skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure for all the PFAS but Teflon (PTFE) is often added in “winter lube”.

The "summer lube" have better performance, but they wash after some rain.

Winter lubes tends to be slightly heavier (depends on brands), got additifs (PTFE and so) and last longuer under the rain but get eventually washed anyway. The performance is a bit worse but common mortals shouldn’t feel the difference.

Most bikes I repair in the workshop craves for oil (poor performance) OR got way to much (sand stick in it and wear your chain).

A best practice is to put 1 drop in every barrel (round stuff between two links) or 2, on the inner side of the chain only. That’s it. When the chain turns black the oil is dirty. Clean it (or swipe with a cloth, not great but way better than not cleaning at all) and apply new oil.

Also:

- belts are great, clean, silent and long lasting. But they require a frame with them in mind

- avoid lube sprays!!! Or use supercarrefully with protections and so. People tends to (without wanting to) lube other parts that doesn’t need it: frame, derailleur, gears and wheel in the best case. Tire, brake rims and disk in the worst case (this is very bad). Lube bootles are cleaner, cheaper, smaller, last longer, fast (10 sec once you used to it) and easy to apply.

I ride ~120km/week in dirty-oily Paris and swipe+oil my chain every two month on summer and one month in winter (probably slightly not enough). I use summer oil only because don’t want drop more PTFE on the road.

Edit: how to know if your chain needs oil: it should look slightly shiny but not greasy, oily or dirty or matte.
Oregon State has a online BSCS program
I saw, but have not yet read, a Greg Egan novel where light has a mass. That'd be interesting
About 300k patents are granted per year. There are not enough resources available to do it the right way.
Most trucks run on diesel though, about $3.53 . The low price of gas is partly due to drawing down of the US strategic reserve with political motivations, but that trick only works in the short-term.

Although the diesel price has been high but slightly decreasing for some years, perhaps there's just a lag between the high price and the fees increasing backwards and forwards through the supply chain.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_retail_diesel_price
Great that you want to use open sources, but now, you've just provided more evidence for my case as you've listed 2 new "sources of truth". Even that fact that there are plural truth sources indicates no one source is truth. Why are they different? Same reasons that have already been discussed

So, we really have not made any forward progress here
>An ill-educated populace is easier to manipulate, gravitate towards consumerism,

Very wrong. Education only camouflages stupidity, it does not remove it. And then part of education is indoctrination to trust authority (eg. trust the science).

That said, basic education reading/writing/simple math/science is indeed valuable.
Nvidia in my case, and I agree, the app performance is very poor. The easiest way to see the lag, IMO, is to open up the achievements list for a game and try to scroll around. It takes almost a second for mouse scroll wheel movements to have an effect.

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I think eventually, most people just choose what kind of clownfuckery they're willing to tolerate. I've worked with startups/small shops and F500s and at least at this stage of my life, I would readily choose the drudgery and petulance of the latter over the instability and dehumanization of the former (I will concede that this could be my bad luck and not an essential characteristic). I haven't gone down the consultancy path or entrepreneurship because as you say, it's a different kind of stress that I don't care for.
For most people, a description is better when it’s easier to understand and connect with. But you’re not most people.
> Are there any highly advanced economies that have "a formal assessment by the national engineering council" for software engineering or computer science?

The EUR ING certificate from Engineers Europe can be awarded to those who have attained a degree in engineering, but also for those with "no exemplifying formal qualifications, but will have engaged in professional Career Learning and peer review via the individual route".

https://www.engineerseurope.com/what-eur-ing-certificate

Since Engineers Europe is a private organization (albeit one that is widely recognized), I would imagine that individual European countries have their own rules about when someone can call themselves an engineer. I am pretty sure that Germany only requires a degree for instance. Looser still are the rules in Britain: the UK does not require any certification at all for the basic term 'Engineer', although there are more specific titles that are strictly protected (ICTTech being one of them, and yes they really do use that silly abbreviation, obligatory italics included). Theoretically, a country could refuse to recognize certifications from Engineers Europe, but that would not exactly endear them to the European Commission or to other European countries!
Don't use IaC To deploy your application code
understood, will rework it this week. Thanks for the feedback :)
I was skeptical when I first started treatment because I've internalized the whole "You don't have ADHD you're just lazy" thing for literally my entire life, and then imagine my surprise that the medicine designed specifically to make my brain work, actually makes my brain work!

