skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More anecdotal data. I ride with a group of retired folks. About 60% of the 75+ year olds ride eBikes. Riding an eBike enables them to continue riding with the group. We've got several couples where one rides a regular bike and the other an eBike so that they can keep up and not be completely worn out on longer rides.

My wife and I did a bike tour in southern France last year. She rode an eBike and that made the hills (and riding into the Mistral) doable for her.

My father got an eBike at 80 years old and rides it for most errands in his small midwest town when the weather allows, including grocery shopping.

So I can easily understand that eBikes can lead to more miles ridden.

My anecdotal data does not back up the claim that eBike riders log more miles than non-eBike riders. But we've got some exceptional older riders in our group with several logging 7000+ miles a year and one that logs 17,000-18,000 miles a year.
He does get cited sometimes, but yeah. I don't really understand his thinking on AI, it's either not internally consistent or it is but he represents it wrongly for some reason.
My specific problem involved options trading, raising margins and enabling weekly options on my account. And there's no way the stupid chatbot can solve it for me. I always was able to have my issues fixed in a matter of minutes when dealing with a human operator on this specific fintech. Now it seems my use case it too niche for them to give a flying fu#k about my problem. They will probably lose me as a client, and I'm pretty sure I'm in the top 10%, maybe 5% of their clients in terms of funds alocated. If they are willing to alienate a guy like me, what chance does a small client have to talk to any human being on this company?
Understanding user participation in online communities
Why didn't they propose a WHATWG draft for type=switchbox instead?

This kind of shit is why web tech is in a messy state. Remember how we got there, and WebKit behaving like Trident isn't helping anyone.
I still like the earth date approach the most: exactly 4 weeks, 28 days a month, 13 months a year and 1 or 2 special earth dates to celebrate depends on whether the year is a leap year or not.

Very neat and perpetual :D
Even if you could be acknowledged it would be meaningless in the sea of a million attributions. It's really a problem that needs to be solved at the scraping step I feel. That the internet is "public" and thus scraping it is fine has always seemed a little bit too generous to me.

It's my work, on my server, I allow people who want to look at it do so, I never said OpenAI the company was free to connect to my sever and scrape it.
That's about a different, less specific meaning of 'look up table' (vs. 'LUT')
What is the standards story for this? Is this Webkit only?

There's a mention of pull request to standards (repo?) but that is curiously not linked to anything.
> Just looked at the prices. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck quacks like a duck...

fees to sell on amazon are very high.

clothing is specially expensive with referral fees of 17% plus per unit fixed fees for shipping and returns.

on low price products these fixed fees are specially onerous. on a $15 product all fees could be 2/3 of the price.

so shein could sell you something for $6-8 and get as much as they would by selling it on Amazon $15.

that said, amazon will start lowering clothing fees in april. who would have thought that some competition would be good for customers.
This indeed the problem. I -love- ice-cream. I'd happily eat it every day. As a child I looked forward to growing up, and being able to.

Now I'm in a place I could afford to do that, but alas, my metabolism can't keep up with the calories. (Sigh).

If I buy it, I eat it, so I don't really buy it anymore. But at least I indulge on special occasions, and even more occasionally make a batch of my own.

Sure, I'm a lot thinner now, which is great. But ice-cream will always be my first love.
Widen it to a datatype it does have, like int8.
I got a giggle out of it!
Why don’t you just say explicitly what you’re trying to imply and save everybody the bother of guessing.
This feels like guerilla marketing. Cutout was "launched" via a Show HN in 2021, but that user has been quiet for 10 months.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26884376
WhatsApp has made a major change to the app and users hate it
90% of business activities are generic, duplicated effort. Engineers, product managers, marketing directors, and executive oversight are just about the only essential, less replaceable functions.

A common failure of most businesses is when they become a pyramid-building enterprise with the inertia of an aircraft carrier powered by oars.

