skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For companies relying on investor money to stay afloat, yes. And not just in Europe, that goes for everyone everywhere.

If demand exceeds capacity, as was the case with VanMoof apparently, cash flow should be positive so. Any capacity incrwases, assuming there is real demand, are also finacable through traditional means.

Unless of course, you screw up your supply chain, as a manufavturing / hardware company cash flow is to a huge extent driven by that. And yes, at 4k a bike, a company has an easier time staying cash positive that at, say, 200.
Yep! SWIG with Python may be a poor use-case, but it worked really well for me with Java/JNI. This was 10 years ago though!
Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone
I worked in telecom in the 1990's. A politician made a big deal of lead from old home cables back then. My boss explained that the lead had leeched out already, and pulling up the cabled just disturbed / unearthed lead contaminated soil that was better left in place.

There is no non-manual-labor way to remove the lead contaminated soil with the cables. Any effective remediation will kill many workers.

The same was true of asbestos remediation. It was better to leave it in place, but that never stopped a well meaning idiot from contaminating a whole building pulling out perfectly safe and effective insulation.
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What is missing? A <marquee /> tag !
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WSL v1 hasn’t gone anywhere. It likely won’t until they fix the issues with v2 and VPNs.
EU: The shocking appointment of Fiona Scott Morton
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As long as they cache it so I only have to load it once ...
The "how to disable" would imply it is enabled (on) by default. So it is opt-out rather than opt in.
Right on. Though the safety features built in to modern cars these days are light years ahead of what they were back then. The primary safety feature of my 1960 MGA is a foam padded bar for the passenger to bounce their head off of during a front end collision. Whereas my 2013 G Wagen has front and side air bags, crumple zones, anti-lock brakes, collision avoidance and so on.

Relevant - Mercedes missed out on a $250k G Wagen sale because they build so much electronic crap into the new models that I personally cannot stand (like you!). I don't need a distracting touch screen or Alexa built into my car, thanks.
I think the meaning behind OPs words is that you find some type of startup who tend to pivot & circle around "hype tech", rarely managing to produce any product or service of value before pivoting to next hype bubble.
Reading this literally made me tear up. Sad for everyone involved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wEfqFoX-Q
Often also "started in python", then "some 3rd party library needed to add a feature is only available as C/C++".
We’ll refine detection is detecting when the market refine changes. But I assume you know that.

Typically you’ll run one set of strategies in a bull market for a given Security and another in a sideways market and others in a bear market.

Keep in mind different securities can be in different regimes at the same time.

And the market in general can be in a different return from individual securities.

To detect regime change you typically model it as a hidden Markov process.

For back testing we typical pre-label the data by the regime that we know the market was in because we have the benefit of hindsight:
I haven't watched beyond Jason Cammisa's videos but they feel as though they wink back to Top Gear with the May, Clarkson, Hammond lineup: a show meant to be a little crazy, something Michael Bay would approve of and easy to take what you want out of them.

In both cases though the presenting personality is key as they have interesting knowledge that they share in an engaging way; it might be childish but their excitement is infectious.
Search box, typed in Microsoft and scrolled through a week's worth of submissions.
AI Kryptonite
Concerning if the rep is correct. Hopefully they're mistaken.
what's the difference between onnx and ggml style?
It's not that peculiar when you consider who the Prime Minister is married to and her father's business.
It might as well mine some bitcoins while the GPU is not being used.

Perhaps we could have an ad-free internet after all.
> I wonder what would have happened if BASIC and Tiny BASIC had been based on another language

I have sometimes¹ wondered this about Forth and Occam; both of which were used by some microcomputers at the time.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17279025
It’s implied imo
Because much of Western Europe has a better social safety net (especially healthcare) than many other places, a lot of people seem to think that being out of work for an extended period really isn't a big deal.
It's funny you say that, because this specific site has images as the only children to the anchor HTML elements. Which renders the text mostly useless from an a11y point of view.

<font size="2">
<a href="dmg_base.htm">
<img src="dmgbase.gif" border="0">
</a>
<br>
Game Boy
</font>
UK Formally Pauses CMA Block of Activision Blizzard Acquisition
There's no DRM. That seems to be a recurring misconception here. It wasn't open-source or anything, but there were already third-party apps for the bike. It's more a matter of the parts that were proprietary (motor, battery, electric clutch) becoming hard to replace once they fail.

