skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I see this divide all the time, and I can't bear seeing this used time and time again to make the rural vs. the urban populations angry at each other, which in the end only detracts from trying to see how to make everything work together.

Personally, I'd love to see more investment into rural and semi-rural areas to stop rural flight (because letting run that one unchecked is the cause for the housing prices in urban areas skyrocketing).

The problem is, it's getting increasingly hard to justify spending money on these areas morally. In Germany, even over ten years ago when I worked in construction primarily in rural areas, outright nazism (like entering a bar and witnessing the bar shout the heil-salute including raising the arm) was already a thing, listening to the "Stammtisch" idiocy outright painful, and today it's even worse because this kind of opinion isn't just utter fringe any more, it's gotten political mainstream.

When we're deciding to send money to rural areas, we're effectively rewarding "going fascist". Just behave deranged enough and you'll get everyone bending over.
If it is not a store, just don't buy from them, problem solved.
The Old Allure of New Money by Robert J. Shiller (2018)
https://archive.is/9929k
Aren't you assuming that the author didn't reach out?
Are you saying storing pointers to large files isn't sane to do in Git? What are your suggested solution for dealing with large assets you want versioned and easily accessible?

If you're really dogmatic about it, I guess you would have no dependency lock files either, but commit all that code directly to git instead of having references. Some people do that, so wouldn't be a huge surprise.
Ask HN: Would You Unionize for WFH?
WFH has proven to be both popular and workable but no union effort has made it their one issue.

Unionizing involves a high likelihood of being (illegally) fired for exercising your legal right.

Would you risk being fired for the right to use collective bargaining for one benefit alone: the ability to WFH one/some/most/all days of the week?

I, for one, would unionize for it. What say ye, you HN readers?

Yay or nay?
https://imgur.com/a/5zDRli5
I ran into this problem when I wanted to use quadlets on Raspberry Pi running Debian.

The proposed workarounds were compiling Podman yourself or using debian/testing.
Note that this is true for POSIX sytems but not e.g. for Windows. There the program receives the command-line as-is and is responsible for parsing it into an array. There are two different standard functions to do this parsing for you (with slightly different quoting behavior) but you could also create your own that requires options to not be quoted.
One of my favorite movies
National Grid boss says Heathrow had 'enough power' after substation fire
Doesn't work in a browser [1]:

> file: URLs are supported by many non-browser runtimes such as Node, since scripts there already have file: URLs, but they are not supported by browsers due to security reasons.

If you open HTML file directly in a browser, it cannot import ES modules from a filesystem. It can import legacy scripts, but they, as I understand, cannot import anything at all.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
If you can understand German, that is.
But why? Waste (compiled) binary space? Or source code space, perhaps for early employee metrics gaming purposes?

And don't answer "to waste space of course" please. :)
Those aren't four different languages. CK and HIP are both just libraries.
> When a Netflix drama highlights how online influencers can turn a teenager into a killer, it’s time to rethink social media

that's quite the reach, and it almost seems like it's trying to paint very valid anti-social media sentiments as some sort of generational hysteria.
If you live in Germany, the Wright brothers may have "invented" the airplane, but Hans Grade was the person who made the airplane practically usable: :-)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Grade

(and before, Otto Lilienthal invented the glider, i.e. he made the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal

)
It's even more insidious, because even if you like Tesla, your car may get scratched by people who don't like Tesla.

But yeah, perhaps telling allies in Europe to get fucked, and tell our friends that the US was embracing the idea to economically attack Canada and potentially militarily Denmark, supporting the idea that the US deserves to get a piece of Ukraine together with Russia, weren't probably the smartest moves among millions of other things.

I like Tesla as a product though (except the finish quality), but it's even less likely that FSD will come in Europe now...

And now, more oddly, it is a remotely controlled video and microphone, so even more creepy seeing the personalities of the people behind.
> My plants don’t need detailed instructions to grow. Given the basics (water, sunlight, and nutrients), they figure out the rest on their own.

They do need detailed instructions to grow. The instructions are encoded in their DNA, and they didn’t just figure them out in real time.
Top banner on Tesla.com:

> Inventory Model Y Available Now - Explore Reduced Pricing
- View Inventory
Agree, France is somewhat of an exception.

I remember during the Chirac presidency how viciously France was attacked by the other European countries, especially my own Sweden, for doing nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific.

