skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people seem to miss in this discussion: Many Germans get EV cars as company cars because of how they're taxed:
Say the car is worth 60k and you're allowed to use it for non-work purposes, then you need to tax 1% of the list price per month (i.e. 600 is added as fictional income to your monthly pay, and you need to pay the tax on that) IF you drive a gas / diesel car.
For EVs that is 0.25%, so there was a huge incentive for people to get Teslas.

That law is changing though: The taxation applies only to cars up to €60k list price (most Teslas exceed that by now, even Model 3s with some extras), and as electricity prices have been soaring, charging the EV got really expensive.

Adding to that, interest rates have been increasing in 2022 for the first time in a long time. This means that leasing rates and financing rates skyrocketed. So as another commenter wrote: Buying a new car is one of the least worries of Germans at the moment.
nah, better deal would be to do a world wide go fund my new country, and buy Alaska.....many Alaskans will pitch in I bet
High end? It's on my 15 year old Suzuki. I only know that because the diagnostics told my mechanic it's broken and he replaced it once :)

It may just not be advertised.
There are no fundamentals justifying valuations of most multi-trillion dollar US companies, and yet here we are. Also, Tesla is currently the only US company that figured out how to make EVs profitably. And one of the very few in the world. All the remaining companies able to profitably make EVs are in China, which we for some reason must "contain" somehow.
Unless it’s a MacBook. In which case it will demolish the vast majority of desktop pc processors. My 16core amd 9950X is put to shame by M4 mobile processors.
That is more a reflexion on your friends poor mental health than the quality and creativity of the ads though.
This perhaps?

https://fortune.com/2025/01/06/germanys-ev-sales-crash-elect...

The overall slump in electric car sales in Germany saw battery-powered vehicles lose market share relative to traditional combustion engines and hybrid cars. Electric cars made up 13.5 percent of sales in 2024, down from 18.4 percent in the previous year.6 Jan 2025
+1. Forget self driving, where are those darn ironing and folding bots? Talk about hours saved.
No they didn't look at other grants!

They looked at a handful of cherry picked charities that love to donate to high profile projects. Universities subsidize these grants internally to get other donations!

When I get money from say the Gates foundation, they are almost always topping up existing research not doing something new. On a high profile topic donors are attracted to.

These cherry picked foundations also give very little money; well under 1% of what we bring in. So the lack of indirect costs has a minor effect on the system that gets balanced by other well meaning donors.

Had they looked at other grants they would have seen that the indirect costs are in line with what NIH was paying. The bulk of other grants includes NSF, DARPA, ONR, etc.

Or they could have asked, when a corporation gives a university money, what do they think is a reasonable overhead rate? Because we don't accept money from for profit entities at anything less than the full overhead rate. And corporations pay it because it's reasonable. That's because they fund a lot of research and because they aren't a charity we would subsidize with other donations.

Or they could ask. When a corporation gets an NIH grant, what are their indirect costs? Are university indirect costs in line? After all everyone needs to keep the lights on.

Corporations are not subject to the cap at all! They can get a grant and charge 100% overhead. This only applies to universities. The government could not give a biotech company a grant with 15% overhead, no company would ever take it.

I have seen the indirect costs that some major corporations charge. 100% is low for them! And the government pays it. In every single contract with industry.

Except for universities. That they single out to dry to drive into insolvency.

So no. They didn't look at other grants. They could have computed countless statistics against tens of millions of grants for hundreds of billions of dollars. They picked the most elite nice small charities that give out a few hundred grants that we fund ourselves for the most bleeding heart projects.
Is there any reason to think so? Considering his policies, which parties he supports in Europe, long history of workplace issues in his companies, ...
> earnest attempt at something

that's what makes it even funnier
Rev share is up to 20% on default rates (depending on notice period). With custom rates they can make their voice more expensive and earn up to $0.2 for every 1000 characters. So you can do the math.
Guess what the ascii code for 'X' is. One try.
WASM approach to injecting the host-interaction API seems to me to be similar to what EFI does. You are provided with a table full of magical functions on startup, and that's how you can interact with the host. Some functions weren't provided there? Tough luck.
I also never understood who the 747s need to be placed nose to tail. I think if I was in charge of measuring via planes, I would place them nose to nose and tail to tail.
I think that there's just a lot of voodoo floating around regarding audio.
When was your last long FSD drive and what sort of (safety-critical or not) interventions did you have to make?
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Location: Bratislava, Slovakia (comfortable with different time zones - partly overlapping etc.)

Remote Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: html/css(sass, tailwindcss), Javascript(jQuery, vanilla), Wordpress (twig, acf, php, custom theme development), NextJS, ReactJS

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZIP2zktpY6GkBbez2xrcCzB_-3t...

