Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | dirtyaura's commentslogin

Moomins - the 90s version especially. Most of the episodes are suitable for toddlers and at least our kids have been enjoying it.


Same with my daughter. We tried with balance bike, but she didn't adopt it and didn't find it fun to try. We went to training wheels and she was immediately motivated. And at the same time, I've heard success stories with balance bikes from my friends.

Kids are different, try out different things.


Can you list examples of those countries?

I haven’t analyzed the whole world, but in the developed parts of Europe, EV fuel costs are clearly cheaper than ICE


Freedome VPN by F-Secure


Can someone more knowledgeable highlight what kind of security model do these Deno deployments have compared to virtual machines and containers, if they are isolated at the process level.


Oura Health | Multiple positions | Finland, USA, Switzerland | REMOTE possible | Full Time

The Oura ring and the Oura app (https://ouraring.com) are providing a leading solution to understand your sleep and recovery.

We have multiple software engineering roles open both in Finland, Switzerland and USA. They are ranging all the way from SREs and backend engineers to app engineers and data scientists.

A few highlights:

1. app engineers to strengthen our feature squads

A couple of examples: Senior Android Engineer, Context Squad, Finland https://apply.workable.com/oura-health-ltd/j/6D7E86D06B/

Senior Android Engineer, Content Squad, USA https://apply.workable.com/oura-health-ltd/j/F7AE093C48/

2. data engineers https://apply.workable.com/oura-health-ltd/j/A216673A96/

3. engineering manager for our eCommerce teams https://apply.workable.com/oura-health-ltd/j/0FA391EE6C/

4. Engineers passionated about eCommerce and payments https://apply.workable.com/oura-health-ltd/j/A20312045E/


An excellent piece. I’m especially interested to hear stories from the fellow HNers about the last point Jocelyn mentions: how to build 2 shipping cultures inside one company, when your business requires it (for example: two-sided marketplaces with different apps for consumer and businesses).

In our case, we have this situation with SW vs HW shipping culture. On the SW side, we focus on continuously developing features and have deliberately emphasized productivity over schedule-predictability, while on the HW side they naturally are focused more on schedule-predictability due to complex dependencies.

Now, this dichotomy has created an interesting discussions inside the company on the right way to ship products and projects, and to me, arguments mainly come from the fact that people come from the different shipping culture and have hard time to see the benefits and requirements of the other culture.


I also come from a company that ships both HW & SW products. Our HW roots are much deeper than our SW roots and HW shipping mentalities have mostly prevailed (low risk tolerance, waterfall development, strict schedule).

Where we’ve had success is identifying the difference between SW that supports the hardware vs independent SW products that compliment the HW, and choosing to ship those products with different processes. Basically if the SW can support a recurring revenue model it follows a continuous development process. But if the software is really just the “operating system” for the hardware then it ships very much the way the rest of HW ships.


There are several countries that have reaped benefits of nuclear power for decades. In Nordics, both Sweden and Finland has over 30% of electricity generated by nuclear. In Eastern Europe there are also several countries (Ukraina, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech R) with a big chunk of their electricity generated by nuclear.


This argument doesn’t hold. There are several countries such as Finland that have operated nuclear power plants for decades and do not have ambitions for nuclear bombs.


If you want to go with that argument: cite Japan, not Finland. But it doesn't have to be 100% true to be largely true. The overwhelming majority of nuclear capacity has been built out by nuclear powers or aspiring nuclear powers. And with few exceptions the end of their warhead buildout happens to correlate with the end of their megawatt buildout.


Japan has a stockpile of separated reactor grade plutonium sufficient to make thousands of bombs. This is a deniable kind of proliferation. If push came to shove they could weaponize that material without having to make new plutonium.

(And, yes, reactor grade Pu CAN be used in weapons, with proper design.)


Cycling year around in New York should be relatively easy.

There is winter cycling culture in much harsher climates https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/12/ice-cycles-no...


There's a reason why Finland or Canada or Alaska are sparsely populated: The weather.

Sure, those people who can be bothered with it might pick up the cycle during the winter. Those people who can't be bothered are going to pick up their stuff and leave.


I'm from one of those northern areas. Very few people leave because of the weather even if they don't like it. It's mostly because of studying and career opportunities.

North is sparsely populated because the crops were historically poor and prone to losses due to weather conditions, not because people don't like the weather.


What sort of gear do you need for conditions like that? During one cold snap, my chain literally froze on a long ride through some light rain/sleet. (No, I don't know how that happened, but it did.)

And that was in the Seattle area, where it rarely gets all that cold.


I was a Mormon missionary in Hokkaido in some of the snowiest places in the world and got around just fine using a cheap mountain bike. The only additional "equipment" needed was a lighter, to thaw out my bike lock when it would freeze shut.


I see where this thread is going...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE


We also rode uphill, both ways!


I cycled to work through an entire winter in Trondheim, Norway.


Nobody is going to boast about not doing that, so let me just speak for a large but not very vocal part of the general population when I say:

I ain't gonna do that.


I looked up Trondheim, NO weather. It's only Rhode Island cold not Minnesota cold. Plenty of people in Providence, RI bike in the Winter. Trondheim also doesn't have the range found in either RI or MN so you don't get ridiculous heat and humidity to bike in.


I live in a place with -40-45°C (-40-50°F) winters. We've got lots of cyclists even in these conditions.


Hang on, -40 to -45 winters and people bike?


I visited Oulu in late November to early December a few years ago. Yes, they cycle.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: