skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its assembled in Europe, does it mean most of the parts are imported from Asia (especially China)?

How it compares with Ninebot (i.e. Segway)?

Have been using ninebot for a long time and its been very stable and been happy with it. Right now given new e-bike regulations across large cities in Asia, it's almost impossible to ride an e-bike to office.

In Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong it's completely banned except for designated areas and paths given people modified their e-bike to go above 70 km/hr and run into deadly accidents with pedestrians or riding on main road with deadly accidents involving cars.

The price of this e-bike is quite high not sure how to justify it against Ninebot.
$2,243 for this is insane.

In Vietnam, I just bought an electric motorbike (https://xemaydien.vinfast.vn/en/klara-s/) for half of that.

Granted, it's Vietnam, but still.
Thank you!

I can't believe that not even HN can get tax brackets into their head. It is not a hard concept!
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Oof, the price is eye-watering.

Also absolutely no details on this 'theft insurance' available prior to purchase. The terms of service state that this is done under the "terms of the insurance provider" which aren't anywhere to be seen prior to purchase. Second Oof.
I adopted this thinking some time ago. haproxy, stunnel and, to a lesser extent, sslsplit are ones I would add to the list. Letting these programs deal with TLS allows me to use so much more networking software that either will never be TLS-capable or which requires too much attention to constantly monitor whether the developers are using the libraries properly and keeping up with the latest versions.
> ... and that really reduces typing speed.

That may be the effect for you, but it's not a goal. It's maybe a tradeoff, but machine writing is a trainable craft. Usual results for trained people are at about 200 - 400 characters per minute measured over 10 minutes. Championship results are at up to 900 characters.
First human DNA file is being tokenized
I’m in my mid 50s. In 1988 when I graduated from uni my dad said “Congratulations you’ve just spent 4 years learning to be a software dev... you won’t be doing that in 8 years time”

The message was “expect to retrain and switch careers every 8-10 years”

BTW: Dad was wrong - 34 years later I still write code at work... But I’m a Solution Architect - technical leader in a $50m govt IT project.

If the only option for ‘advancement’ is project Mgmt and you’re sure you’re a died in the wool tech-type then it’s time to find an employer that has a technical career track that goes right to Principal Architect Developer
You have to remember, he did not just commit countless petty crimes, "something negative", he did an armed home invasion. It's hard to emphasize with someone like that and someone like that won't be missed by most people.
> It makes no sense why windows explorer should even have delays. Why the start menu should have a delay. Not sure how regular windows power users tolerate this OS. It's as clunky as I remember XP being despite the hardware I'm trying these days being way more powerful; 20 years and no ux experience because microsoft knows people and companies will buy it anyway.

I use Windows for work everyday. I don't like it as much as Linux or osx but I can't say that I have issues you are describing with start menu lag or windows explorer. And that's with several phpstorm/pycharm instances open along with like a dozen services running in docker.

There are many problems with windows, but I don't think performance is one of them. Also it was a very long time ago, but XP was one of my favorite OS's. I think that was the last time where I could look at my process list and tell you exactly what each process is for.
> nuclear disarmament in the region (effectively meaning just Israeli disarmament)

Iran shares a border with Pakistan, which shares borders with India, which shares borders with China, which shares borders with Russia and NK (all nuclear powers). Why don't you want to disarm them too ?
> I never even glued the raspberri pi and fan and case together

Me neither... but I heard that hot glue works, on everything!
> I expect every single one of my backend engineers (on any tech stack) to understand the fundamentals of SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

Understanding INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE doesn't help you very much when you have to persist changes to a single child entity of many in an aggregate (parent entity). How do you track which child has changed? Or if a new child is added? Or one is deleted? Or what if the relation is a child of a child of the aggregate, which might very well be the best way to model your domain.

In these situations, Hibernate/JPA will help you a lot! If you're doing it using plain SQL/JDBC, you'll probably end up writing your own mini ORM, and/or polluting your domain with database concerns. (I do keep my Hibernate entities separated from my domain.)
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> they would like to have their sanctions removed in exchange for shutting down their nuclear program.

