defences, maybe the USA will give up their capability to use American businesses as a tool to spy on the EU, but for now surveillance law is a major roadblock for American companies expanding to Europe.
The EU fines based on global revenue. If the EU is a small part of a companies’ profit then they may decide to stay away for liability reasons.
I love my L5, but would never suggest or even imply to anyone that it's usable as a daily driven phone.

The battery life is terrible and the software still buggy as hell.

It's a great host for Linux phone development though. I haven't had any major problems with the hardware being unstable or anything along those lines.

But once you start expecting the whole package to function more as a primary phone than a portable devkit you're using to further the state of Linux phones, it gets ugly pretty quick IME.
> Can someone clarify for me why the physical location where data is stored is a big deal?

What can you do if your data is silently copied by third parties and used for other activities? What if I build a ghost profile of you and steal your identity when I have enough data? What if I relay that you have a fancy car to some people who have the means to get that from you while sleeping? What if I craft a good scam by targeting you with your own data?

It's not about data is sent to where, it's about what happens when it arrives to the physical servers, who has access to these files, and what can they do with it.

When I visited the states, I got EZ-Pass spam/scam e-mails for a year, on an e-mail I gave to nobody when I was there. So, these laws matter.
Dwight, is that you?
The Blues Brothers.
The Milagro Beanfield War.
Caddy Shack.
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss.
Uber is a poor example of dominant American companies. They don’t really have a moat and they don’t really provide a better service than the alternatives in Europe. I don’t think people would miss them much if they left.
The first chart is median household income, but the second chart is average personal income.
I really want to like VR, but the ergonomics do suck. That doesn’t even touch on needing a fairly large open space to play in, or the nastiness of sweating into a headband for an hour.

I do think there are features that make it very close to worth it.

The sense of scale is unbeatable; having to move my neck upwards triggers some kind of “damn, that _is_ big” response.

VR can actually trigger my fear of heights, which is actually weirdly fun when you know there’s 0 actual danger. It’s very cool to build something big enough my monkey brain is afraid of falling off of it, and not because I don’t want to drop my inventory.

Combat feels more frantic when I’m actually frantically spinning and swinging my arms. It just isn’t the same as whipping a mouse around and clicking.
Your boss is telling on themselves, admitting that they do expect you to work outside of normal working hours, even if to just read the email.

Sending that email out of office hours itself is a red flag.
> Can someone clarify for me why the physical location where data is stored is a big deal?

Because the place where data is collected and stored may have different rules around privacy and data protection then the place it is exfiltrated to.

If I give my data to a company in one place that has strict laws on what may be done with that information, I don’t want it escaping to a low-protection jurisdiction where there are no penalties for selling it to the highest bidder for god knows what purpose.

If there was an acceptable worldwide convention on personal data privacy that would solve the problem. Until there is, it matters a lot.
Discord has been rapidly overtaking this role.

Until they give in and introduce ads, it's just too convenient to run small groups/communities in it, instead of anything else.
"You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where can I sell it."

I think this Jobs' quote is more applicable now than ever. Not to mention Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 was spearheaded by Jobs himself. He'd likely have plenty of opinions about today's AI advancements and user-friendly ways to integrate it.
Is there a way to know what "quality tier" each product falls in?
> For anyone subject to United States employment law

Dealing with both aspects is the joy of cross-cultural communication :)
What policies within GPDR are dumpster fires?

Likewise, afaict it only applies to doing business with EU citizens... So if you don't want to comply, or not be subject to the fees, don't?

I would expect the US to eventually adopt its own more intentional variant of online privacy laws, and software infra to get better at supporting the GPDR flavor, at which point I would expect most US tech companies at least would find it less odd & costly..
uv – Declaring Script Dependencies
Folks love to hate Elon Musk.
It never ceases to amaze me that people argue against things that are good for them.

You remain free to answer calls after hours. You simply cannot be fired or reprimanded for not being at your employers beck and call after hours *if you choose not to be*.

Even in situations where after hours calls require pay to immediately start, you remain free to negotiate with your employer how that works. If anything, creating such regulation *increases your freedoms*.
Signage at the edge of town ? Some cities use those to radio stations/frequencies that (for example) inform people about traffic and weather.
> The economies are too integrated for this scenario.

So are the US and Chinese economies. Yet, here we are.

> I’m sure EU regions of AWS or GCP won’t cease to exist, for example.

The servers, maybe. I highly doubt AWS will continue to provide access to its platform. Actually there is zero chance they do. The servers are not useful much without the AWS platform.
Why can't big tech companies just adhere to the rule of the law?
> It goes the other way too. An Ubuntu Update could put the Windows bootloader on the deny list.

I don't think this is generally true. Since most computers don't ship with Ubuntu's CA directly trusted their signed components rely on a chain of trust that goes up through Microsoft's 3rd party UEFI CA cert to their root. I don't know the specific details of UEFI's implementation but it seems incredibly unlikely that it'd allow a subordinate CA to sign an update that distrusts components upstream of it.

If an OEM does ship Ubuntu's root or if a system owner has manually installed it then sure, but that's not the majority of systems.
Agreed, and to stress for clarity: Adding 3 percentage points to the conversion rate increases revenue by 15% in this example.
Heh. At a $SOME_PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER, they literally disabled the option to log overtime in the portal, because workers were "getting confused", and the official policy was "no overtime".
Oh, I believe that it's purely about greed. But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Interpreting that headline literally ...

If person A is working late (maybe they started their day late, or they work from a different timezone) and send a memo during off hours of Person B ... the memo can be "ignored" by Person B even when they come back to work next day?

Same for all off hours when person B is on leave - planned or otherwise?
Thanks for the correction apologies, been updated to follow
(EDIT: Counter to what was previously said this has ended up permanently flagged and as a result successfully killed...)
None of this is incorrect. Why are people so disrespectful about others doing the work?
I would hope not.

I'm still "young" so every visit to a Dr, I've come out with a solution.

In any case, I've gone to therapy and it feels like you're making progress (and perhaps I was) but never fixed the problem.