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by nntwozz | 2025-10-23 00:55:09+00:00
Small outdated 26 inch wheels, ugly, looks very heavy.

Promo pictures look cringe with metrosexuals riding them on a gravel road.

Cool.

Typical 2020s design trying to appeal to the smartphone/sedentary crowd who know nothing about bikes.

For this kind of money you can get a really nice eMTB like the Mith from UNNO which has 29 inch wheels, weighs 47 lbs (21.3kg) and is a much more capable bike with a 800Wh battery.

https://www.unno.com/en-us/mith

If you don't want classic transmission there are other eMTBs with a Pinion gearbox:

https://www.nicolai-bicycles.com/bikes-e-mtb-en
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-23 00:55:33+00:00
> The interesting thing here is the core of it, being Android XR and its deep AI integration

I'm not interested in the OS or "AI" at all. What I really want to know is if I can connect this to a regular PC/handheld via USB-C and use the headset as a primary/secondary display, and if so, is it good enough for gaming? The biggest issue with all these handheld gaming devices flooding the market is that the screen is tiny and most PC games aren't optimised for such a screen - but having a headset with a virtual big screen display like this could solve that problem. Unfortunately Samsung don't make this clear at all on the linked page.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-10-23 00:56:25+00:00
I ride a motorbike. I'd argue speed is the limiter.

Some of these electric bikes are quite speedy - capable of mixing it up with flowing traffic. So classify them as being motorbikes.

If they can't go that fast, or are "assistive only" (require large fraction of rider pedal input up to a set speed) then legislatively they are a "normal bike".

The thing is, we already have the rules around each style of bike. It's just a classification thing.

Many electric bikes are masquerading and hoping no one looks too closely. So, just look closely. And hold actions responsible.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-23 00:57:04+00:00
you see, I think there's a huge oversight in that sentence. People don't enjoy analysis of an art, people feel positive from looking at one and like doing it.

they're not doing enough to optimize AI data generators for dopamine release with animalistic obsession. Instead they focus on scientific indistinguishablilitiness, and people aren't liking that. IMO that's has been an ongoing and growing costly mistake.
by keeda | 2025-10-23 00:57:26+00:00
I think the point is that they hoarded the technology for internal use instead of opening it up to the public, like OpenAI did with ChatGPT, thus kicking off the current AI revolution.

As sibling comments indicate, reasons may range from internal politics to innovator's dilemma. But the upshot is, even though the underlying technology was invented at Google, its inventors had to leave and join other companies to turn it into a publicly accessible innovation.
by ggreer | 2025-10-23 00:57:45+00:00
I'm pretty sure Tesla assumed liability when they had a car deliver itself to a customer in Austin this year.[1] Also Tesla is an insurance provider in many states, and where it's legal to do so (Arizona & Texas currently), they offer discounts for using FSD more.[2] So they seem to be putting their money where their mouth is.

Are you predicting that Tesla will never get rid of their safety drivers in their Robotaxis? Because as soon as that happens, won't your prediction be incorrect? That seems unlikely to me. Tesla is definitely behind Waymo when it comes to self-driving capabilities, but it seems like they'll eventually succeed.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU16hXSSGKs

2. https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance/fsd-discount
by ineedasername | 2025-10-23 00:58:09+00:00
For I2V You can get a reasonable “draft” out of it in 1-2 minutes with nvidia >= 4070 & sufficient VRAM at 440x440 resolutions. T2V… not as much, still need to be doing something close to trained resolutions, but I still see some quality, more sporadic, at other known-good Wan resolutions.

Also this model seems to benefit noticeably from having both Cuda >= 12.8 and Torch >= 2.8, and separately SageAttention over Flash 2. But I have yet to see any cache threshold with Easy or Tea that doesn’t get a bit postmodern.
by fragmede | 2025-10-23 00:59:07+00:00
Thoroughly semi permanent if you use the sharpies to write a template, for example a tic-tac-toe board use the whiteboard markers play the game and the regular race shirt who is just the moves and you’re left with the sharpie. In order to get it off you write over the sharpie with a whiteboard marker and then eraser with a regular eraser and then it’ll go away.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-23 00:59:23+00:00
Fair point! Although that's a gate I very much like.

