skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> helps you climb the social ladder- you're perceived

As a parent of kids a bit younger, I aspire to help them avoid this sort of thing entirely

Cargo bikes don’t have to be expensive (Yuba Komba is 999€) except that they are, in the long tail format, 50 to 100% more steel, and because of the weight, drivetrain and brakes have to be good as well. A 250€ cargo bike would be an injury waiting to happen

As it happens, the bike I linked is a nice Chromoly frame, disc brakes, hub gears etc. If you look at other bikes with similar components you’d be hard pressed to beat the price.
High quality rugs like these are still hand knotted and dyed in the same towns/cities that have historically made them. Using the same patterns and colors each area is sort of famous for.

But yes of course many, many more are made by machines and are much more affordable.

Real ones are great though. You can find all sorts of tiny “imperfections” and they have a certain mass that allows them to lay down nicely.
I love helm but I've in the past years found ivy to work better in the ecosystem at large. I still miss some aspects of helm but it could be an option
That must have been around 1910, according to page 7 of this document: https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2012/Forest...
Android S is going to require OEMs to use “generic kernel images”
Btw French "ami" is "friend" in English.
You basically need to pay homage to the "ground breakers" who claimed that turf first, even if they did it via fraud.

Even referring to it as “science” is fraudulent. Testable theories and repeatable outcomes, anyone? Time this whole field was defunded.
Trains are only viable past a certain threshold of inhabitants/km^2.
The front end, yes. Some people are very unhappy about it, but other people think that there are 10x people interested in working in Rust vs OCaml.

I don't know if they're planning on changing the rest of the compiler to Rust - wouldn't be surprised if they did.
> Or you can out JACK on top of PulseAudio, but that'd be silly

It doesn't give you low latency, but if you don't care about that this is a nice way of using JACK applications without interrupting other applications that might be using PulseAudio; for development it's pretty handy.
You're not comparing like with like there. If you share a name with a suspicious group, yes, that's a hard problem to solve. That's not this. This is a _product_ with the same name as a suspicious group. It's categorically irrelevant.
They mention decreasing quality when recycling, but I wonder about less-chemical recycling opportunities.

For example, composite decking (Trex et al) combines sawdust and resin. It can be used for picnic tables and such. Road surfaces use ground tires now. Someone makes large nesting blocks for low-stress construction instead of concrete. PET can be made into fleece for garments, how about using it for insulation or other applications?

We should be embracing this stuff in new ways.

https://www.alternativesjournal.ca/science-and-solutions/pop...
Or drive the kids themselves. Which I believe is one reason specially with hobbies where transportation is hard or more equipment is needed.
I just noticed your scarecrow price tag of 2500€, which is probably for electric cargo bike. Those are limited to 250W usually, which I don’t find worth the price considering it’s comparable to what you can put out with your legs alone. (But I can tolerate sweating on the way to work..)
And yet ironically beer is one of the most completely recycled products. Shipped in brown glass or steel kegs...
Ask HN: Why do we need hands-off tech managers?
The IT industry is full of these type of roles, in all honesty and respect to everyone who's in any of these roles, what's the point?

I find most if not all of these type of roles are few steps removed from what actually happening and have no idea on the day to day reality of how good/bad a codebase is and how fragile your infrastructure is, yet they have the final say in deciding the fate of those systems and those who work on them.

What happened to result in this type of a hierarchical system that places the decision making process in the hand of the least-informed. Genuine question, how does this do a _company_ any good?
Yes, but you need a different repo [1] for that. The default one supports only SBC, this one adds support for AAC, AptX, AptX-HD, and LDAC. There's third party packages for a myriad of OSes.

[1] https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt
> If you choose to ignore blockchain, don’t be surprised when it becomes a very crucial technology. It is upending centuries of financial customs, rules, laws, and institutions.

I think you are forgetting to talk about the other part of the glass where there is a ton of illegal money flowing in the financial system by people with enough power and/or financial complexity and current rules apply mainly to average Joe, and terrorists. Don't forget that the compliance system changed dramatically since 9/11 and not in the last centuries.
Technically they aren't.

Under EU regulation these count as light vehicles (class L; Mopeds, Motorcycles, Motor Tricycles and Quadricycles - L6 to be specific), not cars.

You need a class-B driving licence to operate cars (i.e. age 17+), but these vehicles can be operated with a class AM license (i.e. age 14+).
I have never really been a fan. I use it mostly to discover new books and track my reading and goals, which seems to work just fine. However, the Android app, which I use the majority of the time, is pretty bad. The Home tab is blank, with only a search bar and a button to "find your friends." Seems odd for the app to start there. I guess they are trying to push the social media features of it? I'm not interested in that.

