skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm responding to a (one of the many) cases of people being strangely upset and irrational about a simple fact about the US doing better in this one metric recently. There is no "opposite" about it, I never said it does not happen the other way around, I'm questioning why it is happening this way around in this thread. And again that is making people upset and bringing up other unrelated things, which is quite ironic really.

If it happens both ways then it doesn't matter why, it's a kind of passive aggressive question then? You know that many people don't like America and it's way of operating, which IMO is about maximizing profits and throwing people under the bus to do so. No great national doesn't offer world class free healthcare, sorry. But that is the challenge of our time and we in the USA have failed. We have also failed, very ,very hard leading the world through climate change, so we're just a bunch of rich people with no leadership strength now.

Personally I think it's sad that so many "educated and enlightened" people are okay with making vile accusations and generalizations about others they know nothing about.

Regardless of any of your accusations, being that I'm some kind of generalizing monster, there is no place on earth that worships money like the USA. Sorry but that is just how it is. I've never experienced anything quite like it. Money is the religion. That's why we're having a GDP party.

I know a bunch of Americans and almost all are warm, friendly, generous. Some very driven, very few who struck me as being all about money. I feel sad that many have been to feel ashamed of themselves by this kind of casual bullying.

So do I, but I guess you're also generalizing that most Americans are lovely, because I know many that aren't. Saying this, Americans aren't any nicer per-capita than anywhere else in the world. There are nice people everywhere and there are dicks everywhere.

The problem with America is it's politics and the access lobbyists have to politicians. I think Americans are probably too nice and too gullible to see the situation improved.

Lobbying is a fairly unique problem in the US which causes things like mass shootings at schools to happen. The NRA makes sure everyone has guns (for example).

I don't quite understand what you're getting at. You're upset by the fact that the US economy measured by GDP grew much faster than the EU recently, but you take comfort from the fact that China manufactures a lot of things that other countries buy such as medical equipment and there were shortages of various goods during Covid. I don't know what to make of that but I'm sure there's some interesting psychology behind it.

Again, you're making accusations now. I don't take comfort in it, but I am saying it's important to be humble. I think boasting is a major character floor and again, had China decided not to send supplies, America would've been quite screwed. So yeah, let's be humble no matter how big our GDP cock is.
I own one of these. It would be very, very nice if the app got opened up for existing bike owners.
Most AI startups, whether they know it or not are following a methodology that I call:

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Entrepreneurial Startup System (A.I.M.L.E.S.S).

In this methodology, all startups create the same basic four products:

- 1: an AI logo generator

- 2: an AI avatar/profile generator

- 3: an AI pretty picture maker

- 4: an AI thing that lets you be a lazy writer

The first to market makes $100,000 in a month then joins the rest in making nothing, whilst loudly complaining that everyone copied their idea.

Then, just like Web 1.0, the founders throw up their hands and go bust, declaring that “there’s no way to make money from AI”, and shut down their companies, only to be startled when five years later someone comes up with the AI equivalent of Facebook and everyone kicks themselves for not seeing the opportunity earlier.
Windows 10 came out 8 years ago.
There’s a real potential market in AI driven support bots, but time will tell if they catch on or are just fads. “Things people have to do but don’t want to do” is an area to keep an eye on.
Yeah. Unfortunately high RAM - no strike that; reasonable RAM laptop is hard to find at reasonable prices. And by the time FrameWork or something like that reaches my corner of geography I think it’d have been too late for me to try those things.

There was sale recently in my country across online retailers like Amazon. There was decent discount on 8GB one, but the 16GB one? It’s not even available. It is never available with retailers.
I have no idea how their business works internally, but it's very easy for physical goods vendors who extend into supply chain verticals to end up with all their capital tied up in hardware.

Not being able to ship due to a missing critical piece (in this you could see a situation where they have everything ready and in storage but waiting on battery supply) is a real problem and can leave your business functionally bankrupt (zero liquid capital) while having lots of assets.
If that was true, then why are there movies/series created solely for streaming providers?

It can't be there sole reason, and I sincerely doubt it's even true. Sure, the price of a single DVD would've covered the price of 1-2 months of streaming on Netflix, but people didn't buy a DVD each month. And if they did, they lent it to friends after.
Four initial thoughts:

1 - How does this differ from feeding ChatGPT your CV content, and the copy from the job posting?

2 - To that point, $2 is a high bar given there are no samples, examples, success stories, etc.

3 - I'm not being a nit-picky critic. I'm legitimately trying to help.