I don't think Steam has any complete blockers to microtransactions, given that there are games that do have it, although I don't think they're as predatory about it as mobile games are. Maybe that's down to cultural differences between PC and mobile, or maybe there's more too it.

Ads standing in the way of gameplay are indeed banned,[1] although there are ways around that I'm sure if devs really wanted to be knobheads about it, but people on PC tend to be more loud about ads in their games than on mobile.[2]

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-seemingly-bans-all-s...

[2] https://news.designrush.com/ubisoft-assassins-creed-ad-spark...
by AdrianB1 | 2025-10-23 01:00:35+00:00
The weight and form factor looks excellent for small propeller planes. Yes, batteries are heavy, but the lightweight of the motor makes room for more batteries.

A typical Rotax 912 with accessories goes over 55 kg for 80 HP max and ~ 60 HP cruise. The 100 HP/75 HP version is around 65 kg. The same continuous power with this technology looks like a 5 kg motor and 60 kg of batteries for a direct replacement, if we consider the regular fuel tanks of 50-100 kg on some planes (I used to fly a plane that took 140 liters of fuel with a 100 HP Rotax, but it was modified) then there is enough battery for a flight school needs.
by RajT88 | 2025-10-23 01:01:21+00:00
> pushing the idea that you can make events worse by telling people that they are forever scarred from them

I have known a few people who had they not dwelled so much on events, I wonder if their trauma would have been middling instead of major. Hard to say for sure, but I am not the only person to observe these folks seemed to be making their trauma more traumatic.
by edoceo | 2025-10-23 01:01:50+00:00
IIRC Intuit did that for QBO. Put a new team off-site and everything. The story I read is old (maybe was a business book) and my motivated searches gave nothing.

From what I remember it was also about splitting the finance reporting - so the up-start team isn't compared to the incumbent but to other early teams. Let's them focus on the key metrics for their stage of the game.
by PakG1 | 2025-10-23 01:02:12+00:00
I'm not sure what to say to you. If left wing people comprised 90% of the earth's population, we wouldn't see right wing governments anywhere. It just wouldn't happen. Republicans are certainly not hiding their views in shame, especially right now. In fact, they're winning. They have no reason to hide in shame.

Here's a good example of what I mean by them mimicking each other. This issue of gun shootings in the US is really fascinating if you look at it from far far away with no emotional tie to the subject (which is hard to do for many people, including me).

When Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were assassinated by gunshots in their home a few months ago, many right wingers seemed indifferent and some right wingers were even condescending and insulting. Meanwhile, left wingers were correctly very upset. They accused the right wing of condoning and applauding gun violence and assassination instead of peaceful dialogue. At least, that's what I saw on social media.

Now we have the other side when social activist Charlie Kirk got assassinated by gunshot. It's a mirror image. Many left wingers seem indifferent and some left wingers are even condescending and insulting. Meanwhile, right wingers are correctly very upset. They accuse the left wing of condoning and applauding gun violence and assassination instead of peaceful dialogue. At least, that's what I saw on social media.

I see the right wing accusing Antifa and other groups of being domestic terrorists without acknowledging their own side's problems. I see the left wing accusing Proud Boys and other groups of being domestic terrorists without acknowledging their own side's problems. The two sides just like to point fingers at the other side over and over again. Just a ton of whataboutisms. This is probably the biggest symptom that makes overt their polarization. They don't share the same perceived reality.

If you can't agree with that, then we're just another example that don't share a perceived reality. People need to be able to ask themselves, "What if I'm wrong?" People don't do that anymore. I'm trying to though. I hope you do too.
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-23 01:02:22+00:00
My favourite example is one team writing the internal compliance reports for some regulation that was repealed long ago, but the internal requirement persisted because… nobody cared enough to even check if it’s still needed or not.