(As mentioned above, though, you'll need to download your bike's details while VanMoof is still alive in order to be able to connect third party apps to it.)
In particular the DATA (or BDAT) stage configuration; it runs a command and send the headers / data to stdin and receives back the modified message from stdout.

https://stalw.art/docs/smtp/inbound/data/#content-filters
> Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market.

I don't understand this headline, was it written by a bot?
WebCodecs, WebTransport, and the Future of WebRTC
0 to 3 would be a quat, 0 to 4 a quit, 0 to 5 a hext and so on.
BTW, I didn’t check every detail, but a card reader reading “up to 200 cards/min” sounded way wrong, as I recall it. And it is way wrong! The IBM 3505 could read up to 1200 cards/min.
You can't text on your phone while driving a stick shift.

As others have said, manual transmissions tend to make for safer drivers.
I wasn't born with it, but after catching Covid my sense of smell got for lack of a better term "muffled". Some things merged together. I could still "smell" shampoo and hand sanitizer, but they smelled identical to me and unlike either what they used to smell like or anything I could really place. There were quite a few times when I'd smell something and have no clue what it was because the scent was unlike anything I'd ever smelled before. During that time I was definitely self-conscious about how I might smell because I just couldn't tell.

Since then I think it's mostly recovered. Things smell how I think they should most of the time. But I always wonder if there's something out there that I'll smell completely "wrong" some day because the receptors for that particular smell just never recovered.
This comes from the same person who said

>This policy has created a lot of extra work, headaches, and overhead for more senior programers that have to support it. By my best estimate, less than 2% of our code is written by non-programmer programmers. Despite all this, I’m very glad we did it.

Does the author hold some resentment for senior engineers or something?

I wonder if other areas of the org were opened up to this behaviour whether the response would be the same. How about having the accountants doing some experiment design or have data analysts balancing the books?

It's an interesting idea and social experiment but somewhere in their organisation, someone is bearing the brunt of it (engineers by the sound of it), and that's a cultural deficiency caused by bad leadership.

I would like to have heard more about how that deficiency might be solved but the post seems hell bent on driving home a narrow, feel good, "anyone can do it!" message rather than exploring the idea meaningfully.
By what criteria do you judge the US to be "a pretty darn good place to live" compared to the EU?
Ads create more overhead to pay all the executives.

A miner would probably just generate enough work to pay the engineers and infrastructure.
Fastmail is still like 0.1% of users. If you're a "growth & engagement" company you're probably better off banning that domain wholesale and as a bonus will get rid of tech-savvy ad/tracker blocker users without making any impact to your target market.

The advantage of iCloud is that it's a domain laymen use - those same laymen the "growth & engagement" scum wants to track and spam. They can't just ban it wholesale without alienating a large chunk of their target market (and a pretty lucrative one at that, since Apple hardware is expensive).
fair point. maybe split income and shared expenses. i don't know. other people here seem to consider any form of a personal account to be split finances. my personal expenses usually come from my account and hers come from her account. so in practice it's hard to tell the difference. what is different is the attitude towards money.

that said, i made sure that my personal expenses were covered by my own income. my wife used to earn more than me so she covered the main living expenses and i contributed a bit. but when i replaced my broken camera or my old computer, it all came from my account. i didn't even discuss those significant expenses with her because they were needed anyways, and not getting them was not an option. i would have had to discuss it if i didn't have enough money myself but urgently needed it (though in those two cases i would have waited until i saved up enough).
Of course, if the average person is not 2x as rich in the US (or 0.5x as rich in the EU) then that would indicate this is a terrible measure for actual wealth. Let alone happiness etc. And that is the average person, since people naturally get richer as they age, any individual trying to decide needs to have gotten much much richer (4x plus) just to have gotten an average share...
I'm not a socialist but this seems like some weirdly bad faith train of thought no? With weird homogenising wording such as "the science of socialism" to be considered and discarded as a whole. How did it fail to predict these things or should be expected to predict these things?

Like are you talking about Marx who talked about capitalism in the context of western countries said capitalism was a necessary stage of development that brings about remarkable scientific and technological changes—changes that greatly increased aggregate wealth by extending humankind’s power over nature? Is he or his ideas the embodiment of this science of socialism or is it broader and how broad? Does it include critiques of the kind of economic determinism you have in mind? What did 'the science' say about the sino soviet rift, vietnam, etc?

