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Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:16AM (#49495644)
The fishing thing is almost 40% of our export.

We cannot even keep up with the EU-lite regulations today.

But anyways, the vote is most certainly, but close, no.

Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:57PM (#49495568)
Not quite true. The ratio fluctuates with the market conditions. Figure https://sedlabanki.is/library/?itemid=d2527537-11bc-4aca-944...

Verðtryggð loans are popular when economy is hard, people can enter the real estate market.

Once things go in the opposite direction people change to Óverðtryggð lán.

Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:52PM (#49495532)
To be fair it wasn’t just Iceland? It was a global crash. At least that was my perception at the time.

But we recovered from it very quickly, and is often talked about. But we had currency exchange restrictions for quite some time to fix it. It worked.

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:28AM (#45288778)
Flutter "compiles to native," but the UI is just a giant canvas they paint themselves. React Native uses real native views, so you get actual platform widgets, accessibility, and OS-level optimizations instead of shipping your own game engine.

Also, Google has a habit of hyping projects then quietly killing them (I sadly took the Polymer ride).

Re:Dual-Link QR Code Generator on Saturday January 25, 2025 @08:58PM (#42826979)
real-world AB testing is the only thing I can think of
Re:Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain on Saturday January 25, 2025 @08:52PM (#42826948)
Amazing, there are estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain, so they are just short of 85 billion and change.

But I think there is more to it, how many are used for speech vs vision, how much is used for motor control. If the idea is to build a speech neuron activity to some sort of ml data representation it's probably way less than 85b.

Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2025 on Monday December 23, 2024 @03:44AM (#42492883)
1. AI regulation becomes fragmented and messy as different jurisdictions implement contradictory rules. The EU's AI Act creates a "Brussels effect" but China and the US take divergent approaches, creating headaches for global tech companies.

2. "AI-free" becomes a marketing term like "organic." Premium services start advertising human-only customer service, human-written content, and AI-free creative work. A certification industry emerges around this.

3. Climate tech sees a boom in investment as extreme weather events continue to drive home the urgency. Particular focus on grid-scale energy storage and carbon capture technologies.

4. The "nearshoring" trend accelerates, with Mexico and Eastern Europe becoming major manufacturing hubs as companies seek alternatives to China while staying relatively close to major markets.

5. The first mainstream consumer AR glasses hit the market, but like early smartphones, they're clunky and limited. The real impact is in industrial and professional applications.

6. Remote work stabilizes at a new equilibrium: most tech companies settle into a hybrid model with 2-3 office days per week. Fully remote becomes less common as companies optimize for "collaboration days."

7. The web3/crypto world pivots hard toward "real world assets" and practical financial applications, moving away from speculation. Smart contract platforms become boring but useful infrastructure.

8. A major cybersecurity crisis involving AI models leads to a fundamental rethinking of model deployment and security practices. "Model poisoning" becomes the new ransomware.

9. The shortage of high-end GPUs starts to ease as new fabs come online, but the industry faces a new bottleneck in networking equipment and specialized AI accelerators.

10. Traditional higher education faces a crisis as employers increasingly accept alternative credentials and bootcamps. Several mid-tier universities merge or shut down.

- Claude | when asked for hacker news style prediction. I agree with most predictions.

Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:17PM (#38481706)
E-GMP (EV6, Ioniq5) actually charges quite fast on 400V as they run it through the motor/inverter which already pumps out more than 100kW

I think no one else is doing that at the moment.

Seems like a great opportunity to train a neural network model for bot. There is a good article on tic tac toe for a base https://nestedsoftware.com/2019/12/27/tic-tac-toe-with-a-neu...
Exactly what I was thinking. They mention 700km as some reference point, then 400km in 10 minutes, not sure what the density is.

Hyundai/Kia launched the EV6 with 10-80% charging in 17 minutes more than two years ago.

They then launched Hyundai IONIQ 6 with 10-80% at the 16 minute mark.