They would like to have their sanctions removed while keeping their nuclear program - there is no scenario where Iran will stop short of having ICBMs.
Same here in the UK. Many houses I've lived in are approaching 100 years now(1920-1930 terraced houses) and all of them had original roofs. But many(Americans?) on HN say that roofs only last ~25 years. Like...how? Are they made out of paper? How can a solid slate roof need replacement after only few decades?
I would suggest you to explore your interest and then go ahead with picking a language! see what you are comfortable with and enjoy coding in.
As I understand it, reflationing is fine provided you have a strong sovereign currency so you aren't at the mercy of the international forex markets. The US ticks this box, therefore it can pump out new money without the same risk of hyperinflation.

ZMB OTOH probably had a weak currency and an economy largely dependent on imports. Therefore when they started printing money it became worthless since it was a proxy for a currency they didn't control (the USD), and a strengthening of the USD would have a huge impact in reducing confidence in the ZMB dollar. A similar thing happened in Venezuela and Post-WW1 Germany I think.

For a better explanation see Big Debt Crises by Dalio.
I presume a firefox extension along the lines of Social Fixer would be able to filter all the likes/comments that come from pages rather than personal accounts. (But of course, a user needs to be aware of the issue in the first place, in order to want to install an extension to fix it)
Vanmoof claimed they will either find your bike or replace it. I don't know if it works but I found that to be indeed quite tempting back when I first saw it a couple years ago.

https://www.vanmoof.com
A lot of people on the right (libertarians) seem to think that the government is somehow responsible for money creation, and therefore, one needs to go to gold standard or limit the government's ability to print money in some other way. These are pretty much exogenous theories of money creation.

But I believe in endogenous theories of money creation (e.g. chartalism), which claim that money are created as IOUs, basically bonds that can be further traded. And conversely, any bond that can be further traded behaves, in effect, as money, and there is no "hard" definition of what money is. Which means money are really created by lots of different actors in the economic system, not necessarily just government, and to control money creation, you need to regulate the system in many different places (for example, you would have to limit what kind of deals can citizens make with each other, which goes against the libertarian ideology).

In some sense, exogenous theories give their supporters an illusion of control, that the government somehow controls money creation, and so it can and should deal with the problem. But it probably does not, the Central Banks go at lengths to control it, but in lot of cases (like asset price inflation fueling itself) the system can effectively create money on its own and unbalance itself. (I really recommend great post from Steve Keen: https://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/01/31/therovingcava...)
C# have micro-ORMs like Dapper, surely Java has smth similar? Micro-ORMs show the SQL but the object generation still gets done for you so you get a bit of both worlds.
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson is quite good IMHO.
There are certain proofs of the dimensionality of space at different scales.

The equipartition theorem details that thermal energy is divided down by degrees of freedom. In higher dimensional space there are different ratios of translations to rotations, so observations of the triple state diagrams of diatomic vs monatomic molecules would diverge from observation.

The time it takes spheres to settle after falling into a square container is a function of the dimensionality of the container. Observations as we scale real experiments with steel ball bearings suggest that the balls can't move in any other dimensions.

In higher dimensional space the great geodesics are longer, we would expect a deviation in the relativistic corrections to the GPS system that we don't observe.

The interesting question however is at the largest scales. The universe might have much higher dimensions, we just happen to be in a relatively "compact" part of it...
The first example I looked up needed a UAF in something that clearly should have been ported from Java to any memory safe language, instead C++ had to be used:

https://theori.io/research/escaping-chrome-sandbox/
Miegakure (Hide and Reveal)- A 4D puzzle-platforming game
Land lines are mostly gone where I live, Sweden. I don't really know anyone who uses then, of course they do still exist due to some alarm systems and so on.

As for ripping out the physical service entirely, I don't have any numbers but I saw the lists from 2020 and 2021 and they are huge. So it is clearly happening. And they have been doing this for quite a few years.
Yes, but then you should apply political pressure to better the US army, not go "welp, let's give everybody that experience".

I am not sure why that needs spelling out, but social issues are actually not resolved by making them a suffering contest.
I’ve heard the same about SpaceX employees being promised Tesla stock for helping them out with some Engineering challenges and then being conned out of them, and the case of (again) SpaceX engineers promised Starlink stock (it’s about to be spun off) and then conned after having pitched in to help on it.

The more I learn about how his employees are treated the more I wonder if these companies would be sustainable over the years.
Oh, it's that kind of a scooter. For such a price you can get a small motorcycle in Europe with: https://en.vmotosoco.com

It's even more affordable, if you're in India: https://www.revoltmotors.com
Primes are pretty dense. If you can encode something as a number, then you can encode it as a prime number with enough padding.