Jump forward today and France is seen as a protector of Europe, especially in Sweden, because of its nuclear arsenal.
Didn't Tesla's top selling car (Model Y) get a refresh last month?
Potentially a lot of buyers waiting to get the new model.
Was in the market for a Model Y. Got Volvo EX40 instead. Glad I dodged that bullet.
Hahah - this is a cool way to work. Prepare in secret, strike like thunder! It's funny the rewards for 'solving problems we created' (i imagine there are whole industries that work this way). Sometimes when I see the "next version" of popular tools/frameworks dealing with the fallout from enthusiastically adopted shiny abstractions of prior versions, I think of this :)
The Tesla stock is really interesting. It has dropped yes, but the value it lost is basically only what it gained from Elon Musk supporting Trump from October and until earlier this month. The value removed, while large, was only because the market apparently expected Tesla to benefit from the Musk-Trump relationship, when that turned out to be a fluke the added value was swiftly removed and the stock price returned to it's original trajectory.

It's almost as if recalls, slowing sales and damage to the brand doesn't affect it all. The conspiracy nut in me believe that someone is artificially keeping the price high.
I can find no evidence that Musk was involved in the Bud Light boycott. Do you have a link?
Scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to light
I made the same decision 2 1/2 years ago, cancelling a Model 3 order and going with an EV6.
San Diego leans right so I’m curious how things are in the rest of the US.
You're still missing the point.

Almost all 1980s computers booted the OS from floppy. If they had a hard disk at all, then if you trashed the OS on the hard disk, you could reinstall from floppy.

This was true of Amigas, Unix machines, Commodore 900 series, and all IBM PC-compatibles whatever they were running: PC DOS, MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows, OS/2.

You can't boot an Amiga into a full usable OS without at least 1 floppy disk, which means a floppy drive to read that disk.

Same for any PC compatible. Same for any Unix machine.

The point being that you could boot an Acorn RISC OS computer into the full unrestricted multitasking GUI, with networking, without any disks. Without even
having a floppy drive, or a hard disk, or _any disk drives of any kind_. You could physically remove the drives and configure the machine to know it had none fitted, and it would boot and run apps from its built-in ROM drive.

You can do that on an Atari ST as well, with a lot of errors you need to cancel, but there was no multitasking and no network access so the result could not do much. No way to load apps, no way to attach to a machine to load any.

On an Acorn Archimedes with no drives, you could boot, run the text editor, write a letter, open the paint or line-art apps, draw pictures, open the music editor, write a tune, save all those files onto a fileserver, print them out, and then cleanly shut down.

No hard disk. No floppies. No floppy drive. Entire OS and GUI and core apps, in ROM.
If these takedowns were lawful, why do they lie and hide the details about how they did it?

Read carefully the sections related to the encrypted containers and the OVH servers and tell me your opinion: https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2019/0...
Only if it were Russia can Trump stay quiet about Nord Stream, which he has.
They didn't even mention the name "Lilienthal" who the Wright Brothers knew to have flown a heavier than air craft before they did...
A great opportunity to teach the importance of reading the whole command before trying to modify it.
I truly feel that his ideology mandates a separate term. Muskism? Elonism? The latter rolls of the tongue better, but I suppose future historians will lean towards the former.
We’re building seenode, a European alternative to Render and Fly.io. When you’re fundraising, you’re always compared to global competitors, not just European ones. Which usually have better access to capital, they get to the traction and revenues faster as there is one big market with huge purchase power.

I’ve spoken with other DevTools founders, and many of them see 60–80% of their revenue coming from the US. When you’re building a PLG model targeting software developers, you really have to think globally from day one.

Even though demand for EU-based server providers has increased recently. It wasn’t always like that.

Being EU based and trying to target only EU customers is more complicated, from fundraising to customer acquisition, especially when you factor in language localization and legal bureaucracy. It’s even harder if you’re building a B2C startup where regional differences are more pronounced.
Some of this is probably the new Model Y, that people are waiting for.

And probably also competition.

But the political stuff sure doesn't help. Especially not when want to feel good/green when buying an EV.
Nothing too serious, but a nice writeup and documentation of this... oversight?
i don’t understand how so many people are doing such illogical actions and justifying it because of “Elon”. Elon != Tesla..

get off social media and read something, come to your own conclusions. don’t just blindly follow others.
I don't share my data with anyone so I don't need cloud storage.
SSDs are so cheap at this point that I just buy a new SSD every few years and install a fresh copy of Windows there. Old drive gets unplugged and "archived" on the shelf.

If I need to access the "archive" I use a SATA to USB cable and plug the drive in.

I avoid large capacity drives (my biggest one is about 200GB) and use spacesniffer so I'm forced to keep the data I store lean.
Yeah, deliveries are starting in May.
There’s been no talk of military attacks against Canada and Greenland/Denmark to my knowledge (as a Canadian).

Do you have a link?
Our Kia EV6 (similar platform) has been great, besides its 12V flooded battery once going flat and disabling the vehicle.

The EV6 has a big touchscreen, a touch screen for combined media/climate controls, capacitive buttons for seat heat and steering wheel heat. However, many of the controls are available as physical buttons as well.
Ahh, I see.