I guess we will be seeing 10-80% times get close to gas pump refill times in the near future.

Re:Why Tailwind CSS Won on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:21AM (#37145934)
Re:Why Tailwind CSS Won on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:20AM (#37145914)
https://npmtrends.com/@emotion/css-vs-less-vs-sass-vs-styled...

And this is ignoring PostCSS which has over 60M downloads weekly. But I guess you can use postcss with tailwind.

Like... It has won nothing, its in the game though.

Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:53PM (#34603514)
For me it’s a JS engine for React Natve - https://hermesengine.dev/
Re:My YouTube Earnings on Monday January 02, 2023 @08:43PM (#34226463)
One channel I really like that reminds me of BEC: https://www.youtube.com/mymechanics (mymechanics)
Re:Apple to start making MacBooks in Vietnam by mid-2023 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:22PM (#34156794)
Do these paywalls really work? I either click the comment with the link to bypass it or just skip the article all together.
Re:The Architecture of the Lisa Personal Computer [pdf] on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:06PM (#34156669)
Also the forum announcement seems to have been deleted to.
Re:CircleCI Layoffs on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @06:12PM (#33901742)
What kind of computers did you get to keep? M-based Mac’s?
Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:58AM (#33772077)
My jam was Jet Set Radio, Toy Commander, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (What I got), and Sega GT.

But lets not forget Quake III Arena, which is "considered one of the best PC-to-console ports of its time thanks to its smooth frame rate and online play".

Re:PostgreSQL 15 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:33PM (#33197345)
Thanks for your work on that, very useful.
BEV used to have around 80kg of copper [1], nowadays, manufacturers are moving towards 800V architecture attempting to cut the weight in half.

I also feel like 800V cars also maintain their maximum power better on lower SoC than 400V systems.

[1] https://www.copper.org/publications/pub_list/pdf/A6192_Elect...

The CCS connector equivalent is relying on the onboard DC-AC converter for V2L-V2G, hence no inverter needed.

The CCS cable uses a resistor between PE and PP pin to allow the EVSE to determine its current capacity, 1–2.7kΩ for single-phase 13A all the way down to 50–150Ω for three-phase 63A. [1]

What manufacturers have done is tap into that and use some resistance to tell the car to go to V2L mode.

- Hyundai IONIQ5 and Kia EV6 use 50-75Ω for its V2L adapter, offering 3.6kW load

- MG ZS uses 470Ω offering 2.2kW load

- Ford F-150 to offer 9.6kW load, but resistor is unknown

- BYD vehicles to offer 2.2kW load but resistor is unknown

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J1772#Proximity_Pilot

Re:Bitwarden: Generate a Username on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @11:06AM (#31261530)
I can recommend a free alternative https://10minutemail.com/

It wont forward to your inbox though and is only suited for temporary usage.

Re:Solana Pay on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:17AM (#30257995)
Late to the party, but Solana is proof-of-history not pow. Not that it matters, or actually, kind of makes your argument even stronger.
Re:The baseline for web development in 2022 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:17PM (#30106830)
It’s also the most popular framework. With popularity the overhead of inexperienced developers npm installing everything starts to show.
Re:Browser fingerprinting using only CSS on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:59PM (#29803415)
Scary stuff, but is that enough information to fingerprint someone?

I’m thinking hundreds or thousands of iPhone 13 on the same IP thru a GSM network. How will you know?

Won’t you need battery status and all that other bits also

Sounds like an NFT project
Re:Framer Motion 3D on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:13AM (#29549418)
Thanks for the demo, implementation looks good.

But the interaction feeling is still more natural with react spring, hopefully just a personal preference!

Re:Framer Motion 3D on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:28PM (#29542624)
I feel react-spring is better suited for the job.

Can’t explain why, tried them both with r3f, i think it’s just about API design and framer starts to fall through once you start connect ing multiple animated nodes with interaction.

If Framer would rewrite one of their demos it would help - https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/examp...

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