skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem that I sense in the embedded systems world is that there is often huge differences in philosophical outlooks and development perspectives. In that, many in that world want to always be in the nuts and bolts of everything. For me, the perspective is to always be as high-level as possible when you can get away with it, leaving FPGAs and real-time OSs for things that actually need to be on an FPGA or real-time. The problem with this is that there are not very many who can bridge the gap between FPGAs, real-time programming, and high-level software.

I personally am very interested in the "software for hardware" realm, but it is a little difficult to find people doing interesting approaches. It's usually all Verilog or all VHDL on FPGAs with a smattering of HLS, all C/C++ embedded software, all high-level programming languages with soft real-time on single-board computers or something similar, or somewhere in between with something like LabVIEW. But there's usually almost no overlap between the people that do work in each of those categories.

There's a lot of constraints in these systems and almost all of the innovation has come at sort of the chip level in terms of hardware performance. The design and development process, tools, and experience have seen little innovation, as far as I can tell. Everything remains hard in embedded systems. I don't see any reason why it needs to be that way though.
i doubt it's designed for classic single-person e-bikes; there's one picture at the bottom of a cargo-bike with a person-sized transport box. i think this system is for small inner-city utility vehicles for delivery services and craftsmen (transport of a limited set of tools and material).

the low overhead of bikes (registration etc.) isn't necessarily a problem for a company's motor pool. iirc it might very well be possible to ride those on bike paths - even if they need a moped registration plate - as long as the maximum power and speed is limited.

in austria, small electric numberplate-less mopeds (scooters) with a 25km/h speed limit and no pedal assist are legal, no idea about germany tho.
There's also torque converters, which are a hydraulic mechanism. This is the basis of most (non sporting) automatic transmissions. Higher performance torque converters have a lock up mechanism that functions as a clutch making it rigid at high speeds. So you can kinda get both.
In the Art of War Denma Translation (excellent BTW!) the text says:

And so the method of employing the military—

When ten to one, surround them.

When five to one, attack them.

When two to one, do battle with them.

When matched, then divide them.

When fewer, then defend against them.

When inadequate, then avoid them.

Thus a small enemy's tenacity ~

ls a large enemy's catch. ~
Because the contract says that
If you're informed and disciplined about it, I absolutely think it's possible to use these services responsibly. I don't really see a problem if I have given myself a reasonable monthly allowance for discretionary spending and sometimes I decide I'd rather spend a higher amount over several months to get a toy now, rather than save up my allowance over several months to get the toy later for a lower total amount. As long as I've set my monthly allowance responsibly and I stick to it, I just see this as a preference for how I spend my play budget, no different than deciding to use my play budget on movie tickets vs. concerts vs. stereo equipment vs. anything else.

The bigger concern, of course, is to what extent these service providers deliberately influence people to spend irresponsibly, particularly if they make it difficult to understand at a glance the financial repercussions of the loan policies.
Of course it is ok. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution.
By the do you mean you’re paying the “interest” cost of the loan as part of the sticker price? If so, that’s not always the case.

I used to offer 0% and absorb the cost of the financing (which cost me approx 2% of the profit) because it meant purchases from people who otherwise wouldn’t buy it.
Correct. And in this case, Chrome seems to be working as intended. Crashing the tab when bad code is written sounds like the correct behavior.
I have bought at least 3 vehicles with 0% interest loans, and no down payment.

The seller would not give me a lower price if I paid all or a portion in cash at the time of purchase. The only cost to me is the effect on my credit, but that is negligible unless if you are not excessively indebted.
Would this be a long lasting problem if used once (or just a few times — as in not constantly for any cut or graze)? I’m thinking within the context of war for wounded soldier with little access to hospital/medics.
NiZn almost certainly cheaper than LiFePO₄, at least once they get to scale. Problems like self-discharge or cycle-life likely vary depending on cell design. I'm sure you can design a cell that has less of these problems. It is also much easier to recycle than LiFePO₄ batteries, which is a big advantage. LiFePO₄ are basically never recycled in practice.

Should be noted that no one is suggest that NiZn is the end-all be-all battery chemistry. It is just a neat idea that is worth investing in, and will work in a lot of circumstances.
Presumably a class action lawsuit of TSLA shareholders might force him to buy their shares at 54.20. Which, hilariously, might then get diluted by the poison pill.
Another thing to consider is that no payment method is free for the merchant. Even with cash, you need to pay Loomis, or you need to pay an employee to physically visit a bank.
>"... the land value tax proposed by it is still endorsed by economists today."

