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jna_sh··on Odoo: Open-Source ERP
> has 6700 employees

I noticed this on your site recently whilst evaluating Odoo for a use case, and I’m glad I get the opportunity to ask…why? That seems an astronomical amount for this product. This isn’t a criticism, I am just genuinely curious about the business.

jna_sh··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
Amazing, looks like the ban was lifted where I live in NL in May 2025! Thanks for the heads up, I had missed this, despite being fairly certain I had checked relatively recently.

https://www.sanquin.nl/system/files/2025-05/sq_beleidsregel-...

jna_sh··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
I was born in the UK during BSE, and as a result I can’t give blood in Europe. People forget it but the scars are still there.
jna_sh··on Fahrplan – 39C3
I’m not sure you think otherwise, and are just calling on the US as an example since the HN crowd is heavily US skewed, but just for the avoidance of doubt, this is a German event.
jna_sh··on Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
Some journals support “green open access”, where you can share your article minus the journal’s formatting on open repositories etc, sometimes some time after publication, which is usually free. I can’t see any mention of this from the ACM though
jna_sh··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
The second paragraph of the linked article?
jna_sh··on After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
Never on which table? “Exporting” environmental degradation is an incredibly widely discussed issue. Especially for South America, due to illegal rainforest clearing for soy farming to feed the NA/EU cattle industry, and lithium mining in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.
jna_sh··on After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
Also Kiruna in Sweden, an iron mine they relocate the entire town around to expand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna_mine

Also the reason for the existence of the Norwegian port town of Narvik, connected to Kiruna by the world’s most northerly train line.

jna_sh··on Python is not a great language for data science
I know the primary data structure in Lua is called a table, but I’m not very familiar with them and if they map to what’s expected from tables in data science.
jna_sh··on Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
Seems an interesting solution to whales being cut up by ship propellers
jna_sh··on Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
I recently completed a MSc with a focus on bird bioacoustics, and this problem goes for the whole ecosystem/pipeline: there are very few (non-proprietary) off-the-shelf, ready to go products. Even the most popular methods that are extolled in lots of papers and by NGOs all practically need a dev/data scientist for basic implementation
jna_sh··on Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
Which part of it? I assume you mean the visualisation as that’s (if I recall correctly) the only part he doesn’t break down technically in the talk. I asked him after the talk and he said he uses Vue
jna_sh··on Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
This post references Logan Williams’ BirdNET experiments, he did a really fantastic talk on that project at WHY2025 (the Dutch hacker camp) recently: https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-240-is-ai-for-the-birds-the-b...
jna_sh··on Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024)
Any thoughts on ibis vs polars?
jna_sh··on UK's hardware talent is being wasted
I’ve seen this exact trajectory play out with several friends. Get a good degree in robotics engineering or the like, options are working for civil servant pay at a defense subcontractor, or Ocado. Pretty much it.
jna_sh··on Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
Similar feelings about the repeated references to the apparently agreed consensus that individual action is pointless vs systematic change like switching to a renewable energy system. Jevons Paradox would like a word.
jna_sh··on BlackSheep: Fast ASGI web framework for Python
> And I assume Python cannot handle it's own HTTP server (using threads, similar to Javalin's virtual threads)?

ASGI is an Interface standard, not an implementation in another language. The AGSI compliant servers that Blacksheep recommends are both written in Python.

jna_sh··on Playing video games boosts IQ in children
There are certain properties of video games that have been shown to have interesting cognitive effects, that tend to be more or less represented across the mobile/console divide, for example, 3D platformers [1].

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

jna_sh··on Raspberry Pi 500 launched for $90
I hope they’ve upgraded the keyboard since the 400. Very unreliable key presses on that model.
jna_sh··on London's 850-year-old food markets to close
I’ve never seen a claim like this levelled at London, famously a place increasingly losing social housing stock for luxury housing. The only thing I can think of is this is a new twist of the complaint that a lot of London’s housing is left unoccupied because it’s Russian/Saudi vacation homes or whatever.
jna_sh··on Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
“I don’t have time to know what really happened so I had something hallucinate a series of events that didn’t happen and that was good actually” is such a fascinating take
jna_sh··on Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
Source for the arrest? I listened to this the other day and I don’t recall an arrest being mentioned. The podcast in fact covers that the police weren’t very much interested, which is why they got a PI involved, who got the thieves to “return” (dump in an adjacent car park) the devices simply by asking questions.
jna_sh··on Is this the civilization we want? (2017)
I don’t recognise the linked article in your description of it at all
jna_sh··on Is this the civilization we want? (2017)
I really enjoyed this part of it
jna_sh··on Is this the civilization we want? (2017)
It’s in the sidebar to the left, this is Bret Victor’s response to a draft of a document called “Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence”
jna_sh··on Factor 0.100 Now Available
I spent a couple of weeks getting into Factor in 2022 and it was the most fun I’ve had programming, probably ever. Language itself aside, the dev environment and process of writing Factor is just delightful.
jna_sh··on Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
The U.K. BioBank study should put this to rest: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5

These are participants whose health is being followed long term. They had brain scans before and after COVID, and abnormalities were detected in the scans post-COVID.

jna_sh··on Early Bookcases, Cupboards and Carousels
Go forth at your peril, getting into Lost Art Press is a good way to double the cost of your woodworking hobby. Truly beautiful books!
jna_sh··on p5.js
Oh the new website shipped! They’ve been working on this for a while, looking great.
jna_sh··on Decline of Indian vultures
Usage of “hedging” terms like this is normal practice in academic writing. For a variety of reasons, some social and political, some practical. The short explanation is that the current scientific process values humility.
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