Small teams of can get shit done-ers should expand slowly with continued success, and broken up before they get too big to stay nimble with the support of a common platform of business functions. Virgin Group was the best example of this.
Well, the Italian Post is already famous for opening people's mail and taking goods shipped through the mail for themselves.
New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches
The non-clickbait studies suggest that this is expected with planet formation.

What makes this one unique is that it seems to have avoided disruptive events. Intelligent design and aliens get the pop science web hits while unperturbed defaults do not.

"The current delicate configuration of the

planetary orbits in HD 110067 rules out any violent event over the billion-year history
...making it a rare “fossil” to study migration mechanisms and
the properties of its protoplanetary disk in a pristine environment."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17775
It's an equilibrium effect that occurs with at least one body is in an elliptical orbit. In this case it causes all the rubble particles to make their way towards the line of elliptical symmetry, but since its loose rubble (i.e. not enough gravity to maintain its shape), the individual rocks knock each other out of orbit. This is discussed in the video.
Doom used a lookup table for random numbers: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator
Nah, Hunminjungeum (The initial blueprint), which initially designed for phonetic alphabet did support differentiating those phonemes.

It's just until early 1900s that a "nationalist" (SiKyeong Ju) decided to use the "phonetic alphabet" into a primary writing system and revamped the system to be focused on words to be identifiable, rather than following the pronunciation.
hangul now is just like equivalent of using a modded Phonetics alphabet that made each words identifiable. It's not representing the actual pronunciation, nor the actual pronunciation of the word. That's also the reason why the hanja (= kanji or "Chinese characters" or whatever your country calls it) was around until late 90s.

If you think Korean grammar is crazy, It's all thanks to him.
WebSocket servers are just long lived HTTP connections after the "Upgrade" mechanism. So pretty much any modern programming language would do the trick.

I've made an extensive writeup of the WS13 protocol in case you want to implement it, with lots of example code:

[1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/implementers-guide-t...
Only the truly stupid would do this stuff under their real identities. Then again, a lot of OSS contribution is for ego anyway.

This came to a head when the PowerVR SGX drivers were leaked

...and some far-East modding communities managed to make unofficial Windows 9x and XP drivers using that. They will of course not tell you who they really are.
The big deal is that they are already cheap producers. Yet, they are lowering costs. Still, $2780 is a big deal on the lower end of the market.
I could ask you the exact same question.

Edit: Also, nice dodge.
> Many WhatsApp users opened the app this week to find that the color scheme has changed to green

I think it’s insane that now corporations are pushing arbitrary code to user devices, with blatant effects and no way to opt out. There is no decorum left.
China would be a much better place for that, and Russia probably a close second.
I appreciate your historical account but words have acquired or changed meaning frequently in the past ("hacker" or "cloud" just to name a couple of obvious ones).

There is a large number of people using terms like unit, integration, system or end-to-end to differentiate between different types of automated tests ran in an xUnit-style framework: why insist on not allowing the term to gain a new meaning?
Perpetual calendars are a bad idea because of skipping special days. How long until the next Thursday? It depends on if it is February or a leap year. Think of how complicated the logic will be to calculate the day of the week.

The point of weeks is to have consistent cycle that can organize life. Also, why is it advantage to have the same day of week for same day of year? I suspect most people would prefer that their birthday wander around instead of always on Thursday. Calendars solved the problem of figuring out the day of week, and computers make it even easier.
It is very much possible to mod unity games through the use of c# reflection. This, of course, is very hard, so libraries like harmony have been written, and are now packaged in launchers like Unity Mod Manager that you just point to a class to patch the loader in and off it goes. Also take a look a ilSpy for viewing decompiled c# from IL.

Unreal games are a tad harder but loaders do exist, the main problem is that they are generally compiled to machine code instead of Il, so you need to generate the symbols for that version of unreal engine yourself and thats not really fun.

