skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough we have the exact opposite in the UK. Private scooters banned, rental scooters laying all over the pavement.

I lean towards private scooters as more preferable because they don't clutter the public space. However, because they aren't regulated, some people have extremely fast models. Not uncommon to see someone doing 30mph+.
David Byrne: Eliminating the Human (2017)
Only when things are broken and in need of fixing, is one forced one to understand how they work behind the scenes. Necessity becomes the mother of understanding for a while... :-)
Or course, and their decisions are free to be scrutinized.
I dont think these apply to share e-scooters as much. The ban is about shared e-scooter.
In the cities, where nobody really lives in the historical center, it is doable. (We are not talking about driving through; we are talking about access/servicing; there are very few cities without a ring -- or several rings -- where driving through center is the fastest way from one end to another).

In the cities, where real people live there, it is not. Every part of the city needs servicing, including center. Your plumber won't lug his tools on a scooter; your furniture won't teleport itself into your house either. Every now and then, the residents themselves need to bring in or out their heavier or larger crap, so issuing permits to entry to well-connected companies is not a solution.

Yes, I do live in city center; and yes, we also have people who know nothing about living there, but they go to pub there every Saturday night, so they have strong ideas how it should be. It is not limiting them, after all.
I think private ones are still relevant, as they’re less likely to recklessly endanger their investment.

In Australia at least, the police can and do fine people using them where they shouldn’t, and at speeds that they shouldn’t [1].

[1]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-23/man-caught-riding-e-s...
This is incorrect. You are not defining a or b. You are defining c as either a or b.

Declarative way: c = condition ? a : b

Imperative way:

c = null
if condition:
c = a
else:
c = b
Honestly, the work Valve have done with Proton is incredible. It has made a world of difference to my daily computing life.

If only Google would put the same effort into polishing Chrome on Linux :laugh:

Also Zoom, Slack...
It seems that Starlink works in places that fail to build either fiber or good 4G/5G coverage. But even there if the demand is too much they might not have capacity to provide good service.

I don't believe it is viable model they are running.
European cities are clamping down on shared scooters quite a bit, but in different ways. Vienna for instance is now asking for a lot more geo fencing, if there is a specific drop-off location within 100 meters a ride cannot be ended unless it's parked on such a drop-off location. Companies are also forced to report scooter locations in real-time to the city government for monitoring and enforce speed restrictions based on map data.

I'm super curious if this will end the availability of the scooters as the cost of this is probably quite a bit higher now.
There is a growing ecological problem with e-scooters ending up under water, especially in city rivers. If the ride sharing companies was liable for this and had to pay commercial divers to pick them up, the result would be identical to a ban of rental e-scooters.

We used to have a similar problem with people dumping cars, but those are now very traceable and owners will get heavily fined if they leave a car in the water.
There. Is. No. such. Thing. As. Local. Law.

There is a fine mist of ilusion of rule of law. But the party is outside of it. And the truth is, the laws is more similar to the law of network connections within the family graph of a mafia clan.

Its basically just used as a body wrapping foil, once the graph has decided to finnish of some node.
Stop projecting western values upon a completely different scenario, just because its apt at mimicrcy.
I loath the rentals. But love the personally owned. I think if you own it, you take care of it. You want to be trusted with it. And you don't leave it in the river.
In Paris and Berlin the alternatives are probably bikes, metro, or walking...
Am I the only one uncomfortable clicking on a link called "Unknown Pleasures" on their work laptop? Or is my brain truly rotten?
Indeed, not only does it show the original plots, it also features an interview with the creator!

Much better than this blog that simply quotes a bit of an article without adding anything itself.
Salamanca have 800 years old University (USAL) and 2000 years old Roman bridge . Pascal was for me a old bridge to start programming i love it.
I don't need 500 nits when instead I can have a non glossy screen
Average voter participation is 65% in european countries.
It shouldn't matter. If your model touched X during training, it should be seen as producing derivative work. This is the reason humans use clean room implementation techniques.
I've played the game a year ago and I still remember:

- the story where a guy agrees to be crucified on live TV

- the whole detective sidequest - it's a shame you only remember him being annoying, the entire story about family, about finding your relative, about solving a horrendous crime mystery - absolute masterpiece.

- the whole Panam sidequest - she grew from someone I didn't care about to being a close companion. And the quest where her and the rest of the aldecaldos go to steal the neural-link driven tank is just epic. Also her relationship with the aldecaldos.

- whole Judy storyline, where she comes to gripes with the death of her close friend and how the system doesn't care about any of them. The moment when you sit with her at the edge of a poisoned lake and talk about life will always be in my memory.

- the side quest with destroying the prostitution gang owners so that the women could basically get revenge and run it themselves - 10/10 for some moral choices.

- the entire Rogue + Johnny content that wasn't necessary for the main mission. Damn that character goes through a redemption arc like no other.