Your comment is somewhat misleading, as it seems to suggest that all or most economists endorse Georgism, which is not true. Some vocal minority of economists are pro-Georgism, but I haven't seen any data suggesting it is the most popular taxation scheme.
Because the item could be sold to someone else in the meantime.
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What is the interest rate on your savings account?
Take this logic and compare AAPL and RIMM in 2009. This is why people are buying TSLA.

If you think that GM is going to successfully pivot to EVs and that Tesla will not continue to grow 50% a year, that is a fine opinion to have, but if you look at CNBC clips from 2009 you will see very similar comparisons being made around AAPL and RIMM, to what you are saying today.
I suspect it is not yet at the point where there are clear pro/cons, probably more at the experimental "what happens when I.." stage?
Oddly, mine is 100 too. I see a flat file with only 1995-grade HTML formatting.
> Credit card companies make money from merchants who pay them a fee and from interest on credit card debt.

Wrong on the second point. The issuing banks (Capital One, Chase, etc..) are the ones that collect the revenue from the interest/late fees on credit card debt.

The credit card companies (Visa, MC, etc..) only make money from the transaction and settlement phases.
Correct, it's not the easiest to use but it is well behaved and consistent.
Sure, but then a libcamera based service could expose a single virtualized v4l2 device with all the necessary high level controls, and normal legacy apps could use that.
And Twitter is helping get around elite failures that are causing those problems to persist:
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/actually-twitter-is-re...
Unfortunately, he didn't expect Tsla to go down so much. So now, on paper at least, he has lost more on this deal than he gained. Call it a little bit of Karma.
One particularly tricky nuance of contract law is that their must be someone with legal standing who wants the contract to be enforced. If Musk doesn't think he can put the funds together without damaging businesses he cares about more than owning Twitter, then he can pretty much just invoke the $B walk away if he wants to. The Twitter CEO and board were pretty clear they did not think Musk's acquisition was in the best interests of the Company, but they were legally obligated to consider an accept a fair offer of acquisition because it would be in the best interests of the share holders.

Suddenly getting $1B without having to accept Musk as the new owner is beneficial to the share holders, and crucially tying up the company in a years long lawsuit to force Musk to acquire Twitter would be expensive, and until the contract is either completed or dissolved Twitter's fund raising options are greatly limited. Suing Musk for wanting out would not be a sound financial move and could even result in Twitter becoming insolvent. Their stock price could crash, their funds to continue the lawsuit exhausted, and most likely under those circumstances Musk would win and immediately turn around and buy Twitter for a far lower price.

With that said, the only real question here is what will Musk do under the circumstances? Funding the acquisition could cause his other businesses to suffer or even fail. SpaceX is particularly vulnerable, and it wouldn't take much to end the Borring Company if Musk's finances are in a dangerous position. If he just walks away he's out $1B, assuming they'll allow it. That can't be a super attractive option. Most likely he's going to exhaust every avenue in an attempt to raise the cash without putting his other businesses at risk. But there's a clock on that, and he could end up owing Twitter a shit load if he stalls for too long.
Hey, congrats on the open source approach! I do have a question on your strategy though. How do you get valuable feedback from users? What incentive does your users have in order to communicate with you back and forth trying to build a better product?
Keeping your money as cash is also an investment. It's not a guaranteed value preserver, inflation can eat it. So in the end it comes down to trying to predict the future, just like everyone else is trying to do. There is no guarantee, cashing out can make you lose or make you win.
Choices and Decision Making
“Don’t time the market” is stupid advice. The problem with that advice is that virtually every action you may or may not take is a form of timing the market. People going all in “now as opposed to later” are timing the market. Dollar cost averaging is timing the market. Staying in the market instead of selling is timing the market. People encouraging you to stay in the market because if you sell, that’s “timing the market,” are bullying you into adopting their own strategy for timing the market.
Case in point: Josh Hawley's bill to reduce copyright to 56 years max. Even if it got through Congress and signed into law it would probably get challenged for contravening a bunch of international copyright treaties to which the US is a signatory.

