skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also took everything that is wrong with bicycles and other e-bikes and fixed it.

Hopefully now someone comes along and merges the two approaches into an optimal balance.

I have a Vanmoof that I absolutely love and I’ve researched thoroughly but found no acceptable alternatives. So for now I’ll just keep using it and learn how to repair it myself when needed. And then hopefully someone comes out with a good replacement by the time it totally dies.
Everyone can learn to plant potatoes, doesn’t mean that supermarkets are pointless
>Software engineering must be the only profession where employment history means nothing

Nah, Artists have it the worst when it comes to that. Especially early on.

SWE's for the most part leverage titles and company names a bit too much IMO. No licenses + very little way to verify actual contributions = tons of potential false positives.

> interviewers always want salary history to knock you down.

That's pretty much every single job in the history of ever. if it's not a minimum wage job, they are trying to minimize your compensation somehow.
RISCOS was great, although slightly eccentric in a couple of ways:

- "we have a three button mouse, we're going to make use of all of them" as opposed to Apple

- instead of file pickers, saving was done by drag-and-drop: press save and a window pops up with the file, which you drag to a target folder.

The !Application system, an early bundle mechanism, was a simple and effective form of packaging without having to do anything fancy.
> My only hope is that this extreme enshittification of online images will make people completely lose trust in anything they see online, to the point where we actually start spending time outside again.

I'm in full-bore accelerationist agreement with this point. Defense lawyers must love this.
> but backups were wiped as well

Then they're not offline backups, are they? I know what you mean but backing up to a network drive with R/W is not a backup, it's a copy.
Preventing software piracy with crypto-microprocessors (1980) [pdf]
Competition.
Creating an innovative product using AI right now is too risky because of the competition. It is possible that you develop one thing and in 3 months 10 other people have developed the same thing.
> I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory

Yes but why North Korea? This sounds like US 3 letter propaganda from a decade ago

It would be China looking to Exfiltrate IP/Data as that data war has already begun. See : Azure keys.
Parol – Text-to-Speech for Esperanto via Polish
I would recommend using scrapy.
I find it easier to picture the universe as more of a growing network of connected things, rather than an object with strict internal or external dimensions. I don’t think it (or anything) is infinite, but it might as well be because it cleverly prevents all parts from interacting with each other at all times (due to limits on information processing capacity, if you want to get quasi-religious about it).
This statement get me every time I see it. Could just mean they weren’t logging anything so they have no evidence.
Can’t you just use a numeric combination lock?
When they were selling them between 3400 - 4000 it was going reasonable well for them & support, as well as customers being happy with them.

However they were selling them at 2000 in the end, they tried to also scale up production to support this. They seem to have failed at that stage in both quality and cutting costs.
I’m not. As I said, I’m feeding them beans. Low sugar beans if possible.

The point is that I want to be able to buy “food” without this garbage in it. It’s a pretty crap precedent to allow it in anything other than explicitly labelled “diet” food.
A quick note on the history of sketchbooks. Though artists have always drawn, it was the rise of the atelier system in France which saw sketchbooks become a thing. An atelier was a small private art school, usually run by an older experienced artist. The best ones encouraged young artists to find their own creative identity, and a part of this was going out into the wilds of the Parisian night life to draw direct from life. What distinguishes the drawings in a sketchbook from those done in a studio was that there was (and is) no need for sketchbook drawings to serve any real purpose of application. It was drawing for the hell of it... as an exploration of the world.
In Python every module is an object. It therefore makes less sense (in less situations it makes sense) to use classes, and a 'global' is a variable global to the module. It's like having a class, and calling attributes of the class 'globals', because they can be accessed by all methods of the class.

This and the fact Python is often used in the context of writing simple utilities, where globals (even without the defense above) are perfectly fine (because it's not a huge codebase with namespace collisions etc.).