Email: gio97niko@gmail.com

About me: Hi I'm Giorgi. I am a frontend web developer with up to 4 years of professional experience. I've been freelancing as well as working with a team (US based digital agency) in past years, so I'm comfortable working individually and in team environment.
Most of my career I've been working in Wordpress development (been also workin on NextJS projects past two years). I'm open to similar opportunities but would be even more excited for a change (app development - React/NextJS). I adapt quickly and most importantly work hard. Outside of work I love working out and spending time with my friends :) PS: Past year I've gained a lots of knowledge in web accessibility and have been leading the way in this area for a team that I work with currently. It is something that I constantly improve in and enjoy
"without compromising on speed" absolutely does mean something, and it doesn't mean "fast enough".

It means you couldn't write faster code if you did it by hand in assembly. In C++ they call it "zero-cost abstraction" (you can Google that).

Adding GC adds all sorts of overheads that you can avoid in C and Rust.

Obviously in some cases you can beat the compiler, but in general it means there aren't any systematic overheads.
AI voice is literally the only way I have to "read" an obscure article during 1h non-static commutes.
Wrong assumption,

License is not the same as code base. Violating a license doesn't stop something being what it is.
:) maybe they could just put several single use knobs in and call it a day.

This is still too multi function.
Did you have some iconic voice selected? It skipped most likely due to inappropriate content. You can try with some non iconic voice
> The former is of course a tempting viewpoint for those who have not had the same education about the holocaust that the average German receives, and looks in from the outside without understanding that it's not "guilt", or even a unique German burden that we put on ourselves.

He did raise a valid point that has been raised before, that is actually widely known, and that is specifically German, and it has little to do with "make sure fascism doesn't rise again". It's just that because he said it it is spun like crazy.

You can call it guilt, you can call it castration (and there is a bit of both), you can call it moving from one extreme to another (and I think your "we don't have a bigger duty" is somewhat illustrative), you can call it what you want, but it is true that the spectre of WWII and of the Nazi period has a huge influence to this day in Germany and not necessarily for the better (from a German POV). It shows, for example in how meek Germany is with using its military, or in their immigration policy, most 'infamously' Merkel's open door policy in 2015 (which has spectacularly backfired since), etc.

It's worth highlighting that guilt is not the same as rememberance.
I can listen to a song while coding. I can't listen to a podcast while coding. A podcast demands way more attention than a song.

1.2 million people die in road accidents, and most of them are children and young people. Even more are seriously injured.
> It can exit at 1 m/s and still be thrust

But it won't be enough thrust to counterbalance the force of scooping up air that collides at 8 km/s

In order to produce net thrust, it has to be more than that.
How do you avoid annoying everyone around you, or does being CEO mean you don't have to worry about it?
I always am skeptical about this idea that "great marketers make great products". I mean of course marketing is important to sell stuff, and of course people want to think that they have a major contribution into the success of their company, but...

Take the iPhone. My first iPhone was a 3G. I did not buy it because Steve Jobs convinced me: I bought it because a friend had one, I tried it and it was actually pretty cool. I had tried a PDA before, and did not feel like buying one. No storytelling there, just a product that was a better fit at a better time.
Tesla is becoming the new Merc in the Indian community. It seems to becoming the new status symbol car. Not sure what Indians in the UK think of Musk.
> It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2].

elevenlabs has an API which seemed quite reasonable when I looked into it. A bit of python should get you what you want pretty quickly.
More info on that if anyone's interested (use a translator): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Wetterdienst#Kontrov...
I would consider all of that fancy autocomplete. If it's just helping you type boring boilerplate things you would have typed anyway, that's autocomplete.

It's neat, but it's not the paradigm shift people seem to think it is. Copilot mostly just replaces StackOverflow searches for me.
Throwaway: when my daughter was 4, she took a bath. My wife was in the living room doing laundry, literally 5 steps away. At that point, my daughter had just finished swimming class 3 months before. I was at work. When she called "mum!", my wife said: "Coming" and folded one final shirt. When she then entered the bathroom, my daughter floated in the tub, face down. No breathing, no sign of life anymore. My wife revived here on the floor of our living room while calling 911 and crying for help.

She had a simple fever cramp (her second) in the tub and nearly drowned because of it.