On my previous phone (iPhone 6s), the app seemed to be much better designed, though it has been a while since I have used it. Honestly, my biggest gripe is that it's owned by Amazon. I generally try to support smaller retailers when making purchases, and would love to find another service that helps me track my reading and discover new books.
c++ advances fast there days and it has no problem to fend off rust to me. for C, there is no way, it is the root of so many systems, imperfect, but worked well so far.

plus rust is not as safe as expected in practice, the unsafe mode is underrated.
No it's not. It's business trusting the expertise of their employees. Has nothing to do with experimenting.
There is considerable scope for universities or any other organisation to ensure that assaults or even unwanted consensual activities are not taking place on their property.

This raises the interesting question - now prevention is more practical and thus enforceable are we likely to see a tightening of behavioural standards and social norms either because the technology allows it or because that's the easiest way to avoid the technology. In either case it seems that a relaxed attitude to social behaviour may be on the way out.
Why do third party apps that utilize it constantly break then?

Please explain.
>>And it never occurred to you that maybe the whole concept of lack of public transportation was at fault?

Sure it did. What kind of power does a 15 year old have, exactly, to influence it though? A scooter has improved my mobility when I was 15. Going on the internet and saying that the lack of public transport is at fault would have not.

Besides, we do have really good public transport! It's just that even with buses running every 30 minutes it can still take a long time to get anywhere if you live couple towns over from where you need to be. So it's like.....45 minute bike ride, 15 minute scooter ride, or 1.5 hour bus ride because you have to swap buses twice? Not everything works for everyone, not everyone lives in the major cities. I didn't live out in the countryside either, but in a collection of smaller towns 4-5km apart, 10k population each.
The mods can literally unplug the sever or modify the sorting algorithm to use the reverse order, or whatever they want.
This reminds me of the book "Eat That Frog" by Brian Tracy, which recommends doing the least pleasant but important task in the morning. His rationale is that it 1) makes you stop thinking about the dreaded task because it's finally done 2) gives you a boost of satisfaction.
> I'm used to rented properties where you get no control over things like the thermostat

In what country is this legal?
Show HN: R package for O(1) estimation of quantiles and CDF for streaming data
Haskell choose syntax that is similar, if not exactly based on math. I would argue that all other programming languages have chosen completely arbitrary syntax, we’re just used to them.
I think they have a higher mortality in countries where regular bikes are more common because the elderly use them to get back on the streets again.

In the Netherlands the introduction of ebikes (limited to 25kph) has caused a spike in bike traffic deaths because many elderly people are brittle and don't have the response times they used to have, causing dangerous situations even at relatively low speeds.

Those mortality rates only really affect the drivers of the electric bikes though. AFAIK there's no increase in deaths because of drivers hitting others. After all, an electric bike, even going at high speed, is just a silent motor bike that any driver using their mirrors should be able to detect anyway.
Yeah I remember that too. I worked in a grocery store in the 90’s and we were told to default to plastic for the simple reason that it was less expensive.

Managers hated nothing more than the customer who requested “paper, double bagged”. I think our cost was about 3 cents per paper bag if I recall the training video correctly. Because of generally low margins it really eats into profits.
I had a horrible experience with PayPal earlier this year. I needed to send $500 to an individual buying our house, they were paying cash and on such a tight timeline for closing that the closing docs were written up before they got back their inspection report and asked for an allowance.

Paypal kept blocking the transaction even though it was just a simple person to person transfer. I was on chat with their support for nearly an hour. The person kept describing some black box of a security system that, for security purposes, no one manages or can see why transactions get flagged. I asked multiple times to speak to a manager or someone on the security team and was told consistently that managers won't have more info and there literally isn't a security team...

Needless to say I haven't used them since and will do everything I can to avoid it. I have no problem if a flag is errantly raised on a normal transaction, but to say they literally don't have a security team is mind boggling.
Sales of alcohol have gradually been lowered in the Nordic countries through punitive taxation and a requirement that only a state monopoly can sell liquor. Yes, there are still people who drink destructively, but figures are way down compared to some decades ago before these restrictions. Moreover, the majority of the public is in favor of maintaining these restrictions instead of loosening them, so there hasn’t been that backlash against a "draconian state" that you speak of. It is definitely possible for a large enough group of citizens to be so concerned about the harmful effects of something that they do not believe it should be left to the individual.

Junk food, too, is the target of similar restrictions in several countries now. Also, playgrounds have been scaled down in the last couple of decades for safety reasons, and in the USA that wasn’t due to draconian laws, it was due to fear of lawsuits.
As movie theaters reopen nationwide, some employees are reluctant to return
Barcelona is reducing the limit to 30 km/h in a lot of streets.
If you're also interested in knowing which marketing channels to test first for your start-up, I charted most major channels by public spend data and level of customer intent here: https://www.rightpercent.com/b2b-guides/which-marketing-chan....

A bunch of other founders have told me they find this chart really useful.
> What are you nitpicking about?