I still get feelings of skepticism that it actually does anything every once in a while. Despite the overwhelming evidence from my wife, my coworkers, and my life in general that it absolutely does.
Am I wrong in thinking that this sounds sensible? I would imagine a corp can even probably directly negotiate a discount with their insurance provider by instating such measures.
The definition of organ in this article is closest to the body part definition. The use of organ here relies on a less common definition: roughly a constituent part of some larger whole that performs a specific function.
Klicker: An Embedded Shopping Assistant
I was the same in math and science. I remember being told “You are not supposed to know that, and who told you?” angrily. My moment of disillusionment with authority.
> Perhaps consider creating your own product as a "micropreneur": a mobile app, a SaaS service, a social media website, etc

Part of being burnt out is not caring about any one problem enough to want to solve it yourself.
Cell phone providers, internet providers, technology providers, license plate readers, ring cameras, mail package imaging, surveillance cameras, motion hunting cameras, private citizen agencies that can operate outside of law or structure, govt agencies that operate outside of law or structure, five eyes, shadow facebook networking, unlimited funds, dna gathering, thousands upon thousands of employees, including specialists who can interpret the smallest details about you and create an accurate psychological profile.

"Nowhere to run to baby. Nowhere to hide."
You also inspired me to go looking at this one [3]. I have not yet read it in full so please excuse any errors of understanding. (I have a backlog of 263 items at the moment).

> These points represent at best pure speculation, which a fair reading of the legislative history quickly undercuts. As Professor Schwartz has pointed out, language in the bill concerning contracts involving commerce was amended at the request of Senator Walsh, who wanted to narrow the effect of the Act, not expand it.178 Prior to amendment in 1924,179 the bill which became the FAA provided coverage of three categories: “any contract or maritime transaction or transaction involving commerce.”180 The application of the FAA to “any contract” would have included contracts not in interstate commerce.181 At the time, contracts not considered in interstate commerce included most employment contracts and insurance contracts.182 Senator Walsh’s amendment limited contracts covered by the Act to any “contract evidencing a . . . transaction involving commerce.”183 His clear intent was to prevent the application of the FAA to contracts such as those of insurance and employment, which he considered adhesion contracts.184 Thus, by limiting the scope of the FAA to contracts which were actually considered in interstate commerce, Congress was reducing the reach of the bill, not expanding it to apply in state courts.

It is possible I misremember or misstated the conflict comment I made above too. I do know that for example: train and airline employees have explicit statues for their contracts. I am also certain that I read at least one article about this conflict between the FAA and other statutes. I am having some trouble locating it at the moment (I've read 198 articles on the topic) though.

[I actually made https://arbitrationinformation.org/ originally as my own personal notes since my memory isn't great. It only turned into a website once I realised that my notes would be useful for other people.]

[3] Margaret L Moses. (2006). Statutory Miconstruction: How the Supreme Court Created a Federal Arbitration Law Never Enacted by Congress. Florida State University Law Review, 34(1). https://ir.law.fsu.edu/lr/vol34/iss1/3
See, now not only are you paying for the cost of coffee beans and hot water, but also the hours lost socializing /s
Totally fair. Things I might find challenging as a human unfamiliar with a given location (though GPS tends to help a lot) are probably different from an autonomous vehicle dealing with a lot of borderline crazy behavior by other cars, cyclists, and pedestrians darting out into traffic. A person also can just process so many inputs at once so you get into situations that are challenging in part because so much is going on.
So higher than the IDF.
I reject this kind of thinking.