- the AI taxi quest was actually stupid and it felt like an excuse to make some out of universe jokes(with one taxi being voiced by Glados from Portal if I remember correctly). But I mean....meh. The final choice was cool.

All of the above adds to the fact that at the end of the game you actually care about the characters that surround you and you want to see them there with you. I've gone back and played through every possible ending(other than the secret one because it's so bloody hard) just to see what happens. And in the endings where you don't contact Pam or Judy...man it's actually heartbreaking. Like it makes you feel like shit. None of this would happen if their sidequests weren't actually good.
https://archive.md/xG0M7
Yeah that's clearly another issue on top, if there's a place where they have some demand, they'll have a lot of demand, it's an everything or nothing market.
What did you search for? For me a search for bbs gave three good links, but I knew what it was..
OpenSea is a zombie company. Sure, it's still running and they still have a platform, but the NFT craze collapsed and will never come back. I'm really happy that they weren't able to IPO prior to collapsing, unlike coinbase, who's main accomplishment was scamming public investors.
All I want is to be able to sandbox Windows from all of Microsoft's crap. I don't leave my computers awake while windows is running anymore because the moment it detects inactivity it starts loading up a bunch of unsolicited processes that start scanning drives and stuff for who knows what reasons.
Even around the small towns here I've had more than a few instances of black-wearing people flying between cars at night on these things. Your only defense is to have a dash cam to defend yourself when the inevitable happens I guess.
Democracy sucks if no one is exercising their democratic minimum duty; to vote.
This will lead to smaller groups being able to mobilise easier for their agenda.
Also happens one level up in Germany or Australia - lack of volunteers for judiciary committee or duties opens the door for right wing or other nutters that are organised and push into these openings.
Oil prices surge after surprise move to cut output
> It is merely an interface for running programs and managing data then it gets out of the way.

This captures exactly how I feel about it as well. Windows XP and 7 were fantastic in that they were graphical portals to run things. You didn't really notice them there for the most part.

Though I am speaking about vanilla installs and not preinstalled Windows from OEMs - they were loaded with garbage

Likewise though, Linux has been very stable for me in recent years
The 'Bicycles are fine but e-scooters are awful' argument comes up a lot, but doesn't make much sense. E-bikes are often ignored or just effectively invisible.

(I'll agree that rental scooter services have unique problems, but we shouldn't allow personally-owned scooters to be banned along with them)
> few other languages have the distinction between continuous and perfect forms of a tense, but foreign speakers can simply avoid it in English ("I read the docs" instead of "I am reading the docs" for a really basic speaker)

I can't really tell what you mean. "I am reading the docs" is an example of a form that is generally called "continuous", yes. "Continuous" is an aspect, not a tense.

The same is true of "perfect", but the larger problem is that you haven't provided a perfect form. (Finite) perfect constructions in English are marked by auxiliary have, "I have read the docs". "I read the docs" uses what is generally called the "plain form" (the name describes the form, not the meaning that calls for the form), and it expresses that the verb is stative[1], describing a fact about the subject ("I am the kind of person who reads the docs") rather than describing an event that takes place at a particular time.

> Chinese would be very hard to pick up in much of the world simply because tone is a very foreign phonetical feature

This is very commonly asserted, but I don't believe it's true. Here you can see a popular American sitcom making a series of jokes about tone, even though the same people who will tell you that Chinese is difficult because of its tones will also tell you that English doesn't have them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjpnslsuA2g

So the exotic phonetic phenomenon that makes it so difficult for English speakers to learn Chinese is... something that English speakers are natively aware enough of to make and appreciate jokes about. (Not to mention objecting to people who are doing it wrong - check out "uptalk", which people spontaneously punctuated with question marks because the phenomenon was so obvious to them that they felt obligated to indicate it in writing even though the writing system has no provision for it.)

[1] https://glossary.sil.org/term/stative-verb
For the uninitiated:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shh-bby-is-ok
I assumed it meant they're losing $925k/month.
In my city it would be trivial in most roads, you would just have to remove parking on one side. Unfortunately the needs of 10 car owners living in the street are more important than the needs of everyone else...
Most people don't actually want to maintain a fork. They would prefer that their patches are mainlined.

Consider Linux. It's huge and most vendors really don't want to maintain a fully independent fork. One reason they might do it anyway, is if they could keep their patches private. But the GPL means they can't, so most just choose to upstream patches.
Free floating is a mess. Living in China the bikes were everywhere. Masses piled outside every metro stop. In Taiwan/Taipei the system has bike docks at every metro and many other places as well. There's an app that tells you how many bikes are at each location and how many spots are left to park in. Getting a bike uses the same card as the bus, metro and train. Really easy and convenient and more orderly.

Not sure how well it would work in some places due to vandalism and such.
Who?
See: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922
A 2021 research paper warning (among other things) precisly about this confusion.