Overall the recent trend of all games being either unity or unreal means that only 2 loaders need to be invented, and that's exactly what happened.
I think there's a big difference between "presenting a formula" and "presenting rules for doing calculations". People are very good at extrapolating complicated results from a few simple rules: that's why taking derivatives and doing (elementary) integrals is fairly easy and also fairly easy to remember a long time after you've taken a calculus course. On the other hand, a bunch of literal miscellaneous formulas is very hard to hold on to --- for instance that's how introductory physics is taught, a bunch of disjoint relationships that you have to make sense of in your mind to make any use of.

In fact all anyone really wants for vector calculus is a bunch of "tools" they can use that will generally give the right answer if applied mindlessly. I think that's why GA is relatively popular, because it says how to do basic geometric operations (rotations, reflections, etc) without any thought.
I'm not sure how it's not a checkbox though?

There are rendering differences. But it feels like the rendering fallbacks for non-supporting browsers (everyone else) should handle what they have here fine.
Do neither of these languages have better concurrency tools than porting FreeRTOS?
The control reflects how the equivalent of checkboxes look on mobile devices in native apps.

So this is a great way to get to use the same control as the rest of the OS uses without having to implement it yourself in CSS and JS. This means that as the OS changes, this control will adapt, including accessibility affordances like showing a 0 or 1 on the control to denote state.

I see why you don’t like the control, but this is what mobile OSes use (mainly because a checkbox the size required for a finger to hit comfortably would look ridiculous) and what users are now used to and what many websites in their mobile modes are emulating and not getting quite right.

Being able to have access to the native control is a huge benefit I think.
Same experience. It felt like the AI was trained on human agent chats but the agent actions were left out of the training.
Take their closed-source driver, run it through a decompiler and get an LLM to "understand" it, then write a "cleanroom" implementation? Might be one of the few good things this new AI stuff is good for.
Same here. I've sung with "respectable" choral groups and never even heard of this. I suspect it's kinda looked down on by serious musicians. But hey, people like it and that's all that matters. Even in my choruses, they gave us each a practice tape with our parts; so much for snobbery.

Ear training is really difficult if you didn't grow up with it. Some intervals are easy ("Here comes the bride" for a perfect 4th, "My bonny lies over the ocean" for a 6th. There are lots of apps to learn this. If shape notes help, hey.
As mentioned by others, OK idea, but not a fan that this isn't standardized. After a quick search+peruse, these seem to indicate that it's not around the corner either. Happy (/hope) to be corrected.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4180

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/990
Absolutely. Take any meeting link and add a random character and you’ll get a broken meeting link. You could do this with any meeting app.
I mean, yeah, but have you ever tried to follow a blood trail through thick brush in the dark?

I'm not fully disagreeing, but there's a distinction to be made. I can find my blind, my car, and maybe a carcass on a pristine forest floor on some pretty dark nights, but if that thing jumped into some greenbrier or other brush, good luck. It's hard enough seeing them in that stuff during the day, I've had multiple occasions where I walked by a thicket in the day only to see deer flush out after I'm past it.

Also, some people just can't see in the dark well, regardless of how well they see in the day.
These last years, France has been burning a lot more natural gas than before because a lot of our nuclear reactors are in maintenance, because so of them should have gone down for maintenance during COVID but couldn't, and then we had double the amount of reactors to turn off for maintenance. This is irregular, of course, but it still means we're not quite where we should be in terms of carbon.
Yes, this. I do support for programmers and regularly get examples showing problems. Occasionally these are written by non English speakers.

Obviously I understand the programming language part, but all the variables and functions are just "random strings". It's really interesting to me how much that affects my ability to read the vode and make sense of it.

Turns out when my teacher said "use meaningful variable names" that was good advice.