As a random example of this kind of thing: I saw a manager spend a month manually tallying up the disk usage on a fully virtualised storage array… VM by VM, volume by volume. Not realising that as a consequence of the layers abstractions, the resulting numbers will be totally meaningless. I.e.: an empty 2 TB volume might need only a couple of gigabytes on the array… or the full 2 TB if someone had accidentally “full” formatted it… except that deduplication was enabled across volumes, so… who knows!?

The only number that mattered was the post-dedup allocated block count which the storage array conveniently provided on the status screen. At the time it was 1%, which translates to “don’t worry about it”.

He worried about it. Spent weeks and weeks with Excel tallying up the total, getting nonsense, trying again, over and over.

You see, two decades earlier, storage arrays didn’t dedup, VMware was not a thing, and there wasn’t a nice neat little percentage that they array itself could report. You had to tally up each volume in each server, it was the only way. So a policy was written that it’s someone’s job to go do this every six months or whatever.

So this guy followed the policy. He tallied things up.

Like a meat robot following the last instruction left by a deceased master.

It was depressing to watch.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-23 01:03:12+00:00
I'm pretty sure its regulatory. As long as the rider has to pedal to get the bike going, it isn't classed as a moped with restrictions on being used on trails and such. Yet having pedal power mix with electric assist power is complicated, so this might actually be an economy compromise.

Note that China, who doesn't have the same regulatory burdens we do, they got rid of pedal assisted e-bikes for their own market long ago because they make the unit more expensive and less functional (or you see pedals on some of them, but they are never used, most people use them with throttles only).
by EdwardKrayer | 2025-10-23 01:03:25+00:00
Well, that's potentially horrifying. I would love for someone to attempt this in as controlled of a manner as possible. I would assume it's possible for anyone using Google DNS servers to also trigger some type of metadata inspection resulting in this type of situation as well.

Also - when you say banned, you're speaking of the "red screen of death" right? Not a broader ban from the domain using Google Workplace services, yeah?
by roarcher | 2025-10-23 01:03:32+00:00
It's irrelevant because I never claimed that AI wouldn't be used in the way you said. You're arguing against a point I never made.

There is no line, and you never claimed there was in your original comment, so stop moving the goalposts. Vague language like "personalized media becoming popular" is not the same thing as "blockbuster movies".

Calling my answer "short-sighted" when you couldn't be bothered to read the thread or apparently even the thing I was replying to is, in fact, on you.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-23 01:04:11+00:00
It's kind of a shortcut answer by now. Especially for anything that touches pretraining.

"Why aren't we doing X?", where X is a thing that sounds sensible, seems like it would help, and does indeed help, and there's even a paper here proving that it helps.

The answer is: check the paper, it says there on page 12 in a throwaway line that they used 3 times the compute for the new method than for the controls. And the gain was +4%.

A lot of promising things are resource hogs, and there are too many better things to burn the GPU-hours on.
by zmgsabst | 2025-10-23 01:05:54+00:00
It’s an intentionally difficult to parse network of public and private groups.

I did say specifically what I was talking about — public funds like Seattle, where $18000/homeless per year disappears through the network into employee pockets while delivering substantially less to those it’s nominally for.

https://www.pacificresearch.org/despite-big-budgets-homeless...

I think you’re being intentionally dense.
by glyco | 2025-10-23 01:06:11+00:00
You and Searle both seem to not understand a simple, obvious fact about the world, which is that (inhomogenous) things don't have the same thing inside. A chicken pie, for example, doesn't have any chicken pie inside. There's chicken inside, but that's not chicken pie. There's sauce, vegetables and pastry, but those aren't chicken pie either. All these things together still may not make a chicken pie. The 'chickenpieness' of the pie is an additional fact, not derivable from any facts about its components.

As with pie, so with 'understanding'. A system which understands can be expected to not contain anything which understands. So if you find a system which contains nothing which understands, this tells you nothing about whether the system understands[0].