> The ersatz fluency and coherence of LMs raises several risks, precisely because humans are prepared to interpret strings belonging
to languages they speak as meaningful and corresponding to the
communicative intent of some individual or group of individuals
who have accountability for what is said

Is there any Researcher who maintains that LLM models contain Reasoning and intent?

Those who are working on this models are not confused, they know what they are, the Public is confused.
Congratulations! Soo good (even on an old iPhone)
While I do agree with the general sentiment, that it probably is what a normies want, but then the cynic inside me wakes up.

Preloads are not there to make the service or experience better. Preloads are there, because someone paid for them to be there. So someone makes money on them, doesn't care exactly what they are, and is selling your attention and your time to get there.

So no popularity numbers needed, only a good offer.
I assume the burning amount is their net cash flow loss. That's still not that bad though. A margin of -8.5% isn't that big a loss, especially if they're able to raise financing that will last a couple years while they work to achieve profitability.
I think you're missing the fact that car infrastructure with curbside parking has evolved over decades, and cities have not managed to even provide ample parking space for standard bikes, as they have been in use for decades as well. Now these scooters just came into existence and over the course of 5-8 years have managed to clutter everything. They're not individuals' property (who would pick them up later) but they're owned and operated by a for-profit company and just being dropped anywhere by people. That's what makes it so very different.

Not that I have a good solution for this, but we have some bikes by the local public transport org, and they have dedicated "parking stations" - if there were more of those (and the bikes wouldn't be more expensive than other rental bikes), or if they'd just nab a few car parking spaces for it.. then it would be nicer. Yes, it is very convenient to leave your scooter next to your door, but I don't think it would be outrageous to walk the last 200m.
If it is a simulation, what is it simulating? There would have to be a "real" reference to compare against?
It's also a problem of shared spaces.

Pedestrians and Bikes are a poor mix.

Bikes and Cars are a poor mix.

but scooters and bikes seem to mix quite well.

Malmo, Sweden; where I live, has excellent cycling infrastructure and the scooter "problem" is really miniscule. There are still issues, people parking in stupid ways or taking scooters into pedestrian areas, but overall there are significantly more dangerous drivers who hit the accelerator as hard as they can to reach the next red-light so that they can make the most noise possible.

I have also noticed that there are a contingent of people who despise anyone having anything nice, and will throw the scooters into the canals, spray their QR codes, intentionally destroy the stands (which means they can't be parked reasonably) and, worse in my opinion, moving the scooters away from where they are safely parked and placing them across the sidewalk, which makes the previous rider look like an arse.

The scooter companies try to combat this, but their combating sometimes has the inverse affect[0]. One thing has always been true though: you have to take a photo when you park so that your parking can be validated.

[0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/enforcement-can-have-the-inverse-effec...
We can agree to disagree, then. I’m interested to hear who you think does it better than Musk? So far, it seems he’s doing something right.
> My M1 MacBook Air was $1,100 for 16/1TB.

Are you serious?

It's precisely 1908,85 euros right now for an M1 Macbook Air with 16G ram 1TB storage, and I'm in northern Europe. That's over 2k usd.

A baseline M2 Macbook Air is 1515 euros for 8GB ram 256GB storage. Bumping that to 16g ram and 1TB storage is 2210 euros.

NOT cheap.
Then ban or severely limit cars there. You can turn a 2-way street into one way one and turn the other lane into bike/e-mobility one. If not that make it 30km/h zone, allow bikes and allow other mobility devices to take the middle of the lane. Banning cars from some streets is great solution as well.
Oh wow, they unironically posted a video that a chat application takes 9 seconds to launch. What is wrong with computing?
Burning means they're losing money, about $11M annually in this case.
Maybe I'm naive but I think it's a strong argument on why China won't catch up with the tech of LLM's and diffusion anytime soon. Half of their effort goes to censorship.
Doesn't China have a free pass with their emissions through to 2030, due to their "developing country" status?

Pretty sure that's the case, though they have to start reducing their emissions after that like the rest of us.
So sad that metro workers go on strike so frequently.
The thing that I found most interesting was actually the little side discussion about all mazes being two pieces. Something that I had never considered, but seems fairly self evident (assuming only one path exists through the maze).

Also makes me wonder what a proof would look like.
A few things I personally don't like:

- Use of space: GitLab has more empty space across the site. Elements have a bit too much padding for my tastes and are spaced a bit too far apart. Valuable screen space (top center) contains a lot of needless information on GitLab (table headers, project ID, language breakdown, a prompt to add a CONTRIBUTING file) which is either not present or located off to the side on GitHub.