I'd add that if you're too lazy to do that, use pronounceable names. I have no problem with loop counters being x or y or whatever. Just don't make it gedoogenshcpekel.
https://www.texastribune.org/series/winter-storm-power-outag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
Choosing the Right AWS EC2 for Your Workload
Is there a polyfill available to make this available cross browser? that seems like an acceptable compromise, if we're going to normalize fragmenting the web.
Pedantic nitpick: it's not the dumbest possible multiplication; it's the dumbest possible bilinear multiplication. There are "freer" free products on vectors than tensor product; the freest possible one is their Cartesian product as sets, which just makes a tuple out of them ij = (i, j). If you regarded the resulting sets as a vector space, it would not be true that i0 + 0j = (i, 0) + (0, j) ≠ (i, j). The tensor product is the freest that is well-behaved as a vector space in the sense that it respects the underlying scalar operations from its arguments.
> Hydrogenated oil milk solids and sugar?

Is that really a thing? I can only speak for here in the US, but all the normal whipped-cream-in-a-can I've seen has cream as the first ingredient. Even Reddi-wip.
> Do engineers know when to structure the company in a matrix organizational structure versus a foundational organizational structure? Do engineers know how to apply organizational behavior techniques to diagnose and resolve group psychology issues like demotivated teams or poor product quality?

The better question is, do MBAs?

> How much in-the-weeds technical work do you think top management is doing at engineering companies anyway?

You don't have to be in the technical weeds to be making decisions where technical considerations are important.
AI Generated Minecraft Video
It’s not 2015 anymore and I’m not going to have a conversation with you about whether cancel culture is real or if maybe actually everybody complaining about it just simply deserved it. If you want to have that debate, then you’re going to need either a time machine or another interlocutor.
Well there's no reason to pick on German like that.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4rzYgqTqx9x91va7Y5Chyx?si=0h...

If anyone wants to hear what Yasuyuki Uesugi sounds like and they don't have a glorious 1.44MB floppy drive anymore.

I recently bought a minidisc recorder to record Hearts of Space from my FM tuner and it was a blast. Now I'm looking for an audio CD recorder. There's something magical about having a disc of something compared to files on a computer or streaming.
I've watched the series, but never read the books. How do they differ?
My imagining of recent Wall St. social club conversations:

Alright boys, let's lay off some more nerds. Profits need to stay high and we can't let them think they're irreplaceable or entitled to free snacks. And it's an opportunity to shed some deadwood.
That was only possible because the internet was far smaller. There are now billions of people with internet access - the cat is out of the bag.

The best you can do is try to form your own little community in a corner of the internet - which is actually a great idea. Mass social media has so many problems - trying to make a little nook for yourself and a small group of enthusiasts/friends seems like the best way to go.
As we are talking about "code under your control", I don't see a conflict there: you seem to be assuming that I was suggesting the Fake should only implement the happy path, but on the contrary, it's quite easy to have the fake exhibit failing behaviour, but it might be harder to have the same test work against both the fake and real implementation in that case (eg simulating a network connection issue in a fake is easier than with a real implementation).

I generally do that by having a test that works both against a fake and against the actual implementation, a bunch of others that only use fakes, and a few system/e2e tests covering the whole thing.

With not much effort, you get increased trust in the code you write.

But most notably, it makes you write testable code which I think is most maintainable and most readable code to write.
Go spend time in the comment section of basically anywhere online. I promise you’ll change your mind.

edit: if you’ve spent any time in them in the last few years you’d see the clear degradation. people can barely speak coherently.
Ok cool now do this same measurement of test scores since 2020. It’s also well known that this hypothesis has not been holding up well in the last 30 years.
Your TV Is Too Good for You
interesting write-up even outside of the risc-v context, bc most of the optimisations are the same for different platforms

one interesting difference is that memory prefetching/preloading has such a huge difference, whereas on arm/x86 it barely makes any difference (in my experience) that it's not even worth doing

also, doesn't allwinner d1-h have simd registers?
Researchers develop technique to prevent software bugs
This is why you don't let the weather app access your location. In fact, weather apps are one of the main offenders here.