I don't think I've ever used any of my now 3 smartwatches to control my phone's media player. But then I mainly only listen to music on my phone when I'm on a plane.
> Nothing of what I said is incorrect, yet you chose to provide a condescending and pointless explainer instead of addressing my arguments.

I provided an explanation with no particularly condescending tone. I have no idea how your arguments were not addressed.

> Why is VDL ruling the commission if her previous performance was terrible and she isn't viewed favorably by the majority of Europeans?

The opportunity to change is in the regular elections, both at national and EU levels. That's when unpopular leaders are replaced.

The fact that a particular leader is unpopular does not mean much, as they are indirectly elected (as so happens in paliamentarism).

> Given the current situation, do you really believe the democratic system in place for the EU provides efficient mechanisms for holding elected officials accountable for their actions?

Yes, I do. Depending on what you mean by "held accountable", of course. People sometimes use this jargon in a very loaded manner.

The main problem I see is not the "accountability", as the commissioner is accountable to the council that picked them.

The main problem is that the council is formed by national government representatives. This mixes EU politics with local national politics. I may vote for a given party in national elections for local reaasons (e.g.: housing and transportation), but I may disagree with their stance on the EU level.

I don't know a good way to resolve this dissonance outside of some sort of federalization of the EU (something I think would be positive btw).
I'm looking forward to some awesome products coming out of the EU. Could you guys start with a really good, privacy preserving search engine?
I imagine, if the cultural signal is not the issue (which would be weird cars are perhaps the second most signaling purchase someone makes) it’s the resale value.

All teslas have cratered in value a minuscule number of them have been vandalized.
> Flatpak wants to download a gazillion dependencies before the actual package

Ah yes unlike other package managers that magically make applications not need dependencies.
I very much work at the coalface here, and "application developers don't need to rely on the distros packaging their app correctly" occasionally happens but is most often about miscommunication. Application developers should talk to the distros if they think there's a packaging problem. (I talk to many upstreams, regularly.) Or, more often, application developers don't understand the constraints that distros have, like we need a build that is reproducible without downloading random crap off the internet at build time, or that places configuration files in a place which is consistent with the rest of the distro even if that differs a bit from what upstream thinks. Or we have high standards for verifying licensing of every file that is used in the build, plus a way to deploy security updates across the whole distro.
It was because one of the many social media influencers they paid to promote a March Madness contest also happened to be trans.
It's just making mqtt messages from modbus is such a simple task that you can just write the software yourself.
There are many intricate stuff in modbus that maybe does not translate too well for generic translators and where you want to have full control. For example messages over multiple registers, breaking interfaces between vender versions and all that legacy stuff.

Telegraf is also nice (but only used it for mqtt topics) but the same applies here. The functionality is fairly simple. In telegraf depending on your data your .conf file gets fairly large and has to be maintained. If you have your data model already in code it's fairly easy to just write it yourself and gain the simplicity of just using the classes you have anyway.

In my current stack the data ingestion both the initial data->mqtt and mqtt-> database/cloud is just small programs that share their internal data objects. It's very easy to maintain for a small team imo.
Interesting. My understanding of what DOGE is doing is getting American debt under control. Trying to save the country from going bankrupt from overspending on programs that do not improve the life of the average citizen. I'm failing to see how that is destroying the American government. Maybe it's just me.
It's true that the NSDA lost 4% between the July and November 1932 elections, but they were still the strongest party by a clear margin. Hitler was appointed chancellor under a minority government because he could not find a coalition with a majority in the Reichstag. In this sense, he was indeed "elected". You are right in the sense that other parties provided the necessary 2/3 majority to pass the Enabling Act of March 14, 1933 which eventually gave him absolute power.

Side note: in a way Trump has it much easier because he can already govern with executive orders without requiring a 2/3 majority from the Congress...
These would be incredibly light, resource wise. Is there a reason they can't be run on a compatability layer?
Prostate cancer surgery breakthrough offers hope for erectile function
This is precisely what CharaChorder is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CharaChorder
Finding Remote PLM Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition
Been wrestling with this for a while, figured some of you might have seen similar.

The Situation:

* 15+ years PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) experience, including a stint at Google.
* Now based in India.
* Strong US network (NY, OH, OK, CA).
* Targeting direct client engagements, potentially building a small remote team.
* Problem: Most remote PLM roles explicitly state US/UK/EU residency.

The Question:

How do you effectively find remote PLM consulting/contracting gigs in the US when you're physically outside those regions? Freelance platforms seem to be a dead end as I've not found any relevant postings there.

Initial Thoughts (and Maybe Where I'm Going Wrong):

* Leveraging existing network is a given, but feels like I'm hitting a wall.
* Direct outreach to companies? Feels like a long shot, especially with the location hurdle.
* Is there some niche platform or strategy I'm missing? Something beyond the usual Upwork/LinkedIn grind.