Is the science of capitalism embodied in Adam Smith or some similar amalgamation of concepts? Did the science make predictions about Free State Congo, the republic of china and modern day US?
And I thought its just my ageing coming quicker to ears than rest of the body... same here, as a non-native EN speaker I can understand every word said in person regardless of whether its US bible belt slang, cockney, some Australians or kiwis, heck even fairly well scottish/welsh/irish (but there it depends how hard they try).

But watching any US movie and I have to either turn on subtitles or blast it so loud that some action scene will probably crack speakers or the wall, since I hate getting lost in plot.
Isn't Norway a massive producer of oil? And I think they're quite environmentally conscious. Also isn't Germany burning coal at record rates right now? I'm not totally buying the argument that Europe is just abstaining from easy production for environmental reasons.
Dealing with CVs without having a privacy policy will be an issue.

I would advice adding a privacy policy and terms pages explaining how do you use the data, are you keeping a copy? sharing it with 3rd party? what do you use to parse these CVs?
You posted this twice but i'll reply to the first one.

If you trust Microsoft to not send data you don't want to be sent why worry about telemetry and other potential spyware from them in the first place? You already have trust in them anyway.

But if you do not trust Microsoft to do that, then why trust their claims? They could be collecting a bunch more and if ever found they can claim that it was a bug like a bunch of other companies already did (e.g. HP having keyloggers on their laptops).
I miss the “Under Construction” banners. It was ok to tell your visitors your site was a work in progress! (Also you generally had to publish and debug live.)
I know, the last couple macbook lineups are crazy good again. Just when I thought I was out!
Genuine iPhone photo rejected by photography contest for looking ‘too AI-ish’
The point is that there is a semantic quibble about the word "Linux" in data gathering contexts.
Hah! I appreciate that. One question if that's okay. I notice a few comics refer to COVID though they seem to be dated pre-pandemic:

https://eddiots.com/344

I'm curious; how come?
For sound, dB is shorthand for dB SPL, or dBs above 20 μPa, which is roughly the threshold of human hearing. So 0 dB means 1:1 with that threshold, or essentially “silent”.

I think most people would intuitively conclude as much without knowing the specifics, so it’s not unclear or wrong to label this device as 0 dB (unless it actually does produce an audible sound, or course).
We’re not idiots, just people with communities and appropriate support structures in place that people like you threw out the window on the altar of individualism and shortsightedness. Modern therapists turn around and attack the same ideas that enable people to have and maintain those communities and structures in the first place while leading broken lives and peddling their sorry wares to other broken people they put there in the first place. You really think an institution that has been around for 60 odd years can compare to a stable equilibrium human society settled on for thousands of years? You really think your psychologist who listens to your minutia while “chasing a career” and having her kids raised by some people at a daycare really knows what she’s talking about? She’s just unwittingly making future clients.
Well, here they also don't know, but if a break in happens, they might check the lock and refuse to pay if it does not meet a minimum standard.
40 years of the Nintendo Famicom – the console that changed the games industry
That’s my point. It wasn’t a comment about economic merit. OP just listed things they don’t like.
All of your posts are fantastic. I’m amazed you have the patience for the data cleanup required for the plants finetune.

I remember wanting to do a Pokemon finetune (before such things were commonplace) and the dataset cleanup was the worst part. Stability issues and lack of decent multi-GPU setup being a close second.
Yeah, the submission IDs are all very close.
Just ignore them. I suspect they're adding them (to POSIX) for portability of historic software. Here is an issue tracker I've found (Haven't read through it; not interested): https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=986
Techno communism essentially. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". And just like that type of economic setup a handful of bros will reap the benefits - in this case sam altman's clique and others like them.
I guess, reading the linked article would explain this, it's what the article is about.

> We feel that a more accurate reckoning would be that Linux has now reached 7.23 per cent of Statcounter's usage figures, with ChromeOS at just over half: 57.4 per cent of the total.
they are not wrong, though. from my time in the US, unless you're lucky and decide to stay in a city with half-decent public transport, you NEED a car to get around. No busses, no trains, no trams, only ever-expanding highways and stroads.

these companies spent a whole century destroying public transport to sell more cars. they spend that century spreading propaganda about cars, bribing politicians (or lobbying as you like to call it), and completely redoing the entire infrastructure of a major world power for... more money. you cannot blame the people being exploited for having to buy into a system they cannot do without, in a country where public transport is just a hollow imitation of itself from the past. again, they spent trillions to get things how they are now! government propaganda since the red scare hasn't been as effective as this.
Sad news. I really wanted them to succeed. Their hardware engineering and design were top-notch. I test rode a VanMoof S3 three years ago and it was incomparable to other bikes. The integration of every single component into the frame and design was unparalleled, the smoothness of the automatic gear shifts felt magical.