It's like Republicans are so high on the "America First" Flavor-Aid that the concept of "treaty obligations" is as utterly foreign to them as the notion of learning to speak a little French if you're going to visit France.
Oh interesting, good to know.
Russia attacked Crimea on 2014. In 2022, Russia attacked Kyiv and Kharkiv and other areas well outside of active separatist zones.
The Big Gulp
Things have changed! I did a search of best pizza in London and all the pies pictured, save for one, was definitely Italian pizza. The one that was not was described as US-style. On the plus side - it looks like you have a lot of great pizza available to you! You can even get US-style pizza if you so desire and thank goodness it appears to be my favorite kind of American pizza - the NY slice! (they claim you can get it at Joe Public). I have the opposite problem - getting a bona fide Italian pizza in my part of the world is difficult. Then again, getting a good NY slice is difficult around here. I'm in the U.S. Midwest and our local pizza options are dominated by the Chicago style, Detroit style, and Columbus style. But the NY style and Italian styles are my favorites! You've got it made, mate!
AMD’s FSR 2.0 debut, while limited, has upscaled our GPU hopes
I recommend asking the recruiter in their initial email / LinkedIn message to you what the comp range is. If it isn't a match or they won't tell you off the bat, move on to the next one unless you're dead set on wanting to work there.
I tried your site out and it is fast and found good results for what I searched for. Thanks?
Hey thanks for this. I realized one of my bikes has been built wrong since I got it 15 years ago due to this comment.
AWD motorcycles have been done. They are useful in extreme off-road scenarios.

http://www.christini.com/awd-technology/about-the-tech
Very nice work, but I would still prefer cartoony anime robots to realistic humanoid ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GKwqTxtS8
There's no ultimate solution, but there are a few things being done in common DNS servers that can mitigate the issue:

* Large answers like ANY queries or large DNSSEC records should either be not supported or only supported via TCP (see RFC 8482 e.g. for ANY).

* DNS software can implement response rate limiting: https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00994

This doesn't prevent all amplification, but it prevents strong amplification, i.e. you'll be less valuable for attackers.
It would be utterly, glibly and completely insane for Musk, or anyone, to buy Twitter outright with their own money.

Musk should be in for several billion, surely, but the rest of the money should have come fro Private Equity / Buyout partners.

I assumed that this was the case, not just him putting up Tesla stock as collateral.
Now I really want to go build a chart extension.
How do you find it unreliable? I put a couple thousand miles on mine a year and it sits outside. Occasionally it gets hit with wd40 then lube and a rag. That's all I do with this thing. I don't get all the complaints from people on the fiddling with derailleurs. I've never had to fiddle despite years of riding. Just some shimano components mostly 105 and ultegra but nothing special or too new. I'm still riding 2x8 actually. Maybe the fewer rear gears leads to fewer issues with alignment? I do find that I can shift into any of the rear cogs easily with either front cogs, very permissive groupset to being in the wrong gear at the wrong time too and sloppily finding another one (a lot of chaos sharing the road). Maybe I'm just not attuned enough to feel when the gearing is going out though.
Opened the Mercedes site again to check some more. Tesla allows escalation to ordering in two clicks. After more like seven clicks Mercedes was ready to let me 'save my build' rather than letting me order. They also still continually warn me:

> Due to a worldwide shortage, semiconductor chips that are typically present in our vehicles are limited in supply. This has changed the availability of certain features. Vehicle pricing will vary and depends on the availability of certain features. Please verify with your dealer whether any feature is available in a particular vehicle. To learn more, please see your dealer.

Whereas Tesla just lets me put in the order with delivery in January.
Keep in mind there's the very real possibility of twitter just negotiating for a $2 billion (random number between $1 billion and $44 billion) break up fee to use a different reason
Agree on things like infrastructure optimization. Most significant savings happen on people costs though, and layoffs/hiring freezes tend to not last forever, and also have impacts on future growth as well.

Compared to the same amount of revenue offering, most top SaaS companies have >100% net dollar retention, which means that their existing contracts tend to grow year-over-year from usage/upsells, so the long-term value of that $1m in revenue increases over time.
The Strategy Behind Balenciaga’s Destroyed Sneaker Stunt
If someone presented me with a speed-timed programming exercise, I'd walk out the door.
The devil is certainly in the details, and valuations are often overly optimistic...

But similarly, I believe there are a few really strong companies that are dramatically under-valued today, partly because they (purposefully and strategically) don't turn a profit yet, or because they trade at a very high multiple.

Facebook is not one of the companies I spend a lot of time researching (but don't interpret this as me having a negative view of the stock-- I just have "no view").

Taking the time to read filings, as well as any investor materials these companies put out (with a critical and open mind, of course) goes a really long way.
think i'll stick to soap and water and let my body do the rest :) . Well for now, until the collective arrives and we all get assimilated.
Yes? He’s correct.
I may have to pick this up -- as someone with no economics training at all, a land value tax seems extremely appealing and intuitive to me. I'd already like to become a complete partisan in favor of this policy, but I guess it would make sense to read what the actual justification is, for it, haha.
Yes but saying it out loud forces people to think about what goes on outside of their own cozy, financial situations.
> You will notice over the next 5-10 years climate change is going to go away as a subject.