Using absolute axioms like "globals are always bad" and religiously applying them is a toxic attitude in my opinion.
Well I don’t know who is going to tell them without a CTO, but the first and most important priority of IT is disaster recovery.
How is whole milk the only healthy type?
>Isn’t tobacco use trending down anyways?

Depends where you live. Visiting the US I don't remember ever seeing anyone smoking, but in Europe it's huge, especially in centra/southern/eastern Europe, including the Balkans where coffee and cigarettes are the staple of any nutritious breakfast.

I see plenty of teenagers smoking, plus on outdoor terraces and outside of offices, clubs, bars, even the balconies in my building, it's full of smokers.

Europe is a few decades behind the US on giving up smoking. Also, now the hipster thing is to switch to these e-cigarettes.
Well, yeah, the article also mentions that VanMoof wanted to be the "Apple of bicycles". "Normal" bicycles are made up of standard parts, kind of like an old-fashioned desktop PC: you can replace most of the components using just some simple tools. Of course they don't look elegant or sleek. VanMoofs are the equivalent of the highly integrated laptops or mobile phones with an iFixIt repairability score of 1/10.
yes it is. its just not a "do what you please with it" license, but you can still see and modify the source to your own liking
No doubt that is true, but to encourage people to cycle to work it's probably necessary to have a shower in the office - just to eliminate that as a source of anxiety.
> shitty laws don't deserve to be followed

You mean, you have to be ready to be punished for breaqking shitty laws just to point to their shittiness.
Machine learning is a useful technique. But that's all it is: a technique.

"AI" OTOH does not exist unless one adopts a strange definition of "intelligence".

An intelligent person can tell us how they arrived at a conclusion. "AI" cannot.

That's a massive timekill to (temporarily) "fix" when the conclusion is wrong. The process is a black box.

Even with old search techniques one can understand the process used to arrive at the results. When results are not what we want, we can understand why.
I believe cosmologists account for all of this. It takes about 13 billion years for space to expand enough to give the observed red shift. The distance between us is now greater than 13 billion light years.

Yes, there is uncertainty about the rate of expansion, with different techniques disagreeing. So none of this is fully settled. Which is very scientific!
I found some details about their financials:

> They show VanMoof had three major creditors. Lenders led by American venture capitalist TriplePoint lent VanMoof 77.9 million euros. The bike company owed 50.6 million euros to suppliers and other business partners. And it also had 15.3 million euros in tax debts, including 12.1 million euros owed to the Dutch Tax Authority.

https://nltimes.nl/2023/08/23/vanmoof-debts-144-million-euro...
Do a phd outside of CS
> I crashed a few times. You land on your feet.

I have one of those 'funny' interview stories where the candidate turned-up with large scrapes all over his face attributed to falling off a scooter which suggests your data-point-of-one is contradicted by my data-point-of-one.
Can you share details of your experience with org-jira? My question would be: Is it feature complete? Does it allow one to do everything one can do in browser Jira? Set custom fields, handle multiple boards and so on?
Yes. If you look at some of my other replies here, I am using this approach successfully in another project to do robust near duplicate image detection. So it’s also using high dimensional vector embeddings, but they are embeddings of images using ResNet-style vision models rather than text based LLMs.
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One of the official bike repair partners figured out a way to fix most things without official parts. He seems to be popular:

https://www.deondernemer.nl/innovatie/technologie/vanmoof-eb...

So seems like most Van Moof's can be repaired in the end.
These people genuinely care about their craft to the point they ask: what happened. They then look into it.

People who tend to care tend to talk about what they care about. So, you wind up getting a lot of blogs who sort of self select themselves to do this kind of stuff. And everyone feeds off that energy and gets better :)
Thanks. The issue is now fixed.
A lot of veterans of the industry are warning that the evolution of that industry is pointing towards the “electrification and car-ification” of bikes. Old bikes indeed remain user-serviceable, but few companies today have an interest in keeping it that way. Even if this company went bankrupt, a lot of companies are not, on the contrary, they seem to have a bright future.
Eh, standardization is overrated. Let me tell you about my new bottom bracket standard I've invented. It and it's wide range of variants will surely make things simpler.
>They're asking more how it would happen, less for what purpose.

open source projects in a relevant industry. IME it's never been required to have sample work to show off, but many agree that having some OS contributions or even small pet projects is one of the most valuable things to leverage, outside of actual work experience.