ICE in the US has been known to use this same data to track down and harm undocumented migrants.

Personally, I have a de-googled Pixel running GrapheneOS. It has a sandboxed version of Google Play, but without the elevated system privileges. I am not signed in to Google at any kind of global device level. I can still install and run most apps, but without the tracking.
EA to Lay Off More Than 600 Employees, or 5% of Workforce
We still have some good brands, but I've noticed a few start to slip. Breyers used to make a nice chocolate ice cream that was milk, cream, sugar, and cocoa. It was just slightly dry because it had nothing added to counteract the dryness of the cocoa. Someone decided it neeeded to be creamier, so now it has more ingredients :(. I liked the dry, kinda flakey texture of the four-ingredient version we used to get. Now it kinda melts funny, and I'm not as happy.

In the US, for a brand available pretty much anywhere, Häagen-Dazs is decent. Despite the name, it is 100% an American company. They just thought it needed a European sounding name.
Yeah, it does seem like this list bends over backwards to paint everything negative. I'm not OpenAI fanboy, but the guy that wrote this makes me feel like I should become an OpenAI fanboy.
Read it a few times, think they meant an ice cream sandwich or chocolate popsicle. The employee was drowning in free ice cream, to the point of wasting a full bar (melting and throwing away) just to eat the coating.
> It's awful for accessibility. What's on? What's off?

There’s an accessibility mode where it says literally on and off as appropriate. It follows the same behavior as native controls on the same platform, including aria behavior. Want to spread more fud?
I was thinking about mapping mostly. Even if, which is a huge if, that the game is able to provide a map editor of some sort, the amount of assets is going to crash any mod team that is not essentially a professional game dev team.
Maybe this is a dumb question but why wouldn’t it be cost effective to pre-aggregate counts occasionally and sample on the fly?
How does it compare to BrainPhoque, the language used in Learning Universal Predictors (Hutter 2024) to approximate normalized Solomonoff induction?
Interesting, but 1.4mb is unfortunately not enough for a full song in mp3 format at decent quality. Opus could get you to 3mins at good quality or 4mins at tolerable. Just tried it, 42k bitrate gets a 4:23 song down to floppy size at “transistor radio” quality. A 3:16 song at 52k sounds decent—probably forget it’s compressed if not actively doing an A/B test.

Believe a floppy pairs better with a clever midi file and a quality sequencer. :-D
Here we go, knew someone would jump in here with their opinions on why this is bad etc.

You’re reading way too much into this, this simply solves a particular set of problems well in this context and that’s that.

Anything you use can get turned into something ugly given enough time and lack of supervision.
1: our industry isn't dead at all?

2: if having an industry means all our companies are like amazon, a company I view as the closest equivalent to a sci-fi evil megacorp, then I'd rather not have an industry. The current attempts by eu are not to get money out of amazon, they attempts at increasing costs for amazon to continue being evil
Read online link: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/groups/CDMTCS/researc...
I wonder how profitable the supercharger network will be. Have they broken out the profit on the network? Solar panels are commodities, and Chinese producers have the advantage in cost especially since the Chinese government is subsidizing them. Batteries seem like a good profit center if they can get so big that few can afford to compete with them. Humanoids are in the distant future plus they have to make a market for them. Few people will want them and be able to afford them. Even large companies will have to see some real advantages to buy them. I've read about their AI efforts, especially the chips used for self-driving. They could be a great profit center if they can figure out how to modify them so others can use them and produce them in large enough quantities.

The real problem is that few companies can be good at multiple products so they need to pick the best and go full throttle on it.
Clickbait. Isnt this just orbital resonance?

My solution to fermi paradox is intelligent civilizations realize futility of life and get enlightened and just die out. Similar to moksha in hinduism.
“Wendy’s says its plan for digital menus that could offer ‘more value’ during slow times aren’t like Uber at all.“