Therefore I don't see how those numbers being prime changes anything. This looks to me like a weak argument that tries to take advantage of poor intuitions that some people have about primes.

Yes, the IP laws are ridiculous but this is not a good argument to support this opinion.
Was under the impression you can't use Github pages for commercial use? Not sure how heavily that is enforced.
ESA / Ariana Space did some studies on reusable rockets in the early 200s (if memory serves, and for the love of god I can't find the study anymore...). Their conclusions were:

- technically feasible

- economically not feasible due to limited number of launches

And weather or not i is econommically feasible for SpaceX is impossible to tell without their financials. It does seem so, that Starlink is increasing SpaceX launches.

There is truths to Tesla, but to be honest, Tesla was considerably close to running out of money some while ago. The art of Musk is to have Tesla seen as a tech company, and not as a car maker.
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Looks like blogspam
how can any american or israeli support saying "stuxnet" in a normal way of conversation when it is a weapon used against another country with disastrous effects all the while latching on to "wiping israel off the map" which is something i'm told the guy didn't say.
Is cross-subsidy really the best way to fund unprofitable routes, though? It makes sense if you view the state's rail budget as something that needs to be balanced in and of itself, but that's a matter of government accounting, moving where the revenue comes from, rather than a business in its own right.

Relying on cross-subsidy you're essentially overcharging those taking the profitable lines, versus raising the subsidy required through general taxation. At least in the majority of cases, I'd expect cross-subsidy to be a form of regressive tax, quite possibly skewed towards middle-income groups.

And it's not like those taking the profitable routes are getting disproportionate benefit from the unprofitable ones; the benefit from maintaining the unprofitable routes is derived from both the local economy and through benefiting the national economy, and as such it makes sense that it come from general taxation rather than fare-box revenue from profitable routes.
Honest question: How do you define indie hacker?
I have struggled to see the appeal in those electric scooters since their inception. A bicycle is superior in virtually any category: range, security, acceleration, deceleration, max speed, cargo, maintainability.

Also, operation of a bicycle does not need it to connect to a phone running an app. This is a guarantee that the device will be unusable within 5 years, when the app is abandoned, cannot be used with the iPhone 50, and Bluetooth 200.0 is incompatible with old devices, whereas I happily ride my 90's bicycle with minimal maintenance on a daily basis, while getting the additional benefit of a light exercise.

EDIT:
Related to the actual product:

> With our connected app and custom GPS tracking system, you'll always know where your scooter is.

What does this mean? Is there a SIM card and an LTE subscription coming with the scooter? Or will I "know where my scooter is" while I am actually standing on it, with the phone in my pocket connected to the scooter via bluetooth?
As a "native" Texan, whose family has lived in the state for seven generations, it is really beautiful. Especially during road trips as the state changes from east to west.

Gonna miss it when I leave.
I'm going to write this all with the speech to text on my droid and add line breaks after.

Aberrant mole apparent mole. Works like a charm. Now let me blow your mind with another speech to text: ganglioneuralgia.

I think this acquisition has anything to do with DL vs traditional. We're running opaque DL models transparency at a major academic hospital to help treat patients. This is a cake walk by comparison. Specialized vocabulary? Just pay a few people to read some medical textbooks and your done.

I think they just want the reputation customers and product suite.

Also they're making integrations out the wazoo with ehrs. I actually can't believe it, but epoc let Microsoft integrate teams. Integrating and licensing voice is easily a next step.
LOL. I'll just buy 6 Xiaomi ones for the same price.

Can't be stolen my ass... They steal motorcycles (weighing over 150kgs) with audio alarms every day of the week. Toss em into a van with a GPS blocker and drive off! Done. Bye bye 1890 euro scooter.
And batteries can be attributed to a large degree to Panasonic.
I was at one of the companies Nuance absorbed. They laid us all off, nice touch but turns out they needed me. I got all my demands met with zero resistance which only means I was thinking too low.

I got to see inside the beast and it www just out of control growth from acquisition. The IBM voice patent had eclipsed scansoft was.

Kind of strange MS wanting it for anything but their patents. The business was shit. As a side benefit they can shut down Siri since the apple deal was such a linchpin.
I asked myself the same question and flagged it.
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I agree. I think pretty much everything (I've seen it with piano, work, exercise) becomes so much easier when you're motivated.