To be clear, most engineers at FAANG would describe their own companies as a "large bureaucracy", yet, the engineers at these places are highly skilled, "complex, multifaceted individuals". Their hiring strategy has demonstrated this time and time again on HN discussions. It is insanely hard to get hired into these places. There must be at least 10 qualified candidates for each role. And, weirdly, I would say that almost all of the most highly skilled software engineers that I have known in my career are also the most dynamic. By definition, that makes them fungible because they can learn new skills so quickly.
> I shopped around for computer parts with complete IOMMU support just so I could map the discrete GPU to the virtual machine and achieve near native performance...

So just any standard/decent motherboard bought within the last 3-4 years?

> I wish they'd make it more virtualization friendly.

Which games do you have issues with when virtualizing? I've only been locked out of Halo Infinite and I enable all hyperv flags in libvirt.

> Just yet another reminder not to "buy" games on these platforms, I guess.

If you buy a game on Steam and you're unable to play it they'll refund you straight away, which is why everyone loves Valve and Steam even when the client is crappy.

I couldn't be happier with my setup, which I assume is similar to yours. (2 GPUs)
iPhone 'Photographic Styles': what makes it different to filters? – Redaktor
If I had the option I might pay for no ads.. but then I would probably want a new tab or icon or something where I could watch a feed of just ads on occasion.

If I was a premium subscriber I'd want more control over turning off certain types of ads from the feed..

But I actually find the ads in my feed more interesting than the 'non-ads' - 9 scrolls out of 10... and I find interesting products/services I would not find otherwise..

I would love to separate the ads from the main feed, and of course add my own weights to the feed algo -

I'm sure all this is partially because I don't find my fbook friends posts interesting at all 99% of time, and since I make ads, I like to see how other people make ads - so outlier I'm sure
More than highlight they'll do schema validation against inline SQL strings also.
The guy showed up at the door and watched the show, and only after filed the claim. His name matched the ID at the door. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a video of him showing ID at the door as it's in a different city.
I can't think of an example of a real-life measurement with 28 decimal digits of precision, and if there is, I bet they have a custom converter.

Please don't be the calculator that ignores significant digits and encourages people to write nonsense things like "an adult blue whale can be up to 29.9 meters (1177.16535 inches) long".
Some engineers visit this place and when they take it personal they fix it. I corfirmed that for Youtube/Google, not sure about Apple, but I've witnessed that having personal contact with them works as well. There are also stories about people joining the companies "just" to fix an issue.
most of this makes sense but I think what would make it more useful is more focus on topics that mainly fall under project management: building relationships with key stakeholders, establishing early+clear communication channels, building in timeline slack, how to navigate management politics etc. i dont think shipping in big tech cos is significantly different to shipping a large construction project in terms of project management, but rather there is a tendency for managers in big tech to be significantly less tenured and hence ignorant of basic management priniciples that lead to easily avoidable blunders.
Given reports on multitasking consistently show it degrades performance this kinda seems like a slam dunk?
This time it's sadly just another case of a web developer who thinks he knows better than you what browser you should use, it works fine with

// ==UserScript==
// @name oasis.decart.ai Firefox fix
// @version 1
// @run-at document-start
// @match https://oasis.decart.ai/*
// ==/UserScript==

unsafeWindow.chrome = 1;
Genuine question: have you served in any branch of any military?
Ask HN: Questions and thoughts of a 19 yo old, early starter
Hello,

I'm a a 19 yo enthusiast never interested in education/college/degree. I aspire and believe in doing "great things". As a software engineer, geek, techie, human, and student I always feel blank, blind and confused.

I started working (at 17-ish) at a NGO which promoted FOSS for around 1 year, they wanted me to go after 1 year and hence I left, I was honestly shattered into pieces that day. In around next 20-25 days, I was asked by someone if I was interested in one of their openings and I ended up joining there (unplanned).