Somehow both you and Searle have managed to find this simple fact about pie to be 'the grip of an ideology' and 'metaphysical'. But it really isn't.

[0] And vice-versa, as in Searle's pointlessly overcomplicated example of a system which understands Chinese containing one which doesn't containing one which does.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-10-23 01:06:12+00:00
It seems US manufacturers only cater to the luxury segment. How about doing something simple, reliable and cheap? With the tariffs soon they will kill off cheap foreign options and we will only have upscale things to buy. It used to be that the US was good at producing for the mass market but it seems that's over.

This thing seems totally overengineered by people who never use bikes
by IAmGraydon | 2025-10-23 01:07:07+00:00
>There are already well known quantum-resistant encryption schemes being deployed live in browsers, today. Crypto can just start adopting one of these schemes today, and we're still probably decades away from a QC that can factor the kinds of primes that crypto security uses.

It's very strange that some people act like switching over to a post quantum cryptography scheme is trivial. Did you watch the video I replied to, which is a talk by an actual quantum computing researcher?
by abstractbg | 2025-10-23 01:08:01+00:00
I'm very hopeful that the problem is simply lack of general awareness of these games, and that once there's enough content surrounding them, we'll have a healthy population of people playing more abstract strategy games.

Fun story regarding Hex. It nearly reached what I would call a "mainstream" audience with the movie "A Beautiful Mind" about John Nash starring Russel Crowe. Unfortunately, the Hex scene was cut from the movie! You can watch the cut scene at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ3nn2Bge4
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-23 01:08:59+00:00
I think it's somewhat tribal webdev knowledge that if you host user generated content you need to be on the PSL otherwise you'll eventually end up where Immich is now.

I'm not sure how people not already having hit this very issue before is supposed to know about it beforehand though, one of those things that you don't really come across until you're hit by it.
by ixwt | 2025-10-23 01:09:29+00:00
I'm personally a big fan of asymmetrical games. A game I've wanted to play but have never had the board to play it on is Unlur [0]. Arimaa [1] is another one with some history behind it that is uncommon.

It is very much appreciated that I don't have to make an account to play. That is one of the most annoying thing on sites like these to play games.

[0]: https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/unlur

[1]: https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/arimaa
by acdha | 2025-10-23 01:09:44+00:00
> The Quran is held by Muslims as 'the perfect word of God'. It is treated much differently than the Christian bible which gets somewhat loosely translated into many languages.

Biblical literalism isn't exactly common, too, and people who self-identify as Christian use it to justify things like killing gay people, corporal punishment, not allowing divorce except in certain cases, denying scientific consensus on things like biology or climate change, unconditionally back the actions of the Israeli government based on eschatological theories, etc.

I think there’s an argument that mainstream Christianity is less stringent than mainstream Islam on this but it’s very much a question of degree and appears to be moving backwards. We just had a rather heated national debate over what exactly Charlie Kirk meant by using a very similar phrase (“God's perfect law”) in a negative context so it’s very hard for me to see this as a Muslim problem rather than a problem common to all fundamentalist religious traditions.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-23 01:10:30+00:00
So let me get this straight. You’re writing tens of thousands of lines of code that will presumably go into a public GitHub repository and/or be served from some location. Even if it only runs locally on your own machine, at some point you’ll presumably give that code network access. And that code is being developed (without much review) by an agent that, in our threat model, has been fully subverted by prompt injection?

Sandboxing the agent hardly seems like a sufficient defense here.
by latchkey | 2025-10-23 01:10:43+00:00
It really is an unfortunate thing that pricing is so opaque and non-transparent in this industry. You look at one price and that's it. The reality is more complex.

Vultr is a box of 8 minimum and not on-demand and they don't offer VMs.

On the other hand, I offer the bare minimum (1 GPU for 1 minute) (or 2, 4, 8x), on-demand, no-contract, and an API to automate it all. We also have 100G unlimited bandwidth and free IPv4. Oh and our 8x box specs are generally better... 122TB of enterprise NVMe.
by casey2 | 2025-10-23 01:10:55+00:00
None of that controls for socioeconomic status which is likely the most common factor in poor health outcomes. In particular some of these try to put a measure on "family dysfunction"... yeah, good luck with that.