4 - Being able to generate a targeted (to the posting) CV *and* a cover letter...now that might worth rolling the dice and wagering a couple of bucks.
This is pretty nearly what the lower trim Chevy Bolt is. Of course, GM recently decided they needed to stop selling it this year so they could push the more expensive Blazer and Equinox..
I may be missing something here, but isn't the Miata the MX-5 in some parts of the world and vice-versa?
I don't think this is the right way: interop with the C ABI, and for the hercules who want to do that with c++, should be native to such programming languages, not from a project on the side.
I think the space of DQ is pretty competitive.

Theres datafold [1], databend (acquired by ibm), atlan, greatexpectations to name a few, doing very similar things.

Just looking at the video I could not figure out what's differentiated. I hope you have success in the space.

[1] https://www.datafold.com
https://pypi.org/project/cffi/
The S3 was the real problem.

VanMoof released the VanMoof S3 in 2020, which was €2000 (the predecessor was close to €3000). The S3 sold very well because of its low price and great design, but its build quality was really subpar. In fact, insiders say around 10% of all S3 bikes had defects that required repairs (note that 1 - 2% is standard for a typical bike model).

So in the end, VanMoof sold many cheap bikes which was great for their market share but not so great for their margins. Then, on top of this, they had to repair many of the bikes they sold which ate into their margins even more. Lastly, because of supply chain issues, they weren't able to offset the repair cost by fixing the S3 issues and quickly selling many proper units to new customers.
For static linking quite possibly, although you could still have un-optimizeable sources of overhead because of having to indirect through pointers everywhere, for instance in nested structs. Something like a->b->c->d is going to be more expensive than a.b.c.d, for instance.

I'm also not sure that dynamic linkers are typically smart enough to do this type of optimization, but I admit that I'm not familiar with the state of the art in dynamic linking technology.
Very true! Though the dividing line between purely directional, and something against something else is unclear. Every price is against something else, in some sense.
> Strings in C are 0-terminated char arrays

To be pedantic, they're pointers to char. Nothing more. Calling them array confuses non-C coders. The length is just an unenforced contract and has to be passed.
So, what's so special about this answer? Seems like a pasta, replace "mathematics" by {SUBJECTNAME} and you get yet another popular idea of the day. Startup founders, for one, having been claiming they are "contributing to humanity" for ages now.
Brain prefers longer lines with less next-line jumps, but people are used otherwise, so they overwork their brain while trying to keep their eye muscles happy.
Getting Started with Rust and WebAssembly
It’s true that a driver who cares about their car may be using it better and safer, consistent with my argument above, so perhaps I am incorrect, who knows. (Although I believe larger SUVs and trucks are more deadly if they run into people.)

On the other hand, I know for a fact that there is so much more noise specifically from showoff cars (and motorcycles, but mostly cars). Not all showoff cars do it, but almost all cars that do it are showoff cars. Not sure about their brands, because I just hear the noise which you can’t really escape from. As someone sound-sensitive, this caused me countless anxiety waves, which I reckon is consequential for health.

Also, I have seen many examples where drivers of more expensive cars force pedestrians (and other drivers) to yield, bending rules in ambiguous situations, but I am not prepared to say whether I have perceptual bias on this (and in which direction).
You could start by valuing it at the price someone would pay for it, plus the price the worker would have paid for that many hours of hands-on education.

This isn't totally farfetched: in some countries if you own your house you pay tax on the rent you would have paid to yourself [0]. Taxing someone for feeding or educating himself seems like a small and natural next step.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_rent
How well do they conduct? At the moment aluminium is kind of the "sweet spot" between weight, cost, and conductivity.
This was the reasoning my friends parents gave for getting her older sister a stick shift. After driving stick a while it just becomes habit. You don't even think about it. Though i do prefer being able to drop down a gear for extra acceleration on the highway, rather than waiting for the automatic transmission to figure it out and change gears 20 seconds after i needed it.
I think this is a pretty good illustration of why incumbents are likely to capture much of the value though. Some simple scripts using OSS libraries can do some pretty amazing stuff you'd have previously needed advanced research teams to even attempt.

So the majority of the value gets captured not by companies focused on writing new components that nobody else can match, but by the incumbents with the wealth of proprietary data to feed into the components, or the infrastructure to run the more infrastructure-dependent models at scale, or the customer base to milk for AI-enabled versions of their existing product or selling AI consulting services.

Don't get me wrong, it is cool for indie game developers to be able to procedurally generate NPC conversations. But indie game developers are not likely to capture more value from being able to generate stuff very easily than Microsoft.
> Nowadays most websites are cut from a template which is as boring as design can get.

We need to be efficient, please. Who cares if everyone is using it. Faster we tick all the boxes, the better. So we can get a new sheet of unticked todo list. /s.
Good fucking riddance. The games are probably the most high profile Commonwealth event. Once they're completely scrapped, it'll be easier to kill off the Commonwealth altogether.
My knowledge is a bit weak but aren't there non-analytic ways to model turbulence? "Analytical" isn't the whole of maths.