I got exposed to a corporate culture and I got experience of how the world. I am always happy with whatever pay I'm getting, but because of being in this space. I have lost of the sense of thinking of myself as a 19 year old, I'm always thinking as if I'm 25 or 26.

From what perspective do I look at whatever good or bad things I'm doing ? Should that be as "work", "passion", "hobby" ? When I left the previous NGO, I was blank and afraid that I wasn't having the financial stability. Even now I don't know if I am presenting my feelings and thoughts in the right way.

I don't feel good about my performance at work (always feel i'm not doing good enough), and I don't even feel good that I am a early starter and I'm learning, there's no happiness or sense of satisfaction (even 10%) in my mind. There's one thing constant in my mind all the time which is "This is not enough, I have to work more".

Do I need help ?
In Canada, Thompson Rivers University offers a bachelor's in computer science as a fully distance option. On the French language side, Université TÉLUQ (part of the Université du Québec network) also offers a BS in CS.
Why not just teach people to read the x-ray
Only if you only play 3 times though (in your previous example). Statistics also are about figuring out what sort of outliers must exist for a process to be fair (true random). For something like a mega lottery with terrible odds, then winning twice is already very unlikely. But for something easy like a coin flip, every N trials should have a run of about sqrt N heads or wins in a row if it is unbiased. For something unlikely like lotto, it is closer to looking at the birthday paradox: the probability of one person winning twice is low; but the probability that there exists a person who won twice is high, at random.
Amazon's hard coded page with our name. Does this violate our trademark?
When I do an organic search on google for my company's trademarked name "YALA" or variations, Amazon has a page that shows up in the top 5 results. Amazon does not sell our brand. It appears Amazon has a hard coded page with our name in the search. Is this a clear trademark violation, or is Amazon doing this in a legal, albeit shady way?
Additionally, what factors contribute to how society deems the practice appropriate?
Assuming increasing number of waymo cars for the next four years, I wonder how this is going to affect the so called "Car-Free LA" goal for the 2028 olympics. Maybe it'll just be a tweak in a marketing of what it means to be "car free."
My impression is that these employee creature comforts are the absolute first thing to go. It's when the scope of business is narrowed or segments/IP is sold off that I would start worrying. I have no special insight on this, however.
Coffee increases your AM code output. Back to work!
Trunk Flaky Tests – Detect, Quarantine, and Eliminate Flaky Tests
It looks similar to a cable/fiber rollout where they have to onboard each region individually. I know they are currently doing this in the Atlanta metro.

Like cable/fiber, once they have good models of the business and what it costs to roll out, they have the freedom to accelerate and do regions in parallel. If the business works, I would expect them to scale the pace of rollout.
The concept reminded me of the song Lateralus by Tool, where geometric fractals are a theme.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7JG63IuaWs

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

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-tools-...
> People with an Internet- connected screen appear to have a short attention span because they have instant access to a multitude of things that they're interested in, competing for their attention with whatever you want them to be focusing on.

This is incorrect. There have been repeated studies that show a distinct decline in individuals ability to consume and process long-form text. Folks brains are literally remodeling towards ADHD-like behaviors.
Then get rid of it. That's scarily over-broad.
I really like the realtime aspect, with interrupts and silence detection happening as well as in open ai’s advanced voice mode
Most student devices are older Android or iPad tablets. Sometimes they get older generation Chromebooks. They are not getting M4 laptops. Then EdTech delivers MS teams level bloatware and expects it to run? This stuff is generally absolute garbage that even at the most optimistic barely works as advertised.

Lots of this stuff gets built with very little thought on how it's supposed to integrate into a classroom setting. None of it even attempts to integrate with the student grading or scheduling system(s).