For me, it's been more obvious with piano as it's my main skill-based hobby and, although I see similar with work, ultimately I need a job to get paid so even if I'm procrastinating over a boring task, at some point that kicks in to make me get on with it.

With piano, I'm only doing it for fun and there are so many pieces out there to learn, so if I realise I don't love a piece then I've now taken to stopping with it after a certain amount of time. At first I would get frustrated for starting but not finishing something, but the reality is that when I find the right piece, those moments you describe when walking past the keyboard and wanting to play happen frequently. With the wrong piece, they happen rarely if ever.

Good luck with the Gm prelude! It's one of my favourites which I have yet to attempt to play but hope to one day...
That was one of the more common causes of crashes back in the AmigaOS days; one program crashed and while doing so it screwed up the OS and other running applications as well.

It worked quite well as long as your applications were well-behaved though.
That doesn't improve their painfully janky automatic gearing though.
Not worth the price IMHO. For comparison, a competitor (Xiaomi Mi Scooter Pro) would be around 400 USD.

If you're wondering that somebody is going to steal your scooter, bring it always with you or lock it. Worst case scenario you loose 400 USD.

They're giving you an "insurance" for those 1800 USD that's valid only a year. Think about it, you can (for the same price) buy 4 scooters and therefore get them stolen 4 times. With the remaining 200 USD you can buy a GPS + LTE module, attach it to the battery and always see the scooter location in real time. Heck, you can even count the LTE subscription in that remaining part.

I'm not saying it's a bad product, I'm just saying that's not worth the price (yet).
The article posted goes out of its way to "prove" he said something that meant he didn't do drugs. So clearly it does matter very much.
> uncensored internet is also not as easy as it seems in countries where this applies, e.g. China

The Chinese mostly use shadowsocks. Tor usage from a mainland ip entry point is incredibly low.
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Crickets. No reply from the original poster. I think you're right :-)
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Your second paragraph paints a pretty grim scenario. Has this ever happened before? Someone building castles on a joke abstraction?
How do you solve storing/updating/removing child entities of another entity (which also may be a child of another entity) effectively?

I use jOOQ as well, but mostly only for the reading part. For the above case, I still use Hibernate, as I've yet to find an efficient way to do it in jOOQ.
Why do you need population growth rate? You can just have each individual self fund their retirement, no Ponzi shenanigans.
People think that giving a product a nordic-sounding name makes it sound like a quality product. Äike is the Häagen-Dazs of scooters.
Fun to think if there will be hundred year old solar panel roofs that still produce a bit. Probably have to rewire them to bypass broken parts or something.
I think we're going to see more and more people "vote with their feet" by moving to places that suit them better instead of trying to change where they are. It is so much easier today than it has ever been.
It should mean competition between cities/states/countries to attract the best people which is good.
> Fix minimum wages and people will automatically go for healthier food.

Or a blingier car. Never underestimate the bling factor of an object everyone sees you in ;)

Anyway, most countries have import taxes (customs tax + VAT in Serbia is paid on both shipping cost and item cost), so while some items are still cheaper to get abroad, getting a 33.90GBP raspberry pi for me would add 12 GBP for shipping, and then 30% of 45.90GBP, or another 13 GBP for a total of 59 GBP: not so cheap anymore.

Items from China are similar, and with COVID, shipping charges are frequently bigger than the item cost itself (you get a small $10 item, with a total coming out to like $31).

But I'd definitely like to see a move towards higher standards of production, but they are hard to standardize across the world.
I am in a similar situation. I am doing everything but coding. Like you I loved SW development. Unlike you, PM would be a happier place than where I am now.

That said, I am planning, when I can (Sept 2022), to go back to SW development. It might be a bit of a pay cut, but the job satisfaction will be worth it.
If this goes through, Microsoft could do something positive with some tech that Nuance owns that probably isn't making much money anymore anyway. One of the text-to-speech (speech synthesis) engines that Nuance got from its various acquisitions is called ETI-Eloquence. It does pure speech synthesis, not concatenation of pre-recorded human speech like most modern TTS engines. So it's particularly popular among blind power-users because it can speak very fast while still being quite intelligible. At the same time, it doesn't hold much if any appeal for mainstream applications. But the codebase has been abandoned for a while. So it would be awesome if Microsoft would open-source ETI-Eloquence. Hey, I can dream.