(I might not have a clear understanding of what "analytic" means so please correct me if I'm talking hogwash)
Why, if I run with musl and MIT/Apache userland, eg. rust replacements for coreutils, it's not Linux?
If you sell it to EU customers then I guess EU laws? If to China, Chinese?
At least some of these ai produce things of value. web3 startups only produced fake value for as long as the ponzi kept running
This has nothing to do with Linux, but with quality of firmware in embedded controllers combined with laptops with internal non-removeable battery.
This is probably a controversial opinion with those who've splashed out on one of them, but they essentially signed up for this to be e-waste as soon as it was no longer supported.

They might argue that the hardware is still perfectly capable, and I would agree, but this happens in other industries too, mobile phones, Sonos speakers, Wifi routers, and all sorts of other tech.

Anyone who buys anything that relies on the manufacturer's services to maintain the devices functionality signed up for this, whether they knew it or not.

In the home automation scene, many go out of their way to avoid devices with cloud services, or opt for devices with robust local APIs; those APIs may be removed at a later date, there is a real risk (See Google + Nest), but that's a risk they take.

I hope VanMoof, if necessary, will open up the local API, and given the money potentially available from owners, someone comes along and provides a suitable service, for a sustainable fee, which I assume buyers can afford, to maintain the functionality, and not relegate all of these bikes to the rubbish dump.
Who said anything about losing jobs here? Joblessness is exceedingly low.
That's been corrected. Saw this come across the log about 13 minutes ago.
It's a thought provoking question isn't it. We just take it for granted.

We can think of AI as the quest for a computer program that is a complex adaptive system that can exchange information with us in an anthropomorphised manner.

LLMs are much closer to such a technology than a program that can optimally play a board game by evaluating each position and pruning its model accordingly.
>How does it compare to the mysql one or MS sql server management studio for that matter?

It dosent compare, but then when working with php and mariadb you dont often use the advanced/esoteric features you have in SQLserver

>Wamp installer is windows specific but i'd assume you browse to find the download for it, etc or use winget or chocolately instead of sudo install xyz, etc so i fail to see the advantage there?

Well there is less configuring with wamp and there are gui tools to manage things, installing the services in linux and setting them up is always a bit more work. I have never tried xampp in linux so it might be equal there.

>There's a reason people jokingly call it microsoft java. The second half might be mischaracterizing it on many fronts but the first half is true to form. I'd argue it as an argument in this matter is similar to bringing up the best platform for developing with Swift.

It being an complete integrated package from the OS to the IDE is the best feature about dotNet. You can look at it the same way as "the lisp machine" but with better third party software support. I guess swift has the same benefits, altho when i tried it the tools where not really up to the same standards as visual studio.

I have yet came across a language platform i cant develop with ease on windows. Also these days with tech such as docker etc there really are no boundaries.
That doesn't make up half of the desktop marketshare of Linux-based operating systems.
A more conservative, but less entertaining and less poetic model is:

You lucid dream when your "explainers" and "predictors" are operating on the random feedback and subtle noise that's present while your mind is defragging and moving data from short term to long term memory.

Random noise, with low signal, fed into something that is trained to fill in details kinda explains how Gen AI works, up to a decent approximation.

Your mind has a lot of these predictors and detail fillers. All those are trained on your experience. I think dreaming is either tweaking those predictors and you get to watch, or it's in fact a junk signal you're not supposed to be able to see, but you happen to be kinda awake enough to form memories from it.

Using words like "wake up" imply deeper and darker depths to these networks that I doubt exist.
How Does a CTO Know When They Need a Coach?
Basically. It is conserved for the purpose of conservation where change is not desirable.

These outdoor museums are actually preserved villages where people live in these old conditions because they feel good that way. Somehow like today's Europe. Progress is limited and regulated or stopped.
Rival ebike maker Cowboy is making an app[0] that supports some VanMoof bikes and they say it will support more models in future. Meanwhile, you can download your bike's encryption key and passcode from this other website[1].

It appears likely that as long as you have this info, third-party apps like Cowboy's or others will be able to work. But getting the info relies on VanMoof's servers being up, so if you have a VanMoof bike I recommend downloading yours ASAP just in case.

FWIW, I have been using a VanMoof Electrified X2 in Tokyo for about 4 years. Great bike, but glitchy software. The bike plays sound effects like "unlock" at random inappropriate time, and the app on the phone frequently displays useless/incomprehensible alerts.

But one of the good things about VanMoof is that they have an API that already somewhat supported third party apps, like this one[3].