We expect public school teachers to be:

* Very well educated.
* Emotionally mature and able to understand/handle emotionally immature students.
* Very good at their jobs.
* Able to understand the dizzying array of laws and regulations around education.
* Handle the politics of education(around what can be taught or not, what books can be used, etc.)
* Having students who were promoted from the previous grade, even if they can't do previous grade level things(like say HS students that still can't read). * Teach to a test.
* Teach to an individual up to their ability.
* Teach 30+ students at once at the lower grades.
* In Middle School/High School teaching over 200 unique students in a day.
* Dealing with unreasonable demands by some parents.
* Some students having special needs, diets.
* Having little to no classroom level funding.
* Understand and be educated in the latest tech.
* In some states teach students that are hungry.
* In some states carry guns to protect from school shooters.

All while also being paid poorly, if not terribly.

Sure, I can totally see that working out well.

If we paid teachers like we paid any other professional job(lawyers, doctors, etc), I guarantee we will get much higher calibre teachers. Teacher pay in the US hasn't even kept up with inflation over the past decade. Not to mention salaries of all the support staff around teachers to help them thrive in the classroom.
Shoutout for Mojeek. Highlights:

- Has its own index

- Had a pro-privacy privacy policy well before DDG existed

- No conflated marketing (DDG wrt it passing on 3 octets of an IP to Bing for local searches, Ecosia for not including Bing's carbon footprint as a meta search engine)

- Has an API

It's a smaller index and has more limited resources, but pretty much the best genuine alternative, and great for finding older resources that have long since been buried by G/B.
American high schools (grades 9+) already give each student customized schedule, so there is no single set of "classmates" anymore - a Computer Science class might have 9-th graders and 11-th graders sitting side-by-side. This does not reflect their knowledge levels, it only means that one student decided to take CS first, and other student decided to leave CS for later and take some other class (like Physics) first.

This is why parents are unhappy: it's OK to skip most math classes entirely and only do state-mandated minimum... but skipping _basic_ math classes and jumping straight to advanced ones is not allowed.
What assurances do you have that your "perma-off" setting is even minimally respected? Unless you have a physical disconnect for the chip, I would presume it is still gathering data and that data is being shipped out. There are just fewer companies that can do it.
Show HN: RowMaker – Turn Images and Words into Spreadsheets
Hey All,

RowMaker is a simple utility app I built that helps you automate data entry into personal spreadsheets. RowMaker uses AI to turn pictures and voice notes from your phone into rows of data for personal use cases.

I built RowMaker for myself because I have a ton of use cases where I'd like to track information in a spreadsheet, but I'm way too lazy to do manual data entry. It occurred to me that, if the things I'm trying to track can be captured in an image or describe in a voice note, I can just use a multi-modal LLM to convert that raw data into a structured format that can be added to a spreadsheet. Hence, RowMaker.

Here's how it works:
1. Users create a "rowmaker", which is a set of fields and descriptions that define the columns of a spreadsheet.
2. RowMaker creates the spreadsheet in your Google Sheets account.
3. Users can then take pictures or voice notes on their phone, and submit them to a rowmaker.
4. RowMaker uses an LLM + the spreadsheet context to extract the necessary data from the picture/voice note.
5. The extracted data is added as a new row to the spreadsheet.

As an example, I used RowMaker to create a pantry inventory by defining the fields I wanted to track (food name, category, brand) and taking pictures of everything in my pantry.

I'm releasing the app today on the app/play stores. The app has usage-based pricing based on credits - 1 extraction consumes 1 credit. New users get 20 credits free, and can purchase additional credits in increments of 100 for $1 / 100 credits.

Today, RowMaker only supports Google Sheets for storing data, so you will need a Google account.

This app is not meant to be a money-maker. My goal is to eventually use a local, on-device LLM for data extraction, so I can drop the LLM API calls and the usage-based pricing.

Would love to hear your feedback!
It's called the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact". The Interstate Compact part just means that it's a legally binding agreement between states.