This was roughly a year ago. I remember walking out of the building at work in trance, looking for a cab, after I got the call, thinking my daughter was dead. She was back to normal (apart from the nasty infection that lead to the fever cramp) on the next day. Buy my wife and I have never been the same since. I entered the apartment 2 days later, and the tub was still filled with water and some of my daughters hair, and there was blood on the living room floor because the medics gave her sedatives and she kicked against the syringe. While cleaning my daughter's blood from the floor, I got the distinct feeling that she really died and that I was just in a very long dream in which she survived, and that I would wake up very soon to a world of sorrow. That feeling has never left me. It may explain why most things now feel completely irrelevant to me, including work.

We quickly bought a house 6 months later and left the apartment. I now realize that this was mostly motivated by the fact that we couldn't stand the look of the bathtub anymore. It was also because we simply weren't afraid anymore of the debt, of the additional work, of moving. Fear is something that only remains a numb feeling after such an experience.

She is 5 now. The worst part is that she fully remembers. A few weeks ago, she freely and cheerfully explained in daycare that she once was bathing and then cried "mum" and then "fell asleep under water". At dinner a few months ago, she also explained that to us and then laughed and mentioned that "mum must've thought I am a mermaid" and happily continued eating. It crushes me just thinking of it.

If my wife had folded 2 or 3 shirts before entering the bathroom, my daughter would be dead now. If my daughter hadn't yelled "mum!" the second the fever cramp started, of if she would've yelled it under water, she would also be dead now. In this probabilistic decision tree, the leaf where my daughter survives has a probability that is negligibly small. To my very great surprise, I have found that this inevitably leads to religion. I have never been religious before, but I have indeed found great relief in prayer and sitting around in empty churches.

Life to us is now nothing but walking on a thin crust of ice, which spans over an infinite hell of fire, horror and torture. At any time, without warning, the ice may break.
I joined Pinboard at a time when there was no recurring costs, just a small fee to join, for life. I think I paid $10 total, 12 or 15 years ago, and not a penny since. For that amount it's a pretty good deal.
Sales had been reportedly tanking (sic) even before the end of the year.

https://insideevs.com/news/745119/tesla-sales-europe-2024/
sherpa-onnx. use one of these models - https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/pretrained_models/r... - if you use py3-tts-wrapper you can get a list of these using the get_voices method
Looks like the problem is with the desktop Tor browser. I can see that the QR codes are displayed as two square images with coloured vertical stripes instead of real QR codes. That's such as weird problem.

In any case, I have just added the display of the base32 secret key.
> makes you wonder about the future of humanity

Fun anecdote (because I can no longer remember the source):

There's this Roman author deriding the practice of filling one's villa with books for the sole purpose of showing them off at parties, and not reading them.

So the future of humanity, much like its past, will probably be like its present: pretentious faux culture for the many, laborious work for the few, and a big divide in between which educated populists manipulate.
There's a whole section in the article about experimenting with different positions and weights of the haptic feedback as the dial is moved and how to tie them in to the display on the control itself.
A good product and word of mouth is way more effective than marketing
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Generating electricity from people stepping on the floor is actually already a thing with current technology - https://www.pavegen.com/
I stopped paying (and using it) a couple of years ago. I have a lifetime account so my bookmarks are still there.

Reason: I had started paying yearly for the archive option and it stopped working and I tried and failed several times to get in contact with support.

I now use raindrop.io, it is reasonably priced, has api, lets me import pinboard bookmarks, and unlike pinboard.in it still works for me.
You can jailbreak you kindle [1] and install KOReader[2] and this will allow you to do this science fiction.

[1] https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

[2] https://koreader.rocks/
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> You have the option of writing your worker in JavaScript/TypeScript, or compiled WASM.

Is there any compelling reason not to just compile TypeScript to WASM? Why should it have JavaScript as its compile target?
I doubt that is true.

According to [1], 2024 sales by model (2 Teslas on podium, 0 BYD in top 10):

FULL YEAR 2024 - UK EV sales

Tesla Model Y 32,862

Audi Q4 e-tron 17,621

Tesla Model 3 17,425

MG4 15,651

BMW i4 12,953

Mercedes EQA 11,617

Skoda Enyaq 11,516

Hyundai KONA 10,858

Volvo EX30 9,931

Volkswagen ID.4 8,927

This maches my experience of English roads. I must have seen one BYD (driven by a Chinese...) while Teslas are everywhere now.

[1] https://www.electrifying.com/blog/article/official-figures-s...
So jj calls commits "changes", and this is less confusing? Interesting. I find when you dig into people's understanding of git (or version control in general), a lot of them understand it as storing a sequence of diffs. This small thing breaks their understanding of the whole system. Calling them "changes" seems like it would reinforce this belief. Or is that the idea? Does jj embrace this perhaps more intuitive "sequence of diffs" view, but more successfully hide the "sequence of commits" reality?
Why not link to the boosted Singal post instead of to someone saying it’s super bad?
Docs Without Please
People don't form meaningful relationships with celebrities. Relationships are actually largely divorced from what is "useful to society".
We should wait for the official report, but there is speculation the helicopter altimeter was miscalibrated.