Looking For:

* Specific strategies that have worked for others in similar situations.
* Experiences with companies that are open to remote PLM consultants outside the typical zones.
* Insights on how to navigate the legal/contractual aspects of this arrangement.

Anyone cracked this nut? Any and all advice appreciated.
I dont know, I've just seen it used in a seemingly derogatory way. I don't know what it means and I don't care. Nobody in my real life uses that term anyway, it's just weirdos on Twitter and such.
the regime wants to bankrupt most Americans to install fiefdoms of corporate (blue states) or religious (red states) control.

And by want, I mean the same way the human's unconscious brain already makes choices and the rational super ego justifies those choices.
What are the best test automation tools
What are the best test automation tools? i am looking for something for web and API automation
>They definitely use targeted approaches if they can get their hands on datasets.

Even on a firesale, I doubt it would be cheap enough for the margins they work on. These aren't exactly large scale, sophsticated operations being worked with here.

>Only if you think that matters and the SCOTUS will uphold it.

Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think they will. If only because it's an absolute nightmare logistically trying to do it any other way. No country is going to accept a deportation flight of peopel who were not born on their land.

Or perhaps we have an underpopulation crisis decades later which does incentivize that. But that would solve the deportation issue in and of itself, right?
If you wait until you're fluent in Spanish to get started with Japanese, you'll be waiting a long time.

I recommend learning them concurrently. It'll be easier than you might think!
When I click the sign up from the front page, it takes me to a login page that says my credentials are invalid. Then I see another sign-up link.

If I click sign up from the front page just take me straight to the sign-up page.
Yes absolutely. I would consider using it.
Both facts. EU is pushing for an end-to-end to end encryption and there is no freedom of expression in Europe. Norway tried to jail a lesbian for believing that men can't become women. You may disagree with her, but it's ridiculous that she should be in jail for her view. Scotland makes it illegal to pray silently in your own home in some cases. UK already makes it illegal to pray silently in your own head. How much more draconian can you get?
Most people are not technically informed.

Most people are the parents of students going to school, teachers, trades people opening a store… they walk into BestBuy and they recognize the brand HP.

HP has massive marketing budgets and gets to package and discount their printers.

Most people think they’re getting an amazing printer at a great deal.
> Requiring a manual step for that in another tool, with another set of credentials and scopes to manage is a bigger risk (IMO) than managing an extra secret. [...] If you have servers to manage, or clients on another storefront (Epic, GoG, PSN/Xbox) you need to ensure versions are coordinated; and now you're potentially asking someone to log into 5 dashboards to set manually upload versions and set builds.

Yeah, I'm not arguing for multiple approvals to deploy a suite of things, but one approval which is authenticated for doing it all, nor am I arguing to somehow add more authentication on top of what you already have, you'd obviously aim for one integrated process.

But regardless, I hear your point and agree with lots of other things you wrote.
With hindsight it's interesting to consider what a vulnerable position Musk is in.

Tesla stock has been massively over-valued for years - it's been clear that a company selling less cars than most other name-brand auto manufacturers shouldn't be one of the top ten most valuable companies in the world, but had a valuation that was propped up by Musk's massive fame and visibility.

(Of course shorting Tesla was always a risk, because "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".)

As Musk, the worst thing you can do in that position is to wildly
pivot into right wing politics and piss off a huge chunk of the world's population who can both afford your cars and care about climate change.

Right wing fans who can afford $100,000+ for a Cybertruck aren't going to make up that gap.
Don't forget the best pocket calculators ever made.
On the upside you can now decline firmware upgrades that try to prevent you from using 3rd party ink, aka: Dynamic Security.

But only on certain models.

Yeah, they totally got away with it.

… HP has agreed to continue making certain disclosures to users of Class Printers about Dynamic Security and data collection, and to continue to allow users of Class Printers to either agree to install or decline to install firmware updates that include Dynamic Security features. The disclosures that HP has agreed to continue making include the disclosure that HP collects printer cartridge data from Class Printers through the HP Smart App, and that HP’s Dynamic Security measures are designed to block cartridges using a non-HP chip, and may be delivered to printers through periodic firmware updates.
There's nothing in that repo that says, but at a guess: old machines often had non-uniform ways to access memory, so it may have been to test that the compiler would still work if the binary grew over some threshold.

Even today's machines often have a limit as to the offset that can be included in an instruction, so a compiler will have to use different machine instructions if a branch or load/store needs a larger offset. That would be another thing that this function might be useful to test. Actually that seems more likely.

It might be instructive to compare the binary size of this function to the offset length allowed in various PDP-11 machine instructions
meanwhile i'm building entire features with it, and they work without bugs and i understand all the code.
Also, Elon != Tesla car owners.