- Color and typography: GitHub is one of the best sites at this, using pops of color for important buttons and really fun typography. I love how GitHub has your avatar "speak" a commit description, it's a great little touch. GitLab's design feels like it has less personality. Quick comparison: https://imgur.com/a/Ejd1Q1X

- Attention to detail: A bit less of it on GitLab -- icons and text don't vertically align in some places; several of the dropdown menus could use a bit of visual improvement, or have an ill-fitting item or two; in my screenshot above, GitLab's "Commit message" and "Target Branch" have inconsistent capitalization.
>Are you talking about the hearts or the events? The Achievements? The main difference is that the world the player experiences is more "coherent" in GW2 because of the Elder Dragon threat and their involvement in it (ie their hero's journey).

I didn't even get that far because I was inundated to my armpits with QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE QUEST IS AVAILABLE with literally any action I took. It was nauseating and quickly drove me mad.

What makes me wonder to this day is if I had a different client from everyone else, because quite literally noone I ever talk to about this seems to be able to relate (case in point).

>Also, what are "quests" to you?

The kind you would find in RO, Runescape, Skyrim, and so on. Scripted things to do, but not particularly conspicuous and in the way if I'm not interested in pursuing them.
Private ownership would clear this up. (not legal in NSW).

If you paid 600$ for one I don't expect you'd leave it in a gutter.

I'm almost 50 and I'd love to legally write an electric skateboard. I'd use it in most places. Now I just take the car, because it's the only way I can travel at speed with my dog.
You can just filter out anime in account settings.
Scrutiny is justified. However, it should be within the scope of whether the product fulfills the need and should have nothing to do with "sovereignty" or "free speech rights," don't you think?
Nah, the sign language really is different.
If you sold/gave it away as "Android OS"?

Ultimately, Linux is released under the GPL. That gives end users several rights, including the right to repackage it and re-sell it. People do that all the time. Android, Tizen, Maemo, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat - not to mention the tens of thousands of custom Linux distros powering all sorts of embedded devices. That's the terms of the license.
The figure comes from TFA. The criteria being "rural areas" in unsourced though as all Starlink reported was areas with "excess capacity".

I was able to get 90$/m using an address North Dakota 58647 but not a random address in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. This leads me to think the user capacity in the 24km cell isn't the only factor as the North Dakota address was certainly less rural than the Wyoming one I picked (and both instantly available).

If I had to guess I'd say you do have to be rural enough your user cell isn't near capacity but not in a region where there are a limited number of ground stations for the satellites to connect back to. For the Navajo region there are no ground stations in NM, one in AZ but in the opposite corner of the state, one in NV, one on the opposite end of UT, and one in the opposite end of CO. For Wyoming the story is almost identical. For ND there are 3 ground stations in the state.
> USB serial port working in Windows

The whole FTDI hoopla happened only because FTDI serial driver was the only one shipped with Windows, so only one that was really plug and play.
The site looks up to me -- did you get a 404 at the browser level? Cert issue?

[EDIT] Just checked Qualys and I've an A+ rating (have had TLS cert issues in the past though)... Uptime tools not reporting anything either.
It depends. With new hardware you're bound to have some trouble especially on "old" Linux versions (i.e. using Ubuntu 22.04), however these issues are very often fixed by installing a newer kernel. YMMV
Yep. Same in most of Australia.

I wish privates were legal and rentals were gone.
I wrote a thing for it to generate images based on SRTM data, for drawing "Joy Division T-shirt" logos of islands. It worked pretty well but I never got round to having the T-shirts printed.

https://onlyfandans.com/skye.jpg
Some places have fixed stations downtown, and free floating outside the city core. I find that compromise works pretty well, you get to drive all the way home and park outside your house where there is room, but you don't have thousands of them all over the place downtown.
Sharpkeys is the one I use, yes. I always forget what it's called.

> BIG WARNING if you do this! I've done it in the past and using other computers will just break your brain. Think working with someone else or helping relatives, etc.

What saves me is that my French colleagues use French layout keyboards, so I have to mentally switch anyway when I use theirs. Luckily, it's not that often.

> Oh, so just like Linux stuff? :-p The double standards are real :-D

I think the biggest issue with Windows is finding a reliable source for these things. For Linux, there's the arch wiki, which is wonderful even for people using other distros. For Windows, there are many sources which are just blogspam and basically say that you should reinstall some driver and reboot your pc. Also, fiddling with registry keys with opaque names that you found on ad-laden webpages always feels a bit off (I'm thinking about trying to remove the "shortcuts" in windows 10's explorer, for example).

I'm actually quite impressed with some things available on Windows, especially the lesser known ones, but find it extremely frustrating that they're so hard to find out about.
Agree Win7 was the last usable. Ubuntu is great / fast but the UX feels like bad Mac clone, 5 years later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures
To be completely fair though, Excel on MacOS is truly not the same software as Excel on Windows; which you will notice very quickly if you're a power-user.

Excel on Linux doesn't exist of course.