Apparently on the old avionics in the helicopter, the altimeter is calibrated by manual entry of barometric pressure to the nearest 0.1 inch Hg. So a rounding error could cause a 100 ft altitude discrepancy.
Oh no, it doesn't run on Apple Silicon. That's too bad.
The closest to that is AssemblyScript which is terrible and painful to use with a broken developer tooling story.
>Assuming they don't or concluding they don't because they don't align to your preferences means that you, not them, are polarized.

Many people here including parent commenter argue for rule of law, which includes controlling and protecting the border and deporting illegal aliens as written in the law. However, those same people (not necessarily parent commenter, but probably the case also) argue for an uncontrolled anarchistic border and presence of foreign nationals in the same breath.

This is why I am of the mind that the only standard the Left has is the lack of standards. Rule of law, except not those laws.
I think WASM will likely take over as the standard for shipping things like Functions-as-a-Service implementations, and other forms of plugins, where one host application/server of some kind wants to efficiently run pieces of untrusted logic.

I really hope WASM takes over as a plugin mechanism. I don't think it will lead to fragmentation because communities will form around their preferred language, it will
just not be enforced anymore. And forcing a plugin language did not work so successfully to prevent fragmentation anyway, see GNU Guile or vimscript.
Its a opportunity. Programmers contain internal architecture information. If they leak - and you collect the full set, you can reconstruct a similar product fresh from scratch for cheap- and then take over the business of a failing behemoth with ai-rot.

The eternal death-wish to cut the coding dependency murders yet another set of companies. So many where there before- Outsourcing, UML, node-based programming, no-codes in all variations and colours. Generations of managers have marched into this abyss and none-came back alive, the skulls of the ego-dream of "only business management is irreplaceable crunching beneath the boots" trying to cut the knowledge worker dependency out of the equation. And deep down, they feel the tingle of things going wrong- even now.
He has been agreeing with 14 words-style shit on Twitter for almost a year now. Him doing the Nazi salute on public TV just brought more attention to it.
Movement is as much a visual pollution as light is. I find it very, very distracting. That is perhaps a cognitive defect on my part. The fact that e-ink screens will be relatively static is only a good thing in my book.

Another complication might be that e-ink by itself is not visible in the dark, though it isn't a problem to add lights. However, that could again be a benefit.

Personally I would love a ban on ALL advertisement in public spaces, even print. Some brave politicians have done it on a city level, and the citizens just love it. Banning moving images and lights for advertisement would be a compromise, e-ink screens could then still be allowed.
39 day troll keeps on trolling.
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He is not "conservative of the year". He gave a speech to the far right AfD Party in Germany and called them Germanies only hope.

To give you an idea: at the European level, the group of LePen and Meloni refuses to work with them because they are to extreme. Many regional branches of AfD are under surveillance for strong suspicion of fascist activities. One of their most prominent politicians sued someone for defamation for calling him fascist. The court decided that this was not defamatory because it was in fact true.

Our conservatives are so far refusing to cooperate at all with the AfD.

So Musk is not "conservative of the year" he is a supporter of certified fascists.
Make it into a game
Maybe we need a washing machine that acts more like a car wash. Basically you take a shower with your clothes on and then stand under a giant fan to dry off.
> See https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/conflicts/.

Honestly, this page doesn't really make a compelling case as to how checking out the commit with a conflict and amending is better than git rebase/whatever --continue. Overall, it's also quite abstract. Concrete examples would be deeply appreciated.
We try to have a clean-as-you-go policy. Try to improve bits and bobs while maintaining the code base as a whole. While (IMO) a one-liner here and there is fine, it can quickly spiral out of control.

I usually keep an improvements commit at the start of my branch which I `--amend` to while picking away at the task. If the commit gets too big I submit it separately, to be reviewed in isolation.
Are you saying you can't drive a car if passengers are talking?

If that's the case, maybe a driver's license isn't your thing?
People often mix marketing and sales. For me marketing is about "understanding your market". You wanted an iPhone because His Steveness knew what many people were looking for in a phone.

(The other parts of marketing, IMO, are getting the right message across at the right time - to those right people. The storytelling is the message part).
There is PRQL and a few others.
There is also JOOQ which does transpilation to and between various SQL dialects (sadly open core with a small core).
Also, some databases like ClickHouse are implementing alternative languages like PRQL and Kusto natively.
Sophisticated investors might think they can sell quickly enough if the tide turns.