Verbatim from my comment: "the youtube.com undocumented api"

Thanks for reading.
I've never had a problem.

It doesn't do a great job with recommendations but I don't really care. There are thousands of book recommendation blogs, lists, BookTube channels, etc.

I'm not sure why people think every site/app needs to evolve to engulf every tangential aspect of a given ecosystem.

HN can never make up its mind whether it likes distributed systems or not.

HN also loves the benign neglect of HN itself (formatting on mobile still broken after 20 years?)
That is too often true. But at least you have the right to attempt to control it. Sadly even that is under attack, with laws against circumvention and "reverse engineering" (i.e. looking at how something works).
> the same cube going 45 kmph driven by an unlicensed person can be lethal to other

You are required to have a class-AM driving licence to operate these. Unlicensed driving is a criminal offence in many countries anyway so it wouldn't matter if the person drove a little cube or a fully loaded lorry.
Thanks, I ended up on this page too in my research but I don't have a subscription to see the actual data.
> […] because their names matched those of "known terrorists."

As Bruce Schneier (IIRC) observed: these people are 'too dangerous' to let fly, but not dangerous enough to arrest.

Safe enough for firearms as well:

> In a 2010 report, the Government Accountability Office noted that "Membership in a terrorist organization does not prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives under current federal law," and individuals on the No Fly List are not barred from purchasing guns.[25] According to GAO data, between 2004 and 2010, people on terrorism watch lists—including the No Fly List as well as other separate lists—attempted to buy guns and explosives more than 1,400 times, and succeeded 1,321 times (more than 90% of cases).[26]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List
From day 1 I've read the teenager argument regarding this car. Either journalists were distorting hard or PSA marketing dept has made a mistake.
OFAC match? The entities aren't matching just the product. It's like blocking someone from buying food at Joe's Cuban Resturaunt in Miami. Not what OFAC actually requires.
You seem to think if Epic fails to prove consumer harm exists, that their case will not survive summary judgement? This is not true.

What Epic needs to do to survive summary judgement is to present a trialable claim that injury to competition has occurred. The trial itself will then determine whether the claim is accurate not.

I still don't think Fortnite being in or out of the App Store makes a difference to Epic's case. If Epic's theory of Apple's behavior is correct, then they have a winning case regardless of whatever happened to Fortnite specifically.
Business opportunity here to replace this?

Start with some HN or Reddit style forum discussion code. Some income could come from affiliate links to indie booksellers. (Is there even infra for such a thing right now? Need to build that too?)

Edit, answering myself, this guy has some thoughts: https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/

Edit, as for the index corpus, the USLC does okay: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=0312937385&se...
I'm just back from biking in a dense urban area, 45km/h for inner city is top. Few years ago some company tried the leased per hour model, sadly people degraded cars at high rate, too much money lost, service was cut. Still there's a spot here.
Just before this article went up, I had posted to my blog:
"Prediction: cars will become disposable" https://joshuaspodek.com/prediction-cars-will-become-disposa...

Then I saw this article and followed it up: "More disposable cars: Ignoring unintended side-effects" https://joshuaspodek.com/more-disposable-cars-ignoring-unint...

I started by saying:

> Walking around Manhattan, with many people moving out, sidewalks are overflowing with what they don’t value enough to keep. What are they disposing? Sofas, mattresses, shelves, chairs, books, televisions, printers, scanners, lamps, mirrors, plates, toasters, silverware, . . . I could go on.

> Notice anything about them? All those things used to be once-in-a-lifetime purchases. Some were high-tech wonders when introduced—now disposable. We don’t value them as much as the effort to maintain them. We turn them into pollution.

> Our market system has shifted from creating value to creating craving. People like novelty, I guess, so marketing engineers figure out how to generate craving so they can temporarily satisfy it.

> Meanwhile, markets motivate people to figure out how to deliver with lower cost. The result? Everything becomes disposable—food, plates, furniture, silverware (now plasticware), clothing, everything.

. . .

and ended with

> We don’t lack comfort and convenience. We’re choking on waste.

> We like comfort and convenience, but our world doesn’t lack it. On the contrary, we’re drowning in it. Our lack of physical activity and feeling entitled is making us depressed, obese, and sick, lacking resilience, discipline, or initiative to respond.

> History implies people will buy this product in droves, competitors will match it, the market will keep driving down cost and durability, increasing landfill waste. We will increase total waste and lower quality of life, meaning, and purpose.
Avoiding the “boilerplate” of error handling means that you have implicitly coupled code now. Exceptions make local reasoning not possible. I guess you may want that in a small minority of cases, but I don’t understand the benefit they give you overall. It’s just a shortcut and a hack, and I’d rather see explicit control flow 100% of the time.
There's probably a better word but it resonates with some people.