>The artist's history of work itself is how they get more work; the programmer's isn't.

No one is really going to care behind closed doors, but _technically_ there's plenty of concept/scrapped art owned by the company that they can't directly point to on their public portfolio. It's not quite as easy for artists either to show off what may have been their best work.
People have been having sex on naval ships long before there were women on them ... same goes with doing drugs.
While it is sad, I can't help but agree. I've spent many, many years working with Node and tried picking up Deno recently. The small cuts quickly add up where getting even some of the official examples to work takes effort because they're ever so slightly out of date and things have changed in the interim.
Firefox's earliest name was phoenix, and later firebird. I still miss the phoenix's yellow and red buttons.
You must live somewhere where it doesn’t regularly get over 40c
Indeed, and in a typically Welsh order, which puts the noun "damcaniaeth" (= "theory") first, followed by the adjectives.

I think the innovation is in finding the appropriate Welsh words to represent the concepts involved. I'd imagine that would be easy in many cases, but there may be other scenarios where several words could be used to mean the same concept, and the work is in choosing the most appropriate.

I mean, it happens in software jargon too: most of us have had to name objects <XYZ>Manager/Handler/Executor/Service/etc.
It is still flash. Appears they incorporated aflax, a "run most of flash in js" library. https://github.com/aptana/aflax
Sure there is, BSD is bad because xyz, GPL is bad because zyx. That said Llama restrictions are rather harsh and you are not allowed to improve other models with it. So no freedom there just some ok beer.
A computer is one of the most elegant tools out there. You get an insane amount of value for your silicon, and anyone could learn to fix them at home with very few tools. They were incredible machines.

Apple took everything that is right with computers - standardisation, interchangeability of parts, open access - and deliberately ruined it and hid everything behind a VanMoofy design sensibility. We will be happy to see that business model fail.
Depending on your city, there are ~~microworkshops~~ co-ops you can go visit full of troves of different second hand parts. You can rent some time there (~ 6 € for an hour) and they will give you all the tools you need to experiment and play with your own bike
Is it possible to find out how much sugar does a restaurant put in the food?

https://youtu.be/YUeEknfATJ0?t=42
We'll have Belters soon enough.
You haven't met me, then :-D I used to be quite fit and lean and I'd stil sweat at the first sign of physical activity.

On the other hand, if we're both stuck in chilly weather with just shorts, a t-shirt and an unlimited supply of calories, you'll probably be the first one to freeze to death :-p
> A true backup must be physically and logically separate.

That doesn't stop it from being targeted by hackers. No amount of hindsight will save your backups unless they are in an offline cold storage somewhere protected by men-at-arms.
Glad bower exi... wait, does bower still exist? Why?
Open source is both a colloquial term for available/modifiable/distributable code (like Llama2), and a strict OSI-approved list of licenses. I'd say opensource-ish is a great fit here.

Edit: this is in fact fairly interesting discussion because LLM is a new breed of digital products. Meta's terms are practical for limiting the usage for commercial applications, and they are designed to protect the general population. It's not the worn out "protecting us from ourselves", its actually preventing Llama users from harming non-users. Yes, we can be jaded and say it's about protecting the brand and dissociating from bad actors. My point is that it's hard to apply usual arguments for open source and freedom of computing, when you're defending rights of people who want to harm other people.
>>in Norwegian

The text is in Danish, since it is a Danish company. Norwegian and Danish is close, but some words have totally different meanings
https://www.vanmoof.com/blog/en/ride-the-future-e-shifter

That thing seems a bit delicate/fragile for a bike.
> The wastewater will then be subject to the ocean currents, so the actual effect would be inconsistent and delayed (up to 10 years, according to simulations).