So I think as long as you save your bike's encryption key and passcode, you're good. I don't think your bike will be bricked after that. (But it could be otherwise, because those details are needed for a non-VanMoof app to control the bike, and if VanMoof disappears AFAIK there is no way to get them after that.)

[0]: https://bikey-app.cowboy.bike

[1]: https://keyexporter.grossartig.io

[2] https://moofer.app
> that this skill is marketable

That's the hardest part to me. How do I know that? Looking at others consultants?
When my wife and I first started dating I bought her a bunch of expensive stainless steel cookware from a restaurant supply store, that we still have. I recently pondered switching to induction, and went around doing the 'magnet' test on things, only to find that those pots and pans are likely not induction compatible.

So the conundrum is... toss the pans I gave my wife over 20 years ago? Or just stick with electric burners.
I can see that the system is messed up, but it also just seems like a lot of rich people yelling at other rich people. I can't seem to find any sympathy for the strikers.
Just in case this puts anyone off motorcycles:

- Uphill starts are easy compared to a manual car as you operate the rear brake and accelerator using different parts of the body

- Stopping facing down a slope requires the use of the brakes and a supporting foot, same as a bicycle

- Getting off a bike facing down a slope typically is done by leaving it in gear which keeps the back wheel locked

- OP is correct that some forethought is required on very steep or highly cambered surfaces when leaving a bike to ensure it is stable on the side stand
I'm familiar with Iocaine Powder. The fact that it won an internet Roshambo competition doesn't mean that it's the dominant strategy. If the opponent knows what move Iocaine Powder is going to play, the structure of Roshambo tells us that there's always a move that beats it. If it is not performing well, then it falls back to completely random. Completely random is a perfectly reasonable thing if you're in a Roshambo contest, not so much if you're trading money because transaction fees will eat your profits.
If you see poor behavior in the project, call it out. I would personally be interested in being made aware of it to help eliminate it, but the moderation team[1] exists specifically to deal with this.

1: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/moderation
A few notes

We normally use ordinary least squares when we do the linear modelling. Maybe they are and I can’t read the Julia code.

Also they aren’t adjusting their closing prices do dividends as far as I can tell.

Nor are they taking dividends payments into account at all as far as I can tell.

They did get the shift from daily to hourly right when they went to their crypto example so good for them. They are ahead of most day traders there:)

Also no work in the hurst exponent to figure out the reversion time frame

Also no modelling on how each pair will fit into your portfolio composition and if you can get borrow, which you certainly can in this instance, and trading fees.

Also they skip regime detection, which is determining what regime the market in general is.

Lots of pairs only work in up or down or sideways markets and you’d want a different ratio for each. And you’d want Tom look at how your pairs works in each market regime. I find this to be the most important piece and. You never seen pairs tutorials take this into account.

Probably because you his is the hard piece that makes you money.

This is why pairs are thought to trade. This link is the star arg 101 tutorial that is in 50 different places in the internet but it doesn’t show any of the actual meaningful work you need to do to trade pairs.

Other missing pieces are leg sizing, how long you let a leg hang, how many legs do you out out, portfolio composition, dynamic hedge ratio calculation,market regime detection.

It shows the easy piece that you can code up in an afternoon.

And now I feel like I’ve shit all over this poor kids project. It’s well done and covers the 101 issues with a few pretty large missing pieces that I’ve pointed out
Well the decision above shows that it's possible.
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More than a nightmare, just look at their website.
I especially liked this comment that proposed that this answer be called Thurston's Paean:

> This seems like an ideal counterpoint to Hardy's Lament. I'm calling it Thurston's Paean :). Seems poignant now that he has passed. --
Suresh Venkat (Aug 22, 2012)

I agree. I have now dedicated a page to Thurston's answer at https://susam.net/maze/thurstons-paean.html hoping that it'll make the term Thurston's Paean slightly more popular.
But, won't most anything startups be out of business in 3 years?

Data from the BLS shows that:

"approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more."

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1010/top-6-reaso....

Purely guessing that startups fail even faster. This Hubspot article states:

"All these reasons bring up one question: How many startups fail? The reality is that 90% of startups fail."

https://blog.hubspot.com/the-hustle/how-many-startups-fail#:....
Less interesting, yes.

Less appealing and useful, absolutely no. Look at how the midjourney sub grew. It was ultra niche when it was v3 'dream scenary'. Its mega popular with v5 'ultra-realism'. Art involves technical execution, significantly so, not just 'artistic expression'.
I think he meant clickbait misinformation, not foreign funded one.
Chrome used to have native support for Keychain back in the day when it was still growing. Then suddenly they no longer needed that feature. Glad to see this is coming back in some capacity.
How to Manually (On Paper) Calculate a Bitcoin Public Key from a Private Key
Wow. Imagine having to update your linux/bsd kernel after a bios update.