I think this might be the case, albeit for a very different reason.

Spending time worrying about "climate change" is a luxury people can have when economic times are good. Only the most out of touch in the media class are going to fret about climate change when normal people are in bread lines and the currency is imploding, as may be the case over this time frame.

PS: I think your idea is generally close to correct and that climate change has a bit more to do with the sun, but I'd keep my mind open on this.
Legault refuses to participate in English-language debate Quebec fall election
Well, here's a right-wing leader shedding pretence. Either become fully capable in French or leave, unless you're willing to be a second-class citizen with no knowledge of what's going down. And it's fully capable by their definition not France's.

Montreal prides itself on being a tech playground. After announcements like this, if you're not a francophone, you're not wanted.
I don't see anyone paying $30k for any amount of lint. So not comparable. What's comparable is something you can get money for, like for example bitcoin. You can also use bitcoin as collateral to buy things. Example: https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/...

Now I want to see you bring an example of pocket lint being used as collateral. Pretty sure you cannot, therefore you're wrong again, and probably should admit so and learn something, instead of being ignorant.
Classic fact from my old college E&M (electricity and magnetism) course:

"A series wound electric motor has infinite torque at stall"

Okay, the electric connection between the pedals and the drive wheel should act as essentially as a perfect transmission, that is, with infinitely many gears (except for the 5% or whatever is lost in efficiency). And if the wheel motor is "series wound", then should have the "infinite torque" when starting from a dead stop. That infinite torque could be nice to have when going up a steep hill -- e.g., for the last 10 speed bike I had, the lowest gear was still not low enough to let me pedal up my steep driveway and, instead, I had to walk my bicycle up that hill.

Also, for that bike, the highest gear was not high enough -- on the course I was using, there was a long hill, and in the highest gear before I got to the top I was pedaling as fast as I could and wanted a still higher gear.

Sooooo, for something better, if the constant torque generator had a resistance adjustment, then just increase the resistance a little, let me pedal at the same RPM as before, and get up the hill faster; that is, I would be pedaling with my maximum power and the infinite gearing would move the bike at the maximum speed for that power, e.g., the power needed for the friction and air resistance for that maximum speed.

Constant torque at the generator side and infinitely many gears connecting to the drive wheel -- NICE!
This is not true. The stock market is usually valued after the dividends it can pay over a certain number of years, somewhat between 10 and 20. It’s not infinite. If no further grow comes that’s it and the stock keeps it value and will keep paying dividends for the foreseeable time, and has for already 100 years. Sure investors ask for growth in their communication, but the actual thing they are asking for is a better performance than the rest of the market. You could say this bottoms out at 0 but recent event have shown that low negative interests are possible, because stashing cash has a physical cost.

Many economies can still work well without population growth, other fail despite population growth. If that was the case that population dictates GDP, then investment choices would be very easy.
How do belt drives stack up? I see more ebikes going belt drive which makes me think theres some efficiency gain there or at least its able to handle more torque perhaps.
Sadly, no. The nanobots will be used for very bad things. To give you an idea, imagine a nanobot that will go into your cells, detect your race based on your DNA, and then decide to kill you or not; imagine how bad dictators can use these selectively against whole groups of people. It's biological warfare on a completely new level.
I have 25 years of experience and most interviewers interview me like I'm out of college. It's mildly enterfuriating.
The N64's unified memory model had a pretty big asterisk though. The system had only 4kB for textures out of 4MB of total RAM. And textures are what uses the most memory in a lot of games.
> they don't just kick me out and say "tough shit". They pay me.

They do if they don't pay you, like what happened to folks in Louisiana or Texas.
Very cool. Good luck with it.

I'll get one, but I'll wait for the dust to settle. My "early adopter" days are few, and carefully managed.
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Fully agreed with your overall position, but I got a small correction in regards to what you said about fintech.

While you are correct in that at a lot of finance companies, devs just act as "support for the real business" (e.g., Goldman Sachs). But there are others where devs and quants pretty much harmoniously run the show.

Look at something like Jane Street and their tech blog[0]. Their annual "what our interns have wrought" blog posts grab my attention like nothing else, and from everything I read coming from them, it seems like engineering there is not just "support for the real business". And there are quite a few companies in fintech like this, they just won't be flashed in the mass media due to their relatively small size, but everyone in the industry (and plenty of people on the outside) knows about them. Out of all things, they are known as one of the largest contributors to OCaml language and its ecosystem.

Jane Street was just a singular example, and there are other fintech firms of a similar engineering-focused culture.

0. https://blog.janestreet.com/
Slow healing process or pouring nanobots on the wound, hmmm....