Do you have a source for these simulations?
My Wife has a Giant/Momentum Vida E. It's really great, everythings so simple for an Ebike.
From your own link:

> Although it is usually assumed in the literature that a flat or negatively curved universe is infinite, this need not be the case if the topology is not the trivial one. For example, a multiply connected space may be flat and finite, as illustrated by the three-torus.
Not the same mechanism but another simple single-motor/continuous-motion walker in lego https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt2DszsjmQM .. The guy has a couple other walkers..
Online mirrors are fine if they have boundaries that make them very certainly append-only.

Opening up scp/rsync and saying "our client only writes new files" is bad. Using a dedicated stream-writing interface over TLS is probably fine.

As for the other attack vector: segregating the admin credentials so that the stream-writing interface cannot be bypassed, yeah, fun. 2FA only gets you so far.
Tobacco companies are shifting to emerging markets. India, Indonesia.
Not only that, the quality of parts was also subpar. Considering several years of warranty, that costed them too much. Almost all my friends owning it had to visit the repair shop due to major failures.
As a Dutch person, this seems wrong. Only one office building I've ever worked at in my life provided showers for employees, it's quite rare to see. And it would be seen as quite unusual for people to shower when they get to work.

It might be a lifestyle thing, but sweating is not really an issue. Like, a lot of people in this country have been biking their way to school and/or work their whole life, they can handle a leisurely pace on mostly flat terrain without sweating. Biking around like that is not exercise to me, it's relaxing.
They do, quite a bit.

Just check the number of comments with /s at the end.

People sometimes even say "you forgot to put a /s" or the like, in reply to an obviously sarcastic comment.
Biggest red flag for me was one I pretty much was aware of before I went in.

I can't remember if it was through a third-party recruiter or direct to the company, but I was fairly desperate for a sysadmin job, and I might have been out on the streets already at that point. I strolled on down to see this place, which was nestled behind a Motel 6 and a future mental health clinic; charming neighborhood.

I met the HM and I swear to god that he was a dead ringer for an old boss I'd had years ago. Once I got over that shock, we had a little chat, and along the way of course, he said "you know that we're the biggest service provider to the pornography industry?" and I said "yeah" and he said "you don't have a problem with that?" "nah... [I NEED THIS JOB NOW]"

I didn't get the job of course, but I really dodged a bullet, and definitely did not need something like that in my past or on my résumé.
Even Hashi no longer considers it an open-source license. What other argument do you need?
Don't know about Belgium, but there are no Dutch regulations requiring showers in office buildings[1], unless the work environment is exceptionally warm, dirty or involves dangerous chemical/biological products.

The average (non-electric) city bike speed here is probably around 10-15km/h, which makes a bike commute not any more strenuous than a literal walk (not jog) in the park. Nobody here expects people to shower after a walk. Of course it also helps that the country is very flat, the climate is mild, and cities are compact.

[1] https://www.wolterskluwer.com/nl-be/expert-insights/as-a-cli...
While I agree it’s probably a good idea to avoid instinctual aversion in many things, I believe some things in life are too sacred to rely on “data”. Some things we just know to be true, and have to trust that whatever story data might tell isn’t a story we’re interested in.

Keep in mind that science can tell any story you want it to tell as long as you interpret the data in the way you need. That’s why some things, such as our children, cannot be left to slippery slopes such as this.

We’ve already got more than enough data proving that pornography is absolutely destructive and a net negative on all of humanity. I don’t think we need additional data to prove that bringing kids into the mix would somehow make it better.
Or they are also known as bicycle co-ops.
Greetings fellow Monad.
> Did everyone just adjust their CRT so the image would fill the 4:3 even if it distorted the image?