The desire to preserve other planets for the remote chance that there's life there and we can study it before turning up anyway and ruining things is misguided. We are the only known life in the universe, it's incredibly irresponsible to not propagate such things (just in case)
> Managed scripting languages you mean

No. I mean what I wrote.

> C++ is quite high level and managed languages like Swift, D and C# offer similar concepts.

Languages like Swift and C# have memory safety and automated memory management by default, unlike C++. They also don't have C++'s unique blend of language features mis-interacting with one another in rather deadly way.
Anyone know how it compares to Luau, which is also on the front page right now?
> It is the same thing that Oracle purchasing MySQL. What once was a promising raising technology is nowadays stagnant. (Interest over time https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...)

Connecting Oracle's purchase with the MySQL's market share is a long stretch. Even based on that diagram, the decline started earlier than the time Oracle came into play.

The quality and pace of development of MySQL/InnoDB hasn't meaningfully changed (although one may subtly observe that with v8, they radically changed the release philosophy - patch versions now can introduce new features or break old ones). There have been low and high quality features developed, but that happens with any software. In order to get an idea of how MySQL was around 10 years ago, notice how by that time, MyISAM was (unfortunately) still something.

A simple interpretation of the shift in market share is that PGSQL hasn't been ready for wide adoption (historically speaking, it's been considered for a long time the slow and cumbersome RDBMS), until, after a certain functional threshold, it entered a virtuous circle of improving and getting traction.

Of course, it's also possible that people is taking distance from MySQL "because Oracle", but that doesn't constitute a technical ground.
That’s just for decoration.
Flag and move on.

The article quotes the somewhat vile " Southern Poverty Law Centre" that alone should be a tip off.
Because they don’t. They still have petrol cars to sell and no real plans for electric full cars. The only companies that make nice electric cars are those that only sell electric cars.
Trains are just an anecdotal example - today we also have "dial a ride" services, where you can call for a bus (during operating hours).

Once your population density goes below a certain threshold, individual traffic isn't a problem anyway. This isn't the case, however, with most of Europe.
Java is positioned and used as a general-purpose programming language. I don't think that it was specifically designed for building etra-reliable software.
> There is considerable scope for universities or any other organisation to ensure that assaults or even unwanted consensual activities are not taking place on their property.

woah i don't fully understand this or the [to you, interesting] question you posed, but I want to say that my post was satire...

landlords (even university campuses) have no business meddling in 'unwanted consensual activities'

as your naming suggests it is a 'consensual' activity, so there is no problem. being puritanical/prude about sex between young people is another thing.

if American universities don't want people having sex in shared dorms with single-beds, then they could create European university style en-suite bedrooms that share a common area + kitchen...

honestly American standards and customs scare the fuck out of me sometimes [1]

[1] https://qz.com/1743640/us-abortion-politics-are-affecting-gl...
Piaggio Ape I guess [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_Ape]. So a Vespa with storage space.
Here's one online with a photo https://www.amazon.com/Glixal-ATMT1-011-Scooter-Cylinder-Reb...
No language has ever had total domination. Maybe C and C++ in the 1980's came the closest, but they brought Awk and the shell with them. There are always tasks for which a different language gets the job done faster, or more simply, or is subjectively prettier.
Sorry, looks like both GDrive and Zenodo have exceeded the temporary download quotas, so the model checkpoints aren't available currently... If anyone has any solutions on how to publicly host model weights (~2 GB) please let me know!
It feels like doing 60mph in a 50mph zone is about the same thus people assume it’s equivalent even if it’s much more dangerous. The issue is most clearly demonstrated by stopping distance going up by ~40% even though it’s only 20% faster.

However that’s understating the difference. It’s common to be breaking just before impact at higher speeds you have less time to react and thus break less. If you go from 50MPH to 30 MPH that’s likely a completely survivable collision. Breaking from 60MPH to 50 MPH is less so as your dealing with V^2 = ~2.8x the energy. Similarly, many accidents are simply avoided...
When making comments like this you should note that this is your own speculation or provide a link to support your claims.

The linked article only says:

> A seven-note sequence which was first used, G-C-F-E-G-C-E, was determined to be too complicated for the announcers to play correctly on a consistent basis. It was first simplified to G-C-F-E, and finally to just G-E-C.
Rome is already full of such vehicles and has been for at least a decade.

We call them mini car or micro car.

A popular brand is Ligier.

The solution for traffic jams have always been mopeds here, but given their higher safety, and the price tag that was very close to a modern scooter, parents have started buying them for their children.

But they have soon become a status symbol for rich kids, the prices went up considerably (between 10k and 15k but up to 30k) and now they usually rally in some of the popular high end neighborhoods (such as Parioli) and act like gangs.

They fight for territory with those coming from other neighborhoods, spice up the engines and make a lot of noise.

To the point that they have become a nightmare for the residents and for the police.