But for me these features erred on the side of "nice-to-haves" and I ended up purchasing a "traditional" but more expensive e-bike that had the essential features I valued as a commuter (in New York); namely, more range for winter, more speed and torque going uphill, and a removable battery for carrying.

I had really hoped VanMoof could improve on these areas with newer models but it never happened. They continued to iterate on their strengths of beautiful integration using bespoke components, but didn't meaningfully improve any essential features at all. Currently, I have 3 commuter e-bikes in the family of different brands, drivetrain technologies, and price points. None come close to the level of polish and craftsmanship the VanMoof S3 had; if only it was better at being a bike.

Thinking more broadly about VanMoof's downfall, I think the commuter e-bike market might just too small and too competitive. Anecdotally, I still see about 10x more road bikes than commuter e-bikes today on the road, no change over the past 3 years, but the number of subscription e-bikes (citi bike) has skyrocketed.
Sorry but I don't understand your point.

ICE cars also need gas stations, also need to pay for their fuel and also get cold when it's cold yet we've managed to do just fine for a long time without screens or even smartphones.
While I prefer driving a manual transmission as well, modern automatic/DCT transmissions are much better at engaging gears quickly when you ask them to than they were even ten years ago. In my current daily driver, one flick of the downshift paddle and the car instantly shifts down.
All 20 deaths/day are attributable to delivery drivers?
Firstly, you are not user “pinewurst”, who equated my want for user-defined functions to wanting a borrow checker and lambdas. Secondly, you presumably wrote “business software” as an older, experienced, programmer? The difficulty arises when one has learnt BASIC as a young, new programmer, and has no conceptual framework of what abstractions are to help.
The article is about whether ChromeOS counts as a "Linux desktop OS".
> Having 4 independent adults in a 4 bed house is quite common

As it would be in Australia. But not 4 families!
On a similar note, I recall this research[1] from some years ago about how loss of smell was a strong predictor of death within 5 years in older people.

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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I have avid interest in this topic, so I clicked all your links, but I think your comment would be more helpful to the broader audience if you included some reference what those links were about, like this:

1. "OpenMoof: Keeping VanMoof Bikes Mooving" → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36769328

2. "Owners of troubled VanMoof e-bikes get their software keys from rival company" (arstechnica.com) → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36769299

3. "Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof bankrupt" (reuters.com) → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36768930

4. "VanMoof e-bikes is bankrupt" (theverge.com) → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36768703

5. "VanMoof Bankruptcy Statement in Full" (reprehensiblecunts.com) -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36768413
I have an analysis of cointegration between Bitcoin/Ethereum (in python) if folks are interested, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2022/02/09/cointegration-analysis...

This was over a year ago, so dynamics could of course have changed. But based on that analysis, BTC tended to lead ETH (Bitcoin goes up, ETH goes up). ETH up lead to BTC down though.

Not a trader, so don't take it as advice. Impressed by folks who beat the market, it always appears too volatile to me in my amateur stat modelling attempts to even kid myself.
> Wow so he was 74 when he wrote that answer

Actually, he was 64
I feel like this comment hits at the general discussion of "Why should I learn something which I won't be the best at?" and it applies just as well to maths, science and arts: you should learn it since if you really enjoy it then you can contribute by maintaining a healthy community around it; and this can mean really working on the community or just being a person who can understand the value of discoveries of others. Having a good audience is the dream of every artist and I think this applies quite universally.
SWIG was created 27 years ago. I've used it when it was the only game in town and I'm grateful for it. Now there are many other options, at least for Python. Use the one that suits you best.
Being able to substitute staff. If you can accept a contract and then send your next door neighbour to do the work then that is a strong signal that you are outside IR35.
The author used a deliberately confusing title to make the point that ChromeOS should be considered as a Linux OS rather than a distinct category. The actual stat is "Linux (excluding ChromeOS) has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market".
So far, I have done this mostly to integrate with existing C++ libraries that aren't available in python. For eg. to be able to use some Qt library...
Double checked with another one - same answer
My claim is it's not standard TLS or there's an additional layer (external encryption key) because an actual decryption of telemetry traffic has never been demonstrated.