Yes? I never saw a "letterboxed" CRT. I think I'm with the people who are suspicious of the Windows 1.0 screenshot. Is there an emulator somewhere we can check with?
The first step is to take responsibility and not to victim blame. American counter-intel would be livid about this kind of thing. Sure it happens but attitude counts for alot and counter-intel in Germany just seems like they have alot of ownership and Esprit de corps.
> extremely simplistic

In this case I'd take "extremely simplistic" any time over well-balanced-through-slightly-more-complex-set-of-rules. Thing is, the rules will be gamed in the long run, period.

Simpler rules would eventually allow consumers to easily determine how are they being cheated.
There's also https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill and https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces depending on which parts of retool and tooljet you care about.
Calling a language that is spoken by hundreds of thousands of people "almost dead" is a strange claim. A quick search suggests Welsh is in the top 7% of languages spoken worldwide.
I think you're moving goal posts here.

Do I trust TMZ if it tells me to do all my life savings into dogecoin? No. Do I believe if it tells me Michael Jackson has passed away? Absolutely.

There is nothing actionable for me with a celebrity's death but I'll take TMZ's word for it until proven otherwise and even then I'd expect tmz to publish a swift retraction.

Whether gen z trust faceless corporations I don't know but as a millennial, I know that it isn't a dichotomy. It isn't like faceless equals untrustworthy and a face equals trustworthy. I'm sure we have all listened to our CEOs and senior leaderships lie / "bend the truth" even when they know we know the truth. The only thing I'd like to urge and caution against is we don't continue the vilifying of future generations like the boomers did to us.
> not worry about optimising the stuff that happens under the hood.

no one is asking you to do this optimization all the time. But you need to know what and how, if you were to be tasked. Then as you get more senior, you will have to also be able to judge whether it is possible, or worth the effort to devote to the optimization, should a scenario arises.

> second guess the compiler.

you aint second guessing it, you're examining the output, and understanding it. Then potentially recognizing when or if the compiler is outputting bad stuff. That's not second guessing.
Yamaha engine, legit!

Bosch, Brose, Yamaha, Bafang, Shimano.

Probably the safe bets when looking for a ebike (check for local repair shops to be sure).

Shimano Nexus 7 internal gear hub, super solid.

Yup, looks like a great commuter bike build!
It is perfectly legal for compelled speech to exist in business activity, and is well within the interstate commerce clause.

As one of those evil American conservatives, I'm perfectly okay with targeted compelled speech in business activities, such as requiring marketing to be truthful.
Not sure shutting down nukes and extending the life of coal power plants (or going all-in on Russian gas) was great for the air or water.
Obviously it is not a big secret, or a secret at all, as this is not the first article about it which was submitted.

I have seen this story spun this way over the last days and I ask myself : why is it spun this way?
> Now can I have just a safe C without all the other stuff, pretty please? :)

Not sure how much we could remove from Rust while keeping the problem tractable. The borrow checker is needed for compile time memory safety sans garbage collection. For borrow checking to be tractable, one needs shared references, exclusive references, owned values, the possibility for reference counting, and the possibility for interior mutability. This mandates smart pointers, that pretty much mandate generics. These various abstractions also mandate a capable standard library, unless the language would hardcode all these abstractions, which would endanger the low-levelness of the language (since you wouldn't be able to implement your own abstractions for e.g. embedded contexts)

For the demarcation between unsafe Rust and safe Rust to work, one needs encapsulation, so field privacy.

For concurrency, the language requires a way to mark types as thread safe, which requires a way to say things about structures, so a least a weak version of traits.

A smaller version of Rust probably exists, but I don't think we could remove as much of the language as we could imagine at first without compromising safety. It also wouldn't be "just a safe C", because C itself has heaps of accidental complexity (e.g. the way function pointers are declared, integer promotions, implicit conversions, the antiquated textual inclusion compilation model that is prone to ODR violations and complicates build systems, array decay, and so on...) that would need to be removed.
windmill.dev got linked in the Bun release thread earlier, and I think that looks promising. Haven't tried it yet.
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