Trauma is a very politically charged topic anyhow with at least a few modern political movements tying themselves to it, it would be very inconvenient for it to not be an all encompassing problem.
by ctrlp | 2025-10-23 01:11:22+00:00
I'm not trolling, just disagreeing. I personally wouldn't argue that everything we're discussing is "made up." I'm arguing that "rule of law" is a particular legitimizing myth or political narrative used as a frame to block certain kinds of actions as being "out of bounds" but is not, in fact, sovereign, because a) "rule of law" has no autonomy or executive action without political will, and b) it is used primarily by constitutionalists or other so-called enlightenment rationalists as a kind of rear-naked choke or groin-strike to end debate. Unpacking the meaning of "law" quickly gives the lie to the whole charade. We are not "ruled" by law. That truly would be legalism (not something I'm inspired by, tbf). We're ruled by people who control the law and use it to achieve political ends. On a pedestrian scale, some of us are subject to the law and some of us are not. Not just political actors but also favored groups. I hope that's not controversial for you.

I don't want to digress into Ancient Roman history but it's specious to argue that Caeser was only threatened after he broke the law. That's just not a plausible reading of history. It's well-established that crossing the Rubicon was the culmination of political conflict with the Senate, not the inception. Octavian would not have been in a position to end the republic if not for his uncle.

Impeachment is lawfare, of course. It is almost by definition a political act of parties in Congress. What could be more lawfare than that? Use the courts to attack your political enemies. Removal from office in a western democracy is "mostly peaceful" but I agree that removal from office is the solution with teeth. The parent post is about prosecuting former heads of state. That's 3rd world shit. At least in the 3rd world you would do that to remove a rival. Here it just seems to be vindictive. At best a shot across the bow of Sarkozy's patrons. If that's the motivation it's at least understandable. My objection is when people are propagandized to the point of being traumatized by political fights that have zero impact on their lives.

I don't believe terms like "fascists" have any meaning in the current political discourse and immediately suspect people who use that term casually. If half the country is fascist then we've really lost the plot. Nor do I think narratives about civil war are creditable at this time. The sectarian ingredients are not present in this country. Bringing it up is an appeal to extremes to discredit the vast middle ground.

What is the curriculum of that "basic civic education" campaign you propose should be completed? Sounds ominous.
by labrador | 2025-10-23 01:12:20+00:00
https://archive.is/EZlZk

> Musk, who owns about 15% of the company, has said that without 25% voting power at Tesla, he would prefer to pursue his artificial-intelligence projects outside of the company. In an X post on Sunday, he threatened to leave Tesla if the package doesn’t pass.

This doesn't seem like a productive attitude or one designed to maximize success. Holding people hostage does not promote good morale or enhance retention and/or attract top talent to the company. An AI robotics company that includes robot cars requires quite a bit of top shelf brain power to implement, more than Musk can provide along with Stockholm syndrome traumatized workers.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-23 01:12:26+00:00
>This reads like a long-winded way of saying you aren't bothering to read what the vulnerabilities actually are.

Almost, it is more that I don't care specifically why a IPSec option is often a liability, and would rather stick with something less silly.

Ad hominem attacks do not change the fact there are new issues in IPSec/VPN approaches found regularly. Pick any failure mode(s) on the list that applies to your specific use-case and platform.... or could find new ones if you are still bored.

Have a great day =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoEhsJORU
by andriamanitra | 2025-10-23 01:13:08+00:00
Climate has absolutely nothing to do with this discovery. All of the other Northern countries, many of which are colder than Iceland, already have mosquitoes (Greenland has lots of them!). Culiseta annulata is well adapted to cold climate. And it's not even particularly cold in Iceland at this time of year – the mosquitoes may not even have needed to survive a winter yet!